Section 110: Dachau and Its Mysterious “Gas Chamber”
When
the Dachau concentration camp, north of Munich, was seized by American troops
in 1945, it was widely claimed that a “gas chamber” had been found there.
The
Dachau “gas chamber” was described in Document No. 47 of the 79th Congress, 1st
Session, Senate Report (May 15, 1945) of the Committee Requested by Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower to the Congress of the US relative to Atrocities and other
Conditions in Concentration Camps in Germany, and entered into the Nuremberg
trial proceedings as IMT Document L-159.
It
reads as follows:
“The gas chamber
was located in the center of a large room in the crematory building. It was
built of concrete. Its dimensions were about 20 by 20 feet, and the ceiling was
some 10 feet in height. In two opposite walls of the chamber were airtight
doors through which condemned prisoners could be taken into the chamber for
execution and removed after execution. The supply of gas into the chamber was
controlled by means of two valves on one of the outer walls, and beneath the
valves was a small glass-covered peephole through which the operator could
watch the victims die. The gas was let into the chamber through pipes
terminating in perforated brass fixtures set into the ceiling. The chamber was
of size sufficient to execute probably a hundred men at one time” (Document No.
47 of the 79th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Report, May 15, 1945, of the
Committee Requested by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to the Congress of the US
relative to Atrocities and other Conditions in Concentration Camps in Germany.
Entered into the Nuremberg trial proceedings as IMT Document L-159.).
Visitors
to the camp are still told, to the present day, that there is a “gas chamber”
in the building housing the camp crematorium—but the information signs there now
state very clearly that no one was ever gassed at Dachau and that the “gas
chamber” was never used.
This,
of course, directly contradicts the “evidence” presented to the US Congress,
the Nuremberg Trials, and in the numerous “eyewitness memoirs” of the camp.
Below: The entrance to the Dachau “gas
chamber” as presented to visitors to the camp in 2010. The room is right next
to a set of ovens, and was obviously used as a morgue, and has, just as in the
case of Auschwitz, been “turned into a gas chamber” by postwar
“reconstruction.” In this particular case, the door is not even airtight, as
can be clearly seen from this picture.
The
claim that gas was “let in through perforated brass fixtures” in the ceiling as
per the Nuremberg trial document L-159 is of particular interest, because today
it is claimed that the “gas” was introduced through slide-open hatches in the
wall.
The
fact that the room now claimed to have been the Dachau “gas chamber” could
never have been designed as, or used for that purpose, is however obvious from
the most cursory inspection.
Firstly,
the room is not airtight and boasts a loose window. The floor contains no less
than four drains which run uninhibited into the entire building’s drain system,
which includes outlets in every single room. This includes the room which
houses the ovens and the alleged “changing room.”
This
arrangement would of course, have been fatal for anyone working in the
building, SS guards and prisoners alike. Poison gas would have immediately
seeped throughout the entire structure and caused an explosion in the
crematorium area, which would have destroyed the building.
Below: Contradictory signs at the Dachau
camp, as presented to tourists in 2010. On the left: This sign is outside the
crematorium building, and states that the “gas chamber was however never used
for mass killing.” Right, the sign inside the building at the door next to what
is claimed to be the “gas chamber.” It is phrased in such a way as to create
the impression that the room was indeed used to gas people.
Below: The interior of the Dachau “gas
chamber” as presented to tourists in 2010. The floor contains four drains,
directly connected to the other rooms in the building (two of which are visible
in this picture). This feature alone would have made “gassings” in the room
impossible, as poisonous gas would have leaked throughout the structure and
killed everyone else, SS guards included. It is now claimed that Zyklon-B was
inserted through the hole in the far wall, but in 1945, the Nuremberg Trial was
told that gas was emitted through “brass fixtures in the ceiling.” Today there
are only crude “fake shower-heads” in the ceiling (visible in this picture),
which are another postwar addition.
Below: A close-up of the drain in the
floor of the “gas chamber” at Dachau. This open drain system runs throughout
the entire building, and if the chamber had ever actually been used as a “gas
chamber” the gas would have spread into every room.
The
Dachau “gas chamber” is an obvious fake, and was clearly designed for use as a
morgue and washing room to hold bodies for the crematorium next door.
In a
weak attempt to bolster the “gas chamber” story, very crude fake “shower-heads”
have been inserted into the ceiling of the alleged “gas chamber” shown to present-day
visitors. These “shower-heads,” which did not exist when the camp was
liberated, are also postwar additions.
Finally,
the “gas chamber” sports a ventilation shaft in the roof, something which makes
the gassing claims even more ludicrous.
Indeed,
some more objective observers have already remarked on this very fact. Stephen
F. Pinter, who served as a lawyer for the United States War Department in the
occupation forces in Germany and Austria for six years after the war, made the
following statement in the widely read Catholic magazine Our Sunday Visitor, June 14th, 1959:
“I was in Dachau
for 17 months after the war, as a US War Department Attorney, and can state
that there was no gas chamber at Dachau. What was shown to visitors and
sightseers there and erroneously described as a gas chamber was a crematory.
Nor was there a gas chamber in any of the other concentration camps in Germany.
We were told that there was a gas chamber at Auschwitz, but since that was in
the Russian zone of occupation, we were not permitted to investigate since the
Russians would not allow it. From what I was able to determine during six
postwar years in Germany and Austria, there were a number of Jews killed, but
the figure of a million was certainly never reached. I interviewed thousands of
Jews, former inmates of concentration camps in Germany and Austria, and
consider myself as well qualified as any man on this subject.”
This
tells a very different story from the customary propaganda. Pinter, of course,
is very astute on the question of the crematorium being represented as a gas
chamber.
This is
a frequent ploy, because no such thing as a gas chamber has ever been shown to
exist in these camps, hence the deliberately misleading term “gas oven”—aimed
at confusing a “gas chamber” with a “crematorium.”
A “gas
oven” is a crematorium which uses gas as a fuel to burn a body—something very
different to a “gas chamber.” Nonetheless, the term “gas oven” is frequently
used to mean “gas chamber” in Holocaust literature.
The
Dachau crematorium was used for the hygienic disposal of corpses of people who
had died from natural causes or from individual judicial executions inside the
camp. Sometimes it was even used to cremate bodies from outside Dachau as well.
For
example, after the Allied air raids on Munich in September 1944—in which 30,000
people were killed—the city’s archbishop, Cardinal Faulhaber, asked the Dachau
camp authorities to help in the cremation of the bombing victims. He was told
that this was impossible: the crematorium, having only one furnace, was not
able to cope with the bodies of the air raid victims.
Clearly,
therefore, it could not have coped with the 238,000 Jewish bodies which were
allegedly cremated there. In order to do so, the crematorium would have to be
kept going for 326 years without stopping and 530 tons of ashes would have been
recovered.
Section 111: The Real Dachau Gas Chambers—Delousing Cubicles
The
building in Dachau which contains the crematorium and the alleged “gas chamber”
does in fact contain a number of real gas chambers.
They
are however, now clearly marked as “fumigation cubicles.” These are some of the
best preserved disinfestation rooms which did indeed use Zyklon-B (the
insertion mechanisms are still there) and from which the “Zyklon-B gas chamber”
story emerged.
As in
all the other camps, the only real “gas chambers” in Dachau were for
disinfecting clothing, and were even used for this purpose by the occupying
American army as well. The real “gas chambers” at Dachau were the
disinfestation chambers located on the western end of the crematorium building.
These
small chambers were used to kill lice and prevent the spread of disease, and
are the best-preserved such chambers in any of the camps.
Below: This famous photograph of an
American soldier outside a “gas chamber” in Dachau which has reached wide
circulation. The “gas chamber” is, of course, actually one of the
disinfestations chambers, but Holocaust storytellers always omit to say this
when the photograph is used.
Below: The same disinfestation chambers
are clearly signposted today as “fumigation cubicles” and, like the
disinfection chambers at Auschwitz and the other camps, also used Zyklon-B as
its disinfection agent.
Below: The rear (outside) of the Dachau
disinfestation chambers. The double doors on both ends of the disinfestation
chambers were necessary to keep clean clothes separate from the contaminated
ones—dirty clothes were put in on one side, and clean ones taken out the
other—just like in Auschwitz.
Below: The genuine Zyklon-B insertion
mechanism inside one of the Dachau delousing chambers. The pellets would be
dropped through from a special compartment in the ceiling and automatically
released into the basket at the end of the visible tube. Compare this with the
“hole in the wall Zyklon-B insertion point” of the alleged homicidal “gas
chamber” (see photograph above) in the same building, and it is obvious that
the latter is a fake.
Below: American soldiers with deloused
clothing airing outside the disinfestations chambers, 1945. The disinfestations
chambers and Zyklon-B continued to be used after the Allied liberation of the
camp, something that the Holocaust storytellers always neglect to tell.
Section 112: Dachau Casualty Figures Officially “Reduced” from 238,000 to 20,000
The
figures of Dachau casualties are typical of the kind of exaggerations that have
since had to be drastically revised.
In
1946, a memorial plaque was unveiled at Dachau by Philip Auerbach, the Jewish
State-Secretary in the Bavarian Government (who was later convicted for
embezzling money which he claimed as compensation for non-existent Jews) which
read: “This area is being retained as a shrine to the 238,000 individuals who
were cremated here.”
Since
then, the official casualty figures have had to be steadily revised downward,
and now stand at “only” 20,600, the majority dying from typhus and starvation
only at the end of the war.
This
deflation, to 10 percent of the original figure, will doubtless continue and
one day will be applied to the entire figure of “six million” as a whole.
Below: Female prisoners at Dachau wave at
their American liberators.
Below: Polish inmates of Dachau celebrate
with champagne and cigars upon the arrival of the American troops. The
prisoners all look well-fed and healthy. Hence, pictures such as these are
rarely used by the Holocaust storytellers, who instead prefer to use pictures
of typhus-ridden inmates to represent the concentration camp population.
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