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

v 12. -- German Civil Defense

German air raid shelters meant to serve also as anti-gas shelters. -- Therefore equipped with gastight doors. -- Air raid shelter doors also equipped with peepholes, to allow inspection without breaking the gastight seal. -- The doors at Majdanek are air raid shelter doors, the bathing facility meant to double as a decontamination center. -- The main fear is from disfiguring mustard gases, therefore Germans equipped laundries and public baths to serve as decontamination centers in the event of a gas attack. -- Bombing assault on Germany killed perhaps 3/4 million people, most perished from gas poisoning (CO) and were at least partially cremated by dry heat. -- But this event would be inverted into an accusation against the German people after the war.

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> 13. -- Civil Defense in the Concentration Camps

> 14. -- Pressac's "Criminal Traces"

> 15. -- The Gas Chamber of Sherlock Holmes

> 16. -- Conclusions