THE RUDOLF REPORT

5. AUSCHWITZIf any of these holes were used as Zyklon B introduction holes,they would have to have been broken through following completion ofthe roof, i.e., shortly before the commencement of the alleged massmurders. 261 Such holes with no plasterwork to polish off their roughedges, however, could neither have been sealed against escaping poisongas, nor against intruding soil and water, nor would it have beenpossible to safely install any panic-proof introduction devices in them.Using such crude holes would truly be an incredibly stupid piece ofbungling.But there is more. In the opening shown in Fig. 46 the reinforcementrods were only separated and bent back. They possess their fulllength even today. One could bend them back again and weld themback together with their stumps, which are also visible to the left of thephotograph (covered with snow). 262 Nor is there any trace of reinforcementrods running in a wreath-like pattern around the hole. Thishole, therefore, can never have been used as an introduction hole; itwas never finished. And what makes matters worse: this is still the‘best’ of all holes and cracks in this roof in existence today. All othersare even more irregular and filled with reinforcement rods.No apparatus, using the technology available at that time, could beanchored in such crudely pierced, unplastered holes, from which thereinforcement rods were not even removed; therefore, no gas introductiondevice could ever have been firmly installed, let alone sealed fromthe exterior. This means that the entire environment including the supposedperpetrators would have been endangered by the gas streamingout of the opening. The supposed victims could furthermore only havebeen prevented by force from escaping through these holes, or eventhrowing the Zyklon B back out through the hole, since these holeswere obviously incapable of closing.We might even go much further in this direction: we can tell from260 Kurier, Aug. 30, 1992, p. 20: “Wenn Felsen fallen”.261 The ceiling was finished towards the winter of 1942/43, while the mass exterminations allegedlybegan in March 1943; see also J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), pp. 338f.262 Please do not attempt to bend them back again! More recent photographs show that individualshave obviously broken off two of the three reinforcement rods during similar such attempts.One of these persons who unintentionally broke off one rod was Dr. Fredrick Töben inFebruary 1997, as he advised me personally after his visit to Auschwitz. Another rod was brokenoff later by unknown person(s), see. Carlo Mattogno, “Keine Löcher, keine Gaskammer(n)”VffG 6(3) (2002), pp. 284-304 (online: www.vho.org/VffG/2002/3/Mattogno284-304.html).125