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236 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
ous day with SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Höfle, the delegate for the resettlement
of Jews in the Lublin district: 690
“I arranged for a talk with Hstuf. Höfle for Monday, the 16th of March
1942, namely at 17:30 hours. In the course of the discussion the following
was explained by Hstuf. Höfle:
It would be expedient to divide the transports of Jews to the Lublin district
into employable and unemployable Jews at the station of origin. If it is
not possible to make this distinction at the station of origin, it will be necessary
for the division of the transport into unemployables and unemployables
to be done at Lublin.
Unemployable Jews are all to come to Bezec [Be��ec], the outermost
border station in the Zamosz district.
Hstuf. Höfle is thinking of building a large camp, in which the employable
Jews can be registered in a file system according to their occupations
and requested from there.
Piaski is being made Jew-free and will be the collection point for the
Jews coming out of the Reich.
Trawnicki [Trawniki] for the present time is quartering no Jews.
H. asks where on the D�blin-Trawnicki route 60,000 Jews can be
unloaded. Informed about the Jewish transports now running as far as we
are concerned, H. explained that of the 500 Jews arriving in Susiec, those
who were unemployable could be sorted out and sent to Bezec. According
to a teletype of the government of March 4, 1942, a Jewish transport,
whose destination was the Trawnicki station, is rolling out of the Protectorate.
These Jews are not unloaded in Trawnicki, but have been brought
to Izbica. An inquiry of the Zamosz district, asking to be able to request
200 Jews from there for work, was answered in the affirmative by H.
In conclusion he stated that he could accept 4-5 transports daily, of
1,000 Jews with the destination station of Bezec. These Jews would go
across the border and would never come back into the General Gouvernement.”
This document is of capital significance for two reasons. First, Höfle was
the deputy Stabführer (staff leader) of the SS and Police Chief for the Lublin
district (Otto Globocnik). According to official historiography, he coordinated
in this capacity “the construction of the extermination camp Belzec and the
deportations to there from the Lublin district.” 691 Second, Be��ec is supposed
to have started its homicidal activity subsequent to the talk reported, on March
17, 1942. According to official historiography, it was (like Treblinka, Sobibór,
690 Ibid., pp. 32f.
691 Enzyklopädie des Holocaust, op. cit. (note 101), vol. 2, p. 619. Not included in the English
edition Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, op. cit. (note 18).