TREBLINKA: - Holocaust Handbooks

262 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
Jews from Belgium, Holland, Germany, the Protectorate of Bohemia and
Moravia, and Slovakia arrived also in the camp of Janowski at Lemberg. 779 I.
Hertz and Naftali Nacht report: 780
“All trains with Jews from Brussels, Paris, and Amsterdam go through
Rava-Russkaya. Transports from Tarnopol, Kolomyya, Sambor, Brezany,
and other cities in the West Ukraine came to them.”
On July 22, 1941, East Galicia was incorporated into the General Gouvernement;
on August 1 of the same year, the district of Galicia was established.
The massacres of Jews committed by Ukrainians and SS men in July 1941
in Lemberg and other Galician towns were to a great extent retaliations for the
mass murders of Ukrainians committed by the Soviets between June 22 and
July 2, 1941, before the retreat of the Red Army. In fact, in the eyes of the SS
and the civilian population, the ‘Soviet Jews’ were regarded as responsible for
the Communist acts of violence or at least considered accomplices of the perpetrators.
The reports of the Einsatzgruppen furnish detailed examples of this.
Here are some typical instances: 781
“In Tarnopol 5,000 Ukrainians kidnapped, 2,000 murdered. As counter
measures arrest operation initiated against Jewish intellectuals, who
shared responsibility for the murder and besides were informers for the
NKVD. Number estimated at about 1,000. On July 5, approximately 70
Jews rounded up by Ukrainians and shot. Another 20 Jews killed on the
road by military and Ukrainians, as response to the murder of three soldiers
who were found chained in jail, with tongues cut out and eyes gouged
out.”
After the discovery of Soviet torture chambers, other Jews were shot in retaliatory
measures. For example, after the discovery of the torture chamber in
the courthouse of Tarnopol, the Germans reacted as follows: 782
“The troops marching through who had the opportunity to see these
atrocities, above all the bodies of the murdered German soldiers, killed all
of the approximately 600 Jews and set their houses on fire.”
Even the massacre of (allegedly!) 33,771 Jews in Babi Yar at Kiev was
represented as an act of punishment: 783
“The animosity of the Ukrainian populace against the Jews is extraordinarily
great, since they hold them guilty of the explosions in Kiev. Also,
they are seen as the carriers and agents of the NKVD, who have brought
779 P. Friedman, Roads to Extinction. Essays on the Holocaust, The Jewish Publication Society
of America, New York and Philadelphia 1980, p. 305.
780 I. Ehrenburg, V. Grossman, Le Livre Noir, op. cit. (note 24), p. 213.
781 Event Report USSR no. 14 of July 6, 1941, PGVA, 500-2-229, pp. 5f.
782 Event Report USSR no. 28 of July 20, 1942, PGVA, 500-2-229, pp. 113f.
783 Activity and Situation Report no. 6 of the Einsatzgruppen of the Sicherheitspolizei and of
the SD in the USSR (Report period from October 1-31, 1941). RGVA, 500-1-25/1, p. 151.