I'm not getting this. Even if we accepted the premise that the deaths were due to disease running rampant through the camps it would still be an act of genocide. Look at how the Germans committed genocide in South West Africa. They hardly killed anyone directly but they drove everyone else out into the desert then guarded the few watering holes that were there. The end result was still the death of the people even if they weren't shot....or gassed.
So, the fact that these camps were killing people, even if only from disease, is still evidence of a monstrous crime. A crime not too different from what the USA accused
Henry Wirz of in his administration of Andersonville. He was executed, by the way, for allowing disease and starvation to run rampant in his camp.
Exactly...what I was trying to say, but stated more clearly.
Look, here 9/11's and other holocaust deniers problem -- out side of the facts, documents, testimony, witness statements, the existence of the camps, photographs, movies, etc. that is.
They simply can't deny that Germany had a policy of expelling Jews. In other words, Germany had a stated policy witness by all of western and eastern Europe of going in (the nice words for unprovoked invasion) to a country, identifying, issolating and expelling the jews. Reminder: these were civilian, non-combatant populations that included children as well as old people.
In the west, they were identified, rounded-up and put on trains to the East. The same was true in the German territories proper...rounded up, put on trains to the east (save for a small number of "german" jews who were more or less ignored though who still suffered a great deal). In the east, these same, non-combatant populations were moved into secure ghettos (to the point of creating health and sanitation emergencies), and these ghettos were slowly/Quickly drained of people who were sent "east". Also, included in the invasion force were "action teams" that followed the army into the east and .... what 9/11? What were they doing at Babi Yar, in Lithuania, Poland etc?
Anyway, they all moved to the east and the ones left behind, apparently died of typhus. Could someone explain to me how the moved to the east and where? There was a war going on. The Germans were fighting the Russians. The Russians weren't letting people in...especially as they were falling back.
So, even in the "move to the east" and the "weak ones died of typus" version of events, you put a lot of innocent people uprooted from their homelands in a no-mans land between two armies intent on killing each other (btw, in your "it didn't happen, you can't prove it" theory, do you also include the 20 million Russians -- many of whom were POWs -- who died as not having died catagory?). In short, the very best you can do is to suggest that the Germans, not the bad guys of your history, deposited un-armed women, children and old people without food, clothing or shelter, up-rooted from every European country into an eastern no-mans-land between two massive armies intent on destroying each other...and that you argue isn't genecide or a holocaust?
Also, let us take one other example. 1944 Hungry breaks its aliance with Germany. Up until them, anti-semetic laws persecuted the 400,000 plus Hungarian Jews, but pretty well left them unmolested in any major faction. Germany invades Hungary and takes over the country. Item one on the German to do list? Get the Jews (even though the Russians were now baring down on them). Now no one, to my knowledge, doubts that the Germans over the course of a couple of months promulgated laws seperating the Jews from the general population, seperated the Jews from the general population, ordered them to report to train stations, put them on trains headed north and east. Where did they go?
My history -- documents like train schedules and military orders, witnesses, photos, etc. -- say that large numbers of them were taken to Aushwitz were they were pretty well wipped out by Gas over about three months. Your version? They died of Typus?
My point is that almost any case you can site, the documents, testimoney, witnesses, etc. is against you...so your claim has to be not just big but overly credible to demolish the pyramid of proof. Typhus and bad plumbing don't do it.