The CODOH Revisionist Forum

“Given their location in the area thought to contain most of the mass graves, their size, and their proximity to the memorial, there is a compelling case for arguing that they represent body disposal sites. While it could be argued that they might represent areas of postwar looting activity, their linearity suggests that they likely predated such actions even if they were later affected by them.” (p. 301)

“Without intrusive activity, it is not possible to conclusively determine the nature of these pits.”

“Historical and archeological research undertaken at T-II…was able to confirm the exact location of the Old and New Gas Chambers for the first time” (p. 277).

1. People were sent there
2. They were killed
3. More people were requested to be sent there

On pages 261 and 263 of her book, we read the following passage:

“Although it seemed highly likely at this point that the discovered masonry belonged to the Old Gas Chambers, samples of them were sent to the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń for further tests. Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy (TDS), which measures the absorption of molecules to a surface, revealed that the bricks and mortar had a higher emission rate of carbon monoxide compared to the reference samples tested, which ‘may indicate the presence of chemically bound CO [carbon monoxide],’ as opposed to carbon monoxide naturally absorbed from the environment.78 Therefore, it may indicate exposure to carbon monoxide, con­sistent with the descriptions provided by witnesses about how the gas chambers functioned.

Archie wrote: ↑Sat Aug 08, 2026 7:24 pmIt's curious to me that Colls's field is forensic archaeology yet it seems a lot of her book is more historical in nature (which is not really what she is trained for).

Without the assistance of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), this project would not have been realized. It is no exaggeration to say that my experience as part of my Fred and Maria Devinki Fellowship at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center in 2016 was life changing. This exceptional experience ensured that I was able to utilize an extensive body of archive material that transformed my thinking on the site, that I had time to write about and reflect on my fieldwork results, and that I met so many incredible scholars who are too numerous to name.

At Treblinka II (and at Bełżec and Sobibór), the gassing facilities were at the very heart of the Nazi extermination system. By the autumn of 1942, two such buildings had been built within Treblinka II’s “court of death,” which were variably described by guards and Jewish Sonderkommando who encountered them as “house of death nr. 1” and “house of death nr. 2,” “dushegubka” (“soul killer” in Russian), “bania” (“baths”), or as the “Alte Gaskammern” (Old Gas Chambers) and “Neue Gaskammern” (New Gas Chambers) (the latter two terms are used throughout this monograph).

pilgrimofdark wrote: ↑Fri Aug 14, 2026 8:39 pm Chad Gibbs's 2026 book Survival at Treblinka is also open access.

In it, he locates a little-known brothel in the "death camp" section of Treblinka.

This is in the same area where Jankiel Wiernik locates the worker barracks where he lived, and where Caroline Sturdy Colls locates "possible grave sites."

Mainstream historians and communist forgers conspiring to hoax documents have worked out to their satisfaction that Jewish women would have sex in mass graves, and that this was so common in eastern European Jewish culture that it was barely worth a mention for 80 years.

If you disagree, you will be labeled anti-semitic.

Gibbs's book is relatively short, so I might consider writing a review for IH.

Stubble wrote: ↑Sat Aug 15, 2026 3:42 am Wait, can you repeat that, slowly? I'm pretty sure I didn't understand what you just said. A little-known, what? In the, where?

Stubble wrote: ↑Sat Aug 15, 2026 1:09 pm Which map is he using, it looks like the mass graves from the Wiernik map, but, it isn't square.

Thesis
Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka occupied a distinctive position set apart from the wider ‘concentration camp universe.’ The Aktion Reinhard camps reported directly to Higher SS and Police Leader for the Lublin District Odilo Globocnik and through him to the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler personally. The standard chain of camp command through the SS Inspectorate of Concentration Camps was not involved. The Reinhard camps would contribute to Nazi German state finances by sending belongings stolen from their victims back to Germany, but they would not provide any labor income to the SS Main Economic and Administrative Department, as was the practice of concentration camps. The purpose of the Reinhard camps was simple. Inside their small wire walled spaces what Nazi ideologues termed Europe’s “Jewish Question” would receive its “Final Solution.”

Dissertation
Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka occupied a distinctive position set apart from the wider ‘concentration camp universe.’ The Aktion Reinhard camps reported directly to Higher SS and Police Leader for the Lublin District, Odilo Globocnik, and through him to the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, personally. The standard chain of camp command through the SS Inspectorate of Concentration Camps was not involved. The Reinhard camps contributed to Nazi German state finances by sending belongings stolen from their victims back to Germany, but they did not provide any labor income to the SS Main Economic and Administrative Department, as was the practice of concentration camps. The purpose of the Reinhard camps was simple. Inside their small, wire-walled spaces, what Adolf Hitler and his fellow Nazi ideologues termed Europe’s “Jewish Question” would receive its “Final Solution.”

Book
Nazi authorities designed the Treblinka extermination camp and the other two Aktion Reinhard camps of Belzec and Sobibor to carry out the total annihilation of European Jewry and to leave no witnesses to tell the tale. These three camps held a distinctive position set apart from the wider “concentration camp universe,” reporting directly to Odilo Globocnik, Higher SS and Police Leader for the Lublin District, and, through him, to the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler personally. The standard chain of camp command through the SS Inspectorate of Concentration Camps was not followed. The Reinhard camps contributed to Nazi German state finances by sending belongings stolen from their victims back to Germany, but they did not provide any labor income to the SS Main Economic and Administrative Department, as was the practice of concentration camps elsewhere. The purpose of the Reinhard camps was simple. Inside their small, wire-walled spaces, what Adolf Hitler and his fellow Nazi ideologues termed Europe’s “Jewish Question” would receive its “Final Solution.”