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7. ZYKLON B FOR THE KILLING OF HUMAN BEINGSquantity of gas in the chamber. The question of whether this was possiblewill be the subject of chapter 7.3.2.2.It is interesting to note that M. Broszat deleted the last pages ofRudolf Höß’s testimony from his edition, since they contain “completelyerroneous data on the numerical strength of these Jews”, asBroszat himself stated in a footnote. In these pages, Höß speaks ofthree million Jews in Hungary, four million in Romania, two million inBulgaria. The actual figures were lower by a factor of approximatelyten. 441 In addition, the same pages contain the following, which is alsoincredible: 442“Although well-cared for and plentifully provided with bonus payments,one often saw them [the Jewish Sonderkommandos] draggingcorpses with one hand, and holding and gnawing on something to eatwith the other hand.Even during the horrid work of digging up and burning the massgraves, they did not allow themselves to be disturbed while eating. Eventhe burning of their closest relatives could not shake them. […]”This is really a bit hard to digest.Another commonly quoted witness is Henryk Tauber. Tauber was,according to his own testimony, a member of the inmate Sonderkommandoof crematorium II during the war. J.-C. Pressac writes that thiseyewitness testimony is the best in relation to the crematoria, which heconsiders to be 95% reliable. This testimony contains the following: 443“During the incineration of such [not emaciated] corpses, we usedthe coke only to light the fire of the furnace initially, for fatty corpsesburned of their own accord thanks to the combustion of the body fat. Onoccasion, when coke was in short supply, we would put some straw andwood in the ash bins under the muffles, and once the fat of the corpse beganto burn the other corpses would catch light themselves. […]Later on, as cremations succeeded one another, the furnaces burned441 Intensive statistical studies in this regard were undertaken by W.N. Sanning, op. cit. (note 41);W. Benz, Dimension des Völkermords, Oldenbourg, Munich 1991; see also G. Rudolf, “HolocaustVictims: A Statistical Analysis · W. Benz and W. N. Sanning – A Comparison”, in: E.Gauss (ed.), op. cit. (note 22), pp. 183-216 (online:www.vho.org/GB/Books/dth/fndstats.html).442 J. Bezwinska, KL Auschwitz in den Augen der SS, Verlag des Staatlichen Auschwitz-Museums, Auschwitz 1973, pp. 135f.443 Interrogation of Henryk Tauber dated May 25, 1945, annex 18, volume 11 of the Höß trial,quoted acc. to J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), pp. 489f.; this testimony is not untypical; seealso A. Neumaier, op. cit. (note 440).201