I have no doubt Zyklon was used in the room that you are showing.Fred Ziffel wrote: ↑Thu Apr 03, 2025 4:18 am You stated: I don't have a strong basis to assume this was a chamber that used Zyklon.
The other purpose it can serve is to demonstrate that documents that used the term "gas chamber" cannot haphazardly be equated with a homicidal gas chamber.Fred Ziffel wrote: ↑Thu Apr 03, 2025 11:02 pm Booze
I guess we are going to have to agree to disagree. Regardless, the main reason for this issue being in the presentation is because I was emphasizing that Polish building contractors were doing jobs for the Germans and getting paid for it.
Personally I can't see enough in the photos to say that. On page 149 Mattogno describes them like this:
Here he says both chimney and chimneys. I take him to mean that the two shafts do actually connect before exiting the roof as a singular shaft. This would also solve the issue of the work orders referring to both a chimney and two chimneys. But it's confusing enough to read that I could be wrong. Is there a photo of the chimney from outside?Today, the two openings in the room’s ceiling measure approximately 60 cm × 60 cm (eastern opening) and 40 cm × 40 cm (western opening). Both hatches open into a wooden shaft in which a small chimney of wooden slats is installed; it is closed off with a lid, also of wood, on the barrack roof. Measured from the room’s ceiling, the two chimneys are approximately 1.15 m tall.
Really? In the video he said "there are no traces of Zyklon-B" in chamber B2 (II). In the context that he said it, I took that to mean no stains. I guess it's a little more complicated.Fred Ziffel wrote: ↑Thu Apr 03, 2025 11:02 pmhowever, to be precise, it should read "lack of stains in one (smaller) gas chamber" B1 only.
He is saying that the two wooden shafts in B41 are of different dimension. In inches, one shaft would have approximately a 16x16 opening and the other would be 24x24.Wetzelrad wrote: ↑Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:30 am
Personally I can't see enough in the photos to say that. On page 149 Mattogno describes them like this:Here he says both chimney and chimneys. I take him to mean that the two shafts do actually connect before exiting the roof as a singular shaft. This would also solve the issue of the work orders referring to both a chimney and two chimneys.Today, the two openings in the room’s ceiling measure approximately 60 cm × 60 cm (eastern opening) and 40 cm × 40 cm (western opening). Both hatches open into a wooden shaft in which a small chimney of wooden slats is installed; it is closed off with a lid, also of wood, on the barrack roof. Measured from the room’s ceiling, the two chimneys are approximately 1.15 m tall.
He clearly envisions two flues running from a chimney to two openings in the ceiling for ventilation.The pertinent cost estimate of November 18, 1942,
provided for the construction of two chimneys 0.75 × 0.75 × 1.70 m in size,
with holes to be cut through the concrete ceiling. However, according to the
invoice of January 8, 1943, only one chimney was actually built on the roof of
the gas chamber; this chimney was connected “to 2 openings in the concrete
ceiling via pipes on two sides”. There is no doubt that this was a ventilation
system; this already follows clearly from the fact that the two openings in the
gas chamber roof were installed along the extended axis of the air heater suc-
tion pipe.
The gas chamber was not intended for homicidal purposes:
For one thing, the chimney as it is described on the aforementioned invoice
from the company Michaá Ochnik could not have been used to introduce Zyk-
lon B, because the HCN-soaked pellets would have landed on the floor of the
chimney without getting into the two parallel pipes in the concrete ceiling.
Instead of seeing the logic behind it all my doubts are amplified.Wetzelrad wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:35 am I agree it's a bit confusing, but there's no doubt that the bill is referring to B41 when it says "the brick building". That is where they put in the two ceiling holes. The Soviet Commission described it like this:On the ceiling of Chamber No. IV there are two hermetically sealable, retractable openings 20 x 20 cm in size.
I think you mean "Geheimnisträger"? https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geheimnistr%C3%A4ger
He actually says "it is closed off with a lid". I understand your interpretation, but my interpretation that he describes it singularly because it is singular is at least equally valid.
Well, the most likely reason is that it was changed some time after their report in 1944. Possibly the Soviets altered it to make it more plausible as a gas chamber, the same as they carved holes in other roofs. Also possible is that someone took out the flue pipes during roof work or for some other innocent reason.
Lukasz Myszala in that ABC video is given the title of archivist. The Lukasz Mrozik seen in many other videos is sometimes called a curator or translator. Are these not the same person? Unless I am faceblind they are. He echoes the same points about blue staining as in the April 2nd virtual tour. IMO we should seek out more videos that address the staining issue. Lukasz also mentioned having "research" which implies there is written material somewhere.Fred Ziffel wrote: ↑Sat Apr 05, 2025 5:06 amThis is an ABC news reporter with a member of the Majdanek Museum staff conducting a personalized tour of the Majdanek camp.