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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR 329<br />

Table 11: Korherr’s Ghetto Jews end <strong>of</strong> 1942<br />

DISTRICT<br />

NUMBER OF JEWS<br />

Cracow 37,000<br />

Radom 29,400<br />

Lublin<br />

20,000 (estimated)<br />

Warsaw 50,000<br />

Lemberg 161,514<br />

Total, General Government 297,914<br />

If there were about 600,000 Jews in the General Government yet to<br />

be evacuated at the end <strong>of</strong> September 1942 and if some 297,900 still<br />

remained at the end <strong>of</strong> December, it follows that between October and<br />

December roughly (600,000 – 297,000 =) 302,100 and up to the end <strong>of</strong><br />

September (1,274,000 – 302,100 =) 971,900 had been evacuated.<br />

But if 12,761 Jews had been gassed at Majdanek within two weeks,<br />

the remainder <strong>of</strong> 20,000 in the entire district could have been gassed in<br />

little more than three weeks.<br />

The completion <strong>of</strong> the first disinfestation facilities at Majdanek, <strong>of</strong>ficially<br />

labeled “2 delousing barracks with baths,” but which mainstream<br />

historiography claims to have house the alleged homicidal gas chambers,<br />

was announced on 22 October 1942. 1007 At that time they were no<br />

doubt already in operation. If what mainstream historians claim were<br />

true, they would have had an extermination capacity <strong>of</strong> at least<br />

(12,761÷2=) about 6,380 persons per week. But even if the 24,733 Jews<br />

mentioned in the Höfle report had been taken to the camp after that<br />

date, the alleged gas chambers would have been able to operate for nine<br />

weeks, up to the end <strong>of</strong> December, and could have gassed (6,380×9=)<br />

about 57,400 persons, i.e. not only the 24,700 Jews who had arrived at<br />

the camp in 1942, but also the 20,000 remaining in the Lublin district at<br />

the end <strong>of</strong> the year, plus another 12,700.<br />

The case <strong>of</strong> the district <strong>of</strong> Lemberg is stranger still. According to the<br />

Katzmann report a total <strong>of</strong> 254,989 Jews 1008 had been “removed and/or<br />

resettled” as <strong>of</strong> 10 November 1942, presumably to Beec. On 31 December<br />

there were still 161,514 in the district, but in spite <strong>of</strong> this the<br />

Beec camp was shut down on 11 December. 1009<br />

1007 Letter from Zentralbauleitung at Lublin to SS-Wirtschafter Gruppe C-Bauwesen with<br />

Höhere SS-und Polizeiführer im Generalgouvernement dated 22 October 1942. WAPL,<br />

ZBL, 8, p.22.<br />

1008 IMT, vol. XXXVII, p. 398.<br />

1009 Robert O’Neil, “Beec: Prototype for the Final Solution. Hitler’s answer to the Jewish

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