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The gas was then pumped out, the bodies were removed (which would take up to four hours), gold fillings in their teeth were extracted with pliers by dentist prisoners, and women's hair was cut.<ref>[[Franciszek Piper|Piper, Franciszek]]. "Gas chambers and Crematoria," in Berenbaum, Michael & Gutman, Yisrael (eds). ''Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp'', Indiana University Press and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1994, p. 163. Also in [[Leon Goldensohn|Goldensohn, Leon]]. ''Nuremberg Interviews'', Vintage paperback 2005, p. 298: Goldensohn, an American psychiatrist, interviewed Rudolf Höß at Nuremberg on April 8, 1946. Höß told him: "We cut the hair from women after they had been exterminated in the gas chambers. The hair was then sent to factories, where it was woven into special fittings for gaskets." Höß said that only women's hair was cut and only after they were dead. He said he had first received the order to do this in 1943.</ref> The floor of the gas chamber was cleaned, and the walls whitewashed.<ref name=Piper163/> The work was done by the ''[[Sonderkommando]]'' prisoners, Jews who hoped to buy themselves a few extra months of life. In crematoria 1 and 2, the ''Sonderkommando'' lived in an attic above the crematoria; in crematoria 3 and 4, they lived inside the gas chambers.<ref name=Piper172>[[Franciszek Piper|Piper, Franciszek]]. "Gas chambers and Crematoria," in Berenbaum, Michael & Gutman, Yisrael (eds). ''Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp'', Indiana University Press and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1994, p. 172. For the living conditions of the ''Sonderkommando'', Piper quotes survivor testimony from the trial of [[Adolf Eichmann]].</ref> When the ''Sonderkommando'' had finished with the bodies, the SS conducted spot checks to make sure all the gold had been removed from the victims' mouths. If a check revealed that gold had been missed, the ''Sonderkommando'' prisoner responsible was thrown into the furnace alive as punishment.<ref name=Piper171>[[Franciszek Piper|Piper, Franciszek]]. "Gas chambers and Crematoria," in Berenbaum, Michael & Gutman, Yisrael (eds). ''Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp'', Indiana University Press and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1994, p. 171.</ref>

THERE IS NOTHING CALLED HOLOCAUST . THE JEWS INVENTED THAT WORD AND THAT BELIEVE SO AS TO GIVE THEMSELVES THE RIGHT TO LIVE IN PALESTINE AND THE KILLING OF PEOPLE TAKING THEIR HOMES IS INTOLERABLE SIN .EVERY GOD MA** ISRAELIANS IS GOING TO hell .So, cheers. Actually ISRAEL IS NOT A JEWISH COUNTRY .

At first, the bodies were buried in deep pits and covered with lime, but between September and November 1942, on the orders of Himmler, they were dug up and burned. In the spring of 1943, new gas chambers and crematoria were built to accommodate the numbers.<ref name=Piper164>[[Franciszek Piper|Piper, Franciszek]]. "Gas chambers and Crematoria," in Berenbaum, Michael & Gutman, Yisrael (eds). ''Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp'', Indiana University Press and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1994, p. 164.</ref>

{{quotation|Another improvement we made over Treblinka was that we built our gas chambers to accommodate 2,000 people at one time, whereas at Treblinka their 10 gas chambers only accommodated 200 people each. The way we selected our victims was as follows: we had two SS doctors on duty at Auschwitz to examine the incoming transports of prisoners. The prisoners would be marched by one of the doctors who would make spot decisions as they walked by. Those who were fit for work were sent into the Camp. Others were sent immediately to the extermination plants. Children of tender years were invariably exterminated, since by reason of their youth they were unable to work. Still another improvement we made over Treblinka was that at Treblinka the victims almost always knew that they were to be exterminated and at Auschwitz we endeavored to fool the victims into thinking that they were to go through a delousing process. Of course, frequently they realized our true intentions and we sometimes had riots and difficulties due to that fact. Very frequently women would hide their children under the clothes but of course when we found them we would send the children in to be exterminated. We were required to carry out these exterminations in secrecy but of course the foul and nauseating stench from the continuous burning of bodies permeated the entire area and all of the people living in the surrounding communities knew that exterminations were going on at Auschwitz.|[[Rudolf Höß]], Auschwitz camp commandant, Nuremberg testimony.<ref>[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1946Hoess.html Modern History Sourcebook: Rudolf Höß, Commandant of Auschwitz: Testimony at Nuremberg, 1946] Accessed May 6, 2007</ref>}}