The Gas Chamber of Sherlock Holmes
 
Analytical Table of Contents

1. -- Introduction

2. -- The First Reports

The first reports emanate from Polish Jewish underground newspapers in the winter and spring of 1942. -- Conveyed to England, widely publicized from the summer of 1942. -- The first BBC broadcasts. -- Concept of a feedback loop for developing and legitimizing rumors. -- Nature of rumors. Extermination in a bathhouse by: steam, electricity, a vacuum, a hammer, or poison gas. -- Evolution of the typical shower-gas-burning sequence. -- The Katyn Forest Massacre: a model of forensic investigation. -- Soviet response: gas vans in Krasnodar, massacre at Babi Yar. -- Possible origins of rumors: German secret weapons technology, German experiments with cyanide gas after discovery of Soviet plans to use it in 1941, analogy with Western execution techniques (electrocution, gas), and disinfection procedures.

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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"

15. -- The Gas Chamber of Sherlock Holmes

16. -- Conclusions