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The red squad had the task of
undressing the passengers and taking their clothes to the storage areas. The
Goldjuden--Jews of gold--were in charge of handling the money,
gold, stocks, and jewelry. They subjected the
prisoners to an intimate search just before the gas chambers. Another, the dentist, would open the mouths of
the dead and pull out gold teeth with a pair of pliers. Then there were the Totenjuden, the Jews of death, who lived in Treblinka II.

2,000,000 gassed
Treblinka

On August 8, 1943,
The New York Times reported, referring to an article that appeared in a London
newspaper: "2,000,000 Murders
by Nazis Charged. Polish Paper in London says Jews Are Exterminated in Treblinka
Death House." The subtitle reads: "According to report,
steam is used to kill men, women and children at a place in the woods." The
article was based upon a contribution published on August 7th in the
magazine Polish Labor Fights, which was nothing other than the report of
November 15, 1942. This is indubitably clear from the quotes in the NYT
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Barry the
dog

The dog was the size of a
calf so that, unlike smaller dogs, his shoulders reached to the
buttocks and abdomen of a man of average size. For this reason he
frequently bit his victims in
the buttocks, in the abdomen and often, in the case of male inmates, in
the genitals, sometimes partially biting them off. When the
inmate was not very strong, the dog could knock him to the ground and
maul him beyond recognition. But when the defendant Franz was not around, Barry was a different dog.

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Ate women

When we arrived in Treblinka and the Germans opened the
freight cars we beheld a horrible sight. The car was full of corpses.
The bodies were partly decomposed by chlorine. The stench in the cars
made those still alive choke. The Germans ordered everyone to get out;
those still able to do so were half dead. Waiting SS and Ukrainians beat
us and shot at us...

On the way to
the gas chambers Germans with dogs stood along the fence on both sides.
The dogs had been trained to attack people; they bit the men's genitals
and the women's breasts, ripping off pieces of flesh. The Germans
hit the people with whips and iron bars to spur them on so that they
pressed forward into the "showers" as quickly as possible. The screams
of the women could be heard far away, even in the other parts of the
camp. The Germans drove the running victims on with shouts of: "Faster,
faster, the water will get cold, others still have to go under the
showers!" To escape from the blows, the victims ran to the gas chambers
as quickly as they could, the stronger ones pushing the weaker aside. At
the entrance to the gas chambers stood the two Ukrainians, Ivan Demaniuk
and Nikolai, one of them armed with an iron bar, the other with a sword.
They drove the people inside with blows... As soon as the gas chambers
were full, the Ukrainians closed the doors and started the engine. Some
20-25 minutes later an SS-man or a Ukrainian looked through a window in
the door. When they had ascertained that everyone had been asphyxiated,
the Jewish prisoners had to open the doors and remove the corpses. Since
the chambers were overcrowded and the victims held on to one another,
they all stood upright and were like one single block of flesh. (Yad
Vashem Archives 0-3/2140)

Gas and
babies

In front of the entrance to the
gas-chambers there were usually several Ukrainians standing by with
dogs, who cruelly drove the victims in, often wounding them with knives.
The victims were driven into the
gas-chambers with their hands up, so that as manymight be
squeezed in as possible, and small children were piled on top.

An SS-man Hitreider specialized in
killing infants, seizing them by the legs and killing them with
one blow on the head against a fence ...

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Franz Stangl

When asked during his later trial how many people
could be murdered in one day, Franz Stangl, Commandant of Treblinka,
answered:

"Regarding the question of the optimum amount of
people gassed in one day, I can state: according to my estimation a
transport of thirty freight cars with 3,000 people was liquidated in three
hours. When the work lasted for about fourteen hours, 12,000 to 15,000 people
were annihilated. There were many days that the work lasted from
the early morning until the evening . . . I have done
nothing to anybody that was not my duty. My conscience is clear.'
"
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Women wake
up

When the gassing was in progress, begun with a "Ivan, water!" by one of the
guards, the prisoners screamed and pounded on the walls. There was a little
peephole so the Germans could see if the prisoners were dead yet. While the men
were being gassed, the women were waiting naked in the funnel. They could hear
their fathers, husbands, and sons dying. They experienced the "death panic", which caused them to empty
their bowels involuntarily, because of the fear of imminent death . The ground
in the funnel was covered with piles of excrement
afterwards.

Pregnant women were problems

When the doors were opened, "the disfigured, bitten prisoners, with
torn-off and ears lay on top of each other in the most varied posture."
The bodies were then carried to the furnace to be burned. Sometimes, the people were not dead
and began to revive in the fresh air, especially pregnant women. They
were shot by the guards and burned like the others. Some 800-1000
bodies were burned at the same time. They would burn for five hours. The
incinerator was operated twenty-four hours a day.
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