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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR 349<br />

immediately on arrival, unregistered, except for a handful <strong>of</strong> “working<br />

Jews” whose lives were spared for the moment.)<br />

Why then were German, Austrian, and Czech Jews not sent to<br />

Chemno to be gassed, but moved into the eastern territories starting in<br />

November <strong>of</strong> 1941? Reitlinger confirms that from July and August <strong>of</strong><br />

1942 onwards some 25,000 German Jews were moved to Latvia, Estonia,<br />

and White Ruthenia, yet not to be gassed but to be used as workers<br />

or <strong>of</strong>fice staff. If we follow the mainstream <strong>Holocaust</strong> literature, five<br />

“extermination camps” were in operation by July <strong>of</strong> 1942, with a sixth<br />

being added the following month. Why did these Jews bypass these five<br />

or six “extermination camps” and go into White Russia or the Baltic<br />

states?<br />

Such elementary questions have never been addressed by the court<br />

historians, and it is easy to see why this should be so.<br />

10.2. Number <strong>of</strong> Jews Moved to the East<br />

10.2.1. Via the Aktion Reinhardt Camps<br />

Before addressing the question <strong>of</strong> the fate <strong>of</strong> the Jews moved into the<br />

eastern areas indirectly, i.e. via transit camps, we shall try to determine<br />

their total number. For this purpose we shall assume that this population<br />

is roughly identical to the persons who “were gassed in the extermination<br />

camps without being registered” according to the orthodox literature.<br />

We shall not attempt to subdivide this population according to nationalities<br />

and shall limit ourselves to a distinction based on only two<br />

categories: the Polish and the non-Polish Jews.<br />

Let us first consider the Aktion Reinhardt camps. The most important<br />

document by far which we can consult for this purpose is the Korherr<br />

Report, according to which 1,274,166 Jews had transited “through<br />

the camps in the General Government” by the end <strong>of</strong> 1942 . 1044 As far as<br />

the figures for 1943 are concerned, the absence <strong>of</strong> any documents forces<br />

us to make an approximation for the number <strong>of</strong> persons having transited<br />

through the four camps. The general situation regarding the individual<br />

camps can be described as follows for the year 1943:<br />

Majdanek: No documents refer to any transfers to the eastern areas<br />

originating from Majdanek in 1943.<br />

1044 Cf. chapter 9.

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