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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, <strong>SOBIBÓR</strong> 313 6. According to information from RSHA, the evacuation of 633,300 Jews from the Russian territories including the former Baltic states since the beginning of the eastern campaign must be taken into account. Not included in the above figures are the detainees in the ghettos and the concentration camps.” Concerning item 4 Witte and Tyas write: 957 “It should be noted that the seemingly harmless euphemism ‘passed through the camps in the General Gouvernment’ already carried a sinister meaning for insiders in 1942/43. The phrase derives from the common term ‘transit camp.’ For example Theresienstadt and Westerbork were officially termed transit camps, whence transportation to the East meant in fact dispatch to death. But there are other examples of transit camps that served exclusively as killing sites. The extermination camps Sobibór and Che�mno were also designated by this term. But the euphemism used by Himmler and Korherr was calculated to make outsiders believe that there really were transports ‘to the East.’” This interpretation ranks with those of R. Hilberg and C. Browning examined above and is just as nonsensical: As the term transit camp appears in Himmler’s letter of 5 July 1943 on the specific subject of Sobibór and as the letter is labeled “top secret,” why should any outsiders be kept in the dark? 958 Witte and Tyas then discuss the alleged “euphemisms” of the Korherr report: 957 “To fully understand Höfle’s telegram we have to take into account Himmler’s criticism of the first, March 23, Korherr report. The Reichsführer-SS rejected several phrases in the sixteen-page paper and had Dr. Brandt, the head of his Personal Office, write Korherr on 14 April [recte: on 10 April] 1943: The Reichsführer-SS has received your statistical report on the ‘Final Solution of the European Jewish Problem.’ He does not wish the words ‘special treatment of Jews’ to be used at all. On page 9, point 4, the text must read as follows: ‘Transportation of Jews from Eastern Provinces to the Russian East: Number of those passed through the camps in the General 957 P. Witte, S. Tyas, op. cit. (note 18), p. 477. 958 All members of the SS who had access to this “geheime Reichssache” knew the truth and did not need any euphemisms.
314 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, <strong>SOBIBÓR</strong> Gouvernment, through the camps in Warthegau…’ A different formulation must not appear. [959] […] Korherr’s original wording of page 9 point 4 to which Himmler objected is not fully known. Only the corrected version is extant. Korherr must have been too explicit, leaving little doubt that he meant the killing; otherwise Himmler’s objections to the widely familiar term Sonderbehandlung in a ‘State Secret’ document could not be explained. Korherr changed page 9 of the report as requested. When he sent the corrected version back to Himmler’s office on 28 April, it apparently escaped the Reichsführer’s notice that the objectionable term Sonderbehandlung remained on page 10.” The supposition proffered by Witte and Tyas does not make sense: If Korherr, on p. 9 item 4 of his report, had really been “too explicit” in his hint at an alleged killing of the Jews, Himmler would have ordered him to modify this wording; instead, he ordered him not to use the words “special treatment of Jews,” which means that in connection with the letter of 10 April 1943 mentioned above the expression “special treatment of Jews” did in fact appear on p. 9 item 4 of the report. This is confirmed by the sum total which appears at the end of item 5 of Korherr’s report where it is said: 960 “Evacuation, total (incl. Theresienstadt and incl. special treatment) 1,873,549 Jews” This figure actually includes the evacuations listed under items 1 (6,504), 2 (170,642), 3 (Theresienstadt: 87,193), 4 (special treatment: 1,449,692) and 5 (159,518), which we will discuss in greater detail later. The “special treatment” cannot refer to the 5 items mentioned except for item 3, because in that case the text would simply say “Evacuations total (incl. Theresienstadt),” as all other “evacuations” would be part of “special treatment.” We have here a blatant incongruence of the mainstream interpretation. In a study of the Korherr report, which the authors quote, 961 the Jewish French historian Georges Wellers asserted: 962 “Moreover, thanks to Korherr’s mistake, we now have a confirmation – if one was needed – coming from the top, that the ‘Sonderbehandlung der Juden’ is a term so unmentionable that it has to be 959 NO-5196. 960 NO-5197, p. 10. 961 P. Witte, S. Tyas, op. cit. (note 18), note 51 on p. 485. 962 G. Wellers, La Solution Finale et la Mythomanie Néo-Nazie, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, Paris, 1979, p. 42.
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