Auschwitz: The Mass Death Blueprints Exhibit – Bitter Cold Calculation

Auschwitz Blueprints on Display in Israeli Holocaust Museum

JERUSALEM  —  The neat lines and red rectangular sketches look
like any typical architectural design. But the handwritten initials H.H. —
belonging to the infamous Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler — indicate what the
drawings represent: wooden barracks, gas chambers and crematoria.

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Just ahead of the 65th anniversary of the
liberation of Auschwitz, Israel's Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem is displaying
the blueprints of the notorious Polish camp that has become a symbol of the Nazi
genocide of European Jewry. It is the first time the plans will be on display
for a wide audience.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
was expected to attend the exhibition's opening Monday shortly before flying to
Poland to participate in the official commemorations at Auschwitz, where 1.1
million Jews were murdered in just over three years.

The Associated Press was allowed to see the
collection ahead of the opening.

The camp's name has become synonymous with
the Holocaust because it reflected the meticulous German effort to rid Europe of
its Jews — a plan dubbed the "Final Solution."

The blueprints illustrate the cold planning
behind the plot. They include designs of the iconic watchtower entrance to the
adjacent Birkenau camp, where trains transported Jews to their deaths, as well
as pathway where the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign was placed.

The camp's name has become synonymous with
the Holocaust because it reflected the meticulous German effort to rid Europe of
its Jews — a plan dubbed the "Final Solution."

The blueprints illustrate the cold planning
behind the plot. They include designs of the iconic watchtower entrance to the
adjacent Birkenau camp, where trains transported Jews to their deaths, as well
as pathway where the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign was placed.

Discovery in 2008:

Original plans for the construction of the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz, including a gas chamber and crematorium, have been found in a Berlin apartment, a German newspaper reported Saturday.

The daily Bild published copies of some of the 28 plans, which the head of Germany's federal archives, Hans-Dieter Krekamp, called "authentic proof of the systematically planned genocide of the Jews of Europe."

Bild gave no indication of where, when or by whom the plans were found.

It said they were dated between 1941 and 1943 and stamped, "Waffen-SS and Police Construction Directorate." Some were signed by senior SS officials and one initialled by the head of the Nazi ideological corps, Heinrich Himmler.
Kreikamp told the newspaper the documents were "extraordinarily important."

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