Documents

 

Document 1: Lublin and the Lublin camp (Majdanek). Source: T. Mencel (ed.), Majdanek 1941-1944, Lublin: Wydawnictwo Lubelskie, 1991, unnumbered page.

 

Document 2: Plan of the POW camp Lublin from October 7, 1941. Source: J. Marszałek, "Geneza i początki budowy obozu koncentracyjnego na Majdanku (Genesis and Beginnings of the Construction of the Concentration Camp Majdanek), in: ZM, I, 1965, unnumbered page. Document 3: Plan of the concentration camp Lublin from March 23, 1942. Source: Marszałek, "Geneza i początki budowy obozu koncentracyjnego na Majdanku, in: ZM, I, 1965, unnumbered page.

Document 3a: Enlargement from Document 3: location of the delousing facility.

 

Document 4: Plan of the POW camp Lublin from December 5, 1942. Source: Z. Murawska, System strzezenia i sposoby isolacji wiezniow w obozie koncentracyjnym na Majdanku (System of guarding and methods of isolating the inmates in the concentration camp Majdanek), in: ZM, I, 1965, unnumbered page.

Document 4a: Detail from Document 4. Labels added.

 

Document 5: Plan of the concentration camp Lublin, drawn by the Polish-Soviet Investigative Commission. Source: GARF, 7021-107-9, 5.

 

Document 6: Plan of the concentrtion camp Lublin, published by Zdzisław Łukaszkiewicz in "Obóz koncentracyjni i zagłady Majdanek" (The Concentration and Extermination Camp Majdanek), in: Biuletyn Głównej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Nimieckich w Polsce (Bulletin of the Commission to Investigate the German Crimes in Poland), v. 4, 1948, unnumbered page. Document 7: Plan of the concentration camp Lublin. Source: T. Kranz (ed.), Unser Schicksal-eine Mahnung für Euch... Berichte und Erinnerungen der Häftlinge von Majdanek. Lublin: Panstwowe Museum na Majdanku, 1994, unnumbered page.

Document 8: Camp population report of December 9, 1943. Source: APMM, sygn. I-c-2, vol. 1.

 

Document 9: Diagrammatic representation of the camp population. Source: Z. Leszczyńska, "Stany liczbowe wiezniów obozu koncentracjynego na Majdanku", in: ZM, VII, 1973, unnumbered page. 

Document 11: PS-1469, p. 4.

 

Document 12: Death Book, June 30 to July 1, 1942. Source: APMM, sygn. I.d.19, p. 37. 

Document 13: Death Report for the Personal Effects Depot, dated October 23, 1942, refers to October 20. Source: GARF, 7021-107-3, p. 227. 

Document 14: List of the Deceased for the Majdanek Camp, Nov. 30, 1942. Source: Archive of the Glowna Komisja Bdania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce, 626, z/OL 3, p. 52.
Document 15: Deaths in the concentration camp Lublin in December 1942. Source: as for Document 14, p. 59. Document 16: Deaths in the concentration camp Lublin in March 1944. Source: GARF, 7021-107-9, pp. 211a-212.

Document 16, cont'd. 

Document 17: Kori Diagram J.-Nr. 9079 from Oct. 16, 1941: Cremation facility. Source: APMM, sygn. VI-9a, v. 1, p. 11. Document 18: Kori Diagram J.-Nr. 9080 from March 31, 1942: Cremation facility for the POW Camp Lublin. Source: GARF, 7445-2-125, p. 89a. Document 19: Diagram by the Building Administration of the POW Camp Lublin, Nov. 23, 1942, POW Camp Lublin Crematorium. Source: APMM, sygn. VI-9a, v. 2.

Document 20: Diagram by the Central Building Office of the POW Camp Lublin, Dec. 1, 1942, POW Camp Lublin Crematorium. Source: APMM, sygn. VI-9a, v. 2.

 

Document 21: Kori Diagram from Dec. 10, 1942: POW Camp Lublin Crematorium. Source: APMM, sygn. VI-9a, v. 2, p. 8. Document 22: Letter from the Kori company to Hauptamt CIII of the Economic-Administrative Main Office, dated January 8, 1943. Source: GARF, 7021-107-9, p. 250.
Document 23: Diagram of the new crematorium, by the Building Administration of the concentration camp Lublin, dated June 24, 1943. Source: Z. Łukaszkiewicz, "Obóz koncentracyjni i zagłady Majdanek" (see Document 6), unnumbered page. Document 24: Diagram of the new Crematorium, by the Central Building Office of the concentration camp Lublin, dated June 29, 1943. Source: WAPL, sygn. Central Construction Office, 70, p. 1. Document 25: Plan of the new Crematorium, drawn by the Polish-Soviet Investigative Commission. GARF, 7021-107-9, p. 115.
Document 26: Erich Mußfeldt's promotion from SS-Scharführer to SS-Oberscharführer, June 1, 1943. Source: GARF, 7021-107-5, p. 283. Document 27: Technical expert report about the function of the concentration camp Lublin's cremation furnaces, drawn up by a subcommittee of the Polish-Soviet Investigative Commission. Source: GARF, 7021-107-9, pp. 245-249.
Document 28: Kori Diagram J.-Nr. 9082 from Oct. 23, 1941: Delousing and Crematorium. Source: APMM, sygn. VI-9a, v. 1. Document 29: Kori Diagram J.-Nr. 9081 from June 5, 1940: Layout of a 'Kori' Air-Heating Facility for the Delousing Facility in Alt-Drewitz. Source: APMM, sygn. VI-9a, v. 1. Document 30: Diagram by the POW Camp Lublin's Central Construction Office, March 31, 1942, Temp. Delousing POW Camp. Source: WAPL, sygn. Central Construction Office, 41, p. 5.
Document 31: Diagram of the POW Camp Lublin, drawn by the Central Building Office in August 1942, POW Camp Lublin. Disinfestation Facility. Building XIIA. Source: WAPL, sygn. Central Construction Office, 41, p. 4.

Document 32: Cost estimate from the Ochnik company, Nov. 18, 1942. Source: WAPL, sygn. Central Construction Office, 145, p. 13.

 

Document 33: "Project for the Irrigation, Drainage and Water Supply Installation in the Building of the Gas Facility in Lublin." Undated diagram by the Ludwig Rechkemmer company. Source: Z. Łukaszkiewicz, "Obóz koncentracyjni i zagłady Majdanek" (see Document 6), unnumbered page.

Document 34: Schematic of "gas chambers" I-IV, drawn by the Polish-Soviet Investigative Commission. Source: GARF, 7021-107-9, p. 251.

 

Document 35: Plan of "gas chambers" V-VI, drawn by the Polish-Soviet Investigative Commission. Source: GARF, 7021-107-9, p. 251.

 

Document 36: Schematic of "gas chambers" I-IV, drawn by J.-C. Pressac. Source: Jean-Claude Pressac, "Les carences et incohérences du rapport Leuchter", in: Jour J, December 12, 1988, p. X.

 

Document 37: Plan of the concentration camp Lublin. Source: Abraham Silberschein, Die Judenausrottung in Polen, fifth series, Geneva, 1944, p. 13. Document 38: Sketch by H. J. Szczesniewski, showing the sequence of the alleged mass execution of November 3, 1943. Source: T. Mencel (ed.), Majdanek 1941-1944, Lublin: Wydawnictwo Lubelskie, 1991, unnumbered page.

Photograph I: Lublin suburbs and the concentration camp Majdanek (which was no longer in operation at that time). Air photo taken by the Luftwaffe on September 18, 1944. Source: National Archives, Washington D.C., Record Group no. 373, Gx 12375 SD, exp. 69.

 

Photograph II: Concentration camp Lublin. Enlargement from Photograph I. Top right: detail shown enlarged on Photograph III; left: detail shown enlarged on Photograph V.

 

Photograph III: Concentration camp Lublin. Location of the old Crematorium (circle, bottom left) and of the Disinfestation Barracks 41 and 42 (circle, top right). Enlargement from Photograph I.

 

Photograph IV: Concentration camp Lublin. Location of the old Crematorium (ellipse). Source: T. Mencel (ed.), Majdanek 1941-1944, Lublin: Wydawnictwo Lubelskie, 1991, unnumbered page.

Photograph V: Concentration camp Lublin. Location of the new Crematorium (circle, top right) and of the "execution ditches" (circle, below left). Enlargement from Photograph I.

 

Photograph VI: Ruins of the new Crematorium and coke-fueled Kori five-muffle furnace in August 1945. Source: GARF, 7021-128-243. Photograph VII: Mobile oil-fueled Kori cremation furnace. (© C. Mattogno.)
Photograph VIII: Barrack 42: Boiler house. (© C. Mattogno.) Photograph IX: Barrack 42: Disinfestation chamber. (© C. Mattogno.) Photograph X: Soviet soldier on the roof of the Drying Facility. The caption at the bottom of the photo states: "Opening through which the substance 'Zyklon' was poured into the gas chamber." In fact it was one of the two ventilation shafts of the "Drying Facility". Source: GARF, 7021-128-243, p. 7.
Photograph XI: Disinfestation facility, Barrack 41, Chamber I, opening in the ceiling. (© C. Mattogno.)

Photograph XII: Disinfestation facility, Barrack 41, Chamber II, opening in the ceiling. (© C. Mattogno)

 

Photograph XIII: Disinfestation facility, Barrack 41, Chamber III, east wall. (© Carlo Mattogno.)
Photograph XIV: Disinfestation facility, Barrack 41, Chamber II, west wall. (© Carlo Mattogno) Photograph XV: Disinfestation facility, Barrack 41, small window in wall of Chamber I. (© Carlo Mattogno) Photograph XVI, XVIa: Barrack 41, gas chamber, south door. In the left part of the door there are three latches which are inserted into the three corresponding hooks on the door frame via handles operated from the other side of the door (Photograph XVIa). (İ Carlo Mattogno)
Photograph XVII: Barrack 41, gas chamber, north door. The inside of the door is marked by the typical discolorations that are also visible on the outside of the south door (Photograph XVIa); hooks for the latches are missing from the door frame, unlike on the frame of the south door (Photograph XVI). (© Carlo Mattogno) Photograph XVIII: Barrack 41, gas chamber,
western opening in the ceiling. (© C. Mattogno)
Photograph XIX: Barrack 41, gas chamber, eastern opening in the ceiling. (© C. Mattogno)

Photograph XX: Barrack 41, gas chamber, window in the east wall.
(© C. Mattogno)

 

Photograph XXI: New Crematorium, alleged execution gas chamber, opening in the ceiling. (© C. Mattogno.) Photograph XXII: New Crematorium, alleged execution gas chamber. Door and window leading to the mortuary. (© C. Mattogno.)

Camp Population

1941

IV Quarter 2,000

1942

I Quarter 2,000

II Quarter 10,000

III Quarter 10,000

IV Quarter 11,500

1943

Month Men Women total

January 7,900 3,000 10,900

February 8,000 4,000 12,000

March 8,200 4,000 12,200

April 9,000 4,000 13,000

May 13,000 8,000 21,000

June 14,500 8,000 22,500

July 12,300 10,000 22,300

August 11,700 6,500 18,200

September 14,100 4,000 18,100

October 13,600 4,500 18,100

November 7,260 3,000 10,260

December 7,640 2,500 10,140

1944

Month Men Women total

January 13,240 2,400 15,640

February 10,460 3,200 13,660

March 11,000 2,000 13,000

Document 10: Population of the concentration camp Majdanek. From: Z. Leszczyńska, "Stany liczbowe wiezniów obozu koncentracjynego na Majdanku", in: ZM, VII, 1973. 

 


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