The Gas Chamber of Sherlock Holmes
 
Analytical Table of Contents

1. -- Introduction

2. -- The First Reports

3. -- German Disinfection Procedures

Western disinfection procedures developed in 19th Century to combat cholera, typhoid, dysentery, and typhus. -- German methods very systematic, constant exposure to cholera and typhus because of Eastern European immigrants fleeing persecution. -- Hamburg epidemic in 1892. -- Mary Antin's passage in 1893. -- American procedures, 1892, and the fear these evoked in Jewish community. -- German disinfection procedures in World War One in Turkey. -- In Poland. -- English procedures in Poland in 1919. -- American procedures in Poland. -- German technological developments in the 1920's and 1930's. -- The mechanics of disinfection: shaving, showering, and fumigating. Zyklon B. -- Double-doored Apparate for disinfection. -- Railway car gassing tunnels. -- Typical responses among Eastern Jews and others: non-comprehension, fear, anxiety, evasion, and destructive rumors of extermination.

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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