Kranz, Hermine

Hermine Kranz was a Slovakian Jewess deported to Auschwitz towards mid-1942. She testified during the British Bergen-Belsen Show Trial, and signed a deposition on 9 May 1945, in which she declared as having personally seen when visiting the gas chamber, or having been told by inmates working there, that:

• There were altogether six such crematoria — while there were actually only five: four in Birkenau and one at the Main Camp.
• The victims entered the gas chamber through an iron door — while all doors at Auschwitz were in fact made of simple wooden planks.
• Three thousand persons could be dealt with at a time — with a room of 210 m², however, that amounts to a packing density of some 14.5 people per square meter, which is physically impossible.
• Towel and soap were given to each person entering the gas chamber — that would not have happened, though. Imagine 3,000 towels and pieces of soap between three thousand corpses. Retrieving and cleaning them would have been a huge task, but ditching them would have been a huge waste.
• The gas chamber was also used as an anatomical research laboratory — actually, the laboratory was upstairs near the furnace room.
• The gas chamber had a very pretty tiled floor — when in fact nowhere in any of the crematoria were any floor tiles used.
• In the gas chamber, there were benches all around — but why in the world would anyone put benches into a gas chamber? The orthodoxy claims that these were located in the undressing room instead.
• In the gas-chamber floor there were trap doors which opened after the gassing. Under these were trucks, into which the bodies fell. They were then driven to the furnace. This is a wild fantasy conclusively proving that Kranz made it all up.

Repeating the clichés, she moreover stated: Dr. Mengele was always present.

(For details, see Mattogno 2021, pp. 361f.)