THE RUDOLF REPORT

5. AUSCHWITZ“Installation of gas-tight doors, window shutters, and windows,Manufacture of the openings in the masonry necessary for the heatingovens, as well as for the ventilation outlets and intakes and pipes.”This is a strong indication that before this time there were neithergas-tight doors and windows nor any other openings for ventilationinstallations or for any other purpose (Zyklon introduction holes); otherwisesuch old openings would have been used for this purpose, ortheir filling would have been mentioned.Direct access to the air raid shelters, which evolved from the multipledivision of the morgue/‘gas chamber’, was possible through anewly added entrance with sluice, which today is represented as theentryway taken by the victims, although the ‘gas chamber’ had no entrancein that location—as a matter of fact, it had no direct entrancefrom the outside at all. 163 Toilets were likewise built into the formerwashroom at this time.Fig. 23 shows the ground plan of the crematorium in its presentcondition. 168 According to Pressac, the access from the morgue/‘gaschamber’ to the present cremation room was newly placed after thewar—not quite at the original location. The partitions in the air-raidshelter, including the wall to the washroom, which was, however,never part of the morgue (the later ‘gas chamber’), were torn down.Accordingly, the irritated visitor sees two discharge pipes from twotoilets inside the alleged ‘gas chamber’. According to Pressac, whogives no source for this statement, the roof was newly covered withtarpaper during which the traces of the Zyklon B holes and ventilationholes of the ‘gas chamber’ were allegedly covered over. The renewedincorporation of four staggered Zyklon B introduction stacks by thePolish Museum after the war is therefore not alleged to have takenplace in the same location. This argument, on Pressac’s part, mustcause astonishment, since from the inside, the roof/ceiling is of unplasteredbare concrete. It should have been quite possible to determine thelocation of the original openings—now allegedly sealed—from theinterior and it would also have been quite possible to make openings inthe same place.As confirmed to visitors by the Museum administration upon inquiry,the two chimney openings in the cremation room, as well as the168 J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 159.83