Original construction plans for the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz found in a Berlin flat
A complete set of the original construction plans for the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz have been found in a Berlin flat, according to Germany's Bild newspaper.
It printed three architect's drawings on yellowing paper from the batch of 28 pages of blueprints it obtained.
One has an 11.66 metre by 11.20 metre room marked "Gaskammer" (gas chamber) that was part of a "delousing facility".
No one from the federal government's archives was immediately available for comment on the authenticity or importance of the documents.
The plans also include a crematorium and a"L. Keller" -- an abbreviation for"Leichenkeller" or corpse cellar.
A drawing of the building for Auschwitz's main gate was also found in the documents that Bild said were believed to have been discovered when a Berlin flat was cleaned out.
The newspaper quoted Hans-Dieter Kreikamp, head of the federal archives office in Berlin, as saying the blueprints offered"authentic evidence of the systematically planned genocide of European Jews."
There were mass killings of about one million Jews before the Nazi's"Final Solution" was formulated in late 1941. The decision to kill Europe's 11 million Jews was made at the Wannsee Conference in January 1942.
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It printed three architect's drawings on yellowing paper from the batch of 28 pages of blueprints it obtained.
One has an 11.66 metre by 11.20 metre room marked "Gaskammer" (gas chamber) that was part of a "delousing facility".
No one from the federal government's archives was immediately available for comment on the authenticity or importance of the documents.
The plans also include a crematorium and a"L. Keller" -- an abbreviation for"Leichenkeller" or corpse cellar.
A drawing of the building for Auschwitz's main gate was also found in the documents that Bild said were believed to have been discovered when a Berlin flat was cleaned out.
The newspaper quoted Hans-Dieter Kreikamp, head of the federal archives office in Berlin, as saying the blueprints offered"authentic evidence of the systematically planned genocide of European Jews."
There were mass killings of about one million Jews before the Nazi's"Final Solution" was formulated in late 1941. The decision to kill Europe's 11 million Jews was made at the Wannsee Conference in January 1942.