THE OSWIECIM (AUSCHWITZ) CHEMICAL WORKS

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
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• Publication Date: June 6, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRALS VWR18f k -TA NGY REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT The Oswiecim (Auschwwaitz)
Chemical Works
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1. ' The Oswiecim (Aueohwitz) Chemical Works* war, known as the a and Hydro-
genation Plant of I.G. Farben prior to 1945, at which time it was
nationalized? The plant was erected by I.G~ Farben in 1941945 and
was not entirely finished at the end of the wax.
2. During the period from the suer of 1945 to the spring of 1946, all
machines and installations at the plant were dismantled by the Soviets
except for those in the low temperature carbonizing plant. These
Installations were sent to Kemerovo in western Siberia east of TJovo-
s;ibirak. An escort of ten to twelve workers from the plant accompanied
one particularly complicated shigrient, and only two of these workers
returned to the plant. It had been intended that they also remain in
Kemerovo, but they succeeded in returning to Oswiecim through official
means. During their stay in Kemerovo, they did not see the Oswiecim
equipment installed there.
The plant is located about 2 km. east of Oswiecim and southwest of the
Vistula River. It covers an area of 3,655 x 1, i65m., which does not
include the workers? settlement, and is divided into parallel running
streets in lots measuring 250 x 125 m. Some of these lots are occupied
by buildings, others by underground tank plants (see Annex 2, items 12
and 13). The plant is composed of the following buildings:
Low temperature-carbonizing plant, under construction. Six carbonizing
units are to 'be installed.
b. Oxygen plant, under construction.
o. Small hydrogenation plant, under reconstruction. Part of the foundations
which had been laid by I.G. Farben will be used. The furnaces being
erected at this time had been dismantled at the chemical works in
Schwarzheide.
d. Thermal power station.
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e. Carbide plant.
t. Workers' settlement, consisting of about 300 units in two and three-
story buildings which are about 2 km. from the plant. Enlargement
of this settlement 3s planned.
A long-distance gas supply plant for supplying Warsaw with gas is being
planned.
The plant, has its own railroad station, located southeast of the plant,
with sidings to the plant. The tracks at the northern and of the plant ;;.
service incoming deliveries of coal and other raw materials; the tracks
at the southern end are used for dispatching finished goods. The tracks
are standard gauge. For the time being, the plant does not have its e
locomotive or freight car y5'd.
Electric power is supplied by outside plants. The power station which
is now under constructionehould meet the total power needs of the Oswiecim
works. Coal, which is the main raw material, comes from the Upper Silesianv
mines.
6. At the present time, the plant has approximately 600 workers; about 560 of
them are engaged in assembling equipment, the remainder in the laboratrles.
Production bad not yet been started by September 1949.*** The workers live
either in Oswiecim, in the workers' settlement at the plant, or elswuhare
They are transported by.btts from the plant headquarters, from the plant
railroad station, and from Oswiecim.
7 ing personnel in the plant are;
a. General manager-. Sobieranslci, age about 50 and an expert In coking,,
comes from the Upper Silesian industrial district.
b. Manager of mechanical section: Tgban, a Jew and about 40 years of age,
is the managing engineer. He worked in industrial plants in Noscov
prior to World War 11. An Intellectual Com unitt.
a. Mangger of chemical section: Jarszinski, about 35 years old and
oseatrained.
d. Manager of research and laboratories: Pavlikovski, about 50 years of
age, formerly worked in a nitrogen works in Moscow.
es. Manager of power station: Cla, about 50 years old, from Upper
Silesia.
f. Specialist in liquid fuels: Professor Tomaszyk, about 45 years old,
is a scientist and a lecturer in the technical department of the
Jagiello University in Krakow.
The factory guard is an independent unit and the management has no influence
over it., Its strength is not known. The guard room and the quarters of the
factory guard are situated at the main entrance to the plant (see Annex 2).
A wooden fence, 2m. high, surrounds the premises of the plant.
Attachments : Annex 1: Chemical Works In Oswiecim.
Annex 2 with legend: Chemical Works in Oswiecim.
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The exact location of this plant is Dwory (Q51/Y74) near
Oswiebimi. The i rge ole,tric power p1mnt under construction is beg
financed equally by Poland and Czechoslovakia. ' s:ta capacity will be
l2O,OOO,K)later 300,000 KW. The boiler and ensrines will. be furnished by
Czecshoeslov~kia which will receive 50 percent of the power until this
investment bas been paid for.
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19 and that e p an waa put into operation
during production of 20 000 tons of synthetics gasoline
should be expected in 1949
OIL This statement has been confirmed by several other sources.
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1 Low-temperature carbonizing plant with six carbonizing units, six
smokestacks rise about S m. above the building.
2. Generating station, dismantled, about 120 x 20 m. The building is empty
at present.
Power station.
4 Smokestack of the power plant, about 40 m. high,
than the building and conspicuously higher
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5 Carbide plant.
6 Oxygen plant of unknown size.
7 Gas boiler, capacity 10,000 cum m.
8 Gass boiler, capacity 30,000 cu. m.
9 Recoolinggtowers, about 35 m. high,,30 am. in diameter.
10 Site for the erection of the long-distance gas supply plant.
1l Site for hydrogenation plant.
12 Underground tank installations
13 Site fnr plarmed underground tank installations:.
14 Railroad tracks for shipment of finished products,
15 Railroad tracks for Imes ng coal and ra material
16 Main entrasnco to plant with quarters of factory guard?
17 Temporary barracks with offices.
IS Wooden fence surrounding the plant (see broken The in sketch.).
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