The quest for the Coke Oven

(A. Butz ™)

In his book, "The Hoax of the Twentieth century" , Arthur R. Butz tries to give an explanation of the strange fact that a famous document, a letter by the SS officer, Bischoff, called one cellar of Krema II (Auschwitz-Birkenau) the "Vergasungskeller" (gassing cellar).
It was obviously a gassing cellar; the second Leichenkeller of this same Krema, where the victims undressed before going to the Vergasungskeller, was called an "Auskleidungskeller"  (or perhaps "Auskleidenkeller", it's handwritten -- in any case, it means undressing cellar) by a worker (Messing) from Topf and Sons less than 3 weeks later.
Butz doesn't contest this document, but attempts, as does Faurisson, to find the "true meaning" of the word "Vergasungskeller".
This German word can perfectly designate a cellar used for homicidal gassings, but Butz claims that it is used also for any place where a process of gasification is used. The first guess of Butz was that the "Vergasungskeller" contained in fact a coke oven.
Later, curiously, Butz dropped this explanation. Let us look at some coke ovens and compare them to the Leichenkeller.

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