Holocaust Revisionism Frequently Asked Questions: Version 105.a
Contents:
I. List of Questions
II. Questions and Answers
III. Suggested titles for more detailed answers to the questions.
I. ==========LIST OF QUESTIONS===========
1) What is historical revisionism?
2) What is the Holocaust?
3) Do revisionists 'deny the Holocaust?'
4) What aspects of the Holocaust do revisionists believe to be supported by evidence?
5) What aspects of the Holocaust do revisionists believe to be unsupported by evidence?
6) Wasn't the Holocaust proven at the war crimes trials?
7) Didn't the Nazis themselves admit there was a program to exterminate the Jews?
8) Do the photographs taken at the Nazi concentration camps at the end of the war prove the Nazis were exterminating people?
9) Do captured German documents prove the Nazi regime was exterminating people?
10) What was 'the Jewish question?'
11) What was 'the final solution to the Jewish question' if it was not extermination?
12) What is the origin of the six million figure?
13) Where did the six million Jews go if they were not killed?
14) Why would concentration camp survivors lie?
15) Why do revisionists not find the eyewitness testimony credible?
16) Why does the U.S. government endorse the Holocaust story?
17) Why does the current German government endorse the Holocaust story?
18) What was the purpose of Nazi concentration camps like Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and so forth?
19) Why was the Wannsee conference held?
20) What did Himmler refer to in his Posnan speech if not a policy to exterminate the Jews?
21) Weren't gas chambers for killing people found at some of the Nazi concentration camps when they were captured by the Allied armies?
22) How many Jews died during the war if the 6 million is not the correct number?
23) What did the term 'selection' refer to?
24) What did the term 'special treatment' refer to?
25) What did the term 'special action' refer to?
26) What was Zyklon-B used for?
27) Why would German documents designate Zyklon-B as material for Jewish resettlement?
28) Why did the Nazis equip some of their camps with crematories?
29) Why were Jews required to wear a yellow hexagram on their clothing in Nazi Germany?
30) What role did the Einsatzgruppen play in the German war effort?
31) Why were so many dead bodies found in the Nazi camps when they were captured by Allied troops?
32) Why is the Holocaust story important to Israel?
33) What was Babi Yar?
34) What evidence exists for the massacre at Babi Yar?
35) Why were Jews put into concentration camps by the Nazis?
36) What was the function of Treblinka camp?
37) What evidence is used to support the Treblinka death camp story?
38) Why were Gypsies put into concentration camps?
39) Why is the question of the "gas chambers" important?
40) How did the Holocaust story originate?
41) Are there precedents to what happened to the Jews?
42) What escape routes were available to Jews during the war?
43) Did resistance to German occupation affect Nazi treatment of Jews in territory under their control?
44) How were Jewish ghettos in Nazi territory administered?
45) What role did the Judenratt play in providing labor for the concentration camps?
46) Why did Otto Frank, father of diarist Anne Frank, leave Germany?
47) What was the 'transfer agreement?'
48) Why did the Nazis initiate a boycott of Jewish shops in Germany?
49) How long did the Nazi boycott last?
50) What events led up to the Kristalnacht pogrom?
51) Why was German Jewry fined to pay for the damage done?
52) What was Hitler's reaction to news of the pogrom?
53) How many gas chambers were there at Treblinka?
54) What agent was used to kill people in the gas chambers at Treblinka?
55) What evidence is there that Jews were being 'resettled' by the Nazis?
56) What consequences have revisionists suffered for their views?
57) What evidence exists for mass murder at Belzec?
58) What evidence exists for mass murder at Chelmno?
59) Where did the bodies of the dead at Treblinka go?
60) How many are claimed to have been killed at Treblinka?
61) What evidence exists for mass murder at Sobibor?
62) How good is testimony as a form of evidence?
63) What was the War Refugee Board?
64) What was the WRB Report?
65) How accurate was the information contained in the WRB Report?
66) What did the Auschwitz camp commander Rudolf Hoess confess about the Auschwitz camp?
67) How was Hoess' confession obtained?
68) Is torture a way to get a reliable confession?
69) What did a U.S. Senate commission find about the use of torture to obtain confessions for the Malmedy Massacre case?
70) Was the use of torture and threats only used in isolated cases?
71) Why is it nobody protested the use of torture on German prisoners?
72) Where did concentrations of Jews exist in Europe before 1939?
73) What is the origin of the Einsatzgruppe Gas van charge?
74) Why haven't Germans and others in a position to know come forward to repudiate the extermination story?
75) Why were Jews in Nazi Germany forced to wear a star of David on their clothes?
76) What sources of information did the Western Allies have during the war that failed to verify the extermination story or provide warnings about it?
77) What evidence is there that Zionist leaders did not believe their own propaganda?
78) Do Dr. Robert Faurisson and Fred Leuchter claim Zyklon-B was used as a germicidal antiseptic at Auschwitz?
79) Are accounts of cremation pits at Auschwitz-Birkenau credible?
80) How does the crematory capacity of Auschwitz-Birkenau compare to other Nazi concentration camps where exterminations were not taking place?
81) Why did Jews not return to their homes at the end of the war if they were not killed?
82) What evidence exists for the charge the Nazis used the bodies of Jews to make, among other things, soap, fertilizer, lampshades, gloves, book covers, etc., ad nauseum?
83) What is the explanation for all the hair, shoes, eyeglasses, and other personal items found at Auschwitz?
84) What have forensic examinations of the alleged extermination sites revealed?
85) Why have there not been extensive forensic examinations of the killing centers up to now by the Allied or Soviet governments?
86) Doesn't the verdict in the Max Taeubner trial indicate the Nazi Einsatzgruppe were killing Jews?
87) What is the Leuchter Report?
88) Is the Leuchter Report flawed? If so, how?
89) Have others corroborated Leuchter's findings?
90) Why would the Allies have been interested in Auschwitz long before the charges of Jew extermination were leveled?
91) What do Himmler's diaries reveal about the final solution to the Jewish problem?
92) What do the Auschwitz coke shipment records reveal?
93) How long does it take to cremate a human body?
94) Where are the original Allied Auschwitz air photo negatives?
95) What was the 'Madagascar Plan'?
96) Who was Kurt Gerstein?
97) How reliable are Gerstein's confessions?
98) How much ash remains after a body is cremated?
99) What does Dr. Kremer's diary reveal about his time at Auschwitz?
100) Are the stories of strange Nazi medical experiments true?
101) Did Hitler order the Jews be exterminated?
102) Did Himmler order the gas chambers be destroyed?
103) How many people survived being imprisoned at Auschwitz?
104) What is the Mueller document?
105) Do Holocaust revisionists wish to incite racial hatred?
II. =========== Answers ==================================
1) What is historical revisionism?
A) As more facts about past events come to light, it becomes necessary to
re-evaluate them taking the new information into account. All history is
constantly being reviewed. It is a natural process. It is an important
process. The only way to judge the future is to accurately compare current
trends and events to those of earlier times. It has been said that the good
thing about experience is that one can recognize a mistake when it is made
again. So it is with history, the sum of recorded human experience.
Historical revisionism is the process of changing the human record so that it
more accurately represents events as they actually occurred. Often there is
resistance to the process of bringing history in accord with the facts. The
reason for this is history is not simply a record of events, but is also a
resource from which a world view is drawn. A re- examination or re-evaluation
of important historical events can be viewed as a threat to the political
status quo and to interests upon whose power partially rests the established
view of these events. It has also been said that historians have the power to
upset everything. Vested interests take a dim view of having everything upset.
SR) "A few facts about the INSTITUTE FOR HISTORICAL REVIEW."
pamphlet / IHR
2) What is the Holocaust?
a) The Holocaust, or Shoah, is the term used to label the fate of the Jews
of Europe at the hands of the Nazis during World War Two. It is a broad term
used to cover all events involving Europe's Jews usually between 1933 and
1945, and especially during the six year period between November 1938
(Kristallnacht) and November 1944 (alleged Himmler order to stop the Final
Solution program) . Six extermination centers are said to have been established
between 1941 and 1943 by the Nazis in Poland for the purpose of killing Jews
and "other minorities." The number of Jews killed by the Nazis during
this period is generally estimated to have been six million.
A) "The
Holocaust" : An all-encompassing neologism used in reference to the
(alleged) extermination of European Jews by the Nazis during World War Two.
Use of the term in this context presumes the following:
(1) The Nazis implemented and succeeded in a premeditated plan to destroy (not resettle) European Jewry,
(2) Approximately six million or more Jews perished as a result, and
(3) A majority of these were killed by use of poison gas (Zyklon B) [and
internal combustion engine exhaust] in gas chambers built for the purpose of
taking human life. [...]
SOURCE: "Worldwide Growth and Impact of
'Holocaust' Revisionism" - IHR Special Report 1985
3) Do revisionists 'deny the Holocaust'?
A) The phrase "Holocaust denial" was invented by a Holoscribe
named Deborah Lipstadt who occupies the Dorot Chair in Modern Jewish and
Holocaust Studies at Emory University. Its purpose is to imply Holocaust
revisionists are not rational in their opinions. Dr. Lipstadt believes the
current view of the Holocaust cannot be questioned and debate on the topic
cannot be tolerated. To this end she created the epithet "Holocaust
denier." Revisionists are skeptical of postwar testimony of gas chambers
at the Nazi concentration camps and are of the opinion the six million figure
is a baseless exaggeration. It is not a matter of denying anything. The issue
is whether this emotionally charged and politically important event can be
examined critically. Researchers--some professional, some amateur--have been
questioning aspects of the Nazi extermination story since the war ended fifty
years ago. The evidence has been difficult to obtain, but in the last
twenty-five years enough has been gathered to conclude the gas chamber story is
definitely false and the Nazi program to kill the Jews is a myth. The problem
that has arisen is established political interests have done their best to
suppress this research and prevent the evidence to support these startling
conclusions from being presented to the general public.
SR) Lipstadt,
Irving, Butz, Faurisson, Mattogno, Others.
4) What aspects of the Holocaust do revisionists believe to be supported by evidence?
A) Here is a summary of what happened to the Jews: Before the war, the
Nazis encouraged emigration of German Jewry. Laws were instituted and
governmental pressures were brought to bear to make life more difficult for
Jews in many professions which Jews came to dominate in the Weimar Republic.
The "Ha'avara" or transfer agreement was reached with Zionist leaders
to facilitate the emigration of German Jews to Palestine. Emigrating Jews very
often were forced to abandon much of their wealth when they left Germany.
After the defeat of France, a plan was discussed by the Nazis to remove the
Jews from Europe to the French colony on Madagascar. This plan was soon dropped
in favor of a resettlement plan which transferred Jews into ghettos and work
camps inside Soviet territory following the invasion of the Soviet Union in
1941. This was to be the first stage toward the ultimate creation of a Jewish
homeland after the war. As the Germans invaded and the Russians retreated,
large shifts in population occurred in eastern Europe. This shift went from
west to east. Tens of millions of people were involved. Many were forcibly
deported into the Russian interior. Others willingly accompanied the Communists
as the Red Army retreated eastward. General Gehlen estimated in his memoirs
that a third of the population in the areas the German army was to occupy was
evacuated eastward ahead of the German invasion. Since Jews were viewed by
many eastern Europeans as willing accomplices of the Communists who had
occupied the area in the years and months preceding the German assault, pogroms
occurred after the retreat of the Red Army and prior to arrival of the German
army. Many of these assaults on local Jews were in reaction to the murdering
of political prisoners by the Soviet police as they prepared to retreat.
These events left areas of eastern Europe, now occupied by the German Wehrmacht
and under Nazi administration depopulated. The Nazis took the situation as an
opportunity to remove Jews eastward into the areas abandoned during the Soviet
retreat. Jews were assembled at train terminals and deported to ghettos and
concentration camps established for them in the east. Some Jews were not
deported, however, due to the fact their work was considered too important to
the German war effort. A result of the tremendous movement of people is many
families and communities were scattered and people lost contact with one
another. Many of these contacts were not reestablished after the war due to a
multitude of reasons the greatest of which were the splitting of Europe in two
after the war and the establishment of the state of Israel. Guerrilla groups
were formed to fight the Nazi occupation. A campaign of sabotage and
assassination by these groups was countered by repression on the part of the
occupiers in the form of the Einsatz groups. The Einsatzgruppe fought the
partisans in ways which included reprisal shooting of civilians. Jews were
believed to make up the majority of partisans. They were also the people
targeted for reprisals. These reprisals took several forms which included the
shooting of hostages or their deportation to ghettos and concentration camps.
During the summer of 1942 a major typhus epidemic swept the Nazi concentration
camp system. The most severely affected camp was Auschwitz camp in Poland. The
epidemic continued for many months. Crematories were built in some of the
concentration camps as part of hygienic measures established to fight the
epidemics. The fumigant Zyklon B was used to exterminate the typhus-bearing
body louse which spread the disease. The total number of Jews and others who
died in the camps is not known, but the total is probably in the hundreds of
thousands. As the Germans suffered military reversals in 1944 and 1945, the
Nazis took many who were in labor camps with them as they retreated westward.
Others were left behind. As this happened, tens of millions of people were
again uprooted as civilians abandoned almost everything in an effort to escape
the approaching Red Army. The migration in 1941-42 was eastward. In 1944-45
it was westward. In the beginning, Europe's Jewish communities were
concentrated in eastern Europe. By the end of the war, Europe's Jews were
still in eastern Europe, but the communities were shattered. Tens of millions
of people, particularly Germans and Jews were left homeless by the war. As a
result, millions of Jews emigrated. Many settled in Palestine. Many more
moved to North America. Others settled in Australia, South America, and South
Africa. The war was a boon for the Zionist movement. The Holocaust become the
founding myth of modern day Israel. As such it became an excuse for behavior of
the Israelis which would have been inexcusable. It also became the excuse for
billions of dollars in aid and "reparations" being sent to Israel
from Germany and the United States even though Israel did not exist during the
war and its citizens were not subject to Nazi repression. Much of the aid the
new Zionist state was to receive was for the purpose of resettling European
refugees who did not want to go there, but had little alternative at the time.
SR) A.R. Butz -1976; Solzhenitsyn -1973; Walter N.Sanning 1983; Dr.
Wilhelm Staeglich -1986; Peter Calvocoressi & Guy Wint 1972; Ernst Klee,
Willi Dressen, and Volker Riess 1991; Alfred M. De Zayas 1989; Carlo Mattogno
1994; George W. Robnett 1968; Segev 1994
5) What aspects of the Holocaust do revisionists believe to be unsupported by evidence?
A) While there is no universal agreement on many aspects of WWII and the
Holocaust, but one might be classified as a Holocaust revisionist if one is
skeptical of the following:
* Hitler ordered the extermination of the
Jews in writing , orally, or through mental telepathy.
* The Nazis
cremated 1,500,000 to 4,000,000 bodies at Auschwitz/Birkenau in less than two
years using between 30 and 52 single-body crematory ovens and were able to keep
it all a secret until late 1944 despite the fact Auschwitz was a major bombing
target photographed by American planes throughout that year.
* The
Nazis were able to destroy all documentation of the extermination program
before the total German surrender in mid 1945. This despite the fact all
German secret codes had been broken by the British and many SS communications
had been intercepted by them.
6) Wasn't the Holocaust proven at the war crimes trials?
A) No. The NMT and IMT set out to prove nothing. The crimes themselves
were never an issue. The courts took judicial notice of the crimes.. This
means the crimes were assumed to be true based purely on the allegations. No
proof was needed. The war crimes tribunals also suspended the normal rules of
evidence. They accepted into evidence documents, hearsay testimony, and other
material which would never be accepted in anything other than a sham court.
The point of the tribunals was to demonstrate the moral authority of the new
world powers. In demonizing the Nazi regime through these trials England,
France, The United States, and the U.S.S.R secured their positions as the
occupiers of Germany and justified the annexation of German territory along
with the expulsions of millions of Germans into the dismembered rump Germany.
Allied plans for the future of Germany at that time included the de-
industrialization of Germany. The standard of living was to be the lowest in
Europe. The economy was to be agrarian despite the fact it being the most
densely populated nation on the continent. In this context, it had to be shown
to the world and the Germans themselves that they were evil and deserved the
horrendous treatment they were to receive. The country was to be "de-Nazified"
and reduced to the point where Germany could "never threaten world peace
again." Since the nature of the war crimes trials was purely political,
nothing that went into them or came out of them should be taken at face value.
SR) A.R. Butz 1976; Alfred M. De Zayas 1989; Dr. Wilhelm Staeglich 1986;
Carlos Whitlock Porter 1988
7) Didn't the Nazis themselves admit there was a program to exterminate the Jews?
a) Since the war crimes courts took judicial notice of the crimes, pleading
innocent on the basis the crime did not occur was not an option. The strategy
of many defendants was demonstrate non-involvement or distance themselves from
the alleged crime. Backbiting and finger- pointing were also common. In order
to save their lives, the accused placed blame on others- particularly people
who were either dead, or had evaded capture by the Allies. The jailers of
the Nazis used torture and threats of torture to obtain many confessions.
Sometimes threats against the prisoners' families were made. For some, like
Rudolf Hoess, sleep deprivation was used to get them to sign confessions. The
contents of confessions such as those by Hoess and Kurt Gerstein are enough to
simply throw them out as evidence. They contain internal contradictions,
absurdities, and facts that are verifiably false. Nevertheless most high Nazi
officials who survived to be tried disputed the charge that the final solution
to the Jewish question involved their elimination though mass murder . Julius
Streicher stated he believed it was technically impossible to kill that many
people and simply did not believe it was true or even attempted.
SR)
A.R. Butz 1976; Henri Roques 1989; Dr. Wilhelm Staeglich 1986; Carlos Whitlock
Porter 1988; Dietrich Ziemssen 1952; John Sack 1993; Adrian Priessinger 1994;
Dr. Robert Faurisson JHR Vol.7 No.4 1986-87 Mark Weber JHR Vol. 12 No.2 1992.
8) Do the photographs taken at the Nazi concentration camps at the end of the war prove the Nazis were exterminating people?
a) How often have we heard the phrase "bodies stacked like cordwood"?
Certainly the photos of the sickening conditions in some of the Nazi
concentration camps in the spring of 1945 were not faked, but they were taken
out of context. Many concentration camp prisoners survived the war in very
good physical condition. Others died for a variety of reasons. As World War
Two approached its conclusion in Europe, Germany was a chaotic mess. The
Allies controlled the sky all over Germany. One of the missions of the Allied
pilots was to disrupt German communications as much as possible. This meant
they shot at just about anything that moved. Trains with supplies bound to
concentration camps were attacked just like any other train. Rail lines,
roads, bridges, and airstrips were bombed and destroyed to prevent the supply
and movement of the German army. As Germany collapsed upon itself, it
suffered from many shortages. This included medicine, food and fuel. Not
being the highest priority, concentration camps were affected as well. Some
camps had not received supplies for days before the British or American troops
arrived. Add to this the Germans retreat. Prisoners were evacuated from labor
camps near the fronts and moved to other camps. As a result, the remaining
camps became extremely overcrowded. Combine the overcrowding with the lack of
food and medicine. Conditions became perfect for the outbreak of epidemics.
This is what happened. Bergen Belsen which had been designed by the SS as a
sick camp in the waning days of the war became the destination of many
prisoners who were already sick from other camps. A typhus epidemic was raging
there when the British captured the camp where an uncounted number-usually
estimated to be between 10,000 and 30,000- of prisoners died primarily from
disease. Similar circumstances contributed to the awful conditions discovered
at Dachau, Buchenwald, and several other concentration camps. Germany's enemies
used the scenes of dead and dying prisoners as documentary evidence of German
malevolence. While the pictures are authentic, the films of bodies being
bulldozed into trench graves do not tell the whole story. There was a war going
on. It is in this context that these pictures need to be viewed. There are
several reasons the Germans didn't simply release those in the camps. Many of
the inmates were common criminals. Many were politically anti-German or
anti-Nazi. Those infected with disease posed the threat of spreading the
epidemics into the countryside if allowed to roam Germany. The healthy
prisoners had nowhere to go. There was a war raging all around. Their homes
were on the other side of the battle lines. Additionally, the likelihood that
freed prisoners would form criminal gangs was too high for them to be released.
Many were imprisoned because they were considered risks to security to begin
with. Releasing them to roam the countryside was out of the question.
SR)
A.R. Butz; Staeglich; Porter; John Cobden 1991
9) Do captured German documents prove the Nazi regime was exterminating people?
a) No. Quite the opposite is true. Documents such as Wannsee Protocol
state quite clearly that the final solution to the Jewish question was a
program of evacuation and resettlement in the East. The conditions under which
this population transfer took place were not ideal and were in some cases
inhumane or even cruel. Executions took place. Many families and communities
were shattered in the process. It is shameful, but something very different
from an intentional mass murder of the Jews. Other documents which are
erroneously presented to support the thesis extermination was the intent of the
resettlement program generally depend on postwar interpretation of supposed "code
words" the SS used. The interpretation of these code words as indicating
there was a policy to murder the Jews depend on postwar testimony. This means
the proof is not in the documents but in the testimony. In addition to the
resettlement program documents, Einsatzgruppe records are also offered as
proof of an extermination program which targeted Jews. The aim of the
Einsatzgruppe was to fight communist guerrillas inside captured Soviet
territory. Some partisan groups were largely ethnically Jewish. The
Einsatzgruppe targeted Jewish civilians for reprisals when partisans committed
acts of sabotage or murder. The Einsatzgruppe documents indicate hundreds of
thousands of Jews were killed. Some historians, however, question the accuracy
and even the authenticity of many of these records since the source of these
is Stalin's Soviet Union. There is definitely a subset of documents offered as
proof of an extermination program that are forgeries produced for the war
crimes trials. These exist in the form of "certified copies" of
documents the originals of which are nowhere to be found. One of the most
notable examples of this type of document is the Franke-Gricksch "Resettlement-Action
Report". A final category of suspicious documents are those which appear
damning but for some odd reason the signer of the documents was not prosecuted
even though he was in Allied custody. Dr. Butz discusses a case concerning
documents relating to the deportation of Hungary's Jews where the signer was
simply let go. The implication here is the Allies agreed to let the Nazi
official go in exchange for him signing some bogus documents. The documents
could then be used as evidence against a "bigger" Nazi.
SR)
Renk; Butz; Staeglich; Porter; Lenski
10) What was 'the Jewish question?'
a)The Jewish question was 'What was to be done with an ethnic minority with
no homeland of its own which refuses to assimilate into the dominant German
culture?'.
SR) Irving; Staeglich; Butz
11) What was 'the final solution to the Jewish question' if it was not extermination?
A) The Wannsee Protocol states the following: ======
II[...] The primary responsibility for the administrative handling of the
Final Solution of the Jewish Problem will rest with the Reich Leader SS and the
Chief of the German Police [...] -regardless of geographic boundaries.[...] The
most important aspects are-
a. Forcing the Jews out of the various fields
of the community life of the German people.
b. Forcing the Jews out of
the living space of the German people. In execution of these efforts there
was undertaken - as the only possible provisional solution - the acceleration
of the emigration of the Jews from Reich territory on an intensified and
methodical scale.[...]
III The emigration program has now been replaced by the evacuation of the
Jews to the East as a further solution possibility, in accordance with previous
authorization by the Fuehrer. [...] ======
Because the retreating Soviets
had depopulated areas later captured by the advancing Nazis in 1941 by as much
as a third, or twenty-two million people, the Nazis leadership decided to expel
the Jews under their control to ghettos and labor camps in the east as a step
toward a final expulsion to a Jewish homeland/reservation/ghetto-nation which
was to be set up outside Europe after the war. The final solution was the
expulsion of all Jews from Europe, not their murder. Even so, it did not matter
to the Nazis if people died in the process. The Nazis believed such a move
was needed because Jews were viewed as a threat to national morale and security
during the war.
SR) Butz; Staeglich;
12) What is the origin of the six million figure?
a) The six million figure is not based on any body count, records, or
census. The number came into use during the war in Zionist propaganda and
appears to have symbolic numerological significance. When the digits in six
million are summed they add up to six. Six million is six times ten raised to
the sixth power. In numerology the number six is considered 'perfect'. Six is
the number of days God used to create the earth in the story of creation in the
book of Genesis. It holds a special significance for the Jews who use the
hexagram as their symbol. In the Holocaust itself, the six million figure was
used in propaganda emanating from Zionist and Jewish organizations as early as
1941. Before the Russian Bolshevic revolution, anti-Czarist propaganda
generated by Jews used the six million figure in describing the magnitude of
the plight of Russian Jews under the Czar. The chief rabbi of Britain recently
called for the re-examination of the six million figure which he considered
totally arbitrary in nature.
SR)Butz;
13) Where did the six million Jews go if they were not killed?
a)Since the six million number is not based on a census or survey or any
other type of documentation, this question cannot be answered in an accounting
'balance sheet' type manner. However, a general explanation is possible.
There are several circumstances one has to keep in mind when considering what
happened to the Jews of Europe between 1939 and 1948. Before the outbreak of
the war, the Jews of Europe were concentrated in the east. Poland, The Soviet
Union, Hungary, and other countries that fell into the Soviet sphere of
influence after the war contained the bulk of the population in question.
Since the very definition of Jew changed with the governments, no accounting of
how many Jews remained in these areas after the defeat of Nazi Germany is
possible, but everything indicates a large Jewish population remained after the
end of the war. During the war, populations in eastern Europe shifted several
times. In 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland and occupied the western half.
Stalin's U.S.S.R. occupied the eastern half. During the period that followed,
many Jews shifted to the Soviet half. The Russians deported millions of people
into the Russian interior ahead of the German invasion. When Nazi Germany
attacked The U.S.S.R. in 1941, the German army found that the areas they were
to occupied had been depopulated by the Soviets of a third of its people. The
Germans estimate 22 million people were moved eastward into the Soviet interior
from Poland, Ukraine, White Russia, the Baltic States and other regions the
Germans were to temporarily take from the Soviets. As the Communists
retreated, the Soviet secret police, known under the acronyms NKVD and OGPU,
murdered thousands of political prisoners in Poland, the Baltic states, and
Ukraine. In reaction to these murders the local populations killed many Jews
because the Jews were viewed as collaborators in the Communist occupation and
the suppression of nationalist organizations. In late 1941, the Nazis began
deporting Jews from central and eastern Europe into the areas captured from the
Soviets. These were generally concentrated into Ghettos and labor camps. The
conditions under which these expulsions took place were far from ideal and many
thousands died in the process. In addition, over one million Jews are believed
to be serving in the Red Army during the time with over one hundred thousand
dying while in uniform. As the Germans retreated in 1944 and 1945, millions of
people from the east came with them. Some came willingly in order to avoid the
Red Army. Others, mostly conscripted for labor, were forcibly evacuated.
Millions of people, mostly ethnic Germans, died during this collapse of Nazi
Germany through expulsions that came during and after the defeat as part of the
brutal occupation of the Allies. Germany lost a fourth of its territory.
Poland was shifted westward. The Baltic countries would not regain their
independence for decades. After Germany's surrender, Europe was a chaotic mess
with millions of refugees from scattered communities wandering in all
directions. There was no way to determine how many Jews had died at that point
despite the fact that the six million figure had been part of the anti-German
propaganda long before the war was over. During the war years and the first
years after the war, millions of people--Jews included--left Europe for other
parts of the world including the U.S., the Middle East, Australia, Canada,
South America, and South Africa. In the case of the Jews, there were
organizations assisting their relocation, particularly to British- controlled
Palestine. It is very easy to claim a European Jewish population on eleven
million in 1939 and a Jewish population of five million in 1945, but there is
no way to verify either number. Nevertheless, simply due the fact that there
were massive shifts in population in the areas where Jews were most
concentrated and much of the most ruthless and destructive warfare was practiced
in eastern Europe, it is very likely Jewish casualties were heavy and may have
exceeded one million dead. The remainder of the 'missing' were absorbed into
the U.S.S.R. or moved to The U.S., Palestine/Israel, Argentina, South Africa
and other countries.
SR)Sanning;Butz; Wint
14) Why would concentration camp survivors lie about their treatment?
a) There are a variety of reasons former prisoners of the Nazis would lie about their treatment.
A. Many concentration camp inmates were imprisoned not simply for
ethnic reasons. They were there because they were common criminals. Some of
these people were not honest to begin with and used this opportunity to turn
the tables on their former captors. It is a way to take revenge and to
distract attention away from their own crimes.
B. Many concentration camp
inmates were there for political reasons-- particularly communists. They might
lie for ideological reasons. Alleging atrocities and abuse would help to
discredit the Nazi regime and system that imprisoned them.. On a more personal
level, communists and Jews who spent the war in a camp working for the Nazis
need to justify their actions while in custody. This usually entailed working
in German shops and factories for the Germans. Claiming heavy abuse, or
involvement in sabotage are ways of satisfying questions of personal political
hygiene.
C. Some former prisoners testified to abuse after their
liberation from the Nazis simply because that was what was expected of them
from their liberators. In the postwar trials some people became paid
professional prosecution witnesses who were willing to testify to just about
anything. Perjury by prosecution witnesses was not something that was
punished-instead it was often encouraged.
SR)Segev; Butz; Staeglich
15) Why do revisionists not find the eyewitness testimony credible?
a) Eyewitness testimony, even when it is not politically motivated, is the
lowest quality of evidence. Memory is a very malleable thing even under normal
circumstances. In the highly charged atmosphere of the ideological conflict
that destroyed a major part of Europe, the testimony of people who have good
reason to hold a grudge should be highly suspect and examined carefully. When
inspected critically, many of the cornerstone testimonies regarding the
Holocaust contain many factual errors and absurdities. Another important point
to consider is the circumstances under which the testimonies--particularly
those of the Nazis-were obtained. Torture was used in some cases to obtain "confessions."
In others, threats were made against the lives and health of members of the "war
criminal's" family. Under the conditions that prevailed at the end of the
war, the Allied governments could obtain any sort of testimony they wanted to
get. And they did. It is not just the revisionists who view the supposed
eyewitness testimony with caution; Authors like Arno Mayer, J.C. Pressac, and
Tom Segev also are aware of just how unreliable "survivor" and other
postwar testimony is. Despite this, these authors regard this testimony to be,
in a general sense, true even though they are exaggerated, or contain hearsay
information.
SR)Butz; Mayer; Pressac; Porter; Lenski
16) Why does the U.S. government endorse the Holocaust story?
a) World War Two was the event which drew the United States back onto the
global political scene after following a politically neutral foreign policy
since the end of World War I. It defined the United States as the world's
economic and military superpower, with only the Stalinist U.S.S.R. as a major
competitor. The U.S. began to follow an ideologically messianic foreign
policy under Roosevelt which sought to internationalize the New Deal. This
political messianism solidified and became more sharply defined under Truman
and the development of the Cold War. Part of the justification for the
international role the U.S. has played has been its new obligation to fight
'evil' regimes and protect 'democratic' ones. The paradigm for the U.S. role in
international politics is its involvement in W.W.II and the paradigm for the
'evil' it is fighting is Hitler and Nazi Germany--particularly as it has become
defined in its attempt to exterminate the Jews.
Since Stalin, our ally,
could be argued to be every bit as evil as Hitler, a reason had to found to
define what made Nazi Germany so much more evil than Soviet Russia. The idea
that we fought Germany because Hitler declared war after extensive U.S.
provocation does not serve an active interventionist policy. The Holocaust
serves the purpose of justifying U.S. political messianism which insisted on the
unconditional surrender of Germany, bombed German cities into ruins, suppressed
German economic recovery for three years after the surrender, and put the
country under U.S. military occupation for nearly fifty more. Questioning the
Holocaust therefore would also be a round-about threat to messianic myth which
drives U.S. interventionist foreign policy. There are other factors involved in
the U.S. endorsement of the Holocaust which involve its prosecution of 'Nazi
war criminals' at the show trials that followed the war; Except for the alleged
attempt to exterminate the Jews, the U.S., British, and the Soviets committed
all of the same crimes they accused and hanged the Nazis for. Of course, not
least of all, the political power wielded by the 'AIPAC' and other branches of
the 'Jewish lobby' work to ride herd on the U.S. government when it feels its
interests are threatened. The Holocaust is Zionism's most important political
tool and weapon.
SR) Charmley; Arnold; Butz; Lipstadt; Segev
17) Why does the current German government endorse the Holocaust story?
a) The postwar German government of West Germany, based in Bonn, which has
become the government of a reunified Germany has endorsed and protects the
Holocaust story by law because West Germany wished to rejoin the community of
nations that had rejected it during the war years. In order to do that West
Germany had to demonstrate its rejection of its Nazi past. Part of this act of
contrition is its recognition and support of the Zionist state of Israel which
states in its declaration of independence that the reason for its foundation
was the Holocaust. Any rejection of the Holocaust story by the German
government would be regarded as a sign of backsliding by the United States,
Israel, the international Jewish lobby organizations, such as the World Jewish
Congress, and other interested parties. In exchange Germany has again been
allowed to become a major political and economic force in Europe. The myth
that the Nazi regime was composed of a few thugs who intimidated the German
nation and that therefore Germans are not collectively guilty for the sins of
Nazi Germany has been promulgated as part of the new German political order. A
re- examination of the twelve years of Nazi rule is viewed by the German
establishment as potentially having only negative results. It prefers the
status quo where it pretends to be a new Germany which has rejected its past
rather than a creature of the Allied occupying powers.
SR) Segev;
18) What was the purpose of Nazi concentration camps like Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and so forth?
a) The Nazi concentration camp system served as a source of labor and
income for the SS which rented prison labor to private industry. It was a
prison system for common criminals and political enemies. Auschwitz and
Birkenau held many unemployed prisoners, many of them with no job skills or too
sick to work. These included inmates with chronic illnesses such as
tuberculosis. Some camps were designated transit camps where Jews being
resettled in ghettos in the East were deloused before being sent on to their
final destinations. In some cases Jews were placed in quarantine before being
sent to their final destinations to prevent the introduction of diseases like
typhus into the Eastern ghettos. This is not to say many Poles, Gypsies, and
others did not die in the Nazi concentration camps. They did, but the context
of their deaths is quite different than the one usually portrayed.
SR)Butz;
Staeglich; Ball; Levi
19) Why was the Wannsee conference held?
a) Because of the rapid acquisition of huge amounts of territory which had
been depopulated by the retreating communists, the Nazi leadership saw this as
an opportunity to expel the Jews. Germany now had control of an area into
which to put them until the end of the war. Because of the war, an
international boycott of German goods and limits on immigration in Palestine
and other areas, Germany had difficulty getting the Jews to emigrate. In
addition, the defeat of Poland in 1939, and the annexation of Austria, and
parts of Czechoslovakia before that brought millions of additional Jews under
German control. The Wannsee conference was where Germany's new policy toward
the Jews was outlined. The Nazis believed the Jews constituted a security risk
due to the 'stab in the back' of World War One in which they blamed the Jews
for Germany's defeat. By expelling and isolating the Jews the Nazis hoped,
among other things, to keep the Jews from agitating inside Germany and
detrimentally affecting the morale of the country. They also believed Jews
could not be assimilated and were a negative cultural influence. In the
process of expulsion, many of the Jews being relocated would also be put to
work on various projects related to the war effort in the east and according to
the Wannsee protocol many were expected die in the process. After the war, it
was planned that a homeland for the Jews would be created outside of Europe
through an international agreement. The Jews resettled in Russia, would be
relocated once again to this new, remote homeland once this expected agreement
was reached.
SR)Staeglich; Butz.
20) What did Himmler refer to in his Posnan speech if not a policy of killing the Jews?
a) The quote from the October 4,1943 Himmler Posnan speech usually cited as evidence that the Nazis were attempting to exterminate the Jews is this:
'I am referring to the evacuation of the Jew, the annihilation of the Jewish people. This is one of these things that are easily said. "The Jewish people is going to be annihilated," says every party member. "Sure, it is our program, elimination of the Jews, annihilation-we'll take care of it." And then they all come trudging, 80 million worthy Germans, and every one has one decent Jew. Sure, the others are swine, but this one is an A-1 Jew. Of all those who talk this way, not one has been through it. Most of you must know what it means to see a hundred corpses lie side by side, or five hundred, or a thousand. To have stuck this out and - excepting cases of human weakness-to have kept our integrity, that is what has made us hard. In our history, this is an unwritten and never-to- be-written page of glory, for we know how difficult we would have made ourselves if today-amid the bombing raids, the hardships and the deprivations of war-we still had the Jews in every city as secret saboteurs, agitators, and demagogues. If the Jews still ensconced in the body of the German nation, we probably would have reached the 1916-17 stage by now.'
Some revisionists question the authenticity of the Posnan speech, while
others believe it to be authentic. In any case, the meaning of this one
paragraph taken from a long, rambling speech by Himmler to SS officials is
ambiguous. Himmler does not mention gas chambers, or death camps, or
specifically to mass killings. The meaning of this passage is unclear.
Himmler speaks of large numbers of corpses and the "annihilation" of
the Jews, but he also makes reference to "bombing raids, the hardships and
the deprivations of war" which would also produce large numbers of
corpses. Himmler does not say whose corpses are lying side by side. In 1943
Nazi Germany had suffered a major reversal of fortune on the Russian front.
The SS was involved in fighting the Red Army and partisan guerrillas behind the
front. To say Himmler is talking about killing large numbers of Jews in gas
chambers is reading a lot into the text of this one paragraph. The point
Himmler appears to be making in this quote is though expelling the Jews is a
difficult, thankless task, but if it had not been done German morale would be
low and Germany would have be suing for peace with the Russians because of
internal disorder caused by the Jews. This quote should be taken in the
context of the Nazi myth of the Jews stabbing Germany in the back and causing
its defeat in World War I.
SR)Butz; Lipstadt; Steiner; Staeglich;
Mattogno
21) Weren't gas chambers for killing people found at some of the Nazi concentration camps when they were captured by the Allied armies?
a) No. The 'gas chambers' on display at Dachau and Auschwitz were
originally crematory morgues. The Dachau crematory morgue was altered by the
U.S. Army into a mock up 'gas chamber disguised as a shower' for 'educational'
purposes. The one at Majdanek was a delousing chamber for the fumigation of
mattresses and other material. Several forensic examinations of these rooms
and others which are now in ruins conclude none of these facilities could have
been used as execution chambers for the killing of large numbers of people.
Their designs are all wrong. Despite the fact that these 'reconstructions' are
displayed to hundreds of thousands of tourists every year, Holocaust historians
such as Arno Mayer and Hugh Trevor-Roper admit nobody knows what the gas
chambers looked like or how they operated. This is no reason not to believe the
gas chambers are a myth according to these two authors, but others take a more
skeptical view.
SR) Luetcher; Lueftl; Rudolf; Gauss; Pressac; Mayer; Klee
22) How many Jews died during the war if the 6 million is not the correct number?
a) This is not known, but several demographic studies indicate the number
of Jews who lost their lives in the war from all causes is somewhere around one
million persons. There are several difficulties in determining what the Jewish
population is at any point in time. First, a definition has to be agreed upon.
If the definition is religious, then a population decrease might be attributable
to conversions to other faiths. Are those who no longer practice any religion
to be counted? Once a definition is determined, how does one go about counting
the population? Between 1939 when the Germans invaded Poland and the German
surrender in 1945 uncounted millions of people were displaced by the war.
People who lived in Poland in 1939 were in the U.S.S.R in 1945 and they didn't
have to move at all. National borders were redrawn all over eastern Europe. In
any case, taking a Jewish census was not a top priority in 1945 and none was
taken. Most estimates of Jewish losses in Europe are baseless, or at least
flawed in that they do not include Jewish population increases due to
immigration in areas outside Europe during the 1930's through the 1950's. Even
today in a world without the restrictions in communication that existed in the
preceding five decades estimates in world Jewish population vary by several
million persons depending on who is doing the estimating and how and why the
guesses are being made.
SR)Butz; Sanning; Nordling
23) What did the term 'selection' refer to?
a) Holocaust literature often uses 'selection' as meaning a process in
which prisoners were segregated into a group that would be put to work and a
group that would be put to death. Of course, the process of sorting prisoners
by sex and age before the delousing procedure was a standard and implied
nothing sinister since the prisoners had to strip in order to take a shower.
The Nazi concentration camps generally segregated prisoners by sex with
children under 14 staying with their mothers if an entire family was put into
the camp. Prisoners were also selected and organized by the type of work that
was assigned to them. Selections also took place when prisoners were to be
reassigned to other camps, or were to be released. Many who spent time in
Auschwitz served sentences of less than a year and went home after completing
their sentence. In addition sick prisoners were triaged and sent to hospital
blocks. Many of these procedures required a quick visual examination by an SS
doctor who to part in the camp selections. The 'selection' process was part of
routine camp procedures and has since been given an evil meaning in survivor
testimony and Holocaust literature.
SR)Butz; Staeglich
24) What did the term 'special treatment' refer to?
a) Several German words with the 'Sonder' or 'special' prefix have been
designated as code words in the Holocaust lexicon. 'Sonderbehandlung' can mean
many different things in German depending on the context. In many documents in
the Auschwitz files, the 'Sonder' prefix designated something that had to do
with the hygienic regimen that was instituted in the camps after the epidemics
of the summer of 1942. There was 'special action', 'special treatment', 'baths
for special purpose' and other terms which referred specifically to procedures
put in place to control body lice and the spread of typhus.
SR)Mattogno;
Butz
25) What did the term 'special action' refer to?
a) The diary of SS doctor Josef Kremer makes repeated references to his
taking part in 'special actions' while he was assigned to duty at Auschwitz
during the Fall of 1942. This was during the worst time of the typhus epidemic
at that camp. While his diary does not make clear what he was doing during one
of these special actions, it appears his duty was one of giving clinical (i.e.
visual) examinations to groups of prisoners being transferred from other camps
and sub-camps of Auschwitz (e.g. Birkenau.) Because of the typhus epidemic many
of prisoners were in very bad shape and prompted Kremer to record the horrible
conditions that prevailed in the camp at the time. In his private diary he
referred to Auschwitz as the butt hole of the world and compared it to Dante's
Inferno. A 'special action' could refer to any number of activities at the
camp. The use of this term in German refers to any unscheduled activities or
duties performed that were outside the norm.
SR)Mattogno; Butz;
Faurisson; Gilbert; Klee
26) What is Zyklon-B used for?
a) Zykon-B is a commercially made fumigant designed to rid man-made
structures, such as buildings, ships, silos, etc. of destructive pests
including moths, rodents, termites, and--most importantly during World War
II--the typhus-bearing body louse. Many of the Nazi concentration camps
suffered from typhus epidemics which killed hundreds of thousands of prisoners.
Camp staff members also became sick and died from typhus. To control the
epidemics, a hygienic regimen was instituted which included the periodic
fumigation of camp buildings with Zyklon-B. Decontamination facilities were
also built to delouse clothing, luggage, etc. Some of these facilities used
steam, others used Zyklon-B. The hygienic practices also included shaving the
hair of incoming prisoners and forcing them to take a shower as part of a
delousing procedure. Large shipments of the fumigant was sent to many of the
Nazi concentration camps and not just to the alleged 'death camps.' So the
presence of Zyklon-B in a camp is not an indication that it was there to be
used to gas prisoners. Zyklon-B is a fumigant. There was a hygienic need for a
fumigant in the camps. It's use in the camps is not evidence of a genocide
program. In fact, it is just the opposite. Zykon-B was used in an effort to
save the lives and health of camp inmates and staff.
SR)Gauss; Butz;
Faurisson; Lipstadt; Pressac; Leuchter; Mattogno
27) Why would German documents designate Zyklon-B as material for Jewish resettlement?
a) The resettlement of Jews by the Nazis meant they would have to be
moved to housing in the east. This housing in some cases needed to be
fumigated before it was turned over the resettled Jews. Transit camps were
also set up where Jews, and their luggage, being transported eastward, would be
deloused before being sent to their final destinations. Since the delousing of
Jews and their belongings and the fumigation of buildings was part of the
resettlement process, there is nothing unusual in the fact in some documents
the fumigant Zyklon-B would be labeled 'material for Jewish resettlement.'
SR)Butz; Staeglich; Sanning
28) Why did the Nazis equip some of their camps with crematories?
a)From 1942 until the end of the War in 1945, the SS fought epidemics of
typhus and other diseases in the concentration camps. One of the largest camps
and the one hardest hit by the epidemic was Auschwitz and its satellite camps.
An average of about one hundred prisoners out of population of around fifty
thousand died there every day. The crematories were built as a sanitary
measure to dispose of the bodies of the dead. Auschwitz/Birkenau's crematories
were completed during the first half of 1943 after it was decided to expand the
camp to hold two hundred thousand prisoners. This decision and the already
high death rate at the camp is why the four crematory facilities were built
there. Many of the concentration camps had crematories and many did not.
Included in those that did not is Treblinka which is alleged to have been an
extermination camp. The conclusion that has to be drawn is the presence of
crematories is not an indication of the existence of gas chambers or an
extermination program. Several studies of the crematories conclude these
facilities were designed to handle the camp disease mortality rate and little
more.
SR)Mattogno; Butz
29) Why were Jews required to wear a yellow hexagram on their clothing in Nazi Germany?
a)From the time the Hitler became Chancellor, the policy of the Nazi regime
was to institute laws which would politically, socially, and economically
isolate the Jews of Germany and encourage their emigration. The yellow Star of
David was only one of many harassing laws applied to the Jews to get them to
leave Germany.
SR)Staeglich; Butz;
30) What role did the Einsatzgruppen play in the German war effort?
a)Because the fight between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany was a largely
ideological one, and the Soviet Union was not a signatory of Geneva Convention
agreements on the conduct of war, it was rightly assumed by Hitler that the
Soviets would not fight by the rules. The Einsatzgruppen were police units
assigned to the pacification of occupied territories in the east. Their duties
included fighting anti-German partisan guerrillas, shooting captured communist
'commissars' and executing civilians in reprisal for acts of murder and sabotage
committed by the guerrillas.
SR) Butz; Staeglich; Klee
31) Why were so many dead bodies found in the Nazi camps when they were captured by Allied troops?
a) By the early spring of 1945, when the British and American troops began
occupying German territory containing Nazi prison and labor camps, Germany was
in a state of economic chaos. Allied bombers and fighter planes made the
communication of goods very difficult and many of the concentration camps had
not received enough supplies for weeks or months to feed the camps, or to
provide the sick in the camps with medicine. In addition, as German military
forces retreated from the advancing Red army in 1944 and 1945 many prisoners
retreated with them; most did so voluntarily. More and more people were
crowded into fewer and fewer camps. The overcrowding and lack of supplies
combined to contribute to the spread of disease in the camps in the final
months of the war. The death rate in the camps outstripped the capacity of the
crematoria in the camps to dispose of them. In some cases there was no fuel to
run the crematoria even if death rates were at 'normal' levels. This increase
in camp population, and breakdown in support services to the camps led to an
increased death rate. The bodies piled up in the days and weeks before the
surrender of the camps to the advancing Allied armies in the spring of 1945.
SR)Butz; Staeglich; Sack; Cobden
32) Why is the Holocaust story important to Israel?
a) Israel's 1948 declaration of independence states the reason that state
was being founded was the Holocaust had shown there was a need for a Jewish
state as a place of refuge for Jews suffering persecution. Without the
Holocaust, there is no demonstrated need for a Jewish state. The Israeli
government therefore considers any questioning of the Holocaust to be a
questioning of Israel's right to exist. It passed a law in the early 1980's
making questioning, or minimizing the Holocaust a crime punishable by a
sentence of five years in prison-a sentence more severe than the one in Israeli
law for questioning God's existence.
SR)Segev; Butz; Sack; Lipstadt
33) What was Babi Yar?
a) Babi Ravine [ = Yar] is a ravine in Ukraine where over 100, 000 Jews are
said to have been shot by the Nazis and buried in a mass grave. The bodies were
later exhumed and the evidence destroyed.
SR)Ball
34) What evidence exists for the massacre at Babi Yar?
a)The basis of the Babi Yar allegation is Soviet wartime propaganda, some
documents purporting to be Nazi reports of the massacre, and post war
testimony. According to these claims the bodies of the victims were exhumed and
destroyed by the Nazis before the Soviets recaptured the territory. There is
no physical evidence of the massacre. Air photographs taken of the area soon
after the mass exhumation is supposed to have occurred show no evidence of it.
SR)Ball
35) Why were Jews put into concentration camps by the Nazis?
a) Jews were put into concentration and labor camps for a wide variety of
reasons. Some were imprisoned because of criminal activities or anti-Nazi
political activities. Others, particularly after 1943 and the reversal of
Germany's fortunes on the eastern front, were taken from ghettos for the
purpose of working in factories and on farms and housed in concentration camps
to keep them socially isolated from the surrounding community. The war
produced a shortage of labor and Jews were exploited to fill that need. This
situation put Jews in the position of working for the Nazis and the German war
effort which was socially and politically embarrassing for them once Germany
surrendered and Nazism defeated. Since Jewish inmates could therefore be seen
as collaborating with the German war effort, there was pressure upon them to
explain why they had worked for the Nazis. The explanation, like that used by
Germans who were accused of participating in the extermination of the Jews, was
the only alternative was death. If the inmate did not work, he or she was
murdered The excuse then was they had to cooperate to save their lives. Some
have added to this reason the self-inflated "in order to bear witness"
reason for their working for the Nazis, if saving their own skins was not reason
enough. If the need to bear witness overrides any reason not to cooperate with
the Nazis, then what was witnessed needs to be extraordinary. In this may be
a core reason for the wild tales told by some former concentration camp inmates
because after the war they were viewed with scorn by other Jews and wished to
rehabilitate their standing in the community. The Zionists living outside
Europe referred to the Jews who survived Nazi occupation as "soap"
because of their lack of resistance to the Nazi occupation and the
extermination program.
SR)Sack; Butz; Staeglich; Mayer; Segev;
Lanzmann; Porter
36) What was the function of Treblinka camp?
a)Records indicate there were two Treblinkas. Treblinka I was a labor camp
that included a gravel quarry. Treblinka II was a smaller camp and was
probably a delousing station for Jews being resettled in the east. Train loads
of Jews would arrive at T-II to be deloused. Their luggage would also be
deloused. Once the procedure was completed, the Jews would board a new train
that would take them to their final destination which was either a labor camp
or ghetto somewhere in occupied Soviet territory. German documents indicate
Jews were being funneled through Treblinka which was designated a transit camp.
T-II played a major role in the deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to
labor camps and ghettos farther east.
SR)Mayer; Ball; Butz; Sanning;
Lanzmann; Steiner
37) What evidence is used to support the Treblinka death camp story?
a) There are wartime news reports that Jews were being killed in large
numbers at Treblinka and there are also the postwar recollections of about 70
people who claim to have worked as prisoners at the camp. There are also the
'confessions' of Nazis who were either assigned to the camp or claim to have
visited it during the year or so that it was operational. The content of the
testimonies is largely contradictory and in some cases very funny. Read about
Treblinka from three or more sources and compare what they say about the method
used to kill Jews there and you will understand why I say that. There is no
physical evidence that hundreds of thousands of people were killed at
Treblinka. The camp was totally dismantled by the Nazis and the site today
contains an elaborate memorial that was built long after the war was over.
SR)Ball; Mayer; Steiner; Porter; Butz
38) Why were Gypsies put into concentration camps?
a)Some groups of Gypsies were put into Nazi concentration camps for several
reasons. The German government considered them a security risk, but more
importantly the Romany led a wandering lifestyle and did not occupy themselves
in what the Nazis considered productive employment. Because they refused to
abandon their traditional lifestyle, they were put to work in labor camps.
SR)Butz; Staeglich
39) Why is the question of the gas chambers important?
a)The gas chambers are supposed to be the end result of a long chain of
events that evolved into a genocide program. They then constitute the physical
application of Nazi policy toward the Jews. Whether the policy the exterminate
the Jews was the intention from the start, or whether it evolved into it over
time because of circumstance, the gas chambers are unambiguous signs the
extermination program existed. So, if the silly gas chamber allegation is
abandoned in favor of shootings, or starvation, or clubbings the whole fabric
of the Holocaust story begins to unravel. If the gas chamber story is false,
why has it been pushed for half a century by those who insist it is true? If
the extermination of the Jews is true, why falsely allege gas chambers were
used when another method of murder was applied? The gas chamber story and the
extermination story are twins joined at the heart. If one dies, so does the
other. On another level, men were hanged because of the gas chambers. The
German nation has spent half a century apologizing over the gas chambers. The
orientation of European and Middle Eastern politics revolves around the gas
chamber story as justification for many actions taken by various governments.
The question of the gas chambers is important because outcome of W.W.II is the
basis on which the world has rested for the last half century and how that war
is viewed has a lot to do with how many countries view their current role in
the political world.
SR) Butz; Faurisson; Staeglich; Segev; Lipstadt
40) How did the Holocaust story originate?
a)The Holocaust story of German extermination of the Jews originated during
the war. The charge of gassings of Jews in concentration camps was leveled by
the Zionist and Jewish organizations appear around 1942 and were picked up and
given lip service by the American and British governments at about the same
time. Some Zionists were looking to leverage the British into opening
Palestine up to more Jewish immigrants. By pleading a refuge in Palestine was
needed due to the crisis of Nazi Germany's mass murder of the Jews, these
groups hoped to embarrass the British to life immigration restrictions and to
pressure the U.S. government to use its influence to get Great Britain to make
the changes to its policies regarding the Jews and Palestine they desired.
Other Jewish organizations wished to stop the Germans who were deporting entire
Jewish communities east. Many of these deportations were taking place under
inhumane circumstances. Various plans were floated to purchase groups of Jews
from the Nazi regime to get them out of Europe or to terminate the deportations
and though the Nazis appear to have been willing to negotiate, none of them were
implemented. The Soviets also began accusing the Germans of murdering
civilians soon after the mass graves containing the bodies of executed Polish
Army officers were discovered in the forests near Katyn by the German Army.
Stalin accused the Germans of the Katyn forest massacre as well. Katyn was one
of the crimes for which Germans were prosecuted after the war. The Russians
finally admitted responsibility for that crime only a few years ago. As a
propaganda story among many meant to discredit the Axis war effort and
overshadow Soviet atrocities, the genocide charge took on a similar role during
the IMT and NMT war crimes trials and the post war de- Nazification programs.
The point to it was and is to discredit the NS regime and place it beyond the
political pale. The Holocaust became the paradigm which demonstrated the evil
of the Nazi regime and therefore justified the amount of destruction inflicted
on Europe to defeat it. The evil of Germany revealed in the Holocaust became
the reason Germany and Europe remained divided for so long and why the United
States needed to become western Europe's guardian. Since Europe could not be
trusted to protect itself after the defeat of Nazism from the new menace of
Russian Communism which had recently swallowed eastern Europe, the United
States had an excuse to remain engaged in European politics and retard
Germany's political and economic recovery. As an indication the status quo
established by World War Two is still in place, recent commemorations of the
Nuremberg trials have lionized them as a dispensation of justice rather than
repudiating them for the show-trials they were.
SR)Butz; Berg; Segev;
Gauss
41) Are there precedents to what happened to the Jews?
a) The forced transfer of populations is something that has happened as long as history has been recorded. In more recent times, the Turks and the Greeks exchanged populations when borders were redrawn at the end of W.W.I. At the end of W.W.II millions of Germans were relocated under horrible conditions. In the United States, Indian tribes were resettled multiple times as the country expanded westward. Stalin uprooted millions of various ethnic minorities in Russia and forcibly resettled them in Siberia. The forcible expulsion of ethnic groups is not a unique occurrence and definitely not rare even in the last one hundred years. SR)
42) What escape routes were available to Jews during the war?
a) Many Jews were able to leave Europe during the war through a variety of
paths. Over 100,000 are claimed by Yad Vashem to have crossed Soviet territory
to Shanghai, China which had liberal immigration policies. From there almost
all of them proceeded to other destinations which included the United States,
Canada, and Australia. Fashion designer John Weitz is said to have taken this
emigration route through China. Others traveled south from the Soviet Union
into Iran and then west to Palestine. Menachem Begin supposedly left his
native Poland during the war using this route. Another pathway out of Europe
used by Jews during and after the war was a southerly course through the
Balkans and Greece to Turkey and then on to Palestine.
SR)Segev; Butz,
Sanning
43) Did resistance to German occupation affect Nazi treatment of Jews in territory under their control?
a)Soviet propaganda agitated for civilians to fight the Germans in occupied
Soviet territory. Many partisan guerrilla groups remained active in these
areas committing acts of sabotage and murder throughout the time the Nazis
occupied them. The Nazis viewed communism as a creature of the Jews and in
reprisal for the war being waged by the partisans, many Jews were shot. Jews
were viewed by many in the Baltic states, occupied by the Communists in 1940,
as collaborators in that occupation. As the Red army retreated in 1941, the
Soviet secret police known as the NKVD murdered as many of the political
prisoners as they could before abandoning their prisons to the advancing
Germans. Many Jews who did not retreat with the Russians were rounded up and
murdered by local anti-Communist militias and German units in reaction to the
NKVD murders of members of nationalist groups they held in their prisons.
SR)Butz; Segev; Klee; Mayer; Da Zayas
44) How were Jewish ghettos in Nazi territory administered?
a)Ghettos set up by the Nazis were administered by a Jewish council called
the Judenratt. The Judenratt was the point of contact between the Nazis and
the Jews of the ghetto. It acted as the official ghetto government.
SR)Sanning; Butz; Arendt; Segev; Mayer
45) What role did the Judenratt play in providing labor for the concentration camps?
a)The Judenratt would provide lists of names of people in the ghetto that
could be conscripted for work in the concentration camps. This was a
compromise the Judenratt made with the Nazi SS which was known to send press
gangs into the ghetto and kidnap Jews off the street.
SR)Arendt; Sanning;
Staeglich; Butz
46) Why did Otto Frank, father of diarist Anne Frank, leave Germany?
a) Otto Frank was wanted in Germany on charges of embezzlement of money
from his employer.
SR) Faurisson
47) What was the 'transfer agreement?'
a)An international boycott of German goods organized by some American Jews
cut Germany's foreign exchange. It also cut the value of German currency
outside the country. The Nazis wanted Germany's Jews to emigrate, but it was
difficult for them to do so for several reasons. One of the most prominent
reasons was they did not want to leave all their assets behind when they left
the country. The transfer agreement was made between Nazi Germany and the
Zionist leadership in British-controlled Palestine by which German goods would
be purchased in Germany using the assets of the Jews wishing to emigrate to
Palestine. The German goods would be shipped to Palestine with the emigrating
Jews. The goods would then be sold in Palestine and the proceeds would go to
the émigré's. About 50,000 Jews are said to have taken advantage
of the program which was implemented by the German government, the Zionist
leadership and several Jewish financial institutions inside and outside of
Germany. One of the most notable of these was the Warburg bank in Hamburg.
SR) Segev; Chernow
48) Why did the Nazis initiate a boycott of Jewish shops in Germany?
a) The Nazis proclaimed a boycott of German shops owned by Jews in
response to an international boycott of German goods declared by international
Jewish groups on March 24th, 1933 that was to last more than twelve years.
SR)Irving; Segev; Chernow
49) How long did the Nazi boycott last?
a) The Nazi boycott of German Jewish shops lasted one day: April 1st,
1933. It was a Saturday--when religious Jews would not be doing business
because of religious obligations.
SR)Irving; Butz; Segev
50) What events led up to the Kristallnacht pogrom?
a) Poland passed a law which required Polish Jews living outside the
country return to Poland to have their passports stamped. If these stamps were
not obtained by a particular date, the passports would become invalid and the
bearer would no longer be recognized by Poland as a citizen of that country.
Nazi Germany, fearing that it would suddenly have a large population of
'stateless' Jews, forced thousands of Polish Jews living in Nazi Germany back
to Poland to obtain the required stamp. After the stamp was obtained, the Jews
were free to return to Germany, which is what most of them did. Among those
deported were the parents of Hershel Grynspan, a young Polish Jew living in
Paris. While several stories exist about his motivation, including anger over
what he considered the mistreatment of his family, it is not certain why he
went to the German embassy to kill the German ambassador. Because he was not
allowed to see the ambassador, the assassin shot another German diplomat
instead who died a few days later from his wound. Goebbels is generally blamed
for instigating the pogrom against German Jews that took place thereafter.
SR)Irving; Wickert; Butz
51) Why was German Jewry fined to pay for the damage done during the Kristallnacht pogrom?
a)The Nazis fined the German Jewish community for the damage from the
pogrom because much of the material needed for repairs had to be imported.
Because of the Jewish boycott of German goods, Germany lacked foreign exchange.
The fine was a direct punishment for the Jewish boycott of Germany.
SR)Wickert; Irving
52) What was Hitler's reaction to news of the pogrom?
a) He was shocked and angry. He ordered that it be stopped immediately.
SR) Irving
53) How many gas chambers were there at Treblinka?
a) One, three, five or six, seven, eight, ten, or thirteen depending on
which source you use. In some accounts of Treblinka there were no gas
chambers, but steam chambers that boiled Jews to death like lobsters. Other
stories allege Jews were crowded into sealed buildings and large pumps were
used to evacuate the air causing the victims to suffocate. The gas chambers of
Treblinka are a mystery both in their number and their design. There is no
real evidence the gas chambers at Treblinka numbered any more than zero.
Hannah Arendt quotes Eichmann as recalling seeing one large hall and being
told the killing agent was cyanide. Steiner states there were originally three
gas chambers and ten more larger structures were added later and that the gas
used was engine exhaust. An ex-SS member remembers there being five or six
large gas chambers and an unspecified number of smaller ones while another
states he believes there were eight. Hoess, the Auschwitz commandant, says in
his confession that there were ten gas chambers at Treblinka, but claims to
have visited the camp on a date before it existed. The IMT trials accepted an
official Polish government report into evidence that claims ten chambers were
built at Treblinka and the killing agent was steam. Most books on the
death camps contain very little about Treblinka and the other four lesser-known
"death camps" because evidence about them is so scarce and confused.
Even simple questions like 'how many gas chambers?' cannot be answered
authoritatively because the evidence is contradictory and of similar quality.
SR)Butz; Mayer; Porter; Arendt; Steiner; Berg; Klee; Lanzmann
54) What agent was used to kill people in the gas chambers at Treblinka?
a) It might have been cyanide, or steam, or diesel engine exhaust, or
gasoline engine exhaust, or some delayed-action mystery gas. It depends on the
source consulted. Since the camp was dismantled long before the war ended, it
is entirely speculation that gas chambers existed at Treblinka at all. The
official version of events appears based on the reports of Gerstein and
confessions of others who were either stationed at the camp, or survived it as
inmates. This version centers around the use of engine exhaust. Diesel engine
exhaust is most frequently alleged.
SR)Steiner; Butz; Berg; Roque; Porter;
Lanzmann; Klee
55) What evidence is there that Jews were being resettled in the east by the Nazis?
a)First, there are Nazi documents that mention ghettos of resettled Jews in
White Russia and other areas of occupied Soviet territory. Second, thousands
of Jews survived their relocation by the Nazis and either returned to their
former homes after the war or emigrated from Europe after the defeat of Germany
testifying to the fact they had been relocated. Third, during the war, many
resettled Jews continued to correspond with people back in their home
countries.
SR)Butz; Klee; Sanning; Staeglich; Mattogno; Porter
56) What consequences have revisionists suffered for their conclusions?
a) Since at least the 1970's revisionist authors and researchers have met
with not only with derision from other historians and authors, but also with
court fines, imprisonment, assault, arson attacks against their homes and
offices, loss of employment, of pensions, revocation of academic degrees,
exclusion from entering some countries, expulsion from other countries.
A
popular magazine in Japan was shut down after printing a revisionist article.
A revisionist book published in Germany was ordered destroyed by a German
court-every copy was to be burned!
Revisionist WWWeb sites have been shut
down without warning for their content.
Discussions of revisionist
findings on various online services have been cut off by the services.
SR)Watch
the news wires.
57) What evidence exists for mass murder at Belzec?
a)Like the evidence of it at the other camps, it consists of testimony.
Belzec is supposed have been similar to Treblinka according to some stories, but
a fantastic report about the camp filed with the IMT alleges Belzec had a
subterranean facility where Jews were marched into a pool of water where they
were electrocuted. Once they were dead, a grillwork on the bottom of the pool
lifted the mass of corpses up and out of the water. Then current sent through
the grillwork caused it to heat up and incinerate the bodies. It's laughable,
but certainly as true as any of the stories about Belzec.
SR)Ball; Butz;
Mayer; Klee; Lanzmann; Porter
58) What evidence exists for mass murder at Chelmno?
a)Testimony.
SR)Butz; Mayer; Klee; Lanzmann
59) Where did the bodies of the dead at Treblinka go?
a) It is alleged by those who claim to be survivors of Treblinka camp that
some 800,000 bodies were first buried in mass graves and that these were later
exhumed and burned on iron rails set over wood fires. Treblinka was not
equipped with crematories. Aerial photography of the site taken in 1944 shows
no indication of mass graves or locations where continuous burning of bodies
had taken place.
SR)Ball; Butz; Roques; Steiner; Lanzmann; Klee; Porter
60) How many are claimed to have been killed at Treblinka?
a) The figure most often given for Treblinka is 800,000 or more Jews gassed
or otherwise killed in less than a year. The bodies are said to have been
buried in mass graves and later exhumed and burned. There is no evidence to
support these allegation or that for the other five so-called death camps.
One of several versions of the Treblinka gas chamber story alleges Diesel
engines were used to pump exhaust into some rooms and everyone inside died
within 32 minutes. Animal tests performed in England forty years ago indicate
animals can survive three and one half hours on up to 14 or more hours
breathing exhaust from Diesel engines.
John Ball has demonstrated the
area in which the bodies were buried was not large enough to hold even one
tenth the number that are claimed to have been buried there prior to exhumation
and cremation.
SR)Butz; Ball; Steiner; Klee; Lanzmann; Mayer; Berg
61) What evidence exists for mass murder at Sobibor?
a) Testimony.
SR)Ball; Mayer; Butz; Lanzmann
62) How good is testimony as a form of evidence?
a)Testimony is the poorest form of evidence. The human mind is very
malleable, and memory can be affected by a wide variety of factors. Very normal
people can sincerely remember things that never happened. Add to this the
interest of many of the witnesses in getting attention, influencing how they
are themselves perceived by those around them, ameliorating their punishment,
or exacting vengeance on their enemies. Testimony alone should be used only
with extreme caution.
SR)Butz; Mayer; Segev
63) What was the War Refugee Board?
a)The WRB was set up in 1944 by the Roosevelt administration and was head
by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau who was the one who proposed the
destruction of Germany's industrial base at the end of the war. This plan was
the basis of U.S. occupation policy for over two years after the German
surrender. The WRB was involved in projects to get Jews out of Europe and
served as a tool of the World Jewish Congress and other Zionist organizations.
SR)Butz;
64) What was the WRB Report?
a)The WRB report is supposed to be based on the testimonies of three
escaped prisoners from Auschwitz who claimed Jews were being gassed at
Auschwitz on a large scale. It has now been largely forgotten, even though it
is one of the founding sources for the Auschwitz legend. The reason it has been
forgotten is that it is so obviously inaccurate in its descriptions of the gas
chambers and the numbers of Jews being killed. In effect, it was inaccurate
about everything that had to do with the extermination of Jews at the camp.
SR)Butz; Gilbert; Pressac.
65) How accurate was the information contained in the WRB Report?
a)There is very little in the report which can verified as accurate. The
bulk of the information in the report is verifiably untrue or inaccurate by a
wide margin. Though the report is supposed to be the first detailed account of
the extermination of Jews at Auschwitz to reach the West, it is wrong in almost
all of its details.
SR)Butz; Pressac; Staeglich; Gilbert
66) What did the Auschwitz camp commander Rudolf Hoess confess about the Auschwitz camp?
a)Auschwitz camp commander Rudolf Hoess signed two confessions. The first
confession was while a captive of the British. This confession was read to him
at one of the Nuremberg trials at which time he testified the content of the
confession to be true. A thorough examination of the confession shows it is
filled with lies and contradictions.
Hoess signed another confession while
in Polish custody. The contents of the second confession are much like that of
the first, but in his second confession he accuses the British of beating him
and forcing him to sign the first confession though he had no idea what was in
it. Hoess also wrote a memoir while in Polish custody. This memoir is
considered by many to be a fraud which Hoess transcribed from a prepared text
given to him by the Polish communists. Even so, this fake is still in print and
widely available. The former camp commander also testified at other trials
before he was ultimately hanged at the Auschwitz camp that he used to run by
the Polish Communists. In his oral and written accounts of his time as
commander at Auschwitz, Hoess describes being ordered to established facilities
for the killing of large numbers of people and the disposal of their bodies.
To fulfill this task assigned to him, Hoess built one or more gas chambers at
Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps. The fumigant Zyklon-B was used as
the killing agent in these gas chambers. The bodies of the victims were burned
in the crematories and in open pits. The ashes were then collected. Bones were
pounded into a powder. All of the remains were then dumped into the river.
Hoess provided several estimates as to the number of people killed at his camp
which range from 1.2 million to 2.5 million.
SR)Faurisson; Staeglich;
Pressac, Butz
67) How was Hoess' confession obtained?
a) Among the techniques used by the British to get Hoess to sign his
confession included sleep deprivation, threats against his family, beatings,
and forced consumption of alcohol.
SR)Butz; Faurisson; Pressac.
68) Is torture a way to get a reliable confession?
a) No. The torture victim will usually agree to do anything in order to get the pain or torture stopped. It is however, a good way to get the kind of confession that is desired by the torturers. SR)Butz; Faurisson; Porter; Pressac; Mayer; Sack; Preissinger
69) What did a U.S. Senate commission find about the use of torture to obtain confessions for the Malmedy Massacre case?
a) The commission investigated nearly 140 former members of the Waffen SS
involved as potential or actual defendants in the Malmedy case. The commission, headed by Judge Edward L Van Roden of the Texas Supreme Court, found that, "All but two of the Germans in the 139 cases we investigated, had been kicked in the testicles beyond repair. This was Standard Operating Procedure with our 'American' investigators'". One result of all the confusion caused by improper interrogation procedures is that nobody knows what really happened at Malmedy; another was that none of the death sentences was ever carried out. At any rate, there are 86 names on the monument although only 22 men were killed in the "massacre": the names of other men killed elsewhere in Belgium, even on other days, were simply added for propaganda purposes.
SR)Ziemssen; Butz; Cuppens; for the text of the Van Roden Report, see: http://www.fpp.co.uk/Auschwitz/Dachau/VanRoden1948.html
For a fairly objective discussion of the Van Roden Report from the exterminationist point of view, see
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/DachauTrials/MalmedyMassacre03.html
and
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/DachauTrials/MalmedyMassacre04.html
Note that nobody claims that the Van Roden Report was substantially untrue. The only controversy relates to the exact number of permanently damaged testicles and the exact extent to which they were permanently damaged. -C.P.
70) Was the use of torture and threats only used in isolated cases?
a) There appears to be a wide range in how Nazi's in Allied custody were
treated. It is pretty clear from various sources that threats against prisoners
were common. The use of torture was not rare either. Torture was used to break
a prisoner's spirit to gain cooperation, as in the case of Hoess. It was also
administered out of what appears to be pure sadism.
SR)Butz; Pressac;
Ziemssen; Bacque; Sack; Preissinger; Weber
71) Why is it nobody protested the use of torture on German prisoners?
a)There were some protests, and there was a U.S. Senate investigation,
but these have been largely ignored or forgotten. The attitude of the time,
much of which continues to this day in certain circles, saw the Germans as
deserving of any abuse they received. The press and many public officials were
still under the influence of war propaganda. Voicing concern over the torture
of an enemy would be regarded as disloyal.
SR)Butz; Ziemssen; Bacque; Sack
72) Where did concentrations of Jews exist in Europe before 1939?
a) The bulk of Europe's Ashkenazi Jews was located in Poland and parts of
the Soviet Union. Hungary also was the home of a large population of Jews.
The areas where most of the Jewish losses during the war occurred were areas
which underwent massive shifts in population and borders between 1939 and 1945.
Though a large percentage of Jews in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and
Czechoslovakia were deported eastward by the Nazis, the Jewish population of
these countries were relatively small to begin with.
SR)Sanning; Koestler
73) What is the origin of the Einsatzgruppe gas van charge?
a)Soon after the mass graves in which the NKVD buried thousands murdered
Polish officers at Katyn were opened to international inspection by the
Germans, the Russians, hurting from the bad publicity, put several Germans on
trial for murdering prisoners with the exhaust from truck engines. These charges
were later carried over to the postwar war crimes trials.
SR)Berg; Butz
74) Why haven't Germans and others in a position to know come forward to repudiate the extermination story?
a) Besides the danger of social ostracism for questioning the extermination
story, anyone in a position of authority during the war in a position to know,
in detail, what the final solution program involved is in danger of being
prosecuted for war crimes. There is no statute of limitations on Nazi war
crimes. Since the early 1980's laws have been passed in several European
countries which make it a crime to question the Holocaust or to offer an
opinion which is not in line with the official dogma on the topic. There is no
interest in what would be viewed as an attempt to rehabilitate the Nazi regime
since postwar German politics is based on the repudiation of Hitler and the
Nazi years.
SR)Segev; Butz
75) Why were Jews in Nazi Germany forced to wear a star of David on their clothes?
a)This Nazi edict, which copied laws from the Middle Ages was one of many
harassing measures instituted to isolate Jews in Germany and exclude them from
German culture and society. The objective of this and other laws was to get
Jews to leave Germany.
SR)Irving; Segev; Staeglich; Butz
76) What sources of information did the Western Allies have during the war that failed to verify the extermination story or provide warnings about it?
a) The Catholic church, The Polish government in exile, aerial photography
of Auschwitz, The Polish underground resistance movement, The International
Red Cross, Spies in the German government, Intercepted German government
cipher communications coming from and going to concentration camp
administration personnel. There was a process in place in which governments at
war could register complaints and war crimes charges against their enemies. Each
combatant country had a neutral country which would pass these complaints on to
their enemy to investigate and explain. The Allies did not even ask the Germans
to investigate the extermination story in a formal complaint even though the
channel to do so was in place. This is an indication that the Allies did not
take the charge of Jewish exterminations seriously enough even to as for an
investigation or explanation.
SR)Butz; Staeglich; Segev; Mayer, Ball,
Irving; Da Zayas; Brugioni
77) What evidence is there that Zionist leaders did not believe their own propaganda?
a) There was no effort on the part of the Jewish leaders outside of Nazi
occupied Europe to warn the Jews threatened with extermination about the
danger. In fact, the Jewish council at a ghetto near Budapest turned British
paratroopers from Palestine over to the Germans for fear harboring them would
result in punishment. Arendt and Segev relate that testimony at the Eichmann
trial indicate Jews in occupied Europe were unaware of the extermination at the
time.
In 1944 Zionist leaders requested the British government stop running
news stories concerning Jewish scientific contributions to the war effort for
fear of reprisals being inflicted upon Jews in occupied Europe. That indicates
they did not believe Jews were being exterminated since a reprisal against a
population that was being killed in any case is meaningless particularly in
1944 when nearly all of the Jews were supposed to be already dead.
Additionally, Allied leaders, while giving lip service to Zionist complaints
about the exterminations, did nothing because they did not believe and could
not confirm them despite the fact they had excellent sources for information in
Germany and Eastern Europe.
SR)Butz, Segev, Arendt, Gilbert; Ball;
Brugioni
78) Do Dr. Robert Faurisson and Fred Leuchter claim Zyklon-B was used as a germicidal antiseptic at Auschwitz?
a) J. C. Pressac, the author of AUSCHWITZ: THE TECHNIQUE AND OPERATION OF
THE GAS CHAMBERS accused Leuchter and Faurisson of this because Faurisson used
the verb 'disinfect' in describing what the fumigant did when it was used to
fumigate a building. This interpretation of Dr. Faurisson's loose use of the
word when referring to delousing is a false one. Deborah Lipstadt also picked
up Pressac's straw man in her attack on Leuchter and Faurisson in her book
DENYING THE HOLOCAUST. Fred Leuchter explained that the morgues of the
crematories at Auschwitz were probably deloused with Zyklon-B and that this is
why minute traces of a byproduct of the gas were detected in the samples of
brick and plaster taken from the ruins at the former Nazi concentration camp.
In interpreting the term 'disinfect' as meaning a process in which germs are
killed rather than meaning a delousing or fumigation process, Pressac countered
an explanation Faurisson and Leuchter never made by derisively pointing out
washing surfaces with chlorinated water would be a much safer way to disinfect
a building. Deborah Lipstadt, who probably never read the Leuchter Report,
picked up Pressac's transparent argument and incorporated it into her book as
well.
SR)Pressac; Leuchter; Lipstadt; Faurisson
79) Are accounts of cremation pits at Auschwitz-Birkenau credible?
a)No. Various accounts from former prisoners who spent time detained at
Birkenau and staff who worked there include claims that a large number of
corpses was burned in open pits up to three meters deep because the crematories
there, despite a fabulous cremation capacity of 10,000 bodies per day, were not
fast enough to dispose of all of the gas chamber victims. There are several
problems with this allegation. Birkenau was built in a marsh. The camp was
crisscrossed with drainage ditches to help deal with the high water table. Any
pit dug into the ground there would fill with water making the burning of
bodies impossible. Even in a case where striking water is not a problem,
burning anything in a deep pit is difficult since the fire consumes all of the
oxygen available for combustion and puts itself out. There is no point in
digging a pit for cremating bodies and is entirely counterproductive to the
effort. Open air cremation is done on pyres, not in pits. After Dresden was
bombed, the Germans needed to dispose of a large number of bodies in a small
amount of time. In this case, besides digging mass graves, bodies were burned
on pyres, not in pits. If burning bodies in pits was such an effective means
for their disposal, pits would have been dug in this case as well. They were
not despite the fact pre-dug bomb craters in Dresden would have suited this
requirement. This fact alone indicates the story of large scale pit cremation
is pure whimsy.
SR)Butz; Muller; Lanzmann; Ball; Leuchter; Mattogno;
Irving
80) How does the crematory capacity of Auschwitz-Birkenau compare to other Nazi concentration camps where exterminations were not taking place?
a) In comparing the number of retorts, or cremation chambers, installed at
Auschwitz-Birkenau where large numbers of people are said to have been gassed
to death and other camps, like Dachau and Buchenwald, that had crematory
facilities, but in which gassing are not claimed, and the prison registered
death rates for each camp, it can be concluded Auschwitz- Birkenau was not
suspiciously over-equipped with crematory ovens.
SR)Butz; Mattogno
81) Why did Jews not return to their homes at the end of the war if they were not killed?
a) Some did, but most could not return home because it either no longer
existed or someone else had moved in after they were deported and would not be
willing to relinquish their homes to former owners and occupants. The war set
tens of millions of refugees on the move. Housing, much of it destroyed during
the war, was in short supply; There was no home to which to return. Others,
still living in Soviet occupied areas, had entered a new era of their lives.
National borders had been redrawn. Their prewar communities no longer existed
and many did the best they could to get on with their lives in whatever area
they found themselves. It should also be remember that the bulk of Europe's
Jews lived in the eastern part of the continent before the war and continued to
live there after the war behind the Iron Curtain.
SR)Sanning; Butz;
Porter; Chernow; Segev; Arendt
82) What evidence exists for the charge the Nazis used the bodies of Jews to make, among other things, soap, fertilizer, lampshades, gloves, book covers, etc., ad nauseum?
a) During the war, many rumors circulated about the Nazis exploiting dead
bodies for industrial, commercial and other uses. Some of these stories were
merely reworked versions of stories spread by the British about the Germans
during World War I. For instance, an article in a German newspaper during the
First World War dealing with the rendering of horse corpses to make soap was
changed by the British into a report that the bodies of dead German soldiers
were being used by the Germans to make soap. The British also spread the story
that German soldiers were cutting off the hands of Belgian children. All sorts
of these horrible stories were spread as part of the war effort. Similarly,
during the Second World War, atrocity stories were spread about the activities
of the enemy by both sides. The soap from dead bodies story came to life once
more in the form of German-manufactured RIF soap. A rumor was spread that RIF
stood for 'pure Jewish fat' and the bodies of dead Jews were used in its
manufacture. Though this and many stories like it are now considered to be
'rumor' by Holocaust historians, Germans were tried at war crimes trials on
charges they had participated in the manufacture of soap from human bodies and
the Soviets produced photographs of what they claimed was a laboratory near
Danzig where it was made. Several men were tried and went to jail for taking
part in activities Deborah Lipstadt, Tom Segev, and other Jewish Holocaust
writers now claim was only a wartime rumor. Nevertheless many Jews still take
the story seriously. 'Soap' became a derogatory term for survivors of the
Holocaust used by Israelis after the war. The American television comedy 'Soap'
was renamed 'Bubbles' when it aired in Israel for that reason. The Yad Vashem
museum in Israel still displays RIF soap in one of its exhibits. There are
several graves in which German soap is buried on the belief that it was made
from human bodies. The 'human skin' lamps were the property of Ilse Koch who
was the wife of a concentration camp commander. Her husband had been executed
by the Nazis over financial irregularities at the camp under his command.
When brought to trial, Frau Koch was accused of, among other things, picking
prisoners with tattoos she liked to be killed so she could make use of the art.
As it turns out the lamps were made of leather from goat hide and not human
skin. Frau Koch committed suicide while serving a prison sentence. These and
the other stories about the Nazis extracting material from dead bodies for the
manufacture of products are untrue and indicative of people's willingness to
accept any story concerning an enemy as fact. During wartime, dehumanizing an
enemy bolsters morale at home and justifies any vicious act of war committed
against it.. This is not to say all atrocity stories are false, but great care
should be taken before giving credence to such horror stories. Even so, five
decades after the war ended, many people are willing to swallow any charge of
evildoing leveled at Nazi Germany as true.
SR )Butz; Porter; Segev;
Lipstadt; Smith
83) What is the explanation for all the hair, shoes, eyeglasses, and other personal items found at Auschwitz?
a) As prisoners were processed into the concentration camp, their hair was
shaved to prevent the introduction of more typhus-bearing lice into the camp.
Their personal belongings were taken away and put into storage. Uniforms and
shoes were issued to the prisoners after they were deloused. Hundreds of
thousand of people passed through Auschwitz camp and survived. The best
evidence available points to a total of around 130,000 deaths that took place
during the time the Nazis operated the camp. Nearly all of these were due to
epidemics of typhus and other diseases. The separation of a person from their
belongings in and of itself does not cause death, however, those that not
survive their time at Auschwitz did not claim their belongings, so these
remained in storage. In addition much of this prisoner private property was
left behind when the camp was evacuated and abandoned to the advancing Red Army
in January of 1945. There was very real possibility of having one's belongings
stolen while in the camp by other prisoners. Storing the goods prevented that.
Leather goods are a haven for lice. Many items like shoes and suitcases were
stored as part of camp hygienic measures. Other items, such as shaving razors,
were potential weapons and were confiscated and stored for that reason.
SR)Porter; Butz; Staeglich
84) What have forensic examinations of the alleged extermination sites revealed?
a)Several examinations have been made by scientists and amateurs of the
crematoria, and alleged gas chamber sites at several of the former Nazi camps.
While they generally agree on what the buildings look like, the conclusions as
to their nature diverge in some cases. Fred Leuchter, an execution equipment
engineer; Walter Lueftl, an Austrian engineer; Germar Rudolf, a German
chemist; and two revisionist researchers - David Cole of the United States and
Ditlieb Felderer of Sweden, among others, have all concluded the gas chambers
and ruins of gas chambers on display at the various concentration camp sites
were not and could not be used as gas chambers as described by eyewitness. A
French pharmacist, J.C. Pressac, and the Polish government authority that
administers the Auschwitz museum draw the opposite conclusion based on the same
evidence. What they discovered were extremely small traces of prussian blue, a
byproduct of the use of the fumigant Zyklon-B, (i.e. the chemical HCN), in the
mortar at the some of the sites, particularly at Auschwitz and Birkenau.
Revisionists point out that the by product should be found in much higher
quantity. The traces were found at levels consistent with the building being
fumigated at some point. A gas chamber would contain a much larger amount of
the prussian blue because of the repeated exposure to HCN as in the camp
fumigation facilities where prussian blue has permeated deeply into the walls
and can be found in high concentrations. Pressac and others on the opposite side
of the issue argue finding any trace at all supports their position of gassings
in the buildings.
SR)Pressac; Leuchter; Gauss; Lenski; Lipstadt; Lueftl
85) Why have there not been extensive forensic examinations of the killing centers up to now by the Allied governments?
a)There are probably several reasons for it and since these governments
don't even address the issue any reply to this question would be speculative.
The most obvious reason is the Soviets and her allies saw no need for them. The
war crimes tribunals simply took judicial notice of the crimes themselves and
therefore it was not required that proof be produced. The question addressed
by the IMT and NMT was not what happened, but who was to be punished. A
thorough examination of the death camps would more likely than not produce
evidence which would damage their case since they knew many of the charges were
untrue. Therefore such an action by them would be counterproductive to the
larger goal of discrediting the Nazi regime.
SR) Faurisson; Mayer; Butz;
Leuchter; Gauss
86) Doesn't the verdict in the Max Taeubner trial indicate the Nazi Einsatzgruppen were killing Jews?
a) Max Taeubner was a member of an SS Einsatzgruppen who was convicted by
an SS court for his part in the massacre of Jews in the occupied territories
in the East. The court was particularly disturbed by his photographing the
bodies and sharing the pictures with family and friends. It appears from the
verdict the reason he was punished for his activities in the case was for his
acting in this regard without orders, the cruelty with which the executions
were carried out, and for taking photographs which he shared with others.
Certainly the Einsatzgruppen killed people, particularly Jews. These
executions were part of security measures instituted in the eastern territories
occupied by the Nazis. The point to them was to suppress anti- Nazi guerrilla
activities in these areas. Taeubner was a loose cannon acting out of his own
personal hatred for Jews. He was sentenced to several years in prison for his
crimes, but was pardoned in January 1945-- when the situation for Germany was
beyond desperate--and put back on duty at the front. Taeubner apparently
survived the war and there were several unsuccessful attempts to prosecute him
in the 1960s and 1970s in Germany for his crimes, but the courts cited his
prior conviction by an SS court and dismissed the case.
SR)Klee
87) What is the Leuchter Report?
a) During the mid-1980's a German-Canadian publisher named Ernst Zuendel
commissioned an American execution equipment engineer and consultant named Fred
Leuchter to examine the sites of alleged Nazi gas chambers at Auschwitz and
Majdanek and render his opinion as to whether these buildings were used to kill
millions of people. The report then, is Leuchter's opinion based on the
evidence he gathered and analyzed.
SR)Leuchter; Lenski
88) Is the Leuchter Report flawed? If so, how?
a)The Leuchter Report is adequate for the purpose for which it was
intended, which was to fulfill the commission of Ernst Zuendel to examine the
sites of alleged German gas chambers, report on what he found, and draw
conclusions from his findings.
The samples of plaster and mortar Leuchter
had tested left a question as to how much prussian blue residue from Zyklon-B
would be found in a room that had been fumigated one or more times, but not
used as a gas chamber. The answer to this question was left open because
plaster samples from the so-called undressing rooms at crematory II and III
were not analyzed for comparison to those taken from the alleged gas chambers.
SR)Leuchter; Pressac; Lenski; Lipstadt
89) Have others corroborated Leuchter's findings?
a)German chemist, Germar Rudolf has analyzed samples of plaster taken from
prisoner sleeping barracks and found that the amount of residue left behind
from fumigation with Zyklon-B is comparable with that found in the alleged gas
chambers. Rudolf also concludes the gas chamber story is false. The Austrian
engineer Walter Lueftl has also examined the allegations and came to the same
conclusion; As did DuPont chemist William L. Lindsey when he examined the
problem of the gas chambers.
SR) Lenski; Lueftl; Leutcher; Gauss
90) Why would the Allies have been interested in Auschwitz long before the charges of extermination there were leveled?
a) Auschwitz was located next to a Buna rubber factory that the Nazis were
building to convert coal to gasoline. 'Operation Frantic' targeted German fuel
production facilities for bombing missions. As early as 1943 Auschwitz and
Monowitz, the Buna plant, were flown over by Allied photo reconnaissance
airplanes in preparation for it being targeted by American bomber planes. The
entire area had been photographed over a dozen times by the American army by
the end of 1944. Yet, despite this interest in the area, the U.S. government
was unable to confirm an extermination of the Jews was taking place.
SR)Butz; Ball; Gilbert; Brugioni
91) What do Himmler's diaries reveal about the final solution to the Jewish problem?
a) That is unknown, since these have never been published and are not
available to researchers though they are known to exist in Israel.
SR)Irving;
Weber
92) What do the Auschwitz-Birkenau coke shipment records reveal?
a) Receipts for shipments of coke to fuel the crematories for some of 1942
and ten months of 1943 are in the Auschwitz archives in Poland. They indicate
an amount of fuel available to cremate corpses compatible with the registered
deaths in the camp for that period. The death rate was about 100 per day and
the amount of coke available for each cremation works out to a little more than
21 kilograms (46 lb.) of fuel per registered death. This amount of fuel is
compatible with the requirements of the crematory machinery.
SR)Pressac;
Mattogno
93) How long does it take to cremate a human body?
a) It varies with the equipment used, but the cremation time for the
equipment installed at Birkenau appears to have required an incineration time
of about an hour per body. The entire cremation cycle took longer and each
oven, or retort, could reduce three or four bodies per day under normal
operating circumstances. Birkenau had a total of 46 ovens so the capacity
would have been 184 bodies per day if all of the facilities were operating at
once.
This, however, was not the case. Crematories IV and V had 8 ovens
each and operated for only a few months before they broke down and were
mothballed in 1943. The other two at Birkenau, numbered II and III, contained
a total of 30 retorts which would have put the normal daily capacity at 90 to
120 bodies per day which is the rate indicted for the camp by the death
registries.
In 1942, when the crematory facilities for Birkenau were
planned by the SS, it was also planned that the camp be greatly expanded and
the inmate population increased to two hundred thousand. The camp population
never reached that number and the typhus epidemic was partially brought under
control, so the two smaller facilities were not repaired and put back into
operation since they were not needed.
SR) Mattogno, Butz; Iserson;
Pressc
94) Where are the original Allied Auschwitz air photo negatives?
a) In the CIA archives and unavailable to researchers. Copies of the films
can be studied by researchers at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. but
it is believed these films have been altered and contain imagery different from
the originals.
SR)Lenski; Ball; Brugioni
95) What was the 'Madagascar Plan'?
a) After France was defeated by Germany in 1940, the Nazi leadership
researched the practicality of resettling Europe's Jewry on the remote French
colony of Madagascar. It was decided Germany did not have the resources to
transport them there while the war was still being fought, so Madagascar was
abandoned in favor of occupied Soviet territory in late 1941. It was hoped at
the time by the Nazis the final expulsion of the Jews from the continent of
Europe would then be addressed once the war was won.
SR)Butz; Irving
96) Who was Kurt Gerstein?
a) Kurt Gerstein was a low-ranking SS officer with a degree in mining
engineering who served as a sanitation officer for the SS during the war.
Near the end of the war, he deserted his assignment and surrendered to the
French. While a captive of the French, he wrote several reports or confessions
having to do with what he claimed to have witnessed with regard to the gassing
of Jews at various Nazi concentration camps. He was found hanged in his cell
soon thereafter.
SR)Roques; Butz
97) How reliable are Gerstein's confessions?
a)The reports left by Gerstein are full of exaggerations and absurdities,
but since the source is an SS officer, they are frequently used by Holoscribes
as source material in their writings. A reading of the entire text of these
confessions can only make one wonder how anyone can seriously quote from them.
SR)Roques; Butz; Lenski
98) How much ash remains after a body is cremated?
a) The Cremation Association of North America says that adult remains weigh
between three and nine pounds. Others have found they average 7.4 pounds for
men and 5.8 pounds for women.
SR) Iserson
99) What does Dr. Kremer's diary reveal about his time at Auschwitz?
a)Dr. Kremer's diary does not mention the gas chambers at all and only
refers to the use of Zyklon-B once in relation to the fumigation of a barracks
infested with lice. Dr. Kremer discusses the epidemic of typhus raging through
Auschwitz during the second half of 1942 and the quarantine the camp was under
to get control of the spread of the disease.
There are several references
to having witnessed horrible scenes while assigned to special actions, but
these references are so vague, only a very loose interpretation would allow the
reader to conclude he is referring to gassings in these entries. More than
likely the references are related to examining prisoners with typhus.
Other
gruesome entries deal with the pathologist's work in collecting human organs
from dying patients for his studies; attending trials and executions of
prisoners. These were all duties he performed while assigned to the camp.
The key reason Kremer's diary is cited by the Holoscribes as proof of mass
murder of Jews at Auschwitz is his use of an ambiguous phrase in one of the
entries. The phrase in question refers to Auschwitz camp as "das Lager der
Vernichtung" which they translate as "an extermination camp."
As Faurisson points out, however, the Nazis did not refer to any of their camps
as such and placing this postwar interpretation on this 1942 diary entry is
erroneous. Moreover when the diary of SS-Dr. Kremer is used as evidence of
gassings at Auschwitz, it is required that his more explicit post-war testimony
be used in conjunction with the diary to make it support the Auschwitz gas
chamber legend. Kremer testified to being assign duty at gassings. He claimed
his function was to stand by in case an SS member accidentally succumbed to the
gas and render assistance in such cases. The problem with interpreting the
diary based on Kremer's postwar testimony is the diary is no longer the
evidence. The evidence is the postwar testimony which was subject to all of
the postwar pressures of the other testimony given by former Nazis.
SR)Klee;
Faurisson; Staeglich
100) Are the stories of strange Nazi medical experiments true?
a)Medical experiments were performed on some concentration camp prisoners,
but those experiments which were life-threatening were performed on inmates who
had been sentenced to death by the German government for crimes they had
committed. However, many stories concerning medical experiments, like those of
Dr. Mengele at Auschwitz, are more likely exaggerations and fabrications
because they appear to be scientifically pointless and even silly. The
evidence for most of these stories too is post-war testimony. The Nazis do not
have a monopoly on performing medical experiments on prison inmates, however.
In fact, some of the experimental research started by SS doctors was continued
and completed by American military doctors after the German defeat.
SR)Butz;
Porter; Klee
101) Did Hitler order the Jews be exterminated?
a) Though that is alleged by those wishing to discredit Hitler and others
who wished to shift blame to a dead man. No extermination order has ever been
located, and there is no evidence Hitler even knew such a program existed.
SR)Irving; Butz; Mayer; Klee; Staeglich
102) Did Himmler order the gas chambers be destroyed?
a) It is claimed Himmler, the head of the SS, ordered the destruction of
the gas chambers in October or November of 1944 and the extermination of the
Jews ended. No proof of this has ever been produced. The story of the Himmler
order, like the story of the Hitler order to kill the Jews is based largely on
postwar testimony, particularly that of Eichmann and Hoess. The gas chamber
facilities at Auschwitz were supposed to have been destroyed soon after this
order was issued, but aerial photographs taken as late as January 1945 show at
least one of the crematory buildings still intact several months after they
were allegedly destroyed.
SR)Butz; Brugioni; Pressac; Ball
103) How many people survived being imprisoned at Auschwitz?
a) Recent (1996) press articles estimate the number of people to have
survived imprisonment at Auschwitz to be 200,000. The real number is unknown,
but many people were imprisoned at Auschwitz and its satellite camps for very
short times and were then released after they had served their sentences. The
real number, depending on the definition of 'survived', therefore may be
higher. This huge number of survivors is interesting in that the extermination
program was supposed to have been a state secret. Witnesses to it were
supposedly killed as part of the effort to destroy the evidence of the crime.
Yet the crematories were built in plain sight of everyone arriving at camp and
most of the barracks buildings. An athletic field was situated next to
Crematory III. There was no effort to hide the facilities, and the people
imprisoned at Auschwitz could see everything.
SR)Associated Press/Reuter;
Ball; Brugioni; Mattogno
104) What is the Mueller document?
a) The Mueller document, published in 1980's, is purported to be an
Austrian police memorandum from the postwar 1940's which lists Nazi
concentration camps where gassing claims had been investigated and proved to be
false. An Austrian, Emil Lauchout, claims the document to be genuine, but it
is most likely a forgery. It appears the gassing claims were never
investigated, but simply accepted by the Allied governments as fact.
SR)
Faurisson; Lenski
105) Do Holocaust revisionists incite racial hatred?
a)No. As far as I know, there is no evidence of that. What the revisionists want to incite is skepticism and an objective examination of major contemporary historical issues that affect us all. Or to quote the revisionist researcher and writer Carlo Mattogno :
"If official historiography reached the clear conclusion that their 'Holocaust' version was historically flawed, would it be necessary to hush it up out of fear of providing justification for neo-Nazi resurgency?" In other words, if it is true, it is unintentional and beside the point.
SR) Mattogno
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Document" by Dr. Robert Faurisson JHR Vol.8 No. 1 1988
"The
Lueftl Report" by Walter Lueftl JHR Vol. 12 No. 4 Winter1992-93
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