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Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Auschwitz 2: BW 5a: Blue Stains






The museum sign for Compound B1B claims that the above circled building: BW 5a  (BW is an abbreviation of Bauwerken, which translates to Building) was "Showers", but the building also had other purposes, it was where prisoners' clothing and bedding was treated with Zyklon B to kill lice. Unlike any of the seven "homicidal gas chambers" at Auschwitz I and Auschwitz-Birkenau, this building has the tell-tales signs that in came into contact with vast quantities of hydrocyanic gas = Prussian Blue staining

South wall of delousing chamber
South wall of delousing chamber
North wall of delousing chamber

North wall of delousing chamber
North wall of delousing chamber
East wall of delousing chamber 

East wall of delousing chamber