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Table 18: Auschwitz Crematory Personnel, August 1944
Kommando Designation
Guards Specialists Helpers
57-B Stokers Crematorium I Day 2 1 109
57-B Stokers Crematorium I Night 3 / 104
58-B Stokers Crematorium II Night 3 / 110
58-B Stokers Crematorium II Day 3 / 110
59-B Stokers Crematorium III Day 2 1 109
59-B Stokers Crematorium III Night 3 / 110
60-B Stokers Crematorium IV Night 3 / 109
60-B Stokers Crematorium IV Day 3 1 109
61-B Wood unloading at Crematorium IV / / 30
Total: 22 3 900
Crematoria II and III: 240 detainees
Crematoria IV and V: 120 detainees
sick and other tasks: 40 detainees (p. 9).
However, Crematorium III was handed over to the camp administration
ready for operation only on June 24, 1943, which means that in
March-April 1943 those 120 detainees could not have worked there as
part of the Sonderkommando. Tauber states also that in May 1944 the
“Sonderkommando” was brought up to 1,000 detainees, assigned in the
following manner:
Crematorium II:
120 detainees
Crematorium III:
120 detainees
Crematorium IV:
60 detainees
Crematorium V:
300 detainees
“separate gas chamber No. 2”: 300 detainees (p. 10).
But if we add up these figures, we obtain a total of 900, not 1,000.
Besides, the documents tell us that the maximum strength of the crematorium
personnel in 1944 was 903 detainees indeed, not 1,000. They
were distributed as listed in Table 18 (August 1, 1944). 613
Tauber instead erroneously assigns 120 detainees to each of Crematoria
II and III and only 60 to Crematoria IV and V. These documents
refute above all the alleged presence of 300 detainees at Crematorium V
and of 300 inmates having been assigned to the alleged “bunker 2.”
613 Mattogno 2005c, pp. 80-84; this distribution is valid for the period July 28 through August
8, 1944; from August 9, the Helpers dropped to 870, because the 30 Helpers unloading
wood were no longer included. The numbering of the crematoria reflects the fact that,
by that time, the “old” crematorium at the main camp had been shut down.