SOBIBÓR - Holocaust Handbooks

40 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
bibliography and is nothing but a summary of the usual unproven assertions
concerning the camp.
On the subject of the murder weapon, i.e. the type of engine used at
Sobibór, Sulimierski is one of the rare authors to opt for a Diesel engine.
56 He writes:
“The victims were killed by means of exhaust gases, which were
fed into the cabins from a separate annex. This annex housed the 8cylinder
Diesel engine of an armored vehicle which K. Frenzl had
brought from Lwów. Once the engine was started, the killing process
took about 10 minutes.” (p. 19)
A time span of ten minutes between start-up of the Diesel engine and
the death of the victims is absolutely impossible, as shown by a barbaric
experiment on animals carried out in England in 1957. On this point,
Germar Rudolf states: 57
“These experiments simulated heavy motor load by limiting the
oxygen supply artificially. This was achieved by restricting the air
supply at the intake manifold as much as possible without completely
killing the motor. This was necessary because the exhaust fumes
simply did not cause poisoning in any of the test animals while the
engine was idling or operating under light loads. After the gas
chamber had been filled with exhaust gas 40 mice, 4 rabbits, and 10
guinea pigs were exposed to it. The last of the animals had died of a
combination CO poisoning after three hours and 20 minutes.”
2.3.13. Jules Schelvis (1993)
In the same year, i.e. 1993, Jules Schelvis, a Dutch Jew who had
himself been deported to Sobibór in 1943, published a book entitled
Vernietigingskamp Sobibór 58 (“Annihilation camp Sobibór”), which is
by far the most extensive study of this camp. Eight editions have appeared
in Holland to date. As Schelvis has revised his opinion on certain
crucial points over the years – such as the number of victims at Sobibór
– we shall base our discussion on the latest, 2008 edition.
56
As far as we know, Stanis�aw Szmajzer and Barbara Distel (see note 69) are the only two
authors besides Sulimierski who claim that a Diesel engine was used for gassings at Sobibór.
57
Germar Rudolf, Lectures on the Holocaust, Theses & Dissertations Press, Chicago 2005,
pp. 279f.
58
Jules Schelvis, Vernietigingskamp Sobibór, De Bataafsche Leeuw, Amsterdam 1993.