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8. EVALUATION OF CHEMICAL ANALYSESdency, higher by a factor of 8, to adsorb hydrocyanic than thewarm, dry interior walls of the disinfestation chamber under consideration(factor 8). 526– Ceilings and walls of the morgue consisted of cement mortarand/or concrete, which, due to their longer-lasting alkaline propertiesand due to their greater specific inner surface area, are able toadsorb and bind hydrogen cyanide for a longer time and morestrongly than the cement-poor mortar and plaster of the disinfestationwing under consideration. Quantification in this regard is difficult,but a factor in excess of two must be anticipated (factor2). 527According to these considerations, the factors indicating thatrather more iron cyanide would have had to form in the homicidal ‘gaschambers’ than on the interior walls of the disinfestation chamber inquestion ( 8×22 to 19≈ 0.4-8) weigh more heavily. In actual fact, however,the homicidal ‘gas chambers’ contain such low cyanide concentrationsthat they are neither capable of reproducible detection nor of adequateinterpretation, but in any case at least some 150 to 10,000 times lowerthan those detectable in the walls of the disinfestation chambers.Or in plain English: When analyzing wall samples from the alleged‘gas chambers’ of crematoria II and III, we ought to expect resultswhich are in the same order of magnitude as the results of samplestaken from the walls of the delousing chambers of BW 5a and 5b.What we do find in those ‘gas chamber’ samples, however, is practicallynothing.8.4.6. Limits of the Chemical MethodThe most recent development in the official school of thoughttends to modify the marginal conditions for the homicidal mass gassings,even when this stands in shattering contradiction to the statementsof eyewitnesses or the technical data.Whereas it was still the rule, until a few years ago, for the eyewitnesstestimonies to allege daily, or even continuous, gassings, 528 todayit is occasionally assumed, as a result of the drastic reduction in the526 See also chapters 6.5.1., 6.5.3., 6.7.2.f.527 See also chapters 6.5.2., 6.7.2.f.528 According, for example to the testimony of M. Buki in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial; see H.Langbein, Der Auschwitz-Prozeß, op. cit. (note 465), p. 96.283