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would have made sure that all guards remained armed to the teeth 24
hours a day.
We wish to add that, according to a deposition made by the former
police captain Erich Wullbrandt in Braunschweig in 1961, some of the
Jews who had escaped returned voluntarily to the camp on the night of
the uprising. 215 If this is true – and we see no reason why it should not
be – we would have here a further proof of our assessment.
4.3. “The Most Conclusive Evidence”
In a note to his 1997 book From the Ashes of Sobibór, Thomas Toivi
Blatt, the key witness of the German Demjanjuk trial, makes the following
admission: 216
“The most conclusive evidence that something murderous was
taking place in Lager III was the fact that no-one ever came out
alive, but such evidence was purely circumstantial. The Nazis made
it difficult to collect any direct evidence of what was widely known
throughout the camp.”
As will be shown below, this “evidence” is not only “purely circumstantial,”
but also fundamentally flawed.
Let us for the sake of argument assume that the alleged mass killings
really took place. What, then, would the inmates working outside of
camp III have been able to observe of the extermination process?
Schelvis gives us the following answer: 217
“They would have heard the agonizing cries and screams of the
victims; they also caught glimpses, through holes in the fence, of
naked people going through the ‘tube.’ Then there was the stench of
decomposing bodies, and later still the tall flames of the fires, all of
which pointed to the fact that people were being murdered there.”
To this can be added the supply of vast amounts of firewood for the
cremations, the cutting of the hair of the female victims, the noise coming
from the gassing engine, and the fact, mentioned by Blatt, that “noone
ever came out alive” from camp III. But do these observations really
point unequivocally to the “fact” of mass gassings? Are all of them
even reliable?
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J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 71), p. 176, 193 (note 9).
T. Blatt, op. cit. (note 65), p. 232, note 7.
J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 71), p. 68.