THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTconsiders the actual technical requirements, the impression remainsof the total inadequacy of the installations in question—which weredeficient to the point of uselessness—in gross contradiction to thetechnically advanced disinfestation chambers in the immediate vicinity.The facts set forth here with relation to Zyklon B introductionpillars in the ceilings of the ‘gas chambers’ (morgue 1) of crematoriaI to III strengthen the suspicion of a subsequent manipulationalmost to a certainty. These installations would have been evenless suitable than crematoria IV and V. It would have been impossibleto introduce the gas into them. Due to the proven, enormous environmental resistance of Iron Bluepigment, the slight cyanide traces in alleged homicidal ‘gas chambers’,which are demonstrable in places, but are not reproducible,cannot be explained on the basis of remaining residues of a disintegrationprocess, since even on the weathered exterior side of thedisinfestation wing large quantities of cyanide can be found eventoday. Towards the end of the operating period of the installations,therefore, the cyanide content must have been present in the sameorder of magnitude as it is today, as well as in the areas which werenever exposed to weathering. But the cyanide values of protectedareas in the alleged homicidal ‘gas chambers’ are just as low as inplaces exposed to weathering. Weathering has, therefore, not actuallydiminished these slight traces. The low cyanide values cannotbe explained by fumigation of the premises for vermin, as postulatedby Leuchter, since such fumigation would probably have leftgreater quantities of cyanide in the moist cellars of crematoria IIand III. The cyanide values of the alleged homicidal ‘gas chambers’lie in the same order of magnitude as the results, among others, ofthe samples taken by myself from parts of other buildings (hot airdisinfestation Building 5a, inmates barracks, the washroom of crematoriumI). These values, however, lie so near the detectablethreshold that no clear significance can be attributed to them, mostimportantly due to their lack of reproducibility. From the above,one can safely conclude that no cyanide residues capable of interpretationcan be found in the walls of the alleged homicidal ‘gaschambers’.It was further possible to show that, under the conditions of themass gassings as reported by eyewitnesses in the alleged ‘gaschambers’ of crematorium II to V, cyanide residues would have288