THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTequipment to conduct experiments and for his sub-expert statementsregarding ventilation and cremation techniques; to the certified engineers Dipl.-Ing. Gerhard Förster, Ing. EmilLachout, Dipl.-Ing. Arnulf Neumaier, Dipl.-Ing. Michael Gärtner,Dipl.-Ing. Harald Reich, Dipl.-Ing. Carl Hermann Christmann,Dipl.-Ing. R. Faßbender, and Dipl.-Ing. Konrad Fischer for theirvarious support and research contributions; in particular to Dipl.-Ing. Baurat h.c. Walter Lüftl for all kinds ofcomments and suggestions on various questions of engineering; to Dr. Horst Leipprand and Otto Karl for their indispensable researchon the properties of Zyklon B; to John C. Ball for his broader investigations of Allied air photosof Auschwitz; to Carlo Mattogno for his extremely detailed and productive critiqueand for his excellent archival studies which he allowed me touse and quote extensively; to Friedrich Paul Berg for his very valuable research on executionswith hydrogen cyanide in the USA; to Werner Wegner, and Jan Markiewicz for their friendlycorrespondence in this matter; to Dr. Myroslaw Dragan for his productive critique regarding theingestion of hydrogen cyanide by the victims and his instructivecremation experiments; to Charles D. Provan for his fruitful, though unfortunately stillunpublished, critique regarding the Zyklon B introduction holes; to attorneys at law Hajo Herrmann, Dr. Günther Herzogenrath-Amelung, Dr. Klaus Göbel, Jürgen Rieger and Dr. Herbert Schallerfor their support in legal matters; to Dr. Heinz Knödler, Linda M. Faith, Andrew Fuetterer, and Dr.Fredrick Töben for proofreading various versions of this report; to Carlos Porter, Michael Humphrey, and James M. Damon forvarious contributions to get this work translated from German intoEnglish; to the historians Dr. Rainer Zitelmann, Prof. Dr. Werner GeorgHaverbeck, Prof. Dr. Hellmuth Diwald and Prof. Dr. Emil Schlee,Prof. Dr. Robert Hepp, Prof. Dr. Ernst Nolte, Dr. Walter Post, andDr. Joachim Hoffmann for their encouragement; to my good friends Elda and Robert H. Countess, PhD, who werethere for me when I became a refugee and needed friends, who294