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
 11. -- The Fear of Cremation and Poison Gas
Cremation still relatively modern in the 1930's and 1940's. Resistance by many social elements, gives rise to bizarre ideas of concealing crimes and corpse recycling. -- National Socialism advocates cremation because of over-crowding and disease control. -- Cremation fears mirrored in many instances of Allied fear about German secret weapons, technological abilities -- Fear of poison gas and its disfiguring effects common in Interwar culture. -- Vicki Baum. -- Pabst's Kameradschaft. Poison gas and mass hysteria: Israel, 1991; Florida, 1971; D-Day, 1944; The "War of the Worlds" panic of 1938. -- Disfigured bodies, from fire or putrefaction, are conceived as victims of poison gas: Germany, Cassell bombing raid, 1943, concentration camps, 1945. -- Poison gas often conceived as air-borne: German civil defense.
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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
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