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264 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
years earlier, which describes the same building as a “stone construction.”
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The former SS-Unterscharführer Erich Fuchs, who supposedly installed
the gassing engine, testified: 792
“Upon my arrival at Sobibór I found near the station an area
with a concrete structure and several permanent houses.”
It is apparent from the context that the “concrete structure” is identical
with the alleged gas chamber building. One notes that, while
Stangl places the gas chamber building a considerable distance from the
railway station and isolated “back in the woods,” 760 Fuchs claims the
same installation to have been located in an area “near the station” together
with other buildings. This contradiction, however, is small compared
to that revealed by the testimony of alleged “Gasmeister” Erich
Bauer: 793
“The gas chamber was already there, a wooden building on a
concrete base about the same size as this courtroom, though much
lower, as low as a normal house. There were two or three chambers,
in front of which there was a corridor that, from the outside, you accessed
via a bridge.”
Thus the witnesses disagree on the very construction material of the
first gas chamber building!
How do mainstream Holocaust historians handle this glaring contradiction?
As seen above, Arad simply ignores the statement of the key
witness Bauer, while combining the descriptions of Stangl and Fuchs
into “a solid brick building with a concrete foundation.” Schelvis, on
the other hand, finds it necessary to confront Bauer’s testimony. In the
German edition of his Sobibór book, published in 1998, we read: 794
“Bauer was mistaken about the wooden building. It was a solid
brick house.”
For some reason, however, Schelvis had completely changed his
mind about this issue by the time the English language edition of the
same book appeared in 2006. In this we read: 795
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Statement made by Stangl in Duisburg on 29 April, 1969, ZStL-230/59-12-4464; quoted
in J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 71), p. 33.
Statement made by Erich Fuchs in Düsseldorf on 2 April 1963, ZStL-251/59-9-1785;
quoted in J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 71), p. 100.
Erich Bauer in Hagen on 6 October 1965; StA.Do-X’65-176, quoted in J. Schelvis, op.
cit. (note 71), p. 101.
J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 70), p. 119 and p. 120, note 285.
J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 71), p. 114, note 17.