Talk:Topf and Sons

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In Auschwitz Crematorium IV was out of use from May 1943, after only two months of service, because it developed cracks ?

A letter from the head of the Central Construction Board in Auschwitz (Der Leiter der Zentralbauleitung der Waffen SS und Polizei Auschwitz), Karl Bischoff (signed in his absence by SS-Sturmbannführer Jährling), to H. Kammler, head of office group C in the SS-WVHA, dated June 28, 1943. The letter states that the following numbers of corpses can be cremated over a 24-hour period in specific crematoria in Auschwitz Concentration Camp: 340 corpses in crematorium I, 1,440 in crematorium II, 1,440 in crematorium III, 768 in Crematorium IV, and 768 in crematorium V, for a total of 4,756 corpses cremated per day.

A July 28, 1944 report by the labor department indicates that, on this day, Sonderkommando prisoners worked around the clock on two twelve-hour shifts. In crematorium II, 110 prisoners worked the day shift and 104 the night shift. The figures for crematorium III were 110 and 104 respectively, for crematorium IV 110 and 109, and for crematorium V, 110 prisoners on both shifts. (Franciszek Piper about Fritjof Meyer's "Osteuropa" article, note 27) Pilot Pirx (talk) 14:25, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

2013 comment
I have added various pics of crematoria at the several camps mentioned in the article. 86.155.210.225 (talk) 08:58, 22 August 2013 (UTC)


 * I have also added links to TV programmes on youtube which detail the work performed by Topf for the SS, and their role in developing advanced methods of mass murder. 109.151.90.83 (talk) 07:51, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

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Article overhaul
This article seems to have been started in 2007, before the T&S museum was opened and before a lot of research was widely available, so it is understandable that it has little detail, but it is very inaccurate and does not give a clear picture of the firm. For example, it was involved in the development of the gas chambers themselves, not just the ovens. It was a large firm that sold its products in many parts of the world.

I did some internet research yesterday and some updating, but the page needs a lot of improvement which I intend to do over the next few weeks. I live in Erfurt and I haven't visited the memorial site for some years, so I went there yesterday afternoon and bought a recently published and thorough book about the company which will be very useful. It is great museum btw. You can see the Buchenwald memorial in the distance from the window that Kurt Prüfer's desk was next to.

The layout of the page isn't very good either and there are a lot of multiple links to other wiki articles - articles should only be linked once, at the first mention.

A lot of the current text is based on the article cited only as "Nuremberg Remembered", which was dead. The InternetArchivebot has recovered the link, which is a short anonymous article with completely false "information" e.g. That T&S was the only civil company involved in the camps - many companies were involved, and there were a number of other companies that made creamtoria for the camps. As I improved the text, reference to this Nuremburg Remembered article will go.

I tend to make typos when I edit so proofreading will be appreciated!Felixkrater (talk) 07:41, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Typo?
In the section "End of World War II and afterwards", a photo is captioned "U.S. Army soldiers make the citizens of Weimar view Buchenwald concentration camp". This doesn't make sense to me. Shouldn't the verb be "meet"? 147.161.153.106 (talk) 07:49, 27 March 2024 (UTC)