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GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTbly be located. 245 As none of the requirements set forth above is met,the argument that these objects are above-roof parts of Zyklon B introductionstacks must be abandoned.Fig. 39: Photograph of crematorium II from Jan. 20, 1943, similar inperspective as Fig. 36, but without objects on the roof of morgue 1.It should be mentioned in passing that these objects are not to beseen in other photographs of the morgue, see Fig. 39 taken on January20, 1943, 246 as well as another photograph reproduced by Pressac andtaken in the summer of 1943. 247 It will therefore be necessary to findanother explanation for the objects in the photograph taken in February1943, such as, for example, that some sort of objects had been placedon the roof—perhaps in the course of constructing the building, undertakingswhich were obviously still underway—or horribile dictu, butless likely, that the picture has been retouched at a later date.Fig. 40 shows an enlargement of an Allied air photo of Birkenaucamp taken on August 25, 1944. 248 Darkened areas (arrow) are clearlyvisible on the lateral wing, the roof of morgue 1 (‘the gas chamber’) ofcrematorium II. A stereoscopic evaluation of this air photo shows thatthese darkened areas on Fig. 40 cannot have possessed any height. 249245 Taken from Jean-Marie Boisdefeu, La controvers sur l’extermination des Juifs par les Allemands,volume 1, Vrij Historisch Onderzoek, Berchem 1994, p. 168.246 From D. Czech, op. cit. (note 89), p. 398, and J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 335.247 J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 341. Pressac, of course, alleges the existence of Zyklon Bintroduction apertures; in actual fact, however, nothing of the sort is to be seen.248 Alliied aerial photographs, National Archives Air Photo Library, Washington, D.C., RG 373Can F 5367, exp. 3185, published by CIA employees D.A. Brugioni and R.G. Poirier, LeMonde Juif, no. 97, January-March 1980, p. 2, allegedly on their own, private, responsibility.249 R. Lenski, op. cit. (note 25), pp. 356ff., testimony of aerial photographical appraiser KennethR. Wilson, pp. 8 927-8 941e of the trial transcript; see also B. Kulaszka (ed.), op. cit. (note25), pp. 353f. According to Wilson, the spots on the photos dated Sept. 13, 1944, cannot beseen.116