TREBLINKA: - Holocaust Handbooks

100 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
The verdict of the Düsseldorf Court of Assizes of September 3, 1965, devoted
a separate paragraph to the question of the number of victims of Treblinka:
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“In the extermination camp Treblinka at least 700,000 persons were
killed, predominantly Jews but also to a lesser extent Gypsies. These findings
are based upon the expert report presented by Dr. Helmut Krausnick,
the Director of the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, to the
Court of Assizes. In his expert report, the expert has utilized all the resources
customary in historical science and accessible to him in the German
and foreign archives, among them the so-called Stroop Report […],
the protocols of the Trial of Major War Criminals before the International
Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, and the incomplete official railway
documents found after the war (schedules, telegrams, and travel sheets)
about the transports to Treblinka, which have been the subject of the main
proceedings and which the Court of Assizes has placed at the disposal of
the expert.
The expert Dr. Krausnick stated the following, inter alia:
According to the Stroop Report, in the period from July 22, 1942, to
October 3, 1942, approximately 310,000 and in the period from January to
mid-May 1943 approximately 19,000 Jews were brought in freight trains
from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka.”
However, the Stroop Report actually reads as follows: 247
“The first large resettlement action took place in the period from 22
July to 3 October 1942. In this action 310,322 Jews were removed. In
January 1943 a second resettlement action was carried out by which altogether
6,500 Jews were affected.”
Thus, Treblinka is not even mentioned in this passage of the Stroop Report.
The verdict further states that from August 21, 1942, to August 23, 1943,
transports arrived in Treblinka with Jews (but also Gypsies) from many other
Polish cities as well as Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia,
and Greece. The judges go on to cite Krausnick as follows:
“An exact number of the persons taken to Treblinka in this manner,
however, cannot be determined, since in regard to the rail transports in
particular only a portion of the documents is available. Nevertheless, one
may estimate the number of persons brought to Treblinka by freight and
passenger trains – disregarding the approximately 329,000 Warsaw Jews
– at about 271,000, if one assumes an average number of 60 boxcars per
train, an average occupancy of 100 persons per boxcar and of 50 persons
per passenger car, so that a freight train would have transported about
6,000 and a passenger train about 3,000 Jews to Treblinka.”
246 A. Rückerl, NS-Vernichtungslager…, op. cit. (note 62), pp. 197f.
247 PS-1061. IMT, vol. XXVI, pp. 634f.