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116 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
eral Gouvernement (Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger), administratively to the Central
Construction Office of the Waffen-SS and Police at Warsaw as well as to
the SS Administrator.
In short: the claim according to which the camps Treblinka, Be��ec, and
Sobibór are supposed to have been constructed without any sort of budgetary
entries is historically false and plainly absurd to anyone familiar with the bureaucratic
conventions of the Third Reich.
How is the rather rudimentary character of these camps to be explained? In
reality, this question is incorrectly formulated, for the primitiveness of the
three camps is not supported by any kind of documentation, but merely from
witness statements. We have learned abundantly from the preceding chapters
what sort of value ought to be attached to these. Thus, the primitive character
of the camps is no objectively proven fact, but simply a subjective reconstruction.
On the contrary: since the camps were constructed in conformity with the
usual economic and administrative standards, as applied to the other camps as
well, they could not have been primitive in any way, and one comes inevitably
to the conclusion that the subjective reconstructions based upon testimonies of
witnesses cannot reflect the reality.
In these unreal reconstructions of Treblinka, the unspeakably primitive
character of the crucially important buildings, for which the camps are alleged
to have been built – namely the killing and corpse cremation facilities – is
glaringly obvious. We begin with the killing installations, and we will confine
ourselves strictly to Treblinka.
2. The Alleged Killing Installations in Treblinka
In the following, we will dispense with any discussion of the many technical
fantasies, like the steam and vacuum chambers, described by many witnesses.
We confine ourselves to those extermination techniques which, according
to today’s official historiography, are supposed to have been employed
in Treblinka. As the starting point for this, we choose the verdict of the
Court of Assizes of Düsseldorf 295 of September 3, 1965, against Kurt Franz: 296
“The gas chambers, in which the Jews were killed by means of exhaust
fumes of a diesel engine, formed the center of the death camp. At the beginning
of the mass killings there was only the so-called ‘old gas house.’
The building, solidly constructed out of brick upon a concrete foundation,
contained 3 gas chambers, which were approximately 4 × 4 m in area and
about 2.6 m high, as well as a machine room for the diesel engine and the
lighting plant of the camp. All of the rooms were situated on a wooden cor-
295 See Chapter V on this.
296 A. Rückerl, NS-Vernichtungslager…, op. cit. (note 62), pp. 203f., 224, 226.