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GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTtrampled upon or crushed by falling human bodies, as well as directbodily contact.The relative atmospheric humidity in the cellars of crematoria IIand III, which must certainly have approached 100%, would have “seriouslydelayed” evaporation, 428 as well as the possible fluid secretionscaused by panic on the part of victims lying on the floor, which couldvery well have occurred as soon as the door was closed, that is, prior torelease of the Zyklon B. Under such conditions, a serious delay in thedischarge of the hydrogen cyanide from the carrier material wouldhave to be anticipated.If assuming that Zyklon B introduction devices were installed insome of the Auschwitz ‘gas chambers’ as attested to by MichalKula, 429 such a device would have had the following effects: a) theZyklon B granules would not have been spread out, but rather wouldhave been kept together by the inner wire mesh, reducing the evaporationrate considerably; b) all three wire mesh columns would havedrastically reduced any air convection within them, reducing bothevaporation rate as well as the speed with which the gas spreads outinto the chamber; c) due to high humidity in the air and the lack of airconvection, moisture would have condensed intensively on the ZyklonB carrier, reducing the evaporation rate of HCN “seriously.”The present study regarding homicidal mass gassings will bebased on the conservative assumption that the Zyklon B would at besthave behave in the manner described by Irmscher at 15°C (see above).7.3. The Gassing of Human Beings7.3.1. Eyewitness Testimonies7.3.1.1. Boundary ConditionsThis chapter will examine a few related eyewitness testimonies fora determination of the chemical, physical, and technical boundary conditionsof the alleged homicidal gassings. A complete and detailedanalysis of the many eyewitness testimonies in the individual trials and428 Unheated cellar rooms by their very nature, have very high relative atmospheric humidity. Asa result of the large numbers of human beings crammed into the cellar, the atmospheric humiditywould certainly approach 100%, resulting in the condensation of water on cold objects.429 See chapter 5.4.1.2.8., p. 130, for this.196