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108 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
amount of rubble [291] was found at the site which witnesses have
stated to have been the site of the building with the gas chambers.”
We will note here that apparently no effort was made to determine
the number and/or dimensions of the present burial pits or the actual
amount of ashes present and that the only pit for which dimensions are
given is described not as a grave containing human remains but as “a pit
of chloride of lime.” The only evidence for the alleged gas chamber
mass murder of at least 250,000 victims 292 which the commission’s forensic
experts could muster thus consisted of an unrevealed amount of
human ashes mixed with sand and some uncharacterized debris from
the supposed location of the “gas chambers”!
In section 5.2.5. below we will return to the reported findings of the
Central Commission.
5.1.2. Photographic Evidence
In an important 2009 article, which will be discussed later in this
chapter, Isaac Gilead et al. write that “there are few images of Sobibór”
and that those “very rare” pictures known to exist “do not contribute
significantly” to our knowledge of the camp. 293 Arad states that the taking
of photographs was prohibited in the Reinhardt camps. 294 However,
we know that this rule was not always obeyed. At Beec the camp staff
even invited local Polish villagers to take pictures of them inside the
supposedly top secret “extermination camp.” 295 The witness Kalmen
Wewryk claims that the SS at Sobibór shot a film of a – supposedly
fake – wedding ceremony in the camp. 296 It is thus possible that there
exists yet undiscovered or unpublished photographic evidence relating
to the Sobibór camp. Furthermore we have an air photo of the former
camp site taken by the Luftwaffe in 1944 297 which will be referenced
later in the present chapter.
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Ibid., p. 57.
I. Gilead, Y. Haimi, W. Mazurek, “Excavating Nazi Extermination Centres,” Present
Pasts, vol. 1, 2009, p. 26.
Y. Arad, op. cit. (note 49), p. 18.
C. Mattogno, op. cit. (note 11, Engl. ed.), p. 43.
K. Wewryk, To Sobibór and Back: An Eyewitness Account, online:
http://migs.concordia.ca/memoirs/wewryk/chapt2 html
National Archives, Washington D.C., Ref. No. GX 191 F 910 SK, exp. 122.