Border Reiver
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The enormity of the Holocaust lie is never examined by the believers. They know that questioning the Holocaust in any shape or form has serious negative consequences. 3 million this, 6 million here, 11 million there.
There is no attempt to connect any dots. So here are couple of realities that must be connected and supported by real people/work. Remembering the Germans were fighting and supporting and managing troops for a war on 3 or 4 fronts, land, sea, and air.
The believers are told that the extermination of 6 million Jewish people and 5 or 6 million other noncombatants during WWII went pretty much unnoticed.
In the 1950s the population of Philadelphia was about 3 million people.
What the believers are told and believe without question is that a population the size of Philadelphia was collected from all over Europe, NOT Germany itself, and gassed in Polish concentration camps over a period of 3 years.
SQUAD – Nine to 10 soldiers. Typically commanded by a sergeant or staff sergeant, a squad or section is the smallest element in Army structure, and its size is dependent on its function.
PLATOON – 16 to 44 soldiers. A platoon is led by a lieutenant with an NCO as second in command, and consists of two to four squads or sections.
COMPANY – 62 to 190 soldiers.
BATTALION – 300 to 1,000 soldiers.
BRIGADE – 3,000 to 5,000 soldiers.
DIVISION – 10,000 to 15,000 soldiers.
CORPS – 20,000 to 45,000 soldiers. Two to five divisions constitute a corps, which is typically commanded by a lieutenant general.
ARMY – 50,000+ soldiers. Typically commanded by a lieutenant general or higher, an army combines two or more corps.
Your numbers for brigades and higher are low, likely due to overlooking the support troops.
What's your point here? That the Nazis wasted a lot of combat potential in favour of genocide? If that is your point, then bravo! You've reached a level of understanding not often seen by deniers.
Note that a squad has one supervisor over 9 or 10 trained men. So if there were a million trained men assigned to squads 100000 supervisors would be required.
The SS had a fairly extensive system of NCO and officer training as did the Heer, training small unit leaders.
Note that a squad has one supervisor over 9 or 10 trained men. So if there were a million trained men assigned to squads 100000 supervisors would be required.
So what supervisory numbers would be required for confined civilians?
Take a look at your local correctional facility for a rough guide.
So what supervisory numbers are required for confined hostile, certainly in alleged death camps the prisoners would be very angry, civilians?
Most prisons use a fairly small number of guards. I'm reasonably certain most convicts are very angry civilians with the added benefit that they don't have to worry about family.
German records showed 50,000 (approx) men in the totenkopferbande. Likely with similar ratios of NCOs to men. That doesn't include the Waffen SS, Heer, or police forces, nor does it include the auxiliaries from the eastern territories. Why is this now a surprise to you?