That's a good point. And, a devastating one. You see, these photographs are all that holohoax promoters have going for them.
You can watch the Oprah and Elie do Auschwitz TV special here ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slZMOkYJFO0
It takes them all of 50 seconds to get to these pictures. Here's the dialogue that accompanies the pictures ...
"That young boy, Elie Weisel, lived to bear witness to the evil of man.
That evil has a name, the Holocaust. A systematic mass murder meticulously planned and executed by Nazi Germany that brutally wiped millions of people off the face of the earth, more than six million of those human beings were Jewish."
See? The photos are the only 'evidence' they've got of systematic mass murder, meticulously planned and executed.
Can you spot the fallacy yourself, Saggy?
Would Oprah bother her viewers with all technical evidence there is for the Holocaust? She works on emotion, and pictures of dead or emaciated bodies then works best. And if you want, there are plenty of documentaries that do go into depth. I lived in Germany in 1995, and as it was 50 years ago, public TV had another documentary virtually every other day. Or go visit the places themselves.
Go visit Dachau, the oldest concentration camp. The main building now houses the exhibition which tells the story of the camp, founded in March 1933. It starts out relatively innocent - there is even a letter of a Munich ADA complaining that the things going on in Dachau are not in accordance with the law. And detainees in 1933 would typically even get free in 3 to 6 months. However, over the years that changed and detainees would not get free, and bullying and torture intensified and diseases would break out. Can you manage to see the whole exhibition in one go? I didn't. Then go and see the barracks. Imagine the 20,000 detainees there were when the US army liberated Dachau, in those 20 barracks. They've been burned down because of the typhus epidemic, but go see one of the two that have been reconstructed. Don't let you fool by the IKEA-like freshness of the interior, but look at the redefinition of the notion "bunk bed". Go down the terrain, at the end to the left you'll find the gas chamber. Yes, I know it has been hardly used, if at all.
Go visit Mauthausen. I've been there. It's impressive. On approaching, you see the camp building that looks like a medival castle that says: you can't escape here. Visit the (modest) gas chamber there, and the exhibition. Go stand on the Appelplatz, and imagine there standing in modest clothes, in the cold, waiting until everybody is present and counted and the bullying guards will let you go. Then follow the path to the quarry. Along the path, you'll come across a place that was dubbed the "Flugplatz" (airport). Prisoners would, out of despair, there jump off the clieff in the ravine below. Others were pushed by the SS. Then go down the stairs, with its uneven steps, the endless stairs down into the quarry. Walk around there, and imagine what it was to toil there - not as a well-fed American, but as a political prisoner, or a Jew, or an American POW, and live on two watery bowls of cabbage soup a day, and be beaten by the guards who shout "Arbeiten Mensch!".
And listen to Theodorakis' Mauthausen cycle.
While you're at it, visit Lidice. A whole village destroyed by the Nazis as revenge for the killing of Reinhardt Heydrich. It still stands there as it was destroyed in 1942 - an eerie memento of a horrible regime - in the middle of a slightly hilly, grassy landscape, with bushes here and there, ruin after ruin of ordinary houses where once ordinary people lived.
And while you continue your journey to Auschwitz, think by yourself: would it really be inconceivable that a regime that inflicted these horrors on innocent victims, murder them by gas on an industrial scale? I haven't been personally to Auschwitz yet, so I can't comment on my personal impressions.
Go on that trip, Saggy, and all you other Holocaust deniers, and then come back and tell what you think then.
Oh, and here is a
photo of Elie Wiesel when he was liberated in Buchenwald.
