National Journal, first published: 02/05/2009

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

A young and brilliant historian

Hitler's War

The Leuchter Report

Irving vs Lipstadt

Jail in Austria

Irving's trip to Poland

My questions to Irving and his reply

The missing answer on question four

 David Irving’s evidence for the mass murder

Irving's death toll

The absurdities do not end

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

The case of the missing murder weapon

The diesel gas chamber story

The evolution of the extermination legend

The results of the excavations at Treblinka (1945)

The results of the archeological drillings at Belzec (1997-1999)

Sobibor or the scientific report that never was

Two important documents Irving deliberately ignores

The three Reinhardt camps were transit camps

Once a "Holocaust denier", always a "Holocaust denier"!

A warning to David Irving

An advice to David Irving

Part 9 - Sources

Jürgen Graf , April 2009

David Irving and the "Aktion Reinhardt Camps"

Two important documents Irving deliberately ignores

In the light of the above-mentioned facts, the Reinhardt camps cannot possibly have been extermination centers. They cannot have been labour camps either because they were much too small to accommodate the enormous number of people deported to them. This leaves but one possibility: Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor were transit camps. This conclusion squares with the numerous German wartime documents which speak of the "evacuation" or "expulsion" of the Jews to the east. It also squares with two important documents about Belzec and Sobibor which David Irving deliberately ignores because they contradict his thesis.

On March 17, 1942, Fritz Reuter, an employee in the Department of Population and Welfare in the Office of the Governor General for the District of Lublin, made a note in which he referred to a talk on the previous day with the SS Hauptsturmführer H. Höfle, the delegate for Jewish resettlement in the Lublin district. Reuter wrote:

"It would be expedient to divide the transports of Jews arriving in the Lublin district at the station of origin into employable and unemployable Jews. […] All unemployable Jews are to come to Bezec [sic], the outermost border station in the Zamosz district. Hauptsturmführer Höfle is thinking of building a large camp in which the employable Jews can be registered in a file system according to their occupations and requisitioned from there. […] In conclusion he [Höfle] stated that he could accept 4-5 transports of 1.000 Jews to the terminal station Bezec daily. These Jews would cross the border and never return to the General Gouvernement." [45]

There can be no doubt whatsoever about the meaning of this document: Jews unable to work would be expelled from the General Gouvernement and deported to the occupied eastern territories. The sentence that Belzec was "the outermost border station in the Zamosz district" makes sense only in connection with an expulsion beyond the border. Like Sobibor, Belzec was situated in the extreme east of the General Gouvernement, close to the Ukrainian frontier.

Of course, David Irving could claim that Reuter had used a code language and that "cross the border and never return to the General Gouvernement" was a code expression for "will be killed at Belzec", but I would not advise him to do so, because that would be too ridiculous.

On 15 July, 1943, Heinrich Himmler ordered:

"The transit camp Sobibor is to be converted into a concentration camp." [46]

So Sobibor was officially called a transit camp (Durchgangslager).

The three Reinhardt camps were transit camps

On July 31, 1942, the Reichskommissar of Bielorussia, Wilhelm Kube, sent a telegram to the Reichskommissar for the occupied Eastern territories, Henrich Lohse, in which he protested against the deportation of 1000 Warsaw Jews to Minsk [47]. As the deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto had commenced eight days before, and as everybody agrees that at that time all Warsaw Jews were deported to Treblinka, the 1000 Jews mentioned by Kube must by necessity have been deported to Minsk via Treblinka. On August 17, 1942, the illegal Polish newspaper Informacja Biezaca reported that 2000 skilled Jewish workers had been deported from Warsaw to Smolensk on August 1 [48]. On September 7, 1942, the same paper informed that two transports with 4000 persons had been sent for labour at installations important for the war effort in Brzesc and Malachowicze [49].

I am aware that these figures represent but a small part of the Jews transported to Treblinka and that the anti-revisionists will claim that these cases were "exceptions". But every single Jew who left Treblinka, or one of the two other Reinhardt camps, alive deals a blow to the official version according to which they were "pure extermination centers" where all Jews, regardless of age and health, were gassed on arrival. If the antirevisionists call the aforementioned cases "exceptions", we are entitled to ask them how many other such "exceptions" there may have been.

A certain number of Jews were sent from the Reinhardt camps to Majdanek and to Auschwitz. A Polish historian who can hardly be suspected of revisionist sympathies, Zofia Leszczynska, reports that in October of 1942, 1,700 Jews left Belzec for Majdanek [50]. This fact is amply sufficient to shatter the official version according to which less than ten Jews survived Belzec.

In an article about "Jews at Majdanek" the Jewish historians Adam Rutkowski and Tatiana Berenstein state:

"Some of the transports from Warsaw reached Lublin by way of Treblinka, where the selection of the deportees took place." [51]

For the official historiography, this fact is simply lethal! On 30 April 1942, a transport with 305 Jews arrived at Majdanek from Treblinka. One of these Jews, Samuel Zylbersztain, later wrote a report about his plight [52]. After the "extermination camp" Treblinka and the "extermination camp" Majdanek, Zylbersztain had survived eight "normal concentration camps". He is thus a living proof that the Germans did not exterminate their Jewish prisoners.

The author of the most detailed book about Sobibor [53], the Dutch Jew Julius Schelvis, was himself an inmate of this camp. He naturally presents Sobibor as a death factory, but his description is solely based on what he has heard from others or read in books, for he only spent a few hours at the camp. From Sobibor, he was deported to Lublin and later to Auschwitz whence he finally returned to the Netherlands. Schelvis was not an isolated case: At least 700 other Dutch Jews were moved from Sobibor to labour camps, and some of them returned home via Auschwitz – another "extermination camp" where the Germans apparently forgot to "gas" them [54].

The case of Minna Grossova, a Czech Jewess, is particularly significant: born in September 1874, she was deported to Treblinka on October 19, 1942. Although Treblinka was allegedly a "pure extermination camp" where even able-body Jews were gassed on arrival, Mrs. Grossova was not gassed, but transferred to Auschwitz – where, according to the "Holocaust" lore, all Jews who were unable to work were immediately sent to the "gas chambers" without previous registration. Again, Mrs. Grossova was not gassed, but duly registered. She died on December 30, 1943 [55]. From the point of view of the orthodox "Holocaust" story, the fate of this woman is absolutely inexplicable.

The fact that relatively few transports of Jews from the Reinhardt camps to other destinations are documented can be explained quite easily. As early as in 1945, the victors of the Second World War decided to perpetuate the Jewish extermination legend, and we may safely assume that countless documents contradicting the official truth were either hidden or destroyed. Now some people might accuse me of resorting to the same trick as the orthodox historians who claim that there is no documentary evidence for homicidal gas chambers because "the Germans destroyed the documents", but such an accusation would be groundless, since my position is much more solid. If there were but one document proving the gassing of Jews, I would readily admit that there might have been others, but although 64 years have elapsed since the end of the war, no such document has emerged. On the other hand, we have seen that there are documents proving that Jews were sent from the Reinhardt camps to other destinations – and for each such document there may have been a hundred others.