c***@yahoo.com.au
2005-01-31 20:53:44 UTC
I was reading a letter from David Irving when he claims that PS-1553
contains identical quantities of Zyklon B for Oranienburg as for
Auschwitz for early 1944.
"Dear Editor,
I just read Beatrice Faust's article on the Holocaust. As the "Nazi
historian" (your odious phrase) at the centre of the controversy, can I
comment as follows? --
BEATRICE Faust (Jan.15 -16) has fallen for much of the mythology of the
Holocaust.
Can I take up one point? "The fact that Zyklon-B was used in small
quantities as a pesticide is hardly evidence that it was not also used
in large quantities for the gas chambers." In fact even Jean-Claude
Pressac, the Holocaust historians' own tame historian and expert on the
technique of gas-chambers, states that 95% of the Zyklon-B delivered to
Auschwitz was used as a pesticide.
As for the bills of lading for shipping the Zyklon to SS
Obersturmführer Kurt Gerstein, to which Ms. Faust refers, I checked a
few months ago on the surviving originals at the National Archives in
the United States -- a country I can still freely travel to.
These bills of lading run from Feb.16 to May 31, 1944 and reveal an odd
thing: the cases of cyanide crystals (Zyklon) are numbered in sequence
(Nos. 50,053 to 50,210), so none is missing; each shipment consisted of
thirteen cases, totalling 195 kg (not "2 1/2 tons"); and identical
shipments -- six each -- went to Auschwitz and Oranienburg
concentration camps, although nobody has ever suggested there were gas
chambers at Oranienburg.
Yours sincerely
"
Now as I understand PS-1553 and these invoices were all supplied by
Kurt Gerstein who basically turned up to French Intelligence (please
excuse the oxymoron) and waved them in their faces and shouting "I
confess, I tried to halt the slaughter of innocents but failed"
Am I to understand from this that half the Zyklon B invoices Gerstein
had were for Oranienburg? I have only seen two reproduced 14 of Feb
and 30 of april (the series end of on May 31) both to Auschwitz. And
presumably they are all marked "Ohne Reizstoff". David Irving is being
misleadingly pedantic when he says "not 21/2 tons" as the entire series
of shipments does add up to 2/1/2 tons.
Did the Zyklon B trial produce any invoices for Zykon-B?
As far as the Gerstein invoices are, the invoices appear to have been
mimeographed at some point - the Degesch shield and letter head has not
reproduced well. And the invoice number, 49376, is positioned at an
odd point on a slant at the bottom middle of the page.
The fact that all the invoices have adjacent product numbering suggests
that Degesch was only selling Zyklon B to Kurt Gerstein over this
period. And his 12 trips in 3.5 months suggests he did little else
except ferry large quantities of Zyklon B around.
I wonder if the Oranienburg shipments were simply a case of keeping
your options open at that early stage by the Allies, perhaps they might
want to have had a homocidal gas chamber at other camps.
Have the Oranienburg invoices been put online anywhere?
Ta
contains identical quantities of Zyklon B for Oranienburg as for
Auschwitz for early 1944.
"Dear Editor,
I just read Beatrice Faust's article on the Holocaust. As the "Nazi
historian" (your odious phrase) at the centre of the controversy, can I
comment as follows? --
BEATRICE Faust (Jan.15 -16) has fallen for much of the mythology of the
Holocaust.
Can I take up one point? "The fact that Zyklon-B was used in small
quantities as a pesticide is hardly evidence that it was not also used
in large quantities for the gas chambers." In fact even Jean-Claude
Pressac, the Holocaust historians' own tame historian and expert on the
technique of gas-chambers, states that 95% of the Zyklon-B delivered to
Auschwitz was used as a pesticide.
As for the bills of lading for shipping the Zyklon to SS
Obersturmführer Kurt Gerstein, to which Ms. Faust refers, I checked a
few months ago on the surviving originals at the National Archives in
the United States -- a country I can still freely travel to.
These bills of lading run from Feb.16 to May 31, 1944 and reveal an odd
thing: the cases of cyanide crystals (Zyklon) are numbered in sequence
(Nos. 50,053 to 50,210), so none is missing; each shipment consisted of
thirteen cases, totalling 195 kg (not "2 1/2 tons"); and identical
shipments -- six each -- went to Auschwitz and Oranienburg
concentration camps, although nobody has ever suggested there were gas
chambers at Oranienburg.
Yours sincerely
"
Now as I understand PS-1553 and these invoices were all supplied by
Kurt Gerstein who basically turned up to French Intelligence (please
excuse the oxymoron) and waved them in their faces and shouting "I
confess, I tried to halt the slaughter of innocents but failed"
Am I to understand from this that half the Zyklon B invoices Gerstein
had were for Oranienburg? I have only seen two reproduced 14 of Feb
and 30 of april (the series end of on May 31) both to Auschwitz. And
presumably they are all marked "Ohne Reizstoff". David Irving is being
misleadingly pedantic when he says "not 21/2 tons" as the entire series
of shipments does add up to 2/1/2 tons.
Did the Zyklon B trial produce any invoices for Zykon-B?
As far as the Gerstein invoices are, the invoices appear to have been
mimeographed at some point - the Degesch shield and letter head has not
reproduced well. And the invoice number, 49376, is positioned at an
odd point on a slant at the bottom middle of the page.
The fact that all the invoices have adjacent product numbering suggests
that Degesch was only selling Zyklon B to Kurt Gerstein over this
period. And his 12 trips in 3.5 months suggests he did little else
except ferry large quantities of Zyklon B around.
I wonder if the Oranienburg shipments were simply a case of keeping
your options open at that early stage by the Allies, perhaps they might
want to have had a homocidal gas chamber at other camps.
Have the Oranienburg invoices been put online anywhere?
Ta