Random links some of which have been debunked, so to speak (
"Babi Yar - Critical Comments and Questions", contradict one another, ramble, repeat silly formulas (like there only being 3000 EG members), use vague innuendo instead of analysis ("suspiciously" precise figures!), and engage in bad history (from misunderstanding Wannsee to outright negation of whole events because sources differ on details). Sadly, the hotel I'm in has terrible wi-fi and thus the Holocaust Handbooks PDF, which I don't have a copy of, won't open here (I recall that denier claims about the air photos were debunked at HC years ago . . . will check later). The rest of the materials you've linked to don't even deal with the sources I've shared with you, except in a few cases in the most cursory manner.
For now, just a few random points, random because of the randomness of these pieces:
Nikiforuk writes that
Which historians? Can you tell us which ones, as Nikiforuk gives no citation to Hilberg and mentions not another of these "almost every major historians."
I ask because, on Babi Yar, Hilberg has written (Destruction, p 300):
And on p 406:
On Babi Yar, Hilberg does not seem to mention exaggerated figures, at least I can't find him doing so.
This same guy, Nikiforuk, writes at some length about a US report about a German doctor, Gustav Schuebbe, who allegedly ran a murder institute in Kiev, where patients were murdered by injection. Please, what does this case have to do with evidence for/against the mass executions at Babi Yar? And why is this random point included - if not simply to muddy waters?
By the way
here is where Christian Lindtner deals with some of the tired, repetitious arguments of Graf on Babi Yar.
And your Tiedemann thinks he's found a logical hole in the case for Babi Yar:
He can't be serious, and neither can you, with such rubbish. The Wannsee Conference was not, as all serious students of the Holocaust have long known, where the mass murder of Jews was planned. It was a coordinating conference, meant to confirm roles and responsibilities and align parts of the German government - continuing the early murders in the East which followed Barbarossa. The
focus of the Wannsee meeting was European-wide, not on Soviet occupied territory; as the murders in the occupied USSR had been taking place for months, under Heydrich's orders - and reported on to Berlin - at Wannsee the exterminations in the East were seen as early experience for planners to build on. Hitler didn't decide the Final Solution until December 1941 - that is, the mass murder of European Jews - and this decision at that time in no way suggests that the earlier murders in the USSR didn't occur. That's just silly and shows how bereft and useless your authors are.
Finally, for now, Nikiforuk says that "Soviet archival records reveal that the atrocity propaganda about Katyn and Babi Yar was fabricated by Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman . . ."
(1) Citation, please. Nikiforuk doesn’t provide one, so I am asking that you do so.
(2) We have the not-so-small matter of German documents, however, and Ukrainian and Jewish reports, many of them contemporaneous. (I know, Nikiforuk claims that these things don’t exist . . . but look back at my first post on this!)
(3) Graf thus claims that the Einsatzgruppen reports are “frauds” - because he has to, given what they say and their timing.
The problem for Graf, and you, is simple: again, look back at my first post on this or at Hans Metzner’s discussion of documents and testimonies. We’re not talking about just EMs, no, we are talking about a host of witnesses and contemporary diarists AND German documents from Propagandakompanie 637, Army Ammunition Depot Berditschew to Commander of the Army Rear Area South, the HSSPF-South, the 454th Security Division, Hans Koch, liaison officer of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories, 113th Infantry Division, Paul Dargel (Reichskommissariat Ukraine), Abwehr*officer Erwin Stolze, Abwehr officer E. Kumming, Martin Luther (German Foreign Office), Johannes Hähle of Propagandakompanie 637, to mention most reviewed by Hans Metzner.
Are all these documents also fraudulent? Did someone forge or alter them? Why didn’t Graf tell us about this? What’s your argument concerning them?
I ask you now: prove that the EMs are fraudulent and, if you think so, all these other documents, too. Show us how, when, by whom, under whose orders, and for what purpose the fraud was carried out.
More later - I'm off to dinner. But, thanks for the good reminder of how little revisionism has to offer.