Kate Connolly in Berlin guardian.co.uk, Monday November 10 2008 00.01 GMT The Guardian, Monday November 10 2008
Architectural plans for the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, which appear to provide clear evidence that the site was purpose built for exterminations, have been discovered in a Berlin flat, a German newspaper reported.
Germany`s chief archivist, Hans-Dieter Kreikamp, is quoted by Bild newspaper as saying that the plans, which appear to have been made from 1941 to 1943, are "authentic certificates of a systematically planned genocide of European Jews", and "of extraordinary importance".
The find includes 28 meticulous sketches on a scale of 1:100. The documents were said to have been found in a flat being cleared out following the inhabitant`s death; there were no details about their ownership. |
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