In September 1944, a Red Cross team was sent to check the rumor of gas chambers in Auschwitz but could not find any extermination facilities
In September 1944, a Red Cross team was sent to check the rumor of gas chambers in Auschwitz but could not find any extermination facilities . An inspection visit to the Auschwitz concentration camp was made on September 29, 1944 by the Swiss physician Maurice Rossel and other delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross. In its report on this visit, the ICRC delegation stated that it had found no confirmation of rumors of human gassing , and that the prisoners interviewed did not speak of it (see Documents relating to the work of the International Committee of the Red Cross on behalf of civilian prisoners in German concentration camps between 1939 and 1945 [Geneva: ICRC, 1975], pp. 76-77. Ed. in French, Geneva, June 1946, p. 92). In a letter dated 22 November 1944 addressed to officials of the US State Department, the Red Cross stated the following: "In response to your letter of November 17, in which you asked us whether a delegate of the Internat...
