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Chapter VIII: Indirect Transports of Jews to the Eastern Territories 245
EVACUATION
THERESIEN-
STADT
LITZMANN-
STADT
GENERAL
GOUVERNE-
MENT
EASTERN
TERRITORIES
Altreich: 100,516 33,249 9,431 9,194 48,642
Ostmark: 47,555 14,222 5,002 12,615 15,716
Protectorate: 69,677 39,722 5,000 14,001 10,954
Totals: 217,748 87,193 19,433 35,810 75,312
Therefore, of the 217,748 Jews evacuated, 35,810 came to the Lublin district
and 75,312 to the eastern territories. Nearly half of the total – 106,626
Jews – were lodged in the ghettos of Theresienstadt and Litzmannstadt.
Do the deportations into the eastern territories and the Lublin district constitute
the prelude to a policy of extermination? The transport lists cited permit
us to answer the question with an unequivocal no. Even after the opening of
the so-called eastern extermination camps, most transports were sent into regions,
in which there were Jewish residential settlements. For example, after
the commencement of operations in Be��ec, approximately 30 transports arrived
in such areas. Similarly, between the opening of Sobibór and the arrival
of the first transports in that camp (June 1, 1942), many transports reached
these areas, and a further six after that date. Furthermore, after the opening of
Sobibór, at least 20 transports had as their destination locales situated farther
to the east of it. And not only that: after Treblinka began operations on July
23, 1942, at least 15 transports were headed for zones located farther eastward.
It is valid to suggest that the direct transports to Minsk arrived first in
Warsaw and ran over the Siedlce-Czeremcha-Wolkowusk line, so that they
were traveling past Treblinka at a distance of approximately 80 km (Siedlce
railway station) and about 140 km from Sobibór.
What purpose could it really serve to let Jews destined for extermination
travel for several hundred kilometers past two ‘extermination camps’? And if
these camps actually possessed the incredible killing capacity, which the official
version of history attributes to them, why in the world, then, did dozens
and dozens of transports take doomed Jews and have them settled in the district
of Lublin instead of taking them directly into this camp?
4. Beginning of the Transports of Jews to Auschwitz
The first transports of Jews to Auschwitz that can be documented are to be
seen within the framework of an extended program for the exploitation of the
Jewish work force. Those transports came from France and Slovakia. 709
709 In this section the author (Carlo Mattogno) summarizes the pertinent results of his study
“Sonderbehandlung” ad Auschwitz, op. cit. (note 2), pp. 33-43 and 64-73), and adds some
new elements. – See also Enrique Aynat, Estudios sobre el “Holocaustio,” Valencia 1994.