Well, what could he do? Invent some engineering department that didn't exist? How would that work? So he said he was in charge of designing everything.Numar Patru wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 6:10 pm Weird then that Höß testified way back in 1946 that the gas chambers he ran were improvised.
What is interesting though is that Hoess's story doesn't really fit the narrative/propaganda at the time which was more in the vein of modern "assembly line" mass murder.
Also, on the Birkenau crematoriums, in Hoess's story these were evidently intended to be extermination facilities with gas chambers. He says nothing to indicate these had to be "converted." Later however even this story would be changed into something more improvised (starting with Pressac it seems). These facilities were built new in 1943 yet had to be converted into gas chambers in a haphazard manner.