Newsgroups: alt.revisionism Subject: Holocaust Almanac: Treblinka - The Killing Begins Reply-To: kmcvay@nizkor.almanac.bc.ca Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Nizkor Project, Vancouver Island, CANADA Keywords: Fuchs,Treblinka Archive/File: camps/aktion.reinhard/treblinka treblinka.gas Last-Modified: 1994/02/11 "The gas chambers were located inside the extermination area, in a massive brick building. During the camp's first months of operation, there were three gas chambers, each 4 x 4 meters and 2.6 meters high, similar to the first gas chamber constructed in Sobibor. A room attached to the building contained a diesel engine, which introduced the poisonous carbon monoxide gas through pipes into the chambers, and a generator, which supplied electricity to the entire camp. The entrance doors to the gas chambers opened onto a wooden corridor at the front of the building. Each of these doors was 1.8 meters high and 90cm wide. The doors could be closed hermetically and locked from the outside. Inside the gas chambers, opposite each entrance door, was another door made of thick, strong wood beams, 2.5 meters wide and 1.8 meters high. These doors, too, were hermetically sealed. Inside the chambers the walls were covered with white tiles up to a certain height, and shower heads and piping crisscrossed the ceiling -- all designed to maintain the illusion of a shower room. the piping actually served to carry the poison gas into the chambers. When the doors were closed, there was no lighting in the chambers." ... Unterscharfuhrer Erich Fuchs, who took part in the construction of Treblinka, testified: "Subsequently I went to Treblinka. In this extermination camp I installed a generator which supplied electric light for the barracks. The work in Treblinka took me about three to four busy months. During my stay there transports of Jews who were gassed were coming in daily." <1> "... The killings began on July 23, 1942... " <1> Yad Vashem Archives, TR-10/1069, Band 9, page 1785, as quoted in BELZEC, SOBIBOR, TREBLINKA - the Operation Reinhard Death Camps Indiana University Press - Yitzhak Arad, 1987. ISBN 0-253-3429-7
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