Polish Death Camp Lie Irony Were Top Secret Grossman

The Hell of Treblinka, by Vasily Grossman. 1944, 2014

Early (1944) Report on Treblinka. No German Guilt Diffusion. No Blame-Christianity Accusations. Inflated Death Figures Were Jewish Estimates, Not Polish Inventions

Author Vasily Grossman was a Soviet Jew, and this book is one of the first, if not the first, account of Treblinka. His refreshingly-candid treatment provides a lasting testimony not only to the horrors of Treblinka, but perhaps—even more so—a diagnosis on how Holocaust memory had since been manipulated.

Author Grossman points out the Jews were not the only victims of Treblinka. So were Poles and Gypsies. (p. 15).

“POLISH DEATH CAMP” IRONY. NO GERMAN GUILT DIFFUSION. NO BLAME-CHRISTIANITY ACCUSATIONS

Nowadays, there is customary de-Germanization of the Nazis and the attempt to shift the blame onto the Poles through such frequently-repeated media constructs such as the “Polish complicity in the Holocaust” and “Polish death camps” canards. Failing that, we instead hear vague insinuations about the Germans seeking the approval of the Poles for the German siting of the death camps .

Let’s get real. The very notion that the German Master Race would seek the permission, or consent, from the conquered and despised Polish UNTERMENSCHEN (subhumans) is absurd to the point of the macabre. As if this was common-sense fact was not enough, Grossman makes it clear that Treblinka was a top-secret facility, unknown to ANYBODY who lacked an absolute need of awareness of it. Grossman writes, “And not a single person—not even a field marshal—was allowed near it. Anyone who happened to come within a kilometer of the camp was shot without warning. German planes were forbidden to fly over the area. The victims brought by train along the spur from Treblinka village did not know what lay in wait for them until the very last moment. The guards who had accompanied the prisoners during the journey were not allowed into the camp; they were not allowed even to cross its outer perimeter. When the trains arrived, SS men took over from the previous guards. The trains, which were usually made up of sixty freight wagons, were divided into three sections while they were still in the forest, and the locomotive would push twenty wagons at a time up to the camp platform. The locomotive always pushed from behind and stopped by the perimeter fence, and so neither the driver nor the fireman ever crossed the camp boundary.” (pp. 11-12).

STOP BLAMING GENERAL “EUROPEAN ANTISEMITISM” FOR THE HOLOCAUST

Nor does Grossman even try to blame the Holocaust on centuries of antecedent anti-Semitism. Instead, he puts the blame for the Holocaust squarely where it belongs—on the Germans and the Germans alone. That is, the German qualities of thrift, precision, calculation, and pedantic cleanliness were harnessed by Hitler to deadly effect at places such as Treblinka. (p. 7). Grossman also mentions the “traditional German chauvinism” as floridly exhibited at Treblinka (p. 10), and the German sense of superiority over other peoples (notably—but by no means only–over the Jews, Poles, and Russians).(p. 62).

As a parting shot against German guilt-diffusion tendencies, the editor suggests what Hitler would have said as a defendant: “The German people knew, what my plans, my ideas, my programme were. They approved them and gave me a mandate for their realization. Consequently I acted on behalf of the German people. I don’t admit my guilt.” (p. 217).

CHRISTIANITY

In contrast to the modern Holocaust meme that blames past Christian teachings on Jews (deicide) as the ultimate cause of the Holocaust, Grossman does not, notwithstanding the fact that, as a Communist, it would be to his advantage to do so. Perhaps ironically, Grossman blames Islam. He contends that the Germans learned genocide from the Turks (against the Armenians), and the Turks, in turn, had earlier learned it from the Arabs: “They killed and annihilated without mercy the peoples subjected to them…All the 100,000 inhabitants of the Christian city Ani–the capital of the long-suffering Armenia, were massacred in one night. In one night they cruelly slaughtered 96,000 Georgians…Tbilisi.” (p. 233)

HOW THE GERMAN DEATH CAMP OF TREBLINKA FUNCTIONED

The first part of this book describes what had been learned about the modus operandi of the Treblinka death camp soon after the Red Army had driven the Germans out of eastern Poland. Details are given about the transports, the deceptions, the “showers” (gas chambers), mass burials, and then the cremations. The latter took place in open pits, 250-300 m. long, 20-25 m. wide, and 6 m. deep. Each such pit contained a stack of several thousand corpses per session. At night, the flaming pyres could be seen up to 40 km (25 miles) away (p. 47). Polish peasants, toiling from spring 1943 to summer 1944, were forced to scatter the cremains over a 3 km road. Twenty carts, each carrying 100-125 kg of ashes and charred bone fragments, made 6-8 trips per day. (p. 53). [This addresses Holocaust Deniers who tell us that there were no remains.]

HOW MANY HUMAN BEINGS LOST THEIR LIVES AT TREBLINKA?

Jewish author Grossman estimates a Treblinka death toll of 3 million. (p. 39). This is almost 4 times the currently-accepted figure. (So much for the myth that the once-believed inflated figures, for death-camp victims, had been some kind of postwar Polish invention designed to hide the Jewishness of most of the deaths by “padding” them with millions of nonexistent Polish deaths.)