TREBLINKA: - Holocaust Handbooks

114 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
on this day the construction ended, according to the statement of the witness.”
�ukaszkiewicz later completely transcribed the document involved. Its text
reads as follows: 285
“Central Construction Office of the Waffen-SS and Police, Warsaw.
Warsaw, June 1, 1942, Koszykowa 8, Post Office Box 214
Tel. 9-21-83
Certificate no. 684
The Pole Lucjan Pucha�a, born on …, is employed as technician at the
local administrative office of Koszykowa. It is requested that the said person
be allowed to pass unhindered and that he not be called in for other
work. This certificate is valid until the 15th of June 1942 and can be extended
only by the local administrative office. The card is to be voluntarily
returned on its expiration day.
Director of the Central Construction Office.
(Signature illegible) SS-Scharführer.”
This document proves that the Central Construction Office of the Waffen-
SS and Police at Warsaw was responsible for the construction of the Treblinka
camp and thus was following common practice. According to Arad, two German
firms had contracts for the establishment of the camp: Schönbronn in
Leipzig and Schmidt-Münstermann. 286 These firms – besides them, still others
doubtlessly participated in the construction – received their commissions from
the Central Construction Office of the Waffen-SS and Police at Warsaw, just
as did Lucjan Pucha�a. Thus, this office functioned as principal, and all the
norms, including financial, that applied in the intercourse between the Central
Construction Office and the civilian firms acting on its commission, were in
force here as well. Surely the accounting department of the construction inspection
unit of the Waffen-SS and Police Reich General Gouvernement regulated
the latter, just as the accounting office of the construction inspection unit
of the Waffen-SS and Police of Reich-‘Ost’ (east) was responsible for Auschwitz.
287 This means that Treblinka (and, logically, also Be��ec and Sobibór)
must have been specifically budgeted for, and that the camp came into being
on the basis of a precise plan.
This applies also to the labor camp Treblinka I. Viewed politically and administratively,
the labor camp Treblinka I was subordinate to the SS and Police
Chief in the Warsaw district, Arpad Wiegand, who had been assigned to
construct this camp. This is clear from three documents concerning the delivery
of various materials – pipes, nails etc. – for the camp Treblinka I.
285 Z. �ukaszkiewicz, Obóz strace� w Treblince, op. cit. (note 38), p. 51.
286 Y. Arad, op. cit. (note 72), p. 37; Arad gives no sources for his information.
287 For this, see Carlo Mattogno, op. cit. (note 278), pp. 43-45.