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Treblinka Camp, Located in Eastern Poland, Between the Summers of 1942 and 1943 CCarloarlo MMattogno,attogno, JJürgenürgen GGrafraf Holocaust survivors report that at least 700,000, if not as many as three million people primarily of Jewish faith were murdered in the Treblinka camp, located in eastern Poland, between the summers of 1942 and 1943. Various murder weapons are claimed to have been used: mobile or stationary gas chambers; poison gas with delayed or immediate effect; unslaked lime; hot steam; high voltage; machine guns; vacuum chambers; chlorine Camp? Transit or gas; Zyklon B; diesel exhaust gas. According to the witnesses, Extermination Camp TTreblinkareblinka the corpses of the victims were fi nally incinerated on pyres as high as a multi-story building without leaving any traces. • EExterminationxtermination CampCamp In the fi rst part of this book, the offi cial image portrait of Treblinka is subjected to a thorough critique regarding its oorr TTransitransit CCamp?amp? historical genesis, inner logic, and technical feasibility. The result of this analysis is essentially that the historical picture, which is prescribed by penal law in many European countries, is untenable, because it is nothing more than an uninterrupted chain of absurdities. In the second part of this book, the authors attempt to deter- mine the real function of the Treblinka camp with the help of witness statements, documents, and forensic fi ndings. Through their analysis, they conclude that Treblinka was a transit camp, through which Jews from Warsaw and other areas were led on their way either to occupied Soviet territories in the east or to Treblinka the Majdanek camp and other labor camps in the area south of Treblinka. • ISSN 1529–7748 ISBN 1–59148–000–0 ISBN 1-59148-000-0 HHOLOCAUSTOLOCAUST HHandbooksandbooks SeriesSeries 90000> VVolumeolume EEightight TThesesheses & DissertationsDissertations PPressress Jürgen Graf PPOO BBoxox 225776857768 Carlo Mattogno CChicago,hicago, IILL 60625,60625, USAUSA 9781591 480006 Treblinka Extermination Camp or Transit Camp? Treblinka Extermination Camp or Transit Camp? Carlo Mattogno and Jürgen Graf Theses & Dissertations Press PO Box 257768, Chicago, Illinois 60625 January 2004 HOLOCAUST Handbooks Series, vol. 8: Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka. Extermination Camp or Transit Camp? With an epilogue by Germar Rudolf Translated by Regina Belser Chicago (Illinois): Theses & Dissertations Press, Imprint of Castle Hill Publishers, January 2004 ISBN: 1-59148-000-0 ISSN: 1529-7748 © by Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf Original German edition: Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka. Vernichtungslager oder Durchgangslager? Castle Hill Publishers: Hastings, October 2002 ISBN 1-902619-05-6 Distribution Australia/Asia: Peace Books, PO Box 3300, Norwood, 5067, Australia Distribution Rest of World: Castle Hill Publishers UK: PO Box 118, Hastings TN34 3ZQ USA: PO Box 257768, Chicago, IL 60625 Set in Times New Roman. www.vho.org www.tadp.org Table of Contents Page Introduction .....................................................................................................9 Part 1: Treblinka: A Critical Analysis of the Official Version..................17 Chapter I: The Description of Treblinka in Historiography.....................19 1. Treblinka in Orthodox ‘Holocaust’-Literature.......................................19 a. Wassili Grossmann ............................................................................19 b. Rachel Auerbach................................................................................23 c. Zdzisław Łukaszkiewicz .....................................................................25 d. N. Blumental ......................................................................................26 e. Marian Muszkat.................................................................................27 f. Jean-François Steiner........................................................................27 g. Krystyna Marczewska/Władysław Waźniewski..................................29 h. Martin Gray .......................................................................................30 i. Gitta Sereny ........................................................................................30 j. Stanisław Wojtczak .............................................................................32 k. Adalbert Rückerl ................................................................................32 l. Alexander Donat.................................................................................33 m. The “Encyclopedic Informer” of the Main Commission ..................33 n. Eugen Kogon, Hermann Langbein, Adalbert Rückerl et al...............34 o. Claude Lanzmann ..............................................................................35 p. Yitzhak Arad.......................................................................................36 q. Ryszard Czarkowski...........................................................................37 r. J. Gumkowski and A. Rutkowski.........................................................37 s. Wolfgang Benz....................................................................................37 t. Richard Glazar ...................................................................................38 u. Jean-Claude Pressac .........................................................................40 v. Assessment .........................................................................................41 2. Treblinka in Revisionist Literature ........................................................41 a. Treblinka and the Gerstein Report ....................................................41 b. Friedrich P. Berg...............................................................................42 c. John C. Ball........................................................................................44 d. Udo Walendy......................................................................................44 e. Arnulf Neumaier.................................................................................45 f. The Thesis of the Transit Camp ..........................................................46 Chapter II: The Development of the Idea of Treblinka as an Extermination Camp.....................................................................................47 1. The Secondary Killing Methods ............................................................47 2. The Main Killing Method: Steam Chambers.........................................50 5 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka 3. Significance of the Report of November 15, 1942, for Historiography .......................................................................................62 4. From Steam Chambers to Carbon Monoxide Chambers .......................64 5. Origin of the Version of Carbon Monoxide Gas Chambers ..................70 6. Triumph of the Version of Carbon Monoxide Gas Chambers...............74 Chapter III: Investigations, Camp Plans, Statistics ...................................77 1. Soviet Investigations and Forensic Examinations .................................77 2. Polish Investigations and Forensic Examinations..................................82 3. Assessment of the Investigations...........................................................89 4. Plans of Treblinka..................................................................................91 5. Number of Victims of Treblinka: Origin of the Official Figure............96 Chapter IV: The Alleged Extermination Facilities in Treblinka: An Historical and Technical Analysis..............................................................111 1. Planning and Construction of the Eastern ‘Extermination Camps’ .....111 2. The Alleged Killing Installations in Treblinka ....................................116 3. Diesel engine or Gasoline Engine?......................................................121 4. The ‘Struggle’ between Engine Exhaust Gases and Hydrogen Cyanide Gas.........................................................................................125 5. The ‘Mission’ of Kurt Gerstein............................................................126 6. Russian Engines or German Engines? .................................................132 7. Gas Chambers or Asphyxiation Chambers? ........................................133 8. The Problem of Air Pressure in Gas Chambers ...................................136 9. The Burning of Bodies: The Mass-Graves ..........................................137 a. Number and Size of the Graves........................................................137 b. Site of the Mass-Graves ...................................................................138 c. The Excavated Earth........................................................................139 d. A Comparison with the Mass-Graves of Treblinka I .......................139 e. The Excavators of Treblinka ............................................................140 10. Early Cremations .................................................................................141 11. Cremation Facility ...............................................................................143 12. Cremation.............................................................................................145 a. Complexity of the Problem...............................................................145 b. Number and Structure of the Cremation Facilities..........................146 c. Arrangement of the Corpses on the Cremation Grates ...................148 d. Wood Requirement...........................................................................148
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