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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, <strong>SOBIBÓR</strong> 363<br />

Europe are still in the city’s ghetto. The Germans are executing several<br />

hundred of them every day, and the Gestapo compiles lists of<br />

the next victims. Many Jews managed to escape from the various<br />

ghettos and to join partisan groups, and today there is a large number<br />

[of Jews] from Western Europe who are fighting together with<br />

the Lithuanian partisans.”<br />

This report is particularly instructive. It shows that only as late as<br />

spring of 1944 did “certain sparse information” began “to seep through”<br />

to Judisk Krönika “about the fate of those Jews who have been deported<br />

from Western Europe to Eastern Europe” – and this information did not<br />

speak of said Jews being murdered in “gas chambers”!<br />

Whereas a transport of French Jews in May 1944 to the Lithuanian<br />

city of Kaunas (as well as to the Estonian city of Tallinn) is confirmed<br />

by mainstream historians, 75 they do not mention any deportation of<br />

Jews from Holland or Belgium to Lithuania. The inescapable conclusion<br />

is therefore that these Jews must be a part of those who mainstream<br />

historiography claims to have been “gassed” at Auschwitz or Sobibór.<br />

The claim by Judisk Krönika that the German authorities executed<br />

the Jews present in the Lithuanian ghettos on a massive scale in late<br />

spring of 1944 is implausible. In that case the Soviets would certainly<br />

have obtained evidence for this crime after their conquest of Lithuania,<br />

which they would have exploited for their propaganda. Instead of fictitious<br />

mass gassings they would have accused the Germans of real mass<br />

executions and would have presented the corpses of those murdered as a<br />

corpus delicti for an investigation by international commissions – as the<br />

Germans had done in 1943 after discovering the massacres of Katyn 1079<br />

and in 1944 after discovering the massacres of Vinnytsa. 1080<br />

10.4.4. Further Evidence for Western Jews in the East<br />

We will now present a number of additional proofs for the deportation<br />

of French, Belgian, and Dutch Jews into the occupied territories in<br />

the East. Apart from the above-mentioned transport of French Jews to<br />

Tallinn and Kaunas in May of 1944, mainstream historians never mention<br />

any transports of Jews from these countries into the East. 75 The irrefutable<br />

conclusion is that these deportations concerned a portion of<br />

1079<br />

Dt. Informationsstelle (ed.), Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Katyn, Eher, Berlin<br />

1943.<br />

1080<br />

Dt. Informationsstelle (ed.), Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Winnitza, Eher,<br />

Berlin 1944.

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