The Gas Vans: A Critical Investigation - Holocaust Handbooks

SANTIAGO ALVAREZ, THE GAS VANS 259
404-407, 417; as a van without tractor in LG Stuttgart, 15 Sep. 1967, p.
565). This theme was already mentioned by the Polish judge Bednarz in
1946, where it may have started its career as a converted truck of “Kaiser
Kaffe[e] Wien” (Bednarz 1946c, p. 25). I am not going to scrutinize
this puerile and ridiculous theme any further, since not a shred of documentary
evidence exists for it. Carlo Mattogno has exposed this pseudo-historical
claptrap in the first chapter of his book on Chemno, to
which I refer the interested reader (2011a).
4.2.4. Capacity
– 170 (Srebrnik, large type)
– 150-175 (Bednarz 1946c, pp. 23, 48 [large])
– 130 (Bednarz 1946c, large type, p. 62)
– 100-120 (Srebrnik, small type)
– 100 (Rosenberg 1985, p. 36; Kogon et al. 1993, p. 71; Browning
1983, p. 82)
– 80-100 (Beer, Appendix 10; Bednarz 1946c, p. 23 [small])
– 80-90 (Podchlebnik; Bednarz 1946c, pp. 43, 48, 62, 72 [small type])
– 70-90 (Kogon et al. 1993, p. 98)
– 80 (Blumental 1946, p. 240; Kogon et al., p. 64)
– 70-80 (IMT, vol. 7, pp. 573, 575; The People’s Verdict 1944, p. 17;
LG Kiel, 26 Nov. 1965, p. 429; LG Stuttgart, 8 Nov. 1949, p. 231)
– 60-70 (The People’s Verdict 1944, pp. 65, 70; Friedlander/Milton
1993, p. 182)
– 50-80 (with luggage, Manoschek 1998, p. 230; LG Karlsruhe, 15
Dec. 1949, pp. 7, 24)
– at least 60 (LG Wuppertal, 30 Dec. 1965, p. 513)
– 50-60 (NMT, vol. 4, pp. 210, 545; Beer 1987, pp. 412f.; large, Kogon
et al. 1993, pp. 54, 57, 59, 64, 69, 88; Browning 1983, p. 82; LG
Stuttgart, 11 June 1968; Benz/Distel 2009, pp. 575f.; Kazimierz
Czyzewski, Höß Trial, vol. 35, p. 163; LG Koblenz, 21 May 1963, p.
194; LG Frankfurt/M., 12 Mar. 1966, p. 344; LG Hannover, 7 June
1966, p. 622, for Saurer; LG Stuttgart, 11 June 1968, p. 412; LG
Dortmund, 16 Jan. 1969, p. 680; LG Kiel, 11 Apr. 1969, p. 39; 28
Nov. 1969, p. 284)
– 40-60 (Klee/Dreßen/Rieß 1988, p. 75)
– several dozen (The People’s Verdict 1944, p. 50)
– 30-50 (Beer 1987, p. 414)
– 40-45 (LG Darmstadt, 18 Apr. 1969, pp. 94, 97)