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Unbelievable. These people don't look like they can stand up, let alone labor as slaves.

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The concentration camps were for slave labor. "Round the clock allied bombing made it impossible to maintain them. The idea that six million were gassed and cremated is a convenient way for the allies to cover up their parts in it.

No argument from me. Typhus and starvation, mostly due to 'round the clock bombing by the U.S. and the British. Not that there is any excuse for the camps. German civilians were starving too.

You and Cypress should stop emoting, and virtue signalling and start thinking.
 
It is a well established historical fact that the nazis experimented with various methods of mass murder and found poison gas to be the most efficient for murdering vast numbers of people .

If you do not like the death estimates you are free to do scholarly research using accepted method of historical analysis , publish in peer reviewed journals, and convince the scholarly community of the strength of your case .

Guesswork and supposition on an obscure message board does not cut the mustard .

"Everybody knows" is a logical fallacy.
 
The concentration camps were for slave labor. "Round the clock allied bombing made it impossible to maintain them. The idea that six million were gassed and cremated is a convenient way for the allies to cover up their parts in it.

No argument from me. Typhus and starvation, mostly due to 'round the clock bombing by the U.S. and the British. Not that there is any excuse for the camps. German civilians were starving too.

You and Cypress should stop emoting, and virtue signalling and start thinking.

None of this is virtue signaling. It's history. And part of the history comes from first-hand testimony of those who survived the camps.

"Lesław Dyrcz leaned over a pile of rubble and dirt, completely unaware that he was about to make a discovery that would shed light on one of history’s darkest moments. It was 1980, and the forestry student was working to help restore the original forest around what was once Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the Nazis’ most notorious death camps. Dyrcz was there to help mitigate the effects decades of air pollution had on the forest, attempting to let its original pine trees grow once more. But the student was about to change history.

As he dug, Dyrcz discovered a leather briefcase buried in the ground. He opened it up and found a thermos. Inside the container were pages of handwritten paper. Though Dyrcz could not read the text—it was written in Greek—he had just discovered one of the most important pieces of testimony of the Holocaust: eyewitness accounts of Nazi crimes, written by Marcel Nadjary, a Jewish man from Greece who had been enslaved with about 2,000 others and forced to help the Nazis as they operated their grimly efficient killing machines.

Nadjary had been one of the Sonderkommando—a group of men, most of them Jewish, tasked with taking the Nazis’ victims from the gas chambers and disposing of the bodies. At the peak of Auschwitz’s operations, up to 6,000 Jews a day were gassed by the Nazis. Then, the Sonderkommando’s unthinkable task began. Though historians had known about the Sonderkommando, the secrecy of their work and the fact that so many didn’t survive the Holocaust, made testimony like Nadjary’s even more precious.

Even at the height of the Holocaust, the work of the Sonderkommando was shrouded in mystery and performed under threat of death. Since the people brought to the gas chambers were all murdered, the Sonderkommando were the only witnesses who survived. And since they knew the Nazis’ secrets firsthand, their lives at Auschwitz were marked by fear and isolation.

The duties of Sonderkommando varied, but all entailed helping the Nazis move along their extermination of Jews. Nazis did the actual killing, dropping Zyklon B pellets into gas chambers, but the Sonderkommando were forced to do nearly everything else. They helped maintain order among prisoners who were about to be killed, lying and telling them that they needed to take showers before rejoining their families. They removed the naked bodies from the gas chamber, picked them over for gold teeth and hidden valuables, and cut their hair off to sell to German companies to be used for cloth, ammunition packaging and other purposes. They sorted the clothing and personal effects they had left behind. They carried the bodies to the crematoria and stuffed them into the ovens. Then they ground the remaining bones and took the ashes to various dumping sites to hide the evidence.

The Sonderkommandos’ work ultimately helped the Nazis, but was performed under constant threat of death and with an understanding that, as material witnesses to the Nazis’ crimes, they too would be murdered at some point. Many were even forced to dispose of the bodies of their own loved ones.But the proximity of the Sonderkommando to the Nazis’ crimes also gave them special access to evidence of the mass murder and genocide committed at Auschwitz. In late 1944, as the war seemed close to an end, a group of Sonderkommando revolted in a short-lived mutiny that ended with the explosion of one of the crematoria and the murder of most of the conspirators. Many members of the units felt the urgent need to spread the word about what they had witnessed.

“Survivors of Auschwitz have repeatedly reported that members of the Sonderkommando called out to them: ‘When you leave the camp, talk, write and scream so the world may learn what is happening here!’” wrote Hermann Langbein, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz in 1942.

Another attempt to record the history of the killing operation at Auschwitz took place in 1944, when a group of Sonderkommando smuggled a camera onto their job site and photographed a group of naked women awaiting their turn in the gas chambers. They also took an accidental photo of some trees in the forest where the gas chambers were located and two photos of bodies being burned in the open, which had become a necessity due to overcrowded furnaces. The four photographs, which were smuggled out of the camp in a toothpaste tube and delivered to Polish Resistance fighters, are the only photos in existence that document what happened near the gas chambers at Auschwitz.

Those images—and the testimony of people like Nadjary, who recorded details of the gas chambers along with his desire to avenge his mother, father and sister, all of whom were murdered at Auschwitz—didn’t stop the killing. They couldn’t save the Sonderkommando either: only about 100 survived. But these documents remain as important proof of what happened during the Holocaust, as well as evidence of the immense physical and psychological toll the Nazis exacted on the men they forced to help carry out their crimes.

“I am not sad that I will die,” Nadjari wrote in the buried letters, “but I am sad that I won’t be able to take revenge like I would like to.” Nadjari never got a chance to exact his revenge—but by documenting his forced work on behalf of the Nazis’ Final Solution, he provided critical evidence of the magnitude of the Nazis’ murders, forever shaping the understanding of this period of history.

https://www.history.com/news/the-jewish-men-forced-to-help-run-auschwitz
 
None of this is virtue signaling. It's history. And part of the history comes from first-hand testimony of those who survived the camps.
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“I am not sad that I will die,” Nadjari wrote in the buried letters, “but I am sad that I won’t be able to take revenge like I would like to.” Nadjari never got a chance to exact his revenge—but by documenting his forced work on behalf of the Nazis’ Final Solution, he provided critical evidence of the magnitude of the Nazis’ murders, forever shaping the understanding of this period of history.

https://www.history.com/news/the-jewish-men-forced-to-help-run-auschwitz

Thank you. It is still very hard to read about this.

Do you ever speculate about the motives of the deniers? Is it a hatred of Jews and/or sympathy for the defeated Nazis? Is it just plain contrariness? Or is it something even darker and more evil? Is it because they feel that we need something similar to happen today to the Enemies-of-the-State Du Jour?
 
Thank you. It is still very hard to read about this.

Do you ever speculate about the motives of the deniers? Is it a hatred of Jews and/or sympathy for the defeated Nazis? Is it just plain contrariness? Or is it something even darker and more evil? Is it because they feel that we need something similar to happen today to the Enemies-of-the-State Du Jour?

I always speculate, about the Holocaust, those who implemented it, the deniers, everything. It's a mystery why ordinary Germans seemingly closed their eyes to the atrocities. And I can't leave out the US; apparently Roosevelt didn't want to accept refugees in the US despite all he knew about the Nazis. I do think anti-Semitism is at the bottom of it all.
 
It is a well established historical fact that the nazis experimented with various methods of mass murder and found poison gas to be the most efficient for murdering vast numbers of people .

If you do not like the death estimates you are free to do scholarly research using accepted method of historical analysis , publish in peer reviewed journals, and convince the scholarly community of the strength of your case .

Guesswork and supposition on an obscure message board does not cut the mustard .
"Everybody knows" is a logical fallacy.
You are misrepresenting what I wrote.

I did not write "everybody knows". I stated that the historical record shows that the Nazis experimented with various methods of mass murder before selling on Zyklon gas as the most efficient method of industrialized mass murder.

The fact that you did not know this obviously indicates that not "everyone" knows the historical record.

The Nazi's use of Zyklon to murder millions of human beings is attested to by multiple lines of evidence: historical documentation, eyewitness testimony, photographic archives, mass graves.

If you want to make the case that Jews were only being held in concentration camps to provide labor, you are free to make your case to conferences and seminars of professional historians and publish your research. I believe they are going to laugh you out of the room though.
 

Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered, by Ruth Kluger

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Ruth Kluger was born in Vienna in 1931. At age 11 she was deported to the concentration camp Theresienstadt. She would later survive Auschwitz-Birkenau, the work camp Christianstadt, and the chaos and privation of postwar Germany before arriving as a refugee in the United State.
 
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen - Tadeusz Borowski

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Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket or the luxury of a pair of shoes with thick soles, and where the line between normality and abnormality completely vanishes.
 
You are misrepresenting what I wrote.

I did not write "everybody knows". I stated that the historical record shows that the Nazis experimented with various methods of mass murder before selling on Zyklon gas as the most efficient method of industrialized mass murder.

The fact that you did not know this obviously indicates that not "everyone" knows the historical record.

The Nazi's use of Zyklon to murder millions of human beings is attested to by multiple lines of evidence: historical documentation, eyewitness testimony, photographic archives, mass graves.

If you want to make the case that Jews were only being held in concentration camps to provide labor, you are free to make your case to conferences and seminars of professional historians and publish your research. I believe they are going to laugh you out of the room though.

Zyklon B gas was found at the camps even before the war was over.

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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]A stockpile of Zyklon-B poison gas pellets found at Majdanek death camp in 1944. Below: Close-up of the containers and a gas mask found at Majdanek.

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The brand of Zyklon-B used by the Nazis contained substances which gave the pellets a blue appearance and left blue stains inside gas chambers which can still be seen today in chambers that were left intact.


http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-zyklon.htm
 
Zyklon B gas was found at the camps even before the war was over.

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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]A stockpile of Zyklon-B poison gas pellets found at Majdanek death camp in 1944. Below: Close-up of the containers and a gas mask found at Majdanek.

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The brand of Zyklon-B used by the Nazis contained substances which gave the pellets a blue appearance and left blue stains inside gas chambers which can still be seen today in chambers that were left intact.


http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-zyklon.htm

Nice work.
It is one of the most thoroughly documented crimes of mass murder in human history.

Anyone denying it is either uninformed, stupid, or has an ulterior agenda. There are no other options.
 
You are misrepresenting what I wrote.

I did not write "everybody knows". I stated that the historical record shows that the Nazis experimented with various methods of mass murder before selling on Zyklon gas as the most efficient method of industrialized mass murder.

The fact that you did not know this obviously indicates that not "everyone" knows the historical record.

The Nazi's use of Zyklon to murder millions of human beings is attested to by multiple lines of evidence: historical documentation, eyewitness testimony, photographic archives, mass graves.

If you want to make the case that Jews were only being held in concentration camps to provide labor, you are free to make your case to conferences and seminars of professional historians and publish your research. I believe they are going to laugh you out of the room though.

I have little regard for the opinions of you and Christie. You two ain't no historians.
 
I always speculate, about the Holocaust, those who implemented it, the deniers, everything. It's a mystery why ordinary Germans seemingly closed their eyes to the atrocities. And I can't leave out the US; apparently Roosevelt didn't want to accept refugees in the US despite all he knew about the Nazis. I do think anti-Semitism is at the bottom of it all.

For those of us who have spent our entire lives in the Instant Info age, it's hard to know whether the average German citizen in the 1930s and 40s even had much knowledge of the extent of the Holocaust. Of course people living in a particular area would have been aware of the removal of Jewish/other neighbors -- but odds are they were told that the ppl were being taken to safety, or to some other country, or some other rot.

Now we live in a world where if armed uniformed men came to your neighborhood and started putting ppl into transport vehicles you'd most likely know about it instantly.... but would you do anything? What if you were told that they were "illegals" or "terrorists" or "enemies of the state"? What if you tried to intervene or even just video, and were threatened with arrest? What would any of us do?
 
For those of us who have spent our entire lives in the Instant Info age, it's hard to know whether the average German citizen in the 1930s and 40s even had much knowledge of the extent of the Holocaust. Of course people living in a particular area would have been aware of the removal of Jewish/other neighbors -- but odds are they were told that the ppl were being taken to safety, or to some other country, or some other rot.

Now we live in a world where if armed uniformed men came to your neighborhood and started putting ppl into transport vehicles you'd most likely know about it instantly.... but would you do anything? What if you were told that they were "illegals" or "terrorists" or "enemies of the state"? What if you tried to intervene or even just video, and were threatened with arrest? What would any of us do?

I've read some things about that also. The thinking is that people knew more than they'd say but lived under "don't ask, don't tell." The reasons were that if they were Nazi supporters they didn't care; and if they were anti-Nazi, they were afraid.

What people would do today is a good question. I think it would start out like it does with cops, when there is a confrontation some passer-by with a phone videos the incident. But if it was armed troops, defiance would be a lot scarier. Probably why underground movements grow during wars and police actions.
 
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