THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTBuildingDisinfestation chambersCrematorium I × × ◦ hardly/perhaps noCrematoria II and III × × • perhaps noCrematoria IV and V • • × hardly hardlyFarmhouses I and II ◦ × / ◦ × / ◦ hardly/perhaps no• = present or possible; ◦ = possibly present; × = not presentwhich, in view of the above, was not the case, and finally that theevacuation of the poison gas into the environment after the executionrequired special measures in order to avoid that people close to the ‘gaschambers’—both inside the building as well as in its vicinity—get hurtor even killed.Although the literature is generally unanimous as to the equipmentof the rooms in crematoria IV and V, the information is, to a certainextent, speculative, due to the lack of documents and material evidence.The same is true for the information relating to the farmhouses,on which there are practically no documents available.Fortunately, it is precisely the one ‘gas chamber’ in which thelargest number of people was allegedly killed by poison gas during theThird Reich which has remained almost entirely intact: morgue 1 ofcrematorium II. Contrary to all eyewitness testimony, this cellar, duringthe period of its operation, possessed no Zyklon B introductionholes in the roof. It is only logical and consequent to transfer theseconclusions also to the mirror-symmetrically built, but otherwise identicalcrematorium III, even though we do not possess any physical evidencefor this due to the almost complete destruction of the roof of itsmorgue 1. If this is so, those rooms cannot have been used as locationsfor mass homicide using poison gas, as alleged by witnesses.When one considers the technical circumstances prevailing in andaround Auschwitz, in the broadest sense, one becomes aware of theabsurdity of the entire claim of homicidal mass gassings. The campmanagement was fully aware of the methods and technical preconditionsfor Zyklon B disinfestation, and was even informed as to the latestdevelopments in the related technology. 143 But instead of usingthese methods, it allegedly had recourse, for mass gassing purposes, toextremely crude methods, particularly where bunkers I and II, and,146Table 2: Equipment and suitability of actual or alleged ‘gas chambers’Equipment/Suitability asPoison gasSuitabilityintroductionHeating Ventilation disinfestationchamber◦ • • yesSuitability asexecutionchamberif with means ofintroduction