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

Quality of documents offered at Nuremberg. -- Documents offered as indicative of gassing actually indicate something else. -- The Wetzel-Lohse correspondence. -- The Diary of Dr. Kremer. -- Post-war literature emerging in this period: Olga Lengyel, Miklos Nyiszli. -- Clear influence of claims in Soviet report. -- Inaccuracy of details and unreliability of descriptions. The main conduit for cultural awareness of the gassing claim. -- The absence of evidence is considered the proof of the gassing claim: the conspiratorial nature of the gassing claim.

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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