The purpose of this report and the investigation upon which it is based
is to determine whether the alleged execution gas chambers and crematory
facilities at three (3) sites in Poland, namely Auschwitz, Birkenau and
Majdanek, could have operated in the manner ascribed them in Holocaust
literature.
This purpose includes the investigation and inspection of the physical
facilities, design of these facilities, and a description of procedures
utilized at these facilities with an eye to determining the quantities
of gas utilized, the times involved in these usages (i.e. execution and
ventilation times), the physical sizes of chambers relative to the inclusion
of occupants and the procedures and times involved in handling and cremating
corpses with the intent of determining the veracity and credibility of
unsupported operational reports.
This purpose does not include a determination of any numbers of persons
who died or were killed by means other than gassing or as to whether an
actual Holocaust occurred. It, further, is not the intent of this author
to redefine the Holocaust in historical terms, but simply to supply scientific
evidence and information obtained at the actual sites and to render an
opinion based on all available scientific, engineering and quantitative
data as to the purpose and usages of the alleged execution gas chambers
and crematory facilities at the investigated locations.