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

Soviet propagandists begin gathering gassing stories in August, 1944, these are published in Yiddish. -- Soviet Special Commissions in fall. -- Deposition of Leleko, February, 1945, summarizes these claims. Close linkage of Leleko deposition with descriptions for Majdanek, therefore probable derivation. -- Gerstein statement from April of 1945. -- Contains many fantastic elements, gassing elements in turn derivative of Leleko, Majdanek, and initial Pravda reports on Auschwitz. -- Gerstein illustrates absolute identity of Zyklon B with an extermination program in allied thinking. Gerstein's story widely publicized in France in July, 1945. -- His suicide follows.

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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