TREBLINKA: - Holocaust Handbooks

72 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
Document 4 in the Appendix shows the plan of Treblinka, which Wiernik
has published in order to lend credibility to his claims. In reality, he quite
simply copied the plan enclosed with the report about the steam chambers dating
from November 15, 1942 (see Document 2 in the Appendix). Both plans
bear the same designation: “Treblinka. Szkic orientacyjny” (Treblinka, orientation
sketch); 170 both depict the same map legends; 171 and, on both, the facilities
are numbered 1 through 26, which is explained in the report of November
15, 1942, but not in Wiernik’s exposition. The first three “extermination
chambers,” called “steam chambers” in the report of November 15, 1942, but
“gas chambers” in Wiernik’s report, are designated by the number 14 in both
plans. Similarly, a boiler room for the production of steam is represented by
number 15a in the November 15, 1942, report, while on Wiernik’s plan it is a
gassing engine. In addition, the description of the two gassing installations –
the first with three and the second with ten chambers – fully and completely
corresponds to the report of November 15, 1942, and to the camp plan which
was enclosed with it!
Precisely for the reason that it is the product of plagiarism, Wiernik’s
sketch has a paucity of features of this kind: not only are many buildings of
the camp missing, but also the cremation grills, although he wrote his report in
the year 1944. Wiernik only ‘rectified’ his error in 1945 by furnishing a new,
‘corrected’ plan of Treblinka. If one compares this with that of the year before,
the plagiarism shows up even more glaringly. 172
During Session 66 of the Jerusalem Eichmann Trial, Wiernik produced the
1945 plan, which entered the records as Document T-1300, yet mendaciously
claimed to have drawn it in the year 1943. 173
Thus it is clear that Wiernik simply plagiarized the plan from the report of
November 15, 1942, and in so doing replaced the word “steam chambers”
with “gas chambers”. Why did he do this? Presumably he was of the opinion
– to be sure with good reason – that the versions of mass murders in Treblinka
then current were too simpleminded. On the other hand, the idea of the engine
all but clamored for acceptance.
That there was an electrical power supply in Treblinka is not only probable,
it is certain. Every concentration camp had such facilities. Even camps
connected to the local electrical supply were equipped with an emergency
170
On both plans the word Treblinka is underlined by a broken line.
171
In the map legend of Wiernik, under Point 3 is printed, instead of “parkan” (fence) the synonym
“plot.”
172
See Document 5 in the Appendix. The plan was published by Filip Friedman in his book To
jest O�wi�cim! (This Is Auschwitz!), Krakow 1945. An English translation followed in the
year 1946, under the title This Was O�wi�cim!, the United Jewish Relief Appeal, London
1946. The plan appears there on pp. 82f.
173
State of Israel. Ministry of Justice, The Trial of Adolf Eichmann. Record of Proceedings in
the District Court of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 1993. vol. III, pp. 1201-1203.