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

provide the defenders <strong>of</strong> the “<strong>Holocaust</strong>” story with any more information<br />

than this.<br />

The only work by any orthodox historian which commands a certain<br />

respect (in view <strong>of</strong> its impressive bibliography) is Jules Schelvis’ Vernietingskamp<br />

Sobibór, but as far as the central question <strong>of</strong> this topic is<br />

concerned – the search for evidence <strong>of</strong> the mass exterminations – it is<br />

no better than the pitiable products <strong>of</strong> charlatans like Stanisaw Szmajzner<br />

or Toivi Blatt. Like its predecessors, it provides not even a shred <strong>of</strong><br />

forensic or documentary evidence for such mass exterminations and relies<br />

exclusively on testimony or on the “confessions” <strong>of</strong> defendants,<br />

which, on closer inspection, turn out to be useless.<br />

2.4. A Revisionist Article about Sobibór<br />

Aside from Thomas Kues, 12 the U.S. writer Paul Grubach has been<br />

the only revisionist to have seriously approached the problem <strong>of</strong> Sobibór<br />

before the publication <strong>of</strong> the present book. In August <strong>of</strong> 2009 he<br />

published an excellent article entitled “The ‘Nazi Extermination Camp’<br />

Sobibór in the Context <strong>of</strong> the Demjanjuk Case.” 81<br />

The starting point <strong>of</strong> Grubach’s argument is a statement by Elie M.<br />

Rosenbaum, the head <strong>of</strong> the “Nazi-hunting section” <strong>of</strong> the American<br />

Department <strong>of</strong> Justice:<br />

“Thousands <strong>of</strong> Jews were murdered in the gas chambers <strong>of</strong> Sobibór,<br />

and John Demjanjuk helped seal their fate.”<br />

Grubach explains that there is no evidence for the existence <strong>of</strong> any<br />

gas chambers at Sobibór and that it is thus impossible to indict Demjanjuk<br />

for having pushed even a single Jew into these phantom installations.<br />

Among others, he treats the following aspects <strong>of</strong> the question:<br />

The failure <strong>of</strong> demonstrating the existence <strong>of</strong> gas chambers by<br />

means <strong>of</strong> archeological investigations.<br />

The contradictions in the testimonies regarding the killing method.<br />

The contradictions in the testimonies regarding the number, the size,<br />

the structure and the capacity <strong>of</strong> the gas chambers.<br />

The contradictions in the testimonies regarding the disposal <strong>of</strong> the<br />

corpses.<br />

81<br />

Paul Grubach, “The ‘Nazi Extermination Camp’ Sobibór in the Context <strong>of</strong> the Demjanjuk<br />

Case,” in: Inconvenient History, 1(2)(2009);<br />

www.inconvenienthistory.com/archive/2009/volume_1/number_2.

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