Majdanek
www.ceepackaging.com http www.youtube.com Visit to Majdanek on a windy day in March 2007. This very short film includes a visit to the gas chambers in the lower part of the camp. Buildings at the upper part of the camp once marked as being gas chambers almost certainly were not used for this purpose. The museum states that prisoners were murdered by carbon monoxide in these chambers, however the blue staining would suggest that Zyklon B was used. More information will be posted on my website www.pbn.com.pl My channel on you tube : www.youtube.com is one of themost prolific from Poland, although unfortunately not the most visited. With almost one film per day, one may be forgiven for thinking I do nothing else but I do have a day job as well. I have produced more than 400 original films, most in English but also in Polish, French, Italian, Spanish and the occassional hint of German and Hebrew. My big interest in life is travel and history but I have also placed films on other subjects Please feel free to ask questions in the public area or to comment on things you disagree with. Sometimes there are mistakes because I speak without preparation. If I see the mistakes myself, I make this clear in the text. Please also leave a star rating! There are a number of films here on the packaging industry. This is because I am the publisher of Central and Eastern European Packaging — www.ceepackaging.com – the international platform for the packaging industry in this region focussing …
@kroikye i think you’re confused. the big tall chimneys weren’t part of the gas chambers. they were the tall chimney stacks where the dead bodies would be creamated for easier disposal after they’ve been gassed. from what i’ve researched there was usually an input and output system for the gas, and even if it’s wasn’t fully airtight the volume of gas pumped in would far outweigh whatever seeped out thru a crack here or there.
A ventilator sucked the gas out.
I dont know how gas dissapates – ask a chemist. However I can see it happening every time I burn something in the kitchen.
If you think a high chimney is needed and the experts from Degesch did not, then maybe you know more than they did.
I refer you to the instructions for the use of Zyklon which have been published on the internet and which demonstrate its use.
Ventilators, and where did they blow the gas then ?
The gas would dissipate into the atmosphere, how ?
I see no high chimney for safe removal of the gas, this would be the most obvious way of getting the deadly gasses out safe.
And also, is this building really airtight ?
The gas was removed from the chambers by ventilators, receipts for the purchase of which can be seen in the Auschwitz archives.
As Zyklon loses its danger level quite quickly and as ventilators would dissapate it into the atmosphere, there was little danger. Nonetheless the SS wore gas masks and accidents did happen.
Alan, I have never been to one of the camps. But I’m really intersted in how afterwards they ( the guards I mean ) got the gas out of the chaimbers in a quick and safe way.
And where did the gas go after, I mean a cloud of gas inside the camp would be deadly to anyone.
I really can’t figure this out, maybe you can help me out here
The dark room the narrator says may be gas chamber, but is too dark to see inside, I have seen on other vids. It clearly appears to be a gas chamber with blue stains that may be cyanide. I read that this was the only intact gas chamber captured although the “Brausbad” at Dachau appears intact. It said Majdanek was turned into a museum before the war even ended. It said on one Wednesday over 18,000 prisoners were shot in one day.
Thanks for your comments. The only possible location is Sobibor but it is not covered in grass. Majdanek has a mound also but it is covered with a concrete dome.
Alan,
First of all Thank You for taking the time and effort to visit these places, and posting them for us to see.. I have always wanted to visit a death camp, but never been able to.. Thanx to you I have an present day idea now..
2nd Years ago I saw a picture from a camp that had a huge mound, covered in grass,, The mound held a window in it, and through it you could see it was a mound of ashes.. Did this mound really exist, and if so where??
Thank You Again
Jason (Alberta, Canada)
That is better than English, for me
Thank you very much
It is much bigger that Franciszek Piper’s book but I just cannot remember the title of the top of my head. In any case it is in Polish I think.
Thank you, Alan
I was searching in Majdanek´s internet bookstore, but I do not know which book could it be. Is it something like Franciszek Piper´s book: Ilu ludzi zginelo w KL Auschwitz?
I bought Kranzs book about extermination of Jews at Majdanek, but havent read it yet. Maybe I will find something there
I spoke to him a couple of years ago- he has done a lot of archival research although I cannot remember how he came to this figure. I have not read the article you mention but that would have been the preliminary. There is a book which explains more a copy of which I have at home but am now in Moscow and dont have access to it.
Alan, do you know where Tomasz Kranz published how he come with the 78.000 figure. I guess it is maybe in Zeszyty Majdanka (2005) – article – Ewidencja zgonów i śmiertelność wiezniów KL Lublin. Am I right?
Thank you
Hello Alan,
thanks for your rapid response. However, the subject you’re elaborating on, is of major importance. Therefore a good (with subtitling) presentation can perhaps be a matter of consideration. Greetings, Frits
This is rather difficult to hear and the wind is exaggerated by the microphone.
Nonetheless it is a lot of work to put in subtitles. I will film it again the next time I am there!
A lot more films on this subject as you have probably noticed!
Alan,
you must add subtitling; due to the wind, you’re very hard to understand.
thanks for your interesting video’s, anyway.
Majdanek was one of the most worst places in the world, just go there and you’ll see. I’m from Lbn and I’m polish, they were killing us like pigs.
78q is not right mate….i dont know exactlly the numbers of it but i know that is much over 150q
The earlier estimates where insane, for example the Soviets cited figures of between 1,500,000 and 1,700,000.
That was however, before they where able to distinguish the difference between gas chambers and delousing rooms, and on top of that they used rectified coefficants, in much the same way that they used to bring up the figure of 4,000,000 dead at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
That is still horrific.
I am a bit cautious on this one. I spoke to the director about it at some length and I would accept his figure of 78,000. This is much lower than earlier estimates but still horrific.
How many would you say died at Majdanek. Is it upwards of the 78,000 figure I have seen mentioned.
Yes, please send over the link.
I have not been there since June 2007 and that was only for a quick visit to the museum director who has done a great deal of research on where the dead came from.
I once got locked in the camp. Had to climb over the barbed wire to get out!
I think the microphone always exaggerates the wind anyway.
I do not think the denier liars could care less anyway. They have their objectives and the truth does not figure in them.
Ah Alan I forgot to tell you lol since I went there today.
They put up new information tables – they are now on glass in Polish, English and Hebrew – most of the soviet-style black ones are gone. But.. there is NO information table next to the gas dispensers in the SS room when you disputed monoxide or dioxide. Let me you know if you want to see my pictures I will send you the link over.