DISSECTING THE HOLOCAUST Germar Rudolf (Ed.) Dissecting the Holocaust The Growing Critique of ‘Truth’ and ‘Memory’ Castle Hill Publishers P.O. Box 243, Uckfield, TN22 9AW, UK November 2019 HOLOCAUST HANDBOOKS, Volume 1: Germar Rudolf (ed.): Dissecting the Holocaust: The Growing Critique of “Truth” and “Memory.” Uckfield, East Sussex: CASTLE HILL PUBLISHERS PO Box 243, Uckfield, TN22 9AW, UK Third, revised edition, November 2019 Translated by Sonja Ruthard ISBN10: 1-59148-227-5 (print edition) ISBN13: 978-1-59148-227-7 (print edition) ISSN 1529-7748 Published by CASTLE HILL PUBLISHERS Manufactured in the United States of America and in the UK © 2000, 2003, 2019 by Castle Hill Publishers, Uckfield, UK Distribution: Castle Hill Publishers PO Box 243 Uckfield, TN22 9AW, UK https://shop.codoh.com www.HolocaustHandbooks.com If these sites are inaccessible in the country where you live, try an online anonymizing service. Set in Times New Roman. Cover Design: Background: Holocaust monument in the center of Berlin, Germany; foreground: the forensic surgeon’s instruments to dissect a cadaver… GERMAR RUDOLF (ED.) · DISSECTING THE HOLOCAUST 5 Table of Contents Page Preface to the 2019 Edition ............................................................................................... 7 GERMAR RUDOLF Preface to the 1994 Edition ............................................................................................... 9 ROBERT FAURISSON The Controversy about the Extermination of the Jews ................................................ 15 GERMAR RUDOLF The Case of Walter Lüftl ................................................................................................ 61 WALTER LÜFTL The Value of Testimony and Confessions on the Holocaust ......................................... 83 GERMAR RUDOLF Witnesses to the Gas Chambers of Auschwitz ............................................................. 129 ROBERT FAURISSON The German Justice System: A Case Study ................................................................ 141 CLAUS JORDAN Holocaust Victims: A Statistical Analysis .................................................................... 175 GERMAR RUDOLF The Gas Vans: A Critical Assessment of the Evidence ............................................... 207 INGRID WECKERT Do Photos Prove the NS Extermination of the Jews? ................................................. 235 UDO WALENDY AND GERMAR RUDOLF Air-Photo Evidence ........................................................................................................ 263 JOHN CLIVE BALL National-Socialist Concentration Camps: Legend and Reality ................................. 279 JÜRGEN GRAF Microwave Delousing and Gastight Doors at Auschwitz ............................................ 305 WILLY WALLWEY The Technique and Chemistry of the ‘Gas Chambers’ of Auschwitz ....................... 331 GERMAR RUDOLF The Cremation Furnaces of Auschwitz ........................................................................ 367 CARLO MATTOGNO AND FRANCO DEANA The Gas Chambers of Majdanek ................................................................................. 409 CARLO MATTOGNO Diesel Gas Chambers: Ideal for Torture – Absurd for Murder ................................ 431 FRIEDRICH PAUL BERG AND GERMAR RUDOLF The Treblinka Holocaust .............................................................................................. 475 ARNULF NEUMAIER Babi Yar: Critical Questions and Comments .............................................................. 509 HERBERT TIEDEMANN Reprisals and Orders from Higher Up ........................................................................ 539 6 GERMAR RUDOLF (ED.) · DISSECTING THE HOLOCAUST KARL SIEGERT, WITH COMMENTS BY GERMAR RUDOLF Appendix 1: Wood Preservation through Fumigation with HCN: Blue Discoloration of Lime- and Cement-Based Plaster ..........................................................565 HELMUT WEBER, WITH COMMENTS BY GERMAR RUDOLF Appendix 2: Expert Opinion .........................................................................................571 JOACHIM HOFFMANN Appendix 3: First Reactions to this Book .....................................................................577 GERMAR RUDOLF Bibliography ...................................................................................................................579 Index of Names ...............................................................................................................613 “The Natural sciences [like other scholary disciplines] are extremely conservative and dogmatic. Any corroboration of a paradigm is welcome, whereas any innovation or re- vision will long meet with resistance; the instinct for preservation (including self- preservation!) is stronger than the search for truth. Therefore, new findings usually gain acceptance only when sufficient numbers of researchers vouch for them: then the dog- matic status quo topples, a ‘scientific revolution’ occurs, a new paradigm replaces the old. […] The bottom line is that no student, no researcher and no layman should believe any facts to be ‘conclusively proven,’ even if the textbooks present them as such […].” Professor Walter Nagl, Ph.D., Gentechnologie und Grenzen der Biologie, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1987, pp. 126f. “The error [of a vastly exaggerated Auschwitz death toll], though committed a long time ago and by others, remains tendentious. And it was ‘our’ error, if ‘our’ refers to the en- emies of fascism and racism. […] I admit that it is sometimes necessary to conceal the truth – i.e., to lie – at times even for noble reasons, for example out of pity or tact. But it is always profitable to know why one does so, and what such deviations from the truth entail. […] While truth is not always good, lies are much more often evil.” Ernest Skalski, Der Spiegel, No. 30/1990, p. 111 “A democracy requires free citizens who are willing to say publicly unpopular things to provoke critical debate.” Robert Reich, Los Angeles Times, May 13, 1998, p. B13 GERMAR RUDOLF (ED.) · DISSECTING THE HOLOCAUST 7 Preface to the 2019 Edition GERMAR RUDOLF Toward the end of 1990, I began my research on the “Chemistry of Auschwitz”, that is to say, whether the misuse of Zyklon B for mass murder as alleged for Auschwitz would have left any chemical traces, and if so, then what kind(s) of traces. After several months of literature research on the chemistry involved, I came to the conclusion that the topic was exceeding my personal competence.. I needed the advice of engineers, architects and histo- rians. My cries for help were answered to some extent, but I realized that most of these professionals were no less groping in the dark than I. The entire field of forensic Ausch- witz and Holocaust research seemed to be treated like an unwanted orphan. Before I could even think of summarizing my chemical research in writing and prepar- ing it for publication or for an expert opinion to be used in court cases, I realized that it would not be enough to research and write about just a small – chemical – aspect of the al- leged mass murder of Auschwitz, which in itself represented only a small part of the Holo- caust. The entire research field was huge. Other helpful researchers, both professionals and laymen, had a similar impression, but no one took the initiative to tackle the whole issue. Well, if nobody else does it, then I will, I thought. As a 26-year-old doctoral student, I therefore gathered seasoned graduate engineers, PhD scholars and professors around me, and tried to persuade them to either summarize or even create the most-recent forensic-research results on certain aspects of the Holocaust. It took three years to assemble this work from the pens of very different, strong-willed au- thors who moreover wrote in different languages. The result – greatly revised – lies before you. What I saw as the culmination of my publishing activities in 1994, however, turned out to have been just their beginning. From this literary sprout, over the next 25 years, a multi- tude of special studies and summarizing overviews on the Holocaust has grown which are unparalleled in the world: the bilingual series Holocaust Handbooks (see the introduction to the series at the end of this book), the first volume of which is the present work. The first German edition of this book sold about 15,000 copies within four months. Then the police struck. In over 100 house searches throughout Germany, all copies were confis- cated that the authorities could lay their hands on. The publisher organized a protest initia- tive in which ultimately more than 1,000 German intellectuals protested in newspaper ap- peals against this police-state censorship1 – but in vain. In the subsequent judicial proceed- ings, the confiscation and immolation of the book was decided. However, when the pub- lisher Wigbert Grabert sought to appeal the decision, the prosecutor’s office threatened that his publishing outlet would be destroyed by constant house searches and confiscations if he did not withdraw the appeal. The publisher gave in to save his business. It took 25 years for a new German edition of this one-time bestseller to appear, and 16 years for this third English edition. The reason for this is primarily that the other 40 books of this series absorbed all my energy; 25 years and 40 books of research and learning. Only now that the series has reached a certain maturity – and I along with it – am I able to offer the present