TREBLINKA: - Holocaust Handbooks

152 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
for over 2 kilometers. There is no trace of any area where trees have been
felled.
The plan drawn by Jankiel Wiernik in 1945 shows a large forested zone in
the northeast sector, not far from the two grates in the southeast sector. From
whence came, then, the 139,200 tons of wood, the acquisition of which required
approximately 92,800 trees?
g. Lack of Documentary Evidence for Cremations
These kinds of enormous pyres, had they actually existed, would obviously
have been immediately conspicuous in the area surrounding Treblinka. In reference
to this, the witness Kazimierz Skarzy�ski explained: 448
“The bodies were piled on the rails and burned. The glow of the fire
was visible at a distance of 15 km. During the day, black smoke spread.
With a strong wind, the smell of burning was still perceptible 30 km away
from the camp.”
As pointed out in our introduction, the Treblinka camp was surrounded by
quite a number of villages and hamlets. Within a radius of 10 km were the
small towns of Wólka Ogr�lik, Poniatowo, Grady, Treblinka, Ma�kinia, Zawisty
Dzikie, Rostki Wlk., Rytele, �wieckie, Olechny, Wszo�ki, Jakubiki, Tosie,
Kosów Lacki, D�be, �ochy, Rostki, Maliszewa, Guty, Bojewo, Brzózka, Ko-
�odzia�, Orze�ek, Z�otki, Prosty�, Kie�czew.
From every single one of these villages and hamlets one would have seen
the glow of the flames from Treblinka for 122 days – how does it happen that
there is no mention of this in any of the reports of the Polish resistance movement?
And how is it that Soviet reconnaissance planes discovered no trace of this
gigantic cremation operation? Jankiel Wiernik supplies the following explanation
for this: 63
“Whenever an airplane was sighted overhead, all work was stopped,
the corpses were covered with foliage as camouflage against aerial observation.”
This, of course, is outrageous nonsense: in the first place, the planes would
already have noticed the smoke from the grates long before they reached the
camp, and in the second place, thanks to the great amount of smoke it would
have produced, covering the grates with foliage would have been the best
method to make them even more visible!
448 GARF, 7021-115-11, p. 16.