![]() ![]() Until this time, Soviet propaganda had never paid much attention to Auschwitz. “They leveled the mounds of so-called “old” mass graves in the Eastern area 1, blew up and destroyed the traces of their electrical conveyor belt ( eljektrokonvjeijera ) where hundreds of inmates had been killed simultaneously by electrical current ( eljektriceskim tokom ), after which the bodies were placed on a conveyor belt moving slowly towards a pit furnace ( sciachtnuju pje ) 2, where the bodies were burnt completely” 3. On 2 February, Pravda published an article by its correspondent, Boris Poljevoi, entitled, “The Death Complex at Auschwitz”, in which, among other things, we may read the following: ![]() ![]() The Soviet propaganda machine went to work immediately, echoing the most hare-brained stories circulating among the inmates – perhaps through excess of zeal. On 27 January 1945, the vanguard of the Soviet 100th Infantry Division forming part of the 60th Army of the I Ukrainian Front, reached the Auschwitz- Birkenau complex, now abandoned by the SS. ![]() Translated from the Italian by Carlos Porter Origins, development and decline of the “gas chamber” propaganda lie ![]()
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