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

tion of the camp the surrounding forests showed no significant decrease<br />

in area (where did the fuel for the cremation of the alleged 150,000 to<br />

250,000 corpses come from?).<br />

Ever since the publication of professor Kola’s results, however, the<br />

story of the gassing of Jews at Sobibór has moved from the realm of the<br />

unlikely into the realm of the impossible. Even if professor Kola may<br />

not have set out to accomplish this voluntarily, he has earned our gratitude.<br />

12.3. The Emperor’s New Clothes<br />

For a naïve observe it would be possible to argue as follows: The<br />

Hagen court has accepted a figure of “at least 150,000” for the number<br />

of victims at Sobibór, the leading specialist on the camp, Jules Schelvis,<br />

opted for 170,000 victims. This figure of 150,000 to 170,000 amounts<br />

to a mere 2.5 to 3% of the infamous figure of “six million” and is not<br />

really needed to maintain the thesis of the <strong>Holocaust</strong>. Could not the orthodox<br />

historians under the circumstances give up the claim of the Sobibór<br />

gas chambers and concede this point to the revisionists?<br />

They cannot. First of all, the existence of gas chambers at Sobibór<br />

has been “proved” at three trials in Germany – Berlin in 1950, Frankfurt<br />

upon Main in 1950, and Hagen in 1965/66 – and is thus judicially notorious.<br />

At these trials, eight men were condemned to prison terms ranging<br />

from three years to life imprisonment. Of the latter, one (Erich Bauer)<br />

died in prison after 31 years, another (Hubert Gomerski) spent 22<br />

years behind bars before he was pardoned, and the third (Karl Frenzel)<br />

remained in prison for 16 years. If the German judiciary were to admit<br />

that blatant miscarriage of justice had taken place at all three Sobibór<br />

trials, all other cases of such “Nazi crimes” would be up for review, because<br />

all trials of camp personnel had followed the same route as these<br />

trials: “We have sworn witness testimonies, why do we need forensic or<br />

documentary proof?”<br />

Let us take this a step further: If the judiciary and the historians have<br />

“made a mistake” on Sobibór, what reason is there to believe the claims<br />

made in connection with the other camps of Aktion Reinhardt? If Sobibór<br />

falls, then so does Be��ec, where professor Kola has also carried<br />

out investigations leading to the same conclusions. Who will then believe<br />

the claims for Treblinka?

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