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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR 251 8.3. Alleged Genesis and Organization of the Extermination Camps of Aktion Reinhardt 8.3.1. Administration and Financing At the Stuttgart congress mentioned above, Hilberg presented a paper entitled Die Aktion Reinhard, in which he stated: 737 “The initial phase of Aktion Reinhard raises three separate questions. Why were there three camps instead of only one? Why were they built in succession, Be��ec first, then Sobibór, and finally Treblinka? Why did each camp have only three gas chambers when they turned out to be insufficient? One could argue that they were approaching the objective hesitatingly, without having a clear view of it. That is not really inconceivable, but is is certainly not the complete explanation, and perhaps not even the most important one. It was, to sum it up, a difficult administrative problem. For the ‘Final solution of the Jewish question,’ the Third Reich had neither a central agency nor even a separate budget.” As far as the alleged extermination camps of Aktion Reinhardt are concerned, this explanation is clearly wrong even from the Holocaust point of view, because “a central agency” did indeed exist, with its line of command Himmler�Globocnik�Höfle�Wirth, 738 whereas the financing could be provided for by the economic proceeds from Aktion Reinhardt, i.e. the goods confiscated from the Jews. The facts set out by Hilberg in the form of questions are thus inexplicable. Hence, if we followed mainstream Holocaust historiography, we would have three chains of command regarding the gas chambers: � Hitler � Führer Chancellery 739 � KTI 740 � Carbon monoxide in steel cylinders � euthanasia institutes � Gaswagen � Che�mno; � Hitler � Himmler � Eichmann � Höß � Zyklon B � Auschwitz/Majdanek; � Himmler � Globocnik � Höfle � Wirth � exhaust gases � Be��ec/Sobibór/Treblinka. 737 R. Hilberg, “Die Aktion Reinhard,” in: E. Jäckel, J. Rohwer (eds.), op. cit. (note 655), p. 129. 738 SS-Hauptsturmführer Christian Wirth, Inspector of SS-Sonderkommando “Einsatz Reinhardt.” 739 Karl Brandt and Reichsleiter Philipp Bouhler. 740 The Kriminaltechnische Institut (institute for forensic techniques) within Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA).
252 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR This creates obvious and serious problems, especially as far as the choice of the “weapon of the crime” is concerned, which mainstream Holocaust historiography has never been able to solve. We will return to this question in section 8.5. below. 8.3.2. Construction of the Camps Schelvis tells us that the construction of the Be��ec camp began on 1 st November 1941 “under the leadership of the central construction agency at Zamo��” and “under the supervision of Richard Thomalla.” 741 Blatt speaks of “engineers from the SS Zentralbauleitung (SS Central Construction Office) in Zamo��.” 742 Rückerl affirms that SS-Hauptsturmführer Thomalla “came from the SS construction office at Zamo��.” 743 Schelvis adds: 744 “When Be��ec was almost finished, the Thomalla group, in March of 1942, went to Sobibór to continue the construction work there.” In the General Government, construction work and the corresponding technical, financial, and administrative aspects were handled by Bauinspektion (construction inspection) der Waffen-SS und Polizei Reich Generalgouvernement, which ruled over 5 central construction offices with 9 (local) construction offices. The central offices were located at Warsaw, Lublin, Lemberg, Debica, and Cracow. 745 This was the situation on 14 November 1941. The Bauwirtschaft (construction industry), on the other hand, was directed by an SS-Wirtschafter (economist) attached to the Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer im Generalgouvernement. Both Bauinspektion as well as SS-Wirtschafter were at that time attached to Amt II (Bauten) (Dept. II, constructions) of Hauptamt Haushalt und Bauten (Central office of Budget and Constructions), run by SS-Oberführer Hans Kammler. Thus, if the Be��ec camp and subsequently the camp at Sobibór were built by the Bauleitung at Zamo��, the construction order came from Kammler and the construction work was governed by the complicated bureaucratic procedure applying to all other camps, including the one at 741 J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 70), p. 113. 742 T. Blatt, op. cit. (note 17), p. 13. 743 A. Rückerl (ed.), op. cit. (note 36), p. 72, note 65. 744 J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 70), p. 38. 745 WAPL, ZBL, 12, pp. 11f, 47-49. Cf. also C. Mattogno, The Central Construction Office of the Waffen-SS and Police Auschwitz. Theses & Dissertations Press, Chicago 2005.
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