THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTnumber of victims to a maximum of 630,000, 458 470,000 to 550,000, 459or even 356,000 gassing victims, 460 that there were considerably fewerhomicidal gassings per ‘gas chamber’ than hitherto believed.There is furthermore a tendency towards a strong reduction in thealleged quantity of hydrogen cyanide utilized as compared, for example,to the quantities alleged by the eyewitnesses. 49,54,55There is much unfounded fantasizing as to the existence of anyominous Zyklon B introduction devices, which would have permittedthe toxic gas to be released through holes in the ceiling into the chamber—holeswhich, unfortunately, did not and do not exist—and to beremoved again following conclusion of the gassings. 529Furthermore, the opinion is occasionally expressed that the homicidal‘gas chamber’ was sprayed with a water hose after every gassing.This assertion forgets that it would have lasted many hours until the‘gas chamber’ could have been cleared of bodies (they had to be cremated,which is time-consuming, after all) that the hydrogen cyanidedoes not merely sit on the surface of the wall, but rather, due to its extremelyhigh diffusion capacity, penetrates deeply into the wall withina few hours, and that a water hose would be of no assistance in thisregard, quite apart from the fact that such an action would have had theeffect of causing the consequently extremely damp walls to adsorbeven more hydrogen cyanide during the next hypothetical gassing. Inaddition, the samples taken from the ceiling, which was certainly nothosed down, likewise show no reproducible cyanide concentrations.Yet there are also physical-chemical boundary conditions whichcan influence the analytical results. It is, for example, not inconceivablethat, for whatever reason remaining unknown until the presenttime, the masonry of the alleged ‘gas chambers’ was not, or moreslightly, inclined to the formation of Iron Blue, or that possible residueswere destroyed for unknown reasons.The assumptions made in relation to the boundary conditions relatingto hypothetical homicidal gassings were naturally subject to particularreserves, since no empirical data were available in this regard.Thus the question of how quickly the hydrogen cyanide contained inZyklon B could diffuse in hypothetical ‘gas chambers’ and how529 Pressac (note 67) and van Pelt (note 69) are true masters in the composition of such inventions.The court historians either fail to notice or deliberately ingore the fact that these fairytales are not based upon documents or physical reality.284