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134 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
mately 360 mg/liter, leads within a few seconds to complete paralysis of
the vital centers.”
Thus a carbon dioxide concentration of 10% leads to death in a few minutes,
while at the same time the oxygen content has fallen to 8.5% (21%–
[10%×(5÷4)]). In what time period would there have been such a concentration
in the alleged gas chambers of Treblinka?
Since there were also children among the alleged victims – perhaps a third
of the entire number 380 – and since the rate of respiration of the hypothetical
victims would naturally have been accelerated by excitement, fear, and terror,
we start our calculations with the assumption of an average carbon dioxide
volume of 0.300 liters per person per minute 381 or 18 liters per person per
hour, and with the average weight of each victim assumed to be 55 kg. 382
Gassing Installation 1:
The number of victims per gas chamber amounted to 200 to 300, thus an
average of 275. The volume occupied by the bodies of the victims amounted
to ((275×550)÷1,000=) 15.1 m 3 ; therefore, there was a volume of (41.6–
15.1=) 26.5 m 3 of air available. In one minute the victims produced
(275×0.3=) approximately 82.5 liters or 0.0825 m 3 carbon dioxide.
The lethal concentration lies at 10% carbon dioxide, which corresponds to
(26.5×0.1=) 2.65 m 3 or 2,650 liters. This thus occurs in (2,650÷82.5=) about
32 minutes.
Gassing Installation 2:
The number of victims per gas chamber amounted to 400 to 700, therefore
an average of 550. The volume occupied by the bodies of the victims is
(550×550÷1,000=) 30.2 m 3 ; thus a volume of (64–30.2=) approximately 34 m 3
is available. In one minute the victims produce (550×0.3=) approximately 156
liters or 0.165 m 3 carbon dioxide. The lethal concentration of 10% carbon dioxide,
that is, (34×0.1=) 3.4 m 3 or 3,400 liters, is consequently attained in
(3,400 ÷ 165 =) about 21 minutes.
Conclusion:
According to the witnesses, the victims are supposed to have died from the
gas after approximately 30 to 40 minutes, but death from asphyxiation would
380 According to the statistician Jakob Leszczy�ski, in the year 1931 children made up 29.6% of
the population in Poland. L. Poliakov, J. Wulf, Das Dritte Reich und die Juden. Dokumente
und Aufsätze, Arani Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1955, p. 231.
381 This value is based upon the average of the above stated values for the number of respirations:
(0.288+0.520)÷2 = approx. 0.400 liters per minute for an adult and (0.4+0.4+0.2)÷3 =
approx. 0.300 liters per minute for each person (this assumes that children make up about a
third of the total).
382 We assume a weight of 70 kg for adults and of 25 kg for children, in which the number of
the latter is three times less numerous.