bombsaway wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2026 6:01 pm
As Van Pelt said, the can would be in the innermost column.
Back to discussing the claims and their contradictions. Upthread you provided the below passage as a demonstration of Van Pelt's acceptance and approval of the pellets-in-can thesis of Tauber. I've gone back and read the whole passage as follows. Top part your original snippet, and below it's continuation:
As we have seen, Tauber had described them as three structures of ever finer mesh. Within the innermost column there was a removable can to pull after the gassing the Zyklon “crystals,” that is the porous silica pellets that had absorbed the hydrocyanide. Kula, who had made these columns, provided some technical specifications.
Among other things the metal workshop made the false showers intended for the gas chambers, as well as the wire-mesh columns for the introduction of the contents of the tins with Zyklon into the gas chambers. These columns were around 3 meters high, and they were 70 centimetres square in plan. Such a column consisted of 6 wire screens which were built the one within the other. The inner screen was made from 3 millimeter thick wire, fastened to iron corner posts of 50 by 10 millimeters. Such iron corner posts were on each corner of the column and connected on the top in the same manner. The openings of the wire mesh were 45 millimeters square. The second screen was made in the same manner, and constructed within the column at 150 millimeters distance from the first. The openings of the second were around 25 millimeters square. In the corners these screens were connected to each other by iron posts. The third part of this column could be moved. It was an empty column with a square footprint of around 150 millimeters made of sheet zinc. At the top it was closed by a metal sheet, and at the bottom with a square base. At a distance of 25 millimetres from the sides of this columns were soldered tin corners supported by tin brackets. On these corners were mounted a thin mesh with openings of about one millimeter square. This mesh ended at the bottom of the column and from here ran in the [Verlaenderung] of the screen a tin frame until the top of the column.
The contents of a Zyklon tin were thrown from the top on the distributor, which allowed for a equal distribution of the Zyklon to all four sides of the column.
After the evaporation of the gas the whole middle column was taken out. The ventilation system of the gas chamber was installed in the side walls of the gas chambers. The ventilation openings were hidden by zinc covers, provided with round openings.309
https://www.hdot.org/vanpelt/
I have bolded and underlined some key passages. As we can see, after discussing Tauber's purported cans, he defers to Kula who describes the pellets
leaving their tin, and being dispersed
into four quadrants of the central column. After the gassing, the entire central column is removed, with the four quadrants of pellets.
After this passage, Van Pelt moves onto other topics and I cannot see him returning to it again, but perhaps i have missed it.
1) If i have missed it, cite to me where he discards Kula's four quadrant dispersal method in favour of the pellets-within-can method?
2) If he fails to discard one over the other, explain how these contradicting functions and forms are integrated in the BA version of things?
3) Since the Van Pelt replicas clearly favour the Kula version, what does this mean for Tauber's account?
**EDIT**
Reposting the pictures of the Van Pelt replica displaying the Kula-four-quadrant-dispersal method so everybody reading can be crystal clear on what we are looking at:
