The Ground Water Table in Birkenau

In his expert report, Fredrick Leuchter pointed out that due to the high ground water table he found in Birkenau in 1988, it would have been impossible to dig deep pits and to light and maintain a fire in them.26 The reason for the high ground water table is that the Birkenau camp lies in the immediate vicinity of the confluence of the Sola river into the Vistula river. A few hundred meters away from the camp one finds today swampy meadows. 

But how effective was this drainage system in 1942-1944, and most importantly, how effective was it in the area north of crematorium V and in the vicinity of the alleged farmhouses, which were lo- 

VjfG 6(2) (2002), pp. 139-145 (online www.vlio.org/VirG 2002 2 Mattogno 139-145.html) Engl, see the presentation of Russ Granata, The Discovery of Bunker 1 of Birkenau , www.vho.org/ granata/Discovery.htral 

Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 209, drainage plan POW camp Birkenau. 

In complementary studies, Michael Gartner and Wemer Rade- 

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