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Be��ec “opened toward the outside.” 806 When it comes to Be��ec’s
second gas chamber building, however, key witness Rudolf Reder has it
that the corpses were pulled out through doors that “were slid open with
wooden handles.” 807
The alleged second phase gas chamber building at Be��ec was supposedly
erected between mid-June and mid-July 1942. 808 By then the alleged
first gas chamber building at Sobibór had already been in operation
for two months. Are we to believe that Wirth, the inspector and
chief designer of the alleged Aktion Reinhardt “death camps,” had the
gas chamber doors at Be��ec changed from hinged to sliding ones, 809
while aware that doors of the latter type were impeding the extermination
process at Sobibór?
Sereny comments that Franz Stangl’s “different versions of events
are not too important from the point of view of facts.” 810 But what
should one say about the fact that the former Sobibór SS men are contradicting
themselves as well as each other when it comes to important
details of the alleged mass gassings? Contrary to what mainstream Holocaust
historians and propagandists may believe, such contradictions
are fatal to the Sobibór gas chamber allegation, as this rests exclusively
on such flawed eye witness evidence.
8.5. Euthanasia and Aktion Reinhardt
Yitzhak Arad summarizes the Holocaust story of euthanasia in the
following words: 811
“At the beginning of World War II, Hitler signed the following
order: ‘Reichsleiter Bouhler and Dr. [Karl] Brandt [Hitler’s personal
physician] are charged with the responsibility for expanding the
authority of individual physicians, with a view to enable them, after
the most critical examination in the realm of human knowledge, to
administer to incurably sick persons a mercy death.’
806
E. Kogon, H. Langbein, A. Rückerl et al. (eds.), op. cit. (note 46), p. 108.
807
Rudolf Reder, Be��ec, Fundacja Judaica Pa�stwowe Muzeum O�wi�cim-Brzezinka,
Kraków 1999, p. 124.
808
Y. Arad, op. cit. (note 49), p. 73.
809
Ibid., p. 73, 183.
810
G. Sereny, op. cit. (note 357), p. 111.
811
Y. Arad, op. cit. (note 49), p. 9, quoting PS-630.