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90 Carlo Mattogno: <strong>The</strong> <strong>Bunkers</strong> of Birkenau<br />

6.2.1.2. <strong>The</strong> Background<br />

Pressac’s assertion that the drawing in question brings in non-existent elements<br />

into the actual landscape “for artistic reasons,” but still has almost the<br />

same value as a photograph clearly makes no sense. Not only has Olère introduced<br />

two non-existent elements – a hill and the two structures that appear on<br />

it 306 – into the background, but he has failed to include an existing element<br />

which, from the perspective of the drawing, was clearly visible: the central<br />

sauna. Even today, if one places oneself in the perspective of the drawing, one<br />

can see in the background a sizeable portion of the western façade of the central<br />

sauna. 307 Between May 1944 and February 1945 the view was even more<br />

open and the central sauna could be seen in full, obscured only here and there<br />

by the trees mentioned above, which were very small at the time. Is this serious<br />

omission also justified by “artistic reasons”?<br />

6.2.1.3. <strong>The</strong> Cottage<br />

– <strong>The</strong> cottage drawn by Olère has nothing whatsoever in common with the<br />

description provided by Szlama Dragon and the corresponding design by<br />

engineer Nosal. 308 <strong>The</strong> latter, as we have seen, has an east-west rather than<br />

a north-south orientation and depicts the house turned south by about 25°;<br />

however, standing the drawing 309 on its head, we obtain a perspective quite<br />

close to that of Olère’s drawing. It is true – as Pressac states – that the position<br />

of the little window for the introduction of Zyklon B is in agreement<br />

with that shown by Nosal’s drawing, but on this wall (turned north-west)<br />

there should appear another three windows (Nosal’s openings O3, O4 and<br />

O5) as well as three exit doors. (W2, W3 and W4).<br />

– Moreover, the position of the entrance door was not in the middle: it was<br />

next to the southern angle of the wall facing southwest.<br />

– On its left-hand side, the roof of the cottage juts out well past the wall, and<br />

is supported by a wooden post at its outer edge: This, too, contradicts<br />

Dragon’s description, according to which there was no projecting roof.<br />

– Finally, the sign which appears above the cottage door – “Dezinfektion” –<br />

is wrong and in the wrong place. According to Dragon, the signs with the<br />

inscriptions were on the door (one on the outside and one on the inside)<br />

and not above it; also, as the door stands open on Olère’s drawing, the sign<br />

“Zum Baden” should be visible on it, as Pressac has carefully done on his<br />

own drawing. 310<br />

– As an afterthought: <strong>The</strong> presence of such an inscription is contradicted by<br />

Wohlfahrt, Paisikovic, and Müller. 311<br />

306<br />

<strong>The</strong> building on the right resembles a horse stable barrack, the one on the left a private house with<br />

a very tall chimney.<br />

307<br />

Cf. photograph 4.<br />

308<br />

Cf. document 12.<br />

309<br />

Cf. document 12a.<br />

310<br />

J.-C. Pressac, <strong>Auschwitz</strong>:…, op. cit. (note 4), p. 172.<br />

311<br />

Cf. chapters 6.2.6., 6.3.1., 6.3.3.

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