The Auschwitz concentration camp was situated in Upper Siliesia. Nobody denies that Auschwitz was a place of terrible human suffering. As we will demonstrate later, about 150,000 prisoners died at Auschwitz, mostly from diseases such as the dreaded pectoral typhus which is carried by lice, but also from insufficient nourishment and overworking. (Of course, there were also executions by shooting or hanging for acts of resistance and sabotage.) The figure of approximately 150.000 victims means that about 38% of the 400.000 prisoners who were registered at the camp perished there. However, according to the official Auschwitz version, these 150.000 victims only represent a small percentage of the total death count. The Orthodox historians claim that Auschwitz not only served as a labor camp, but also as an "extermination camp" where Jews from numerous European countries were murdered in large numbers with the pesticide Zyklon-B. According to these historians, those Jews who were able to work were temporarily spared, while the unemployable ones were immediately killed in gas chambers without every being registered. According to the Orthodox historians, the gassing started in early 1942 in the morgue of the crematorium at the main camp (Auschwitz I). From the spring of 1942 to the spring of 1943, two farm houses at Birkenau two miles west of the main camp were allegedly used as gas chambers. From the spring of 1943, mass gassing are said to have taken place in the four crematoria of Birkena.

At the Nuremberg trial, the Soviets contended that no less than four million people had been murdered at Auschwitz, but no Western historian ever dared to accept this preposterous figure. Raul Hilberg puts the total Auschwitz death toll at one million Jews and 250.000 non-Jews, and in 1994, Jean-Claude Pessac, whom the media enthusiastically praised as the man who had finally refuted the revisionists, claimed that between 630.000 and 710.000 people (Jews and non-Jews) had died at Auschwitz.

Significantly, these massive reductions of the Auschwitz death toll do not affect the sacrosanct figure of six million "Holocaust victims". This figure remains as solid as the pyramids. So, if you have six apples in a basket, you can eat one, two or even three of them, there are still six apples left. That's "holocaust" mathematics.

Whereas the Orthodox historians depict Auschwitz as a murder factory, the revisionists simply regard it as an huge labor camp. In order to determine who is right, we have to solve the crucial question of the homicidal gas chambers, for if there were no gas chambers, there was no murder weapon and consequently no "Holocaust".