The Gasprüfer

[Sailor]

From the interrogation protocols of the Moscow archive Dossier N-19262, criminal case 1719 of the Topf engineer Kurt Prüfer.

On March 4, 1948, Prüfer was interrogated by the Soviet SMERSCH Colonel-Lieutenant Dopertschuk and Colonel-Lieutenant Novikov:

»Question: A photo copy of a letter with your signature of March 2, 1943 is submitted to you, which is addressed to the SS-Bauleitung of Auschwitz and which is about ten gas testers. Explain for what purpose were these gas testers you were looking for as ordered by the SS!

This letter of March 2., 1943 has the following wording:

»We acknowledge the receipt of your telegram, as follows:
"Send immediately 10 gas testers as discussed. Submit quote later."
We herewith inform you that already two weeks ago we asked five different companies about indicating instruments for hydrocyanide-residues as per your request. Three companies have sent a negative reply and answers are still pending from the other two.
As soon as we receive word regarding this matter, we will inform you immediately so that you can contact the company that manufactures these instruments.
Heil Hitler!
i.V. Prüfer«

Answer: I looked for the gas testers, which are referred to in the photo copy of my letter of March 2, 1943, on the request of the chief of the SS-Bauleitung Bischoff , in order to furnish the gas chambers in the crematoriums with them. When Bischoff asked me with that request, he explained to me, that after the poisoning of the inmates in the gas chambers often cases happened, where even after the ventilation there were residues of hydrocyanide, which lead to the poisoning of the service personnel working in these chambers.
Therefore Bischoff asked me to find out which firms would make gas testers, which could be used to measure the concentration of hydrocyanide gasses in the gas chambers, in order to make the work of the service personnel free of danger. I could not fulfill Bischoff’s request, because I could not find a company which manufactured such gas testers.«

This is heralded by many Exterminationists as irrefutable proof for the existence of homicidal gas chambers in Auschwitz crematorium.

[Hannover]

Let's recall that Communist 'interrogations' brought us the fraudulent testimony that blamed the Germans for Katyn, the 'testimony' after torture of Auschwitz Commandant Hoess, the phony '4,000,000' at Auschwitz, the steam chambers report, a document at Nuremberg which claimed the Germans has nuclear weapons...on & on.

It's not difficult to 'convince' someone to say whatever you desire with certain persuasive measures. Then ofcourse, Prufer may have not said this at all.

Combine these factors with the lack of corroboration for gas chambers in general, their scientific impossibility as alleged, and we are left with empty words of very questionable origin.

- Hannover

[Hannover]

Sailor:
Have a look here:

http://www.vho.org/VffG/2002/4/Pruefer.html

Then help us out with the German text.

- Hannover

[Sailor]

It's not difficult to 'convince' someone to say whatever you desire with certain persuasive measures.

No doubt that this is so. Just look at the photographs of Prüfer while under Soviet arrest. I posted the pictures in the thread “Interrogated by SMERSCH”.

This thread is about “Gasprüfer” and the letter of March 2, 1943. I placed the content of the letter into the frame of the interrogations, because as far as I know, that is how this letter became known.

The best discussion which I found about this letter is by Mattogno “THE ‘GASPRÜFER’ OF AUSCHWITZ” http://www.vho.org/aaargh/fran/techniques/CMprufer.html

This letter puzzled me quite a bit. Because it does not make sense.
Here are my thoughts on this:

The referenced telegram is from Jährling, a furnace expert and employee of the Topf company, who is stationed in Auschwitz. The copy of the telegram is here: Archiwum Panstwowego Muzeum w Oswiecimiu APMO, BW 30/40, S. 48.
“Send immediately 10 Gasprüfer (gas testers) as discussed”
We don’t know what was “discussed”. But we do know what a “Gasprüfer” is: An indicating instrument to measure the CO and the CO2 content in the offgas of the crematorium oven. (An indicating instrument is also a volt meter, with a scale and a pointer). It is described in the German Mechanical Handbook Hütte 1942, S. 1087.

This is what Mattogno, Rudolf, Rademacher and Lüftl believe. According to them these instruments would be installed in the socalled “Fuchs”, i. e. the connecting exhaust conduit from the crematorium oven to the chimney-stack. There are 5 ovens in each Krema II and III, ergo 5 x 2 = 10 gas testers.

My questions are: There are two exhausts coming from the oven, one from the muffles and one from the furnace which then somehow combine before entering the stack. In which are the “gasprüfers” installed? In the exhaust from the muffle or the furnace? Topf built over 140 ovens, some are still standing. Do they have these “Gasprüfers” installed? Or if they were swiped by souvenir collectors, are the connections to the exhaust ducts still visible? Do the drawings show these instruments? What does the operation manual say, what if the CO or CO2 levels exceed certain levels, what is to be done?

We herewith inform you that already two weeks ago we asked five different companies about “Anzeigegeräte für Blausäure-Reste” (indicating devices for hydrocyanide residues).

“Anzeigegeräte für Blausäure-Reste” (indicating devices for hydrocyanide residues) is a new word-combination, was never used before.
In the Directives for the Use of Prussic Acid (Zyklon) Document NI-9912 the term is “gas detector”, the equivalent German expression is “Gasrestnachweisgerät”. It is sort of a lithmus paper strip, a piece of paper is dipped into a chemical solution and then exposed to the air. “A fumigated room may be released provisionally as soon as the paper strip of the gas detector is of a lighter blue than the centre colour pattern.”
So I have to ask Tauber, Müller and others whose job it was to enter the morgue and remove the alleged poisoned victims, whether they checked this room before they entered with such chemical device? Does anyone know?


Concerning the translation of the Prüfer trial protocol, I have about 25% of it translated as part of an Article by Graf for Rudolf. It should really be reviewed by a native English speaker. Anyway I will post it “as is” after a quick review under the thread “Interrogated by SMERSCH”.