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That explanation summarises a 9-volume encyclopedia of the concentration camp system and hundreds of separate studies which have fed into the encyclopedia, not to mention separate studies of the evacuations of the camps and the death marches.
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These guards may not even have been full-time SS men since many camp guards were transferred from the Army and Luftwaffe in 1944. These guards may not have been especially brutal. They may not have wanted to risk being prosecuted after the war. We don't know. That doesn't mean you can make any old crap up. One should expect human behaviour to vary in such situations. Some hardened SS men would be more brutal, some would realise the Third Reich was a sinking ship, some would be deluded into thinking not all was lost - why on earth would you expect everyone to react in the same way? Human psychology and group behaviour simply isn't like that.
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In January 1945, three big camp complexes, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen and Stutthof, were evacuated or began to be evacuated because they were the easternmost camps left and threatened with being overrun by the Soviets. So this displaced 150,000+ prisoners, not all Jews. Many of the evacuations were conducted by rail, only some on foot. Some of the foot marches reached railheads fairly quickly, after a few days or a week. A six week march is exceptional. There were not many like that. You are talking about several hundred different evacuations from separate sub-camps like Schleiersee. Some of the sub-camps could be evacuated into the main camp and from there, sent westwards by rail. Some were too far away from the main camp to do this. Like, apparently, Schleiersee. And yes, in some cases later on, the SS guards shot prisoners rather than evacuate them. Point being the responses varied. Expecting there to be a uniform policy in a system of 700 sub-camps is completely batty. |
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Pretty much everyone in this thread who is not a denier.
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The statistical accuracy of the data provided has nothing to do with whether Eichmann was kidnapped or not. Your claim regarded Eichmann being kidnapped as a reason to dismiss his claims, you lying SnakeTongue. |
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Not all papers published those so, please, share what you find amazing about the Dutch newspaper "Nieuwsblad van het Noorden", published the same day in a different region of the Netherlands.
http://resources2.kb.nl/010410000/pdf/DDD_010414078.pdf Besides the same "Geen Straf - bij tijdige aanwijzing van verborgen joden en joodse vermogenswaarden" published in the Dordrechtsche Courant linked in the previous comment, this paper also has a "Beschikking van den Commisaris-Generaal voor den Openbare Veiligheid betreffende het verblijf van joden in de provincies" My translation. "Ordinance from the Commissaris-Generaal for Public Safety regarding the stay of Jews in the provinces" You think there might be a connection? ... and what could the following mean? "Article 5. jood in den zin van deze beschikking is hij die ingevolge Artikel 4 van de verordening 189/40 betr. de aanmelding van ondernemingen jood is of als jood wordt aangemerkt" Commissaris-Generaal voor den Openbare Veiligheid was a certain Rauter. Wasn't his name mentioned in this thread recently? On some list of sources from before 1950 that a different poster had requested for some reason he never explained? |
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No, I think it proves that one cannot claim that bin Laden never plotted to murder Americans based on a single photo.
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Also, there's the little fact of bin Laden being the scion of a wealthy and prominent Saudi family, with records and evidence and testimony of his life and activities going back longer than you've probably been alive. Like SpringHallConvert, you'd have to prove that every single one of those pieces of evidence is faked, instead of dismissing it out of hand.
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Given that those skills included murder, backstabbing, bigotry, conquering, and racism, I certainly hope so.
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Why not? They probably expected to win the war. I doubt that the guards at Guantanamo Bay thought they'd be exposed and hung out to dry, yet they abused prisoners. According to the testimony of the Nazi guards, they were "just following orders". There are numerous studies showing that people follow authority and crowds even when its against their own ethics, most prominently the Milgram experiments. Con men exploit this tendency on a regular basis. There is an extended list on this page, near the bottom, in the "Real Life" folder.
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To add to Dr. Terry's reply: they may also have thought that every kilometer that brought them more westward diminished the chance of falling into the hands of the Soviets, and thus increased their chance of survival and being treated civilly. The Nazis had every reason to fear the treatment they'd get as POW in hands of the Red Army, even if only for the brutal treatment of Soviet POWs by the Nazis and the atrocities committed by the Nazis in the occupied parts of the USSR.
And as a matter of fact, the low-level henchmen did largely get away with it: the (Western) denazification targeted the upper echelons of the Nazi machinery and didn't go after the grunts. Demjanjuk is the exception, not the rule. |
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There are no good books on the Holocaust, or WW2 in (Brazilian) Portuguese?
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Fascinating topic, isn't it? Currency. The people listed below equalled NLG 37.50 at the exchange rate applicable on 6 April 1943.
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According to the links below, Levie Snoek lived until May 28 1943. The others died on April 16 1943. 3 days after the receipt was stamped "Sachlich richtig" http://www.joodsmonument.nl/person/511731 http://www.joodsmonument.nl/person/501409 http://www.joodsmonument.nl/person/488929 http://www.joodsmonument.nl/person/488878 In Memoriam Is your grasp on the basic idea of your participation in this topic getting better? |
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That is not enough for you? How many Jews gassed per day is necessary to you understand the mathematical demonstration?
The URL leads to the book which printed the transcript of the document addressed by the quote. It is a reference to the secondary evidence which propose the numbers I used. How many bodies a muffle could burn at the same time? Present your numbers. |
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You can bet your sweet bippy Team Holocaust is blissfully unaware that they are on one big sock it to me roll.
They tricked millions into the gas chambers. They forced millions into the gas chambers. Gas chambers which at first were cottages.
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I wonder how you would react if I started to use your argument against yourself by claiming "you're doing is still repeating what the source you cribbed Yaacov Lozowick's arguments from told you"...
You must had spent a good time in the CODOH and other forums looking for the comparison I produced. |
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I'd wonder why you thought that was a legitimate comparison, because for one thing I've actually read Lozowick's (and Alvarez's, for that matter) books, unlike you. And for another thing, Lozowick is an actual scholar and former director of the Yad Vashem archives who has referred exhaustively to original documentation and testimony when doing his own work, while Alvarez as far as I can tell is just some guy who co-authors books that merely repeat the claims of other deniers, without showing the slightest indication he even understands what he's writing about.
That's why Lozowick's book gets reviewed favorably by the Times Literary Supplement, while no one takes Alvarez's book seriously. [EDIT: Plus, your "analysis" (with the exception of the foolishness about Google Translate) was pretty much 100% copied from Alvarez. Whereas the only thing I referred to Lozowick for was to provide you with a good description of how RSHA documents were formatted, coded, and filed, since you were basing your follow-up arguments entirely on your misunderstanding of how the process worked.]
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The wrong model:
A car (Adler 1939 limousine or convertible, 2 litres, registration number "Pol 28545") was parked outside and one of the pipes connected to the car’s exhaust.The right model: Adler Standard 6 - 1927-1934 “During the afternoon Nebe had the window bricked in, leaving two openings for the gas hose… When we arrived, one of the hoses that I had brought was connected. It was fixed onto the exhaust of a touring car… Pieces of piping stuck out of holes made in the wall, onto which the hose could easily be fitted… After five minutes Nebe came out and said that nothing appeared to have happened. After eight minutes he had been unable to detect any result and asked what should be done next. Nebe and I came to the conclusion that the car was not powerful enough. So Nebe had the second hose fitted onto a transport vehicle which belonged to the regular police. It then took only another few minutes before the people were unconscious. Both vehicles were left running for about another ten minutes.”There is no exhaust pipe as claimed by Dr Albert Widmann and the hoses in the forged video are obviously made of metal. ![]() ![]() Wrong model. Who is "we"? |
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If you know I did not read the book, why you keep bringing into the debate as evidence to prove my analysis is not "legitimate"?
Appeal to Authority. Did you find any document comparison like I did in Alvarez or other sources you know? No. You have no evidence whatsoever to support your absurd insistence. |
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Because your "analysis" was copied from Alvarez' book. Whether you did the initial copying or whether you merely copied from someone else who did the initial copying is irrelevant. The analysis is not yours, instead being something you cut and pasted from elsewhere without even verifying whether any of the claims in it were true or not. That's why it took you weeks to even answer my simple question about the "office code" nonsense.
The fact that you got it from someone else who got it from Alvarez' book, rather than from Alvarez' book directly, shows how little you know or care to educate yourself on the topic. Your intellectually lazy refusal to just read some damn books about the Holocaust stretches to a refusal to even read denier books, even though you're apparently perfectly happy to cut and paste their arguments virtually verbatim as long as someone else has read the book and reposted those arguments for you to copy.
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So, for starters, along with this mutual stroking and given the the failure of Dogzilla's lying, are you going to explain what Jaeger meant when he wrote for his superior that his EK’s operations supported “the goal of making Lithuania free of Jews” and explained that with the actions he described, “the goal of solving the Jewish problem for Lithuania has been achieved by Einsatzkommando 3"? And when Jaeger provided detailed support for his having achieved this goal in the form of a “Complete list of executions carried out in the EK 3 area up to 1 December 1941." That is, not population removals, as one liar used to claim; not anti-partisan warfare, as the same liar used to claim; not a rogue operation, as this liar used to claim; and certainly not excessive paranoia, as this liar now tries claiming, not an action against Judeo-Bolshevism, as the liar is now trying to make out. No, a clearly stated goal - making Lithuania free of Jews - and a specific way of doing so - executions of Jews, listed in detail.
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I *do* understand it.
You're pulling numbers out of ... thin air. Not that one can tell from the snippet of the book found by following that URL. No, it isn't -- and knowing the book, no, it doesn't. Depends on a number of factors you ignore -- such as the size of those bodies. Show numbers you haven't cribbed from someone else who made them up. *You're* the one making the claim that the capacity wasn't sufficient. |
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Nothing like supporting a worthless commentary that fails to even spell Jaeger correctly, despite the fact that his report was the central document under discussion.
Yeah, in addition to SnakeTongue's refusal to be bothered with reading crucial aspects of Pressac's work regarding exterminations at Auschwitz, that pretty much sums up the denier scene here. |
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True, I was beginning to think that Mick and the boys were somehow involved.
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Where did I claim it is the right model? I posted evidence showiing that the car manufacturer concerned was producing vehicles at the time and did produce cars with exhausts on the correct side. You seemed to have a problem with these two facts. Thankfully, you now realise that you were wrong.
The model you have posted has a different wheel arch construction (it is not as rounded), which is one of the reasons I did not post a picture of it in the first place (it's easy to find on google). The model you posted has the exhaust on the right side, so thanks for that.
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This is a post that I simply can't understand. Why did you post a string of random mathematical symbols and called it 'Argument'?
I can see that you are presenting a strawman version of 000063's argument, that's obvious, but did you really think that well-formed formulas of logic are created just by replacing random words of a natural language sentence with some symbol whose shorthand name is kind of close to the word that you want to replace? Or did you think that no one reading this thread knew logic well-enough to realize that your formula is gibberish? In that one line you demonstrated that you don't know anything about symbolic logic, the same way that your 98%-Eichmann post showed that you don't know anything about statistics. I could parse what you believed you said with the first five symbols of the sentence but after that it got even more confused and I didn't feel it necessary to try to take the effort to degibberish it. However, if you ever actually try to study logic, you'll quickly find out that your way to use the symbols and connectives is highly unorthodox, to put it mildly. For example, by the time you encounter a logic where '||' means 'at the same time', you will know that 'P ∈ X' isn't used for 'P is in place X' but instead it's 'P is an element of the set X' (by the way, and you really should have learned that in high school or whatever the equivalent is in your country). Another revealing mistake is that your existential quantifications don't quantify over anything at all - a mistake impossible to make if you had even a passing familiarity of the syntax of predicate logic. If I had to express 000063's sentence that you pretended to formalize in symbolic logic, it would look something like this: ∀p∀a(∀t.(H(p,a,t) ⇒ ∃x.(C(a,x)∧L(p,x,t))) ∧ ∃y∃t.(L(p,y,t) ∧ ¬C(a,y)) ⇒ ¬∃t.H(p,a,t)) where the variables are quantified over suitable domains (p over persons; x and y over places; a over actions; and t over times), and where H denotes the 'happens' relation ('a happens to p at time t), L the location relation ('p is in place x at time t') , and C the 'can-happen' relation ('event a can happen in place x'). What he said in the post is equivalent to saying that the well-formed formula that you see above is not a theorem. And guess what, it isn't. |
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And another key difference besides the ones Antpogo pointed out:
Antpogo cited Lozowick, as scholars and ethical writers of all kinds do when they reference another person's work. Whereas SnakeTongue tried to pass off his document comparison as his own. When asked about it, he sputtered off something like "But you can't prove it!" |
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If any of what you just wrote explains why 000063's belief in the historical value of that video clip is anything more than nonsense borne of extreme gullibility, please say it again in English. Nobody here understands what ∀p∀a(∀t.(H(p,a,t) ⇒ ∃x.(C(a,x)∧L(p,x,t))) ∧ ∃y∃t.(L(p,y,t) ∧ ¬C(a,y)) ⇒ ¬∃t.H(p,a,t)) means.
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