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278 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
the patients were “killed by the doctors with carbon monoxide gas,”
which means that the latter were operating the “gassing devices.” In this
context Lambert’s job could have merely been that of a simple bricklayer,
someone setting up partitions and putting in doors, as he had always
maintained. It thus makes no sense to say that this bricklayer was
an “expert for the construction of gas chambers.”
We must also consider the fact that, if the order to build Be��ec was
given on 13 October 1941 as Schelvis asserts, the only extermination
system available at the time were the “gassing devices.” Wetzel’s letter
(cf. above) says in this regard: 843
“Head of department Brack indicates that the process in question
is not without risk and that special protective measures are required.”
For that very reason Kallmeyer’s trip to Riga had been requested.
How can it be, then, that the construction of the alleged gas chambers at
Be��ec was entrusted to two simpletons, Hackenholt and Lambert?
Any transformation or adaptation of those “gassing devices” supposedly
used in the Aktion Reinhardt camps should instead have been the
task of the two alleged experts in homicidal gas chambers: Kallmeyer
and Widmann.
But Kallmeyer has declared that he had never had anything to do
with gas chambers while working on the T4 project, never to have travelled
to Riga nor to any other alleged extermination camp, 844 and no
one has ever disputed this. Not even Albert Widmann who headed the
section V D 2 (Chemistry and Biology) at Kriminaltechnisches Institut
(KTI, institute for forensic techniques) within the RSHA played a role
in this project, although he said that he had discussed with Brack “the
technical details of the implementation” of the gassing of mental patients
with carbon monoxide. 845 But then, who was in charge? Two nincompoops
promoted by mainstream Holocaust historiography to the
rank of “experts” just because there was nobody else around?
Actually, as we have already mentioned, there is no documentary
proof that the euthanasia institutions were equipped with homicidal gas
chambers. 846 Therefore there is no basis for the official thesis that the
843
NO-365.
844
Interrogation of H. Kallmeyer at Kiel on 20 July 1961, cit. pp. 97-99.
845
Interrogation of A. Widmann at Düsseldorf on 11 January 1960. ZStL 202 AR-Z 152/59,
vol.1, p. 51.
846
This was asserted only by witnesses after the war. One of the most important of these
witnesses, Viktor Hermann Brack, in his sworn statement of 14 October 1946 (NO-426),