AUSCHWITZ: TECHNIQUE AND OPERATION OF THE GAS CHAMBERS

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1st English Language Edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers, Oblong Large Folio (46 x 30 cm), 564 pages in original shipping carton. Contents:Part one: Delousing gas chambers and other disinfection installations -- Part two: The extermination instruments -- Part three: Testimonies -- Part four: Auschwitz and the revisionists -- Part five: The unrealised future of K.L. Aischwitz-Birkenau. Includes bibliographical references (page 564). A massive and detailed research work based in large part on the extensivecollection of archival resources at the Polish Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. Includes architects' drawings of the extermination facilities operated by the SS Camp Administration during 1942-45 as well as many black and white photographs. Much on the use of the poison gas Zyclon-B, manufactured by I.G.Farben Includes an extensive collection of drawings and illustrations of the crematoria furnaces manufactured by the Topf firm. The publisher, Beate Auguste Klarsfeld (née Künzel; born 1939) is a "Franco-German journalist and Nazi hunter who, along with her French husband, Serge, became famous for their investigation and documentation of numerous Nazi war criminals, including Kurt Lischka, Alois Brunner, Klaus Barbie, Ernst Ehlers [de] and Kurt Asche. In March 2012, she ran as the candidate for The Left in the 2012 German presidential election against Joachim Gauck, but lost by 126 to 991. Beate Auguste Künzel was born in Berlin.Her parents were not Nazis, according to Klarsfeld; however, they had voted for the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Her father was drafted in the summer of 1939 into the infantry.Beate spent several months in Lódz with her godfather, who was a Nazi official. From the age of about fourteen years, Beate began to frequently argue with her parents because they did not feel responsible for the Nazi era, focused on the injustices and material losses they had suffered, and, while blaming the Russians, felt no sympathy for other countries. In 1960, Beate Künzel spent a year as an au pair in Paris.in Paris she was confronted with the consequences of The Holocaust. In 1963, she married the French lawyer and historian Serge Klarsfeld, whose father was a victim of the Auschwitz concentration camp exterminations. Following a German government crisis in October and November 1966, and while the Klarsfelds were in Paris, Kurt Georg Kiesinger (CDU member) was chosen as the new German chancellor, supported by a coalition of the political parties CDU and SPD. In an article published.on 27 July of that year she accused Kiesinger of having made a 'good reputation' for himself 'in the ranks of the Brown Shirts' and 'in the CDU'. At the end of August, she was fired by the Franco-German Youth Office. To draw attention to Kiesinger's Nazi past, Beate Klarsfeld initiated a campaign with various public gestures. It was revealed that Kiesinger had registered as a member of the Nazi Party in late February 1933 and by 1940 had risen to be deputy head of the political broadcasting department at the Foreign Ministry, a unit responsible for influencing foreign broadcasts. Kiesinger was in charge of liaison with the Reich Propaganda Ministry. Beate Klarsfeld accused Kiesinger of being a member of the board of Inter Radio AG, which had been buying foreign radio stations for propaganda purposes. She also asserted that Kiesinger had been chiefly responsible for the contents of German international broadcasts which included anti-Semitic and war propaganda, and had collaborated closely with SS functionaries Gerhard Rühle [de] and Franz Alfred Six. The latter was responsible for mass murders in Eastern Europe. Even after becoming aware of the extermination of the Jews, Kiesinger had continued to produce anti-Semitic propaganda. These allegations were based in part on documents that Albert Norden published about the culprits of war and Nazi crimes. During a CDU party conference in the Berlin Congress Hall, in West Berlin, on 7 November 1968, Klars. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 42288

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