TREBLINKA: - Holocaust Handbooks

84 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
had experienced. Here was the physical evidence, here were the corpora
delicti […]
But the physical evidence was not limited to objects. As we moved farther
into the grounds, we walked over a field which was sown with human
bones.
The bombs had revealed the contents of the desecrated soil. Leg bones,
ribs, pieces of the spine, skulls big and small, short and long, round and
flat.
Skulls!…
If only we could get an ethnologist to come here!
He could have made the most accurate anthropological measurements
on the racial features of the Jewish people. […]
We were now standing where the gas chambers had been, the huge
mass graves and the pyres. In some places, the smell of death was still
mingled with the odor of fire. Indeed, here and there we could see little
piles of white ashes along with blackened bones, heaps of soot. All this had
been buried several meters deep in the soil, mixed with sand and covered
with more sand, but the explosions had brought it to the surface again. In
one place the simultaneous explosion of several bombs had created a huge
crater. Deep down in the hole, some outlines could be dimly seen through
the fog.
‘Those aren’t just bones,’ explained the District Attorney. ‘There are
still pieces of half-rotted corpses lying there, bunches of intestines.’
By now, the district attorney and the judge knew every nook and cranny
here. They had been conducting their investigations for some time. They
had examined both Jewish and non-Jewish witnesses, taken measurements
and carried out minor excavations.”
Judge �ukaszkiewicz had gone to Treblinka in order to perform an official
investigation of the scene of the crime. As he later explained, he acted 206
“[…] at the request of the State Prosecutor of the District Court in
Siedlce of September 24, 1945, further induced by a letter of September 18,
1945, of the Main Commission for the Investigation of the German Murders
in Poland.”
After bidding farewell to the visitors, �ukaszkiewicz set to work with a
group of workers. Between November 9 and 13, he undertook a thorough examination
of the grounds as well as a series of excavations. Afterwards he
composed an official protocol, which in view of its significance we reproduce
in full: 207
“Protocol of the tasks performed on the grounds of the death camp
Treblinka, which forms the object of the judicial examination.
206 USSR-344. GARF, 7445-2-126, p. 319 (p. 1 of the report).
207 Reproduction of the document in S. Wojtczak, op. cit. (note 61), pp. 183-185.