The Gas Chamber of Sherlock Holmes
 
Analytical Table of Contents

1. -- Introduction

2. -- The First Reports

3. -- German Disinfection Procedures

4. -- The First Reports from Auschwitz and Majdanek

5. -- The Eastern Camps, Polevoi's Report, and the Gerstein Statement

6. -- The Canonical Holocaust

7. -- The Nuremberg Trials

8. -- The Confessions of Rudolf Höß

9. -- Interpreting Documents and the Postwar Literature

10. -- Retrofitting the Euthanasia Campaign

Euthanasia program begins 1939, evidence indicates lethal injections were used. -- German people began to rumor poison gas and death ray usage because the bodies were cremated, by 1940. -- Strong opposition of German people. -- In summer, 1946, narratives of euthanasia killings emerge, these use the same materials (Double-doored Apparate) and procedure for the now familiar shower-gas-burning sequence. -- Shower element does not fit the euthanasia procedure. -- Confusion of deceptions. -- Concept transference, compare World War One. -- Conclusion is that Euthanasia gassing narratives derived from extermination gassing narratives, but rumors of gas usage came first. -- Demonstrated German fear of poison gas and cremation.

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11. -- The Fear of Cremation and Poison Gas

12. -- German Civil Defense

13. -- Civil Defense in the Concentration Camps

14. -- Pressac's "Criminal Traces"

15. -- The Gas Chamber of Sherlock Holmes

16. -- Conclusions