TREBLINKA: - Holocaust Handbooks

120 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
There is a drawing of a small tractor in Room 2. The measurements for
Room 3 are also entered – m 4 × 5 – which are the same for Room 1 and 2.
The annex (����������=pristroika) is almost certainly a corridor, which one
can enter by a two-step stairs (toward the left of the drawing); the ramp can
also be reached from both sides by way of two steps. The ‘windows’ on the
ceiling measure approximately 0.5 m × 0.5 m according to the plan, and are
supplied with grates.
The second drawing bears the description “Plan of Building no. 2 of the
Treblinka Camp, in which the killing of people of Jewish nationality occurred.”
310
The picture legend furnishes the following designations:
1-10: Chambers
11: Corridor
12: Place where the engine was installed
a: Introduction of the gas
�: Removal of the gas from the chamber
�: Door
A note without number or letter also appears in this drawing: “Pipe which
led from the engine to the chambers.” A small tractor is here likewise drawn
in Room 12.
These two drawings without a doubt depict two facilities with gas chambers,
which are fed by engine exhaust gases (or, to put it more accurately, by
the exhaust gases from a tractor). But none of the witnesses questioned by
Judge Jurowski mentioned such a version of killing. As we pointed out in
Chapter II, they did speak of an engine, but this served merely to operate the
pump, by which the air was said to have been sucked out of the chambers,
rather than for filling the chambers with exhaust fumes. This vacuum version
was then officially voiced in the Soviet report on Treblinka of August 24,
1944, as well as in the Polish-Soviet protocol of September 15, 1944. What,
therefore, was Judge Jurowski’s source?
The answer is simple: Jankiel Wiernik’s statements of May 1944, because
the Soviet investigating judges were in possession of a copy of his text, which
is explicitly mentioned in the Soviet report of August 24, 1944. As will be recalled,
Wiernik had simply transformed the steam chambers of the report of
November 15, 1942, into engine exhaust gas chambers, and even copied the
drawing of the camp enclosed with that report. On this plan 311 the two alleged
killing installations are drawn in, the first with three and the second with ten
chambers, whose structure is practically identical with those of the two drawings
of Judge Jurowski. But because Wiernik had forgotten to add to the ten
gas chambers of his second drawing an eleventh room, in which the engine
310 See Document 19 in the Appendix.
311 See Document 4 in the Appendix.