Having dealt with what is undoubtedly the biggest weapon in the mainstream Holocaust propaganda campaign, namely Auschwitz (once referred to in this context by David Irving as “the great battleship Auschwitz,” with the major task for revisionists being, “Sink the Auschwitz!”), Germar Rudolf moves on to look at other camps, beginning with the so-called “Operation Reinhardt” camps, the terminology used by mainstream writers for the alleged systematic extermination of Jews in three “pure extermination camps” in eastern Poland, namely Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibór. Rudolf asserts that this claim of mass murder is wrong:

The term “Operation Reinhardt” was probably coined after Reinhardt Heydrich. But various documents clearly show that this operation was about the collection and recycling of the property of Jews deported to the east. It had nothing to do with extermination. This term was also not exclusively applied to what is referred to by orthodox historiography as “pure extermination camps.” It applied also to collection and recycling activities in camps like Auschwitz or Majdanek... (Mattogno, Special Treatment in Auschwitz: Origin and Meaning of a Term (2nd edition, 2016, pp. 38f; Graf et al., Sobibór: Holocaust Propaganda and Reality, The Barnes Review, 2010 pp. 236-250). The claim that the term “Operation Reinhardt” stood for mass murder is based solely on the theory of code language, insisting that the term meant something else than what the documents actually say. But there is no documentary evidence to support this claim.1

Dealing with Treblinka, the mainstream claim here is that between summer 1942 and summer 1943 at least 700,000, and perhaps as many as three million persons, practically all belonging to the Jewish faith, were murdered there, although even some mainstream writers go down to between 200,000 and 250,000.2 As supposed murder weapons, there is a remarkable variety claimed by various witnesses who allege the following:

Mobile or stationary gas chambers; poison gas, both fast- and slow-acting; quicklime; steam; electricity; machine guns; vacuum chambers; chlorine gas; Zyklon B; and exhaust from diesel engines.3

As if this were not enough, the witnesses go on to allege that the bodies of the victims were piled up as high as a multi-story building and then burned, with little or no fuel. All in all there was a great deal of inconsistency amongst witnesses and self-contradiction among individuals. Some remarkable claims were made such as killing by vacuum after pumping out all of the air from gas chambers. This would mean, of course, that the walls would give way and the building would collapse! Notice also the mention of steam as a killer, amazingly the subject of much agreement among witnesses! Today the orthodox approach is to allege that the exhaust of a diesel engine was used as the murder weapon. All other possibilities are simply eased out, to be replaced by this version. However, there is, not to exaggerate, something of a problem here. This is quite basic really. It is that diesel exhaust is unable to cause the alleged murder. The former president of the Austrian Federal Association of Civil Engineers, Walter Lüftl, explains:

What the Holocaust writers have obviously overlooked is the fact that diesel engines are particularly unsuited for the efficient production of carbon monoxide (CO). The SS would have gone over to spark-ignition [gasoline] engines immediately after the first alleged attempts to kill the victims with diesel-exhaust gases. Spark-ignition engines can certainly produce eight percent carbon monoxide by volume with poor idle adjustment, but diesels are practically CO free... [This] means that nobody can be gassed with diesel exhaust. Instead, victims would more readily suffocate from using up the oxygen in the “gastight” chambers... The victims – who would otherwise die quickly [of suffocation] – would easily live longer as a result of “gassing” with diesel exhaust, because of its high oxygen content. This means that the diesel engine is not suited for quick killing, assuming this could be done at all... This proves that the testimonies about mass killings with diesel-exhaust gas … are objectively untrue.4

On account of this and other similar statements, the authorities in Austria investigated Lüftl on suspicion of holocaust denial. He was later informed that the proceedings had been dropped, since it was established that he was scientifically correct. Adjustments to engines may make some difference, but it is not feasible to embark on this in the normal situation. In any case, the knowledge that diesel-exhaust fumes under normal operating conditions are relatively harmless is not new. Scientists have always known that diesel exhaust is not dangerous. However, Walter Lüftl was a lucky man, since dropping the charges against revisionists is a rare occurrence indeed.

It does seem, then, that there were no murders with diesel-exhaust fumes at all. Mattogno and Graf, in a very fair way, make great attempts to see if nevertheless the mainstream approach here could be correct after all, but they come up with virtually nothing by way of specific evidence.5 In the end it seems that we must accept the considerable number of scientific studies in this field. Typical of these are the 1974 British accident statistics on diesel engines installed underground that were analyzed in a study, with the conclusion that “an examination of all safety records has revealed that no person has suffered any harmful effects either temporarily or permanently as a direct result of breathing any toxic gas emitted from any vehicle powered by a diesel engine.”6 But, what are the consequences of abandoning the notion of diesel engines as murder weapons? They seem very significant indeed:

Without diesel exhaust as murder weapon, the witness reports about Treblinka and other alleged extermination camps for which the use of diesel exhaust is claimed – primarily – are incredible and untenable. The same holds true for the research results of a whole school of historiography which currently enjoys official sponsorship and protection. In order to assert and reinforce its specious allegations throughout the world, this peculiar school of historiography squarely contradicts the known facts of science and technology and ignores universally accepted principles of logic.7

It is also said that at Treblinka the bodies of murdered victims were burned without a trace and that most of the victims killed were buried in mass graves before being burned. But on the basis of the figures of dead claimed this would have been a huge area. Furthermore, in Treblinka there were no crematories in the form of furnaces, only primitive provisions of fire grates. But if Treblinka was in reality a pure “extermination camp,” would it not have been very important to build crematories there? The important concentration camps all had cremation furnaces. Treblinka never made any applications to have them installed. With the poor equipment that the camp had, there could have been no possibility of burning the numbers claimed. The amount of wood needed by itself would have ruled this out. In addition, in such a cremation method large quantities of bone fragments and charred corpse parts, particularly skulls, would have been left over. Despite several investigations at the camp, no traces were found of human remains, nor of supposed homicidal gas chambers, not the slightest evidence to show that Treblinka was an extermination camp.

In recent years non-intrusive investigations have been carried out at Treblinka, such as the use of ground penetrating radar. These and other techniques were used in the 2011 investigation by the team of archaeologists from a British University, a study specifically aimed at refuting the revisionist case. Thus far there have been several television programs on this, but the written report remains unpublished. Rudolf makes a series of compelling criticisms of this investigation, as have a number of revisionist researchers.8

Finally on Treblinka, the question arises as to what documentary proof exists that supports the mass-murder claim? The answer is that very few documents about Treblinka have been preserved. There is, in the words of Rudolf, “no documentation about the plan, organization, procuring of materials, personnel, budget, etc. that would support the gigantic act of extermination. Nothing, absolutely nothing at all.”9

The case of Belzec is very similar to that of Treblinka. The mainstream claim is that at least 300,000, if not up to three million humans, mainly Jews, were killed there between March and December 1942, but even some mainstream writers reduce that to between 100,000 and 150,000.10 Once again the alleged methods of killing are widely differing: diesel gas chambers; quicklime; electric current; vacuum chambers. The corpses were then allegedly burned on huge pyres, leaving no traces. The difference in this respect from Treblinka is that electric current was the preferred initial method claimed before the diesel engine was said to have taken over. The most famous statement comes from Stefan Szende, from which the following is a brief extract describing how several thousand Jews were brought into a “human mill” covering 4 square miles. This had enormous halls with metal floors:

The floors of these halls with thousands of Jews standing on them were lowered into a water basin below it – but only so far that the humans standing on the metal place would not be completely submerged. When all the Jews standing on the metal were submerged in water up to their hips a strong electric current was sent through the water. After a few moments thousands of Jews were dead. Then the metal floors were raised out of the water and on them lay the executed corpses. Another electric cable was switched on and the metal plate was turned into a crematory coffin, white-hot, until all corpses were burnt to ashes. Massive cranes then lifted the enormous crematory coffins and emptied the ash. Huge factory chimneys eliminated the smoke.11

Of course, neither documents nor material traces remain. These and other similar nonsensical stories about the high-voltage executions in Belzec are today rejected as false, as are stories about quicklime supposedly killing the deportees while traveling in trains. Historians of any repute deliberately ignore them. Once again we hear about a soap factory where the fat from murdered Jews was allegedly turned into soap, something which, as we have seen already, Jewish authorities no longer accept. Investigations have been done at Belzec since 1945, consisting of taking samples drilled from the soil. Of all the samples taken a mere 0.3% consisted of human remains in the form of thinly layered ashes. All that this proves is that at Belzec humans died and their bodies were cremated, but of course no one denies this. No mass graves were found and no traces of buildings resembling gas chambers. There is in addition evidence that Belzec was in fact a transit camp, which is the revisionist thesis. Nevertheless, Rudolf’s conclusions regarding this camp include…

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