A large percentage of those who were
killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau,
were not cremated in the 46
crematory muffles there (15 each in
Krema II & III, 8 each in
Krema IV & V), many were cremated in
pits.
All the victims of Bunkers I & II, the
original gas chambers at
Auschwitz-Birkenau
were cremated in pits, and victims from
the gas chambers in Krema IV & V were
often cremated in pits, as documented in
the famous fake photo
above.
Witnesses at the 1947 trial of former
Auschwitz commandant Rudolph Hoess
(centre), claimed
that in one night alone, 40,000 people
were burnt alive in an immense pit at
Birkenau.
[ If subtitles in English don't work,
see the clip with Filip
Müller from 2:20:12 directly at YouTube, through
this link
Note that the relevant part quoted below, starts at 2:28:05
Alternative video link: starts here with relevant part from here ]
Note that the relevant part quoted below, starts at 2:28:05
Alternative video link: starts here with relevant part from here ]
Claude Lanzmann's 9 hour long
film/documentary Shoah includes
an interview with Filip Müller, a Czech
Jew who spent 3 years gassing and
burning Jews at Auschwitz, and once ate
cheese which he found
in the gas chamber.
Filip Müller describes an incident
when the crematory ovens in the same
building as the very
first
Auschwitz gas chamber in Auschwitz I
were out of action, and
approximately 300
corpses, who
had been killed in the gas chamber,
were loaded onto trucks and taken to
a field in Birkenau.
Filip Müller states:
"We were ordered to unload the
bodies and put them in a pit. There was
a ditch, an artificial
pit. Suddenly, water gushed up from underground. And swept the bodies down."
pit. Suddenly, water gushed up from underground. And swept the bodies down."
"The next day we were taken to the
same place but the water had risen. Some
SS men cam with a
firetruck and pumped out the
water. We had to go down into that muddy
pit to stack up the bodies.
But they were slimy. For example,
I grasped a woman by her hands ... Her
hand was slippery, slimy.
I tried to pull her, but I fell
over backwards into the water, the mud.
It was the same for all of us."
Jean
Claude Pressac in Auschwitz:
Technique & Operation of the
Gas Chambers states
of the high water table at
Auschwitz-Birkenau:
"The nature of the land at Birkenau,
where the
groundwater is almost at surface
level (unlike the
main camp,
where it lies deeper), meant that the
two Leichenkeller
[“corpse cellars”] could no longer be
directly under the building, as had
probably
been initially planned, but had to be
raised to form semi-basements."
Szlamy Dragon former Auschwitz
sonderkommando claimed he helped burn
Jews in:
"four pits 30 meters long, 7
meters wide and 3 meters deep"
Miklós Nyiszli a Jewish doctor at
Auschwitz states:
"The pyre was a ditch 50 yards
long, six yards wide and three yards
deep."
