THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORT(i.e., Zyklon B), for 1,400 people and approximately20,000 pieces of laundry. 136Block 26: One hot air installation for 2,000 people.Disinfestation building at Deutsche Ausrüstungs-Werke (GermanEquipment Works, i.e., Canada I): 1 hydrogencyanide gas disinfestation installation (BW 28) forapproximately 30,000 pieces of laundry, blankets, etc.(in operation since the summer of 1942).Civilian worker disinfestation barracks: One hot air disinfestationinstallation, manufactured by the Hochheim corporation,with a daily capacity for 2,000 people, withlarge shower bath installation and disinfection apparatus,permanently installed.b) In the POW camp (K.G.L., Birkenau):BW 5a in B Ia: One disinfestation apparatus (manufactured byWerner) and one hot air apparatus (manufacturedby Hochheim) in operation since November1942 for 2, 000 people.One chamber for hydrogen cyanide fumigationhas been built for 8,000 blankets and has beenin operation since the fall of 1942.BW 5b in B Ib: Installation as in BW 5a.All the facilities listed therein were subject to modifications. Thenumber of sanitary facilities increased with the number of inmates, asthe two aforementioned documents already show. Pressac mentions 25chambers operated with Zyklon B, without providing a verifiablesource. 1375.2.3.3. ResultsThe results could only be compiled if one knew the number of personsdisinfested by means of the installation. These numbers have thusfar remained unclear. Although Danuta Czech claims in her book 89 thatsuch documents on large time periods are available in the Auschwitzarchive, we have so far been unable to examine them. As of the presentwriting, it is still impossible to make a reliable statement as to whether136 According to Pressac, in operation since 1941/42, op. cit. (note 67), p. 25.137 Ibid., p. 550.68