TREBLINKA: - Holocaust Handbooks

156 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
could hold a maximum of 350 persons, and thus the total capacity of the three
chambers amounted to 1,050 persons, that would have meant no less than
seven gassing operations per day per chamber, each of which is supposed to
have taken less than three-and-a-half hours. According to the witnesses, however,
the chambers were never in operation 24 hours a day, not even when
20,000 victims per day were coming in! In A. Donat’s anthology, we read: 465
“On such days the gas chambers were in operation until 1 a.m. and finished
off more than 20,000 corpses within 24 hours.”
The number of persons assumed by the Düsseldorf Court of Assizes to
have been gassed at one time (21 to 22 people per square meter) is of course
unrealistic and was only adopted because otherwise the astronomical number
of people gassed given by the witnesses would never have been reached. Even
the Soviets, famed as masters of exaggeration, assumed a density of no more
than 6 persons per square meter in their calculation of the capacity of the
rooms alleged to have been ‘gas chambers’ in the Majdanek camp. 466 Even if
one assumes the highest density theoretically possible – 10 people per square
meter – the three ‘gas chambers’ of the first installation would have been able
to hold a maximum of 480 persons per process, so that 15 gassings would
have been necessary to kill 7,100 people or more. Under these conditions, one
gassing procedure, including all the accompanying steps, such as filling and
emptying the chambers, would have had to have been completed in something
over an hour and a half, and this would have to be done day in and day out for
a period of 70 days!
This sort of thing should have been greeted with roars of contemptuous
laughter, but Gerald Reitlinger and Jean-Claude Pressac are the only representatives
of the official historiography who mustered the minimum of courage
needed to reject this insult to ordinary common sense!
15. Property of Deportees as Material Evidence for their
Extermination
J. Gumkowski and A. Rutkowski published two documents, which supposedly
supply documentary evidence for the alleged mass extermination in Treblinka.
These consist of a Wehrmacht bill of lading with the date “Treblinka,
the 13th of September 1942,” which references the dispatch of 50 train cars to
Lublin with “articles of clothing of the Waffen-SS,” and a Wehrmacht bill of
lading with the date “Treblinka, the 10th of September 1943,” which relates to
465 A. Donat, op. cit. (note 4), p. 52.
466 J. Graf, C. Mattogno, op. cit. (note 271), p. 126.