May 1978
To the German court, about the so-called "gas chambers" that visitors may see today in Majdanek (near Lublin)
Résumé : If a German court has no
German expert's report about the so-called "gas chambers"
in Majdanek, no German judge can say that, 35 years ago,
there were German "gas chambers" in Majdanek
and that groups of human beings have been destroyed by this way
for the first and the last time in history. For such an extraordinary
crime (at a scientific and historical point of view) and
for such an extraordinary arm [weapon] (that no German
judge has ever seen working), we really need that the arm of
the crime gets an expert's report. The arm
of this crime even needs an expert's report of an
exceptional quality (at a scientific and historical point
of view because no German judge has ever seen such an arm working).
Details : If a German court was willing to proceed to a
"judicial visit of the place" (un "transport
de justice sur les lieux"), to examine the so-called
"gas chambers", it would be a good beginning. In this
case, no German judge, after the visit, could say : "We have
seen gas chambers." A judge could only say : "We have
seen some premises called « gas chambers »."
Yet, even this is not correct. To be quite correct, he should
say : "We have seen some premises which were referred to
as former « gas chambers »."
The judge would have to consider that this was asserted by a "court
of inquiry" composed only by people who were at war with
Germany (Doc. Nurnberg 325-PS : 25.09.1944/237g). This
commission was in fact composed of Polish and Soviet magistrates.
It would be indispensable to procure the conclusions this commission
came to, and all the documents it relied upon.
No German judge has ever seen, I suppose, a "gas chamber"
(expressly made to destroy groups of human beings), either
working or disused. To a German judge, a "gas chamber"
may be something as a "flying saucer". Let us now suppose
that a man says to a judge : "Come and I'll show you a «
flying saucer »." The judge would come. At the bottom
of a sort of bunker he would notice a pitiful scrap-heap I bet
that the judge would not, after that, go and say : "I have
seen a « flying saucer »." He would ask for an
expert's report.
For the Majdanek "gas chambers", an expert's report
must be made by archaeologists, chemists, physicists, architects,
physicians, historians, documentalists, and specialists of engineering.
To conclude, the inquiry should be conducted with the same rigour
as for Katyn. We might even say more scientifically than for Katyn,
as the alleged massacres in the so-called "gas chambers"
were the result of a more sophisticated process.
As no expert's report is forthcoming, no German judge can
come to the conclusion that there were "gas chambers"
in Majdanek.
Herewith : 18 photos. "Visit in 1946", "Visit
in 1975" : completely changed.
May 1978
First display on aaargh: April 2, 2001
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