Editing Treblinka extermination camp (section)

===After the uprising===
After the revolt, Stangl met the head of Operation Reinhard, Odilo Globocnik, and inspector [[Christian Wirth]] in Lublin, and decided not to draft a report, as no native Germans had died putting down the revolt.{{sfn|Kopówka|Rytel-Andrianik|2011|p=111}} Stangl wanted to rebuild the camp, but Globocnik told him it would be closed down shortly and Stangl would be transferred to [[Trieste]] to help fight the partisans there. The Nazi high command may have felt that Stangl, Globocnik, Wirth, and other Reinhard personnel knew too much and wanted to dispose of them by sending them to the [[Front line|front]].{{sfn|Levy|2002|pp=741–742}} With almost all the Jews from the German ghettos (established in Poland) murdered, there would have been little point in rebuilding the facility.{{sfn|Evans|2008|p=293}} [[Auschwitz]] had enough capacity to fulfil the Nazis' remaining extermination needs, rendering Treblinka redundant.{{sfn|Arad|1987|p=640}}

The camp's new commandant [[Kurt Franz]], formerly its deputy commandant, took over in August. After the war he testified that gassings had stopped by then.{{sfn|Arad|1987|p=247}} In reality, despite the extensive damage to the camp, the gas chambers were intact, and the murder of Polish Jews continued. Speed was reduced, with only ten wagons rolled onto the ramp at a time, while the others had to wait.{{sfn|Kopówka|Rytel-Andrianik|2011|p=112}} The last two rail transports of Jews were brought to the camp for gassing from the [[Białystok Ghetto]] on 18 and 19 August 1943.{{sfn|Kopówka|Rytel-Andrianik|2011|p=28}} They consisted of 76 wagons (37 the first day and 39 the second), according to a communiqué published by the Office of Information of the ''Armia Krajowa'', based on observation of Holocaust trains passing through the village of Treblinka.{{sfn|Kopówka|Rytel-Andrianik|2011|p=112}}{{sfn|Sereny|2013|p=249}} The 39 wagons that came to Treblinka on 19 August 1943 were carrying at least 7,600 survivors of the [[Białystok Ghetto Uprising]].{{sfn|Kopówka|Rytel-Andrianik|2011|p=111}}

On 19 October 1943, Operation Reinhard was terminated by a letter from Odilo Globocnik. The following day, a large group of Jewish ''Arbeitskommandos'' who had worked on dismantling the camp structures over the previous few weeks were loaded onto the train and transported, via [[Siedlce]] and [[Chełm]], to [[Sobibor extermination camp|Sobibór]] to be gassed on 20 October 1943.<ref name="ARC - Treblinka History" /> Franz followed Globocnik and Stangl to Trieste in November. Clean-up operations continued over the winter. As part of these operations, Jews from the surviving work detail dismantled the gas chambers brick-by-brick and used them to erect a farmhouse on the site of the camp's former bakery. Globocnik confirmed its purpose as a secret guard post for a Nazi-Ukrainian agent to remain behind the scenes, in a letter he sent to Himmler from Trieste on 5 January 1944.{{sfn|Kopówka|Rytel-Andrianik|2011|p=112}} A ''Hiwi'' guard called Oswald Strebel, a Ukrainian ''Volksdeutscher'' (ethnic German), was given permission to bring his family from Ukraine for "reasons of surveillance", wrote Globocnik; Strebel had worked as a guard at Treblinka II.{{sfn|Sereny|2013|p=249}} He was instructed to tell visitors that he had been farming there for decades, but the local Poles were well aware of the existence of the camp.{{sfn|Evans|2008|p=294}}