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Ground-Imaging Forensic Radar
Exam Of WWII Treblinka Camp
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5-15-2
From: hengist
A detailed forensic examination of the site of the wartime Treblinka
camp, using sophisticated electronic ground radar, has found no
evidence of mass graves there.
For six days in October 1999, an Australian team headed by Richard
Krege, a qualified electronics engineer, carried out an examination
of the soil at the site of the former Treblinka II camp in Poland,
where, Holocaust historians say, more than half a million Jews were
put to death in gas chambers and then buried in mass graves.
According to the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (1997), for example,
"a total of 870,000 people" were killed and buried at Treblinka
between July 1942 and April 1943. Then, between April and July 1943,
the hundreds of thousands of corpses were allegedly dug up and burned
in batches of 2,000 or 2,500 on large grids made of railway ties.
Krege's team used an $80,000 Ground Penetration Radar (GPR) device,
which sends out vertical radar signals that are visible on a computer
monitor. GPR detects any large-scale disturbances in the soil
structure to a normal effective depth of four or five meters, and
sometimes up to ten meters. (GPR devices are routinely used around
the world by geologists, archeologists, and police.) In its Treblinka
investigation, Krege's team also carried out visual soil inspections,
and used an auger to take numerous soil core samples.
The team carefully examined the entire Treblinka II site, especially
the alleged "mass graves" portion, and carried out control
examinations of the surrounding area. They found no soil disturbance
consistent with the burial of hundreds of thousands of bodies, or
even evidence that the ground had ever been disturbed. In addition,
Krege and his team found no evidence of individual graves, bone
remains, human ashes, or wood ashes.
"From these scans we could clearly identify the largely undisturbed
horizontal stratigraphic layering, better known as horizons, of the
soil under the camp site," says the 30-year old Krege, who lives in
Canberra. "We know from scans of grave sites, and other sites with
known soil disturbances, such as quarries, when this natural layering
is massively disrupted or missing altogether." Because normal
geological processes are very slow acting, disruption of the soil
structure would have been detectable even after 60 years, Krege
noted.
While his initial investigation suggests that there were never any
mass graves at the Treblinka camp site, Krege believes that further
work is still called for.
"Historians say that the bodies were exhumed and cremated toward the
end of the Treblinka camp's use in 1943, but we found no indication
that any mass graves ever existed," he says. "Personally, I don't
think there was a mass extermination camp there at all."
Krege prepared a detailed report on his Treblinka investigation. He
says that he would welcome the formation, possibly under United
Nations auspices, of an international team of neutral, qualified
specialists, to carry out similar investigations at the sites of all
the wartime German camps.
http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Others/Others-TreblinkaRadarExam-Ayre.htm
http://www.vho.org/VffG/2000/1/Krege62-64.html
"If you can't read German, just run a Google search and write
"Krege" and "Treblinka" in the box. Google will find the site and
translate it for you. Richard Krege was the leader of the Australian
team that performed the radar study.
Juergen Graf also wrote about it. You'll find his version in
English at
http://www.ety.com/tell/books/jglife/09.htm
I'm sure there are many other places discussing it. It's pretty
powerful stuff. The results totally refute all those wild and hairy
tales of mass murder at Treblinka. Treblinka was nothing but a small
transit camp--a short stopover for Jews being transferred to the East."
Morghus