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“break of one day, in order to grind the bones,” as Srebrnik adorned his
gory tale). After this the witness was dismissed by the judge, who obviously
had enough of Srebrnik’s tales.
The more time passed, the bigger Srebrnik’s figures got. During the
first minutes of Lanzmann’s movie Shoah, Srebrnik even claimed
(Lanzmann 1985):
“It was always this peaceful here. Always. When they burnt 2,000
people – Jews – every day, it was just as peaceful.”
So from 15,000 in 1945 we arrive at (9 months × 30 days ×
2,000/day =) 540,000 during his Shoah Interview in the 1970s. And these
are only figures for that second (1944) period of the camp, resulting
in even higher figures when considering the claimed first, much longer
extermination period of that camp (1941 to 1943). Not even orthodox
historians insist on such extreme figures. 90 I have elaborated elsewhere
in more detail on Srebrnik’s lies (Alvarez 2011), and so has Mattogno
with more arguments (Mattogno 2011a, chapter 7.2.2.).
3.6.3.2. Micha Podchlebnik
Podchlebnik’s testimony during the Eichmann trial is evidently a
coached retelling of his 1945 Polish testimony, since the prosecutor
asked the witness to confirm one event after the other in the sequence as
described in his 1945 affidavit, including his miraculous escape thanks
to the generous SS men. A few unbelievable passages which I have criticized
in chapter 3.6.2.5. were left out, though, for instance the running
Germans, the pornographic fantasies, and the gassed Ukrainian. Reading
into the record a postwar Stalinist document and having it merely
uncritically confirmed by the witness reveals the charade which the
Eichmann trial really was (State of Israel 1993; …/Session-065-05.html
to 06.html).
3.6.3.3. Mieczysaw urawski
urawski’s statement in Jerusalem was cleansed as well from all but
one of the implausibilities of his 1945 statement as listed in chapter
3.6.2.5., although in this case the prosecutor did not follow the 1945 affidavit
as strictly as in Podchlebnik’s case (State of Israel 1993,
90 The Bonn Jury Court determined “at least 145,000” for the camp’s first period and “at
least 7,100” for the second, so a total of at least 152,100 (Rüter et al. 1968ff., vol. 21, pp.
235, 241, 263, 286).