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GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTFig. 16: Typical advertisement of the firm DEGESCH about the broadvariety of applications of gassing methods offered: Flour mills, ships, stores,grain storages, houses, railroad cars, trucks. 131DisinfestationDisinfestation means: ridding rooms, objects and people of vermin(small life forms) that can transmit pathogens, cause economic damageor annoy man.”The regulation quoted lists all known physical and chemical meansof disinfection and disinfestation. Similarly, a “work guideline” was releasedin 1943 by the Sanitation Institute of the Waffen-SS: “Entkeimung,Entseuchung und Entwesung” 114 (Sterilization, Disinfectionand Disinfestation).The authority in charge of sanitation in the Waffen-SS as well asin the concentration camps was the “Hygieneinstitut der Waffen-SS” 132(Sanitation Institute of the Waffen-SS), established in 1942 in Berlin,which set up a branch office in 1943 in Rajsko near Auschwitz, with its“Hygienisch–bakteriologischen Untersuchungsstelle Südost d. W-SS”(Sanitary and Bacteriological Testing Station Southeast of Waffen-SS).The files from this testing station have survived (151 volumes datingfrom 1943 to 1945). 133131 Der praktische Desinfektor, Heft 2, Verlag Erich Deleiter, Berlin 1941, inside cover; cf. F.P.Berg, “Typhus and the Jews”, JHR, 8(4) (1988), pp. 433-481 (online:66