Comparison of fences
Auschwitz I fence Monowitz oil plant fence Birkenau cremation buildings fence
Auschwitz I camp wall Monowitz Complex wall Birkenau wire fence
1. A 3 metre (10 foot) high concrete wall prevented spies from viewing camp and receiving messages from inmates. No mass murders, but cruel physical abuses are alleged to have occured here during 1943-44. If the Germans wanted to prevent outsiders from seeing buildings and hearing alleged victims screams, the wall could have been built twice as high and around all four sides of the camp instead of just two. 2. A 2 metre (7 foot) high cement wall only partially blocked the view of buildings in the synthetic rubber and chemical complex, where no mass murders are alleged. The Germans built concrete walls at Auschwitz I and Monowitz as only partial barriers, not to completely hide the camp from outsiders seeing and hearing the inmates. 3. The Germans took international doctors and the Polish Red Cross to the Katyn Forest in 1943 to show the world that the Soviets, not the Germans, had mass murdered prisoners there. If, in 1943-44, the Germans were mass murdering prisoners, they would have constructed a high wall to prevent spies from seeing atrocities and hearing screams, otherwise their enemies could have proven they were publicizing Katyn to cover up their own murders and abuse.