THE RUDOLF REPORT

8. EVALUATION OF CHEMICAL ANALYSESTable 24: Comparison between cases of building damage, morgue anddisinfestation chamberLOCATIONPROPERTYPLASTERING OFCHURCHCREMATORIUM II/IIIMORGUE 1DISINFESTATIONBW 5A/BIron Content > 1 Weight.-% 1-2 Weight -% 0.5-5 Weight.-%Type of plaster Lime + Cement Cement (+lime?) LimeAlkalinity Medium-term high Medium-to-long-termhighShort-term highMoistureTime elapsedbetween plasteringand fumigationNumber of fumigationsModerately high (hydrophobicplaster, cool,moist church)A few weeksHigh (unheated cellarbelow ground watertable, condensingsweat*)Between a few weeksand three months*1 Allegedly ≥ 400*, ineach case at least onehourModerate (exterior wall)to low (interior room)(heated room)(a few weeks?)Probably < 400, in eachcase many hoursProof of cyanide Clear Negative Clear (0.1-1 weight-%)* = assuming the correctness of the alleged mass gassing scenariostion, i.e., at a time when the concrete, mortar, and plaster was still notentirely set. In addition, they were in near-constant use for one to twoyears.That the entire plaster job on the wall of the church referred toabove turned blue even after only one fumigation is explained by theespecially (un)favorable circumstances. The alleged ‘gas chambers’ ofcrematoria II and III in Birkenau show a striking similarity to this case.These cool and moist cellar rooms were only completed shortly beforethey were put into service and are then said to have been exposed tohydrogen cyanide on a constant basis in contrast to the church mentionedabove, which was only fumigated once.Finally, the interesting question of which analytical values werereally to be expected, if the reported mass gassings with Zyklon Breally occurred in the ‘gas chambers’ at Auschwitz, must now be examined.First, consideration will be restricted to the morgues 1 of crematoriaII and III, since sufficient data are only available for these buildingsand because it is only here that meaningful samples can be taken, sinceit is certain that the material is in its original condition.As a comparative value, let us take two of the samples taken bymyself from the interior wall of Building 5a: Samples no. 12 and 13,with a total cyanide concentration of 2,900 and 3,000 mg/kg, respec-281