Newsgroups: alt.revisionism Subject: Holocaust Almanac: Siedice, a Wehrmacht Soldier's Diary Reply-To: kmcvay@nizkor.almanac.bc.ca Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Nizkor Project, Vancouver Island, CANADA Archive/File: camps/aktion.reinhard/treblinka siedice.002 Last-Modified: 1994/10/19 From the diary of Hubert Pfoch, an Austrian infantryman who maintained a diary and photographs detailing his observations regarding the Holocaust... "At last the time came for the soldiers to continue their journey eastwards to the frontline. 'When at last the train leaves the station,' Pfoch wrote, 'at least fifty dead, women, men, and children, some of them totally naked, like along the track.' Eventually the soldiers' train was routed behind the Jewish train. Both were going in the same direction, the soldiers to the war zone, the Jews to Treblinka. As the soldiers' train followed the deportation train, Pfoch noted: ... we continued to see corpses on both sides of the track - children and others. They say Treblinka is a `delousing camp`. When we reach the station the train is next to us again - there is such an awful smell of decomposing corpses in the station, some of us vomit. The begging for water intensifies, the indiscriminate shooting by the guards continues. Did Pfoch and his fellow soldiers know of the ultimate fate of those whose terrible journey they had glimpsed such awful moments? It was only August 1942, and yet in his diary he was able to write, tersely and accurately: 'Three hundred thousand have been assembled here. Every day ten or fifteen thousand are gassed and burned.' He added: 'Any comment is totally superfluous.'" (Gilbert, 117, 119) Work Cited Gilbert, Martin. Final Journey: The Fate of the Jews in Nazi Germany. New York: Mayflower Books, 1979
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