the Treblinka steam chambers,⁷⁵⁴ the Germans came up with the following
solution: transports of people from the towns where the Aktion took place
were loaded into boxcars with a layer of lime and chloride on the floor. After
the train had covered the distance to Treblinka, the cargo unloaded from the
boxcars at the transport’s destination consisted only of corpses, swollen and in
characteristic bluish-purple colour. All those people died in agony while being
suffocated in the boxcars of death. For these transports of people (e.g. a group
from Międzyrzec Podlaski and from Kielce) Treblinka was nothing more than
a cemetery. The above shows that the Germans were eager to carry out an
arranged plan, on schedule and with precision. These ways of mass murder
were treated as auxiliary when, for whatever reasons, the effectiveness of the
machine of death in Treblinka failed.
Profanation of corpses. The “scientific” method of exploiting the Jews
condemned to death is also used for the corpses dragged out of the Treblinka
steam chambers. Before throwing the corpses into the pits, the Germans
check their teeth and remove all gold teeth and dental bridges, using dental
tools. The profanation of corpses is total and complete.
According to reliable testimonies, on 8 September this year approximately
500 Poles were executed in Treblinka. The executions were conducted
twice – in the morning and the afternoon. All the convicts – both men and
women – were escorted to the execution site near the dug graves. Stripped
naked and arranged along the pits, they were executed with machine-gun
shots. The bodies of the victims were bluish, probably from earlier torture
and beatings.
Table. Data regarding some of the towns in the “General Government”,
where the “resettlement campaigns” were conducted this September, October,
and November.
Town Before the “resettlement” Remaining
Siedlce 5 000 500
Radom 30 000 2 000
Parczew 4 000 –
754. Incorrect information. In Treblinka the victims were suffocated with Diesel exhaust
