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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR 275<br />

Q. <strong>And</strong> these people were placed in this chamber in groups, I<br />

suppose, and then the monoxide was turned into the chambers? […].<br />

A. No special gas chamber was built. A room suitable in the hospital<br />

was used, a room <strong>of</strong> necessity attached to the reception ward<br />

and to the room where the insane persons were kept. This room was<br />

made into a gas chamber. It was sealed, given special doors and<br />

windows, and then a few meters <strong>of</strong> gas piping were laid, or some<br />

kind <strong>of</strong> piping with holes in it. Outside this room there was a container,<br />

a compressed gas container with the necessary apparatus,<br />

that is a pressure gauge, etc.”<br />

Hence we are essentially dealing with carbon monoxide cylinders.<br />

But why would it have been easier to find them in Riga or Minsk rather<br />

than at home in the Reich? It would rather seem to be the other way<br />

around.<br />

In this document, the date – 25 October 1941 – is crucial, because it<br />

has devastating consequences for the <strong>Holocaust</strong> theory. First <strong>of</strong> all, as<br />

we have seen above, the alleged Führerbefehl, which Himmler allegedly<br />

transmitted to Höß in June <strong>of</strong> 1941, concerned “all Jews whom we<br />

can seize… without exception,” i.e. also those fit for work. We must<br />

therefore ask: Who ruled that those fit for work should be spared, and<br />

why and when was this done?<br />

Secondly, the execution <strong>of</strong> the alleged extermination plan for the<br />

East, sketched out in Wetzel’s letter, was not carried out. On this point<br />

Y. Arad says: 832<br />

“But the proposal <strong>of</strong> Dr. Wetzel and <strong>of</strong> Brack was not implemented<br />

in Ostland. The unemployed ‘euthanasia’ personnel were assigned<br />

to another and bigger task – the erection <strong>of</strong> camps with gassing<br />

facilities, where the annihilation <strong>of</strong> the Jews in the Nazioccupied<br />

territories <strong>of</strong> Poland would be carried out.”<br />

Schelvis, on the other hand, tells us that “it is certain that on 13 October<br />

1941 Hitler ordered the Beec extermination camp to be built…,”<br />

i.e. just before the date <strong>of</strong> Wetzel’s letter, and anyway the construction<br />

<strong>of</strong> this camp began “with certainty” on 1 st November. Therefore, within<br />

the span <strong>of</strong> six days (i.e. between 25 October and 1 st November, 1941)<br />

it was decided to abandon the idea <strong>of</strong> killing only the Jews unfit for<br />

work and to implement the general extermination <strong>of</strong> all Jews, including<br />

832<br />

Y. Arad, op. cit. (note 49), p. 11.

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