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GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTcellars. It must therefore be considered established that quantities of atleast 20 kg of Zyklon B per gassing (ten 2 kg cans or twenty 1 kg cans)would probably have had to have been used for the gassing proceduresdescribed.Let us state that the scenarios described by the witnesses wouldrequire a quick increase in the concentration of hydrogen cyanide everywherein the chamber. At the same time, logically, there cannot havebeen a simultaneous drop in the hydrogen cyanide in the chamber—such as through the respiration of the victims. Such a loss in hydrogencyanide would have had to have been overcompensated for through aneven more rapid evaporation of fresh hydrogen cyanide, because thehydrogen cyanide concentration would have had to increase for rapidexecutions. After the end of respiration due to increasing numbers ofdead victims, who died in a matter of minutes, this most importantcause of a loss in hydrogen cyanide would have ceased to exist as afactor. But since Zyklon B continues to give off large amounts of hydrogencyanide for many more minutes, it must be assumed that thehydrogen cyanide content in such chambers would continue to increaseconstantly, and very rapidly, during the first quarter hour at least. Sincedeadly concentrations (3,200 ppm) would have had to have beenreached even in the remotest corner of the chamber even after a fewminutes, this means that the hydrogen cyanide concentration inside thechamber after approximately one quarter hour would have exceeded10,000 ppm and would have continued to rise thereafter—slowly, ofcourse, but nevertheless constantly at all times.To assume that the respiration of the victims locked in the chamberswould have been capable of perceptibly reducing the concentrationof hydrogen cyanide in the air is therefore entirely in contradictionto the eyewitness statements. 468 In particular, this would have to assumethat the victims, confined in the chamber, could have acted asquasi-living filters for the greater proportion of the time during whichthe Zyklon B was releasing hydrogen cyanide (at least one hour). Butone thousand people locked in a hermetically sealed cellar would havedied in an hour from lack of oxygen alone.These considerations show that a concentration of hydrogen cya-468 Such is, for example, the hypothesis brought forth by G. Wellers, op. cit. (note 55), which issimilarly incorrect in its findings, due to the incorrect hypothesis that lower quantities of ZyklonB were used: J. Bailer, op. cit. (note 52); W. Wegner, op. cit. (note 49).210