The Gas Vans: A Critical Investigation - Holocaust Handbooks

158 SANTIAGO ALVAREZ, THE GAS VANS
That’s not along the line of many other witnesses, but is not really
indicative of anything.
“I could not smell any gas.”
If the van had been filled with clearly visible smoke, after a few
minutes of venting the exhaust gasses inside the van would still have
been noticeable. Maybe the witness involuntarily tells us here indirectly
that these corpses were not the results of gassings?
“After the van had been emptied of the bodies, it returned to
Chemno. Two Jews passed the corpses to two ‘Ukrainians’ whose
names I do not know. They spoke Polish and wore civilian clothes.
There was one more ‘Ukrainian,’ but he was accidentally
trapped in the van and gassed along with other Jews. They tried to
rescue him by artificial respiration, but the attempt was unsuccessful.
I was there and saw it myself.”
This is yet another dramatic scene, which required that this poor
Ukrainian fellow had entered the van with the Jews during loading at
Chemno. How one can accidentally be gassed that way was apparently
incomprehensible even to the interrogating judge, leading to the witness’s
emphasis:
“I was there and saw it myself.”
Here again the already referred to Polish peasant Andrzej Miszczak,
a mere resident in the vicinity (p. 156), delivers us “converging proof” –
not necessarily for the reality of this event, but merely for the crossfertilization
among these witnesses interrogated in Poland right after the
war (Bednarz 1946c, p. 49):
“The eighth Pole [of the Chemno gassing Sonderkommando]
was ‘Marian’ who accidentally got into the vehicle and was poisoned.
This was during the first days of January.
In 1942 he was buried separately on the castle grounds.”
The evil Ukrainians, diabolical lackeys of the Germans, were used
for all sort of vile jobs to desecrate and plunder the victims. Here some
Holo-pornographic scenes:
“The ‘Ukrainians’ pulled out gold teeth from the corpses’ mouth,
tore off little sacks of money from their necks, pulled off wedding
rings, watches and so on. The corpses were searched over very precisely.
The ‘Ukrainians’ were looking for gold and valuables even in
women’s reproductive organs and anuses. They did not use rubber
gloves.”
About the gas vans, Podchlebnik says only the following: