An overview of the mostly unsubstantiated claims and their juxtaposition to provable facts about this camp, which is claimed to have been the first “pure extermination camp” operated by the Germans during WWII. Depending on the source, between 10,000 and 1.3 million people are said to have been murdered there mostly by noxious exhaust gases in hermetically sealed trucks (“gas vans,” see Vol. 26 of this series). This thorough study of primary sources lays this myth to rest…