The Gas Chamber of Sherlock Holmes - Holocaust Gassing Claims

An Attempt at a Literary Analysis of the
Holocaust Gassing Claim

by Samuel Crowell

Analytical Table of Contents
Introduction
The First Reports
German Disinfection Procedures
The First Reports from Auschwitz and Majdanek
The Eastern Camps, Polevoi's Report, and the Gerstein Statement
The Canonical Holocaust
The Nuremberg Trials
The Confessions of Rudolf Höß
Interpreting Documents and the Postwar Literature
Retrofitting the Euthanasia Campaign
The Fear of Cremation and Poison Gas
German Civil Defense
Civil Defense in the Concentration Camps
Pressac's "Criminal Traces"
The Gas Chamber of Sherlock Holmes
Conclusions