was also later used in the 1961 prosecution of Adolf Eichmann by an Israeli court. In 2000, it was used by Christopher Browning in the Holocaust libel trial between David Irving and Deborah Lipstadt. Accuracy Some aspects of Gerstein's report include false statements that were attributed to Odilo Globocnik, as well as inaccurate claims regarding the total number of Jews gassed at Holocaust locations in which he was not an eyewitness, but his claim that gassing of Jews occurred at Belzec was independently corroborated by SS-Standartenführer Wilhelm Pfannenstiel's testimony given at the Belzec trials, as well as by the accounts of other witnesses that can be found in Gitta Sereny's Into That Darkness, a biography of the Treblinka commandant Franz Stangl. The Holocaust historian Christopher Browning noted: Many aspects of Gerstein's testimony are unquestionably problematic. [In making] statements, such as the height of the piles of shoes and clothing at Belzec and Treblinka, Gerstein himself is clearly the source of exaggeration. Gerstein also added grossly exaggerated claims about matters to which he was not an eyewitness, such as that a total of 25 million Jews and others were gassed. But in the essential issue, namely that he was in Belzec and witnessed the gassing of a transport of Jews from Lwow, his testimony is fully corroborated.... It is also corroborated by other categories of witnesses from Belzec. The historian Robin O'Neil noted that Gerstein's data presented at face value about the enormous capacity of the gas chambers of "four times 750 persons" has no grounds in reality. The Gerstein Report has also been targeted by Holocaust deniers, who claim that its author approached Göran von Otter on behalf of the Nazis. The French historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet in "Assassins of Memory" considered such allegations to be preposterous. See also Jäger Report, 1941 Einsatzgruppen reports, 1941–1942 Wilhelm Cornides Report of what he saw at Belzec, 1942 Wannsee Conference, 1942 Katzmann Report, 1943 Korherr Report, 1943 Riegner Telegram, 1942 Höfle Telegram, 1943 Special Prosecution Book-Poland, 1937–1939 Notes and references Sereny, Gitta: Into That Darkness. McGraw-Hill, 1974. Also available as Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience, Vintage, 1983. or . External links Kurt Gerstein: A German Spy in the SS Kurt Gerstein, Conscience-Stricken SS Officer The Gerstein Report (in English) The Gerstein Report (in German) Trial of Adolf Eichmann, Session 75- Mention of the Gerstein Report Holocaust historical documents Operation Reinhard Belzec extermination