by Jürgen Graf
A young and brilliant historian
The Englishman David Irving has several admirable qualities:
1) He is a tireless researcher who has spent thousands of hours in the
archives.
2) He is an excellent historian of the Second World War. Some of his
books, such as Hitler’s War and Churchill’s War, will be read as
long as there will be people who are interested in this dark and dramatic
period of history.
3) He is a master of the English language, both as a writer and as an
orator.
In the sixties and the early seventies, Irving’s brilliancy was widely
recognized. While many establishment historians disliked the young maverick,
few of them denied his talent. He was so good that the media grudgingly forgave
him his barely concealed sympathies for Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Even
in Germany, he was repeatedly invited to TV discussions where he impressed the
public with his historical knowledge and his very fluent German.
As to the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question”, Irving accepted the
official version as a matter of course; however he never wrote a book, or even
an article about this subject, but tried to steer clear of it.
“Hitler’s War”
During his work on Hitler’s War, David Irving studied a huge amount
of German war-time documents. With growing amazement he realized that none of
these countless documents proved that Hitler had ordered the extermination of
the Jews – or, indeed, known that the Jews were being exterminated.
At that time, Irving must have been aware that there were researchers who
disputed the official version of Jews' fate during World War Two. Arthur Butz’s
The Hoax of the Twentieth Century had come out in 1976, a year before Hitler’s
War, and I find it very hard to believe that Irving did not learn of the
existence of this book, or that he did not have the intellectual curiosity to
read it. At any rate, he failed to draw the only logical conclusion from the
total lack of documentary evidence for the “Holocaust,” but concluded instead
that the extermination of the Jews had been ordered and organized by the
Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler without Hitler’s knowing. In Hitler’s War,
Irving wrote:
“By 1942, the massacre machinery was gathering momentum – of such
refinement and devilish ingenuity that from Himmler down to the ex-lawyers who
ran the extermination camps perhaps only seventy men were aware of the truth.“[1]
To this wildly implausible thesis, Robert Faurisson raised the following,
entirely logical objection:
“Borrowing a comparison from David Irving, I can certainly believe that
Menachem Begin could have been unaware of the massacre of the Sabra and Shatila
camps in Lebanon at the time it was taking place. Over a period of several
hours, several hundred civilians were massacred. I do not know when Begin
learned of the massacre, but I do know that, like everybody else in the world,
he learned about it very quickly. If, however, instead of several hundred men,
women and children being massacred in a few hours, we are considering the
massacre of millions of men, women and children over a period of three or four
years in the very heart of Europe, by which miracle could that heinous crime
have been hidden from Hitler, Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt, as well as
Germany and all of Europe, except for perhaps only seventy men!”[2]
Today, in 2009, this argument is as sound as it was in 1983!
The Leuchter report
In April 1988, during the second Zundel trial in Toronto, David Irving
learned that an American execution technologist, Fred Leuchter, who had been
contacted by Ernst Zundel’s advisor Robert Faurisson, had flown to Poland with
a small group of helpers in order to examine the alleged homicidal gas chambers
at Auschwitz I, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek. Upon his return, Leuchter had
written a report in which he concluded that these rooms could not have been
used as gas chambers for technical reasons. More importantly, Leuchter and his
team had taken samples from the walls inside the alleged gas chambers of
Auschwitz I and Birkenau where, according to official historiography, huge
numbers of Jews had been killed with prussic acid. The samples were
subsequently analysed in an American laboratory. The tests revealed either no
detection of traces of cyanide or extremely low levels, while a control sample
taken from Delousing Facility Nr. 1 at Birkenau contained an exceedingly high
percentage of cyanide.[3]
The Leuchter report confirmed what David Irving must have suspected, or
indeed known, before: The Auschwitz gas chamber story was but a monstruous
hoax. Irving now believed that the “Holocaust” story would collapse in the near
future, and he decided to jump on the bandwagon. He, David Irving, whose genius
the narrow-minded court historians stubbornly refused to acknowledge, would put
them all to shame; he would be the first prominent historian to pillory the
Auschwitz fraud. Towards the end of the Zundel trial, Irving appeared at a
witness for the defense. He endorsed the Leuchter report, which he called a
“shattering document.” In 1988 and 1989, he made several speeches disputing the
existence of homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz: one of these speeches, which
he delivered on Austrian soil in 1989, would lead to his arrest and
incarceration in Austria sixteen years later.
Irving’s hope that the Leuchter report would lead to the immediate collapse
of the Auschwitz lie did not materialize: The Jews fought for their gas
chambers like a lioness for her cubs, and David Irving was branded a “Holocaust
denier.” In Jewish-dominated Western society this label is the mark of Cain.
Irving was viciously smeared by the media, his books disappeared from the
bookshops, and he sustained huge financial losses.
David Irving v. Deborah Lipstadt
After a particularly obnoxious representative of the Holocaust lobby, one
Deborah Lipstadt, had reviled Irving in her book Denying the Holocaust[4],
he sued her for libel. The trial took place in London in early 2000. Although
Irving’s chances to win this case were next to zero from the beginning, he
could easily have scored a tremendous moral victory by making mincemeat of the
repulsive Lipstadt and her experts. It goes without saying that this would have
required serious preparation, but in his arrogance, Irving, who was
insufficiently acquainted with the “Holocaust” subject, did not deem it
necessary to study the revisionist literature before the trial. I vividly
remember my dismay when I read in the Swiss Jewish newspaper Jüdische
Rundschau Maccabi that Irving had “admitted the existence of the gas
vans”. It was quite true: Confronted with the so-called “Just document”[5]
which Lipstadt’s team had presented as documentary proof for the mass murder of
Jews in gas vans, Irving had declared it to be authentic, although it is a
crude forgery teeming with linguistic and technical absurdities. This fake had
been analysed in detail by two revisionist researchers, the German Ingrid
Weckert[6]
and the Frenchman Pierre Marais[7].
Since Irving can read both German and French with the greatest ease, he simply
had no excuse for not knowing these exceedingly important studies.
His poor knowledge of the subject forced Irving to make several
spectacular, but totally unnecessary concessions to his adversaries. In his
verdict, the judge Charles Gray correctly stated:
“In the course of the trial Irving modified his position: He was prepared
to concede that gassings of human beings had taken place at Auschwitz, but on a
limited scale.”[8]
To Irving’s credit, it should be pointed out that he made very efficient
use of Faurisson’s “No holes, no Holocaust” argument. According to the
“eyewitness evidence” on which the official version of the events is based,
Leichenkeller (morgue) 1 of Krematorium II at Auschwitz-Birkenau was used as a
homicidal gas chamber where, according to Lipstadt’s expert Robert Jan van
Pelt, about 500,000 Jews were murdered in 1943/1944. During the trial, Irving
demonstrated that the openings in the roof of Leichenkeller 1, through which
the SS allegedly dropped pellets of Zyklon B, did not exist, which means that
the alleged crime could not possibly have been perpetrated. In this point,
Irving scored a major triumph. Even the judge Charles Grey, who was quite
hostile to Irving, honestly admitted in his verdict:
“I have to confess that, in common I suspect with most other people, I had
supposed that the evidence of mass extermination of Jews in the gas chambers at
Auschwitz was compelling. I have, however, set aside this preconception when
assessing the evidence adduced by the parties in this proceeding.”[9]
In jail in Austria
In November 2005, David Irving imprudently visited the Zionist puppet state
of Austria where he was promptly arrested for a “Holocaust-denying” speech he
had made in 1989. At his trial, Irving said certain things for which we have no
right to blame him: He wanted to be a free man again as soon as possible and to
be reunited with his family. In his situation, most people would have done the
same thing. It is quite true that numerous revisionists who were put on trial
for their convictions have stood by them and paid a high price for their
courage, but not everybody is a hero. For his cooperative attitude, the
Austrian kangaroo court rewarded Irving with a relatively lenient sentence: He
got only three years, and in December 2006, after serving one third of his
prison term, he was released and allowed to return to England.
David Irving’s trip to Poland
In March 2007, I got an e-mail from David Irving who informed me that he
was in Poland, where he was visiting the “Aktion Reinhardt camps.” According to
German wartime documents the purpose of “Aktion Reinhardt” consisted in the
confiscation of Jewish property. Without a shred of documentary or material
evidence, the orthodox historians claim that the real purpose of this action
was the physical liquidation of the Jews of Eastern Poland and that between 1,
5 and 2 million Jews were killed with carbon monoxide from diesel engines in
three camps: Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka. Traditional history has it that
these camps were pure extermination centers where all Jews, regardless of age
and health, were gassed upon arrival without registration: only a handful of
strong young Jews were temporarily spared because they were needed to keep the
camps running.
In his e-mail (which I unfortunately deleted) Irving must have asked me a
question about Belzec because I distinctly remember that in my reply I asked
him if he had read Carlo Mattogno’s book Belzec in Propaganda, Testimonies,
Archeological Research, and History[10].
He answered that he would read it later.
In addition to Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka, Irving also visited Auschwitz
and Majdanek. Apparently he did not visit the sixth alleged “extermination
camp,” Chelmno (Kulmhof). On his website[11],
he published an account of his trip to Poland which struck me by its
superficiality and its vagueness. It was impossible to deduce from this account
whether Irving believed that homicidal gassings had taken place at Auschwitz
and Majdanek. As far as the three “Aktion Reinhardt” camps were concerned, he
seemed to endorse the “extermination camp” version; on the other hand, he spoke
of the “alleged gas chambers” of these camps. In other words: He avoided making
clear and unequivocal statements.
My questions to David Irving and his reply
In March 2009, I learned that David Irving had given all kind of advice to
a fellow “Holocaust denier,” Bishop Richard Williamson, and I received a
message from an irate French lady who castigated Irving’s statements about
Treblinka. On 2 April, I sent Irving a mail, asking him the following four
questions:
- Did he believe that a mass murder of Jews had taken place at
Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec?
- If he believed that such a mass murder had indeed been committed, what
was his evidence?
- In this case, how was the massacre carried out?
- Had he, David Irving, read Carlo Mattogno’s book about Belzec and the
book Treblinka: Extermination camp or transit camp?[12],
written by Carlo Mattogno and me?
On the very same day, I received the following reply from David Irving:
“1. Ich bin der Auffassung, dass in besagten drei Lagern
Massenvernichtungen stattgefunden haben (“durch Gas” lässt sich nicht beweisen,
ist ja sehr umstritten).
2. Beweismaterial:
- Bekannter Briefwechsel Wolff/Ganzenmüller betr. Malkinia/Treblinka.
- Himmlers Anordnung, in Treblinka nichts auffindbar
zurückzulassen, anschliessend einen Bauernhof darüber entstehen zu lassen
[...].
- Persönliche Befragung zweier Zeugen... betr.
Belzec, falls Echtheit nachweisbar.
- Höfle-Decode vom Januar 1943 und in Zusammenhang damit der
Korherr-Bericht.
3. Für das Jahr 1942: Das Höfle-Dokument spricht von 1'274’166.
Für 1942 und 1943 haben wir aus Himmler-Akten die Beuteziffer Reinhardt –
Schmuck, Uhren, Münzen. Daraus lässt sich ungefähr eine Ziffer für das Ergebnis
für 1943 zusammenreimen bzw. hochrechnen, und zwar mehr als 1 Million – Himmler
spricht dem Mufti gegenüber von „3 Millionen“.
[1. In my opinion, a mass extermination took place in the aforementioned
three camps (it cannot be proved that it was carried out by means of gas; as
you know, this is highly controversial).
2. Evidence:
- The well-known correspondence between Wolff and Ganzenmüller concerning
Malkinia/Treblinka.
- Himmler’s order not to leave any traces at Treblinka and
later to build a farmhouse there.
- Personal interrogation of two witnesses… about Belzec, if the
authenticity [of their statements] can be proved.
- The decoded Höfle radio
message from January 1943 and in this connection the Korherr report.
2. For 1942: The Höfle document mentions a figure of 1’274’166. For 1942
and 1943, Himmler’s documents reveal the extent of the Reinhardt loot – jewels,
watches, coins. Based on this information, it is possible to guess or to
calculate an approximate figure for 1943, to wit more than one million. To the
Mufti Himmler speaks of “three million”.]
The case of the missing answer to the forth question
While David Irving gave clear anwers to my first three questions, he did
not care to answer the forth one: Had he read Treblinka – Extermination Camp
or Transit Camp?, written by Carlo Mattogno and me, and Mattogno’s book
about Belzec? At the time of Irving’s journey to Poland, both books had been
online for more than three years, and the British historian, who is highly
computer-literate, could easily have convinced himself of their value. The
bibliography of Treblinka contains over 200 titles, about two dozens of
them in Polish. As many of these Polish sources are of vital importance, one
merit of our book is to make them accessible to researchers who, like Irving,
do not understand the Polish tongue. Furthermore, Treblinka contains
numerous references to documents from Russian archives which were never before
published in any Western language.
While Belzec is much shorter than Treblinka, its bibliography
still comprises 80 titles, 18 of them in the Polish language. The most
important chapter is the third one, where Mattogno analyses the results of the
forensic drillings and excavations which were performed on the territory of the
former camp in the late 1990s.
If David Irving did not consider it necessary to read these two books, this
shows he is not in the least interested in what really happened at Treblinka
and Belzec. Of course, it is quite possible that he has indeed read them, but
is reluctant to admit this, because otherwise he would be forced to respond to
the revisionist arguments, especially the technical ones. As a matter of fact,
as soon as one approaches the official version of the Reinhardt camps from the
technical angle, the whole monstrous edifice of lies immediately collapses like
a house of cards.
David Irving’s evidence for the mass murder of Jews at the three Reinhardt
camps
In his answer to my questions, David Irving mentioned seven reasons for his
belief that the three Reinhardt camps had been extermination centers. Five of
these reasons are based on documents, the remaining two on hearsay. We will
examine the documents first.
- “The well known correspondence between Wolff and Ganzenmüller concerning
Malkinia/Treblinka.”
On July 28, 1942, Albert Ganzenmüller, Secretary of State in the Reichsverkehrsministerium
(Imperial Ministry of Transport), stated in a letter to SS-Gruppenführer
Karl Wolff: “Since July 22, a train with 5000 Jews makes a daily trip from
Warsaw to Treblinka via Malkinia, in addition to a train with 5000 Jews
traveling twice a week from Pryemysl to Belzec.”[13]
On August 13, Wolff replied: “I have noted with especial pleasure that a
train with 5000 members of the chosen people has already been running for 14
days to Treblinka every day, and we are thus in a position to carry out this
movement of population in an accelerated tempo.”[14]
Neither Ganzenmüller nor Wolff stated that the Jews were being killed at
Treblinka; Wolff spoke of a “movement of population” which clearly shows that
he regarded Treblinka as a transit camp.
- “Himmler’s order not to leave any traces at Treblinka and later to build
a farmhouse there.”
As I do not know this order, I asked David Irving to send me a copy. On
April 9, he answered that he would do so later. Since I have not got the
document yet, I am unable to comment on it, however I am absolutely sure that
it does not contain any reference to mass murder, for if this were the case, it
would be quoted in every single work of Holocaust literature.
- “The decoded Höfle radio message from January 1943 and in this connection
the Korherr report.”
In his well-known 1943 report[15],
Richard Korherr wrote that by the end of 1942 1,274,166 Jews had been moved
through the camps in the General Gouvernement. The Höfle radio message[16]
confirms Korherr’s figure of 1,274,166 and specifies that 24,733 of the
deportees had been sent to L. (Lublin/Majdanek), 434,508 to B. (Belzec),
101,370 to S. (Sobibor) and 713,355 to T. (Treblinka). Neither of the two
documents states that the deportees were killed.
“For 1942 and 1943, Himmler’s documents which reveal the extent of the
Reinhardt loot: Jewels, watches, coins.”
The fact that the Germans robbed the Jews of their jewels, watches and
coins does not prove that they murdered them.
Thus none of the documents mentioned by Irving furnishes any proof that the
Reinhardt camps were extermination centers.
The last two “proves” belong to the category of hearsay. What the Mufti of
Jerusalem claimed to have heard from Himmler, or what somebody claimed the
Mufti had claimed to have heard from Himmler, has no historical value. Even
more preposterous is the reference to the “personal interrogation of two witnesses
about Belzec”. Imagine the following dialogue:
Hiroshima denier: “I do not believe for a moment that the Americans
really dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945. That’s just silly
Japanese atrocity propaganda.”
David Irving: “I think you are wrong. Two years ago, I went to Hiroshima
where I personally interrogated two old Japanese who had witnessed the bombing
as children. If their statements are true, they prove that the Americans indeed
dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.”
If hundreds of thousands of Jews had really been murdered at Belzec, we
could do without “eyewitness evidence.” Irving’s argument reminds me of the
pathetic “Belzec expert” Michael Treguenza who wrote about the pyres of Belzec:
“There is much disagreement on the subject of the number of pyres at
Belzec. Witnesses from the village state that up to five pyres were in use,
whereas SS personnel spoke of two pyres during the judicial proceedings in
Munich in 1963/1964. Assuming that a minimum of 500,000 corpses were burned on
two pyres, one has to assume, for five pyres, a much higher figure – possibly
twice as high – than the 600,000 persons officially assumed so far.”[17]
So Treguenza “proves” the murder of up to 1,200,000 Jews at Belzec by means
of gossip he has heard from some old people several decades after the war! This
kind of “evidence” may be good enough for a clown like Treguenza. For a serious
and self-respecting historian, it is in no way good enough.
David Irving’s death toll for the Reinhardt camps
In his standard work about the “Holocaust,” Raul Hilberg claims that
750,000 Jews were murdered at Treblinka, 550,000 at Belzec, and 200.000 at
Sobibor[18],
which means that according to Hilberg, the total death toll for the three
Reinhardt camps was 1.5 million. This figure is lower by 900,000 than the one
peddled by David Irving (1.274 million for 1942 plus more than a million for
1943 = about 2.4 million).
But the absurdities do not end here. Consider the following:
-Hilberg’s figure of 550,000 Belzec victims is impossible because according
to the Höfle document (which was not yet known in 1985 when Hilberg published
the second and “definitive” edition of his book) 434,508 Jews were deported to
Belzec until December 31, 1942. Since everybody agrees Belzec was closed at the
end of 1942, no deportations to this camp can have occurred in 1943.
- In view of this fact, the total death toll for this camp can not possibly
have exceeded 434,508, even if every single Jew deported to Belzec was killed
there (as both Hilberg and Irving assume).
- If Irving is right, and if 2.4 million Jews were indeed exterminated at
the three Reinhardt camps, but “only” 434,508 of them at Belzec, the remaining
1,965,492 victims must have been murdered at Treblinka and Sobibor. This would
mean that Hilberg’s combined figure for these two camps (750,000 + 200,000 =
950,000) is too low by more than one million!
Difficile est satiram non scribere – It is difficult not to write a satire!
The case of the missing murder weapon
In his reply to my questions, David Irving stated that it is not proven
that the (alleged) extermination at the Reinhardt camps was carried out by
means of gas. Since Irving did not mention any alternative killing method (e.
g. shooting), this implies that the murder weapon is simply not known.
We exactly know how the victims died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: They were
killed by the explosion of the atomic bombs, or later succumbed to
radioactivity. We exactly know how the victims died in Dresden: They were burned
alive, or suffocated under the debris of their houses. We exactly know how the
victims died at Katyn: They were shot by Stalin’s henchmen. We exactly know how
the victims died at Eisenhower’s Rhine meadow camps: They were deliberately
starved to death.
According to David Irving, 2.4 million people were murdered at the three
Reinhardt camps – far more than in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, Katyn and the
Rhine meadow camps combined. But we do not know how they were killed! Of
course, this implies that is not a single reliable eyewitness for the Reinhardt
holocaust, for if such a witness existed, we would know how the victims were
exterminated, at least at his or her camp.
Let us sum up: David Irving is unable to produce the slightest documentary
evidence for the alleged mass murder at Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka. He
implicitly admits that there is not a single trustworthy witness. But if there
are no documents and no trustworthy witnesses, what evidence are his claims
based upon?
Does he claim that there is forensic evidence, i. e. huge amounts of human
remains found at the site of the three Reinhardt camps? No, he does not. He
does not even mention the Kola report which, according to the orthodox
historians, proves that Belzec was an extermination camp. (We will discuss this
report later.)
The diesel gas chamber story
According the official “Holocaust” literature, the (alleged) mass murders
at Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec were carried out with
diesel exhaust. But as engineer Friedrich Berg has shown in his carefully
researched article “Diesel Gas Chambers: Ideal for Torture, Absurd for Murder”[19],
diesel engines are an extremely poor murder weapon because they put out very
low quantities of CO, but contain a high percentage of oxygene. Any gasoline
engine would be infinitely more suitable for mass murder than a diesel. Berg’s
arguments were so iron-clad that the Holocaust lobby made no attempt to refute
them. In Debating the Holocaust Thomas Dalton states:
“The [diesel engine] topic is
almost completely avoided by every anti-revisionist writer. […] This is a
strong implicit admission that traditionalism has no reply to Berg and the revisionists.
[...] Most recently the bloggers have attempted to address this issue. After
admitting that ‘it is simply not feasible to use diesel engines for gassings…
when one has acess to petrol engines’, Romanov[20]
claims that the diesel issue is ‘irrelevant’ because, in his view, anyone who
claimed that the gassing engine was a diesel was simply mistaken. He argues
that the ‘most knowledgeable’ witnesses mentioned gasoline, but he can cite
only two: Fuchs (for Sobibor only), and Reder, who said the exhaust gas was
sent into the open air!”[21]
Let me add that the argument of the ridiculous blogger S. Romanov (“The
diesel issue is irrelevant”) reveals the queer mindset of this individual:
There is neither documentary nor material evidence for the “Aktion Reinhardt”
holocaust, and there are no trustworthy witnesses either (for what credit can
be given to witnesses who “were simply mistaken” as the murder weapon?), but
nonetheless the Aktion Reinhardt holocaust is a proven and indisputable fact!
In other words: The pillars on which the edifice once rested are gone, but the
edifice is still standing, or rather hovering in the air! A major miracle!
Can David Irving possibly be unaware of the absurdity of the diesel gas
chamber story? No, he can’t. At the 1983 revisionist conference, which Irving
attended, Friedrich Berg presented a paper which already contained nearly all
the arguments adduced in his 2003 article[22].
Irving, who delivered his speech on the same day as Berg, stated:
“I must say that I have been deeply impressed by Mr. Friedrich Berg’s
lecture earlier this afternoon. I have found a great deal in his lecture which
was greatly impressive.”[23]
So as early as in 1983, Irving knew that the diesel exhaust story is
rubbish! That is why he is now compelled to state that it is unproven that the
(alleged) mass murder was carried out by gas, and that this issue is “highly
controversial.”
The evolution of the extermination legend
Almost immediately after the three Reinhardt camps had been put into
operation, Jewish and Polish groups started spreading all kind of fantastic
rumours about mass killings in these camps. The knowledge of these stories is
of vital importance for an understanding of how the currently dominant
historical version of these camps came about and what level of credibility can
be ascribed to it.
Let us begin with Belzec. According to the self-styled “eyewitness” Jan
Karski, Jews were exterminated at Belzec by means of quicklime in trains[24].
However, most “witnesses” mentioned killing by electricity. On July 10, 1942,
the Polish government in exile in London received the following report:
“According to information from a German who is employed there, the place of
execution is at Belzec, near the station. […] Once discharged, the men go into
a barrack on the right, the women into one on the left, to undress, supposedly
for taking a bath. Then the groups go together into a third barrack with an
electric plate, where the execution occurs.”[25]
In a book published in Stockholm in 1944 and translated into English a year
later, the Hungarian Jew Stefan Szende described how million of Jews had been
killed at Belzec by electricity in “the underground premises of the execution
building”:
“When trainloads of naked Jews arrived they were herded into a great hall
capable of holding several thousand people. This hall had no windows and its
flooring was of metal. Once the Jews were all inside, the floor of this hall
sank like a lift into a great tank of water which lay below it until the Jews
were up to their waists in water. Then a powerful electric current was sent
into the metal flooring and within a few seconds all the Jews, thousands at a
time, were dead.”[26]
In its official report on the German crimes in Poland, presented by the
Soviets at the Nuremberg trial, the Polish government wrote the following about
Belzec:
“In the early months of 1942, reports came in that in this camp, special
installations for the mass execution of Jews were being built. Under the
pretext that they were being taken to a bath, they were undressed completely
and pushed into the building. A strong electric current passed through the
floor of this building.”[27]
The horror stories about Sobibor were quite different. While the Jewish
witness Zelda Metz claimed that at this camp the Jews were “asphyxiated with clorine”[28],
the Soviet witness Alexander Pechersky depicted the alleged mass murder in the
following way:
“As soon as they all have entered, the doors are closed with a heavy thump.
A heavy black substance comes down in swirls from openings in the ceiling. One
hears frantic screams, but not for very long because they change to gasping
suffocating breaths and convulsions.”[29]
The case of Treblinka is even more instructive. While some of the earlier
witnesses indeed mentioned gas chambers, none of them claimed that the murder
weapon was a diesel engine. On August 17, 1942, the Polish underground
newspaper Informacja biezaca spoke of a mobile gas chamber which moved
along the mass graves[30].
Three weeks later, on September 8, the same paper described the alleged
gassings as follows: The victims were exposed to a gas with retarded effect,
whereupon they left the gas chambers, walked to the mass graves, fainted and
fell into the graves[31].
However, the main killing method depicted by the witnesses was hot steam. On
November 15, 1942, the Resistence Movement of the Warsaw Ghetto published a
long report in which it stated that between late July and early November, two
million Jews had been exterminated at Treblinka in steam chambers[32].
In August 1944, the Red Army conquered the area around Treblinka, and a
Soviet commission questioned former inmates of the camp. What murder weapon
would it opt for – gas or steam? As a matter of fact, it chose neither, but
claimed in its report that three million people had been killed at Treblinka by
pumping the air out of the execution chambers![33]
In September 1944, a professional atrocity propaganda monger, the Jew Wassili
Grossman, honoured Treblinka with his visit. In his pamphlet The Hell of
Treblinka Grossman confirmed the figure of three million victims; as he obviously
did not know which of the three killing methods (steam, gas and pumping the air
out of the chambers) would finally prevail, he prudently mentioned all of them
in his booklet[34].
At the Nuremberg trial, the accusers of Germany chose the steam version. On
December 14, 1945, the Polish government issued a document which was presented
by the Soviets in Nuremberg and according to which “several hundreds of
thousands” of people had been exterminated at Treblinka by means of steam[35].
But in 1946, the official version changed. As it was simply not credible that
the Germans should have used all kind of completely different killing methods
in the three Reinhardt camps, the steam chambers, electric killing
installations etc. were relegated to the dustbin of history and replaced by
diesel engines. The reason for this choice was undoubtedly the Gerstein report.
In early 1946, this report – which decades later was brilliantly analyzed by
French revisionist Henri Roques[36]
– had monopolized the attention of the historians, and Gerstein, who claimed to
have witnessed a gassing of Jews at Belzec, had identified the murder weapon as
a diesel engine. That’s how the diesel gas chamber myth was born.
It would be quite interesting how our intellectual titan, the blogger S.
Romanov, would react if presented with the statements of all these
eyewitnesses. Most probably he would argue that the witnesses had actually seen
a gasoline engine, but unfortunately failed to identify it correctly. The first
witness had identified it as a train wagon the floor of which was covered with
quicklime, the second as an electrified plate in a barrack, the third as an
electrified plate in a huge subterranean basin, the fourth as a ceiling with
openings through which a black liquid was poured, the fifth as a mobile gas
chamber moving along mass graves, the sixth as a steam-generating boiler, the
seventh as a pump by means of which the air was pumped out of the chambers, and
the eighth as a diesel engine! But these minor differences were entirely
irrelevant, as the Aktion Reinhardt Holocaust was a proven historical fact!
Does David Irving know these eyewitness reports? If he has not read the
revisionist literature, he cannot possible know them as they are never ever
mentioned in the official literature. In his “standard work” about the Reinhard
camps, Yitzhak Arad quotes an excerpt from the report of the resistance
movement of the Warsaw Ghetto, but shamelessly distorts the text by replacing
the embarrassing “steam chambers” by “gas chambers”![37]
If Irving has read the revisionist literature, he does indeed know these
ludicrous stories, but there is really not much he can say about them.
The results of the excavations at Treblinka (1945)
It is universally admitted that none of the three Reinhardt camps had
crematoria. According to the “Holocaust” historians, the bodies of the gassed
Jews were burned in the open air in 1943. This alone suffices to make the
official version highly improbable from the beginning. All “normal”
concentration camps, such as Dachau and Buchenwald, for which no mass killings
are claimed, had crematoria, so why didn’t the German build crematoria at the
“extermination camps” where they would have been a hundred times more
necessary?
Based on several cremation experiments, Carlo Mattogno assumes that 160 kg
of wood are necessary to cremate a human body with a weight of 45 kg[38].
He calculates that the burning of 870,000 corpses would have left 1,950 tons of
human ashes, plus 11,100 tons of wood ashes. The total volume of ashes would
have amounted to approximately 48,000 cubic meters. Since human teeth and bones
cannot be completely destroyed through open air cremations, myriads of teeth
and bone fragments would have been scattered at the site of the former camp.
Had the Soviet and the Poles found but 10% of these ashes, teeth and bone
fragments, they would have had a very serious case against the Germans. They
would have summoned an international commission – just as the Germans had done
after discovering the mass graves at Katyn – and presented the results of the
forensic investigations at the Nuremberg trial. They would not have been forced
to resort to the “steam chamber” nonsense.
In November 1945, a Polish team headed by the judge Zdzislaw Lukaszkiewicz
carried out an excavation on the area of the former camp Treblinka and
subsequently wrote a report which was published thirty years later (!)[39].
On the first day of the excavations, the diggers found “a large amount of
Polish, Soviet, German, Austrian and Czech coins, plus fragments of pots and
pans”, but no human remains. On the second day they discovered “all kind of
tableware, different household objects, shreds of garments, a large amount of
more or less seriously damaged Polish documents, the badly damaged identity
card of a German Jew and more coins”. On the third day, they found “a
considerable amount of human ashes and human remains”. On the fourth days, they
discovered “fragments of all kind of cutlery, a large number of rags, Greek,
Slovak and French coins, plus the remainders of a Soviet passport”. On November
13, Lukaszkiewicz ordered the excavation to be stopped, because he considered
the discovery of further graves “improbable”.
That the Poles found any human remains at all will come as a surprise to
nobody. According to the Höfle document, 713,355 Jews were sent to Treblinka in
1942, and the deportations continued until August 1943, albeit at a much slower
rate. Under these circumstances, one cannot but assume that several thousand
deportees must have died at the camp.
The results of the archeological drillings at Belzec (1997-1999)
In 1997, the United States Holocaust Museum and a similar Polish
organization decided to undertake archeological drillings and diggings within
the area of the former camp at Belzec. The work was conducted by a team of
archeologists led by Professor Andrzej Kola who published the results in 2000[40].
In his aforementioned book about Belzec, Carlo Mattogno performs a very
detailed analysis of the Kola report, which I will presently summarize.
It goes without saying that the only rational method would have consisted
in digging up the whole territory of the former camp, but this is precisely
what Kola and his team did not do. They proceeded in the following way:
Drilling was conducted in the designated area at 5 m intervals with a manual
drill 8 m long and with a diameter of 65 mm. Altogether 2,277 drillings were
sunk, and mass graves were identified by 236 of them. The earth samples taken
in this way were then analyzed to determine their contents. The research
resulted in the discovery of 33 graves in two separate areas of the camp. The
32 graves had a total surface of 5,919 square meters and a total volume of
21,310 cubic meters.
Although Kola and his team discovered not only human ashes and bone
fragments, but also a certain number of unburned corpses, they inexplicably
failed to excavate them. Their book contains a photographic documentation
of objects found in the area of the camp. The photographs show the most
insignificant junk: horseshoes, keys and padlocks, pots and scissors, combs,
coins and bottles, but not a single photograph shows a corpse or part of a
corpse!
On the basis of experimental data, the maximum capacity of a mass grave can
be set at 8 corpses, assuming that one third of them are children.
Theoretically, the surface area of the Belzec graves would thus have been
sufficient to inter 170,000 corpses. If this had been the case, the
revisionists would be forced to admit that Belzec had indeed been an
extermination camp, for 170,000 people could not possibly have died from
“natural causes” in a camp which existed only for nine and a half months. On
the other hand, Belzec could not have been a total extermination camp:
According to the Höfle document, 434,000 people were deported there, and if
170,000 of them had been killed there, the other 264,000 would have left the
camp alive.
As a matter of fact, the capacity figure of 170,000 corpses is based on two
entirely unrealistic assumptions: A maximized surface/volume of the graves and
a maximum density of corpses in them. As to the first point, Kola remarked:
“In the first zone, as we can suppose, the connecting of smaller
neighbouring graves into bigger ones by the destruction of the
earthen walls separating them was observed. […] Additional disturbances in
archeological structures were made by intensive dig-ups directly after the war
while local people were searching for jewelry. This fact makes it difficult for
the archeologists to define precisely the ranges of burial pits.”[41]
Already in 1946, the prosecutor of the town of Zamosc had stated that the
camp site had been “completely dug up by the local population in their search
for valuables”[42].
As to the second point, of the 236 samples taken in connection with the
graves, 99 contained no human remains at all, while more than half of the
remaining 137 show a very thin layer of human ashes. Carlo Mattogno concludes:
“Although it is impossible to establish the number of the deaths, it is
nonetheless possible to infer, from what has been discussed above, an order of
magnitude of several thousands, perhaps even some tens of thousands.”[43]
Personally, I consider the latter figure (“some tens of thousands”)
extremely unlikely, although I cannot exclude it with absolute certainty.
Probably several thousand Jews died at Belzec.
Sobibor or the scientific report that never was
About the third Reinhardt camp, Sobibor, a young and talented revisionist,
Thomas Kues, furnishes the following information:
“In an article published in The Scotsman on November
26, 2001, we read that Polish archaeologist A. Kola and his team had discovered
seven mass graves at the Sobibor site. […] Despite seven years having passed
since the drills and diggings were reportedly made, not a single article, paper
or scientific report has appeared on them, neither in English, Polish, nor in
any other language.”[44]
Why was “not a single article, paper or scientific report” published about
the result of the drillings and diggings, “neither in English, Polish, or any
other language”? The answer to this question is all too obvious!
Two important documents Irving deliberately ignores
In the light of the above-mentioned facts, the Reinhardt camps cannot
possibly have been extermination centers. They cannot have been labour camps
either because they were much too small to accommodate the enormous number of
people deported to them. This leaves but one possibility: Treblinka, Belzec and
Sobibor were transit camps. This conclusion squares with the numerous German
wartime documents which speak of the “evacuation” or “expulsion” of the Jews to
the east. It also squares with two important documents about Belzec and Sobibor
which David Irving deliberately ignores because they contradict his thesis.
On March 17, 1942, Fritz Reuter, an employee in the Department of
Population and Welfare in the Office of the Governor General for the District
of Lublin, made a note in which he referred to a talk on the previous day with
the SS Hauptsturmführer H. Höfle, the delegate for Jewish resettlement in the
Lublin district. Reuter wrote:
“It would be expedient to divide the transports of Jews arriving in the
Lublin district at the station of origin into employable and unemployable Jews.
[…] All unemployable Jews are to come to Bezec [sic], the outermost border station in the Zamosz district.
Hauptsturmführer Höfle is thinking of building a large camp in which the
employable Jews can be registered in a file system according to their
occupations and requisitioned from there. […] In conclusion he [Höfle] stated
that he could accept 4-5 transports of 1.000 Jews to the terminal station Bezec
daily. These Jews would cross the border and never return to the General
Gouvernement.”[45]
There can be no doubt whatsoever about the meaning of this document: Jews
unable to work would be expelled from the General Gouvernement and deported to
the occupied eastern territories. The sentence that Belzec was “the outermost
border station in the Zamosz district” makes sense only in connection with an
expulsion beyond the border. Like Sobibor, Belzec was situated in the extreme
east of the General Gouvernement, close to the Ukrainian frontier.
Of course, David Irving could claim that Reuter had used a code language
and that “cross the border and never return to the General Gouvernement” was a
code expression for “will be killed at Belzec”, but I would not advise him to do
so, because that would be too ridiculous.
On 15 July, 1943, Heinrich Himmler ordered:
“The transit camp Sobibor is to be converted into a concentration camp.”[46]
So Sobibor was officially called a transit camp (Durchgangslager).
The three Reinhardt camps were transit camps
On July 31, 1942, the Reichskommissar of Bielorussia, Wilhelm Kube, sent a
telegram to the Reichskommissar for the occupied Eastern territories, Henrich
Lohse, in which he protested against the deportation of 1000 Warsaw Jews to
Minsk[47].
As the deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto had commenced eight days
before, and as everybody agrees that at that time all Warsaw Jews were deported
to Treblinka, the 1000 Jews mentioned by Kube must by necessity have been
deported to Minsk via Treblinka. On August 17, 1942, the illegal Polish
newspaper Informacja Biezaca reported that 2000 skilled Jewish workers
had been deported from Warsaw to Smolensk on August 1[48].
On September 7, 1942, the same paper informed that two transports with 4000
persons had been sent for labour at installations important for the war effort
in Brzesc and Malachowicze[49].
I am aware that these figures represent but a small part of the Jews
transported to Treblinka and that the anti-revisionists will claim that these
cases were “exceptions”. But every single Jew who left Treblinka, or one of the
two other Reinhardt camps, alive deals a blow to the official version according
to which they were “pure extermination centers” where all Jews, regardless of
age and health, were gassed on arrival. If the antirevisionists call the
aforementioned cases “exceptions”, we are entitled to ask them how many other
such “exceptions” there may have been.
A certain number of Jews were sent from the Reinhardt camps to Majdanek and
to Auschwitz. A Polish historian who can hardly be suspected of revisionist
sympathies, Zofia Leszczynska, reports that in October of 1942, 1,700 Jews left
Belzec for Majdanek[50].
This fact is amply sufficient to shatter the official version according to
which less than ten Jews survived Belzec.
In an article about “Jews at Majdanek” the Jewish historians Adam Rutkowski
and Tatiana Berenstein state:
“Some of the transports from Warsaw reached Lublin by way of Treblinka,
where the selection of the deportees took place.”[51]
For the official historiography, this fact is simply lethal! On 30 April
1942, a transport with 305 Jews arrived at Majdanek from Treblinka. One of
these Jews, Samuel Zylbersztain, later wrote a report about his plight[52].
After the “extermination camp” Treblinka and the “extermination camp” Majdanek,
Zylbersztain had survived eight “normal concentration camps”. He is thus a
living proof that the Germans did not exterminate their Jewish prisoners.
The author of the most detailed book about Sobibor[53],
the Dutch Jew Julius Schelvis, was himself an inmate of this camp. He naturally
presents Sobibor as a death factory, but his description is solely based on
what he has heard from others or read in books, for he only spent a few hours
at the camp. From Sobibor, he was deported to Lublin and later to Auschwitz
whence he finally returned to the Netherlands. Schelvis was not an isolated
case: At least 700 other Dutch Jews were moved from Sobibor to labour camps,
and some of them returned home via Auschwitz – another “extermination camp”
where the Germans apparently forgot to “gas” them[54].
The case of Minna Grossova, a Czech Jewess, is particularly significant:
born in September 1874, she was deported to Treblinka on October 19, 1942.
Although Treblinka was allegedly a “pure extermination camp” where even
able-body Jews were gassed on arrival, Mrs. Grossova was not gassed, but
transferred to Auschwitz – where, according to the “Holocaust” lore, all Jews
who were unable to work were immediately sent to the “gas chambers” without
previous registration. Again, Mrs. Grossova was not gassed, but duly
registered. She died on December 30, 1943[55].
From the point of view of the orthodox “Holocaust” story, the fate of this woman
is absolutely inexplicable.
The fact that relatively few transports of Jews from the Reinhardt camps to
other destinations are documented can be explained quite easily. As early as in
1945, the victors of the Second World War decided to perpetuate the Jewish
extermination legend, and we may safely assume that countless documents
contradicting the official truth were either hidden or destroyed. Now some
people might accuse me of resorting to the same trick as the orthodox
historians who claim that there is no documentary evidence for homicidal gas
chambers because “the Germans destroyed the documents”, but such an accusation
would be groundless, since my position is much more solid. If there were but
one document proving the gassing of Jews, I would readily admit that there
might have been others, but although 64 years have elapsed since the end of the
war, no such document has emerged. On the other hand, we have seen that there
are documents proving that Jews were sent from the Reinhardt camps to other destinations
– and for each such document there may have been a hundred others.
Once a “Holocaust denier”, always a “Holocaust denier”!
David Irving is an extremely intelligent man, but unfortunately he is
totally amoral. For him, truth is negotiable. He is prepared to say anything if
he thinks it might enhance his carreer.
Irving is longing for the good old times when he was invited to TV
discussions, when his books were favourably reviewed and sold well. He wants
these good old times to return. On the other hand, he knows that Western
society is controlled by the Jews, and that he will be treated as an outcast as
long as the Jews call him a “Holocaust denier”, so he wants to get rid of this
label at any cost. Rather than waiting for the collapse of Jewish power (which
may or may not occur in his lifetime), he tries to offer the Jews a bargain.
His only real problem is Auschwitz. He has never contested any of the other
aspects of the “Holocaust” story. He has always maintained that the Germans
shot a huge number of Jews on the Eastern front (in the eighth chapter of Treblinka
– Extermination Camp or Transit camp? he could find compelling
evidence that the reports of the Einsatzgruppen, which allegedly
prove such a gargantuan slaughter and which Irving seems to accept
unquestioningly, are highly suspect because they are contradicted by other
German documents and not corroborated by forensic evidence). He has never
disputed the alleged mass murders at the Reinhardt camps, or Majdanek. He has
explicitly admitted the existence of the “gas vans” allegedly used at Chelmno
and in the occupied Soviet territories. But he has so often and so vociferously
defended the revisionist position on Auschwitz that his pride forbids him to
back down in this one question; he is at best willing to concede the
possibility that some gassings took place at Auschwitz on a limited scale.
According to Raul Hilberg, one million Jews perished at Auschwitz [56]. As the number of Jews who
died at Auschwitz from so-called “natural causes” (disease, exhaustion etc.)
cannot possibly have exceeded 100.000, this implies that about 900.000 Jews
must have died in the “gas chambers” of that camp). So what does David Irving
do? He claims that 2.4 million Jews, rather than Hilberg’s 1.5 million, were
murdered at the three Reinhardt camps Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka, thus
offering the Jews full compensation for the roughly 900.000 “Auschwitz gas
chamber victims” he has robbed them of.
But David Irving has reckoned without his host. Apparently he is still
unable to understand the mindset of his tormentors. By questioning the
Auschwitz story, he has, from the Jewish point of view, committed the worst of
all sacrileges, because Auschwitz is the heart of the “Holocaust” story,
although, according to Hilberg, it accounts for less than one fifth of the
“Holocaust victims”. The Jews will never forgive David Irving this sacrilege.
Even if he suddenly claimed that the Germans gassed one million Jews at
Majdanek, plus two million at Chelmno, plus three million at Sobibor, plus five
million at Belzec, plus ten million at Treblinka, and that they shot twenty
million Jews on the Russian front, this would be of no avail: The Jews and
their stooges would continue branding him as a “Holocaust denier”. This label
he will never get rid of as long as the Western World is ruled by Jews.
A warning to David Irving
I do not know when David Irving’s long-announced book about Heinrich
Himmler will be published, but I fear that I already know the gist of it: Yes,
the Holocaust did indeed happen; millions of Jews were indeed exterminated, but
only an insignificant part of them were gassed at Auschwitz. 2.4 million Jews
were killed by some unknown means at Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec; between one
and two million were shot, or murdered in gas vans, on the killing fields of
Russia. For this crime Adolf Hitler bears no responsibility whatsoever. It was
ordered and organized by the Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, who somehow
managed to hide this gigantic massacre from his Führer.
As Heinrich Himmler has few admirers even among avowed National Socialists,
Irving obviously regards him as the ideal scapegoat. I warn David Irving that
the only effect of such statements will be to ruin what little credibility he
still has. But the worst is that they will constitute a formidable slander.
Heinrich Himmler may be guilty of many things, but nobody, not even David
Irving, has the right to accuse him of ordering and organizing a monstruous
slaughter he cannot possibly have ordered and organized for the simple reason
that it did not take place.
An advice to David Irving
Like other brilliant men before him, David Irving has fallen deep, but who
has fallen can rise again. I advise David Irving to remember the old adage:
“Facts are tyrants, they tolerate no dissent.” Let us hope that David Irving
will muster the necessary courage to face the facts and to draw the inevitable
conclusions. There is simply no other way he can save his honour and restore
his credibility.
April 2009
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[2] Robert Faurisson, “A Challenge to David Irving”, Journal of Historial
Review, Volume 5, 1984.
[3] Fred Leuchter, An Engineering Report on the alleged “Gas Chambers” at
Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek, Poland, Samisdat Publishers, Toronto
1988.
[4] Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust, Free Speech Press, New
York 1994.
[5] Bundesarchiv Koblenz, R. 58/871.
[6] Ingrid Weckert, “’Massentötungen’ oder Desinformation?”, Historische
Tatsachen, Nr. 24, Verlag für Volkstum und Zeitgeschichtsforschung, Vlotho
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[7] Pierre Marais, Les camions à gaz en question, Polémiques, Paris
1994.
[8] England and Wales High Court (Queen’s Bench Division), Decision David
Irving v. Penguin Books Limited, Deborah E. Lipstadt, 7.11.
[9] Ibidem, 13.71.
[10] Theses and Dissertations Press, Chicago 2004.
[11] http://www.fpp.co.uk/
[12] Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf, Treblinka – Extermination camp or transit
camp? Thesis and Dissertations Press, Chicago 2004.
[13] Raul Hilberg, Sonderzüge nach Auschwitz, Dumjahn, Munich 1981, p.
177.
[14] Ibidem, p. 181.
[15] NO-5194.
[16] Peter Witte, Stephen Tyas, “A New Document on the Deportation and Murder
of the Jews during ‘Einsatz Reinhardt’ 1942”, in: Holocaust and Genocide
Studies, no. 3, Winter 2001, pp. 469 f.
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Hayes (eds), „Arisierung“ im Nationalsozialismus, Volksgemeinschaft, Raub
und Gedächtnis, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt/Main, New York 2000, p. 253.
[18] Raul Hilberg, Die Vernichtung der europäischen Juden, Fischer
Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1997, p. 946.
[19] In: Germar Rudolf (Ed.), Dissecting the Holocaust, Theses and
Dissertations Press, Chicago 2003.
[20] S. Romanov, “Why the diesel issue is irrelevant”.
www.holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com
[21] Thomas Dalton, Debating the Holocaust, Theses and Dissertations Press,
Chicago 2003, p. 110, 111.
[22] Friedrich Berg, “The Diesel Gas Chambers – Myth within the Myth”, Journal
of Historical Review, Volume 5, 1984.
[23] David Irving, “On History and Historiography”, Journal of Historical
Review, Volume 5, 1984.
[24] Jan Karski, Story of a Secret State, Houghton Mifflin Company,
Boston 1944.
[25] Carlo Mattogno, Belzec…, p. 12.
[26] Stefan Szende, The Promise Hitler Kept, V. Gollancz, London 1945,
pp. 159 f.
[27] URSS-93, pp. 41 f.
[28] N. Blumental (ed.), Dokumenty i materialy, vol. I, Lodz 1946, p.
211.
[29] Yuri Suhl, Ed essi si ribellarono. Storia della resistenza ebraica
contro il nazismo, Milan 1969, p. 31.
[30] K. Marczweska, W. Wazniewski, “Treblinka w swietle Akt Delegatury Rzadu RP
na Kraji”, in: Biuletyn Glownej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w
Polsce, volume XIX, Warsaw 1968, p. 136 f.
[31] Ibidem, p. 138 f.
[32] Ibidem, p. 139-145.
[33] State Archives of the Russian Federation, Moscow, 7021-115-9, p. 108.
[34] Wassili Grossman, „Die Hölle von Treblinka“, in: Die Vernichtungslager
Maidanek und Treblinka, Stern-Verlag, Vienna 1945, p. 33.
[35] PS-3311.
[36] André Chelain (Ed.), Faut-il fusiller Henri Roques?, Polémiques,
Paris 1986.
[37] Yitzhak Arad, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka. The Aktion Reinhard Death Camps, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis 1987, pp. 334,
335.
[38] Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf, Treblinka – Extermination Camp or Transit
Camp?, chapter 4.
[39] Stanislaw Wojtczak, “Karny oboz pracy Treblinka I i osrodek zaglady
Treblinka II”, in: Biuletyn Glowney Komisji Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w
Polsce, Warsaw 1975, volume XXVI, pp. 183-185.
[40] A. Kola, Belzec: The Nazi Camp for Jews in the light of archeological
sources: Excavations 1997-1999, The Concil for the Protection of Memory and
Martyrdom, United States Holocaust Museum, Warsaw and Washington 2000.
[41] Ibidem, p. 65 f.
[42] Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen, Ludwigsburg252/59, vol. I,
p. 1227.
[43] Carlo Mattogno, Belzec…, p. 91.
[44] http://www.codoh.com/newrevoices/nrtksgwl.html
[45] Jozef Kermisz, Dokumenty i materialy do dziejow okupacji niemieckiej w
Polsce, vol. II: “Akce” i “Wysiedlenia”,
Warsaw-Lodz-Krakow 1946, p. 32 f.
[46] Reproduction of the document in: Tovi Blatt, Sobibor. The forgotten revolt,
H. E. P., Issaquah 1998, documentation without pagination.
[47] State Archives of the Russian Federation, Moscow, 7445-2-145, p. 80.
[48] Hoover Institute Library and Archives, Stanford, “Report on conditions in
Poland”, Annex No. 7, Box 29.
[49] K. Marczewska, W. Wazniewski, „Treblinka w swietle akt Delegatury...“, p.
137.
[50] Z. Leszczynska, „Transporty wiezniow do obozu na Majdanku“, Zeszyty
Majdanka, IV, 1969, p. 189.
[51] Tatiana Berenstein, Adam Rutkowski, „Zydzi w obozie koncentracijnym
Majdanek (1941-1944)“, Biuletyn Zydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego w Polsce,
no. 58, 1966, p. 16.
[52] Samuel Zylbersztain, „Pamietnik wieznia dziesieciu obozow“, Biuletyn
Zydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego w Polsce, no. 68, Warsaw 1968.
[53] Julius Schelvis, Vernichtungslager Sobibor, Metropol Verlag, Berlin
1998.
[54] Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf, Treblinka…, pp. 259-288.
[55] Terezinska Pametni Kniha, Terezinska Iniciativa, Melantrich 1995, p. 393.
[56] Raul Hilberg, Die Vernichtung der europäischen Juden, Fischer
Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1997, p. 946.
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