⚠️ Historical Documentation Notice
Historical Documentation Notice

This document is part of a historical archive and is presented for scholarly research and educational purposes.

The content reflects historical perspectives and should be understood within its historical context.

Alan
Heath

writes from Warsaw, Poland, on


UNLIKE Mr Irving I have been to
Auschwitz on many occasions.

There has never been any suggestion that the gas chamber at the base camp was a anything but a reconstruction of the one that was destroyed by the Nazis.

The four other chambers at Birkenau were not reconstructed but II and III can be seen quite well from their ruins and IV and V are more difficult to make out.

It is of no surprise that the wife of a former commandant should choose to forget something that was happening only a couple of hundred metres in front of her home in
1943-44.

Alan
Heath

[The reference is to a letter from the daughter of the hanged Auschwitz commandant
Liebehenschel, now resident in California.]

Source Information
Original Publication: 1999-10-30
Digital Archive: Focal Point Publications
Accessed: June 3, 2026