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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR 267 As we later learn that Razgonayev was promoted to chief guard (Oberwachmann) in December 1942, this statement implies that he performed guard duties in camp III before as well as after the supposed reconstruction of the gas chambers. How it was possible for him to forget about this crucial event becomes even more inexplicable by the fact that Razgonayev mentions other construction work carried out in June-July 1942, in which he himself participated as a carpenter. The eye witnesses’ claims regarding the first (trial) gassing are even more fraught with contradictions. Stangl describes the ostensible event as follows: 799 “[…] one afternoon Wirth’s aide, Oberhauser, came to get me. I was to come to the gas chamber. When I got there, Wirth stood in front of the building wiping the sweat off his cap and fuming. Michel told me later that he’d suddenly appeared, looked around the gas chambers on which they were still working and said, ‘Right, we’ll try it out right now with those twenty-five work-Jews: get them up here.’ They marched our twenty-five Jews up there and just pushed them in, and gassed them. Michel said Wirth behaved like a lunatic, hit out at his own staff with his whip to drive them on. And then he was livid because the doors hadn’t worked properly.” In a statement from April 1969, Stangl further mentioned what allegedly had happened to the victims of this first gassing: 800 “I think the bodies were buried near the brick building [i.e. the gas chambers]. No grave had been dug. I am certain that the bodies were not naked, but were buried with their clothes still on.” Fuchs, however, had quite a different story to tell of the first gassing in his testimony: 801 “Following this [the installation of the gassing engine], a gassing experiment was carried out. If my memory serves me right, about thirty to forty women were gassed in one gas chamber. The Jewish women were forced to undress in an open place close to the gas chamber, and were driven into the gas chamber by the abovementioned SS members and by Ukrainian auxiliaries. […] About ten minutes later the thirty to forty women were dead. […] I packed my tools and saw how the corpses were removed. The transportation 799 G. Sereny, op. cit. (note 357), pp. 113f. 800 Statement made by Stangl in Duisburg on 29 April 1969, ZStL 230/59-12-4464/65; quoted in J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 71), p. 101. 801 Quoted in Y. Arad, op. cit. (note 49), p. 32.
268 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR was done with a lorry trail [sic] that led from the gas chambers to a remote plot.” Thus, while Stangl has it that the victims numbered 25, were almost certainly male (since they constituted a construction commando), and were buried with their clothes still on near the gas chamber building, Fuchs maintains that they were between 30 and 40, female, undressed before the gassing, and subsequently interred in a “remote plot.” Moreover, Fuchs lists a number of SS men as being present, 802 but mentions neither Wirth nor Oberhauser, despite the fact that SS-Sturmbannführer Wirth was the responsible inspector of the Reinhardt camps. This omission becomes even more glaring when Wirth’s alleged display of anger is considered. The testimonies of Stangl and Fuchs are therefore completely at odds with each other regarding this singular event. Another Sobibór SS man, Heinrich Barbl, further adds to the confusion surrounding the trial gassing: 803 “Red Cross nurses accompanied the selected women, who were transported by bus. They assisted with the undressing.” It seems more than a little strange that the SS would make the Red Cross privy to a top secret extermination process, especially since, according to Stangl, Wirth feared that the victims “might have been spotted by someone outside the camp.” 803 A further small but nonetheless important contradiction concerns the exterior doors of the alleged gas chambers. According to Schelvis, at the time the second phase gas chamber building was constructed, Wirth ordered new gas chamber doors that were hinged, so that the corpses of the victims would no longer block the exterior doors. 804 The witness Hödl spoke of the new gas chamber doors as “trapdoors” (Klapptüren) “which would be raised after the gassing.” 805 This implies that the doors to the first gas chamber building opened to the sides, as, needless to say, one would not have constructed doors that opened inwards. As already mentioned, mainstream Holocaust historians assert that the second chamber building at Sobibór used the second phase building at Be��ec as a model and that the two buildings in fact were constructed by the same people (Hackenholt and Lambert). According to the witness Stanis�aw Kozak, all doors in the first gas chamber building at 802 Thomalla, Stangl, Schwartz and Bolender; ibid., p. 32. 803 Court testimony of Heinrich Barbl in Linz on 16 October 1965 at the Austrian Ministry of Internal Affairs; quoted in J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 71), p. 101. 804 J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 71), p. 103. 805 Ibid., p. 104.
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