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SANTIAGO ALVAREZ, THE GAS VANS 243 window of a room was allegedly walled-up and two metal pipes were added to a wall in order to allow exhaust gases to be piped into that room. In this case, however, two cars are said to have been used to produce the gas. The process is said to have lasted some 20 to 30 minutes “per batch,” with a total of 600 murdered persons (p. 292). Just like the Widmann case with the alleged attempt to dynamite the victims prior to resorting to gas, this case too claims such an insane approach (p. 293): “[…] 200 patients of the insane asylum in Mogilev were killed. […] The victims […] were shot in tank ditches, and hand grenades were thrown at them.” The verdict finally has an interesting statement regarding the gassing with stationary gasoline engine as mentioned by me on p. 27 which I have not found anywhere else (p. 292): “The defendant’s car was connected to the gas chamber several times. The vehicles had to be changed constantly in order to prevent the engines from overheating.” 3.8.5. LG Neubrandenburg, Verdict of 22 Feb. 1961 Kurt G. Goercke was the defendant during this trial, facing charges of mass murder in numerous cases allegedly committed during his deployment in Russia with Sonderkommando 4b. The “gas van” ostensibly used by this unit is described by the verdict as follows (p. 393): “This truck had a solid, sealed, lockable cargo box, into which the exhaust gases of the engine were piped. The vehicle could accommodate 30 persons.” The procedure is said to have taken five to ten minutes (ibid.). 3.8.6. LG Greifswald, Verdict of 3 July 1952 This trial was held against Bruno W. Sattler, who was head of the Gestapo in Serbia from February 1942 to the end of the German occupation. The whole case was tried at a time when Germany was still under the absolute jurisdiction of the occupational powers. Therefore the laws applied in that case followed the directives of the Allied Control Council. The verdict is less polemical than the others reviewed here, but at once considerably less sophisticated from a legal point of view (it is not even eight pages long).
244 SANTIAGO ALVAREZ, THE GAS VANS A “gas van” is mentioned only briefly in the context of the alleged gassing of Serbian Jews held in the Semlin camp (although that camp’s name isn’t even mentioned, pp. 473f.): “In the second half of 1942 the defendant was apprised during an early conference with Dr. Schäfer that it had been announced by Berlin via a telegram that a gas van would be sent. […] This gas van was a sealed truck into which the exhaust gases of the engine were piped. The vehicle could accommodate some 25 to 30 persons.” That’s all. The “facts” themselves probably originated from the telegrams contained in IMT document 501-PS (see chapter 2.2.3.). As far as can be gathered from this verdict, the defendant’s sole contribution to this was his knowledge about these things while in office in Serbia. The mentioned Dr. Schäfer faced charges for his involvement in the alleged extermination of Jews in Serbia in a West German court of law a year later (see chapter 3.7.2.4.).
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