Why is it the construction of these holes have to be so complicated just to drop in Zyklon b? If the pellets were simply dropped into the chamber they would end up on the floor covered by dead bodies. As the pellets would still contain some significant amount of HCN, more gas would be released when...

Still, war crime investigators spent years looking for witnesses to what happened at Sobibor (and Treblinka and Belzec), and the only witnesses they could find said (falsely) that these camp were mass extermination camps. Really? From Kues: ... Wagner had stated to the police: “I never saw any gas ...

danewerk, Please answer my questions: So then, how many people do you think were supposedly murdered at Sobibor ... and how? - Hannover I don't think the SS murdered anyone at Sobibor. Are you objecting to the use of the word "survivor"? If so, what would be your preferred word for a pers...

In all likelihood, [Sobibor] was a place where they would have visited for just one day out of a very long and brutal war. Do you remember every gas station you have ever stopped at on a road trip? You have a point in that a short and uneventful stop at Sobibor would not stand out in the memory of ...

danewerk: Please tell us how an alleged 250,000 Jews were supposedly murdered at Sobibor. I do not think that a large number of people were murdered at Sobibor. I think the SS was there primarily to guard a storage facility for captured ammunition, and possibly that the facility also could be used ...

an alternative hypothesis: [...] The SS installation was an ammunition dump [...] Probably used for storing and processing/destruction of captured ammunition. [...] Sobibor was not a transit camp Could it not be both, with the SS military-oriented purpose primary and the transit purpose secondary? ...

...I think the larger point you are making is what light the letter sheds on what was going on at Sobibor in 1943 -- and that the operation was wrapping up already in summer 1943, ... Yes ... which fits with the Transit Camp hypothesis argued for by most Revisionists. I would respectfully like to p...

What is the earliest reference we have to the Sobibor prisoner revolt? Is the Rashke book in 1982 really the first one? He says he interviewed Sobibor survivors who told him the story decades later. A TV movie was made based on the book which aired in 1987. The earliest seems to be an interview wit...

The USHMM recently obtained a collection of photographs and other papers that originally came from the widow of Johann Niemann who was an SS-Untersturmführer at the alleged extermination camp in Sobibor. Usually he is referred to as the deputy commander. Collection here: https://collections.ushmm.or...

Es wäre toll wenn jemand, der die schreibschrift gut lesen kann, die folgende transkription korrigieren würde. (Ich brauche Ihre hilfe da Ich bin ein Schwede mit sauschlechtem Deutsch.) Faksimile: https://ibb.co/wcBPbDD Der Brief stammt aus die Papiere von der Witwe von Johann Niemann und befindet s...

I think this is a mistranslation of Kula's description. The anlge irons are in fact wood, rectangular in cross section, 50 by 10 mm. With a thickness of only 10 mm, the victims would be able break the column, and the pellets would spill out on the floor, making it impossible to retract them by lifti...

I recently read Michal Kula's testimony about the construction of the columns allegedly used to introduce Zyklon pellets. It was given by him in his June 11, 1945 deposition. It appears, surprisingly, that the frame of the outer column was made of easily breakable wood - not steel as in the replica ...

Kłodziński also testified during the 1947 Auschwitz trial held in Krakow. One of the defendants Kłodziński referred to by name was Maximilian Grabner who was sentenced to death (hanged in January 1948). Grabner denied having seen any phenol injections performed. Transcripts of Kłodziński's testimony...