Auschwitz:
The Underground
Guided Tour
What the Tour Guides Don't Tell You at Auschwitz- Birkenau
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Bv Carolyn YLAurn
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Auschwitz: The Underground Guided Tour
What i hoTou t Guide* Do n't Tel I You at Ausehw itt ffirkurtau
Yitu fcu>ld in yoor hands a remarkable Htudy if AiiRchwitz that ts unlike AtiytltiilB. y«4 LMililinlierl. Uinu^h if is purposely small In ri'Jte- iinH c-afly n' read, it carries a puwfrlitl punch- The author visited Ausehwitt. J* J tOUrJsf armed wilh a broad slndy of the liters «"j Mirnrii iulin^ < he wo rM ■ famous- si Le, iltvd from I hat vLsil has proceeded to deculHl ruf t the Auschwitz shown tohcrand others 4S a "rtearh" cvr "extermination" camp. Ky Lak- iilg |he reader on an ^underground guifkd tour" iiTqund iti
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Table of Contents
Auschwitz: The Underground Guided Tour
Introduction — , . P , , PH . . + ^t,t _r, , , , . . 5
The Unofficial 'four , 13
The Gamp Lay Out 14
Brothel Si library . „ 15
Art Museum , , 16
Kitchen . _ . , , r , t , , , , , , . , . . , . , ]S
The Camp Orchestra j|
A H>story of'lhe Orchestra 20
Tile Women's Orchestra at flirfenau . , , _ . aj
Other Music and Theater Groups . , , 22
The Auschwitz Post Office 23
Infirmaries . , A , < f „ , . , , 7$.
The Theater ,,,,..,.,,,,.,27
Tht; Swimming Poo] 29
Tht f'lOSpital I ll.rnl^r.n.l.ln.ai ^2.
The Crematorium . , , ,-34
The Workshops 36
Recreational S|KW-ts ... 37
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The Central Sauna 39
Diagram offfirkenau Camp 40
The Kitchens , . ; ^
Mi tsic& Mating — 42
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Liberation as Propaganda . , 45
Auschwitz irkenau Memorial , 46
les at Auscliwjtz-liirkcnau is a story woven through with exaggeration, distortion and omission. These lies and omissions are not due to ignorance or misunderstanding, lack of information or the confusion of war, but intentional
This booklet is too small to tell the whole story — it is an introduction only, to a massive fraud that continues today at the Auschwitz- Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland. By the early 1990s, half a million peo- ple were visiting every year. It is now over a million. These millions have been told some things but not told other things. They are also shown some tilings, but not shown other things. They have no way ofdeterrnin- ing the truth of what they see and hear. They generally enter the premises in a state of firm belief in "the holocaust," and leave convinced that what I is correct— ;
INDOCTRINATION STARTS EARLY . . .
Young children study
an exhibit at the Auschwiu Museum with their guide.
PHOTO; MMA*WIBSTE
However, the true stoiy of Ausch- witz-Birkenau is not in any way un- usual considering its wartime setLing.
tour of the real Auschwitz- Birkenau. Of the three tamps that made up the entirety that operated from 1940-J945,
some reconstructions, and is the center of booming Auschwitz tourism. Birkenau has few remaining build- ings, ajid Monowitz is completely gone.
— OhliOUN YWCEH February 20 m
th e vis Iter tenter with parking Ip^fll lower right. Up per ngh t, outside die fence, l&thfe.ttm&pr buildl^.The mad leading into Che camp (Arbeit Mac hi Frei Gate) B at Idwci- canter and runs alang the large kitchen complex to its right.Thfi hospital and crematorium are cu: off it the lower left of the aicturB.The camp commandants residence is at ihe far left, center.
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A Little History You Don't Get from the Tour Guides
The town of Auschwitz was founded in 1270 by Germans — therefore 'Auschwitz" is its original name, not Oswiecun, which is its Polish translation. Auschwitz wis in die Germanic- ruled Holy Roman Empire until 1457, when it became put. of the Kingdom of Poland, When Poland lost its independence m 1772, Auschwitz came under Austrian rule and became a prime location for Jewish traders working between Russia, Prussia and Austri a. In the wake of WWE, Cau- da (which included Auschwitz) was given to the newly lie of Poland. In 1930, it was annexed
000, over half wt'r I'oma (gypsies).
enext
second largest popula- tion group living in the town of AusthwlG- A Gypsy FamN/Camp occupied a suction of
Birkenau beginning in IMJ-
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RAILROAD HUB
Rail expansion turned zmy Msd, w\a into the
Junction of Europe— and a perfect location for a main ca imp where pri sone rs -were • s o rtcd and disinfected before transfer to smaller labor Camps through- out Grosstteittsthlawd.
Because it was o tie of the largest railroad junctions in Europe (44 train lilies came into it), a s:amp for mi- grant workers was built by the Austrians in 1916, Farm
red-brick barracks. [111919, the Poles used them as an array garrison. Of the 20 barracks at that time, 14 were single story. When the Germans took over after 1939,
Reichsfuebrer-SS Hdnrich Himmler announced the plan to establish a POW tamp at Auschwitz on April 27, 1040, German criminals from the Sachsenhausen
into a prisoner- of- war camp, and it opened on June 14, 1940 with the arrival of 728 prisoners of the Polish re- sistance transferred from Tarnow. Rudolf Haass was
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In 1942, after the construction of Birlcenau had got- ten u n d e r way, a cam p d assi fi cacio n syste m was devised and Ausdrwib! was designated a Class 1 camp (similar
crimiualsand political agitators had a good chance for release. The aim was reform, re-education and rehabil- itation, former Auschwitz Ivtuseum Director Fran- ciszek Piper wrote that 1,500 prisoners were released from Auschwitz, hut that doesn't include those who were transferred elsewhere and then released. The Arbeii Macht Fiei slogan on tht1 gate was only used at Class r camps, where labor did indeed bring freedom; it was noi a cruel irony.
I-HMMLER
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Re:chfuEhrer He:nntti HsnfimlSr (reft) with the fr-St AifidW& Canman- dint Rudok Hoess.
GATES OF DEATH?
Does this look fke a prison deor or the
Auschwitz f
meaning i[ was also used as an intermediate destina- tion foe prisoners being sent elsewhere. Inmates worked in nearby factories like I.G, Farben or on infra- structure projects, such as huildhrgairraid bunkers and
electricians, bookmakers, tailors; inmates learned Lhese trades there, with 20 to 30 men supervised by a kapo (another prisoner). Forty inmates worked in the kitchen, The workdays had been formalized in. On weekdays, work hours were 7:30-12:00 noon and 12:30-5:00. Saturdays; ygn-iz™, Saturday afternoon arid all day Sunday were free. Inmates were encouraged to attend 1
the reasons for their imprisonment.
People in the town of Auschwitz reported that dur- ing the war it was possible to take tours of the ramp on
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special days. For some, life in Auschwitz seemed luxu- rious compared to their own, strange as that sounds. The attractive red-brick sleeping quarters contained bunk beds will: mattresses, had Hush toilets, porcelain- covered stoves for cozy heating, and double-paned easement windows. Tree-lined pathways and flowers planted in front of every barracks ui the summer made lor a pleasant atmosphere.
At that time, ordinary people didn't have what we take for granted today. In Eastern Europe the poor lived rib
ing. Food was not plentiful orva and they were often at the mercy of political factions. People labored from dawn to dusk, six days a week.
OPEN-AIR FACILITY
Workmen clear 'ti<? scree r m front of sevEral of the buildings at Ausehwlt preparation of the 60th anniversary of the camp's liberation 111 IMS.
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TYPICAL BARRACKS IN AUSCHWITZ I
The average two-story (third It&rs under the roof} barracks were well-maintained and had plenty of windows. Paved ro ad =. ran between die three tree-shaded rows of
WHO WAS DITLIEB FELDEftERJ
Ditlieb Felderer.a Swede who was. fluent in Danish. Norwegian, Germa.i, French and English, persona I ly investigated all of the existing German concentration camps in the 1970s, He questioned museum personnel from directors to guards; interviewed local people is well as surwmrs; read the official holocaust 'Iterltu re; searched the grounds and went into every building he could, taking photographic slides as a record. He published a book, Auschwitz Exit. He testified for four days at the Ernst Zundel trial irr 1938 in Canada, during which 300 of the 30;000 s.J ides, he took in the camps ware shown to die \\irf. Zundel was acquitted.
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The Unofficial Tour
Using John Ball's accuse diagram, which
abiiws the cam p from t RS Cppoe i te d irecti on as the aerial
located. The tour starts at die adr row the visitors center. When the camp fyas in opera- tion, this building housed jg ddousingdi amber's that used Zyklon-fl, The theater where visitors waLch the propaganda film to get them in the right an ti -German fl ame of mind was used back then to show films anil German- made movies co the in mites. Ditiieb 1-eMer- er (see boxed item on facing page) states that Museum Historian Frandsaek Piper told him thatthc. seats in the cinema were identical to those used by die inmates.
After walking through the gate, the official tour takes you to several barracks that make up the actual museum, where the appro^d history of Ausdiwitz- Rirkenau is told by enlarged photo graphs with text, drawings and items in glass cases. Every guide concen- trates on then favorite exhibits about which they have memorized some stories: they do not necessarily agree or say the same things.
On my tour in 2009, our guide mentioned that a large photo of liberated children was "four months after liberation," When f asked why they were still
tos were from propaganda films made later by the So ■ viets— a recnactment by adults and children dressed in the old uniforms, if i hadn't asked, it would not
Over 600 children were at Birkcriiui when the Russians arrived, But are these, the -children ...or local kids drsssed up months later? No films were made during the liberation in January 1945,
have been told.
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THE CAMP LAY OUT AT AUSCHWITZ
(I) trees; (2) administration buNdlng; (?) rail spur; (4) one of nine guard towers: (5) parallel wire fences: (6) Arbeit Mach Frei Gate-; (7) hospital with surgical unit; (6) crematorium: (9 J work- shops for woodworking and sewing; (10) brothel and library; (1 1) $m the orchestra jg^fSS kitchen with 13 ro il-fired 5,"-Oves: ( 1 3 ) p «t office ; ( 1 4) th ree -story sleeping bar- racks; ( IS) cheater fcr music and drama: 1 1 6} sand and gravel pic; [17) swimming pool: (IS) Birch A I lev (BirlcenfcaBw); (!9) camp adnp'niscrac on offices: (20) camp commandant's residents; {H) Sola River road leading to town of A'jschwiti (2 km);
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BROTH EL Sl LIBRARY
Just inside [he main gate of Auschwitz, is Block 24,
m>t a secret that the camp had a brothel; it was men- tioned in books and its existence waseoufirmcd by the Auschwitz Museum officials, It was staffed by mostly Polish women from the outside who worked there by choice, but German prostitutes are said to have also worked there. All prisoner* were not allowed to use the brothel; thsy had to meet certain hygienic and other standards, to was also used as a reward for good behav- ior or extra effort.
On the firsf floor or Lhe brothel was the camp li- brary, according to fanner inmates. All main camps had libraries, and as a Class 1 camp Auschwitz terbjiiily had cmcr but themuseum is mumaboul it. There is no sign identifying the building as once a brotliel or library, and yori cannot enter it— it's now the office of the muse u in director and houses rhe archives.
Block 24 housed a brorhel.a library or- chestra practice and concert hall In j$£ basement, and titer added an art museum,
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Typical srtivvtjrk treated by pt\0t$$ In Auschwitz art
THE ART MUSEUM
Block 24 also held Lite camp art museum. The idea came from Polish i n mate and artist trail ciszekTargosz, whose accomplished sketches imposed Commandant Hoess. He named largos/, head of flit* museum, founded in October] 0,4 1, with its fi]:sl home in Barracks |. h was moved to Barracks 24 in March 1942, where il occupied two moms until late January '1945. Art mate- classes took place, Art of all kinds, including scu
was produced and exhibited for the enjoyment of the entire camp. Targosz survived until 1579.
During my tour in 21 one of the museum buildings dcy work." It consisted of drawings depicting extreme bru- tality carried out on helpless prisoners by SS guards;
memory, after the war was over. Perhaps with a little en- couragement? Examples of this type can be found in Zoh'a RozenstiBuch's Death Conty Auschwitz album arid Yehuda Bacon's crude sketches tliat are dated "about i945"and exhibitedat Yad Vashem Holocaust JVlemorial
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Museum in Israel. This sketch by Bacon was actus fly submitted as canf inn anon of gas chambers- in Auschwitz at the Adolf Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, it, 61, and the Auschwitz trial in Frankfort, 1964!
Yehuda Baton, Gas
Jerusalsm
Authentic prisoner artwork, which you won't find in the museum room 1 was in, looks like this;
Left. FrancisiGk
of SteiSfol*; Letfs r. rrttjfliT. Auithwiti- Birkeiau State Museum.
Right, Mieczpsfnw KojCldhiifc, A! AeEaset. 194-1.
Bir<cenau State Museum,
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They are port raits,, still Sites, landscapesand carica-
Auschwitz-liirkejiau in the towii of Oswtecim mm. some 1470 piecesand exhibits them, yet only a 5*r| few depict, violence or cruelty.
Below: View of the back of ihe kitchen Just inside the gate at the main camp of Auschwitz, 1-945. [Photo: USHMM
THE KITCHEN
Across the entry road from the- broth el/library was the kitchen— tin; largest building in the camp. It had. 12 chimneys for the stoves, and included a dietary section, a bakery and butchery. Forty inmates worked, in the kitchen, Special diets were prepared for pa- tients in Ihe infirmary and hospital. The kitchen had flush toilets, which were nn known to the first Soviet soldiers to arrive, who thought they were places- to wash their hands!
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kitchsn fium the front: the two match- ing brick b uitdingi:are in from of the long building seen from the rear on the feeing page, forming i
The front of cfie kitchen is not identified for visitors The unidentified attention is directed at this spot to the 03d Sentry Bo* and the gal lows (used only once). There are plans un- derfoot to convert the kitchen into an an museum, which will further destroy awareness of the careful reeding of the prisoners. My tour guide only pointed out where the orchestra played alongside the kitchen, by the entry road, but said nothing about the kitchen it- self. She took every oppoitunity to Sill US that prisoners, were starved to deaLh as another way of killing them.
THE CAMP ORCHESTRAS
Many musical groups were formed by the inmates over t lie life of the camp. Today the signs and guides teii us the only purpose of "the orchestra" was to keep the prisoners orderly when marching out to and back from work. They don't want visitors to know the camp had a flourishing cultural life. In truth, the < erts<r
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Sunday afternoon con- cert probably in 1943,
but certainly after
iiuccor Fff die Pol- ish inmate Frsnz Nierychlo.
II ISTORY OP THE ORCM ESTRA
The firs t prisoner urchesUa was set up in the winter
of'i94i> with Franz Nwryeh I o as corjcluaor, nal group of seven ptuisicians, paying first with instru- ments from neighboring [awns, included a violin, contrabass, accordion, trumpet, saxophone and per- cushion. These were later replaced with better quality i nst ru merits, some sent to the musicians by family mem be its. Their first formal rehearsal was held in Block 24, the basement under the camp brothel, where there WAS a small podium and a grand piano. This room be- came known as the concert hall, where the band gas* shows tor pdsonersa^ve 1 1 as i^iards and officials. The audience would stand along the walls; the musicians were scattered through out the room, sitting wherever they could find a space The group rapidJy expanded to
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more than ioa members,
Survivor accounts such as Fania FenebnsPtayimj for Time a] so spoke of the Auschwitz orchestra. A large blow-up of a photograph of the orchestra playing dur- ing the "war was once displayed at the Auschwitz Mu- seum at the main entrance.
Arroilier view of the same coiieerc Mote that inmates are gal le- ering around, not marching to work,
WOMEN'S ORCHESTRA AT BJRKENAU
From the begin rung of 19.(5 utitjI the end of 1944, there existed a Women's Orchestra in Birkenau. The conductor was violinist Alma Rose, the niece of Ciustav Mahler. The orchestra soon became a permanent insti- tution of the social life in the camp, With over 50 mu- sician and a variety of instruments, they played classical mixed with lighter fare on arrival of new pris- oners, in the infirmary and the experimental station;
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lit conceits which the SK attended and at Christmas parties and dances {there was a large room in the
Member of the Fretieh resistance Fania Gold- stein was deported to Birkspau wiiere she became a member of
(f e Women'* Orches. co. After the war, she cook the career name Ffiridon, became a wail- known cabaret singer 3rd wrote her memoir and this novel.
room). The novel Dof. Ktadchenordwier von Ausch- witz, written by1 member Fatiia F^ndon ami first published in 1576, was based on the existence of the Women's Orchestra. Every member of the orchestra ■survive to
OTHER MUSIC & THEATER GROUPS
Violinist Szymon Lata was conductor of the Birke- nan Men's Camp Orchestra in 1944, The performances took place in various places around the camp. Birkenin aJso had a brass ba nd and j camp choir, From an article in i\k Jerusalem Post, January 25, 1995:
[ The I J ewisb di ildreti's choir a t Aiiidlsite-Birfce-
my fa engagement with culture, with history, and with music— in the camp. ... In March 1944, t was se- verely ill with diphtheria and was sent to the camp hospital barracks, My mother had asked trrbeirans- fened to stay with me in the hospital Nurses, doc- tor; and patients survived. , , ,
One uf the youth letters of our group . , . asked to establish an education center for children. He given permission, and in a short time the education center became a spiritual and socIltI center fa? die family camp, It was the sou! of the camp.
a child ten's opera, wm held at the center There were
ism, Czech nationalism. , , , There was a conductor named Inuc . , . who r>rgaiM.ted the children's choir. Rehearsal; here held in a huge lavatory barracks.
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THE AUSCHWITZ, POST OFFICE
building to the right was the post office. Nothing in the museum literature mentions the post office,, the guides don't speak of it, but the Geneva Convention rules, strictly followed by die Germans, ensured the sending and receiving of mail by all prisoners. The camps en- couraged inmates to write to thei r relatives by making available prt-printtd cards and letter forms, This was checked by the Red Cross, who never found arty viola -
Evcs'y prisoner is allowed to. receive (and send; two letter* or cards from (to) his relatives ejrh moil th , The letters to pii soners must be easily read- able, be written in. ink, and consist .of no more than
The one-story posL office is the buitding with the different shaped -o-f.j..ist pasr the Oid Seniry F3o* arid one-story kitchen building. The whole idea of anAusthwki pott office for Inmates, ■is anathema to museum officials because it doesn't (it the tale they are seLng.-it had to
discard ad
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RUDOLF HOESS
15 lines on a smgle shee:. Only letter sheers of the normal size are allowed. Envelopes sill!*! be unl tried, Only 5 stamps tiF 12 Pf each may be enclosed with each letter. Nti other enclosures are permitted, arid will beconfiscatetL Postcajds consist nf 10 lines. Pho- tographs may not be used as postcards.
Money niay be sent. Newspapers a#e allowed, but only iffi rdered through the Attaint [stamp post of- fice. Parcels may noL be sent, as the prisoners can buy everything on camp. (J/mvever, in sfce letter, the pris-
particular regulation was rant en/oreet?. T&fe tfke proves then wasa com? stare for inmates, where they (oultl buy things with money sent/ram JiDme — some- thing else that is nmir mentioned in the rraaseteaa Kfr
Requests to camp authorities for release are less. Visits to prisoners are no: permissible.
Signed, the Camp Commandant.
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.On the inside of the form is the letter from the pris- oner. Notice that it reads "Post Office — indicating there was more than one post office at Auschwitz:
Addressed to; Josef Novy, Bakery Dorrwliu.', I
From: josef'Navy Date of Birth :27th April 0 Pllsoner Number s 73,034, Block 9a, Concentration Camp Auschwitz, Post Office TJ Ausdwilz. i4llt February 194.J
My dear ones!
Ife&pwi healrn, and I'm all ri^hc — I hope <ame applies to you, I've received three leu parcels from you recently— all in good shape. Lerters
pa reels, a* per the first ones. The first parcels- made me very happy — particularly the chocolate, honey and the many siveels— please send nore like that
Ime
Letter forms given to prisoners provided space for longer, mote private nfiessagss (hart posta! cards, There is no rason to believe that lornnal letters » and from famines were ever dlstouragad by camp authorities'.
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They are port raits,, still Sites, landscapesand carica-
Auschwitz-liirkejiau in the towii of Oswtecim mm. some 1470 piecesand exhibits them, yet only a 5*r| few depict, violence or cruelty.
Below: View of the back of ihe kitchen Just inside the gate at the main camp of Auschwitz, 1-945. [Photo: USHMM
THE KITCHEN
Across the entry road from the- broth el/library was the kitchen— tin; largest building in the camp. It had. 12 chimneys for the stoves, and included a dietary section, a bakery and butchery. Forty inmates worked, in the kitchen, Special diets were prepared for pa- tients in Ihe infirmary and hospital. The kitchen had flush toilets, which were nn known to the first Soviet soldiers to arrive, who thought they were places- to wash their hands!
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kitchsn fium the front: the two match- ing brick b uitdingi:are in from of the long building seen from the rear on the feeing page, forming i
The front of cfie kitchen is not identified for visitors The unidentified attention is directed at this spot to the 03d Sentry Bo* and the gal lows (used only once). There are plans un- derfoot to convert the kitchen into an an museum, which will further destroy awareness of the careful reeding of the prisoners. My tour guide only pointed out where the orchestra played alongside the kitchen, by the entry road, but said nothing about the kitchen it- self. She took every oppoitunity to Sill US that prisoners, were starved to deaLh as another way of killing them.
THE CAMP ORCHESTRAS
Many musical groups were formed by the inmates over t lie life of the camp. Today the signs and guides teii us the only purpose of "the orchestra" was to keep the prisoners orderly when marching out to and back from work. They don't want visitors to know the camp had a flourishing cultural life. In truth, the < erts<r
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Fran: entrance to the Theater, which became .a home for Catholic Carmelite imni be- tween I3S4 and |?«. The/ were forced to leave when American
buildlrgs use by Catholics.
Fj-anciszek Piper was.
at dteAuschwicz Memorial Museum from IWS until 2006.
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the Soviets in January 1945,
pesticide, as 1 However, rhat flies in mates who Lei I < >f the many activities that took place in the theater and diat Zyklon B was stored in the Admin- is t rati cm Building, David Cole, holocaust researcher, res takeji inside this building sand costumes and a stage where the in- mates used to put on productions'"
Ditlieb Felderer testified under oath at che 1988 Ziindel trial lhat the theater was used by the inmates to put on playsandcon[aintdasta«eand musical instiu ments. Fddcrer decided [a investigate the large build- ing after an Auschwitz tour guide told him vhebuilding was unimportant arid ^as only used by the Germans to put junk into. He interviewed various museum officials and guards, during which time museum historians Franciszek Piper and Danuta Czech confirmed to him that the building was used as a theater during the war, He showed a slide of a Ukramiand
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he believed was the theater building, taken from die Diirrfeld hie of the United States Archives. Most large German camps had concert hails where inmates organ- ized regular Saturday-night theater productions, operas and dances attended by thousands jStf fellow- inmates. Auschwitz was no different. These concerts were the envy of villagers outside the camp, who did not have the instruments or hails tar such gatherings. At times s were invited and enjoyed the productions de camp inmates. They and workers and fami- Birkenau and some sub -camps d at the main door at the front of the building. Up to eight repeat performances a day were necessary to accommodate even one. The only larger hall was in the Catholic Church in town, 2 kms (1.3 mi) norm.
THE SWIMMING POOL
Con tinning alongside the perimeter fence and turning left onto shady Birch Alley {Birkenhaller}, you come to the swimming pool. Interestingly, the pool fttf inmates- was not denied by museum, staff until a lew years ago. although tourists who asked to see it were told by guides Lhatit was "off limits," Located right in- side the fence, the pool measures 25 meters long, six meters wide- and three meters deep,
According to Ditlieb Felderer, Museum Historian Piper told him thar t he pool had been used to rchabd ■ date inmate pat ient nand as recreation, Wartime aerial
terice. I3ooks written by former inmates refer to the Auschwitz pool; some say thcrj' sneikecLiiito tht^ puol at night for a swim; oLhersthat it was used for water polo. For example, Marc Klein, a f swimming pool in his 1
These deyer and artistically designed playbill: ana among several on display at the Mauthausen memorial site, h Austria.
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Auschwitz j was made up <j$ 28 blocks built of stone laid out in three parallel rows between which ran pavedi streets. A third street ran ihe lengf h of die quadrangle and wa; planted with birch trees: the liirkenbaSler iniended as a walkway For the detainees,
The swimming pool in I 996. Birch Alley on the right, the perimeter fence on rh&left.
He also wrote:
. , - On Sundiys and holidays . . , football, bas- ketball ant) water-pe-fa matches (in an opcrt-airpool built within the perimeter by detainees) atl crowds, of Dn lookers. {De concemnitiau: 1
Inmates were some times also j the nearby Sola River, according to interviews with |e-
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hovah's Witnesses who had been interned in the camp. Yet in 1009. when 1 asked at the information counter .ing pool, J was met with a Alter persisting. 1 was finally answered Willi, "Oh 1 do you mean the fire brigade reservoir?" The sign shown below, in Polish. Bngl ish and Hebrew,
Birker tan also has a pool, which few have seen, but which now sports a similar sign. The water in the pool would hardly have been sufficient for fire-fighting in a camp with 300 buildings'
Auschwitz swimming
bleeps- and entry JatJders.The diving board IfS'sti to be attached to the tall central block.
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ojcslde the camp. NcEe the double fence runs behind the bulldli^. The crematorium and "gas chamber" are use across the street In front, not shnwn.The rounded object at
entrance to a orie- per:oii air-raid shelter
THE HOSPITAL
By continuing along Birch Alley and turning left at Che fence perimeter, going back toward the main gate, you conifer to the SS Hospital which stands on the other side of the fence, ft had a surgical black as veil as a ob- stetrica I /gynecological block for inmates (children were born at Auschwitz).
There were also quarantine areas in both camps for newly arriving prisoners, where they stayed for as long as six weeks to make sure they had no diseases that couid be transferred to die resit of the camp population.
Dr. LasiJoTatiber, now a wealthy Jewish landlord in Washington, D.C., was the chief surgeon at the in- mates' hospital atAusebwitz-Birkenau. liirkertsit had several hospital buildings. One well-known inmate, Otto Frank, the father of Anne frank, stayed there for three months in late 1944-early with the com- plaint of suffering from exhaustion. Whi le he remained
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hospitalized, Ins two daughtei were evacuated (follow- ing the rules or rhif Geneva Convention), along with
away from the advancing Soviet army. Otto Frank was stili there when the Scnietsan-raed.
Another famous inmate, ElieWiesel, writes thai he was in a hospital in Auschwitz recovering from an op- eration on an infected foot, and his father had been al- lowed to stay with him in the hospital. However, WieseJ chose to leave the hospital to go with the 60.000 others who marched west with the Gentians ta another cam p. away from the impending Soviet "liberation." The guides at Auschwitz don't show the hospital.
Befow. a vW of the. front of the SS Hospi- tal across the street from the. recorv &rnjcced'"ga5 djttnte t>e:'"-crematorium. Isn't it inconsistent to hsve weapon of mass murder right next to che building where [he ,. ; • a '- taking, pime — saving Ikes through medical
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Photo above shows the brick chimney rJsar was bulk In 1947 is. detached from the building. Ic has never been connected to- the reconstructed or/
THE CREMATORIUM
Directly across the outer Toad from the hospital is the reconstructed crematorium, known as the Gas Chamber, Note the tall chimney and Iki roof in the picture on the previ- ous page, The official story is that the small vents in the roof allowed Zyklon B pellets to be poured into the ehamlxT below, thus "gassing" the victims locked inside.
However, air photas- taken by U.S. reconnaissance planes in 1944, not released until 1993, re- veal a peaked roof with two one- meter high chimneys over the two crema tiers furnaces, no vents or holes over the al- leged gas chamber, and 110 large chimney, it was then admitted that the Soviets changed the roof, cut the
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The AtJschwitl "gas chamber" Was really a morgue Until it was slightly renovated into an Mr raid shelter by the Germans in Sept. 1 944. Consider thai if the morgue was a gas cham- ber there was no morgue to store all those gissed bodies prior to cremation. The door- less opening at left, which leads to the room with only two cremation ovens, was cut through by the Russians in 1947, Before my (our gro.rp walked through, we were instructed to remain 5]<ent"out. cf respect;"' it was roped off and dirk inside. Before I realized it, I was back outside again with no opportunity to ask questions. What a disappointment , . , and I wasn't tlte only one who felt that.
holes and built the chimney in 19-17; i*1 other words, lhe Museum went along with the lie until they were
Por years the Museum staff used lake photos to pass the reconstructed gas chain her off as original, Only recently did they erect a sign outside of the cre-
madc to the building interior,
We were informed by our ^uirJo thai the recon- struction is superficial and does not negate the build- ing's previous use as a gas chamber, and. in any case, it's now reported there were relatively few gassings at Auschwitz— the great majority were done at Birkenau,
The question, 'Is this holocaust revisionism?1' was met with silence, It appears the Auschwitz "gas cham- ber" myth is too fragile to bear any scrutiny.
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Interior of garment workshops:
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uniforms.
THE WORKSHOPS
From the crematorium you can see the workshop buildings where inmates both learned and worked at trades, but they are not on the guided tour. 1-lim.mler had ordered Lhe construction of workshops for hcindi- craft purposes; some were for woodworking; at least one was for sewing.
Jean- Claude Pressac, an externuriationist historian, claims that women deportees b:'uugbt thdr sowing ma- chine? along with them, but thaL is ridiculous. The photographs ofarrivi ng women show not one carrying
the museum officials don't want you to know that [he National Socialists provided professional work equip- ment for the inmar<!3 and had clean, well-run work areas ,
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RE CR NATIONAL SPORTS
Inmates engaged, in a variety of sports at both Auschwitz. and Birkenau. In addition to the swimming pools, j. large sports playing field was close to the cre- matoriums at Birkenau, where soccer matches took place on Sundays, Ditlieb Felde re r reports that one of the first people to tell him that it was used as a sports ground was one of the guards of the artifacts, a Mr. Urbaniek. At the itiSSZundel trial, Fold ere r showed a, slide of a map in one of the main guide books of Auschwitz which indicated that the field had been a
Tadcufflt Borovvski, a Polish Jewish prisoner at Birkenau wTote a book of short stories in which he mentioned the soccer held "on the broad clearing be- hind the hospital barracks'
Beyond the ruins of Krema II! is alarms grassy ar^a that was once the Birkenau setter field.
membered when he was the goalkeeper in a gain on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, He said a size- able crowd ofhospita] orderlies and convalescent patients had gathered to watch, the game.
William Schick said in a 2006 interview with The Sim- Hem Id th.it he was placed in the Czech family tamp at Birkenau where he played in soc- cer matches, andsaid the soccer field was located near Krema 111.
Boxing matches were also popular among the in- mates, Sal a mo Arouch was a boxing champion in his home town of Salonika, Greece: after arriving at Auschwitz in 1943, he participated in twice-weekly box- ing matches. Fencing "was popular- among some; at the Ernst Zundd trial, Fe I derer showed 1 slide of inmates fencing. Unfortunately, we don't have access to .any of these slides for this booklet,
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The Birkenau Concentration Camp
BirHfen means birches — pictured
here a Birch tree grove at the west
end of the camp.
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BIRKENAU is locate three ldlonieters from Auschwitz J on a main road, Guilds ng began in 194J for a camp to hold 200,000 persons, mainly non -workers to be transferred elsewhere, thus
erlyand infirm than at Auschwitz, Iteventualf 425 acres and had 300 buildings. A few prisoners u-orked in the warehouses, in die kitchen a and in Lhe crematoria, but most did not work. If 75% of the jews were killed on arrival, who lived in all those barracks? Nol only tfial buLthe Gennam; were building new bar- racks in the section the inmates called Mexico to house 50,000 more prisoners.
Today it's avast open space with only a few isolated buildings scattered here and Lhere. Prior to the year 2000, there were very few visitors to Birkenau. Tours d i d n 't go there < even perso nal gui d es wa u ! d n 't ta ke yb lj
look at a sample sleeping and lavatory barracks, which are in wry poor condition, The original barracks all had j porcelai 11 -covered brick stove at one end from which
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nets could sit on it, and some said they even cooked on it! bach brick barracks in the women's section had its own lavatory.
THE CENTRAL SAUNA
This beau ti fill, modern hygiene building was built in 1943 and contained steam chambers and hot air ovens for disinfecting clothing. New arrivals came here first, had their hair shorn, showered and were given clean clothing, However, it didn't have a single sauna. It did have a large main room that was sometimes used as a ballroom.
Visitors to Birkenau are not/shown this building, the largess: in the camp.
Extra clothing and valuables the prisoners brought with them were stored in the 30 wooden warehouses across the street from the sauna, which the Soviets burned down after they arrived.
There are other, smaller disinfection buildings (#20 on diagram on page 40) at Bfrkerisu, but the guides won't take you there either. The doors are locked, and no signs identify t
"The Sauna" was the name given to
beta.jse of the steam and hoc air d is irif action ovens. It's designed with two Identical sides — one for man .md one for women. Prisoners were br ought tidf-eftir showers.
Belo^.one of the steam chambers in" the Central Sauna for debusing cb-h- ing, Mow the door at each end,
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KEY TO DIAGRAM OF BIRKENAU CAMP
Tr.is diagram cn ire fa-: nj page w^.s cra.vr, b/Jolir1 C.Bill on ihs bzs\i of air pnoto; of four reconna>ssante fll^hti in 1 944, as we' I is invasti- gafcfi on the spot
1 . Fields plowed and planted in I ?44.
2. Access roads to th b rnain camo.
3. Cessp-sots drnhing Ir.co die So!a 1-1 km farther w«t.
■J.Ths '"White House," where Dens of thou- iinds ofpeipta are supposed to lave bean mur-
dered w
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5-Triii is where the victi-m a-c suppose LC hsi/e undressed, altbaV|h ; Iwre before ;une 1944.
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The photographs taken eJ the above-men- tioned four purification p'a.nts between Mi)' and September H44 show no dltchei, no piles of bodies arid n~ fmofie. aitho^h it ts claimed Thai thousands nf gushing vjctami were being thrown into lar^e dlTches and btirnt, eveiy day. sbace the crwrato^la wa?s overloaded,
aCfarHaiiiria !V iiwfV.
9. =mpty ditches, em long md I.Sm deep, well water st die bottom.
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1 1 . Group of 3H bsrocb. MtfeSi*^ Canada, by inmates, where ore possessions o' new ar- rivals sorted and reutil ied.
51. Round has: ni. and ditches far water pu- rification. A sewage purification plan: #*s also ber^in sbove Ell!, so tlia.t every con>truc"Jcm sec- tion possessed 3 sewage p^r^zsuap plant. All waste water flowed into these 'nstarlaiitwis and ehemo.ieor leu pi-rrfted water then f owed into df* Wai tiisd.T'ie op cn-air sevfa£5 ptrri* caiio-n IjiitaslsElans hav* re; eased rerrlole odon,
especially dL ring the sumrrar. ?1any in.mates ra- ported sn evil icwctu wh-tb many of tiam at- tributed to the crematoria,, while, ir relli^, It ensnared either ™ the purificiciar plants or tba potrtKliemkai plants at Monowln.
IJ.TKe two. large irE-rtiaijoria I1 jnd III Vf=re v.sihle »□ thousJid-j ol pat!ers-by Ir.slde ind ou;- Mde toe cimo. over treeless fleftti [rem the numerous baTriclts In the cimu Itsilf, diay were
ony surrounded witl^ ^ barbed wsre fence.
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I?. Kkchrrii (nma in tJi? men's camp and four In t^-e women's camp)
20. Bu.ldh;s In which datMng, blanks cs- ind naflressts ware dlilr.Frctod.
ll.Three-meter-high ha -bed wire fence. 21 Camp area for potatoes and vegetables. 24. Women's camp: bamcki of sto^e snd weotf.
JS. Train platfotnv
M.Toileti and wjshroctm.
27. Men's camp.
33. Main entrance
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THE KITCHENS
The kitchens are also closed ro the public, osrensk biy for preservation and to pre vent -vandalism. But why is that a concern for some buildings and not others? According ro Ditlieb Felderer, his slides show severs! extremely large cooking vats Ml inside the buildings.
MUSIC & MATING
A book written b$ a former inmate described haw Lhey put on shows with music and dancing and skits at Birkenau, Ruth Elias also mentioned the music shows in her book Triumph of Hope. The remarkable thing is that the SS guards sat in the audience side by side with the inmates. Cooperative interaction be- tween guards and prisoners was not unusual. For in- sLauct, they worked together sorting clothing at the "Canada" warehouses and even took the opportunity to have affairs. There were a tew marriages between guards and women prisoners at fiirkeiuu, although only after the wax Prisoners, however, were allowed Lo many each other, Some marriages took place and children were bom,
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Ore. of the eleven original kitchens at Birkenau that was Still standing back Iri 1997.
SPORT SOCCER FIELD
Inmates wanted to engage in sports on their days off, and the guards had no objection— in fad, it was
he thought it would increase bodily strength and help make them a better labor force, The inmates formed teams and enjoyed friendly competition on
cheering sections. Even the guards formed a team and played againiit the inmates! It is reported that reams sometimes used the crematorium grounds when there was no room on the main field (P15 on
CREMATORIUMS
There were four"Kremas'r at Birkenau, of which you t an see the ruins today. Kremas II and 111 are at the end of the road that runs horn the main entrance, while W. fa reconstruction) and V are are nothing more than foundations, just north of the Cental Sauna. Sf they were gas chambers, ir means there were no
Crematorium II Irs Birkcnau as it ap- peared in Feb. 1 943 i stfll under construc- tion. The partially un- derground morgue,: later calied the "gas chamber," can be seen at right covered with a layer of snow. Ib- roof was six inches of con- crete, three feet aboveground, Con- sider that Zyklon B pellets need to fce heated to work.
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Ruini of Crematorium II, photographed by the Soviet* iji Feb. I 545, after cliey fag) Wown it up and blamed it or the Germans. In 200? it was- roped ofT, with a large sign proclaiming it is Undergoing
preservation process.
le typhus epidemic1; that sLruck the camp. Kremas rV and V had shower rooms and were close to the Sauna, which also had a shower room, The museum says these shower rooms were re- ally gas chambers, which means there was only one shower room, in (he Sauna, for 00,000 prisons!
There is little doubt all the Kremas were destroyed by Lite Soviets shortly after their arrival, even though a
Hum II and III were blown up by the Nazis on [an. 10. jy45. Yet the officially accepted date that the Germans abandoned the camp is January 18— two days earlier. The Soviets found only a few dead bodies at the Birktmau camp, preserved by the freezing weather. The cremation ovens had been disman- tled and taken horn the camp in November 1944.
Left, ruins of Krema IV — even this is a reconstruction! All e^dly, the Polish
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LIBERATION AS PROPAGANDA
The photograph on this page is from Ibotage used in a Soviet propaganda film, shot by a Polish soldier- liberator, and shows the Rirkenau clothing warehouses (known as> "Canada") burning, la the distance we see tall crematorium chimneys that had supposedly been blown up by the retreating Nazis on eweek before, (The
nary i&, hut serU a crew hack on [he ioth to Crematorias N, III and V before the Rus- sians advanced on the camp, which turned out to be on ]a 11.27,)
This is the best evidence that the So- viet myth of the Nazis' desire to "destroy the traces of their crimes" is jus[ that— a myth. The SS had left behind a total of over 7000 survivors capable of telling their atory to the enemy, so what would be the point of demolishing the crema- torium buildings?
The highly publicized Soviet "libera- tion" of Auschwitz is a work of propaganda. The Red Army happened upon the camp, told the people found tht're they were free to leave, and continued on their
home under appalling conditions, Soviet intelligence unit;; then moved in and decided how best to use what they l'a und to advance [heir own cause.
The myth of the Auschwitz death camp was con- strue ted , and has undergone many discards since Lhen. The number of four million "gassed" is probably rhe maj or casua try of h is torical re v ision i sm— but I here are many others.
Phoco shows the clothing warehouses at Sirkenau burning sometime after the ar- rival of the Saviet5:on Jan. 27. with tremato- rln chimneys still standing in the back- ground, The Germans are blamed for setting the fires 1(3 days ear- lier and destroying the crematoriums.
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AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL
At the end of the mam road through Birkenau. just
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1 on page 40) is a large sculpture and many plaques, each in a different lan- guage, but with the same inscription:
FOUK Ml LLION fCOfLfi 5UFFEICE& ANP DIED MEftE 'AT THE HAfSlDS OF THE NAZI MURDERERS BETWEEN THE YEAKS
warning to humanity, where the Nazis mur- dered about one and a half mill ion men, women and children, ma inly jews, from
The original plaque, in place until I 990.
The- present p'aque makes; no mention of four ml U ton victims.
However, previous to 1990 and the collapse of the Soviet Union, this inscription claiming 4 million deaths was on die plaques, and quite famous il was, The discrepancy between 4 million and 1,5 million didn't result in a change in the overall 6 million
given (or the failure to reduce the latter figure. Such is the nature of the Auschwitz-Eirkenau experience.
showed a total of i6,3ifi prisoners in Auschwitz, [ — 10,030 men and 6,196 women The total count for al] three camps was 07,012, according to Danuta Czech. Even with the publicity of the Nuremberg Trials, Auschwitz remained virtually unknown to ttie public for a decade after the war, and really didn't become the phenomenon it is today until 1989 after the fall of the
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Soviet Union. According to Walter Staeglich in The Auschwitz Myth, German and Austrian soldier* who were interned at the camp as POW's by the Soviets after thy war reported they saw no traces of alleged mass murders anywhere in the camps. The Soviets did not permit outsiders to inspect thegrounds,
The 46 volumes, of ''Death Books" kept by the Auschwitv. political department and confiscated by tho Soviets were Lumed over to the International Commit- tee of the Red Cross in 1989. These records show around 69,000 prisoners died between July 29, 1941 and Dec, 31, 1943 [2.5 years]. The tadier death books are missing, as are those for 1944.
Based on these records, the international Red Cross has estimiced that a total of around 135,000 [reg- istered! prisoners, jews and non-jews, died it) the three Auschwitz camps during its entire existence, Thest; and other records are now available at tht1 Interna- tional Tracing Service in Bad Arolson, Germany.
Cape Benedict views a plaque with the new FF15Cnt>tton, Monument is in the center dis- tance. All I'BlhgiCUS and political leaders are expected to pay homage at the "holy of holies."
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Auschwitz:
The Underground Guided Tour
Auschwitz: The Underground
Guided Tour
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You hold in your hands a remarkable study oF Auschwitz that is unlike anything yet published. Though it is purposely smaif in size and easy to read. Se carries ii powerful punch, The author visited Auschwitz as a tourist armed with a broad study of the lit- erature suiroundi iTg i he world-famous site, and (torn that visit has proceeded to decotihli net the Auschwitz shown to her and others as a 'deadi" or "extermination" camp. % taking tlie reader on an
"underground yuided tour" around Auschwitz - Birkeitiiu . iht dearly demon- strates it to be, at varying times and locations within the peiimeiiers, a simple labor, concentration and transit camp for political prisoners, where the health of the inmates was the prime concern of I he romp authorities. Sound unbe-
smries for so Iojisj spread about Auschwitz-rairkenau in a new light, and you may very well be so impressed you'll want to share your new- vision with oth- ers. This cautiously written work moves toward & surprising conclusion that leaves us pondering how so much thai is not true has seeped into our con- sciousness as "fact"
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