How could such a mass program have been kept secret
from Jews who were scheduled for extermination?
34. How could such a mass program have been kept secret from Jews
who were scheduled for extermination?
The IHR says (original):
It couldn't have been kept secret. The fact is that there was no
such mass-gassing anywhere. The extermination rumors came from
strictly Jewish sources.
The IHR says (revised):
It couldn't have been kept secret. The fact is that there were no
mass gassings. The extermination stories originated as wartime atrocity
propaganda.
Nizkor replies:
The Nazis made a tremendous effort to keep the extermination process
secret, although it eventually leaked out. For example, see the
testimony
of Dr.
Hans Münch,
who said that exposing the gassing and extermination process:
...would have been a completely useless undertaking which would have
very shortly caused me and my family to be liquidated very quickly,
because the Gestapo was so well organized and the threats for
nonobservance of the secrecy that surrounded the Auschwitz
exterminations were so clearly worded for members of the SS that
everybody avoided telling even his closest friend about it, because
experience taught us that anybody who talked about it in any way was
very quickly found because the Gestapo sniffed out every rumor very
consistently that spread about Auschwitz.
Also see the 1943 German court
verdict
against SS-Untersturmführer
Max Taubner,
which apart from declaring the existence of the extermination effort
itself, also declared that the defendent was to be punished for taking
photographs of it:
By taking photographs of the incidents or having photographs taken,
by having these developed in photographic shops and showing them to his
wife and friends, the accused is guilty of disobedience. Such pictures
could pose the gravest risks to the security of the Reich if they fell
into the wrong hands...
The Poles living near the camps knew that mass extermination was
going on, because they saw hundreds of thousands of Jews arriving by
trains into camps which could not house even a tenth of them, and
because the amounts of food brought into the camps were far less then
what was needed to keep these people alive. They saw the trains leave
the camp, filled with the victims' clothes and other belongings, and
smelled the stench of burning flesh. They knew what was happening and
reported it to the outside world.
Finally, note the elimination of the original phrase, "strictly
Jewish sources." When revisionism was young, it did not mind
airing its prejudices in public. Now, it is aiming for the mainstream
and must be more careful. One sees this a lot.
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