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84 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
B, conceived in laboratories in Germany with the only aim of answering
to a demand from the genocidal murderers to discover a
product which would kill more quickly.”
This means that the camp now had two gassing installations, both of
them containing a single gas chamber into which Zyklon B was
dropped through a “moveable skylight.” The problematic nature of this
account is obvious. Not only the number of buildings and individual gas
chambers, but also the alleged murder weapon clashes violently with
the established historiography, which has it that Kurt Gerstein’s supposed
mission to replace the engine exhaust gas used as killing agent
with hydrogen cyanide “did not bring about any changes in the gassing
system in the Operation Reinhard death camps.” 189
The presence in the witness accounts of the communications discussed
above poses an important question regarding the veracity of the
testimonies: If the mass gassing allegation is indeed true, why are the
contents of the supposed letters from camp III either inconsistent with
the official narrative as established at the Sobibór trials or plainly absurd?
It may be worth noting in this context that Jules Schelvis, in the
most complete historiographic work to date on the Sobibór camp, does
not devote a single word to these letters.
4.2. Alexander Pechersky, the Main Witness
Alexander Aronovitch Pechersky (1909 – 1990), the leader of the
successful uprising in Sobibór, is one of the stars of the history of the
“Holocaust.” He is the protagonist of a number of movies about the
uprising, among which we have Jack Gold’s Escape from Sobibór
(1987) and Claude Lanzmann’s Sobibór, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures
(2001).
Alexander Pechersky was drafted into the Red Army in June 1941 as
a sergeant and was promoted to lieutenant in September of the same
year. A month later he was taken prisoner by the Germans. After a
failed attempt to escape he was deported to Borisov in May 1942 and
then to a work camp at Minsk. On 18 September 1943 he was loaded
onto a train together with all other Jews held at that camp. On 23 September
he arrived at Sobibór, where he remained until the uprising on
189 Y. Arad, op. cit. (note 49), p. 104.