Auschwitz's electrocution & steam hammer rooms

"Those were special chambers where the hammer fell from the ceiling and

by means of a special installation victims found death under air pressure."

- April 1943 Polish Underground report on Auschwitz, written & published in London

British, Jewish, Zionist historian Sir Martin Gilbert, wrote in his 1981 book

Auschwitz and the Allies, that 4,000,000 people were killed at Auschwitz

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He also writes of an April 1943 report on the methods of genocide at Auschwitz.

In September 1942, a Polish gentile, a member of the Polish Underground, had

been asking freed inmates of Auschwitz, who were to be found in Auschwitz

town, about what was going on in those big Nazi camps. Once the "facts" had

been gathered, the Pole went to London where the report was written up.

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE

By September 1942, 60,000 of the 95,000 people at Auschwitz had been killed

Gas chambers, in which the Gestapo wearing gas masks would watch

Electrocution chambers with metals walls

The Hammerluft (air hammer) system, special chambers, where a hammer

fell from the ceiling and killed people by the means of air pressure

Electric ovens which could cremate 10 people per-hour

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