reduced to 380 people). Two hundred young men were deported with their wives
to death to Treblinka. This was done using Jewish Order Service servicemen
commanded by the Order Service officers Jakub Lejkin and Szmerling, assisted
by a small number of Germans from the Ver nichtungskommando. This is
German gratitude, the Teutonic faithfulness to the traitors of their own nation.
TREBLINKA
The monument of eternal disgrace of the German nation
“From the moment when the Geneva Convention, signed in 1864 by representatives
of 35 states but ratified by only 21 states, came into being, Germany has precisely
abided by its provisions intended to guarantee that a certain humanitarian element
would permeate into military operations despite their brutal nature.
Care for the wounded enemy, humanitarian, dignified treatment of the prisoner of
war – enemy, respect for sanitary facilities, care for the civilian population, particularly
women and children, who are considered sacrosanct – all this has always
constituted the noble and sacred concepts of honour for the German command
and the German soldiers, both on the front line and in the occupied territories. It
is an undeniable fact, which even an enemy has to admit in his hatred and even
against his own will”.
Max Gröters, “cEin Fetzen Papier? Genfer Konvention
und Soldaten Christic”,⁹⁵⁵ Warschauer Zeitung⁹⁵⁶
255, 28 October 1942 (see Appendix No. 10).
The village of Treblinka is located near the Warsaw–Białystok railway,
several kilometres from Małkinia, in a forested and sandy area. The village
is inhabited by Poles – peasants and forest labourers. In 1940 in the
vicinity of Treblinka the Germans established a penal concentration camp,
Treblinka I, for Poles who had committed certain offences against the occupier,
for instance, they had failed to deliver levies of produce or had been captured
smuggling. The discipline in that camp was very strict and the prisoners
are executed for any given reason. The infamy of that camp matches that of
the penal camp in Oświęcim.
In March 1942 the Germans started to construct a new camp, Treblinka II,
in the vicinity of Treblinka I. The camp was designated as an execution site for
955 c-c (Ger.) a scrap of paper? The Geneva Convention and soldiers of Christ.
956 Warschauer Zeitung – German daily published by the General Government authorities
from November 1939.
