Mortuaries

The rim exhaust is a source of suction that is placed along one or more sides of the area source. Air is drawn across the surface of the source and contaminated air is drawn into the hood. Specific examples of rim exhaust include open-surface tank exhaust such as electroplating, cleaning, degreasing table exhaust such as mortuary tables and exhaust used during container filling such as barrel filling. 

Q. The prosecution wishes to offer one of these weekly reports — NI 14515 — which states that a chamber for 30 to 40 corpses was constructed for the accommodation of the inmates at Monowitz. Can you explain why a mortuary for 30 to 40 corpses was required at Monowitz ... 

A. I can only say that in every big camp, every small city, there is a need for a mortuary for purely sanitary purposes. The over-all condition was the important thing to us. 

United States Military Joint Chiefs of Staff. Joint Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Mortuary Affairs in Joint Operations, Joint Publication No. 4-06. Washington, DC Government Printing Office, August 1996. 

Schurr, M. R. (1992). Isotopic and mortuary variability in a Middle Mississippian population. American Antiquity 57 300-320. 

Formaldehyde has hundreds of uses. Its largest use is in the production of synthetic resins. Many formaldehyde resins are hard plastics used in molding and laminates. Formaldehyde resins are used to treat textiles to make them wrinkle-free. It is also used to produce adhesives, which are used extensively in the production of plywood and particleboard. Other common uses are as disinfectants, fungicides, and preservatives. Formalin has been the traditional embalming fluid used in the mortuary industry for the last century. Formaldehyde is also used in papermaking, textile production, and fertilizers. 

I took my final sabbatical in 1993-1994, and spent a very pleasant term at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the All Souls of the New World. I was in the School of Historical Studies and working on the Mortuary Roll of the Blessed Vitalis. However, I must not digress into this or I shall have another long list of acknowledgements to recognize. I had been tapering... 

North American archaeological sites reflect the use of colorants, exemplified by the abundance of die inorganic mineral pigment red ochre in domestic and mortuary contexts in sites from the Clovis through the Mississippian periods (10000 B.P.-1400 A.D.). Typically the presence of these accumulations of pigment minerals is interpreted as material used in ceramics, or for body painting. Color on textiles is not usually considered. 

Riordan, T. B., Dig A Grave Both Wide and Deep An Archaeological Investigation of Mortuary Practice in the 17th-Century Cemetery at St. Mary s City, Maryland, Historic St. Mary s City Archaeology Series no. 3 Historic St. Mary s City Commission St. Mary s City, MD, 2004. 

Aldenderfer, M. S. In Kaillachuro A Formative Mortuary Complex from the Southwestern Lake Titicaca Basin-, Institute of Andean Studies, Berkeley, January, 1998 Berkeley, CA, 1998. 

The six sites were a mortuary, a room with a fountain in an art museum, a church with rather striking architecture, a Wool-... 

In terms of the percipients votes for the target actually traveled to, the experiment was a failure. Yet, the viewers choices showed a clear preponderance of first and second choices for the mortuary (the target site that the principal agent had strongly wanted to go to), a second-place vote for the room in the art museum (where the agents had been supposed to go), and a third-place vote for the church (the site they had actually visited). The coaches separate votes and the team votes also showed a preference for the mortuary, with the room in the art museum and the church also getting a very high number of votes. 

On April 30, 1992 (page 471 of the court transcript), expert Jagschitz explained that in a letter dated March 6, 1943, the Chief of the Central Construction Management / Waffen-SS, a man by the name of Bischoff, had ordered preheating facilities for mortuary I, with ventilation and aeration from crematoria II and III in the concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The court expert now takes this order as proof that mortuary I was in fact a gas chamber,... 

Furthermore, there may very well have been a technical need to install heating facilities in a mortuary, for two reasons ... 

For reasons of hygiene it was no doubt necessary to have water pipes connected to the mortuary, for cleaning purposes.11 If one wants to avoid having to routinely drain all facilities manually in winter when there is danger of frost, then one must surely keep the room temperature above... 

Neufert s Bauentwurfslehre12 clearly states that a mortuary should be kept at a temperature between 35.5 and 53.5°F, since freezing bodies burst open and may freeze to whatever they are lying on (as well as to each other, if they are stacked). On May 24, 1945, eyewitness Henryk Tauber stated with respect to crematorium I 13... 

Therefore, planning for mortuary heating facilities" is by no means proof that said mortuary was used as homicidal gas chamber . At any rate, no engineering expert would have dreamed of incompletely quoting Jean-Claude Pressac, without stating his source, and without critical, replicable technical arguments. And further to present these incomplete quotation as the result of his own replicable thought process, as his own expert report . And what is more, the cancellation of the order in question renders this proof for the existence of gas chambers per se quite irrelevant. 

The blueprints of the mortuaries in question do in fact show water taps J.-C. Pressac, ibid., pp. 311 f. These are said to have been removed later ibid., p. 286. 

On May 4, 1992, court expert Jagschitz discussed the considerably large ventilators ( / found that clearly in Moscow , page 19 of court transcript these enormous ventilators that vent air out of the mortuaries , rather there were considerably large ventilators at least in crematoria II and IIF, page 34 of court transcript). 

Illustration 7 Schematic drawing of the above airphoto. One can easily see that the patches on the mortuaries 1 cannot be input hatches too large, irregular, alignment incorrect for shad-... 

Illustration 8, an enlarged section of the schematic drawing of illustration 7, reveals the discrepancy between the holes actually present in the roof of mortuary 1 of crematorium II and the patches added to the photo by the forgers. The location and size of the real holes, marked with a circle, do not correspond to the patches added. 

Viewing these pictures in 3-D, one realizes that neither the alleged wall nor the patches on the mortuaries have any elevation. What is more, the overly dark color of such narrow objects proves that what we have here is an instance of photo retouching. 

We will of course restrict ourselves to points relevant to this topic. Regarding the diagrams of Crematoria II and III, therefore, it must be pointed out that the entrance door to Mortuary 1 is depicted in several different ways. There are doors which open into a room, but also such that open outwards. Further, both single and double doors are shown. The most credible diagrams are probably the status diagrams made of the completed structural shell. These diagrams are by the company HUTA of Series 109 as reproduced by Pressac,12 pp. 327 and 329, they clearly show a suitable double door. 

In considering this crematorium we shall concentrate on the Zyklon B input hatches and the ventilation holes of the homicidal gas chamber .38 Illustration I shows the floor plan of the building at the start of the war, designed and constructed as an ordinary crematorium with a mortuary.39 The mortuary is said to have been altered later to serve as gas chamber . For purposes of introducing the Zyklon B into the room to effect the gassing of the victims, 3 or 4 hatches are also said to have been cut into the roof later on, as well as 1 or 2 others to accommodate powerfid ventilators.40 In autumn of 1944 the crematorium was altered to serve as air-raid shelter,41 while the Zyklon B input hatches allegedly were already sealed up in late April or early May 1942.42... 

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