pilgrimofdark wrote: ↑Tue Feb 03, 2026 1:11 am
After the 1945 Polish investigation stated "no collective graves were found," it's a bit of a mystery why CSC thought there would be mass graves at all.
Who gave her the idea there would be anything to find?
The 1945 Polish investigation did not have the archaeological expertise, equipment, time or resources, to excavate the site in such a way, they could identify what was ground that had never been dug into, what had been dug into and contained remains and what was likely caused by the grave robbers. Instead, they reported what they did find, which is an area of 2 hectares, that smelled and was littered with decomposing and cremated remains, at one point which went 7m deep before they stopped finding remains. They reported finding no mass graves, meaning they found no pits full of corpses, which indicated the extent to which the Nazis went, to exhume and cremate. That corroborated the witness claims about months of burning and pyres.
In 2011, with more resources and expertise, C S-C was able to identify specific pits.
Regardless, here are a couple other trial maps, both from the Kurt Franz trial.
It's said Franz drew this one while awaiting trial. (Thanks to Wetzelrad for finding a good copy of it.)
Two points:
1. Franz drew the wrong shape of the Treblinka camp. Apparently, the Rectangle Treblinka maps were based on "hearsay, rumors, memory disorders, PTSD," so Franz drew a map of Treblinka based on rumors he heard circulating around the Warsaw Ghetto?

As an experiment, ask people to draw a plan of their old school, from memory, locating the buildings and classrooms and outside space such as playgrounds. You will get all sorts of maps, from the dreadful, to well remembered and drawn.
2. Zero mass graves.
Image originally from here but can't be embedded.
This is a map supposedly drawn by a former inmate for that same trial. It's reproduced in Chad Gibbs's dissertation "Against that Darkness." I applied some photo restoration to it, but his dissertation is online if anyone wants to see the original scan.
Is 11, 12 and 13 not the mass graves in that plan? That is the part of the camp the witnesses located the main mass graves.