The Gas Vans: A Critical Investigation - Holocaust Handbooks

SANTIAGO ALVAREZ, THE GAS VANS 211
uidated in this manner, it is clear already today that a solution of the
Jewish problem will not be possible. Although we managed to effect
a complete resolution of the Jewish problem in smaller towns and
also in the villages, in larger cities we always observe that, if a
commando returns after a certain period of time and although all
Jews have disappeared after an execution, a number of Jews is over
and over again encountered which exceeds the number of executed
Jews considerably.”
This is the Nazi paradox of mass murder: the more Jews the German
units executed, the more of them emerged out of nowhere… Considering
that the German units are said to have been highly “successful” in
eliminating the Jewish population in the occupied Soviet territories,
such a remark is not only logically impossible, but must also be wrong,
if the predominant orthodox historical school is correct. While this document
proved the mass murder in the eyes of the court, it sheds a revealing
light on the credibility of the creator of the documents in my
view.
Another revealing passage from the verdict sheds a similar light on
the careless manner in which the court determined what it considered to
be true. On page 619 the verdict discusses how he defendants managed
to procure their first five trucks for conversion into “gas vans.” Although
orthodox historiography maintains that the first trucks were
trucks of the U.S. company Diamond, that’s not what the court came up
with. In it we read:
a) Pradel claimed that he tried – in vain – to obtain trucks from the
witness Bal.
b) The witness Bal. had no recollection of ever procuring trucks for
Pradel.
c) Next Pradel claimed that Walter Rauff himself procured five rusty
Saurer trucks from the head of the SD’s motor pool, the witness Ga.
These trucks were inspected by Pradel and Wentritt in the courtyard of
the SD in Berlin.
d) The defendant Wentritt, however, had no recollection whatsoever
of this alleged event.
e) The former head of the SD motor pool, witness Ga., as well as his
staff member, witness Heinrich M., could not recall such an event either.
According to them, the SD only once had three or four superfluous
trucks (of the Büssing company, so the witness M.), which were re-