Observations, Part I
In this case the CN~ content in mortar (old and fresh) and
in new brick was for the most part lower in the wetted
materials than in the dry ones. It seems that here a
tendency is revealed towards the competitive action of
carbon dioxide, which dissolves in water. In this series of
tests fresh plaster showed an exceptionally high affinity to
hydrogen cyanide.
After an interval of a month the mean decrease of hydrogen
cyanide content in this material was 73% and so it was
markedly greater than in the run with hydrogen cyanide only.
In as many as four samples that loss ranged from 97% to 100%
and then airing was nearly complete. This statement is
significant in as much as in their reasoning the
revisionists did not take into consideration certain
circumstances, namely, the simultaneous action of cyanides
and carbon dioxide on the chamber walls. In the air exhaled
by man carbon dioxide constitutes 3.5% by volume. Breathing
for 1 minute, he takes in and next exhales 15-20 dm³ of air,
comprising on the average 950 cm³ CO²; consequently, 1000
people breathe out about 950 dm³ of carbon dioxide. And so
it can be estimated that, if the victims stayed in the
chamber for 5 minutes before they died, they exhaled 4.75 m³
of carbon dioxide during that period. This is at least about
1% of the capacity, e. g. of the gas chamber of Crematorium
II at Birkenau, the capacity of which was about 500 m³,
whereas the concentration of hydrogen cyanide virtually did
not exceed 0.1% by volume (death occurs soon at as low HCN
concentrations as 0.03% by volume). Therefore, the
conditions for the preservation of HCN in the gas chambers
were not better than in the delousing chambers, despite what
the revisionists claim. Besides, as has already been
mentioned, the chamber ruins have been thoroughly washed by
rainfall.
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