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Gas Chamber Doors -- A Comparison in Photos

The room adjacent to the crematory in the Auschwitz Main Camp is said to have
been a homicidal Nazi gas chamber. Although there are many reasons why this room
was not and could not have been used for mass exterminations, it is sufficient
to look only at the doors.

A door from a known homicidal gas chamber

This is a door to the homicidal gas chamber at the penitentiary in Baltimore,
Maryland. Note the special construction, sturdy materials, and elaborate
latching system.

Door number 1 from the Auschwitz 'gas chamber'

The alleged Nazi gas chamber at the Auschwitz main camp has three doorways.
This one appears to be made of thin wood, with a regular latch, and no special
seal. It is not obvious what about this door would keep the victims and the
poison gas inside the alleged gas chamber.

Door number 2 from the Auschwitz 'gas chamber'

At the other end of the room is what appears to be another wooden door, of
similar construction to the one above, only with a window (!) in place of the
top wooden panel. Remember, this room has been presented to thousands (or
perhaps millions) of tourists as being in the same state it was when it
functioned as a homicidal gas chamber for the Nazis during the Second World War.

Doorway number 3 from the Auschwitz 'gas chamber'

The third opening is just that: an opening, with no door to seal it. This
passageway leads to the crematory room in this building, so that after the
intended victims escaped, the explosive HCN gas from the Zyklon B could seep out
of the room and make contact with the flames of the crematory ovens.

Auschwitz and the neighboring Birkenau camp are the center of the Holocaust
extermination myth, in part because of fakes such as this. Other "gas chambers"
in other camps are just as ridiculous. This is why France's leading Holocaust
revisionist Robert Faurisson challenges those who believe the Holocaust
extermination myth to "Show me or draw me a Nazi gas chamber!"

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