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1945 US report on Dachau gas chamber

US Senator Alben W. Barkley by corpses in Buchenwald, which were
stacked in this pile by Americans after they'd taken control of the camp.

Barkely headed the 12 man committee from both Houses of Congress which was invited to tour liberated German concentration camps by Eisenhower. On May 15, 1945 their
report was presented to Congress by Barkley. He said of the Dachau gas chamber:

EXECUTION AT DACHAU

A distinguishing feature of the Dachau Camp was the gas chamber for the execution of prisoners and the somewhat elaborate facilities for execution by shooting.

The gas chamber was located on the center of a large room in the crematory building. It was built of concrete. Its dimensions were about 20 by 20 feet, and the ceiling was some 10 feet in height. In two opposite walls of the chamber were airtight doors through which condemned prisoners could be taken into the chamber for execution and removed after execution. The supply of gas into the chamber was controlled by means of two values on one of the outer walls, and beneath the valves was a small glass-covered peephole through which the operator could watch the victims die. The gas was let into the chamber through pipes terminating in perforated brass fixtures set into the ceiling. The chamber was of size sufficient to execute probably a hundred men at one time.

The room in which the gas chamber stood was flanked on both ends by warerooms in which the bodies were placed after exeution to await cremation. The size of each room was approximately 30 by 50 feet. At the time we visited the camp these warerooms were piled high with dead bodies. In one of the rooms the bodies were thrown in an irregular heap. In the other rooms the bodies were thrown in an irregular heap. In the other room they were neatly stacked like cordwood. The irregular pile of bodies was perhaps 10 feet high, covering most of the floor space. All of them were naked.

It was quite evident that the daily death rate at Dachau, by execution and otherwise, far exceeded the daily capacity of the crematory to dispose of the bodies. The stench indicated that some of them had been there for several days.

Atrocities and Other Conditions in Concentration Camps in Germany.
Report of the Committee Requested by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Through The Chief of Staff, Gen. George C. Marshall
to the Congress of the United States Relative to Atrocities and Other Conditions in Concentration Camps in Germany.
79th Congress 1st Session, Document No.47
Presented by Mr. Barkley
May 15 (legislative day, April 16), 1945.—Referred to the
Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed

United States Government Printing Office
Washington : 1945

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Barkely's preposterous explanation of how the gas was entered into the gas chamber is identical to the method in this propaganda film.

Dachau Gas Chambers - YouTube

Addendum - by this Site:

Museum sign post in the Dachau "gas chamber"

"Neither in Dachau nor in Bergen-Belsen nor in Buchenwald
were Jews or other prisoners gassed."

Dr. M. Broszat
Institute for Contemporary History
Munich

"there were no extermination camps on German soil"

Simon Wiesenthal

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