Piper, Franciszek

The swimming pool has appeared in published reproductions of various wartime aerial photographs. Of course, these photos could be fakes but the prisoner s pool— now seen close-up- appears in a video filmed in modern-day Auschwitz. This video includes a rather surprising interview with the head tour guide and the director of the modern-day camp, Dr. Franciszek Piper. The film was made by David Cole. 

David Cole Interviews Dr. Franciszek Piper, Director, Auschwitz State Museum , VHS Video, distributed by CODOH, P.O. Box 439016, San Diego, CA 92143, USA (online co-doh.com/cole.ra (includes audio)) for the abridged text-only version, see David Cole, A Jewish Revisionist s Visit to Auschwitz , JHR 13(2) (1993), pp. 11-13 (online co-doh.com/gcgv/gcgvcole.html (excerpt))... 

Both rooms had heating furnaces that needed to be fired from the vestibule, which, according to Pressac, was allegedly also used as a gas chamber (for the heating, see Fig. 56). No ventilation installation is known to have existed. Pressac assumes ventilation by natural convection.279 Franciszek Piper, Director of the Auschwitz Museum agrees 164... 

Franciszek Piper, / metodi di assassmio diretto dei prigionierf , in Auschwitz. II campo nazista della morte, Edizi-oni del Museo Statale di Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1997, p. 137. 

As late as 1992 Franciszek Piper, historian at die Auschwitz Museum, claimed that the factual capacity of the four Birkenau crematoria had been /> to 8,000 bodies per da/9. He based his assertion on the eyewitness testimony of Alter Feinsilber, alias Stanislaw Jankowski alias Alter Szmul Fajnzylberg F. Piper, Auschwitz. Wieviele Juden, Po-len, Zigeuner... wurden umgebracht, Universitas, Krakow 1992, p. 21. 

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