Majdanek this and that

[Fred Ziffel]

Interesting inputs, thanks

One other part of the same video you took a section of to make a shorter video, Recall he was standing in front of the B1 gas chamber telling the audience that B1 was not a Zyklon B gas chamber with this sign literally staring him in the face 2 ft away.

[Wetzelrad]

Yeah, their own revisionism constantly comes into conflict with their own exhibits. This article, which until recently was part of their website but now returns a 404 error, also contradicts Mrozik's tour.

Article: B1 has "evidence of iron cyanide compounds" and "an opening for adding Zyklon B"
Mrozik: B1 has no "blue stains left by Zyklon B" and "not Zyklon B but carbon monoxide was used"
Sign: "the victims were killed with Zyklon B supplied through a hole in the ceiling"

But perhaps now is a good time to browse their updated website. One thing that jumps out to me is this page which lists off barracks. It describes Barrack 52, which is where the Soviets reported finding Zyklon B and carbon monoxide, as "warehouses for tools and cleaning equipment". So the Germans did not store the poison gas next to the bullets or the phenol or any other homicidal devices, but in with sanitation equipment like we would expect. I wonder how many inmates had access to this building and knew what was inside it.

There could be some interesting materials in the published archives on their website. I read through the camp document collection. There's an announcement about the establishment of the post office, a follow-up requesting a Polish-speaking censor, an order for one bottle of rum/spirits to be added to (guards'?) rations for the month, complaints about excessive coal consumption and other broken rules, and more like these.

One document from 6 January 1943 describes quarantine procedures. Part of it, pertaining to civilian construction workers, reads:

All civilian workers receive their identification tags as before and proceed to the delousing area; they hand in their own clothing—bundled together—and attach their identification tags to the surrendered garments. The civilian workers are then immediately taken to bathe and receive the undergarments and clothing provided by the administration. After work ends, the workers get back their own clothes and mark the issued items with their identification tags.

This probably refers to B42, which was completed by the winter of 1942, and which did have the ability to delouse clothing within hours in its temperature chambers. Civilian delousing is an angle we haven't talked about before. Note how the civilians are deloused before entering, not after exiting for the day. Evidently the Germans were more concerned about typhus getting into than out of the camp.

[Fred Ziffel]

Interesting!
I wonder if the Polish construction contractors workers were subject to the same delousing procedures when they showed up for work at Majdanek?