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96 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
5. Number of Victims of Treblinka: Origin of the
Official Figure
In the preceding chapter we have seen that the report of November 15,
1942, was already speaking of two million murdered in Treblinka to date. In
his 1944 account, J. Wiernik gave no exact number, but spoke merely of “millions
of people.” 239 On April 24, 1944, the Soviet investigative commission
placed the number of victims at three million. 240 S. Rajzman, the chief witness,
subdivided the number of victims by national origin. In his interview of
September 26, 1944, he stated the following (the linguistic flaws here, as well,
are the fault of the Soviet translator): 241
“Daily, 3-4 transports arrived in the camp. There were, of course, days
on which 1-2 transports arrived, but that was an exception, not the rule. In
each transport 6,000-7,000 people of Jewish nationality arrived. Our illegal
groups, as I have already said, kept careful record of all contingents
that arrived in the camp. Jews from various countries of Europe were
brought into the camp. 120,000 arrived from Germany itself, and among
them:
Austria 40,000
[Additionally:]
Poland 1,500,000
Czechoslovakia 100,000
Russia 1,000,000
Bulgaria and Greece 15,000
Thus, during the time the records were kept, and indeed from October
1, 1940 to August 2, 1943 [sic!] – there was a total of 2,775,000 men,
women, old people and children, of Jewish nationality brought into the
camp.”
Naturally Vassili Grossmann adopted the Soviets’ figure, three million figure.
242 In December 1945, �ukaszkiewicz attempted the first detailed accounting
of the claimed alleged Treblinka victims, and in so doing introduced
methods, which were to become standard procedure for the official historiography:
243
“It is clear that as of now an exact statement of the number of victims is
still not possible. One should take care to note that the camp in Treblinka
was no longer active from the fall of 1943 and that the murderers had sufficient
time to obliterate all traces. The best procedure, in my opinion,
239 A. Donat, op. cit. (note 4), p. 185.
240 See Section 1 of this chapter.
241 USSR-337. GARF, 7445-2-126, p. 240.
242 W. Grossmann, Die Hölle von Treblinka, op. cit. (note 26), p. 32.
243 USSR-344. GARF, 7445-2-126, pp. 323-323a (p. 9f. of the report).