The Holocaust Historiography Project
Auschwitz, by J.-C. Pressac
Document 2
Document 2

Document 2a
Document 2a

Documents 2 and 2a:
Report by the engineer Kurt Prüfer of Messrs. Topf & Sons, dated 29th January 1943. concerning progress on the construction of Krematorien II, III, IV and V
[PMO file BW 30/27, microfilm 130, pages 22 and 23, of Soviet source. Original in the PMO Archives, file BW30/34, microfilm 1060, pages 101 and 102]
Translation of the passage underlined:
“It is not yet possible to remove the shuttering from the ceiling of corpse cellar 2 because of the frost”