TREBLINKA: - Holocaust Handbooks

78 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
“The camp Treblinka II was an enormous death combine. The entire
Jewish population of all the nations of Europe occupied by the Germans,
was brought here for burning, besides many ‘unfit’ people of other nationalities.
The death factory in which the SS men ruthlessly and zealously exterminated
millions of people was in operation around the clock for 13
months, from July 1942 until September 1943. This diabolical undertaking
ceased to exist only after the prisoner revolt in the Jewish camp.
Dozens of witnesses attest to having seen how up to three transports of
Jews, with 60 cars each, arrived in the camp on a daily basis. The trains
left the camp either loaded with sand or empty.
Martyrs of the camp who survived recount that they were delivered in
railway cars in which there were 150, 180, or even 200 persons each.
While traveling they were dying of hunger. There was no water. They
drank urine. […]
At the railway branch line at Treblinka there was something in the
camp which resembled a fine train station; the length of the platform was
reckoned for 20 cars. All special buildings, where people were murdered,
were carefully camouflaged on the outside as beautiful facilities. The avenues
were sprinkled with sand and bordered by flowers, garden beds and
fir trees – all this in order to deceive the ‘passengers.’ […]
Some persons, who escaped the pyre through a miracle, have portrayed
the nightmarish images of the incineration of people:
The Jews delivered to the camp were received by the SS unit. The men
were led to a special square, but the women and children were taken to the
barracks. Beautiful and young Jewesses were taken by the Germans for
themselves for a night. All men, women, and children were told to undress.
The women’s hair was shorn and it was sent to Germany as raw material.
The clothes were sorted and likewise sent to Germany. The victims were
ordered to take along valuables – gold, paper money, documents. The naked
people were shown to a cashier’s counter one by one, and they were
told to deposit everything. After they had done this, they were allowed to
go on and were led along the sand-strewn, flower-bordered avenue into the
‘bath,’ where they were given soap, a towel and underclothing. After depositing
of the valuables, already on the way to the ‘bath,’ the polite tone
gave way to roughness. Those who were walking were urged on by rods
and beaten with canes.
The ‘bath’ was a house, which consisted of 12 cabins, each 6 × 6 m in
size. 400 to 500 people were driven at a time into one cabin. It had two
doors, which could be sealed hermetically. In the corner, between ceiling
and wall, were two openings connected with hoses. Behind the ‘bath’ stood
a machine. It pumped the air out of the room. The people suffocated within
6 to 10 minutes. The second door was opened and the dead were brought
on wheelbarrows to the special ovens.