Here is an example of the usual eastern european trappings of storytelling.As a standard "feature" of the death camps, a camoflaged barbed wire "tunnel" was used to funnel new victims into the gas chambers. At Treblinka, the German and Ukrainian troops would beat the victims with pipes and sticks to keep them moving....
Ukranians are the common extras in these stories as they sided with the Nazis against Stalin who starved twenty million of them to death. Also, since jews were primarily communists, they had an ax to grind against anyone associated with communism.One Treblinka survivor, who wrote of his experiences in 1944 (See the reference at the bottom of this article), described the process:
"To avoid the blows, the victims ran as fast as they could to the gas chambers, the stronger pushing aside the weak. At the entrance to the gas chambers stood ... Ivan Demaniuk and Nikolai,
Of course this is the John Demjanjuk who was tried and found guilty by a kangaroo court in Israel and later released by the Supreme Court of Israel. For his trial the Soviets provided falsified documents against him. The United States withheld exculpatory evidence from him. And Israel encouraged the witnesses to collaborate to develop a single, consistant story against him.one armed with an iron bar and the other with a sword, and they, too, urged the people on with blows to push their way in --The problem with this story is that John Demjanjuk was never at Treblinka. One has to ask why his name was penciled in for a man who was not known by his last name.
Here we have people being hit with a sword without mention of the obvious consequences of that such as bleeding to death.200-250 in a chamber of 16 square meters.
Get out your calculators, folks. That is between 12.5 and 15.6 people per square meter. For purposes of this discussion, a square meter is as good as a square yard. The next time you have friends over, mark out a square yard on the floor and see how many can stand in it.When the gas chambers were full, the Unkranians closed the doors and started the engine. Twenty to twenty-five minutes later, an SS man or one of the Ukrainians would peep into the chambers through a window in the door. When they thought everyone had suffocated, they ordered the Jewish prisoners to open the rear doors and remove the bodies. When the doors were opened, all the corpses were standing; because of the crowding and the way the victims grasped one another, they were like a single block of flesh." 1A square yard contains nine square feet. Nine people can not be put into nine square feet. It is clearly impossible for one person to occupy only one square foot much less 12 to 15 people to occupy nine square feet. Yet if you disbelieve this story the holohuggers will call you neo-nazi and anti-semitic.
The first problem is that this was supposed to be a diesel engine and with diesel engine exhaust it takes about one hour to develop a headache. Here we have a claim of twenty to twenty-five minutes to death. Even a standard automobile engine would be hard-pressed to kill people in this short period of time.The second problem with this story is that the impossible number of people packed into the room is "confirmed" by the "single block of flesh" part of the story. One can not confirm the impossible.
"To drown out the victims' screams on their way to the gas chambers -- so that they would not be heard throughout the camp -- the SS arranged an orchestra."
And here we have a standard component of the eastern european horror story that there was music. It is part of the "dance naked in the moonlight" routine that is so common to these stories.But if you think that an orchestra is reasonable, consider that without it the screams could be heard throughout the entire camp. Thus the orchestra was loud enough to be heard throughout the entire camp. In the days before rock concerts and twenty foot high speakers, it is unclear how this was possible.
"During the first five weeks of the killing operation in Treblinka, between July 23 and August 28, about 245,000 Jews were deported there from the Warsaw ghetto and Warsaw district; from Radom district, 51,000; from Lublin district, 16,500, bringing the total in this period to about 312,500." 2
"SS Unterscharfuhrer August Hingst, who served at that time in Treblinka, testified that 'Dr. Eberl's ambition was to reach the highest possible numbers and exceed all the other camps. So many transports arrived that the disembarkation and gassing of the people could no longer be handled. From the technical and organizational standpoint, the camp was simply unable to absorb such a large number of victims.
This is not suprising as all of the aerial photos of Treblinka show no more than five small buildings, total, at Treblinka. It is unclear how so few buildings, small ones at that, could possibly have processed even a fraction of this number much less have housed the people needed to do the work of burning all of the bodies in a pit.Consider that the stories of Treblinka insist upon one of the buildings being a fake train station. We now have four buildings available. One building for all personnel, the commanding officer, the officers, the enlisted, the Ukranian employees and the women who ran the laundry to sleep in leaves three buildings. One building for all cooking, eating, storage, laundry and every other plant requirement leaves us two buildings. Having a latrine leaves us only one building. Having one building for an office and operations building leaves us no buildings.
And we still need another building away from the others for storing that flammable gasoline/alcohol/oil and whatever the "witnesses" report was added to the jewish fat (which does not burn the first time it is in a fire according to witnesses) to pour over the bodies to incinerate them.
But most important were are still missing a building in which to conduct the gassing.
But this depends upon the aerial photos. Witnesses report from one to four to eight buildings devoted to gassing. Even given the unlikely stuffing of so many different things into the few existing buildings that I suggest above we are missing two essential buildings even if there is only one gas chamber. Witnesses would have us be missing six to ten buildings. So much for witnesses.
The three gas chambers, with their frequent technical breakdowns, were the main bottleneck,
If the claim is that there were three gas chambers then there were only two other small buildings to house all of the staff and for every other requirement. It is again impossible to connect this description of Treblinka with the photos of Treblinka.and the surplus from each transport had to be shot in the reception area.
Save of course that the five buildings were all together and without fences and all within sight of each other. Any reference to a reception area can not be reconciled with the pictures of the camp.Many prisoners and more pits were required for burying the thousands of people who were shot, in addition to those thousands who died inside the densely packed freight cars on their way to the camp. The problem of digging more burial pits was partially solved by a scoop-shovel that was brought ... But since new transports arrived several times daily, still more and more corpses were left unburied.
Obviously this person did not read the really true and official story of Treblinka. According to the really true and official story, all of the bodies were burned by a special method without fuel. There are other idiotic claims for Treblinka but this special method without fuel will do for now.But of course the aerial photo shows only one relatively small patch of disturbed soil that could rather be described as the size of a vegetable garden than a burial pit but even if a burial pit, only one of them. As to the "scoop-shovel," whatever that might be with a good translation, we now need a maintenance shed and mechanics to keep this thing running and we are already short at least two buildings.
Dr. Eberl ... was incapable of maintaining control over the situation. With transports coming in all the time and both corpses and clothing piling up ... transports would have to be delayed at way stations. The result was a higher death toll in the freight cars themselves -- with all its ramifications once the transport reached the camp.."
It would be interesting to know what these "ramifications" were supposed to have been.In any event, it is clear that while this claims to be a description of Treblinka, it bears no resemblance whatsoever to the physical Treblinka. As with all of the witness testimony, it bears absolutely zero relationship to any physical location or building known and contradicts what is known.
1 Jacob Wiernik, "A Yor in Treblinke" (A Year in Treblinka), New York, 1944, pp.20-21
2 Tatiana Berenstein, B.Z.I.H., Warsaw, 1957, No. 21 B.Z.I.H., 1952, No. 1(3); B.Z.I.H., 1955, No. 15-16.