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Of course, you can cite me saying that any historian had cited that specific passage?
No?
No.
Did you read the part where I said "Since I never claimed any particular number of historians endorsed that detail. I feel no need to look it up, since whether her shoes were stolen or not makes precisely zero difference to the question of whether or not the Holocaust happened. But nice try at a goalpost shift..."?
No?
Yes. I did read that part.
You asked for "an historian who endorses ANY specific detail found in ANY specific holocaust survivor or perpetrator testimony so we can see what such an "endorsement" looks like."
That's what I gave you.
No you didn't.
You went on to suggest a very specific detail, which suggestion I rejected as above.
I'm always trying to help you out but you don't have to take my suggestions. To review: You had challenged CM to find a historian who endorses the absurd claim about packing the gas chambers tightly with adults and throwing babies on top to maximize the killing. It's a variation on the worn out challenge to, zb, "Prove that any historian has ever used
{insert ludicrous IMT finding here} or {insert common survivor story that only an idiot would believe here} to try and show us that lies, falsehoods, or magical thinking of the holocaust variety are OK no matter how many people hear and believe the lies because nobody important does.
Naturally, directly linking any specific nonsensical claim to any specific historian is next to impossible. To illustrate, I challenged you to find an historian who endorses ANY specific detail found in ANY specific holocaust survivor or perpetrator testimony so we can see what such an "endorsement" looks like. I helpfully suggested that you tell us how many historians have "endorsed" the one about Germans (or their collaborators) shooting teenage girls in the foot and taking their shoes.
You answered my challenge with "Klee, in "The Good Old Days" cites a report from Johannes Blaskowitz on the very first page of the main part of the book which speaks of the indiscriminate slaughter of Jews qua Jews."
You also said that: "Since I never claimed any particular number of historians endorsed that detail. I feel no need to look it up, since whether her shoes were stolen or not makes precisely zero difference to the question of whether or not the Holocaust happened. But nice try at a goalpost shift..."
Your answer doesn't make a whole lot of sense but I'm under the impression that you're not going to tell me which historian has specifically endorsed Pesye Schloss' shot in the foot story because you never claimed any particular number of historians endorsed that detail. That's OK because it's true that you never did make that specific claim. I offered it as a suggestion and you refused to do the research thingy necessary to find any such link. So CMs factoid about babies thrown on top of the heads in a stuffed to the gills gas chamber is meaningless holocaust drivel because he can't tell us which historian has specifically mentioned this anecdote. Similarly, your unwillingness to find an historian who specifically endorses Pesye Schloss' foot story means that it too is meaningless holocaust drivel. If you can't tell us which historian has specifically endorsed any specific fact found in Pesye Schloss' testimony we can naturally assume that everything she said is meaningless holocaust drivel so we can effectively dismiss her as important.
Weirdly, you offered us Klee who cites a report from Blaskowitz in his book, "The Good Old Days." But you didn't tell us which specific detail Blaskowitz mentioned in his report that is specifically endorsed by Klee in his book. That's what we need here in order for you to pretend you answered the question.
Now, it's your turn, AGAIN. Cite any historian using Night as a primary source.
Or admit you can't, which means that whether or not anything happened in that book or not, it has no effect on the historicity of the Holocaust.
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I'm going to pull a TSR here and refuse your request because I never made the claim that Elie Wiesel's
Night is cited by any historian. Judging by the sales figures of this book and his other holocaust related offerings, he's probably the most widely read author in the holocaust genre. But I think the fact that a man who is so important in shaping the public perception of the holocaust is an absolute nobody among the academicians who study the holocaust is hilarious. It symbolizes the intellectual bankruptcy of holocaust scholarship. So, no, I will not cite any historian who cites Wiesel. It suits me fine if none of them do.
And, as an aside, we were talking about babies thrown on top of the heads of Jews in the gas chamber. We weren't talking about
Night or E Lie Weasel. Your attempt to bring the subject around to E Lie is what I believe you guys call shifting goalposts.