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This is what history fears the most, coming to past. As real-life victims and eyewitnesses to the Holocaust die off, it becomes easier for Holocaust deniers.

If the Holocaust never happened then the late President Dwight Eisenhower and the late Lieutenant General George Patton were liars. Both men visited the concentration camps and recounted the horror they witnessed in their memoirs. One of my relatives toured a concentration camp in Germany many, many years ago and personally saw the ovens. The Nazi German monsters didn't build those concentration camps for looks. Those were built for one and one purpose only, the slow or quick execution of persecuted human beings.

All those horrifying black and white films showing dead skeletal bodies of starved and gassed humans dumped into mass graves cannot be denied and yet the deniers claim those films are fabrications. Those must be a lot of expensive props of dead bodies. Others claim the films were of Russian gulags or prisoner of war camps.

There was a colleague of mine who told me that he quietly ended his friendship with a nice Middle Eastern guy because the man adamantly denied the Holocaust ever took place. He claimed it was all a worldwide Jewish conspiracy and that the names of the victims were dredged up from innumerable telephone books at random. Six million Jews and six million political prisoners, gypsies, homosexuals, mental deficient people, physically deficient folks...all don't simply vanish off the face of the earth without someone noticing.

Remember the kids' movie from 1972, WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY? Being filmed in Europe, the producers and director needed to find small people, aka midgets and dwarves for the roles of the Oompa Loompa people. But they couldn't find enough in Germany. Adolf Hitler and the Nazis had done a thorough job of ridding Germany of imperfect, undesirables.

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Once again, you demonstrate the tight connection between Holocaust denial and anti-Semitic conspiracy wack.

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>This is what history fears the most, coming to past. As real-life victims and eyewitnesses to the Holocaust die off, it becomes easier for Holocaust deniers.

And I think that is pretty demonstrative of the problem: the exterminationist narrative is rooted in nothing more than eyewitness testimony. It is not rooted in scientific inquiry or hard, tangible matters of fact. Aside from eyewitness accounts and untrustworthy "confessions," there is no evidence. When these people die, so will die the exterminationist narrative. It will be just that much harder to convince people that this BS is true.

Truth is inevitable. The people will inevitably, this time or the next, come to realize that the Holocaust myth is false. Critical minds will sift through the dross of this superstitious time and look at the persecuted scientists and researchers who suffered so much to give us the truth, and they will realize that those people were right about things all along.

President Eisenhower was a bigoted war criminal who tortured German POWs and deliberately caused many of them to die in conditions of sheer squalor. He has still not been condemned for his crimes.

Patton, I believe, was a great man. I am sure he recounted the horrors of seeing the concentration camps, but I also know that he said we fought the wrong enemy and came to question the war he had fought.

Films of dead bodies are unfortunately real, as is the typhus and disease that swept through the unfortunate camps. But there are no "gassed humans." You can't look at those bodies and tell me they died from gassing. In fact, as yet, there has been no autopsy report ever produced that shows that anyone in that war died from gassing.


The six million number itself is a deliberate fabrication. It has no basis in reality and had been in use for decades before the NSDAP even existed. The real number of victims is unknown, but it's probably much closer to the Red Cross's estimate of some 240,000.

Germany was raped and ravaged over and over by the firebombing campaigns and rapes, so you can't discount their role in ridding Germany of human life.

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And that, kids, is what it sounds like when you drink the denier Kool-Aid all the way to the bottom of the pitcher.

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History, like science is bound by accountability.
Peer review and cross-examination by the world of historians, sociologists, professionals of almost every field, impartial researchers and most importantly, time.

The time it takes to do the hard work of verifying information: dates, names, geographical locations, documentation-authenticity, military records, personal accounts. Multiple layers of verification, cross-examination and then even more scrutiny.

Approaching the Holocaust with the mindset that it is a hoax is not new. But those that have held to it have had to look outside of the accepted scholarship to find material - most of this material is dubious in origin and often comes from those who wish to find other conclusions than the accepted position.

None of this touches on the very real insult your denial does to those survivors who's experiences (if true,) of pure evil and unimaginable loss is made much worse by your glib, cheaply obtained assertions.

If you have any compassion, you would be more careful; be very sure that you have the support of credible, accepted history - supporting evil just to maintain an ill-supported position is to have no conscience.

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The problem is that "credible, accepted" history is not history in the slightest. It is hysterics and nonsense that the critically-minded simply cannot accept.

There's a middle ground that people like this troll ZortMcfleen don't acknowledge: that there are very sane, very normal people who simply cannot accept the Holocaust narrative as it is presented. They cannot accept it not because they have an antisemitic agenda--a concept that people like Zort cannot acknowledge if they had a gun pointed to their head--but because they literally cannot accept the basic premise that wartime Germany was squandering their tiny oil supplies and wasting precious manpower potential on exterminating a people "simply because of who they were born as."

The normal, thinking person is prone to ask such questions as, "why did the Germans not just shoot them?" After all, that would be a much quicker way to dispatch people, if that was truly the intent. But if that was the intent, then why did they shave the prisoners' heads in order to stop the spread of lice? Why did they burn clothing in order to combat typhus? Why was there a hospital, why a soccer team, why an orchestra, why a swimming pool?

It does not add up. And THIS is the basis that forms a Revisionist. That is the basis from which I started to investigate Revisionism.

And as I have done so, I have been bombarded with facts that have continued to snowball to the extent that I am shocked at how much disinformation there is, as well as just how much back-scenes collusion and corruption amongst government entities. It was malicious.

I am not blindly accepting information. I always subject it to a plausibility test. The plausibility test often contradicts matters pertaining to the Holocaust. Another good test to employ is the "humdrum" test: that nearly all aspects of the Holocaust have a fairly routine, humdrum explanation far removed from all the hysterics. The use of Zyklon-B as a fumigation agent; "special treatment" literally meaning special treatment; vergassungskellar referring to a gas shelter--etc.

The fact of the matter is that the material evidence for the exterminationist case is slim to nonexistent. People like Zort will always refer to an imaginary "preponderance of evidence," of "mountains of documents," etc, but I see none of this. What I typically see is either Nuremburg confessions like the ridiculous Gernstein document or postwar documents, a lot of which are proven forgeries. These alleged "mountains of documents" simply don't exist in reality, only in imagination.

I'm not really asking for people to believe what Revisionists are saying: I'm simply asking that people take them seriously and stop destroying their lives, ruining their careers, and throwing around that meaningless buzzword "antisemitism." In fact, the fact that Jewish terrorists like the ADL literally bomb Revisionists only increases antisemitism, it hardly helps matters.

There are real people that died during the so-called Holocaust, real Jews who were persecuted at the hands of the NSDAP, real Jews who starved in the camps, who died as a result of typhus. THOSE people are real, and those people deserve to be remembered: for even a single loss of innocent life, even a single innocent person being persecuted is too many.

Those Jews are dishonored by the hysterical narrative that millions of people who never existed were murdered in fictional gas chambers that not only did not, but could not exist, and for which there is either no material evidence, or whose material evidence is being hotly contested by Revisionists with very compelling arguments and analysis.



As for you, Zort, I'm quite tired of the game that you are playing. If you want to actually discuss the matter at hand, then that is a different story. But if you are going to persist in your delusions, your character attacks, and your buzzwords, then there is nothing more to be said. There is valid ground to be gained from discussing this matter and from discussing Revisionism. But trying to silence or slander your opposition through hysterical beliefs is not helpful.

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Meanwhile, at delta_sixtwo's house:

https://youtu.be/VnG9mtnNXO0

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As for you, Zort, I'm quite tired of the game that you are playing.

You came here full of swagger, convinced that you were going to bell the cat. But the thing is, the cats have seen people like you come and go. You're not nearly as new a phenomenon as you think you are, and your bleats are not nearly as innovative as you think they are. So you ended up running yowling in circles, like something from a bad Hanna-Barbera cartoon. And the cat remains quite obviously unbelled.

I've been watching the Holocaust denial scam since before the Irving trial, and you -- for all your table-pounding and PHRASES IN ALL CAPS -- brought exactly nothing new to the discussion. All you did is attempt to recycle long-debunked crap as if it were new, and then throw the usual fit when it was recognized as the stale old dog food it is. You are just one more polyp on the Holocaust denial colon. But oh what an ego! How convinced you were that you are so original and daring. How convinced you were!

You may remember the quote from Salvador Dali: "The first man to call his love a rose was a genius. The second was quite possibly an idiot." The first guys to spread this anti-Semitic sludge were definitely not geniuses -- the more the world learned of them, the more they were repelled. I think most readers of this board would agree that you, with your dogged repackaging of their long-debunked lies, are quite possibly an idiot. Do you think you're anywhere near the first to use those canned flourishes? Do you think they're new, just because they're new to you? The world has been there and done that, and has many the likes of you crushed on its windshield.

And oh the theatrical (but cribbed) prose!
for even a single loss of innocent life, even a single innocent person being persecuted is too many.

Mind you, that's old Holocaust denial boilerplate too. And its message is that it's fine for you to spit on the graves of the six million Jews whose murder you would squint away, as long as you greave theatrically on a tiny fraction of them. It's an old, old dodge, and a squalid one.

I will also confess to having spent enough time around grad students in English to find quite funny your suggestion that your being one means you have some sort of leg up in terms of historical exegesis merely by being one yourself. I mean, Leuchter had a degree in history, and he said that made him an expert in chemistry -- although he will be remembered mostly as just an empty, manipulable man whose ego Zündel fed by leading him into error. QV, mutatis mutandis, Δ62 and the Holocaust denial movement.

I said at the start that I was waiting for your first signs of original thought. You never gave one.

By the way:
The problem is that "credible, accepted" history is not history in the slightest. It is hysterics and nonsense that the critically-minded simply cannot accept.

An empty rhetorical flourish with, I note again, a superfluous hyphen. Check the Chicago Manual of Style on -ly followed by an adjective or participle. Are you sure you're in the right line of work?

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By the way, connoisseurs of dishonest rhetoric will probably recognize delta_sixtwo's trope, the Gish Gallop.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gish%20Gallop

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It appears (as usual) that holocaust denial leads back to a source less concerned about the veracity of holocaust scholarship than a mistrust of any source which doesn't support that individual's beliefs.

What deniers and revisionists often fail to take into account is the systematic murder of around 1.3 million Jews (out of an estimated 2 million victims) which were orchestrated by SS Einsatzgruppen killing units and their auxiliary forces, a fact very well documented by the German military themselves.

There are so many attempts by deniers and revisionists to contest the logistical mechanics of extermination camps; in fact, the face-to-face murder of Jews by German soldiers was seen as inefficient even though it was being done on an unimaginable scale. Himmler also was aware that this process was having a corrosive, debilitating psychological effect on many of the perpetrators themselves. This is one of the main reasons which led to the transformation of harsh labor camps to death factories where extermination could be swift and uncomplicated.

As their forces pushed east in 1941, several German soldiers attached to Einsatzgruppen units made notes in letters and journals after witnessing or participating in repeated acts of mass murder. They spoke about a fear that their country may not be able to withstand the wrath of the world if Germany lost the war and their acts were discovered by the victors.

The sad thing is that the West's need for Germany to recover after it's surrender meant that very little accountability was seen in US/British held Germany, nor felt by those countries that were brutalized. The Russian response was seen as more proportionate - though that too, was difficult for the West to observe given the advent of the Cold War; however, the fury of the Russian and Ukrainian people about the German invasion in 1941 and subsequent occupation is still deeply felt, to this day.

But few know about the atrocities, leading to the spread of holocaust denial, not just in America and Britain, but in Germany itself.

Any open investigation into the holocaust can uncover these well known, undisputed facts.

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I agree with you about the need for an open investigation into the Holocaust; however, that means you will need to stop ruining the lives of Revisionists and throwing them in jail for their findings. No truly open investigation can exist so long as the opposing party is literally persecuted and silenced. And that's really all that we want.

Again, I don't have an agenda: my dispute with the mainstream Holocaust narrative is that it does not pass my mental tests for being plausible, realistic, or even consistent. Revisionism does not offer an "alternative camp" but it offers a genuine attempt to approach this issue and get the facts straight. Contrary to what you are saying, most Revisionists recognize the criminal and oppressive acts done by the Third Reich and condemn them. Most Revisionists object to the fact that Jews were interned at all.

The Einsatzgruppen is a difficult case, and no doubt things on the Eastern front were horrible. I have read that the ruthlessness of the Einsatzgruppen was rooted in the idea that only terror tactics will work against a population that had become so radicalized by the rhetoric of the Commissars or Stalin's death orders. I don't deny that the Einsatzgruppen were responsible for legions of summary executions and that a lot of innocent people perished in that process. I hold this belief because it seems plausible, realistic, and consistent with the evidence that we have.

Perhaps I would quibble with the numbers, only because, again, I don't believe that much effort has been made to the end of settling on truth for truth's sake but legend for politics and propaganda's sake. If we can really account for 1.3 million people then sure, that is the extent of the atrocity and it is terrible. If we cannot, then we should be more cautious to use such numbers.

After all, consider the frequently fluctuating Auschwitz death toll. Exterminationists themselves actually step into the Revisionist camp often when lowering the Auschwitz death toll or debunking the legends of Jewish soap and lampshades.

The important concept for me in this discussion in particular is not necessarily to emphasize what is actually true but that the process towards finding that truth should not place obstacles in front of the participant parties. Revisionists should be able to conduct their research without being bombed by Jewish terrorists, sent to prison and deported for their research and publications, their doctoral degrees denied or removed, their family lives ruined, etc. None of these things stand side-by-side with the quest for truth that we all should be after.

And is that not the case? I do not seriously believe that you want anything more than the truth. Nor do I. In the end, it is not the agenda that differs, but the data, the arguments, the documents, the materials we have encountered. And perhaps if we removed all of the hysterics, all of the character attacks, all of the obstacles, we could both approach this issue from both sides of the table and come to an agreeable conclusion regarding just what is the truth of the matter.

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Again, I don't have an agenda


Horse spit.

Again, you demonstrated your anti-Semitism when you tried to ply and then defend the anti-Semitic meme that the Jews control the media.

You tipped your hand on the Jew thing right up front. So, no, you don't get to pretend you didn't, and you don't get to pretend that your motivation to deny a great Jewish tragedy is that you don't have a Jew problem.

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This is what history fears the most, coming to past. As real-life victims and eyewitnesses to the Holocaust die off, it becomes easier for Holocaust deniers.

This is one of the reasons that Anthony Julius didn't call any Holocaust survivors to testify. He wanted to demonstrate that our historical understanding of the Holocaust isn't dependent on being able to cross-examine those who were there, that there is already -- on the books -- more than enough to demonstrate that it happened, and that it happened the way historians understand it to have happened, Irving's bizarre fantasies being exposed as just that.

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OP:There are people who fought with the Allied armies who are holocaust revisionists. Paul Rassinier was a member of the French resistance who was captured and imprisoned at Buchenwald -
http://codoh.com/library/document/143/
http://codoh.com/library/document/3129/
Doug Collins was a journalist and columnist in Canada who was in the British army during WW2 -
http://codoh.com/library/document/3650/
http://codoh.com/library/document/435/
Alexander McClelland was an Australian soldier who was interned at Terezin -
www.jrbooksonline.com/mcclelland/book.html
www.jrbooksonline.com/mcclelland/frauds_exposed.html
Watch the documentary by Jewish revisionist David Cole -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHzWo79dCHs

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Literally millions fought on the Allied side. It it so amazing that a tiny handful of them turned out to be wackobirds?

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Christ, Unglauber. How many sock puppet accounts are ressurecting to troll this board?

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Just because someone was an inmate of a concentration camp does that automatically mean that they are some kind of saint ? That they never tell lies or exaggerate or embellish the truth ?
There are so many fraudulent accounts by holocaust survivors that there has been a documentary made about them -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyMVWVBmGVo

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If the Holocaust never happened then the late President Dwight Eisenhower and the late Lieutenant General George Patton were liars. Both men visited the concentration camps and recounted the horror they witnessed in their memoirs. One of my relatives toured a concentration camp in Germany many, many years ago and personally saw the ovens. The Nazi German monsters didn't build those concentration camps for looks. Those were built for one and one purpose only, the slow or quick execution of persecuted human beings.



Those ovens, and we've all seen pictures, are single body ovens. It takes over an hour to cremate a body even with today's technology. Do you know how long it would take to cremate 2000 people?

Auschwitz had swimming pools, a soccer field, theater, canteen and prison money and allowed incoming and outgoing mail, infirmary etc.

is this a camp designed to exterminate? It actually sounds like your basic prison or detention center.

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Those ovens, and we've all seen pictures, are single body ovens.

No. Bodies were not burned singly, but four or five at a time. And the answer is, according to the Nazis' own calculations, it took about half a day to burn 2000 bodies given the crematory capacity at Auschwitz.

Also, you might want to read up on the layout of the Auschwitz camps; it was three separate camps near each other but not connected. Sometimes they're referred to as Auschwitz I, II, and III, sometimes they're called Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Monowitz. The pool was in Auschwitz I; the gas chambers were in Auschwitz II.

Here's a bit from van Pelt's book, page 90.
Because of the dichotomy between the very complex nature and history of Auschwitz and the habit of many of considering the camp only as a "top-secret mass extermination center," I had to make clear that many people, including boda fide historians survivors and less than bona fide negationists, often commmit the fallacy of composition: they reason from the properties of the part of Auschwitz that was engaged with mass extermination to the properties of Auschwitz as a whole. For example, negationists argue that the presence of a swimming pool in Auschwitz I, with three diving boards, shows that the camp was really a rather benign place and therefore could not have neen a center of extermination. It is a fallacious argument, because the swimming pool was built as a water reservoir for the purpose of fire-fighting (there were no hydrants in the camp), the diving boards were added later, and the pool was only accessible to SS men and certain privileged Aryan prisoners employed as inmate functionaries in the camp. In short, the presence of the swimming pool does not say anything about the conditions for Jewish inmates in Auschwitz and does not challenge the existence of an extermination program with its proper facilities in Auschwitz II.

Holocaust deniers like to play fast and loose with what things were where, hoping you won't know enough about it to see that you've been swindled.

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Original poster said "Those were built for one and one purpose only," .... those ovens were not designed for multiple bodies. Nor does the camp even remotely sound like it was "designed" for extermination.

And throwing in more bodies does not mean they'll cremate in the same amount of time as one body. The more flesh you are cremating the longer it takes.

Its real easy to just say you can cremate 2000 bodies in half a day. But logistically, its just not that simple. Nobody ever bothers to do that math.

And there was a lot more than swimming pools. Explain the prison money, post cards, theater etc.

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So you concede the swimming pool argument is bogus. Same basic principle on the rest -- post cards, etc. Read up on the history of Auschwitz, and you'll see that it wasn't just a death camp. But the death camp part was a death camp. Even if there were dancing showgirls in Auschwitz I, which there weren't, Jews were going up the chimney in Auschwitz II. Playing presto-chango doesn't change that.

For the cremation of 2000 bodies a day, see van Pelt's report in the Lipstadt trial. You'll see from contemporary documents that the Nazis themselves said they had crematory capability for about 4000 a day.

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