Newsgroups: alt.revisionism Subject: Holocaust Almanac: Treblinka - mechanized slaugherhouse Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Nizkor Project, Vancouver Island, CANADA Keywords: Kori,Treblinka,Warsaw Archive/File: camps/aktion.reinhard/treblinka treblinka.07 Last-Modified: 1994/02/11 "Treblinka, sixty miles northeast of Warsaw, was set down in a dense pine forest, isolated by a nine-foot electrified barbed wire fence. It was hard to imagine that behind the always freshly painted railway station, adorned with geraniums in neat window boxes, a death toll of 840,000 was being exacted, using highly mechanized extermination techniques. No planes, friendly or otherwise, were permitted to fly over it or near it. There were two camps. Treblinka I, created in 1941, was used to punish political prisoners who were assigned slave labor duties as part of their `regeneration.' The Poles among them were usually released when their terms of punishment were completed. The Jews were either worked to death or transferred to Treblinka II, which became on of the main Nazi murder centers. At Treblinka II, 300,000 Jews, uprooted from Warsaw, were executed during the three summer months of 1942.<12> The historian of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Emmanuel Ringelblum, referred to it in his diary notes as `the slaughter house of European Jewry.' The term `mechanized' for Treblinka must be taken literally. The technical appointments of its gas chambers and crematoria were unsurpassed until Hoess added refinements at Auschwitz that won back for that camp the trophy for lethal ingenuity. The enterprising director of the C.N. Kori Company, when he submitted the bid for equipment at bargain prices, boasted: `We guarantee the effectiveness of the crematoria ovens as well as their durability, the use of the best materials and of course, our faultless workmanship.'<13> <12> Statistics cited by Yehuda Bauer in "A History of the Holocaust" p.209 <13> Testimony at Nuremberg Military Tribunal Trial, cited in William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, pp.971-973 Extracted from--------------------------------------------------- "THE REDEMPTION OF THE UNWANTED", Abram L. Sachar (New York: St. Martin's/Marek, 1983. -----------------------------------------------------------------
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