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camps which we owe to the compiler Rassinier, who did
nothing other than relentlessly distort the patient work of others without ever
succeeding.
Rassinier wrote that one day in the month of June 1963,
"I received a strange visit: a tall German
of a fine presence, appearing to be about sixty (in the conversation I learnt
that he was in reality very much older), something military in his bearing, of
an extreme distinction and an exquisite politeness (...). First of all, he
introduced himself and told me the purpose of his visit; and he insisted that
it be kept confidential. I promised him that, and it is the reason for which
the presentation of the character as well as the circumstances of this meeting
are found here only in terms which absolutely cannot allow his identification,
the content of the conversation which we had being the only thing rigourously
authentic." The very distinguished person related to Rassinier
that he had been a "senior officer of very high rank in a very important
department," that after the war he had been denazified, which had created
"endless trouble" for him, and excused himself for the "cowardice which had
ordered him" to remain silent until that time. That specified, the person
declared to Rassinier,
"You assure (...) that none of the
witnesses who claimed to have been present at exterminations by gassing have
until now ever been able to affirm that in your presence (...). Well then, I
have come to tell you that I myself was present at an extermination by
gassing." And he explained himself:
"(...) I was on mission to Lublin, and I
had just gone into Globocnik's when Gerstein had himself announced; (...) I
found myself again with him in Belzec the next day." A
résumé follows of the conversation, Rassinier drafted this
summary "to retain only what was essential in it":
"(...) Globocnik had spoken only of Belzec,
but absolutely not of the other camps cited. He had not, moreover, begun by
speaking of extermination but only of the disinfection of clothing (...)
deploring the scanty possibilities of disinfection at the camp of Belzec, he
said that he himself had found a very expeditious means which at the same time
radically resolved the Jewish question: his Diesel engine in Belzec. But,
Globocnik added, I should have to dispose of a more powerful gas (...) and that
is why I have sent Günter to Gerstein with the objective of obtaining from
him (Gerstein) what his department had that was best adapted to this task, for
then one could proceed on a large-scale to the solution of the Jewish question
in this manner." At that moment the mysterious personage asked
Globocnik a question;
"(...) that is a crime, and you are sure
that is what the Führer means by definitive solution?" Globocnik limited
himself to answering, "Yes, I am sure of it" (...) and, with a very knowing
look, without stating precisely from whom he had his mission but in such a way
that one could believe that it was from the Führer himself, he insisted
upon its secret, ultra-secret nature. In contrast to what is said in the
Gerstein document, he did not state precisely that Himmler and Hitler were in
Lublin two days previously: pure invention." (...)
"In Belzec he saw the
camp: a very small camp, a few shanties which could contain four or five
hundred persons. He saw them walking about in this camp, fat, in good health,
all Jews. (...) A very small station at which arrived from time to time, by the
sole track, a train of a few cars full
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