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Typhus and the J*ws
by Friedrich Paul Berg
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In my article about Zyklon-B and German delousing chambers,
I included a brief discussion of the large, well-designed gas chambers
which were used by Germany and her allies to fumigate
entire railroad trains,
one or more railroad cars at a time, with cyanide gas.
Those chambers would have also been ideal for the mass-extermination of people if the Germans had ever intended to c
mmit mass-extermination of J*ws or anyone else.
( WHICH THEY NEVER DID AS WAS PROVEN BY THE MASSES OF DOCUMENTS ON FILE AT WARS END)
At the end of thi
s introductory discussion I have included two articles from the German technical literature which discuss those remarkable
gas chambers in some detail. Those articles are only two among many that can be found in the German literature of that period.
Delousing Tunnels
The history of large gas chambers (more than 200 cubic meters in volume) goes back to at least the early 1920's
when tunnels were used by the British to fumigate railroad trains
in Russia and Poland when the British had a military presence there during the chaotic post World War I period.
The standard procedure then was to fumigate
an entire railroad train at one time within a sealed tunnel
with hydrocyanic acid (also referred to simply as cyanide or cyanide gas).
Zyklon-
B had not yet been invented and so the cyanide had to be introduced into the tunnels either from gas-filled tanks or else generated within the tunnels by the dropping of cyanide salt into barrels filled
with sulfuric acid (the so-called "barrel method").
The British experience with typhus in Poland and Russia during that period was described many y
ears later in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine as follows:1
Administrative Measures of Control of Widespread Epidemics
Though the measures taken are not likely to be applicable to Great Britain
it may be of interest to outline the broader administrative steps
we took when dealing with widespread epidemics of typhus fever.
The personnel of a number of units was established,
including doctors, nurses, and subordinate medical auxiliaries.
All were young and all were protected by the use of special clothing.
Arrangements were made for the regular disinfestation of the garme
nts
and for bathing the personnel.
The stores required included portable baths and showers,
fuel for heating water, soap, hair clippers and scissors,
nail brushes, towels, &c
., in addition to as good rations
as it was possible to obtain.
Units were sent into the various regions and were administered
centrally in Poland from Warsaw,
in Russia from Moscow and Kuibyshev,
and,
two years ago, in China from Chungking and Sian.
The next step was to put a cordon round healthy areas,
with the aid of the military and barbed wire,
to prevent the ingress of infected refugees.
This was in many cases done locally, though eventually a cordon had to be established right across Europe,
from North Poland to Rumania.
Refugees were only allowed to enter this "clean" zone
at certain points established on the roads and railways.
Patrols watched the open country and brought stragglers
into the disinfesting points.
At each such point were arrangements for bathing and disinfestation,
and all persons passing the cordon were thoroughly 'de-loused'
with their belongings.
The size of
the work may be gathered from the fact that
at one centre alone--Baranowice,
on the Polish-Russian frontier in 1921--
we were for a long time
disinfesting each day 10,000 refugees returning to Poland from Russia.
The method of disinfestation varied according to th
e country
and the apparatus available.
In Poland, steam and cyanide were both used,
the latter being employed on an extensive scale on the frontiers
. At Baranowice, where the refugees arrived chiefly by train,
a tunnel was built,
into which hydrocyanic gas could be introduced.
On the arrival of each train, all the passengers were given a blanket
and told to strip,
leaving their garments and all their belongings on the train.
Each person was then bathed in hot water with soft so
ap and paraffin,
while the train was backed into the tunnel,
the engine uncoupled, and cyanide gas liberated in the tunnel.
When the bathing of the refugees was completed
,
the train was pulled out of the tunnel by means of a rope
attached to a locomotive and was allowed to air.
In due course the passengers dressed, gave up their blankets,
and continued on their journey.
In Mesopotamia, we used a locomotive with waggons attached,
into which steam, first saturated and superheat
ed, could be passed.
The train included accommodation for personnel and thus
constituted a unit which could be moved to any point where typhus broke out.
In Russia, we utilized the Russian baths,
with which every village is equipped.
These are log huts in which fires are made under heaps of stones,
which are thus heated to a high temperature.
Buckets of water are thrown on the stones,
the water immediately evaporating into clouds of st
eam.
The population was first bathed and de-loused in the bath,
and then the amount of heat and steam were increased
so as to deal with the bedding and clothing.
Subsequently, no further water was thrown on the stones,
and the heat of the hut was allowed to dry out the material.
For furs, which are very readily infested with lice
and which do not lend themselves
to the ordinary methods of disinfestation,
crude naphthalene was used.
A large box or chest was constructed at the entrance
to the house and half-filled wi
th crude naphthalene.
Into this all furs and outer garments were dropped on entry
to the house and left there until the following morning.
I should mention that in winter in a cold country it is,
of course, sufficient to hang one's garments in the open
for the night for every louse to be destroyed.
Whether the nits survive or not depends on the degree of cold,
but there is in any case no evidence
that these can transmit the disease.
In China, where padded garments have to a great extent superseded furs, brick ovens were used. . . .
In spite of the difficultie
s, the delousing of entire railroad trains
was absolutely essential to prevent the spread of typhus
from infested areas to non-infested areas.
Railroads could otherwise carry typhus-infected lice throughout all of Europe within a few days.
Not only the railroad trains themselves but even the railroad stations
were important sources of contagious disease, particularly typhus,
because it was there tha
t people would spend hours and even days in close contact,
often huddled together--
an ideal environment for the spreading of lice from "lousy" persons
to clean persons.
By contrast, busses, trucks and automobiles were still relatively unimportant for public transportation.
The invention of Zyklon-B in 1923 was a major step forward
because delousing
methods employing this product could handle furs
and leather goods without damage as easily as they could handle
all other types of clothing.
By the late 1930&
#39;s (see Appendix A), the delousing of railroads
had been greatly improved with specially-constructed delousing tunnels
or gas chambers.
These facilities were subsequently improved even further with blowers and ductwork to circulate air and gas,
and with space heaters to raise interior temperatures
above the boiling point of hydrocyanic acid (78.6o F).2
Heating was especially necessary during winter--
precisely the time of the year when typhus was g
enerally most severe
and when delousing was most needed--
in order to be sure that all of the hydrocyanic acid from Zyklon-B
would evaporate and fill the chamber interiors.
DEGESCH as an Information Source
for a Technology of Mass-Murder
The technology which was employed for fumigating entire railroad trains
was hardly a secret.
On the contrary, before the war and throughout most of the war,
the DEGESCH company had placed large advertisements for its products and techni
cal expertise in many technical journals which were distributed throughout the entire world. Many of these advertisements clearly showed large gas chambers for fumigating railroad trains and trucks with Zyklon-B.
The half-page advertisement which follows appeared in dozens of issues of Der praktische Desinfektor just as an example.3
SEE THIS AD AT LINK
EXCERPT:
During World War 1, a number of germs were discovered in the feces as well as the soil which (if transmitted into open wounds)
wou
ld cause gasodemia and other equally serious wound infections.
Without any doubt, war has here furthered the bacteriological research as well. The new discoveries were of utmost importance for the armies.
However, there still were epidemics and illnesses which one could not master.
Foremost among them was the bacillus dysentery which must be
regarded as the
"primary war epidemic of the world war."
This disease increased
rather than decreased and retained its high mortality rate.
Even amoebic dysentery caused considerable casualties
which were so great among the English at Gallipoli
that they contributed to the abandonment of this Churchill-inspired campaign.
Typhus and dysentery are the diseases which give us the most trouble in this war in addition to the venereal diseases and malaria.
In peace time, we did not have to fear the outbreak of major epidemics.
But, the moment we crossed the borders with our armies, we entered areas in which (as for exampl
e in Poland) there was little trace of a prepared peacetime practice of defensive hygiene.
It was only there that the first contact with the disease pathogens was made.
And with the increase in the number of people who remaine
d healthy, but who carried the germs, the introduction of diseases into the Reich was assured.
Therefore, above anything else we must prevent any contact with
foreign disease material through hygienic and prophylactic measures.
Above all else, we must inoculate our soldiers and all medical personnel as widely as possible against all likely disease germs so that as far as possible, no casualties from illness will occur. How many millions of lives of recently wounded soldiers have been saved through prophylactic serum inoculation against tetanus cannot be measured.
Today we even have vaccines which (for example, upon conscription into the Wehrmacht) could probably give lifelong immunity against tetanus. Also, in the development of vaccines against typhus
and against dysentery this war has once again brought great progress.
Vaccines against typhus from lice intestines, from chicken eggs, from rabbit lungs and from mice lungs are produced in gigantic quantities in large, newly con
structed institutes, for example, in Cracow and Lemberg (Lvov).
The inoculated cannot be protected completely against contracting the disease but they are prote
cted against death from the typhus. The other kinds of typhus which are occasionally observed in the south of Greece, such as the so-called "murine" typhus which is carried by the feces of rats including their other parasites, or the so-called "tick typhus" from the brown dog tick are, despite the high fever,
far less harmful to people than the "classical" louseborne typhus.
The vaccinations against the classic typhus have been effective against the rare rat typhus but not against the tick typhus. Here one can protect oneself best by prohibiting troops in tick fever infested areas from keeping dogs, which can
be carriers of other tropical diseases as well.
German hygienic science is also in the process of developing effective vaccines against dysentery. To control dysente
ry it is of the utmost importance to make human waste products harmless and to not give flies any opportunity to carry dysentery bacillus from feces to food. </
span>This is an especially important consideration in the construction of latrines. The East African campaign taught us in this regard about the very useful smoke latrines, the present war about the drill hole latrines which makes the transfer of disease from feces practically impossible.17
Germany at War's End--the Wild West and the Hordes of Genghis Khan
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Typhus and the J*ws
by Friedrich Paul Berg
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In my article about Zyklon-B and German delousing chambers,
I included a brief discussion of the large, well-designed gas chambers
which were used by Germany and her allies to fumigate
entire railroad trains,
one or more railroad cars at a time, with cyanide gas.
Those chambers would have also been ideal for the mass-extermination of people if the Germans had ever intended to c
mmit mass-extermination of J*ws or anyone else.
( WHICH THEY NEVER DID AS WAS PROVEN BY THE MASSES OF DOCUMENTS ON FILE AT WARS END)
At the end of thi
s introductory discussion I have included two articles from the German technical literature which discuss those remarkable
gas chambers in some detail. Those articles are only two among many that can be found in the German literature of that period.
Delousing Tunnels
The history of large gas chambers (more than 200 cubic meters in volume) goes back to at least the early 1920's
when tunnels were used by the British to fumigate railroad trains
in Russia and Poland when the British had a military presence there during the chaotic post World War I period.
The standard procedure then was to fumigate
an entire railroad train at one time within a sealed tunnel
with hydrocyanic acid (also referred to simply as cyanide or cyanide gas).
Zyklon-
B had not yet been invented and so the cyanide had to be introduced into the tunnels either from gas-filled tanks or else generated within the tunnels by the dropping of cyanide salt into barrels filled
with sulfuric acid (the so-called "barrel method").
The British experience with typhus in Poland and Russia during that period was described many y
ears later in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine as follows:1
Administrative Measures of Control of Widespread Epidemics
Though the measures taken are not likely to be applicable to Great Britain
it may be of interest to outline the broader administrative steps
we took when dealing with widespread epidemics of typhus fever.
The personnel of a number of units was established,
including doctors, nurses, and subordinate medical auxiliaries.
All were young and all were protected by the use of special clothing.
Arrangements were made for the regular disinfestation of the garme
nts
and for bathing the personnel.
The stores required included portable baths and showers,
fuel for heating water, soap, hair clippers and scissors,
nail brushes, towels, &c
., in addition to as good rations
as it was possible to obtain.
Units were sent into the various regions and were administered
centrally in Poland from Warsaw,
in Russia from Moscow and Kuibyshev,
and,
two years ago, in China from Chungking and Sian.
The next step was to put a cordon round healthy areas,
with the aid of the military and barbed wire,
to prevent the ingress of infected refugees.
This was in many cases done locally, though eventually a cordon had to be established right across Europe,
from North Poland to Rumania.
Refugees were only allowed to enter this "clean" zone
at certain points established on the roads and railways.
Patrols watched the open country and brought stragglers
into the disinfesting points.
At each such point were arrangements for bathing and disinfestation,
and all persons passing the cordon were thoroughly 'de-loused'
with their belongings.
The size of
the work may be gathered from the fact that
at one centre alone--Baranowice,
on the Polish-Russian frontier in 1921--
we were for a long time
disinfesting each day 10,000 refugees returning to Poland from Russia.
The method of disinfestation varied according to th
e country
and the apparatus available.
In Poland, steam and cyanide were both used,
the latter being employed on an extensive scale on the frontiers
. At Baranowice, where the refugees arrived chiefly by train,
a tunnel was built,
into which hydrocyanic gas could be introduced.
On the arrival of each train, all the passengers were given a blanket
and told to strip,
leaving their garments and all their belongings on the train.
Each person was then bathed in hot water with soft so
ap and paraffin,
while the train was backed into the tunnel,
the engine uncoupled, and cyanide gas liberated in the tunnel.
When the bathing of the refugees was completed
,
the train was pulled out of the tunnel by means of a rope
attached to a locomotive and was allowed to air.
In due course the passengers dressed, gave up their blankets,
and continued on their journey.
In Mesopotamia, we used a locomotive with waggons attached,
into which steam, first saturated and superheat
ed, could be passed.
The train included accommodation for personnel and thus
constituted a unit which could be moved to any point where typhus broke out.
In Russia, we utilized the Russian baths,
with which every village is equipped.
These are log huts in which fires are made under heaps of stones,
which are thus heated to a high temperature.
Buckets of water are thrown on the stones,
the water immediately evaporating into clouds of st
eam.
The population was first bathed and de-loused in the bath,
and then the amount of heat and steam were increased
so as to deal with the bedding and clothing.
Subsequently, no further water was thrown on the stones,
and the heat of the hut was allowed to dry out the material.
For furs, which are very readily infested with lice
and which do not lend themselves
to the ordinary methods of disinfestation,
crude naphthalene was used.
A large box or chest was constructed at the entrance
to the house and half-filled wi
th crude naphthalene.
Into this all furs and outer garments were dropped on entry
to the house and left there until the following morning.
I should mention that in winter in a cold country it is,
of course, sufficient to hang one's garments in the open
for the night for every louse to be destroyed.
Whether the nits survive or not depends on the degree of cold,
but there is in any case no evidence
that these can transmit the disease.
In China, where padded garments have to a great extent superseded furs, brick ovens were used. . . .
In spite of the difficultie
s, the delousing of entire railroad trains
was absolutely essential to prevent the spread of typhus
from infested areas to non-infested areas.
Railroads could otherwise carry typhus-infected lice throughout all of Europe within a few days.
Not only the railroad trains themselves but even the railroad stations
were important sources of contagious disease, particularly typhus,
because it was there tha
t people would spend hours and even days in close contact,
often huddled together--
an ideal environment for the spreading of lice from "lousy" persons
to clean persons.
By contrast, busses, trucks and automobiles were still relatively unimportant for public transportation.
The invention of Zyklon-B in 1923 was a major step forward
because delousing
methods employing this product could handle furs
and leather goods without damage as easily as they could handle
all other types of clothing.
By the late 1930&
#39;s (see Appendix A), the delousing of railroads
had been greatly improved with specially-constructed delousing tunnels
or gas chambers.
These facilities were subsequently improved even further with blowers and ductwork to circulate air and gas,
and with space heaters to raise interior temperatures
above the boiling point of hydrocyanic acid (78.6o F).2
Heating was especially necessary during winter--
precisely the time of the year when typhus was g
enerally most severe
and when delousing was most needed--
in order to be sure that all of the hydrocyanic acid from Zyklon-B
would evaporate and fill the chamber interiors.
DEGESCH as an Information Source
for a Technology of Mass-Murder
The technology which was employed for fumigating entire railroad trains
was hardly a secret.
On the contrary, before the war and throughout most of the war,
the DEGESCH company had placed large advertisements for its products and techni
cal expertise in many technical journals which were distributed throughout the entire world. Many of these advertisements clearly showed large gas chambers for fumigating railroad trains and trucks with Zyklon-B.
The half-page advertisement which follows appeared in dozens of issues of Der praktische Desinfektor just as an example.3
SEE THIS AD AT LINK
EXCERPT:
During World War 1, a number of germs were discovered in the feces as well as the soil which (if transmitted into open wounds)
wou
ld cause gasodemia and other equally serious wound infections.
Without any doubt, war has here furthered the bacteriological research as well. The new discoveries were of utmost importance for the armies.
However, there still were epidemics and illnesses which one could not master.
Foremost among them was the bacillus dysentery which must be
regarded as the
"primary war epidemic of the world war."
This disease increased
rather than decreased and retained its high mortality rate.
Even amoebic dysentery caused considerable casualties
which were so great among the English at Gallipoli
that they contributed to the abandonment of this Churchill-inspired campaign.
Typhus and dysentery are the diseases which give us the most trouble in this war in addition to the venereal diseases and malaria.
In peace time, we did not have to fear the outbreak of major epidemics.
But, the moment we crossed the borders with our armies, we entered areas in which (as for exampl
e in Poland) there was little trace of a prepared peacetime practice of defensive hygiene.
It was only there that the first contact with the disease pathogens was made.
And with the increase in the number of people who remaine
d healthy, but who carried the germs, the introduction of diseases into the Reich was assured.
Therefore, above anything else we must prevent any contact with
foreign disease material through hygienic and prophylactic measures.
Above all else, we must inoculate our soldiers and all medical personnel as widely as possible against all likely disease germs so that as far as possible, no casualties from illness will occur. How many millions of lives of recently wounded soldiers have been saved through prophylactic serum inoculation against tetanus cannot be measured.
Today we even have vaccines which (for example, upon conscription into the Wehrmacht) could probably give lifelong immunity against tetanus. Also, in the development of vaccines against typhus
and against dysentery this war has once again brought great progress.
Vaccines against typhus from lice intestines, from chicken eggs, from rabbit lungs and from mice lungs are produced in gigantic quantities in large, newly con
structed institutes, for example, in Cracow and Lemberg (Lvov).
The inoculated cannot be protected completely against contracting the disease but they are prote
cted against death from the typhus. The other kinds of typhus which are occasionally observed in the south of Greece, such as the so-called "murine" typhus which is carried by the feces of rats including their other parasites, or the so-called "tick typhus" from the brown dog tick are, despite the high fever,
far less harmful to people than the "classical" louseborne typhus.
The vaccinations against the classic typhus have been effective against the rare rat typhus but not against the tick typhus. Here one can protect oneself best by prohibiting troops in tick fever infested areas from keeping dogs, which can
be carriers of other tropical diseases as well.
German hygienic science is also in the process of developing effective vaccines against dysentery. To control dysente
ry it is of the utmost importance to make human waste products harmless and to not give flies any opportunity to carry dysentery bacillus from feces to food. </
span>This is an especially important consideration in the construction of latrines. The East African campaign taught us in this regard about the very useful smoke latrines, the present war about the drill hole latrines which makes the transfer of disease from feces practically impossible.17
Germany at War's End--the Wild West and the Hordes of Genghis Khan
MUCH MORE AT LINK:http://www.codoh.com/gcgv/gcgvtyph.html
<span style='color:red'>WARNING, STRONG STOMACH NEEDED TO READ ALL OF ARTICLE AT LINK
