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260 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR<br />

A: When I returned to Berlin after a trip which took about two<br />

weeks, I did not talk to anyone about the outcome <strong>of</strong> my mission.<br />

Nobody asked me anything. […]<br />

Q: As you said so yourself, you were given an important task by<br />

Berlin in your technical function; this mission was so secret which<br />

you had to execute as a state secret; you went to three camps, you<br />

were received there by a general who, in view <strong>of</strong> your mission, believed<br />

that he should tell you what two top Nazi leaders had said. [773]<br />

How can you expect us to believe:<br />

1) that you did not accomplish your mission,<br />

2) that you did not report about it to anyone,<br />

3) that no one has questioned you about it in any way.”<br />

Schelvis devotes more than five pages to Gerstein; 774 he tries to<br />

avoid one <strong>of</strong> the grossest absurdities <strong>of</strong> his witness – the presence <strong>of</strong><br />

“700-800 [Jews] on an area <strong>of</strong> 25m 2 and in a volume <strong>of</strong> 45m 3 ,” and<br />

writes: 775<br />

“Gerstein was mistaken. The 700 to 800 he mentions must have<br />

been the total number <strong>of</strong> victims in the six chambers combined.”<br />

Gerstein, however, did mean 700-800 persons in a single gas chamber<br />

and underlined it explicitly: 776<br />

“up to that moment all the people in the four rooms, already<br />

filled, they are alive; four times 750 people in a space <strong>of</strong> four times<br />

45 cubic metres, still alive!”<br />

The development <strong>of</strong> the alleged extermination camps <strong>of</strong> Aktion<br />

Reinhardt inevitably collides with the unanswered questions raised by<br />

Hilberg.<br />

Wolfgang Scheffler asserts that “Sobibór, on the other hand, was<br />

considerably less convenient as far as rail transport is concerned. It was<br />

constructed when it became apparent that Beec could not cope with<br />

the assassination program,” 777 and the same reasoning should obviously<br />

be applied to the construction <strong>of</strong> Treblinka as well.<br />

As we have seen above, the Enzyklopädie des <strong>Holocaust</strong> wants to<br />

make us believe that the SS had to envisage “the killing <strong>of</strong> the<br />

773<br />

774<br />

775<br />

776<br />

777<br />

Hitler and Himmler are said by Gerstein to have visited the eastern camps on 16 August<br />

1942. This is historically false.<br />

J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 71), p. 106-110.<br />

Ibid., p. 115, note 45.<br />

Ibid., p. 108.<br />

Wolfgang Scheffler, “Chemno, Sobibór, Beec und Majdanek,” in: E. Jäckel, J. Rohwer<br />

(eds.), op. cit. (note 655), p. 149.

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