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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR 269<br />

Beec “opened toward the outside.” 806 When it comes to Beec’s<br />

second gas chamber building, however, key witness Rudolf Reder has it<br />

that the corpses were pulled out through doors that “were slid open with<br />

wooden handles.” 807<br />

The alleged second phase gas chamber building at Beec was supposedly<br />

erected between mid-June and mid-July 1942. 808 By then the alleged<br />

first gas chamber building at Sobibór had already been in operation<br />

for two months. Are we to believe that Wirth, the inspector and<br />

chief designer <strong>of</strong> the alleged Aktion Reinhardt “death camps,” had the<br />

gas chamber doors at Beec changed from hinged to sliding ones, 809<br />

while aware that doors <strong>of</strong> the latter type were impeding the extermination<br />

process at Sobibór?<br />

Sereny comments that Franz Stangl’s “different versions <strong>of</strong> events<br />

are not too important from the point <strong>of</strong> view <strong>of</strong> facts.” 810 But what<br />

should one say about the fact that the former Sobibór SS men are contradicting<br />

themselves as well as each other when it comes to important<br />

details <strong>of</strong> the alleged mass gassings? Contrary to what mainstream <strong>Holocaust</strong><br />

historians and propagandists may believe, such contradictions<br />

are fatal to the Sobibór gas chamber allegation, as this rests exclusively<br />

on such flawed eye witness evidence.<br />

8.5. Euthanasia and Aktion Reinhardt<br />

Yitzhak Arad summarizes the <strong>Holocaust</strong> story <strong>of</strong> euthanasia in the<br />

following words: 811<br />

“At the beginning <strong>of</strong> World War II, Hitler signed the following<br />

order: ‘Reichsleiter Bouhler and Dr. [Karl] Brandt [Hitler’s personal<br />

physician] are charged with the responsibility for expanding the<br />

authority <strong>of</strong> individual physicians, with a view to enable them, after<br />

the most critical examination in the realm <strong>of</strong> human knowledge, to<br />

administer to incurably sick persons a mercy death.’<br />

806<br />

807<br />

808<br />

809<br />

810<br />

811<br />

E. Kogon, H. Langbein, A. Rückerl et al. (eds.), op. cit. (note 46), p. 108.<br />

Rudolf Reder, Beec, Fundacja Judaica Pastwowe Muzeum Owicim-Brzezinka,<br />

Kraków 1999, p. 124.<br />

Y. Arad, op. cit. (note 49), p. 73.<br />

Ibid., p. 73, 183.<br />

G. Sereny, op. cit. (note 357), p. 111.<br />

Y. Arad, op. cit. (note 49), p. 9, quoting PS-630.

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