This article is from the Holocaust FAQ, by Ken McVay kmcvay@nizkor.org with numerous contributions by others.
Holocaust denial asserts that the doors of the "alleged" gas chambers
were much too weak to withstand the pressure of people trying to
escape death from inside the chambers.
Since none of the Kremas remained in their original state (Bunker I &
II and Kremas II,III,IV and V destroyed, and Krema I modified) there
is no physical evidence as to what the doors of the extermination gas
chambers looked like. However, a door which probably belonged to an
extermination gas chamber was discovered in the camp's building yard;
it is massive, and reinforced with iron bars. Furthermore, the small
peephole is protected from the inside with a strong metal grid,
probably installed so the victims would not break the glass in the
peephole.
Those making this claim present pictures of doors for the delousing
chambers, which were not fortified, presumably on the assumption that
viewers are too inept to notice the switch. For a photograph of a
door probably used in an extermination gas chamber, see Pressac
(486). (Get pub/holocaust/gifs/aukdoor.gif)
 
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