Re: What is "Jihad"?
- From: "John Smith" <JSmith888654778@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:07:18 -0500
You mean it's all a myth? Gee, looks like the Allied Tribunal at the
Nurenberg Trials executed innocent men. That's what Buzza is hinting at.
Buzza knows all the facts for sure but keep in mind that he uses both sides
of toilet paper.
"Buzza" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:mn.ad1f7d62ef271d7a.48948@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tommy explained :facts,
Pathfinder wrote:
It is now a scientific fact, the holocaust is a scam, fraud and hoax.
The evidence against the holohoax scam is mounting; the scientific
notdata, information, knowledge and research disproving the holocaust can
be disputed.
Holohoax (Zionist Propaganda) is a very profitable venture!
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/holohoax.htm
. ==========FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT HOLOCAUST===========
1) What is historical revisionism?
2) What is the Holocaust?
3) Do revisionists 'deny the Holocaust?'
4) What aspects of the Holocaust do revisionists believe to be
supported by evidence?
5) What aspects of the Holocaust do revisionists believe to be
unsupported by evidence?
6) Wasn't the Holocaust proven at the war crimes trials?
7) Didn't the Nazis themselves admit there was a program to exterminate
the Jews?
8) Do the photographs taken at the Nazi concentration camps at the end
of the war prove the Nazis were exterminating people?
9) Do captured German documents prove the Nazi regime was exterminating
people?
10) What was 'the Jewish question?'
11) What was 'the final solution to the Jewish question' if it was not
extermination?
12) What is the origin of the six million figure?
13) Where did the six million Jews go if they were not killed?
14) Why would concentration camp survivors lie?
15) Why do revisionists not find the eyewitness testimony credible?
16) Why does the U.S. government endorse the Holocaust story?
17) Why does the current German government endorse the Holocaust story?
18) What was the purpose of Nazi concentration camps like Auschwitz,
Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and so forth?
19) Why was the Wannsee conference held?
20) What did Himmler refer to in his Posnan speech if not a policy to
exterminate the Jews?
21) Weren't gas chambers for killing people found at some of the Nazi
concentration camps when they were captured by the Allied armies?
22) How many Jews died during the war if the 6 million is not the
correct number?
23) What did the term 'selection' refer to?
24) What did the term 'special treatment' refer to?
25) What did the term 'special action' refer to?
26) What was Zyklon-B used for?
27) Why would German documents designate Zyklon-B as material for
Jewish resettlement?
28) Why did the Nazis equip some of their camps with crematories?
29) Why were Jews required to wear a yellow hexagram on their clothing
in Nazi Germany?
30) What role did the Einsatzgruppen play in the German war effort?
31) Why were so many dead bodies found in the Nazi camps when they were
captured by Allied troops?
32) Why is the Holocaust story important to Israel?
33) What was Babi Yar?
34) What evidence exists for the massacre at Babi Yar?
35) Why were Jews put into concentration camps by the Nazis?
36) What was the function of Treblinka camp?
37) What evidence is used to support the Treblinka death camp story?
38) Why were Gypsies put into concentration camps?
39) Why is the question of the "gas chambers" important?
40) How did the Holocaust story originate?
41) Are there precedents to what happened to the Jews?
42) What escape routes were available to Jews during the war?
43) Did resistance to German occupation affect Nazi treatment of Jews
in territory under their control?
44) How were Jewish ghettos in Nazi territory administered?
45) What role did the Judenratt play in providing labor for the
concentration camps?
46) Why did Otto Frank, father of diarist Anne Frank, leave Germany?
47) What was the 'transfer agreement?'
48) Why did the Nazis initiate a boycott of Jewish shops in Germany?
49) How long did the Nazi boycott last?
50) What events led up to the Kristalnacht pogrom?
51) Why was German Jewry fined to pay for the damage done?
52) What was Hitler's reaction to news of the pogrom?
53) How many gas chambers were there at Treblinka?
54) What agent was used to kill people in the gas chambers at
Treblinka?
55) What evidence is there that Jews were being 'resettled' by the
Nazis?
56) What consequences have revisionists suffered for their views?
57) What evidence exists for mass murder at Belzec?
58) What evidence exists for mass murder at Chelmno?
59) Where did the bodies of the dead at Treblinka go?
60) How many are claimed to have been killed at Treblinka?
61) What evidence exists for mass murder at Sobibor?
62) How good is testimony as a form of evidence?
63) What was the War Refugee Board?
64) What was the WRB Report?
65) How accurate was the information contained in the WRB Report?
66) What did the Auschwitz camp commander Rudolf Hoess confess about
the Auschwitz camp?
67) How was Hoess' confession obtained?
68) Is torture a way to get a reliable confession?
69) What did a U.S. Senate commission find about the use of torture to
obtain confessions for the Malmedy Massacre case?
70) Was the use of torture and threats only used in isolated cases?
71) Why is it nobody protested the use of torture on German prisoners?
72) Where did concentrations of Jews exist in Europe before 1939?
73) What is the origin of the Einsatzgruppe Gas van charge?
74) Why haven't Germans and others in a position to know come forward
to repudiate the extermination story?
75) Why were Jews in Nazi Germany forced to wear a star of David on
their clothes?
76) What sources of information did the Western Allies have during the
war that failed to verify the extermination story or provide warnings
about it?
77) What evidence is there that Zionist leaders did not believe their
own propaganda?
78) Do Dr. Robert Faurisson and Fred Leuchter claim Zyklon-B was used
as a germicidal antiseptic at Auschwitz?
79) Are accounts of cremation pits at Auschwitz-Birkenau credible?
80) How does the crematory capacity of Auschwitz-Birkenau compare to
other Nazi concentration camps where exterminations were not taking
place?
81) Why did Jews not return to their homes at the end of the war if
they were not killed?
82) What evidence exists for the charge the Nazis used the bodies of
Jews to make, among other things, soap, fertilizer, lampshades, gloves,
book covers, etc., ad nauseum?
83) What is the explanation for all the hair, shoes, eyeglasses, and
other personal items found at Auschwitz?
84) What have forensic examinations of the alleged extermination sites
revealed?
85) Why have there not been extensive forensic examinations of the
killing centers up to now by the Allied or Soviet governments?
86) Doesn't the verdict in the Max Taeubner trial indicate the Nazi
Einsatzgruppe were killing Jews?
87) What is the Leuchter Report?
88) Is the Leuchter Report flawed? If so, how?
89) Have others corroborated Leuchter's findings?
90) Why would the Allies have been interested in Auschwitz long before
the charges of Jew extermination were leveled?
91) What do Himmler's diaries reveal about the final solution to the
Jewish problem?
92) What do the Auschwitz coke shipment records reveal?
93) How long does it take to cremate a human body?
94) Where are the original Allied Auschwitz air photo negatives?
95) What was the 'Madagascar Plan'?
96) Who was Kurt Gerstein?
97) How reliable are Gerstein's confessions?
98) How much ash remains after a body is cremated?
99) What does Dr. Kremer's diary reveal about his time at Auschwitz?
100) Are the stories of strange Nazi medical experiments true?
101) Did Hitler order the Jews be exterminated?
102) Did Himmler order the gas chambers be destroyed?
103) How many people survived being imprisoned at Auschwitz?
104) What is the Mueller document?
105) Do Holocaust revisionists wish to incite racial hatred?
II. ==ANSWERS==================================
1) What is historical revisionism?
A) As more facts about past events come to light, it becomes necessary
to re-evaluate them taking the new information into account. All
history is constantly being reviewed. It is a natural process. It is an
important process. The only way to judge the future is to accurately
compare current trends and events to those of earlier times. It has
been said that the good thing about experience is that one can
recognize a mistake when it is made again. So it is with history, the
sum of recorded human experience. Historical revisionism is the process
of changing the human record so that it more accurately represents
events as they actually occurred. Often there is resistance to the
process of bringing history in accord with the facts. The reason for
this is history is not simply a record of events, but is also a
resource from which a world view is drawn. A re- examination or
re-evaluation of important historical events can be viewed as a threat
to the political status quo and to interests upon whose power partially
rests the established view of these events. It has also been said that
historians have the power to upset everything. Vested interests take a
dim view of having everything upset.
2) What is the Holocaust?
a) The Holocaust, or Shoah, is the term used to label the fate of the
Jews of Europe at the hands of the Nazis during World War Two. It is a
broad term used to cover all events involving Europe's Jews usually
between 1933 and 1945, and especially during the six year period
between November 1938 (Kristallnacht) and November 1944 (alleged
Himmler order to stop the Final Solution program) . Six extermination
centers are said to have been established between 1941 and 1943 by the
Nazis in Poland for the purpose of killing Jews and "other minorities."
The number of Jews killed by the Nazis during this period is generally
estimated to have been six million.
A) "The Holocaust" : An all-encompassing neologism used in reference to
the (alleged) extermination of European Jews by the Nazis during World
War Two. Use of the term in this context presumes the following:
(1) The Nazis implemented and succeeded in a premeditated plan to
destroy (not resettle) European Jewry,
(2) Approximately six million or more Jews perished as a result, and
(3) A majority of these were killed by use of poison gas (Zyklon B)
[and internal combustion engine exhaust] in gas chambers built for the
purpose of taking human life. [...]
3) Do revisionists 'deny the Holocaust'?
A) The phrase "Holocaust denial" was invented by a Holoscribe named
Deborah Lipstadt who occupies the Dorot Chair in Modern Jewish and
Holocaust Studies at Emory University. Its purpose is to imply
Holocaust revisionists are not rational in their opinions. Dr. Lipstadt
believes the current view of the Holocaust cannot be questioned and
debate on the topic cannot be tolerated. To this end she created the
epithet "Holocaust denier." Revisionists are skeptical of postwar
testimony of gas chambers at the Nazi concentration camps and are of
the opinion the six million figure is a baseless exaggeration. It is
not a matter of denying anything. The issue is whether this emotionally
charged and politically important event can be examined critically.
Researchers--some professional, some amateur--have been questioning
aspects of the Nazi extermination story since the war ended fifty years
ago. The evidence has been difficult to obtain, but in the last
twenty-five years enough has been gathered to conclude the gas chamber
story is definitely false and the Nazi program to kill the Jews is a
myth. The problem that has arisen is established political interests
have done their best to suppress this research and prevent the evidence
to support these startling conclusions from being presented to the
general public.
4) What aspects of the Holocaust do revisionists believe to be
supported by evidence?
A) Here is a summary of what happened to the Jews: Before the war, the
Nazis encouraged emigration of German Jewry. Laws were instituted and
governmental pressures were brought to bear to make life more difficult
for Jews in many professions which Jews came to dominate in the Weimar
Republic. The "Ha'avara" or transfer agreement was reached with Zionist
leaders to facilitate the emigration of German Jews to Palestine.
Emigrating Jews very often were forced to abandon much of their wealth
when they left Germany. After the defeat of France, a plan was
discussed by the Nazis to remove the Jews from Europe to the French
colony on Madagascar. This plan was soon dropped in favor of a
resettlement plan which transferred Jews into ghettos and work camps
inside Soviet territory following the invasion of the Soviet Union in
1941. This was to be the first stage toward the ultimate creation of a
Jewish homeland after the war. As the Germans invaded and the Russians
retreated, large shifts in population occurred in eastern Europe. This
shift went from west to east. Tens of millions of people were involved.
Many were forcibly deported into the Russian interior. Others willingly
accompanied the Communists as the Red Army retreated eastward. General
Gehlen estimated in his memoirs that a third of the population in the
areas the German army was to occupy was evacuated eastward ahead of the
German invasion. Since Jews were viewed by many eastern Europeans as
willing accomplices of the Communists who had occupied the area in the
years and months preceding the German assault, pogroms occurred after
the retreat of the Red Army and prior to arrival of the German army.
Many of these assaults on local Jews were in reaction to the murdering
of political prisoners by the Soviet police as they prepared to
retreat. These events left areas of eastern Europe, now occupied by the
German Wehrmacht and under Nazi administration depopulated. The Nazis
took the situation as an opportunity to remove Jews eastward into the
areas abandoned during the Soviet retreat. Jews were assembled at train
terminals and deported to ghettos and concentration camps established
for them in the east. Some Jews were not deported, however, due to the
fact their work was considered too important to the German war effort.
A result of the tremendous movement of people is many families and
communities were scattered and people lost contact with one another.
Many of these contacts were not reestablished after the war due to a
multitude of reasons the greatest of which were the splitting of Europe
in two after the war and the establishment of the state of Israel.
Guerrilla groups were formed to fight the Nazi occupation. A campaign
of sabotage and assassination by these groups was countered by
repression on the part of the occupiers in the form of the Einsatz
groups. The Einsatzgruppe fought the partisans in ways which included
reprisal shooting of civilians. Jews were believed to make up the
majority of partisans. They were also the people targeted for
reprisals. These reprisals took several forms which included the
shooting of hostages or their deportation to ghettos and concentration
camps. During the summer of 1942 a major typhus epidemic swept the Nazi
concentration camp system. The most severely affected camp was
Auschwitz camp in Poland. The epidemic continued for many months.
Crematories were built in some of the concentration camps as part of
hygienic measures established to fight the epidemics. The fumigant
Zyklon B was used to exterminate the typhus-bearing body louse which
spread the disease. The total number of Jews and others who died in the
camps is not known, but the total is probably in the hundreds of
thousands. As the Germans suffered military reversals in 1944 and 1945,
the Nazis took many who were in labor camps with them as they retreated
westward. Others were left behind. As this happened, tens of millions
of people were again uprooted as civilians abandoned almost everything
in an effort to escape the approaching Red Army. The migration in
1941-42 was eastward. In 1944-45 it was westward. In the beginning,
Europe's Jewish communities were concentrated in eastern Europe. By the
end of the war, Europe's Jews were still in eastern Europe, but the
communities were shattered. Tens of millions of people, particularly
Germans and Jews were left homeless by the war. As a result, millions
of Jews emigrated. Many settled in Palestine. Many more moved to North
America. Others settled in Australia, South America, and South Africa.
The war was a boon for the Zionist movement. The Holocaust become the
founding myth of modern day Israel. As such it became an excuse for
behavior of the Israelis which would have been inexcusable. It also
became the excuse for billions of dollars in aid and "reparations"
being sent to Israel from Germany and the United States even though
Israel did not exist during the war and its citizens were not subject
to Nazi repression. Much of the aid the new Zionist state was to
receive was for the purpose of resettling European refugees who did not
want to go there, but had little alternative at the time.
5) What aspects of the Holocaust do revisionists believe to be
unsupported by evidence?
A) While there is no universal agreement on many aspects of WWII and
the Holocaust, but one might be classified as a Holocaust revisionist
if one is skeptical of the following:
* Hitler ordered the extermination of the Jews in writing , orally, or
through mental telepathy.
* The Nazis cremated 1,500,000 to 4,000,000 bodies at
Auschwitz/Birkenau in less than two years using between 30 and 52
single-body crematory ovens and were able to keep it all a secret until
late 1944 despite the fact Auschwitz was a major bombing target
photographed by American planes throughout that year.
* The Nazis were able to destroy all documentation of the extermination
program before the total German surrender in mid 1945. This despite the
fact all German secret codes had been broken by the British and many SS
communications had been intercepted by them.
6) Wasn't the Holocaust proven at the war crimes trials?
A) No. The NMT and IMT set out to prove nothing. The crimes themselves
were never an issue. The courts took judicial notice of the crimes..
This means the crimes were assumed to be true based purely on the
allegations. No proof was needed. The war crimes tribunals also
suspended the normal rules of evidence. They accepted into evidence
documents, hearsay testimony, and other material which would never be
accepted in anything other than a sham court. The point of the
tribunals was to demonstrate the moral authority of the new world
powers. In demonizing the Nazi regime through these trials England,
France, The United States, and the U.S.S.R secured their positions as
the occupiers of Germany and justified the annexation of German
territory along with the expulsions of millions of Germans into the
dismembered rump Germany. Allied plans for the future of Germany at
that time included the de- industrialization of Germany. The standard
of living was to be the lowest in Europe. The economy was to be
agrarian despite the fact it being the most densely populated nation on
the continent. In this context, it had to be shown to the world and the
Germans themselves that they were evil and deserved the horrendous
treatment they were to receive. The country was to be "de-Nazified" and
reduced to the point where Germany could "never threaten world peace
again." Since the nature of the war crimes trials was purely political,
nothing that went into them or came out of them should be taken at face
value.
7) Didn't the Nazis themselves admit there was a program to exterminate
the Jews?
a) Since the war crimes courts took judicial notice of the crimes,
pleading innocent on the basis the crime did not occur was not an
option. The strategy of many defendants was demonstrate non-involvement
or distance themselves from the alleged crime. Backbiting and finger-
pointing were also common. In order to save their lives, the accused
placed blame on others- particularly people who were either dead, or
had evaded capture by the Allies. The jailers of the Nazis used torture
and threats of torture to obtain many confessions. Sometimes threats
against the prisoners' families were made. For some, like Rudolf Hoess,
sleep deprivation was used to get them to sign confessions. The
contents of confessions such as those by Hoess and Kurt Gerstein are
enough to simply throw them out as evidence. They contain internal
contradictions, absurdities, and facts that are verifiably false.
Nevertheless most high Nazi officials who survived to be tried disputed
the charge that the final solution to the Jewish question involved
their elimination though mass murder . Julius Streicher stated he
believed it was technically impossible to kill that many people and
simply did not believe it was true or even attempted.
8) Do the photographs taken at the Nazi concentration camps at the end
of the war prove the Nazis were exterminating people?
a) How often have we heard the phrase "bodies stacked like cordwood"?
Certainly the photos of the sickening conditions in some of the Nazi
concentration camps in the spring of 1945 were not faked, but they were
taken out of context. Many concentration camp prisoners survived the
war in very good physical condition. Others died for a variety of
reasons. As World War Two approached its conclusion in Europe, Germany
was a chaotic mess. The Allies controlled the sky all over Germany. One
of the missions of the Allied pilots was to disrupt German
communications as much as possible. This meant they shot at just about
anything that moved. Trains with supplies bound to concentration camps
were attacked just like any other train. Rail lines, roads, bridges,
and airstrips were bombed and destroyed to prevent the supply and
movement of the German army. As Germany collapsed upon itself, it
suffered from many shortages. This included medicine, food and fuel.
Not being the highest priority, concentration camps were affected as
well. Some camps had not received supplies for days before the British
or American troops arrived. Add to this the Germans retreat. Prisoners
were evacuated from labor camps near the fronts and moved to other
camps. As a result, the remaining camps became extremely overcrowded.
Combine the overcrowding with the lack of food and medicine. Conditions
became perfect for the outbreak of epidemics. This is what happened.
Bergen Belsen which had been designed by the SS as a sick camp in the
waning days of the war became the destination of many prisoners who
were already sick from other camps. A typhus epidemic was raging there
when the British captured the camp where an uncounted number-usually
estimated to be between 10,000 and 30,000- of prisoners died primarily
from disease. Similar circumstances contributed to the awful conditions
discovered at Dachau, Buchenwald, and several other concentration
camps. Germany's enemies used the scenes of dead and dying prisoners as
documentary evidence of German malevolence. While the pictures are
authentic, the films of bodies being bulldozed into trench graves do
not tell the whole story. There was a war going on. It is in this
context that these pictures need to be viewed. There are several
reasons the Germans didn't simply release those in the camps. Many of
the inmates were common criminals. Many were politically anti-German or
anti-Nazi. Those infected with disease posed the threat of spreading
the epidemics into the countryside if allowed to roam Germany. The
healthy prisoners had nowhere to go. There was a war raging all around.
Their homes were on the other side of the battle lines. Additionally,
the likelihood that freed prisoners would form criminal gangs was too
high for them to be released. Many were imprisoned because they were
considered risks to security to begin with. Releasing them to roam the
countryside was out of the question.
9) Do captured German documents prove the Nazi regime was exterminating
people?
a) No. Quite the opposite is true. Documents such as Wannsee Protocol
state quite clearly that the final solution to the Jewish question was
a program of evacuation and resettlement in the East. The conditions
under which this population transfer took place were not ideal and were
in some cases inhumane or even cruel. Executions took place. Many
families and communities were shattered in the process. It is shameful,
but something very different from an intentional mass murder of the
Jews. Other documents which are erroneously presented to support the
thesis extermination was the intent of the resettlement program
generally depend on postwar interpretation of supposed "code words" the
SS used. The interpretation of these code words as indicating there was
a policy to murder the Jews depend on postwar testimony. This means the
proof is not in the documents but in the testimony. In addition to the
resettlement program documents, Einsatzgruppe records are also offered
as proof of an extermination program which targeted Jews. The aim of
the Einsatzgruppe was to fight communist guerrillas inside captured
Soviet territory. Some partisan groups were largely ethnically Jewish.
The Einsatzgruppe targeted Jewish civilians for reprisals when
partisans committed acts of sabotage or murder. The Einsatzgruppe
documents indicate hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed. Some
historians, however, question the accuracy and even the authenticity of
many of these records since the source of these is Stalin's Soviet
Union. There is definitely a subset of documents offered as proof of an
extermination program that are forgeries produced for the war crimes
trials. These exist in the form of "certified copies" of documents the
originals of which are nowhere to be found. One of the most notable
examples of this type of document is the Franke-Gricksch
"Resettlement-Action Report". A final category of suspicious documents
are those which appear damning but for some odd reason the signer of
the documents was not prosecuted even though he was in Allied custody.
Dr. Butz discusses a case concerning documents relating to the
deportation of Hungary's Jews where the signer was simply let go. The
implication here is the Allies agreed to let the Nazi official go in
exchange for him signing some bogus documents. The documents could then
be used as evidence against a "bigger" Nazi.
10) What was 'the Jewish question?'
a)The Jewish question was 'What was to be done with an ethnic minority
with no homeland of its own which refuses to assimilate into the
dominant German culture?'.
11) What was 'the final solution to the Jewish question' if it was not
extermination?
A) The Wannsee Protocol states the following: ======
II[...] The primary responsibility for the administrative handling of
the Final Solution of the Jewish Problem will rest with the Reich
Leader SS and the Chief of the German Police [...] -regardless of
geographic boundaries.[...] The most important aspects are-
a. Forcing the Jews out of the various fields of the community life of
the German people.
b. Forcing the Jews out of the living space of the German people. In
execution of these efforts there was undertaken - as the only possible
provisional solution - the acceleration of the emigration of the Jews
from Reich territory on an intensified and methodical scale.[...]
III The emigration program has now been replaced by the evacuation of
the Jews to the East as a further solution possibility, in accordance
with previous authorization by the Fuehrer. [...] ======
Because the retreating Soviets had depopulated areas later captured by
the advancing Nazis in 1941 by as much as a third, or twenty-two
million people, the Nazis leadership decided to expel the Jews under
their control to ghettos and labor camps in the east as a step toward a
final expulsion to a Jewish homeland/reservation/ghetto-nation which
was to be set up outside Europe after the war. The final solution was
the expulsion of all Jews from Europe, not their murder. Even so, it
did not matter to the Nazis if people died in the process. The Nazis
believed such a move was needed because Jews were viewed as a threat to
national morale and security during the war.
12) What is the origin of the six million figure?
a) The six million figure is not based on any body count, records, or
census. The number came into use during the war in Zionist propaganda
and appears to have symbolic numerological significance. When the
digits in six million are summed they add up to six. Six million is six
times ten raised to the sixth power. In numerology the number six is
considered 'perfect'. Six is the number of days God used to create the
earth in the story of creation in the book of Genesis. It holds a
special significance for the Jews who use the hexagram as their symbol.
In the Holocaust itself, the six million figure was used in propaganda
emanating from Zionist and Jewish organizations as early as 1941.
Before the Russian Bolshevic revolution, anti-Czarist propaganda
generated by Jews used the six million figure in describing the
magnitude of the plight of Russian Jews under the Czar. The chief rabbi
of Britain recently called for the re-examination of the six million
figure which he considered totally arbitrary in nature.
13) Where did the six million Jews go if they were not killed?
a)Since the six million number is not based on a census or survey or
any other type of documentation, this question cannot be answered in an
accounting 'balance ***' type manner. However, a general explanation
is possible. There are several circumstances one has to keep in mind
when considering what happened to the Jews of Europe between 1939 and
1948. Before the outbreak of the war, the Jews of Europe were
concentrated in the east. Poland, The Soviet Union, Hungary, and other
countries that fell into the Soviet sphere of influence after the war
contained the bulk of the population in question. Since the very
definition of Jew changed with the governments, no accounting of how
many Jews remained in these areas after the defeat of Nazi Germany is
possible, but everything indicates a large Jewish population remained
after the end of the war. During the war, populations in eastern Europe
shifted several times. In 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland and
occupied the western half. Stalin's U.S.S.R. occupied the eastern half.
During the period that followed, many Jews shifted to the Soviet half.
The Russians deported millions of people into the Russian interior
ahead of the German invasion. When Nazi Germany attacked The U.S.S.R.
in 1941, the German army found that the areas they were to occupied had
been depopulated by the Soviets of a third of its people. The Germans
estimate 22 million people were moved eastward into the Soviet interior
from Poland, Ukraine, White Russia, the Baltic States and other regions
the Germans were to temporarily take from the Soviets. As the
Communists retreated, the Soviet secret police, known under the
acronyms NKVD and OGPU, murdered thousands of political prisoners in
Poland, the Baltic states, and Ukraine. In reaction to these murders
the local populations killed many Jews because the Jews were viewed as
collaborators in the Communist occupation and the suppression of
nationalist organizations. In late 1941, the Nazis began deporting Jews
from central and eastern Europe into the areas captured from the
Soviets. These were generally concentrated into Ghettos and labor
camps. The conditions under which these expulsions took place were far
from ideal and many thousands died in the process. In addition, over
one million Jews are believed to be serving in the Red Army during the
time with over one hundred thousand dying while in uniform. As the
Germans retreated in 1944 and 1945, millions of people from the east
came with them. Some came willingly in order to avoid the Red Army.
Others, mostly conscripted for labor, were forcibly evacuated. Millions
of people, mostly ethnic Germans, died during this collapse of Nazi
Germany through expulsions that came during and after the defeat as
part of the brutal occupation of the Allies. Germany lost a fourth of
its territory. Poland was shifted westward. The Baltic countries would
not regain their independence for decades. After Germany's surrender,
Europe was a chaotic mess with millions of refugees from scattered
communities wandering in all directions. There was no way to determine
how many Jews had died at that point despite the fact that the six
million figure had been part of the anti-German propaganda long before
the war was over. During the war years and the first years after the
war, millions of people--Jews included--left Europe for other parts of
the world including the U.S., the Middle East, Australia, Canada, South
America, and South Africa. In the case of the Jews, there were
organizations assisting their relocation, particularly to British-
controlled Palestine. It is very easy to claim a European Jewish
population on eleven million in 1939 and a Jewish population of five
million in 1945, but there is no way to verify either number.
Nevertheless, simply due the fact that there were massive shifts in
population in the areas where Jews were most concentrated and much of
the most ruthless and destructive warfare was practiced in eastern
Europe, it is very likely Jewish casualties were heavy and may have
exceeded one million dead. The remainder of the 'missing' were absorbed
into the U.S.S.R. or moved to The U.S., Palestine/Israel, Argentina,
South Africa and other countries.
14) Why would concentration camp survivors lie about their treatment?
a) There are a variety of reasons former prisoners of the Nazis would
lie about their treatment.
A. Many concentration camp inmates were imprisoned not simply for
ethnic reasons. They were there because they were common criminals.
Some of these people were not honest to begin with and used this
opportunity to turn the tables on their former captors. It is a way to
take revenge and to distract attention away from their own crimes.
B. Many concentration camp inmates were there for political reasons--
particularly communists. They might lie for ideological reasons.
Alleging atrocities and abuse would help to discredit the Nazi regime
and system that imprisoned them.. On a more personal level, communists
and Jews who spent the war in a camp working for the Nazis need to
justify their actions while in custody. This usually entailed working
in German shops and factories for the Germans. Claiming heavy abuse, or
involvement in sabotage are ways of satisfying questions of personal
political hygiene.
C. Some former prisoners testified to abuse after their liberation from
the Nazis simply because that was what was expected of them from their
liberators. In the postwar trials some people became paid professional
prosecution witnesses who were willing to testify to just about
anything. Perjury by prosecution witnesses was not something that was
punished-instead it was often encouraged.
15) Why do revisionists not find the eyewitness testimony credible?
a) Eyewitness testimony, even when it is not politically motivated, is
the lowest quality of evidence. Memory is a very malleable thing even
under normal circumstances. In the highly charged atmosphere of the
ideological conflict that destroyed a major part of Europe, the
testimony of people who have good reason to hold a grudge should be
highly suspect and examined carefully. When inspected critically, many
of the cornerstone testimonies regarding the Holocaust contain many
factual errors and absurdities. Another important point to consider is
the circumstances under which the testimonies--particularly those of
the Nazis-were obtained. Torture was used in some cases to obtain
"confessions." In others, threats were made against the lives and
health of members of the "war criminal's" family. Under the conditions
that prevailed at the end of the war, the Allied governments could
obtain any sort of testimony they wanted to get. And they did. It is
not just the revisionists who view the supposed eyewitness testimony
with caution; Authors like Arno Mayer, J.C. Pressac, and Tom Segev also
are aware of just how unreliable "survivor" and other postwar testimony
is. Despite this, these authors regard this testimony to be, in a
general sense, true even though they are exaggerated, or contain
hearsay information.
16) Why does the U.S. government endorse the Holocaust story?
a) World War Two was the event which drew the United States back onto
the global political scene after following a politically neutral
foreign policy since the end of World War I. It defined the United
States as the world's economic and military superpower, with only the
Stalinist U.S.S.R. as a major competitor. The U.S. began to follow an
ideologically messianic foreign policy under Roosevelt which sought to
internationalize the New Deal. This political messianism solidified and
became more sharply defined under Truman and the development of the
Cold War. Part of the justification for the international role the U.S.
has played has been its new obligation to fight 'evil' regimes and
protect 'democratic' ones. The paradigm for the U.S. role in
international politics is its involvement in W.W.II and the paradigm
for the 'evil' it is fighting is Hitler and Nazi Germany--particularly
as it has become defined in its attempt to exterminate the Jews.
Since Stalin, our ally, could be argued to be every bit as evil as
Hitler, a reason had to found to define what made Nazi Germany so much
more evil than Soviet Russia. The idea that we fought Germany because
Hitler declared war after extensive U.S. provocation does not serve an
active interventionist policy. The Holocaust serves the purpose of
justifying U.S. political messianism which insisted on the
unconditional surrender of Germany, bombed German cities into ruins,
suppressed German economic recovery for three years after the
surrender, and put the country under U.S. military occupation for
nearly fifty more. Questioning the Holocaust therefore would also be a
round-about threat to messianic myth which drives U.S. interventionist
foreign policy. There are other factors involved in the U.S.
endorsement of the Holocaust which involve its prosecution of 'Nazi war
criminals' at the show trials that followed the war; Except for the
alleged attempt to exterminate the Jews, the U.S., British, and the
Soviets committed all of the same crimes they accused and hanged the
Nazis for. Of course, not least of all, the political power wielded by
the 'AIPAC' and other branches of the 'Jewish lobby' work to ride herd
on the U.S. government when it feels its interests are threatened. The
Holocaust is Zionism's most important political tool and weapon.
17) Why does the current German government endorse the Holocaust story?
a) The postwar German government of West Germany, based in Bonn, which
has become the government of a reunified Germany has endorsed and
protects the Holocaust story by law because West Germany wished to
rejoin the community of nations that had rejected it during the war
years. In order to do that West Germany had to demonstrate its
rejection of its Nazi past. Part of this act of contrition is its
recognition and support of the Zionist state of Israel which states in
its declaration of independence that the reason for its foundation was
the Holocaust. Any rejection of the Holocaust story by the German
government would be regarded as a sign of backsliding by the United
States, Israel, the international Jewish lobby organizations, such as
the World Jewish Congress, and other interested parties. In exchange
Germany has again been allowed to become a major political and economic
force in Europe. The myth that the Nazi regime was composed of a few
thugs who intimidated the German nation and that therefore Germans are
not collectively guilty for the sins of Nazi Germany has been
promulgated as part of the new German political order. A re-
examination of the twelve years of Nazi rule is viewed by the German
establishment as potentially having only negative results. It prefers
the status quo where it pretends to be a new Germany which has rejected
its past rather than a creature of the Allied occupying powers.
18) What was the purpose of Nazi concentration camps like Auschwitz,
Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and so forth?
a) The Nazi concentration camp system served as a source of labor and
income for the SS which rented prison labor to private industry. It was
a prison system for common criminals and political enemies. Auschwitz
and Birkenau held many unemployed prisoners, many of them with no job
skills or too sick to work. These included inmates with chronic
illnesses such as tuberculosis. Some camps were designated transit
camps where Jews being resettled in ghettos in the East were deloused
before being sent on to their final destinations. In some cases Jews
were placed in quarantine before being sent to their final destinations
to prevent the introduction of diseases like typhus into the Eastern
ghettos. This is not to say many Poles, Gypsies, and others did not die
in the Nazi concentration camps. They did, but the context of their
deaths is quite different than the one usually portrayed.
19) Why was the Wannsee conference held?
a) Because of the rapid acquisition of huge amounts of territory which
had been depopulated by the retreating communists, the Nazi leadership
saw this as an opportunity to expel the Jews. Germany now had control
of an area into which to put them until the end of the war. Because of
the war, an international boycott of German goods and limits on
immigration in Palestine and other areas, Germany had difficulty
getting the Jews to emigrate. In addition, the defeat of Poland in
1939, and the annexation of Austria, and parts of Czechoslovakia before
that brought millions of additional Jews under German control. The
Wannsee conference was where Germany's new policy toward the Jews was
outlined. The Nazis believed the Jews constituted a security risk due
to the 'stab in the back' of World War One in which they blamed the
Jews for Germany's defeat. By expelling and isolating the Jews the
Nazis hoped, among other things, to keep the Jews from agitating inside
Germany and detrimentally affecting the morale of the country. They
also believed Jews could not be assimilated and were a negative
cultural influence. In the process of expulsion, many of the Jews being
relocated would also be put to work on various projects related to the
war effort in the east and according to the Wannsee protocol many were
expected die in the process. After the war, it was planned that a
homeland for the Jews would be created outside of Europe through an
international agreement. The Jews resettled in Russia, would be
relocated once again to this new, remote homeland once this expected
agreement was reached.
20) What did Himmler refer to in his Posnan speech if not a policy of
killing the Jews?
a) The quote from the October 4,1943 Himmler Posnan speech usually
cited as evidence that the Nazis were attempting to exterminate the
Jews is this:
'I am referring to the evacuation of the Jew, the annihilation of the
Jewish people. This is one of these things that are easily said. "The
Jewish people is going to be annihilated," says every party member.
"Sure, it is our program, elimination of the Jews, annihilation-we'll
take care of it." And then they all come trudging, 80 million worthy
Germans, and every one has one decent Jew. Sure, the others are swine,
but this one is an A-1 Jew. Of all those who talk this way, not one has
been through it. Most of you must know what it means to see a hundred
corpses lie side by side, or five hundred, or a thousand. To have stuck
this out and - excepting cases of human weakness-to have kept our
integrity, that is what has made us hard. In our history, this is an
unwritten and never-to- be-written page of glory, for we know how
difficult we would have made ourselves if today-amid the bombing raids,
the hardships and the deprivations of war-we still had the Jews in
every city as secret saboteurs, agitators, and demagogues. If the Jews
still ensconced in the body of the German nation, we probably would
have reached the 1916-17 stage by now.'
Some revisionists question the authenticity of the Posnan speech, while
others believe it to be authentic. In any case, the meaning of this one
paragraph taken from a long, rambling speech by Himmler to SS officials
is ambiguous. Himmler does not mention gas chambers, or death camps, or
specifically to mass killings. The meaning of this passage is unclear.
Himmler speaks of large numbers of corpses and the "annihilation" of
the Jews, but he also makes reference to "bombing raids, the hardships
and the deprivations of war" which would also produce large numbers of
corpses. Himmler does not say whose corpses are lying side by side. In
1943 Nazi Germany had suffered a major reversal of fortune on the
Russian front. The SS was involved in fighting the Red Army and
partisan guerrillas behind the front. To say Himmler is talking about
killing large numbers of Jews in gas chambers is reading a lot into the
text of this one paragraph. The point Himmler appears to be making in
this quote is though expelling the Jews is a difficult, thankless task,
but if it had not been done German morale would be low and Germany
would have be suing for peace with the Russians because of internal
disorder caused by the Jews. This quote should be taken in the context
of the Nazi myth of the Jews stabbing Germany in the back and causing
its defeat in World War I.
21) Weren't gas chambers for killing people found at some of the Nazi
concentration camps when they were captured by the Allied armies?
a) No. The 'gas chambers' on display at Dachau and Auschwitz were
originally crematory morgues. The Dachau crematory morgue was altered
by the U.S. Army into a mock up 'gas chamber disguised as a shower' for
'educational' purposes. The one at Majdanek was a delousing chamber for
the fumigation of mattresses and other material. Several forensic
examinations of these rooms and others which are now in ruins conclude
none of these facilities could have been used as execution chambers for
the killing of large numbers of people. Their designs are all wrong.
Despite the fact that these 'reconstructions' are displayed to hundreds
of thousands of tourists every year, Holocaust historians such as Arno
Mayer and Hugh Trevor-Roper admit nobody knows what the gas chambers
looked like or how they operated. This is no reason not to believe the
gas chambers are a myth according to these two authors, but others take
a more skeptical view.
22) How many Jews died during the war if the 6 million is not the
correct number?
a) This is not known, but several demographic studies indicate the
number of Jews who lost their lives in the war from all causes is
somewhere around one million persons. There are several difficulties in
determining what the Jewish population is at any point in time. First,
a definition has to be agreed upon. If the definition is religious,
then a population decrease might be attributable to conversions to
other faiths. Are those who no longer practice any religion to be
counted? Once a definition is determined, how does one go about
counting the population? Between 1939 when the Germans invaded Poland
and the German surrender in 1945 uncounted millions of people were
displaced by the war. People who lived in Poland in 1939 were in the
U.S.S.R in 1945 and they didn't have to move at all. National borders
were redrawn all over eastern Europe. In any case, taking a Jewish
census was not a top priority in 1945 and none was taken. Most
estimates of Jewish losses in Europe are baseless, or at least flawed
in that they do not include Jewish population increases due to
immigration in areas outside Europe during the 1930's through the
1950's. Even today in a world without the restrictions in communication
that existed in the preceding five decades estimates in world Jewish
population vary by several million persons depending on who is doing
the estimating and how and why the guesses are being made.
23) What did the term 'selection' refer to?
a) Holocaust literature often uses 'selection' as meaning a process in
which prisoners were segregated into a group that would be put to work
and a group that would be put to death. Of course, the process of
sorting prisoners by sex and age before the delousing procedure was a
standard and implied nothing sinister since the prisoners had to strip
in order to take a shower. The Nazi concentration camps generally
segregated prisoners by sex with children under 14 staying with their
mothers if an entire family was put into the camp. Prisoners were also
selected and organized by the type of work that was assigned to them.
Selections also took place when prisoners were to be reassigned to
other camps, or were to be released. Many who spent time in Auschwitz
served sentences of less than a year and went home after completing
their sentence. In addition sick prisoners were triaged and sent to
hospital blocks. Many of these procedures required a quick visual
examination by an SS doctor who to part in the camp selections. The
'selection' process was part of routine camp procedures and has since
been given an evil meaning in survivor testimony and Holocaust
literature.
24) What did the term 'special treatment' refer to?
a) Several German words with the 'Sonder' or 'special' prefix have been
designated as code words in the Holocaust lexicon. 'Sonderbehandlung'
can mean many different things in German depending on the context. In
many documents in the Auschwitz files, the 'Sonder' prefix designated
something that had to do with the hygienic regimen that was instituted
in the camps after the epidemics of the summer of 1942. There was
'special action', 'special treatment', 'baths for special purpose' and
other terms which referred specifically to procedures put in place to
control body lice and the spread of typhus.
25) What did the term 'special action' refer to?
a) The diary of SS doctor Josef Kremer makes repeated references to his
taking part in 'special actions' while he was assigned to duty at
Auschwitz during the Fall of 1942. This was during the worst time of
the typhus epidemic at that camp. While his diary does not make clear
what he was doing during one of these special actions, it appears his
duty was one of giving clinical (i.e. visual) examinations to groups of
prisoners being transferred from other camps and sub-camps of Auschwitz
(e.g. Birkenau.) Because of the typhus epidemic many of prisoners were
in very bad shape and prompted Kremer to record the horrible conditions
that prevailed in the camp at the time. In his private diary he
referred to Auschwitz as the *** hole of the world and compared it to
Dante's Inferno. A 'special action' could refer to any number of
activities at the camp. The use of this term in German refers to any
unscheduled activities or duties performed that were outside the norm.
26) What is Zyklon-B used for?
a) Zykon-B is a commercially made fumigant designed to rid man-made
structures, such as buildings, ships, silos, etc. of destructive pests
including moths, rodents, termites, and--most importantly during World
War II--the typhus-bearing body louse. Many of the Nazi concentration
camps suffered from typhus epidemics which killed hundreds of thousands
of prisoners. Camp staff members also became sick and died from typhus.
To control the epidemics, a hygienic regimen was instituted which
included the periodic fumigation of camp buildings with Zyklon-B.
Decontamination facilities were also built to delouse clothing,
luggage, etc. Some of these facilities used steam, others used
Zyklon-B. The hygienic practices also included shaving the hair of
incoming prisoners and forcing them to take a shower as part of a
delousing procedure. Large shipments of the fumigant was sent to many
of the Nazi concentration camps and not just to the alleged 'death
camps.' So the presence of Zyklon-B in a camp is not an indication that
it was there to be used to gas prisoners. Zyklon-B is a fumigant. There
was a hygienic need for a fumigant in the camps. It's use in the camps
is not evidence of a genocide program. In fact, it is just the
opposite. Zykon-B was used in an effort to save the lives and health of
camp inmates and staff.
27) Why would German documents designate Zyklon-B as material for
Jewish resettlement?
a) The resettlement of Jews by the Nazis meant they would have to be
moved to housing in the east. This housing in some cases needed to be
fumigated before it was turned over the resettled Jews. Transit camps
were also set up where Jews, and their luggage, being transported
eastward, would be deloused before being sent to their final
destinations. Since the delousing of Jews and their belongings and the
fumigation of buildings was part of the resettlement process, there is
nothing unusual in the fact in some documents the fumigant Zyklon-B
would be labeled 'material for Jewish resettlement.'
28) Why did the Nazis equip some of their camps with crematories?
a)From 1942 until the end of the War in 1945, the SS fought epidemics
of typhus and other diseases in the concentration camps. One of the
largest camps and the one hardest hit by the epidemic was Auschwitz and
its satellite camps. An average of about one hundred prisoners out of
population of around fifty thousand died there every day. The
crematories were built as a sanitary measure to dispose of the bodies
of the dead. Auschwitz/Birkenau's crematories were completed during the
first half of 1943 after it was decided to expand the camp to hold two
hundred thousand prisoners. This decision and the already high death
rate at the camp is why the four crematory facilities were built there.
Many of the concentration camps had crematories and many did not.
Included in those that did not is Treblinka which is alleged to have
been an extermination camp. The conclusion that has to be drawn is the
presence of crematories is not an indication of the existence of gas
chambers or an extermination program. Several studies of the
crematories conclude these facilities were designed to handle the camp
disease mortality rate and little more.
29) Why were Jews required to wear a yellow hexagram on their clothing
in Nazi Germany?
a)From the time the Hitler became Chancellor, the policy of the Nazi
regime was to institute laws which would politically, socially, and
economically isolate the Jews of Germany and encourage their
emigration. The yellow Star of David was only one of many harassing
laws applied to the Jews to get them to leave Germany.
30) What role did the Einsatzgruppen play in the German war effort?
a)Because the fight between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany was a
largely ideological one, and the Soviet Union was not a signatory of
Geneva Convention agreements on the conduct of war, it was rightly
assumed by Hitler that the Soviets would not fight by the rules. The
Einsatzgruppen were police units assigned to the pacification of
occupied territories in the east. Their duties included fighting
anti-German partisan guerrillas, shooting captured communist
'commissars' and executing civilians in reprisal for acts of murder and
sabotage committed by the guerrillas.
31) Why were so many dead bodies found in the Nazi camps when they were
captured by Allied troops?
a) By the early spring of 1945, when the British and American troops
began occupying German territory containing Nazi prison and labor
camps, Germany was in a state of economic chaos. Allied bombers and
fighter planes made the communication of goods very difficult and many
of the concentration camps had not received enough supplies for weeks
or months to feed the camps, or to provide the sick in the camps with
medicine. In addition, as German military forces retreated from the
advancing Red army in 1944 and 1945 many prisoners retreated with them;
most did so voluntarily. More and more people were crowded into fewer
and fewer camps. The overcrowding and lack of supplies combined to
contribute to the spread of disease in the camps in the final months of
the war. The death rate in the camps outstripped the capacity of the
crematoria in the camps to dispose of them. In some cases there was no
fuel to run the crematoria even if death rates were at 'normal' levels.
This increase in camp population, and breakdown in support services to
the camps led to an increased death rate. The bodies piled up in the
days and weeks before the surrender of the camps to the advancing
Allied armies in the spring of 1945.
32) Why is the Holocaust story important to Israel?
a) Israel's 1948 declaration of independence states the reason that
state was being founded was the Holocaust had shown there was a need
for a Jewish state as a place of refuge for Jews suffering persecution.
Without the Holocaust, there is no demonstrated need for a Jewish
state. The Israeli government therefore considers any questioning of
the Holocaust to be a questioning of Israel's right to exist. It passed
a law in the early 1980's making questioning, or minimizing the
Holocaust a crime punishable by a sentence of five years in prison-a
sentence more severe than the one in Israeli law for questioning God's
existence.
33) What was Babi Yar?
a) Babi Ravine [ = Yar] is a ravine in Ukraine where over 100, 000 Jews
are said to have been shot by the Nazis and buried in a mass grave. The
bodies were later exhumed and the evidence destroyed.
34) What evidence exists for the massacre at Babi Yar?
a)The basis of the Babi Yar allegation is Soviet wartime propaganda,
some documents purporting to be Nazi reports of the massacre, and post
war testimony. According to these claims the bodies of the victims were
exhumed and destroyed by the Nazis before the Soviets recaptured the
territory. There is no physical evidence of the massacre. Air
photographs taken of the area soon after the mass exhumation is
supposed to have occurred show no evidence of it.
35) Why were Jews put into concentration camps by the Nazis?
a) Jews were put into concentration and labor camps for a wide variety
of reasons. Some were imprisoned because of criminal activities or
anti-Nazi political activities. Others, particularly after 1943 and the
reversal of Germany's fortunes on the eastern front, were taken from
ghettos for the purpose of working in factories and on farms and housed
in concentration camps to keep them socially isolated from the
surrounding community. The war produced a shortage of labor and Jews
were exploited to fill that need. This situation put Jews in the
position of working for the Nazis and the German war effort which was
socially and politically embarrassing for them once Germany surrendered
and Nazism defeated. Since Jewish inmates could therefore be seen as
collaborating with the German war effort, there was pressure upon them
to explain why they had worked for the Nazis. The explanation, like
that used by Germans who were accused of participating in the
extermination of the Jews, was the only alternative was death. If the
inmate did not work, he or she was murdered The excuse then was they
had to cooperate to save their lives. Some have added to this reason
the self-inflated "in order to bear witness" reason for their working
for the Nazis, if saving their own skins was not reason enough. If the
need to bear witness overrides any reason not to cooperate with the
Nazis, then what was witnessed needs to be extraordinary. In this may
be a core reason for the wild tales told by some former concentration
camp inmates because after the war they were viewed with scorn by other
Jews and wished to rehabilitate their standing in the community. The
Zionists living outside Europe referred to the Jews who survived Nazi
occupation as "soap" because of their lack of resistance to the Nazi
occupation and the extermination program.
36) What was the function of Treblinka camp?
a)Records indicate there were two Treblinkas. Treblinka I was a labor
camp that included a gravel quarry. Treblinka II was a smaller camp and
was probably a delousing station for Jews being resettled in the east.
Train loads of Jews would arrive at T-II to be deloused. Their luggage
would also be deloused. Once the procedure was completed, the Jews
would board a new train that would take them to their final destination
which was either a labor camp or ghetto somewhere in occupied Soviet
territory. German documents indicate Jews were being funneled through
Treblinka which was designated a transit camp. T-II played a major role
in the deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to labor camps and
ghettos farther east.
37) What evidence is used to support the Treblinka death camp story?
a) There are wartime news reports that Jews were being killed in large
numbers at Treblinka and there are also the postwar recollections of
about 70 people who claim to have worked as prisoners at the camp.
There are also the 'confessions' of Nazis who were either assigned to
the camp or claim to have visited it during the year or so that it was
operational. The content of the testimonies is largely contradictory
and in some cases very funny. Read about Treblinka from three or more
sources and compare what they say about the method used to kill Jews
there and you will understand why I say that. There is no physical
evidence that hundreds of thousands of people were killed at Treblinka.
The camp was totally dismantled by the Nazis and the site today
contains an elaborate memorial that was built long after the war was
over.
38) Why were Gypsies put into concentration camps?
a)Some groups of Gypsies were put into Nazi concentration camps for
several reasons. The German government considered them a security risk,
but more importantly the Romany led a wandering lifestyle and did not
occupy themselves in what the Nazis considered productive employment.
Because they refused to abandon their traditional lifestyle, they were
put to work in labor camps.
39) Why is the question of the gas chambers important?
a)The gas chambers are supposed to be the end result of a long chain of
events that evolved into a genocide program. They then constitute the
physical application of Nazi policy toward the Jews. Whether the policy
the exterminate the Jews was the intention from the start, or whether
it evolved into it over time because of circumstance, the gas chambers
are unambiguous signs the extermination program existed. So, if the
silly gas chamber allegation is abandoned in favor of shootings, or
starvation, or clubbings the whole fabric of the Holocaust story begins
to unravel. If the gas chamber story is false, why has it been pushed
for half a century by those who insist it is true? If the extermination
of the Jews is true, why falsely allege gas chambers were used when
another method of murder was applied? The gas chamber story and the
extermination story are twins joined at the heart. If one dies, so does
the other. On another level, men were hanged because of the gas
chambers. The German nation has spent half a century apologizing over
the gas chambers. The orientation of European and Middle Eastern
politics revolves around the gas chamber story as justification for
many actions taken by various governments. The question of the gas
chambers is important because outcome of W.W.II is the basis on which
the world has rested for the last half century and how that war is
viewed has a lot to do with how many countries view their current role
in the political world.
40) How did the Holocaust story originate?
a)The Holocaust story of German extermination of the Jews originated
during the war. The charge of gassings of Jews in concentration camps
was leveled by the Zionist and Jewish organizations appear around 1942
and were picked up and given lip service by the American and British
governments at about the same time. Some Zionists were looking to
leverage the British into opening Palestine up to more Jewish
immigrants. By pleading a refuge in Palestine was needed due to the
crisis of Nazi Germany's mass murder of the Jews, these groups hoped to
embarrass the British to life immigration restrictions and to pressure
the U.S. government to use its influence to get Great Britain to make
the changes to its policies regarding the Jews and Palestine they
desired. Other Jewish organizations wished to stop the Germans who were
deporting entire Jewish communities east. Many of these deportations
were taking place under inhumane circumstances. Various plans were
floated to purchase groups of Jews from the Nazi regime to get them out
of Europe or to terminate the deportations and though the Nazis appear
to have been willing to negotiate, none of them were implemented. The
Soviets also began accusing the Germans of murdering civilians soon
after the mass graves containing the bodies of executed Polish Army
officers were discovered in the forests near Katyn by the German Army.
Stalin accused the Germans of the Katyn forest massacre as well. Katyn
was one of the crimes for which Germans were prosecuted after the war.
The Russians finally admitted responsibility for that crime only a few
years ago. As a propaganda story among many meant to discredit the Axis
war effort and overshadow Soviet atrocities, the genocide charge took
on a similar role during the IMT and NMT war crimes trials and the post
war de- Nazification programs. The point to it was and is to discredit
the NS regime and place it beyond the political pale. The Holocaust
became the paradigm which demonstrated the evil of the Nazi regime and
therefore justified the amount of destruction inflicted on Europe to
defeat it. The evil of Germany revealed in the Holocaust became the
reason Germany and Europe remained divided for so long and why the
United States needed to become western Europe's guardian. Since Europe
could not be trusted to protect itself after the defeat of Nazism from
the new menace of Russian Communism which had recently swallowed
eastern Europe, the United States had an excuse to remain engaged in
European politics and retard Germany's political and economic recovery.
As an indication the status quo established by World War Two is still
in place, recent commemorations of the Nuremberg trials have lionized
them as a dispensation of justice rather than repudiating them for the
show-trials they were.
41) Are there precedents to what happened to the Jews?
a) The forced transfer of populations is something that has happened as
long as history has been recorded. In more recent times, the Turks and
the Greeks exchanged populations when borders were redrawn at the end
of W.W.I. At the end of W.W.II millions of Germans were relocated under
horrible conditions. In the United States, Indian tribes were resettled
multiple times as the country expanded westward. Stalin uprooted
millions of various ethnic minorities in Russia and forcibly resettled
them in Siberia. The forcible expulsion of ethnic groups is not a
unique occurrence and definitely not rare even in the last one hundred
years. SR)
42) What escape routes were available to Jews during the war?
a) Many Jews were able to leave Europe during the war through a variety
of paths. Over 100,000 are claimed by Yad Vashem to have crossed Soviet
territory to Shanghai, China which had liberal immigration policies.
From there almost all of them proceeded to other destinations which
included the United States, Canada, and Australia. Fashion designer
John Weitz is said to have taken this emigration route through China.
Others traveled south from the Soviet Union into Iran and then west to
Palestine. Menachem Begin supposedly left his native Poland during the
war using this route. Another pathway out of Europe used by Jews during
and after the war was a southerly course through the Balkans and Greece
to Turkey and then on to Palestine.
43) Did resistance to German occupation affect Nazi treatment of Jews
in territory under their control?
a)Soviet propaganda agitated for civilians to fight the Germans in
occupied Soviet territory. Many partisan guerrilla groups remained
active in these areas committing acts of sabotage and murder throughout
the time the Nazis occupied them. The Nazis viewed communism as a
creature of the Jews and in reprisal for the war being waged by the
partisans, many Jews were shot. Jews were viewed by many in the Baltic
states, occupied by the Communists in 1940, as collaborators in that
occupation. As the Red army retreated in 1941, the Soviet secret police
known as the NKVD murdered as many of the political prisoners as they
could before abandoning their prisons to the advancing Germans. Many
Jews who did not retreat with the Russians were rounded up and murdered
by local anti-Communist militias and German units in reaction to the
NKVD murders of members of nationalist groups they held in their
prisons.
44) How were Jewish ghettos in Nazi territory administered?
a)Ghettos set up by the Nazis were administered by a Jewish council
called the Judenratt. The Judenratt was the point of contact between
the Nazis and the Jews of the ghetto. It acted as the official ghetto
government.
45) What role did the Judenratt play in providing labor for the
concentration camps?
a)The Judenratt would provide lists of names of people in the ghetto
that could be conscripted for work in the concentration camps. This was
a compromise the Judenratt made with the Nazi SS which was known to
send press gangs into the ghetto and kidnap Jews off the street.
46) Why did Otto Frank, father of diarist Anne Frank, leave Germany?
a) Otto Frank was wanted in Germany on charges of embezzlement of money
from his employer.
47) What was the 'transfer agreement?'
a)An international boycott of German goods organized by some American
Jews cut Germany's foreign exchange. It also cut the value of German
currency outside the country. The Nazis wanted Germany's Jews to
emigrate, but it was difficult for them to do so for several reasons.
One of the most prominent reasons was they did not want to leave all
their assets behind when they left the country. The transfer agreement
was made between Nazi Germany and the Zionist leadership in
British-controlled Palestine by which German goods would be purchased
in Germany using the assets of the Jews wishing to emigrate to
Palestine. The German goods would be shipped to Palestine with the
emigrating Jews. The goods would then be sold in Palestine and the
proceeds would go to the émigré's. About 50,000 Jews are said to have
taken advantage of the program which was implemented by the German
government, the Zionist leadership and several Jewish financial
institutions inside and outside of Germany. One of the most notable of
these was the Warburg bank in Hamburg.
48) Why did the Nazis initiate a boycott of Jewish shops in Germany?
a) The Nazis proclaimed a boycott of German shops owned by Jews in
response to an international boycott of German goods declared by
international Jewish groups on March 24th, 1933 that was to last more
than twelve years.
49) How long did the Nazi boycott last?
a) The Nazi boycott of German Jewish shops lasted one day: April 1st,
1933. It was a Saturday--when religious Jews would not be doing
business because of religious obligations.
50) What events led up to the Kristallnacht pogrom?
a) Poland passed a law which required Polish Jews living outside the
country return to Poland to have their passports stamped. If these
stamps were not obtained by a particular date, the passports would
become invalid and the bearer would no longer be recognized by Poland
as a citizen of that country. Nazi Germany, fearing that it would
suddenly have a large population of 'stateless' Jews, forced thousands
of Polish Jews living in Nazi Germany back to Poland to obtain the
required stamp. After the stamp was obtained, the Jews were free to
return to Germany, which is what most of them did. Among those deported
were the parents of Hershel Grynspan, a young Polish Jew living in
Paris. While several stories exist about his motivation, including
anger over what he considered the mistreatment of his family, it is not
certain why he went to the German embassy to kill the German
ambassador. Because he was not allowed to see the ambassador, the
assassin shot another German diplomat instead who died a few days later
from his wound. Goebbels is generally blamed for instigating the pogrom
against German Jews that took place thereafter.
51) Why was German Jewry fined to pay for the damage done during the
Kristallnacht pogrom?
a)The Nazis fined the German Jewish community for the damage from the
pogrom because much of the material needed for repairs had to be
imported. Because of the Jewish boycott of German goods, Germany lacked
foreign exchange. The fine was a direct punishment for the Jewish
boycott of Germany.
52) What was Hitler's reaction to news of the pogrom?
a) He was shocked and angry. He ordered that it be stopped immediately.
53) How many gas chambers were there at Treblinka?
a) One, three, five or six, seven, eight, ten, or thirteen depending on
which source you use. In some accounts of Treblinka there were no gas
chambers, but steam chambers that boiled Jews to death like lobsters.
Other stories allege Jews were crowded into sealed buildings and large
pumps were used to evacuate the air causing the victims to suffocate.
The gas chambers of Treblinka are a mystery both in their number and
their design. There is no real evidence the gas chambers at Treblinka
numbered any more than zero.
Hannah Arendt quotes Eichmann as recalling seeing one large hall and
being told the killing agent was cyanide. Steiner states there were
originally three gas chambers and ten more larger structures were added
later and that the gas used was engine exhaust. An ex-SS member
remembers there being five or six large gas chambers and an unspecified
number of smaller ones while another states he believes there were
eight. Hoess, the Auschwitz commandant, says in his confession that
there were ten gas chambers at Treblinka, but claims to have visited
the camp on a date before it existed. The IMT trials accepted an
official Polish government report into evidence that claims ten
chambers were built at Treblinka and the killing agent was steam. Most
books on the death camps contain very little about Treblinka and the
other four lesser-known "death camps" because evidence about them is so
scarce and confused. Even simple questions like 'how many gas
chambers?' cannot be answered authoritatively because the evidence is
contradictory and of similar quality.
54) What agent was used to kill people in the gas chambers at
Treblinka?
a) It might have been cyanide, or steam, or diesel engine exhaust, or
gasoline engine exhaust, or some delayed-action mystery gas. It depends
on the source consulted. Since the camp was dismantled long before the
war ended, it is entirely speculation that gas chambers existed at
Treblinka at all. The official version of events appears based on the
reports of Gerstein and confessions of others who were either stationed
at the camp, or survived it as inmates. This version centers around the
use of engine exhaust. Diesel engine exhaust is most frequently
alleged.
55) What evidence is there that Jews were being resettled in the east
by the Nazis?
a)First, there are Nazi documents that mention ghettos of resettled
Jews in White Russia and other areas of occupied Soviet territory.
Second, thousands of Jews survived their relocation by the Nazis and
either returned to their former homes after the war or emigrated from
Europe after the defeat of Germany testifying to the fact they had been
relocated. Third, during the war, many resettled Jews continued to
correspond with people back in their home countries.
56) What consequences have revisionists suffered for their conclusions?
a) Since at least the 1970's revisionist authors and researchers have
met with not only with derision from other historians and authors, but
also with court fines, imprisonment, assault, arson attacks against
their homes and offices, loss of employment, of pensions, revocation of
academic degrees, exclusion from entering some countries, expulsion
from other countries.
A popular magazine in Japan was shut down after printing a revisionist
article.
A revisionist book published in Germany was ordered destroyed by a
German court-every copy was to be burned!
Revisionist WWWeb sites have been shut down without warning for their
content.
Discussions of revisionist findings on various online services have
been cut off by the services.
57) What evidence exists for mass murder at Belzec?
a)Like the evidence of it at the other camps, it consists of testimony.
Belzec is supposed have been similar to Treblinka according to some
stories, but a fantastic report about the camp filed with the IMT
alleges Belzec had a subterranean facility where Jews were marched into
a pool of water where they were electrocuted. Once they were dead, a
grillwork on the bottom of the pool lifted the mass of corpses up and
out of the water. Then current sent through the grillwork caused it to
heat up and incinerate the bodies. It's laughable, but certainly as
true as any of the stories about Belzec.
58) What evidence exists for mass murder at Chelmno?
a)Testimony.
SR)Butz; Mayer; Klee; Lanzmann
59) Where did the bodies of the dead at Treblinka go?
a) It is alleged by those who claim to be survivors of Treblinka camp
that some 800,000 bodies were first buried in mass graves and that
these were later exhumed and burned on iron rails set over wood fires.
Treblinka was not equipped with crematories. Aerial photography of the
site taken in 1944 shows no indication of mass graves or locations
where continuous burning of bodies had taken place.
60) How many are claimed to have been killed at Treblinka?
a) The figure most often given for Treblinka is 800,000 or more Jews
gassed or otherwise killed in less than a year. The bodies are said to
have been buried in mass graves and later exhumed and burned. There is
no evidence to support these allegation or that for the other five
so-called death camps.
One of several versions of the Treblinka gas chamber story alleges
Diesel engines were used to pump exhaust into some rooms and everyone
inside died within 32 minutes. Animal tests performed in England forty
years ago indicate animals can survive three and one half hours on up
to 14 or more hours breathing exhaust from Diesel engines.
John Ball has demonstrated the area in which the bodies were buried was
not large enough to hold even one tenth the number that are claimed to
have been buried there prior to exhumation and cremation.
61) What evidence exists for mass murder at Sobibor?
a) Testimony.
62) How good is testimony as a form of evidence?
a)Testimony is the poorest form of evidence. The human mind is very
malleable, and memory can be affected by a wide variety of factors.
Very normal people can sincerely remember things that never happened.
Add to this the interest of many of the witnesses in getting attention,
influencing how they are themselves perceived by those around them,
ameliorating their punishment, or exacting vengeance on their enemies.
Testimony alone should be used only with extreme caution.
63) What was the War Refugee Board?
a)The WRB was set up in 1944 by the Roosevelt administration and was
head by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau who was the one who
proposed the destruction of Germany's industrial base at the end of the
war. This plan was the basis of U.S. occupation policy for over two
years after the German surrender. The WRB was involved in projects to
get Jews out of Europe and served as a tool of the World Jewish
Congress and other Zionist organizations.
64) What was the WRB Report?
a)The WRB report is supposed to be based on the testimonies of three
escaped prisoners from Auschwitz who claimed Jews were being gassed at
Auschwitz on a large scale. It has now been largely forgotten, even
though it is one of the founding sources for the Auschwitz legend. The
reason it has been forgotten is that it is so obviously inaccurate in
its descriptions of the gas chambers and the numbers of Jews being
killed. In effect, it was inaccurate about everything that had to do
with the extermination of Jews at the camp.
65) How accurate was the information contained in the WRB Report?
a)There is very little in the report which can verified as accurate.
The bulk of the information in the report is verifiably untrue or
inaccurate by a wide margin. Though the report is supposed to be the
first detailed account of the extermination of Jews at Auschwitz to
reach the West, it is wrong in almost all of its details.
66) What did the Auschwitz camp commander Rudolf Hoess confess about
the Auschwitz camp?
a)Auschwitz camp commander Rudolf Hoess signed two confessions. The
first confession was while a captive of the British. This confession
was read to him at one of the Nuremberg trials at which time he
testified the content of the confession to be true. A thorough
examination of the confession shows it is filled with lies and
contradictions.
Hoess signed another confession while in Polish custody. The contents
of the second confession are much like that of the first, but in his
second confession he accuses the British of beating him and forcing him
to sign the first confession though he had no idea what was in it.
Hoess also wrote a memoir while in Polish custody. This memoir is
considered by many to be a fraud which Hoess transcribed from a
prepared text given to him by the Polish communists. Even so, this fake
is still in print and widely available. The former camp commander also
testified at other trials before he was ultimately hanged at the
Auschwitz camp that he used to run by the Polish Communists. In his
oral and written accounts of his time as commander at Auschwitz, Hoess
describes being ordered to established facilities for the killing of
large numbers of people and the disposal of their bodies. To fulfill
this task assigned to him, Hoess built one or more gas chambers at
Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps. The fumigant Zyklon-B was
used as the killing agent in these gas chambers. The bodies of the
victims were burned in the crematories and in open pits. The ashes were
then collected. Bones were pounded into a powder. All of the remains
were then dumped into the river. Hoess provided several estimates as to
the number of people killed at his camp which range from 1.2 million to
2.5 million.
67) How was Hoess' confession obtained?
a) Among the techniques used by the British to get Hoess to sign his
confession included sleep deprivation, threats against his family,
beatings, and forced consumption of alcohol.
68) Is torture a way to get a reliable confession?
a) No. The torture victim will usually agree to do anything in order to
get the pain or torture stopped. It is however, a good way to get the
kind of confession that is desired by the torturers. SR)Butz;
Faurisson; Porter; Pressac; Mayer; Sack; Preissinger
69) What did a U.S. Senate commission find about the use of torture to
obtain confessions for the Malmedy Massacre case?
a) The commission investigated nearly 140 former members of the Waffen
SS who were involved as defendants in the Malmedy case. All except two
of these men had had their testicles crushed while in the custody of
the U.S. military.
70) Was the use of torture and threats only used in isolated cases?
a) There appears to be a wide range in how Nazi's in Allied custody
were treated. It is pretty clear from various sources that threats
against prisoners were common. The use of torture was not rare either.
Torture was used to break a prisoner's spirit to gain cooperation, as
in the case of Hoess. It was also administered out of what appears to
be pure sadism.
71) Why is it nobody protested the use of torture on German prisoners?
a)There were some protests, and there was a U.S. Senate investigation,
but these have been largely ignored or forgotten. The attitude of the
time, much of which continues to this day in certain circles, saw the
Germans as deserving of any abuse they received. The press and many
public officials were still under the influence of war propaganda.
Voicing concern over the torture of an enemy would be regarded as
disloyal.
72) Where did concentrations of Jews exist in Europe before 1939?
a) The bulk of Europe's Ashkenazi Jews was located in Poland and parts
of the Soviet Union. Hungary also was the home of a large population of
Jews. The areas where most of the Jewish losses during the war occurred
were areas which underwent massive shifts in population and borders
between 1939 and 1945. Though a large percentage of Jews in the
Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia were deported eastward
by the Nazis, the Jewish population of these countries were relatively
small to begin with.
73) What is the origin of the Einsatzgruppe gas van charge?
a)Soon after the mass graves in which the NKVD buried thousands
murdered Polish officers at Katyn were opened to international
inspection by the Germans, the Russians, hurting from the bad
publicity, put several Germans on trial for murdering prisoners with
the exhaust from truck engines. These charges were later carried over
to the postwar war crimes trials.
74) Why haven't Germans and others in a position to know come forward
to repudiate the extermination story?
a) Besides the danger of social ostracism for questioning the
extermination story, anyone in a position of authority during the war
in a position to know, in detail, what the final solution program
involved is in danger of being prosecuted for war crimes. There is no
statute of limitations on Nazi war crimes. Since the early 1980's laws
have been passed in several European countries which make it a crime to
question the Holocaust or to offer an opinion which is not in line with
the official dogma on the topic. There is no interest in what would be
viewed as an attempt to rehabilitate the Nazi regime since postwar
German politics is based on the repudiation of Hitler and the Nazi
years.
75) Why were Jews in Nazi Germany forced to wear a star of David on
their clothes?
a)This Nazi edict, which copied laws from the Middle Ages was one of
many harassing measures instituted to isolate Jews in Germany and
exclude them from German culture and society. The objective of this and
other laws was to get Jews to leave Germany.
76) What sources of information did the Western Allies have during the
war that failed to verify the extermination story or provide warnings
about it?
a) The Catholic church, The Polish government in exile, aerial
photography of Auschwitz, The Polish underground resistance movement,
The International Red Cross, Spies in the German government,
Intercepted German government cipher communications coming from and
going to concentration camp administration personnel. There was a
process in place in which governments at war could register complaints
and war crimes charges against their enemies. Each combatant country
had a neutral country which would pass these complaints on to their
enemy to investigate and explain. The Allies did not even ask the
Germans to investigate the extermination story in a formal complaint
even though the channel to do so was in place. This is an indication
that the Allies did not take the charge of Jewish exterminations
seriously enough even to as for an investigation or explanation.
77) What evidence is there that Zionist leaders did not believe their
own propaganda?
a) There was no effort on the part of the Jewish leaders outside of
Nazi occupied Europe to warn the Jews threatened with extermination
about the danger. In fact, the Jewish council at a ghetto near Budapest
turned British paratroopers from Palestine over to the Germans for fear
harboring them would result in punishment. Arendt and Segev relate that
testimony at the Eichmann trial indicate Jews in occupied Europe were
unaware of the extermination at the time.
In 1944 Zionist leaders requested the British government stop running
news stories concerning Jewish scientific contributions to the war
effort for fear of reprisals being inflicted upon Jews in occupied
Europe. That indicates they did not believe Jews were being
exterminated since a reprisal against a population that was being
killed in any case is meaningless particularly in 1944 when nearly all
of the Jews were supposed to be already dead.
Additionally, Allied leaders, while giving lip service to Zionist
complaints about the exterminations, did nothing because they did not
believe and could not confirm them despite the fact they had excellent
sources for information in Germany and Eastern Europe.
78) Do Dr. Robert Faurisson and Fred Leuchter claim Zyklon-B was used
as a germicidal antiseptic at Auschwitz?
a) J. C. Pressac, the author of AUSCHWITZ: THE TECHNIQUE AND OPERATION
OF THE GAS CHAMBERS accused Leuchter and Faurisson of this because
Faurisson used the verb 'disinfect' in describing what the fumigant did
when it was used to fumigate a building. This interpretation of Dr.
Faurisson's loose use of the word when referring to delousing is a
false one. Deborah Lipstadt also picked up Pressac's straw man in her
attack on Leuchter and Faurisson in her book DENYING THE HOLOCAUST.
Fred Leuchter explained that the morgues of the crematories at
Auschwitz were probably deloused with Zyklon-B and that this is why
minute traces of a byproduct of the gas were detected in the samples of
brick and plaster taken from the ruins at the former Nazi concentration
camp. In interpreting the term 'disinfect' as meaning a process in
which germs are killed rather than meaning a delousing or fumigation
process, Pressac countered an explanation Faurisson and Leuchter never
made by derisively pointing out washing surfaces with chlorinated water
would be a much safer way to disinfect a building. Deborah Lipstadt,
who probably never read the Leuchter Report, picked up Pressac's
transparent argument and incorporated it into her book as well.
79) Are accounts of cremation pits at Auschwitz-Birkenau credible?
a)No. Various accounts from former prisoners who spent time detained at
Birkenau and staff who worked there include claims that a large number
of corpses was burned in open pits up to three meters deep because the
crematories there, despite a fabulous cremation capacity of 10,000
bodies per day, were not fast enough to dispose of all of the gas
chamber victims. There are several problems with this allegation.
Birkenau was built in a marsh. The camp was crisscrossed with drainage
ditches to help deal with the high water table. Any pit dug into the
ground there would fill with water making the burning of bodies
impossible. Even in a case where striking water is not a problem,
burning anything in a deep pit is difficult since the fire consumes all
of the oxygen available for combustion and puts itself out. There is no
point in digging a pit for cremating bodies and is entirely
counterproductive to the effort. Open air cremation is done on pyres,
not in pits. After Dresden was bombed, the Germans needed to dispose of
a large number of bodies in a small amount of time. In this case,
besides digging mass graves, bodies were burned on pyres, not in pits.
If burning bodies in pits was such an effective means for their
disposal, pits would have been dug in this case as well. They were not
despite the fact pre-dug bomb craters in Dresden would have suited this
requirement. This fact alone indicates the story of large scale pit
cremation is pure whimsy.
80) How does the crematory capacity of Auschwitz-Birkenau compare to
other Nazi concentration camps where exterminations were not taking
place?
a) In comparing the number of retorts, or cremation chambers, installed
at Auschwitz-Birkenau where large numbers of people are said to have
been gassed to death and other camps, like Dachau and Buchenwald, that
had crematory facilities, but in which gassing are not claimed, and the
prison registered death rates for each camp, it can be concluded
Auschwitz- Birkenau was not suspiciously over-equipped with crematory
ovens.
81) Why did Jews not return to their homes at the end of the war if
they were not killed?
a) Some did, but most could not return home because it either no longer
existed or someone else had moved in after they were deported and would
not be willing to relinquish their homes to former owners and
occupants. The war set tens of millions of refugees on the move.
Housing, much of it destroyed during the war, was in short supply;
There was no home to which to return. Others, still living in Soviet
occupied areas, had entered a new era of their lives. National borders
had been redrawn. Their prewar communities no longer existed and many
did the best they could to get on with their lives in whatever area
they found themselves. It should also be remember that the bulk of
Europe's Jews lived in the eastern part of the continent before the war
and continued to live there after the war behind the Iron Curtain.
82) What evidence exists for the charge the Nazis used the bodies of
Jews to make, among other things, soap, fertilizer, lampshades, gloves,
book covers, etc., ad nauseum?
a) During the war, many rumors circulated about the Nazis exploiting
dead bodies for industrial, commercial and other uses. Some of these
stories were merely reworked versions of stories spread by the British
about the Germans during World War I. For instance, an article in a
German newspaper during the First World War dealing with the rendering
of horse corpses to make soap was changed by the British into a report
that the bodies of dead German soldiers were being used by the Germans
to make soap. The British also spread the story that German soldiers
were cutting off the hands of Belgian children. All sorts of these
horrible stories were spread as part of the war effort. Similarly,
during the Second World War, atrocity stories were spread about the
activities of the enemy by both sides. The soap from dead bodies story
came to life once more in the form of German-manufactured RIF soap. A
rumor was spread that RIF stood for 'pure Jewish fat' and the bodies of
dead Jews were used in its manufacture. Though this and many stories
like it are now considered to be 'rumor' by Holocaust historians,
Germans were tried at war crimes trials on charges they had
participated in the manufacture of soap from human bodies and the
Soviets produced photographs of what they claimed was a laboratory near
Danzig where it was made. Several men were tried and went to jail for
taking part in activities Deborah Lipstadt, Tom Segev, and other Jewish
Holocaust writers now claim was only a wartime rumor. Nevertheless many
Jews still take the story seriously. 'Soap' became a derogatory term
for survivors of the Holocaust used by Israelis after the war. The
American television comedy 'Soap' was renamed 'Bubbles' when it aired
in Israel for that reason. The Yad Vashem museum in Israel still
displays RIF soap in one of its exhibits. There are several graves in
which German soap is buried on the belief that it was made from human
bodies. The 'human skin' lamps were the property of Ilse Koch who was
the wife of a concentration camp commander. Her husband had been
executed by the Nazis over financial irregularities at the camp under
his command. When brought to trial, Frau Koch was accused of, among
other things, picking prisoners with tattoos she liked to be killed so
she could make use of the art. As it turns out the lamps were made of
leather from goat hide and not human skin. Frau Koch committed suicide
while serving a prison sentence. These and the other stories about the
Nazis extracting material from dead bodies for the manufacture of
products are untrue and indicative of people's willingness to accept
any story concerning an enemy as fact. During wartime, dehumanizing an
enemy bolsters morale at home and justifies any vicious act of war
committed against it.. This is not to say all atrocity stories are
false, but great care should be taken before giving credence to such
horror stories. Even so, five decades after the war ended, many people
are willing to swallow any charge of evildoing leveled at Nazi Germany
as true.
83) What is the explanation for all the hair, shoes, eyeglasses, and
other personal items found at Auschwitz?
a) As prisoners were processed into the concentration camp, their hair
was shaved to prevent the introduction of more typhus-bearing lice into
the camp. Their personal belongings were taken away and put into
storage. Uniforms and shoes were issued to the prisoners after they
were deloused. Hundreds of thousand of people passed through Auschwitz
camp and survived. The best evidence available points to a total of
around 130,000 deaths that took place during the time the Nazis
operated the camp. Nearly all of these were due to epidemics of typhus
and other diseases. The separation of a person from their belongings in
and of itself does not cause death, however, those that not survive
their time at Auschwitz did not claim their belongings, so these
remained in storage. In addition much of this prisoner private property
was left behind when the camp was evacuated and abandoned to the
advancing Red Army in January of 1945. There was very real possibility
of having one's belongings stolen while in the camp by other prisoners.
Storing the goods prevented that. Leather goods are a haven for lice.
Many items like shoes and suitcases were stored as part of camp
hygienic measures. Other items, such as shaving razors, were potential
weapons and were confiscated and stored for that reason.
84) What have forensic examinations of the alleged extermination sites
revealed?
a)Several examinations have been made by scientists and amateurs of the
crematoria, and alleged gas chamber sites at several of the former Nazi
camps. While they generally agree on what the buildings look like, the
conclusions as to their nature diverge in some cases. Fred Leuchter, an
execution equipment engineer; Walter Lueftl, an Austrian engineer;
Germar Rudolf, a German chemist; and two revisionist researchers -
David Cole of the United States and Ditlieb Felderer of Sweden, among
others, have all concluded the gas chambers and ruins of gas chambers
on display at the various concentration camp sites were not and could
not be used as gas chambers as described by eyewitness. A French
pharmacist, J.C. Pressac, and the Polish government authority that
administers the Auschwitz museum draw the opposite conclusion based on
the same evidence. What they discovered were extremely small traces of
prussian blue, a byproduct of the use of the fumigant Zyklon-B, (i.e.
the chemical HCN), in the mortar at the some of the sites, particularly
at Auschwitz and Birkenau. Revisionists point out that the by product
should be found in much higher quantity. The traces were found at
levels consistent with the building being fumigated at some point. A
gas chamber would contain a much larger amount of the prussian blue
because of the repeated exposure to HCN as in the camp fumigation
facilities where prussian blue has permeated deeply into the walls and
can be found in high concentrations. Pressac and others on the opposite
side of the issue argue finding any trace at all supports their
position of gassings in the buildings.
85) Why have there not been extensive forensic examinations of the
killing centers up to now by the Allied governments?
a)There are probably several reasons for it and since these governments
don't even address the issue any reply to this question would be
speculative. The most obvious reason is the Soviets and her allies saw
no need for them. The war crimes tribunals simply took judicial notice
of the crimes themselves and therefore it was not required that proof
be produced. The question addressed by the IMT and NMT was not what
happened, but who was to be punished. A thorough examination of the
death camps would more likely than not produce evidence which would
damage their case since they knew many of the charges were untrue.
Therefore such an action by them would be counterproductive to the
larger goal of discrediting the Nazi regime.
86) Doesn't the verdict in the Max Taeubner trial indicate the Nazi
Einsatzgruppen were killing Jews?
a) Max Taeubner was a member of an SS Einsatzgruppen who was convicted
by an SS court for his part in the massacre of Jews in the occupied
territories in the East. The court was particularly disturbed by his
photographing the bodies and sharing the pictures with family and
friends. It appears from the verdict the reason he was punished for his
activities in the case was for his acting in this regard without
orders, the cruelty with which the executions were carried out, and for
taking photographs which he shared with others. Certainly the
Einsatzgruppen killed people, particularly Jews. These executions were
part of security measures instituted in the eastern territories
occupied by the Nazis. The point to them was to suppress anti- Nazi
guerrilla activities in these areas. Taeubner was a loose cannon acting
out of his own personal hatred for Jews. He was sentenced to several
years in prison for his crimes, but was pardoned in January 1945-- when
the situation for Germany was beyond desperate--and put back on duty at
the front. Taeubner apparently survived the war and there were several
unsuccessful attempts to prosecute him in the 1960s and 1970s in
Germany for his crimes, but the courts cited his prior conviction by an
SS court and dismissed the case.
87) What is the Leuchter Report?
a) During the mid-1980's a German-Canadian publisher named Ernst
Zuendel commissioned an American execution equipment engineer and
consultant named Fred Leuchter to examine the sites of alleged Nazi gas
chambers at Auschwitz and Majdanek and render his opinion as to whether
these buildings were used to kill millions of people. The report then,
is Leuchter's opinion based on the evidence he gathered and analyzed.
88) Is the Leuchter Report flawed? If so, how?
a)The Leuchter Report is adequate for the purpose for which it was
intended, which was to fulfill the commission of Ernst Zuendel to
examine the sites of alleged German gas chambers, report on what he
found, and draw conclusions from his findings.
The samples of plaster and mortar Leuchter had tested left a question
as to how much prussian blue residue from Zyklon-B would be found in a
room that had been fumigated one or more times, but not used as a gas
chamber. The answer to this question was left open because plaster
samples from the so-called undressing rooms at crematory II and III
were not analyzed for comparison to those taken from the alleged gas
chambers.
89) Have others corroborated Leuchter's findings?
a)German chemist, Germar Rudolf has analyzed samples of plaster taken
from prisoner sleeping barracks and found that the amount of residue
left behind from fumigation with Zyklon-B is comparable with that found
in the alleged gas chambers. Rudolf also concludes the gas chamber
story is false. The Austrian engineer Walter Lueftl has also examined
the allegations and came to the same conclusion; As did DuPont chemist
William L. Lindsey when he examined the problem of the gas chambers.
90) Why would the Allies have been interested in Auschwitz long before
the charges of extermination there were leveled?
a) Auschwitz was located next to a Buna rubber factory that the Nazis
were building to convert coal to gasoline. 'Operation Frantic' targeted
German fuel production facilities for bombing missions. As early as
1943 Auschwitz and Monowitz, the Buna plant, were flown over by Allied
photo reconnaissance airplanes in preparation for it being targeted by
American bomber planes. The entire area had been photographed over a
dozen times by the American army by the end of 1944. Yet, despite this
interest in the area, the U.S. government was unable to confirm an
extermination of the Jews was taking place.
91) What do Himmler's diaries reveal about the final solution to the
Jewish problem?
a) That is unknown, since these have never been published and are not
available to researchers though they are known to exist in Israel.
92) What do the Auschwitz-Birkenau coke shipment records reveal?
a) Receipts for shipments of coke to fuel the crematories for some of
1942 and ten months of 1943 are in the Auschwitz archives in Poland.
They indicate an amount of fuel available to cremate corpses compatible
with the registered deaths in the camp for that period. The death rate
was about 100 per day and the amount of coke available for each
cremation works out to a little more than 21 kilograms (46 lb.) of fuel
per registered death. This amount of fuel is compatible with the
requirements of the crematory machinery.
93) How long does it take to cremate a human body?
a) It varies with the equipment used, but the cremation time for the
equipment installed at Birkenau appears to have required an
incineration time of about an hour per body. The entire cremation cycle
took longer and each oven, or retort, could reduce three or four bodies
per day under normal operating circumstances. Birkenau had a total of
46 ovens so the capacity would have been 184 bodies per day if all of
the facilities were operating at once.
This, however, was not the case. Crematories IV and V had 8 ovens each
and operated for only a few months before they broke down and were
mothballed in 1943. The other two at Birkenau, numbered II and III,
contained a total of 30 retorts which would have put the normal daily
capacity at 90 to 120 bodies per day which is the rate indicted for the
camp by the death registries.
In 1942, when the crematory facilities for Birkenau were planned by the
SS, it was also planned that the camp be greatly expanded and the
inmate population increased to two hundred thousand. The camp
population never reached that number and the typhus epidemic was
partially brought under control, so the two smaller facilities were not
repaired and put back into operation since they were not needed.
94) Where are the original Allied Auschwitz air photo negatives?
a) In the CIA archives and unavailable to researchers. Copies of the
films can be studied by researchers at the National Archives in
Washington, D.C. but it is believed these films have been altered and
contain imagery different from the originals.
95) What was the 'Madagascar Plan'?
a) After France was defeated by Germany in 1940, the Nazi leadership
researched the practicality of resettling Europe's Jewry on the remote
French colony of Madagascar. It was decided Germany did not have the
resources to transport them there while the war was still being fought,
so Madagascar was abandoned in favor of occupied Soviet territory in
late 1941. It was hoped at the time by the Nazis the final expulsion of
the Jews from the continent of Europe would then be addressed once the
war was won.
96) Who was Kurt Gerstein?
a) Kurt Gerstein was a low-ranking SS officer with a degree in mining
engineering who served as a sanitation officer for the SS during the
war. Near the end of the war, he deserted his assignment and
surrendered to the French. While a captive of the French, he wrote
several reports or confessions having to do with what he claimed to
have witnessed with regard to the gassing of Jews at various Nazi
concentration camps. He was found hanged in his cell soon thereafter.
97) How reliable are Gerstein's confessions?
a)The reports left by Gerstein are full of exaggerations and
absurdities, but since the source is an SS officer, they are frequently
used by Holoscribes as source material in their writings. A reading of
the entire text of these confessions can only make one wonder how
anyone can seriously quote from them.
98) How much ash remains after a body is cremated?
a) The Cremation Association of North America says that adult remains
weigh between three and nine pounds. Others have found they average 7.4
pounds for men and 5.8 pounds for women.
99) What does Dr. Kremer's diary reveal about his time at Auschwitz?
a)Dr. Kremer's diary does not mention the gas chambers at all and only
refers to the use of Zyklon-B once in relation to the fumigation of a
barracks infested with lice. Dr. Kremer discusses the epidemic of
typhus raging through Auschwitz during the second half of 1942 and the
quarantine the camp was under to get control of the spread of the
disease.
There are several references to having witnessed horrible scenes while
assigned to special actions, but these references are so vague, only a
very loose interpretation would allow the reader to conclude he is
referring to gassings in these entries. More than likely the references
are related to examining prisoners with typhus.
Other gruesome entries deal with the pathologist's work in collecting
human organs from dying patients for his studies; attending trials and
executions of prisoners. These were all duties he performed while
assigned to the camp.
The key reason Kremer's diary is cited by the Holoscribes as proof of
mass murder of Jews at Auschwitz is his use of an ambiguous phrase in
one of the entries. The phrase in question refers to Auschwitz camp as
"das Lager der Vernichtung" which they translate as "an extermination
camp." As Faurisson points out, however, the Nazis did not refer to any
of their camps as such and placing this postwar interpretation on this
1942 diary entry is erroneous. Moreover when the diary of SS-Dr. Kremer
is used as evidence of gassings at Auschwitz, it is required that his
more explicit post-war testimony be used in conjunction with the diary
to make it support the Auschwitz gas chamber legend. Kremer testified
to being assign duty at gassings. He claimed his function was to stand
by in case an SS member accidentally succumbed to the gas and render
assistance in such cases. The problem with interpreting the diary based
on Kremer's postwar testimony is the diary is no longer the evidence.
The evidence is the postwar testimony which was subject to all of the
postwar pressures of the other testimony given by former Nazis.
100) Are the stories of strange Nazi medical experiments true?
a)Medical experiments were performed on some concentration camp
prisoners, but those experiments which were life-threatening were
performed on inmates who had been sentenced to death by the German
government for crimes they had committed. However, many stories
concerning medical experiments, like those of Dr. Mengele at Auschwitz,
are more likely exaggerations and fabrications because they appear to
be scientifically pointless and even silly. The evidence for most of
these stories too is post-war testimony. The Nazis do not have a
monopoly on performing medical experiments on prison inmates, however.
In fact, some of the experimental research started by SS doctors was
continued and completed by American military doctors after the German
defeat.
101) Did Hitler order the Jews be exterminated?
a) Though that is alleged by those wishing to discredit Hitler and
others who wished to shift blame to a dead man. No extermination order
has ever been located, and there is no evidence Hitler even knew such a
program existed.
102) Did Himmler order the gas chambers be destroyed?
a) It is claimed Himmler, the head of the SS, ordered the destruction
of the gas chambers in October or November of 1944 and the
extermination of the Jews ended. No proof of this has ever been
produced. The story of the Himmler order, like the story of the Hitler
order to kill the Jews is based largely on postwar testimony,
particularly that of Eichmann and Hoess. The gas chamber facilities at
Auschwitz were supposed to have been destroyed soon after this order
was issued, but aerial photographs taken as late as January 1945 show
at least one of the crematory buildings still intact several months
after they were allegedly destroyed.
103) How many people survived being imprisoned at Auschwitz?
a) Recent (1996) press articles estimate the number of people to have
survived imprisonment at Auschwitz to be 200,000. The real number is
unknown, but many people were imprisoned at Auschwitz and its satellite
camps for very short times and were then released after they had served
their sentences. The real number, depending on the definition of
'survived', therefore may be higher. This huge number of survivors is
interesting in that the extermination program was supposed to have been
a state secret. Witnesses to it were supposedly killed as part of the
effort to destroy the evidence of the crime. Yet the crematories were
built in plain sight of everyone arriving at camp and most of the
barracks buildings. An athletic field was situated next to Crematory
III. There was no effort to hide the facilities, and the people
imprisoned at Auschwitz could see everything.
104) What is the Mueller document?
a) The Mueller document, published in 1980's, is purported to be an
Austrian police memorandum from the postwar 1940's which lists Nazi
concentration camps where gassing claims had been investigated and
proved to be false. An Austrian, Emil Lauchout, claims the document to
be genuine, but it is most likely a forgery. It appears the gassing
claims were never investigated, but simply accepted by the Allied
governments as fact.
105) Do Holocaust revisionists incite racial hatred?
a)No. As far as I know, there is no evidence of that. What the
revisionists want to incite is skepticism and an objective examination
of major contemporary historical issues that affect us all. Or to quote
the revisionist researcher and writer Carlo Mattogno :
"If official historiography reached the clear conclusion that their
'Holocaust' version was historically flawed, would it be necessary to
hush it up out of fear of providing justification for neo-Nazi
resurgency?" In other words, if it is true, it is unintentional and
beside the point.
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