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Sundry letters, notes
and telegrams exchanged between the
���Auschwitz Bauleitung,
the Camp Commandant, the
���WVHA-SS in Berlin and Messrs
Topf & Sons of
���Erfurt on the subject of Krematorien
II and III.
Pages 1-5: Josef Kluge timesheets for work on
���Krematorium III.
Pages 6-11: Robert Koehler
timesheets for the relining of the ���Krematorium II chimney.
Before 1980 it was this file that
���contained most of the
incriminating evidence against the
���SS regarding the
installation of homicidal gas chambers in
���Krematorien II
and III ["Vergasungskeller / Gassing cellar"
���"Gasdichte Tür / Gas-tight door,” etc.].
���Additional proof is now available from other
sources.� |
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| BW 30/34A:
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[For memory. File
containing 14 blueprints of Bauleitung
���and Huta drawings
of the Birkenau Krematorien made
���after the war for the
Soviet and Polish Commissions] � |
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| BW
30/35:� |
103 pages.
Book
of Bauleitung orders to the materials administration
���concerning the four Krematorien. Covers the period
���from 12th October 1942 (Order No. 9613) to 13th
���January 1943 (Order No. 9699).� |
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| BW
30/36:� |
[Microfilm 1673] 105
pages.
Timesheets for work done by Huta on Krematorien III,
���IV and V and by Industrie-Bau AG of Bielitz on
���Krematorium IV.
The first two Huta reports (pages 1
and 2) are separate. They
���are dated 5th and 6th October
1942 and concern
���Krematorium II, making it possible to
estimate when
���construction work started.
The other
Huta timesheets concern:
���25th January to 27th February:
Krematorium III;
���22nd March to 30th April: Krematorium V;
���3rd to 8th May: Krematorium IV.
The Industrie-Bau
timesheets, dated 4th January to 8th March
���1943, concern
BW 30b, Krematorium IV.� |
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| BW
30/37:� |
[Microfilm 15871 115
pages.
Huta timesheets for work on the shell of Krematorium II, dated
���from 17th November 1942 to 7th January 1943, concerning
���the construction of Leichenkeller 1 and 2 and showing the
���number of men employed and the hours worked per day.
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| BW 30/38:
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81 pages
Huta
timesheets for work on Krematorien II, IV and V;
���Riedel
& Son and Robert Koehler timesheets for work
���on
Krematorien IV and V.
Pages 1-21: Huta work on Krematorien III and IV from
9th
���November 1942 to 7th January 1943. Also Koehler
���timesheets for the construction of chimneys, confirming
the
���use of prison labor by this firm.
Pages 22-42:
Huta work on Krematorium 11 from 8th January
���to 21st
February 1943.
Pages 43-81 comprise the "green ink" manuscript
recording
���the work done by Riedel & Son and Robert
Koehler
���(chimneys) on Krematorien IV and V from 23rd
January
���to 10th April 1943.
This manuscript
corresponds exactly with and uses the same
���terms as file
B W 30 / 28,but is not a slavish copy.
���Reference is made
on 28th February to "Gassdichienfenster /
���Gas-tight
shutter" and on 2nd March 1943 to "Gasskammer
/
���Gas chamber" in Krematorium IV.� |
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| BW 30/39:
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75 pages
Timesheets for drainage work done by Messrs Karl Falck
���of Gleiwitz for Krematorien II, III and IV. The order for
���the work to be done on Krematorium II was signed by
���the Bauleitung on 27th August 1942 (page 68). Work on
���the three Krematorien proceeded as follows:
9th to
19th November 1942 and 13th January to 31st
���March 1943:
work on Krematorium II:
1st April to 13th May 1943: Krematorium III;
26th to 31st May 1943: Krematorium IV.� |
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| BW
30/40:� |
64 pages
Huta
static calculations for Krematorien II, III and IV.
���These
calculations were made between 29th August
���and 23rd
December 1942 for Krematorium II (and III)
���and for
Krematorium IV, with supplementary calculations
���for the
roof and chimneys.� |
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| BW
30/41:� |
52 pages
Timesheets filled in on a weekly basis by the Topf & Sons
���foremen working on Krematorien II and III. Four Topf
���employees worked on the construction of the furnaces
���and the installation of the ventilation systems: Martin
Holick,
���Willi (Wilhelm?) Koch, Messing and Seyffarth.
From 7th September 1942, Martin Holick and Willi Koch
���worked on the foundations and underfloor flues of the
���five 3-muffle furnaces of Krematorium II. Holick finished
���on 13th October and Koch continued until 22nd November.
From 4th January to 11th June 1943, Messing worked on fitting
���the furnace blowers and motors, the forced draught
installation
���in the chimney of Krematorium II, the
ventilation systems of the
���different rooms in the two
buildings, and their corpse lifts.
From 1st to 14th February 1943,
Seyffarth worked on the
���furnace foundations and
underfloor flues of Krematorium III.
Messing's "diary" formally
proves that Messrs Topf were
���wittingly involved in
converting the Leichenkelter 1 of
���Krematorien II and III
into homicidal gas chambers.
Furthermore, as from mid-March 1943, Messing
referred
���to the Leichenkcller 2 of these two Krematorien
as
���"Auskleidekeller / undressing
cellars".� |
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| BW
30/42:� |
2 pages
Letter of
28th June 1943 from the Auschwitz Bauleitung
���to the
WVHA-SS in Berlin concerning the cremation
���capacity of
the five Krematorien at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Photocopy transmitted on 15th
May 1981 to the Curator of
���the Auschwitz Museum by the
Committee of Anti-Fascist
���Resistants of the German
Democratic Republic.
Except for Krematorium 1, the figures given are
entirely
���theoretical, obtained by calculation, then
increased by
���about one third.� |
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| BW 30/43:
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34 pages
Documents communicated by the Moscow Prosecutor to
���the Warsaw Central Commission for the investigation of
���Hitlerian crimes in Poland for the trial of the
"Krematorium
���architects", Walter Dejaco and
Fritz Ertl, held in Vienna at the
�� beginning of 1972.
This
file contains essentially the handover documents for
���Krematorien II, III and IV. with the inventory drawings
of
���Krematorien II and IV in annex.
Conserved in the
"October Revolution" Central State Archives
���in
Moscow, these documents confirm the conversion of the
���underground morgues into gas chambers and prove that
there
���was a homicidal gas chamber in Leichenkeller I of
Krematorium
���III.
In fact, the Moscow Prosecutor
communicated about sixty
���documents to Warsaw, those not
being handed onto the
���Auschwitz Museum being concerned
with the organization
���of the Auschwitz Bauleitung, giving
the names and functions
���of those in responsible
positions.
[56 of these documents were supplied to the author by the
���Warsaw Central Commission under the reference II
839].� |
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| BW 30/44:
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[Microfilm 1612]
26 pages Patent for a "continuous corpse cremation furnace"
���applied for on 4th November 1942 by Fritz Sander, a
���Topf engineer, and a patent for "air-cooled grate plates
for
���mechanical grate firing" applied for on 16th November
1942.
These documents were received by the Auschwitz Museum on
���17th January 1985 and came from the Justice Ministry in
Bonn.
The patent applications have nothing to do with the
Birkenau
�� Krematorien but are very relevant to a study of the
firm of
���Topf & Sons of Erfurt.� |
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| BW 30/45:
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37 pages
Documents concerning Messrs Topf & Sons of Erfurt, and
���the head of their Krematorium Division, the engineer Kurt
���Prüfer. Conserved in the Weimar State Archives
(GDR).� |
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| BW
30/46:� |
[Microfilm 1674] 23
pages
More documents concerning Messrs Topf & Sons of Erfurt.
���Only part of these come from the Weimar State Archives.
���There are some pages from the personal file of Kurt
Prüfer,
���two Bauleitung letters concerning him (of
29th January and
���12th February 1943, from file BW 30/34),
the first patent
���application by Fritz Sander (of 26th
October 1942) for a
���continuous corpse cremation furnace
[cf BW 30/44] and
���extracts from the Topf balance sheet as
at 31st December
���1941 drawn up by the accountant Dr
Zerban of Erfurt. � |
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