Stop the Gish Galloping. You're mixing up Auschwitz and the Aktion Reinhard camps in one gigantic ball of incredulity.
It's all part of the Holocaust, like it or not.
One isolated case, which is blown out of all proportion by deniers. The Polish government-in-exile drafted an indictment of Hans Frank on the basis of various wartime reports it had received. That corpus of reports actually specified gas chambers at Treblinka over and over and over again. All the other evidence at Nuremberg presented on Treblinka also specified gas chambers (namely a witness and the Soviets reading in part of the communist Polish government's investigative report into evidence).
Meh. Electrocution chambers anyone? Not in Treblinka admittedly. Also in a bath house though. Eastern European jews weren't exactly known for their good hygiene, this could explain all the horror involves showering.
I end my quotation here, and I call the attention of the Tribunal to Page 136 on the reverse side of the document book; this is from a report of the Polish Government, which shows that the Camp Sobibur was founded during the first and second liquidation of the Jewish ghetto. But the extermination on a large scale in this camp really started at the beginning of 1943. In this same report, in the last paragraph on Page 136 of the document book, we may read that Camp Belsen was founded in 1940; but it was in 1942 that the special electrical appliances were built in for mass extermination of people. Under the pretext that the people were being led to the
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bath-house, the doomed were undressed and then driven to the building where the floor was electrified in a special way; there they were killed.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/02-19-46.asp
The fact that an Allied organisation got something wrong rather militates, by the way, against the frequent claims of forgery, coercion and orchestration peddled by deniers.
Make that some thing
s and don't try to deny that forgery, coercion and orchestration did NOT happen. Now THAT would be revisionism of a bad kind.
Now, any claim to refute the sum total of witness testimony to the Reinhard camps is eventually going to have to confront all of them.
Seems like you think I'm a keeper. It would keep me busy alright.
In our critique, we examined denier canards like diesel and corpse colour and found them all dramatically wanting. The deniers had advanced their claims, we refuted them.
Let me see how you did that. Still wading through the hundreds of posts.
In particular, on a classic issue like 'diesel' we were able to show where this had come from and why, noting a major disagreement between witnesses who actually operated the gassing engines and those who did not. The best explanation for the repetition of 'diesel' was that it was camp slang, reinforced by the fact that a diesel generator for the power supply was colocated next to the petrol-driven gassing engine. Thus, the diesel argument has been destroyed once and for all. Sorry.
I see, special interpretation saves the day yet again. All things "Sonder" similarly equal death. Where would we be without Holocaust historians giving us translations for the rich German language? Anyway, so if Eichmann at his trial says a Russian submarine engine was used (even if there is no record of the Germans capturing one intact), it was a GASOLINE engine? Makes sense, Russian engineering, put a gasoline engine in a submarine.
Oh, an excellent example would be Hans Aumeier, SS officer, telling the British in Norway that the first gas chambers at Auschwitz were named 'Bunkers' at the same time as Szlama Dragon, Sonderkommando, told the Poles the exact same thing.
I'm almost laughing out loud. Bunkers is very specific and you do realize that the original Krema I gas chamber had been converted by the Germans into an air raid shelter in September 1944 even according to conventional history right? Bunkers sounds so out of the blue. Should have given anyone a clue that it is a place for gassings.
By looking at details not mentioned in the report, silly. For example, the Vrba-Wetzler report doesn't discuss wire-mesh columns in Kremas II and III. However, we have witnesses on both sides of the Iron Curtain describing wire mesh columns to different investigating nation-states, with those interrogations or testimonies remaining unpublicised at the time. Ergo, they were independent reports since there is no common source in the public domain which could have formed the template for that detail, which is repeated so frequently that it would be massively improbable that it was invented simultaneously by telepathy or whatever other magic fantasy you have to claim to deny the fact that the witnesses are independent on this.
Sweet, corroborating evidence on wire mesh columns which were never found. I guess those thievy Soviets needed scrap metal BADLY.
Bare assertion fallacy. And before you start blethering about Hoess, think on this: there were more than 30 SS officers who served at Auschwitz who described gas chambers and mass murder to Allied and East Bloc interrogators from 1945 to the time that Hoess was captured in March 1946.
Fine, give 10. I feel lenient.
Feel free to lay out an argument that they were all tortured.
Feel free to show me ten. I'll show you one who was tortured.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mc3y-6DobeQ/UBCXnJPk1WI/AAAAAAAAHW8/s84N-roe8FA/s640/1.jpg
But I guess I should stop blethering.
But first you have to identify who they are. Someone who had actually read a decent amount on Auschwitz would know who they were and who captured them. I'm pretty sure you don't.
I don't. I guess I'm stupid.
It's patently obvious that you have absolutely no idea how many witnesses there are from the SS side alone, never mind other witnesses. There were nearly 40 SS witnesses who served in the Reinhard camps just to name one example. Better than 100 SS witnesses testified in the run up to and during the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial. There were 32 separate trials involving gas vans in postwar Germany, i.e. not conducted by the Allies. Each of those trials had multiple German witnesses, never mind other witness categories.
If I have some spare time after wading through all the posts here, I'll go looking for your SS witnesses to the gas chambers. They'd better be there.
Yet the SS still confessed to gas chambers. As did Eichmann in Argentina when he was a free man, being interviewed by a Dutch SS veteran who wanted him to deny the Holocaust. Yet Eichmann didn't.
I wouldn't mention Eichmann if I were you. See above.
If there are so few documents then you can list them, no? And tell us why they don't prove gas chambers.
If there was ANY document that CONCLUSIVELY proves gas chambers did exist, there wouldn't be nearly as many revisionists, wouldn't it?
Generations of deniers have tried to tell us what the 'Vergasungskeller' document meant. We have been told it was
a carburetion chamber
an air raid shelter
a morgue
a delousing chamber
which are all mutually contradictory explanations, and which all are contradicted by other documents and other facts relating to the same crematoria in Auschwitz.
So you're saying this sign is wrong in TWO ways? It actually WAS used as a gas chamber AND it was not a Gaskammer but a Vergasungskeller?
http://www.sannhistoria.org/grap/dachau1.jpg
Try again buddy. Gas chamber is Gaskammer in German. Vergasungskeller IS NOT.
Now, on its own the 'Vergasungskeller' document could be read in all sorts of ways but the document doesn't exist on its own.
I couldn't give a hoot whether you have a million documents saying Vergasungskeller, a Vergasungskeller is a gassifying basement or cellar, not a gas chamber.
So that's your document angle buggered.
I'm sure you're happy to have me buggered.
On the contrary, I specifically DID explain cremations in 15 minutes because I discussed multiple body cremations. If you cremate 2 bodies at the same time then you will complete the bulk of the cremation in 30 minutes. By this stage the size of the corpse is actually quite small and so you can insert 2 more bodies into the muffle. Thus, 4 bodies per hour, therefore 1 body per 15 minutes. In actual fact, each body is taking a full hour to be cremated down to cinders.
I am sorry but the available documentation seems to suggest that one body can be cremated in 15 minutes WITHOUT mentioning this is done by shoving in more than one body per muffle. Apart from other issues with those documents, this clearly indicates forgery.
Of course, it's all a lot easier when a significant number of the bodies are those of children.
It's been suggested by promotors of the conventional Holocaust that children and those emaciated people were good candidates. They'd like to forget that they claim most people were allegedly gassed upon arrival and hence not emaciated. A better idea would be to give up the ridiculous claims that up to 4700 people or so could be cremated a day at Auschwitz, but that would be equivalent to admitting at least one case of good forgeries exists. So no can do.
Since it's known that ash was thrown into the Sola river then it's pretty unsurprising that the full quantity of ash was not found. There are however still ash ponds and ash pits at Birkenau today. But the fact that the ash was thrown into the river makes your 'no one can find the tons of ash' a spectacularly stupid argument.
If you've ever watched "Defamation", you'll see that the Israelis still demonize the Polish living around Auschwitz as having used those ashes as fertilizer on their land.
And if you actually knew anything about the concentration camp system then you'd know that the Nazis discontinued sending out urns quite early on for most inmates, especially for Poles, Czechs, Russians and Jews, continuing only for German inmates, whose relatives received an urn filled willy-nilly with some ash from the latest cremation rather than cremating each body individually.
Well, NOW you're adding nuance.
So far, you're averaging about D minus by denier standards, Simon. That is compared to the Fs scored by Clayton Moore and the C minuses from Dogzilla. We've heard it all before. You'll have to try harder.
Meh. I'll try looking for your SS witnesses to the gas chambers if I have time. I know 3 or 4, but 30?