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historians, writes that "one further deduces (from
these two works, G.W.) that the Führer was in Lublin two days before,
August 15 (one apparently shrinks before nothing in the factories for the
manufacture of historical forgeries!) with Himmler and they gave the order to
"accelerate all the action." This visit appears to Rassinier an obvious
"historical forgery" and, by the ambiguous construction of his sentence, his
reader is led to impute it to Gerstein or to the two historians. But a reading
of the report itself brings out that it is a question of a declaration of
Globocnik in the course of the conversation with Gerstein, Professor
Pfannenstiel and Dr. Herbert Lindner (in reality Linden): "(...) the
Führer and Himmler, who were here on August 15 – that is two days ago
– have obliged me to personally accompany all those who must see the
establishments …," says Globocnik (25, p.284). It is thus neither Gerstein nor the two
historians who in this case fabricate an "historical forgery" (if there is an
"historical forgery"!), but Globocnik. There is nothing astonishing nor
unlikely in that, for whether the visit is real or false, in any event
Globocnik thus makes his interlocutor sense his very great intimacy with the
two all-powerful personalities of the regime. This is just his way of doing
things and, besides, is very close to the truth. But Rassinier deceives his
reader with the help of insinuations, ambiguities and willful deformations.
It is easy to multiply similar examples of Rassinier's dishonesty.
7. The Gas Chambers at Belzec
His objections concerning
certain details contained in the "Gerstein report" seem, however, more serious;
and they deserve a more attentive examination.
Gerstein, speaking of
his first visit to Belzec, writes: "Before us a house as a bathing
establishment (...). After climbing a little staircase, on the right and on the
left, three and three rooms like garages 4 by 5 meters, 1.90 meters high. (...)
Moreover, this afternoon – I didn't notice" (25, p. 285). Further on, describing the functioning of the
gas chambers which he observed the next day, he says: "In the chambers the SS
squeeze the men (in). "Fill up well"... Hauptmann Worth has ordered it. The
naked men are standing up at the feet of the others. 700 to 800 for 25 square
meters and 45 cubic meters! (...) After two hours and forty-nine minutes –
the stop watch recorded it all – the Diesel began. Until this moment, the
men in the four chambers already filled up (were) living, living, four times
750 persons to four times 45 cubic meters!" (25, p. 285).
It has been seen that Gerstein once
speaks of six chambers ("three and three") of 4 meters by 5 meters and of 1.90
meters high, then of four chambers of 25 square meters and 45 cubic meters,
therefore of 1.80 meters in height.
And here is how Rassinier reports
Gerstein's account: " (...) in the course of this visit, he saw the gas
chambers which used Diesel exhaust fumes and he measured them: 5x5=25m2 in
surface, 1.90 in height
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