Final Remarks
The present study shows that in spite of the passage of a
considerable period of time (over 45 years) in the walls of
the facilities which once were in contact with hydrogen
cyanide the vestigial amounts of the combinations of this
constituent of Zyklon B have been preserved. This is also
true of the ruins of the former gas chambers. The cyanide
compounds occur in the building materials only locally, in
the places where the conditions arose for their formation
and persistence for such a long time.
In his reasoning Leuchter
(2) claims that the vestigial
amounts of cyanide combinations detected by him in the
materials from the chamber ruins are residues left after
fumigations carried out in the Camp "once, long ago"(Item
14.004 of the Report). This is refuted by the negative
results of the examination of the control samples from
living quarters, which are said to have been subjected to a
single gassing, and the fact that in the period of
fumigation of the Camp in connection with a typhoid epidemic
in mid-1942 there were still no crematoria in the Birkenau
Camp. The first crematorium (Crematorium II) was put to use
as late as 15 March 1943 and the others several months
later.
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