48. Do Allied wartime photos of Auschwitz (during the time when the "gas chambers" and crematoria were supposed to be in full operation) reveal gas chambers?


Ernst Zündel Replies:
Rebuttal # 48:

Air Photo Expert John Ball has a website at www.air-photo.com. His full reply is as follows:

Extending from the rear of each Birkenau cremation building (CREMAS 2 and 3) was a below-ground level room designed as a cold storage morgue without vents or windows. Auschwitz 'eye-witnesses' say these 2 rooms were 'gas chambers with protruding roof vents' through which cyanide gas pellets were dropped, and the gas was expelled.

( http://www.air-photo.com/english/index.html)

CREMA 2 evidence from 1944 air photos is as follows:

On May 31 there is one long line east of the roof's centerline. On July 8 again there is one line east of the roof's centerline. On August 25 there are 4 marks in a staggered pattern east of roof centerline. And on Sept. 13 all the marks have disappeared.

(http://www.air-photo.com/english/altered.html)

The May, 1993, inspection of CREMA 2 collapsed roof by John Ball shows there are NO HOLES EAST OF THE CENTERLINE WHERE MARKS EXIST ON THE 1944 AIR PHOTOS, whereas west of the centerline there are 2 irregular shaped holes that have been CUT THROUGH THE ROOF AT LOCATIONS WHERE NO MARKS EXIST ON ANY 1944 AIR PHOTO.

The 2 holes were therefore CUT THROUGH THE 15 CENTIMETER (6 INCH) THICK CEMENT ROOF AFTER 1944, which means that in 1944 the roof was SOLID CEMENT WITH NO VENTS OR OPENINGS.

( http://www.air-photo.com/english/index.html),

CREMA 3 evidence from 1944 air photos is as follows:

On May 31, there are 4 marks in a staggered pattern. On July 8 there are 3 marks in different locations from May 31. On August 25 the 4 marks are also in different locations from July 8. And on Sept. 13 the marks are very faint and in different locations again.

The marks have therefore changed locations from May to July to August to Sept., 1944 - proving they were movable objects and could not therefore have been holes cut through the cement roof.

(http://www.air-photo.com/english/altered.html)

In May, 1993 the CREMA 3 roof could not be inspected as it was destroyed in 1945.

In summary on CREMA 2 roof, the 1944 air photos and John Ball's 1993 roof inspection show conclusively that no holes existed in 1944. 2 holes were added after 1944. And on CREMA 3 roof, 1944 air photo roof marks change locations from May to July to August to September, 1944, showing they were moveable objects, and could not therefore have been holes cut through the cement roof.

1944 air photos and 1993 Cremation Building inspection proves that in 1944 there were NO VENTS HOLES IN ROOFS OF EITHER CREMA 2 OR 3 ALLEGED 'GAS CHAMBERS' that would have been necesssary to drop cyanide gas pellets, and expell the resulting gas - which proves it would have been impossible for people to have been murdered by gas as described by alleged 'eye witnesses'.

And one specific, important point:

Nizkor writes that in a shrill, specious argument that ". . . all this means is that corpses were not being burned on those particular days." What happened to the often-claimed "around-the-clock gassings and cremations" claims?