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26 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka<br />

Jewish witnesses are the sole basis of proof for the claimed mass extermination.<br />

According to �ukaszkiewicz, there were two 36 gas chambers in Treblinka<br />

in the beginning, to which ten more were added later. The murders were<br />

committed with engine exhaust gas. The bodies were burned under the open<br />

sky; 2,500 were placed upon open grates at a time and turned into ashes. In the<br />

camp hospital, the Germans and their Ukrainian assistants killed large numbers<br />

of prisoners by a shot in the back of the neck; old people, the infirm, and<br />

children without relatives were led off directly after their arrival at the hospital<br />

and shot. At least 731,600 people were murdered in Treblinka, but the total<br />

number of victims was in reality higher. 37<br />

In the same year, therefore still in 1946, Z. �ukaszkiewicz compiled a significantly<br />

more detailed report about the camp under the title “Obóz strace� w<br />

Treblince” (The Execution Camp in Treblinka), which to some extent marked<br />

the transition from pure atrocity propaganda à la Grossmann and Auerbach to<br />

an account, which purported to be scientific. 38 Accordingly, the style is also<br />

much more sober than is the case with Grossmann and Auerbach, and descriptions<br />

of patent impossibilities are rarer. Nevertheless, this work also bears the<br />

quite unmistakable stamp of propaganda and possesses but slight scientific<br />

value. �ukaszkiewicz tersely gives the number of victims of the camp as<br />

800,000; nearly all of the murdered were Jews, but a certain number of Poles<br />

and Gypsies were also killed. 39<br />

The details given by �ukaszkiewicz correspond in all essential points to the<br />

Treblinka version endorsed by the Western orthodox ‘<strong>Holocaust</strong>’ historians.<br />

d. Nachman Blumental<br />

An eighteen-page report about Treblinka also appeared in Poland in 1946,<br />

part of a collection of documents titled Dokumenty i Materia�y and edited by<br />

N. Blumental, a member of the Jewish Central Historical Commission. 40 The<br />

report consists of an introduction as well as reports of two former Jewish prisoners<br />

of the camp, Szymon Goldberg and Samuel Rajzman. We will later cite<br />

excerpts from these reports.<br />

e. Marian Muszkat<br />

In 1948, one Marian Muszkat prepared a ‘documentation’ in Poland for the<br />

UN Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes, in which Treblinka was<br />

36<br />

Later three gas chambers were spoken of at first.<br />

37<br />

Z. �ukaszkiewicz, op. cit. (note 32), p. 142.<br />

38<br />

Z. �ukaszkiewicz, Obóz strace� w Treblince, Pa�stwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warsaw<br />

1946.<br />

39<br />

See Chapter III c.<br />

40<br />

“Treblinka,” in: Wydawnictwo Centralnej �ydowskiej Komisji Historycznej (ed.), Dokumenty<br />

i Materia�y. Tom I: Obozy, revised by N. Blumental, Lodz 1946, pp. 173-195.

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