THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTmination took place, the Auschwitz camp did not receive higheramounts of Zyklon B deliveries, if seen in relation to the number ofinmates and in relation to the material delousing facilities that doubtlesslyoperated there.The supply figures of the Auschwitz camp can be found in theprotocols of the International Military Tribunal Nuremberg. In total,they reached some 19,000 kg during the years 1942 and 1943. 157 Thetotal supplied amount during the entire existence of the camp from late1940 to early 1945 will hardly have exceeded 40 tons. According toPressac’s statement that not 2-5% of this was used for killings, 800 to2,000 kg of the total delivery was used for extermination of humans.But when dividing up this amount of Zyklon B for one millionpeople allegedly killed with it, with 1,000 victims per gassing—the‘gas chambers’ (morgues I) of crematorium II and III could hardlyhold 1,000 persons per execution—only roughly 0.8 to 2 kg HCN wasavailable for each gassing. With the morgues’ free volume of roughly430 m 3 , 466 and after all hydrogen cyanide had evaporated from the carrier(after more than an hour), 800 to 2,000 g of hydrogen cyanidewould result in a theoretical end concentration of 1.86 to 4.65 g per m 3 ,which means that the concentration during the first five or ten minuteswas much lower.If, on the other hand, one million victims were killed according tothe eyewitness statements, i.e., with high concentrations in a few minutes,those 1,000 gassing would have required 1,000×20 kg = 20 tonsof Zyklon B, or at least 50% of the entire Zyklon B delivery to thecamp.This shows an obvious inconsistency in Pressac’s statements. Onecannot have both high concentrations during homicidal gassings and alow percentage of the entire Zyklon B delivery to Auschwitz used forthese gassings.Let us now have a closer look at the theory endorsed by J. Bailer, 54W. Wegner, 49 and G. Wellers, 55 that only a small amount of HCN wasused for the killings. In such a case, the concentration reduction due tothe respiration of the victims is no longer a negligible quantity.Per capita, the respiration of HCN is the higher, the higher the appliedconcentration is. The reason for this is that although the victimincorporates lethal amounts of hydrogen cyanide in short periods oftime in case of high concentrations, their organism’s reaction is delayed.During this delay, the victim incorporates more overdoses of212