Reinhard wrote:Vallon wrote:Mattogno & Graf wite in their "Treblinka - extermination camp or transit camp":http://www.vho.org/GB/Books/t/10.htmlIt also is clear from the few preserved train schedules that the trains were emptied at Treblinka and returned to their departure point without passengers.
Hilberg also found some of these few preserved schedules, and reproduced them in his book Sonderzüge nach Auschwitz.
Given the theory of Treblinka as a transit and delousing camp is correct, this would make sense.
The Jewish Ghettos in Warsaw and elsewhere were emptied and the Jews were brought to Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor, where they stayed for one day or so (as grenadier mentioned above) and then sent further eastward.
It's obvious that the trains had to go back to Warsaw etc. empty, in order to bring the next trainload of deported Jews to Treblinka.
Those who had been deloused there would of course have had to be transported further on by clean trains, because otherwise the whole delousing procedure would have been in vain.
That's the way delousing works: you arrive on the dirty side, have to undress, get deloused, get on the clean side new (cleaned) clothes and continue the transport in clean trains.
Anyway the different railway gauges (standard gauge and wide gauge) made the use of two different sets of trains (one to Treblinka and one from Treblinka) necessary. That's why Belzec, Treblinka and Sobibor were located along the German-Russian frontier.
What was true for the transportation of freight was also true for the transportation of deportees.
9 reloading stations (transfer points) for the transportation of freight along the German-Russian frontier (1940) :
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(Note that Belzec and Treblinka (Malkinia) were even mentioned by name in the report above!!)