[WW2] - "De rena förintelselägren" (Treblinka II, Belzec, Sobibor och Chelmno)

"---The extermination claims have been so concentrated on Auschwitz that this book could justifiably end right here; because the central part of the extermination legend is false, there is no reason why the reader should believe any other part of it, even if the evidence might appear relatively decent at first glance. Hundreds of trained staff members were dispatched to Europe and employed there to gather the "evidence" for exterminations and related crimes, and we have seen what kind of story they have presented with respect to Auschwitz; a fabrication constructed of perjury, forgery, distortion of fact and misrepresentation of documents.---

More 'Extermination' Camps

The evidence for exterminations at Belzec, Chelmno, Lublin, Sobibor, and Treblinka is fairly close to zero. There is the Höss affidavit and testimony and the "Gerstein statement." There is a draft of a letter by Dr. Wetzel, another Nazi who became immune from prosecution, speaking of there being "no objections to doing away with those Jews who are unable to work, by means of the Brack remedy" (NO-0365). The draft is typewritten and apparently initialed by Wetzel, who had been head of the Race-Political Office of the NSDAP, but was transferred in 1941 to Rosenberg's Ministry for the East, where he served as the expert for Jewish affairs. There is no evidence that the letter, which is addressed to Hinrich Lohse, Reichskommissar for the Ostland (map, Fig. 3), was ever sent. A similar document, bearing a typewritten Wetzel signature, is NG-2325. Wetzel was not called as a witness at any of the Nuremberg trials, and was not threatened with prosecution until 1961, when he was arrested by German authorities in Hannover, but his case seems to have immediately disappeared from the public record, and nothing more was heard of him, except that he is said to have been finally charged in 1966; if such is the case it is odd that he is not listed in the 1965 East German Brown Book. However, no trial ever materialized.[307] We will have occasion to comment on Lohse below.

The Viktor Brack of Wetzel's letter was an official of the Führer-Chancellery, involved in the Nazi euthanasia program. The present claim is that the gas chambers in Poland, exclusive of those allegedly used at Auschwitz, "evolved" from the euthanasia program which, it is claimed, employed gas chambers. Despite Brack's testimony, it is difficult to believe that euthanasia was practiced in German hospitals by a method of gassing 20 or 30 persons at a time with carbon monoxide.[308] Auschwitz, of course, must be excluded from this "evolution" from the euthanasia program on account, among other reasons, of the Höss testimony. Reitlinger and Hilberg do not seem worried over the confusion thus created in the structure of the legend.---

It did not take long for the euthanasia program to appear in propaganda, and in December 1941 the BBC broadcast an address by author Thomas Mann, in which Mann urged the German people to break with the Nazis. In listing the Nazi crimes, Mann said:[310]

"In German hospitals the severely wounded, the old and feeble are killed with poison gas - in one single institution, two to three thousand, a German doctor said."

This seems to be the first appearance of gas chambers in the propaganda but, as far as we can see, this claim was not related to the extermination propaganda which started half a year later, and in the course of which no reference, apparently, was made to the euthanasia program. The relating of the euthanasia program to exterminations came much later.

At the IMT, the prosecution did not attempt to relate euthanasia to exterminations. It remained for a defense witness to do this. In the closing days of the IMT, Konrad Morgen appeared as a defense witness for the SS. We have seen that it was Morgen who had exposed the ring of murder and corruption centered around commandant Koch of Buchenwald. Morgen was thus considered a "good" SS man, in contrast to the bloodthirsty scoundrels who had been his colleagues and comrades (he continues to be considered a good guy, although not as good as Gerstein, who has by now achieved beatification in the "holocaust" litany). As a defense witness for the SS under seemingly hopeless circumstances, Morgen presented a story that had an inevitable logic to it and, indeed, the logic of Morgen's testimony has an importance in our analysis which transcends the immediate point we are discussing.

Morgen testified that in the course of his investigations of the camps, carried out in pursuance of his duty as an SS official, he unexpectedly encountered extermination programs at Auschwitz and at Lublin, but that SS involvement was nonexistent or minimal. At Lublin the exterminations were being conducted by Wirth of the ordinary criminal police, with the assistance of Jewish labor detachments (who were promised part of the loot). Wirth supervised three additional extermination camps in Poland, according to Morgen. Although the criminal police, the Kripo, was administratively under the RSHA, Morgen was careful to point out that Kriminalkommissar Wirth was not a member of the SS. Morgen claimed that Wirth had been attached to the Führer Chancellery, had been involved in the euthanasia program (which is possibly true), and had later received orders from the Führer Chancellery to extend his exterminating activities to the Jews. Although the only real point of Morgen's testimony was the futile attempt to absolve the SS, the testimony is considered "evidence" by Reitlinger and by Hilberg, who avoid considering the fact that Morgen, in his attempt at excusing the SS, also testified that at Auschwitz the extermination camp was Monowitz, the one of the complex of camps that was administered by Farben. Morgen did not go so far as to claim that Farben had its own company extermination program, but he declared that the only SS involvement consisted of a few Baltic and Ukrainian recruits used as guards, and that the "entire technical arrangement was almost exclusively in the hands of the prisoners."[311]

Morgen's ploy obviously inspired the prosecution anew, because it had not occurred to relate exterminations to euthanasia. It was too late to develop the point at the IMT, so it was developed in Case 1 at the NMT (actually the euthanasia program is loosely linked with exterminations in the "Gerstein statement," reproduced here in Appendix A - the Gerstein statement was put into evidence at the IMT long before Morgen's testimony, but nobody paid any attention to its text). To us, this relating of exterminations to euthanasia is just another example of the "excess fact"; the inventors were so concerned with getting some real fact into their story that it did not occur to them that there are some real facts that a good hoax is better off without.

This seems to cover the evidence for gassings at the camps in Poland exclusive of Auschwitz.

We again remark that the logic of Morgen's testimony, as courtroom defense strategy, is of some importance to our study. His side obviously calculated that the court was immovable on the question of the existence of the exterminations, and thus, Morgen's testimony invited the court to embrace the theory that somebody other than the SS was guilty.---"

"---> I just finished reading "A Spy for God" and thought it meticulously
> researched and documented but concluded that it raises far more
> questions than provides answers. It was the first time I had read
> Gerstein's entire 'confession' in his native German language, but will
> note that when one compares this statement with his written
> correspondence to his friends and relatives, it seems we are looking
at
> two completely different people! The extended German 'confession'
> which Gerstein allegedly composed whilst in custody is full of
> inexcusable grammatical errors and errant nonsense, while his personal
> letters reveal that the writer is a highly educated, literate and
> intelligent person. Certainly, portions of the statement are horrific
> descriptions of mass murder at places like Belzec, but it also
contains
> palpable errors of fact as well as bizarre, nearly incoherent
> ramblings, much like one would expect from a 'confession' extorted
from
> a person under threat or compulsion. So, which is it? Is Gerstein to
> be considered a reliable witness? Was he forced to write these
> confessions, or was he in fact, a seriously mentally unbalanced
> individual suffering perhaps from schizophrenia? How do we reconcile
> these flagrantly contradictory statements? Was he saint or sinner?
> Was he playing both ends against the middle? Or a victim,ultimately,
> of his interrogator's sense of lynch justice?---"

"---This pertains all the more for crematoria IV and V as well as for the sinister Farm Houses (Bunkers) which could have been aired out only via one or two doors. Since they are said to have been equally crammed full of bodies, with the Zyklon B scattered among them, the ventilation time would have been at least one day, the same as was required for ordinary room disinfestations.[139] What is more, ordinary rooms would allow for the removal of the Zyklon B, and generally have windows to facilitate ventilation and are not packed with bodies. Eyewitness testimony telling of work performed without the benefit of gas masks in these 'gas chambers' immediately or shortly after the gassing is thus utterly unbelievable. And even if the workers had worn gas masks - carrying the corpses would have been hard work (causing perspiration! cf. Section 3.1.), and in these rooms high in hydrogen cyanide any such work would have been extremely risky due to the potential for poisoning via the skin.---

Again we will ignore the problem of the Zyklon B input hatches, which demonstrably were not present in the ceilings of mortuaries 1 of crematoria II and III, and we will pretend that they were in fact there.

Under the given technical conditions, the executions with Zyklon B as recounted by the witnesses would not under any circumstances have been possible as rapidly as some allege ('a few moments', 'immediately'), and 'within a few minutes' only if horrendous quantities of Zyklon B had been used - which would have been nonsensical (too costly), dangerous and awkward at once. As well, the walls of the chambers would have been exposed to high concentrations of hydrogen cyanide for long periods of time. Mass executions with HCN in huge rooms would have required the application of gaseous HCN, blown in and evenly distributed by fans, or pure liquid HCN, evaporated and distributed by a mixed heating and ventilation device.[140]

The alleged entering of the 'gas chambers' without safety measures, the hard work performed in them - sometimes done bare-chested and while eating and smoking - and the simultaneous claim that great quantities of poison gas were used, combine to prove these witnesses guilty of making false statements.
"

"---One might naturally wonder why the SS are supposed to have decided to use Zyklon B as an instrument of mass murder. The Soviets, at any rate, killed countless millions of human beings either simply by shooting them in the back of the neck or allowing them to die in camps under miserable conditions. Surely it would have been simpler to leave the people deported to Auschwitz to their fate; they would have perished from hunger and epidemics within a very short time anyway. That is how the Americans murdered approximately 1 million German civilian internees after the end of the Second World War.[494] Instead, the SS at Auschwitz spent almost one billion dollars, in today's values, to bring the epidemics raging there under control, incurring huge expenditures on medical facilities, to cure the internees from the typhus epidemics, which were very often fatal.[495] This alone speaks volumes about the credibility of the conventional wisdom.---


Theoretically, one could, at that time, have chosen between nitrogen (N2), carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), phosgene (COCl2), chlorine (Cl2), hydrogen cyanide (HCN), nerve gases such as Tabun and Sarin, Diesel engine exhaust, internal combustion engine exhaust, producer gas, coke or city gas, process gas, and, possibly, still other, entirely different, instruments of mass murder, suitable even under completely different circumstances (shooting in the back of the neck, hunger, epidemics). But if one really wished to take the trouble to commit mass killings with poison gas, it is most probable that one would have used carbon monoxide, which is definitely lethal to human beings above 0.1%, for the following reasons:


The poison gas CO was available in limitless quantities and in lethal concentrations at giveaway prices, substantially cheaper than Zyklon B, on almost every street corner in the Third Reich:---


Toxic city gas with a CO portion of up to 30% by volume was available in every major city for a ridiculously low price. Consideration would obviously have been given to committing murder with it.


Process gas: The German corporate giant I.G. Farbenindustrie AG had already built a coal gasification/liquidification plant only a few kilometers away from Auschwitz concentration camp in the early 1940s. Here, by means of various conversion processes, coal was converted into chemical end products, from which oils, fats, fuels, and synthetic rubbers could be processed. The first step in this process is the generation of process gas, which has a similar composition to coke gas or city gas. The I.G. Farbenindustrie AG factory had a concentration camp in its immediate vicinity by the name of Monowitz, which was connected to the extensive system of more than 30 different Auschwitz concentration camps more than 30 kilometers in Upper Silesia and Western Poland. If the SS had looked for a simpler way to kill millions of Jews, the center of extermination certainly would have been built in the vicinity of Monowitz, with a direct process gas pipeline from the I.G. Farbenindustrie AG factory.


It would not have been necessary to order and store CO and pay attention to the use-by date, as was necessary in the case of Zyklon B; carbon monoxide would have been available at all times, as soon as the economical installations were completed.


The handling of CO would have been considerably simpler for the executioners. Almost the only thing to pay attention to would have been the opening and closing of the CO valve. The handling of Zyklon B, on the other hand, would have demanded a remarkable number of safety precautions on the part of the executioners. The wearing of gas masks, and, when possible, additional protective clothing (gloves), the careful opening of the cans with a suitable tool, the careful introduction of the carrier through the openings, the careful disposal of the Zyklon B residues.


CO can be introduced simply and quickly through pressure pipes or through a blower, while Zyklon B, on the other hand, releases its toxic fumes only slowly.


In the case of CO, there would not have been so many problems with ventilating the air in the mass execution areas as with hydrogen cyanide/Zyklon B, since the introduction of CO could be stopped simply by closing a valve, and because CO does not adhere to surfaces and is almost insoluble in water-in extreme contrast to hydrogen cyanide.


Zyklon B was scarce and expensive, and was needed everywhere to combat epidemics such as typhus, including in the army and German-allied armed forces, so that any avoidable squandering of it for other purposes would have been avoided-even, and especially, at Auschwitz, where typhus threatened not only the lives of the inmates, but also the guards and civilians entering the camp or who lived in the vicinity. In plain English, this means that the typhus epidemic in Auschwitz concentration camp threatened the extremely important production of the war industries located in Upper Silesia, the second-greatest industrial region in Germany after the Ruhr at that time. The struggle against epidemics, for which Zyklon B was undoubtedly needed, was therefore of the greatest importance, in larger quantities than the manufacturer, DEGESCH, was able to deliver at that time.

Naturally, CO would not necessarily speed up the execution procedure in comparison to hydrogen cyanide, but it would have been safer, more easily available nearby, less complicated, and cheaper.[497]

Certainly,

"the bottleneck in the extermination process [...would have been] the incineration of the bodies, not the gassing itself. [An appropriate equipment provided,] A thousand people could be killed in a matter of minutes, or an hour or two at most, counting the entire operation from arrival at the camp to the final ventilation of the gas chamber.

Yet to burn the bodies of those thousand people [...would have taken] quite a long while."[498]

As C. Mattogno and F. Deana have shown, the cremation installations at Auschwitz were never able to cremate the bodies of the dead from the various epidemics and other unhygienic conditions of Auschwitz camp which occurred anyway, not to mention the bodies allegedly occurring as the result of mass murders,[444] this is a further proof that there was never a program of mass homicide at Auschwitz.---"

Några av gaskamrarna hade inte riktiga ventilationssystem; i dessa användes gasmask av dem som släpade ut kropparna.

"(Fråga) 30. Hur lång tid tar det att helt ventilera ett område som gasats med Zyklon-B?

IHR skriver:
Normalt ungefär 20 timmar. Hela proceduren är extremt komplicerad och teknisk. Gasmasker måste användas och endast välutbildade tekniker arbetar.

Nizkor svarar:
Nej så är det inte. Siffran "20 timmar" är irrelevant av en mängd olika skäl.
För det första så avser siffran vanliga, oventilerade, kontors- eller bostadsbyggnader. Man bör inte återvända till en vanlig byggnad under denna tid, eftersom det saknas adekvat ventilation. Vidare så bidrar mängden av lösa föremål, såsom möbler, mattor, gardiner och så vidare till att förlänga tiden som det tar att återställa luftmiljön efter en gasning. De nazistiska gaskamrarna var tomma rum bestående av nakna betongväggar med riktig ventilation, något som gjorde att till och med en så kort period som fem minuter räckte för att byta ut all giftig luft mot frisk. (Se Gutman Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...enizkorproject , 1994, s. 232).
Dessutom har man i civil gasning en stor säkerhetsmarginal. Dessa marginaler används inte under krigstid och särskilt inte när målet är att döda tusentals människor på så kort tid som möjligt. Tyskarna hade massor av erfarenhet av gas i allmänhet och Zyklon i synnerhet eftersom det användes så ofta till avlusning.

Om uttalandet om "20 timmars ventilation" ovan var sant, skulle det betyda att liken efter folk som avrättats med cyanidgas i de amerikanska gaskamrarna skulle vara tvungna att sitta kvar fastspända i stolen 20 timmar efter sin avrättning.

Lösningen som nazisterna använde i de största gaskamrarna, var att installera ventilationssystem som helt kunde byta luften inne i kamrarna på mindre än fem minuter (se Gutman, Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp, 1994, s. 232). Det fanns också wirenät avsedda att ta bort Zyklon-B ur kamrarna, vilket ökade effektiviteten av ventileringen.

Och för litteraturdocenten Faurissons totalt osakliga påståenden om det fruktansvärt riskabala och därmed "omöjligheten" i att använda cyanväte för att döda mängder av människor , verkar han ha blivit föremål för någon slags kult av revisionisterna, där andra lika usla underbyggda påståenden av honom ständigt åberopas!

"---Belzec was the first camp in which large gas chambers were built. The
old wooden structure containing the three gas chambers was demolished, and
on the same spot a larger, strong building was erected, which was 24 m.
Iong and 10 m. wide. It contained six gas chambers. Statements differ as
to their size; they fluctuate between 4 x 4 m. and 4 x 8 m. The new gas
chambers were completed in mid July. (StA Munich 1, AZ: 22 Js 68/61, pp.
2602, 2613.)

Rudolf Reder was the only one to have survived the Belzec
extermination camp. He described the new gas chambers:

The building was low, long, and broad. It was built of grey
concrete and had a flat roof made of roofing felt, with a net over it
which was covered with branches. Three steps without bannisters led
into the building. They were ca. 1 m. wide. In front of the
building stood a large flowerpot with colorful flowers and a clearly
written placard: "Bath- and inhalation Rooms. " The steps led into a
dark, empty corridor which was very long, but only 1.5 m. wide. To
the left and right of it were the doors to the gas chambers. They
were wooden doors, 1 m. wide... The corridor ant the chambers were
lower than normal rooms, no higher than 2 m. In the opposite wall of
every chamber was a removable door through which the bodies of the
gassed were thrown out. Outside the building was a 2 x 2 m. shed
which housed the gas machine. The chambers were 1.5 m. above the
ground... (Rudolf Reder, Berzcc, Cracow, 1946, pp. 42 ff.)---"

"---600,000 Jews are supposed to have been murdered in Belzec between March and December 1942. According to which "historian" you read, between one and five Jews survived the camp (14), so that the monstrous Nazi machine proved itself especially efficient at Belzec. Star witness for the mass murders at Belzec is naturally Kurt Gerstein, who, it will be remembered, reported 20 - 25 million gassing victims, 35 - 40 m high piles of shoes and underwear, and 28 - 32 gas chamber inmates per square metre. Apart from Gerstein, there is only one "witness" to the gas chamber, a Polish Jew named Rudolf Reder, who is supposed to be one of the one to five survivors of the camp. Reder, however, spoke of three million gassing victims at Belzec (15).

For decades, the murder weapon at Belzec was supposed to have been a Diesel motor. During the initial development phase of the Holocaust yarn, nevertheless, all sorts of imaginable variants on this tale were current, ranging from Dr. Stefan Szende's submergible platforms to Jan Karski's quicklime cars, and even an electrical oven mentioned by Abraham Silberschein (16). All these tales have since disappeared into the rubbish bin of history.---"

"---The crimes of genocide committed in the death camps Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka only began to unravel during the euthanasia trials in 1948. [Treblinkas "ångkammare" hade ju dock tagits upp på ett löjligt och icke trovärdigt sätt i Nürnberg 1946: http://www.ukar.org/nuremb01.html ]
Heinrich Unverhau who had been in charge of the locomotive depot at Belzec (cutting out yellow stars after the victims had been gassed), was the first to be arrested and charged in connection with the killing of patients at Grafeneck euthanasia centre. It was during the course of the trial that information began to emerge about the Aktion Reinhard death camps.
Unverhau, after a lengthy hearing into the euthanasia allegations, was acquitted of all charges and released. His references to the death camps were held to be inadmissible and were disregarded by the court.

Even then, the wheels of justice were slow to turn. It was only in 1959 that the West German government instigated a wide-ranging investigation into the Aktion Reinhard death camps.
Belzec was first to be been identified as a major killing center in the East. At the conclusion of their enquiries and in quick succession, the "Belzec 8" were arrested and interrogated.
In August 1963, they were arraigned at the Munich Assizes indicted with several counts appertaining to the murder of several hundred thousand Jews in Belzec.

Although the defendants had made admissions, the defence proffered was a mixture of defensive lies, self exoneration to the actual killing and, not without some foundation, that they were in fear of their very lives and their families lives, should they not carryout the express orders of the Belzec camp commanders Wirth and Hering.
The defendants attempted to lessen their own involvement in the genocide, by suggesting that the "actions of destruction" could not have been carried out without the assistance of the Jews. They had suggested to the court that the Jews carried out the whole operation: removed the victims from the transports, cut the hair of the females, removed their bodies from the gas chambers, extracted gold teeth and buried the bodies in the pits, which they had previously prepared. Fortunately, on this point the court was not persuaded.---"