If Auschwitz was not an extermination camp, why did
the commandant, Rudolf Hoss, confess that it was?
19. If Auschwitz was not an extermination camp, why did the
commandant, Rudolf Hoss, confess that it was?
The IHR says (original):
He was tortured by Jewish interrogators in British uniform, as one of
them has subsequently admitted.
The IHR says (revised):
He was tortured by British military police, as one of his
interrogators later admitted.
The Samisdat version says:
Time-honored methods were used to get him to tell his captors what
they wanted to hear.
Nizkor replies:
Wait a minute! The story gets more and more vague with each
revision.
What exactly did this torturer admit? The IHR's first claim was that
the interrogaters were Jewish operatives wearing (phony) British
uniforms. If one of these interrogators supposedly admitted this, why
did the IHR change things around and make these phony Jewish operatives
into real British military police?
The real answer is that this claim of "Jewish interrogators in
British uniform" appears nowhere else in Holocaust-denier
literature. This claim appears only in the
"Q&A." There is no evidence whatsoever to support it.
In other words, someone just made it up. Later, someone else decided
they'd better quietly drop the whole thing. How many of the other 65
Q&A are similar? We can't know, because they don't provide any
evidence to back any of them up.
Regarding the
Höss
confession:
We must consider all information in context. There are numerous
other testimonies which confirm the essential facts of Höss'
confession. There are captured documents which speak very clearly of
gassing and mass shooting. The list goes on and on; for just a few
examples, see the answer to
question 1.
Deniers depend very heavily upon Hoess supposedly being coerced and
fed a story. But they only have two pieces of evidence:
And most importantly, Butler's version of what happened
contradicts the deniers' hypothesis that Hoess was fed a story.
Butler's book nowhere mentions Hoess being given a particular story to
tell, it simply says Hoess was beaten.
(See footnote 2 of
Mark Weber's
essay, titled
"Let's Hear Both Sides"
on
the IHR's web site
and
"Different Views on the Holocaust"
on
Ernst Zündel's web site.)
On this pair of flimsy excuses, the deniers dismiss and ignore Hoess'
confession, his testimony, his memoirs, and everything else he said and
wrote about the gassings and the extermination program.
Excerpts
from his testimony and memoirs are available.
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