The Holocaust Historiography Project
Auschwitz, by J.-C. Pressac
Drawing 2: Bauleitung drawing 801 of 8/11/1941
[PMO neg. No. 209321/I ]
ENTLAUSUNGSANLAGE FOR KGL / delousing installation for prisoner of war camp

Scale 1:100
Drawn 8th November 1941 by prisoner No. 127,
checked on 10th by SS Untersturmführer Walther Dejaco
and approved on 11th by SS Hauptsturmtführer Karl Bischoff. head of the Bauleitung.
Drawing 2
Translations of the inscriptions
the four BW 5a and 5B drawings:
The same terms found on different drawings are
translated only once, in the order
of their appearance)
· Ansicht / elevation
· Giebelansicht / gable end elevation
· Windfang (WF )/ windbreak
· Aborte / toilets
· Grundriss / plan view
· Gaskammer / gas chamber
· Schleuse / airlock
· Rollierung / smoothing by roller
· Vorraum / vestibule Schnitt A-B / cross section A-B ("clean” side)
· Schnitt C-D / cross section C-D (of the gas chamber)
· Wasch und Brauseraum / washing and shower room
· Unreine Seite, Auskleideraum / dirty side, undressing room
· Reine Seite. Ankleideraum / clean side, dressing room
· Drainage / drainage
· Klappe / trap.