THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTchimney itself, which is without any functional connection outside thebuilding, were built after the war as a “reconstruction for Museumpurposes” on the location of the alleged original installations. 169The French journalist and well-known anti-revisionist, Eric Conan,writes: 170“Another delicate subject: What to do with the falsifications leftbehind by the communist administration? In the 50s and 60s, severalbuildings which had disappeared or had been misappropriated were rebuiltwith gross errors and displayed as authentic. Some, which were‘too new’, have been closed for the public. Not to mention the delousinggas chambers which were sometimes presented as homicidal gas chambers.Those aberrations have helped the deniers a lot, which took the essencefor their legends out of it. The example of the Crematory I is typical.In its morgue, the first gas chamber was installed. It operated for ashort period of time in early 1942. The blocking of this area, which wasessential for the gassings, disturbed the operation of the camp. End ofApril 1942, it was therefore decided to move the deadly gassings to Birkenau,were it was conducted on an industrial scale mainly with Jewishvictims. The Crematory I was subsequently converted into an air raidshelter with a surgery room. In 1948, when the Museum was created,Crematory I was reconstructed in a supposed original state. Everythingin it is false: [171] the dimensions of the gas chamber, the locations of thedoors, the openings for pouring in Zyklon B, the ovens, rebuilt accordingto the recollections of some survivors, the height of the chimney. At theend of the 70s, Robert Faurisson exploited those falsifications all thebetter because at that time the Museum officials balked at admitting169 Ibid., p. 133; see also the confirmation of changes in the partial recreation of the installation inthe letter from the Auschwitz State Museum to Joel P. Hayward, ref. I-8523/26/2120/ 91,dated May 7, 1991; B. Bailer-Galanda, Informationen der Gesellschaft für politische Aufklärung,Innsbruck, June 1991, no. 29, p. 1, relating to Leuchter’s statement relating to crematoriumI: “Er verwechselt museale Rekonstruktionen der Gaskammern, die dem Betrachtereinen Eindruck der damaligen Geschehnisse vermitteln sollen, mit real funktionierendenGaskammern.”(He confuses a museum reconstruction of the gas chambers, intended to providethe observer with the impression of the events at that time, with authentically functioninggas chambers.); Letter from Dr. Scheel, Bonn, German Foreign Office, Jan. 8, 1979, ref. 214-E-Stuparek: “Auch mir ist bekannt, daß es im Lager Auschwitz keine Gaskammern gegebenhat. Die Gaskammern befanden sich im ca. 3 km davon entfernten KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau.” (Iknow as well that there were no gas chambers in Auschwitz camp. The gas chambers were locatedin the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, located approximately 3 km away.)170 “Auschwitz: la mémoire du mal”, L’Express, 19.-25. January 1995; see also, in this regard,Robert Faurisson’s remarks: “Sur Auschwitz, lentement, la vérité reprend ses droits” (Thetruth about Auschwitz is slowing reclaiming its rights), Feb. 4, 1995 (online:abbc.com/aaargh/fran/archFaur/RF950204.html).171 In the original: “Tout y est faux: […]”84