Archive/File: camps/auschwitz jahrling.may43

Letter from SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Jahrling to SS-General Kammler
estimating the number of corpses that can be disposed off in 24 hours
in the Auschwitz crematoriums, June 20 1943
[Pressac, p. 247]
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1.) Crematorium I
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  3 x 2 muffles             340 persons

2.) Crematorium II
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  5 x 3 muffles             1440 persons

3.) Crematorium III
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  5 x 3 muffles             1440 persons

4.) Crematorium IV
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  8 muffles                  768 persons

5.) Crematorium V
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  8 muffles                  768 persons


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