Undressing Room

Undressing room, dirty side . People to be deloused removed their soiled clothing and handed them over for disinfestation/dis-infection. 

Undressing room Dirty Side x Shower/ Dressing room Sauna Jr Clean Side ... 

Fact 1 There are documents of SS Zentralbauleitung which mention an Auskleidekeller (undressing room) in crematorium II.193... 

Incorrect conclusion Morgue 1 of crematoria II III was built as homicidal gas chamber , equipped with false shower heads, which were fastened to the pieces of wood left in the concrete and used to deceive the victims morgue 2 was used as the undressing room for the... 

Illustration 3 Floor plan of Mortuaries I ( gas chambers ) of Crematoria II and III (latter, mirror image) in the camp Auschwitz II (Birkenau). a Mortuary I / gas chamber , 30x7x2.41 m b Mortuary II/ Undressing room , 49.5x7.9x2.3 m c Mortuary III, subsequently subdivided d Lift for transport of the bodies to the furnace room, ground floor e Ventilation shaft f Concrete supporting pillars g Concrete beam h Entrance to cellar, added later 1-3 Sites from which Samples 1-3 for the Rudolf Report were taken... 

As may be seen from the description and the annexed plan, the left wing of the structure was planned for inmate delousing, and provided for the following procedure undressing room with acceptance of clothing - vestibule - shower room - drying room - vestibule - disinfestation. 

At the end of September or the beginning of October 1942, a cyanide gas chamber with air-heater was built in Hut 41. The air-heater was connected to the eastern wall. On October 22, the work was finished, and the area was designated Delousing Hut with Bath . The area previously referred to as an undressing room was used as a gas chamber without any major architectural modification, which proves that it was a temporary installation. 

This hut was divided into three parts, each of which was almost entirely sealed off. The first part was the undressing room ( Wardrobe on the plan). The second was hermetically sealed. This is where the gas experiments were conducted ( Gassing Room on the diagram). In the third room, stood three gigantic ovens. This hut was located between Area 1 and 2 [...]. 

The diagram consists of a truly precise drawing of Bath and Disinfestation Installation IT Hut 42 complete with Undressing Room , Clothing Deposit (for the acceptance of clothing), Baths (showers), and the Distribution Room for Inmate Clothing (for the allocation of new clothing). 

The gassing takes place as follows The victims are brought into Hall B, where they are told to undress. To complete the fiction that they are going to bathe, each person receives a towel and a small piece of soap issued by two men clad in white coats. Then they are crowded into the gas chambers in such numbers that there is only standing room. To compress this crowd into the narrow space, shots are often... 

A light burned in her room, for she never sleeps in complete darkness—unless her current companion insists on it, I suppose—and I could see that she was alone. She stirred while I was undressing. 

Since, as shown in chapter 5.2.2., the installation of hygiene centers with showers, disinfestation, undressing and dressing rooms and adjacent crematoria is not at all unusual, the traces adduced by Pres-sac and van Pelt may be seen to have been incorrectly interpreted. 

The old and the sick were immediately ordered into the hut containing the ovens. In the first room, they were ordered to undress. In the second, they died of suffocation within two minutes. They were then transported from the second room to the ovens. A fire burned underground, the oven itself did not bum. But it collected hot air at 2,000 degrees. The dead bodies were thrown into the oven the glowing heat sucked the fluids and moisture completely out of them. Only a few blisters remained, which were so dry, they crackled. Then special trucks carried the remains out of the city to pre-dug graves. 

I come to my first analytic hour, but you seem different, you look like Dr. M. [the referring physician]. You lead me into a small room and tell me to undress. I am surprised and ask you whether you re supposed to do that as a classical Freudian. You assure me it is alright. I get undressed and you begin to kiss me all over. Then you finally went down on me. I was pleased, but I kept wondering if it was right. 93... 

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