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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, <strong>SOBIBÓR</strong> 323 gedly gassed prisoners are a bit risky, to say the least. As their sources they refer to a “historical expert opinion by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Scheffler in the Düsseldorf ‘Majdanek Trial,’ p. 173 (unpublished)” and to the book by “Józef Marsza�ek, Majdanek. Konzentrationslager Lublin (Warszawa: Interpress, 1984).” 987 We know nothing of professor Scheffler’s “historical expert opinion,” but as far as the alleged gassings at Majdanek are concerned, the verdict of the Düsseldorf trial did not even take it into consideration. No figures are indicated in the section dealing with gas chambers and gassings. Regarding this topic the tribunal declared: 988 “The evidence considered has not yielded precise results concerning the total number of persons killed in the KL Majdanek by gassings, shootings, or some other violent death, through epidemics or lack of food, due to ill-treatment or other privations, or any other causes. The court, however, regards as certain that there were at least 200,000 victims, among them 60,000 Jews.” (Emph. added) The latter figures are so “certain” that, of late, Tomasz Kranz, historian at the Majdanek Museum, has brought them down to 78,000, 989 a number which includes the 18,000 fictitious dead of the “Erntefest” 990 (harvest festival) as well as all of the 24,733 deportees mentioned in Höfle’s telegram. Among its sources (nearly all of them testimonies) the Düsseldorf court also cites “the professional opinion of the expert for contemporary history Prof. Dr. Scheffler.” 991 Józef Marsza�ek, too, limits himself to general assertions without producing any figures: 992 “After the gas chambers had been opened, gassing became the chief form of immediate extermination of persons unfit for manual work: the sick, the disabled, elderly people, and children. […] Selections of the new arrivals commenced in the autumn of 1942. These were initially Jews brought from the closed ghettos and la- 987 Ibid., note 25 on p. 482. 988 Landgericht Düsseldorf, op. cit. (note 509), pp. 89f. 989 Tomasz Kranz, Zur Erfassung der Häftlingssterblichkeit im Konzentrationslager Lublin, Pa�stwowe Muzeum na Majdanku, Lublin 2007, p. 62. 990 J. Graf, C. Mattogno, op. cit. (note 686), Chapter IX: “Operation ‘Harvest Festival,’” pp. 209-230. 991 Landgericht Düsseldorf, op. cit. (note 509), p. 96. 992 J. Marsza�ek, Majdanek. The Concentration Camp in Lublin, Interpress, Warsaw 1986, p. 136.
324 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, <strong>SOBIBÓR</strong> bour camps in the Lublin district, and later French and Dutch Jews deported to Majdanek in March 1943.” Yet at the same time he stresses that “in the period when the gas chambers were operating, from September 1942 till September 1943, no cases of mass execution by shooting are known,” 993 which means that the 12,761 victims of Einsatz Reinhardt must have been gassed. But not even in the most important publication on Majdanek is there the slightest trace of these gassings. 994 Hence, the 12,761 Jewish victims of Einsatz Reinhardt would have been gassed and burned and/or buried at Majdanek within 14 days without any witness having mentioned this and without leaving any documentary or material traces: How can anyone honestly believe such a story? It is also obvious that T. Berenstein and A. Eisenbach’s assertion concerning the immediate killing of 4,000 Jews at Majdanek in November/December of 1942 has no foundation; hence one cannot even claim that at least part of the above 12,761 Jews were gassed. Witte and Tyas have also skirted the absurdity of what we have been told about Einsatz Reinhardt – the transportation of the 12,761 victims to Majdanek – in the last two weeks of December of 1942. Their alleged extermination would necessarily have taken place in full view of all concerned, as compared to a mere 515 sent to Sobibór with its supersecret camp III. If the former Jews had had to be killed, why would this not have been done quietly at Sobibór? Just as strange is the fact that during the said two weeks more Jews were sent to Majdanek than to Treblinka: 12,761 as against 10,335. This would mean that the SS, in spite of the availability of two camps for total extermination, would have gassed these 12,761 deportees in a minor camp which had received only 2% of all deportees up to 21 December 1942 (24,733 out of 1,274,166). The most reasonable explanation would thus be that these 12,761 Jews transited through Majdanek before moving on, alive, to the East. This obviously goes for all of the 24,733 Jews mentioned in the Höfle message. This conclusion also flows out of the Korherr report. Under paragraph VIII “the Jews in the concentration camps” it says: 995 993 Ibid., p. 129. 994 Czes�aw Rajca, “Eksterminacja bezpo�rednia,” in: Tadeusz Mencel (ed.), Majdanek 1941-1944, Wydawnictwo Lubelskie, Lublin 1991. 995 NO-5194, p. 11.
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