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

> 12. -- German Civil Defense

> 13. -- Civil Defense in the Concentration Camps

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

v 15. -- The Gas Chamber of Sherlock Holmes

Gassing narratives from World War Two reflected in literature prior to the war, including Sinclair Lewis (1936), and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1924). -- Analysis of the shower-gas-burning concept in its parts: disinfection procedures (Mayakovsky), poison gas usage (H.G. Wells, Sax Rohmer, E. R. Burroughs). -- Elements of the gassing claim directly pertinent to Jewish traditions: longstanding conceptions of "extermination" and its meanings, "six million", and the concept of a secret central conspiracy to destroy the Jewish people. -- The conclusion is that the cultural script for the shower-gas-burning sequence as well as the extermination-six million-central conspiracy concepts are all very old and deeply rooted.

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> 16. -- Conclusions