30,000 records kept by the Nazis, but not one name of anyone who died in a gas chamber….

As everyone knows, the Nazis kept meticulous records of EVERYTHING — except the names of the Jews who were gassed in the death camps.

These Nazi records have been kept, for years, in “an inconspicuous white building” in the town of Arolsen, Germany.  The records contain the names of 17.5 million people, but not one name of a Jew who was gassed, according to a news story which you can read in full here.

Miles and miles of records, but no records of gassing

This quote is from the news article:

International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen contains 30 million documents on survivors of Nazi camps, Gestapo prisons, forced laborers and displaced persons. [...]

The 25 kilometers of yellowing papers include typed lists of Jews, homosexuals and other persecuted groups, files on children born in the Nazi Lebensborn program to breed a master race, and registers of arrivals and departures from concentration camps. [...]

The Nazis’ meticulous record-keeping stopped only when Jews and other victims were herded into gas chambers.

“At death camps like Sobibor or Auschwitz, only natural causes of death are recorded – heart failure or pneumonia,” said spokeswoman, Kathrin Flor. “There’s no mention of gassing. The last evidence of many lives is the transport to the camp.”

Wait a minute!  There are no records of anyone being gassed at Sobibor, a camp that was strictly a death camp?

Auschwitz was a multi-purpose camp with three separate locations, and some of the prisoners worked.  But the only purpose of the Sobibor camp was to get rid of (ausrotten) the Jews  by mass gassing in large gas chambers, using either carbon monoxide or Zyklon-B.

The Jews who were NOT gassed at Auschwitz were registered and given an identification number which was tattooed on their arm.  The Jews who got off the transport trains at Auschwitz, and were waved to the left by Dr. Mengele, were not registered and no records of their deaths in the gas chamber were kept.

It is understandable that the Nazis would not have wanted to keep a record of death by gassing, but they could have made up some other name, a euphemism for gassing.  Something like “went up the chimney” or shot while attempting to escape (Auf der Flucht erschossen).

By being remiss in recording the deaths from gassing, the Nazis caused the number of recorded deaths at Auschwitz to be embarrassingly low, although ESTIMATES of the Auschwitz deaths are now as high as 1.5 million.  The lack of records has led to Holocaust denial.  If only the Nazis had just kept records of the names of each person who was gassed.  Would it have killed them to have a guy standing at the door into the gas chamber, taking names to put into their vast records, which they kept for future generations?

You can read about the Nazi gas chambers here.

Jewish survivor of Dachau tells students about witnessing prisoners being killed in the gas chamber

Elly Gotz was only in the Dachau main camp for two days before the camp was liberated, but he witnessed prisoners being killed in the gas chamber.  He told an audience of students about the Dachau gas chamber in a talk that he gave in April this year.  His message is that the students shouldn’t hate, but how can these students not hate after they are told lies about prisoners being gassed at Dachau?

This quote is from the news article which you can read in full here:

Gotz talked about the atrocities he witnessed and experienced — of being forced to move to the Jewish ghetto, of going into hiding with his family — where his mother, a nurse, had the task of helping them take their own lives (with syringes of a heart attack-inducing drug) should they be discovered.

Gotz also talked of his time at the Dachau labour and concentration camps and of witnessing innocent people being shot, dying of starvation and being killed in gas chambers.

Currently, there is a 93 year-old-man who is scheduled to go on trial in Germany as a war criminal because he was a cook in a concentration camp.  If old men, like John Demjanjuk, can be brought into court on a stretcher, and prosecuted for alleged war crimes, then old men who tell lies about gas chambers should also be brought into court in Germany and charged with the crime of Lying about the Holocaust.

Elly Gotz was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1928.  In 1941, his family was put into a ghetto where they stayed for three years before being sent to a Dachau sub-camp in 1944.

On April 29, 1945, when the main Dachau camp was liberated, there was a total of 2,539 Jews in the camp, including 225 women, according to the US Army census. Most of the Jews had arrived only weeks or even days before, after they were evacuated from the Dachau sub-camps, mainly the eleven Kaufering camps near Landsberg am Lech, where they had been forced to work in building underground factories for the manufacture of Messerschmitt airplanes.  Elly Gotz and his father had been working in the Kaufering I camp for 10 months.

You can hear Elly Gotz tell his story on the YouTube video below.  At 1:35 on the video, Gotz tells how “the vicious Commandant” of Dachau told him the prisoners were all going to be killed: “We are keeping the last bullets for you.”

The last Commandant of the Dachau Concentration Camp was Wilhelm Eduard Weiter; he had left the Dachau main camp on April 26, 1945, leading a transport of prisoners to the Schloss Itter, a subcamp of Dachau in Austria. When Weiter realized that Elly the Liar had arrived in the main camp the following day, Weiter came back and made his threats to 17-year-old Elly so that he would have some lies to tell students years later.

Weird Jewish Museum in Berlin gets even weirder…

“Jew in a Box” in the Jewish Museum in Berlin

The sign under the glass box, where a Jew sits in the Jewish Museum in Berlin, says “Gibt es noch Juden in Deutschland?” (Are there still Jews in Germany?)

This quote is from a news article which you can read in full here:

An interactive ‘Jew in a Box’ display at the Jewish Museum in Berlin has attracted scathing criticism from prominent Jewish figures and anti-Semitic comments from visitors.

Last month American Bill Glucroft, 27, climbed into a glass box at the museum, which chronicles Jewish life in the capital and broader Germany, with the caption beneath it reading: “Are there still Jews in Germany?”

Since then, other Jewish people have taken turns to sit in the box.

“A lot of our visitors don’t know any Jews and have questions they want to ask,” said museum official Tina Luedecke.

“With this exhibition we offer an opportunity for those people to know more about Jews and Jewish life.”

But since the start of the exhibit, ‘The Whole Truth, everything you wanted to know about Jews’, it has drawn criticism within the Jewish community.

Before you criticize this weird exhibition, you have to see it in context—with the rest of the Museum, which was deliberately set up to throw people off balance.

The photo below shows the outside of the Museum building, which was designed by Jewish architect Daniel Libeskind.

Exterior of Jewish Museum in Berlin

The design of the Jewish Museum in Berlin is supposed to represent a deconstructed Star of David, as though it has been hit by lightning. The only windows in the museum are the angular slits that you see on the sides of the building. The surface of the building is covered with polished metal facing. There is no door into the exhibits; entry is through a tunnel from the Baroque building next door, which is shown in the photo below.

Entrance to the Jewish Museum in Berlin is through this Baroque building next door

Entry to the Jewish Museum is through the Baroque building, shown in the photo above, which was formerly Berlin’s Superior court. The Jewish Museum was originally an annex of the Berlin Museum in the former court building, which is called the Kolliegenhaus. The Berlin Museum was moved back to its original home, and the Jewish Museum opened here as a separate museum in October 2001.

Sign says “Jewish Museum Berlin”

The two contrasting buildings in the photo above show the difference between the German people and the Jews in Germany.  Be prepared to leave the normal world behind, as you go through a tunnel to get to the Jewish Museum next door to a traditional German building.

Aerial view shows the Jewish Museum on the left, next door to a traditional German building

The layout of the Jewish Museum in Berlin

There are no windows in the Jewish Museum building, but narrow slits in the sides of the building allow in some light, which illuminate two of the corridors, as shown in the model above. The whole building is designed to be scary, like a house of horrors. There are no guided tours and visitors may walk about freely, although when I was there in 2001, there were attendants on duty, ready to answer any questions.

The Axis of Exile and the Axis of Continuity

The photo above shows two of the corridors in the Jewish Museum.  This is where the “axis of Continuity” intersects with the “axis of Exile.” The “axis of Exile,” which represents the deportation of the German Jews by the Nazis, leads outside to a garden, which consists of 49 stone columns with trees planted on top of the columns.  (You can’t get any weirder than that.)

Garden outside Jewish Museum has stone columns planted with trees on top

Trees growing out of columns in the garden outside the Jewish Museum — can anything be weirder than that?

The “axis of Continuity” leads to the exhibition space. Together, the three corridors in the Museum represent the three important elements of the Jewish experience, according to the museum designer.

The photos below show the interior of one of the empty towers.

Memory Void Tower in the Jewish Museum in Berlin

Fallen leaves in the Memory Void Tower

Close-up of Fallen Leaves in the Memory Void Tower

New film by Claude Lanzmann, soon to be released, will feature Benjamin Murmelstein, the last head of the Jewish council at Theresienstadt

Claude Lanzmann is the 87-year-old director of the famous 9 and 1/2 hour Holocaust documentary entitled Shoah, which features testimony from Holocaust survivors and Holocaust perpetrators.  The testimony, given by Benjamin Murmelstein, for that film ended up on the cutting room floor.  I previously blogged about Lanzmann’s new film here.

So why is Lanzmann doing a new film, featuring the testimony of Murmelstein, who is now dead?  Because Murmelstein revealed, in his testimony, that there was a gas chamber at Theresienstadt where the Nazis were planning to finish off the genocide of the Jews.

This quote from the news article explains it:

…. What angers [Lanzmann] is not that anyone would be making money off of images of genocide, but rather, that anyone would dare suggest that any such images [of gas chambers] exist.

“They [gas chamber images] don’t [exist],” he says categorically. “The core of the story is the gas chambers, and there is no footage from inside the gas chambers. All other sorts of footage are side things.”

Gas chamber at Theresienstadt was near this location

According to the Ghetto Museum at Theresienstadt, a homicidal gas chamber was built by the Nazis in the Spring of 1945 in a corridor of the town’s fortifications wall near the Litomerice gate, (shown in the photo above) which is right by the Bauhof building, shown in the photograph below. Click here to see a map of the Theresienstadt ghetto. The Bauhof building is number 14 on the map.

Bauhof gas chamber building is on the left and the Litomerice gate is on the right

The alleged Theresienstadt homicidal gas chamber was directly across from the Jäger (Hunter) barracks, an identical building on the opposite side of the town, which was used as a disinfection station where the prisoners and their clothing were deloused. The prisoners were disinfected by being completely submerged in a tub containing a chemical which would kill the lice on their bodies. At the same time, their clothing was disinfected by hot steam; they would have to put their clothes back on while they were still wet and then return to their barracks.

The ghetto inmates became aware of the alleged Theresienstadt homicidal gas chamber in the Bauhof building and were planning to blow it up, but the war ended just in time to save the Theresienstadt Jews from being gassed with Zyklon-B.

You can read about Lanzmann’s new film in this quote from a news article which you can read in full here:

The very first interview Claude Lanzmann recorded for his groundbreaking nine-and-a-half hour documentary “Shoah” ended up on the cutting-room floor. It was an interview he conducted almost 40 years ago in Rome with Benjamin Murmelstein, a Viennese rabbi and intellectual who served as the last head of the Jewish Council in Theresienstadt. Although the question-and-answer session went on for an entire week, generating hours upon hours of tape, Lanzmann never found an appropriate place for it.

Until now.

These outtakes from “Shoah” form the basis of Lanzmann’s soon-to-be-released film, “The Last of the Unjust” (a play on the title of Andre Schwarz-Bart’s classic French novel), a three-and-a-half hour documentary that reveals, in his words, “the height of Nazi cruelty and perversity.” Lanzmann promises that the testimony featured in his latest cinematic work is the ultimate rebuttal to the “so-called banality of evil” theory popularized by Hannah Arendt – whom he disparagingly refers to as “Frau Arendt” – by demonstrating just how corrupt and conniving a man was Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann.

Several years ago, Dr. Wolf Murmelstein, the son of Benjamin Murmelstein, sent me 6 essays that he had written in defense of his father.   You can access all of the essays written by Dr. Wolf Murmelstein on my website  here.  I also blogged about Benjamin Mermelstein and Adolf Eichmann’s plan to continue the gassing of the Jews at Theresienstadt here.

This quote from the news article about the new Lanzmann film explains why a new film, featuring the testimony of Benjamin Murmelstein is needed:

When “Shoah” was broadcast in weekly TV segments in Iran two years ago, Lanzmann took the opportunity to write an open letter to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the world’s most notorious Holocaust denier, reassuring the national leader he had nothing to fear.

“I said ‘If you want to find proof in ‘Shoah’ that the Shoah really happened, you will not find this proof. Why? Because there is not one single corpse in ‘Shoah’. And that’s because there were no corpses. People who arrived in Auschwitz were gassed within the first two hours. Their bodies were turned to ashes, and these ashes were dumped in sacks in the river or allowed to blow away in the wind.”

Benjamin Murmelstein probably mentioned the gas chamber at Theresienstadt in his testimony for the Shoah documentary, which was not used in the film.

Was there really a gas chamber at Theresienstadt?  There was a typhus epidemic at Theresienstadt in the last days of the camp and thousands of prisoners were dying.  I have no doubt that a Gaskammer was set up, to stop the epidemic, and Zyklon-B was used to disinfect the clothing of the prisoners.  It must have alarmed the prisoners when they learned that a Gaskammer was being used in the Bauhof building near the Litomerice gate into the camp.

Theresienstadt was one of the last camps to be liberated.  Prisoners from other camps were sent there to prevent them from being released for fear that they would attack the civilian German population during the last days of World War II.  Some of the survivors of the trains, that were sent to Theresienstadt in the last days of the war, believed that they were being sent there to be killed.

In a recent talk which she gave to college students, Ela Weissberger mentioned a gas chamber at Theresienstadt.  This quote is from the news story about her talk:

Weissberger, now in her eighties, spoke about her three and a half years at Terezin and in spite of its emphasis on art, Terezin was still a site of despair and death. Weissberger told of a shooting gallery that still bears the blood of innocent victims and a brewery converted into a gas chamber under the guise of showers. All the while Terezin was hailed as a model concentration camp, covered by an elaborate veneer of propaganda as the world averted their eyes.

The photo below shows the old brewery building at Theresienstadt.

Old brewery at Theresienstadt was converted into a Gaskammer for disinfecting prisoner clothing

I have a section about Theresienstadt on my website, which you can read here.

What’s worse than a Holocaust denier? A Republican!!! (Holocaust denier David Cole has outed himself and he’s a Republican)

It has been all over the news recently that David Cole, who went into hiding years ago after his life was threatened, has surfaced as David Stein and it has become known that he is a Republican.  You can read the news about David Stein here.

Back in 1992, a young David Cole went to the Auschwitz main camp and hired a guide to show him the famous Auschwitz gas chamber.  He videotaped his visit and recorded the tour guide saying that the gas chamber was original.

I had a similar experience when I visited the Auschwitz main camp in 1998 with a Polish guide who spoke perfect English.  She also told me that the gas chamber was original.  I didn’t dare ask too many questions because it was obvious to me that she was suspicious that I was a non-believer because I wasn’t showing enough emotion to suit her.

The two YouTube videos below show David Cole on his trip to Auschwitz in 1992.

This video includes David Cole’s interview with Dr. Piper at Auschwitz

A new Holocaust exhibit has just opened in the creepy morgue of the Mauthausen concentration camp

Today is March 5th, the anniversary of the official liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp near Linz, Austria, so of course, I searched the news to see if there is a big celebration going on. Sure enough, I found this news article with the headline Austria Faces Past in Nazi Camp’s New Museum.

This quote is from the news article:

….a new visitor centre open to the public from Monday that tells the dark story of Austria’s main “KZ” and its subcamps between 1938 and 1945. [...]

The two new permanent exhibitions, housed in the original buildings, recreate this not only with the interviews but also dozens of original objects that speak volumes about life — and death — at Mauthausen.  [...]

Another new installation at Mauthausen is the “Room of Names”, where the 81,007 people documented to have died there are inscribed on horizontal glass panels in the camp’s chilly — and chilling — former mortuary.

Excuse me …. I cannot think of anything worse than putting a “Room of Names” in the smelly, creepy morgue room at Mauthausen.  Did the creators of this exhibit somehow clean up the morgue and get the smell out, so that visitors can read the names of the people who died in the camp?

The photo below shows the Mauthausen hospital on the left and the green bunker building, where the gas chamber and the morgue are located, on the right.

Hospital on the left and Bunker on the right

The photo below, which I took on my trip to Mauthausen in 2003, shows the entrance to the Leichen Raum  (corpse room in English) which is located in the basement of the bunker. In the background, on the left, you can see the execution spot where prisoners were hanged.

Sign on the wall in the bunker directs visitors to morgue room at Mauthausen concentration camp

May 2003 photo of Mauthausen morgue

The photo above was taken with flash; the morgue was almost completely dark when I walked through it in 2003.

The only reason that I went through this creepy room was to follow the water pipe which goes through the wall of the morgue into the hallway and then into the gas chamber, thus proving that the gas chamber is actually a shower room.

Water pipe goes through wall of morgue into the Mauthausen gas chamber

Of course, the gas chamber at Mauthausen could have been a multi-purpose room where the prisoners could take a shower, or be gassed to death with Zyklon-B.  The walls of the shower room do not show any blue stains from Zyklon-B use, but those clever Nazis could have scrubbed the tile walls clean.

Door into Mauthausen gas chamber with water pipe going from morgue into hallway and then into the gas chamber

Same door in the open position

The photo above shows the door on the south wall of the gas chamber in the open position. To the right of the door is a water pipe that goes through the morgue and into the gas chamber. Note the sparkling clean white tile on the wall of the gas chamber.  How did those clever Nazis get the blue stains out of the grout?

In my personal opinion, it was a big mistake to turn the Mauthausen morgue into Museum space.  This is no way to honor the prisoners who died at Mauthausen.  Taking tourists into the former morgue only calls attention to the water pipes going into the gas chamber, something you don’t want to know if you are a True Believer.

Two doors into the Mauthausen gas chamber

The photo above shows the two doors into the interior of the Mauthausen gas chamber.  The west wall of the gas chamber is on the right; visitors can go through this door into the gas chamber without going through the former morgue, which has the new exhibit.

The door on the left, in the photo, is on the south wall of the gas chamber.  The gassing apparatus, which was behind the south wall, was removed by the SS men when they left the camp a few days before the camp was liberated. The south wall was put back into original condition by the SS and no traces of the gassing apparatus can be seen today.

On the south wall  is a sign (not shown in the photo) in several languages which describes how the gas chamber functioned. Next to it on the wall is a private memorial to one of the prisoners who was gassed here.

The Mauthausen gas chamber ceiling is 7.8 feet high and the white ceramic tile on the walls only goes part of the way up the wall. The floor is glazed brick. The door on the right leads to the corpse room, a single crematory oven, the autopsy room and the execution spot. The door on the left opens into a hallway in which a poster, showing a can of Zyklon-B is displayed.

Mauthausen was not a “death camp” where Jews were sent to be killed.  You can read about the history of the Jews at Mauthausen on my website here.

I think it is time for the Holocaustians to give up on the Mauthausen gas chamber, which only promotes Holocaust denial.  In my opinion, the morgue should have been left in its original state.

A Holocaust picture book for 5th graders is desperately needed

American children begin their Holocaust education in the 5th grade.  Typically, a Holocaust survivor comes into a 5th grade classroom and tells the gullible children a story about how he or she escaped the gas chamber at Auschwitz, or how they survived the gas chamber selections at Auschwitz, and then escaped the gas chamber at Bergen-Belsen the day before the camp was liberated.

What is needed is a picture book so that the children can visualize a gas chamber.

A real gas chamber in Jefferson City, MO that was used for execution

A man sitting inside a real gas chamber

Holocaust revisionist Germar Rudolf inside a disinfection chamber at Auschwitz that has blue stains on the wall

Alleged gas chamber at Auschwitz has no blue Zyklon-B stains on the walls

Blue Zyklon-B stains on the outside wall of an Auschwitz-Birkenau disinfection building

Inside the ruins of a gas chamber at Auschwitz-Birkenau that has no  heavy blue stains from Zyklon-B use

Inside of Auschwitz-Birkenau alleged gas chamber shows no heavy Zyklon-B stains

The 5th grade students should be told that men risked a long prison sentence to go inside the ruins of the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau to take samples from the walls and test these samples to show that there was no evidence that Zyklon-B had been used in these alleged gas chambers to kill millions of Jews.

Gas chamber expert Fred Leuchter climbed down into alleged gas chamber at Birkenau and found no evidence of gassing

After the children have been prepared, by looking at a picture book of the alleged Auschwitz gas chambers, they can then make up their minds about the truth of the stories told by the survivors.  At least, the children should be prepared to ask intelligent questions of the survivors who claim that they escaped the Auschwitz gas chamber.

Another revisionist who climbed down into the alleged gas chamber in Krema II at Birkenau

You can read a typical story here of a Holocaust survivor, who survived, while millions of others were sent to the gas chambers at Auschwitz. She recently spoke to High School students in Wichita, Kansas who gave her a standing ovation, but apparently asked no questions.  This quote is from her story:

One by one, and in groups, so many other children she knew in the Terezin [Theresienstadt] camp got sent off to the gas chambers, to places like Auschwitz.

Why didn’t one of the students ask her why the Nazis left witnesses behind at Theresienstadt, including young children who would live to be 82 years old, and tell the world about the Auschwitz gas chambers 68 years later?

What’s wrong with the caption on this photo which shows the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum?

Photo shows the interior of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The caption on the above photo, which is on this website, is this:

Visitors to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum pass under this gate, a cast taken from the original entrance to the Auschwitz death camp, inscribed with the ironic phrase Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Makes One Free).(Photo: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)

The slogan “Arbeit macht Frei” was NOT put on the entrance of any of the death camps, which according to the Holocaustianity religion, were Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek, and Auschwitz II (Birkenau). The Auschwitz I camp, which has the Arbeit macht Frei sign was not a “death camp.”

Map shows the six death camps of the Holocaust

The map in the photo above is from the web page on “death camps” on Wikipedia.

I tried to explain the meaning of the Arbeit Macht Frei sign in a previous post which you can read here.

In the photo of the interior of the USHMM, notice the photo on the wall underneath the letters AR in the sign.  That photo is shown below.

Photo on the wall of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

The caption underneath the photo above reads: “On May 14, 1946, Rudolf Hoess, the former commandant of Auschwitz, signed a declaration stating that during his tenure in office, 2 million Jews had been gassed at Auschwitz and another 500,000 killed in other ways. Hoess overestimated the number of Jews gassed by about 1 million.”

The Auschwitz-Museum now claims that only 1.1 million people died in the three Auschwitz camps and that 900,000 of these people were Jewish. The number of Jews who died of all causes at Auschwitz is now estimated at 900,000 which means that less than 900,000 were killed in the gas chambers.  Others died in the two typhus epidemics at Auschwitz.

It is time for the USHMM to pay more attention to the captions on photos.

Bill O’Reilly’s comments about Nazi Germany and religion

I have long suspected that Bill O’Reilly does not know the meaning of the German word “Angst.”  He typically uses the word Angst when it is clear that he means “anger.”

On his show last night, Bill said “Angst” and Fox news anchor Megyn Kelly answered, using the word “anger,” making it clear that Bill meant anger when he used the word “Angst.”

But that was not the only mistake that Bill made on his TV show last night.  He said something about Nazi Germany and religion.  This morning, I searched and searched to find the exact quote, but couldn’t find it.  Was that part of Bill’s commentary cut out of the transcript because someone on the Fox News staff recognized that Bill had made a mistake?

The gist of what Bill said about Hitler and Nazi Germany was that Hitler was against religion.  That is not correct.  Hitler was baptized a Catholic and he never apostatized, although he never went to church in his later years.  Catholic priests were put into concentration camps, mostly at Dachau, but not because of their religion.  Jews were “persecuted” but not because of race or religion.

This quote is from Wikipedia on the “National Socialist Program” [Nazi program]:

18.00 We demand struggle without consideration against those whose activity is injurious to the general interest. Common national criminals, usurers, profiteers and so forth are to be punished with death, without consideration of confession or race.

Here is another translation of Number 18 in the 25 points of the Nazi party:

18. We demand that ruthless war be waged against those who work to the injury of the common welfare. Traitors, usurers, profiteers, etc., are to be punished with death, regardless of creed or race.

Hitler believed that the Jews were working to the injury of the common welfare because they were working for the interests of International Jewry, not for the interests of Germany.   I explained all this in a previous post, which you can read here.  I also wrote two previous posts about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, which you can read here and here.  Bonhoeffer was arrested because he was a traitor to his country, not because of his religion.

the four reconstructed holes in the ceiling of the Auschwitz main camp gas chamber

On my website, I show photos of three of the reconstructed holes in the ceiling of the Auschwitz gas chamber. I have found a photo of the fourth hole in one of the boxes of photos that I took on my trip to Auschwitz in 2005.  The photo of the fourth hole is shown below.  I am not positive, but I believe that some Holocaust historians have shown a photo of this hole and claimed that this is a hole in the roof of Krema II at Birkenau, where no such hole exists.

One of the four reconstructed holes in the ceiling of the Auschwitz gas chamber

Photo of the ceiling of the gas chamber in the Auschwitz main camp

The photo above shows the ceiling of the Auschwitz gas chamber; the hole in the ceiling is to the right of the ceiling beam, but not shown.  Notice the fingernail scratch marks on the wall of the gas chamber, near the ceiling.  I never realized that the Jews were so tall.

When Soviet troops arrived to liberate the three Auschwitz camps on January 27, 1945 they found that all of the gas chambers in the Auscwhitz II camp (Birkenau) had been blown up, and the gas chamber in the main Auschwitz camp had been converted into a bomb shelter.  The converted gas chamber had no holes in the roof, so the Soviets reconstructed the holes to make the bomb shelter into a gas chamber.  For the next 50 years, gullible tourists were told that the Auschwitz gas chamber was original.

One of the four reconstructed holes in the ceiling of the Auschwitz gas chamber

Reconstructed hole in the ceiling of the Auschwitz gas chamber

Reconstructed hole in the ceiling of the Auschwitz gas chamber

The photo below shows a reconstructed hole in the ceiling of the Auschwitz gas chamber that looks like a vent.  Obviously a gas chamber needs a vent.

Vent hole in the ceiling of the Auschwitz gas chamber

According to gas chamber expert Fred Leuchter, a homicidal gas chamber needs a 40 ft. vent pipe.  The Soviets did not include a vent pipe on the roof of the gas chamber in their reconstruction.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum now admits that the gas chamber in the main camp is a reconstruction, so you won’t go to prison if you deny that this gas chamber is original.

Out of respect for the Jews who died in the gas chamber in the main camp, tourists should refrain from making remarks such as “More people died in the backseat of Ted Kennedy’s car than died in the alleged Auschwitz gas chamber.”  David Irving was sentenced to 3 years in prison in Austria for making this remark.

Elie Wiesel wants everyone to just shut up about the Auschwitz gas chambers.

Quote from Elie Wiesel about the Auschwitz gas chambers