Newsgroups: alt.revisionism Subject: Holocaust Almanac: "New, Improved" Sobibor Gas Chambers Operational Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Nizkor Project, Vancouver Island, CANADA Keywords: Sobibor,Wirth Archive/File: holocaust/poland/reinhard/sobibor sobibor.gas2 Last-modified: 1993/03/24 Sobibor's three single-room gas chambers simply could not cope with the task at hand - their capacity was only 600 human beings at a time. So, during a 2-month lull in the Autumn of 1942, the they were partially dismantled and replaced with three new ones. The new facilities were constructed by the same man who built the new gas chambers at Treblinka, an SS Unterscharfuhrer Lambert, and SS Scharfuhrer Lorenz Hackenholt, who ran the gas chambers at Belzec. Christian Wirth sent them both to Sobibor. "The new six-room gas chamber building had a corridor that ran through its center, and three rooms on either side. The entrance to each gas chamber was from the corridor. The three gas chambers were the same size as the existing one, 4 x 4 meters. The killing capacity of the gas chambers was increased to nearly 1,300 people simultaneously. With the renewal of the extermination activities in Sobibor, in October, 1942, the new gas chambers became operational." The Germans, ever efficient, then added a locomotive-driven trolley from the railway siding to the burial pits, for those prisoners too sick to walk to their own death in the gas chambers. This replaced the old horse- and prisoner-drawn carts which had a tendency to tip over - this narrow-gauge railroad ran about 300-400 meters, and included "five or six trollies and a small diesel locomotive." Excerpted from....---------------------------------------------- BELZEC, SOBIBOR, TREBLINKA - the Operation Reinhard Death Camps Indiana University Press - Yitzhak Arad, 1987. ISBN 0-253-3429-7 ------------------------------------------------------(p.123)---
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