Archie wrote:borjastick wrote:This one does it for me...(31) Gas chambers 2 and 3 are designed backwards. Chamber 2 has a Zyklon B induction hole in the ceiling, but no Zyklon B traces or blue stains. Chamber 3 has heavy, floor-to-ceiling Zyklon B traces and blue stains, but no Zyklon B induction hole. And, like the roof of Krema 2 at Auschwitz, the ceiling shows no sign of a hole having ever been there. Why would chamber 2 have a Zyklon B induction hole and no traces, and chamber 3 plenty of traces but no hole?
They are all good but number 31 sort of sums it all up.
I firmly believe Cole was a revisionist/opportunist at the time and could see a jolly jape was in the making with his razor sharp observations.
Sounds like this room:
Lots of blue ... but no holes. Welp.
That particular combination seems to have caused them a great deal of confusion with what to put on the sign.Reinforced concrete chamber for the extermination of prisoners with carbon oxide. The gas was supplied by means of a conduit from the SS-man's booth. Cyclone B was also used here.
Haha. This is TOTALLY INCOHERENT. Even though this is one of the few "gas chambers" with the Prussian blue, they end up saying they used carbon monoxide. But then they say Zyklon "was also used here," I guess whenever the SS felt like switching it up.
Comically, when Pressac inspects Majdanek he is told that the room in your picture- with the blue staining but no ceiling hole, was used to gas Jews with hydrogen cyanide. The claim was, apparently, the SS man threw the Zyklon B over the heads of the Jews before quickly shutting the door:
The introduction of Zyklon B into Room A would have involved difficulties, described by one historian of the Majdanek Museum as follows: 'The Zyklon was introduced, not through an opening in the ceiling as in the previous chamber [B1] - there was no such opening - but rather, through the doorways before closing the doors.' Frankly speaking, it is unrealistic to imagine an SS man wearing a gas mask and with a can of Zyklon B in his hand, sprinkling the granules in the 30 cm space between the heads of the victims and the ceiling (involving the risk of the granules falling on to the floor at the front of the room) while attempting to close the door, without causing desperate escape attempts on the part of the victims.
On the grounds stated above, I do not believe that Room A could be used for homicidal purposes using Zyklon B. In rooms B1 and B2, this does of course appear technically possible, but it is unlikely that these premises were really used for this purpose.
Room A == Chamber III == The room in the picture above with the blue staining but no Zyklon introductory hole. So Pressac was not buying it.
http://vho.org/GB/Books/dth/fndMattogno.html
The room without the Prussian Blue but with the shabby "Zyklon hole" is also dubious to Pressac:
As if that weren't enough, the room behind this one also has a crudely cut hole in the ceiling, but it is not alleged that this room was used for homicidal gassing and the room is closed to tourists: