The cellars were then simply filled in with soil. Other articles of glass and metal were buried among the remains of burnt down wooden barracks. It has long been thought that only one railway siding existed at the Ramp and that it was later extended further into the camp to accommodate the longer transports of the second phase. However, the construction of such an extension would not have been possible due to the forested and uneven terrain at the SW end of the camp. Luftwaffe aerial photographs of Belzec taken in 1940 and 1944 clearly show that two parallel tracks existed on the camp area.
Witnesses also mention the existence of two tracks during the second phase.
Both Gley and ldhrs were assigned to execution duty. Vierteljahreshefte fuer Zeitgeschichte No. 7, pp. 333-336, Munich 1959. Cornides was a Wehrmacht NCO who travelled through Belzec on a passenger train on 31 August 1942. The number of watchtowers around the camp perimeter was probably larger than claimed by witnesses.