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158 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
“This report relates to the textile materials transferred during 1942.
That year the majority of deported Jews were sent to the death camps of
Operation Reinhard rather than to Auschwitz; therefore, these camps were
the main source of the textiles mentioned in Pohl’s report.”
In order to convince his readers even further, Arad publishes a photograph,
which shows an enormous pile of shoes and is deceptively captioned “A pile
of shoes and boots in Belzec.” 471 In reality, the photo shows a barracks of the
stored personal effects in Birkenau! 472
Let us quickly examine:
a. Hair
Regarding the document mentioned above, Georges Wellers remarks: 473
“At the beginning of February 1943, a railway car with textile goods
was sent from the Belzec camp to the Economics Ministry of the Reich
(doc. no. 1257 and U.S.S.R. 511). The weight of the women’s hair alone
corresponds to the hair from 200,000 women.”
Thus Wellers makes the same misleading statements about the point of origin
of the car, as did Arad later on. Were his claim correct, then the hair of
one woman would weigh 15 grams. The twenty-five cars mentioned by
Rajzman would then have carried the hair of (25×3.000/0.015 =) five million
women! But Wellers’ assumption is erroneous, because the hair of male and
female prisoners was continually recut in all German concentration camps for
hygienic reasons. For example, on October 11, 1944, Anton Kaindl, commandant
of the concentration camp Sachsenhausen, found it necessary to call the
entire camp, particularly the infirmary building, to order because
“the hair-cutting in the camp, and also on the part of the infirmary, has
not been performed according to regulations.”
He therefore ordered “under threat of the harshest punishment”:
“The hair of Reich German, Flemings, Dutch, Norwegians is to be cut
to a length of 2 cm.
All members of the remaining nations are to receive close haircuts.”
Kaindl complained in particular “that a large portion of the infirmary staff
believes that they need not execute the orders of the camp” and reminded them
that “this important war-economy camp regulation” was to be enforced “without
a single exception.” How large the quantity of cut hair was is evident from
the last cargo, which weighed 275 kg. 474
471
Ibid., p. 156.
472
KL Auschwitz. Fotografie dokumentalne, Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, Warsaw 1980, p.
267.
473
G. Wellers, La Solution finale et la mythomanie néo-nazie, edited by Beate and Serge Klarsfeld,
Paris 1979, p. 35.
474
GARF, 7021-104-8, p. 1.