The Holocaust Historiography Project
Auschwitz, by J.-C. Pressac
TOPF & SÖHNE DRAWING D 59042 [b]

[PMO neg 21033/1] of 25th September 1941, scale 1:100]
Einbau einer Einäscherungsanlage fur K L Auschwitz / construction of a cremation facility for Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
Drawing D 59042 [b]

Drawing D 59042 [b] (detail) The drawing and inscriptions are similar to the previous one, but this one bears in addition a violet stamp of Messrs Topf, with the signature in blue of a representative of the firm at Auschwitz. The underground smoke flues are outlined in deep pink. “Neuer Ofen” is written in blue-black ink and the furnace walls are shown red on the outside and yellow on the inside, as in the small sketch on the left.