TREBLINKA: - Holocaust Handbooks

304 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
cle in a small German geopolitical magazine, in which he reduced the Auschwitz
death toll considerably, to about 500,000, based on a strange mixture of
revisionist and exterminationist arguments. 933
Several weeks after the German version of the present books was sent to
Meyer, he reacted with a short email, as always indicating that his statements
were not for publication. I therefore will quote them only indirectly. I do this,
because it is necessary to show that:
a) mainstream scholars do pay attention to revisionist research;
b) they dare to enter into exchanges with revisionists;
c) they are not courageous enough to do so in public.
In his statement, Meyer says that it was time that finally somebody gathered
all the information about a topic, which had been neglected for a long
time, and he praises the industry, with which the two authors added interesting
discoveries from Polish archives. He regrets, however, that in his eyes this
book serves only to support the authors’ dogma instead of balancing the pros
and cons in an unbiased way. He then claims that the authors omitted everything
that would not fit into their image of Treblinka.
First of all, I would like to address the harsh accusation that the authors
sought only to confirm their own dogma. If Meyer cared to define what a
dogma is, then he would have to admit that the official version of Holocaust
bears all the characteristics of a dogma: all dissenters are severely punished by
the society at large and in many countries, particularly in Europe, even by the
authorities, by means of political show trials. The dissenting view presented in
this volume is the opposite of the dogma: it is a challenge to the dogma.
It is also incorrect that the authors have ignored everything that contradicts
their thesis. How can anybody claim that a book, which dedicates most of its
pages to discussing the ‘orthodox,’ dogmatic version and most of its arguments,
is omitting contradictory evidence? To be sure, no author is omniscient,
hence no book is perfect. But in contrast to Meyer, who has never discussed
opposing arguments and publications in his papers, Mattogno and Graf
made an honest attempt to cover all the existing material.
Let me now address some of the points Meyer raised.
1. Use of Euthanasia Staff during Operation Reinhardt
In discussing the postulated murder of the Jews in the so-called Operation
Reinhardt camps, of which Treblinka was the largest, historians of the status
quo locate the technical and organizational origins of this mass murder in the
euthanasia program, which was instituted at the beginning of World War Two
– the killing of so-called ‘life not worthy of life,’ in other words, mentally
and/or severely physically disabled people. The reason for this assumption is