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268 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
was done with a lorry trail [sic] that led from the gas chambers to a
remote plot.”
Thus, while Stangl has it that the victims numbered 25, were almost
certainly male (since they constituted a construction commando), and
were buried with their clothes still on near the gas chamber building,
Fuchs maintains that they were between 30 and 40, female, undressed
before the gassing, and subsequently interred in a “remote plot.” Moreover,
Fuchs lists a number of SS men as being present, 802 but mentions
neither Wirth nor Oberhauser, despite the fact that SS-Sturmbannführer
Wirth was the responsible inspector of the Reinhardt camps. This omission
becomes even more glaring when Wirth’s alleged display of anger
is considered. The testimonies of Stangl and Fuchs are therefore completely
at odds with each other regarding this singular event.
Another Sobibór SS man, Heinrich Barbl, further adds to the confusion
surrounding the trial gassing: 803
“Red Cross nurses accompanied the selected women, who were
transported by bus. They assisted with the undressing.”
It seems more than a little strange that the SS would make the Red
Cross privy to a top secret extermination process, especially since, according
to Stangl, Wirth feared that the victims “might have been spotted
by someone outside the camp.” 803
A further small but nonetheless important contradiction concerns the
exterior doors of the alleged gas chambers. According to Schelvis, at
the time the second phase gas chamber building was constructed, Wirth
ordered new gas chamber doors that were hinged, so that the corpses of
the victims would no longer block the exterior doors. 804 The witness
Hödl spoke of the new gas chamber doors as “trapdoors” (Klapptüren)
“which would be raised after the gassing.” 805 This implies that the doors
to the first gas chamber building opened to the sides, as, needless to say,
one would not have constructed doors that opened inwards.
As already mentioned, mainstream Holocaust historians assert that
the second chamber building at Sobibór used the second phase building
at Beec as a model and that the two buildings in fact were constructed
by the same people (Hackenholt and Lambert). According to the witness
Stanisaw Kozak, all doors in the first gas chamber building at
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Thomalla, Stangl, Schwartz and Bolender; ibid., p. 32.
Court testimony of Heinrich Barbl in Linz on 16 October 1965 at the Austrian Ministry
of Internal Affairs; quoted in J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 71), p. 101.
J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 71), p. 103.
Ibid., p. 104.