“the evidence room” is proof of the Holocaust

You can read a recent news article about “the evidence room” at http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/arts/design/the-evidence-room-architects-examine-the-horrors-of-auschwitz.html?_r=0

The news article is about the alleged gas chamber in the main Auschwitz camp.

My photo of the gas chamber in the main Auschwitz camp

I wrote about this alleged gas chamber on my website at http://www.scrapbookpages.com/AuschwitzScrapbook/Tour/Auschwitz1/Auschwitz08.html

The following quote is from the news article:

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The [evidence] room, based on Mr. [Jan] van Pelt’s nearly 600-page book “The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence From the Irving Trial” (2002), is one of the more unusual installations in a biennale dedicated to the ethical dimension of architecture, and one of the few featuring the work of a nondesigner. To give his research concrete form, Mr. van Pelt turned to Donald McKay, an architect and fellow professor at the architecture school of the University of Waterloo in Ontario. (The team also included Anne Bordeleau and Sascha Hastings.)

“I wanted it to have a kind of ideal quality, like we were inside the architect’s mind,” Mr. van Pelt said.

Entering the room, which uses four shades of white, feels like walking into a combination of an architectural model and a fossil-specimen hall. The walls are lined with plaster reliefs based on photographs, drawings, blueprints and other documents introduced during the trial to counter Mr. Irving’s claim that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.

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There will soon be a law against “Holocaust denial” in the USA, so don’t go denying that the “gas chamber” in the main Auschwitz camp was a “gas chamber.” In fact, don’t use quote marks as I am doing right now.

a recreated gas chamber is on display

Recreated gas chamber room on display

My 2005 photo of the Auschwitz gas chamber shows the same view of the door

The following quote is from a recent news article, which explains the story:

Architects recreate a Nazi gas chamber.

Currently on display at a Venice exhibit is a recreation of a Nazi gas chamber which hopes to honour the victims of the Holocaust. The inception for the exhibit came after historian Deborah Lipstadt was sued by Holocaust denier David Irving for libel, and had an architectural historian help her case by proving the genocidal intent of Nazi concentration camps and gas chambers. That evidence was compiled to reconstruct such a gas chamber which may be ‘nightmarish’ to look at, but succeeds in proving to naysayers that the Nazis did, indeed, attempt to wipe us all out.

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As far as I know, Fred Leuchter, the foremost gas chamber expert in the world, does not read my blog. I wouldn’t want him to die laughing after seeing these photos. However, it is my impression that Fred is very polite and he suffers fools gladly.

Around 10 years ago, my photo above was used to construct a huge display of the gas chamber in the main Auschwitz camp. The display was shown to tourists at some museum in southern California.

I tried to get the museum people to use a different photo for their display because the photo above shows the door through which the German SS soldiers entered what was then a bomb shelter. The door is in the center of the photo, and it is in the open position. This is not the door through which the victims allegedly entered the alleged gas chamber.

My 2005 photo below shows another view of the wooden door when it is in the open position. The door in the background of the photo is a metal door.

Wooden door into Auschwitz gas chamber in the open position

The alleged gas chamber room was originally a morgue, where dead bodies were stored before being put into the ovens in the oven room right next to it.

Door into the Auschwitz gas chamber is on the right and cremation ovens are on the left

Allegedly, Zyklon-B gas was used to gas the Jews, in a room with an open door, that was right next to the hot ovens where bodies were being burned.

My 2007 photo of the Auschwitz gas chamber

The Krema I gas chamber in the main Auschwitz camp, shown in my photo above, is a reconstruction which was done by the Soviet Union in 1947.

The original gas chamber had been converted by the Germans into an air raid shelter in September 1944. A new entrance door, which can be seen in the background of the photo above, had been added.

In September 1944, the original Auschwitz gas chamber had been divided into four small rooms. In the photo above, you can see the reconstructed opening into the oven room on the left hand side. This opening had been closed up when the gas chamber was converted into an air raid shelter. During the reconstruction, the opening into the oven room was moved a few feet.

You can read the news article by clicking on the link below:

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