We believe the list refers only to female prisoners. In September 1942, the number of women in Auschwitz was far fewer than the number of men.
It is interesting though that the period September 7-11th does show a sudden upward blip in what we presume are total inmate deaths. Perhaps the women were listed as men for camouflage purposes?!
We wonder, in a hubristic moment, if our little discovery isn't the most important revisionist finding of the last 40 years. Which would put us in the firmament above the likes of Mr. Rassinier, Mr. Faurisson, Mr. Butz and Mr. Mattogno.
What logically could be flawed in our argument or reasoning?
1) The figure of 800.
The Auschwitz Calendar for September 5 has:
The SS Camp Doctor carries out a selection among the female prisoners in Block 27 of the prisoners' infirmary in the women's camp of Birkenau. He selects all the sick Jewesses, about 800 women. They are killed in the gas chamber the same day. Dr. Kremer, who is present at the selection and gassing writes in his diary: "Noon today at a special operation at the FKL. 'Moslems': the most ghastly of the ghastly. Master Sergeant Thilo, Troop Doctor, is right when he said to me today that we are here at the
anus mundi [anus of the world]."
A footnote reads:
In the protocol of the hearing of July 18, 1947, in Krakow, Kremer explains his entry thus: "I remember that I once took part in a daily gassing of such a group of women.
How big the group was, I can't say. When I came to the vicinity of the bunker, they were sitting on the ground. Since they were in worn-out camp clothing, they were not allowed in the undressing barracks but rather undressed out in the open. From the behavior of these women, I concluded that they were clear about the fate that awaited them, since they were pleading with the SS Men around them and crying; nevertheless, they were all driven into the gas chamber and gassed."
The ASM gave this explanation of where Ms. Czech had derived the number of 800:
Nevertheless, I think that this hint in the footnote came from a book by Danuta Czech “Chronicle of the Most Important Events from the History of KL Auschwitz” (so called “Calendar”). She quoted a testimony by Dr Kremer given in his trial in Cracow, (vol. 16, p. 55) when he was listing major “actions” during his stay in Auschwitz: “Im September 1942 ging dann einmal der jüdische Krankenblock (Block 27), es waren über 800 Menschen” (he used the word: “Menschen” while referred to both sexes).
I know that this interpretation probably does not meet all criteria of modern scholarship, but explanation given by Danuta Czech is not completely unjustified.
It is possible then that the figure of 800 and the selection from the Jewish 'sick-block' does not refer to the September 5 action. The figure for September 5th could be far smaller, numbering in the tens rather than the hundreds (as might be expected given the number of registered women prisoners to date). But would a separate action, with all the time and trouble involved, really be sanctioned for the sake of a few dozen people? Why not, for instance, include them in the action which took place later in the day upon the arrival of the transport from Holland or dispose of them with phenol injections?
2) both men and women were involved;
Despite Dr. Kremer's diary reference to the FKL (women's camp) and his later testimony that only women were gassed at the Bunker, it's conceivable that male Moslems were also involved, with their selection having taken place separately with Dr. Kremer not in attendance.
3) the data in Death Books is misleading.
From the Mattogno/Deana chapter in
Dissecting the Holocaust:
"This analysis is complicated due to the fact that in the original Sterbebücher of the camp single certificates of the deceased were not tabulated according to the date of the death of the inmate, but according to the date of the registration of the death, and the relative numerical registrations follow exactly this chronological order."
We don't know what this means in practical terms but we must trust the ASM staff are aware of this circumstance and have provided correct figures.
