TREBLINKA: - Holocaust Handbooks

130 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
ter. This story seemed suspicious to the French Examining Magistrate Mattei,
who interrogated Gerstein on July 19, 1945: 366
“Question: ‘To whom did you give an account of the execution of your
mission?’
Answer: ‘After my return to Berlin from a journey, which had lasted
about two weeks, I gave no one a report about the execution of my mission.
No one asked me anything.’”
The absurd answer did not satisfy Mattei, and he probed further: 367
“Therefore, according to your own admission, you received an important
mission in Berlin in your capacity as technician, a mission which was
so important that you had to carry it out as a state secret, you visited three
camps and were given an audience by a general, who, in view of the purpose
of your mission, considered it necessary to communicate to you the
remark of the two great Nazi leaders. [368] How can you persist in wanting
to convince us that you:
1) Did not fulfill the goal of your mission at all;
2) Reported to no one;
3) No one put any sort of questions to you concerning this?”
Gerstein answered:
“Hauptmann [Captain] Wirth was so close to Himmler that he could
say to me that I didn’t have to trouble myself about this matter any more,
and I obeyed him in this.”
This defensive strategy was demolished by Gerstein himself when he
stated: 369
“Wirth asked me to propose no change in the gas chambers and killing
methods used up to now, since everything had worked out and proved most
effective. Remarkably, I was never asked about that sort of thing in Berlin.”
Thus, Christian Wirth did not have such great influence with Himmler after
all! This is also ‘confirmed’ by the allegation that Wirth was afraid of Gerstein:
370
“Hauptmann Wirth comes in. One sees that he is afraid because I see
the disaster.”
Gerstein’s tale is based upon three premises:
1. The extermination of Jews in the eastern camps was a Reich secret; indeed,
it was the most secret matter of all.
366
G. Wellers, op. cit. (note 341), p. 29.
367
Ibid., p. 32.
368
Hitler and Himmler, who according to Gerstein are supposed to have visited the eastern ‘extermination
camps’ on August 16, which is, however, historically untrue.
369
PS-2170, p. 7.
370
PS-1553, p. 6. The “disaster” was the breakdown of the diesel engine at the alleged gassing
of people, which Gerstein claims he attended.