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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, <strong>SOBIBÓR</strong> 321 these inconsistencies can be explained and what conclusions can be drawn from them. There is another important question on which Witte and Tyas have foundered without being able to provide a proper answer and which shows instead that their interpretation of the Korherr report and consequently of the Höfle telegram is unfounded. They write: 980 “Now we have a fourth camp – L – obviously the Concentration Camp Lublin, commonly known as Majdanek, listed by Höfle ahead of the other three camps. Be��ec, Sobibór, and Treblinka were extermination camps, so it is reasonable to assume that the numbers given for ‘L’ are numbers of Jews murdered also: it would not make sense to give the numbers killed for three camps and make Lublin an exception.” Here we have again an instance of false reasoning “by analogy,” like the one for C. Browning we have dealt with above. Here, however, we may also reverse the reasoning: given that Majdanek was not an extermination camp, 686 it would not have made sense to lump it together with three such camps, and hence Be��ec, Sobibór, and Treblinka were not extermination camps. Witte and Tyas examine the 24,733 Jews mentioned by Höfle which they claim were assassinated in the Majdanek gas chambers: 981 “Globocnik must have been responsible for sending these unknown Jewish victims to the gas chambers of Majdanek, because, according Höfle’s telegram, he counted them as Einsatz Reinhardt victims.” They speak of “unknown Jewish victims,” because for some strange reason they are trying – in vain – to identify these alleged victims before even wondering, whether the 24,733 Jews in question were in fact gassed according to the official history of the Lublin-Majdanek camp. In this connection they enounce two hypotheses: the alleged victims stemmed “from unknown transports from the Bialystok General District, or, more likely, from small forced labor camps.” 982 We must remember, though, that 12,761 out of these 24,733 Jews are said to have been gassed in the two weeks between 18 and 31 December 1942. According to Tatiana Berenstein and Artur Eisenbach, however, in November/December of 1942 only 5,000 Jews arrived at 980 P. Witte, S. Tyas, op. cit. (note 18), p. 471. 981 Ibid., p. 472. 982 Ibid., pp. 471f.
322 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, <strong>SOBIBÓR</strong> Majdanek from Poland, 4,000 of whom are said to have been killed immediately (“zg�adzono od razu”). 983 This will be discussed below. Zofia Leszczy�ska, the author of the most detailed analysis of the transports of detainees to Majdanek, asserts that between July and December of 1942 15,000 Jewish detainees arrived at the camp in 13 transports and mentions the more important ones: � 15 August: a large transport from Warsaw; � 2 September: 1,000 Jews from the ghetto at Lublin; � September: Jews from Be��yc and Piask; � September: 111 Hitlerjugend youths of Jewish descent; � October: 1,700 Jewish women from Be��ec(!); � November: Jews from Izbica. 984 For the second half of December there is only one Jewish transport mentioned in the corresponding list for the 19 th of the month, but neither the number of persons nor their origin are reported. 985 Further on Witte and Tyas take up the problem of the gassings: 986 “Lublin, however, was a regular concentration camp; from October 1942, three gas chambers were used to murder prisoners after selections of those deemed unable to work. The number culled during selections in Majdanek from October onwards is known: their sum is much lower than the figures given in Höfle’s telegram. As the document indicates, the murder of Jews transported to Lublin without being registered at the concentration camp became an integral part of Einsatz Reinhardt from an unspecified date onward. Further research, one hopes, will hopefully permit more precise information.” Hence, the number of those allegedly gassed between October and December of 1942 is said to be known and to be “much lower than the figures given in Höfle’s telegram.” But then, how could those 12,761 Jews have been gassed? The authors leave the answer to this contradiction to future researchers! Their wording is misleading, because it makes the reader believe that at least part of the 12,761 Jews in question were indeed gassed. Leaving aside the fact that there were no homicidal gas chambers at Majdanek, as has been shown in a study concerning this camp, 686 Witte and Tyas’ pronouncements on the number of alle- 983 T. Berenstein, A. Eisenbach, “�ydzi w obozie koncentracyjnym Majdanek (1941-1944),” in: Biuletyn �ydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego, n. 58, 1966, p. 14. 984 Z. Leszczy�ska, op. cit. (note 886), pp. 188f. 985 Ibid., p. 219. 986 P. Witte, S. Tyas, op. cit. (note 18), p. 473.
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