By its victim count, Chelmno is the smallest of the four “Aktion Reinhardt” camps, which according to orthodox historiography served as “pure extermination camps” for the mass murder of Jews by means of poison gas. Chelmno is a special case in this context, as not gas chambers, but gas vans are said to have been deployed for the mass murder. The other camps are: Belzec, Sobibór, and Treblinka.
By Tom Moran ∙ January 1, 2002
According to Holocaust tales bodies were burned in pits or on grates made out of rail road tracks. For Sobibor we are told via testimony of Franz Stangl said to have been commandant of that camp and Treblinka that they used “brush wood” piled beneath grates. For Chelmno we are told they used wood cut…
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