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Treblinka: Extermination Camp or Transit Camp? (Holocaust Handbook)

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Those evil geniuses the Nazis strike again! This time they've built a "death-factory" without a crematorium. But wait - when the extermination operations are almost at an end they decide to build one. And after leaving the ashes and bones of a few hundred thousand dead Jews in mass graves larger than the total surface area of the Treblinka camps themselves, they generously give the whole lot to a Ukrainian guard/farmer and his family to grow beans on. No doubt they also spent a few minutes describing their evil plans to said guard/farmer in order that future generations would know about their "evil genius", or perhaps to create a good cliff-hanging ending for this week's instalment. Next week, they'll wind the clock back a few minutes, to just before they give the lot to the guard/farmer, and we'll see what really happens.

Well... It's as bad as a cartoon! I mean, come on! On the one hand we're told "those evil geniuses the Nazis" devised this cunningly diabolical plan to wipe the Jews from the face of the earth, yet despite the experiences of WWI where 30-something poisonous gases were documented by the Germans, including hydrogen cyanide they were reduced to the whims and personal opinions of individual camp commandants as to the actual methods used. One in Auschwitz says "HCN!" while the bloke in Treblinka says "Bugger HCN for a lark, we're having steam! No! Methane! I mean carbon dioxide! MONoxide!!" And so inept that with the best will in the world they could not design a "death camp" which could dispose of the numbers of bodies supposedly being produced; they even forgot to build a crematorium. Not even a big fireplace - they had to dig holes in the ground. Idiots!

The "evidence" for Treblinka the "death camp" is exclusively based on the eyewitness testimony of the likes of, and let's be honest here, the liar Abraham Bomba, who claimed that there were 16 or 17 barbers in the gas chamber to deliver the goodnight haircut to the condemned before their fatal dose of laughing gas, or steam, or carbon monoxide (from a diesel engine no less), or even electricity as reported at one stage of WWII, or whatever it was. Take your pick... 16 or 17 barbers - with benches. In a "gas chamber" no larger than the average bedroom...

The case is not helped by those "eyewitnesses" who claim the bodies were purple or blue when they were pulled out of the "congealed mass" of corpses which could only be separated by water. The victims of carbon monoxide poisoning are universally pink or red; and victims of steam "gassing" would not be stuck together in a "congealed mass". If the fantasies of the likes of Gerstein are given the time of day, people in a hermetically sealed chamber will obligingly survive far longer than is possible while a (salvaged Russian diesel) engine is repaired and fired up only to deliver a fraction of the CO necessary to kill human beings, diesel exhaust being high in oxygen and low in carbon monoxide (which explains its use in mines and submarines). But they obligingly snuff it anyway after about 15 minutes - which is quicker than the time the relatively CO-rich atmosphere of petrol fumes would need to become fatal. Which is strange when considering their easy-going tolerance to the lack of oxygen for 4 or 5 hours. Maybe they just got bored with all the hanging around. Or perhaps the haircuts were intolerable. Bad lighting, no room to swing a cat with all those benches and hundreds of victims/customers, etc.

At just under 370 pages the present study is currently the most comprehensive body of knowledge on the subject of the transit camp Treblinka. Exhaustively researched (as always) and copiously referenced, the authors subject official history to their withering gaze and find it lacking in all major regards. Tracing transports from source to destination via various stop off points at (wait for it) "death camps" such as Belzec and Auschwitz, the authors explode the myth that all incumbents were executed pretty much on the spot. Showing also the dishonesty of orthodox storytellers such as Y. Arad who blatantly misquote and, again let's call a spade a spade, lie through their teeth where necessary - and still fail to come up with a believable story - they subject the "eyewitness" testimony from various trials since the mid-40s to a brutally thorough examination and again find the official history laughably deficient; no two witnesses agree on major details, the essential details which should be present are lacking and when they do exist they run contrary to reason, logic, science or all three.

The fate of deportees from all parts of Europe eastward to Treblinka and then onward to destinations in the Crimea, Siberia, the Ukraine and various other places before their final destinations which were often Israel and the USA, as well as returning to their original European countries, is closely scrutinised, and the conclusion underlines the point of the book: Treblinka was, without a doubt, a transit camp, purpose-built to assist in the Final Solution of removing the Jewish people from first German and ultimately European territory. After the Jewish "declaration of (economic) war" against Nazi Germany only months after Hitler came to power, the Jewish people were perceived as "the enemy" in much the same way Americans of Japanese extraction were after the attack on Pearl Harbour, and thus at the Wannsee Conference the Final Solution was decreed: move the Jews eastward into Soviet Russia, Siberia, and wherever else we can dump 'em. Also shown is the willingness of other countries such as Slovakia and Romania to rid themselves of their Jewish populations at the first chance, many of whom are shown to have transited Treblinka just as the title of the book suggests.

Once again it is worth stressing: a purpose-built death-camp designed without a crematorium, eventually left apparently full of barely-concealed evidence by "those evil geniuses the Nazis" who were at least wily enough to destroy all the documentation, and turned over to a Ukrainian farmer just before the Soviets turned up (who then failed to find any evidence). Just how stupid were "those evil geniuses the Nazis"?!

I read this booklet. It's well written, thorough, and raises serious questions as to the details of Treblinka's functions and operations. My biggest problem with the book's thesis relates to the fate of hundreds of thousands of Jews (and others) who were packed into cattle cars and herded by train into Treblinka from the various Jewish ghettos, most particularly the Warsaw Ghetto. From this ghetto, alone, 200,000 to 300,000 people were forcibly transported to Treblinka. Train manifests undeniably confirm this fact.

If Treblinka was a transit camp (as the authors surmise), from which massive populations of Jews were transported further east, where did they go? Neither the Ukraine nor Belarus would be likely candidates (anti-semitism ran deeper in such places than even in Germany) and, further east, the war raged on near the front which - between July 1942 and November 1943 (the period when Treblinka operated) - ranged roughly between Leningrad in the north and Rostov-na-Don in the south.

Where did they go? The Iron Curtain came down over 20 years ago. I've yet to read or hear about a single Jewish family, let alone generations of Jewish families, being deported through Treblinka and then winding up on the Russian Steppe between the Don and Dnieper Rivers (or anywhere else). By now, there would be hundreds, or at least tens, of thousands of such deportees, their children and grand-children living in this region, all telling us that the gas chambers at Treblinka were for "delousing."

Given the accuracy of train manifests as to the transporation of thousands into Treblinka, where are the manifests as to those leaving from Treblinka, not to mention the mountain of adminstrative data which would necessarily attend the supposed relocation of hundreds of thousands of Jews into an area just a few hundred kilometers west of an intense war zone?

About the fate of these hundreds of thousands - who entered the Treblinka "Transit" Camp - the authors lamely admit that "we are still in the dark as to the details" of what happened to them. Lacking such "details," the authors don't even bother to posit even the slightest theory as to their fate

The unwillingness to admit that their conclusions may be totally wrong - in the face of this overwhelming, obvious, unanswered question - totally undercuts whatever credibility one may want to lend this dubious material.

A is a revisionist classic that questions the Holocaust facts in a scholarly and academic and non-hateful and very loving way. Yet the publisher, Germar Rudolf, is in jail in Germany for THOUGHT CRIMES for writing "Lectures on the Holocaust."

May I recommend a book that is from the same publisher and Amazon has in stock and supersedes the contents of this book--I think ten times better, and the best Holocaust book out there:

DEBATING THE HOLOCAUST: A New Look At Both Sides by Thomas Dalton, PhD

Holocaust survivors report that at least 700,000, if not as many as three million people primarily of Jewish faith were murdered in the Treblinka camp, located in eastern Poland, between the summers of 1942 and 1943. Various murder weapons are claimed to have been used: mobile or stationary gas chambers; poison gas with delayed or immediate effect; unslaked lime; hot steam; high voltage; machine guns; vacuum chambers; chlorine gas; Zyklon B; diesel exhaust gas. According to the "witnesses," the corpses of the victims were finally incinerated on pyres as high as a multi-story building without leaving any traces.

In the first part of this book, the official image of Treblinka is subjected to a thorough critique regarding its historical genesis, inner logic, and technical feasibility. The result of this analysis is essentially that the historical picture, which is prescribed by penal law in many European countries, is untenable, because it is nothing more than an uninterrupted chain of absurdities.

In the second part of this book, the authors attempt to determine the real function of the Treblinka camp with the help of witness statements, documents, and forensic findings. Through their analysis, they conclude that Treblinka was a transit camp, through which Jews from Warsaw and the other areas were led on their way either to occupied Soviet territories in the east or to the Majdanek camp and other labor camps in the area south of Treblinka.

This book as are all of the books published by the Theses & Dissertations Press is a pleasure to read. The authors delve into the facts that Treblinka was a transit camp and not some "death camp." In fact, the Germans did not run any death camps before or during WWII. I am sure that the paid "Holocaust fans" will be after me shortly although they cannot refute any of the findings in this book or any other book published by the Theses & Dissertations Press. They always resort to name-calling (Holocaust denier, anti-semite, Nazi lover, etc) and a whole lot of smoke and mirrors to defend all of the unsupportable Holocaust claims. Where would Israel be without its Holocaust crutch and its control of the American media and Hollywood? Bottom line: read this book and expand your mind....think for yourselves for a change!

Rather than rate a book from 1 to 5, there should be opportunity to give negative numbers, like -1, -2, etc. The deniers, having seemingly exhausted their efforts on Auschwitz, have now turned their attention to Treblinka, one of the 4 camps exclusively devoted to extermination. the other three are Chelmno, Belzec, and Sobibor. But now we find out, through the usual methods of deniers (extermination on this scale is technically impossible!) that Treblinka was a mere transit camp and nothing more. The audacity of this pronouncement is mind boggling: more than 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto alone were exterminated there by carbon dioxide gas in the summer of 42. One should note that Jurgen Graf , who was convicted of inciting racial hatred by promulgating Holocaust denial in Switzerland in 1998, fled the country (to Iran) rather than face a 15-month jail term. He is now one of the main editors of the journal, The Revisionist. Theses & Dissertations Press is owned by Germar Rudolf (alias Ernst Gauss), a German Holocaust denier, also tried and convicted and also in exile. These groups of Holocaust deniers make common cause with the Aryan Nation and Stormfront, so it's not hard to see where they stand. But why? The bizarre phenomenon of Holocaust negationism and the extreme efforts of its practitioners to persuade the world that one of the best documented catastrophes of Western history never happened is probably one of the most odious misuses of historical evidence ever known, and probably the most unique....