Jean Claude Pressac in Auschwitz: Technique & Operation of the
Gas Chambers states of the high water table at Auschwitz-Birkenau:
"The nature of the land at Birkenau, where the groundwater is almost at surface level (unlike the main camp, where it lies deeper), meant that the two Leichenkeller [“corpse cellars”] could no longer be directly under the building, as had probably been initially planned, but had to be raised to form semi-basements." page 269
But ....
Szlamy Dragon former Auschwitz-Birkenau sonderkommando claimed he helped burn Jews in:
"four pits 30 meters long, 7 meters wide and 3 meters deep" page 171Miklós Nyiszli a Jewish doctor at Auschwitz-Birkenau states:
"The pyre was a ditch 50 yards long, six yards wide and three yards deep." page 87
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| Drainage ditches of Auschwitz-Birkenau |
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| Deep drainage ditches circumvent the entire camp |
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| Four huge water filled ditches south of the Central Sauna |
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