Like Castle Wolfenstein we have gamemasters at work in the reality sphere.
Here are a couple of recent posts from Winstonsmith and Scrapbookpages over on the blogger bar. Consider, then add together, then subtract ALL we have been fed by Soviet, British, Yank AND SS propagandists since 1945.
Don't even bother with “valuable things the Jews left” .
Getting the idea?
Sobibor: The Soviet transit camp
Bird's eye view of the Mound of Ashes monument and the archaeological work at the Sobibor memorial
The following quotation is taken from the English translation of a short book written by Marek Bem, the director of the Sobibor memorial museum, and Polish archaeologist Wojciech Mazurek:
In July 1944, the area, which had former been the extermination centre, was taken control over by the Red Army and the Polish People’s Army units. As of 1945, the new Polish authorities used the barracks left by the Germans, as well as the railway platform, as a railway station in order to gather in one place the Ukrainians meant for relocation. In 1945-1947, the Ukrainians from the eastern part of the Lublin District were relocated to Ukraine or to the western parts of Poland. The Ukrainians, who were waiting for their trains (sometimes even for more than a week) needed wood to light fires. Thus, they dismantled the remaining camp barracks, contributing in this way to the task of obliterating the last traces of the German extermination centre in Sobibór. Most probably, local residents finally completed the task of destroying all that remained of the camp, including the digging up of the ground to find the expected “valuable things the Jews left”.
Marek Bem, Wojciech Mazurek; Natalia Sarzyńska-Wójtowicz and Jack Dunster (trans.), Sobibór: Archaeological Research Conducted on the Site
of the Former German Extermination Centre in Sobibór 2000-2011, Warsaw: The Foundation for “Polish-German Reconciliation”, 2012, p. 24.
new evidence of gas chambers found at the Sobibór camp in Poland
Filed under: Germany, Holocaust — Tags: Aktion Reinard, carbon monoxide, Sobibor — furtherglory @ 10:10 am
Sobibór was one of the three Aktion Reinhard [Reinhardt] camps, which were set up after the end of the Wannsee Conference, which was held, starting on January 20, 1942, to plan “The Final Solution to the Jewish Question in Europe.”
One of the followers of my blog visited the site of the Sobibór camp 10 days ago. He made a comment on my blog which included a link to this news story. The headline of the story is
Archaeologists in Poland Make Horrendous Discovery Underneath the Ground That the Nazis Never Wanted Found
This quote is from the news story:
Another archeologist involved in unearthing the gas chambers, identified as Wojciech Mazurek, offered a bone-chilling description of the concentration camp.“The extermination of people took place there; murder by smoke from an engine that killed everyone within 15 minutes in these gas chambers, in torment, shouting,” he told Reuters Television. “It is said that … the Nazis even bred geese in order to drown out these shouts so that prisoners could not have heard these shouts, these torments.”[...]In the wake of the camp uprising that occurred on 14 October 1943, the Germans decided to dismantle the camp. Apart from certain structures that have been dismantled since the war and the few buildings in connection to the camp that are still standing, the site has remained bare lacking any real trace of the former extermination camp.
Sobibór is way out in the boondocks. Why did the Nazis go to such trouble and expense to take the Jews to this God-forsaken place, when they could have just set up gas chambers in some more convenient place?
I have written about Sobibór on my blog in the past, but it bears repeating.
The Sobibór “extermination” camp was on the eastern edge of German-occupied Poland, five kilometers west of the Bug river. The Bug river was as far as trains from western Europe could go without changing the wheels to fit the train tracks in the Soviet Union, which were a different gauge.
On the other side of the Bug river from Sobibór was Ukraine, which had belonged to the Soviet Union until it was taken by the Germans shortly after their invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941.
The unsuspecting Jews, who arrived at Sobibór, were told that they would be sent to work camps in Ukraine after they had taken a shower, but instead, the Jews were immediately killed in gas chambers that used the “lethal smoke” known as carbon monoxide.
The Jews were not registered upon arrival at the Aktion Reinhard camps and no death records were kept by the Nazis.
The Nazis claimed that the Aktion Reinhard camps were transit camps for the “evacuation of the Jews to the East,” a euphemism for the genocide of the Jews. Unlike the death camps at Auschwitz and Majdanek, the three Aktion Reinhard camps did not have ovens to cremate the bodies. The German people are noted for being efficient, so this oversight is inconceivable.
Whatever happened to all those bodies? Were they buried, or burned on outdoor pyres? According to the survivors, the bodies were first buried and then dug up and burned on pyres.
The head of Aktion Reinhard (Operation Reinhard) was SS-Brigadeführer Odilio Globocnik, who had previously been the Gauleiter of Vienna, Austria. Unfortunately, Globocnik and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler both committed suicide after being captured by the British, so we will never know their version of what happened. Thanks to the British, the Holocaust Holohoax story is safe.
At the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal in 1946, documents were introduced which showed an exchange of letters in 1943 between Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, the head of all the concentration camps, and Richard Glücks, the Inspector of the Concentration Camps, in which Glücks suggested that Sobibór be converted into a concentration camp. In a letter dated 5 July 1943, Himmler rejected this idea. This indicates that Sobibór was not a concentration camp, but rather a camp that was not part of the Nazi concentration camp system.
The three Aktion Reinhard camps were all in remote locations, but “each site was on a railroad line linking it with hundreds of towns and villages whose Jewish communities were now trapped and starving” in the spring of 1942, according to Martin Gilbert’s book entitled The Holocaust. Sobibór was linked by rail with many large Jewish communities, including Lublin, Wlodawa and Chelm.
Jews were also brought from the Theresienstadt ghetto, located in what is now the Czech Republic, although Theresienstadt allegedly had a gas chamber. Jews were also brought from the Netherlands, to be gassed at Sobibór.
The Jews from the Netherlands were brought to Sobibór on passenger trains. This begs the question: Why didn’t the Nazis save money by gassing these Jews in the Netherlands? Why didn’t they use these valuable trains for transporting German troops?
Deportations to Sobibór began in mid April 1942 with transports from the town of Zamosc in Poland, according to Holocaust historian Martin Gilbert.
The Jews from the Lublin ghetto were also sent to Sobibór to be gassed, although there were three or four gas chambers at Majdanek just outside the city of Lublin. Now this doesn’t make any sense at all. The Jews could have walked to the Majdanek gas chambers, but instead they were transported on trains to Sobibór.
During the first phase of the extermination of the Jews at Sobibór, which lasted until July 1942, an estimated 100,000 Jews were gassed to death. Their bodies were buried in mass graves, then dug up later and burned on pyres.
During the next phase, the bodies were burned immediately, according to Toivi Blatt, one of the few survivors of Sobibór. At the age of 15, Blatt had been selected to work in sorting the clothing in the camp. Philip Bialowitz was also selected to work in sorting the possessions of the Jews who arrived at the camp; he also survived.
During World War II, and for years afterward, the Sobibór camp was virtually unknown. William Shirer did not even mention it in his monumental 1147-page book entitled The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
It was not until the release of a 1987 TV movie, Escape from Sobibor, based on a book with the same name, that the public knew of this remote spot where 250,000 Jews lost their lives. The movie tells the story of the revolt during which around 300 prisoners escaped; no more than 50 of them survived to the end of the war. Philip Bialowitz and Toivi Blatt were among the prisoners who escaped and survived.
I have never visited the site of the Sobibór camp because there is not much to see there. The photo below, taken by Allen Collins, shows two monuments in the alleged location of the gas chambers. It has now been confirmed, in this news article that this was the location of 10 gas chambers.
The photo above shows the spot in Camp III at Sobibór where 10 brick buildings with gas chambers once stood. A large block of stone represents the gas chambers in two of the buildings at Sobibór , which were torn down long ago.
In the photo immediately above, notice that the monument made of red stone has been temporarily removed from the block on which it stood.
Survivors of Sobibór do not agree on the number, nor the size of the gas chambers. The victims were allegedly killed with carbon monoxide from the exhaust of engines taken from captured Soviet tanks, which were stored in Camp IV. There is also disagreement on whether these were diesel engines or gasoline engines.
In the wake of the camp uprising that occurred on 14 October 1943, the Germans decided to dismantle the camp. Apart from certain structures that have been dismantled since the war and the few buildings in connection to the camp that are still standing, the site has remained bare lacking any real trace of the former extermination camp.
According to another news story, which you can read here, the exact location of the gas chambers has now been found. The photo below shows the exact spot where the gas chamber building was located.
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- Correction, A cement mushroom-like monument with windows containing bones was placed over a mound of ash at Majdanek, not Sobibor.Comment by who dares wings — September 21, 2014 @ 4:43 pm
- There is a similar monument at Sobibor, but not as gigantic as the one at Majdanek. I have photos of both of them on this page of my website:http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland/Sobibor/Tour01.htmlComment by furtherglory — September 22, 2014 @ 8:32 am
- correct. the one at Sobibor looks like a giant UFOComment by schlageter — September 22, 2014 @ 11:07 am
- Video commentary from archeologist Yorim Haimi who has found eight gas chambers at Sobibor after digging for them for seven years. Where’s the mountain of ash? Oh, right, they covered it back in 2008 with a big mushroom shaped cement monument with bones in the dirt windows. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2761220/Gas-chambers-discovered-Sobibor-Holocaust-researchers-exact-location-building-Nazi-death-camp.htmlComment by who dares wings — September 20, 2014 @ 4:13 pm
- Nice try, but no cigar revisionists. Game over. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/18/gas-chambers-nazi-concentration-camp-sobibor-polandComment by who dares wings — September 20, 2014 @ 3:46 pm
- What about the Memorial Stone that currently exists in the spot where the gas chambers allegedly stood. I included a photo of this memorial stone on my blog post.There were 50 survivors from the 300 prisoners who escaped. Those 50 survivors lived for a long time and gave a lot of evidence about the camp. How come these 50 survivors never mentioned the 8 brick buildings in the same location that were used as gas chambers?Will the current memorial stone be removed and a sign put up to let tourists know that a mistake was made years ago and there were actually 10 gas chambers in this location, but it took SEVEN YEARS of digging to find the remains.Comment by furtherglory — September 20, 2014 @ 4:12 pm
- Let’s think about this for a minute:…an estimated 100,000 Jews were gassed to death. Their bodies were buried in mass graves, then dug up later and burned on pyres.I think this can be dismissed immediately as rank nonsense. It is simply impossible to completely burn a human corpse in the open air. There will always be flesh remaining, and the temperatures just cannot be high enough to make the bones brittle so they can be easily crushed into something resembling ash (and I have never heard of a bone crushing apparatus being part of any “death camp”, even though it is standard equipment for any crematory today). So if they want to do any forensic investigations, they could and should start by trying to explain what happened to all of those bodies.…this remote spot where 250,000 Jews lost their lives.So what did happen to all of those bodies? I mean, 250k is a HUGE number of corpses to dispose of, right? Per the above, cremation (with crushing of the bones afterward) is the only reasonable alternative. Suppose that using a well-designed, well-fueled cremation oven it would have taken about two hours to fully cremate/crush the bones of a corpse — this is fair. That’s 500k hours of cremation time. Now follow along: 500k hours is 20833 days, which is 2976 weeks, which is 57 years. Got that? That’s 57 years of cremation time with a single oven. Suppose they had 8 ovens operating 24/7/365 — that’s still over 7 years of cremation time. Even if you cut the cremation time to only one hour, that is still approx 3.5 years of cremation time with 8 ovens. Not to mention the enormous amounts of fuel — coal — that would have been necessary. And assuming the ovens could operate 24/7/365 without breaking down.It’s all totally absurd.Comment by eah — September 20, 2014 @ 6:27 am
- I have a photo of a reconstructed pyre at Belzec on this page of my website: http://scrapbookpages.com/Poland/Belzec/Belzec02.htmlBelzec was the first place that Jewish bodies were burned on pyres. It was so successful there, that this practice was continued at Treblinka and Sobibor.Comment by furtherglory — September 20, 2014 @ 8:48 am
- Now what has been found there leading to the conclusion that there was a homicidal gas chamber?Comment by Andreas Meyer — September 20, 2014 @ 4:48 am
- The outline of a space where a building once stood has been found. I put a photo of it at the bottom of my blog post. There are a few bricks on the ground on the left side of the photo, indicating that this spot was where a brick building once stood. This building was obviously a building where a gas chamber was once located. What else could it have been?Jews went sent on trains to a spot in the woods in the boondocks of Poland. There was only one reason to send them to such a place — to kill them in gas chambers. Oh ye of little faith.Comment by furtherglory — September 20, 2014 @ 8:40 am
- So the logical syllogism is as follows? There were gas chambers at Sobibor. The foundations of buildings were found at Sobibor. Therefore the foundations were those of gas chambers. Is there any wonder some might doubt?Comment by Freddy Freeman — September 21, 2014 @ 7:45 am
- The latest news is that the 8 gas chambers that were just found had shower faucets on the walls. These were gas chambers disguised as “baths”. There are several photos to be seen on this website:http://www.ibtimes.com/nazi-death-camp-poland-one-huge-crime-scene-after-dig-unearths-gas-chambers-disguised-1691888Comment by furtherglory — September 21, 2014 @ 8:49 am
- the 8 gas chambers that were just foundAny news about finding cremation ovens? The more the better of course.Comment by eah — September 21, 2014 @ 9:37 am
- Cremation ovens are huge and hard to transport. They require coal to operate them. Only a few bodies can be burned at a time in a cremation oven. You can see photos of the cremation ovens at Dachau on this page of my website:http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/KZDachau/CrematoriaArea/NewCrematorium04.htmlIt would have been very expensive to provide enough cremation ovens to burn the bodies of 250,000 people.It was much easier to burn the bodies on pyres, using the logs cut from trees in the forest surrounding Sobibor. None of the Aktion Reinhard camps had cremation ovens.All of the Aktion Reinhard camps were located near the Bug river which was the dividing line for the railroad tracks that were European gauge. I explained this in this blog post: http://furtherglory.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/malkinia-junction-where-the-trains-to-treblinka-stopped/Comment by furtherglory — September 21, 2014 @ 10:03 am
- Yes, and then there’s Irene Zisblatt’s amazing testimony which holocaust deniers and anti-semites have called,and I quote. ” a shitty little lie”Comment by hosehead — September 19, 2014 @ 12:37 pm
- Comment by Henry Barth — September 19, 2014 @ 7:22 pm
- This video could be used in college classes in psychology to explain the meaning of the word “affect.” You can read the meaning of the word “affect” on Wikipedia athttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affect_%28psychology%29Irene’s emotions and her facial expressions do not match what she is saying. She is describing horrible atrocities as though she were talking about having her hair and nails done. Even the background is inappropriate for what she is saying. She is sitting in an expensive house in Florida as she tells how she got to this position in life. The video should be entitled “The art of lying, or how to get rich and retire in Florida.”Comment by furtherglory — September 20, 2014 @ 9:01 am
- …which holocaust deniers and anti-semites have called…”a shitty little lie”They were being too kind.Comment by eah — September 20, 2014 @ 6:05 am
- In THERESIENTADT the Nazis started the costruction of a Gas Chamber in January 1945 but in February works had been stopped as ordered by SS Gemeraò and Reichsminister of the Protektorate Bohemoa Moravia Karl Herman Frank. Informed by rhe Cfief Engineer Kohn the Judenaeltester Benkamin Murmelstein informed SS Comander Rahm about a possible mass pmic of inmates with attempts to flee.The SS Comander Rahm stood three days at Prage and returned with the order to stop works. The full story is written in the book by Benjamin Murmelstei due to go pubblc these day also in German by CHERNIN VERLAG – Wiem..Comment by Wolf Murmelstein — September 19, 2014 @ 11:48 am
- I was one of the first people to blog about the Theresienstadt gas chamber — on this blog post: http://furtherglory.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/gas-chamber-at-theresienstadt/Comment by furtherglory — September 20, 2014 @ 9:22 am