United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Displays Standard German Air-Raid Shelter Door, Describing it as the Door to a "Gas Chamber"


At left: The door at the concentration camp Majdanek from which the USHMM made the replica which is now on display in Washington D.C.. At right, the real function of the door and thousands more like it is shown in a widely distributed German ad for bomb-shelter doors and window covers, military and civilian.

For a complete analysis of the identity of anti-gas warfare air raid equipment and "gas chamber" fixtures, based on contemporary German civil defense literature, read:

Technique and Operation of German Anti-Gas Shelters in World War Two:
A Refutation of J.C. Pressac's "Criminal Traces" , by Samuel Crowell

For a discussion of air raid shelters and gas protection in Germany, read:

Defending Against the Allied Bombing Campaign: Air Raid Shelters and Gas Protection in Germany, 1939-1945, by Samuel Crowell 

Part 1 of "Defending" focuses on the civil defense establishment throughout Germany, while Part 2 discusses the question of civil defense in the concentration camp system, and, in particular, the context of the Majdanek "gas chamber" door, a replica of which is now on display at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Letter from Samuel Crowell to the Director of the U.S.H.M.M.

The Gas Chamber of Sherlock Holmes: An Attempt at a Literary Analysis of the Gassing Claim, by Samuel Crowell 

Crowell now begins to put the pieces together for a much broader view of how the gassing stories came about.

For additional information read:

 


Concerned Americans are urged to ask the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
whether the "Gas Chamber" door display is a
misinterpretation or a misrepresentation.

Write to the USHMM at the following address:

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, D.C. 20024-2150

Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust, Bradley R. Smith, Director - Post Office Box 439016, San Ysidro, CA 92143

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