Were the gas chambers at Auschwitz ever discovered or is all we are going on rumor?
The gas chambers were dismantled or destroyed when Soviet troops got close, except at Dachau, Sachsenhausen, and Majdanek. The gas chamber at Auschwitz I was reconstructed after the war by the Soviet Union as a memorial. The evidence of the existence of the chambers is irrefutable, however. Also, during the war, several resistance messages indicated that a gas van operated in the Auschwitz area. After the war several testimonies were given to the same effect. Stanislaw Klodzinski’s message from Auschwitz, sent to Teresa Lasocka in September of 1944, mentioned a yellow-green Saurer van with the license plate “Pol 71462”, that had been used for executions of people sentenced to death by the police court after the “Black Wall” (execution site between Block 10 and 11) had been torn down, and to kill the prisoners of Auschwitz sub-camps. An unpublished Einsatzgruppe B report from 1 March 1942 (Osobyj Arkhiv in Moscow, 500-1-770, p. 8; also in USHMM, RG-11.001M.01, reel 10, 500-1-770) mentio
