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5. AUSCHWITZmorgue 1 were removed. 225Incorrect conclusion: Morgues need no heating for normal operationalfunctioning. Crematoria II and III were converted into homicidal‘gas chambers’, (intended to be) equipped with a heating system sothat ‘the gas would work more rapidly’. It was necessary to eliminatethe plumbing system in the morgue because panic-stricken inmateswould have damaged the pipes. 226Correct conclusion: According to expert literature, morgues do indeedneed some kind of heating equipment, because corpses must beprotected from the effects of frost and freezing temperatures in winter.227 Hence, under normal operation, morgues would have beenequipped with heating devices, but the initial plans to equip themorgues in Auschwitz with heaters were cancelled, 228 rendering theargument irrelevant. Regarding the removal of the water pipes, a ‘noncriminal’explanation follows logically: Since no heating was ever installedin these morgues, there was a danger that the water pipes wouldhave burst in freezing temperatures due to the lack of any heating. Inorder to prevent burst pipes and a subsequent flooding of the morgues,the pipes had to be removed.5.4.1.2.6. “Cremation with Simultaneous Special Treatment”Fact: With regards to the “Electrical supply and installation of theconcentration camp and prisoner of war camp” the documentary note(“Aktenvermerk”) of the Auschwitz Zentralbauleitung of January 29,1943, states: 229“This putting into operation [of crematorium II] can however onlyextend to restricted use of the available machines (in which case cremationwith simultaneous special treatment [original: “Sonderbehandlung”]will be made possible) since the [electrical] supply leading to the crema-225 Pre-heating: J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), pp. 221, 223. Demolition of the water pipes:ibid., p. 286; for further details in this discussion, which is just as fruitless, since they arebased on the “criminal traces” dreamed up by Pressac, see also, generally, H. Verbeke, op. cit.(note 43).226 See also the above footnotes referring to Pressac, in particular, relating to the water pipes; asimilar opinion expressed by Van Pelt, Pelt Report, op. cit. (note 66), p. 296, as well as byJudge Gray in the Irving vs. Lipstadt trial, op. cit. (note 66), §7.68.227 E. Neufert, op. cit. (note 176).228 J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 230. The waste heat of the forced draught blowers was to beused, but since these burned out and were removed, the entire pre-heating project for morgue1 was cancelled.229 TCIDK 502-1-26-21, Jan. 29, 1943.109