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of comparaison [sic] of texts and to heap abuse upon
their authors by means of sarcasms, insinuations, injurious words and
mockeries, a detestable art in which he excells.
Knowing the "Gerstein
report" by bits and pieces, Rassinier finds a quantity of unlikelihoods in its
content. It is thus that summing up in his own manner the conversation between
Gerstein and Globocnik, Chief of the SS and of the Police of the District of
Lublin, Rassinier writes on an ironic tone which is to provoke in his reader
the idea of the evident absurdity of the account: "The same day, one meets the
Gruppenführer (General) Globocnik in charge of the extermination of the
Jews in the Warthegau and who had not yet found another means of carrying out
his task than.., the exhaust fumes of Diesel engines (!) which he caused to
arrive in chambers especially fitted out for this." (40, p. 225). Now then, the subject of this conversation is
very normal and very likely when it is known that it is precisely this means of
massive extermination which was practised in Germany itself, since October
1939, in the framework of the "euthanasia" operation and that one of the
specialists of the procedure was the police commissioner Wirth ("Hauptmann
Wirth" of the "report") put at the disposal of Globocnik and, at the period of
the visit of Gerstein, commandant of the camp of Belzec and his guide.
On June 23, 1942, Victor Brack, SS-Oberführer, Superior Chief of
the Service of the Chancellery of the Führer, whom Reichsleiter Bouhler in
1939 made responsible for the organization of the suppression of "useless
mouths" (euthanasia), wrote to Himmler: (32, p. 126).
"Some time ago already, I put at the
disposal of Brigadeführer Globocnik a certain number of my men for the
accomplishment of his special mission, in conformity with the orders of
Reichsleiter Bouhler. Following a new request from him, I again sent him
personnel. On this occasion, Brigadeführer Globocnik supported the thesis
that it is fitting to carry out the anti Jewish action as rapidly as possible
to avoid that unforeseen obstacles oblige us to stop the operation in the
middle of its execution." This sheds a light of sharp truth on
Gerstein's sentence: "The Hauptmann of Police Wirth asked me not to propose to
Berlin any other model whatsoever of gas chambers and to leave everything as it
was."
Continuing the account of this conversation in which Globocnik
informs Gerstein of the existence, under his authority, of four extermination
camps – Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibor and Maïdanek, which was being
constructed – Rassinier still writes in a mocking tone destined to
demonstrate the unlikelihood of the confidence: "Naturally, the
Gruppenführer who is logical begins by telling... In his region, three
establishments exist to exterminate the Jews by Diesel exhaust fumes..." (40, p. 226). This confidence is not only
likely but appears inevitable. In fact, for what reason would Globocnik not
inform SS-Obersturmführer Gerstein of the RSHA of the situation in his
(Globocnik's) district? Gerstein was sent to him from Berlin as chief of the
section of poisonous gases of the Waffen-SS, precisely in order to help him
improve the procedure of killing in use at his establishments.
In the
same way, Rassinier, citing the works of two well-known
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