Electrocuted to ashes at Belzec

During 1942, 600,000 Jews were killed at Bełżec,
a Nazi extermination camp in Poland.

But the story of how they were killed,
has changed over the years dramatically

In a book published in Stockholm in 1944 and translated into English a year later,

the Hungarian Jew Stefan Szende described how million of Jews had been killed at Belzec by electricity in “the underground premises of the execution building”

“When trainloads of naked Jews arrived they were herded into a great

hall capable of holding several thousand people. This hall had no windows

and its flooring was of metal. Once the Jews were all inside, the floor of this hall sank like a lift into a great tank of water which lay below it until the Jews were up to their waists in water. Then a
powerful electric current was sent into the metal flooring and within
a few seconds all the Jews, thousands at a time, were dead.

The metal flooring then rose again and the water drained away. The corpses of the slaughtered Jews were now heaped all over the floor. A different current was then switched on and the metal flooring rapidly became red hot, so that
the corpses were incinerated as in a crematorium and only ash was left.

The floor was then tipped up and the ashes slid out into prepared receptacles. The smoke of the
process was carried away by great factory chimneys. That was the whole procedure.”
The Promise Hitler Kept - Stefan Szende

In its official report on the German crimes in Poland, presented by the Soviets at
the Nuremberg Trial, the Polish government wrote the following about Belzec:

“In the early months of 1942, reports came in that in this camp, special installations
for the mass execution of Jews were being built. Under the pretext that they were
being taken to a bath, they were undressed completely and pushed into the
building. A strong electric current passed through the floor of this building.”

USSR-93

The Soviet Red Army captured the site of the former "extermination
camp" Bełżec in July 1944. But 19 months later, a Soviet prosecution
lawyer at the Nuremberg Trial said the following:

“Camp Belsen (Bełżec) was founded in 1940; but it was in 1942 that the special electrical appliances
were built in for mass extermination of people.
Under the pretext that the people were being led to the bath-house, the doomed were undressed and then driven to the building where the floor was electrified in a special way; there they were killed.”

Nuremberg Trial transcript - Feb 19, 1946

In 1946, a book whose contributors included the
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Moscow and the
World Jewish Congress, states the following:

"The Belzec camp is built underground. It is an electric crematorium. There are two halls in the underground buildings. People were taken out of the railway cars into the first hall. Then they were led naked to the second hall. Here the floor resembled an enormous plate. When the crowd of men stood on it, the floor sank deep into a pool of water. The moment the men sank up to their necks, a powerful electric current of millions of volts was passed through, killing them at once. The floor rose again, and a second electric current was passed through the bodies, burning them until nothing was left of the victims save a few ashes."

The Black Book: The Nazi Crime Against the Jewish People
Publishers: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1946, p. 313

The electricity killing method has now been totally dropped from the Belzec story...

From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website:

"Gassing operations at Belzec began in mid-March 1942.... Once the chamber doors were sealed, auxiliary police guards started an engine located outside the building housing the gas chambers. Carbon monoxide
was funnelled into the gas chambers, killing all those inside."

The electric floor has be put down the memory hole

Video I made on the original story that the Nazi electrocuted
hundred's of thousands of Jews at Death Camp: Belzec

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