Holocaust theology maintains; Sobibor
was a Nazi extermination
camp
in which 250,000 Jews, within 18 months,
were gassed
with
engine exhaust fumes, possibly from
a Russian submarine
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image to enlarge
A few months after Sobibor supposedly
started gassing 20,000 people a day
(according to SS-Obersturmführer Kurt
Gerstein) Heinrich Himmler instructed
that Sobibor death transit camp,
be converted into a concentration camp
The Reichsfuehrer-SS
RF/Bn pencilled 1674/43
geh.M.
Field Command Post, 5 July
1943
Top Secret!
10 Copies
10th Copy
I n s t r u c t i o n
1.) SS-Economics and
Administrative Main Office
2.) SS-Operational Main
Office
3.) Higher SS- and Police
Leader East
4.) Higher SS- and Polce
Leader Ostland (Eastern
Countries)
5.) Higher SS- and Police
Leader Russia Center
6.) Higher SS- and Police
Leader Ukraine
7.) SS- and Police Leader in
the District of Lubin
8.) (Chief of Anti-Terrorist
Units) pencilled: 9th copy
delivered at Hochwald by
Ostubaf BRANDT
1. The
transit camp of Sobibor in
the district of Lublin is to
be transformed into a
concentration camp. In this
concentration camp a depot
for the dismantling of
captured ammunition has to
be set up.
2. All Higher SS- and Police
Leaders are instructed to
forward to this camp all
captured ammunition, as far
as it is not needed for the
loading of captured guns in
use.
3. Motals and in particular
the blasting powder are to
be used carefully.
4. At the same time a depot
for the manufacturing of our
multiple mortars or other
ammunition is to be set up
in this concentration camp.
signed
H. HIMMLER
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SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald
Pohl, head of slave labour in
the Reich,
wrote to Himmler 10 days later
saying it wasn't a good idea to
convert Sobibor death transit camp
into a concentration camp
SS-Economic and
Administrative Main Office
Telephone:
763261 local
761101 long distance
Berlin 15 July 1943
Lichterfelde-West
Unter den Eichen 126-135
Dictate initials:
Ch,Po/Fa.
Absolutely. to be
indicated in replies.
Subject:
Transient Camp of
Sobibor.
Reference:
Your letter of 5
July RF/Bn 1674/43
Goh.RS
(Top Secret)
To Reichsfuehrer-SS
B e r l i n
Reichsfuehrer!
According to your above
instruction, the
transient camp of
Sobibor in
the district of Lubin is
to be transformed into a
concentration camp.
I have discussed the
matter with
SS-Gruppenfuehrer
GLOBOCNIK. We both
suggest to you to
abandon the idea of
transforming it into a
concentration camp,
because the purpose
intended by you, namely,
to set up at Sobibor a
depot for the
dismantling of captured
ammunition, will be
reached without this
transformation too.
The other points of the
above instruction can
remain unaltered. I ask
for your consent, which
will be of importance
only for Gruppenfuehrer
GLOBONIK and myself.
Heil Hitler!
(signature) POHL
SS-Obergruppenfuehrer
and
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Himmler then changed his mind,
agreeing with Oswald Pohl and
ordering that Sobibor death transit camp,
not to be converted
into a concentration camp, but
remain a death transit camp
The Reichsfuehrer_SS
Field Command Post,
24 July 43
Personal Staff
Registered Journal
no. 1674/43
Bra/H.
Subject: Transient
Camp of Sobibor.
Reference: Your
letter of 15 July 43
- Ch.Po/Fa.-
To
SS-
Obergruppenfuehrer
POHL
B e r l i n
Dear
Obergruppenfuehrer
The Reichsfuehrer-SS
agrees with your and
SS-Gruppenfuehrer
GLOBOCNIK's
suggestion to leave the
transient camp of
Sobibor in
the district of
Lublin in it's
present state, since
the purpose intended
by him will also be
reached in this way.
Heil Hitler!
Yours
SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer
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Source
Nuremberg Trials document NO-482, found
through