TREBLINKA: - Holocaust Handbooks

34 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
n. Eugen Kogon, Hermann Langbein, Adalbert Rückerl et al.
In 1983, an authors’ collective directed by E. Kogon, H. Langbein, and A.
Rückerl published Nazi Mass Murder. In the introduction, the authors rail
against “those who […] deny the killing of millions of victims by gas” and
their alleged “desire to defend the Nazi system,” but specify neither authors
nor titles. The fact that such deniers exist, the introduction goes on to say, “is
sufficient to justify our intention to set down, in a precise and indisputable
manner, the historical truth.” 66 This “historical truth” is “set down, in a precise
and indisputable manner” mainly by means of eyewitness testimony and
confessions of alleged perpetrators. One Abraham Goldfarb is a leading witness
for the claimed mass murders in Treblinka, and the editors cite him as
follows: 67
“On the way to the gas chambers Germans with dogs stood along the
fence on both sides. The dogs had been trained to attack people; they bit
the men’s genitals and the women’s breasts, ripping off pieces of flesh. The
Germans hit the people with whips and iron bars to spur them on, so that
they would press forward into the ‘showers’ as quickly as possible. The
screams of the women could be heard far away, even in the other parts of
the camp. The Germans drove the running victims on with shouts of
‘Faster, faster, the water is getting cold, and others still have to take a
shower!’ To escape from the blows, the victims ran to the gas chambers as
quickly as they could, the stronger ones pushing the weaker ones aside. At
the entrance to the gas chambers stood the two Ukrainians, Ivan Demaniuk
[68] and Nikolai, one of them armed with an iron bar, the other with
a sword. Even they drove the people inside with blows…
As soon as the gas chambers were full, the Ukrainians closed the doors
and started the engine. Some twenty to twenty-five minutes later an SS man
or a Ukrainian looked through a window in the door. When he had made
sure that everyone had been asphyxiated, the Jewish prisoners had to open
the doors and remove the corpses. Because the chambers were overcrowded
and the victims had held on to one another, they were all standing
upright and were like one single mass of flesh.”
Since witness statements like that clearly satisfied the authors, they did not
make the least attempt to furnish material or documentary evidence for the
claimed mass murder in Treblinka (or the other ‘extermination camps’).
66
E. Kogon, H. Langbein, A. Rückerl, et al. (eds.), Nazi Mass Murder, Yale University Press,
New Haven 1993, pp. 1f.
67
Ibid., p. 126f.
68
Correct spelling: Demjanjuk. See Chapter V.