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

bour camps in the Lublin district, and later French and Dutch Jews<br />

deported to Majdanek in March 1943.”<br />

Yet at the same time he stresses that “in the period when the gas<br />

chambers were operating, from September 1942 till September 1943, no<br />

cases <strong>of</strong> mass execution by shooting are known,” 993 which means that<br />

the 12,761 victims <strong>of</strong> Einsatz Reinhardt must have been gassed. But not<br />

even in the most important publication on Majdanek is there the slightest<br />

trace <strong>of</strong> these gassings. 994<br />

Hence, the 12,761 Jewish victims <strong>of</strong> Einsatz Reinhardt would have<br />

been gassed and burned and/or buried at Majdanek within 14 days<br />

without any witness having mentioned this and without leaving any documentary<br />

or material traces: How can anyone honestly believe such a<br />

story? It is also obvious that T. Berenstein and A. Eisenbach’s assertion<br />

concerning the immediate killing <strong>of</strong> 4,000 Jews at Majdanek in November/December<br />

<strong>of</strong> 1942 has no foundation; hence one cannot even<br />

claim that at least part <strong>of</strong> the above 12,761 Jews were gassed.<br />

Witte and Tyas have also skirted the absurdity <strong>of</strong> what we have been<br />

told about Einsatz Reinhardt – the transportation <strong>of</strong> the 12,761 victims<br />

to Majdanek – in the last two weeks <strong>of</strong> December <strong>of</strong> 1942. Their alleged<br />

extermination would necessarily have taken place in full view <strong>of</strong><br />

all concerned, as compared to a mere 515 sent to Sobibór with its supersecret<br />

camp III. If the former Jews had had to be killed, why would this<br />

not have been done quietly at Sobibór? Just as strange is the fact that<br />

during the said two weeks more Jews were sent to Majdanek than to<br />

Treblinka: 12,761 as against 10,335. This would mean that the SS, in<br />

spite <strong>of</strong> the availability <strong>of</strong> two camps for total extermination, would<br />

have gassed these 12,761 deportees in a minor camp which had received<br />

only 2% <strong>of</strong> all deportees up to 21 December 1942 (24,733 out <strong>of</strong><br />

1,274,166).<br />

The most reasonable explanation would thus be that these 12,761<br />

Jews transited through Majdanek before moving on, alive, to the East.<br />

This obviously goes for all <strong>of</strong> the 24,733 Jews mentioned in the Höfle<br />

message.<br />

This conclusion also flows out <strong>of</strong> the Korherr report. Under paragraph<br />

VIII “the Jews in the concentration camps” it says: 995<br />

993<br />

994<br />

995<br />

Ibid., p. 129.<br />

Czesaw Rajca, “Eksterminacja bezporednia,” in: Tadeusz Mencel (ed.), Majdanek<br />

1941-1944, Wydawnictwo Lubelskie, Lublin 1991.<br />

NO-5194, p. 11.

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