THE RUDOLF REPORT

7. ZYKLON B FOR THE KILLING OF HUMAN BEINGSThe following is a description of the homicidal gassing proceduresfor the individual installations, if one were to assume that one millionhuman beings were actually gassed:Crematorium I: Blocking the crematorium environs to third parties;500-700 victims undressing in open air (whata spectacle for all other inmates!); entry into ‘gaschamber’ (morgue) near oven room; on their wayto the ‘gas chamber,’ victims march past piles ofcorpses of earlier victims; introduction of ZyklonB through pillars with utilization of gas masks afterclosure of doors; turning on of ventilators (ifavailable) and opening of doors after death of victims(approximately five min.); evacuation ofchambers without gas masks; removal and cremationof victims. 461 According to Pressac only a fewgassings, with a total of only 10,000 victims. 462Crematoria II/III: Entry of 800 to 1,200 victims into western entrancestairway into crematorium II; undressing inundressing cellar; travel through stairwell intomorgue 1 (‘gas chamber’); introduction of ZyklonB through pillars with utilization of gas masks;turning on ventilators after death of victims (approximatelyfive min.); opening of doors after approximately20 minutes; hosing down of corpses,soiled with blood, vomit, and excrement; removalof bodies without utilization of gas masks; cuttingof hair and removal of gold teeth while bodies arestill in cellar; transport with lift (payload 1.5 tons)to ground floor; there, transport through waterfilledchannels to ovens; cremation. 302 Approximately400,000 victims for crematorium II,350,000 for crematorium III according to Pressac.463Crematorium IV/V: Undressing of a few hundred victims in open air(again: what a spectacle for all other inmates!),461 J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 125.462 Ibid., pp. 131f.463 Ibid., p. 187.207