Well I saw the museum display on the archaelogical finding and frankly it looked the same as you might expect any midden or rubbish dump in a longstanding castle.
Regarding the enormous chimney situated in the middle of the courtyard, there is not a single piece of evidence aside from Mauthausen prisoners. If it was dismantled it was the only thing in the region dismantled - as they didn't even attempt to dismantle the crematoria in Gusen and Mauthausen.
The crematoria at Gusen and Mauthausen were in use until the camps were liberated. Crematoria in concentration camps were to be expected, not in psychiatric hospitals.
Actually the excavations at Hartheim unearthed large quantities of ashes and bone fragments, in addition to other items - most pieces of personal property from the victims.
Frankly, what YOU made of the exhibition or the physical condition of the site today is utterly irrelevant, since you are most notorious for confabulating a conspiracy theory, Krema Denial, so monumentally silly that even other revisionists refuse to endorse it.
But since we know that Sobibor and Treblinka were transit camps and Belzec a work camp, it doesn't make sense to recruit staff from an alleged gassing operation in 6 chateaus.
This is your bizarrest argument yet.
But we know no such thing.
We know that there are documents specifying that personnel were transferred from T4 to Globocnik (Brack-Himmler, 23 June 1942), and that 92 of these men were used in something called Aktion Reinhard (AR personnel report). We know that the first commandant of Treblinka had previously headed up the Bernburg facility (report from Eberl on Bernburg; letters from Eberl from Treblinka). We know that the names of the SS serving in the AR camps are the same as the names for T4 personnel (various documents, personnel files, a promotions list of AR personnel). And we know that Christian Wirth served as the first commandant of Belzec, the inspector of the AR camps, and had previous served in T4 (Wirth's personnel file, numerous documents identifying him as inspector of AR and as commandant of Belzec).
We also know that Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka were most often referred to as 'SS-Sonderkommando'. This is amply documented from the personnel records of the Trawnikis, as well as recommendations for the awards of the Kriegsverdienstkreuz, and other sources, including Eberl's letters. The official designation of these camps was thus clearly, SS-Sonderkommando. From the same sources, we know that these Sonderkommandos were involved in Einsatz R or Einsatz Reinhardt and that other SS men belonging to the deportation staffs were as well. This program was described as involving "Judenumsiedlung" which was most often put in euphemising inverted commas. Sometimes the writers spoke of the involvement of these men in the "Judenendloesungsfrage".
Over and above all this, we also know that thousands of Jews were taken to "T II" to be 'destroyed' during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. We know that police units delivered large transports of Jews from Galicia to "Belzec", which lies to the west of the towns from which these Jews were deported. Before departure hundreds had been shot while hundreds more were shot en route and many more still suffocating to death in overcrowded trains.
We know that large transports of Jews from Warsaw and from the Krakow district were deported
to Treblinka and
to Belzec in the summer of 1942 (Wolff-Ganzenmueller correspondence). We know that German railway officials planned deportations
to Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka in September 1942 (transport conference minutes). We know that a variety of trains left Polish towns with transports of Jews
to Treblinka (Gedob records) in the summer of 1942. And we know that the Hoefle telegram reported on the overall "intake" (Zugang) to B, S, T and L during the whole of 1942, producing a figure matching one appearing in the Korherr report.
In turn, we know that the Korherr report's wording was euphemised from 'Sonderbehandlung' to a phrase ordered directly by Himmler, who decreed that the wording be changed to a euphemistic 'sluiced through the camps in the Generalgouvernement'.
This is the only time that the word 'through' appears in any connection with these camps. Every other time is 'to'. So these must have been exceptionally overcrowded camps, since there is no evidence of more than a fractional selection on arrival at these camps for labour elsewhere (mainly Sobibor, never Belzec, only occasionally Treblinka) which cannot account for the whereabouts of the remaining 98% of the deportees.
What we are left with are merely a couple of references, one calling Sobibor an 'Arbeitslager'. But the report in question specifies a selection whereby a tiny fraction of the transport from Vienna were selected as fit for work and sent to another camp. Thus the other 950 or so deportees were judged unfit and yet were being sent to an 'Arbeitslager'. Common sense regards this reference as a euphemism.
A year or so later, Himmler and Pohl have a correspondence in which they speak of 'transit camp' (Durchgangslager) Sobibor, the only time Sobibor is so referred in all of the records. Neither Treblinka nor Belzec are
ever so labelled. Common sense regards this reference as a euphemism. Belzec was never referred to as a work camp in 1942-3; a work camp had existed there in 1940 and been closed down in the same year.
Not only do we know all this, we also know that the senior civil leadership of the relevant region, the Generalgouvernement, kept on referring to the destruction of the Jews in their territory and even how the Jews were being killed.
And we also observe what must have been a truly epic failure of PR and communications skills since the Jews, learning of their intended fate, began to flee in ever larger numbers to the point where thousands were documented as shot during the deportation actions for resisting and thousands more were hunted down and documented as shot while fugitives. Orders were published threatening Poles with execution for sheltering Jews, and indeed entire villages are documented as being wiped out for doing just that.
You are welcome to try and reinterpret the entire documentary record of the Holocaust in the GG but only if it is, in fact, the
entire record.
Or you are welcome to consider
all the surviving witnesses - SS, Trawniki, Jewish and Polish bystander - to Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka, and demonstrate that the preponderance of the witnesses said it was a transit camp.
You are also welcome to explain why Treblinka stunk to high heaven because of dead Jews in October 1942 so that it was reported and documented as stinking to high heaven.
And you are also welcome to explain why the Polish underground consistently reported on transports entering these camps and not coming out, and documenting the arrivals, start of exhumation/cremation, revolts and liquidation of these camps, in a series of monthly reports as well as other reports, which stretch across 1942-3.
And finally you are also welcome to explain why when liberated the camp sites were found covered in human remains, bone fragments and ash, and there was good evidence of sizeable mass graves having been dug, then dug up, emptied and their contents destroyed - bigger than anything which a "labour camp" or "transit camp" would warrant.
Reply to all of this systematically, without fisking or omissions, or go back on ignore.
