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hidden by the even more innocuous term ‘evacuation’ even in an internal
SS document. By the same token, we now know that the column
‘evacuations’ of Korherr’s report includes the ‘Sonderbehandlung.’”
On the subject of the significance of this word, Wellers explains
elsewhere: 963
“The coded term Sonderbehandlung (special treatment) and its
numerous derivatives have a very precise meaning: they stand for
execution, killing, murder. It does not indicate the type of execution
– hanging, shooting, use of poison gas – nor the kind of people involved,
but it applies massively, systematically in all of its shapes, to
the case of the Jews.”
In short, if we follow Wellers, “evacuation” would be synonymous
with “special treatment,” which in turn is synonymous with killing.
Actually, as we have shown above, “special treatment” stands only
for “transporting.” It follows that according to Wellers’ hypothesis only
1,449,692 out of a total of 2,506,849 Jews deported by the Germans had
undergone a “special treatment,” i.e. only those “passed through” the
camps of the General Government and the Warthegau: 1,274,166 allegedly
killed in the extermination camps at Beec, Sobibór, Treblinka,
and Majdanek (for the General Government) and 145,301 at Chemno
(for Warthegau). Therefore, none of the Jews deported to Auschwitz before
31 December 1942 would have received “special treatment,” i.e.
would have been killed, none of the 633,000 Jews evacuated to the Russian
territories, none of the 170,642 evacuated to the East, and not the
6,505 evacuated to France or the 87,193 Jews who went to the Theresienstadt
ghetto.
Witte and Tyas go on to say: 964
“The authors have not been able to determine whether non-
Polish Jews from Germany, Austria, the Protectorate, and Slovakia
were included in Höfle’s and Korherr’s figure. Korherr’s statistics
are apparently too ambiguous to determine this. On the one hand,
his number for Jews deported to Theresienstadt is more than 21,000
smaller than the actual number. This evident reduction in numbers
suggests that at least some of the deportees from Theresienstadt to
the Lublin district and Warsaw ghetto are probably included in the
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G. Wellers, Les chambres à gaz ont existé. Des documents, des témoignages, des chiffres,
Gallimard, Paris, 1981, p. 36.
P. Witte, S. Tyas, op. cit. (note 18), p. 478.