Nick Terry
Illuminator
Van Pelt's statement quoted, indeed the whole article, is sheer idiocy. Complete nonsense. Anyone with half a functioning brain can see that.
Anyone with half a functioning brain can see that you have repeatedly misunderstood Pelt's statement, and you repeatedly cite it selectively.
Ninety-nine per cent of what we know we do not actually have the physical evidence to prove . . . it has become part of our inherited knowledge.
I don't think that the Holocaust is an exceptional case in that sense.
So that means 99% of what we know about the past as a whole, we do not actually have the physical evidence to prove.
Which is quite true - because virtually everything mentioned in newspapers or chronicles through the ages cannot leave a physical trace other than on paper or another recording medium, which then ceases to be 'physical evidence' in the sense you insist on using.
There is no 'physical evidence' of any cabinet meeting, any session of Parliament, Congress, the Reichstag or Supreme Soviet, any diplomatic summit or congress, any boadroom meeting, any battlefield staff conference, any church synod or conclave.... and virtually all of them are not even recorded in audio or video.
99% of what transpires in a war does not leave any 'physical evidence' for archaeologists to find.
In any discipline other than holohoax studies this idiot would laughed off the stage.
please tell us the last time that political scientists, sociologists or economists used 'physical evidence'. Clue: they don't.
And please tell us how often historians - as opposed to archaeologists - refer to physical evidence in the average book on wars or even genocides and mass murders.
Let's start with the Eastern Front and Stalinism, both of which cost more lives than the Holocaust. Tell us how much of what is written in the standard works on those subjects comes from physical evidence.
Instead, as one of the few academic shabbos goys willing to prostitute himself in the service of Zionism, he is a 'respected scholar'.
Doubly wrong. Firstly, Van Pelt is Jewish. Secondly, if he was non-Jewish, he'd hardly be alone since a numerical majority of historians who have written about the Holocaust are not Jewish - they're mainly German.