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106 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
create the illusion that the total number of those deported to Treblinka, along
with their places of origin, is accurately known.
Even more remarkably, not one of these authors refers to the report made
by the statistician Richard Korherr at the beginning of 1943 at the instruction
of Heinrich Himmler, although very accurate numbers of the Jews deported to
the supposed extermination camps are given in this. In his overview concerning
the “Evakuierung der Juden” (evacuation of the Jews, part 4 of the fifth
chapter of his report), Korherr wrote: 262
“Transportation of Jews from the
Eastern provinces to the Russian east: 1,449,692
Processed through the camps in
the General Gouvernement area: 1,274,166
through the camps in the Warthegau: 145,302”
The camps considered to be located “in the General Gouvernement area”
are Be��ec, Sobibór, and Treblinka; the camp in the Warthegau was
Che�mno. 263 The number given, 1,274,166, is the very number of victims, according
to this historiography, of the three camps in the General Gouvernement
up to the end of 1942. If this had been true, 264 the following would have
been the result of this: since Be��ec, to which usually 600,000 victims are ascribed,
was closed in December 1942, 265 and since Herr Dr. Scheffler himself
postulates for Sobibór 180,000 as the total number of victims for the whole
year of 1942, 266 then (1,274,166 - 600,000 - 180,000 =) approximately
494,000 people would have to have been killed in Treblinka in 1942, and with
the addition of a maximum number of 75,000 for the following year of 1943,
one would arrive at 569,000. How can Herr Dr. Scheffler, who assumes for
Be��ec not the usual 600,000, but 800,000 victims, 267 speak seriously of
900,000 Treblinka victims? According to his numbers, in the year 1942 a total
of 1,880,000 people had to have been ‘gassed’ in the three camps of the General
Gouvernement area, thus 600,000 more than were ‘processed’ according
to the Korherr Report!
In this section we wish to demonstrate not so much the differences in the
numerical data of the various authors as the incredible superficiality and illogic
of their method. Since they are all speaking not just of deportees, but of
262 NO-5194, p. 9.
263 The following is unclear in the Korherr Report: the sum of the two lower numbers is not
1,449,692, but 1,419,467, so that 30,225 persons are missing, and the category to which they
belong is unknown.
264 Here we are discussing not the numbers given by Korherr, but their interpretation, i.e. the
claim that the Jews in question were not ‘processed through’ the camps involved, but were
‘gassed.’
265 Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, op. cit. (note 18), vol. I, p. 178.
266 A. Rückerl, NS-Vernichtungslager…, op. cit. (note 62), p. 151.
267 A. Rückerl, NS-Prozesse, op. cit. (note 251), p. 36.