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these inconsistencies can be explained and what conclusions can be
drawn from them.
There is another important question on which Witte and Tyas have
foundered without being able to provide a proper answer and which
shows instead that their interpretation of the Korherr report and consequently
of the Höfle telegram is unfounded. They write: 980
“Now we have a fourth camp – L – obviously the Concentration
Camp Lublin, commonly known as Majdanek, listed by Höfle ahead
of the other three camps. Beec, Sobibór, and Treblinka were extermination
camps, so it is reasonable to assume that the numbers
given for ‘L’ are numbers of Jews murdered also: it would not make
sense to give the numbers killed for three camps and make Lublin an
exception.”
Here we have again an instance of false reasoning “by analogy,” like
the one for C. Browning we have dealt with above. Here, however, we
may also reverse the reasoning: given that Majdanek was not an extermination
camp, 686 it would not have made sense to lump it together with
three such camps, and hence Beec, Sobibór, and Treblinka were not
extermination camps.
Witte and Tyas examine the 24,733 Jews mentioned by Höfle which
they claim were assassinated in the Majdanek gas chambers: 981
“Globocnik must have been responsible for sending these unknown
Jewish victims to the gas chambers of Majdanek, because,
according Höfle’s telegram, he counted them as Einsatz Reinhardt
victims.”
They speak of “unknown Jewish victims,” because for some strange
reason they are trying – in vain – to identify these alleged victims before
even wondering, whether the 24,733 Jews in question were in fact
gassed according to the official history of the Lublin-Majdanek camp.
In this connection they enounce two hypotheses: the alleged victims
stemmed “from unknown transports from the Bialystok General District,
or, more likely, from small forced labor camps.” 982
We must remember, though, that 12,761 out of these 24,733 Jews
are said to have been gassed in the two weeks between 18 and 31 December
1942. According to Tatiana Berenstein and Artur Eisenbach,
however, in November/December of 1942 only 5,000 Jews arrived at
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P. Witte, S. Tyas, op. cit. (note 18), p. 471.
Ibid., p. 472.
Ibid., pp. 471f.