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You are asking why a witness claiming something that did not happen discredits the account? It increases the probability that the witness is lying. You suggest that the witness maybe just heard a false rumor, but you don't consider the possibility that the witness lied in order to increase the stakes of what he claimed to witness. There were other aspects of this happening, it's a pattern. Revisionists don't have to prove the witness is lying about everying, they just have to show the witness accounts are not sufficient evidence to establish what is being claimed.
That is good for you to acknowledge, but you are not interpreting the eyewitness accounts critically. For example, you take it for granted for granted that the entire 2 hectares of area conceivably had burial pits of 10 meters deep. No pits of 10 meters have been identified nor excavated, but apparently you do not require any physical investigation of these 10 meter pits in order to be sure they existed. The area burial density is unlike any other grave in human history, not even close. It is not plausible absent concrete, physical evidence which does not exist. Of those 2 hectares, 0% has been shown to actually cover mass graves of any depth, much less mass graves 10 meters deep for the entire area.
A million people buried in 2 hectares would be by far the most dense grave of carcasses in human history. It's not a plausible claim unless there is significant physical evidence to support it, and there is not. You rely on witness testimony to assert the plausibility of the claims.
Edit: A Revisionist has also compared burial density of other (real) concentration camp mass graves to the alleged Treblinka mass graves. Again, the real concentration camp graves resemble other known mass graves and the Treblinka mass graves you are alleging resemble nothing in history.
Furthermore, the historical position is not that these claims are plausible, it's that they are certain and there is no doubt the claims are true. Your assertion that "if 100% of 2 hectares was one giant pit that was 10 meters deep then it would be plausible" is a weak position in the face of official historiography, which has a much stronger position than "plausible."
Do you also think it's "plausible" that 5,000-7,000 people were cremated on outdoor pyres every single day? Do you think the truth of that claim is as certain as it is claimed by mainstream historiography? Do you also think it's plausible that these cremations were done without fuel?
The motive to lie is that a political prisoner detained and subject to harsh conditions has a reason to want to exact revenge against the defeated adversary. He might exaggerate the crimes committed by his captors or entirely make up claims that would be used against them in court and subject them to punishment.
In the trial of John Demjanjuk, Reichmann was one of 9 "Treblinka witnesses" who misidentified Demjanjuk as "Ivan the Terrible" in court. Do you think this was random circumstance, or do you think the misidentification was motivated by other factors? "Other factors" would include fame for participating in the Israeli show-trial and political clout- being celebrated by the global media for being a witness who identified "Ivan the Terrible." There is also a nationalistic motive, as Jewish nationalism is closely tied to Holocaust lore, having a conviction for a Treblinka guard in Israel would be a propaganda win for Jewish nationalism write large.
It even turned out that one of the witnesses who identified Demjanjuk as "Ivan the Terrible", Eliahu Rosenberg had testified in 1947 that "Ivan the Terrible" was killed in the Treblinka revolt. So that witness, Rosenberg, who made a big scene when he asked to "look into the eyes of Demjanjuk" to identify him, testified decades earlier that Ivan the Terrible was dead only to testify in the trial that it was John Demjanjuk. This cannot be said to be a case of mistaken identity. Why would Rosenberg testify that Ivan the Terrible was killed, and then identify him in a trial decades later?
The motives for false testimony are numerous, and systematically false testimony is not unusual either. It was a common features in witch trials and Soviet show-trials.
I agree on this point, broadly speaking.
You clearly know much more about Treblinka than I do, so I'm not sure if I can provide any good counterarguments. Let's suppose, then, for the sake of the argument, that the archaeological evidence for the "official narrative" is insufficient. That means we don't know what exactly was done with the Jews.
Other evidence exists for the claim that over 700,000 people were killed at Treblinka, such as the Höfle Telegram and the Korherr Report. But looking at them, thanks to the euphemisms used, I suppose they might also be interpreted as supporting the transit camp theory.
However, you did not address the question in my previous post: if Treblinka was merely a transit camp, where did the Jews transit from there? Where were the hundreds of thousands of eyewitnesses after the war who testified that they passed through Treblinka and were peacefully resettled?
And more broadly, demographic data has millions of Jews unaccounted for after the war. Where did they all go? Or do you accept the rest of the "official narrative" and are only sceptical with regard to Treblinka? Auschwitz had proper crematoria, with fuel and everything – do you believe that over a million people were killed there?
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