THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORT90also intended to serve the auxiliary purpose of air raid shelters,introduction holes would have been counter-productive. I wouldcertainly have expressed an objection to such an arrangement.Q.: Why were such large cellars built, when the water table inBirkenau was so extremely high?A.: I don’t know. Originally, however, above-ground morgues wereto be built. The construction of the cellars caused great problemsin retention and sealing.Q.: Would it be conceivable that you were deceived and that the SSnevertheless had gas chambers to be built by your firm withoutyour knowledge?A.: Anyone who knows anything about what happens on a buildingsite knows that that is impossible.Q.: Do you know any gas chambers?A.: Naturally. Everyone in the east knew about disinfection chambers.We also built disinfection chambers, which look quite different.We built such installations and knew what they lookedlike, even after the necessary installations. As a building firm,we often had work to do after installation of the machinery...Q.: When did you learn that your firm was supposed to have builtgas chambers for industrial mass killing?A.: Only after the end of the war.Q.: Weren’t you quite amazed about it?A.: Yes! After the war I made contact with my former boss in Germanyand asked him about it.Q.: What did you learn?A.: He also only learned about it after the war, but he assured methat the Huta Corporation certainly did not build the cellars inquestion as gas chambers.Q.: Would building alterations be conceivable after the withdrawalof the Huta Corporation?A.: Conceivable, sure, but I would rule that out on the basis of timefactors. After all, they would have needed corporations again,the SS couldn’t do that on their own, even with inmates. Basedon the technical requirements for the operation of a gas chamber,which only became known to me later, the building erectedby us would have been entirely unsuited for the purpose in regardto the necessary machinery and practicable operation.Q.: Why didn’t you publish that?