F. Bruckner: As for the fifth imaginary center of extermination, the Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin, the initial situation here is fundamentally different than in the cases of Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibur and Chełmno. First, historians of all stripes agree that Majdanek was founded in 1941 at the same time as a prisoner-of-war camp and a labor camp.

According to the official version of the Holocaust, in addition, for 14 months, from August 1942 to early November 1943, it also served as a camp for the extermination of Jews. This camp fell into the hands of the Red Army on July 23, 1944, undestroyed, and later the Poles built a memorial there.

The rooms, called gas chambers, have survived and can be examined for the possibility of fulfilling the task attributed to them. Since many documents have been preserved after the war, it is possible to reconstruct the history of this camp, which cannot be done in the case of the four so-called. "pure killing centers".

I would like to know what ideas you have about the Majdanek camp?

Student: Recently I saw a wartime weekly with pictures of the newly liberated Majdanek camp, in which, it was said, great amount of people. The pictures showed ovens with skeletons in front of them, cans of Zyklon-B, and huge piles of shoes that were said to have belonged to the murdered prisoners.

F. Bruckner: Look at this photograph with Russian captions taken after the camp was liberated. It depicts soviet soldier, standing on the roof of a building designated as a "gas chamber", lifting the lid of the shaft through which Zyklon-B allegedly fell into the "gas chamber" located below.

Student: How can you "fall asleep" gas?

F. Bruckner: Pesticide Zyklon-B was delivered in hermetically closed banks in the form of a granulate containing hydrocyanic acid. On contact with air, hydrocyanic acid is slowly released. We will talk in detail about the properties of Zyklon-B and whether it could, from a purely technical point of view, be used to kill people, in connection with the Auschwitz concentration camp.

IN this moment I would like to confine myself to pointing out that the superstitious idea of ​​supplying Zyklon-B to the gas chambers through showerheads is technically unrealizable. This is also taken into account by official historians, who say that the granulate was poured into the gas chambers through the mines. True, in the picture we see a ventilation shaft.

Student: Does official history admit that Zyklon-B is a pesticide?

As you can see, the cans of Zyklon-B that are constantly shown in books and films are not in themselves evidence of the abuse of this drug for criminal purposes, like the possession of an ax or kitchen knife does not prove that a person was killed by them, although this is in principle possible.

Student: Is it known approximately how much Zyklon-B was delivered to Majdanek?

F. Bruckner: This is even known for sure, since the deliveries were strictly documented. The camp received a total of 4974 cans of Zyklon-B with a total weight of 6961 kg.

Student: That is, almost seven tons! And such a huge amount was used, according to the revisionists, only for pest control? This is impossible to believe.

F. Bruckner: Hundreds of barracks for prisoners and guard barracks were periodically disinfested. Zyklon-B was also needed to process prisoners' clothes in factories, especially for the branch of SS Dachau clothing factories built in Majdanek (Lublin branch), where furs and fabrics were disinfested before they were processed.

Correspondence between the camp authorities and Tesch und Stabenau, which supplied the pesticide, shows that the latter could not fulfill all orders, and the camp periodically suffered from a catastrophic shortage of Zyklon-B. So, for example, on August 31, 1943, the camp authorities stated that the disinfestation of the camp was urgently needed, and the situation did not tolerate further delay.

Other "pictures" that allegedly prove the Majdanek massacres are also of dubious quality. found in the camp Soviet troops human remains only prove that people in the camp died, but how many there were and what the reasons for their death remains unclear. Finally, the mountains of shoes still diligently displayed by Holocaust propagandists are no proof that their owners were murdered.

Student: If the mountains of shoes were evidence of massacres, one would assume that terrible things are happening in every shoe shop.

F. Bruckner: Indeed. As the Polish historian Czesław Rajca argues in a 1992 article on the number of victims of this camp, the presence of 800,000 pairs of shoes in Majdanek can easily be explained by the fact that there was a huge shoe repair shop; they were sent there, in particular, to repair shoes from the Eastern Front.

Student: Nevertheless, these photos make a strong impression.

F. Bruckner: Yes, it is. In the absence scientific evidence mass murder of Jews in "extermination camps", the official version of the Holocaust regularly uses such spectacular means.

I'll start with short story about the history of this camp. During his visit to Lublin in July 1941, G. Himmler ordered the construction of a camp for 25-50 thousand prisoners who would work in the workshops of the SS and the police. True, even a smaller number was never reached, since there were never more than 22,500 people in Majdanek at the same time (this maximum was reached in July 1943).

This camp was established in October 1941 on the outskirts of Lublin, five kilometers southeast of the city center. The first prisoners were Lublin Jews, who were already in a small "Jewish camp" in the middle of the city, as well as Soviet prisoners of war. Although prisoners of war have always been only one of many categories of prisoners, the camp was first called the Lublin POW camp and only in March 1943 was renamed the Lublin concentration camp. The name Majdanek comes from the nearby Tatar Maidan field.

Since March 1942, Czech and Slovak Jews began to arrive there in large numbers, to which Jews from a number of other countries were later added. European countries. A significant part of the prisoners were used in the construction of the camp itself, others worked in many military factories.

Since 1943, Majdanek served as an additional camp for the sick, where disabled prisoners from various camps of the Reich were sent. In particular, on June 3, 1943, a group of 844 prisoners with malaria from Auschwitz was transferred to Majdanek, since there were no malarial mosquitoes in the Lublin region.

Student: You said that according to official history Majdanek served as an "extermination camp" only until the beginning of November 1943. In this case, the purpose of sending sick prisoners from December of that year onwards could not have been to kill them, and this is an important argument against the claim in the Holocaust literature that incapacitated prisoners were exterminated. And why was it necessary to send malaria patients from Auschwitz to Majdanek if they wanted to be killed? This could easily be done in the gas chambers of Auschwitz itself, supposedly constantly working at full capacity.

F. Bruckner: No one claims that these patients were killed. You will look in vain for such logical objections to the annihilation thesis in the orthodox literature. It seems that the authors of these books walk the world with blinkers on their eyes.

In the same way as in the cases of Belzec, Treblinka and Sobibur, for Majdanek, a ridiculously implausible number of victims was first mentioned. According to the report of the Polish-Soviet commission, which worked in this camp in August 1944, one and a half million people died there.

Since this figure was too unbelievable, in Poland already in 1948 it was reduced to 360,000, and in 1992 the aforementioned C. Raica reduced it to 235,000. C. Raica admitted that the number of victims had previously been exaggerated for political reasons.

However, his figure was also greatly inflated, because only three weeks ago, on December 23 last year, the Polish press reported that Tomasz Krantz, director of the Majdanek Museum's scientific department, in the latest issue of the museum's journal, lowered the number of victims of the camp to 78,000.

For comparison: in the book about Majdanek written by Carlo Mattogno and Jurgen Graf and published in 1998, based on surviving documents, the number of 42,300 dead was named.

Student: So the new figure given by the museum is 36,000 higher than the number proposed by the revisionists, but 157,000 lower than the figure that was mentioned in Poland a month ago! This is indeed the capitulation of Polish historians.

Student: But even if “only” 78,000 or 42,300 people died in Majdanek, it is still a lot. How do revisionists explain this high mortality rate?

F. Bruckner: In the first two years, sanitary conditions were terrible, which inevitably led to the spread of all kinds of diseases. The deputy burgomaster of Lublin, Steinbach, at the beginning of 1942 forbade the construction department of the concentration camp to connect to the city sewerage system, since this required too many building materials and the city was losing too much water.

Until May 1942, there was not a single well in the camp, until January 1943 - not a single laundry, until August 1943 - not a single water closet. Under such conditions, not only did the dreaded lice-borne typhus rage, but all sorts of other diseases spread, and death reaped a bountiful harvest.

After the circular of concentration camp inspector Richard Glucks, which I have already quoted, of December 28, 1942, to the commandants of all camps in which he demanded to reduce mortality by any means, at the beginning of 1943, two SS doctors arrived in Majdanek for inspection, who criticized the sanitary conditions in the camp, but stated also improvements.

On January 20, 1943, SS Hauptsturmführer Krone reported in his report that the camp was connected to the city sewerage system of Lublin, and the construction of laundries and toilets in all barracks was being prepared. On March 20, 1943, SS-Untersturmführer Birkigt stimulated a number of measures to improve hygiene conditions and medical care prisoners.

With regard to the food of the prisoners, I would like to quote a short passage from a report made in late January or early February 1943 by the resistance movement, which was by no means interested in embellishing the conditions in the camp.

The resistance movement was always aware of events in the camp, since, according to Polish historians, 20,000 prisoners were released during the existence of the camp, i.e. more than 500 people per month. From the liberated representatives of the Resistance regularly received information about what was happening in Majdanek. This report stated:

“At first, the ration was meager, but in Lately he improved and became better quality than, for example, in 1940 in prison camps. At about 6 o'clock in the morning, prisoners receive half a liter pea soup(twice a week - mint tea), for lunch at about one in the afternoon - half a liter of quite nutritious soup, even with fat or flour, for dinner about 5 hours - 200 g of bread spread with marmalade, cheese or margarine, twice a week - 300 g of sausage and half a liter of pea soup or soup made from brown potato flour.

I am not sure that each of the Soviet or German soldiers could count on such a daily diet!

Let us now turn to the question of the alleged mass killings. According to official history, between August 1942 and October 1943, a large number of Jews. In addition, on November 3, during the massacre, which, for unknown reasons, went down in history under the name "harvest festival", 17-18 thousand were allegedly shot in Majdanek itself, and in a number of its satellite camps - about 24,000 more Jewish workers of military factories .

First, I would like you to consider whether these massacres seem credible to you in the light of what you know about Majdanek. You have five minutes for reflection and discussion... Who would like to speak? Are you Alexey?

Student: In general, everything looks implausible. The massacres in Majdanek would by no means have been hidden, since it was located on the outskirts of Lublin, and the released prisoners, and they were released at more than 500 per month, would constantly give information about the events in the camp.

Those who believe that massacres took place in Majdanek are practically saying that the Germans were completely indifferent to the fact that all of Europe was in shortest time learn about their crimes. Why, then, all the measures to cover up the genocide described in the literature on the Holocaust, the “conventional language” allegedly used in the documents, or attempts to get rid of the corpses without leaving a trace?

Student: It is unbelievable that the Germans in November 1943 shot the workers of military factories, in which they were in dire need.

F. Bruckner: Especially taking into account the fact that Oswald Pohl from the main economic department of the SS, shortly before that, on October 26, ordered in his circular that all the efforts of commandants, leaders and doctors should be aimed at preserving the health and working capacity of prisoners, since their work is of military importance.

Student: And a month later, in early December, sick prisoners from other camps were transferred to Majdanek, but they were not killed there, although they were useless for the German war effort. Where is the logic?

F. Bruckner: None. Let us now turn to the evidence of the alleged massacres. There is not a single witness who would give any accurate description of the gassing of people. If you don't believe me, you can take the published English language the book of the long-term director of the Majdanek memorial Josef Marszalek.

He devotes exactly two (!!!) pages to the murder by gas and quotes as a witness not one of the former prisoners of Majdanek or the SS men who served in Majdanek, but the SS Perry Brod, who served in Auschwitz, but never was in Majdanek. The gassings in Majdanek were carried out in a manner “similar” to the one that P. Brod described when speaking about Auschwitz, says Pan Marszalek.

Student: If there is no documentary evidence, no witness testimony about the gassing of people in Majdanek, how can one seriously say that they were?

F. Bruckner: As proof of this, they usually refer to the supply of Cyclone and add that the Germans used in their documents " conventional language". As we already know: both of them are sewn with white threads.

On the outskirts of a Polish city Lublin is located, a museum on the site of the Nazi concentration camp. Majdanek functioned during the occupation of Poland by Germany from October 1941 to July 1944. From October 1942, a camp for women began to operate in one of the sections. Although the project was never intended to be created in camps for children, children were also kept here - Jewish, Belarusian and Polish.

German concentration camp in Lublin, popularly called , was created by order of Heinrich Himmler. visiting Lublin in July 1941, he instructed the head of the SS and police in Lublin, Odilo Globocnik, to build a camp for 25-50 thousand prisoners who were supposed to work for the good of the Reich. The camp was supposed to be a reservoir of free labor for the implementation of plans to create German Empire in the East.

The visit to the museum starts from Monument of struggle and martyrdom designed by Victor Tolkien, which was erected at the entrance to the camp in 1969. From this place you can see what a vast territory this death camp occupied. The camp had an area of ​​270 hectares (about 90 hectares are now used as the territory of the museum).

The camp was founded to isolate and exterminate those whom the Germans considered enemies of the Third Reich. (officially German KL Lublin)- the second largest Nazi concentration camp in Europe after Auschwitz (Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau).

The territory of the concentration camp was divided into five sections (fields), one of them was intended for women. There were many buildings: 22 barracks for prisoners, each with a capacity of about 200 prisoners, 2 administrative barracks, 227 factory and production workshops.

To accommodate the prisoners, primitive wooden barracks made by the prisoners themselves were knocked together. The camp lacked basic sanitation, the residential barracks were usually overcrowded, and there was an acute shortage of water, food, clothing, and medicines. These living conditions of prisoners led to increased mortality.

The fields for the prisoners were surrounded by double barbed wire, through which a high voltage current passed. Guard towers were placed along the wire.

Along this fence we went to the mausoleum.

The dome, which is located next to the cremotorium, covers a large mound of the ashes of exterminated prisoners. In the spring of 1947, the earth mixed with the ashes of the dead, which the Nazis planned to use to fertilize the fields, was taken from different places camps in one mound. Within a few months, about 1300 m³ of earth was collected. In the sixties, a mausoleum was erected over the barrow.

The inscription on the mausoleum reads: "Our fate is a warning to you." A quote from a poem by the Polish poet Franciszek Fenikowski ( Franciszek Fenikowski).

According to modern official data, 300,000 prisoners passed through, of which 40% were Jews, 35% were Poles, a significant number were also Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians (mainly Soviet prisoners of war); about 80,000 people were destroyed (75% - Jews). Soviet historiography gives other figures - 1,500,000 prisoners and 360,000 victims (data announced by the commission in 1946). Since in Majdanek prisoner numbers were reused, and not assigned to only one prisoner, that is, the number of the deceased was transferred to the newcomer, difficulties arose in counting the victims of the camp. Scientists are still arguing about the number of victims of Majdanek.

Near the mausoleum is the building of the crematorium.

From the first minutes, the stay of prisoners was inevitably accompanied by hunger, fear, oppression by overwork and disease. For any misconduct of prisoners, even imaginary, severe punishment was immediately imposed. Prisoners were shot and killed in gas chambers. According to the latest data , of the 150 thousand prisoners of Majdanek, almost 80,000 people died, including about 60,000 Jews. To hide traces at the crime scene, the corpses of the victims were burned at the stake or in a crematorium.

The Nazis failed to destroy the camp during the retreat. They only managed to burn down the building of the crematorium, but the ovens survived. The table on which the executioners undressed and chopped the victims survived.

The functioning of the Lublin concentration camp ended on July 23, 1944, when the Red Army entered the city. The museum website says that some time later on the territory The NKVD kept prisoners from the arrested members of the Polish underground resistance and captured German soldiers.

Idea to perpetuate the memory of the victims Majdanek concentration camp arose long before the founding of the present museum. In 1943, a group of prisoners, on the orders of the head of the Kaps camp, erected a column with three birds on top in order to decorate the camp. The prisoners secretly placed a container of ashes from the crematorium under it. This column camp still stands today in the middle of black barracks (a column of three eagles).

Barrack number 62. Since 2008 exhibition expositions State Museum in Majdanek were significantly expanded. Work was also carried out on the conservation and restoration of historical buildings (barracks). In one of the barracks, the exhibition "Prisoners of Majdanek" is on display. Here you can hear in the recording memories of the camp of prisoners - victims of Nazi persecution and genocide. Their individual destinies make up the history of the concentration camp in Lublin. Some personal belongings of prisoners, photographs and documents related to the activities of the camp are stored here.

Banks in which he kept "Cyclone B"- a pesticide based on hydrocyanic acid, best known for its use for mass extermination of people in the gas chambers of death camps:

In the neighboring barracks, you can see several more installations that tell about the terrible events both in the camp, and about the history of the operation of the entire system of German camps in Europe.

Shoes of the victims of Majdanek. The huge warehouse is filled to the brim with shoes, crushed, crumpled, pressed into heaps. There are thousands of shoes, boots, shoes. It's scary to look at this pile of dead shoes. All these were worn by people.

In barrack No. 47, an installation was organized "Temple - a place of memory of unknown victims" ( Shrine). The project by Tadeusz Mysłowski shows a symbolic composition (50 balls made of barbed wire, a book of memory of victims from 50 countries). In the darkness of the barracks, a musical oratorio by Zbigniew Bargielski, fragments of the memoirs of prisoners and prayers of Poles, Jews, Russians, and Gypsies sound.

Disinfection chamber, and part-time gas chamber.

Visit to the State Museum in available to visitors only during business hours.

Territory and museum open sky: from April to October - 9.00-18.00 , from November to March - 9.00-16.00 .

Barrack No. 62 and visitor service center (literature and translators): from April to October - 9.00-17.00 , from November to March - 9.00-16.00 .

The Majdanek Memorial Museum is located, the first memorial museum on the site of the Nazi concentration camp. A place rarely visited by Russian tourists, unlike Auschwitz and quite specific.

Particularly impressionable and sensitive people go under the cut with caution.

2. Majdanek - the second largest Nazi concentration camp in Europe. It was created by order of Heinrich Himmler in the autumn of 1941 on the outskirts of Lublin, but did not exist there for a long time. Due to protests from local authorities, the camp had to be moved outside the city:

3. In unbearable conditions, about 2 thousand Soviet prisoners of war were engaged in the construction of the camp. On the original construction map it was written: "Camp Dachau No. 2". Then the name disappeared...

4. Initially, the concentration camp was designed for 20-50 thousand prisoners, but was subsequently expanded, after which it could take up to 250 thousand people. There were many different buildings, namely: 22 barracks for prisoners, 2 administrative barracks, 227 factory and production workshops:

6. The main prisoners of Majdanek were Soviet prisoners of war, who arrived here in large numbers. They were also transferred here from other concentration camps such as Sachsenhausen, Dachau, Auschwitz, Flössenburg, Buchenwald, etc.:

8. Arriving at the camp, the prisoners were sent to the washing and disinfection unit:

10. The block is divided into several parts. Tambour:

11. Shower room:

12. Disinfection chamber, and later gas chamber:

13. Initially, Zyklon B gas was used to disinfect clothes and belongings of prisoners:

17. The camp was originally called the Lublin SS concentration camp, and only on February 16, 1943 was it officially turned into a death camp. Gas chambers were used to massacre prisoners:

19. The fields for the prisoners were surrounded by double barbed wire, through which a high voltage current passed:

20-21. Watch towers were placed along the wire:

22.

23. There are a lot of crows on the territory, which further enhances the impression of a dead place:

24. Sorry, but not all barracks were open in winter:

25. The camp had an area of ​​270 hectares (about 90 hectares are now used as the territory of the museum), and was divided into five sections, one of them was intended for women:

26. Shoes of Once Alive:

33. Neither the gas chambers nor the crematorium made such an impression on us as this barrack, the earthy smell of death stands straight in it, viscous and unbearably heavy:

35. Camp inmates engaged in forced labor in their own factories, in the uniform factory and in the arms factory "Steyer-Daimler-Puch".

39. The mass extermination of people began in the autumn of 1942. Then, for this purpose, the Germans began to use the poisonous gas Zyklon B. Majdanek is one of the two death camps of the Third Reich where this gas was used (the second - Auschwitz ). The first crematorium for burning the bodies of prisoners was launched in the second half of 1942 (for 2 ovens), the second - in September 1943 (for 5 ovens).

40. Those same five large furnaces:

43. During the liberation of the camp by Soviet soldiers, all the ashes that were in the crematorium ovens were collected in this sarcophagus:

44. Near the crematorium and execution ditches, a mausoleum with a concrete dome was built, under which the ashes of the victims were collected.

47. At the entrance to the territory of the camp in 1969, the Monument of Struggle and Martyrdom was erected.

48. The camp ceased to exist on July 22, 1944 as a result of the offensive of the Soviet troops. Currently, a memorial museum operates on the territory of the Majdanek camp. It was established in November 1944 and became the first museum in Europe on the site of a former Nazi concentration camp.

Throughout its history, about 1.5 million people of 54 nationalities have passed through the camp, but most of them were Jews, Poles and Russians. 360 thousand people were killed in the camp.

The exposition of the Majdanek State Museum provides updated data: in total, about 150,000 prisoners visited the camp, about 80,000 were killed, of which 60,000 were Jews.

I do not presume to judge the dead, and about what people died from, but this should not happen again ... NEVER.

Here's how it happened...

What else is there in Poland:

Majdanek concentration camp

F. Bruckner: As for the fifth imaginary center of extermination, the Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin, the initial situation here is fundamentally different than in the cases of Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibur and Chełmno. First, historians of all stripes agree that Majdanek was founded in 1941 as both a POW camp and a labor camp; according to the official version of the Holocaust, in addition, for 14 months, from August 1942 to early November 1943, it also served as a camp for the extermination of Jews. This camp fell into the hands of the Red Army on July 23, 1944, undestroyed, and later the Poles built a memorial there. The rooms, called gas chambers, have survived and can be examined for the possibility of fulfilling the task attributed to them. Since many documents have been preserved after the war, it is possible to reconstruct the history of this camp, which cannot be done in the case of the four so-called. "pure killing centers".

I would like to know what ideas you have about the Majdanek camp?

Student: I recently saw a wartime weekly with pictures of the newly liberated Majdanek camp, where a huge number of people were said to have been killed. The pictures showed ovens with skeletons in front of them, cans of Zyklon-B, and huge piles of shoes that were said to have belonged to the murdered prisoners.

F. Bruckner: Look at this photo with Russian captions taken after the camp was liberated. It depicts a Soviet soldier standing on the roof of a building labeled "gas chamber", lifting the lid of a shaft through which Zyklon-B allegedly fell into the "gas chamber" below.

Student: How can you "fall asleep" gas?

F. Bruckner: Pesticide Zyklon-B was supplied in hermetically sealed cans in the form of granules containing hydrocyanic acid. On contact with air, hydrocyanic acid is slowly released. We will talk in detail about the properties of Zyklon-B and whether it could, from a purely technical point of view, be used to kill people, in connection with the Auschwitz concentration camp. For now, I would like to confine myself to pointing out that the superstitious notion of supplying Zyklon-B to the gas chambers through showerheads is technically unrealizable. This is also taken into account by official historians, who say that the granulate was poured into the gas chambers through the mines. True, in the picture we see a ventilation shaft.

Student: Does official history admit that Zyklon-B is a pesticide?

As you can see, the cans of Zyklon-B that are constantly shown in books and films are not in themselves evidence of the abuse of this drug for criminal purposes, just as the possession of an ax or a kitchen knife does not prove that a person was killed with it, although it is in principle possible.

Student: Is it known approximately how much Zyklon-B was delivered to Majdanek?

F. Bruckner: This is even known for sure, since the deliveries were strictly documented. The camp received a total of 4974 cans of Zyklon-B with a total weight of 6961 kg.

Student: That is almost seven tons! And such a huge amount was used, according to the revisionists, only for pest control? This is impossible to believe.

F. Bruckner: Hundreds of barracks for prisoners and guard barracks were periodically disinfested. Zyklon-B was also needed to process clothes of prisoners in factories, especially for the branch of SS Dachau clothing factories built in Majdanek (Lublin branch), where furs and fabrics were disinfested before they were processed. Correspondence between the camp authorities and Tesch und Stabenau, which supplied the pesticide, shows that the latter could not fulfill all orders, and the camp periodically suffered from a catastrophic shortage of Zyklon-B. So, for example, on August 31, 1943, the camp authorities stated that the disinfestation of the camp was urgently needed and the situation could not bear further delay.

Other "pictures" that allegedly prove the Majdanek massacres are also of dubious quality. The human remains found in the camp by Soviet troops only prove that people in the camp were dying, but how many there were and what the reasons for their death remains unclear. Finally, the mountains of shoes that Holocaust propagandists still diligently display are no proof that their owners were murdered.

Student: If the mountains of shoes were evidence of mass murder, one would assume that terrible things are happening in every shoe shop.

F. Bruckner: Indeed. As the Polish historian Czesław Rajca argues in a 1992 article on the number of victims of this camp, the presence of 800,000 pairs of shoes in Majdanek can easily be explained by the fact that there was a huge shoe repair shop there; they were sent there, in particular, to repair shoes from the Eastern Front.

Student: However, these photographs make a strong impression.

F. Bruckner: Yes it is. In the absence of scientific evidence for the massacre of Jews in "extermination camps," the official version of the Holocaust regularly uses such spectacular means.

I will begin with a brief account of the history of this camp. During his visit to Lublin in July 1941, G. Himmler ordered the construction of a camp for 25-50 thousand prisoners who would work in the workshops of the SS and the police. True, even a smaller number was never reached, since there were never more than 22,500 people in Majdanek at the same time (this maximum was reached in July 1943). This camp was established in October 1941 on the outskirts of Lublin, five kilometers southeast of the city center. The first prisoners were Lublin Jews, who were already in a small "Jewish camp" in the middle of the city, as well as Soviet prisoners of war. Although prisoners of war have always been only one of many categories of prisoners, the camp was first called the Lublin prisoner of war camp and only in March 1943 was renamed the Lublin concentration camp. The name Majdanek comes from the nearby Tatar Maidan field.

Smart in 1942, Czech and Slovak Jews began to arrive there in large numbers, to which Jews from a number of other European countries were later added. A significant part of the prisoners were used in the construction of the camp itself, others worked in many military factories. Since 1943, Majdanek served as an additional camp for the sick, where prisoners who were unable to work were sent from various camps in the Reich. In particular, on June 3, 1943, a group of 844 malaria-sick prisoners from Auschwitz was transferred to Majdanek, since there were no malarial mosquitoes in the Lublin region.

Student: You said that, according to official history, Majdanek served as an "extermination camp" only until the beginning of November 1943. In this case, the purpose of sending sick prisoners from December of that year onwards could not have been to kill them, and this is an important argument against the claim in the Holocaust literature that incapacitated prisoners were exterminated. And why was it necessary to send malaria patients from Auschwitz to Majdanek if they wanted to be killed? This could easily be done in the gas chambers of Auschwitz itself, supposedly constantly working at full capacity.

F. Bruckner: No one claims that these patients were killed. You will look in vain for such logical objections to the annihilation thesis in the orthodox literature. It seems that the authors of these books walk the world with blinkers on their eyes.

In the same way as in the cases of Belzec, Treblinka and Sobibur, for Majdanek, a ridiculously implausible number of victims was first mentioned. According to the report of the Polish-Soviet commission, which worked in this camp in August 1944, one and a half million people died there. Since this figure was too unbelievable, in Poland already in 1948 it was reduced to 360,000, and in 1992 the aforementioned C. Raica reduced it to 235,000. C. Raica admitted that the number of victims had previously been exaggerated for political reasons. However, his figure was also greatly inflated, for only three weeks ago, on December 23 last year, the Polish press reported that Tomasz Krantz, director of the Majdanek Museum's scientific department, in the latest issue of the museum's journal, lowered the number of victims of the camp to 78,000. For comparison: in the book about Majdanek, written by Carlo Mattogno and Jurgen Graf and published in 1998, based on surviving documents, the number of dead is 42,300.

Student: This means that the new figure given by the museum is 36,000 higher than the number proposed by the revisionists, but 157,000 lower than the figure that was mentioned in Poland a month ago! This is indeed the capitulation of Polish historians.

Student: But even if “only” 78,000 or 42,300 people died in Majdanek, it is still a lot. How do revisionists explain this high mortality rate?

F. Bruckner: In the first two years, sanitary conditions were terrible, which inevitably led to the spread of all kinds of diseases. At the beginning of 1942, the deputy mayor of Lublin, Steinbach, forbade the construction department of the concentration camp to connect to the city sewerage system, since this required too many building materials and the city was losing too much water. Until May 1942, there was not a single well in the camp, until January 1943 - not a single laundry, until August 1943 - not a single water closet. Under such conditions, not only did the dreaded lice-borne typhus rage, but all sorts of other diseases spread, and death reaped a bountiful harvest.

After the circular of concentration camp inspector Richard Glucks, which I have already quoted, of December 28, 1942, to the commandants of all camps in which he demanded to reduce mortality by any means, at the beginning of 1943, two SS doctors arrived in Majdanek for inspection, who criticized the sanitary conditions in the camp, but stated also improvements. On January 20, 1943, SS Hauptsturmführer Krone reported in his report that the camp was connected to the city sewerage system of Lublin and the construction of laundries and toilets in all barracks was being prepared. On March 20, 1943, SS-Untersturmführer Birkigt stimulated a number of measures to improve the hygienic conditions and medical care of prisoners.

With regard to the nutrition of the prisoners, I would like to quote a short passage from a report made in late January or early February 1943 by the Resistance movement, which was by no means interested in embellishing the conditions in the camp. The resistance movement was always aware of events in the camp, since, according to Polish historians, 20,000 prisoners were released during the existence of the camp, i.e. more than 500 people per month. From the liberated, representatives of the Resistance regularly received information about what was happening in Majdanek. This report stated:

“At first, the ration was meager, but recently it has improved and has become better quality than, for example, in 1940 in prisoner of war camps. At about 6 a.m., prisoners receive half a liter of pea soup (twice a week - mint tea), for lunch at about one in the afternoon - half a liter of quite nutritious soup, even with fat or flour, for dinner about 5 hours - 200 g of bread , spread with marmalade, cheese or margarine, twice a week - 300 g of sausage and half a liter of pea soup or soup made from brown potato flour ".

I am not sure that each of the Soviet or German soldiers who fought at the front could count on such a daily ration!

Let us now turn to the question of the alleged mass killings. According to official history, between August 1942 and October 1943, a large number of Jews were killed in the Majdanek gas chambers. In addition, on November 3, during the massacre, which, for unknown reasons, went down in history under the name "harvest festival", 17-18 thousand Jewish workers were allegedly shot in Majdanek itself, and about 24,000 more Jewish workers of military factories were shot in a number of its satellite camps. .

First, I would like you to consider whether these massacres seem credible to you in the light of what you know about Majdanek. You have five minutes for reflection and discussion... Who would like to speak? Are you Alexey?

Student: In general, everything looks implausible. The massacres in Majdanek could by no means be hidden, since it was located on the outskirts of Lublin, and the released prisoners, and they were released at more than 500 per month, would constantly give information about the events in the camp. Those who believe that massacres took place in Majdanek are practically saying that the Germans were completely indifferent to the fact that all of Europe would soon find out about their crimes. Why, then, all the measures to cover up the genocide described in the literature on the Holocaust, the “conventional language” allegedly used in the documents, or attempts to get rid of the corpses without leaving a trace?

Student: It is incredible that the Germans in November 1943 shot the workers of military factories, in which they were in dire need.

F. Bruckner: Especially taking into account the fact that Oswald Pohl from the main economic department of the SS shortly before, on October 26, prescribed in his circular that all the efforts of commandants, leaders and doctors should be aimed at maintaining the health and working capacity of prisoners, since their work is of military importance.

Student: And a month later, in early December, sick prisoners from other camps were transferred to Majdanek, but they were not killed there, although they were useless for the German war effort. Where is the logic?

F. Bruckner: Absent. Let us now turn to the evidence of the alleged massacres. There is not a single witness who would give any accurate description of the gassing of people. If you do not believe me, you can take the book published in English by the long-term director of the Majdanek memorial, Josef Marszalek. He dedicates to killing with gas exactly two(!!!) pages and cites as a witness not one of the former prisoners of Majdanek or the SS men who served in Majdanek, but the SS Perry Brod, who served in Auschwitz, but never was in Majdanek. The gassings in Majdanek were carried out in a manner “similar” to the one that P. Brod described when speaking about Auschwitz, according to Pan Marszalek.

Student: If there is no documentary evidence, no witness testimony about the gassing of people in Majdanek, how can one seriously assert that they were?

F. Bruckner: As proof of this, they usually refer to the deliveries of the Cyclone and add that the Germans used "conventional language" in their documents. As we already know: both of them are sewn with white threads.

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Currently, the former death camp of the Third Reich Majdanek, located on the outskirts of the Polish city of Lublin, is a museum institution included in State Register museums.

On July 17, 1941, Adolf Hitler ordered Heinrich Himmler to police the eastern territories occupied by Germany. On the same day, Himmler appointed the head of the SS and police of the District of Lublin, Odilo Globocnik, as his authorized representative for the creation of an SS structure and concentration camps in the territory of the General Government (occupied Poland).

The camp had an area of ​​270 hectares (about 90 hectares are now used as the territory of the museum). It was divided into five sections, one of them was intended for women. There were many different buildings, namely: 22 barracks for prisoners, 2 administrative barracks, 227 factory and production workshops. The camp had 10 branches: Budzyn (near Krasnik), Hrubieszow, Lublin, Plaszow (near Krakow), Travniki (near Wiepszem), etc. The prisoners of the camp were engaged in forced labor in their own industries, in a factory for the production of uniforms and in an arms factory "Steyer-Daimler-Puch".

The mass extermination of people in gas chambers began in 1942. Carbon monoxide (carbon monoxide) was first used as a poisonous gas, and since April 1942, Zyklon B. Majdanek is one of the two death camps of the Third Reich where this gas was used (the second is Auschwitz). The first crematorium for burning the bodies of the tortured was launched in the second half of 1942 (for 2 ovens), the second - in September 1943 (for 5 ovens).

According to updated data, about 150,000 prisoners visited the camp, about 80,000 were killed, of which 60,000 were Jews.

Currently, a memorial museum operates on the territory of the Majdanek camp. It was established in November 1944 and became the first museum in Europe on the site of a former Nazi concentration camp.

At the entrance to the camp in 1969, the Monument of Struggle and Martyrdom was erected (designed by Victor Tolkien).

Near the crematorium and execution ditches, a mausoleum with a concrete dome was built, under which the ashes of the victims were collected.

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