THE RUDOLF REPORT

9. Conclusions Even according to the statements of pharmacist J.-C. Pressac, who,in the late 80s and early 90s, was promoted as the technical Holocaustexpert, eyewitness testimonies relating to the engineering ofthe installations and their capacity are, almost without exception,untenable. But even the corrections to the testimonies considered byPressac to be necessary do not go far enough to make them credible.In particular, the testimonies relating to the duration of executionsin the ‘gas chambers’ (morgue 1) of crematoria II and III, aswell as the ventilation times after the executions go completelyawry. This is because of the over-estimation of the evaporation rateof hydrogen cyanide from the carrier of Zyklon B, as well as the incorrectconcept of the effectiveness of the ventilation of the rooms.If the eyewitness testimonies relating to the quantities of Zyklon Bused, and at least approximately relating to the rapidity of the executionprocedure are to be accepted, then they are incompatiblewith testimonies, sometimes of the same witnesses, that the victims’corpses were removed from the ‘gas chambers’ immediately afterthe executions and without gas masks and protective garments. Thisis particularly true for those alleged ‘gas chambers’ without ventilationinstallations (crematoria IV and V and farmhouses I and II),since working in poorly ventilated ‘gas chambers’ with high concentrationsof poison gas is impossible without gas masks. The extremedanger to the sweating workers of the Sonderkommando,who are supposed to have worked without protective garments,makes the witnesses untrustworthy. The eyewitness accounts aretherefore completely contradictory, illogical, contrary to the laws ofnature, and therefore incredible. The witnesses engage in particularcontortions when it comes to the cremations (amount and kind offuel used, speed of cremation, development of flames and smoke),which furthermore fail to accord with the analyses of aerial photography. The alleged installations for the mass murder of human beings are,in Pressac’s judgment, impractical for their purpose, but were, onthe contrary, illogically constructed in parts, so that they would nothave been suitable as instruments of mass extermination. Once one287