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GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTIron Blue, also often referred to as Prussian Blue. 3156.2. Instances of Damages to BuildingsChapter 1.3. contained a discussion of an instance of damage to achurch which occurred in 1976 in Bavaria, Germany. In the many hundredsof thousands of fumigations which have been carried out since1920, there cannot, as a rule, have been any complications, otherwisethe procedure would have been very rapidly abandoned. The case inquestion was, therefore, an exception. But what exactly was it thatmade this church an exception?Different scenery. 1939-1945. In the camps of the Third Reich,hundreds of thousands of people—Jews, political prisoners, criminals,‘anti-socials,’ and prisoners of war—were crammed together. To stemthe raging epidemics, attempts were made, not always with great success,to kill the carriers of disease, particularly head lice. This wasdone in particular with hydrogen cyanide, Zyklon B. This was sometimesdone in chambers professionally designed for such purposes,sometimes ordinary rooms were equipped for such purposes in an auxiliarymanner, and provisionally used for disinfestation. Many of thecamps in the Third Reich were leveled at the end of the war or afterwards;in other camps the existing buildings were torn down and thebuildings materials used for the reconstruction of the ruined cities. Afew buildings, however, remain intact today. The interiors of thesebuildings look as in Fig. 59-66 (see also the color picture section in themiddle of this book).From the remarks of a Polish research team having conducted investigationson behalf of the Auschwitz Museum, we also know thatthe disinfestation chamber in the Auschwitz main camp is colored aspotty blue. 56,57 To my knowledge, only the Zyklon B disinfestationchambers of Dachau camp (DEGESCH circulation chambers) exhibitno blue pigmentation, because the walls were professionally coatedwith a paint impermeable to gas and water.315 Iron Blue is the ISO designation (ISO 2495) for iron cyanide blue pigments of various composition,which are also known as Berlin Blue, Turnbull’s Blue, Prussian Blue, Vossen Blue ® ,Milori Blue, Paris Blue, French Blue, China Blue, Bronze Blue, Steel Blue, Ink Blue, amongothers.152