Section 88: Treblinka— Another Temporary Camp Which Only Existed for 15 Months
Treblinka
was the last of the “Reinhard” camps in Poland at which, the Holocaust
storytellers claim, in just fifteen months (!), from July 22, 1942 to October
19, 1943, at least 850,000 people were gassed and cremated.
The
utter impossibility of this claim should by itself be reason enough to be
dismissed without further ado. 850,000 “gassed” in 15 months means that the
Nazis must have killed an astonishing 56,666 people every month, seven days a
week, in order to achieve that figure. These hundreds of thousands of bodies
were, so the story goes, buried in huge pits in the perimeter of the
“extermination camp” section, called Treblinka II.
Poland’s
“Central Commission” announced shortly after the war that the burial or
“ditches” area where the bodies of Treblinka’s victims were buried was about
two hectares or five acres (or some 20,235 square meters).
According
to a diagram in a book about Treblinka by Jewish Holocaust historian Alexander
Donat, the camp’s “ditches” area was not more than 80 or 100 meters in length
and about 50 meters wide—that is, a maximum of 5,000 square meters or half a
hectare (A. Donat, ed., The Death Camp
Treblinka, 1979, pp. 318–319).
By
comparison, the mass graves area in the Katyn forest (near Smolensk), which
held the bodies of some 4,500 Polish officers who had been killed by Soviet
secret police and buried there in 1940, measured about 500 square meters.
It is
thus very difficult to accept that anything like 700,000 or 800,000 bodies
could have been buried in the minuscule area allegedly set aside at Treblinka
for this purpose.
Below: All that remains of the Treblinka
camp today. Ground penetration radar analysis has failed to detect any of the
claimed “mass graves” which are supposed to litter the area. Just like Chelmno,
Belzec, and Sobibór—here at Treblinka, “conveniently,” everything is gone—a
fact which makes it easy to invent all manner of lurid claims without having to
even try and justify them.

As if
this was not enough, the Holocaust storytellers then claim that, in “order to
cover up their crime,” the Nazis dug up the hundreds of thousands of corpses
between April and July 1943, and burned them all with “dry wood and branches”
on grids made of rails in batches of 2,000 or 2,500.
The
residual “ash and bits of bone” were dumped back into the burial pits, and
covered with a layer of sand and dirt two meters deep. The amount of wood
needed to carry out this task makes the claim impossible.
Given
that a single corpse requires around 150 kilograms of wood to burn over a 10
hour period, 850,000 bodies would require an incredible 12,7500,000 kilograms
of wood—nearly 13 million kilograms ( around 28,660,096 pounds). The
absurdity—and practical impossibility—of this claim has not been lost on the
Holocaust storytellers. According to Polish-Jewish historian Rachel Auerbach,
fuel to burn bodies was not needed at Treblinka because “the bodies of women,”
which had more fat, “were used to kindle, or more accurately put, to build the
fires among the piles of corpses.”
Even more incredible, “blood, too, was found
to be first-class combustion material,” she wrote (Rachel Auerbach, “In the
Fields of Treblinka,” in: A. Donat, ed., Death
Camp Treblinka, 1979, p. 38.).
Section 89: Treblinka I and II—Labor Camp and Transit Area
There
were actually two camps at Treblinka, called I and II. Even the Holocaust
storytellers admit that camp I was a labor camp which provided a workforce for
the nearby gravel pit and irrigation area. Camp II, however, the Holocaust
storytellers claim, was the “extermination” center, located just a few miles
from camp I.
Most
often it is claimed that the “gas chambers” at Treblinka were run on “exhaust
fumes from engines of Soviet Red Army tanks which the Nazis had captured.
The
location of Treblinka camp II was anything but ideal for mass murder. The train
line to the nearest large town of Siedlce ran only 980 feet (300 meters) from
the camp, and the closest village of Wólka Okraglik is only 1.2 miles (2
kilometers) away.
It is
impossible to murder over three quarters of a million people in that area with
no one noticing or without leaving massive evidence behind: yet this is exactly
what the Holocaust storytellers would have the world believe. It is claimed
that the camp inmates staged an armed uprising in 1943, and after that the camp
was closed and all the buried bodies cremated in open pits.
The
allegations of mass murder at Treblinka become even more bizarre when it is
considered that there were only 50 SS men at Treblinka.
To
claim that 50 men, with the assistance of a tank engine, could kill 850,000
people in a year and remove all traces is utterly bizarre and an obvious lie.
Below: The site of the Treblinka camp in
this US aerial reconnaissance photo, taken in September 1944. Cultivated fields
of Polish farmers can be seen directly adjacent to the T II camp, suggesting
that is was not carefully guarded or closed off. A small part of the
Malkinia-Siedlce main road is visible at the upper right. At the bottom, the
Treblinka I labor campsite can be clearly seen, just below the quarry area.

Below: Trees and other vegetation seen in this aerial photo of Treblinka II show that the campsite was not carefully closed off from the surrounding area. One of the most remarkable features of the Treblinka “death camp” is its small size. The entire Treblinka II camp area was only 32 or 33 acres (13 hectares), or about one-twentieth of a square miles.
Even smaller was the alleged “extermination” area of the camp, which was 200 by 250 meters in size (or five hectares) according to purportedly authoritative sources. Poland’s “Central Commission” announced shortly after the war that the burial or “ditches” area where the bodies of Treblinka’s victims were buried (before they were supposedly later dug up for burning) was about two hectares or five acres (or some 20,235 square meters). And according to a diagram in a book about Treblinka by Jewish Holocaust historian Alexander Donat, the camp’s “ditches” area was not more than 80 or 100 meters in length and about 50 meters wide—that is, a maximum of 5,000 square meters or half a hectare. By comparison, the mass graves area in the Katyn forest (near Smolensk), which held the bodies of some 4,500 Polish officers who had been killed by Soviet secret police and buried there in 1940, measured about 500 square meters. It is very difficult to accept that anything like 700,000 or 800,000 bodies could have been buried in the minuscule area allegedly set aside at Treblinka for this purpose.

Even smaller was the alleged “extermination” area of the camp, which was 200 by 250 meters in size (or five hectares) according to purportedly authoritative sources. Poland’s “Central Commission” announced shortly after the war that the burial or “ditches” area where the bodies of Treblinka’s victims were buried (before they were supposedly later dug up for burning) was about two hectares or five acres (or some 20,235 square meters). And according to a diagram in a book about Treblinka by Jewish Holocaust historian Alexander Donat, the camp’s “ditches” area was not more than 80 or 100 meters in length and about 50 meters wide—that is, a maximum of 5,000 square meters or half a hectare. By comparison, the mass graves area in the Katyn forest (near Smolensk), which held the bodies of some 4,500 Polish officers who had been killed by Soviet secret police and buried there in 1940, measured about 500 square meters. It is very difficult to accept that anything like 700,000 or 800,000 bodies could have been buried in the minuscule area allegedly set aside at Treblinka for this purpose.

Section 90: The Famous “Black Book of Polish Jewry” Claims Execution by “Steam” in Treblinka
According
to the standard Holocaust storyteller resource, the Encyclopedia of the
Holocaust, there were three brick “gas chambers, each measuring 13 by 13 feet”
and the “gas” was supplied from a diesel engine (Israel Gutman, ed., Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, 4 vols.,
Macmillan, New York 1990, vol. 4, p. 1486).
The
“diesel fume” story, as impossible as it is (see above), was not the originally
claimed method of execution at Treblinka. The first major story to appear in
the West which claimed Treblinka as an “extermination center” originated in a
November 1942 Warsaw Ghetto document titled the Liquidation of Jewish Warsaw.
This was forwarded to the Polish government-in-exile in London in January 1943
and appeared in English as The Black Book of Polish Jewry, with the subtitle
“Treblinka. Official Report Submitted to the Polish Government.”
This
Black Book has become a standby “source” for the Holocaust storytellers, and is
still quoted today even though it claims that steam (!) was used to execute
Jews.
The
Black Book says: “In the walls pipes were installed from which water-steam is
supposed to pour into the chambers. . . . Inside the steam-room there is a
large vat which produces the steam. The hot steam comes in to the chambers
through pipes installed there, each having a prescribed number of vents . . .
Due to the steam all the bodies have become a homogeneous mass stuck together
with the perspiration of the victims.”
Even
though the “steam chamber” story was completely fabricated (as even the later
Holocaust storytellers have admitted), the Black Book’s claims of mass murder
are still today used as “evidence” for the “extermination” allegation.
The
Black Book also claimed that 2 million Jews had already been murdered at
Treblinka before the end of 1942, another claim which is now simply ignored by
present-day Holocaust storytellers.
Furthermore,
the Communist-controlled Polish government produced a report on Treblinka which
was submitted by the Soviets as Document USSR-93 to the Nuremberg Court
proceedings which claimed that “When the process of exterminating Jews was
initiated, Treblinka became one of the first camps to which victims were
brought. They were put to death in gas chambers, by steam and electric current”
(USSR-93, English version, p. 44.).
This
Nuremberg Court document goes on to claim that soap was manufactured from human
fat at Treblinka as well, another claim long dismissed by even the Holocaust storytellers
as fiction.
At the
trial of the German governor of occupied Poland, Has Frank, charge no. 6 was
that the “German authorities acting under the authority of Governor General Dr.
Hans Frank established in March 1942 the extermination-camp at Treblinka,
intended for mass killing of Jews by suffocating them in steam-filled
chambers.”
The
camp was of course not established in March 1942 and it is no longer claimed
that “steam” was used to kill Jews, but Frank was found guilty and hanged in
October 1946.
Even as
late as 1961, at the last Treblinka-related trial in Düsseldorf of Kurt Franz,
a witness statement said that Jews were killed with “steam.”
Section 91: US National Archive Aerial Photography of Treblinka Shows No Sign of “Extermination Camp”
As was
the case with Babi Yar in Kiev, wartime aerial reconnaissance photography
carried out by the US Air force of the Treblinka camp can be found in the US
National Archives. It will, by now, come as no surprise to the reader that the
site shows no signs of having been anything other than a temporary transit
camp.
Section 92: “Survivors” Claim Execution by “Vacuum Chambers”
Even
more incredibly, it was claimed by “eyewitnesses” that Jews were killed at
Treblinka by “vacuum chambers.”
This
astonishing claim was first made by a “survivor,” Abe Kon, whose statement
claimed that the “steam chambers” were made of cement with a “Star of David” on
it. The building was, according to Kon, disguised as a bath and behind the
“bath” stood a machine. It pumped the air out of the chambers. The people
allegedly suffocated within six to fifteen minutes.
“People
were driven into the ‘bath’ three times a day. In this way 15,000 to 18,000
persons were destroyed each day,” Kon claimed (State Archive of the Russian
Federation, GARF, 7021-115-11, pp. 33f.).
This
“vacuum chamber” execution method was also entered into the official Nuremberg
Trial court record as the sole means of murder at Treblinka.
Ultimately,
the outlandish claims of “steam chambers,” “vacuum chambers” and “electrocution”
were dropped in favor of “diesel fume” gassings, only because the latter was
(incorrectly) believed to be more possible than the other methods.
Treblinka
had no crematoria (a bad oversight for an “extermination center”) and it is
claimed that almost all of the “gassed” victims were first buried, then later
exhumed and burned in open pits.
It was
claimed that all the burials took place within the boundary fence of Camp II.
Of course, the space required to bury 850,000 bodies is far more than the size
of that camp, but that fact has never worried the Holocaust storytellers.
Section 93: First 1999 Forensic Examination of Treblinka Site Reveals No Mass Graves
A
detailed forensic examination of the Treblinka site with sophisticated
electronic ground radar has however found no evidence of mass graves there.
For six
days in October 1999, an Australian team headed by Richard Krege, a qualified
electronics engineer, carried out an examination of the soil, using an $80,000
Ground Penetration Radar (GPR) device, which sends out vertical radar signals
that are visible on a computer monitor.
GPR
detects any large-scale disturbances in the soil structure to a normal
effective depth of four or five meters, and sometimes up to ten meters. These
devices are routinely used around the world by geologists, archaeologists, and
police.
In its
Treblinka investigation, Krege’s team also carried out visual soil inspections,
and used an auger to take numerous soil core samples. The team carefully
examined the entire site, especially the alleged “mass graves” portion, and
carried out control examinations of the surrounding area. They found no soil
disturbance consistent with the burial of hundreds of thousands of bodies, or
even evidence that the ground had ever been disturbed. In addition, Krege and
his team found no evidence of individual graves, bone remains, human ashes, or
wood ashes.
“From
these scans we could clearly identify the largely undisturbed horizontal
stratigraphic layering, better known as horizons, of the soil under the
campsite,” Krege said in a later report.
“We
know from scans of grave sites, and other sites with known soil disturbances,
such as quarries, when this natural layering is massively disrupted or missing
altogether.” Because normal geological processes are very slow acting,
disruption of the soil structure would have been detectable even after sixty
years, Krege noted.
“Historians
say that the bodies were exhumed and cremated towards the end of the Treblinka
camp’s use in 1943, but we found no indication that any mass graves ever
existed,” he said.
Section 94: The 2010 Second Forensic Analysis of Treblinka Reveals No “Mass Graves”
The
complete lack of any physical evidence at the Treblinka site has long been a
great source of concern to the Holocaust storytellers, even to the point where
the Jewish Daily Forward newspaper admitted in a 2014 article that the “absence
of physical evidence allowed Holocaust deniers to maintain that Treblinka II
was a transit, not death, camp” (“Uncovering the Remains of Treblinka,” Jewish Daily Forward, March 27, 2014.).
Finally,
in 2010—fifty-five years after the end of the war—an attempt was made to try
and “prove” that Treblinka was an “extermination center” after all (why this
could not have been done sooner, is only explained because of persistent
questioning by revisionists over the camp’s true purpose).
To this
end, a British forensic archaeologist, Dr. Caroline Sturdy Colls, from
Staffordshire University, was employed to carry out two sets of research into Treblinka.
The first foray duplicated the Krege research with ground penetrating radar in
an attempt to “disprove” the earlier results.
The
findings of this first investigation were trumpeted to the world as “proof”
that mass graves had been found in Treblinka—for example, the British
Broadcasting Corporation announced on January 23, 2012 that “any doubts about
the existence of mass graves at the Treblinka death camp in Poland are being
laid to rest by the first survey of the site using tools that see below the
ground” (“Treblinka: Revealing the hidden graves of the Holocaust,” BBC, January 23, 2013).
This
headline was, however, misleading to say the least. In reality, no mass graves
were found at all, as Colls readily admitted in the article.
The BBC
report—which was made into a radio show as well—specifically said that her work
had only revealed the existence of “pits”—and, crucially, that no excavations
were carried out at all and no graves had been found. Quoting Colls, the BBC
article said that her work “revealed the existence of a number of pits across
the site. Some may be the result of postwar looting, prompted by myths of
buried Jewish gold, but several larger pits were recorded in areas suggested by
witnesses as the locations of mass graves and cremation sites.
“One is
26m long, 17m wide and at least four meters deep, with a ramp at the west end
and a vertical edge to the east.
“Another
five pits of varying sizes and also at least this deep are located nearby.
Given their size and location, there is a strong case for arguing that they
represent burial areas.
“No excavation was carried out and the ground
was not disturbed, which would be a violation of Jewish law and tradition,
banning the exhumation of the dead” (“Treblinka: Revealing the hidden graves of
the Holocaust,” BBC, January 23,
2013).
In
other words, despite the headlines proclaiming that mass graves had been found
in Treblinka, in reality nothing except an “indication” of some pits had been
“recorded” in the general area.
This
failure to produce any real evidence, glowing media coverage aside, was greeted
with derision by revisionists around the world, and Colls was obliged to
undertake a second expedition to Treblinka, this time having obtained
permission to carry out digging work.
Section 95: The 2013 Third Forensic Analysis of Treblinka and the “Star of David Gas Chamber Tiles” Hoax
In
2013, Colls returned to Treblinka to carry out the long-awaited forensic
digging at the campsite. The expedition was regarded as so important by the
Holocaust storytellers that a film crew accompanied Colls to make a
documentary—that was aired by the Smithsonian Channel in 2014, titled
Treblinka: Hitler’s Killing Machine.
The
Smithsonian and other media gave the documentary a significant amount of
coverage and in their official description of the film, the Smithsonian claimed
that the “watershed discovery of Star of David tiles confirms the existence of
Treblinka’s gas chambers and becomes the key to reconstructing the death camp’s
sinister workings.”
In this
they were referring to the unearthing of some tiles at the Treblinka site.
Below: The Smithsonian YouTube Channel
announcement that “Star of David” tiles have been found at Treblinka which
“prove” the “gas chambers” at the camp.

Below: The terracotta tile excavated by
Ivar Schute at the Treblinka camp, and wrongly identified by him, Colls, and
the Smithsonian as a “Star of David.” The symbol is in fact a brand mark of the
125-year-old old Dziewulski i Lange porcelain factory in Poland.

Below: Some early advertising posters for
the old Dziewulski i Lange porcelain factory in Poland, showing the brand mark.
It is in fact known in the heraldic world as a pierced mullet star, and is not
uncommon in pottery and porcelain marks.


Below: Other examples of Dziewulski
i Lange terracotta tiles which use the same brand mark wrongly identified by
Colls and Schute as a “Star of David.”


The
documentary showed Colls and her Dutch colleague Ivar Schute digging in a ditch
and finding four pieces of ceramic tile.
The
narrator of the documentary then announced that “Dutch archaeologist Ivar
Schute has just uncovered an orange tile with a Star of David on the base.”
The
camera then moved to a close-up of Colls and Schute handling the tiles. Schute
tells Colls that he has uncovered “four tiles, three yellow ones and one red
one.
“As you
see, the Star of David on the bottom, which is quite remarkable,” Schute tells
Colls and the camera, then asking her “But have you ever seen the tiles?”
Colls
replies “No” and then Schute goes on to say that these tiles “fit in with the
idea that we are in the area of the gas chambers.”
Colls
then says what “immediately springs to my mind is that witnesses who were
allowed in the gas chamber and the area talked about the Star of David on the
outside of the gas chamber building to build up the illusion that people were
going to somewhere that was safe.”
On this
basis—that tiles had “Stars of David” on them—the narrator of the video then
asserts that “Treblinka eyewitnesses have identified tiles just like these. Now
for the first time, Caroline and her team have hard evidence confirming the
existence of the gas chambers,” the narrator adds.

Unfortunately
for these Holocaust storytellers, the “Star of David” to which they refer is
nothing of the sort.
Firstly,
the symbol—a six pointed solid star, with a dot in its center, surrounded by a
circle, and with a clear “D” letter to its right, was imprinted on the back of
the tile—which means that wherever it would have been placed, the symbol would
have been cemented onto the floor, and would not have been visible.
This
makes Colls’s claim that the symbol was there to “make people think they were
going somewhere safe” out to be complete nonsense. In any event, no
“eyewitness” has ever claimed that there were Stars of David “inside a gas
chamber” at Treblinka—only that there was a large Star of David over the “front
door” of the gas chamber.
Even
worse for Colls, Schute, and the Smithsonian, the symbol which they all claimed
to be a “Star of David” was in fact not that at all, but a brand mark of the
125-year old Dziewulski i Lange porcelain factory in Poland. That factory still
exists, although it was renamed the Opoczno Terracotta Products Factory in 1950
and is today just called Opoczno S.A. The company’s symbol is known in the
heraldic world as a pierced mullet star, as is not unusual for porcelain marks
and coats of arms around Europe.
It is
grossly amateurish for so-called “specialist archaeologists” like Colls and
Schute to make such a basic error—and for the Smithsonian to then broadcast it
to the world as “proof” of a “gas chamber.”
After
excavating for hours on end, the “specialist archaeologists” finally unearthed
what they claimed were forty bone fragments, which they immediately pronounced
as evidence of “three mass graves.”
The
“specialists” then quickly decide to rebury the bone fragments because, as
Colls asserted, all they will do is “find more” (an incredibly poor reason to
stop the digging). She then claims that these bone fragments and tiles “prove
that [the] Treblinka I camp [was] more than just labor camp.”
There
is, of course, no evidence to back up this claim. The Höfle telegram has
already confirmed that in excess of 700,000 people passed through the Treblinka
transit and labor camp, and given those numbers and the pressures of wartime
evacuations on that scale, it would only be incredible if there were not any
graves to be found in the area.
The
farcical documentary does not end there: a few hours later, digging in another
spot, this time in the “Treblinka II” camp, some brick and mortar foundations
are discovered, and, without any further ado, the Smithsonian narrator
announces that the team has “confirmed the existence of the gas chambers and
[has] confirmed their location.”
In
reality, nothing of the sort has happened. All that happened was that the
“specialist archaeologists” made fools of themselves misidentifying a tile
brand mark, found what they claimed to be forty bone fragments, along with a
handful of assorted personal items and some foundations.
It is
not under dispute that there were buildings in the camp—therefore there would
naturally be foundations of some sort. In addition, given the nature of the
camp, and the number of people who worked and passed through it, all of these
finds would be perfectly normal—and in no way “prove” that Treblinka was an
extermination center.
Section 96: The “Evidence” of “Treblinka Guard” Paval Leleko
The
Smithsonian documentary referred to above then went on to quote the “testimony”
of an individual named as Paval Leleko, who, it was said, was a guard at
Treblinka who had made a full confession.
The
Leleko “confession” is not often used by the Holocaust storytellers, mainly
because it is so contradictory and self-defeating as to be unable to withstand
even the most superficial analysis. The reason for Leleko’s statement is yet
another “confession” extracted by the Soviet Union’s SMERSH secret police—the
same ones who got the Germans to “confess” to the Katyn Massacre.
What
claims to be a transcript of Leleko’s “confession” was released in 1978 by the
then Soviet Union, in English, in order to assist, among other things, with the
railroading of John Demjanjuk. For this reason, many Holocaust storytellers
claim, quite incorrectly, that the statement was made in 1978—whereas the
transcript clearly shows that it was “made” on February 20, 1945—at the height
of the Soviet torturing of German prisoners into making “confessions.”
“EXCERPT from
Interrogation of Defendant, February 20, 1945. I, Lieutenant EPPEL,
Investigator of the Fourth Department of the “SMERSH” Directorate of
Counterintelligence of the Second Belorussian Front interrogated as
defendant—LELEKO, Pavel Vladimirovich, born in 1922, native of the village of
Chaplinka, Chaplinka District, Nikolayev Region, Ukrainian, citizen of the
USSR.”
The
“confession” follows the pattern of Soviet forced statements, in that it makes
a number of now easily disprovable claims about Treblinka.
It is
worthwhile reviewing the Leleko confession in some detail, because it
illustrates precisely how the Soviet secret police went to work to make up the
“facts” of the “holocaust” in the eastern areas.
For
example:
1.
Leleko changed the order of the camps: Treblinka I became the “death camp”
instead of the “labor camp” and vice versa:
“Question:
Describe the exterior appearance of the camp?
“Answer: The
Treblinka camp is divided into two parts: Camp no. 1, or as the prisoners
called it, the “death camp,” and the worker’s camp, called Camp no. 2. The
camps were situated at a distance of some 2–3 km from each other.”
2.
Leleko’s statement continuously makes reference to the Germans as “beasts,”
(for example: “The Germans who were in charge of the camp were real beasts who
found enormous pleasure in the extermination of people. I myself was repeatedly
confirmed in this belief.”)—something which makes it obvious that the statement
was written for him in order to serve Communist anti-German propaganda, given
that he was supposedly an individual who had volunteered to join the Trawniki
section to fight for the Nazis. In another part, the “confession” reads like a
third rate novel, saying the Germans “smiled cynically:” “Many women begged to
be allowed to keep at least some clothing on their persons, but the German, smiling
cynically, ordered them to undress “to the end.”
3.
Similarly, the Leleko statement also repeatedly refers to the “horror” of the
camp, (for example, “After the barrack had been camouflaged into a railroad
station, the people brought to the death camp did not suspect the horrors
closing in on them.”)—once again indicating that the statement was written for
him to serve propaganda purposes.
4.
Leleko’s description of the physical “gas chamber” is at great variance with
other “eye-witnesses.” For example, it is most often claimed that the front
door of the “gas chamber” was a solid, heavy door—but according to Leleko’s
statement, there was no door, only a rug hanging across the opening! (His
statement reads: “Flowers grew right by in long boxes. There was no door at the
entrance. Instead of it there was a heavy hanging made from a rug.”)
5.
Leleko’s statement also contradicts the official version of the Treblinka story
by claiming that the when the bodies were burned, they were cremated in a
specially built furnace pit.
This
contradicts the official story in that it is now claimed that the bodies were
burned after being exhumed and stacked up on iron rails, and burned with wood.
Leleko’s statement reads: “An incinerator from the burning of bodies was
situated about 10 meters beyond the large gas chamber building. It had the
shape of a cement pit about one meter deep and 20 meters long. A series of
furnaces covered on the top with four rows of rails extended along the entire
length of one of the walls of the pit. The bodies were laid on the rails,
caught fire from the flames burning in the furnaces, and burned. About 1000
bodies were burned simultaneously.”
Obviously
when this “confession” was made, that part of the story had not yet been
thought through.
6. Leleko’s
statement claims that the hair cut from the women was sent to Germany to fill
mattresses! “The women sat on a long bench and the ‘hairdressers’ cut off their
hair. The cut hair were packed in large bags and sent by trainloads to Germany.
One of the Germans told me that in Germany they are used to fill mattresses,
also for soft upholstery. He said that this hair makes very good mattresses and
the Germans buy them willingly.”
7. Yet
another example of the blatant propaganda contained in this “confession” comes
with the absurd assertion that as the victims marched to the “gas chamber” they
shouted “Hail Stalin” and “Hail the Red Army” (!) and that the Ukrainian guards
were going to be killed by the Germans.
Leleko’s
statement reads: “The men walked more quietly down this path. Several times I
heard how one, speaking to another, asked: ‘Why are you weeping? Do you believe
you can arouse compassion in these Germans?’ Frequently we could hear cries of
‘Hail Stalin!’, ‘Hail the Red Army!’ To us Russian guards, they said: ‘Today
you exterminate us, and tomorrow the Germans will be killing you’.”
8. The
absurdity of the claims continues: According to this “confession”, the Germans
and the Ukrainians competed with each other to see who could commit the most
gruesome atrocity and one of the guards had a sword with which he would “cut
off the breasts of women.” The statement reads:
“The
Germans and the motor operators then competed as to atrocities with regard to
the people to be killed.[sic] MARCHENKO for instance, had a sword with which he
mutilated people. He cut off the breasts of women.”
9. The
ridiculousness of the “confession” possibly reaches a new height when Leleko
claims that the Germans “threw babies in over the heads” of the adult victims
standing in the gas chambers! His statement reads:
“When
the chambers were filled to the very limit, the Germans started to throw in the
children left by the women either in the undressing place or more frequently
outside the gas chamber building. As the ceiling of the gas chambers was very
low, the children thrown into the chamber hit the ceiling and then, disfigured,
sometimes with broken heads, fell on the heads of the prisoners.”
10.
Other incredible claims made in the Leleko “confession” included the assertions
that the Germans forced the prisoners to put on “comical plays” for their
amusement, play in an orchestra “under the window” of the camp commandant, and
stage mock weddings among the prisoners which would end with the Germans
shooting both the bride and groom for fun.
11.
Finally, the Leleko “confession” says that in one year, no less than two
million Jews were killed at Treblinka. The statement says:
“Question: Name
the figure for the number of people exterminated in the Treblinka death camp.
“Answer: During my
stay in the ‘death camp’, i.e. during the period from September 1942 to
September 1943, no less than two million were exterminated there.”
This
figure is, of course, not even supported by the official version of the
story—but in spite of this, the Leleko “confession” is still used as “proof” of
the “extermination camp” of Treblinka—and even in the Smithsonian documentary
mentioned in section 87.
There
is no indication what became of “Pavel Leleko,” but if he did indeed exist,
there is little doubt that he met the same end as the German soldiers who
“confessed” to the Katyn Massacre.
Section 97: The Franz Stangl Trial and His “Memoirs”
In
1970, the former commandant of Treblinka (and Sobibór), Franz Stangl, was put
on trial and found guilty of murder, despite the “eyewitness” accounts often
being contradictory, as outlined above. In court, Stangl denied any knowledge
of mass exterminations.
Despite
this, his “memoirs,” a set of interviews supposedly conducted with the Jewish
journalist Gitta Sereny, appeared in 1970.
Conveniently,
as appeared to be so often the case with Nazi “Holocaust criminals,” Stangl
died a few hours after the interviews were “completed” and thus never saw the
finished product or was able to object to any distortions or insertions.
Sereny
never taped the interviews, and was thus able to make up anything at all and
attribute it to Stangl, safe in the knowledge that no one could “prove” her
otherwise. As a result, Stangl’s alleged memoirs are thus the most bizarre yet
published and full of obvious inventions and distortions.
For
example, he claimed that on his first visit to Treblinka he had seen “thousands
of bodies” strewn around next to the tracks.
“Hundreds,
no, thousands of bodies everywhere, putrefying, decomposing,” the “memoirs”
claim, and add “in the station was a train full of Jews, some dead, some still
alive ... it looked as if it had been there for days.”
Other
absurdities in the Stangl “memoirs” include a claim that when he got out of his
car he “stepped knee deep into money: I didn’t know which way to turn, which
way to go. I waded in paper notes, currency, precious stones, jewelry, and
clothes. They were everywhere, strewn all over the square.”
To top this bizarre scenario, Sereny claimed
that Stangl had told her that the scene was completed by “whores from Warsaw
weaving drunk, dancing, singing, playing music” on the other side of the barbed
wire fence.
The
conclusive evidence that the “Stangl” memoirs are forged is however to be found
in his supposed reply to the question why he thought the Jews were being
exterminated: “They wanted the Jews’ money,” Stangl allegedly told Sereny.
“That racial business was just secondary.”
Such a
clearly ludicrous claim is obviously designed to try and hide the real reason
why the Nazis disliked the Jews. A senior SS officer such as Stangl would have
known and understood exactly what the ideological reasons behind the Nazi
program to expel the Jews would have been. The answer that it was “to get their
money” is a blatant insertion by Sereny who would never have admitted the real
reasons for Nazi anti-Semitism.
Bizarrely,
Sereny also never asked Stangl outright about the “gas chambers,” despite this
being the most obvious first line of questioning. She later said that she “had
not thought about it,” which is so outrageous as to be unbelievable.
The
more likely explanation is that she did ask him about the gas chambers, and he
repeated his earlier denials that there had been none, or if there were, he had
nothing to do with them. This did not fit in with the demands of the Holocaust
story, and it was easier for Sereny just to leave this part out.
As
mentioned earlier, Stangl denied at his first court appearance that there was
any extermination program at Treblinka. He was lucky never to have seen what
Sereny put out in his name after he died.
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