Porthole door
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Un/dressing rooms become the gas chamber, and vice versa. A model of Birkenau which is on display at Auschwitz a couple of miles away transposes many of the rooms. Birkenau (Auschwitz II)Ĭonfusion reigns here again.
#Porthole door plus
This door had an iron bar added to the upper part of the door, plus a square porthole. The second door appears in We Have Not Forgotten (6, p88), which was published in 196 1.
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There are nine horizontal wooden slats in this original door, and no porthole. The first door appeared in Oswiecim (10, p197) and seems to be the original 1946 door. We know that this door has been altered three times by referring to various Auschwitz guide books over the years. It is made of masonite, unlike the other three doors, it opens outwards, and has a round porthole. The outside door at this far end is a definite fake. Szymanski, the (now retired) curator, how it was that the gassees did not just smash the window in this door and escape, he advised us that he had never investigated this door so he could not give us a definite answer! The door opens inwards, into the "gas chamber." When we asked Mr. The handle and lock are so weak that they keep falling apart. The doorposts are made of wood, and the door itself is made of wood and glass. Standing inside the room, we can see another door at the far end. We guessed that these two doors had been added or altered after the war, and our discussions with the camp staff in 1979 confirmed this. The doorhandle and lock look as if they came out of a Polish farmhouse. Likewise, the inner door of this lobby is incredibly flimsy. In no way could this door be described as "hermetically-sealed." The porthole in the door (whose glass was broken when we visited) gives a very fine view, not of the interior of the room, but of the lobby wall about one meter away from the door. The door is so flimsy that a child could knock a fist through it. This would seem to indicate that the gassees locked themselves in. It is made of light masonite board and tin-plate, and the locking or barring mechanism is on the inside. Either the people would have escaped through the (doorless) doorway, or the gas would have flowed out the same way and either gassed the crematory workers and/or exploded with the heat.Īt the end facing the gallows (where Rudolf Höss met his end after "confessing" to all kinds of atrocities at Auschwitz) the outside door is rather strange. This alone would seem to rule out the possibility of the room being used to gas people. However, this latter doorway has no door and shows no sign of ever having borne one. Auschwitz Notebook Doors and Portholes DITLIEB FELDERERĪs I illustrated with my slide presentation at the 1980 Revisionist Convention at Pomona College, Claremont, California, one of the most blatant examples of Holocaust forgery is in the access to the "gas chambers." Auschwitz IĪt Auschwitz I there are no less than five doors or doorways giving access to the "gas chamber." There are double doors (Le with a small lobby) at each end of the room, and one doorway off to the inside, which leads into the crematory area.