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

v 6. -- The Canonical Holocaust

The gassing claim as we understand it today is double-rooted: first, in the photographs and newsreels of the dead at Belsen, who perished from typhoid, typhus, and tuberculosis, and second from the Soviet Special Commission on Auschwitz, which concluded four million dead with no direct documentary evidence. -- Analysis of the Soviet claim. -- Influence of Soviet report on allied interrogators. -- Influence of Soviet report on eyewitnesses: Bendel and Bimko. -- Influence of Soviet report on German confessions: Maximillian Grabner and others.

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> 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