Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history Subject: Maidanek: Polish-Soviet Extraordinary Commission Report (1 of 7) Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Nizkor Project http://www.nizkor.org Keywords: Lublin,Maidanek Archive/File: camps/maidanek maidanek.005 Last-Modified: 1994/10/31 COMMUNIQUE OF THE POLISH-SOVIET EXTRAORDINARY COMMISSION FOR INVESTIGATING THE CRIMES COMMITTED BY THE GERMANS IN THE MAJDANEK EXTERMINATION CAMP IN LUBLIN FOREIGN LANGAUGES PUBLISHING HOUSE MOSCOW 1944 ------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS page Preamble ...........................................1 I. The Majdanek Extermination Camp in Lublin........2 II. The Categories of Prisoners in the Camp.........3 III. The Tortures and Bloody Reprisals Practised in the Extermination Camp...................5 IV. The Wholesale Shooting of Prisoners of War and Civilians in the Camp...................9 V. Asphyxiation by Gas.............................13 VI. The German Butchers Tried to Cover up the Traces of their Heinous Crimes.............18 VII. The Hitlerites Robbed the Prisoners in the Camp of their Valuables and Belongings.....22 Printed in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ------------------------------------------------------------pg 01-- COMMUNIQUE OF THE POLISH-SOVIET EXTRAORDINARY COMMISSION FOR INVESTIGATING THE CRIMES COMMITTED BY THE GERMANS IN THE MAJDANEK EXTERMINATION CAMP IN LUBLIN The Polish-Soviet Extraordinary Commission for Investigating the Crimes Committed by the Germans in Lublin, consisting of Mr. A. Witos, Vice-Chairman of the Polish Committee of National Liberation (Chairman of the Commission); the Rev. Dr. Kruszynski, Dean of the Lublin Catholic Cathedral; Dr. Somerstein, member of the Polish Committee of National Liberation; Mr. Christians, Barrister, President of the Lublin Red Cross Society; Professor Bialkowski of the Lublin Catholic University; Professor Poplawski of the Lublin University; Mr. Balcerzak, Procurator of the Lublin Appeal Court and Mr. Szczepanski, Preeident of the Lublin Circuit Court (representing Poland); and D. I. Kudryavtsev (Vice-Chairman of the Commission), Professor V. I. Prozorovsky and Professor N. I. Graschenkov, (representing the U.S.S.R.), investigated the crimes committed in Lublin. In the territory of Poland the Hitlerites set up an extensive network of concentration camps: in Lublin, Demblin, Oswiencim, Cholm, Sobibor, Biala Podlaska, Treblinka and other places. To these camps they transported for extermination hundreds of thousands of people from the occupied countries of Europe-France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Greece, Denmark, Norway and others. In these camps the criminal Hitler government organized the massacre of whole sections of the population whom they regarded as undesirable, primarily the intellectuals of the ------------------------------------------------------------pg 02-- occupied countries of Europe, Soviet and Polish prisoners of war, and Jews. The facts discovered by the Commission in its investigation of the crimes committed by the Germans in Lublin far exceed in brutality and barbarity the monstrous crimes committed by the German fascist invaders of which international public opinion is already aware. I. THE MAJDANEK EXTERMINATION CAMP IN LUBLIN In Majdanek, Lublin, the Hitlerite butchers built a vast slaughter house, which they themselves called 'Vernichtungslager,' i.e., 'Extermination Camp.' The following two Germans, now prisoners of war, who served in this camp, testified: Rottenfuhrer SS Theodor Schollen: "This camp was called 'Vernichtungslager,' i.e 'Extermination Camp'-precisely because a colossal number of people were exterminated here." Kampfpolizist Heinz Stalbe: "The main purpose of this camp was to exterminate the largest possible number of people. That is why it was called 'Vernichtungslager' i.e., 'Extermination Camp.'" The-Majdanek Camp, situated two kilometres from Lublin, occupies an area of two hundred and seventy hectares. Its erection was commenced at the end of 1940. In the beginning of 1943 six fields of the camp were completed. In every field there were twenty-four barracks, making one hundred and forty-four barracks in all (not counting other buildings used as warehouses, workshops, etc.), each accommodating three hundred persons and over. The camp was surrounded by two rows of barbed wire. Furthermore, within the camp all the six fields were divided off by a whole network of barbed wire fences with a guard room at the entrance to each field. The barbed wire fences around these fields were charged with a high voltage electric current. All over the camp tall watch towers were erected in ------------------------------------------------------------pg 03-- which sentries armed with machine guns were constantly posted. The camp was strongly guarded by SS troops. In addition there were two hundred German police dogs, which played an important part in guarding the camp, and an auxiliary force of police called Kampfpolizei, which consisted of criminal elements.
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