How about telling us the context of the shootings?
How about you telling us, since I asked you?
What I will say for now is that your calling discussion of the murder of Sonderkommando members "stupid lies," in this case for Majdanek, has shown to be far wide of the mark.
You're making the assumption that they were killed to hide something evil.
No, I am not; the camp resistance is making that assumption. You really need to read what's posted more carefully.
I know from testimony of Muhsfeldt and others the kind of work they did – so you are making the assumption, contrary to evidence, that they didn’t do what I claim.
Could they have been shot for murder, rape some heinous criminal act?
23 members of the Sonderkommando? You tell us. Is there a record of a mass rape, for example, around that time by closely guarded SK workers? You do realize that armed SS guards watched over inmates at Majdanek? I am making an assumption, indeed, that the camp underground heard no reason for the murders of SK members and thus, based on what the activists were hearing and already knew about the camp, concluded that the SK members were murdered to silence them. I draw this conclusion this based on the document itself and my general knowledge of the camp. Unlike you, I use the evidence to reach my conclusions.
You see, there's other evidence about this issue. For one thing, Eric Muhsfeldt, the cremation head, testified that SK crews were rotated - and Russian prisoners were brought in to staff his crew around the time nearly all Jews in the camp were murdered. The SK crews were periodically replaced - the first crew (Jews) was replaced by Russians in March 1942; the Russian crew was replaced later by French and German Jews - and then the last crew (also Russians) was brought in sometime after late September 1943, when this shooting occurred. Also, Kapo, Ernst Fischer, testified that sometimes SK workers were gassed. (Mailänder,
Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence, p 176). Also, there is the fact of the timing of this particular mass shooting, which was at the time of the last reported mass gassing of Jews. (Kranz,
The Extermination of Jews at Majdanek Concentration Camp, p 58). Further, we have evidence (this is reviewed in Gideon Greif's book,
The Wept Without Tears) that the Germans cycled SK crews, murdering each in turn, which is what Greif shows happened at Auschwitz. So a basic practice with regard to SK crews was to kill the members from time to time. A reasonable interpretation of all this is that this crew was murdered and then replaced.
I don't know of a good reason to reject the assumption of the reason for the murder made by the camp underground, so I consider it to be a reasonable inference, not definitive.
As to your speculation, it is not only ridiculous (that crews of two dozen SK workers would periodically, say, commit mass rape and thus be shot) - there is nothing I know of to support it.
No, you make the assumption the were killed for bla, bla, bla, because your holohoax narrative expects it...nice try....
You keep missing the point. I suggest you re-read Tomtomkent's recent posts slowly and carefully, where he writes about developing the best explanations to explain the evidence we have about a historical issue. My point is that your dismissal of discussion of such murders as "stupid lies" is knee-jerk negationism; rather, there is reason to discuss these murders as 1) historical occurrences and 2) for the purpose of eliminating witnesses. We have a document suggesting - not proving - this. What do you have? What is your evidence-based explanation for this document?
