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Chapter IX: Transit Camp Treblinka 279
Furthermore, sources already cited earlier mention the transfer of Jews
from Polish ghettos to the Ukraine by way of Be��ec at the end of March
1942. G. Reitlinger writes regarding this: 844
“The reports, which reached the Polish Exile Government in London,
that Jews were resettled in Russia from Belzec camp, should be discounted
as part of the camouflage that Heydrich had been creating since the Wannsee
conference. In fact, the allusions to the Krivoi Rog Jewish colonies and
the Pinsk land reclamation camps may derive from fake field postcards.”
Therefore, while the Einsatzgruppen were allegedly shooting Jews in the
broad light of day with no attempt at secrecy, other SS personnel were taking
pains to forge postcards in order to cover up their alleged mass murders in
‘extermination camps’!
2. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Stroop Report
In his well-known report of May 16, 1943, on the destruction of the Warsaw
Ghetto, SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop emphasized: 845
“When the Reichsführer SS visited Warsaw in January 1943 he ordered
the SS and Police Leader for the District of Warsaw to transfer to Lublin
the armament factories and other enterprises of military importance which
were installed within the Ghetto including their personnel and machines.”
According to Yitzhak Arad, 6,000 Jews were deported from the Warsaw
Ghetto to Treblinka between the 18th and the 22nd of January 1943. 846 In fact,
on January 9, 1943, Himmler had ordered SS Obergruppenführer Krüger to
transfer 8,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto into the camps in the area around
Lublin and to deport another 15,000 by the 15th of February. 847 On February
2, 1943, SS Oberführer Ferdinand von Sammern, SS and Police Chief in the
Warsaw district, sent a secret letter to Himmler, in which he wrote regarding
the firms in the Warsaw Ghetto: 848
“Not only the firm of Többen and Schulz & Co., but also all the rest, 8
firms altogether with approximately 20,000 Jewish workers, are being relocated
into the concentration camp at Lublin.”
According to the Stroop Report, the number of deported Jews amounted to
6,500. 845
844 G. Reitlinger, op. cit. (note 181), p. 270.
845 PS-1061. IMT, vol. XXXVI, p. 635.
846 Y. Arad, op. cit. (note 72), p. 392.
847 Faschismus – Getto – Massenmord, op. cit. (note 290), p. 349.
848 Ibid., pp. 449f.