------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 385 Wed Apr 01, 1992 E.BROWN42 [scaramouche] at 00:37 EST Jon W. and Reb Dov, together again! :-> ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 386 Wed Apr 01, 1992 A.K.QUINN at 02:27 EST I am told that all "reputable" historians dispute the Holocaust. Are they reputable because they dispute? Are there no reputable historians who hold the contrary opinion? Strange logic. As to Col Beuchner, Medical Corps. I know when the medics brought in 2 field hospitals -- a day or 2 later. There were several incidents involving American GI's, I recall some. I point out that on Day 1, the troops who saw the conditions at Dachau, seasoned combat troops, became very difficult to control. They had seen blood and guts from Normandy on, but Dachau was too much. There were beatings of German soldiers, for sure. If that qualifies as an "atrocity", OK. By Dachau standards, no.Wrong? Yes. =KevinQ= ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 387 Wed Apr 01, 1992 POOH.BAH at 03:07 EST 384 Jon: RE: Nolte, Hillgruber, etc. First, they are what _I_ would call revisionists but, as you point out, they are not Holocaust Deniers. As far as your question about "revisionists" in Germany, I assume that you are referring to what I term "Holocaust Deniers." If that is the case, yes, there are Holocaust Deniers in Germany. Raven, for instance, plagiarized from Wilhelm Staeglich who is a disbarred (West) German judge. The plagiarism occurred when Raven quoted word-for-word from Staeglich's comments regarding the Wannsee Conference Protocols and didn't bother using quotation marks or citing the source. There is also Ingrid Weckert who refers to the Kristallnacht pogrom as a "good natured affair" and refers to the current German gov't as a "rump state" meaning that it is illegitimate. One of Weckert's quotes, BTW, is probably the best elaboration I have ever read on the purpose of Holocaust Denial: "A people lives by its history. In its history it finds its roots, its understanding of itself. It draws its strength from its history. History is not merely a matter of the past; it is a surety for the future. From that it follows: Whoever destroys the history of a people, who distorts, poisons, or withholds it, severs the artery through which a people draws nourishment from its past - with that, the people is doomed." To All: I have received some comments in e-mail about the documents that I u/l'ed earlier. Based upon those comments, I would be happy to discuss those documents with anyone who has further question via e-mail but, because of the disturbing nature of their content, there are those who prefer that they not be discussed publicly and I will respect their wishes. I am assuming that Raven or Rungu will attempt a refutation. If so, they will probably quote from Mark Weber. If that be the case, I only ask of the participants (and lurkers) here that you read those comments with great care and ask yourself one single question: Are any of the statements which refute the testimony substantiated? The only other refutation that is ever offered to the IMT on these disturbing events is that the evidence was produced by the USSR. However, that ignores the fact that in one case, the defense counsel supported the claims but stated that the guilty parties had already been tried, convicted and punished by an SS court; and, in the other case, that two British POWs submitted sworn statements. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 388 Wed Apr 01, 1992 TERMY at 03:47 EST In reply to: Message 308 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] -> Of course, we must not ignore the other use for gas-tight doors, -> which is that it is desireable to have a gas-tight door on a ->morgue so the smell is somewhat contained. I first began working as an ambulance attendant in April, 1976, and made my last ambulance run in July, 1988. I was a paramedic from 1982 until 1990, and have, through the course of my work and training, have been in several morgues, and I've never seen "gas- tight" doors on a morgue. Please cite a source for your information. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 391 Wed Apr 01, 1992 M.RUNGU at 05:30 EST To C.FINK4 (131) Mr. Raven has pointed our the myriad errors POOH.BAH has indulged in. He has also gone to great lengths to examine the "documentation" and has shown the contradictions, unreliability, or irrelevance of various sources and documents. If you have missed his points on these, I suggest you go back and read the message streams. This is a far cry from what you describe as "ignoring the huge amount of documentary evidence" and "slinging baseless accusations". It would appear that someone OTHER than Mr. Raven likes to do the mud slinging... The deaths at Masada, the Rape of the Sabines, and the Battle of New Orleans are of little interest to historical revisionists because these events are not riddled with fabrications and errors as the holocaust is, and because these events have not been used for political purposes rather than historiography as the holocaust has. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 393 Wed Apr 01, 1992 M.RUNGU at 05:31 EST To SOFTSERV (134) I agree with your comments about judging holocaust literature or revisionist literature on the basis of their CONTENT rather than on the speaker/writer involved and his/her background. Concerning the release of historical documentation and evidence from the now ex-communist regimes in eastern Europe, I will repeat what I said earlier, that this will be historiographically valuable IF such documents and evidence are presented to the whole world, openly. But if they are merely released to a small clique of holocaust writers and holocaust museums for THEM to select, selectively interpret, selectively dismiss, hide, destroy, or whatever, then the world is not likely to gain anything. In fact, if this is how the material will be handled, we are likely to see the same old myths and distortions "reinforced" in conformity with establishment's view of the holocaust. Your excellent analogy of the tobacco industry is very appropriate. Handing over the documents to the holocaust lobby is equivalent to handing over research on the effect of cigarettes on our health to the tobacco moguls. If this takes place, we will get the same sort of "studies" and "findings" that the tobacco industry has been shoving on us for decade after decade showing us how "healthy" cigarettes are. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 394 Wed Apr 01, 1992 M.RUNGU at 05:32 EST To D.BERKOWITZ (140) SOFTSERV's comments about his Jewish upbringing and the bigotry, intolerance, and racism he encountered within his own community are absolutely essential to our understanding of the holocaust, to our understanding of the political, social, and economic measures taken against the Jews of Europe by both the Germans and by the non-German Europeans in the occupied territories. His point was that such racism and intolerance as expressed by Jews towards non-Jews may have actually CREATED the anti-semitism and the hatred that arose against them so tragically. Your appeal to have these messages removed and the subject repressed will only further obscure our understanding of the holocaust and what did, or did not, happen in that period. His comments were also linked to his discussion about Professor Faurisson's experience in France in which he was persecuted, beaten, and his livelihood harmed merely because he had publicly expressed doubts about the holocaust. What SOFTSERV is saying is that such measures LEAD TO anti-semitism rather than prevent it. If we can understand the holocaust and understand what is fact, and what is FICTION, and understand the motivations of all participants, both perpetrator and victim, then perhaps we can ensure that such an event does not happen again. But if topical areas within the discussion are closed off, we are merely perpetuating general ignorance on it and, perhaps, helping to bring ABOUT a holocaust at some point in the future. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 395 Wed Apr 01, 1992 M.RUNGU at 05:33 EST To AH.STEIN (141, 148) I am curious to know just precisely WHO are the "group of Nazi sympathizers" who want to "sweep the mass murder of millions of Jews under the rug"? Will you name them please? And in naming them I would like to see such accusations DEMONSTRATED rather than merely wildly thrown about. If such accusations and sweeping general statements like that are based on assumptions, then what value are they to this discussion? On the other hand, if it can be demonstrated or proven to me, and beyond reasonable doubt, that "millions of Jews" were deliberately "mass murdered", then I myself certainly would not want that "swept under the rug". But so far, all I have seen presented are various Einsatzgruppen Reports that are contradictory in nature (e.g. one tells about executing Jews while another describes plans for building hospitals for them or taking measures to REDUCE the death rate amongst Jews), or "eyewitness" accounts that have already been shown to be absolutely unreliable and historically ludicrous (e.g. the Hoess "memoirs") or even "Shoah"-type tv pseudo-soap-docs as "proof" and "evidence". A sweeping historical assertion that "six million Jews were murdered in a deliberate campaign of mass extermination by the Nazis" bears the onus of proof. There is no onus of DISproving such a statement on historians or non- historian writers who doubt the holocaust and who may be defined as "holocaust revisionists". By way of analogy, let's say I make this statement: "There is a colony of space-travelling cows that live on planet Jupiter." Then somebody tells me that they find that hard to believe. I reply that such doubters must PROVE that there is NOT a such a colony in existence there. Naturally, they can't. So, triumphantly, I yodel to the world that their failure to DISprove my original statement PROVES that it must be valid (another lousy Rungu analogy, I know). The logic stands. But holocaust revisionists have gone far beyond merely expressing doubt and skepticism about aspects of the holocaust. They have actually examined the evidence and the eyewitnesses that are used to support the holocaust thesis, and have sunk them one by one. The "human lampshades" myth collapsed before them. The "human soap" canard fell. The wild tales about "mass gassings at Dachau" evaporated. The "memoirs" and "confessions" of personages such as Commandant Hoess and Kurt Gerstein have been shown to be false. Recognizing the insupportability of these tales, "memoirs", and "confessions", the holocaust lobby now has dropped them altogether and nowadays mainly concentrates on the spectre of Auschwitz. But that too has come under the careful gaze of the revisionists, and it also is crumbling away. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 397 Wed Apr 01, 1992 M.RUNGU at 05:34 EST To AH.STEIN (145) The "admitted liar" Fred Leuchter? Where or when has Mr. Leuchter described himself as a "liar"? I think what you are referring to are the mountain of slander and abuse hurled at him in which "liar" was probably the most complimentary. Such mud-slinging was and is the method used to "refute" his forensic findings resulting from his on-site analyses of the various sites at the Auschwitz camp complex. These findings have invalidated the "mass gassing" thesis as the cornerstone of the holocaust story. Other "methods" include shouting him down at events in which he has been a speaker, physical assaults on his person, and the campaign to pressure his clients to cease utilizing him as a consultant on execution hardware systems and operation, in order thereby to deny him an ability to make a living. Similar methods are employed all over the world to "punish" the expression of revisionist ideas and findings, and to repress free speech on this subject and free inquiry in this area. You also accused (but, again, did not and could not demonstrate) Mr. Raven of "trying to deny known historical fact". The problem here is what constitutes such "historical fact". When allusions are made to "heaving, geyser-spurting bodies" then such cannot be regarded as "fact", any more than "human soap", "human lampshades" or allegations of "mass gassings" at camps like Dachau can. I think what many people mean by "known historical fact" is what they ASSUME to be historical fact or choose to believe to be such in accordance with their own preconceived ideas or interests. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 399 Wed Apr 01, 1992 TERMY at 06:20 EST The usual proviso: the following posts undoubtably contain typos I've missed. They should be blamed on me, not on the texts themselves... ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 400 Wed Apr 01, 1992 TERMY at 06:22 EST The following (and subsequent posts) are taken from the condensed version of Raul Hilberg's "The Destruction of European Jews", Appendix B, of the revised edition. Hilberg is one of the foremost Holocaust historians. Jewish Deaths By Cause Ghettoization and general privation over 800,000 Ghettos in German-occupied Eastern Europe over 600,000 Theresienstadt and privation outside of ghettos 100,000 Transnistria colonies (Romanian and Soviet Jews) 100,000 Open-air shootings over 1,300,000 Einsatzgruppen, Higher SS and Police Leaders, Romanian and German armies in mobile oper- ations; shootings in Galicia during deportations; killings of prisoners of war and shoot- ings in Serbia and elsewhere Camps up to 3,000,000 German Death Camps up to 2,700,000 Auschwitz 1,000,000 Treblinka up to 750,000 Belzec 550,000 Sobibor up to 200,000 Kulmhof 150,000 Lublin 50,000 Camps in the low tens of thousands or below 150,000 Concentration camps (Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Dachau, Stutthof, and others) Camps with killing operations (Poniatowa, Trawniki, Semlin) Labor camps and transit camps Romanian Golta complex and Bessarabian 100,000 transit camps Croatian and other under 50,000 _________________________________________ Total 5,100,000 NOTE: Ghettos in German-occupied Eastern Europe, open-air shootings, and Auschwitz figures are round to the nearest hundred thousand, other categories to the nearest fifty thousand. ---------- ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 401 Wed Apr 01, 1992 TERMY at 06:22 EST Deaths By Year 1933-1940 under 100,000 1941 1,100,000 1942 2,700,000 1943 500,000 1944 600,000 1945 100,000 _________________ Total 5,100,000 NOTE: Rounded to nearest 100,000 ---------- ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 402 Wed Apr 01, 1992 TERMY at 06:23 EST Deaths By Country Poland up to 3,000,000 USSR over 700,000 Romania 270,000 Czechoslovakia 260,000 Hungary over 180,000 Lithuania up to 130,000 Germany over 120,000 Netherlands over 100,000 France 75,000 Latvia 70,000 Yugoslavia 60,000 Greece 60,000 Austria over 50,000 Belgium 24,000 Italy (including Rhodes) 9,000 Estonia 2,000 Norway under 1,000 Luxembourg under 1,000 Danzig under 1,000 __________________ Total 5,100,000 NOTE: Borders refer to 1937. Converts to Christianity are included, and refugees are counted with the countries from which they were deported. ---------- ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 403 Wed Apr 01, 1992 TERMY at 06:26 EST A report by Dr. Rudolf Lange, who was responsible for operations in Latvia. This report is from Jan. 1942 -------- At the time of the German invasion there were around 70,000 Jews in Latvia. At the time of the Bolsheviks considerably more Jews lived in Latvia, however a large number fled with the Bolsheviks. The aim of Einsatzkommando 2 from the beginning was a radical solution of the Jewish problem through the execution of all Jews. For this purpose comprehensive purges were carried out in the whole area of our operations by special commandos with the help of selected forces from the Latvian auxiliary police (mainly relatives of Latvians who had been abducted or murdered by the Bolsheviks). Around the beginning of October, the number of Jews executed in the Commando's sphere of operations was about 30,000. In addition, there are a few thousand Jews who have been eliminated by the self-defense formations of their own initiative after they had been given suitable encouragement. It was impossible to achieve the complete elimination of Jews froom Latvia in view of the economic factors and, in particular, the demands of the Wehrmacht. Jewish craftsmen were also used for the reconstruction of towns which had been destroyed... Where Latvian specialists were not available the required craftsmen and specialists were therefore provisionally excluded. However, by the end of October the rural areas of Latvia at least had been completely purged... At the beginning of November 1941, there were only around 30,000 Jews in the Riga ghetto, in Libau around 4,300 and in Duenaberg around 7,000. From this point on around 4-5,000 Jews were executed as a result of prosecutions for failure to wear the Jewish star, black market activities, theft, fraud, etc. In addition, the ghettos were purged of Jews, who were not fully fit for work and no longer required in major actions. Thus, on 9 November 1941, 11,034 Jews in Duenaberg and, and the beginning of December 1941, 27,800 Jews in Riga were executed in a major action ordered and directed by the Higher SS and Police Leader, and in mid-December 2,350 Jews were executed in Libau at the request of the Reich Commissioner. The remaining Jews (2,500 in Riga, 950 in Duenaberg and 300 in Libau) were excluded from this action because they were good skilled workers whose labor is still indispensable for the maintenance of the economy, especially the war economy. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 404 Wed Apr 01, 1992 TERMY at 06:29 EST Excerpted from a memorandum dated 27 April, 1942 by Dr. Erhard Wetzel (a lawyer), who was serving as desk officer in the Reich Ministry for the Eastern Territories: "Re: the Solution of the Polish Question ...It should be obvious that one cannot solve the Polish problem by liquidating the poles in the same way as the Jews. Such a solution to the Polish problem would burden the German people with guilt for years to come and lose us the sympathies of people everywhere, particularly since our neighbors would be bound to reckon that they would be treated in the same way when the time came." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 405 Wed Apr 01, 1992 TERMY at 06:30 EST From the Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, dated 15 October, 1941: ...Similarly, native antisemitic forces were induced to start pogroms against Jews during the first hours of the invasion, though this proved to be very difficult. Carrying out orders, the Security Police were determined to solve the Jewish question with all possible means and most decisively. But it was desirable that the Security Police should not put in an immediate appearance, at least at the beginning, since the extraordinarily harsh measures were apt to cause a stir even in German circles. It had to be shown to the world that the inhabitants themselves tok the first measures by way of natural reaction against the repression by the Jews over several decades and against the terror exercised by the Communists during the preceding period... It was anticipated from the beginning that the Jewish problem in the Ostland [Baltic] would not be solved solely through pogroms. On the other hand, in accordance with basic orders, the cleansing operation of the Security Police had the goal of the most comprehensive elimination possible of the Jews. Extensive executions were thus carried out by special units in the cities and the plains. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 407 Wed Apr 01, 1992 TERMY at 06:36 EST The following posts are excerpted from the diary of SS-Dr. Kremer. The usual "typo warning" applies... ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 408 Wed Apr 01, 1992 TERMY at 06:37 EST From the diary of SS-Dr Kremer 8 August 1942 From 15.8.42 up to the end of the vacation posted to SS-Hospital Prague. Friday, 14 August 1942 .. .. Departure for Prague. Departure Munster 20.40, Osnabruck 0.57, arrival Dresden 10.12, departure Dresden 11.22, arrival Prague 15.15. 15 August 1942 From Dresden onwards weather sunny and fine. Travelled by tram from the central station to SS-Hospital Podol and taken to meet the head of the hospital, Sturmbannfuhrer Dr Fietsch. Accommodations in a patients' room on 3rd floor, No. 344. Doctors, etc. Adjutant: Hstf. Koebel, pharmacist Head of administration: Stubf. Dorn Surgeon: Stubf. Winne from Danzig, Liek-Schuler Internal organs: Stubf. Leppel from Cologne Skin: Ostuf. Inden from Dusseldorf Eyes: Oberscharf. Frederking from Langendreer Radiology: Ostuf. Jung from Aachen Neurology: Ostuf. Jansen Sunday, 16 August 1942 Half-day trip round the city to see the sights with Oschf. Frederking and wife from Langendreer. Afterwards cup of mocha in a cafe (1.50 RM). 20 August 1942 Evening in officers' mess with vintage wine. Present was a doctor from HQ. 21 August 1942 Ordered an SS-Fuhrer cap from the Schutzstaffel [SS] central uniform office in Berlin through a messenger, but he did not manage to get me one. 24 August 1942 Bought paper, spectacles and belt. . . . 27 August 1942 Brigadefuhrer Gentzken visited the hospital on his way to Karlsbad. Spoke about a repudiation of intellectualism especially by Goebbels, a gradual erosion of the Hochschulen and of a Ministry for Population Policy. 28 August 1942 Sent to buy caps in Berlin. On leaving informed by reception that the commanding officer wished to speak to me. He informed me that on Hstf. Koebel's orders I was not to travel to Berlin. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 409 Wed Apr 01, 1992 TERMY at 06:38 EST 29 August 1942 Received orders (F.S.HSSZ 2150 28.8.42 1833 No. 1565) to report to Auschwitz concentration camp, which reportedly is one doctor short due to illness. 30 August 1942 Departure Prague 8.15 via Bohemian Trubau, Olmutz, Prerau, Oderberg. Arrival in Auschwitz CC 17.36. In camp quarantine because of numerous infectious diseases (typhus fever, malaria, diarrhoea). . . . Receive strictly secret orders from area medical officer Haupt- sturmfuhrer Uhlenbrock and am accommodated with the Waffen-SS in a hotel room (26). 31 August 1942 Tropical climate, 38 degrees in the shade, dust and countless flies! Food in the officers' mess excellent. This evening we had e.g. pickled duck's liver for 0.40 RM, plus stuffed tomatoes, tomato salad, etc. Water is contaminated, so we drink soda water, which is provided free of charge (Mattoni). First inoculation against typhus feber. Photographs for camp pass. 1 September 1942 Wrote off to Berlin for officers' cap, belt, braces. In afternoon attended block gassing with Zyklon B against lice. 2 September 1942 3.00 a.m. attended my first Sonderaktion. Dante's Inferno seem to me almost a comedy compared to this. They don't call Auschwitz the extermination camp for nothing! 3 September 1942 For the first time came down with the diarrhoea with vomiting and colic-type attacks of pain which have hit everyone here in the camp. It cannot be the water as I have not drunk a drop, nor can it be the bread, as those who have only eaten white bread (special diets) have also come down with it. Most probably the reason is the unhealthy continental and very dry tropical climate with its dust and masses of vermin (flies). 4 September 1942 To combat the diarrhoea: 1 day of gruel and peppermint tea, followed by a week's special diet. Charcoal and Tannalbin at intervals. Already considerably better. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 410 Wed Apr 01, 1992 TERMY at 06:39 EST 5 September 1942 In the morning attended a Sonderaktion from the women's concentration camp (Muslims)(1); the most dreadful of horrors. Hschf. Thilo - army doctor - was right when he said to me that this is the 'anus mundi'. In the evening towards 8.00 attended another Sonderaktion from Holland. Because of the special rations they get of a fifth of a litter of schnapps, 5 cigarettes, 100 g salami and bread, the men all clamour to take part in such actions. Today and tomorrow (Sunday) work. 6 September 1942 Today Sunday, excellent luncheon: tomato soup, half a chicken with potatoes and red cabbage (20 g fat), dessert and wonderful vanilla ice-cream. After the meal the new medical officer, Obersturmfuhrer Wirths, who comes originally from Waldbroel, was welcomed. Sturmbannfuehrer Fietsch in Prague was his former regimental doctor. I have now been in the camp for a week but I still have not completely got rid of the fleas in my hotel room despite all countermeasures with Flit (Cuprex) etc. I gained a refreshing impression when I made my first visit to the commandant's adjutant. Above the door to his office is the sign 'Cyclists dismount' painted on paper. Also hanging in the office of our SS local HQ was the noteworthy piece of verse: In life you hit the mark a thousand times They see it, nod and walk on by; But the most insignificant carper never forgets if you miss your target a single time. In the evening at 8.00 went to another Sonderaktion outside. 7 September 1942 Second inoculation against typhus fever. Today rainy and cooler weather. 9 September 1942 This morning received excellent news from my lawyer in Munster, Prof. Dr Hallermann: from the first of this month I am divorced from my wife. I can now see life in all its colors again. A black curtain has risen from my life! Was later present as the doctor at corporal punishment of eight prisoners and an execution with small-bore rifle. . . . Received soap flakes and two bars of soap. At midday a civilian came bounding up to my bike outside the sick-bay like an assassin, ran alongside me and asked me to tell him whether I was not Regierungsrat Hemm from Breslau, to whom I apparently bear a striking resemblance. He had fought together with the gentleman during WWI. How many Doppelganger do I have in the world? In the evening went to a Sonderaktion (4th). 10 September 1942 In the morning attended a Sonderaktion (5th). 11 September 1942 Today Obersturmbannfuhrer Lolling at the camp. ONly when introduced to him did I find out for the first time that I am replacing Hauptscharfuhrer Kitt, who is now convalescing in Obersalzberg. ------------ (1) A "nickname" referring to the posture of those who were so malnourished that they sat in a position resembling Muslims at prayer. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 411 Wed Apr 01, 1992 TERMY at 06:40 EST 14 September 1942 For the second time had the Auschwitz illness. Temperature of 37.8. Today had the third and last injection against typhus fever. 17 September 1942 Today ordered all-weather coat from the Kleiderkasse in Berlin, measurements: neck to waist 48, total length 133, half back/back top 22, shoulders to elbows 51, whole-arm length 81, chest 107, waist 100, seat 124. Enclosed a uniform coupon, i.e. for a weatherproof coat. Today visited women's camp, Birkenau, with [camp doctor] Dr Meyer. 20 September 1942 Today, Sunday, in the afternoon heard a concert between 3-6 o'clock in the prisoners' chapel in wonderful sunshine. The conductor was the director of the Warsaw State Opera. 80 musicians. For lunch there was roast pork, in the evening baked tench. 21 September 1942 Wrote to Police HQ (Criminal Branch) at Cologne about Otto. In the evening duckling. Dr Meyer told me about a congenital nasal defect in his father-in-law's family. 23 September 1942 Tonight sixth and seventh Sonderaktion. In the morning Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl and party arrived at the Waffen-SS quarters. A guard was standing outside the door and was first to stand attention before me. In the evening, at 20.00 hours, dinner with Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl in the officers' mess, a real feast. There was baked pike, as much as you wanted, real ground coffee, excellent beer and open sandwiches. 25 September 1942 Gruppenfuehrer Grawitz at HQ and camp. During the visit he asked me to tell him what the first thing was a doctor would recommend in infectious diseases cases. Of course I could not really give him an answer since there's no such thing as a general panacea. And what did he have in mind? When I heard, I couldn't believe it: a laxative! - As if a doctor would intervene with a laxative for every cold, throat infection, diphtheria, let alone adbominal typhus! Medicine just can't be schematized like that, quite apart from the fact that the young inexperienced doctor at the SS office just a few days earlier had killed someone with a freshly perforated stomach ulcer by prescribing castor-oil blindly. 27 Septemberr 1942 Today, Sunday evening, 4-8 o'clock, Community House social evening with supper, free beer and tobacco. Speech from Commandant Hoess and musical, as well as theatrical presentations. 28 September 1942 Tonight attended eighth Sonderaktion. Hauptsturmfuehrer Aumeier told me that Auschwitz concentration camp is 12 km long, 8 km wide and 22,000 Morgen [approx. = to acres] in area. Of these 12,000 acres are under the plough and 2,000 acres fish ponds. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 412 Wed Apr 01, 1992 TERMY at 06:41 EST 3 October 1942 Today fixed fresh living material from human liver and spleen as well as pancreas, also fixed lice from typhus-fever patients in absolute alcohol. In Auschwitz whole streets have gone down with typhus. Today had myself administered with the first serum injection against abdominal typhus because of this. Obersturmfuehrer Schwarz has gone down with typhus fever! 6 October 1942 Obersturmfuerhrer Entress had an accident on his motor bike. Applied dressing, Commandant Hoess fell from his horse. Wirths still not back. 7 October 1942 Attended 9th Sonderaktion (foreigners and Muslim women). Wirths back at work. Replacing Entress in men's camp (examinations, etc). 9th October 1942 Sent off a parcel with 9 pounds of soft soap worth 200 RM to Muster. Weather: raining. 10 October 1942 Extracted and fixed fresh live material from liver, spleen and pancreas. Got prisoners to make me a signature stamp. For first time heated the room. More cases of typhus fever and Typhus abdominalis. Camp quarantine continues. 11 October 1942 Today, Sunday, there was a roast hare for lunch - a real fat leg - with dumplings and red cabbage for 1.25 RM. 12 October 1942 Second innoculation against typhus, later on in evening severe generalized reaction (fever). Despite this in the night attended a further Sonderaktion from Holland (1,600 persons). Ghastly scenes in front of the last bunker! (Hoessler!) That was the 10th Sonderaktion. 13 October 1942 Untersturmfuehrer Vetter arrived. Sturmbannfuehrer Caesar also gone down with typhus after his wife died of it only a few days ago. Attended the sentencing and subsequent execution of seven Polish civilians. 14 October 1942 Received all-weather coat (size 52) from Berlin. Price 50 RM. On the suggestion of the Santitaetsamt inquired about the start of the winter semester with the vice-chancellor's office. 15 October 1942 Tonight the first hoar-frost has appeared outside. In the afternoon it was sunny and warm again. Extracted fresh live liver, spleen and pancreas material from an ictus [jaundice] case. 16 October 1942 Soap, soap flakes, sewing material. This morning sent off the second packet worth 300 RM to Frau Wizemann. In the camp had a Jew with syndactyly [= webbed hands or feet] photographed (father and uncle same condition). ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 413 Wed Apr 01, 1992 TERMY at 06:42 EST 17 October 1942 Attended trial and eleven executions. Extracted fresh live material from liver, spleen and pancreas after injection of pilocarpin. Went to Nikolai with Wirths. Before we went he informed me that I would have to stay longer. 18 October 1942 Attended 11th Sonderaktion (Dutch) in cold wet weather this morning, Sunday. Horrible scenes with three naked women who begged us for their lives. 19 October 1942 Went to Kattowitz with Obersturmfuehrer Wirths and Frau Hoess to buy epaulettes for the weatherproof coat. Came back via Nikolai. 24 October 1942 Six women from the Budyer revolt killed by injection (Klehr). 25 October 1942 Today, Sunday, wonderful autumn weather, went on bike tour to Budy via Roisko. Wilhelmy back from his trip to Croatia (plum brandy). 31 October 1942 Wonderful autumn weather for about two weeks, hence day in, day out sun-bathing in the garden of the Waffen-SS house. Even the clear nights are relatively mild. Because Thilo and Meyer on home leave I am acting troops doctor. Have to visit my HQ so applied for five-day leave to visit SS-Hospital Prague. 1 November 1942 Today, Sunday, after duty at the medical centre, mainly taking blood samples from venules, left Auschwitz on the fast train for Prague at 13.01. Raining during the journey, train was completely packed. In the evening at about 22.30 arrived in Prague where I took several trams in complete darkness until I finally reached the SS hospital and was then packed off upstairs by a sister, whom I knew already. Was put up for the night on an ottoman in Dr Schreiber's office. 2 November 1942 Was dragged from my dreams and from the primitive horse-blanket bed by Dr Schreiber. After breakfast in the kitchen of the officers' house handed over the three parcels with boots and apple compote for Munster, worth 300 RM. Then went to see Chef Sturmbannfuehrer Fietsch and then usual lunch at 'German House'. Later collected my parade boots (32 RM) in Gertengasse and returned to first-class stew at 17.30 in the officers' house with plenty of meat. . . . 3 November 1942 After breakfast took the 17 to market where I managed to find press studs and a swish potato grater. From there back to the centre where I ordered myself some glasses for lecturing for 14.50 RM and went back to the 'German House' for lunch. At 3 o'clock I then visited the Viktoria cinema to watch 'Andreas Schlueter'. I was positively surprised by the extremely stylish and tasteful decor of the place and must say that I don't think I have ever been to such an elegantly appointed cinema before. The film was made on an enormous budget. Heinrich George was outstanding. He portrayed once again how in this life a person with creative leanings does not find the appreciation he deserves from his fellow men and finally perishes amid intrigues and hostilities. The final message made a deep impression on me after my own experiences: 'Life does not go on for ever but the work remains eternal.' ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 414 Wed Apr 01, 1992 TERMY at 06:43 EST 4 November 1942 This morning first thing tried to take some photographs of Prague Castle from the Oberlandrat building and the Mauerbrucke. The light was very capricious. Then shopping in the old city, where I managed to buy a fountain pen for 7.50 RM near the Alstaetter-Ring and a lady's handbag. Then back for a stew in the hospital at 12.30. Here I was told that I had to vacate my room as an Obersturmbannfuehrer wanted to take it over. I then took my cases into the room belonging to a patient from IIb, in the accident ward. After lunch he however then had the foresight to throw a cursory glance into my room and immediately thought better of the swap, so I was then able to move back upstairs with my suitcases. Ther person in question was Obersturmbannfuehrer Deutsch, who told me that Sturmbannfuehrer Fietsch had been his regimental doctor. It turned out he also knew Obersturmfuehrer Wirths well and he asked me to send him his best regards. He is, as he told me, somewhat weak-willed and has all kinds of problems with his wife and children. Some time after lunch I went back into town, photographed Wenceslas Square from the Landesmuseum as well as the Theinkirche. Then I picked up my spectacles and went to the Willy Forst filem, 'Operette', which had been described as a massive success and was already playing in its second week at the Astra in Wenceslas Square. Maria Holst was excellent in the female lead role. I was completely enchanted when I left yet another first-rate and elegantly appointed picture-house: One can only manage one thing at a time - either love or work - both at the same time are not possible. If success is there then it happens as to a mountain climber who has reached the summit. The striving is over, one is lonely and isolated. At any rate the film with its Makart scene, its Straussian operettas and its refined and magnificent song-and-dance numbers is quite disturbingly enchanting. 5 November 1942 In the morning sent off fourth parcel, value 300 RM, to Frau Wizemann. Contents: lady's handbag with fountain pen, spectacles, etc., parade boots, writing paper, brown shirts, potato grater, etc. Then a little shopping in town and lunch at the 'German House'. Gloomy, rainy weather. In the evening packed for tomorrow's departure at 8.00 and evening in the mess where I put away a whole litre of a wonderful-tasting Bulgarian red wine which really put me in a good mood. Didn't get to bed until 12.00. 6 November 1942 Woken early at 6.00 by the sister and was already at the station (trams 21 and 7) not long afterwards, where I boarded the fast train to Maehrisch-Ostrau at 8.10. In Prerau I boarded the fast Vienna-Cracow train and had just entered a second-class compartment when a Generalmayer [brigadier] started up a conversation with me. I was alone with him for almost the whole journey, and he told me about his experiences at the front and shook me by the hand when he had to get off. Journey time from Prague to Auschwitz over nine hours. On arrival I immediately went to the officers' mess, where once again I ate until I was really full. 8 November 1942 Tonight took part in two Sonderaktionen, in rainy and gloomy autumn weather (12th and 13th). In the morning Hauptscharfuehrer Kitt, a pupil of mine from Essen, came and paid his respects to me at the sick-bay. In the afternoon another Sonderaktion, the 14th I have participated in up to now. In the evening cosy evening company in the Fuehrerheim as guest of Hauptsturmfuehrer Wirths. There was Bulgerian red wine and Croatian plum brandy. 10 November 1942 Today first light snowfall. Frost during the night. 13 November 1942 Extracted fresh live material (liver, spleen and pancreas) from a previously photographed, severely atrophied Jewish prisoner aged eighteen. Fixed as always, liver and spleen in Carnoy [fixing solution] and pancreas in Zenker [fixing solution] (Prisoner No. 68,030). 14 November 1942 Today, Saturday, variety show in the communat house (really big!). Particularly popular were the dancing dogs and the two bantams which crowed to order, the wrapped-up person and the cycling group. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 415 Wed Apr 01, 1992 D.FRIEDMAN14 at 07:17 EST 398 M.RUNGU: "So now we have the spectacle of a Jewish person being slandered with "Capo" and "Judenrat epithets." I didn't -slander- anyone. I did not accuse Schulman of being one of the abovementioned things (By the way, you can't be a Judenrat; just a member of it) -- I merely said that he reminds me of them. This is neither slander nor a personal attack. Merely a statement of fact. BTW, as part of an increasingly dangerous rash of censorship decisions, Graffiti followed your wishes that my post be deleted. Mazel Tov. (That's Jew for "Congratulations.") If you again incorrectly accuse me of slander, M.RUNGU, I will consider you guilty of it, and will take the appropriate action. Better you should understand the mother tongue before misusing it. Love, Dave ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 416 Wed Apr 01, 1992 D.FRIEDMAN14 at 07:25 EST M.RUNGU: Along with everybody else, I still await with deepest interest the story of how you, a self-proclaimed ignorant, became one of our leading authorities on denial in a 24-hour period. You would not only be satisfying a source of increasingly burning curiosity, but you'd be doing me a huge favor, as well. I have a huge research project to submit in 5 weeks, and if you could tell me your secret, I'd be deeply in your debt. Love, Dave ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 417 Wed Apr 01, 1992 D.FRIEDMAN14 at 07:45 EST 396 M.RUNGU One finds your figure of 600,000 dead...er...thought-provoking, to say the least. Is this your own body-count, or can you cite a source? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 418 Wed Apr 01, 1992 POOH.BAH at 07:48 EST Rungu: You still have not answered the questions in message 328 nor cited any message in which I made the statements of which you have accussed me. I guess we need to remember the German truism: Keine Antwort ist auch eine Antwort - No answer is also an answer. Therefore, please admit that you were in error when you made your accusations against me. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 419 Wed Apr 01, 1992 AH.STEIN at 18:17 EST 389 Rungu: >Some say that the Israelis are "more Nazi than the Nazis" ... How true. You just forgot to point out that those "some" are all anti-semites, and that they're lying. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 420 Wed Apr 01, 1992 AH.STEIN at 18:18 EST >Message 390 Wed Apr 01, 1992 >M.RUNGU at 05:30 EST >You asked why the various holocaust "survivors"'s accounts are so unreliable. >Sometimes it is ...; sometimes ...; sometimes ... >The problem is that SOME accounts are undoubtedly true and accurate, but that it is so difficult to separate the FACTUAL accounts from the far more numerous FICTIONAL ones, that they are drowned out. Interesting message. By acknowledging that some accounts are "undoubtedly true and accurate," you clearly admit that your effort to deny the Holocaust is a fraud. That, of course, brings up the interesting question: why are you trying to convince people that something you know happened didn't? I will compliment you on apparently having the ability to perform the difficult task of separating the factual accounts from the inaccurate ones. What's your secret? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 421 Wed Apr 01, 1992 AH.STEIN at 18:18 EST >Message 391 Wed Apr 01, 1992 >M.RUNGU at 05:30 EST > To C.FINK4 (131) >Mr. Raven has pointed our the myriad errors POOH.BAH has indulged in. Funny. I must have missed that. I haven't seen him point out any such errors. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 425 Wed Apr 01, 1992 AH.STEIN at 18:20 EST >Message 397 Wed Apr 01, 1992 >M.RUNGU at 05:34 EST The "admitted liar" Fred Leuchter? Where or when has Mr. Leuchter described himself as a "liar"? When he admitted misrepresenting his credentials and licensing. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 426 Wed Apr 01, 1992 AH.STEIN at 18:21 EST 398 Rungu: > ... Mel Mermelstein's frivolous legal actions against the Institute for Historical Review ... Somehow, the court did not agree with your assessment, and ordered the Institute for Historical Misrepresentation to pay up. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 427 Wed Apr 01, 1992 ERIC-M at 18:38 EST >>> POOH.BAH > The next 6 were posted to demonstrate how a "paper trial" can be > discovered for different occurences under the Nazis AND to indicate how > sadistic some "scientific" aspects were. How do we know that this "paper trail" was really left by the Germans and not fabricated by the Allies? (Yeah, I know this kind of sounds like I'm a planted shill. >grin>) I know that we can't prove with absolute certainty that these documents are originals, but what evidence is there to support this? / |/ ric |/ ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 428 Wed Apr 01, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 18:39 EST Termy, the Kremer entries ... the gross indifference is chilling. I recognize the entry 18 October 1942. That is the entry Faurisson lied about. French scholar George Weller debunked those lies. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 429 Wed Apr 01, 1992 D.BERKOWITZ at 18:41 EST Scaramouche- those are the left and right hand clapping! [g] ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 430 Wed Apr 01, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:55 EST This series of documents will start with euthanasia and trace the killing through the extermination program....in just 13 documents. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 431 Wed Apr 01, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:55 EST 1.Sept.1939 Reischsleiter Bouhler and Dr. Brandt are commissioned under responsibility to expand the authority particularly of designated doctors so that they can euthanize after they become aware of people who are seized by incurable sickness as determined by critical review of the state of their illness. Adolph Hitler ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 432 Wed Apr 01, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:56 EST Minutes from Steering Group Meeting of the Euthanasia Program 9 October 1939 Brack: Today's meeting is concerned with the final clarification of the questions: who? and how? Both questions belong together. Dr. Linden will report on the first. Linden: Today forms are being sent to all asylums together with a circular from the Reich Interior Ministry...It is anticipated that the forms will be returned within three weeks since a deadline of 1 November has been given. In reply to a question from party comrade Blankenburg: No suspicions can arise as to the real purpose of the forms because the reason given for them in the circular is rationalization. Brack: Thanks Party Comrade Linden and comments on the number of anticipated cases. The number is arrived at through a calculation on the basis of a ratio of 1000:10:5:1. That means out of 1,000 people 10 require psychiatric treatment; of these 5 in residential form. And, of these, one patient will come under the program. If one applies this to the population of the Greater German Reich, then one must reckon with 65- 75,000 cases. With this statement the question of "who?" can be regarded as settled. Heyde: Commented on the question of "how?" The number referred to by Party Comrade Brack also tallies with his own estimation. It makes the proposed method of injections put forward by Professor Nitsche unviable. For the same reason, the use of doses of medicine is also impossible. Nitsche: Disagrees. Werner: The question has been discussed with the director of the Reich Criminal Police Department, Nebe. We are in agreement with him that CO (Carbon Monoxide) is the best method. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 433 Wed Apr 01, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:57 EST From the instruction sheet for the questionnaire for the euthanasia program: All patients are to be reported who: 1. suffer from the diseases enumerated below and who within the institution can be occupied not at all or only at the most mechanical work (picking, etc.) Schizophrenia, Epilepsy (indicate if exogenous, war-related or other causes) Senile disorders, Therapy-resistant paralysis and other Lues [syphilitic] diseases, Retardation from whatever cause, Encephalitis, Huntington's chorea and other terminal neurological conditions; OR 2. have been continuously in institutions for at least 5 years; OR 3. are in custody as criminally insane; OR 4. do not possess German citizenship or are not of German or related blood (footnoted) Accompanying footnote: Jew, Jewish Mischling [half-breed] 1st and 2nd class, Negro, Negro Mischling, Gypsy, Gypsy Mischling. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 434 Wed Apr 01, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:58 EST Report to Gau HQ in Nuremberg From Nazi Party Leader - Ansbach/Bavaria 12 June 1940 The transfer of patients from the asylums, lunatic asylums etc. to other areas naturally could not be concealed from the public. It appears that the commission involved have worked too fast, have not always been skilful and that some mistakes have been made. It cannot be avoided that individual instance become know and talked about. The following cases should not, of course, have been allowed to happen: (1) A family received two urns by mistake. (2) A death notice gave the cause of death as appendicitis. But the appendix had been removed ten years before. (3) Another cause of death was spinal disease. But the relatives had visited the man only eight days earlier when he was completely healthy. (4) A family received a death notice when the woman is still living in the asylum and is in the best of health..... In the case of these extremely delicate measures it is very difficult to make suggestions as to how one can counteract the spreading of facts or of rumors which derive from them or are invented. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 435 Wed Apr 01, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:59 EST Schlegelberger's Speech Conference of the Senior Court Presidents and Public Prosecutors 23-24 April 1941 You, gentlemen, must be the means by which, or even better the source from which, a knowledge of this need to fit in flows directly and ruthlessly to your subordinates in every sphere. From this there derives for me the duty of making you aware of all the decisions of the Fuehrer which are of importance for your official actions. You must not only be aware of rumors but also know the facts. If this does not occur then it is inevitable that judges and prosecutors will act against measures which they in good faith but erroneously consider to be illegal and so will innocently put themselves in conflict with the will of the Fuehrer to the serious detriment of justice and of the state. Gentlemen, in your oral and written reports you continually express doubts concerning the question of the DESTRUCTION OF LIFE UNWORTHY OF LIFE. You report about incredible rumors going round among the people and you complain that you are not in a position to enlighten people because you lack information about these matters. This complaint is justified. I have, therefore, soon after taking over the Ministry, sought an opportunity to clarify the matter for myself and, at this point, I would like to thank the chief of the Fuehrer's Chancellery, Reichsleiter and Party Comrade Bouhler for the detailed explanation. I am even more grateful to him for agreeing to allow his leading experts to provide this conference with the information necessary for [you] to carry out [your] duties. I would like to welcome Herr Brack and Herr Professor Heyde and ask them to take the floor. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 436 Wed Apr 01, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:59 EST Brack's Speech Conference of the Senior Court Presidents and Public Prosecutors 23-24 April 1941 Not a task for a state body. New problem, no experience, therefore prior sounding necessary before a law is introduced. A state body unsuitable for such a task which from the outside appears illegal. Not a matter of the DESTRUCTION OF LIFE UNWORTHY OF LIFE, but the carrying out of an act of release for people who are suffering and for their relatives.... Value of the action - not simply pecuniary. Care of these patients ties up a lot of valuable personnel... Patient dies of a fictitious cause. Reason: Fuehrer's insistence on secrecy. Death certificate. Date and cause of death both incorrect. A proper register is kept at the same time. Now we keep a proper record of the estate which is what the relatives are most concerned about.... ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 437 Wed Apr 01, 1992 POOH.BAH at 19:00 EST Letter to Reich Minister of Justice From Roman Catholic Bishop of Limburg 13 August 1941 ...Buses arrive in Hadamar several times a week with a large number of these victims. School children in the neighborhood know these vehicles and say: "Here comes the murder wagon." After the arrival of such vehicles the citizens of Hadamar then see the smoke coming from the chimney and are upset by constant thoughts about the poor victims especially when, depending on the direction of the wind, they have to put up with the revolting smell. The consequence of the principles being practiced here is that children, when quarrelling with one another make remarks like: "You are thick, you'll be put in the oven in Hadamar." People who do not want to get married or who do not get the opportunity say: "Get married? No fear. Put children into the world who then end up going through the stack." Old people are saying "on no account will I go into a state hospital! After the feeble-minded, the old will be next in line as useless mouths to feed." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 438 Wed Apr 01, 1992 POOH.BAH at 19:00 EST Letter to Reichskommissar Ostland Hinrich Lohse From Dr. Erhard Wetzel 25 October 1941 ....With regard to my letter of 18 October 1941, please be informed that Oberdienstleiter Brack from the Fuehrer's Chancellery has stated his readiness to assist in the construction of the necessary accommodations and gassing apparatuses. At the present time we do not have on hand a sufficient quantity of the apparatuses, so they first must be constructed. Brack's view is that, since construction of the apparatuses within the Reich would present far greater difficulties than onsite production, the most expedient course of action is to send his people directly to Riga, in particular his chemist Dr. Kallmeyer, who will take the necessary steps from there.... Given the present situation, Jews who are not fit for work can be eliminated without qualms through use of the Brack device. Incidents such as those that took place during the shootings of Jews in Vilna, according to a report I have on my desk, can hardly be sanctioned, keeping in mind that the executions were undertaken openly, and the new procedures assure that such incidents will no longer be possible.... ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 439 Wed Apr 01, 1992 POOH.BAH at 19:01 EST Kiev, 16.May.1942 Reich Secret Document To SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer Rauff Berlin The overhauling of the vans of Einsatzgruppe D and C has been completed... I have had the vans of Einsatzgruppe D disguised as house trailers, by having a single window shutter fixed to each side of the small vans, and on the large ones, two shutters, such as one often sees on farm houses in the country. The vans had become so well known that not only the authorities but the civilian population referred to them as the "Death Vans" as soon as one appeared.... I also gave instructions that all personnel should stay as far away as possible from the vans when the gassing is in progress to prevent damage to their health in the event of gas leaking out... The gassing is generally not carried out correctly. In order to get the Aktion finished as quickly as possible the driver presses down on the accelerator as far as it will go. As a result the persons to be executed die of suffocation and do not doze off as was planned.... Dr. Becker SS Untersturmfuehrer ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 440 Wed Apr 01, 1992 POOH.BAH at 19:02 EST Letter to Obersturmbannfuehrer Walter Rauff From Willy Just 5 June 1942 RE: Technical alterations to the special vehicles already in operation and those in production. Since December 1941, for example, 97,000 have been processed using three vans without any faults developing in the vehicles. The well-known explosion in Kulmhof (Chelmno) must be treated as a special case. It was caused by faulty practice. Special instructions have been given to the relevant offices in order to avoid such accidents. The instructions were such as to ensure a considerable increase in the degree of security. Further operational experience hitherto indicates that the following technical alterations are appropriate.... 2) The vans are normally loaded with 9-10 people per square meter. With the large Saurer special vans this is not possible because although they do not become overloaded their maneuverability is much impaired. A reduction in the load area appears desirable. It can be achieved by reducing the size of the van by c. 1 meter. The difficulty referred to cannot be overcome by reducing the size of the load. For a reduction in the numbers will necessitate a longer period of operation because the free spaces will have to be filled with CO. By contrast, a smaller load area which is completely full requires a much sorter period of operation since there are no free spaces..... 3) The connecting hoses between the exhaust and the van frequently rust through because they are corroded inside by the liquids which fall on them. To prevent this the connecting piece must be moved so that the gas is fed from the top downwards. This will prevent liquids flowing in..... 6) The lighting must be better protected against damage than hitherto....It has been suggested that lighting should be dispensed with since they are allegedly never used. However, experience shows that when the rear door is closed and therefore when it becomes dark, the cargo presses hard towards the door....It makes it difficult to latch the door.Furthermore, it has been observed that the noise always begins when the doors are shut presumably because of fear brought on by the darkness.... ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 441 Wed Apr 01, 1992 POOH.BAH at 19:04 EST Letter to Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler From Viktor Brack 23 June 1942 ....some time ago, on the instructions of Reichsleiter Bouhler, I placed some of my men at the disposal of Brigadefuehrer Globocnik. Following a further request from him, I have transferred additional personnel. Brigadefuehrer Globocnik took the opportunity of expressing the opinion that the whole Jewish action should be carried out as quickly as possible to avoid the danger of one day finding ourselves stuck in the middle of it in the event of difficulties forcing us to halt the action. You yourself, Reichsfuehrer, some time ago expressed to me the opinion that we should work as fast as possible if only for reasons of concealment. In my opinion, both views, which after all lead to the same result, are more than justified. Nevertheless, in this context I would be grateful to be permitted to make the following observation: I think there must easily be 2-3 million men and women among the ten million European Jews who are very well capable of working. In view of the extraordinary difficulties which the labor question poses for us, in my opinion we should definitely preserve and make use of these 2-3 million. However, that will only be possible if they are simultaneously sterilized. I already reported to you about a year ago that people working for me have concluded the necessary experiments for this purpose. I would like to remind you of these facts. The kind of sterilization normally carried out on the hereditarily sick is not feasible in this instance because it would take up too much time and be too expensive. However, a castration by means of X-rays is not only relatively cheap, but also could be carried out on thousands in a very short time..... If, Reichsfuehrer, you decide to follow this course of action in the interests of preserving labor material, then Reichsleiter Bouhler is prepared to provide you with the doctors and other personnel required to carry out this work...... ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 442 Wed Apr 01, 1992 POOH.BAH at 19:04 EST From the diary of Dr. Johann Kremer 2 April 1942 This morning at three o'clock I attended a special action for the first time. Dante's hell seemed like a comedy in comparison. Not for nothing is Auschwitz called an extermination camp. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 443 Wed Apr 01, 1992 POOH.BAH at 19:05 EST Report to Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler From Alfred Franke-Gricksch 14-16 May 1943 Resettlement of Jews The Auschwitz camp plays a special role in the resolution of the Jewish question. The most advanced methods permit the execution of the Fuehrer-order in the shortest possible time and without arousing much attention. The so- called "resettlement action" runs the following course: The Jews arrive in special trains (freight cars) toward evening and are driven on special tracks to areas of the camp specifically set aside for this purpose. There the Jews are unloaded and examined for their fitness to work by a team of doctors, in the presence of the camp commandant and several SS officers. At this point anyone who can somehow be incorporated into the work program is put in a special camp. The curably ill are sent straight to a medical camp and are restored to health through a special diet. The basic principle behind everything is: conserve all manpower for work. The previous type of "resettlement action" has been thoroughly rejected, since it is too costly to destroy precious work energy on a continual basis. The unfit go to cellars in a large house which are entered from outside. They go down five or six steps into a fairly long, well-constructed and well- ventilated cellar area, which is lined with benches to the left and right. It is brightly lit, and the benches are numbered. The prisoners are told that they are to be cleansed and disinfected for their new assignments. They must therefore completely undress to be bathed. To avoid panic and to prevent disturbances of any kind, they are instructed to arrange their clothing neatly under their respective numbers, so that they will be able to find their things again after their bath. Everything proceeds in a perfectly orderly fashion. Then they pass through a small corridor and enter a large cellar room which resembles a shower bath. In this room are three large pillars, into which certain materials can be lowered from outside the cellar room. When three- to four-hundred people have been herded into this room the doors are shut, and containers filled with the substances are dropped down into the pillars. As soon as the containers touch the base of the pillars, they release particular substances that put the people to sleep in one minute. A few minutes later, the door opens on the other side, where the elevator is located. The hair of the corpses is cut off, and their teeth are extracted (gold-filled teeth) by specialists (Jews). Then the corpses are loaded into elevators and brought up to the first floor, where ten large crematoria are located. (Because fresh corpses burn particularly well, only 50-100 lbs. of coke are needed for the whole process.) The job itself is performed by Jewish prisoners, who never step outside this camp again. The results of this "resettlement action" to date: 500,000 Jews. Current capacity of the "resettlement action" ovens: 10,000 in twenty-four hours. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 444 Wed Apr 01, 1992 H.P.SKALIKS [Hans-Peter] at 22:41 EST C.Fink4...message 366 University chemistry labs generally have antidote kits for cyanide poisoning. A vial of amyl nitrate is broken under the victim's nose and breathing is induced mechanically, if needed. This chemical binds the CN radical and changes it into a less potent poison. This generates enough time to get the victim to the hospital to be treated for the poisoning created by the amyl nitrate. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 445 Wed Apr 01, 1992 C.FINK4 [Carl] at 23:07 EST RUNGU, your 391: >>Mr. Raven has pointed our the myriad errors POOH.BAH has indulged >>in. He has also gone to great lengths to examine the "documentation" and has shown the contradictions, unreliability, or >>irrelevance of various sources and documents. If you have missed >>his points on these, I suggest you go back and read the message >>streams. This is a far cry from what you describe as "ignoring >>the huge amount of documentary evidence" and "slinging baseless >>accusations". It would appear that someone OTHER than Mr. Raven >>likes to do the mud slinging... First: document any time in which Raven has actually caught Pooh in an error. He's SAID "error" lots of times, but he's never shown one that I recall. I'll stand by "slinging baseless accusations". Raven quoted one of Pooh's paragraphs and stated that it was wrong, and clearly wrong, but either chose not to give or could not give any reason why this was so. This is slinging baseless accusations. When I said "ignoring the huge amount of documentary evidence", I was referring to Raven's (and your) constant harping on the idea that the Holocaust has only been attested to by "unreliable eyewitnesses". He was (and you are) ignoring the documentary evidence when he said that, although certainly he does not ignore the documentary evidence when he makes fun of it - not that his criticisms make much sense. >>The deaths at Masada, the Rape of the Sabines, and the Battle of >>New Orleans are of little interest to historical revisionists >>because these events are not riddled with fabrications and errors >>as the holocaust is, and because these events have not been used >>for political purposes rather than historiography as the holocaust >>has. Please. First of all, do you really want to claim that the Battle of New Orleans (just as an example) wasn't used for political purposes? Second, how does this idea (that these events, all important in some nation's concept of itself, were allegedly not politically important) negate the fact that only eyewitness and documentary evidence of them exists? Thirdly, how do you know that there aren't "fabrications and errors"? You aren't letting your political agenda decide this, are you? By the way - no one can "slander" anyone in this medium. Written defamation is libel. Carl Fink ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 446 Thu Apr 02, 1992 P.BRADEN [pat.b] at 00:18 EST re: message 366 ND 444 Hydrogen cyanide is a protoplasmic poison and works on the cellular level by tying up the enzymes needed for cellular oxidation. The theory behind the various antedotes, such as amyl nitrate, is based on their ability to convert hemoglobin to methemoglobin. Cyanide reacts slowly with hemoglobin but rapidly with methemoglobin. This is supposed to remove the cyanide from the cells and restore the patient if he/she is not allready dead. However, because it works at the cellular level, a person can be dead and still continue to breath. But what's this got to do with the discussion? I only mention it because in previous debates with Raven on PEN He's tried to make something of it. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 447 Thu Apr 02, 1992 STEPHEN.KAHN [Scarlet I] at 00:47 EST In message 132 I questioned statements made by M.Rungu about the roles of Jews in the Soviet Union as being both irrelevant to the topic and being untrue. I started a new topic (#10) for a discussion of these issues. After a long silence, Rungu replied in #392 (4/1/92). Although I think the subject should be discussed in Topic 10, I'm not willing to let his cavalier dismissal of the issues raised by his unsupported allegations stand unquestioned. So I will comment more specifically here on these issues. At that point, Rungu can either provide some documentation for his allegations or drop the issue. If he does decide to discuss it, then I think all relevant messages, beginning with #392 and this message, should be moved to Topic 10. If he doesn't respond, I think that speaks for itself and indicates that he makes allegations without any facts or documentation to back them up. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 448 Thu Apr 02, 1992 STEPHEN.KAHN [Scarlet I] at 00:50 EST I'm glad that he admits the issue has little to do with the Holocaust. The one issue that is slightly relevant is the topic of partisan actions against Jews. Rungu argues that they resulted from the population's resentment at persecution by Jewish leaders during the Ukrainian famine and other Soviet atrocities. Rungu provides essentially no documentation of these charges. The only sources he cites are Robert Conquest and Solzhenitsyn. As pointed out in Topic 10, these "sources" contradict the very arguments that Rungu presents. How can someone who argues in this fashion be taken seriously? Anti-semitism in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Europe as a whole far predates Soviet Communism and the Twentieth Century. (For example, as I'm sure most readers of this topic know, this is the anniversary not only of Columbus' visit to the Americas, but also the expulsion of the Jews from Spain.) Jews were the object of various degrees of persecution (official and unofficial) throughout their presence in Russia, and the period from 1880-1910 or so was a period of intense pogroms and other persecutions, which were tolerated and even instigated by the Czarist government. Ethnic and religious conflicts and persecutions are rife in Eastern Europe, recurring for scores and even hundreds of years, particularly coming to the fore in times of stress, suffering and dislocation, just as we see happening today in the ex-Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, and so on. It's a much more economical and sensible hypothesis that partisan atrocities against the Jews during WW II resulted from these centuries-old traditions than from some "Jewish" persecution during the early years of the Soviet Union. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 449 Thu Apr 02, 1992 STEPHEN.KAHN [Scarlet I] at 00:54 EST There were Jews at all levels of the Communist Party. The percentage of membership was higher than their presence in the general population, but not remarkably so, and they were still a small percentage of the overall organization. The people who advanced in the Communist Party were those who jettisoned their previous traditions and backgrounds in the name of an extreme ideology and in the pursuit of personal ambition. They were no more bearers of any Jewish traditions than Stalin was a bearer of a Christian tradition because he attended a seminary for several years before embarking on his career as a revolutionary. One hardly advanced in the Party by preaching Judaism or Zionism, any more than by preaching Christianity or democracy or any other belief accept Marxist- Leninism in general and Lenin's and then Stalin's party line of the week in particular. Trotsky neither advanced nor fell because of being a Jew. It was simply irrelevant. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 450 Thu Apr 02, 1992 STEPHEN.KAHN [Scarlet I] at 00:57 EST Rungu harps on the "Jews Lazar Kaganovitch and Lavrenti Beria?" There seems to be no evidence that I can find that Beria was Jewish. (And there's fairly complete agreement that both were ruthless and abominable people.) So what's the point? If Rungu is trying to imply there is some sinister cover- up of Beria's ethnic identity, why does everyone admit Kaganovitch's? Why are there readily available lists of the of the Jewish of the leading Jewish Communists? (See THE JEWS OF THE SOVIET UNION, by Benjamin Pinkus.) So what's the point about Beria? What's one Jew more or less? And if Rungu is privy to some information about Beria that most leading historians are not, why doesn't he lay it out, instead of simply repeating it as a known fact. Given the lack of supporting evidence, it's difficult to believe that he's doing anything but parroting any particular rumor or piece of propaganda that he once heard that pops into his head and sounds vaguely effective. Again the point is not that there were Jews in the Communist leadership but that their behavior and allegiance was no different than that of the anyone else in the leadership, i.e., adherence to a fanatical ideology, and a ruthless willingness to pursue personal advancement over others. If there's something uniquely "Jewish" about that, M. Rungu, please explain. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 455 Thu Apr 02, 1992 SOFTSERV [NeilSchulman] at 01:39 EST If there is that long a list of Jewish writers condemning Israeli treatment of the Palestinians, then why aren't they supporting Secretary of State Baker's laying it on the line to Israel to make peace or lose American support? As for the Warsaw ghetto, I will look into it and report back, when I get past my deadlines. If I'm wrong, I'll retract. Neil Schulman ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 456 Thu Apr 02, 1992 SOFTSERV [NeilSchulman] at 01:55 EST Damn it, I don't want to get sucked into this again. M.RUNGU, Message 393: Paranoia by one side doesn't justify paranoia on the other side. You can't walk into this assuming that the documents released by the post-communist regimes will be tampered with by the mainstream historians. Stop it. M.RUNGU, Message 394: Don't draw inferences from my statements that I didn't intend. It's vicious nonsense to blame anti-Semitism on Jewish bigotry, and derive from that the idea that the Jews "caused" a Holocaust that you think didn't kuch happen anyway. Make up your mind. The main cause of anti-Semitism, as far as I can tell, goes back about two thousand years. A spin-off religion of Judaism followed a rabbi named Jesus. The Romans felt he was a threat, and executed him. Later, when Rome became Christianized, it was a matter of political necessity to put the blame for that execution elsewhere, and the Jews -- who were mortally offended anyway that Jesus claimed to be their God -- were a likely candidate for the job. The grudge match between Christians and Jews has been going on ever since. M.RUNGU, Message 398. I do not consider the Mermelstein suit frivolous -- I merely think the criteria used in a criminal case should have been used to determine which side should have won. AH.STEIN, 422. I am perfectly comfortable with myself and my religious creed. "Self-hating Jew" is one of those buzzwords which is used against any Jew who demands goodness and fairness be applied equally to Jew and Gentile alike. Can I go now? Neil Schulman ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 457 Thu Apr 02, 1992 ERIC-M at 02:42 EST >>> D.FRIEDMAN14 > Along with everybody else, I still await with deepest interest the story > of how you [M.Rungo], a self-proclaimed ignorant, became one of our > leading authorities on denial in a 24-hour period. I'm sure there's a very interesting story there, Dave. And I would guess that Rungo has been just as factual about this incident as he has been in his subsequent posts. The guy (gal?) must be a genius to have learned that quickly. You'll probably get your answer to that question soon after Raven has backed up his claim that the Holocaust "hoax" was part of a Zionist conspiracy. I wouldn't hold my breath on either question, though. :-) / |/ ric |/ ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 458 Thu Apr 02, 1992 TERMY at 04:01 EST Excerpts from a sermon by Cardinal August Count von Galen, Bishop of Muenster. The following is related to Pooh's post #437, which is also a clergyman's response to the "T4" program (euthanasia): ...Never under any circumstances may a human being kill an innocent person apart from war and legitimate self-defense.. On 6 July, I already had cause to add to the pastoral letter the following explanation: for some moonths we have been hearing reports that, ono the orders of Berlin, patients from mental asylums who have been ill for a long time and may appear incurable, are being compulsorily removed. Then, after a short time, the relatives are regularly informed that the corpse has been burnt and the ashes can be delivered. There is a general suspicion verging on certainty that these numerous unexpected deaths of mentally ill people do not occur of themselves...that the doctrine is being followed, according to which one may destroy so-called 'worthless life', that is kill innocent people if one considers that their lives are of no further value for the nation and the state. ...I have been assured that the Reich Interior Ministry and the office of the Reich Doctors' Leader, Dr. Conti, make it clear that in reality a large number of mentally ill people in Germany have been deliberately killed and more will be killed in the future. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 459 Thu Apr 02, 1992 TERMY at 04:02 EST Thousands of copies of Bishop Galen's sermon were printed and distributed. The Nazi leadership's response? Read on: After the ministerial conference Dr. G[oebbels] spoke to me about the sermon of the Bishop of Muenster. He did not know what one could effectively do at the moment. I explained to him that in my opinion there could be only one effective measure, namely to hang the Bishop, and that I had already informed Reichsleiter Bormann accordingly. [Party Chancellory propaganda official Walter Tiessler in a minute to Bormann, dated 13 August, 1941] ------ Certain individuals who frequent another national network will, no doubt, find special meaning in the above "hang the Bishop". ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 460 Thu Apr 02, 1992 TERMY at 04:04 EST Message 307 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] -> I would never dream of redefining the word. I am using "disinfection" -> in the same way the Germans used it during WWII, to denote the -> elimination of pests from buildings, etc. YOU may be attempting to -> define "disinfection" as applying only against bacteria, but this is -> your modern usage, not that used by the Germans during WWII. A "T4 operation" (euthanasia program) statistician's report: Up to 1 September 1941, 70,273 persons have been disinfected. Distributed among the individual institutions for the years 1940 and 1941 this figure breaks down as follows: 1940 1941 Total _____________________________________________________________________ A (Grafeneck) 9,839 9,839 B (Brandenburg) 9,772 9,772 Be (Bernburg) 8,601 8,601 C (Linz)(Hartheim) 9,670 8,599 18,269 D (Sonnenstein) 5,943 7,777 13,720 E (Hadamar) 10,072 10,072 _____________________________________________________________________ Totals 35,224 35,049 70,273 ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 461 Thu Apr 02, 1992 TERMY at 04:06 EST Dr. Eduard Brandt, another T4 statistician used the statistics posted in the last message to work out the savings made as a result of the program: On the assumption that the level of nutrition of the inmates of asylums will remain the same as at present even after the end of the war, the savings in foodstuffs in the case of 70,273 disinfected persoons with an average life expectancy of ten years would be as follows: Type of foodstuff kg ______________________________________________________ Potatoes 189,737,160 Meat and sausage products 13,492,440 Bread 59,029,320 Flour 12,649,200 Butter 4,216,440 Butter fat 421,680 Margarine 3,794,760 Bacon 531,240 Quark 1,054,080 Cheese 1,054,080 Special foods 1,686,600 Pastry products 1,475,766 Sago, etc. 421,608 Coffee substitute 3,373,080 Jam 5,902,920 Sugar 7,589,520 Eggs 33,731,040 items Vegetables 88,544,040 Pulses 4,216,440 Salt and spice substitutes 1,054,080 ______________________________________________________ Total 400,244,520 kg = 141,775,573.80 RM On the basis of an average daily cost [per patient] of RM 3.50 there will be: 1. a daily saving of RM 245,955.50 2. a yearly saving of RM 88,543,980.00 3. with a life expectancy of ten years RM 885,439,800.00 in words: eight hundred and eighty-five million four hundred and thirty-five thousand and eight hundred Reich marks. i.e., this sum will be or has been saved up to 1 September 1941 through the disinfection of 70,273 persons carried out so far. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 462 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:47 EST To Carl Fink (regarding 194) --- > if Pressac says he broke with Faurisson, and Faurisson that he ejected Pressac, why should we simply accept Faurisson's account ... ? . Your question poses a problem because most of us will never meet either of these two men ... let alone both of them ... so that we might make our own determination of their characters. Having read some of the work of both men, I am inclined to believe Faurisson, however you needn't be bound by my example. If this point truly troubles you (even though it is hardly one of the main points of the discussion), I would suggest that you also read samples of both men's work, and see which you feel has a better grasp of reality. Of course, this might take some time. Sorry. --- > I'm not an engineer (or car mechanic), but my knowledge of chemistry is sufficient to tell me what causes CO production in any carbon- compound burning engine. To be explicit, it's incomplete combustion. Now, presume that some Germans are going to gas some people. Is it beyond their technical prowess to adjust the carburetor (or whatever fuel-injection system diesel engines use) so that the mixture is too rich? On most modern cars, one would have to turn what amounts to a screw. Rich mixture --> more CO. . This method works well in an Otto-cycle (spark ignition) engine, but then, a spark-ignition engine already puts out plenty of CO to effect the killing process. I don't remember enough of my diesel engine training to state for certain that you can enrich the mixture on a diesel engine to produce more CO, but even if you could, why attempt to make a silk purse from a sow's ear? The Germans not only had spark-ignition engines, they also had busses that ran largely on carbon monoxide (that is, there was a CO generator mounted to the back of the bus to create the CO needed to run the bus). Either of these vehicles would have been MUCH better for CO exterminations, yet no one has ever claimed that the Germans used these. Furthermore, diesel engines are so bad at creating CO that it would be more efficient to simply lock the victims in a sealed container and wait for them to run out of air, and vastly more efficient to lock the victims in a sealed container and ignite a flame inside the container to hasten the elimination of oxygen from the atmosphere! Either of THESE methods would not only work better than trying to produce CO with a diesel engine, and they would have required less of the precious fuel required to run an engine while exterminating the victims. The story simply does not make sense. --- Finally, you comment about CO2 might be accurate, however, all the accounts claim death by CO. Go figure. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 463 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:48 EST To Dave Friedman (regarding 209) --- > Show me evidence of an Allied systematic program of genocide, similar to the German one. . This is a trick question, right? Because there were no systematic German programs of genocide, and there were systematic Allied programs of genocide, there is no way to answer this question within the syntax of the question itself. Clever. --- However, if you wish to know about Allied genocides, you might check out the millions starved by Stalin before the war (he was an Ally, right?), or the atrocities committed against the Sudeten Germans after the war, or the treatment of the German POW reclassified as DEF by Eisenhower so he could starve them to death legally, or the firebombing of German civilians during the war, or the retributions carried out against Germans by vigilantes after the war, or Operation Keelhaul, or ... well, perhaps you get the picture. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 464 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:48 EST To Pooh.bah (regarding 212) --- > You have admitted on another network that you have seen Pressac's book but have not read it. Is this true and, if so, could you please cite the source for you list of page numbers from Pressac and what those pages relate? Is this why you are now having such difficulty citing references for your assertions? . Easy. I read several reviews of Pressac's book, and compiled a list of items that caught my attention. Then I called both the Santa Monica public library and the Los Angeles city central library in search of this mysterious book. Neither had it or had heard of it! I then sallied forth to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, compared my list against the book to see that the citations were accurate. So no, I do not have the book and I currently do not have $100 with which to purchase one. However, I stand by my statements, and point out that your comments to the contrary do not prove them otherwise ... and you have a copy of the book! ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 465 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:48 EST To Pooh.bah (regarding 215) --- > Now, if you had read the book, you would realize that Pressac quoted a number of official sources that claimed different numbers. Therefore, because these numbers fluctuated, so must the divisor. . Whoa! Lemme see if I got this right. Pressac refers to several sources. None of them has the "right" number. So he creates a "divisor" that ... when applied to these "wrong" numbers ... makes "right" numbers? Who supplied these divisors? Why doesn't he simply quote one source that DOES have the "right" numbers and then stick with it? And if he does come up with one source with the "right" numbers, how does he know it is right and the others wrong? And if the other figures are demonstrably wrong (based on another, better, source), then why apply a divisor to them to make them "right"? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 466 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:49 EST To Pooh.bah (regarding 216) --- > Excuse me but your original message was concerning Pressac's work. By your stating that the photos came from the "Duerrfeld file of Nuremberg trial number 6" that was an implicit statement that that statement came from Pressac's book. Since it did not, my correction stands as written. . Your reading of my posts is apparently no better than your readings of the German documents. When I brought up the Duerrfeld reference, it was in parentheses, as were other of my comments on the excerpts from Pressac. Your "correction" is nonsense because you completely twisted my message to suit your own ends, and now you attempt to use your incorrect interpretation to cloud the real issue: did the photos come from the Duerrfeld file or not? If you don't know, just say so. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 467 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:49 EST To Pooh.bah (regarding 217) --- > Ah, now I see why you were so uncomfortable with me disclosing the boiling point of HCN! You should have told me sooner or, since I had already disclosed it, you perhaps should not have made this statement. > Because HCN has such a low boiling point, that means at a relatively low temperature (25 degrees C or about 77 degrees F) it is in the form of a gas. Gas does not "cling" to lungs any more than it does to walls. Gas is easily ventilated and, therefore, does not have time (as Pressac points out) to impregnate exposed surfaces. . Auschwitz lies just above the 50th parallel, or roughly as close to the North Pole as Winnipeg, Canada. In the summer, it may reach 25.7 degrees (78.3 F), but unless everything is at that temperature or above, HCN will condense. This means that for most of the year (and probably much of the day, even in the summer) the "gas chambers" would have had to be heated. Are there any heaters in the "gas chambers"? Answer: No. . But let's take as a hypothesis that these efficient Germans found some way to heat these rooms on cool or cold days so they could carry out the executions without pause. What happens when you start to ventilate a warm room with cool (or cold) air? You get condensation. You get pockets of highly concentrated HCN gas. In some instances, you get concentrations high enough (over 6 percent) to become explosive. Pressac is not an engineer, and has no concept of how HCN must be handled. If he was, he would not claim that there was a "gas chamber" at Auschwitz, when there is not (and never was) so much as a door separating the Krema from the "gas chamber". I don't mean "no gas-tight door," I mean no door, which leaves only an open passage devoid of hinges, seals, etc. This is the person you rely upon to rebut Leuchter? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 468 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:50 EST To Pooh.bah (regarding 220) --- > BTW, have you seen the video that was taken of him collecting the samples? It had me laughing so hard I almost died. Some of the samples he took, he put in nice little baggies....however, he didn't label them as he took them. Then, other samples he just up and forgot about his little baggies and stuffed them in his shirt pocket! > I truly consider that a GREAT scientific method, don't you? . No, I don't. But although that may be what you saw, that is not what occurred. Perhaps you'd better look at it again from an objective point of view. I called Mr. Leuchter to verify that his handling of the samples was correct. Not only did he assure me that it was, he further stated that 1) if it had not been correct his testimony would not have been accepted at the Zuendel trial, and 2) he received comments from other engineers that he went overboard in the amount of care he took in handling the samples. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 469 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:50 EST To Pooh.bah (regarding 221) --- Weren't you the person scolding me for not quoting things Just So? You should look at my post 182 again, and respond to the entire comment ... if you can. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 470 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:51 EST To Pooh.bah (regarding 223) --- > The works by Hilberg, Reitlinger, Fleming, Bauer, etc. ARE the works to which I'm referring when I speak of "scholarly circles" and Holocaust history. . Ahh, so when these "scholarly circles" disagree with each other, I should just ignore the discrepancies and take the Holocaust story on faith? This does make things easier ... especially since Hilberg now says "no Fuehrer order", as he used to. I guess what you are saying is that the key to studying the Holocaust story is to first believe in it wholeheartedly, and then discard anything that does not support that blind faith. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 471 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:51 EST To Pooh.bah (regarding 225) --- > I'm just wondering, however, why you did not include the fact that Missouri has executed no one during Armontrout's tenure there as warden? > You'll find that on page 353 of Lenski's book. . You should complain to someone; you received a damaged copy of Lenski's book. Let me show you what you are missing: --- "... Though Missouri has executed no one during Armontrout's tenure, he has witnessed two gassings in other states, and helped with one.*" . "* At three minutes past midnight on January 6, 1989, Bill Armontrout presided over his first execution, and Missouri's first since 1965. It was accomplished, however, by means of a lethal injection." --- Interesting error. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 472 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:52 EST To Pooh.bah (regarding 238) --- > There was a de-lousing chamber at Dachau (which was probably one of the gas chambers that Kevin saw) and there WAS a gas chamber....but it was never used. . Correction: it has been variously reported that there was a "gas chamber" at Dachau that was never used, but I could make a similar statement about the spare bedroom in my house. Your statement about a "gas chamber" at Dachau is therefore misleading. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 473 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:52 EST To Termy (regarding 242) --- > Scientific method calls for a control sample to be taken from an unaffected source, not from a source known to be affected. Leuchter's use of samples taken from the delousing chambers in Block 3 as controls is equivalent to using a group that's administered 10 times the therapeutic level of a drug when testing that medication's effectiveness. Instead of using a sample that's known to be contaminated, he would have, if using proper scientific method, taken a sample from a source in the same vicinity which was not known to have been exposed to HCN, then compared the levels of cyanic compounds in it, the Krema samples and Block 3 samples. . I disagree. Leuchter was looking for the presence of something. To establish what it looks like when you find that something, he needed to take a sample from a known exposed surface. Had he not done this, ALL his samples would have come back with no trace of cyanide compounds. This would not have changed the results much, but it would have been virtually impossible for anyone but an expert to judge the results on their own. By including a sample of a known contaminated surface, Leuchter provided a basis for comparison. --- > Allow me to clarify for you and to eradicate the misunderstanding which Time- Life has apparently placed in your mind. There were six extermination camps. These were Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno (Kulmnoff), Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka. > Please note that Dachau, Mathausen, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, etc., are missing from this list. . Let me do some clarification of my own. In 1949 or 1950, when this book was being written/assembled, the editors at Time-Life "knew" only of death camps that you now say were not death camps. In other words, the Holocaust story was still in its formative stages at this late date ... to the extent that reasonably well-informed people (such as the editors at T-L) were COMPLETELY wrong about the "death camps". It was not until a few more years had passed, that we saw the show trials that established the "death camps" in Poland. And, as even Pooh.bah acknowledges, trials DO NOT establish history. . Therefore, we see a myth in the making. I will be generous and say that the editors of Time-Life were probably repeating some of the wartime propaganda. By the time that propaganda story began to break down, the Auschwitz story was well on its way to being ensconced. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 474 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:53 EST To Dave Friedman (regarding 315) --- > People do indeed have poor memories for some things. Where they left the car keys, whether they fed the dog, going to class (oops.). Spending time in a concentration camp, being caught in an "Aktion," the smell of burning flesh, etc. don't quite fall into the same category. > Since this is common sense, you must have another reason for considering Holocaust victims' testimony suspect. Or do you propose to tell me that there is no difference??? . In the face of overwhelming evidence that eyewitnesses are unreliable (even Jewish ones!), I would need more than simply your assertion to the contrary. I refer you to my message 301 on this, which ... if read in full ... addresses your question. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 475 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:53 EST To John Stengel (regarding 317) --- > Lets assume the Governor cuts the Warden's budget ... (and etc.) . These paragraphs seem to be nothing more than a figment of your imagination. Am I supposed to respond to them? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 476 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:53 EST To B.Eaton2 (regarding 318) --- > The burden of proof rests with you. What evidence do you have that the Holocaust never existed? . I'll ask it before and I'll ask it again: what proof would be considered adequate to establish that something did NOT happen? Once you figure out the answer to this question, you will understand why the burden of proof is on the exterminationists, not the revisionists. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 477 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:54 EST To Kevin Quinn (regarding 319, et al) --- Because your account(s) of Dachau are fairly similar to other accounts I have heard from U.S. soldiers who were there, and because all of you are incorrect in your impressions, the next question has to be: "What were you told to expect upon entering Dachau?" That is, were you subjected to any propaganda, briefings, rumors, etc. that might have lead you (and others) to jump to an erroneous conclusion? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 478 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:54 EST to Termy (regarding 320) --- > I should think that the CENTRAL fact concerning Holocaust is that approximately so many millions of people were killed simply because they were Jewish or Gypsy. . If you take as a central fact the very point that you should be attempting to prove, then you have short-circuited the debate, and are in fact looking only for items that support your preconceived notion of what happened. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 479 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:55 EST To Pooh.bah (regarding 334) --- > ... could you please define "eyewitness testimony?" . In the context of the Holocaust story, no, I cannot define "eyewitness testimony" ... at least not simply. It seems to consist of a ragged mish-mosh of rumor, innuendo, invention, exaggeration, etc., as long as the "testimony" is leveled against the Germans. This includes testimony given under oath. To the best of my knowledge, none of those who would normally be called "eyewitnesses" for the "defense" (that is, those who were at the "death camps" and swear they saw no gassings, etc.) are referred to as "eyewitnesses." Therefore, because of the slanted nature to which the term us put, I cannot readily define it in terms that apply to all cases. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 480 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:55 EST To Pooh.bah (regarding 335) --- > I have stated previously that I have reviewed the carbon copy of the [Franke-Gricksch Resettlement Action Report]. You claim that someone told you that it doesn't exist. It then does become your word (or that of whoever gave you the erroneous information) against mine. . You keep referring to this Report (see 298 for yet another example), so it seems to be very important to your position, however you seem to be unable to answer a simple question about it. I'm not trying to get into a "did not, did too" argument here. I have described in some detail the characteristics of the carbon copy of the typescript copy of this alleged report. In return, I asked for nothing more than a description from you of the document you claim to have "reviewed". Why is this such a tough request? For many of your other documentary claims, you roll out post after post of detail. Yet about this one, none. --- You have stated many times that you refer to the original documents, where possible. I guess I could make that same claim, although it would be misleading. But when YOU say that, I (and I'll bet there are others) take that to mean that you have seen the actual document ... like, close enough to touch it. I do NOT take it to mean that you have seen reproductions of the document in a book somewhere ... heck, if that is your standard, I can honestly claim to have seen many of the "original documents" myself. --- This is why it is important to clear up this matter of the F-G Report. If you have seen it in person ... this document that supposedly does not exist ... then I and others need to know about this. This represents a breakthrough. If, on the other hand, you have not seen it (which includes seeing it only as a reproduction somewhere), then we need to know that, too, because this calls into question every other statement you have made as to the method of your research. You owe this not only to me, but also to the many people on this board who wouldn't be able to discuss the Holocaust story for more than about 15 seconds without reverting to name-calling and hysterics. You are their standard-bearer. If you have lead them to believe that you are in an unassailable castle when in fact you are hiding behind a house of cards, it is only fair that they be given the chance to take up the slack before your edifice comes tumbling down. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 481 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:56 EST To Pooh.bah (regarding 336) --- > It seems, then, that "washing the HCN from the skin" is not part of the "rehabilitation process" even when the source of poisoning is THROUGH the skin! . It seems that once again your sources have let you down. From the DuPont manual, "Hydrogen Cyanide: Storage and Handling," we find this: . Personal Safety and First Aid ...G. First Aid - Skin or Eye Contact (skin absorption) --- 1. For Eye Contact: ... 2. For Skin Contact: Wash skin to remove the cyanide while removing all contaminated clothing, including shoes. Do not delay. Skin absorption can occur from cyanide vapor or liquids. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 482 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:56 EST To Pooh.bah (regarding 337) --- >> 312 Raven >> I have read of the accidental poisoning of a prisoner in a German >> camp, who was revived and nursed back to health. >Please cite a source for this statement. . Uhh, gladly. Check Pressac, page 25. Rablin, a prisoner employed in disinfecting with Zyklon B, proves just how dangerous this gas was to use. Rablin, only slightly exposed to the gas, was hospitalized and took two months to recover. It is paradoxical that the Germans tried to cure of gas poisoning a man whom, the story goes, they should have killed with precisely that gas. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 483 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:57 EST To Pooh.bah (regarding 338) --- > From page 9049 of the court transcript: >"THE COURT: Well, he [Leuchter] said - I realize his opinion on this is that there were never any gassings or there were never any exterminations carried on in this facility. As far as I'm concerned, from what I've heard, he is not capable of giving that opinion." > This, of course, was after Leuchter's credentials had been reviewed by the Court. . Ah, but you are not telling the whole story, are you? It is true that the Court did not admit Leuchter as an expert witness across the board, but they did admit him for some things, didn't they? They must have, because he testified --- mustn't he have been an expert witness? And although the printed copy of his Report was not admitted as such, Leuchter was allowed to verbally testify to virtually all of its contents (the Court demanded that another witness testify about crematoria, and that a third witness read the results of the chemical analysis). Thus, Leuchter WAS an expert witness, and the contents of the Leuchter Report WERE admitted as evidence. --- By the way, you state that the court transcript is primary evidence, and is thus better than my secondary evidence. However, my evidence comes from Fred Leuchter himself ... a true primary source. This makes your transcript a secondary source. By your own statement, you have not consulted the best possible source. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 484 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:57 EST To Termy (regarding 350) --- > A week or so ago, a claim was made (by, Mr. Raven, I believe) that there were 50,000 Jews remaining in Berlin at war's end. . I made no such statement. Can you be more clear about what you think I said? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 485 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:57 EST To D.Berkowitz (regarding 356) --- > Not so well done, Dave. The rebuttal has been deleted. Strange exercise of sysopery, IMO. Messages #138-139 which had nothing to do with the holocaust and contained caustic and defamatory references to Jews remain, and my rebuttal was denied. I think the sysop has admitted his inability to measure Jewish sensibilities, and I think he should pass over the topic to someone who can. . It may surprise you to learn that I also have my disagreements with the way Graffiti edits some messages and leaves others. However, I believe he is making the best of a tough situation, and I applaud him for having the strength to put up with a topic with which he has no love whatsoever, and yet doing so in as fair a manner as can be expected. I feel fortunate to have Mr. Helton as a sysop, and given his track record (even from my point of view), I doubt we could do much better. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 486 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:58 EST To Eric-M (regarding 359) --- Regarding HCN gas and "contact time" with walls, etc. . As previously posted by me, once the ambient temperature drops below 78.3 degrees F, condensation begins to take place. Any porous surface (skin, walls, clothing, wood, etc.) that comes in contact with the condensate will absorb it to some extent. The walls of the Missouri gas chamber are (were) steel with a sealing coat of paint over it (modern gas chambers use epoxy). The walls of the so-called gas chambers in Auschwitz were no so protected, so they would have absorbed HCN condensate. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 487 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:58 EST To Eric-M (regarding 360) --- > When he [Raven] has expressed the idea that the Holocaust is a propaganda vehicle used by the Zionists to further Judaic causes, he should support such claims. . You are getting mixed up, here. By reference to "bloodthirsty Zionists" was in regards to the conditions at the concentration camps at the end of the war, it had nothing to do with a Zionist conspiracy to promote the Holocaust. The "bloodthirsty Zionists" to which I refer are FDR's advisors. --- As to the claim that I said the Holocaust is a propaganda vehicle used by the Zionists to further Judaic causes, here in Los Angeles in the last week or so there have been 6 references to the Holocaust (something that supposedly happened half a century ago) in connection with demands being made by Zionist groups. If you choose not to see this, fine. But it is off topic. Virtually all aspects concerning the Holocaust story can be dealt with without getting into conspiracy theories. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 488 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:59 EST To Eric-M (regarding 361) --- > I don't know. :-) This is what I've been told, though, by knowledgeable chemical experts. Personally, I've never smelled HCN. . Here's the deal. I called DuPont and was told that there is a slight odor to HCN. What I was thinking when I made that post was Rudolf Hoess' Sonderbefehl (special order) of 12.Aug.1942, which came after an accident with Zyklon B, in which he says (in part): . The gas being used at present contains less odorous warning agent and is therefore especially dangerous. --- I assumed this meant that HCN was nearly or completely odorless on its own, but apparently there is a slight aroma. The DuPont literature on HCN makes refer to a Sniff Test, but unfortunately that page is missing from my copy. However, I agree with you that this is a test best left to someone else. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 489 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:59 EST To Carl Fink (regarding 366) --- Gee, Carl, thanks for asking so many Long Answer questions : -> --- > Raven, would you really like to disinfect a barracks or morgue with hydrogen cyanide gas? A barracks, in particular, is not sealed - the gas would escape into the environment, and contaminate any clothing or other items in the room. It would be as big a production as "tenting" a house is today - if the Germans could do that, with WW II technology-plastics to make the tent from. . I suppose if it was my job to do so, I would. Barracks are not sealed, but they do require disinfection because the lice do not confine themselves to easily-disinfected locales. If you had seen the movie "Architects of Doom" you would have seen footage of men disinfecting a factory with Zyklon B. Part of the precautions involve taping over (with what appeared to be paper tape and glue --- applied with a brush) window cracks, door cracks, etc., to seal the building. Believe it or not, there WAS life before plastic! --- > Also, you yourself have contended that these chambers were special delousing chambers for clothing (as opposed to a morgue or barracks). Presumably after going to the trouble of making a special delousing chamber, the Germans used it more often than twice a year. . Also presumably, because clothing is so much easier to disinfect (just pop it into the ol' gas chamber), it could be done on a regular basis ... say for example, you could gas the clothes of all new arrivals. However, if there ever arose an occasion when the infestation became acute, you would have to disinfect the barracks, etc. Given the properties of Zyklon B, you can appreciate that this must have been quite a procedure during the cold months. --- > By the way, if vented HCN makes the gas chambers impossible, why doesn't it make the delousing chambers impossible? . I'll go you one better and also explain why it doesn't make barracks disinfection impossible. When Zyklon B is used to disinfect clothing and barracks, the time allotted for the procedure is many hours. The actual gassing can last several hours, and then the airing-out process can last 24 hours or more, depending on temperature, etc. The comparatively long disinfection time allows the gas to disperse fully, so there is less chance of pockets of gas that can cause problems. Then, the comparatively long airing-out process reduces the possibility of accidents because the flow rate is so low. Of course, even after extended airing out, it is still necessary to move things around (and beat mattresses, etc.) to ensure that all the Zyklon B has vented off. . By contrast, the stories about the homicidal gassings almost all say that the people are herded in, the gas is introduced into the room, fifteen minutes later the screaming stops, the doors to the "gas chamber" are thrown open, and the bodies dragged out, sometimes by workers who are smoking and eating, and have no protective clothing or respirators! . This is a big difference from the manner in which Zyklon B was used for disinfection. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 490 Thu Apr 02, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:00 EST To Pooh.bah (regarding 382) --- > 169 Raven: Please read CAT 15 TOP 7 MSG 297-302 for the answers to your questions. . Why is the world did you respond to my questions in TOPic 7? Is it because you know I don't visit TOPic 7, so you needn't fear rebuttal? If you have something to say to me, say it here. I must say, it certainly seems odd that when I ask you why you are dodging the question, you post your answer somewhere remote from the discussion! ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 491 Thu Apr 02, 1992 M.RUNGU at 05:34 EST To POOH.BAH (154) So now you are telling us that you "didn't realize the holocaust deniers [sic] were on trial here"? It seems to me that certain people have taken it upon themselves to act as judge/jury/executioner of those who have questioned the holocaust. Is this schizophrenia we are witnessing? You have to admit that you have some of us confused. Attack after attack is made upon Leuchter, Weber, Faurisson. Their credentials and professional qualifications are jeered at and rejected. Their findings are arrogantly dismissed. They are labeled and libeled and smeared. And then we're told that they're "not on trial". Incredible. Are there TWO POOH.BAHs here, doing different things, or is there only one whose left and right hands are performing different and opposite tasks? You then went on to say that you agreed with the Canadian court decision to accept Mark Weber as an expert on the holocaust. Again, I am confused. So you are finally respecting Mr. Weber's expertise in this area of history? And if so, and that does seem to be the case if you agree as you said you agree, with the court decision, then how does this jive with your outrageous mud- slinging at the Institute for Historical Review? After all, Mark Weber is an Associate Editor of their JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL REVIEW and the editor of their NEWSLETTER. He has also been a regular contributor to the JOURNAL over the years since it's inception, and has presented papers at it's revisionist conventions and spoken there. I know that the fanatical believers in every holocaust allegation equally fanatically hate the Institute, and paint it's members in the most lurid colors. And yet one of it's most prominent representatives is admitted to be an EXPERT. These intellectual backward double flip-flops are driving me up the wall. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 492 Thu Apr 02, 1992 M.RUNGU at 05:34 EST To POOH.BAH (157) You "own, have read and analyzed virtually every book they [the IHR] have published or distributed that denies the holocaust in some manner or other"? And you have "read more of the IHR material than anyone participating here"? I find that extremely hard to believe. Why don't you help us all out and present us with a bibliography, showing author/title/publisher of all these books published or offered by the Institute that you are so expert on. I am sure that many of the readers of this message stream would be interested to know just which titles have been available. Then, as this discussion progresses, we can test your fantastic expert knowledge on each title's contents here and there as necessary. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 493 Thu Apr 02, 1992 M.RUNGU at 05:35 EST To AH.STEIN (164) Are you an "expert" on the IHR too? Your absurd characterization of it was instantly demolished when you revealed that you weren't even sure of what "IHR" stands for. It DOES stand for 'Institute for Historical Review' and that is exactly what it does. To those readers who would like to hear another, and more accurate, view of what the Institute is and what it stands for: "The Institute for Historical Review, founded in 1978, is the world's leading organization carrying on the proud tradition of Historical Revisionism, now a worldwide phenomenon. The IHR is non-ideological and non-partisan. We are not interested in rehabilitating this or that regime. We are interested only in rehabilitating the TRUTH, or, as Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes put it - 'Bringing history into accord with facts.'" - taken from "The Tradition of Historical Revisionism" by Tom Marcellus (Director, IHR). Considering that so many of the thoughtful articles published in their JOURNAL have been from former inmates of concentration camps and from anti-Nazi intellectuals, I would say that it is a very far cry indeed from your slur "a group of neo-Nazis". ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 494 Thu Apr 02, 1992 M.RUNGU at 05:35 EST To A.K.QUINN (195) So you "saw" the "gas chambers" at Dachau? I am astounded. Your statement flies directly in the face of the fact that no holocaust historian or writer on the holocaust, agrees with you and in fact DENIES such allegations. The holocaust revisionists, on the other hand, have been laughing at such tall tales for many decades, and when the holocausters came on board and agreed with them that the stories of "gas chambers at Dachau" were absurd, both camps were able to finally move on to the Auschwitz debating areas. Even POOH.BAH has admitted that nobody was gassed at Dachau. Are you saying POOH.BAH is wrong? Are you saying that BOTH camps are wrong, and that since you "saw" these "gas chambers", that history has to be re-written yet again? I'm not trying to harass you on this; I think that what has happened here is that either 1) You were TOLD that the structures you saw were "gas chambers" and you accepted it. /and/ 2) You misidentified "de-lousing" facilities for "gas chambers". The former was used to de-louse clothing in order to reduce the incidence of disease, and thereby to SAVE the lives of inmates, while the latter were purportedly structures used to gas millions of Jews and "others". Are you clear on the difference between the two types of structures? /or/ 3) You visually saw crematoria facilities and either thought or were told that these were "gas chambers". Do you realize that the purpose of crematoria were to destroy the bodies of human beings that had died from ALL causes (disease, etc.)? These errors in identification were extremely common. Such errors were compounded by "confessions" extracted from former camp personnel who readily "admitted" to anything and everything they were told to "confess" and "admit" to, for fear of their lives and the lives of their families, and the irresponsibility of the mass media, which took photos of the de-lousing and crematoria facilities and presented the photos in world newspapers with the caption: "gas chamber". It really astounds me that after both the holocausters AND the revisionists have, together, agreed that no gassings took place at Dachau, someone actually steps forward and asserts that he "saw" the "gas chambers". ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 495 Thu Apr 02, 1992 M.RUNGU at 05:36 EST To D.FRIEDMAN14 (196) So you accept and believe Mr. Quinn's story in which he "saw" the "gas chambers" at Dachau? And that therefore Jews and "others" were "gassed" there? Are you then saying that ALL the holcoaust writers and historians are wrong on this? After all, they say that NO gassings took place at Dachau and that stories alleging this are FALSE. But if you still insist that the story is true, then I will say that I would like to get in touch with you privately...I have some swamp land in Florida that you might be interested in buying... ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 497 Thu Apr 02, 1992 H.P.SKALIKS [Hans-Peter] at 06:08 EST POOH.BAH...message 443 The man is talking through his hat. Corpses, fresh or otherwise, don't burn well at all. They are mostly water and their basic design hasn't changed since the 1940s. Any funeral director can verify that basic fact of human physiology. That one physical reference, which is so absolutely ridiculous, makes the entire document suspect. It would be easier to believe that things fell upwards in the face of massive evidence to the contrary. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 498 Thu Apr 02, 1992 M.RUNGU at 06:56 EST To D.FRIEDMAN14 (209) So, Mr. Friedman, you agree that the Allied forces did not have "clean hands where atrocities were concerned". THANKYOU. Pursuant to this, I have a couple of questions for you - 1. Since the Allies are now admitted by you to have committed atrocities, then WHY were not trials similar to the Nuremburg (and other) Tribunals held in which American and British and French military personnel were in the dock and punished for their crimes? Or Soviets for that matter? At Nuremberg they tried to pin the Katyn massacres (15,000 Polish officers murdered) on the Germans and their western counterparts were so embarrassed at the obvious shame of it all that they forbid any further mention of Katyn. A crime is a crime. Individual German soldiers and officials were shot or hung for individual crimes. Why not the "good guys" for the commission of mirror-image crimes? 2. Why can't these atrocities committed by the western (and eastern!) allies, and the victims of these atrocities, be admitted as part and parcel of "the holocaust"? 3. Why do you think it is, or can you explain why it is, that our institutions of learning and our mass media have so carefully avoided mentioning allied war crimes, while shouting almost non-stop about German crimes (and alleged crimes). The bombings of Belgrade and Warsaw are mentioned luridly, but Hamburg and Dresden are invariably left out. The (unsubstantiated) tale of "six million gassed Jews" is repeated over and over and over and over, but the 5-6,000,000 German civilians who perished at war's end is almost NEVER mentioned. ALL of these events are part and parcel of the World War II holocaust, wouldn't you agree? So why don't our schools and media instruct and report accordingly? Once again, the question pops up: WHOSE holocaust? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 499 Thu Apr 02, 1992 M.RUNGU at 06:56 EST To POOH.BAH (215) Again, I am confused. The tone of your message to Mr. Raven in which you ask him "where did you get that list - was it from Mark Weber?" implies that you despise any information or data deriving from Mr. Weber. Yet in Message 154 you said that you agreed with the Canadian court's decision to accept Mr. Weber as an expert on the holocaust, in the Zundel trial. In the one message you express your respect for Mr. Weber's expertise, and in the other message you so obviously sneer at that expertise. Everybody should go back and read Message 215 and examine the tone used; then go further back to Message 154 and check out your statement on Mr. Weber as an expert on the holocaust. I would like to know just what exactly is going on here. I think you owe it to everybody who has been so closely following this discussion, to be absolutely honest with us all on issues like this. Perhaps an investigation should be set in motion to see if there is somebody out there posing as POOH.BAH and falsely using your name to post these utterly contradictory statements. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 500 Thu Apr 02, 1992 M.RUNGU at 06:57 EST To POOH.BAH (222) Yad Vashem "does not discriminate based upon religion"? Do they discriminate based upon any other criteria? You have clearly said that the Yad Vashem will accept ALL researchers interested in learning more about the holocaust. Can Mark Weber go there? Would he be welcomed and given every courtesy? After all, the Canadian court has accepted him as an expert and you said yourself that you agreed with that decision. Therefore, surely, he could do some research there? Yes? No? Or how about Professor Faurisson? He has written and researched extensively on the holocaust too. Yes? No? You DID say that "any researcher is welcome there and can evaluate the materials". Fred Leuchter has done research too. Can he go? I know that David Irving has ALREADY been to Yad Vashem. But, since his visit, he has expressed doubts about the holocaust and questioned certain aspects of it. Would he be welcome for a return visit? If your answer is "NO" to any of this, then a retraction would be in order, and also an admission that perhaps the Yad Vashem is not as objective and non- agenda-serving as you would like us to believe. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 501 Thu Apr 02, 1992 M.RUNGU at 06:57 EST To POOH.BAH (228) Another backwards double-sideways flip-flop-flip has just been performed! Such intellectual gymnastics are truly mind-boggling. Are the "human lampshades", "human soap" and "mass gassings at Dachau" FACT or FICTION, POOH.BAH? Please, please will you say so either way, and clearly and unequivocally so that nobody will be confused anymore on these issues. Did or did not the Nazis take Jews and make them into "soap" and/or "lampshades"? And were or were not human beings "gassed" at the Dachau concentration camp, or any OTHER concentration camp on German soil? Are the accounts and stories and tales and survivors' and eyewitnesses' statements alleging this kind of stuff FICTIONAL or FACTUAL? I think you said "yes" to my question of "were there gassings on German soil", but maybe my eyes deceived me. I don't want some waffly thing like "not fictional within specific limits". We need clarity on this, not some statement that can be wriggled out of afterwards when things get too hot. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 502 Thu Apr 02, 1992 M.RUNGU at 06:57 EST To POOH.BAH (229) I am glad that revisionism is not a "dirty word" with you after all. Now I hope that we aren't going to see messages down the line in which it is re- transformed into a "dirty word" again. I am also glad that you are in favor of revisionism as an historical process. So what exactly are you saying then? Are you saying that the holocaust must not admit any kind of revisionism, but all other historical areas CAN admit revisionist research? Or are you saying that revisionist research can only be defined as such by the so-called "holocaust lobby"? It would be kind of like saying, "I am in favor of truth, but I get to define what truth IS." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 504 Thu Apr 02, 1992 D.BERKOWITZ at 07:33 EST >Berkowitz then goes on into an assertion that the non-Jewish world >engages in collective blame against Jews, and asserts that Boesky >and Milken's "Jewish origins would become part of their crime." >Nowhere in any newspaper, magazine, TV, or radio account did I see >a word linking any charges against these two men to their Jewish >origins. >Well, that's not paranoia, is it? I wrote: > I shuddered when Boesky and Milken were indicted. Though I never >met either of these men, I did know that their Jewish origins >would become part of their crime. Unlike Schulman, I did not resort to a collectivist argument as he is wont to do. I did not assert that the non-Jewish world collectively engages in collective blame against the Jews, I did say that to some Boesky's and Milken's Jewish origins would become part of the crime. We have evidence of such a tendency right here on this board. Raven attacked Kaganovich, a thoroughly evil man, as the Jew Kaganovich. Kaganovich's ethnic origin had nothing to do with his crimes, but he is referenced as the Jew. And yes sadly, the ethnic origins of Boesky and Milken were widely disseminated, and the information used by the anti-semites for additional fodder. This is not paranoia, it is recognition of grim reality. Mr Schulman apparently denies that anti-semitism exists. Sad. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 505 Thu Apr 02, 1992 D.FRIEDMAN14 at 08:08 EST GRAFFITI: I am trying to figure out why you deleted my post, yet allowed 454 SOFTSERV, the rebuttal, to remain. 463 G.Raven: "There were no systematic German programs of genocide." Ah, finally you've answered the question as to whether you believe there was such a thing! 498 M.RUNGU: 1.) There is no comparison between relatively isolated instances of Allied crimes, and the Germans' consistent policy of butchery. 2.) The "Holocaust" refers to a very specific event in history: the German genocide. The issue of war dead -- on both sides, including Americans, Britons, Soviets, etc. -- is a separate issue. 3.) Because, in the heat of war, terrible things happen. Probably, no state has ever fought a war without committing crimes. But the Germans' demonic behavior shattered all precedents for evil! Thus, the special attention. I am alarmed and disappointed by your selective attention to my questions, M.RUNGU. I therefore restate the key question, which you neglect. HOW DID YOU, A SELF-PROCLAIMED BABE IN THE WOODS, ACQUIRE SUCH A COMMAND OF REVISIONISM? D.T. Friedman ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 506 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:37 EST 462 Raven: > The Germans not only had spark-ignition engines, they also had busses that > ran largely on carbon monoxide (that is, there was a CO generator mounted > to the back of the bus to create the CO needed to run the bus). Either of > these vehicles would have been MUCH better for CO exterminations, yet no > one has ever claimed that the Germans used these. You are in error, Raven. Diesel engines were used for the gas chambers at the camps that employed CO as the killing agents but it was gasoline engines primarily that were used by the gas vans and, therefore, at Kulmhof (Chelmno). ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 507 Thu Apr 02, 1992 TERMY at 08:38 EST In reply to: Message 463 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] -> Because there were no systematic German programs of genocide... In my Message 250: Today I can confirm that our objective, to solve the Jewish problem for Lithuania, has been achieved by EK 3. In Lithuania there are no more Jews, apart from Jewish workers and their families. [total of 34,500]...I also intended to kill these Jewish workers plus their families but came up against strong protests on the part of the civil administration (the Reichskommissar) and the Wehrmacht and instructions were issued that these Jews and their families were not to be executed. Message 343: 5. Furthermore, it was proposed to sterilize all those Jewesses who are still fertile so that the Jewish problem would finally be solved with the present generation. Message 346: 1. The accused shall not be punished because of the actions against the Jews as such. THE JEWS HAVE TO BE EXTERMINATED AND NONE OF THE JEWS THAT WERE KILLED IS ANY GREAT LOSS. Although the accused should have recognized that THE EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS WAS THE DUTY OF KOMMANDOS WHICH HAVE BEEN SET UP ESPECIALLY FOR THIS PURPOSE, he should be excused for considering himself to have the authority to take part in the extermination of Jewry himself. [emphasis mine] Message 403: The aim of Einsatzkommando 2 from the beginning was a radical solution of the Jewish problem through the execution of all Jews. Message 404: ...It should be obvious that one cannot solve the Polish problem by liquidating the poles in the same way as the Jews. Message 405: On the other hand, in accordance with basic orders, the cleansing operation of the Security Police had the goal of the most comprehensive elimination possible of the Jews. Extensive executions were thus carried out by special units in the cities and the plains. NOTE: ALL of the above come from German wartime documents. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 508 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:38 EST 465 Raven: > Whoa! Lemme see if I got this right. Pressac refers to several > sources. None of them has the "right" number. So he creates a > "divisor" that ... when applied to these "wrong" numbers ... makes > "right" numbers? Who supplied these divisors? Why doesn't he simply > quote one source that DOES have the "right" numbers and then stick > with it? And if he does come up with one source with the "right" > numbers, how does he know it is right and the others wrong? And if > the other figures are demonstrably wrong (based on another, better, > source), then why apply a divisor to them to make them "right"? Before you made this statement, you quoted from my message #215...OUT OF CONTEXT. Now, let's put it into context. >> Anyone who today claims that they know exactly how many were cremated to >> the precise number is the one who stands to lose credibility. It can be >> said that from X to Y were cremated but it cannot be said with any >> certainty that Z were cremated. Now, if you had read the book, you would >> realize that Pressac quoted a number of official sources that claimed >> different numbers. Therefore, because these numbers flucuated, so must >> the divisor. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 509 Thu Apr 02, 1992 TERMY at 08:39 EST Message 473 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] -> I disagree. Leuchter was looking for the presence of something. To -> establish what it looks like when you find that something, he needed -> to take a sample from a known exposed surface. Had he not done this, -> ALL his samples would have come back with no trace of cyanide -> compounds. This would not have changed the results much, but it would -> have been virtually impossible for anyone but an expert to judge the -> results on their own. By including a sample of a known contaminated -> surface, Leuchter provided a basis for comparison. You misunderstood what I said. Again, Leuchter's test was invalid, for he took his control sample from an area that was suspected to be contaminated, that is, the Block 3 delousing chamber. Proper scientific method calls for the taking of a control sample which is not suspected or known to be contaminated with the contaminant being tested for. This sample is then used to establish a baseline of contamination, i.e., the naturally occurring level of the contaminant being tested for. THEN, one takes sample from areas suspected or known to be contaminated, and tests them for the amount of contamination. The results are then compared to the control sample (which has established the naturally occurring level of contamination). I presented a scenario concerning radioactive contaminations and Leuchter's sampling method. In order that you may refresh your memory, the scenario is in message #242. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 510 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:39 EST 466 Raven: > Your reading of my posts is apparently no better than your readings > of the German documents. When I brought up the Duerrfeld reference, > it was in parentheses, as were other of my comments on the excerpts > from Pressac. Apparently you are unfamiliar with the standard convention, then, of putting your own comments in brackets []. This is used throughout the board here and is used in most publications to designate editor's comments (as opposed to the author's own parenthetical comments). ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 511 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:41 EST 466 Raven: > Auschwitz lies just above the 50th parallel, or roughly as close to > the North Pole as Winnipeg, Canada. In the summer, it may reach 25.7 > degrees (78.3 F), but unless everything is at that temperature or > above, HCN will condense. This means that for most of the year (and > probably much of the day, even in the summer) the "gas chambers" > would have had to be heated. Are there any heaters in the "gas > chambers"? Answer: No. From the diary of SS-Dr Kremer 31 August 1942 Tropical climate, 38 degrees in the shade, dust and countless flies! Food in the officers' mess excellent. This evening we had e.g. pickled duck's liver for 0.40 RM, plus stuffed tomatoes, tomato salad, etc. Water is contaminated, so we drink soda water, which is provided free of charge (Mattoni). First inoculation against typhus feber. Photographs for camp pass. 3 September 1942 For the first time came down with the diarrhoea with vomiting and colic-type attacks of pain which have hit everyone here in the camp. It cannot be the water as I have not drunk a drop, nor can it be the bread, as those who have only eaten white bread (special diets) have also come down with it. Most probably the reason is the unhealthy continental and very dry tropical climate with its dust and masses of vermin (flies). 14 September 1942 For the second time had the Auschwitz illness. Temperature of 37.8. Today had the third and last injection against typhus fever. ------------------ Gee, it seems as though, once again, you are in error. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 512 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:42 EST 468 Raven: > No, I don't. But although that may be what you saw, that is not what > occurred. Perhaps you'd better look at it again from an objective > point of view. I called Mr. Leuchter to verify that his handling of > the samples was correct. Not only did he assure me that it was, he > further stated that 1) if it had not been correct his testimony would > not have been accepted at the Zuendel trial, and 2) he received > comments from other engineers that he went overboard in the amount of > care he took in handling the samples. It sounds as though you have NOT seen the video and are depending solely upon the word of the man who used a sample from a de-lousing chamber as his "control." Watch the video. The collection method was as I described it - baggies not immediately labelled, some samples into his shirt pocket, etc. BTW, next time you talk to Leuchter, ask him to name just one engineer who believes he "went overboard in the amount of care he took in handling the samples." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 513 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:42 EST 470 Raven: > Ahh, so when these "scholarly circles" disagree with each other, I > should just ignore the discrepancies and take the Holocaust story on > faith? This does make things easier ... especially since Hilberg now > says "no Fuehrer order", as he used to. I guess what you are saying > is that the key to studying the Holocaust story is to first believe > in it wholeheartedly, and then discard anything that does not support > that blind faith. Here you go again with you "no debate means it didn't happen"/"debate means it didn't happen" line of reasoning. It didn't work before and it won't work now. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 514 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:43 EST 470 Raven: >> I'm just wondering, however, why you did not include the fact that >> Missouri has executed no one during Armontrout's tenure there as >> warden? You'll find that on page 353 of Lenski's book. . > You should complain to someone; you received a damaged copy of > Lenski's book. Let me show you what you are missing: --- > "... Though Missouri has executed no one during Armontrout's tenure, > he has witnessed two gassings in other states, and helped with one.*" . > "* At three minutes past midnight on January 6, 1989, Bill Armontrout > presided over his first execution, and Missouri's first since 1965. > It was accomplished, however, by means of a lethal injection." You missed the point, Raven. Next time I won't be so subtle. Armontrout describes on page 354 the Missouri gas chamber and its operations. He includes in this description such things as the guards vacating their watchtower positions when the gas is vented. However, Armontrout has never been at the Missouri prison when the gas chamber was used. BTW, thank you for bringing up the footnote. Leuchter testified (in his futile attempt to qualify as an expert witness) that he had designed the new gas chamber at Missouri. That was in the 1988 Zuendel trial and yet, in 1989 (one year later), the execution in Missouri was performed by lethal injection. Hmmm..... ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 515 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:43 EST 472 Raven: > Correction: it has been variously reported that there was a "gas > chamber" at Dachau that was never used, but I could make a similar > statement about the spare bedroom in my house. Your statement about a > "gas chamber" at Dachau is therefore misleading. Oh, I didn't realize that your spare bedroom had "17 phony shower heads" which is what your buddy Leuchter found at the Dachau gas chamber. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 516 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:44 EST 473 Raven: > I disagree. Leuchter was looking for the presence of something. To > establish what it looks like when you find that something, he needed > to take a sample from a known exposed surface. Had he not done this, > ALL his samples would have come back with no trace of cyanide > compounds. This would not have changed the results much, but it would > have been virtually impossible for anyone but an expert to judge the > results on their own. By including a sample of a known contaminated > surface, Leuchter provided a basis for comparison. You once again misunderstand, Raven. There is no disagreement that samples from the de-lousing chamber should have been collected. The problem is that these are not "control" samples as Leuchter maintains. Termy was correct in his assessment of what is needed for control samples. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 517 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:44 EST 476 Raven: > I'll ask it before and I'll ask it again: what proof would be > considered adequate to establish that something did NOT happen? Once > you figure out the answer to this question, you will understand why > the burden of proof is on the exterminationists, not the > revisionists. How about a reasonable explanation as to why the evidence of the mass extermination program (which employs word such as "liquidation," "executed," etc.) does NOT indicate such an extermination program. So far, you have failed to address the documentation that has been presented. That would be a good start, wouldn't it? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 518 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:45 EST 476 Raven: > I have described in some detail the characteristics of the carbon copy of > the typescript copy of this alleged report. In return, I asked for nothing > more than a description from you of the document you claim to have > "reviewed". It is a carbon copy of the original (as I have previously stated). It can be found in the document center in Berlin. The carbon copy I reviewed has none of the errors that you have previously mentioned (which I found amazing since you cited no source for those errors and, yet, you have admitted to not knowing German....how did you do that?). What further description would you like? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 519 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:45 EST 481 Raven: > It seems that once again your sources have let you down. From the > DuPont manual, "Hydrogen Cyanide: Storage and Handling," we find > this: This quotation is not relevant to the discussion. When discussing a particular event that occurred at a particular time, the relevant documents are the contemporary ones from which I quoted. Those instructions do not include the washing of skin and, therefore, that wouldn't have been done or believed to have been necessary during the Holocaust. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 520 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:46 EST 482 Raven: > Uhh, gladly. Check Pressac, page 25. Rablin, a prisoner employed in > disinfecting with Zyklon B, proves just how dangerous this gas was to > use. Rablin, only slightly exposed to the gas, was hospitalized and > took two months to recover. It is paradoxical that the Germans tried > to cure of gas poisoning a man whom, the story goes, they should have > killed with precisely that gas. Here is an interesting technique of the Holocaust Deniers. They attempt to discredit "eyewitness" testimony when it is inconvenient for them but accept it when they think it might suit their purposes. However, even in this case, this eyewitness account does not state what Raven has led us to believe it does. "Once I was slightly gassed because the mask I was wearing was not fully gas- tight. I felt nothing at the time but two hours afterward I had a bad headache, a pain in the meninges and a burning pain in the lungs. At first I did not go to the KB [hospital] but went out of the block into the birch alley to breath deeply while doing knee bends. The headache went away fairly quickly, but when I coughed a little blood came up. Doctor Wasilewski diagnosed inflammation and dehydration of the throat. After being hospitalized, I was cured in two month...." The diagnosis was NOT gas poisoning. There is no evidence that Rablin even told the doctor what caused the situation....or if indeed the gas did cause this particular condition. It should also be mentioned that Rablin was working with Zyklon-B in the de- lousing chamber where the concentration of the HCN is greater increased over that of the gas chambers for humans. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 521 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:47 EST 483 Raven: > Ah, but you are not telling the whole story, are you? It is true that > the Court did not admit Leuchter as an expert witness across the > board, but they did admit him for some things, didn't they? They must > have, because he testified --- mustn't he have been an expert > witness? No, he didn't need to be qualified as an expert witness to testify. After all, he did make a trip to Auschwitz and, like anyone who has previously done so, can indeed testify as to what he saw and did there. In fact, that is exactly what the Court ruled on page 9030: "He [Leuchter] can give evidence in the witness box as to what he did within the proper question and answer process" Then on page 9052: COURT: He hasn't any expertise. And later on that same page: MR. PEARSON [prosecutor]: Now, how someone who purports to be an expert....[interrupted by the Judge] COURT: Well, I'm not permitting that, I'm not permitting that. So, Leuchter was allowed to testify as to what he saw and did but was not permitted to make an "expert opinion." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 522 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:47 EST 483 Raven: > By the way, you state that the court transcript is primary evidence, > and is thus better than my secondary evidence. However, my evidence > comes from Fred Leuchter himself ... a true primary source. This > makes your transcript a secondary source. By your own statement, you > have not consulted the best possible source. This is really funny! Thank you for giving me such a good laugh! Leuchter was an "eyewitness" to the proceedings which were transcribed word for word. Yet you somehow now want us to discard that transcription and prefer to base your conclusions on the MEMORY of Leuchter? Cut it out....my sides are hurting!!!! ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 523 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:48 EST 486 Raven: > The walls of the Missouri gas chamber are (were) steel with a sealing coat > of paint over it (modern gas chambers use epoxy). It's true that the Auschwitz gas chambers were not steel but they were painted. It cannot be determined, however, exactly WHEN they were painted. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 524 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:49 EST 489 Raven: > I'll go you one better and also explain why it doesn't make barracks > disinfection impossible. When Zyklon B is used to disinfect clothing > and barracks, the time allotted for the procedure is many hours. The > actual gassing can last several hours, and then the airing-out > process can last 24 hours or more, depending on temperature, etc. The > comparatively long disinfection time allows the gas to disperse > fully, so there is less chance of pockets of gas that can cause > problems. Then, the comparatively long airing-out process reduces the > possibility of accidents because the flow rate is so low. Of course, > even after extended airing out, it is still necessary to move things > around (and beat mattresses, etc.) to ensure that all the Zyklon B > has vented off. Please cite your sources for this. I think I should warn you, however, that you have already used one source to "prove" something and that source contradicts the above. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 525 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:49 EST 489 Raven: > By contrast, the stories about the homicidal gassings almost all say > that the people are herded in, the gas is introduced into the room, > fifteen minutes later the screaming stops, the doors to the "gas > chamber" are thrown open, and the bodies dragged out, sometimes by > workers who are smoking and eating, and have no protective clothing > or respirators! You forgot one very important step in your review of most accounts - the ventilation system was turned on! That should be placed in the above between "the screaming stops" and "the doors to the 'gas chamber' are thrown open." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 526 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:50 EST 490 Raven: > To Pooh.bah (regarding 382) --- >> 169 Raven: Please read CAT 15 TOP 7 MSG 297-302 for the answers to >> your questions. . > Why is the world did you respond to my questions in TOPic 7? Is it > because you know I don't visit TOPic 7, so you needn't fear rebuttal? > If you have something to say to me, say it here. I must say, it > certainly seems odd that when I ask you why you are dodging the > question, you post your answer somewhere remote from the discussion! First, _I_ didn't respond to you in TOPic 7. However, those messages which were written by others, do answer your question and I see no reason to transfer them here when it is so easy for you to read them there. Second, I have no way of knowing which TOPics you do and do not read. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 527 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:50 EST 491 Rungu: > So now you are telling us that you "didn't realize the holocaust deniers > [sic] were on trial here"? It seems to me that certain people have taken > it upon themselves to act as judge/jury/executioner of those who have > questioned the holocaust. BTW, Rungu, before you can use the "[sic]" you must have quoted the person exactly without making any changes. You have not done that so your use of "[sic]" becomes comical instead of informing. Now, you claim that the Holocaust Deniers ARE on trial here. I see no executioners and the only judgements I see being made are those that are made in the course of any controversial discussion. > You have to admit that you have some of us confused. Attack after attack > is made upon Leuchter, Weber, Faurisson. Their credentials and > professional qualifications are jeered at and rejected. Their findings > are arrogantly dismissed. They are labeled and libeled and smeared. And > then we're told that they're "not on trial". Incredible. Are there TWO > POOH.BAHs here, doing different things, or is there only one whose left > and right hands are performing different and opposite tasks? Everyone here has seen me repeatedly request you to cite just a single example where I have attacked Leuchter, Weber or Faurisson; where I have jeered at and rejected their credentials; where I have arrogantly dismissed them; where I have labeled and libeled and smeared them. The fact that you continue to make these unsubstantiated claims without citing the messages is destroying the little shred of credibility that remains for you. Cite the messages or admit that you are in error. Remember "Keine Antwort ist auch eine Antwort." Therefore, if you do not answer with citations, I will have to accept that as an answer and your admission that no citations are possible. At that time, I will be free to repeatedly point out your prevarication. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 528 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:51 EST 491 Rungu: > You then went on to say that you agreed with the Canadian court decision > to accept Mark Weber as an expert on the holocaust. Again, I am confused. > So you are finally respecting Mr. Weber's expertise in this area of > history? And if so, and that does seem to be the case if you agree as you > said you agree, with the court decision, then how does this jive with your > outrageous mud-slinging at the Institute for Historical Review? First, you need to cite where I have exercised "outrageous mud-slinging at the" IHR. You have not done so up til now and, if you do not do so, I will have to conclude that your silence is your admission of error and will have to, in the future, repeatedly point out your prevarication whenever it occurs. Now, there is a logical fallacy called "guilt by association." It is also a logical fallacy, though, to "redeem by association." As I have pointed out before, even though I respect Weber's expertise, I do not agree with his conclusions. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 529 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:52 EST 492 Rungu: > You "own, have read and analyzed virtually every book they [the IHR] have > published or distributed that denies the holocaust in some manner or > other"? And you have "read more of the IHR material than anyone > participating here"? I find that extremely hard to believe. > Why don't you help us all out and present us with a bibliography, showing > author/title/publisher of all these books published or offered by the >Institute that you are so expert on. Well, let's see, so far even you have acknowledged that I must have Smith's book because of my quotations from it. I must also know Staeglich's book since I was able to immediately spot Raven's attempt at plagiarism from it. I must have the Leuchter Report and Ingrid Weckert's book since I've quoted from both of them. And, let us not forget the Lenski book on Zuendel's trial. Yes, put that on the list - it must be put on the list. That should give you a good start....you will have to discover the rest in the same manner that these have come out - through discussion. I'm not in the habit of advertising for the IHR and their publications like you are. Therefore, I will not post the entire list of my Holocaust Denial books nor will I cite author/title/publisher. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 530 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:52 EST 494 Rungu: > To A.K.QUINN (195) > So you "saw" the "gas chambers" at Dachau? I am astounded. Your > statement flies directly in the face of the fact that no holocaust > historian or writer on the holocaust, agrees with you and in fact DENIES > such allegations. ... Even POOH.BAH has admitted that nobody was gassed at > Dachau. Are you saying POOH.BAH is wrong? Excuse me but you are mixing apples and oranges here. Kevin stated that he saw two gas chambers. I agreed that there were two gas chambers at Dachau. I have stated that no gassings of humans took place at Dachau but, since Kevin never claimed that there had been gassings there, there is no disagreement. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 531 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 08:54 EST 497 Hans-Peter: > The man is talking through his hat. Corpses, fresh or otherwise, don't > burn well at all. They are mostly water and their basic design hasn't > changed since the 1940s. Here you are comparing apples and oranges. You speak of the water content of normal human bodies and make the false assumption that this is relevant. It isn't. I'm sure that everyone here has seen photographs of the surviving inmates and the corpses. I'm equally sure that everyone here has seen photographs of the starving children in the Third World. Does anyone notice a vast difference between the two? The latter have extended bellies and the former do not! The lack of extended bellies is a clear indication of dehydration. Therefore, these corpses did NOT have the same water content as those under normal conditions. Second, it is required by law throughout the US that every body must be embalmed....even if that body is going to be cremated. Needless to say, the bodies to which F-G was observing had not be embalmed which does alter the burning process. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 532 Thu Apr 02, 1992 GRAFFITI [Ric Helton] at 16:27 EST [8 messages deleted. Please refrain from name-calling and personal attacks, and please be careful to support your claims against one group or the other with some factual citation or evidence, given the delicate nature of the subject matter. Thanks. -Ric/PF*NPC] ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 534 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:15 EST 499 Rungu: > Again, I am confused. The tone of your message to Mr. Raven in which you > ask him "where did you get that list - was it from Mark Weber?" implies > that you despise any information or data deriving from Mr. Weber. Your inference is incorrect. I was asking for the source of the list. I suggested that Mark Weber might have prepared it. If he had, he should get credit for it. I thought that Mark Weber might have been involved in the preparation of the list for the reason that I respect him enough to believe that he would have read the Pressac book. Since Raven had already admitted that he had never read the book, it didn't seem reasonable that he would have prepared the list. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 535 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:16 EST 500 Rungu: > Yad Vashem "does not discriminate based upon religion"? Do they > discriminate based upon any other criteria? You have clearly said that > the Yad Vashem will accept ALL researchers interested in learning more > about the holocaust. Can Mark Weber go there? Would he be welcomed and > given every courtesy? No, they do not discriminate based upon any criteria other than one cannot frivolously just want to examine a document for the heck of it. The individual must have a reason and the usual reason is research into some aspect of the Holocaust. Yes, Mark Weber can go there and he will be afforded the same welcome and courtesy that I receive. That means that he will have to present his research proposal and a list of the documents that he wishes to review. The archives staff (as he well knows) is not there to search the documents - they are there to retrieve documents. Mark Weber will not be allowed into the vault where documents are kept....but then only the archivists are permitted there. There are requirements as to the proper procedure for handling the original documents, etc. (which is true of any archives) and these will have to be followed by anyone doing research there. As far as the "welcome" part of the question, many of the archivists and the staff there are Sabras. Therefore, he will receive the typical Sabra welcome. The same is true of Faurisson, Leuchter, Staeglich, Weckert (who has also been to Yad Vashem) or any of the other Holocaust Deniers. Now, let me ask you a question: If I wanted to go to an annual IHR convention, would I be allowed to attend? Would I be welcomed and extended every courtesy? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 536 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:17 EST 501 Rungu: > Another backwards double-sideways flip-flop-flip has just been performed! > Such intellectual gymnastics are truly mind-boggling. Are the "human > lampshades", "human soap" and "mass gassings at Dachau" FACT or FICTION, > POOH.BAH? Please, please will you say so either way, and clearly and > unequivocally so that nobody will be confused anymore on these issues. Since I have repeatedly asked you to cite a single message in which I declared the lampshades and soap to be "myths" or "fiction" and you have not done so, all participants here are left knowning that you have been unable to do so. In fact, I have never stated my opinions on the lampshades and soap even though you have repeatedly and falsely claimed that I have. As I declared when I u/l'ed the documentation, I will leave it to everyone to review it and arrive at their own conclusions. I have my own conclusions based upon that documentation but, as I have already stated, based upon requests that I received in e-mail, I will refrain from discussing the matter in public. Those requests were based upon sensitivities. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 537 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:18 EST 501 Rungu: > I think you said "yes" to my question of "were there gassings on German > soil", but maybe my eyes deceived me. Yes, there were gassings on German soil. This has been clearly demonstrated through the documentation of the euthanasia program. No, there were no "extermination camps" on German soil. These are not mutually exclusive. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 538 Thu Apr 02, 1992 GRAFFITI [Ric Helton] at 18:32 EST NOTE: I have directed further discussion spurred by Neil's messages to the Religion & Ethics RT on GEnie page 390. The Public Forum RT is not equiped to handle delicate matters of a religious nature, and the thread does not directly address the Holocaust. PLEASE direct fiurther discussion of this matter to that RT. Thank you. -Ric/PF*NPC ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 540 Thu Apr 02, 1992 GRAFFITI [Ric Helton] at 19:02 EST I apologize for not keeping a much tighter reign on this topic, and for allowing off-topic threads to go on. I realize that we could be here forever haggling over what to delete and what not to delete..... Therefore, I am blowing the whistle here. =TWEEEEET= FROM NOW ON, all messages that are off-topic or irrelevant to the primary discussion of the Holocaust, or do not tie whatever point is being made back to that discussion if it isn't clear, or can even remotely be perceived as a personal attack against any other forum member, or make anti-Semitic statements, or make broad, sweeping statements about conspiracies without substantiating evidence, cites or proofs, WILL BE DELETED. I am being forced to forego the leeway I use in most all of my other topics and Categories because of the nature of this discussion, the delicacy and sensitiveness of the subject matter, and the anger with which I am confronted in trying to moderate this topic. I have been called every name in the book in private email, and I do not feel that the Public Forum is equipped to handle much of the tangential discussions that revolve around the Holocaust, Jewishness, and age-old religious conflict. I must insist that those sorts of discussions be moved to the appropriate RoundTable: Religion & Ethics, on GEnie page 390. I NEED YOUR HELP! I want to work with you and do the right thing in this topic. We are balancing open speech issues with offensiveness and bigotry, and it is very difficult. I want to be perfectly even-handed and fair. Please, before you flame me all over the RT, drop me an email. I don't have a "hidden agenda" and I don't administer the forum from a biased perspective. I am here to facilitate YOUR discussion -- this is my JOB. If you want to add your perspective to what is happening in private email to me, please do so! (Also be aware that I am not online 24 hours a day, but I do try to check in at least twice a day.) Now, please, let's get on with discussing the topic as stated: the facts surrounding the Holocaust. -Ric/PF*NPC ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 541 Thu Apr 02, 1992 GRAFFITI [Ric Helton] at 19:44 EST [8 messages deleted for being off topic or personal attacks.] ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 542 Thu Apr 02, 1992 POOH.BAH at 19:48 EST Ric: I would like you to take note of the fact that Rungu has repeatedly attributed remarks to me which I have not made. After repeatedly requesting that he either admit his error or cite a single message in which I have made such statements, he has done neither....AND he has continued to post these unsubstantiated accussations. I, therefore, request a modicum of leniency in that, if Rungu persists beyond this point (and I have warned him in repeated messages to this very point), I will be pointing out that he is lying. This is a situation which has been going on for a week. It is not new and I feel that I have given Rungu ample opportunity and warning. Is this not sufficient or must I allow myself to be slandered, have my words twisted and words put in my mouth repeatedly? BTW, this is one of the propaganda tools that was used by Goebbels and he discusses it extensively in his diary. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 543 Thu Apr 02, 1992 GRAFFITI [Ric Helton] at 20:01 EST I am going to try to enforce that every claim made be substantiated with some reference or other. If any forum member continually quotes you out of context, such that you feel such quoting can be equated with defamation, please send me email and explain the situation. I will delete the offending messages. Really, this has GOT to stop somewhere, and the benefit of the doubt WRT free speech that I have been holding so high is being sorely tested. IF YOU QUOTE SOMEONE, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR QUOTE IS IN CONTEXT. This topic is of necessity being held to a higher standard that any other in the RoundTable. -Ric/PF*NPC ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 544 Thu Apr 02, 1992 H.P.SKALIKS [Hans-Peter] at 20:21 EST POOH.BAH...message 511 Upper Silesia a tropical environment???? You can't be serious POOH.BAH! North Dakota gets hot in the summer too, but it is hardly tropical. We sometimes get temperatures in the mid thirties (Celsius) in Toronto, but I would hardly describe the environment as tropical. Take a physical atlas, find Upper Silesia, and it will give you the rainfall and average yearly temperature data. You will find that it does not differ that much from Leipzig, Dresden, Breslau or numerous other locations which are only a few hundred kilometres away, and which are definitely not tropical. I have no idea what Dr. Kremer was drinking when he wrote that, but if ever there was a whiskey-inspired notion, that has to be it. message 531 The only thing that would burn of itself on a corpse is the fat content, layered on the surface. As you point out, these had none or little fat. The statement talks about "fresh" corpses. This implies to me that the person had been alive shortly before. If they were alive, even if dehydrated, they must still have been at least 85% to 90% water since otherwise life would be impossible. If they were dehydrated to the same extent that an Egyptian mummy is dehydrated then they might burn passably well, but then one could hardly talk about a "fresh" corpse. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 545 Thu Apr 02, 1992 D.BERKOWITZ at 20:41 EST Splendid. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 546 Thu Apr 02, 1992 M.RUNGU at 22:21 EST To POOH.BAH (230) Everybody pay attention now... I hereby admit my error when I stated that POOH used Rudolf Hoess (Commandant of Auschwitz) as a source to back up the extermination thesis. I went back to all the messages in both Topics and the person that tried to use this fraudulent and false document was D.KAUFMANN1 in Message no. 94 of Topic 4. He gave the German text and then provided us with a translation in the hope that by reading the text we would be convinced of an extermination policy. I did a text search under 'Hoess' and also 'Hoss' (the latter spelling sometimes used in error for the correct former) and unless Hoess is referred to under some other spelling by POOH, she did not try to use him as a source. My humble apologies to POOH, who is let off the hook THIS time. I mistook D.KAUFMANN1's reference for POOH's. I am not perfect as certain others pretend to be, and, unlike those certain others, do try to admit to my mistakes when they occur. But I STILL have yet to see POOH.BAH come right out and join with me in denouncing and condemning this spurious abuse of history in which Hoess' name is proferred as "proof" of an extermination thesis. Can POOH.BAH not denounce the various exterminationist writers who have used Hoess in this manner? I would also like to see POOH's comments on WHY the fraudulent and contradictory Hoess statements were forced by his interrogators; it would seem that a deliberate effort was being made at war's end to manufacture fraudulent statements and "confessions" in order to create an "extermination" myth. In our study of the holocaust, one of the most important areas that revisionist historians have opened up is this phenomenon of deliberate exterminationist falsification of history. Once the spurious documents have been laid to rest, we still need to have a close look at the fabricators of such rubbish and their motivations and purposes. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 547 Thu Apr 02, 1992 M.RUNGU at 22:21 EST To POOH.BAH (232) Thankyou for your statement that you "have much respect for Mark Weber" of the Institute for Historical Review, even though you do not agree with him. That sounds fair enough. His credentials and qualifications and background are very much in order. He now is a full-time staffer of the Institute and the Associate Editor of it's JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL REVIEW as well as editor of it's NEWSLETTER. I think that his involvement with the IHR is therefore much more than an "association" (implying some very tenuous link). It is precisely because individuals of the calibre of Mr. Weber actually make up the Institute's staff and Advisory Board membership, that famous authors like David Irving and John Toland have worked closely with it and presented papers and spoken at it's gatherings. In an earlier message, I detailed his training and paper trail for those who rightly or wrongly regard such as essential. I think that in future references to him, you should consider being a little more careful in how you express yourself, because the clear impression is generated of sneers and jeers whenever his name crops up. I think the smears and mud-slinging at the Institute should stop. To express disagreement with it's findings and published material is acceptable, but the constant "neo-Nazi" and "anti-semitic" slurs are out of place. If I had a scanner I would scan in the long list of Ph.D.s and Professors who make up it's Editorial Advisory Committee from all over the world. I doubt if any of them would be surprised at the "neo-nazi" and "anti-semite" slurs against them, since they know that such mud-slinging is par for the course when one questions ANYTHING about the holocaust, but they would ALL deny such slanders. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 548 Thu Apr 02, 1992 M.RUNGU at 22:22 EST To POOH.BAH (233) You said "both you and Raven have made this statement that the holocaust is the one single area of history which is the most rife with historical error but thus far neither of you have offered anything to substantiate this." Are you serious? What do you think our discussion of the Hoess and Gerstein memoirs/confessions constitutes? You admit yourself that these documents are unreliable and full of errors. These very documents have been, and still sometimes are (see D.KAUFMANN1's Message 94 of the archived Topic 4 as an example), proffered as "evidence" for the extermination thesis. We still see eyewitness' and survivors' claims about human soap, lampshades, and gassings in camps on German soil (by way of another example, check our Mr. Quinn's messages about the "gas chambers" at Dachau). These are the "rife historical errors" that holocaust revisionists have, in their (unpopular) research, uncovered and exposed for the world to see as historical fabrications. We have been offering these juicy tidbits for all to see in message after message. It is true that other historical events and other historical periods have misconceptions, errors, fraud and falsifications. Historical revisionists have looked at and are still looking at these events and the claims made about them in order to "bring history into accord with facts". But what makes the holocaust unique in this regard is that it has become virtually a dogma, and to criticise or look too closely at this dogma means the "punishment" that Professor Faurisson of France has suffered, or Dr. Wilhelm Staglich of Germany, or Mr. Zundel of Canada, or the Institute for Historical Review in our country (the fire bombing, the frivolous court actions against it). This makes it all the more important to resist the intimidation and terrorism directed against holocaust revisionism and to get the job done (and it is BEING done by courageous men and women in spite of the attacks, the bombings, the being dragged into court, etc.). BTW, I am STILL awaiting a clear condemnation from you of those who perpetrate such attacks and intimidation against revisionists. In fact, you haven't even admitted that such things even happen. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 549 Thu Apr 02, 1992 M.RUNGU at 22:22 EST To POOH.BAH (235) I will say again that there is much on this subject, the holocaust, that I still need to read and learn. And my commitment is to see ALL sides to it, not JUST the holocaust dogma's version, i.e. the establishment version shoved on us by the "court historians" who seem to be more interested in their careers than they are in historial truth. I have read Anne Frank's Diary, and recently learned that it was written by somebody else AFTER the war. I have read 'Commandant of Auschwitz' "by" Hoess, but later learned that it was extracted from and/or fed to him by his captors, first the British interrogators at Hamburg, and then the Communist Polish jailors afterwards. This is precisely the kind of fabrication of history that has me interested in what the holocaust revisionists have to say. There is a great deal of revisionist material that I have not read yet, but so far, I can say with absolute confidence that the revisionist approach is vastly more scholarly and objective than anything I have yet seen in any library's holocaust section. I have never presented myself as a "scholar" who NEVER makes mistakes. Do you know of somebody who pretends to such omniscience, POOH.BAH? But I have been reading both sides to it, and when I see lies and myths and contradictions, I find it useful to point them out to our readers, in this discussion. That is not the same as pretending to "expert" status. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 550 Thu Apr 02, 1992 M.RUNGU at 22:23 EST To POOH.BAH (239) Your "total agreement" with Hans-Peter on the issue of Allied war crimes is refreshing. Now let's move along to the next step on this. Can you not join me in condemning the fact that GERMAN war-criminals (or sometimes or often alleged war-criminals) have been put to death for the commission or alleged commission of war crimes and atrocities, but no war crimes trials on the Nuremberg (or any other) model have been held to punish ALLIED war criminals? And how about the media? Wouldn't you agree with me that the mass media has been extremely irresponsible in that it has rarely, if ever, made mention, in any form, of the commission of ALLIED war crimes, but, rather, in it's presentation of World War II crimes, dwells almost exclusively on GERMAN commissions? The point is that World War II was the holocaust. Jewish people have co-opted the entire event and present it almost entirely from their own perspective, as a result of which "the holocaust" is now defined and accepted as something that only happened to Jewish people. I think this is wrong and immoral, and if your approach to this is honest and straightforward, you will join me in condemning and rejecting it. We are waiting. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 553 Thu Apr 02, 1992 TERMY at 22:44 EST My apologies Mr. Raven: as so often happens, I got you and Mr/Ms Rungu confused. It was Mr/Ms Rungu who asserted "Berlin alone had some 50,000 Jews living there [at war's end]..." in Message # 699, topic 4. Mr/Ms Rungu, please supply a source for this assertion. Mr. Raven, do you wish to comment upon the number of Jews living in Berlin at war's end? Termy ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 555 Thu Apr 02, 1992 TERMY at 22:53 EST FOR THE RECORD: All the documents I've entered have been hand-typed and contain information which refutes or aids in refuting assertions made by either Mr. Raven, Mr/Ms Rungu, or both. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 556 Thu Apr 02, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 22:54 EST M.RUNGU, you still haven't answered numerous questions. Keine Antwort ist auch eine Antwort. Message 328 From: POOH.BAH >Rungu: In reviewing the messages from TOPic 4, I noticed that there >were a number of questions that you have left unanswered. Perhaps >you can take a moment now and answer them for me. > >FROM #163: > >148 Rungu: What, in your opinion, should be the credentials for an >"expert" in gas chambers? > >FROM #247: > >> Secondly, the Einsatsgruppen operations in and of themselves have always >> been suspicious. Orders may have been issued, but they were not always >> carried out, in spite of the reports coming in from the actual units in >> the field supposedly carrying out those orders. Often it was found that >> the planned operations were impractical or even downright impossible, and >> even sometimes FALSE reports were sent in with fabricated figures of >> fatalities amongst the targets. > >Excuse me, do you know this from personal experience or could you >cite some sources for these strange claims? > >FROM #611: > >Actually, because of the contradictory news reports, Ernst Zundel >(someone from your camp, you know) called Irving to inquire about >his (Irving's) position. Zundel isn't even sure where Irving stands >on the issue. He stated that Irving "sort of" gave an explanation. >Have you spoken to Irving and are, perhaps, better able to give us >some insight into this? > >FROM #714: > >> But this is typical as regards "exterminationist" presententation >> of documents. First, they will claim that there are "tons" of >> such documents; but when pressed to produce them, they only come >> up with a relatively small number, ALL of which are highly >> questionable or irrelevant; when this emerges, they will then >> shift gears and try to claim that the Germans "destroyed >> everything" to hide their "crimes", or sometimes even talk about >> the Germans using some kind of special code language, etc. etc. > >Please make your case against anyone who is posting here that the >above is based in reality. > >FROM #715: > >I like the way you are now qualifying the gassings....are you >implying that there were gassings but not in "mass"? If so, please >define "mass" for us. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 559 Thu Apr 02, 1992 C.FINK4 [Carl] at 23:09 EST Raven, your 462 - I haven't done any inorganic chemistry in a while, but can you document your claim that the Germans used CO as a fuel for engines? This strikes me as insane - the energy release is very low, and making CO wastes lots of energy for no reason. Are you perhaps referring to a process involving the reaction of carbon and water to produce hydrogen and CO? Raven, your 483: >> By the way, you state that the court transcript is primary >>evidence, and is thus better than my secondary evidence. However, >>my evidence comes from Fred Leuchter himself ... a true primary >>source. This makes your transcript a secondary source. By your >>own statement, you have not consulted the best possible source. Come on, Raven - there are cases, like this one, in which MORE THAN ONE primary source exists. Actually, by your own rules, Leuchter's testimony is "eyewitness testimony" and thus suspect. Raven, your 491: admitting that Weber is an expert is not admitting that he is correct. Linus Pauling is perhaps the greatest living expert in biochemistry - and is wrong about vitamin C, according to almost every other biochemist. Einstein was wrong about the expanding universe, as he acknowledged later. I won't see your answer for a while - I'm offline until Monday. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 560 Thu Apr 02, 1992 C.FINK4 [Carl] at 23:22 EST >>I have read Anne Frank's Diary, [sic] and recently learned that it >>was written by somebody else AFTER the war. No it wasn't, RUNGU, although that accusation was made. As I recall, her father did edit her diaries a bit, but she did in fact write them. Carl Fink ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 561 Fri Apr 03, 1992 J.WEISBERGE1 [Jon W.] at 00:02 EST Pooh.Bah 387: It was my impression that Shoah deniers (after some consideration, I agree that describing these folks as "revisionists" does violence to the meaning of that term as applied to the study of history) are no less marginal in Germany than elsewhere. The significance of that is, of course, that the Germans presumably would have the most to gain if the deniers were correct, and yet they seem to have repudiated the "no Holocaust" hoax as much as anyone else. Rungu 392: It is indeed curious that while you are willing to engage in endless demands for documentation of each and every statement about the extermination of Jews, you are content to merely ASSERT that "My statements about the Soviet NKVD...are valid, and I stand by them." This is not the first time you have taken such a sharply differentiated approach to issues; some time ago, I wrote to you the following: "In #689 you suggest that we cannot properly evaluate historical events until "at least 50 years" have passed, and suggest that this applies to the case of the Holocaust. You do not produce evidence to prove that it didn't happen, but demand that evidence be produced that it did. On the other hand, in the case of contemporaneous events elsewhere - most notably in the Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, etc., you reverse this position, make sweeping assertions about the "massacre of tens of millions," and then demand that anyone who disagrees produce proof that it didn't happen. Please explain the methodological discrepancy." I invite you again to justify the flexibility of your standards of proof. Pooh.Bah 440: An interesting historical side note: Walter Rauff escaped from the Allies and made his way, ultimately, to Chile, where he became a "security advisor" to the military dictator Agosto Pinochet. Ric 538: Excuse me, but I am utterly at a loss to understand the basis on which you remove messages or allow them to stand. Raven & Rungu have repeatedly invoked Israel, Zionism, Jews and their beliefs and actions in their posts. In #394, for example, Rungu states his belief that Jews cause antisemitism, and that they were responsible for their own murder. Is that on-topic, while responses to such statements are off-topic? In my opinion, you need to exercise either very, very firm control over such matters (by, for instance, deleting all messages which refer to Israel, as well as all messages which refer to Jews in any context other than the "debate" over the facts of their murder), or allow people to respond as they see fit, within the no-personal- attacks rules. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 564 Fri Apr 03, 1992 TERMY at 00:46 EST From the situation report of Gebietskommissar Gerhard Erren, 25 January 1942 The town of Slonim is a haphazard jumble of a few good stone buildings, quite a few serviceable wooden houses and a good many dilapidated log shacks ripe for demolition. There are no uniformly well-maintained enclosed quarters which would be suitable as areas for Germans to live in. One-third of the town has been completely destroyed. As a result of this and the heavy influx of refugees, when I arrived Slonim was severely overpopulated and the housing situation in some places catastrophic. The Judenaktion on 13 November alleviated the situation perceptibly. It resulted in our being able to clear a street completely and set up homes and offices for Germans there. Work to clean this street and the surrounding quarter in continuing in preparation for the future SS base. Operating on the premise that my colleagues need the highest standard of overall living conditinos in order to maintain peak performance I saw to it from day one that each of our men not only has decent accommodation and enough to eat but that his whole lifestyle embodies German culture and the prestige appropriate to it. Our accommodation is such that members of all the German services, including Sonderfuehrer and police, eat together but in separate dining-rooms. Standards of conduct are adhered to, with the result that even people with little upbringing soon learn manners which command the respect of the local serving staff towards the German master race. Upon my arrival there were about 25,000 Jews in the Slonim area, 16,000 in the actual town itself, making up over two-thirds of the total population of the town. It was not possible to set up a ghetto as neither barbed wire nor guard manpower was available. I thus immediately began preparations for a large-scale action. First of all property was expropriated and all the German offical buildings, including the Wehrmacht quarters, were equipped with the furniture and equipment that had been made available. . . . Any articles which could not be used for Germans were handed over to the town for sale to the local population. Proceeds from their sale were sent to the finance department. The Jews were then registered accurately according to number, age and profession and all craftsmen and workers with qualifications were singled out and given passes and separate accommodation to distinguish them from other Jews. The action carried out by the SD on 13 November rid me of unnecessary mouths to feed. The some 7,000 Jews now present in the town of Slonim have all been allocated jobs. They are working willingly because of the constant fear of death. Early next year they will be rigorously checked and sorted for a further reduction. The plains were extensively cleansed for a time by the Wehrmacht. Unfortunately, however, this only took place in villages with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants. In the Rayon towns [the lowest administrative districts in the USSR - Ed.] all Jews will be eradicated with the exception of all but the most essential craftsmen and skilled workers, after auxiliary work for the east-west movement has been carried out. Since the Wehrmacht is no longer prepared to carry out actions on the plains I shall concentrate all the Jews of the area into two or three Rayon towns. They will work in closed columns only, in order to stamp out once and for all illicit trading and support for the partisans made to pass their skills on to intelligent apprentices in my craft colleges, so that Jews will finally be dispensable in the skilled craft and trade sector and can be eliminated. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 565 Fri Apr 03, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 01:07 EST The next 5 posts are transcribed from "Shoah", Franz Suchomel, SS Unterscharfuehrer interviewed by Claude Lanzmann Lanzmann: Are you ready? Suchomel: Yes. We can begin. Lanzmann: How's your heart? Is everything in order? Suchomel: Oh, my heart - for the moment, it's all right. If I have any pain I'll tell you. We'll have to break off. Lanzmann: Of course. But your health, in general, is. . . Suchomel: The weather today suits me fine. The barometric pressure is high; that's good for me. Lanzmann: You look to be in good shape, anyway. Let 's begin with Treblinka I believe you got there in August? Was it August 20 or 24? Suchomel: The eighteenth. Lanzmann: The eighteenth? Suchomel: I don't know exactly. Around August 20. I arrived there with seven other men. Lanzmann: From Berlin? Suchomel: From Berlin. Lanzmann: From Lublin? Suchomel: From Berlin to Warsaw, from Warsaw to Lublin, from Lublin back to Warsaw and from Warsaw to Treblinka. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 566 Fri Apr 03, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 01:08 EST (Suchomel interview, continued) Lanzmann: What was Treblinka like then? Suchomel: Treblinka then was operating at full capacity. Lanzmann: Full capacity? Suchomel: Full capacity! The Warsaw ghetto was being emptied then. Three trains arrived in two days, each with three, four, five thousand people aboard, all from Warsaw. But at the same time, other trains came in from Kielce and other places. So three trains arrived, and since the offensive against Stalingrad was in full swing, the trainloads of Jews were left on a station siding. What's more, the cars were French, made of steel. So that while five thousand Jews arrived in Treblinka, three thousand were dead in the cars. They had slashed their wrists, or just died. The ones we unloaded were half dead and half mad. In the other trains from Kielce and elsewhere, at least half were dead. We stacked them here, here, here and here. Thousands of people piled one on top of another on the ramp. Stacked like wood. In addition, other Jews, still alive, waited there for two days: the small gas chambers could no longer handle the load. They functioned day and night in that period. Lanzmann: Can you please describe, very precisely, your first impression of Treblinka? Very precisely. lt's very important. Suchomel: My first impression of Treblinka, and that of some of the other men, was catastrophic. For we had not been told how and what ... that people were being killed there. They hadn't told us. Lanzmann: You didn't know? Suchomel: No! Lanzmann: Incredible! Suchomel: But true. I didn't want to go. That was proved at my trial. I was told: "Mr. Suchomel, there are big workshops there for tailors and shoemakers, and you'll be guarding them." Lanzmann: But you knew it was a camp? Suchomel: Yes. We were told: "The Fuehrer ordered a resettlement program. It's an order from the Fuehrer." Understand? Lanzmann: Resettlement program. Suchomel: Resettlement program. No one ever spoke of killing. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 567 Fri Apr 03, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 01:09 EST (Suchomel interview, continued) Lanzmann: I understand Mr. Suchomel, we're not discussing you, only Treblinka. You are a very important eyewitness, and you can explain what Treblinka was. Suchomel: But don't use my name. Lanzmann: No, I promised. All right, you've arrived at Treblinka. Suchomel: So Stadie, the sarge, showed us the camp from end to end. Just as we went by, they were opening the gas-chamber doors, and people fell out like potatoes. Naturally, that horrified and appalled us. We went back and sat down on our suitcases and cried like old women. Each day one hundred Jews were chosen to drag the corpses to the mass graves. In the evening the Ukrainians drove those Jews into the gas chambers or shot them. Every day! It was in the hottest days of August. The ground undulated like waves because of the gas. Lanzmann: From the bodies? Suchomel: Bear in mind, the graves were maybe eighteen, twenty feet deep, all crammed with bodies! A thin layer of sand, and the heat. You see? It was a hell up there. Lanzmann: You saw that? Suchomel: Yes, just once, the first day. We puked and wept. Lanzmann: You wept? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 568 Fri Apr 03, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 01:10 EST (Suchomel interview, continued) Suchomel: We wept too, yes. The smell was infernal because gas was constantly escaping. It stank horribly for miles around. You could smell it everywhere. It depended on the wind. The stink was carried on the wind. Understand? More people kept coming, always more, whom we hadn't the facilities to kill. The brass was in a rush to clean out the Warsaw ghetto. The gas chambers couldn't handle the load. The small gas chambers. The Jews had to wait their turn for a day, two days, three days. They foresaw what was coming. They foresaw it. They may not have been certain, but many knew. There were Jewish women who slashed their daughters' wrists at night, then cut their own. Others poisoned themselves. They heard the engine feeding the gas chamber. A tank engine was used in that gas chamber. At Treblinka the only gas used was engine exhaust. Zyklon gas- that was Auschwitz. Because of the delay, Eberl, the camp commandant, phoned Lublin and said: "We can't go on this way. I can't do it any longer. We have to break off." Overnight, Wirth arrived. He inspected everything and then left. He returned with people from Belzec, experts. Wirth arranged to suspend the trains. The corpses lying there were cleared away. That was the period of the old gas chambers. Because there were so many dead that couldn't be gotten rid of, the bodies piled up around the gas chambers and stayed there for days. Under this pile of bodies was a cesspool three inches deep, full of blood, worms and shit. No one wanted to clean it out. The Jews preferred to be shot rather than work there. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 569 Fri Apr 03, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 01:10 EST (Suchomel interview, continued) Lanzmann: Preferred to be shot? Suchomel: It was awful. Burying their own people, seeing it all. The dead flesh came off in their hands. So Wirth went there himself with a few Germans and had long belts rigged up that were wrapped around the dead torsos to pull them. Lanzmann: Who did that? Suchomel: SS men and Jews. Lanzmann: Jews too? Suchomel: Jews too! Lanzmann: What did the Germans do? Suchomel: They forced the Jews to . . . Lanzmann: They beat them? Suchomel: . . . or they themselves helped with the cleanup. Lanzmann: Which Germans did that? Suchomel: Some of our guards who were assigned up there. Lanzmann: The Germans themselves? Suchomel: They had to. Lanzmann: They were in command! Suchomel: They were in command, but they were also commanded. Lanzmann: 1 think the Jews did it. Suchomel: In that case, the Germans had to lend a hand. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 570 Fri Apr 03, 1992 A.K.QUINN at 03:18 EST For the record: I am not an apologist for Jews as such, but I like to think I have an obligation to tell the truth. So-- I never saw a gas chamber in use. Naturally. I saw chambers fitted out as I described. Nazis were not known for building things for fun. I interviewed many non-Jews at Dachau, including some who had no use for Jews, but had been at other camps, including Auschwitz, and what they said tends to corroborate the Holocaust thesis. I served as Religious Affairs Officer in Military Government for Bavaria after leaving Dachau. I had personal dealings with many German ecclesiastics, including several Bishops (Cardinal Faulhaber was one.) I met German priests and brothers who had served in the army and who had first-hand knowledge of the extermination program. I met only one who said the extermination policy was a figment, or Allied propaganda. Everyone else agreed with what people like Von Galen and Faulhaber said: that they knew all the Jews were doomed, until we came, at least. Was I propagandized/indoctrinated about the Holocaust when I was ordered to join the Dachau MG team? Pete's sake, I had just come down from Belgium where I survived the Bulge and the Malmedy slaughter by the SS. I knew what a Konzentrationslager was, that's all. Period. I am not easily fooled by propaganda or uncorroborated testimony. I believed some inmates but not all. And when we brought in townspeople from the twon of dachau to bury the dead, I saw them leave shaken abd stunned. The SS at Dachau? Damn few; they ran, leaving ordinary Wehrmacht soldaten to face the music. You should have heard those guys... Now, I have been accused (not here) of antisemitism because I oppose the treatment of Palestinians in Israel: too bad, there are Jews who agree with me. But what any Jew may do now, even if I oppose him, has nothing to do with what I saw and did. (I found out later that the reason I was sent to Dachau was that I could speak Latin, and we knew there were a lot of priests there, not because I would be pro or con Jews, Judaism, or anything else. When Polish and German inmates told me of the wholesale extermination of Jews, I figured they had no reason to lie.) =KevinQ= ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 571 Fri Apr 03, 1992 E.BROWN42 [scaramouche] at 03:21 EST Rungu RE: 546 Pooh-Bah has stated several times that the Hoess confession should not be relied upon as a primary source document because of the possibility of its extraction by force. Scaramouche ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 572 Fri Apr 03, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 03:31 EST To Termy (regarding 402, et al) --- Relative to your wholesale posting of documents, I would ask that you take it easy on yourself and post only enough to make a point. You may, of course, do as you wish. --- Because it would take months (if not years) to go through everything you have posted, I will take one statistic of Hilberg's that you have quoted and examine it, with the hopes that I can show the difficulty of accurately determining war-time demographics, and the fallicy of accepting even Hilberg's figures. . According to Hilberg, there were 270,000 deaths of Jews in Roumania, based on the 1937 borders. According to Hilberg's first edition of "The Destruction of the European Jews," in 1939 Roumania had 800,000 Jews. In June 1940, 300,000 Jews were included in land ceded to Russia. Land ceded to Transylvania contained a further 150,000 Jews. Hilberg goes on to state, "The remaining Jews in Old Roumania consequently numbered about 350,000." So far, so good. . Hilberg later repeats his 800,000 figure (number of Jews in Roumania in 1939), and adds that in 1945 (presumably after the war) there were 430,000 Jews in Roumania, although this figure is for Jews within the post-war boundaries. According to my encyclopedia, after WWII, Roumania's loss of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union, and her loss of southern Dobruja to Bulgaria, were made permanent (she regained northern Transylvania). Thus, the post-war borders were much smaller, and did NOT include lands that had originally contained a large number of Jews. . Later, Hilberg states again that in 1945 and 1946, the number of survivors and those who returned to Roumania numbered 430,000, that in various migrations between 1945 and 1952 some 185,000 Jews left Roumania, and that in 1957 there remained 245,000 Jews in Roumania. . However, in a recent article in (I believe) the Canadian Jewish News (which I do not have in front of me, but which was read to me over the phone a couple weeks ago by Ernst Zuendel in Toronto, Canada), after the war the Roumanians allowed Jews to emigrate if they would pay a tax of some kind. The article states that this tax amounted to a considerable sum, but that in spite of everything 300,000 Jews took advantage of the offer. --- Now we run into a problem. There is no mention in Hilberg of 300,000 Jews taking part in any such action. Furthermore, even discounting the population rise between 1952 and 1957, there is no way to subtract 300,000 from 430,000 and come up with 245,000. . Worse, if Roumania got back Transylvania (which had 150,000 Jews at one time), she could have had some 450,000 Jews, which is very close to the number 430,000 given by Hilberg. However, to have 245,000 Jews left in Roumania in 1957 but at the same time have 270,000 murdered by the Germans (and Roumanians, but let's not get into THAT), you need to have started with 515,000 Jews in Old Roumania, which Hilberg does not claim. --- With this single example, we can see that demographics figures for Jews of this period in this area are fraught with inconsistencies. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 573 Fri Apr 03, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 03:32 EST To Termy (regarding 408, et al) --- In reference to your posting of the diary of Dr. Johann-Paul Kremer, who was stationed at Auschwitz. --- Paul Rassinier has stated, "You will see how, at first sight, it is troubling, and then how, if you analyze it with a little care, it constitutes a terrible fiasco for the Exterminationists. I prize the Kremer case very much. It shows how fragile are the proofs that people offer to us, to what extent they allow themselves to be easily deceived by appearances, how much the official historians have misused the texts and how it is necessary to work if you wish, in the study of texts, to distinguish between the true and the false, between the real meaning and the misinterpretation." . Rather than subject you to Rassinier's blow-by-blow analysis, I will present the high points. --- First, it is obvious to anyone reading this text that the word "gassing" appears only once, and ONLY in connection with ridding a block of lice (see also Staeglich on this point). Zyklon B this is presented as a disinfectant. --- Second, although Kremer speaks of attending 14 "special actions," he does not tell us what these are. We may read into these words many things, and in fact we have to because Kremer is not specific. --- Third, one of the most "damaging" passages is the entry of 2 September 1942, in which you have Kremer saying: . > 3.00 a.m. attended my first Sonderaktion. Dante s Inferno seem to me almost a comedy compared to this. They don t call Auschwitz the extermination camp for nothing! . However, this is different from the translation given by Georges Wellers, Serge Klarsfeld, and Leon Poliakov. The biggest discrepancies, however, are not between your version and that of these well-known exterminationists, but between any of these versions and the original German document (see NO-3408 in the National Archives), which Rassinier translates as: . > This morning, at 3 o'clock, I was present OUTSIDE for the first time at a SPECIAL ACTION. Compared to that, Dante's Inferno appearls TO ME ALMOST LIKE a comedy. It is not without reason that Auschwitz is called THE camp of THE ANNIHILATION! (emphasis Rassinier's, showing words omitted or mistranslated by Wellers, Poliakov, and Klarsfeld) . Where Rassinier goes on for pages describing the meaning of this paragraph, for us it should be sufficient to see that the word "outside" has been omitted from your version. This one single change completely alters the meaning of this passage. Were the "gas chambers" outside? Of course not. --- Thus, the Kremer diary entries not only do not prove that Auschwitz was an extermination camp, they prove just the opposite. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 574 Fri Apr 03, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 03:32 EST To AH.STEIN (regarding 426) --- >> ... Mel Mermelstein s frivolous legal actions against the Institute for Historical Review > Somehow, the court did not agree with your assessment, and ordered the Institute for Historical Misrepresentation to pay up. . You not only have gratuitously attacked the IHR, you have completely misstated the case and ignored recent developments. . 1) The court took judicial notice of the Holocaust, making it virtually impossible for the underfinanced IHR to present its case. 2) The IHR settled with Mermelstein to avoid a lengthy and costly court battle. The court did not (and could not) order them to do this. 3) Mermelstein's latest adventure against the IHR ended ignominiously, as Mermelstein's case did not even last through the first day of the hearings. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 575 Fri Apr 03, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 03:33 EST To Sheri Pierce (regarding 428) --- > Termy, the Kremer entries ... the gross indifference is chilling. I recognize the entry 18 October 1942. That is the entry Faurisson lied about. French scholar George Weller debunked those lies. . Please post the "lies," but keep in mind that Georges Wellers has mistranslated and misrepresented the Kremer diaries (see my earlier post to Termy), and is hardly an unimpeachable source. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 576 Fri Apr 03, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 03:33 EST To Pooh.bah (regarding 443) --- I have lost count of how many times you have depended on the Franke-Gricksch Resettlement Action Report ... and yet you still ignore my questions about its authenticity, and you have yet to respond to my challenge to discuss the contents of this report. I can understand that it is vital to your position, but you MUST do more than simply repeat it time and again. . Now, I must demand: tell us the details of the copy of this document you have said you reviewed (what it looked like, where it is, etc.), so that we can begin discussing the text of the Report. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 581 Fri Apr 03, 1992 POOH.BAH at 09:44 EST 544 Hans-Peter: > Upper Silesia a tropical environment???? You can't be serious POOH.BAH! > North Dakota gets hot in the summer too, but it is hardly tropical. We > sometimes get temperatures in the mid thirties (Celsius) in Toronto, but > I would hardly describe the environment as tropical. What you are talking about is the climate. I've quoted diary enteries that speak of the weather. These two words are different. Climate is what one expects and weather is what one gets. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 582 Fri Apr 03, 1992 POOH.BAH at 09:45 EST 544 Hans-Peter: > The only thing that would burn of itself on a corpse is the fat content, > layered on the surface. As you point out, these had none or little fat. > The statement talks about "fresh" corpses. This implies to me that the > person had been alive shortly before. If they were alive, even if > dehydrated, they must still have been at least 85% to 90% water since > otherwise life would be impossible. If they were dehydrated to the same > extent that an Egyptian mummy is dehydrated then they might burn passably > well, but then one could hardly talk about a "fresh" corpse. If you will re-read the document, it is making a comparison statement. The comparison is implicitly made between these "fresh corpses" and those which are not so fresh. The not so fresh corpses would have probably been embalmed (which is done by non-flamable materials) and also would probably have been in a casket. Therefore, the comparison is probably valid or, bare minimum, until this experiment is reproduced, I see no reason to doubt it since there are reasonable explanations. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 583 Fri Apr 03, 1992 POOH.BAH at 09:45 EST 547 Rungu: > I think that in future references to him [Mark Weber], you should consider > being a little more careful in how you express yourself, because the clear > impression is generated of sneers and jeers whenever his name crops up. Perhaps, now that you know my position on Mark Weber, you will not automatically assume the "sneers and jeers." Since this media does not permit you to see body language or hear tone of voice, you might, in the future, realize that those "sneers and jeers" of which you have had the "impression" in the past were not put there by the author but by the reader. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 584 Fri Apr 03, 1992 POOH.BAH at 09:46 EST 547 Rungu: > I think the smears and mud-slinging at the Institute should stop. To > express disagreement with it's findings and published material is > acceptable, but the constant "neo-Nazi" and "anti-semitic" slurs are out > of place. This comment in a message addressed to me carries with it the implication that _I_ have referred to the IHR as "anti-Semitic" or "neo-Nazi." Could you please review the messages in both the TOPics (if necessary) and correct this false implication? Or, if you wish, you may cite a message of mine in which I have referred to the IHR in such terms. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 585 Fri Apr 03, 1992 POOH.BAH at 09:46 EST 548 Rungu: > You said "both you and Raven have made this statement that the holocaust > is the one single area of history which is the most rife with historical > error but thus far neither of you have offered anything to substantiate > this." Are you serious? Yes, I am serious. Both you and Raven have made the statement that the Holocaust is the ONE single area of history which is the MOST rife with historical error. To substantiate this (since it is a comparison statement), you have to show how other historical events are LESS rife with error and, since you have yet to refute ALL the documents that I have u/l'ed, you must also substantiate that the historiography of the Holocaust is rife with errors. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 586 Fri Apr 03, 1992 POOH.BAH at 09:47 EST 548 Rungu: > We still see eyewitness' and survivors' claims about human soap, > lampshades, and gassings in camps on German soil (by way of another > example, check our Mr. Quinn's messages about the "gas chambers" at > Dachau). As I've pointed out before, Kevin Quinn is correct in his observations of gas chambers at Dachau. As far as lampshades and soap, you have offered no refutation either here or in e-mail to me regarding the documents that I u/l'ed. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 587 Fri Apr 03, 1992 POOH.BAH at 09:47 EST 548 Rungu: > But what makes the holocaust unique in this regard is that it has become > virtually a dogma, and to criticise or look too closely at this dogma > means the "punishment" that Professor Faurisson of France has suffered, or > Dr. Wilhelm Staglich of Germany, or Mr. Zundel of Canada, or the Institute > for Historical Review in our country (the fire bombing, the frivolous > court actions against it). This makes it all the more important to resist > the intimidation and terrorism directed against holocaust revisionism and > to get the job done (and it is BEING done by courageous men and women in > spite of the attacks, the bombings, the being dragged into court, etc.). > BTW, I am STILL awaiting a clear condemnation from you of those who > perpetrate such attacks and intimidation against revisionists. In fact, > you haven't even admitted that such things even happen. First, I do condemn the fire bombing of the IHR. It should be noted, however, that it has never been proven who the responsible party was. That doesn't make my condemnation any less but I certainly didn't want your statement to stand with its implication that it was done because of the work the IHR does or by those who support the reality of the Holocaust. For instance, I could point out that yesterday, there was a radio talk show in which Bradley Smith appeared for 50 minutes and Rabbi Marvin Hier from the Simon Wiesenthal Center was permitted a 10 minute rebuttal. After the radio show, the Simon Wiesenthal Center had a bomb threat. If I left these two statements stand, the implication would obviously be that there was a cause and effect. However, that cause and effect cannot be proven and, therefore, it would be equally false for me to make it (such as your cause and effect regarding the IHR fire bombing). As far as "frivolous court actions," you wouldn't want to mention the lible suit that Carto, the IHR, etc. brought against Mel Mermelstein would you? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 588 Fri Apr 03, 1992 POOH.BAH at 09:48 EST 549 Rungu: > I have read Anne Frank's Diary, and recently learned that it was written > by somebody else AFTER the war. This indicates one of the many errors made by the Holocaust Deniers. But, what is really funny is the following: ------------ Category 15, Topic 4 Message 55 Fri Mar 13, 1992 M.RUNGU at 22:35 EST To Mr. Raven, As an afterthought, I have another question. I have a book called THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK. When I read it, I was very moved; Anne Frank wrote about her sufferings before the Germans took her away to Auschwitz and gassed her. My question is, have you read this book, and if, after reading it, how can you question the holocaust? The DIARY is required reading is many or most schools, and really, to me at least, it represents the holocaust like no other book can. I am sure that most of the people who have read Anne's diary will agree with me there. Your comments? ------------ Now, my disproof of your current claim was also posted in message 61 TOPic 4: ------------ Category 15, Topic 4 Message 61 Sat Mar 14, 1992 POOH.BAH at 00:53 EST 55 M.Rungu: Are you serious, a shill or Greg in "disguise?" I find it very interesting that you are only asking questions which exactly match the pre-set Holocaust Deniers' dogma. If you would like to know all about Anne Frank's diaries and loose sheets, I would recommend that you check into the "Critical Edition" of her diary. It is fascinating. First there is a group of essays, reports, etc. which include the results from the State Science Forensic Laboratory of the Netherlands. The SSFL tested the diaries and loose sheets for purposes of authenticating them. Their final report was over 250 pages but there is an excellent summary in the "Critical Edition." I will be more than happy to summarize the results here but, suffice it to say, they were able to determine that all the materials used (i.e. paper, ink, binding, glue, etc.) were available at the time that Anne was in hiding and, it turns out that shortly thereafter, elements which were present in these materials at that time were removed. For instance, the ink had a high concentration of iron but within five years inks no longer contained iron or had very low concentrations. The handwriting has been compared to other samples of Anne's writing from letters to friends, etc. and it checks out perfectly. The "Critical Edition" also contains all the diaries and loose sheets with only minor changes. For instance, there are people mentioned in the diaries who are still livin today. Some of them refused to grant permission to use their names so initials are used instead. Even with all of this and the fact that the diaries are fascinating, I have to disagree that they tell the story of the Holocaust unlike any other source. The diaries are the story of the life of one girl who died of typhus quite a while after the last entry in the diary. The Holocaust was the systematic destruction of over six million European Jews by the Nazis before and during WWII. The diaries mention nothing of that....at best, they give us insight into the lives of Jews who were hidden by the Righteous of the Nations. ------------ ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 589 Fri Apr 03, 1992 POOH.BAH at 09:49 EST 549 Rungu: > I have never presented myself as a "scholar" who NEVER makes mistakes. Do > you know of somebody who pretends to such omniscience, POOH.BAH? No, I know of no person who has made such a statement. I do, however, know of a person who had her words twisted by another to mean something other than what was said. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 590 Fri Apr 03, 1992 POOH.BAH at 09:50 EST 550 Rungu: > And how about the media? Wouldn't you agree with me that the mass media > has been extremely irresponsible in that it has rarely, if ever, made > mention, in any form, of the commission of ALLIED war crimes, but, rather, > in it's presentation of World War II crimes, dwells almost exclusively on > GERMAN commissions? No, I cannot agree with you that the MEDIA has been irresponsible in this regard. The media is a business and, as such, must make business decisions to maximize profits and minimize losses. I would agree, however, that our UNIVERSITIES and other educational institutions have been irresponsible in this regard. Fair enough? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 591 Fri Apr 03, 1992 POOH.BAH at 09:50 EST 550 Rungu: > The point is that World War II was the holocaust. Jewish people have > co-opted the entire event and present it almost entirely from their own > perspective, as a result of which "the holocaust" is now defined and > accepted as something that only happened to Jewish people. I think this > is wrong and immoral, and if your approach to this is honest and > straightforward, you will join me in condemning and rejecting it. We are > waiting. Before the 1960s-1970s (I can search out the exact date if you would like), the term "holocaust" was never spelled with a capital "H" and the word simply meant: "an offering the whole of which is burned; burnt offering" having been derived from the Greek. It was Elie Wiesel who, in an article, coined the term Holocaust (with a capital letter) for the destruction of European Jewry under the Nazis. Therefore, the Jewish people have not "co-opted" this term or the event. The Holocaust (capital "H") refers to its original meaning. BTW, you might be interested to discover that Elie Wiesel has often commented that he regrets having used that term because he feels that others now use it as a means of insulating themselves from its meaning. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 592 Fri Apr 03, 1992 POOH.BAH at 09:51 EST 552 Rungu: > In conformity with your new censorship policy which you state is > "unbiased", I want to protest your tolerance of POOH.BAH's constant > attacks and ridicules of G.RAVEN. Here you go making an unsubstantiated accusation again. Please cite messages which indicate that I have made "constant attacks" and that I "ridicule" Raven. I admit that, early on in the discussion (in TOPic 4), I did ridicule and mock Raven because of his purposeful ignoring of the meanings of the documents that I posted. However, I was warned by the sysops about that and I have since refrained. Therefore, unless you can cite messages in which I have done so, I must once again ask you to admit your error. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 593 Fri Apr 03, 1992 POOH.BAH at 09:51 EST 572 Raven: Now, you have finally given us some information with which to work. Thank you. > Hilberg later repeats his 800,000 figure (number of Jews in Roumania > in 1939), and adds that in 1945 (presumably after the war) there were > 430,000 Jews in Roumania, although this figure is for Jews within the > post-war boundaries. According to my encyclopedia, after WWII, > Roumania's loss of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina to the Soviet > Union, and her loss of southern Dobruja to Bulgaria, were made > permanent (she regained northern Transylvania). Thus, the post-war > borders were much smaller, and did NOT include lands that had > originally contained a large number of Jews. Let's go through this slowly. 800,000 Jews in pre-war Romania. Lands ceded which included 300,000 Jews to Russia and 150,000 Jews in Transylvania. That left 350,000 Jews in Romania. Therefore, assuming no deaths, births or deportations/migrations, that would mean the post-war boundaries would encompass 500,000 Jews which is more than 50% of the original total Jewish population for Romania. Yet, you maintain that the post-war borders "did NOT include lands that had originally contianed a large number of Jews." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 594 Fri Apr 03, 1992 POOH.BAH at 09:52 EST 572 Raven: To continue with this same passage: > Hilberg later repeats his 800,000 figure (number of Jews in Roumania > in 1939), and adds that in 1945 (presumably after the war) there were > 430,000 Jews in Roumania, although this figure is for Jews within the > post-war boundaries. According to my encyclopedia, after WWII, > Roumania's loss of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina to the Soviet > Union, and her loss of southern Dobruja to Bulgaria, were made > permanent (she regained northern Transylvania). Thus, the post-war > borders were much smaller, and did NOT include lands that had > originally contained a large number of Jews. 800,000 Jews were in pre-war Romania. Lands ceded which included 300,000 Jews to Russia and 150,000 Jews in Transylvania. That left 350,000 Jews in Romania. These 350,000 would obviously be considered "Rumanian Jews" but what about the rest? There were massive deportations, executions, etc. Post-war, there were DP camps throughout Europe. Transylvania was re-united with Romania and, therefore, the Jews living there would also be considered "Rumanian Jews." Many Jews attempted through all the post-war upheaval to escape Europe altogether. Romania reorganized their gov't and it was neither fascist nor communist immediately after the war. More importantly, though, is that Romania was on one of the routes to Palestine. Your whole message assumes that once a Rumanian Jew, one didn't necessarily remain a Rumanian Jew (i.e. through land ceded to another country) and that no one new could BECOME a Rumanian Jew. Therefore, the figures you state become meaningless as proof of the fallacy of Hilberg's figures. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 595 Fri Apr 03, 1992 POOH.BAH at 09:53 EST 572 Raven: > However, in a recent article in (I believe) the Canadian Jewish News > (which I do not have in front of me, but which was read to me over > the phone a couple weeks ago by Ernst Zuendel in Toronto, Canada), > after the war the Roumanians allowed Jews to emigrate if they would > pay a tax of some kind. The article states that this tax amounted to > a considerable sum, but that in spite of everything 300,000 Jews took > advantage of the offer. Once again you are guilty of comparing apples and oranges. You admit that the Hilberg data you discuss comes from the first edition of his multi-volume set which he began writing in 1948 and was published in the 1950's. You then compare this to a "recent article." Better that you compare Hilberg's most recent edition (1985) to the recent article. If you do so, you will find that for the period 1948-1980, Hilberg DOES account for the 300,000. The figure he states is 340,000 who emigrated during that time. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 596 Fri Apr 03, 1992 POOH.BAH at 09:53 EST 572 Raven: > Worse, if Roumania got back Transylvania (which had 150,000 Jews at > one time), she could have had some 450,000 Jews, which is very close > to the number 430,000 given by Hilberg. However, to have 245,000 Jews > left in Roumania in 1957 but at the same time have 270,000 murdered > by the Germans (and Roumanians, but let's not get into THAT), you > need to have started with 515,000 Jews in Old Roumania, which Hilberg > does not claim. Here you have made a simple math error in the first sentence. 350,000 (the number of Jews remaining in Romania after lands were ceded) plus 150,000 (the number of Jews in pre-war Transylvania) equal 500,000 and not the 450,000 figure you mention. Now, the 270,000 murdered Rumanian Jews is based upon the original figure of 800,000 Rumanian Jews (number in Romania pre-war) and not the number from the post-war borders. Hilberg clearly states that the countries listed in the table in which he states 270,000: "Borders refer to 1937. Converts to Christianity are included, and refugees are counted with the countries from which they were deported." This notation also brings up an interesting point. Converts to Christianity were not spared the fate of the rest of European Jewry. However, those who had converted before 1939 (the date of the 800,000 census figure) are NOT included in that first figure. Realizing these facts should clear up any inconsistencies that you feel remains. I do agree with you, though, you have shown the difficulty of accurately determining war-time demographics. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 597 Fri Apr 03, 1992 POOH.BAH at 09:54 EST 573 Raven: > In reference to your posting of the diary of Dr. Johann-Paul Kremer, > who was stationed at Auschwitz. > --- > Paul Rassinier has stated: Raven, you have seen me state that I have respect for Mark Weber yet disagree with his overall conclusions. I've been asked by many WHY I respect Mark Weber. One of the reasons I do is because there are some points on which we do agree. Our opinion of Paul Rassinier being one of them. To quote from Lenski's book on Mark Weber's sworn testimony at the Zuendel trial: "Christie [Zuendel's attorney] questioned Weber about Paul Rassinier, the French revisionist pioneer on whom Harwood relied heavily. Weber regretted Rassinier's shortcomings, but emphasized his reliability about subjects of which he had first-hand knowledge, such as the Buchenwald and Dora camps. ... Weber vigorously challenged the tendency of both Harwood and Rassinier to overemphasize the alleged Jewish financial interest in upholding the Holocaust story." I base my agreement with Weber on my reading of Rassinier's "The Holocaust Story" and "The Lies of Ulysses." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 598 Fri Apr 03, 1992 POOH.BAH at 09:55 EST 574 Raven: It is curious that you have forgotten to mention the IHR suit against Mermelstein for lible. That one didn't even last long enough to go to a hearing! There was only ONE of multiple counts which did not last the first day of the hearing. However, the Mermelstein case against the IHR is being appealed and the other counts of the suit are waiting until it can all go forward with all counts. And, would you admit that the IHR now has vastly greater sums at its disposal than does Mel Mermelstein who has had to privately finance all of his legal proceedings? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 599 Fri Apr 03, 1992 POOH.BAH at 09:55 EST 576 Raven: > To Pooh.bah (regarding 443) --- > I have lost count of how many times you have depended on the > Franke-Gricksch Resettlement Action Report ... and yet you still > ignore my questions about its authenticity, and you have yet to > respond to my challenge to discuss the contents of this report. I can > understand that it is vital to your position, but you MUST do more > than simply repeat it time and again. > . > Now, I must demand: tell us the details of the copy of this document > you have said you reviewed (what it looked like, where it is, etc.), > so that we can begin discussing the text of the Report. Apparently you missed my message that I posted yesterday: >476 Raven: >> I have described in some detail the characteristics of the carbon copy of >> the typescript copy of this alleged report. In return, I asked for >> nothing more than a description from you of the document you claim to >> have "reviewed". It is a carbon copy of the original (as I have previously stated). It can be found in the document center in Berlin. The carbon copy I reviewed has none of the errors that you have previously mentioned (which I found amazing since you cited no source for those errors and, yet, you have admitted to not knowing German....how did you do that?). What further description would you like? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 601 Fri Apr 03, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:04 EST Back in message 699 in TOPic 4, Rungu made the comment that "Berlin alone had some 50,000 Jews still living there, free, to the great surprise and embarrassment of the holocaust-legend exaggerators. Hundreds of thousands or perhaps millions of Soviet Jews from the western regions of the (former!) U.S.S.R. lived and breathed and later emigrated elsewhere, decades AFTER the war." Many others have demanded to know Rungu's source for these statements solely on the certainty that it is false and that certainty is based upon the "fact" that the Nazis deported every Jew they could to the ghettos and camps. Let's look at Rungu's statements and see what is true and what is false. Were 50,000 Jews still living in Berlin at the end of the war? No. Were "hundreds of thousands or perhaps millions" of Soviet Jews from the western regions of the USSR still alive? Well, that is a wee bit of an exaggeration. Do the facts embarrass Holocaust historians? Not at all. In fact, without the Holocaust historians, we probably wouldn't know about the Jews who did live relatively freely in Europe during the Nazi years. So, what are the facts? There WERE hundreds of thousand (but not millions) of European (not just Soviet) Jews who did live relatively freely in Europe during the Nazi years. Actually, 500,000 has been given as a conservative estimate of this group. There WERE 28,000 (not 50,000) of these Jews in Berlin at the end of the war. There WERE 50,000 (this is probably where Rungu made his mistake) of these Jews living in GERMANY (not just Berlin) at the end of the war. Who were these Jews? These were Jews in mixed marriages, children of mixed marriages and "essential" Jews. Although these Jews were not allowed to pursue their educations (the children, that is) nor work in the professions, they were permitted the same rations and lifestyle as the rest of the non- Jewish populations and their property was not "Aryanized." They were not in hiding but lived in the open. There were also many cases where a marriage going sour was kept together to protect the Jewish spouse. Yet, the Gentile spouse is not recognized as one of the Righteous of the Nations. What is probably the most interesting is that according to Judaic Law, if the mother is Jewish, the child is Jewish. However, for the most part, the Mischlinge children who were the best protected were those whose mothers were Jewish but their fathers were Gentiles - especially if the child had been baptized. So, Rungu did make some false statements but the statements weren't nearly as false as some here seem to believe. For those who would like to know more about this group of Jews, you might consult: _Special Treatment: The Untold Story of the Survival of Jews in Hitler's Third Reich_ by Alan Abrams. Although this book is in the nature of "eyewitness accounts" (i.e. those who were actually beneficiaries of the "special treatment"), it is a good introduction to this aspect of the Nazi period. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 602 Fri Apr 03, 1992 GRAFFITI [Ric Helton] at 18:22 EST [a few personal attacks deleted, several off-topic messages moved to topics 7 and 4. Please note that topic 4 is now open to discuss side issues that pop up here that are not directly related to the Holocaust itself. -Ric/PF*NPC] ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 604 Fri Apr 03, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 20:07 EST Raven 572 >> [Hilberg is discredited because he doesn't cover what was..] in a recent article in (I believe) the Canadian Jewish News (which I do not have in front of me, but which was read to me over the phone a couple weeks ago by Ernst Zuendel in Toronto, Canada), HA HA HA HA HA. Did you expect anyone to take such slipshod reporting by you as a serious impugning of Hilberg? Raven 573 (Regarding the mental gymnastics you attributed to Rassinier that if "special actions" attended by Kremer were "outside", one should conclude "the Kremer diary entries not only do not prove that Auschwitz was an extermination camp, they prove just the opposite.") You've demonstrated a complete absense of rational thought or logic. Kremer said Auschwitz was an extermination camp (or in Rassinier's stilted translation "the camp of the annihilation". You're denying the obvious. Raven 575 >> Please post the "lies," but keep in mind that Georges Wellers has mistranslated and misrepresented the Kremer diaries (see my earlier post to Termy), and is hardly an unimpeachable source. Refer to 4 #832, Top 9 #9 or Top 9 #352. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 605 Fri Apr 03, 1992 M.FEINS at 20:09 EST A moment of Silence in the Blessed Memory of the Multi Millions of JEWS, NON-JEWS, GAYS, MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY INFIRM that were indiscriminately slaughtered by the depraved animals of Nazi Holocaust and their sick Nazi Masters ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 606 Fri Apr 03, 1992 AH.STEIN at 20:41 EST 499 Rungu: >Again, I am confused. Which company was it that claimed progress was its most important product? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 607 Fri Apr 03, 1992 AH.STEIN at 20:42 EST 500 Rungu: >Yad Vashem "does not discriminate based upon religion"? Do they discriminate based upon any other criteria? You have clearly said that the Yad Vashem will accept ALL researchers interested in learning more about the holocaust. Can Mark Weber go there? Would he be welcomed and given every courtesy? Obviously, since Weber is not a researcher "interested in learning more about the holocaust," but is an anti-semite interested in denying the Holocaust, he does not qualify. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 608 Fri Apr 03, 1992 AH.STEIN at 20:42 EST 547 Rungu: >I think the smears and mud-slinging at the Institute [of Historical Misinformation] should stop. It is extremely difficult to smear an organization devoted to a complete rewrite of history. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 609 Fri Apr 03, 1992 AH.STEIN at 20:43 EST 549 Rungu: >I have read Anne Frank's Diary, and recently learned that it was written by somebody else AFTER the war. When you make such an outrageous claim, you might increase your credibility if you backed it up. (I know, that's impossible, because there's nothing to back it up.) The repetition of an outrageous lie was one of the favorite techniques of the Nazi propaganda machine. It has been resurrected by the spiritual descendants of the Nazis, the Holocaust deniers. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 610 Fri Apr 03, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 20:44 EST More of the Lanzmann interview of Franz Suchomel, SS Unterscharfuehrer (Treblinka) Next 9 messages Suchomel: The new gas chambers were built in September 1942. Lanzmann: Who built them? Suchomel: Hackenhold and Lambert supervised the Jews who did the work, the bricklaying at least. Ukrainian carpenters made the doors. The gas-chamber doors themselves were armored bunker doors. I think they were brought from Bialystok, from some Russian bunkers. Lanzmann: What was the capacity of the new gas chambers? There were two of them, right? Suchomel: Yes. But the old ones hadn't been demolished. When there were a lot of trains, a lot of people, the old ones were put back into service. And here ... the Jews say there were five on each side. I say there were four, but I'm not sure. In any case, only the upper row on this side was in action. Lanzmann: Why not the other side? Suchomel: Disposing of the bodies would have been too complicated. Lanzmann: Too far? Suchomel: Yes. Up there Wirth had built the death camp, assigning a detail of Jewish workers to it. The detail had a fixed number in it, around two hundred people, who worked only in the death camp. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 611 Fri Apr 03, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 20:45 EST More of the Lanzmann interview of Franz Suchomel, SS Unterscharfuehrer (Treblinka) Continued Lanzmann: But what was the capacity of the new, gas chambers? Suchomel: The new gas chambers... Let's see... They could finish off three thousand people in two hours. Lanzmann: How many people at once in a single gas chamber? Suchomel: I can't say exactly. The Jews say two hundred. Imagine a room this size. Lanzmann: They put more in at Ausczwitz. Suchomel: Auschwitz was a factory! Lanzmann: And Treblinka? Suchomel: I'll give you my definition. Keep this in mind! Treblinka was a primitive but efficient production line of death. Understand? Lanzmann: Yes. But primitive? Suchomel: Primitive, yes. But it worked well, that production line of death. Lanzmann: Was Belzec even more rudimentary? Suchomel: Belzec was the laboratory. Wirth was camp commandant. He tried everything imaginable there. He got off on the wrong foot. The pits were overflowing and the cesspool seeped out in front of the SS mess hall. It stank in front of the mess hall, in front of their barracks. Lanzmann: Were you at Belzec? Suchomel: No. Wirth with his own men -with Franz, with Oberhauser and Hackenhold- he tried everything there. Those three had to put the bodies in the pits themselves so that Wirth could see how much space he needed. And when they rebelled -Franz refused- Wirth beat Franz with a whip. He whipped Hackenhold too. You see? Lanzmann: Kurt Franz? Suchomel: Kurt Franz. That's how Wirth was. Then, with that experience behind him, he came to Treblinka. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 613 Fri Apr 03, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 20:46 EST More of the Lanzmann interview of Franz Suchomel, SS Unterscharfuehrer (Treblinka) Continued [...] Suchomel: "Looking squarely ahead, brave and joyous, at the world, the squads march to work. All that matters to us now is Treblinka. It is our destiny. That's why we've become one with Treblinka in no time at all. We know only the word of our Commander, we know only obedience and duty, we want to serve, to go on serving, until a little luck ends it all. Hurray!" Lanzmann: Once more, but louder! Suchomel: We're laughing about it, but it's so sad! Lanzmann: No one's laughing. Suchomel: Don't be sore at me. You want history - I'm giving you history. Franz wrote the words. The melody came from Buchenwald. Camp Buchenwald, where Franz was a guard. New Jews who arrived in the morning, new "worker Jews," were taught the song. And by evening they had to be able to sing along with it. Lanzmann: Sing it again. Suchomel: All right. Lanzmann: lt's very important. But loud! Suchomel: "Looking squarely ahead, brave and joyous, at the world, the squads march to work. All that matters to us now is Treblinka. It is our destiny. That's why we've become one with Treblinka in no time at all. We know only the word of our Commander, we know only obedience and duty, we want to serve, to go on serving, until a little luck ends it all. Hurray!" Suchomel: Satisfied? That's unique. No Jew knows that today! ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 614 Fri Apr 03, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 20:46 EST More of the Lanzmann interview of Franz Suchomel, SS Unterscharfuehrer (Treblinka) Continued Lanzmann: How was it possible it Treblinka in peak days to "process" eighteen thousand people? Suchomel: Eighteen thousand is too high. Lanzmann: But I read that figure in court reports. Suchomel: Sure. Lanzmann: To "process" eighteen thousand people, to liquidate them... Suchomel: Mr. Lanzmann, that's an exaggeration. Believe me. Lanzmann: How many? Suchomel: Twelve thousand to fifteen thousand. But we had to spend half the night at it. In January the trains started arriving at 6 A.M. Lanzmann: Always at 6 A.M.? Suchomel: Not always. Often. The schedules were erratic. Sometimes one came at 6 A.M., then another at noon, maybe another late in the evening. You see? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 615 Fri Apr 03, 1992 AH.STEIN at 20:47 EST 574 Raven: > You not only have gratuitously attacked the IHR, My pleasure. They deserve all attacks launched against them. >you have completely misstated the case and ignored recent developments. . 1) The court took judicial notice of the Holocaust, making it virtually impossible for the underfinanced IHR to present its case. It's hard to present a case based on fantasy and lies. 2) The IHR settled with Mermelstein to avoid a lengthy and costly court battle. The court did not (and could not) order them to do this. The IHR has not suffered from a lack of resources. 3) Mermelstein's latest adventure against the IHR ended ignominiously, as Mermelstein's case did not even last through the first day of the hearings. Would you care to be specific, or is this another baseless statement like the "Anne Frank Diary" denial story? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 616 Fri Apr 03, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 20:47 EST More of the Lanzmann interview of Franz Suchomel, SS Unterscharfuehrer (Treblinka) Continued Lanzmann: So a train arrived. I'd like you to describe in detail the whole process during the peak period. Suchomel: The trains left Malkinia station for Treblinka station. It was about six miles. Treblinka was a village. A small village. As a station, it gained in importance because of the transport of Jews. Thirty to fifty cars would arrive. They were divided into sections of ten or twelve or fifteen cars and shunted into Treblinka Camp and brought to the ramp. The other cars waited, loaded with people, in the Treblinka station. The windows were closed off with barbed wire so no one could get out. On the roofs were the "hellhounds," the Ukrainians or Latvians. The Latvians were the worst. On the ramp, for each car, there stood two Jews from the Blue Squad to speed things up. They said: "Get out, get out. Hurry, hurry!" There were also Ukrainians and Germans. Lanzmann: How many Germans? Suchomel: From three to five. Lanzmann: No more? Suchomel: No more. I can assure you. Lanzmann: How many Ukrainians? Suchomel: Ten. Lanzmann: Ten Ukrainians, five Germans. Two, that is, twenty people from the Blue Squad. Suchomel: Men from the Blue Squad were here, and here they sent the people inside. The Red Squad was here. Lanzmann: What was the Red Squad's job? Suchomel: The clothes! To carry the clothes taken off by the men and by the women up here immediately. Lanzmann: How long was it between the unloading at the ramp and the undressing, how many minutes? Suchomel: For the women let's say an hour in all. An hour, an hour and a half. A whole train took two hours. In two hours it was all over. Lanzmann: Between the time of arrival . . . Suchomel: and death . . . Lanzmann: . . . it war all over in two hours? Suchomel: Two hours, two and a half hours, three hours. Lanzmann: A whole train? Suchomel: Yes, a whole train. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 617 Fri Apr 03, 1992 AH.STEIN at 20:47 EST 576 Raven: > I have lost count of how many times you have depended on the Franke-Gricksch Resettlement Action Report ... Which reminds me: What is the basis for your undercount (by 5,400,000) of the number of Jews killed by the Nazis? Is it simply that you lost count there as well? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 618 Fri Apr 03, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 20:48 EST More of the Lanzmann interview of Franz Suchomel, SS Unterscharfuehrer (Treblinka) Continued Lanzmann: And for only one section, for ten cars, how long? Suchomel: I can't calculate that, because the sections came one after another and people flooded in constantly, understand? Usually, the men waiting who sat there, or there, were sent straight up via the "funnel." The women were sent last. At the end. They had to go up there too, and often waited here. Five at a time. Fifty people -- sixty women with children. They had to wait here until there was room here. Naked! In summer and winter. Lanzmann: Winter in Treblinka can be very cold. Suchomel: Well, in winter, in December, anyway after Christmas. But even before Christmas it was cold as hell. Between fifteen and minus four. I know: at first it was cold as hell for us too. We didn't have suitable uniforms. Lanzmann: But it was colder. . . Suchomel: . . . for those poor people . . . Lanzmann: . . . in the "funnel." Suchomel: In the "funnel" it was very, very cold. Lanzmann: Can you describe this "funnel" precisely? What was it like? How wide? How was it for the people in this 'funnel"? Suchomel: It was about thirteen feet wide, as wide as this room. On each side were palisades this high . . . or this high. Lanzmann: Walls? Suchomel: No, barbed wire. Woven into the barbed wire were branches of pine trees. You understand? It was known as "camouflage." There was a Camouflage Squad of twenty Jews. They brought in new branches every day from the woods. So everything was screened. People couldn't see anything to the left or right. Nothing. You couldn't see through it. Impossible. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 619 Fri Apr 03, 1992 AH.STEIN at 20:48 EST 579 Raven: > Although I am sure that you wished ... as I did ... that your recent actions to make this discussion more civilized would not be needed,... Any "discussion" where one party denies the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis is inherently uncivilized. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 620 Fri Apr 03, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 20:48 EST More of the Lanzmann interview of Franz Suchomel, SS Unterscharfuehrer (Treblinka) Continued Lanzmann: Treblinka, where so many people were exterminated, wasn't big, was it? Suchomel: It wasn't big. Sixteen hundred feet at the widest point. It wasn't a rectangle, more like a rhomboid. You must realize that here the ground was flat, and here it began to rise. And at the top of the slope was the gas chamber. You had to climb up to it. Lanzmann: The "funnel" was called the "Road to Heaven," wasn't it? Suchomel: The Jews called it the "Ascension," also the "Last Road." I only heard those two names for it. Lanzmann: I need to see it. The people go into the "funnel." Then what happens? They are totally naked? Suchomel: Totally naked. Here stood two Ukrainian guards. Mainly for the men. If the men wouldn't go in, they were beaten with whips. The men were "driven" along. Not the women. They weren't beaten. Lanzmann: Why such humanity? Suchomel: I didn't see it. Maybe they were beaten too. Lanzmann: Why not? They were about to die anyway. Suchomel: At the entrance to the gas chambers, undoubtedly. In the "funnel," the women had to wait. They heard the motors of the gas chambers. Maybe they also heard people screaming and imploring. As they waited, "death panic" overwhelmed them. "Death panic" makes people let go. They empty themselves, from the front or the rear. So often, where the women stood, there were five or six rows of excrement. Lanzmann: They stood? Suchomel: They could squat or do it standing. I didn't see them do it, I only saw the feces. Lanzmann: Only women? Suchomel: Not the men, only the women. The men were chased through the "funnel." The women had to wait until a gas chamber was empty. Lanzmann: And the men? Suchomel: No, they were whipped in first. You understand? They always went first. Lanzmann: They didn't have to wait? Suchomel: They weren't given time to wait, no. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 621 Fri Apr 03, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 20:49 EST More of the Lanzmann interview of Franz Suchomel, SS Unterscharfuehrer (Treblinka) Continued Lanzmann: And this "death panic"? Suchomel: When this "death panic" sets in, one lets go. It's well known when someone's terrified, and knows he's.about to die; it can happen in bed. My mother was kneeling by her bed ... Lanzmann: Your mother? Suchomel: Yes. Then there was a big pile. That's a fact. It's been medically proved. Since you wanted to know: as soon as they were unloaded, if they'd been loaded in Warsaw, or elsewhere, they'd already been beaten. Beaten hard, worse than in Treblinka, I can assure you. Then during the train journey, standing in the cars, no toilets, nothing, hardly any water--fear. Then the doors opened and it started again: "Bremze, bremze!" "Czipsze, czipsze!" I can't pronounce it, I have false teeth. It's Polish: Bremze or czipsze. Lanzmann: What does bremze mean? Suchomel: It's a Ukrainian word. It means "faster." Again the chase. A hail of whiplashes. The SS man Kuettner's whip was this long. Women to the left, men to the right. And always more blows. No respite. Go in there, strip. Hurry, hurry! Always running. Lanzmann: Running and screaming. Suchomel: That's how they were finished off. Lanzmann: That was the technique? Suchomel: Yes, the technique. You must remember, it had to go fast. And the Blue Squad also had the task of leading the sick and the aged to the "infirmary," so as not to delay the flow of people to the gas chambers. Old people would have slowed it down. Assignment to the "infirmary" was decided by Germans. The Jews of the Blue Squad only implemented the decision, leading the people there, or carrying them on stretchers. Old women, sick children, children whose mother was sick, or whose grandmother was very old, were sent along with the grandma, because she didn't know about the "infirmary." It had a white flag with a red cross. A passage led to it. Until they reached the end, they saw nothing. Then they'd see the dead in the pit. They were forced to strip, to sit on a sandbank, and were killed with a shot in the neck. They fell into the pit. There was always a fire in the pit. With rubbish, paper and gasoline, people burn very well. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 622 Fri Apr 03, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 20:50 EST More of the Lanzmann interview of Franz Suchomel, SS Unterscharfuehrer (Treblinka) Continued Suchomel: .... in, say, January, February, March, hardly any trains arrived. Lanzmann: Was Treblinka glum without the trains? Suchomel: I wouldn't say the Jews were glum. They became so when they realized . . . I'll come to that later; it's a story in itself. The Jews, those in the work squads, thought at first that they'd survive. But in January, when they stopped receiving food, for Wirth had decreed that there were too many of them ... There were a good five to six hundred of them in Camp 1. Lanzmann: Up there? Suchomel: Yes. To keep them from rebelling, they weren't shot or gassed, but starved. Then an epidemic broke out, a kind of typhus. The Jews stopped believing they'd make it. They were left to die. They dropped like flies. It was all over. They'd stopped believing. It was all very well to say I... we... kept on insisting: "You're going to live!" We almost believed it ourselves. If you lie enough, you believe your own lies. Yes. But they replied to me: "No, chief, we're just reprieved corpses." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 623 Fri Apr 03, 1992 GRAFFITI [Ric Helton] at 21:37 EST [one message moved to topic 4, one moved to topic 7] ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 626 Sat Apr 04, 1992 C.MAIER [Claire] at 01:02 EST In the discussion of the boiling point of HCN, no one has mentioned that all volatile liquids exist in equilibrium with their gaseous phase. I won't go into great chemical details here, but an analogy could be used with water vapor. Even though the boiling point of water is 212 degrees F., much higher than even the hottest summer day, there is always some water vapor present in the air--this is the humidity. This water vapor is stable in its gaseous state, and as long as the temperature doesn't drop, it will not condense (warm air can hold more of the gaseous phase of a volatile liquid than cold air). So for HCN, since its boiling point is so much lower than water, a much greater concentration would be able to remain in a gaseous state than for water, even on cold days. Since the concentration needed to kill humans is so low, it's quite possible that there wouldn't be appreciable condensation on the walls. Also, a control sample of anything, by definition, is one believed to be UNAFFECTED by whatever is being tested for. So a sample taken from a delousing chamber to test for cyanide cannot be a control sample. Removing the clothing and washing the skin of a person who has INHALED cyanide will not help them; nor will it help remove cyanide from the body of a person who has absorbed cyanide from any source (skin exposure, inhalation, or ingestion). The treatment for cyanide poisoning today includes administering nitrites (inhalation and IV) followed by thiosulfate IV. PoohBah, There has been a great deal of discussion about Faurisson. However, I am a bit confused. Exactly how did he get into trouble in France? What were the charges against him? What was his exact punishment (if that is the right word for the loss of his position, etc)? I am probably not asking everything I want to know because I am fuzzy on the details of this affair, so maybe a general "Faurisson overview" would be helpful for those like myself who have gotten lost in all the discussion surrounding him. Thanks. Also, I have noticed that there hasn't been much mention of documents produced by Adolph Hitler during the war and shortly before it. What documents are available? Did he have diaries, orders to troups, speeches, etc.? I think this is important in establishing beyond a doubt the veracity of the Holocaust--to get things from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Could we spend some time reading and discussing documents from Hitler himself? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 627 Sat Apr 04, 1992 D.FRIEDMAN14 at 05:52 EST Claire: I could be wrong, and I'll depend on Pooh-Bah to tell me if I am, of course, but one would tend to think that the demon Hitler wasn't so involved in day-to- day administrative details, given: a.) the fact that he was head of state; and b.) the huge and byzantine administrative appartus that carried out the crimes. Dave ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 628 Sat Apr 04, 1992 POOH.BAH at 06:16 EST Claire (and Dave ): RE: Hitler. I have already u/l'ed the order signed by him for the euthanasia program. We do have other documents in which he signed to indicate that he had read them (I'll u/l some of those because they indicate that Hitler knew that great numbers of Jews were being killed). We, of course, have numerous speeches, two books that he wrote (Mein Kampf and a second book which he never had published) and the conversations he had after meals which were taken down in shorthand and transcribed. We also have his "last testament" which he wrote from the bunker shortly before he took his own life. Dave is correct, though, in that we don't have many orders that bear his signature. I will type up some of information that we do have and u/l it here. I will do the same with the Faurisson material. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 629 Sat Apr 04, 1992 GRAFFITI [Ric Helton] at 07:51 EST [3 messages deleted for being off-topic or personal attacks] ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 630 Sat Apr 04, 1992 J.STENGEL [John] at 11:19 EST ---->G.RAVEN Message 475 >To John Stengel (regarding 317) --- > Lets assume the Governor cuts the Warden's budget ... (and etc.) >. >These paragraphs seem to be nothing more than a figment of your >imagination. Am I supposed to respond to them? . You correctly discerned that these paragraphs were a figment of my imagination; my attempt at "black humor" (at the expense of Mr. Leuchter), did have a point I was trying to illustrate. The point was (and is) that while HCN will kill instantly at very high levels of concentration, it will kill (just as dead) at far lower levels of concentration given longer exposure time. The point is relevant and important to this discussion. . There has been some discussion on this topic as to design of gas chambers. It seems to me that the optimal design of the HCN gas chamber is contingent on how quickly it is desired to kill the victim. If it is desired that the victims be killed "instantly" (as in the Missouri gas chamber), then the chamber must be of a highly sophisticated design utilizing hermetic seals and rapid ventilating systems. The door seals and ventilation system are needed in the "instant" death chamber because of the extremely high gas concentration necessary to bring on instananeous death. If, however, he has no particular concern for the human dignity of the condemned (i.e. any concern for his prolonged agony); the gas chamber designer can be quite sloppy about "door seals" and "ventilation systems". He (the designer) simply specifies that the "chamber" be used at low gas concentration for long time periods. Low gas concentration means less danger from seal leaks, short ventilation time, low risk from breathing a few breaths. Such a chamber is lethal only to those locked in it for an extended period of time.. say 15 to 30 minutes. I direct your attention to your post: . G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] Message 489: . >By contrast, the stories about the homicidal gassings almost all >say that the people are herded in, the gas is introduced into the >room, fifteen minutes later the screaming stops, the doors to the >"gas chamber" are thrown open, and the bodies dragged out, sometimes >by workers who are smoking and eating, and have no protective clothing >or respirators! . If it took fifteen minutes ("fifteen minutes later the screaming stops"), then the gas concentration in the chamber was relatively low. With minimal ventilation, the workers starting to remove the bodies with "no protective clothing or respirators" poses no particular technical problem. . There is an inherent "conflict of interest" in utilizing a man like Fred Leuchter to pass judgement on the mass death gas chambers of the camps. Leuchter is a "craftsman of death", an "artist" if you will; analagous to to the old pre-industrial age guild craftsmen of Europe. I am sure Mr. Leuchter takes great professional pride in his work...the condemned gets truly "personal service" from Mr. Leuchter. When the industrial revolution started turning out cheap mass produced goods, the old guild craftsmen probably sneered at the quality of those mass produced goods; perhaps they even pronounced them unworkable or whatever. Like our modern Mr.Leuchter, their professional pride was highly offended... here were some sloppy upstarts cranking out an inferior product; certainly produced without the loving care and pride with which they turned out their product! Fred Leuchter cannot help but be "alienated" by the idea of mass produced executions. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 631 Sat Apr 04, 1992 J.STENGEL [John] at 11:21 EST ------>G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] Message 486 >As previously posted by me, once the ambient temperature drops below >78.3 degrees F, condensation begins to take place. Any porous surface >(skin, walls, clothing, wood, etc.) that comes in contact with the >condensate will absorb it to some extent. The walls of the Missouri >gas chamber are (were) steel with a sealing coat of paint over it >(modern gas chambers use epoxy). The walls of the so-called gas >chambers in Auschwitz were no so protected, so they would have >absorbed HCN condensate. . If HCN condenses below 78.3 degrees F, then it EVAPORATES above 78.3 degrees F. After 45 years, it would be a miracle if any crystaline HCN was still on the walls; pourous or not pourous. We must assume that any HCN condensed on the walls would have re-evaporated each time (during the 45+ years since the chamber was last used) the temperature reached above 78.3 F. It simply evaporated and is "gone with the wind"! The only possible thing to look for would be other cyanide compounds which would have a higher evaporation point. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 635 Sat Apr 04, 1992 H.P.SKALIKS [Hans-Peter] at 18:10 EST John Stengel >>If HCN condenses below 78.3 degrees F, then it EVAPORATES >>above 78.3 degrees F. After 45 years, it would be a >>miracle if any crystaline HCN was still on the walls; >>pourous or not pourous. We must assume that any HCN >>condensed on the walls would have re-evaporated each time >>(during the 45+ years since the chamber was last used) the >>temperature reached above 78.3 F. It simply evaporated >>and is "gone with the wind"! The only possible thing to >>look for would be other cyanide compounds which would have >>a higher evaporation point. The residues for which chemical tests were done were not HCN. It is sufficiently volatile that none would remain, especially after 45 years. In the same way that HCl (hydrogen chloride) dissolved in water creates hydrochloric acid, also with the formula HCl, a solution of HCN in water is hydrocyanic acid, which reacts quite vigorously with materials found in concrete and mortar to form relatively stable salts of the cyanide radical (CN). The reason for tests in the delousing chambers was to investigate the stability of the residues over time. An execution chamber is guaranteed to contain water vapour from the victims and consequently it is a quite reasonable expectation to find CN salts present in the mortar and other construction materials. If these are wholly absent or only in trace amounts then the conclusion to be drawn is that these particular cement blocks or mortar were never exposed to hydrocyanic acid. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 636 Sat Apr 04, 1992 POOH.BAH at 19:03 EST 635 Hans-Peter: > An execution chamber is guaranteed to contain water vapour from > the victims and consequently it is a quite reasonable > expectation to find CN salts present in the mortar and other > construction materials. If these are wholly absent or only in > trace amounts then the conclusion to be drawn is that these > particular cement blocks or mortar were never exposed to > hydrocyanic acid. The above has some problems with it. First, the reason to test a control sample (i.e. a sample of the same material that is not expected to show any CN salts) is to verify that there is not some other reason for traces of hydrocyanic compounds. Leuchter, unfortunately, did not do this. Fortunately, though, the Krakow Institute of Forensic Expertise DID take such a control sample. That control sample was totally negative (i.e. no trace) and yet they did find traces in the gas chambers. From this, then, it is not logical to conclude that the bricks and mortar from the gas chambers "were never exposed to hydrocyanic acid" and, in fact, NONE of the reports concludes such (even Leuchter's). Second, it would not be a "reasonable expectation" to find hydrocyanic compounds present. Even though these compounds are MORE stable, there is no reason to expect them to still be present 43 years later. The Krakow report even addresses this very issue: "It [HCN] has an aciduious character and produces salts called cyanides when contacting with metals. Salts of alcalic metals such as natrium and calcium, are dissolvable in water. "HCN is a very poor acid and therefore its salts easily disperse if mixed with stronger acids. Such an acid is carbonic acid which emanates through the reaction of bicarbon oxide and water. Cyanides are more easily dissolved by stronger acids like sulfuric acid. Much more durable are those complex compounds of cyanic ions amalgamating with heavy metals. Such one is the aforementioned Prussian Blue, but even it dissolves slowly in an aciduious environment. "Under such circumstances it was a vain hope that after 45 years cyanide acid compounds could be found preserved in building material (plaster, brick) if exposed to the action of atmospheric forces such as aciduious rains and aciduious oxygenes, especially those of sulfurous and nitrogenous complexion. A better chance had the analysis of plaster taken from safe places, prtected from the action of precipitation (including aciduous rains)." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 637 Sat Apr 04, 1992 POOH.BAH at 19:04 EST 635 Hans-Peter: > The reason for tests in the delousing chambers was to investigate the > stability of the residues over time. This statement would be reasonable IF the delousing chamber had been exposed to the same environmental forces as had the gas chambers. However, since the delousing chamber was left intact and the gas chambers had been destroyed and left exposed to the elements, testing of the samples from the delousing chamber would not logically produce the above conclusion. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 642 Sat Apr 04, 1992 J.STENGEL [John] at 23:27 EST Ref: C.MAIER [Claire] Message 626 . >In the discussion of the boiling point of HCN, no one has mentioned >that all volatile liquids exist in equilibrium with their gaseous phase. >I won't go into great chemical details here, but an analogy could be >used with water vapor. Even though the boiling point of water is 212 >degrees F., much higher than even the hottest summer day, there is >always some water vapor present in the air--this is the humidity. >This water vapor is stable in its gaseous state, and as long as the >temperature doesn't drop, it will not condense (warm air can hold >more of the gaseous phase of a volatile liquid than cold air). So >for HCN, since its boiling point is so much lower than water, a much >greater concentration would be able to remain in a gaseous state than >for water, even on cold days. Since the concentration needed to >kill humans is so low, it's quite possible that there wouldn't be >appreciable condensation on the walls. . Claire points out a very important fact here which supports the hypothesis of low HCN concentration gas chambers. Claire's point also answers Greg Raven's objections in his post: . >G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] Message 467 . >Auschwitz lies just above the 50th parallel, or roughly as close to >the North Pole as Winnipeg, Canada. In the summer, it may reach 25.7 >degrees (78.3 F), but unless everything is at that temperature or >above, HCN will condense. This means that for most of the year (and >probably much of the day, even in the summer) the "gas chambers" >would have had to be heated. Are there any heaters in the "gas >chambers"? Answer: No. . >But let's take as a hypothesis that these efficient Germans found >some way to heat these rooms on cool or cold days so they could carry >out the executions without pause. What happens when you start to >ventilate a warm room with cool (or cold) air? You get condensation. >You get pockets of highly concentrated HCN gas. In some instances, >you get concentrations high enough (over 6 percent) to become >explosive... . The maximum "saturation" point of water vapor in (air at 1 atm) at 70 degrees F (21 deg C) is approximately 19 grams/m^3... at 60 degrees F (15.5 Deg C), the saturation point is about 15 grams/m^3; this means that if air with a relative humidity of 99.9% at 70 degrees F is subjected to a temperature drop of 10 degrees, about 4 grams of water per cubic meter of air will condense out. Compare these concentrations 15 and 20 grams/m^3 with the reported lethal HCN concentration of 300 milligrams/m^3. The dimensions of the Missouri gas chamber were cited uptopic; also reported was the amount of HCN used in that gas chamber ...it translated to approximately 34 grams/m^3...obviously the "saturation" point of HCN in air is much higher than for water vapor. Indeed, considering the lethality of HCN (at low concentration) combined with the high saturation point and low boiling temperature of HCN; one could probably use a deep freezer room as a gas chamber! Even then there would probably not be appreciable HCN condensation! No Raven, there was no need for heaters and no need to worry about (HCN condensation) when ventilating the chamber with cool air. . ---> POOH.BAH Message 443 >Report to Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler > From Alfred Franke-Gricksch > 14-16 May 1943 . >... When three- to four-hundred people have been herded into this room >the doors are shut,....As soon as the containers touch the base of the >pillars, they release particular substances that put the people to sleep >in one minute... . >...(Because fresh corpses burn particularly well, only >50-100 lbs. of coke are needed for the whole process.) . I am somewhat skeptical as to the authenticity of this document (or at least as to the accuracy of translation): . 1. Because of the "one minute"; this contradicts the more abundant accounts of 10 minutes to 30 minutes. . 2. Because 50-100 lbs of coke does not sound like quite enough fuel to cremate 300-400 corpses. . 3. Why would Franke-Gricksch (who is presumably German, not British or American) refer to lbs. (pounds) of coke rather than kilograms? The Germans, like all of Continental Europe, use (and used in 1943) the Metric System of weights and measures...why would he (Franke-Gricksch) suddenly use the British system in correspondence with Himmler? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 643 Sun Apr 05, 1992 B.EATON2 [BZE] at 01:30 EST To Raven Again, the burden of proof IS yours. There are documents, not just the ones quoted here, but masses of evidence that have been used to back up those who say that approximately 6 million Jews, and many others, died as a direct result of Nazi intentions to kill off those they considered inferior, worthless, etc. It is you who insist that all of this evidence is wrong, misguided, misleading, deliberate lies, etc. You tell us on what factual grounds you make those assumptions. On what grounds do you call the recollections of American soldiers at Dachau 'wrong?' Were you there? How do you know what they saw and heard? As one who was alive and vitally interested in what was happening in Germany in the late '30's and '40's, let me tell you that very little was known about concentration camps except that such places existed for Jews and others who were out of favor with the Nazis. No one could conceive of the horrors that took place there until the war was over and rescuers and survivors could tell their stories. Captured documents, such as the ones Pooh.Bah and Termy have posted, also made clear the almost unbelievable inhumanity practiced in the 20th Century by those who could plan and carry out the destruction of men, women, and children for no other crime than that they were not true 'aryans,' a term which scientifically means nothing. Every document shows the true extent of their 'solution to the Jewish Problem,' the extinction of every Jew who was unfortunate enough to fall into their hands. In re message 484 you deny making the statement that '50,000' Jews remain in Berlin. Either you or Rungu did make that statement. I remember it particularly because I was recently in Berlin and was told that 10,000 Jews remain in Germany. I did not question you because I'm not sure of the correctness of either number. One of you, however did say it. Please document which of FDR's advisors were 'bloodthirsty Zionists.' ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 644 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:03 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 506) --- > Diesel engines were used for the gas chambers at the camps that employed CO as the killing agents but it was gasoline engines primarily that were used by the gas vans and, therefore, at Kulmhof (Chelmno). . Could you please supply a reference for this statement? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 645 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:04 EDT To Termy (regarding 507) --- With the exception of the Tauber verdict, which is neither here nor there, you seem to have made reference to documents concerned with the Einsatzgruppen. I have already agreed that there were some atrocities there. However, there were mitigating factors (such as the guerrilla-style warfare taking place in these regions), and the short existence of the Einsatzgruppen hardly translates into a program of genocide. Please refer again to my message 169. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 646 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:04 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 508) --- > Therefore, because these numbers fluctuated, so must the divisor. . My question is why there is a divisor in the first place! If the number is wrong, it is simply wrong, and no divisor is going to make it correct. In other words, this new method of Pressac's seems flawed to me in that he tries to apply "corrections" to numbers he doesn't like, as if to somehow make them okay, or to validate the rest of the report from which these erroneous numbers are taken. --- Let me expand on this: let's say that in a report that has numbers that need to be "corrected" with a divisor of two or three there are non-numerical claims, such, "The Nazis would often machine-gun groups of midgets to death," or, "The Nazis used a portable, pedal-operated brain-bashing machine," or, "The Nazis used atomic devices to obliterate Jews," etc. How in the world can you apply a divisor to a statement such as these and make them "correct?" --- I stand by my statement that Pressac's methods are suspect. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 647 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:05 EDT To Termy (regarding 509) --- > Proper scientific method calls for the taking of a control sample which is not suspected or known to be contaminated with the contaminant being tested for. . I understand your point. However, I will say once again that the non-control samples obtain by Mr. Leuchter, when analyzed, were positive, but at a level that was "very close to the detection level." (Leuchter Report) . Let's say that Mr. Leuchter had taken a sample from some area somehow known to never have been subjected to HCN. It would have tested out at zero, because unlike radiation, I imagine there is precious little naturally-occurring atmospheric HCN. . Now with his zero-result "control" sample, he would have compared them against the other samples, and seen that there was not much difference. However, he would not have known for sure what the upper limit of a positive sample might be. Only by taking a incontestably positive sample could he gauge into what range samples should fall. --- To put it another way, if he took a "clean" control sample and it was virtually identical to that of the supposedly contaminated samples from the "gas chambers," that would have indicated that the rooms tested were never used as "gas chambers," but it would not have shown what a test from a real gas chamber looked like. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 648 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:05 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 510) --- Let's go back to the original post, shall we? I posted: > Here are a few examples, with pages number references for any who can locate a copy of this illusive tome: > There are six photos that show humane conditions at Auschwitz-Monowitz. (pages 506-507) (These are from the Duerrfeld file of Nuremberg trial number 6) --- You posted: > Apparently you are unfamiliar with the standard convention, then, of putting your own comments in brackets []. This is used throughout the board here and is used in most publications to designate editor's comments (as opposed to the author's own parenthetical comments). . Can I take this to mean that you thought I was QUOTING Pressac in my 915? With page numbers? With parenthetical comments similar to those in other examples (this was the last of many examples)? Please, Pooh.bah, stop getting all worked up over your perceptions of the form of my postings and deal with the content. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 649 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:05 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 511) --- > Gee, it seems as though, once again, you are in error [about temperatures at Auschwitz]. . Are you proposing that by mentioning the temperature on a couple days during the summer that we can extrapolate to the rest of the year and come to the conclusion that the Auschwitz area has temperatures more suited to the equator than the 50th parallel? If you could take a moment and read my posting 466 (which you excerpted but apparently did not read), you will see that I grant the possibility that during the summer it may be warm enough. . However, it can scarcely be that temperature all day, even during the summer, and I'm sure during the spring, fall, and winter the temperature also drops. From the CIA World Factbook, 1991, we find: "Climate: temperate with cold, cloudy, moderately severe winters with frequent precipitation; mild summers with frequent showers and thundershowers" . From the New Family Encyclopedia we find: "The oceanic climate of Western Europe and the continental climate of the Russian plains overlap in Poland. Rainfall is moderate, about 20 inches annually, in most of the country except for the southern mountainous regions where humidity is higher and rainfall heavier. Summers are fairly cool, averaging about 60 degrees F, and winters can be rather cold, as in the northern United States or southern Canada." . I know, I know ... these are more contemporary sources. However, I'll bet that the climate hasn't changed that much in the last 50 years. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 650 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:06 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 514) --- > You missed the point, Raven. Next time I won't be so subtle. Armontrout describes on page 354 the Missouri gas chamber and its operations. He includes in this description such things as the guards vacating their watchtower positions when the gas is vented. However, Armontrout has never been at the Missouri prison when the gas chamber was used. . Could you please supply some evidence that Missouri never conducted any tests or test-runs of their execution gas chamber to ensure its functionality? If they did, then it is more than likely that he knows what he is talking about. To put it another way, you are essentially saying that Armontrout perjured himself. Are you sure you don't want to reconsider? --- > BTW, thank you for bringing up the footnote. Leuchter testified (in his futile attempt to qualify as an expert witness) that he had designed the new gas chamber at Missouri. That was in the 1988 Zuendel trial and yet, in 1989 (one year later), the execution in Missouri was performed by lethal injection. Hmmm..... . Anybody who understands English knows that designing something is different that constructing it. Leuchter did not claim to have constructed the gas chamber, did he? What's the problem here? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 651 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:06 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 518) --- > It [the Franke-Gricksch Resettlement Action Report Pooh.bah claims to have reviewed] is a carbon copy of the original (as I have previously stated). It can be found in the document center in Berlin. The carbon copy I reviewed has none of the errors that you have previously mentioned (which I found amazing since you cited no source for those errors and, yet, you have admitted to not knowing German....how did you do that?). What further description would you like? . Just some of the basics. How many pages was it? Was it single-spaced or double-spaced? Was it signed or initialed, and on what pages were these signatures or initials (for example, only the first page, only the last page, each page initialed, etc.)? . Of course, if you have a document number on it, or anything else, that would be marvelous. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 652 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:07 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 519) --- > When discussing a particular event that occurred at a particular time, the relevant documents are the contemporary ones from which I quoted. Those instructions [from DuPont] do not include the washing of skin and, therefore, that wouldn't have been done or believed to have been necessary during the Holocaust. . During the Holocaust? What is that phrase doing at the end of the sentence? If you want a contemporary document, howza bout a little bit of the Zyklon B manual from DEGESCH, which under the heading "Toxicity," says: "The poison can enter the body in three ways: through the mouth, the respiratory organs, or the pores of the skin." Apparently, they knew plenty about HCN ... even back then. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 653 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:07 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 520) --- > "Once I was slightly gassed because the mask I was wearing was not fully gas- tight. I felt nothing at the time but two hours afterward I had a bad headache, a pain in the meninges and a burning pain in the lungs. At first I did not go to the KB [hospital] but went out of the block into the birch alley to breath deeply while doing knee bends. The headache went away fairly quickly, but when I coughed a little blood came up. Doctor Wasilewski diagnosed inflammation and dehydration of the throat. After being hospitalized, I was cured in two month...." > The diagnosis was NOT gas poisoning. . Let's look further at the Zyklon B manual from DEGESCH, under the heading, "Poisoning and Antidotes": "The first stage of poisoning manifests itself in increasing local irritation of the mucous membrane of eyes, throat or upper respiratory tract, burning sensation on the tongue, peculiar metallic and irritant taste in the mouth. The exhaled breath smells of hydrocyanic acid; there is a sensation of pressure in the forehead, general oppression, giddiness, disturbed equilibrium, stabbing pains in the head, nausea, vomiting, tenesmus. Respiration quickens at first and deepens later on; it is accompanied by a rush of blood to the head and palpitation of the heart. "There follows an asthmatic stage, convulsive in character, and, finally, an asphyctic stage. Death takes place if the patient cannot be treated in time. "If the quantity of gas is very small, the body itself can convert it into harmless compounds. So far no clear case of chronic poisoning is on record. "As soon as the first stage of poisoning is observed, the most important thing is to remove the patient from the gas infected area into fresh air, away from all traces of gas. Moreover, the respiration and heart action must be stimulated to the greatest possible extent in order to accelerate conversion of the gas. ..." . There seems to be a pretty fair correlation between what Rablin described and the method in the DEGESCH manual. . This point directly goes to your point about why some witnesses are believed over others: when the witness' statements correspond to the possible instead of to the impossible, the witness becomes more valuable. --- However, the REAL question is why the Germans had a doctor look at someone, and why they allowed a two-month recovering period? I thought this was supposed to be a death camp! ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 654 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:08 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 522) --- > This is really funny! Thank you for giving me such a good laugh! Leuchter was an "eyewitness" to the proceedings which were transcribed word for word. Yet you somehow now want us to discard that transcription and prefer to base your conclusions on the MEMORY of Leuchter? Cut it out....my sides are hurting!!!! . If you have a word-for-word copy of the transcript, you must have one of the later, CORRECTED versions. To give one example, your copy must have the correction on page 807 of volume 5, where the Judge uses the word "kook" in reference to Mr. Zuendel. --- Of course, even if you do, that kinda blows your "word for word" claim out of the water, because this reference was not in the transcript originally. Only after Doug Christie bring the error to light was the transcript corrected. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 655 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:08 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 524) --- > Please cite your sources for this. [the time and procedure for using Zyklon B for disinfecting a barracks, etc.] . From the DEGESCH Zyklon B book, under the heading, "Ventilation": "During this operation gas-masks must be worn. The ventilation takes place in the reverse direction to the gassing. All windows near the entrance are opened first, then gradually those in the rest of the building. It is advisable to work only for 10 to 15 minutes at a time and then to make interruptions of half an hour, as a precaution against skin poisoning. "Depending on concentration, outdoor temperature and weather conditions, ventilation will take at least 10 hours. Its duration also depends on the type of building, number, size, and situation of windows and other apertures. ..." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 656 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:09 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 525) --- > You forgot one very important step in your review of most accounts - the ventilation system was turned on! That should be placed in the above between "the screaming stops" and "the doors to the 'gas chamber' are thrown open." . And you forgot one very important fact: these so-called gas chambers either had no ventilation fans, or they were not adequate for the purpose (per the Leuchter Report). Could you cite some of the eyewitness accounts that mention the ventilation fans ... preferably one account for each of the so-called killing areas? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 657 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:09 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 531) --- Could you please supply references for your repeated contentions that the bodies of inmates at Auschwitz burn differently than other bodies? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 658 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:09 EDT To Carl Fink (regarding 559) --- > Raven, your 462 - I haven't done any inorganic chemistry in a while, but can you document your claim that the Germans used CO as a fuel for engines? This strikes me as insane - the energy release is very low, and making CO wastes lots of energy for no reason. . I read about these CO busses and saw the picture within the last two months, but I cannot remember where at this moment. If I come across the reference, I will try to remember to post it for you. I will point out, however, that Germany was in a world of hurt for fuel, rubber, oil, and other petroleum by-products, so they were looking at all kinds of ways to keep things running. I know it sounds wacky to burn wood in the back of a bus to provide "fuel," but apparently it worked to some extent. --- > Raven, your 491: admitting that Weber is an expert is not admitting that he is correct. . I believe you will find that M.Rungu posted 491, unless I am misunderstanding and you wish to address some question to me. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 659 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:10 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 585) --- > Both you and Raven have made the statement that the Holocaust is the ONE single area of history which is the MOST rife with historical error. . Could you please cite my posting in which I made this claim so I can better address this issue? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 660 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:10 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 587) --- > For instance, I could point out that yesterday, there was a radio talk show in which Bradley Smith appeared for 50 minutes and Rabbi Marvin Hier from the Simon Wiesenthal Center was permitted a 10 minute rebuttal. . Are you sure that this is the way this event really happened? I know that Bradley Smith is always willing to discuss face-to-face any representative of the Holocaust establishment (even JDL representative Michael Slomich!), and he has expressed regret that a representative of the SWC will not discuss this matter with him. I know there has been at least one instance in which the SWC representative refused to be on the same show, and instead asked for and received permission to deliver a 10-minute presentation at the start of the show in lieu of a discussion with Smith. . If Rabbi Hier really wants to discuss the Holocaust story with Mr. Smith, I will do everything in my power to help arrange it. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 661 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:11 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 593) --- > Yet, you maintain that the post-war borders "did NOT include lands that had originally contained a large number of Jews." . I call 300,000 people a large number, even if they are Jews. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 662 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:11 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 594) --- > Your whole message assumes that once a Rumanian Jew, one didn't necessarily remain a Rumanian Jew (i.e. through land ceded to another country) and that no one new could BECOME a Rumanian Jew. > Therefore, the figures you state become meaningless as proof of the fallacy of Hilberg's figures. . I don't quite follow your logic, but I was not trying to "prove" the fallacy of Hilberg's figures, but rather to show that there are still questions remaining, even though Hilberg puts it all down in black-and-white. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 663 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:11 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 595) --- > Once again you are guilty of comparing apples and oranges. You admit that the Hilberg data you discuss comes from the first edition of his multi-volume set which he began writing in 1948 and was published in the 1950's. You then compare this to a "recent article." Better that you compare Hilberg's most recent edition (1985) to the recent article. . Now you've gone and confused me. The first Hilberg book I have is but a single-volume, copyright 1961. That's where I verified Termy's numbers, and got others to go along with it. I then checked Hilberg's 1985 student edition, where he omits virtually all of the Romanian population figures, but maintains the 270,000 figure for the number of dead. There is no mention of 300,000 Romanians taking advantage of the emigration offer. --- If what you say is true about the 300,000 to 340,000 emigrants, then what that means is that Hilberg "found" more live Jews to emigrate, but was absolutely accurate about the death toll? Wow. That's strikingly similar to the Auschwitz situation, where they used to claim 4 million deaths and later reduced it to just over 1 million deaths, saying that the number of Jewish dead remained the same but the other casualties were much less. Why are Jews so easy to count accurately when they are dead? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 664 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:12 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 596) --- > I do agree with you, though, you have shown the difficulty of accurately determining war-time demographics. . Amen (if it is appropriate for an atheist to say such a thing is this forum!). ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 665 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:12 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 597) --- > Raven, you have seen me state that I have respect for Mark Weber yet disagree with his overall conclusions. ... . I believe someone else asked you that, not I. --- > I've been asked by many WHY I respect Mark Weber. One of the reasons I do is because there are some points on which we do agree. Our opinion of Paul Rassinier being one of them. > To quote from Lenski's book on Mark Weber's sworn testimony at the Zuendel trial: > "Christie [Zuendel's attorney] questioned Weber about Paul Rassinier, the French revisionist pioneer on whom Harwood relied heavily. Weber regretted Rassinier's shortcomings, but emphasized his reliability about subjects of which he had first-hand knowledge, such as the Buchenwald and Dora camps. > Weber vigorously challenged the tendency of both Harwood and Rassinier to overemphasize the alleged Jewish financial interest in upholding the Holocaust story." > I base my agreement with Weber on my reading of Rassinier's "The Holocaust Story" and "The Lies of Ulysses." . In my post 573 I quote a passage from an article by Rassinier about the Kremer diary. That passage goes on to state: "This is what is called text and document criticism. It happens that it is my professional specialty. I am therefore going to inflict upon you, to my great regret, a course in 'text and document criticism.' I ask you to pardon me for the strictness of the demonstration that I am going to try to carry out in front of you." . If you meant what you said about Rassinier's "reliability about subjects of which he had first-hand knowledge," then we are on firm ground in examining what he had to say about the Kremer diary. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 666 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:13 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 598) --- > It is curious that you have forgotten to mention the IHR suit against Mermelstein for libel. That one didn't even last long enough to go to a hearing! . Not so curious if you have been following along in the discussion. You alleged that the IHR agreed to the judicial notice against them in the first Mermelstein case when they signed the apology. This is not true. To show that this is not true, I mentioned the latest Mermelstein debacle, in which he and his lawyers attempted to run that same argument past the judge. They got nowhere. . I realize there have been other court cases. Until you attempted to change the subject, we were not talking about them. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 667 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:13 EDT To Sheri Pierce (regarding 604) --- > HA HA HA HA HA. Did you expect anyone to take such slipshod reporting by you as a serious impugning of Hilberg? . Why have you adopted such an uncivil tone toward me? I wasn't attempted to discredit Hilberg. Rather, I was attempting to point out that European demographics for the period 1933 through 1945 present enormous difficulties, and that to state that the matter is settled because "Hilberg says so" is simplistic. --- > You've demonstrated a complete absence of rational thought or logic. Kremer said Auschwitz was an extermination camp (or in Rassinier's stilted translation "the camp of the annihilation". You're denying the obvious. . Ms. Pierce, do me a favor and take a deep breath. Relax for a moment. Now, aren't you just the tiniest bit ashamed for attacking me like this? . When you refer to "Rassinier's stilted translation," you may be right. How would you translate "genannt das Lager der Vernichtung"? Even with virtually no knowledge of German, I can tell that there are the words "das" and "der" in the phrase, whereas the German for the "traditional" translation would be something like "genannt Vernichtungslager," yes? Wellers also omits the exclamation mark at the end of the sentence, which makes Kremer seem callous and cold. --- > An eminent French scholar named George Wellers analyzed the diary entry and the surrounding documentation for Le Monde. He did ACTUAL archives for the date of the entry and found that 1710 Dutch Jews arrived that day of which 1594 went immediately to the gas chamber. [from 352 et al] . According to the "traditional" Holocaust story, there is no accurate count of the number of people "gassed." Therefore, it is interesting that Wellers was able to make such an accurate determination of something we've all be told was unknowable. Furthermore, it is possible that the documents Wellers consulted were the "Calendar of Events at Auschwitz," which were drawn up by the Communist authorities in Poland. As Rassinier notes, "It is already strange that a court in the western world thus shows confidence in a document drawn up by Stalinists." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 668 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:14 EDT To AH.STEIN (regarding 615 et al) --- I don't want to exclude anyone from the discussion here, but with possibly one or two exceptions, out of the many posts you have left in these topics you have added nothing substantive, and you have asked no questions other than those designed to goad or denigrate. With all due respect, if you really wish to participate, I would ask that you refrain from continuing in your present vein and offer some kind of evidence, to demonstrate that you have some actual knowledge about this matter and not just hostile emotions. If you cannot (or will not) accede to this request, then you must agree that your belief in the Holocaust story is baseless. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 669 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:14 EDT To AH.STEIN (regarding 617) --- > What is the basis for your undercount (by 5,400,000) of the number of Jews killed by the Nazis? . I base my opinion on the work of demographers Carl Nordling and Walter Sanning. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 670 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:15 EDT To Claire Maier (regarding 626) --- > In the discussion of the boiling point of HCN, no one has mentioned that all volatile liquids exist in equilibrium with their gaseous phase. . I was going to mention this after my conversation with Mr. Leuchter the other day, because he brought it up as well. I just got lazy. I believe, however, that even in its gaseous state, the HCN will bind with the iron (and other heavy metal) ions to form the ferric-ferro-cyanide compounds. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 671 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:15 EDT To John Stengel (regarding 630) --- > The point was (and is) that while HCN will kill instantly at very high levels of concentration, it will kill (just as dead) at far lower levels of concentration given longer exposure time. The point is relevant and important to this discussion. . As I have pointed out, even in massive over-doses death from HCN gas is not "instantaneous." In lower concentrations, the speed of death would be slower still, and in the huge rooms that are alleged to have been the "gas chambers," and which were supposedly packed tight with people, the propagation of the gas through the room would have been fairly slow (re: Leuchter Report, DEGESCH Zyklon B manual). --- > If it is desired that the victims be killed "instantly" (as in the Missouri gas chamber), then the chamber must be of a highly sophisticated design utilizing hermetic seals and rapid ventilating systems. ... If, however, he has no particular concern for the human dignity of the condemned (i.e. any concern for his prolonged agony); the gas chamber designer can be quite sloppy about "door seals" and "ventilation systems" . The point about the door seals and ventilation systems is not so much for the victims as for the people outside the chamber carrying on the execution. The facilities at Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Majdanek would not have been safe for those on the outside of the so-called gas chambers. There is the danger of HCN poisoning, but there are also dangers from explosion (such a pocket of HCN gas form at the proper concentration) due to ignition, and from explosion due to rapid polymerization (which can happen in sunlight, according to DuPont). --- > There is an inherent "conflict of interest" in utilizing a man like Fred Leuchter to pass judgment on the mass death gas chambers of the camps. Leuchter is a "craftsman of death", an "artist" if you will; analogous to the old pre-industrial age guild craftsmen of Europe. ... Fred Leuchter cannot help but be "alienated" by the idea of mass produced executions. . I will have to ask that you refrain from further speculation about what Mr. Leuchter would or would not do in any given situation. It is not fair to him and it does nothing to further the discussion. You might be interested to learn that before conducting his investigation, Mr. Leuchter believed in the "gas chamber" stories wholeheartedly. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 672 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 05:15 EDT To John Stengel (regarding 631) --- > If HCN condenses below 78.3 degrees F, then it EVAPORATES above 78.3 degrees F. After 45 years, it would be a miracle if any crystalline HCN was still on the walls; porous or not porous. We must assume that any HCN condensed on the walls would have re-evaporated each time (during the 45+ years since the chamber was last used) the temperature reached above 78.3 F. It simply evaporated and is "gone with the wind"! The only possible thing to look for would be other cyanide compounds which would have a higher evaporation point. . You are no doubt correct, but Mr. Leuchter (and the others who have conducted similar tests) have not tested for HCN ... crystalline or otherwise. They have tested for the presence of ferric-ferro-cyanide compounds, which form when HCN comes into contact with iron in the brick and mortal to produce "a very stable iron-cyanide complex," according to the Leuchter Report. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 673 Sun Apr 05, 1992 E.BROWN42 [scaramouche] at 05:33 EDT Raven, RE:650 As a resident of the budget-conscious state of Missouri, I can assure you that there is no "new gas chamber" in the state. The old chamber in the Jefferson City prison was considered for reconditioning, but lethal injection was chosen for reasons of cost-effectiveness, among others. Leucher MIGHT have tried to sell the state a design for a new gas chamber, but given his lack of credentials, it was most probably a "no-go". Scaramouche ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 674 Sun Apr 05, 1992 GRAFFITI [Ric Helton] at 10:58 EDT [7 messages moved to topic 4] ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 675 Sun Apr 05, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:29 EDT 639 Hans-Peter: > You have introduced a whole new range of parameters into this scenario. Not at all. This discussion began when I posted, among other things, the Krakow report which included the quotes I inserted into message 636 and Leuchter's comments regarding the gas chambers having been razed to their foundations. > Had the execution chamber under discussion been open to the elements for > 45 years, then yes, the surface traces of CN compounds could be expected > to have dissolved. However, the "open to the elements phase" was much less > than 45 years for this building, was it not? The gas chambers were destroyed in 1945 by the Nazis before they evacuated Auschwitz. Leuchter's report was prepared in 1988 so that means that 43 years had elapsed. The Krakow report was prepared in 1990 so that means that 45 years had elapsed. That, then, is how long these walls had been exposed to the elements. > It would have been better also, if the physical measurements had been > analysed by somebody other than the Polish communist authorities, who had > a vested interest in the story surrounding this facility. First, the Polish authorities who did the analysis were not from the communist regime. The study was conducted in 1990 (although the same institute also did a study in 1945!). And, as to having a "vested interest," who would you suggest perform the study? IOW, who does NOT have a "vested interest?" Leuchter got paid $35,000 for his report....by a man on trial for spreading false news by claiming that the gas chambers did not exist (among other things). That, too, is a vested interest. > Although the physical evidence suggests some exposure to hydrocyanic acid > for these cement blocks, the support for a hypothesis involving thousands > of 15-minute exposures is pretty weak. From where do you arrive at the "thousands" of exposures? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 676 Sun Apr 05, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:30 EDT 642 John: > I am somewhat skeptical as to the authenticity of this document (or at > least as to the accuracy of translation): > . > 1. Because of the "one minute"; this contradicts the more abundant > accounts of 10 minutes to 30 minutes. > . > 2. Because 50-100 lbs of coke does not sound like quite enough fuel to > cremate 300-400 corpses. > . > 3. Why would Franke-Gricksch (who is presumably German, not British or > American) refer to lbs. (pounds) of coke rather than kilograms? The > Germans, like all of Continental Europe, use (and used in 1943) the Metric > System of weights and measures...why would he (Franke-Gricksch) suddenly > use the British system in correspondence with Himmler? Remember that this is a document submitted by a subordinate (and not a DIRECT subordinate) back to Berlin. As has been mentioned before, this document (as well as the Einsatzgruppen reports, etc.) cannot be used as a statement of FACT but only as a statement of what the subordinates wanted the hierarchy to believe. Therefore, they are more supportive of a systematic extermination POLICY than the overall execution of that policy. Let's take each point one-by-one: (1) Length of time: Remember that this was an official inspection trip. It is possible that those operating the gas chamber wanted to make it appear that the gassing was quicker than it really was (and, therefore, used more Zyklon-B) or that F-G was trying to impress Himmler. In one of these possibilities, F-G was accurate and in the other he was shading the truth. Either way, this does not put into question the authenticity of the document or of its translation. (2) Amount of coke: This, too, could either be true or a figure submitted to impress Himmler. Either way, this does not put into question the authenticity of the document or its translation. (3) Use of "lbs.": I admit that this is not in the original but is part of the translation. Just as I have translated the degrees C into F for HCN, I have also translated the kg into lbs to allow easier understanding for an American audience. It is also true that in the case of temperatures I have listed the C when mentioning the F, in this case I did not do so because I had typed up this document early on in this discussion (it was one of the first documents that I posted) and, at that time, I had been unaware of how many individuals would be participating/lurking who were used to both units of measurement. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 677 Sun Apr 05, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:31 EDT 646 Raven: > My question is why there is a divisor in the first place! If the > number is wrong, it is simply wrong, and no divisor is going to make > it correct. Let's say that you have evaluated a site and believe that, based upon your own calculations and scientific knowledge, 50 people were killed there. Now, let's say that there is a document that claims that 100 were killed there and another document which claims that 150 were killed there. Now, when you write your report, you could say that the numbers in the documents need to be divided by 2 or 3 to be correct, couldn't you? You could also say that the numbers are wrong and that only 50 were killed there, couldn't you? These two statements are equivalent, aren't they? So, what you seem to be doing is arguing about Pressac's writing style and not about the meaning of what he has said. > Let me expand on this: let's say that in a report that has numbers > that need to be "corrected" with a divisor of two or three there are > non-numerical claims, such, "The Nazis would often machine-gun groups > of midgets to death," or, "The Nazis used a portable, pedal-operated > brain-bashing machine," or, "The Nazis used atomic devices to > obliterate Jews," etc. How in the world can you apply a divisor to a > statement such as these and make them "correct?" If Pressac had applied this method of the divisor to documents which made any of the above statements, I would say that you were correct. However, a better example would be: Let's say that I had been riding a bicycle down the road and was hit by a car. I was badly injured and an ambulance was called to the scene. Later, the police took a statement from me. In that statement I told them that I had been riding my bicycle on the right side of the road when I was hit from the rear by a car and thrown at least 200 feet. Someone called an ambulance and it took it an hour or two to arrive. In the above example, it might be true that I had been hit by a car while riding my bicycle. It might also be true that I had been hit from the rear and was thrown through the air. However, my statement of "at least 200 feet" and that it took the ambulance "an hour or two" would probably not be accurate and might, indeed, have to be divided by 2 or 3 to bring them into line with the truth. However, even if that is true, that does not mean that suddenly I would be injury free because my exaggeration translates into the non-existence of the accident. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 678 Sun Apr 05, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:32 EDT 647 Raven: > I understand your point. However, I will say once again that the > non-control samples obtain by Mr. Leuchter, when analyzed, were > positive, but at a level that was "very close to the detection > level." (Leuchter Report) To be accurate, the "detection level" was 1 mg/kg and the samples which Leuchter did not label as a control sample ranged from 1.1-7.9 mg/kg. > Now with his zero-result "control" sample, he would have compared > them against the other samples, and seen that there was not much > difference. However, he would not have known for sure what the upper > limit of a positive sample might be. Only by taking a incontestably > positive sample could he gauge into what range samples should fall. First, I have stated that Leuchter should have taken samples (notice the plural) from the delousing chamber. However, a sample from there is NOT a "control sample" which is what Leuchter claims. Therefore, it brings into question Leuchter's knowledge of scientific terms and methods. Second, the delousing chamber has not been exposed to the elements. So, a sample from there does not indicate what how the samples from surfaces exposed should have tested. Third, at no time does Leuchter account for the differences between the concentrations of HCN in a delousing chamber as opposed to a gas chamber. Therefore, in a proper study such samples do need to be taken, Leuchter fails to apply standard analysis procedures to them and incorporate that analysis into his final report. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 679 Sun Apr 05, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:32 EDT 648 Raven: > Can I take this to mean that you thought I was QUOTING Pressac in my > 915? You can take it to mean that your notation left doubt as to whether you were adding an editorial comment or including something directly from Pressac. My statement was for the purpose of clarifying that fact. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 680 Sun Apr 05, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:33 EDT 649 Raven: > Are you proposing that by mentioning the temperature on a couple days > during the summer that we can extrapolate to the rest of the year and > come to the conclusion that the Auschwitz area has temperatures more > suited to the equator than the 50th parallel? If you could take a > moment and read my posting 466 (which you excerpted but apparently > did not read), you will see that I grant the possibility that during > the summer it may be warm enough. Actually, the message in which you mentioned temperatures was in 467 and not 466. > Auschwitz lies just above the 50th parallel, or roughly as close to > the North Pole as Winnipeg, Canada. In the summer, it may reach 25.7 > degrees (78.3 F), but unless everything is at that temperature or > above, HCN will condense. This means that for most of the year (and > probably much of the day, even in the summer) the "gas chambers" > would have had to be heated. Are there any heaters in the "gas > chambers"? Answer: No. You do grant the possibility that it might be barely warm enough for HCN to be in a totally gaseous state. However, I supplied the proof that it was way above the temperature needed on certain days. Then, I later made the point about the difference between "climate" and "weather." The winter climate for NYC is that there should be snow. However, this winter there was very little of the white stuff. However, 50 years from now, someone might be writing the history of this last winter and ASSUME that there was plenty of snow because that would be usual. A serious researcher in this field would get all the possible weather data from that time. As far as the lack of heaters in the gas chambers, I assume that you mean of the inorganic type. After all, there were about 300 naked human bodies which would have produced around 3900 BTU. That is more than enough to heat that small space. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 681 Sun Apr 05, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:34 EDT 650 Raven: > Could you please supply some evidence that Missouri never conducted > any tests or test-runs of their execution gas chamber to ensure its > functionality? If they did, then it is more than likely that he knows > what he is talking about. To put it another way, you are essentially > saying that Armontrout perjured himself. Are you sure you don't want > to reconsider? When Armontrout was on the stand, the gas chamber had yet to be installed. According to Scaramouche's 673, it still has yet to be installed. Therefore, without the gas chamber present, it would have been impossible to have conducted tests. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 682 Sun Apr 05, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:34 EDT 652 & 653 Raven: > During the Holocaust? What is that phrase doing at the end of the > sentence? If you want a contemporary document, howza bout a little > bit of the Zyklon B manual from DEGESCH, which under the heading > "Toxicity," says: > "The poison can enter the body in three ways: through the mouth, the > respiratory organs, or the pores of the skin." > This point directly goes to your point about why some witnesses are > believed over others: when the witness' statements correspond to the > possible instead of to the impossible, the witness becomes more > valuable. I'm glad that you agree that Rablin is believable. After all, his total account is fascinating in light of your insistence that all methods of entry for HCN are equally dangerous (i.e. inhalation, ingestion, through contact with the skin). Let's look at his account of how he helped delouse clothing: "We put on our gas masks and went in the room naked or wearing underpants.... When we went in to spread the gas, the lice jumped on us and the layers disappeared very fast....Since we were afraid of being bitten by the lice, we put the chisel, the hammer and the can of Zyclon-B ready in advance, opened it quickly and threw the substance on the floor. Despite the speed of this operation the lice jumped on our legs and to protect ourselves we spread a little Zyclon-B around our feet. Immediately, I could feel the lice drop off, dead. Sometimes at the moment when the gas evaporated, I tried to feel it by handling the crystals. They felt like velvet and were cool and damp...The gas was very dangerous for us. Before we closed the door and sealed it with strips of paper, a little of the gas would escape into the corridor. Apart from us two who were protected by gas masks, the rest did not have any." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 683 Sun Apr 05, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:35 EDT 659 Raven: > To Pooh.bah (regarding 585) --- >> Both you and Raven have made the statement that the Holocaust is >> the ONE single area of history which is the MOST rife with historical >> error. . > Could you please cite my posting in which I made this claim so I can > better address this issue? Then please review your message 885 in TOPic 4. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 684 Sun Apr 05, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:36 EDT 661 Raven: > I call 300,000 people a large number, even if they are Jews. Then apparently you now disagree with you message 572 which you posted two days ago. In that message you stated: > Hilberg later repeats his 800,000 figure (number of Jews in Roumania > in 1939), and adds that in 1945 (presumably after the war) there were > 430,000 Jews in Roumania, although this figure is for Jews within the > post-war boundaries. According to my encyclopedia, after WWII, > Roumania's loss of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina to the Soviet > Union, and her loss of southern Dobruja to Bulgaria, were made > permanent (she regained northern Transylvania). Thus, the post-war > borders were much smaller, and did NOT include lands that had > originally contained a large number of Jews. BTW, for the record, were you trying to be cute or amusing by your addition of "even if they are Jews" in your message 661 or are you showing us your agenda? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 685 Sun Apr 05, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:36 EDT 662 Raven: > I don't quite follow your logic, but I was not trying to "prove" the > fallacy of Hilberg's figures.... Then why did you state the following in #572? > ....I will take one statistic of Hilberg's that you have > quoted and examine it, with the hopes that I can show the difficulty > of accurately determining war-time demographics, and the fallicy of > accepting even Hilberg's figures. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 686 Sun Apr 05, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:37 EDT 663 Raven: > Now you've gone and confused me. The first Hilberg book I have is but > a single-volume, copyright 1961. That's where I verified Termy's > numbers, and got others to go along with it. I then checked Hilberg's > 1985 student edition, where he omits virtually all of the Romanian > population figures, but maintains the 270,000 figure for the number > of dead. There is no mention of 300,000 Romanians taking advantage of > the emigration offer. Sorry that I had assumed that you had at least ONE unabridged version of Hilberg. So, are you saying that you have TWO copies of Hilberg and they are BOTH the single volume abridged versions? > If what you say is true about the 300,000 to 340,000 emigrants, then > what that means is that Hilberg "found" more live Jews to emigrate, > but was absolutely accurate about the death toll? This is not a question of "finding" more live Jews. Let's go over the Hilberg's figures again. There were 800,000 Jews in Romania according to the census in 1939. Then, based upon the 1937 borders and including those Jews who were exterminated but had been baptised Christians (and, therefore, possibly not in the 1939 census), there were 270,000 Jewish deaths. That would then leave 530,000 Jews living. Out of this number, it is very easy to see where 300,000 could take advantage of the emigration offer, isn't it? That would leave 230,000 Jews. Yet, there were other Romanian Jews who emigrated besides those 300,000. According to Hilberg, during that time period, there were an additional 40,000 who emigrated. This would still leave 190,000 providing no birth, deaths, or other emigration (which, of course, is false). ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 687 Sun Apr 05, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:37 EDT 663 Raven: > Why are Jews so easy to count accurately when they are dead? I would suggest that you tread very carefully, Raven....your agenda is showing again. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 688 Sun Apr 05, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:38 EDT 665 Raven: > If you meant what you said about Rassinier's "reliability about > subjects of which he had first-hand knowledge," then we are on firm > ground in examining what he had to say about the Kremer diary. Once again, you are quoting out of context in such a way that it alters the meaning. Let me re-quote what Mark Weber said: > Weber regretted Rassinier's shortcomings, but emphasized his reliability > about subjects of which he had first-hand knowledge, such as the > Buchenwald and Dora camps. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 689 Sun Apr 05, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:40 EDT 667 Raven: > How would you translate "genannt das Lager der Vernichtung"? In this phrase, "Vernichtung" is the most important word to know which translation is correct. "Lager der Vernichtung" means Camp [Lager] of "Vernichtung." "Vernichtung" is a noun which comes from the verb "vernichten." This is much like our "extermination" comes from "exterminate" or "annihilation" comes from "annijilate." Looking in a German/English dictionary we find: "vernichten: annihilate, destroy utterly, exterminate." "Vernichtung: annihilation, extinction, destruction, extermination." Then, looking in J.I.Rodale's "Synonym Finder", "annihilation" and "extermination" cross check as synonyms in English. Therefore, I would probably translate it as "camp of extermination" but a translation of "camp of annihilation" means the same thing and is equally acceptable. However, in English to alleviate "wordiness" we might say "extermination camp" or "annihilation camp" and both of these phrases would be synonomous with the "camp of...." wording. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 690 Sun Apr 05, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:41 EDT 671 Raven: >> ... Fred Leuchter cannot help but be "alienated" by the idea of mass >> produced executions. . > I will have to ask that you refrain from further speculation about > what Mr. Leuchter would or would not do in any given situation. Does this mean that after your many phone conversations with Fred Leuchter, you believe that he would NOT be alienated by the idea of mass produced exectuions? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 691 Sun Apr 05, 1992 H.P.SKALIKS [Hans-Peter] at 16:34 EDT B.EATON2...message 643 The word "proof" is the wrong word for either camp in this debate. It is not possible to "prove" the non-occurrence of an event. It is only possible to show that the evidence in favour of the occurrence of an event is non- existent, ambiguous, or flawed. Even the total absence of evidence would not constitute "proof" in the mathematical sense of the word. It just suggests that the occurrence of the event was improbable. It would be like asking somebody to prove that no extraterrestrials ever landed on the earth. This cannot be done. There IS some physical evidence that COULD be interpreted in the affirmative for the extraterrestrial question, but the evidence is ambiguous in that it can be explained away without resorting to extraterrestrials as the explanation. A great deal of this debate is very similar to the science- creationist debates in that different criteria are being used by the opposing sides to evaluate evidence. A fish fossil found on a mountain top is evidence of the great flood to the creationist and evidence of a plate upheaval for me. It is impossible to defeat a creationist in an argument because the standards of evidence and the methods to evaluate them are different. The reason that the creationist model is not used is not so much because it can be demonstrated to be false but because it is not very useful as a tool for scientific research. The only method open to somebody who wishes to dispute any historical event is to show that the evidence in favour of the event can be explained in terms of more PROBABLE causes or that more than one reasonable explanation is possible for specific pieces of evidence. There is always a fair bit of subjectivity in deciding what a given piece of evidence actually means. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 692 Sun Apr 05, 1992 H.P.SKALIKS [Hans-Peter] at 17:52 EDT POOH.BAH...message 675 >The gas chambers were destroyed in 1945 by the Nazis before they evacuated Auschwitz. Leuchter's report was prepared in 1988 so that means that 43 years had elapsed. The Krakow report was prepared in 1990 so that means that 45 years had elapsed. That, then, is how long these walls had been exposed to the elements.< I somehow got the impression from the various posts that these facilities were standing again as part of the Auschwitz memorial created by the Polish government. There were comments about roof ventilation, etc. IF the roof was restored, when was this done? In addition, if the building had been razed (which leaves the impression of "level with the earth") what was being tested? >From where do you arrive at the "thousands" of exposures?< If even a modest percentage of the 1.1 million victims were gassed in this facility (say 30%) and the capacity of this room were 300 people, then that alone would produce 1000 exposures. Some of the posts mentioned 200 to 250 people at a time. Nobody has mentioned the dimensions of this shower room/gas chamber. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 693 Sun Apr 05, 1992 POOH.BAH at 20:23 EDT 692 Hans-Peter: > I somehow got the impression....that these facilities were standing > again as part of the Auschwitz memorial.... The memorial is at Auschwitz I and Krema I there has been restored. However, Krema II, III, IV and V at Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau) have not been restored. Also, the two houses that were originally used have not been restored to their condition when the Nazis occupied the area. As far as your calculations on how many times the gas chambers were used, you are apparently operating on the assumption of a single gas chamber. There were gas chambers in two houses plus Krema I-V. So, if all 1.1 million were gassed (which wasn't the case) and there were 300 per gassing and each chamber was used an equal number of times (which also wasn't the case) that would mean that each chamber was used about 523 times. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 694 Sun Apr 05, 1992 J.WEIR9 at 21:11 EDT RE: Message 631 /J.STENGEL . > If HCN condenses below 78.3 degrees F, then it EVAPORATES above 78.3 >degrees F. After 45 years, it would be a miracle if any crystaline HCN was >still on the walls; pourous or not pourous. We must assume that any HCN >condensed on the walls would have re-evaporated each time (during the 45+ >years since the chamber was last used) the temperature reached above 78.3 F. >It simply evaporated and is "gone with the wind"! The only possible thing to >look for would be other cyanide compounds which would have a higher >evaporation point. . HCN is an unstable compound and bonds with other chemicals to form more stable compounds. In the case of the Birkenau "gas chambers" the chemical which would have formed after HCN condensed on the wall is Prussian Blue, aka ferric-ferro- cyanide after bonding with iron in the brick and mortar. This compound is very stable. Since the walls of the "gas chambers" would have been continuously exposed to HCN for about a year and a half during all kinds of weather, these iron-cyanide compounds would have had ample opportunity to form. They should still be there. Leutcher, and Poles at the Medico-Legal Institute have shown they are not, at least, in any abundance. . RE: Message 630 /J.STENGEL . > If it took fifteen minutes ("fifteen minutes later the screaming stops"), >then the gas concentration in the chamber was relatively low. With minimal >ventilation, the workers starting to remove the bodies with "no protective >clothing or respirators" poses no particular technical problem. . According to the descriptions of the gassing procedures I have read, after the victims were closed in the gas chamber, the HCN was introduced by intro- ducing the Zyclon-B pellets. Since the initial concentration of HCN in the air would have been close to zero, the rate at which the HCN would have had to evaporate would have had to been sufficient to kill in 15 minutes, which means by the time the fifteen minutes were up the concentration of HCN would have to be at a level high enough to kill much more quickly than that. Since the pel- lets could not be turned off, they would continue to emit HCN raising the con- centrations to an even higher level. Since gas would be trapped in lungs, be- tween bodies, and in various pockets surrounded by corpses, the ventilation problem is a major issue. Those removing would be in grave danger of dying after only a few moments of exposure to the interior of the gas chamber. Since hauling the bodies out would be hard work the breathing of the sondern- kommandos would be heavy from the exertion. If you believe this "poses no particular technical problem", perhaps you would be willing to put this to the test by hauling, say, sacks of potatoes out of a room with an air concentration of HCN adequate to kill in 15 minutes? [Chigger] ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 695 Sun Apr 05, 1992 M.FEINS at 22:49 EDT We Shall Always Remember 1,500,000 small Jewish Children and ALL the children of other faiths of Blessed Memory that were indiscriminately slaughtered by the depraved animals of Nazi Holocaust and their Nazi Masters WE SHALL NEVER FORGET ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 697 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 22:59 EDT To John Stengel and others --- It occurs to me that I have been a bit remiss in that in discussing the use of Zyklon B (and also HCN) for homicidal gassings, I assumed that everyone knew of the difference between HCN and Zyklon B. . Zyklon B is a trade name for a commercial product that contains HCN. Zyklon B comes in tins that are filled with a porous carrier (typically wood pulp or diatomaceous earth) into which liquid HCN has been introduced. This serves to make the HCN much more stable, and eases handling requirements . As a side-effect, however, this packaging places some additional restrictions on the use of Zyklon B. One of these is that, because the HCN is relatively stable in this form, the ambient temperature must be above 78.3 degrees F to promote any kind of realistic propagation of the HCN gas. That is to say, when the temperature is too low, the HCN will not gas off in a reasonable time, making fumigation (or homicide) a very lengthy process indeed. . Note that no homicidal gas chambers here in the United States (or anywhere else, for that matter) have ever used Zyklon B ... it is simply too slow. . Furthermore, even with the right temperature, the relatively slow propagation of the HCN gas from the Zyklon B pellets makes it important to ensure there is air flow within the area to be fumigated if the fumigation is to take place in anything like a reasonable amount of time. (This addresses your 642, in which you state in part, "considering the lethality of HCN (at low concentration) combined with the high saturation point and low boiling temperature of HCN; one could probably use a deep freezer room as a gas chamber!" This statement may or may not be true for HCN gas, but to coax HCN gas out of Zyklon B pellets certain conditions need to be met.) . At the correct temperature and with good air flow, fumigation takes 24 to 48 hours (or more), with ten or more hours of ventilation afterwards. --- Consistent with this, imagine a situation in which there is a group of people inside a room, and Zyklon B is introduced into the room through a side window or through a roof vent, as has been alleged. This method of introduction results in a poor distribution of the Zyklon B pellets, so the propagation of the HCN gas will be uneven. Thus, in areas close to the pellets the concentration of HCN gas in the air by volume will approach 100 percent, while at places in the room remote from the pellets it will approach 0 percent. Somewhere in between the areas of 0 and 100 percent concentration, there might very well exist any number of areas that have between 6 percent and 41 percent HCN gas by volume. This is the "window" of percentage by volume during which HCN gas is explosive. A spark in any one of these zones would result in an auto-catalyzing explosion of the HCN gas, which means that the breaking of an electric light, the scuffing of a shoe nail against a concrete floor, or a match could all cause a disastrous explosion. Worse, any victim with a little preparation would have several minutes to effect a spark due to the slow evaporation time of HCN gas from Zyklon B, both from being at a distance from the pellets and by the device of holding one's breath as long as possible with replenishing air being breathed as close to the floor as possible. --- Therefore, it is fine to speak of the generic properties of HCN gas, but when it is packaged as Zyklon B there are additional properties which must be taken into consideration. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 698 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 22:59 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 636) --- > ... it would not be a "reasonable expectation" to find hydrocyanic compounds present. Even though these compounds are MORE stable, there is no reason to expect them to still be present 43 years later.... . Fred Leuchter addresses this point in his Report. Under the heading, "Forensic Considerations of HCN, Cyano-compounds and Crematories:" "... Cyanide and cyanide compounds may remain in a given location for long periods of time and if they do not react with other chemicals may migrate around in brick and mortar.... "The control sample was removed from a delousing chamber in a location where cyanide was known to have been used and was apparently present as blue staining. Chemical testing of the control sample No. 32 showed a cyanide content of 1,050 mg/kg, a very heavy concentration. "The conditions at areas from which these [31] samples were taken are identical with those of the control sample: cold, dark and wet. Only Kremas IV and V differed, in the respect that these locations had sunlight ... and sunlight may hasten the destruction of uncomplexed cyanide. The cyanide combines with iron in the mortar and brick and becomes ferric-ferro-cyanide, or Prussian blue pigment, a very stable iron-cyanide complex." . From this we see three things: 1) Mr. Leuchter was aware that the evidence of the use of HCN gas under certain conditions can be destroyed, and 2) in order to test the extent of that destruction, he took a control sample from a typical environment, and 3) the heavily positive reading of the control sample showed that other similar samples should still show evidence of the use of HCN gas. --- > "It [HCN] has an acidulous character and produces salts called cyanides when contacting with metals. Salts of alcalic metals such as natrium and calcium, are dissolvable in water." (and etc.) . This I believe to be true, based on my conversations about this matter with Fred Leuchter. However, Mr. Leuchter pointed out that the reaction for which he was testing was not of that between HCN gas and metal (that is, metallic objects), but rather of that between HCN gas and metal ions, such as those found in the brick and mortar of the alleged gas chambers. Therefore, if Mr. Leuchter had tested an iron lighting fixture (for example) for evidence of the past use of HCN gas, he would have had to contend with the problem of salts, weak acids, etc. However, he was testing for something else entirely, that being ferric-ferro-cyanides, which are far more stable and long lasting. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 699 Sun Apr 05, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 23:00 EDT To Pooh.bah --- Regarding the carbon copy of the Franke-Gricksch Resettlement Action Report you claim to have reviewed: . Perhaps we can get more quickly to the bottom of this matter if you can examine pages 236 through 239 of Pressac's book and tell me if what similarities, if any, there are between what you find there and the carbon copy you reviewed. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 700 Sun Apr 05, 1992 POOH.BAH at 23:05 EDT 694 J.WIER: > In the case of the Birkenau "gas chambers" the chemical which would > have formed after HCN condensed on the wall is Prussian Blue, aka > ferric-ferro-cyanide after bonding with iron in the brick and mortar. According to the eminent Austrian chemist, Dr. Josef Bailer: "It is, howeeever, also unlikely that Prussian blue [i.e. ferric-ferro- cyanide] arose in the walls, because the iron in the bricks and in the burnt lime acted unfavorably for the reaction of the trivalent form [of iron] and because the alkaline environment hindered the reaction." > This [ferric-ferro-cyanide] compound is very stable. According to the Institute of Forensic Expertise in Krakow: "Much more durable are those complex compounds of cyanic ions amalgamating with heavy metals. Such one is the aforementioned Prussian Blue, but even it dissolved slowly in an aciduious environment. Under such circumstances it was a vain hope that after 45 years cyanide acid compounds could be found preserved in building material (plaster, brick) if exposed to the action of atmospheric forces such as aciduious rains and aciduious oxygenes, especially those of sulfurous and nitrogenous complexion. A better chance had the analysis of plaster taken from safe places, prtected from the action of precipitation (including aciduous rains)." > Since the walls of the "gas chambers" would have been continuously exposed > to HCN for about a year and a half during all kinds of weather, these > iron-cyanide compounds would have had ample opportunity to form. They > should still be there. Leutcher, and Poles at the Medico-Legal Institute > have shown they are not, at least, in any abundance. First, the walls of the gas chambers were not "continuously exposed" to HCN for a year and a half. Second, according to Dr. Bailer the iron-cyanide compounds would not have formed. Third, according to the Institute of Forensic Institute (i.e. the "Medico-Legal Institute" of which you spoke), these iron-cyanide compounds are not even in great abundance in the de- lousing facility which directly contradicts Leuchter. Leuchter's test result for the delousing chamber (i.e. his "control" sample) has a value so high it is unbelievable. This comment, BTW, is also made by Dr. Josef Bailer. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 701 Sun Apr 05, 1992 POOH.BAH at 23:06 EDT 694 J.WIER: > Since gas would be trapped in lungs, between bodies, and in various > pockets surrounded by corpses, the ventilation problem is a major issue. As far as gas trapped in lungs, dead people don't exhale. Therefore, there would be no danger inherent in that. Next, HCN has been used in places such as mills and granaries because it decomposes after a short time and leaves no residue behind. Also, HCN dissipates quickly when exposed to air which has lower (or no) HCN concentration. This would mean that any residual gas in the chamber would not adversely affect the Sonderkommandos. All of the above information comes from Dr. Josef Bailer's "The Leuchter Report from the View of a Chemist." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 702 Sun Apr 05, 1992 C.FINK4 [Carl] at 23:57 EDT Raven, your 698: Leuchter is not an authority on chemistry, so quoting his opinion on how long cyanides last in the environment is simply irrelevant. What do actual forensic chemists say? The so-called "control sample" was removed from a building that had never been demolished, and (surprise!) had lost less of its cyanide content to environmental factors like rain. This wasn't obvious to you? The same compounds are produced by reacting HCN with elemental metals and metal compounds (what you refer to as "metal ions" in the bricks and whatnot). Strongly reactive metals ALWAYS react as ions. By the way, "natrium" is sodium. Carl Fink ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 703 Mon Apr 06, 1992 POOH.BAH at 00:03 EDT 697 Raven: > Zyklon B is a trade name for a commercial product that contains HCN. > Zyklon B comes in tins that are filled with a porous carrier > (typically wood pulp or diatomaceous earth) into which liquid HCN has > been introduced. This serves to make the HCN much more stable, and > eases handling requirements > . > As a side-effect, however, this packaging places some additional > restrictions on the use of Zyklon B. One of these is that, because > the HCN is relatively stable in this form, the ambient temperature > must be above 78.3 degrees F to promote any kind of realistic > propagation of the HCN gas. That is to say, when the temperature is > too low, the HCN will not gas off in a reasonable time, making > fumigation (or homicide) a very lengthy process indeed. Seeing as you have previously stated that the testimony of Rablin is reliable, let me quote from it: "....Since we were afraid of being bitten by the lice, we put the chisel, the hammer and the can of Zyclon-B ready in advance, opened it quickly and threw the substance on the floor. Despite the speed of this operation the lice jumped on our legs and to protect ourselves we spread a little Zyclon-B around our feet. Immediately, I could feel the lice drop off, dead. Sometimes at the moment when the gas evaporated, I tried to feel it by handling the crystals. They felt like velvet and were cool and damp...The gas was very dangerous for us. Before we closed the door and sealed it with strips of paper, a little of the gas would escape into the corridor. Apart from us two who were protected by gas masks, the rest did not have any." It seems, then, that Zyklon-B is not nearly as "stable" as what you make it seem. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 704 Mon Apr 06, 1992 POOH.BAH at 00:04 EDT 697 Raven: > At the correct temperature and with good air flow, fumigation takes > 24 to 48 hours (or more), with ten or more hours of ventilation > afterwards. Since "fumigation" refers to various vermin and not people, it is irrelevant in this discussion. After all, the concentration of HCN that is necessary (and the length of time necessary) to exterminate virtually every pest other than mosquitos is much higher than what is needed to kill humans. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 705 Mon Apr 06, 1992 POOH.BAH at 00:05 EDT 697 Raven: > This method of introduction results in a poor distribution of the > Zyklon B pellets, so the propagation of the HCN gas will be uneven. > Thus, in areas close to the pellets the concentration of HCN gas in > the air by volume will approach 100 percent, while at places in the > room remote from the pellets it will approach 0 percent. HCN disperses quickly in surrounding air. That is one of the reasons it can be vented to the outside without risk to those any distance away. Therefore, your assumption that the concentration would fluctuate in such a manner is illogical. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 706 Mon Apr 06, 1992 POOH.BAH at 00:05 EDT 698 Raven: > Fred Leuchter addresses this point in his Report. Under the heading, > "Forensic Considerations of HCN, Cyano-compounds and Crematories:" > "... Cyanide and cyanide compounds may remain in a given location for > long periods of time and if they do not react with other chemicals > may migrate around in brick and mortar.... From Dr. Josef Bailer's analysis of the Leuchter Report: "Against this hypothesis in the Leuchter report, it is unlikely that bydrocyanic gas would remain in the pores of the walls because light, lime and water or dampness would have destroyed it. ... Apart from this, the Leuchter report only suggests, but never actually maintains, that this kind of cyanide residue had been found." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 707 Mon Apr 06, 1992 POOH.BAH at 00:06 EDT 698 Raven: > "The control sample was removed from a delousing chamber in a > location where cyanide was known to have been used and was apparently > present as blue staining. Chemical testing of the control sample No. > 32 showed a cyanide content of 1,050 mg/kg, a very heavy > concentration. Once again, from Dr. Josef Bailer: "The cyanide concentrations for residuals shown in the Leuchter report are too high to be believable. A concentration of 1050 mg/kg, which is given for the 'control' sample would mean that the wall consisted of 0.1% Prussian blue! This is to be traced back to either an error in analysis or an error in sample collection. ... Prussian blue is a very widespread coloring material that is to be found in great quantities on old walls as a residue of old painting or as a stain of color that some kind of material that once leaned against this wall left behind..... At least in the case of the 'control' sample the sample consisted almost exlusively of painting that adhered to the top of the plaster." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 708 Mon Apr 06, 1992 POOH.BAH at 00:07 EDT 698 Raven: > This I believe to be true, based on my conversations about this > matter with Fred Leuchter. However, Mr. Leuchter pointed out that the > reaction for which he was testing was not of that between HCN gas and > metal (that is, metallic objects), but rather of that between HCN gas > and metal ions, such as those found in the brick and mortar of the > alleged gas chambers. Apparently you are trying to make a distinction without the existence of a difference. Iron atoms are iron atoms whether they occur solely on the microscopic level (i.e. atoms within brick and mortar) or also on the macroscopic level (i.e. metal object). I really hope that Fred Leuchter didn't tell you this and that you only came to this conclusion on your own. Otherwise, Leuchter is less knowledgeable than what I had supposed. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 710 Mon Apr 06, 1992 B.EATON2 [BZE] at 00:54 EDT To Hans-Peter re #691 You are adopting the Raven/Rungu tactic of quibbling over minor pts. I have asked them, and now you, to present some kind of evidence showing that the Holcaust did NOT happen. Pooh.Bah has presented documents, etc. showing that it did happen. It is up to those who refuse to accept its existence to disprove those documents, eyewitnesses, etc. If you cannot show that these things are false, then you must admit what is known: 6 million Jews died in Europe between 1933-1945, most as a result of a deliberate policy of extermination. The Nazis left a chilling paper trail of their intentions and their actions. Even if you feel that you can discount some of it, the weight of the evidence is overwhelming. It has been many years since I read Speer's book, but I still remember him complaining very late in the war, that he had trouble getting railroad cars for the essential war material he was responsible for producing because Eichmann was using them to transport Jews to concentration camps. Even with Gotterdamerung upon them, they were still concerned with their extermination of the Jews. It is almost impossible to believe that supposedly civilized men could behave in such an inhumane manner and, therefore, all the accounts of the atrocities must be mistaken. But they were not 'civilized men.' Lord Acton said it a long time ago. "All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely." The Nazis, corrupted by the absolute power they held for a time over most of Europe, ran amok. They divorced themselves from human feelings and cold- bloodedly murdered more than the Jewish 6 million. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 711 Mon Apr 06, 1992 J.STENGEL [John] at 01:34 EDT ---->J.WEIR9 Message 694 . >If you believe this "poses no particular technical problem", > perhaps you would be willing to put this to the test by hauling, >say, sacks of potatoes out of a room with an air concentration >of HCN adequate to kill in 15 minutes? . Whoa! Now here's a guy who really challenges me to put up or shut up! Actually, if you really thought it would harm me, would you dare me to such a stunt??? No, I definitely would not do so in "a room with an air concentration of HCN adequate to kill in 15 minutes"...my whole point on my post you cite is that with elementary ventilation, the chamber no longer contains "concentration of HCN adequate to kill in 15 minutes". When the doors were CLOSED the HCN concentration WAS adequate to kill in 15 minutes. Now, if the doors were opened and the air in the chamber was "changed", AND the volume of the room outside the chamber was several times greater than the volume of the chamber...so that the concentration of HCN is lowered to a point "adequate to kill" in maybe a couple hours, AND you held a gun to my head and said I had no choice...well, I guess I'd haul the potatoes (and although I'm not ASOLUTELY certain), I'd PROBABLY live to report my experience back here on Genie! I'm not a chemist, I have only rudimentary knowledge of the subject. The post you cite, and challenge me on, is basically my common sense (IMHO) application of fundamental chemistry principles to this problem...sorry if I am not so totally confident in my conclusions as to (willingly) literally bet my life on it (I have a family to raise)! . >Since the initial concentration of HCN in the air would have been >close to zero, the rate at which the HCN would have had to evaporate >would have had to been sufficient to kill in 15 minutes, which means >by the time the fifteen minutes were up the concentration of HCN would >have to be at a level high enough to kill much more quickly than that. >Since the pel- lets could not be turned off, they would continue to >emit HCN raising the con- centrations to an even higher level. . J.Weir, you issued me a challenge, now I'll give you one...a simple experiment. Go into a fairly large room. You go to one side of the room. Have a friend go to a spot as far away as possible from you and open a bottle of perfume and pour some in a bowl...use a stopwatch to time how long it takes for you to smell the perfume. Assuming you're not doing the experiment in an airplane hanger, you will probably smell the perfume in less than 2 minutes...the point is that gases tend to diffuse very rapidly and uniformly throughout a container. . As to your point "since the pellets could not be turned off, they would continue to emit HCN raising the concentrations to an even higher level"...Since the volume of the chamber would be known, it would be a simple matter to calculate the exact mass of pellets, which completely evaporated, will raise the concentration to the exact desired level; no more, no less. There is no need to "turn the pellets off". It is my understanding that these (Zyklon) pellets evaporate very rapidly. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 712 Mon Apr 06, 1992 J.STENGEL [John] at 01:38 EDT ----->G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] Message 697: . >As a side-effect, however, this packaging places some additional >restrictions on the use of Zyklon B. One of these is that, because >the HCN is relatively stable in this form, the ambient temperature >must be above 78.3 degrees F to promote any kind of realistic >propagation of the HCN gas. That is to say, when the temperature is >too low, the HCN will not gas off in a reasonable time, making >fumigation (or homicide) a very lengthy process indeed. . Well, we do agree that the lethal ingredient in ZyklonB is HCN. As far as activating the Zyklon (getting it to release HCN), I think what you are saying is that only the ZyklonB pellets themselves must be heated to 78.3 degrees F...not necessarily the the entire area into which they are to release HCN. I could propose any of a number of ways to do that very easily...place the can in hot water for a few minutes before opening...enough heat energy would be absorbed by the pellets to ensure their rapid and complete evaporation once released from the can (regardless of the ambient temperature of the area into which the pellets are placed). . >Furthermore, even with the right temperature, the relatively slow >propagation of the HCN gas from the Zyklon B pellets makes it >important to ensure there is air flow within the area to be fumigated >if the fumigation is to take place in anything like a reasonable >amount of time. (This addresses your 642, in which you state in part, >"considering the lethality of HCN (at low concentration) combined >with the high saturation point and low boiling temperature of HCN; >one could probably use a deep freezer room as a gas chamber!" This >statement may or may not be true for HCN gas, but to coax HCN gas out >of Zyklon B pellets certain conditions need to be met.) . Yes, I agree, when used for fumigation purposes the air flow is important. Fumigating a building though (presumably with many different rooms, hallways, nooks and crannies), is far different than simply releasing the gas in one single room (with no architectural barriers). In the single room (or gas chamber) scenario; once present, the gas diffuses rapidly and uniformly throughout the volume of the room. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 713 Mon Apr 06, 1992 E.BROWN42 [scaramouche] at 01:42 EDT Wouldn't the chemical reaction of Zyklon-B with acid be enough to raise it's temperature over 79F? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 714 Mon Apr 06, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:19 EDT To All --- As most of you may have either read or guessed, I use a Macintosh to conduct this discussion on GEnie, which means I am not using Aladdin. I don't know what Aladdin does for those who use it, but I assume it is something wonderful. . At any rate, in order to read and then respond to these messages I must do a considerable number of find-and-replace operations to "clean up" the text and get it in a presentable form (my typos aside!). It would help me immensely if everyone could set his communications program to 70 or 75 characters screen width. The longer lines wrap around my (narrow) screen and are a real pain to work with. . Thanks. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 715 Mon Apr 06, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:19 EDT To Scaramouche (regarding 673) --- > As a resident of the budget-conscious state of Missouri, I can assure you that there is no "new gas chamber" in the state. The old chamber in the Jefferson City prison was considered for reconditioning, but lethal injection was chosen for reasons of cost-effectiveness, among others. Leuchter MIGHT have tried to sell the state a design for a new gas chamber, but given his lack of credentials, it was most probably a "no-go". Scaramouche . I didn't say there was a new gas chamber. As Leuchter himself points out in his Report, gassing by HCN is the most expensive method due to all the complexities involved in doing it right. It is entirely possible that Missouri looked at the cost and gave it a pass. This does not change whether or not Mr. Leuchter designed a new facility for them, however, and it does not, as you imply, reflect on his credentials. In fact, were it not for Missouri warden Bill Armontrout giving Mr. Leuchter the nod as the only expert in the field of execution equipment, the Zuendel defense team might not have contacted Leuchter. Mr. Leuchter's accomplishments show that he is more than qualified as an engineer. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 716 Mon Apr 06, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:20 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 675) --- We may be losing sight of the fact that the tests for CN compounds is only one component of the Leuchter Report. Mr. Leuchter admits that there were cases in which he could not take samples. We really should be examining the entire report before passing judgment. For example, we know that some of the buildings have been rebuilt, modified, etc., even though the Auschwitz Museum does not admit to all the alterations that have been performed. What is important here is that the reconstructions (and etc.) are claimed to be exact duplicates of the original buildings, even in cases where there do not seem to be any original documents to back up these claims. . This leaves us with two choices: 1) Either the buildings really are exact duplicates ... and Leuchter was correct about their inadequacies as "gas chambers," or 2) the buildings are false in at least some degree, and there is no way of knowing what the truth ... which leads us back to my statement that there is no evidence. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 717 Mon Apr 06, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:20 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 676) --- > Use of "lbs.": I admit that this is not in the original [Franke-Gricksch Resettlement Action Report] but is part of the translation. Just as I have translated the degrees C into F for HCN, I have also translated the kg into lbs to allow easier understanding for an American audience. . This is becoming VERY interesting. Your copy of the F-G Resettlement Action Report makes reference to KILOGRAMS of coke? Fabulous. It truly is difficult to contain my excitement at learn this, especially in light of your first mention of this document, in which you said: "The above document has been translated as is. Nothing has been added to it. All comments in () appear in the original document...also in ()." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 718 Mon Apr 06, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:21 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 680) --- > You do grant the possibility that it might be barely warm enough for HCN to be in a totally gaseous state. However, I supplied the proof that it was way above the temperature needed on certain days.... . Actually I grant much more than that. However, we are dealing with the death by Zyklon B of hundreds of thousands of individuals. This is OBVIOUSLY something that did not happen only on balmy summer days. This must have been a year-round activity for quite awhile. If it could only take place a few months out of the year, then all the averages (people per gassing, crematoria capacity, barracks capacity, etc.) are knocked into a cocked hat. I don't have ready access to the day-by-day weather for the years 1942 through 1944 in the Auschwitz area, but I'll bet a quarter that there were plenty of days below 78 degrees F. The Holocaust story seems to be "running out of time." --- > As far as the lack of heaters in the gas chambers, I assume that you mean of the inorganic type. After all, there were about 300 naked human bodies which would have produced around 3900 BTU. That is more than enough to heat that small space. . I might be more inclined to accept this (compound) statement were it backed up by a reference. I know from personal experience that as a cold room fills with people, the temperature rises. But it usually takes more than a minute, and I don't remember any of the so-called eyewitness testimony or the confessions stating that they would load up the "gas chambers," wait until the temperature rose to the right level, and then dropped in the pellets. Can you cite some? . While we are on the topic, I need to know where you got the figure of 300 bodies, how your calculated the BTU output, and to what space you are referring. It sounds as if you are referring to one single "gas chamber," in which case I would need to know which of the so-called gas chambers you think actually was a "gas chamber" and which were not. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 719 Mon Apr 06, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:21 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 681) --- > When Armontrout was on the stand, the gas chamber had yet to be installed. According to Scaramouche's 673, it still has yet to be installed. Therefore, without the gas chamber present, it would have been impossible to have conducted tests. . You have in previously posts made reference to page 353 of Lenski's book on the second Zuendel trial (funny, isn't it, that this is but a half-page of text and it has borne the bulk of our references to this tome!). In the paragraph at the bottom of the page, we read: "Armontrout described for the court, with the aid of slides, the incredibly complex business of conducting a lethal gassing. He noted that 38 people 'are closely involved on-site' in such an operation in Missouri, while more than 200 participate indirectly." . Furthermore, we have it on the authority of Scaramouche (who claims to be from Missouri, and may even be able to do the fandango), that: > A point of fact, to my knowledge Missouri has not gassed anyone since 1965. When the death penalty was revived here in 1989, the gas chamber had so deteriorated as to make gassing impossible without reconditioning the seals (a very expensive proposition). [post 269] ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 720 Mon Apr 06, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:22 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 682) --- > I'm glad that you agree that Rablin is believable.... . I did not say I found him believable, but that to the extent that his testimony reflects events that are not impossible, he becomes more valuable. As we shall soon see, his value is extremely limited. --- > After all, his total account is fascinating in light of your insistence that all methods of entry for HCN are equally dangerous (i.e. inhalation, ingestion, through contact with the skin). . I am not insisting that all three methods of HCN poison are equally dangerous. I was quoting from the DEGESCH manual, in order to show than skin poisoning is not only possible, but a real hazard. --- > Let's look at his account of how he helped delouse clothing: > "We put on our gas masks and went in the room naked or wearing underpants.... When we went in to spread the gas, the lice jumped on us and the layers disappeared very fast....Since we were afraid of being bitten by the lice, we put the chisel, the hammer and the can of Zyklon-B ready in advance, opened it quickly and threw the substance on the floor. . Oops! Errors. I will overlook the account of going in naked rather than become bogged down in a pointless discussion. However, it is well known that there were special can openers for the Zyklon B ... a purpose-built tool ... and it looks nothing like a hammer and/or a chisel. --- Despite the speed of this operation the lice jumped on our legs and to protect ourselves we spread a little Zyklon-B around our feet. Immediately, I could feel the lice drop off, dead. Sometimes at the moment when the gas evaporated, I tried to feel it by handling the crystals. . Error alert! Handling the crystals would have been extremely dangerous. All the manuals call for chemical suits, rubber gloves, and special gas masks (not just any old gas mask will do). Rablin must have an interesting physiognomy if he is able to run his hands through Zyklon B without harm, yet be susceptible to a slight leak in his gas mask. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 721 Mon Apr 06, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:22 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 683) --- > Then please review your message 885 in TOPic 4. [as proof that you have called the Holocaust story the ONE single area of history which is MOST rife with historical error] . Well, I looked before posting my 659 and I looked again after reading your 683, and I gotta tell ya that I can't see that I used the word rife in that post, or singled out the Holocaust story. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 722 Mon Apr 06, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:23 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 684) --- One of us is losing it. You claim that when I stated that I consider 300,000 Jews a large number of Jews (in 661) that I was in conflict with my post of 572 when I called the 300,000 Jews in the lands ceded to Russia a "large number of Jews." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 723 Mon Apr 06, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:23 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 686) --- > Sorry that I had assumed that you had at least ONE unabridged version of Hilberg. So, are you saying that you have TWO copies of Hilberg and they are BOTH the single volume abridged versions? . According to Hilberg's preface in the 1961 version, this is his first work, begun in 1948 (my edition is in paperback, Quadrangle Books). My other copy is the abridged student version from 1985. What you seem to be saying is that Hilberg has not one three-volume set, but two. No wonder he wrote about the Holocaust for 18 years before he visited Auschwitz for the first time, and then for only one day ... he was so busy writing and rewriting this book he never had the time to get out! --- > Let's go over the Hilberg's figures again. . Let's not. I merely wanted to make the point that in spite of the work Hilberg has done in this area, demographics for this area in this era are tricky, and even Hilberg's figures cannot be accepted as absolute. I believe we both agree on this point. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 724 Mon Apr 06, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:23 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 688) --- You reposted an earlier statement of yours that reads: >> Weber regretted Rassinier's shortcomings, but emphasized his reliability >> about subjects of which he had first-hand knowledge, such as the >> Buchenwald and Dora camps. . To my mind, the phrase that starts "such as" does not limit Rassinier's reliability to only Buchenwald and Dora. To me they represent examples of some of the areas in which Rassinier is reliable, and there may be others. As it turns out, Rassinier states that he is an expert at analyzing documents. Are you denying he is, or are you trying to say that because Mr. Weber did not specifically mention Mr. Rassinier's reliability in this matter, we can not consider it to be so? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 725 Mon Apr 06, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:24 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 689) --- > Therefore, I would probably translate it [the German phrase] as "camp of extermination" but a translation of "camp of annihilation" means the same thing and is equally acceptable. . And, because "camp of extermination" means about the same as "extermination camp," why not really shorten it up and say "extermination camp," right? . Two reasons. First, because that is not what Kremer allegedly wrote. Second, Kremer was a native German speaker, was he not? He certainly could have used the "vernichtungslager" construction if that is what he had meant, couldn't he? Third, condensing and changing things as you have described hides from me (and others) what was actually said, which in effect helps make up my mind about something without my being aware of the influence. And fourth, as Rassinier says, mistranslations such as this do "violence to the meaning of the text." --- By the way, when I want to get rid of roaches in my house, I call the exterminator, not the annihilator. Although the words may be somewhat similar, they can hardly be said to be everywhere interchangeable. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 726 Mon Apr 06, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:24 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 690) --- > Does this mean that after your many phone conversations with Fred Leuchter, you believe that he would NOT be alienated by the idea of mass produced executions? . Now I will have to again ask that you not misquote me, and from casting further aspersions on the character of Mr. Leuchter. You know perfectly well that we were discussing the technique of mass executions, not the moral implications. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 727 Mon Apr 06, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:25 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 693) --- > The memorial is at Auschwitz I and Krema I there has been restored. . According to the Leuchter Report: "The drawing ... of Krema I ... shows a morgue of some 7,680 cubic feet with two doorways, neither door opening externally. One doorway opened into the crematory and the other into the washroom. Apparently, neither opening had a door, but this was not verifiable since one wall had been removed and one opening had been moved. "It should be noted that the official Auschwitz State Museum guidebooks says that the building physically remains in the same condition as it was on liberation day on January 27, 1945." . There seems to be some difference of opinion here. --- > However, Krema II, III, IV and V at Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau) have not been restored. . According to the Leuchter Report, Kremas II and III were in a state of disrepair, but there were still major portions available for examination. Kremas IV and V were "razed long ago," leaving only the "foundation or floor." Plans purporting to be of these two buildings are available. --- > Also, the two houses that were originally used have not been restored to their condition when the Nazis occupied the area. . According to the Leuchter Report, Bunker I is missing completely and Bunker II has been "restored and utilized as a private residence." (!) --- > As far as your calculations on how many times the gas chambers were used, you are apparently operating on the assumption of a single gas chamber. There were gas chambers in two houses plus Krema I-V. So, if all 1.1 million were gassed (which wasn't the case) and there were 300 per gassing and each chamber was used an equal number of times (which also wasn't the case) that would mean that each chamber was used about 523 times. . You seem to be working on the assumption that all these "gas chambers" were working simultaneously when in fact they weren't, which you must realize. To take just one example, Kremas IV and V were built last, but the construction was so poor that they were only used sporadically for a short while and then shut down and razed. Now the Holocaust story is running out of room, too. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 728 Mon Apr 06, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 04:25 EDT To J.Weir (regarding 694) --- From the looks of your message, you are having the same problem I had when I first joined GEnie. Try this, after uploading your message (*U), type *SN at the beginning of a line. That tells GEnie not to format your text but to leave it the way you entered it. Hope this works for you. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 729 Mon Apr 06, 1992 E.BROWN42 [scaramouche] at 05:03 EDT Greg, If you bother to type in my GEnie ID at the mail directory, you will find that I am indeed from Missouri, although I do not do the fandango. The only gas chamber in this state is the old one in the Jefferson City, MO state penitentiary, the one used to execute Heady and Hall, the Bobby Greenlease kidnappers in 1953, among others. It had not been used since 1965, and when the death penalty was revived in the state, lethal injection was chosen as the means of execution, following a nationwide trend, since , among other reasons, the seals of the chamber had deteriorated to the point that it would have been a positive danger to witnesses and prison official to use without an expensive reconditioning of the seals. There is no "new gas chamber" in Missouri, either designed by Leuchter or anyone else. ("officials to use") Scaramouche ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 730 Mon Apr 06, 1992 TERMY at 06:06 EDT In reply to: Message 645 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] -> With the exception of the Tauber verdict, which is neither here ->nor there, you seem to have made reference to documents ->concerned with the Einsatzgruppen. The point concerning the Taubner verdict is simple: the SS and Police Supreme Court stated in this verdict that the Jews have to be exterminated. I would invite comment from any lawyers present concerning the implications of a high court's statement to that effect. ->I have already agreed that there were some atrocities there. ->However, there were mitigating factors (such as the guerrilla- ->style warfare taking place in these regions), and the short ->existence of the Einsatzgruppen hardly translates into a program ->of genocide. Please refer again to my message 169. The EK 3 report stands in stark contrast to your assertions, for several reasons: 1. Multiple entries show Jewish children being killed. Is there any reason to supposed babes at breast were conducting guerilla operations? 2. One entry (dated 17.7.41, town of Babtei) shows 8 Communists were executed at that place on that day, and specifically states that 6 of the 8 were Jewish. 3. 2.8.41, Kauen-Fort IV entry shows one US Jew, one US Jewess being killed. We were not at war with Germany at that time. 4. The report differentiates between Communists and Jews (and Jewish communists), between Poles and Jews, between Lithuanians and Jews, Russians and Jews, POWs and Jews, Gypsies and Jews, a German female (married to a Jew), Communists and non-Communists, partisans, adults, children, male, female, NKVD, Politruks, mayors, murderers, thieves, robbers, mentally insane...and the "superfluous Jews" in the ghetto (see 28.10.41, Kauen-Fort IX entry). 5. The "discussion" at the conclusion of the citation of figures states that the intent was to kill all Jews, but some were needed for skilled labor. 6. The "discussion" details the methodology used to execute large numbers of people. For reference, the report may be found beginning with post #244. ---------- Re Rassiner's interpretation of Kremer's diary: Roget's Thesaurus lists "exterminate" as synonymous with "annihilate", and vice versa. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 731 Mon Apr 06, 1992 TERMY at 06:09 EDT Below is reproduced as exactly as possible a photocopy of Bunesarchiv, Koblenz document #NS 19/291, a report from the Reichsfuehrer-SS (Himmler) to Hitler. Limitations of this medium requires the "americanization" of certain letters, but the text is, letter for letter, as faithful to the photocopy as possible. The text states this was typed on a special "Fuehrer-typewriter", a typewriter with large type. Attention is directed to entry 2c, "Juden exekutiert". --------- (-NO 3392- (-NO 511-)[1] [2] 31/12 [3] Der Reichsfuehrer-SS Feld-Kommandostelle' den 29 Dezember 1942 Retr.[4]: Weldungen an den Fuehrer ueber Bendenbekaempfung. [5] W e l d u n g Wr. 51 -------------------- Russland-Sued, Ukraine, Bialystok. ---------------------------------- Bandenbakaempfungserfolge vom1.9. bis 1.12.1942 ----------------------------------------------- 1.) Banditen: --------- a) festgestellte Tote nach Gefechten (x) August: September: Oktober: November: insgesamt: ------- ---------- -------- --------- ---------- 227 381 427 302 1337 b) Gefangene sofort exekuitiert 125 282 87 243 737 c) Gefange nach laengerer eingehender Vernehmung exekutiert 2100 1400 1596 2731 7828 2.) Bandenhelfer und Bandenverdaechtige: ------------------------------------ a) festgenommen 1343 3078 8337 3795 16553 b) exekutiert 1198 3020 6333 3706 14257 c) Juden exekutiert 31246 165282 95735 70948 363211 3.) Ueberlaeufer a.G. deutscher Propaganda: --------------------------------------- 21 14 42 63 140 (x) Da der Russe seine Gefallenen verschleppt bzw.sofort verscharrt, sind die Verlustzahlen auch nach Gefangenenaussagen erhablich hoeher zu bewerten. [6] Bundesarchiv 318 [7] NS 19/291 [8] V.69[9] --------- [1] Handwritten [2] Handwritten, illegible in my photocopy, see [3] [3] "31/12" handwritten date 31 Dec., followed by handwriting illegible in my photocopy. Text states [2] and [3] to be handwritten acknowledgement that the report was submitted to Hitler on 31 Dec, 1942 in the handwriting of his adjutant Pfeiffer. [4] First letter illegible in photocopy. [5] Handwriting, illegible. [6] Illegible, first part of Bundesarchiv stamp. [7] "318" stamped, different stamping, clarity from the Bundesarchiv stamp. [8] Handwritten, Bundesarchiv reference number [9] Handwritten ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 732 Mon Apr 06, 1992 D.BRIN1 at 06:59 EDT Mr. Raven: What is the value of Mr. Leuchter's "control" samples when he fails to acknowledge that the delousing chambers would have been exposed to much higher levels of HCN than the human gas chambers? When these delousing chambers were exposed to many hours of gassing during each use? This failure to note the different doses required to kill lice, as opposed to human beings, makes the whole enterprise meaningless. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 733 Mon Apr 06, 1992 GRAFFITI [Ric Helton] at 08:46 EDT [2 messages moved to topic 4] ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 734 Mon Apr 06, 1992 TERMY at 08:58 EDT A memo dated 14 November, 1941. ---- re: Conferment of the Kriegsverdienstkreuz [KVK-"war service cross"] re: My telegram to you, no. 2719, of 14 Nov. 1941. The Commandant's Office has submitted to date two lists recommending the conferment of the Kriegsverdienstkreuz. In both of these appear SS personnel who participated in executions. We herewith request confirmation as to whether these names should be listed once again in the roll currently under preparation. Further requested is information as to whether in the recommendations lists under "Reasons and Comments of Immediate Superior" there should be specified, "Execution, i.e., special action" or whether a general, routine reason should be given. The Camp Commandant Signed, Roedl SS Obersturmbannfuehrer ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 735 Mon Apr 06, 1992 TERMY at 08:59 EDT On 30 Nov., 1941, the acting inspector of the concentration camps, SS- Obersturmbannfuehrer Liebehenschel answered the previous memo thusly: In the lists of recommendations for the conferment of the KVK to SS members who participated in the executions, under the "reasons" enter "completion of vital war assignments." The word "execution" should under no circumstances be mentioned. In the lists to be handed in, the names already cited should be cited once again. I.V. [by order of the Chief Inspector] Signed, Liebenschel SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 736 Mon Apr 06, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:06 EDT 715 Raven: > This does not change whether or not Mr. Leuchter designed a new facility > for them, however, and it does not, as you imply, reflect on his > credentials. First, what proof is there (other than Leuchter's word) that he did indeed "design" a gas chamber for Missouri? Second, if he only designed it but never constructed it, how does he (or do we) know that his design would work as a gas chamber? Third, since this is, by his own admission, the only gas chamber that he has designed or had any involvement with, it does place into question his "expertise" on the question of gas chambers. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 737 Mon Apr 06, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:06 EDT 715 Raven: > This leaves us with two choices: 1) Either the buildings really are > exact duplicates ... and Leuchter was correct about their > inadequacies as "gas chambers," or 2) the buildings are false in at > least some degree, and there is no way of knowing what the truth ... > which leads us back to my statement that there is no evidence. There are many more possibilities than that, Raven. For instance, there is a distinct possibility that Leuchter doesn't know about what he's speaking! But, even leaving that to one side, only Krema I has been reconstructed. That still leaves Krema II-V and the two houses. Krema I, being at Auschwitz I, was part of the head camp and not the extermination camp (Auschwitz II or Auschwitz-Birkenau). As far as evidence, there is more evidence concerning the Holocaust than for almost any other event in history. For every other historical event, eyewitness accounts, written documents, letters, diaries, memoirs, etc. are all accepted without question. Yet, the Holocaust is held to a different standard. Why do you suppose that is, Greg? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 738 Mon Apr 06, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:07 EDT 717 Raven: > It truly is difficult to contain my excitement at learn this, especially > in light of your first mention of this document, in which you said: > "The above document has been translated as is. Nothing has been added > to it. All comments in () appear in the original document...also in > ()." There is no contradiction here. For instance, if a document in German speaks of 1 kg., there is nothing wrong in translating that to 2.2 lbs. The meaning is still the same. No document is translated word-for-word from German to English. If it were, it would be difficult (if not impossible) for an English speaker to understand the document. Why? German grammatical structure is very dissimilar to ours.....most of the verbs go at the end of the sentence and there are separable prefix verbs. Let me give you an example: Ich bringe mein Mann mit. This translates to: I bring my husband with (word for word leaving the "with" as the preposition that ends the sentence. This is not correct English grammar and, in fact, the verb is "mitbringen" but has a separable prefix.) Now, let's take another separable prefix verb and see what happens. Ich bringe mein Mann um. There has only been one change. The verb is "umbringen" and not "mitbringen" and both the "um" and the "mit" go at the end of the sentence. Yet, there is no way that this sentence can be translated word-for-word with an English word to represent each German word. Why? "Umbringen" translates to kill, slay or murder! As I stated before, I added nothing to the translation of the F-G report. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 739 Mon Apr 06, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:08 EDT 718 Raven: > I might be more inclined to accept this (compound) statement were it > backed up by a reference. I know from personal experience that as a > cold room fills with people, the temperature rises. ... While we are on > the topic, I need to know where you got the figure of 300 bodies, how your > calculated the BTU output, and to what space you are referring. It sounds > as if you are referring to one single "gas chamber," in which case I would > need to know which of the so-called gas chambers you think actually was a > "gas chamber" and which were not. Actually, this is a simple calculation. A human body at rest generates an average of 3500 kcal. In the gas chamber, there was exertion which would increase this heat output but these people were often times undernourished, too, which would decrease the amount of heat they could generate. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to accept the average resting heat output as that for the undernourished exertion figure. Now, one BTU is 252 kcal. From the F-G report we get the figure of 300-400 people per gas chamber. There are other documents which range as low as 250 and as high as 450. However, for purposes of this calculation, I selected the 300 person figure because it is the one mention most often. This means that each person generated 13.88 BTU. No matter which number of persons you select, you can do your own multiplication. As far as the length of time necessary for the gas chamber to heat, if heat is added to a gas (air) confined at constant volume, the amount of heat needed to cause a one-degree temperature rise is less than if the heat is added to the same gas free to expand. In the first case, all the energy goes into raising the temperature of the gas. The above holds true for any of the gas chambers since these calculations do not involve the volume of the air being heated. The BTU would be constant and the specific gas chamber only comes into question if calculations for length of time (which is affected by volume) for heating the gas chamber was involved. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 740 Mon Apr 06, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:09 EDT 719 Raven: > In the paragraph at the bottom of the page, we read: "Armontrout described > for the court, with the aid of slides, the incredibly complex business of > conducting a lethal gassing. He noted that 38 people 'are closely involved > on-site' in such an operation in Missouri, while more than 200 participate > indirectly." And right above that paragraph we read: "Though Missouri has executed no one during Armontrout's tenure, he has witnessed two gassings in other states, and helped with one." This is then footnoted with the following note: "At three minutes past midnight on January 6, 1989, Bill Armontrout presided over his first execution, and Missouri's first since 1965. It was accomplished, however, by means of a lethal injection." Therefore, as I pointed out before, Armontrout has no knowledge of what Missouri does or doesn't do regarding their operation of the gas chamber. In fact, Missouri doesn't even have a working gas chamber any more so the answer is even more hypothetical than what it appears on the surface. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 741 Mon Apr 06, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:09 EDT 720 Raven: > Error alert! Handling the crystals would have been extremely > dangerous. All the manuals call for chemical suits, rubber gloves, > and special gas masks (not just any old gas mask will do). Rablin > must have an interesting physiognomy if he is able to run his hands > through Zyklon B without harm, yet be susceptible to a slight leak in > his gas mask. In a brochure issued by Degesch in 1972 (the photos are reproduced in Pressac's book on page 17), there is a photo (#8) of the correct handling of what was once known as Zyklon-B (which has been renamed Cyanosil). In photo 8, there are two men distributing the disks of Cyanosil on the floor of a building to be fumigated. Both men have standard overalls on and neither is wearing any hand covering. Other than their gas masks, they have no special protective gear. In fact, according to the "Principles of Internal Medicine," because it takes over 2000 times MORE HCN to cause death when skin contact is the only method of introduction into the system (as opposed to inhalation), cyanide poisoning via skin contact is rare. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 742 Mon Apr 06, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:10 EDT 721 Raven: > Well, I looked before posting my 659 and I looked again after reading > your 683, and I gotta tell ya that I can't see that I used the word > rife in that post, or singled out the Holocaust story. Seeing that I did not indicate a direct quote from you, the use of a word such as "rife" has little bearing on this. But, in your message 885 you did single out the Holocaust as having more errors than anything else you have been taught. Here, then, is your direct quote: > I have pointed out in several posts, before I started investigating > this topic, virtually everything I had been told about the Holocaust > story ... in the classroom, on the television, in books ... was in > error. I can't think of any other topic about which that can be said. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 743 Mon Apr 06, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:11 EDT 722 Raven: > One of us is losing it. You claim that when I stated that I consider > 300,000 Jews a large number of Jews (in 661) that I was in conflict > with my post of 572 when I called the 300,000 Jews in the lands ceded > to Russia a "large number of Jews." We can clear this up fairly quickly by reviewing what you did write in #572. > According to Hilberg, there were 270,000 deaths of Jews in Roumania, > based on the 1937 borders. According to Hilberg's first edition of > "The Destruction of the European Jews," in 1939 Roumania had 800,000 > Jews. In June 1940, 300,000 Jews were included in land ceded to > Russia. Land ceded to Transylvania contained a further 150,000 Jews. > Hilberg goes on to state, "The remaining Jews in Old Roumania > consequently numbered about 350,000." So far, so good. > . > Hilberg later repeats his 800,000 figure (number of Jews in Roumania > in 1939), and adds that in 1945 (presumably after the war) there were > 430,000 Jews in Roumania, although this figure is for Jews within the > post-war boundaries. According to my encyclopedia, after WWII, > Roumania's loss of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina to the Soviet > Union, and her loss of southern Dobruja to Bulgaria, were made > permanent (she regained northern Transylvania). Thus, the post-war > borders were much smaller, and did NOT include lands that had > originally contained a large number of Jews. So, for there to be no conflict (or confusion), you must be saying that 300,000 qualifies as a "large number of Jews" by a mere 150,000 is NOT a large number of Jews. Is that correct? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 744 Mon Apr 06, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:11 EDT 723 Raven: > Let's not. I merely wanted to make the point that in spite of the > work Hilberg has done in this area, demographics for this area in > this era are tricky, and even Hilberg's figures cannot be accepted as > absolute. I believe we both agree on this point. We both agree that "demographics for this area in this era are tricky" but you have made a compound sentence with which I cannot agree. So, your belief is faulty....but it was a nice try! :-) ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 745 Mon Apr 06, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:12 EDT 724 Raven: >> Weber regretted Rassinier's shortcomings, but emphasized his >> reliability about subjects of which he had first-hand knowledge, such as >> the Buchenwald and Dora camps. . > To my mind, the phrase that starts "such as" does not limit > Rassinier's reliability to only Buchenwald and Dora. To me they > represent examples of some of the areas in which Rassinier is > reliable, and there may be others. Now I understand the confusion. What are these "shortcomings" to which Mark Weber referred? Let's go back and see if Weber ever clarifies this, shall we? Oh, look, under cross-examination, Weber admits that he had been "disturbed" by Rassinier's "errors of fact" which was why he has "accepted nothing he [Rassinier] writes" except first-person experiences! That then clarifies the "such as," doesn't it? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 746 Mon Apr 06, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:13 EDT 725 Raven: > Two reasons. First, because that is not what Kremer allegedly wrote. > Second, Kremer was a native German speaker, was he not? He certainly > could have used the "vernichtungslager" construction if that is what > he had meant, couldn't he? Once again you are attempting to make a distinction where there is no difference. Let's try working with an example. You and I are both native speakers of English (I know that I am and I am assuming that you are based upon the few facts you've provided us about your background). Now, yesterday just happened to be my mother's birthday. If you were to tell someone that you might say: "Yesterday was Pooh's mother's birthday." That person might relay that information on to someone else by saying: "Yesterday was the birthday of Pooh's mother." Once again, that person could relay the information down the line by saying: "Yesterday was the birthday of the mother of Pooh." All of these sentences convey the same information and have identical meanings. The same is true of "extermination camp" or "camp of extermination." That holds true whether we are speaking English or German (i.e. "Lager der Vernichtung" and "Vernichtungslager" are the same). ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 747 Mon Apr 06, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:13 EDT 725 Raven: > Now I will have to again ask that you not misquote me, and from > casting further aspersions on the character of Mr. Leuchter. You know > perfectly well that we were discussing the technique of mass > executions, not the moral implications. I did not misquote you. In fact, I brought your statement directly from your message into mine! Here, then, is your comment in which you were responding to John. [">>>" = John's comment, ">>" = your comment, ">" = my comment] >>> ... Fred Leuchter cannot help but be "alienated" by the idea of mass >>> produced executions. . >> I will have to ask that you refrain from further speculation about >> what Mr. Leuchter would or would not do in any given situation. > Does this mean that after you many phone conversations with Fred Leuchter, > you believe that he would NOT be alienated by the idea of mass produced > exectuions? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 748 Mon Apr 06, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:14 EDT 727 Raven: > According to the Leuchter Report, Kremas II and III were in a state > of disrepair, but there were still major portions available for > examination. Kremas IV and V were "razed long ago," leaving only the > "foundation or floor." Plans purporting to be of these two buildings > are available. Well, that's not exactly what the Leuchter Report says, is it? "In Birkenau, Kremas II, III, IV, V are collapsed, or razed to the foundations..." I would consider "collapsed or razed to the foundations" to be a tad bit more than "in a state of disrepair," wouldn't you? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 749 Mon Apr 06, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:14 EDT 727 Raven: > You seem to be working on the assumption that all these "gas > chambers" were working simultaneously when in fact they weren't, > which you must realize. I believe that you failed to read my message even though you quoted it into your own message. Here is the section which is relevant to the above: > and each chamber was used an equal number of times (which also wasn't the > case) ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 750 Mon Apr 06, 1992 H.P.SKALIKS [Hans-Peter] at 21:42 EDT B.EATON2...message 710 The "Universal Standard Encyclopedia" published by Funk and Wagnall in 1956, which was given to me as a child, still states "According to a conservative estimate, more than 4,000,000 men, women, and children were put to death at the Auschwitz camp alone...". The same encyclopedia mentions the traditional total of 6 million. More modern encyclopedias, like the one operated by CompuServe waffle a little and give the totals for Auschwitz as between 1 and 3 million. This says several things in light of the fact that the 4 million figure was Soviet propaganda.... 1) No research was done and the Soviet figures were taken at face value. 2) The 4 million must surely be included in the 6 million, for the story to make any sense at all, even in 1956. 3) If the actual figure for this camp is 1.1 million, then simple arithmetic and honesty should reduce the total to a little over 3 million. I agree with Dov that this does not change the moral issue, but why deliberately go with figures which cannot be supported? 4) Variations of fatality roles in the range from 1 to 3 million in modern encyclopedias suggest very strongly that nobody knows how many victims there were. How can the base figures be this vague and yet the 6 million result be so definite? Your arithmetic, Mr. Eaton, appears to operate by different rules than most, if any arbitrary set of numbers always adds up to 6 million. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 751 Mon Apr 06, 1992 H.P.SKALIKS [Hans-Peter] at 22:02 EDT POOH.BAH...message 739 The calculation may be simple, but it is also incorrect. 1 BTU is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by 1 Fahrenheit degree, while a kcal is the amount needed to raise a 1 kg of water by 1 Celsius degree. Kilograms are larger than pounds and Celsius degrees are larger than Fahrenheit degrees, so it follows that kcal are larger than BTU. As a matter of fact, the proper conversion is 1 BTU = 0.252 kcal NOT 1 BTU = 252 kcal. You are off by a factor of 1000. The 3500 kcal you mentioned would be the total food intake over a 24- hour period for a fairly robust construction worker who eats heavily. Incidentally, 1 food calorie = 1 Cal = 1 kcal. A fairly healthy person at rest produces the same amount of heat as a 60 watt light bulb. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 752 Mon Apr 06, 1992 B.EATON2 [BZE] at 23:33 EDT To Hans-Peter Message #750 I believe the 6 million is the difference between the number of Jews who lived in Europe before 1933 and those who were unaccounted for when the war ended in '45. It does not matter whether they were gassed, shot, died of beatings, starvation, typhus, or suffocated in the cattle cars. They died because of a deliberate policy of extermination. THAT is the meaning of the Holocaust. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 753 Tue Apr 07, 1992 P.BRADEN [pat.b] at 01:25 EDT Raven tries to make an issue out of the boiling pointy of HCN but his ignorance of chemistry is showing. Its not the boiling point that matters but the vapor pressure. Liquid HCN has a very high vapor pressure even at low temperature. The "handbook of Chemistry and Physics" (aka the rubber bible) lists a vapor pressure of 400 mm of Hg at 10.2 C. By comparison, the vapor pressure of ether is quite a bit lower and anybody who's ever spilled ether on the floor knows how fast that evaporates! Also, HCN vapor is considerably less dense than air (about 0.9 g/l as oppposed to 1.3 g/l). Therefore the liquid would evaporate and fill the room quickly, even in winter. Perhaps Raven also doesn't believe in entropy. His sillyness about explosive polymerization is just that. Obviously, It can only happen in the liquid state or at very high vapor concentrations. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 754 Tue Apr 07, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 03:08 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 700) --- > According to the eminent Austrian chemist, Dr. Josef Bailer: > It is, however, also unlikely that Prussian blue [i.e. ferric-ferro- cyanide] arose in the walls, because the iron in the bricks and in the burnt lime acted unfavorably for the reaction of the trivalent form [of iron] and because the alkaline environment hindered the reaction. . I am not familiar with Dr. Bailer or his evaluation of the Leuchter Report. Can you tell me, has he actually done any testing or is he eyeballing this thing from the comfort of his armchair? Note that I don t want a listing of his qualifications, I want to know if he has done the hands-on work, or if he is bench-racing. So far, the Leuchter Report, the Krakow Institute report, the recent Austria report, and the recent German report ... all on-site examinations ... conclude that there were no gas chambers. --- > Leuchter s test result for the delousing chamber (i.e. his control sample) has a value so high it is unbelievable. This comment, BTW, is also made by Dr. Josef Bailer. . This sounds suspiciously like bench-racing. If Dr. Bailer s test results differ, let s see them. If he has no test results, then I encourage him to do his homework and then get back to us. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 755 Tue Apr 07, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 03:08 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 701) --- > As far as gas trapped in lungs, dead people don t exhale. Therefore, there would be no danger inherent in that. . No, but when they are moved the air might be forced out of their bodies, yes? This may not qualify as an exhale, but the HCN-rich air is being exhausted from the bodies nevertheless. --- > Next, HCN has been used in places such as mills and granaries because it decomposes after a short time and leaves no residue behind. . Please cite a range of times and a reference for these times. According to the DEGESCH and DuPont materials I have quoted, it takes several hours for HCN gas to decompose to a level considered safe. The so-called eyewitness accounts make no allowance for this time to elapse. --- > Also, HCN dissipates quickly when exposed to air which has lower (or no) HCN concentration. This would mean that any residual gas in the chamber would not adversely affect the Sonderkommandos. > All of the above information comes from Dr. Josef Bailer s The Leuchter Report from the View of a Chemist. . If one is moving bodies that have concentrations of HCN gas trapped in their lungs, and pockets of HCN gas in their hair, clothing, etc., how quickly must the HCN gas dissipate in order for someone handling these bodies immediately after gassing to be safe from also being gassed? This must be the reason why engineers such as Mr. Leuchter design gas chambers, and not chemists such as Dr. Bailer or pharmacists such as Mr. Pressac. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 756 Tue Apr 07, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 03:09 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 703) --- > Seeing as you have previously stated that the testimony of Rablin is reliable, let me quote from it: > ....Since we were afraid of being bitten by the lice, we put the chisel, the hammer and the can of Zyklon-B ready in advance, opened it quickly and threw the substance on the floor. Despite the speed of this operation the lice jumped on our legs and to protect ourselves we spread a little Zyklon-B around our feet. Immediately, I could feel the lice drop off, dead. . So. You are now reduced to misquoting me? As I have stated twice now, I do not consider the testimony of Rablin reliable in and of itself. . However, I must thank you for reposting this tidbit, because there is something I forgot to mention earlier. You have repeatedly posted messages telling us all how much higher the concentrations of HCN gas must be to kill lice compared to humans. Yet here you have lice dropping off dead immediately and the humans continuing to work and run their hands through the Zyklon B! In fact, in your next post (704) you state: . > After all, the concentration of HCN that is necessary (and the length of time necessary) to exterminate virtually every pest other than mosquitoes is much higher than what is needed to kill humans. . Which statement is correct? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 757 Tue Apr 07, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 03:09 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 705) --- > HCN disperses quickly in surrounding air. That is one of the reasons it can be vented to the outside without risk to those any distance away. Therefore, your assumption that the concentration would fluctuate in such a manner is illogical. . HCN gas may indeed disperse very quickly, but FIRST it must gas off from the inert carrier ... that s what Zyklon B is: an inert carrier soaked with HCN. Are you really saying that the instant Zyklon B is exposed to air, the concentration of HCN gas in the room becomes uniform almost immediately? This you call logical? Perhaps you could cite a reference to this amazing property. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 758 Tue Apr 07, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 03:10 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 706) --- > Apart from this, the Leuchter report only suggests, but never actually maintains, that this kind of cyanide residue had been found. (Dr. Bailer) . Huh? I thought you said you had a copy of the Leuchter Report. See Appendix 1? See the title, Compiled Data from Certificates of Analysis? See at the top the samples were tested for iron content, and just below that the samples were tested for cyanide content. If the cyanide was not in combination with the iron, what in the world keep it around long enough to give sample 32 such a strong positive reading? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 759 Tue Apr 07, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 03:10 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 707) --- > Once again, from Dr. Josef Bailer: > The cyanide concentrations for residuals shown in the Leuchter report are too high to be believable. A concentration of 1050 mg/kg, which is given for the control sample would mean that the wall consisted of 0.1% Prussian blue! This is to be traced back to either an error in analysis or an error in sample collection. ... Prussian blue is a very widespread coloring material that is to be found in great quantities on old walls as a residue of old painting or as a stain of color that some kind of material that once leaned against this wall left behind..... At least in the case of the control sample the sample consisted almost exclusively of painting that adhered to the top of the plaster. . It is now quite clear that Dr. Bailer is guessing. He has conducted no on-site examination. He is speculating wildly as to what else could possibly have caused Leuchter s test results. What in the world can his motives be for this? It certainly cannot be science. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 760 Tue Apr 07, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 03:11 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 708) --- > Apparently you are trying to make a distinction without the existence of a difference. Iron atoms are iron atoms whether they occur solely on the microscopic level (i.e. atoms within brick and mortar) or also on the macroscopic level (i.e. metal object). . Could you please cite a reference for this statement? According to my Webster s dictionary under the listing, ion, I find: an atom or group of atoms that carries a positive or negative electric charge as a result of having lost or gained one or more electrons. . From this we can see quite clearly that there are atoms that have NOT lost one or more electrons, and those that have. Those that have are called ions, and ... although not stated here ... could very well behave differently than whole atoms, just as Mr. Leuchter has stated. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 761 Tue Apr 07, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 03:11 EDT To John Stengel (regarding 712) --- > I think what you are saying is that only the Zyklon B pellets themselves must be heated to 78.3 degrees F...not necessarily the entire area into which they are to release HCN. I could propose any of a number of ways to do that very easily...place the can in hot water for a few minutes before opening...enough heat energy would be absorbed by the pellets to ensure their rapid and complete evaporation once released from the can (regardless of the ambient temperature of the area into which the pellets are placed). . This method may work, but you are taking advantage of 20/20 hindsight. That is, adding and subtracting facts to try to keep the story intact. You could do your hypothesis a world of good if you could produce some kind of evidence that the Germans followed this procedure. --- > Yes, I agree, when used for fumigation purposes the air flow is important. Fumigating a building though (presumably with many different rooms, hallways, nooks and crannies), is far different than simply releasing the gas in one single room (with no architectural barriers). In the single room (or gas chamber) scenario; once present, the gas diffuses rapidly and uniformly throughout the volume of the room. . When you read how tightly the Germans supposedly packed the victims into these single rooms, you begin to see that the restriction to the air flow is far, far greater than it would typically be during the fumigation of a factory, barracks, etc. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 762 Tue Apr 07, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 03:12 EDT To E.Brown (regarding 713) --- > Wouldn t the chemical reaction of Zyklon-B with acid be enough to raise it s temperature over 79F? . The Germans are not alleged to have dropped Zyklon B into acid to promote the gassing off process. As previously noted, acid is used in American gas chambers. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 763 Tue Apr 07, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 03:16 EDT My apologies to everyone for not converting the "curly quotes" in messages I just uploaded. The R is the opening quote and the S is the close quote. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 764 Tue Apr 07, 1992 D.BRIN1 at 04:09 EDT Mr. Raven: You are ignoring many of Pooh's salient points. She has explained why skin contact with Zyklon B is not a significant danger. You have ignored the fact that the workers wore gas masks when they were killing the lice with the chemical. You have offered no refutation of Pooh's contention that lice and humans are killed by vastly different levels of HCN! What does Mr. Leuchter have to say about the subject? Does he actually maintain that comparable concentrations of HCN will kill lice and humans alike? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 766 Tue Apr 07, 1992 TERMY at 06:22 EDT In reply to: Message 755 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] -> No, but when they are moved the air might be forced out of their -> bodies, yes? This may not qualify as an exhale, but the HCN-rich ->air is being exhausted from the bodies nevertheless. 1. The amount of air that would be moved in such a fashion as you describe would be minimal. As a former paramedic, I've moved bodies many hundreds of times, & am speaking from personal experience. Based upon my experiences, I would say that no more than 100-200 cc's could be forced out in such fashion. 2. Maximum volume of air contained in the lungs of an "average" adult is about 6 liters. The average inhalation-exhalation cycle displaces about 500 cc's of air, total, and 150 cc's of that is "dead space", i.e., air in the trachea, pharynx, etc. (p.171 Emergency Care in the Streets, 3rd Ed. Nancy Caroline M.D. Little & Brown Co. Boston. 1987.) According to my recollection of the lectures in paramedic school on the subject, a full exhalation (from a full inhalation) will displace about 1.5-2 liters of air from the lungs, and this requires the use of the main and auxiliary respiratory muscle groups (i.e., not something that could be achieved by moving an unconscious person or deceased person). Manual (i.e., not mouth-to-mouth) non-assisted resucitation methods displace no more than about 500 cc with each cycle. 3. The amount of air that COULD be exhaled is much smaller than would be necessary to support your theory. Even if 100% of the air were exhausted from the lungs, the amount's too small, unless you're willing to posit all of it going directly into the lungs of the person or persons moving the body. A liter or two of exhaled air would be dissipated into the atmosphere very quickly. 4. Due to the absorption of the HCN through the alveolar membranes, the expressed air would contain much less HCN than when inhaled, hence would be less dangerous. -> If one is moving bodies that have concentrations of HCN gas ->trapped in their lungs, and pockets of HCN gas in their hair, ->clothing, etc., how quickly must the HCN gas dissipate in order ->for someone handling these bodies immediately after gassing to ->be safe from also being gassed? 1. Re "trapped in their lungs": See above points 1-4. 2. Re "hair": The amount of gas trapped in the hair would be minimal and subject to quick dispersion in any air current. This presumes the gassed victims HAD hair...many didn't. 3. Re "clothing": What clothing? ->This must be the reason why engineers such as Mr. Leuchter ->design gas chambers, and not chemists such as Dr. Bailer or ->pharmacists such as Mr. Pressac. Where did Mr. Leuchter obtain his engineering degree? Also, what criminal record does Mr. Leuchter have & how does it relate to engineering? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 767 Tue Apr 07, 1992 AH.STEIN at 18:37 EDT 750 Hans-Peter: >The "Universal Standard Encyclopedia" published by Funk and Wagnall in 1956, which was given to me as a child, still states ... Historians generally do not use Funk and Wagnall's encyclopedia as a source. As Pooh.Bah has pointed out several times (apparently you missed her explanations), professional historians have confirmed the 6 million deaths figure after taking the Aushwitz figures you refer to into account. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 768 Tue Apr 07, 1992 C.FINK4 [Carl] at 20:39 EDT Raven, your 756: >>... You have repeatedly posted messages telling us all how much >>higher the concentrations of HCN gas must be to kill lice >>compared to humans. Yet here you have lice dropping off dead >>immediately and the humans continuing to work and run their hands >>through the Zyklon B! In fact, in your next post (704) you >>state:.... [referring to Rahlin's testimony that he and his fellow workers used HCN gas released by sublimation from crystals to kill like on their legs, and that he handled HCN crystals with his bare hands.] Raven, this is disingenuous. Surely you realize that Rahlin was wearing a gas mask? That absorption through the skin is trivial by comparison to absorption through the lungs? That levels instantly fatal even to lice WHICH BREATHE THE GAS IN are harmless when touching only exposed skin? Raven, your 757: >> HCN gas may indeed disperse very quickly, but FIRST it must gas >>off from the inert carrier ... that s what Zyklon B is: an inert >>carrier soaked with HCN. Are you really saying that the instant >>Zyklon B is exposed to air, the concentration of HCN gas in the >>room becomes uniform almost immediately? This you call logical? >>Perhaps you could cite a reference to this amazing property. Raven, can you cite a reference demonstrating that it takes more than 15 minutes for the HCN gas to escape from the inert carrier in Zyclon B? Raven, your 760: I know your contempt for qualifications when they don't belong to Deniers, but take the word of a science teacher: while metallic iron contains unionized atoms, the compounds of metallic iron with the cyanide radical are not different from those formed by ionic iron compounds. If you don't believe me, ask a chemist. Oh, the word "unionized" above is un-EYE-uh-nyzed, meaning "not ionized". It has nothing to do with trade unions. Carl Fink ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 769 Tue Apr 07, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 22:30 EDT From SHOAH, excerpt of Claude Lanzmann's interview of historian Raul Hilberg Hilberg: This is the Fahrplananordnung 587 which is typical for special trains. The number of the order goes to show you how many of them there were. Underneath: Nur fuer den Dienstgebrauch-- "Only for internal use." But this turns out to be a very low classification for secrecy. And the fact that in this entire document, which after all deals with death trains, one cannot see-- not only on this one, one cannot see it on others--the word geheim, "secret," is astonishing to me. That they would not have done that is very astonishing. On second thought, I believe that had they labeled it secret, they would have invited a great many inquiries from people who got hold of it. They would then perhaps have raised more questions; they would have focused attention on the thing. And the key to the entire operation from the psychological standpoint was never to utter the words that would be appropriate to the action being taken. Say nothing; do these things; do not describe them. So therefore this "Nur fuer den Dienstgebrauch." And now notice to how many recipients this particular order goes. "Bfe"-Bahnhofe. On this stretch there are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and here we are in Malkinia, which is of course the station near Treblinka. But notice that it takes eight recipients for this relatively short distance through Radom to the Warsaw district-eight, because the train passes through these stations. Therefore, each one has to know. Not only that, but of course you're not going to write two pieces of paper if you can write only one. Therefore, we find here not only PKR, which is a death train, going here in the plan labeled thus, but we also see the empty train after it has arrived in Treblinka, now originating in Treblinka, and you can always know whether it's an empty train with the letter L in front of it, leer, and now-- Ruckleitung des Leerzuges, which means "return of the empty train." --the train returns empty. And now we're going back. Then we have another train, Now notice that there is very little subtlety to this numbering system. We are going from 9228 to 9229, to 9230, to 9231, to 9232. Hardly any originality here. It's just very regular traffic. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 770 Tue Apr 07, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 22:31 EDT Lanzmann: Death traffic. Hilberg: Death traffic. And here we see that starting out in one ghetto, which obviously is being emptied, the train leaves for Treblinka. It leaves on the thirtieth of September, 1942, eighteen minutes after four o'clock-by the schedule at least-and arrives there at eleven twenty-four on the next morning. This is also a very long train, which may be the reason it is so slow. It's a 50G--fuenfzig Gueterwagen--fifty freight cars filled with people. That's an exceptionally heavy transport. Now once the train has been unloaded at Treblinka-and you notice there are two numbers here: 11:24, that's in the morning, and 15:59, which is to say almost four o'clock in the afternoon--in that interval of time the train has to be unloaded, cleaned and turned around. And you see here the same numbers appear as the Leerzug, the now empty train, goes to another place. And it leaves at four o'clock in the afternoon and goes now to that other place which is yet another small town where it picks up victims. And there you are at three o'clock in the morning. It leaves on the twenty-third at three o'clock in the morning. And arrives there the next day. Lanzmann: What is that? lt seems to be the same train. It is the same--quite obviously the same. The number has to be changed quite obviously. Correct. Then it goes back to Treblinka and this is again a long trip; and it now goes back to yet another place-the same situation, the same trip. And then yet another. Goes to Treblinka and then arrives in Czestochowa the twenty-ninth of September and then the cycle is complete. And this is called a Fahrplananordnung. If you count up the number of not empty trains but full ones--PKRs-- there's one--there's one here, that's two, that's three, that's four--we may be talking about ten thousand dead Jews on this one Fahrplananordnung here. Lanzmann: More than ten thousand. Hilberg: Well, we will be conservative here. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 771 Tue Apr 07, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 22:31 EDT Lanzmann: But why is this document so fascinating, as a matter of fact? Because I was in Treblinka, and to have the two things together. . . Hilberg: Well, you see, when I hold a document in my hand, particularly if it's an original document, then I hold something which is actually something that the original bureaucrat held in his hand. It's an artifact. It's a leftover. It's the only leftover there is. The dead are not around. The Reichsbahn was ready to ship in principle any cargo in return for payment. And therefore, the basic key --price-controlled key-- was that Jews were going to be shipped to Treblinka, were going to be shipped to Auschwitz, Sobibor or any other destination so long as the railroads were paid by the track kilometer, so many pfennigs per mile. The rate was the same throughout the war. With children under ten going at half-fare and children under four going free. Payment had to be made for only one way. The guards, of course, had to have return fare paid for them because they were going back to their place of origin. Lanzmann: Excuse me, the children under four who were shipped to the extermination camps, the children under four. . . Hilberg: . . . went free. Lanzmann: They had the privilege to be gassed freely? Hilberg: Yes, transport was free. In addition to that, because the person who had to pay, the agency that had to pay, was the agency that ordered the train-- and that happened to have been the Gestapo, Eichmann's office--because of the financial problem which that office had in making payment, the Reichsbahn agreed on group fares. The Jews were being shipped in much the same way that any excursion group would be granted a special fare if there were enough people traveling. The minimum was four hundred, a kind of charter fare. Four hundred minimum. So even if there were fewer than four hundred, it would pay to say there were four hundred and in that way get the half-fare for adults as well. And that was the basic principle. Now of course if there were exceptional filth in the cars, which might be the case, if there was damage to the equipment, which might be the case because the transports took so long and because five to ten percent of the prisoners died en route. Then there might be an additional bill for that damage. But in principle, so long as payment was being made, transports were being shipped. Sometimes the SS got credit. Sometimes the transport went out before payment, because as you see, the whole business was handled as in the case of any other charter traffic especially or any really personal traffic of any kind through a travel bureau. Mittel Europaeisch Reisebuero (The Middle Europe Travel Agency) would handle some of these transactions-the billing procedure, the ticketing procedure-or if a smaller transport was involved, the SS would . . . ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 772 Tue Apr 07, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 22:33 EDT Lanzmann: It was the same bureau that was dealing with any kind of normal passenger? Hilberg: Absolutely. Just the official travel bureau. Mittel Europaeisch Reisebuero would ship people to the gas chambers or they will ship vacationers to their favorite resort, and that was basically the same office and the same operation, the same procedure, the same billing. Lanzmann: No difference? Hilberg: No difference whatsoever. As a matter of course, everybody would do that job as if it were the most normal thing to do. Lanzmann: lt was not a normal job. Hilberg: No, it was not a normal job. As a matter of fact, you know, even the complicated currency procedures were followed in much the same way as with any other transactions if borders had to be crossed, and that was very frequent. I think the most interesting example is of course Greece, the transports from Salonika, Greece, in the spring of 1943, involving some forty six thousand victims over a considerable distance, so that even with group fare the bill came to almost 2 million marks, which was quite a sum. And the basic principle, you see, with such traffic is that which is employed in the customary way, even to this day, all over the world. One pays in the currency of the place of origin, but then one has to pay the participating railroads en route in their own currencies. Lanzmann: From Salonika they bad to cross Greece--it was drachmas. Hilberg: In Greece it was drachmas, and then you might have to go through the Serbian and Croatian railroads, and you might then have to go to the Reichsbahn and pay in marks. Now ironically, the problem was, you see, that the military commander in Salonika who was in charge-so he in a sense was the ultimate person responsible for paying for these things--didn't have the marks, though he did have the drachmas, you see, from the confiscated Jewish property which was used to pay for these things. This was a self-financing principle. The SS or the military would confiscate Jewish property and with the proceeds, especially from bank deposits, would pay for transports. Lanzmann: You mean that the Jews themselves bad to pay for their death? Hilberg: You have to remember one basic principle. There was no budget for destruction. So that is the reason confiscated property had to be used in order to make the payments. All right. The property of the Jews in Salonika was confiscated, but the proceeds were in local Greek currency. The Reichsbahn, of course, would want payment in marks. How then do you change the drachmas into marks? Now you have exchange controls, right within occupied Europe. The only way it could be done, of course, is if somebody in this occupied zone obtained marks. But how could they? This was not such a simple thing in wartime, and therefore for once there was a default, and the railroad shipped all of these Jews to Auschwitz without compensation. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 773 Tue Apr 07, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 22:55 EDT To All (regarding 573) --- Get ready to laugh ... I made a mistake. . In my 573 (and subsequent posts) regarding evaluating the Kremer diary, I made reference to my source as being Paul Rassinier, when in fact the source is Robert Faurisson. I got my wires crossed. --- While I have your undivided attention, in my post of 918 (in the other TOPic), I quoted someone as saying that Walter Lueftl's report, "Holocaust: Belief and Facts," was "published recently in Vienna." This is apparently untrue. The report was apparently made public by someone other than Mr. Lueftl, although Mr. Lueftl stands behind his report. This is particularly interesting in light of the fact that Austria has just "approved a new law to prosecute as a criminal anyone who denies the Holocaust,'" according to the latest IHR Newsletter. The Newsletter goes on to say that, "(t)he new law makes it illegal 'to deny, grossly minimize, praise or justify through printed works, over the airwaves or in any other medium the National Socialist genocide or any other National Socialist crime.'" I feel that this type of thought-crime legislation makes the weaknesses of the traditional Holocaust story all that much more apparent, but I certainly do not envy Mr. Lueftl his position. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 774 Tue Apr 07, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 22:55 EDT To Daniel Brin (regarding 732) --- > What is the value of Mr. Leuchter's "control" samples when he fails to acknowledge that the delousing chambers would have been exposed to much higher levels of HCN than the human gas chambers? When these delousing chambers were exposed to many hours of gassing during each use? . As I have stated repeatedly, by testing a surface known to have been in contact with HCN gas, he was able to determine what range of cyanide compounds might be found on other, similar surfaces (that is, similar construction, materials, condition after 45 years, etc.). If you have been following along with this discussion, you know that there are those who claim that the CN compounds would never have lasted all this time. Leuchter showed that they could have. Without that control sample, the almost uniformly low readings in the so-called gas chambers could have easily been dismissed by just this argument. Leuchter therefore established that not only could the chemical reaction have taken place, but that it did in fact do so, and that the resulting compounds are resilient enough to have lasted to the present day. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 775 Tue Apr 07, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 22:56 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 737) --- > Krema I, being at Auschwitz I, was part of the head camp and not the extermination camp (Auschwitz II or Auschwitz-Birkenau). . Doesn't Pressac state that there were executions at Krema I, including some conducted in a hallway? It is my understanding that Pressac formed this opinion after looking at the Leuchter Report, which shows higher level of CN compounds than any of the other four alleged extermination sites. --- > As far as evidence, there is more evidence concerning the Holocaust than for almost any other event in history. For every other historical event, eyewitness accounts, written documents, letters, diaries, memoirs, etc. are all accepted without question. . This is so blatantly untrue I can't imagine why you would say it. In the study of historical events, NOTHING is accepted without question. --- > Yet, the Holocaust is held to a different standard. Why do you suppose that is, Greg? . The Holocaust IS held to a different standard ... a much lower one. I suppose this has something to do with the taboo that has been created against the dispassionate study of this so-called event. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 776 Tue Apr 07, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 22:56 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 738) --- > There is no contradiction here [in the presented translation of the Franke-Gricksch Report]. For instance, if a document in German speaks of 1 kg., there is nothing wrong in translating that to 2.2 lbs. . I can understand why you speak of this matter hypothetically: the Franke-Gricksch Report does NOT mention kilograms, either. It refers to "1/2 - 1 Ztr. Koks." ("Ztr" being short for Zentner, apparently). Are you trying to evade my question or have you in actuality not reviewed a carbon copy of this document, as you claim? You might as well answer me, as I will continue to ask until you do so in a satisfactory manner. --- Furthermore, I don't care what your English thesaurii (and etc.) say, it is NOT okay to have a sentence that translates into perfectly good English as "the camp of the annihilation" and change it to "extermination camp" and then to "death camp" and then to "sadistic Nazi baby-murder camp" simply because it pleases you to do so. When Kremer says, "the camp of the annihilation," he is clearly speaking of something that is NOT extermination. He himself was sick emotionally and physically, was he not? In this condition, having been told that Auschwitz was a terrible place, and having seen the sanitary conditions (and having been a victim of them as well), it would not have been unusual for him to paint a bleak picture in his diary ... which after all is a private document and there is no reason for him to hide anything from himself ... about the camp conditions, the poor prisoner health, and the deaths due to typhus, etc. But this is not extermination! Only by twisting the translation around can you even begin to make it so. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 777 Tue Apr 07, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 22:57 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 740) --- > Therefore, as I pointed out before, Armontrout has no knowledge of what Missouri does or doesn't do regarding their operation of the gas chamber. In fact, Missouri doesn't even have a working gas chamber any more so the answer is even more hypothetical than what it appears on the surface. . You sure are reading a lot into Lenski's version of the Zuendel trial. I thought you had the transcript? Are you telling us that the transcript makes this no clearer? That Armontrout was called as an expert witness because he was a nice guy? . You are also leaping to a conclusion that is unsupported by what little Lenski does say about this matter. As I posted in 719: "Armontrout described for the court, with the aid of slides, the incredibly complex business of conducting a lethal gassing. He noted that 38 people 'are closely involved on-site' in such an operation in Missouri, while more than 200 participate indirectly." Are you saying that Armontrout was guessing about how many people it might take if they ever decided to use the gas chamber? Give me a break. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 778 Tue Apr 07, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 22:57 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 741) --- > In a brochure issued by DEGESCH in 1972 ... . Aren't you the one who complained when I made reference to a document from DuPont that was not contemporaneous? What's this 1972 document doing here? At the very least you could have pointed out that the front of the Leuchter Report has a (poor) photo of a small can of what may be Zyklon B, with a pry-off cap. Let me save you the trouble. Let me also save you the anxiety of awaiting my reply, which is that these small tins were probably used for something else (I have one photo showing the contents of a small can being poured into a mammal hole), and the big tins used for the industrial applications. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 779 Tue Apr 07, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 22:58 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 744) --- Okay. If you don't want to accept my Reader's Digest version of the Rumanian numbers as evidence that we have to be cautious about accepting Hilberg's figures, let's go over these Rumanian figures one more time in a bit more depth. I was hoping to get away from this because we have already seen that there was no policy of extermination, not enough time for the extermination, not enough room for the extermination, no witnesses for the extermination, etc. However, if you wish to beat this into the ground, we can show that there were no victims as well. --- According to Sanning, here are the figures for the Rumanian Jewish population: . 692,244 Jewish population in early 1938 - 16,000 Emigration from 1938 through mid-1939 --------- 676,244 Jewish population mid-1939 +100,000 Admission of Polish-Jewish refugees (1939) -------- 776,244 Jewish population in September 1939 - 91,000 Polish-Jewish refugees taken over by the USSR 1939 -225,088 Native Rumanian Jews taken over by the USSR 1939 -148,621 Acquired by Hungary - 412 Acquired by Bulgaria - 10,700 Emigration 1940 -------- 300,423 sub-total + 15,086 Persons considered Jewish by def. of 1941 census -------- 315,509 Jewish population, census of April 6, 1941 - 20,000 Emigration April 1941 - end of the war -------- 295,509 Jews in Core-Rumania at end of the war (maximum) +148,621 Recovery of Transylvania + 412 Recovery of southern Dobrudja - 10,500 Fallen Jews in Hungarian military labor force - 1,000 Jews failing to return from German camps -------- 433,000 Calculated number of Jews in post-war Rumania -430,000 "Survivors" according to Hilberg -------- 3,000 "Missing" Jews --- Thus, the number of Jews who could possibly have been murdered by the Germans is around 4,000, not the much higher figure Hilberg gives. As you can see, you would have been better off accepting my statement that there is some discrepancy. According to the figures shown above, the "discrepancy" is more like an irreconcilable difference. If the Germans had a policy of extermination for the Jews, and if they had all these "gas chambers," and all these crematoria, and all this efficiency, certainly they could have managed to murder more than 4,000 Rumanian Jews! --- When you look further into this matter, you see that the total number of Jewish deaths during the war years is very close to what it would have been due to natural causes over the same period of time. Once you subtract out the number of probable deaths by natural causes, you are left with a very, very small number ... one that not only does NOT support the mythical 6 million figure, but one that does NOT support any of the "gas chamber" claims. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 780 Tue Apr 07, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 22:58 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 747) --- > I did not misquote you. . Ah, but you did, and you mischaracterized Mr. Stengel's question to boot. Let's go back to that original statement, shall we? . > There is an inherent "conflict of interest" in utilizing a man like Fred Leuchter to pass judgment on the mass death gas chambers of the camps. Leuchter is a "craftsman of death", an "artist" if you will; analogous to the old pre-industrial age guild craftsmen of Europe. I am sure Mr. Leuchter takes great professional pride in his work...the condemned gets truly "personal service" from Mr. Leuchter. When the industrial revolution started turning out cheap mass produced goods, the old guild craftsmen probably sneered at the quality of those mass produced goods; perhaps they even pronounced them unworkable or whatever. Like our modern Mr. Leuchter, their professional pride was highly offended... here were some sloppy upstarts cranking out an inferior product; certainly produced without the loving care and pride with which they turned out their product! Fred Leuchter cannot help but be "alienated" by the idea of mass produced executions. . This clearly shows that we were discussing (for whatever reason) the technique of mass executions, not the moral implications, and we were doing so in 726, not 725 as you stated. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 781 Tue Apr 07, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 22:59 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 748) --- > Well, that's not exactly what the Leuchter Report says, is it? > "In Birkenau, Kremas II, III, IV, V are collapsed, or razed to the foundations..." . Are you really sure you have a copy of the Leuchter Report? Your quote comes from an OVERVIEW of the condition of the buildings, which appears on page 13 under the heading, "A BRIEF History of the Alleged German Execution Gas Chambers" (emphasis mine). If you look, starting on page 16 Mr. Leuchter has separate headings for Krema I, Birkenau, and Majdanek, in which he goes into greater detail. Here, he tells us which buildings are still standing, which are not, etc. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 782 Tue Apr 07, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 22:59 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 749) --- > I believe that you failed to read my message even though you quoted it into your own message. . I did read your message. In it, you were trying to proof that each "gas chamber" would not have had to endure thousands of gassings apiece because the gassing load could have been spread among the many "gas chambers" available. This is an utterly fallacious approach. You cannot prove one thing on the hypothesis that they might have shared the load equally while acknowledging that they in fact did not do so, and could not have done so. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 783 Tue Apr 07, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 22:59 EDT To B.Eaton (regarding 752) --- > I believe the 6 million is the difference between the number of Jews who lived in Europe before 1933 and those who were unaccounted for when the war ended in '45. It does not matter whether they were gassed, shot, died of beatings, starvation, typhus, or suffocated in the cattle cars. They died because of a deliberate policy of extermination. THAT is the meaning of the Holocaust. . You've given us a lot with which to work, here. First, you state that "you believe." That's fine, but you must admit that your belief does not make something true. Second, the total number of Jews "unaccounted for" after the war is around 600,000, according to Carl Nordling and Walter Sanning, two demographers who have studied this situation in depth. . Third, it does SO matter how these Jews died. There are a lot of years in the range you mention, and unless I have been misinformed, Jews die of old age and natural causes just like everyone else. Certainly you are not blaming these deaths on the Nazis? And what about the Jews who fought as partisans, or engaged in sabotage, or criminal acts, and were punished? Is this, too, part of the "Holocaust?" . Fourth, you keep mentioning this deliberate policy of extermination. It sounds good and plays well to the grandstands, but so far even Pooh.bah hasn't been able to make this one fly. Let's get some references for these statements, okay? . Finally, you are selectively and unilaterally redefining the meaning of the word "Holocaust," compared to what I have been taught. I reject this attempt to gloss over gross inadequacies in the traditional telling of the Holocaust story. If you need a word to describe the deaths of all the Jews who died between 1933 and 1945, make one up. Just don't use the word "Holocaust." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 784 Tue Apr 07, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 23:00 EDT To Pat Braden (regarding 753) --- > Raven tries to make an issue out of the boiling pointy of HCN but his ignorance of chemistry is showing. Its not the boiling point that matters but the vapor pressure. Liquid HCN has a very high vapor pressure even at low temperature. The "handbook of Chemistry and Physics" (AKA the rubber bible) lists a vapor pressure of 400 mm of Hg at 10.2 C. By comparison, the vapor pressure of ether is quite a bit lower and anybody who's ever spilled ether on the floor knows how fast that evaporates! Also, HCN vapor is considerably less dense than air (about 0.9 g/l as opposed to 1.3 g/l). Therefore the liquid would evaporate and fill the room quickly, even in winter. Perhaps Raven also doesn't believe in entropy. His silliness about explosive polymerization is just that. Obviously, It can only happen in the liquid state or at very high vapor concentrations. . I have never claimed to be good at chemistry, but I can read. And what I read tells me that although we may be dealing with HCN gas once the inert carrier of the Zyklon B releases the gas, the release of HCN gas from Zyklon B is NOT the same as pouring liquid HCN on the floor (or anywhere else). Note this well: we are not dealing with a liquid. . As to the silliness about explosive polymerization, DuPont thinks enough of it to mention it a couple times as a real danger in their literature on HCN. Even if the Germans did not know about this property (which is doubtful but barely possible), the behavior of the HCN gas would hardly have been changed by their lack of knowledge, and it would have gone right ahead and explosively polymerized if the conditions had been right. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 785 Wed Apr 08, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 01:16 EDT To Daniel Brin (regarding 764) --- > Mr. Raven: You are ignoring many of Pooh's salient points. She has explained why skin contact with Zyklon B is not a significant danger. You have ignored the fact that the workers wore gas masks when they were killing the lice with the chemical. You have offered no refutation of Pooh's contention that lice and humans are killed by vastly different levels of HCN! . On the contrary, I am taking her to task about these "salient points." If skin contact with Zyklon B is not a significant danger, the producers of the DuPont manual for HCN must be kidding when they inserted the following under the heading, "Personal Safety and First Aid": . ... "Safety Precautions "The following are general precautions and procedures necessary to the safe use of HCN. Detailed procedures must be developed for each plant.... 4. Wear rubber gloves at all times when working on equipment, pumps, or lines. If HCN liquid is spilled onto the gloves, remove them immediately and thoroughly wash hands with plenty of water. 5. Do not get HCN on skin or on clothing. In case of contact, call for help and immediately flush the skin with large quantities of water while removing contaminated clothing. See First Aid on page 5. 6. Always check the nearest safety shower before starting any job involving HCN handling. Do not start work unless it is in satisfactory working condition.... 11. Protective clothing, including a rubber suit or chemical suit with breathable air supply should be worn when breaking connections in any line or equipment possibly containing HCN.... 12. When possible, work on the upwind side. Approach all HCN leaks or spills from upwind. . Now, unless HCN has become much more deadly in the last 45 years, it would seem that anyone not following these procedures would be in a world of hurt. Note the instructions that state with an HCN spill on gloves. Even then the hands must be washed immediately. This is some serious stuff. . Pooh.bah (and you too, for that matter) have often made mention of the fact that more HCN gas is required to kill lice than men. Yet you claim that someone who is using HCN to kill lice "immediately" can run his hands through the Zyklon B, dressed either in his undies or starkers. --- > What does Mr. Leuchter have to say about the subject? Does he actually maintain that comparable concentrations of HCN will kill lice and humans alike? . He does not directly address this issue, however, he does mention that 300 ppm is rapidly fatal to humans, and he reprints a DEGESCH Zyklon B manual that mentions that rodents require 1.2 g/m^3, while larder beetles require twenty times as much. Does this answer your question? By the way, I have an extra copy of the Leuchter Report, and if you wish I can send it to you. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 786 Wed Apr 08, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 01:16 EDT To Termy (regarding 766) --- > The amount of gas trapped in the hair would be minimal and subject to quick dispersion in any air current. This presumes the gassed victims HAD hair...many didn't. . Although I can't recall which account it was, there is a so-called eyewitness account that mentions that after the gassings the hair was shorn from the corpses, without the benefit of washing the HCN gas from the corpses nor length aeration. --- > Where did Mr. Leuchter obtain his engineering degree? Also, what criminal record does Mr. Leuchter have & how does it relate to engineering? . I am not sure that Mr. Leuchter has an engineering degree. He has, however, been working as an engineer for several years. I have not heard that Mr. Leuchter has a criminal record. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 787 Wed Apr 08, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 01:17 EDT To Carl Fink (regarding 768) --- > Raven, can you cite a reference demonstrating that it takes more than 15 minutes for the HCN gas to escape from the inert carrier in Zyclon B? . Your question is a little vague. Are you asking if I can cite a reference for how long it takes for all the HCN to gas off of the Zyklon B pellets? I don't see how this is important, but I will try if you will give me the temperature and humidity point at which you wish to know this. As the Leuchter Report states, the warmer and drier the weather, the faster the gassing will go. Of course, some starts to gas off right away, but as the Zyklon B manual states under the heading, "Stability:" . "Liquid PURE HCN is very unstable for which reason only STABILIZED hydrocyanic acid is marketed. Weak acids or substances splitting off acids are used as stabilizers. Absorption in porous materials also has a stabilizing effect." (emphasis in the original) ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 788 Wed Apr 08, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 01:17 EDT To Sheri Pierce (regarding 769 - 772) --- It may interest you to learn that Raul Hilberg testified for the Crown at the first Zuendel trial, and under cross-examination, this man who may well be the foremost exterminationist Holocaustician (he was at the time professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont) got his ears so thoroughly pinned back that he refused to appear as a witness at the second Zuendel trial. An example of what happened follows, from "The Great Holocaust Trial" by Michael Hoffman. (Doug Christie is Zuendel's lawyer): . Christie: Can you give me one scientific report that shows the existence of gas chambers anywhere in Nazi-occupied territory? Hilberg: I am at a loss. Christie: You are because you can't. I want one report, before, during or after the war that shows that someone was killed by the use of those gases. Hilberg: You want an autopsy and I know of no autopsy. . I respect the work that Hilberg has put into this subject, but if he cannot supply us with anything more substantive than the Gerstein "confession" (as he attempted to do at the Zuendel trial!), we obviously need to do a lot more work before we get to the bottom of things. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 789 Wed Apr 08, 1992 TERMY at 07:38 EDT In reply to: Message 786 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] ->-> The amount of gas trapped in the hair would be minimal and ->->subject to quick dispersion in any air current. This presumes ->->the gassed victims HAD hair...many didn't. -> Although I can't recall which account it was, there is a so ->called eyewitness account that mentions that after the gassings ->the hair was shorn from the corpses, without the benefit of ->washing the HCN gas from the corpses nor length aeration. 1. According to the eyewitness accounts, who was tasked with cutting the hair off gassing victims? 2. Your comment is specifically invited upon the first sentence in my statement, as shown above, regarding the amount of HCN which would be trapped in the hair. 3. Concerning other points I touched upon in my post #766, especially those regarding the physiological aspects of expression of gases from the lungs of deceased persons, you made no comment. Do you care to comment or will you concede the issue? --- Re Mr. Leuchter: 1. Does Mr. Leuchter have an engineering degree? If you cannot remember, it might be advisable to either review Pooh's posts concerning his education, or, since you apparently can contact him directly, ask him yourself. 2. In the same fashion as outlined above, I would ask that you ascertain whether or not Mr. Leuchter has appeared before the court concerning his possession (or, more correctly, lack thereof) of an engineering license. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 790 Wed Apr 08, 1992 POOH.BAH at 20:00 EDT 773 Raven: > The report was apparently made public by someone other than Mr. Lueftl, > although Mr. Lueftl stands behind his report. Seeing as Mr. Leuftl has denied giving anyone his report and has stated that he doesn't associate with "such circles," I would hardly call that standing behind the report which was made public. After all, there is no verification that the report made public was HIS. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 791 Wed Apr 08, 1992 POOH.BAH at 20:00 EDT 776 Raven: > When Kremer says, "the camp of the annihilation," he is clearly speaking > of something that is NOT extermination. From Cassell's German-English Dictionary: "Vernichtung: extermination, annihilation, extinction, destruction." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 792 Wed Apr 08, 1992 POOH.BAH at 20:01 EDT 777 Raven: > Are you saying that Armontrout was guessing about how many people it might > take if they ever decided to use the gas chamber? Yes. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 793 Wed Apr 08, 1992 POOH.BAH at 20:03 EDT 778 Raven: > What's this 1972 document doing here? It is a clear demonstration that even in 1972 Degesch did not think that contact with skin was serious enough to require gloves or special suits. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 794 Wed Apr 08, 1992 POOH.BAH at 20:03 EDT 779 Raven: > According to Sanning, here are the figures for the Rumanian Jewish > population: Here you go comparing apples and oranges again. Sanning's figures (which are inaccurate anyway) are for Romania with its 1947 borders. Hilberg's are for Romania with its 1937 borders. Big difference, wouldn't you say? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 795 Wed Apr 08, 1992 POOH.BAH at 20:04 EDT 781 Raven: > Are you really sure you have a copy of the Leuchter Report? Yes, I'm sure that I have a copy of the Leucther Report. As I said when I first referred to the report: > There are different published editions of the Leuchter Report and the page > numbers do not coincide from edition to edition. Therefore, I will cite > the page number for the quotes I use but these page numbers might not be > the same as other editions. I find nothing in the "Birkenau - Kremas II, III, IV and V" which contradicts what Leuchter said on my page 8: "In Birkeanu, Kermas II, III, IV, V are collapsed, or rzed to the foundations." In the "Birkenau" section, Leucther states: "The included drawings were generated from original blueprints obtained at the Auschwitz State Museum and observations made and measurements taken on location." And, under the section, "Design and Procedures at the Alleged Execution Gas Chamber" we read: "Kremas I, II, III, IV and V are described historically and on inspection were verified to have been CONVERTED [emphasis mine] mortuaries or morgues connected and housed in the same facility as crematories." Now, no where does Mr. Leuchter enlighten us as to what his inspection verified these structures to have been CONVERTED into....yet, he does indicate that his inspection and the historical description agree. Therefore, we are left to conclude that he agrees with the historical description that these structures were CONVERTED into gas chambers. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 796 Wed Apr 08, 1992 POOH.BAH at 20:05 EDT 782 Raven: > I did read your message. In it, you were trying to proof that each > "gas chamber" would not have had to endure thousands of gassings > apiece because the gassing load could have been spread among the many > "gas chambers" available. Sorry, you missed the point. That's what happens when you take a message out of a thread between two people. Hans-Peter had made an unsubstantiated claim of "thousands" of times the gas chamber (notice the singular) was used. I asked him to support that statement. He then did so by operating on the assumption that 1/3 of the 1 million who were killed at Auschwitz were gassed AND the assumption that only one gas chamber was used. I then illustrated how the "thousands" of times used was fallacious because even when assuming that all 1 million were gassed (which was not the case) that no gas chamber would have had to be used a thousand times. This illustration encompassed a second assumption that also "was not the case" but, when accounting for the greatly exaggerated first assumption (i.e. 1 million gassed), the second assumption brings the overall picture back into line with reality. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 797 Wed Apr 08, 1992 POOH.BAH at 20:06 EDT 783 Raven: > ...the total number of Jews "unaccounted for" after the war is around > 600,000, according to Carl Nordling and Walter Sanning, two demographers > who have studied this situation in depth. Let's look at what others have said about Sanning's work, shall we? "....clever veneer of scholarship.....has all the superficial attributes of a factual analysis...identify its flaws..." Professor Henry Huttenback, CCNY. "....a piece of sophisticated Holocaust denial....expose many of the errors in this work." Professor John S. Conway, University of British Columbia. And, these are the "blurbs" that the publisher (IHR) chose to put on the jacket! ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 798 Wed Apr 08, 1992 POOH.BAH at 20:06 EDT 784 Raven: > As to the silliness about explosive polymerization, DuPont thinks > enough of it to mention it a couple times as a real danger in their > literature on HCN. Even if the Germans did not know about this > property (which is doubtful but barely possible), the behavior of the > HCN gas would hardly have been changed by their lack of knowledge, > and it would have gone right ahead and explosively polymerized if the > conditions had been right. Well, you have admitted to not being a chemist. Maybe we should look at what a chemist has to say: "In the Leuchter report the gas concentration is stated as 0.32% and higher concentrations where the gas was introduced. When an explosive gas mixture fills only a small part of a room or is allowed to escape into the air, there would be no explosion." Josef Bailer, PhD ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 799 Wed Apr 08, 1992 POOH.BAH at 20:08 EDT 785 Raven: > On the contrary, I am taking her to task about these "salient > points." If skin contact with Zyklon B is not a significant danger, > the producers of the DuPont manual for HCN must be kidding when they > inserted the following under the heading, "Personal Safety and First > Aid": Once again you are trying to compare apples and oranges. DuPont has to worry about law suits and OSHA. Most US companies provide warnings greatly in excess of what is needed just to protect themselves against law suits. OSHA, of course, is a different matter altogether. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 800 Wed Apr 08, 1992 POOH.BAH at 20:08 EDT 786 Raven: > Although I can't recall which account it was, there is a so-called > eyewitness account that mentions that after the gassings the hair was > shorn from the corpses, without the benefit of washing the HCN gas > from the corpses nor length aeration. This was only true for those gassed directly upon arrival. Those who were selected after having been in the camp system had already had their heads shaved. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 801 Wed Apr 08, 1992 POOH.BAH at 20:09 EDT 788 Raven: > It may interest you to learn that Raul Hilberg testified for the > Crown at the first Zuendel trial, and under cross-examination, this > man who may well be the foremost exterminationist Holocaustician (he > was at the time professor of Political Science at the University of > Vermont) got his ears so thoroughly pinned back that he refused to > appear as a witness at the second Zuendel trial. Actually, Raul Hilberg had committments which he had to fulfill as a professor at the Univeristy of Vermont and was unable to attend the second trial. This is yet another example of the spin doctors at work. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 802 Wed Apr 08, 1992 H.P.SKALIKS [Hans-Peter] at 20:54 EDT AH.STEIN...message 767 Historians usually don't use the encyclopedia as a source, but the encyclopedia usually reports what is believed to be true at the time of publication. If you don't like Funk & Wagnall, there are the big name products such as Britannica and Groliers which all had the Auschwitz 4 million. I know because we have these publications in our school. I read and understood Pooh.Bah's messages perfectly well. (I do wish that you could be a little less patronizing in your posts.) In this instance she is wrong. The 4 million for Auschwitz obviously WAS the accepted figure for a lengthy period of time, along with the 6 million total. The Jewish community complained loudly enough when the Polish government replaced the signs at the Auschwitz museum with signs showing smaller numbers. Now 1.1 million is the accepted figure for Auschwitz, but according to you, this does not affect the totals. As a matter of fact, the camp records don't support even the 1.1 million, but suggest fewer than 100 thousand fatalities at this camp. I suspect, however, that no amount of research will make any difference since your mind is closed on this topic. The 6 million has become a religious dogma and any adjustments have become a heresy. This whole business is starting to have the same taste as a debate with the so-called "scientific creationists". One could throw a dead fish at their feet and they would argue that it is alive, despite all evidence to the contrary. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 803 Wed Apr 08, 1992 J.WEIR9 at 21:48 EDT RE: S.PIERCE6 / Suchomel interview messages. I have several problems with the content of this interview. 1) Suchomel states the gas chambers at Treblinka were at the top of a slope. The area around there is very flat. I may be wrong, but I don't think there is a slope there. 2) Suchomel states the gas chambers there were fed by the engine of a tank. He also states a trainload could be processed in three hours or less. A tank engine would be a diesel engine. It would take much more time than that to kill two batches (men, then women, & children) using diesel exhaust. The CO content of which is less than 1 percent. In fact, the idea of using a diesel for such a purpose is stupid. 3) Suchomel says Auschwitz was a "factory" vs. the Treblinka "production line" which was more "primitive". If Treblinka was so primitive, why is it credited with destroying 840,000 people in quite a bit less time than Auschwitz is sup- posed to have killed a little more than a million? 4) Suchomel claims corpses burn very well with a little rubbish, gasoline and paper. This is nonsense. It requires large amounts of fuel to destroy a body. Take a look at the photos of the pyres constructed for the victims of Dresden and you will see what I mean. 5) I have a hard time believing the women would quietly stand around waiting their turn to go into the gas chambers. . Considering the situation in which the interview took place, is there any rea- son to consider this testimony any more reliable than a lot of the other tes- timony concerning the extermination of the Jews of Europe? [Chigger] ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 804 Wed Apr 08, 1992 C.FINK4 [Carl] at 23:29 EDT >> Furthermore, I don't care what your English thesaurii (and etc.) >>[sic] say, it is NOT okay to have a sentence that translates into >>perfectly good English as "the camp of the annihilation" and >>change it to "extermination camp" and then to "death camp" and >>then to "sadistic Nazi baby-murder camp" simply because it >>pleases you to do so. When Kremer says, "the camp of the >>annihilation," he is clearly speaking of something that is NOT >>extermination. Please, Raven - this is just silly. The German word translates correctly EITHER WAY - as "extermination" or "annihilation". And despite your false and misleading use of quotes, Pooh nowhere translates the words as "sadistic Nazi baby-murder camp". Try to stick to the actual discussion. >> You are also leaping to a conclusion that is unsupported by what >> little Lenski does say about this matter. As I posted in 719: >>"Armontrout described for the court, with the aid of slides, the >> incredibly complex business of conducting a lethal gassing. He >>noted that 38 people 'are closely involved on-site' in such an >>operation in Missouri, while more than 200 participate >>indirectly." Are you saying that Armontrout was guessing about >>how many people it might take if they ever decided to use the gas >>chamber? Give me a break. Yes. If he hasn't done it, he's guessing. He may be guessing based on actual plans - but those plans are guesses, just as if you or I or Leuchter or any other nonexpert had made them. Raven, your 785: you are reading a lot into DuPont's safety regulations, which from the phrasing, seem to be talking about huge quantities. In any case, they are most certainly more worried about lawsuits and employee injuries than the Nazis were - the Nazis were only risking the lives of Jews. As a science-type myself, I point out that in the real world, people tend to ignore most safety regulations. I myself have worked with quantities of formaldehyde that are now considered far too dangerous to be allowed, and splashed myself with several acids (clumsy people like me still have to do lab work). It is the function and nature of a safety manual to overstate dangers. Raven, your 787: well, I'd like a reference on the evaporation rate of HCN from Zyclon B because if the tin is empty in 5 minutes, it indicates that the gas could spread through the execution chamber and kill everyone fairly easily, whereas if it requires 12 hours, obviously nobody was gassed with Zyclon B. Why not give a range of temperatures, say from 10C to 35C (both of which probably ocurred at different times as OUTDOOR temperatures at the camps). By the way, the Zyclon B manual makes no sense when it talks about using "weak acids" as stabilizers - any acid at all will cause HCN to become gaseous faster, as I recall. They may mean something like "salts of weak acids", in other words "weak bases" - although I don't think that'd work either, on second thought. In fact, I can't imagine what they do mean. (What in the world are "substances splitting off acids"?) Hans-Peter, your 802: the encyclopedias, even the famous Brittanica, are full of totally wrong nonsense. If it were on- topic, I could send pages and pages of encyclopedic mistakes. Figures in encyclopedias are just not the same as the "accepted figure used by scholars". They just aren't. I rather resent being compared to a Creationist, sir. As a science teacher and neo-biologist, I have spent a fair amount of time and effort fighting those [insult deleted]. If you look at this topic, you'll notice that the scholars are not exactly in agreement with the Deniers. Carl Fink ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 805 Wed Apr 08, 1992 D.BRIN1 at 23:40 EDT Now, now, Hans-Peter (Message 802): Your message appears to imply that those plaques at Auschwitz stated that four million Jews were killed at Auschwitz. Do you know this to be so? Mr. Raven: Once again you have dodged the obvious conclusion... the ONLY logical conclusion that can be made of Fred Leuchter's "analysis" of Auschwitz. The core of his argument is his comparison of the delousing chambers with the homicidal gas chambers, and this comparison is rendered meaningless by his failure to comprehend that the two sets of chambers were exposed to VASTLY different amounts of gas, under vastly different conditions. Your first response was to this point was to deny that little bugs could "root around" the stuff for hours without dying. Now you have posted a strategic retreat, not quite denying this fact, but not quite admitting it either. The closest you have come to an admission is a citation of Leuchter's concession that, well, yes, SOME bugs are more resistant to cyanide gas than humans. Hmmm..... I just noticed that, if Pooh.Bah's quotation of Fred Leuchter (message 795) is correct, then the homicidal chambers were housed in the same facilities as the crematoria. Let's see now. It gets mighty hot around crematoria, doesn't it? Looks like the Denial Fantasy is running out of time. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 806 Wed Apr 08, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 23:54 EDT J.WEIR9 [CHIGGER] My advice to you would be to check out the SHOAH video series, which shows the Treblinka slopes in question as well as the corroborating statements of others who were not present during the Suchomel interview, but who were part of the Treblinka "production line". >> Considering the situation in which the interview took place, is there any reason to consider this testimony any more reliable than a lot of the other testimony concerning the extermination of the Jews of Europe? What situation is it that we should be considering? Suchomel is a former Nazi SS Unterscharfuhrer who gave an interview of his own volition. >> A tank engine would be a diesel engine. It would take much more time than that to kill two batches (men, then women, & children) using diesel exhaust. If they weren't dead, more's the pity ... "I remember once they were still alive. The ovens were full, and the people lay on the ground. They were all moving,they were coming back to life, and when they were thrown into the ovens they were all conscious. Alive. They could feel the fire burn them." (Shoah) >> Suchomel claims corpses burn very well with a little rubbish, gasoline and paper. This is nonsense. Suchomel said nothing about "a little." That was your invention. It doesn't strike me as nonsense. The fire was burning constantly in the pit. >> If Treblinka was so primitive, why is it credited with destroying 840,000 people in quite a bit less time than Auschwitz is supposed to have killed a little more than a million? Suchomel makes the point that Treblinka's relative primitiveness did not hinder its efficacy. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 807 Thu Apr 09, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 00:05 EDT Apparently the decimation of European Jewry has been relegated by a few of our esteemed participants here, to an esoteric chemistry debate dominated by some highly "motivated" non-scientists. What is it that compels you to discard the judgement of the experts? This is an insult to my intelligence, to which I will not continue to subject myself. One of you asserts, in the presence of an expert, that since an encyclopedia entry contains two high profile numbers - 6 million and 4 million - one must be a subset of the other. Kindly produce from a credible source, a summation of the 6 million that includes this mistaken 4 million. If you are correct, that shouldn't be too difficult. Of course our own expert Pooh.Bah says the Polish authorities were merely bringing their memorials into accord with historical evidence - historical evidence which continues to support the estimated 5.1 to 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. I renew my question to the doubting Thomases among you, have you seen the film, SHOAH? In nine and half hours without a single frame of attrocity newsreels, the reality of the Holocaust is confirmed. Leaving aside the Jewish survivors, what say you of the German SS, Polish, Czech, etc., participants and witnesses? What say you of the railroad records, the diaries, the documents, the evidence that there used to be a European Jewry which is no more? Did any of you bother to watch the attocity film, A PAINFUL REMINDER? Before I PER IGN this subject, I leave you with another series of Lanzmann's interviews in SHOAH. Nazi extermination of the Jews started long before Auschwitz. Mr. Hans-Peter, according to your encyclopedia, how many Jews died in the Warsaw ghetto? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 808 Thu Apr 09, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 00:07 EDT Dr. Franz Grassler (Germany), deputy to Dr. Auerswald, Nazi commissioner of the Warsaw ghetto Lanzmann: You don't remember those days? Grassler: Not much. I recall more clearly my prewar mountaineering trips than the entire war period and those days in Warsaw. All in all, those were bad times. It's a fact: we tend to forget, thank God, the bad times more easily than the good. The bad times are repressed. Lanzmann: I'll help you remember. In Warsaw you were Dr. Auerswald's deputy. Grassler: Yes. Lanzmann: Dr. Auerswald was. . . Grassler: . . . commissioner of the "Jewish district" of Warsaw. Lanzmann: Dr. Grassler, this is Czerniakow's diary. [Adam Czerniakow was president of the Judenrat (Jewish Council) of Warsaw.] You're mentioned in it. Grassler: It's been printed, it exists? Lanzmann: He kept a diary that was recently published. He wrote on July 7, 1941 . . . Grassler: July 7, 1941? That's the first time I've relearned a date. May I take notes? After all, it interests me too. So in July I was already there! Lanzmann: He wrote on July 7 1941: ". . . morning at the Community," that is, at the Jewish Council headquarters, ". . . and later with Auerswald, Schlosser . . . " Grassler: Schlosser was . . . Lanzmann: ". . . and Grassler, on routine matters." That's the first time. . . Grassler: . . . that my name is mentioned? Yes, but there were three of us. Schlosser was in . . . the "economic department." I think he had to do with economics. Lanzmann: And the second time was on July 22. Grassler: He wrote every day? Lanzmann: Yes, every day. It's quite amazing . . . . Grassler: That the diary was saved. It's amazing that it was saved. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 809 Thu Apr 09, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 00:07 EDT Lanzmann: Did you go into the ghetto? Grassler: Seldom. When I had to visit Czerniakow. Lanzmann: What were the conditions like? Grassler: Awful. Yes, appalling. I never went back when I saw what it was like. Unless I had to. In the whole period I think I only went once or twice. We at the Commission tried to maintain the ghetto for its labor force, and especially to prevent epidemics, like typhus. That was the big danger. Lanzmann: Yes. Can you tell us about typhus? Grassler: I'm not a doctor. I only know that typhus is a very dangerous epidemic that wipes people out like the plague, and that it can't be confined to a ghetto. If typhus had broken out -- I don't think it did, but there was fear that it might -- it would have hit the Poles and the Germans. Why was there typhus in the ghetto? I don't know if there was, but there was a danger, because of the famine. People didn't get enough to eat. That's what was so awful. We at the Commission did our best to feed the ghetto, so it wouldn't become an incubator of epidemics. Aside from humanitarian factors, that's what mattered. If typhus had broken out -- and it didn't -- it wouldn't have stopped at the ghetto. Lanzmann: Czerniakow also wrote that one of the reasons the ghetto was walled in was because of this German fear. Grassler: Yes, absolutely! Fear of typhus. Lanzmann: He said the Germans always associated Jews with typhus. Grassler: Maybe. I'm not sure if there were grounds for it. But imagine that mass of people packed into the ghetto. There weren't only the Warsaw Jews, but others who came later. The danger kept on growing. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 810 Thu Apr 09, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 00:08 EDT Lanzmann: The Germans had a policy on the Warsaw ghetto. What was that policy? Grassler: You're asking more than I know. The policy that wound up with extermination, the "final solution" -- we knew nothing about it, of course. Our job was to maintain the ghetto and try to preserve the Jews as a work force. The Commissariat's goal in fact, was very different from the one that later led to extermination. Lanzmann: Yes, but do you know how many people died in the ghetto each month in 1941? Grassler: I don't know now, if I ever knew. Lanzmann: But you did know. There are exact figures. Grassler: I probably knew . . . Lanzmann: Yes. Five thousand a month. Grassler: Five thousand a month? Yes, well . . . Lanzmann: That's a lot. Grassler: That's a lot, of course. But there were far too many people in the ghetto. That was it. Lanzmann: Far too many. Grassler: Far too many. Lanzmann: My question is philosophical. What does a ghetto mean, in your opinion? Grassler: History is full of ghettos, going back centuries, for all I know. Persecution of the Jews wasn't a German invention, and it didn't start with World War II. The Poles persecuted them too. Lanzmann: But a ghetto like Warsaw's, in a great capital, in the heart of the city . . . Grassler: That was unusual. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 811 Thu Apr 09, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 00:08 EDT Lanzmann: You say you wanted to maintain the ghetto. Grassler: Our mission wasn't to annihilate the ghetto, but to keep it alive, to maintain it. Lanzmann: What does "alive" mean in such conditions? Grassler: That was the problem. That was the whole problem. Lanzmann: But people were dying in the streets. There were bodies everywhere. Grassler: Exactly. That was the paradox. Lanzmann: You see it as a paradox? Grassler: I'm sure of it. Lanzmann: Why? Can you explain? Grassler: No. Lanzmann: Why not? Grassler: Explain what! But the fact is . . . Lanzmann: That wasn't "maintaining"! Jews were being exterminated daily in the ghetto. Czerniakow wrote . . . Grassler: To maintain it properly we'd have needed more substantial rations and less crowding. Lanzmann: Why weren't the rations more humane? Why weren't they? That was a German decision, wasn't it? Grassler: There was no real decision to starve the ghetto. The big decision to exterminate came much later. Lanzmann: That's right, later. In 1942. Grassler: Precisely! Lanzmann: A year later. Grassler: Just so. Our mission, as I recall it, was to manage the ghetto, and naturally with those inadequate rations and the over-crowding, a high, even excessive death rate was inevitable. Lanzmann: Yes. What does "maintain" the ghetto mean in such conditions: the food, sanitation, etc.? What could the Jews do against such measures? Grassler: They couldn't do anything. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 812 Thu Apr 09, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 00:09 EDT Lanzmann: Why did Czerniakow commit suicide? Grassler: Because he realized there was no future for the ghetto. He probably saw before I did that the Jews would be killed. I suppose the Jews already had their excellent secret services. They were too well informed, better than we were. Lanzmann: Think so? Grassler: Yes, I do. Lanzmann: The Jews knew more than you? Grassler: I'm convinced of it! Lanzmann: lt's hard to believe. Grassler: The German administration was never informed of what would happen to the Jews. Lanzmann: When was the first deportation to Treblinka? Grassler: Before Auerswald's suicide, I think. Lanzmann: Auerswald's? Grassler: I mean Czerniakow's. Sorry. Lanzmann: July 22. Grassler: Those are dates . . . So the deportations began July 22, 1942. Lanzmann: Yes. Grassler: To Treblinka. Lanzmann: And Czerniakow killed himself July 23. Grassler: Yes, that is the next day. So that was it: he'd realized that his idea -- it was his idea, I think, of working in good faith with the Germans, in the Jews' best interests -- he'd realized this idea, this dream, was destroyed. Lanzmann: That the idea was a dream. Grassler: Yes. And when the dream faded, he took the logical way out. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 813 Thu Apr 09, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 00:09 EDT Lanzmann: Did you think this idea of a ghetto was a good one? A sort of self- management? Grassler: That's right. Lanzmann: A mini-state? Grassler: It worked well. Lanzmann: But it was self-management for death, wasn't it? Grassler: We know that now. But at the time . . . Lanzmann: Even then! Grassler: No! Lanzmann: Czerniakow wrote: "We're puppets, we have no power." Grassler: Yes. Lanzmann: "No power." Grassler: Sure . . . that was . . . Lanzmann: You Germans were the overlords. Grassler: Yes. Lanzmann: The overlords. The masters. Grassler: Obviously. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 814 Thu Apr 09, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 00:10 EDT Lanzmann: Czerniakow was merely a tool. Grassler: Yes, but a good tool. Jewish self-management worked well, I can tell you. Lanzmann: lt worked well for three years: 1941, 1942, 1943. . . two and a half years. And in the end . . . Grassler: In the end . . . Lanzmann: "Worked well" for what? To what end? Grassler: For self-preservation. Lanzmann: No! For death! Grassler: Yes, but . . . Lanzmann: Self-management, self-preservation . . . for death! Grassler: That's easy to say now. Lanzmann: You admitted the conditions were inhuman. Atrocious . . . horrible! Grassler: Yes. Lanzmann: So it was clear even then . . . Grassler: No! Extermination wasn't clear. Now we see the result. Lanzmann: Extermination isn't so simple. One step was taken, then another, and another, and another. . . Grassler: Yes. Lanzmann: But to understand the process, one must. . . Grassler: I repeat: extermination did not take place in the ghetto, not ar first. Only with the evacuations. Lanzmann: Evacuations? Grassler: The evacuations to Treblinka. The ghetto could have been wiped out with weapons, as was finally done after the rebellion. After I'd left. But at the start . . . Mr. Lanzmann, this is getting us nowhere. We're reaching no new conclusions. Lanzmann: I don't think we can. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 815 Thu Apr 09, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 00:10 EDT Grassler: I didn't know then what I know now. Lanzmann: You weren't a nonentity. Grassler: But I was! Lanzmann: You were important. Grassler: You overestimate my role. Lanzmann: No. You were second to the commissioner of the Warsaw "Jewish district." Grassler: But I had no power. Lanzmann: lt was something. You were part of the vast German power structure. Grassler: Correct. But a small part. You overestimate the authority of a deputy of twenty-eight then. Lanzmann: You were thirty. Grassler: Twenty-eight. Lanzmann: At thirty you were mature. Grassler: Yes, but for a lawyer who got his degree at twenty-seven, it's just a beginning. Lanzmann: You had a doctorate. Grassler: The title proves nothing. Lanzmann: Did Auerswald have one too? Grassler: No. But the title's irrelevant. Lanzmann: Doctor of Law . . . What did you do after the war? Grassler: I was with a mountaineering publishing house. I wrote and published mountain guide books. I published a mountain climbers' magazine. Lanzmann: Is climbing your main interest? Grassler: Yes. Lanzmann: The mountains, the air. . . Grassler: Yes. Lanzmann: The sun, the pure air. . . Grassler: Not like the ghetto air. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 816 Thu Apr 09, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 00:11 EDT From SHOAH, Excerpt of Lanzmann's interview of historian Raul Hilberg Hilberg: Adam Czerniakow began keeping a diary the very first week of the war, before the Germans entered Warsaw, and before he took over the responsibility of leading the Jewish community, and he kept his diary in daily entries until the afternoon of the day that he ended his life. He left us a window through which we can observe a Jewish community, the terminal hours of its life, a dying community, which began dying, from the beginning. And in that sense Adam Czerniakow did something very important. He didn't save the Jews --in that respect he was like other Jewish leaders-- but he left us a record of what had happened to them in a day-by-day fashion. And you could see that he did all this on top of working a seven day week, for he was a man without vacations, without any day off. And yet every day, almost every day, he had an entry. He might record the weather, where he went in the morning, and then all the things that happened. But he never failed to write. That was something that moved him, pushed him, compelled him throughout the years --almost three years- - of his life under the Germans, and in that sense perhaps because he wrote in such a prosaic style we now know what went on in his mind, how things were perceived, recognized, reacted to. We even know from what he didn't say just what it is that went through this community. There are constant references in the diary to the end. He talks in terms of Greek mythology, and he refers to himself as wearing a poisoned cloak, as Hercules once did. He has a feeling of doom for the Jews or Warsaw, and there were remarkable passages in the diary that illustrate what he meant. He is sarcastic enough if that is the word, to remark in December of 1941 that now the intelligentsia were starving to death. And he even has . . . Lanzmann: Why does he mentions specifically the intelligentsia? Hilberg: He mentions it because there is a difference, owing to the class structure within the ghetto, in vulnerability to starvation. The lower classes died first. The middle class died a little bit later. The intelligentsia were of course at the top of the middle class, and once they started dying the situation was really very, very bad. And that's the meaning of that. Now we're dealing with a ghetto where the average consumption was about 1200 calories, you see. He mentions with approval, with approval, that one petitioner came to him for money and said: "I want money not in order to eat, I want money for rent, to pay the rent for my apartment. I don't want to die in the street." This is the kind of comment that Czerniakow writes down in his diary: the meaning of dignity, the approval. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 817 Thu Apr 09, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 00:12 EDT Lanzmann: You mean he spoke of a petition from somebody? He said: "Give me money"? Hilberg: Yes, but not for food. "Give me money so that I can pay the rent, because I don't want to die in the street." There were people dropping dead in the street. They were covered with newspaper. Lanzmann: Why was housing more important to him than food? Hilberg: This particular individual wasn't eating enough to remain alive, and didn't want to be dying of hunger while collapsing in the street. Lanzmann: This means that death was not avoidable, as was dying outside? Hilberg: Of course, of course, of course. It is one of these sardonic jokes of which he had quite a few. He always had strange description: of a band playing in front of a funeral parlor, of a hearse with drunken drivers, of a dead child running around the grounds. He had rather sardonic comments about death. He lived with death. There was a lady somewhere in Warsaw in love with a man, and the man was hit, grievously wounded, with his insides coming out. This woman stuffed the insides back with her own hands. She carried the man to a first-aid station. He died. He was buried in a mass grave. She disinterred him and buried him. This, to Czerniakow--this simple episode--as the ultimate of virtue. Lanzmann: He is never revolted? Hilberg: He doesn't bother. Or he doesn't express the revolt; he doesn't express the disgust except with other Jews, Jews who either deserted the community by emigrating early, or Jews who like Ganzweich collaborated with the Germans. And for the Germans he doesn't have words of disgust. I think he's beyond such words. He hasn't any criticism of the Germans themselves, and only seldom allows himself to make a remark which indicates that he opposed something by arguing. He very seldom argues with the Germans. He pleads, he appeals, but he doesn't argue with them. He does argue when he's forced not only to build the wall but to pay for it. And he says that if the wall is being put up as a hygienic measure to prevent Jewish epidemics from engulfing the Polish or German population outside, then why is it, why is it that the Jews have to pay for it? The people who get the protection should be paying for the medicine. If the wall is medicine, let the Germans pay. And Auerswald, the ghetto commissar, says that's a very nice argument that he, Czerniakow, might bring up at an international conference some day, but for now he'll pay for the wall. Czerniakow writes all this down, including Auerswald's reply to his own argument. And that's about the most he ever allows himself to say in criticism of what the Germans are doing. So he takes for granted, he assumes, he anticipates everything that is happening to the Jews, including the worst. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 818 Thu Apr 09, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 00:13 EDT Lanzmann: Czerniakow saw a film before the war where the captain of a sinking ship gives an order to the orchestra to play jazz. In the entry of July 8, 1942, not even two weeks before his death, he identifies himself with this captain of the sinking ship. Hilberg: Yes, yes . . . Lanzmann: Of course there is no jazz but there is a kind of children's festival. . . Hilberg: Chess tournaments, yes. There's theater, a children's festival, there's everything going on until the last moment. But more importantly, these are symbols. These outward cultural activities, these festivals, they're nor simply morale-building devices, which is what Czerniakow identifies them to be. Rather, they are symbolic of the entire posture of the ghetto, which is in the process of healing or trying to heal sick people who are soon going to be gassed, which is vying to educate youngsters who will never be growing up, which is in the process of trying to find work for people and increase employment in a situation which is doomed to failure. They are going on as though life were continuing. They have an official faith in the survivability of the ghetto, even after all indications are to the contrary. The strategy continues to be: "We must continue, for this is the only strategy that is left. We must minimize the injury, minimize the damage, minimize the losses, but we must continue." And continuity is the only thing in all oz this. Lanzmann: But obviously when he compares himself to this captain of a sinking ship, he knows that everything . . . Hilberg: He knows, he knows. I think he knew or he sensed or he believed the end was coming, perhaps as early as October 1941, when he has a note about alarming rumors as to the fate of Warsaw Jewry in the spring. This is also when Bischoff, the head of the transfer office, tells him that, after all, the ghetto is only a temporary device, without specifying for what. He knows because in January he has premonitions or reports or rumors about Lithuanians coming. He is concerned when Auerswald disappears and is going to Berlin, right around January so, 1942, which we now know to have been the date of the "final solution" conference in Berlin, the Wannasee Conference. And even though Czerniakow in Warsaw, behind the walls, has no idea of such a conference going on in Berlin, yet he is concerned that Auerswald, the ghetto commissar, is going to Berlin. He can't imagine why, unless it is for a purpose that bodes no good. And so in February there are more rumors. In March the rumors are becoming even more specific. He now begins to record the departure of Jews from the Lublin ghetto, or Mielec, or Krakow, and Lvov. And he recognizes that something may well be in the offing for Warsaw itself. And every subsequent entry is replete with the anxiety that he feels. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 819 Thu Apr 09, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 00:13 EDT Lanzmann: When Czerniakow hears rumors about the deportations from Lublin, Lvov, and Krakow around March 1942 -- and we now, know that the transports went to Belzec -- does he ask in his diary where they are shipped, what happens to them? Hilberg: He never does. He never mentions any destination. But we cannot really decide that he had no knowledge whatsoever about these camps. All we know is that he didn't mention them in the diary. And we also know, of course, from other sources that the existence of death camps was already known in Warsaw, certainly by June. Lanzmann: The last entry takes place how long before his suicide? The last entry precedes his death by a few hours. What does be write? Hilberg: "It is three o'clock. So far four thousand are ready to go. The orders are that there must be nine thousand by four o'clock." This is the last entry of a man on the afternoon of the day that he commits suicide. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 820 Thu Apr 09, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 00:14 EDT Lanzmann: The first transport of the Jews of Warsaw for Treblinka was the twenty-second of July, 1942, and he committed suicide the day after. Hilberg: That's right. In other words, on the twenty-second, you see, on the twenty-second he is called in by Sturmbahnfuehrer Hofle, who was in charge of the resettlement staff, who has come in there for the express purpose of taking the Jews out of Warsaw. Hofle tells him on the twenty-second, ... And here,incidentally, is another fascinating point: Czerniakow is so agitated that he doesn't put the dates down correctly-instead of saying July 22, 1942, he says July 22, 1940. Hofle calls him in at ten o'clock, disconnects the telephones, children are removed from the playground opposite the community building, and then he is told that all Jews irrespective of sex and age, with certain exceptions, will be deported to the east. To the east. Again the east. And that by 4 P.M. today a contingent of six thousand people must be provided. And this at the minimum will be the daily quota. Now he is told that at ten in the morning of July 22, 1942. He then goes on. He keeps appealing. He wants certain exemptions. He wants the council staff to be exempt. He wants the staff of the welfare organizations to be exempt, and he is terribly worried that the orphans will be deported, and repeatedly brings up the orphans. And on the next day he still doesn't have assurance that the orphans are going to be saved. Now if he cannot be the caretaker of the orphans, then he has lost his war, he has lost his struggle. Lanzmann: Why the orphans? Hilberg: They are the most helpless element in the community. They are the little children, its future, who have lost their parents. They cannot possibly do anything on their own. If the orphans do not have exemption, if he doesn't even get the promise, the words spoken by a German SS officer, not even assurances which as he knows cannot be counted, if he cannot even get the words, what can he think? If he cannot take care of the children, what else can he do? Some people report that he wrote a note after he closed the book on the diary in which he said: "They want me to kill the children with my own hands." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 821 Thu Apr 09, 1992 P.BRADEN [pat.b] at 00:40 EDT Raven says; "I have never claimed to be good at chemistry, but I can read. And what I read tells me that although we may be dealing with HCN gas once the inert carrier of the Zyklon-B releases the gas, the release of HCN gas is not the same as pouring liquid HCN on the floor (or anywhere else). note this well: we are not dealing with a liquid." I certainly agree with your assessement of your knowledge of chemistry. But then you do carry on like you know what your talking about, don't you? Zyklon-b has the liquid HCN adsorbed onto the surface of an inert substrate. Since the vapor pressure remains the same, the rate of evaporation doesn't decrease. In fact, because of the increase in surface area (assuming the zyklon-b paricles are small), it increases. In which case "the release of HCN gas is not the same as pouring it on the floor." It's much quicker. Rablin says the particles "felt like velvet and were cool and damp." The coolness was caused by the rapid evaporation of the liquid HCN and the dampness speaks for itself. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 822 Thu Apr 09, 1992 POOH.BAH at 01:42 EDT 802 Hans-Peter: > The 4 million for Auschwitz obviously WAS the accepted figure for a > lengthy period of time, along with the 6 million total. The question is, though, accepted by whom? What was the figure of 4 million anyway? Those plaques never said "4 million Jews" so, like Raven, you are comparing apples and oranges. The first two complete histories of the Holocaust were written by Reitlinger and Hilberg. Neither one of them ever claimed 4 million Jews being exterminated at Auschwitz. The plaques at Auschwitz never claimed that 4 million JEWS were exterminated there. In fact, those plaques never mentioned Jews at all. As has been stated publicly (such as the recent CNN broadcast on which S.PIERCE6 reported in this TOPic), the number of NON-JEWS was over-estimated by the Communist gov't in Poland and the Jewish deaths were denied in their version of history. Are you now denying that non-Jews were exterminated by the Nazis? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 823 Thu Apr 09, 1992 POOH.BAH at 01:42 EDT 803 Chigger: > Suchomel states the gas chambers there were fed by the engine > of a tank. He also states a trainload could be processed in three hours or > less. A tank engine would be a diesel engine. It would take much more time > than that to kill two batches (men, then women, & children) using diesel > exhaust. The CO content of which is less than 1 percent. As has been discussed in this TOPic already, any engine (including diesel) can be adjusted for an increased CO output. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 824 Thu Apr 09, 1992 A.WEBB1 [HRM] at 03:57 EDT Wow!! How do you guys know all this stuff? Has anyone seen Raske's film on the holocaust? To artsy for this discussion? But, then again, art is related to emotion -- and there's plenty of that afoot here. HRM ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 825 Thu Apr 09, 1992 AH.STEIN at 07:00 EDT 802 Hans-Peter: >Historians usually don't use the encyclopedia as a source, but the encyclopedia usually reports what is believed to be true at the time of publication. As Pooh.Bah has repeatedly pointed out, that was not the case here. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 826 Thu Apr 09, 1992 TERMY at 07:15 EDT Message 16 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] -> However, I accept the fact that you have no more evidence to ->support your claim that there was a policy of extermination, while ->pointing out yet again that you have failed to establish your claim ->in the least. Message 463 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] -> Because there were no systematic German programs of genocide... ------------------- My Message 250: Today I can confirm that our objective, to solve the Jewish problem for Lithuania, has been achieved by EK 3. In Lithuania there are no more Jews, apart from Jewish workers and their families. [The above follows detailed accounting of the killing of over 130,000 persons] ----- My Message 343: 5. Furthermore, it was proposed to sterilize all those Jewesses who are still fertile so that the Jewish problem would finally be solved with the present generation. ------ Message 346 When reaching its lawful verdict on the charges against the accused, the SS and Police Supreme Court was guided by the following considerations: 1. The accused shall not be punished because of the actions against the Jews as such. THE JEWS HAVE TO BE EXTERMINATED AND NONE OF THE JEWS THAT WERE KILLED IS ANY GREAT LOSS. Although the accused should have recognized that THE EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS WAS THE DUTY OF KOMMANDOS WHICH HAVE BEEN SET UP ESPECIALLY FOR THIS PURPOSE, he should be excused for considering himself to have the authority to take part in the extermination of Jewry himself. [emphasis mine] ------- My Message #349 elaborates upon Msg #346 ------- My Message 403: The aim of Einsatzkommando 2 from the beginning was a radical solution of the Jewish problem through the execution of all Jews. ------- My Message 404: ...It should be obvious that one cannot solve the Polish problem by liquidating the poles in the same way as the Jews. Such a solution to the Polish problem would burden the German people with guilt for years to come and lose us the sympathies of people everywhere, particularly since our neighbors would be bound to reckon that they would be treated in the same way when the time came." ---------- My Message 405: Carrying out orders, the Security Police were determined to solve the Jewish question with all possible means and most decisively...It was anticipated from the beginning that the Jewish problem in the Ostland [Baltic] would not be solved solely through pogroms. On the other hand, in accordance with basic orders, the cleansing operation of the Security Police had the goal of the most comprehensive elimination possible of the Jews. Extensive executions were thus carried out by special units in the cities and the plains. ------------- My Message 564: The Judenaktion on 13 November alleviated the situation [of severe overcrowding] perceptibly... Upon my arrival there were about 25,000 Jews in the Slonim area, 16,000 in the actual town itself...It was not possible to set up a ghetto as neither barbed wire nor guard manpower was available. I thus immediately began preparations for a large-scale action... ...The action carried out by the SD on 13 November rid me of unnecessary mouths to feed. The some 7,000 Jews now present in the town of Slonim have all been allocated jobs. They are working willingly because of the constant fear of death. Early next year they will be rigorously checked and sorted for a further reduction. ...all Jews will be eradicated with the exception of all but the most essential craftsmen and skilled workers... ...so that Jews will finally be dispensable in the skilled craft and trade sector and can be eliminated. --------- My Message 731 From a report from the Reichsfuehrer-SS (Himmler) to Hitler. August: September: Oktober: November: insgesamt: ------- ---------- -------- --------- ---------- [2]c) Juden exekutiert 31246 165282 95735 70948 363211 -------------- ALL of the above excerpts are taken from German wartime reports, correspondence and documents. There are no excerpts from confessions or post-war documents of any sort. Mr. Raven, in light of the above excerpts, do you still maintain that there was no policy of extermination? Do you suggest that Hitler was unaware of the large number of "Juden Exekutiert"? -------------- Just out of curiousity, is there anyone here (besides Mr. Raven and Mr./Ms. Rungu, if that entity is still about) who does not find the above sufficient evidence of a policy of genocide? Does anyone hold any doubt as to whether or not Hitler was aware of such a policy, or, at the very least, knowledge that large numbers of Jews were being killed? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 827 Thu Apr 09, 1992 A.WEBB1 [HRM] at 19:55 EDT I can't imagine anyone actually attempting to argue that extermination of Jews was not a part -- almost carried out -- of Hitler's plan. What might be important to do right now is to get as many clear stories from still-living eye witnesses etc. -- just to make the record as clear as possible (though it seems plain to me). Then again, those who want to argue that the murder of millions of Jews did not happen won't really care about documentation -- seems to me that the issue isn't even really =just how many= died... even if (and I don't think so) the numbers are half or less of what's generally believed, what difference does that make? We =know= that Hitler needed a group upon which he could focus his anger -- his insanity -- he used the Jews. If only one Jew was murdered in such a campaign it would be one too many and a holocaust of itself. A.Webb1, blue-eyed, blonde haired, germanic descended, and lover of Jews and all humans. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 828 Thu Apr 09, 1992 H.P.SKALIKS [Hans-Peter] at 21:48 EDT C.FINK4...message 804 I agree with you Carl that outright denial is an extreme position which would be difficult or impossible to support scientifically. I just have trouble accepting stories which are inconsistent or numbers which don't add up to the claimed totals. It grates against my training as a mathematical physicist. It bothers me to see these sudden shifts of position when the Russians have only recently admitted fudging the Auschwitz figures and having debaters here claim that "We knew the correct figures all along". The Russian figures were in countless books, encyclopedias, magazines, school textbooks, etc. Either the people who claimed to know the 1.1 million figure all along were lying then by keeping silent or they are lying now. Neither scenario builds confidence in what I am being told currently. What else will they claim to know later which they are now keeping hidden? D.BRIN1...message 805 Time and Newsweek reported the change of signs. I have never been to Poland personally, and have no plans ever to go there. S.PIERCE6...message 807 Sorry Madam Sheri, but the event is not listed under Poland, Germany, or Warsaw. I guess they decided that other events were more important. If your only offering to this topic is rudeness, then perhaps IGN PER would be best for everybody. Good day. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 829 Thu Apr 09, 1992 E.BROWN42 [scaramouche] at 22:11 EDT Hans-Peter, I'm sure that it grates on your training, but what we are dealing with here is a case of difference in disciplines. Historians are continually revising their accounts in order to take new evidence into account. The degree of precision that mathematics can give is much greater since the mathematician has a much greater degree of direct control over his/her variables than a historian does. This doesn't invalidate the historian's task, in fact, it is the only way that it can be done given the fact that we are dealing with irreproducable outcomes. (This is also why "revisionism" in and of itself is not a dirty word in historical investigation.) Scaramouche ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 830 Thu Apr 09, 1992 D.BERKOWITZ at 22:22 EDT G-d bless, A.Webb HRM. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 831 Thu Apr 09, 1992 H.P.SKALIKS [Hans-Peter] at 22:30 EDT POOH.BAH...message 822 I'm not denying anything. You're doing all the talking and I'm basically reading all these posts from different people with divergent viewpoints and trying to make sense of them. You are certainly not the villain of this piece because you have generally been quite an informative and reasonable person with whom to talk. The same cannot be said of some of the other respondents and I tire quite quickly of rude people who have nothing to say or polemicists who distort the comments of others into something that they can attack more easily than the original. I have come to the conclusion that participation here is not a very productive use of my time. Speaking of insults to people's intelligence, no German government document would ever use "exekutiert" for executed. The proper term is "hingerichtet". The document cluttering our screens was obviously prepared in English and then translated into German later. The word "exekutiert" does exist in German, but its meaning is ambiguous since it means "mortgaged" in Austrian useage. It just wouldn't appear in a German document. I have seen death warrants and they don't use that wording at all. Bye ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 832 Fri Apr 10, 1992 D.BRIN1 at 00:12 EDT Hans-Peter, I didn't ask you where you read about those plaques at Auschwitz. I asked you if you knew those plaques to say that 4 million Jews were killed there. It's a simple question: yes or no? Did they say that 4 million Jews were killed at Auschwitz? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 833 Fri Apr 10, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 01:51 EDT To Termy (regarding 789) --- > According to the eyewitness accounts, who was tasked with cutting the hair off gassing victims? . I believe it was the sonderkommando. --- > Your comment is specifically invited upon the first sentence in my statement, as shown above, regarding the amount of HCN which would be trapped in the hair. > Concerning other points I touched upon in my post #766, especially those regarding the physiological aspects of expression of gases from the lungs of deceased persons, you made no comment. Do you care to comment or will you concede the issue? . Regarding your first sentence, I feel we are just trading uninformed opinions. I think that a recently-gassed body would likely have dangerous amounts of HCN gas in, on, and around it (as implied by the statements of Mr. Armontrout). You don't. . As to the gasses trapped in the lungs, I have no knowledge specific to this area, so I can neither agree nor disagree with you. I will point out, however, that what you are saying in essence is that it is possible to pack an unheated room tightly with people, drop in some Zyklon B, have it gas off quickly enough to kill all the people in fifteen minutes and then dissipate without the assistance of ventilators or any other neutralizing agent, and have the room and its contents completely safe for handling at the end of that fifteen minutes. Judging by what I have heard about the toxicity of HCN gas, this simply does not seem possible. --- > Does Mr. Leuchter have an engineering degree? . Ah, now you have changed the question. Okay, to the best of my knowledge, Mr. Leuchter has no engineering degree. He does, however, have MUCH better qualifications that Thomas Edison, who only attended 3 months of formal schooling, yet managed to amass over 1,000 patents, and who changed our lives forever. Mr. Leuchter may not have 1,000 patents, but I believe his work has also changed our lives for the better. --- > In the same fashion as outlined above, I would ask that you ascertain whether or not Mr. Leuchter has appeared before the court concerning his possession (or, more correctly, lack thereof) of an engineering license. . Mr. Leuchter was called into court, but charges were either dropped or dismissed. There are many people practicing engineering in MA without a license, as MA law only requires certain engineers to have such a license. (We will leave here unaddressed the issue of why in America, land of the free, one needs a license to be an engineer, cut hair, etc.). Mr. Leuchter was not convicted of any charge, and last I heard the state of MA has accepted his application for a license and is reviewing it without prejudice. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 834 Fri Apr 10, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 01:52 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 790) --- > Seeing as Mr. Lueftl has denied giving anyone his report and has stated that he doesn't associate with "such circles," I would hardly call that standing behind the report which was made public. After all, there is no verification that the report made public was HIS. --- Let's look at this statement a piece at a time. > ...Mr. Lueftl has denied giving anyone his report... . Apparently, then, there is a report. --- > ...and has stated that he doesn't associate with "such circles,... . Which means nothing, and is certainly no denial of the report or its existence. --- > I would hardly call that standing behind the report which was made public. . Considering that it is against the new laws regulating thought in Austria, one would hardly expect him to brag that he had broken the law. --- > After all, there is no verification that the report made public was HIS. . So in other words, when the existence of this report was made public, someone asked Lueftl if he indeed was the author, and he called the report's origin into question by stating that he never released it? Why didn't he simply say, "I generated no such report." Or, "It's not mine." Or, "I didn't do it." You are clutching at straws. Again. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 835 Fri Apr 10, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 01:52 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 791) --- > From Cassell's German-English Dictionary: > "Vernichtung: extermination, annihilation, extinction, destruction." . Gee, so he could have meant extinction, as well? All you have to do to establish your position now is to prove that when Kremer wrote in his diary, he ALWAYS checked the translation of his words into English, and took the second meaning of each word as the meaning of that word in his sentences. Rather like a secret code, I guess ... ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 836 Fri Apr 10, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 01:52 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 794) --- > Sanning's figures (which are inaccurate anyway) are for Romania with its 1947 borders. Hilberg's are for Romania with its 1937 borders. Big difference, wouldn't you say? . The "big difference" is between what you have said and what is the truth of the matter. As anyone can see from my posting 779, Sanning takes into account the changes of the borders. By the way, on what grounds do you so lightly toss off Sanning's figures? There are many who have found that it is not quite this easy ... but we will get to this in a future post, relative your 797! ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 837 Fri Apr 10, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 01:53 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 795) --- > I find nothing in the "Birkenau - Kremas II, III, IV and V" which contradicts what Leuchter said on my page 8: "In Birkeanu, Kermas II, III, IV, V are collapsed, or razed to the foundations." . Ah, but surely you are aware that the roof of at least one of these buildings, although collapsed, remains available for inspection, as do the columns (which are solid and NOT hollow as eyewitness accounts would have us believe). Furthermore, Mr. Leuchter has never stated that everything depends on the CN compound tests alone, the physical inspection alone, or the inspection of the captured German blueprints and other drawings alone. He examined all of these, and came to the conclusion that there were no gas chambers. --- > And, under the section, "Design and Procedures at the Alleged Execution Gas Chamber" we read: "Kremas I, II, III, IV and V are described historically and on inspection were verified to have been CONVERTED [emphasis mine] mortuaries or morgues connected and housed in the same facility as crematories." > Now, no where does Mr. Leuchter enlighten us as to what his inspection verified these structures to have been CONVERTED into....yet, he does indicate that his inspection and the historical description agree. Therefore, we are left to conclude that he agrees with the historical description that these structures were CONVERTED into gas chambers. . Syntactically, this statement could have been made clearer. However, we can still understand that Mr. Leuchter was saying that the premises that are alleged to have been the very core of the "killing center" were not, in fact, designed as gas chambers, but were instead designed as something else! Only by converting them from their INTENDED use could the Germans have even hoped to use them as mass execution facilities. . Doesn't it strike you as curious, you with your "policy of extermination," that the Germans went to all the trouble of building facilities that were of no use to them in terms of mass gassings, which would have forced them to convert these unusable facilities to something only marginally better suited to mass exterminations? This is the height of folly. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 838 Fri Apr 10, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 01:54 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 797) --- > Let's look at what others have said about Sanning's work, shall we? > "....clever veneer of scholarship.....has all the superficial attributes of a factual analysis...identify its flaws..." Professor Henry Huttenback, CCNY. > "....a piece of sophisticated Holocaust denial....expose many of the errors in this work." Professor John S. Conway, University of British Columbia. > And, these are the "blurbs" that the publisher (IHR) chose to put on the jacket! . I hereby lodge a formal protest to Graffiti: there is either someone using Pooh.bah's account without her knowledge or she has forgotten the ground rules of the discussion here. Let's look at the blurbs as they appear on the back of the Sanning book, shall we? --- "...The danger of this book (and of those that will doubtlessly follow) is its clever veneer of scholarship. The bibliography is international in scope and the text has the panache of objectivity. It does not read like a shrill polemic but has all the superficial atttributes of a factual analysis. Not one in a thousand undergraduates could find fault with it; only a few more graduates would be competent to identify its flaws and to convincingly question its credibility. The ultimate danger lies in the lack of a serious response to this continuing wave of attacks on history itself." Professor Henry Huttenbach City College of New York in "Martyrdom and Resistance" --- "...a piece of sophisticated Holocaust denial...It will require the services of a competent demographer to expose many of the errors in this work." Professor John S. Conway University of British Columbia in "The International History Review" --- "...this book makes a great parade of statistics to show that whatever diminution in the population of the European Jews took place during World War II was only part of a long-term demographic 'dissolution' exacerbated by the rough treatment accorded Jews by the Soviet Union." Gordon Mork in "Shofar" --- As we can see, you have hacked these blurbs almost beyond recognition, and certainly beyond meaning. You, Pooh.bah, have clearly crossed the line on this one. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 839 Fri Apr 10, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 01:54 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 798) --- > Well, you have admitted to not being a chemist. Maybe we should look at what a chemist has to say: > "In the Leuchter report the gas concentration is stated as 0.32% and higher concentrations where the gas was introduced. When an explosive gas mixture fills only a small part of a room or is allowed to escape into the air, there would be no explosion." > Josef Bailer, PhD . Apparently, you are not a chemist, either. The DuPont literature was referring to explosive polymerization. Dr. Bailer appears to be talking about something else entirely. You will not convince me that your position is correct by muddying the waters in this fashion. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 840 Fri Apr 10, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 01:54 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding801) --- > Actually, Raul Hilberg had committments which he had to fulfill as a professor at the Univeristy of Vermont and was unable to attend the second trial. . How convenient. Funny how this happens, kinda like at the Great Holocaust Debate, which my Calender of the Holocaust records as: "2/21/89: The Great Holocaust Debate gets off to a slow start when exterminationists Hal Lindsey (author), Glen Peglau (attorney), John Montgomery (author), and Tom Anderson (attorney) fail to show up to debate revisionists Mark Weber (author), Robert Faurisson (professor), Bradley Smith (author), and Robert Countess (doctor). . So Hilberg, who for decades has put forth the proposition that the Holocaust occurred, can't find time to help rebut a denier such as Zuendel? One would think that he would MAKE time for such an opportunity ... if he had the proof to back up his statements. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 841 Fri Apr 10, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 01:55 EDT To Hans-Peter Skaliks (regarding 802) --- > The Jewish community complained loudly enough when the Polish government replaced the signs at the Auschwitz museum with signs showing smaller numbers. . Yes, even though we are told that the JEWISH dead were counted correctly (again!) and it is only the NON-Jewish dead that were counted incorrectly. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 842 Fri Apr 10, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 01:55 EDT To Carl Fink (regarding 804) --- > Please, Raven - this is just silly. The German word translates correctly EITHER WAY - as "extermination" or "annihilation". . Let's look at what Faurisson has to say about this phrase. --- "But there is something very much more serious that Georges Wellers has made the Kremer text undergo. Kremer did not say that Auschwitz was 'called an extermination camp,' which, in the original German, would have been: "genannt Vernichungslager." "In reality, we read in the original German: "'genannt DAS Lager DER Vernichtung' ('called THE camp of THE annihilation'). "If Wellers had respected the presence of the two articles and if he had given to 'Vernichtung' the meaning of 'extermination' which is indispensible to his extermination thesis, he would have gotten the following phrase: 'It is not without reason that Auschwitz is called the camp of the extermination.' Thus constructed, the phrase sounds bizarre both in German and in French. That has to be for us the sign that a word of the text undoubtedly has been badly translated. That word, as will be seen later on, is 'Vernichtung.' The context will reveal to us that that word is not to be translated as 'extermination' (a meaning that it can very well have in other contexts) by by 'annihilation.' There is here no extermination, murder, assassination, killing, nor massacre; there are not the results of an act, an action, or a will; there is nothing here about a 'camp where they exterminate,' there is here no 'extermination camp' (an expression invented by the victors, some years after 1942, to designate camps allegedly endowed with 'gas chambers'). What there is here in reality is an annihilation; men and women are reduced to wasting away; they are annihilated, reduced to nothing by the epidemics and notably by that illness whose name 'typhus (in Greek Tupos) signifies precisely: torpor, stupor, a kind of lethargy, a rapid destruction of the faculties, sometimes up to the point of death. Auschwitz is not 'an extermination camp' (an anachronistic expression, and we know that anachronism is one of the most reliable signs of the presence of a falsehood) but the camp, yes, indeed, the camp *par excellence* of general annihilation. Without a doubt, just as the moment of taking his post at Auschwitz, this newcomer, Dr. Kremer, had heard his colleagues say, 'You know, this camp, they call it the camp of annihilation. Look out for typhus! You yourself also take the risk of contracting it and dying from it.'" . Thus we see that my using the word "extermination" in place of the proper word, "annihilation," you are indeed "doing violence to the text." --- > Raven, your 785: you are reading a lot into DuPont's safety regulations, which from the phrasing, seem to be talking about huge quantities. In any case, they are most certainly more worried about lawsuits and employee injuries than the Nazis were - the Nazis were only risking the lives of Jews. . The DuPont literature makes reference to "dangerous amounts." If toxicity figures for HCN gas are to be believed, this is not a very high concentration. Furthermore, if the so-called gas chambers leaked, they were risking the lives of those OUTSIDE as well. --- > Raven, your 787: well, I'd like a reference on the evaporation rate of HCN from Zyclon B because if the tin is empty in 5 minutes, it indicates that the gas could spread through the execution chamber and kill everyone fairly easily, whereas if it requires 12 hours, obviously nobody was gassed with Zyclon B. Why not give a range of temperatures, say from 10C to 35C (both of which probably ocurred at different times as OUTDOOR temperatures at the camps). . Thanks a million for the long-answer question. I'll see what I can come up with. --- > By the way, the Zyclon B manual makes no sense ... . Well, there were (and probably still are) the manufacturers ... perhaps they knew one or two things about their own product that you do not know. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 843 Fri Apr 10, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 01:56 EDT To Daniel Brin (regarding 805) --- > Now, now, Hans-Peter (Message 802): Your message appears to imply that those plaques at Auschwitz stated that four million Jews were killed at Auschwitz. Do you know this to be so? . Do not mistake your inferences with Mr. Skaliks' implications. His message implies no such thing, and you know it. --- > Mr. Raven: Once again you have dodged the obvious conclusion... the ONLY logical conclusion that can be made of Fred Leuchter's "analysis" of Auschwitz. The core of his argument is his comparison of the delousing chambers with the homicidal gas chambers, and this comparison is rendered meaningless by his failure to comprehend that the two sets of chambers were exposed to VASTLY different amounts of gas, under vastly different conditions. . You need to study this matter more carefully. Mr. Leuchter himself has stated that only about ten percent of his conclusion is based on the analysis of the samples taken. There is MUCH more to the Leuchter Report than chemical analysis. --- > Your first response was to this point was to deny that little bugs could "root around" the stuff for hours without dying. Now you have posted a strategic retreat, not quite denying this fact, but not quite admitting it either. The closest you have come to an admission is a citation of Leuchter's concession that, well, yes, SOME bugs are more resistant to cyanide gas than humans. . You have either misunderstood my post or are mischaracterizing it. Please post the message number so I can respond substantively to this allegation. --- > Hmmm..... I just noticed that, if Pooh.Bah's quotation of Fred Leuchter (message 795) is correct, then the homicidal chambers were housed in the same facilities as the crematoria. Let's see now. It gets mighty hot around crematoria, doesn't it? . Hmmm ... How much longer will it take you to notice that crematoria use fire, and that HCN gas burns or explodes on contact with open flame? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 844 Fri Apr 10, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 01:56 EDT To Sheri Pierce (regarding 806 et al) --- > My advice to you would be to check out the SHOAH video series... . You will permit me to point out that even "documentary" films are highly suspect by the very nature of their assembly, and that Shoah and Painful Reminder are hardly unimpeachable sources. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 845 Fri Apr 10, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 01:57 EDT To Pooh.bah (regarding 823) --- > As has been discussed in this TOPic already, any engine (including diesel) can be adjusted for an increased CO output. . It has been alleged that a diesel engine can be adjusted for increased CO output, but this has not been backed up with any factual information. What is a fact is that using a diesel engine to produce CO to kill people is extremely inefficient. We know that the Germans had any number of ways to produce CO other than diesel engines. Why would they "forget" these other ways and take up one of the least effective methods in order to effect mass murder? Answer: they wouldn't. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 846 Fri Apr 10, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 01:57 EDT To Termy (regarding 826) --- > Just out of curiousity, is there anyone here (besides Mr. Raven and Mr./Ms. Rungu, if that entity is still about) who does not find the above sufficient evidence of a policy of genocide? Does anyone hold any doubt as to whether or not Hitler was aware of such a policy, or, at the very least, knowledge that large numbers of Jews were being killed? . Personally, I don't care if EVERYONE else finds these few postings to be sufficient. I do not. You fail to recognize my agreement that the activities of the Einsatzgruppen sometimes resulted in the killing of Jews. This is a special case. The court case of Tauber is another special case. . You need to address the many statements and efforts made throughout the war by the Nazi high command to the effect that the "final solution" of the Jewish problem was to be put off until after the war, the evidence we have of highly placed Nazi officials continuing to pursue plans to ship the Jews out of Europe as late as 1944, and the evidence that the Nazis were moving lots of Jews East of the so-called killing centers into the occupied territories. There actions (and others) speak loudly and clearly to the point that there was no policy of genocide, and thus Hitler could not have known about it. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 847 Fri Apr 10, 1992 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] at 01:58 EDT To Pooh.bah How many times must I ask you this? Give us the details about the copy of the Franke-Gricksch Report you claim to have reviewed or abandon your endless repetition of it as "proof" of a Nazi policy to exterminate the Jews! Even if you had never seen the document when you first said you had, I have given you more than enough time to obtain a copy of the document about which you claim to have so much knowledge. You apparently cannot answer any but the most simple questions about it, and then only in useless generalities. WHAT ARE THE DETAILS? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 848 Fri Apr 10, 1992 A.WEBB1 [HRM] at 02:08 EDT What Pooh.Bah said. HRM ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 849 Fri Apr 10, 1992 A.K.QUINN at 02:22 EDT I wonder why the RCC canonized Fr Maximilian Kolbe, who volunteered to take the place of a man with a family, and who was starved to death at Auschwitz? And why did the Pope at Auschwitz speak so strongly about the genocide practiced there? John Paul II is not known to be careless with words. =KevinQ= ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 850 Fri Apr 10, 1992 E.BROWN42 [scaramouche] at 02:43 EDT Raven RE: Post 842 et. al. concerning "extermination" vs. "annihilation" I believe the appropriate terms for you "argument" are "quibbling" and "pettifogging". In any case, you've just made out the Nazis to be even worse monsters if your particular argument is correct. Which is the more inhumane, a bullet in the back of the head, 15-30 minutes of terror in a gas chamber, or a deliberate attempt to "annihilate" an entire race of people by slow starvation and disease? I think most folks would choose the last option as being the most sadistic. :-< Scaramouche ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 851 Fri Apr 10, 1992 M.FEINS at 18:22 EDT A moment of Silence in the Blessed Memory of the 75,000 Mental Defectives of ALL races and creeds who because of something they could not comprehend nor defend themselves against were slaughtered by the depraved animals of Nazi Holocaust and their Nazi Masters ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 852 Fri Apr 10, 1992 J.WEISBERGE1 [Jon W.] at 18:22 EDT If the passage from Faurisson quoted by Raven in #842 is a good example of Faurisson's approach ("annihilation" obviously means "fatal disease"), no wonder he was thrown out of his profession! In general, this approach - also exemplified by Raven's #845 (the question "why would the Germans do X" is advanced as proof that they did not, in fact, do X") flies in the face of the most basic principles of historiography. We have testimony that a tank engine was used to produce fumes to asphyxiate Jews at Treblinka. The counter-argument consists of asking "why would they use such an inefficient method?" - which is not, in fact, an argument, but merely a question which does not address the substance of the testimony. The unspoken piece here is that the testimony is false; that it is sufficient to ask this question to discredit the testimony. This is a travesty of historical methodology. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 853 Fri Apr 10, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:23 EDT 828 Hans-Peter: > It bothers me to see these sudden shifts of position when the Russians > have only recently admitted fudging the Auschwitz figures and having > debaters here claim that "We knew the correct figures all along". The > Russian figures were in countless books, encyclopedias, magazines, school > textbooks, etc. Either the people who claimed to know the 1.1 million > figure all along were lying then by keeping silent or they are lying now. Your "either/or" regarding lying is a non-sequitur. Hilberg and Reitlinger were the first two to publish complete histories on the Holocaust. Hilberg estimated the number of Jews exterminated at Auschwtiz at 1 million (2.7 for all camps) and Reitlinger estimated the number at 1.1 million. Their books were published long before the plaques were changed. So, no one has been "keeping silent" regarding these figures. I will repeat again that the plaques at Auschwitz never claimed 4 million JEWS. For you to say that the figure "4 million" being reduced necessitates the 6 million total figure being reduced either means that you THOUGHT the plaques stated that there were 4 million JEWS exterminated there OR that you deny that non-Jews (i.e. homosexuals, Gypsies, Russian POWs, Poles, etc.) were exterminated there. Which is it? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 854 Fri Apr 10, 1992 POOH.BAH at 18:26 EDT 831 Hans-Peter: > Speaking of insults to people's intelligence, no German government > document would ever use "exekutiert" for executed. The proper term is > "hingerichtet". The document cluttering our screens was obviously prepared > in English and then translated into German later. The word "exekutiert" > does exist in German, but its meaning is ambiguous since it means > "mortgaged" in Austrian useage. It just wouldn't appear in a German > document. I have seen death warrants and they don't use that wording at > all. As you know (but others here would not know), "exekutiert" is a conjugation of "exekutieren." Now, according to you, this word does not exist in the German language and the Americans, British or Canadians were too stupid to realize this so used the wrong term in forging a document. This is ridiculous on all counts. From _Das Wissen unserer Zeit: Immer auf dem neuesten Stand. Knaurs Lexikon A-Z_, Muenchen, 1931: "exekutieren: vollstrecken, ausfuehren, HINRICHTEN." For everyone else's benefit, "vollstrecken" translates to: "execute, carry out, ratify" and "ausfuehren" translates to: "take out, carry out, execute, perform." The former would be as in "a will is executed" and the latter would be as in "the maneuver was executed." "Hinrichten" is the German word that Hans-Peter has designated means to execute as in "a person is executed in a gas chamber." I put that word all in caps. This comes from a dictionary published in Munich in 1931 so obviously the verb "exekutieren" (1) was a German word at that time; and (2) that word did mean to execute as in execute a person. Now, the question is, Hans-Peter, did you really not know this OR were you simply hoping that no one else knew this? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 855 Fri Apr 10, 1992 POOH.BAH at 19:29 EDT 836 Raven: > The "big difference" is between what you have said and what is the > truth of the matter. As anyone can see from my posting 779, Sanning > takes into account the changes of the borders. Yes, Sanning accounts for the changes in borders. His figures are based upon the 1947 borders. However, you then compared Sanning's figures to those of Hilberg and Hilberg's figures are the 1937 borders. That is the big difference which you want to ignore. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 856 Fri Apr 10, 1992 POOH.BAH at 19:30 EDT 838 Raven: > I hereby lodge a formal protest to Graffiti: there is either someone > using Pooh.bah's account without her knowledge or she has forgotten > the ground rules of the discussion here. ROFL!!!!! ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 857 Fri Apr 10, 1992 POOH.BAH at 19:30 EDT 847 Raven: I have now told you in two different messages where the original F-G report can be located. I would suggest that you obtain a copy for yourself so you can see all the details that interest you. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 858 Fri Apr 10, 1992 C.FINK4 [Carl] at 21:01 EDT Raven, your 842: you (or Faurisson) make a big deal of the clumsiness in either French or German of "The camp of the extermination". I can't speak for those languages, but "The camp of the annihilation" is just as clumsy in English. Hans-Peter, you're a native speaker of German, could you comment? >>>By the way, the Zyclon B manual makes no sense ... [quote from me] >>Well, there were [sic] (and probably still are) the >>manufacturers ... >>perhaps they knew one or two things about their own product that >>you do not know. Perhaps, but I suspect that the translation is off. HCN is not a very complex compound: I can grasp its behavior fairly well. Carl Fink ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 859 Fri Apr 10, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 23:41 EDT Regard the plaques at Auschwitz: Initially I heard CNN report that the Polish authorities were reducing their Auschwitz death count from 4 million to 1 and half million. Several people here referred to 1.1 million. Today I read a rather authoritative news report from Reuters which stated the total estimate was 1.6 million, of which more than 90% (1.4 million) were Jews. Reuters goes on to state that the communist regimes in Poland previously acknowledged the victims by their countries of origin, and that in any case the present changes are motivated by the desire of the present Polish authorities to "restore the historical truth about Auschwitz, especially the fact that more than 90 per cent of the estimated 1.6 million victims were European Jews." I have watched the news and periodicals on this subject rather closely. I have seen nothing suggesting the Jews protested the action, quite the opposite. Therefore I challenge Hans-Peter to produce his sources. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 860 Sat Apr 11, 1992 A.WEBB1 [HRM] at 01:24 EDT What POOH.BAH said. Her Rugged Majesty ;) [[[ALL]]] ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 861 Sat Apr 11, 1992 B.EATON2 [BZE] at 02:35 EDT Raven #783 What were you taught about the Holocaust, capital H, which is different from what I have stated? Written that way, for the past 50 years, it has come to mean the deliberate destruction of European Jewry, or as much of it as the Nazis could get their hands on. Pooh and others have posted innumerable statistics, reports, etc. to show what happened. The majority of the world's respected historians and scholars agree with the major pts they have brought up. "I believe" their documentation. I find nothing in the minor pts you bring up and chew to death to contradict those findings. You still haven't answered my question posed days ago. Why do you call Hitler a great man? You must have reasons; please share them with us. #846 Why did the Nazis use valuable and scarce railroad cars to move Jews to the East? What was the point of the move if not to exterminate them? Webster's New World dictionary defines annihilate as "...destroy completely, put out of existence." exterminate is defined as "to destroy or get rid of entirely, as by killing; wipe out; annihilate" The words mean the same thing; to destroy by killing. You cannot rewrite the language to justify your political beliefs and retain credibility. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 862 Sat Apr 11, 1992 J.WEIR9 at 12:17 EDT RE: Message 637 & 700 / Pooh.Bah > This statement would be reasonable IF the delousing chamber had been exposed > to the same environmental forces as had the gas chambers. However, since the > delousing chamber was left intact and the gas chambers had been destroyed and > left exposed to the elements, testing of the samples from the delousing > chamber would not logically produce the above conclusion. . You seem to forget Krema I. It was not destroyed, and has been subject to the same environmental forces as had the delousing chamber and the cyanide levels there (Leuchter samples 25-31) were about the same as those for the other morgues. Are you saying Krema I was not a gas chamber? I have seen slides by Ditlieb Felderer of the exterior of one of the Birkenau delousing chambers where mattresses were leaned against the wall and beaten to drive the HCN gas out of them. The Prussian blue which formed on this wall which has been exposed to the elements for all these years is quite prominently visible. . RE: Message 677 / Pooh.Bah > In the above example, it might be true that I had been hit by a car while > riding my bicycle. It might also be true that I had been hit from the rear > and was thrown through the air. However, my statement of "at least 200 feet" > and that it took the ambulance "an hour or two" would probably not be > accurate and might, indeed, have to be divided by 2 or 3 to bring them into > line with the truth. However, even if that is true, that does not mean that > suddenly I would be injury free because my exaggeration translates into the > non-existence of the accident. This is circular logic. The proof of the accident would be the in- juries suffered, the damage done to the bicycle and the car, if any, and doc- uments generated by the hospital visit, not the testimony of the accident victim. If there is no other evidence but the testimony an examination of the details is the only way assess its credibility. One cannot say the testimony is true because the accident occurred and the accident was proven by the testimony. This is merely begging the question. In the case of the gas chamber testimony this also applies. You can't properly say these accounts are true and prove there were gas chambers because you base their veracity on the assumption the gas chambers existed in the first place. . RE: Message 680 / Pooh.Bah > As far as the lack of heaters in the gas chambers, I assume that you mean of > the inorganic type. After all, there were about 300 naked human bodies which > would have produced around 3900 BTU. That is more than enough to heat that > small space. While this may have contributed to the heating of the air, I do not believe these people would have had much effect on the concrete in the floor, walls, and ceiling where the condensation would have taken place. . RE: Message 700 / Pooh.Bah >First, the walls of the gas chamber were not "continuously exposed" to HCN >for a year and a half. I know this. These morgues saw very little HCN at all. What adverb would you use if you do not like "continuously"? >Second, according Dr. Bailer [...] Third, according to the Institute of >Forensic Institute [...] I accept there is more than one expert opinion on the matter, however, the formation of these compounds is not essential to support the thesis these buildings were never used as gas chambers. Since this compound is absent there is nothing to show these buildings were anything other than what the documents say they were (ie. Crematories with attached morgues built to battle a typhus epidemic). >As far as gas trapped in lungs, dead people don't exhale. True, but neither do they hold their breath, and bodies would have to be manipulated when removed. >Next, HCN has been used in places such as mills, and granaries because it >decomposes after a short time and leaves no residue behind. Also, HCN dis- >sipates quickly when exposed to air which has lower (or no) HCN concentra- >tion. Please define "a short time" and "quickly". >This would mean that any residual gas in the chamber would not adversly af- >fect the Sonderkommandos. If we were talking about one body in an open field I would agree. The problem is we are stuck with an unventilated 2500 sq. ft. basement with 300 unexhaling bodies in it. . RE: Message 703 / Pooh.bah >"....[...] Despite the speed of this operation the lice > jumped on our legs and to protect ourselves we spread a little Zyclon-B > around our feet. [...]" Pirouetting Parasites, Batman! Leaping lice! Lice don't jump. At least, mine don't. But maybe I don't feed them right. I have been feeling a bit run down lately... . RE:Message 682 / Pooh.bah > "We put on our gas masks and went in the room naked or wearing underpants..." Eureka! What a concept! Nude Fumigating! It will revolutionize the indus- try! Stars! They must have been a sight! . RE: Message 795 / Pooh.Bah > Now, no where does Mr. Leuchter enlighten us as to what his inspection > verified these structures to have been CONVERTED into....yet, he does > indicate that his inspection and the historical description agree. Therefore, > we are left to conclude that he agrees with the historical description that > these structures were CONVERTED into gas chambers. Nonsense, you reading into it again. It is quite clear. In the case of Kremas II through V the conversion was one to rubble. For Krema I it is a conversion to a surgery, then to a bomb shelter, and finally to a tourist trap. [Chigger] ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 863 Sat Apr 11, 1992 J.WEIR9 at 12:20 EDT RE: Message 728 / G.Raven Thank you for the upload tip. . RE:Message 725 / G.RAVEN > Second, Kremer was a native German speaker, was he not? He certainly > could have used the "vernichtungslager" construction if that is what > he had meant, couldn't he? If I am not mistaken, the term "vernichtungslager" is a postwar invention. The Nazis did not classify any of their camps as "vernichtungslager" so it quite possible he would use the other construct. I believe a more important question is: Since he wrote Auschwitz was called "das Lager der Vernichtung" for good reason, who else referred to it in those terms? What evidence is there to show this term was a synonym for Auschwitz for anyone other than Dr. Kremer? This semantic hairsplitting over an ambiguous entry in an obscure doctor's diary is symptomatic of the general poverty of documentary evidence for a Nazi extermination program. If the diary had said something like: "Dear Diary, Got up. Had breakfast. Gassed some Jewish women and children. Had Lunch. Gassed some Gypsies to death. Had dinner. Gassed a mixed group of other non-Aryans. Went to bed. Gee this monotony is really getting to me. I wish I was back in Berlin." I would say that there may be something to this. But the entry I have seen in its various translations for September 2, 1942 could refer to any number of upsetting events. Stating it refers to a gassing or a genocide program is simply reading into it something that is not there. . [Chigger] ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 864 Sat Apr 11, 1992 J.WEIR9 at 12:22 EDT RE: Message 711 / J.STENGEL >[....] No, I definitely would not do so in "a room with an air >concentration of HCN adequate to kill in 15 minutes"...my whole point on my >post you cite is that with elementary ventilation, the chamber no longer >contains "concentration of HCN adequate to kill in 15 minutes". When the doors >were CLOSED the HCN concentration WAS adequate to kill in 15 minutes. Now, if >the doors were opened and the air in the chamber was "changed", AND the volume >of the room outside the chamber was several times greater than the volume of >the chamber...so that the concentration of HCN is lowered to a point > "adequate to kill" in maybe a couple hours, [...] We can all imagine a theoretical gas chamber which could be used to kill large numbers of people in a short period of time. This is why the gassing story has been so readily accepted even though most people do not know much about chemistry or thermodynamics or have even seen a picture of a gas cham- ber designed for such a purpose. Certainly Nazi Germany had the knowledge and the technology to produce such a device. They had tunnels designed and built to fumigate railroad cars. They knew how to use Zyclon-B effectively. The question before us is not could they have produced one or more gas chambers, nor even would they have done so, but DID they? If they did, where was it, what did it look like, and how did operate? You speak of elementary ventila- tion. Find a layout of Krema II and III at Birkenau. Look how the "gas cham- ber" is situated in relation to the rest of the building. There is no elementary ventilation. The only doorway from this room opens into the nexus of the building, not to the outdoors. There are no windows, it is mostly be- low ground. There is no proof the Nazis gassed anyone at Birkenau or at any of the concentration camps. There is only testimony. Testimony is not proof nor even very good evidence. . [Chigger] ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 865 Sat Apr 11, 1992 H.P.SKALIKS [Hans-Peter] at 13:32 EDT POOH.BAH...message 853 According to the various reports, the sign at the Auschwitz museum did not mention Jews at all. Does this mean that Auschwitz was dedicated to non-Jews, so that any revisions of the numbers will not affect the Jewish totals? Your hypothesis that downward revisions of fatality ESTIMATES in concentration camps or other sites affects only non-Jews is a little thin. As far as "exekutiert" goes, I have already stated that it is a German word, but of foreign origins. Read posts CAREFULLY and COMPLETELY and you will not be caught in these sorts of errors or distortions of what somebody else has said. You basically changed the text and intent of my post and then started to attack YOUR CREATION, not mine. If this is an authentic National Socialist document, then the word choice is UNIQUE and highly suspect. It just does not fit the mold for word useage in NS documents. These are the same people who wouldn't allow the word "motor" for an engine because of its foreign, in this case Greek, origins. The word Treibwerk was used instead. Fernsprecher was used instead of telefon...etc. C.FINK4...message 858 The German word "vernichten" means to destroy, literally "to make naught". The translations of annihilation or extermination are a bit flowery. What was basically said was that the camp had a high death rate. The REASONS for the high death rate would need to be established separately and do not follow automatically from Dr. Kremer's wording. On the other hand, Dr. Kremer was the fellow who thought Upper Silesia was a tropical jungle, an observation which would have been news to the local residents. S.PIERCE6...message 859 The CBC (Radio Canada) evening news showed a group of people, purported to be a collection of Jews from the U.S. and other places voicing their displeasure with placard signs etc. to what they thought was a diminuation of the impact of the holocaust story. Sorry, Sheri, but since this topic is rather peripheral to my life rather than the centre of it, I do not record the time and date of these productions. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 866 Sat Apr 11, 1992 POOH.BAH at 14:06 EDT 862 Chigger: > You seem to forget Krema I. It was not destroyed, and has been subject > to the same environmental forces as had the delousing chamber and the > cyanide levels there (Leuchter samples 25-31) were about the same as those > for the other morgues. Please cite a single source which claims that Krema I was never destroyed. I certainly don't know of one. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 867 Sat Apr 11, 1992 POOH.BAH at 14:07 EDT 862 Chigger: > I have seen slides by Ditlieb Felderer of the exterior of one of the > Birkenau delousing chambers where mattresses were leaned against the wall > and beaten to drive the HCN gas out of them. The Prussian blue which > formed on this wall which has been exposed to the elements for all these > years is quite prominently visible. "Prussian blue is a very widespread coloring material that is to be found in great quantities on old walls as a residue of old painting or as a stain of color that some kind of material that once leaned against this wall left behind by fading into the wall. The mattresses that were used in the camps, are known to be blue-white stripped mattresses and the blue of the mattresses was produced by a Prussian blue." Josef Bailer, PhD ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 868 Sat Apr 11, 1992 POOH.BAH at 14:08 EDT 862 Chigger: > The proof of the accident would be the injuries suffered, the damage done > to the bicycle and the car, if any, and documents generated by the > hospital visit, not the testimony of the accident victim. Sorry, this is not totally correct. The testimony of the accident victim would also be part of the proof of the accident. For instance, was the bicycle rider on the shoulder of the road, on the road, begin to fall before impact, was another car approaching and the car that hit the rider swerved to avoid that car, etc.? These facts usually can only be determined by eyewitness testimony. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 869 Sat Apr 11, 1992 POOH.BAH at 14:08 EDT 862 Chigger: > While this may have contributed to the heating of the air, I do not > believe these people would have had much effect on the concrete in the > floor, walls, and ceiling where the condensation would have taken place. HCN is lighter than air (0.97:1) and would rise and disperse quickly. Although some of the HCN would come into contact with the walls, floor and ceiling, it was also quickly vented out of the chambers and the amount of condensation would be minimal. Add to this the composition of the walls, floor and ceiling (lime and water with the additional dampness) and any HCN present would have been destroyed. Also, it is unlikely that Prussian blue arose in these walls, because the iron in the bricks and in the burnt lime acted unfavorably for the reaction of the trivalent form of iron and because the alkaline environment hindered the reaction. The above information is courtesy of the eminent Austrian chemist, Josef Bailer, PhD. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 870 Sat Apr 11, 1992 POOH.BAH at 14:09 EDT 862 Chigger: > If we were talking about one body in an open field I would agree. The > problem is we are stuck with an unventilated 2500 sq. ft. basement with > 300 unexhaling bodies in it. "One can recognize from the blue prints the presence of ventilation shafts in the walls. Exhaust fans saw to the rapid suction of gas from the gas chamber and the rapid introduction of air following the extermination actions." The above is from Werner Wegner, PhD. He is an Austrian historian who was born in 1907 and began researching Auschwitz and the Nazi extermination program in the late 1940s. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 871 Sat Apr 11, 1992 POOH.BAH at 14:10 EDT 862 Chigger: > Nonsense, you reading into it again. It is quite clear. In the case > of Kremas II through V the conversion was one to rubble. For Krema I it is > a conversion to a surgery, then to a bomb shelter, and finally to a > tourist trap. "....Leuchter declares that the alleged gas chambers have the appearance of an earlier construction, designated purpose and manner of construction. This is perfectly correct only in reference to the 'country houses' - Bunkers I and II - that were reconstructed from houses for gassing purposes.....Leuchter maintains that in the case of the Kremas that we are dealing with rebuilt mortuaries or morgues that were connected to the crematoria and were lodged in the same structure. This was the case only in Krema I where the mortuary that belonged to the crematorium was used to gas people for a period of time. All other Kremas (II-V) were planned and built beforehand exclusively as extermination structures, with disrobing rooms, gassing rooms and incineration rooms, which can be verified by the wealth of the testimony from depositions of witnesses and perpetrators, blue prints, material management and building orders. Thus it cannot be a question of reconstruction." Werner Wegner, PhD. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 872 Sat Apr 11, 1992 POOH.BAH at 14:10 EDT 862 Chigger: > Stating it refers to a gassing or a genocide program is simply reading > into it something that is not there. Perhaps it would be worthwhile to review the entire diary entry for that day again. From the diary of Dr. Johann Kremer 2 September 1942 This morning at three o'clock I attended a special action for the first time. Dante's hell seemed like a comedy in comparison. Not for nothing is Auschwitz called an extermination camp. This is a direct reference to a "special action" (i.e. Sonderaktion). Could you please analyze the above diary entry in its entirety and explain exactly what you think it does mean? Thank you. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 873 Sat Apr 11, 1992 TERMY at 14:16 EDT In reply to: Message 846 G.RAVEN [Greg Raven] -> Personally, I don't care if EVERYONE else finds these few ->postings to be sufficient. I do not. Obviously. ->You fail to recognize my agreement that the activities of the ->Einsatzgruppen sometimes resulted in the killing of Jews. This ->is a special case. This is incorrect. I fail to agree with your assertion that the activities of the Einsatzgruppen sometimes resulted in the killing of Jews. Instead, I prefer to hold to the truth that they were formed with the express purpose of killing Jews, Gypsies, etc., and did so in quite large numbers. "Sometimes" means occassionally. The EK3 report I uploaded shows the activities of one Einsatzkommando, a unit of an Einsatzgruppe, and details the deaths of over 130,000 Jews, Jewesses, Jewish children, Communists of various nationalities, Gypsies, etc., over a period of a few months. This is NOT a "sometime" activity, especially when several of the listings say "All Jews, all Jewesses, all Jewish children" in a given town. Further, the report effectively refutes the assertion that Jews were being killed only because they were a political risk. Children aren't political risks. ->The court case of Tauber is another special case. I quite agree, and am glad that you acknowledge this. That the SS and Police Supreme Court would issue a verdict which declares the necessity of killing all the Jews is indeed a special case, and quite a damning verdict, in more ways than one. ------ The report that Himmler sent to Hitler indicates quite clearly that both knew large numbers of Jews were being killed. The Posen speeches indicate Himmler advocated the extermination of the Jews-- speak to us of these. Several of the documents I've uploaded treat the extermination of the Jews as common knowledge, with only relatively small numbers (see the EK3 report's "discussion") being kept alive to perform skilled labor for the war effort. Even those were under death sentence, or were to be sterilized in order to "bring about a solution to the Jewish question in this generation." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 874 Sat Apr 11, 1992 POOH.BAH at 14:49 EDT 865 Hans-Peter: > Does this mean that Auschwitz was dedicated to non-Jews, so that any > revisions of the numbers will not affect the Jewish totals? Your > hypothesis that downward revisions of fatality ESTIMATES in concentration > camps or other sites affects only non-Jews is a little thin. Once again, Hans-Peter, I will repeat: The figures that were posted by the Auschwitz Museum were never used by historians to determine the number of Jews who were exterminated there. You are the one who has repeatedly insisted that these figures had previously been used by historians and that once these figures were revised (BECAUSE of the work of historians!) that the overall total of Jewish deaths AS PREVIOUSLY DETERMINED BY HISTORIANS must also be decreased. As one who works in mathematical physics, let me put it in terms that might make sense to you. According to sources which used the figures from the Auschwitz Museum (such as yourself), these sources have taken that figure and the total figure from historians and arrived at the following formula: X - Y = Z In this formula, X = the total from historians, Y = the figure from the Auschwitz Museum and Z = the remaining death outside of Auschwitz. The historians, OTOH, have used the following formula: A + B + C = T In this formula, A = the number of deaths from ALL camps, B = the number of executions, liquidations, etc. from outside of the camp system, C = the number of deaths from privation, medical experiments, etc. and T = the total of these figures summed. If you will notice, one of the formulas uses the Auschwitz Museum figures and the other does not. To now claim that "T" must be reduced by an amount equal to the decrease of "Y" is nonsensical. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 875 Sat Apr 11, 1992 POOH.BAH at 14:50 EDT 865 Hans-Peter: > As far as "exekutiert" goes, I have already stated that it is a German > word, but of foreign origins. Read posts CAREFULLY and COMPLETELY and you > will not be caught in these sorts of errors or distortions of what > somebody else has said. You stated that "exekutiert" means "mortgaged" in Austrian useage. Now, this isn't quite true, is it? Shall I repost the definition from the German dictionary? > If this is an authentic National Socialist document, then the word choice > is UNIQUE and highly suspect. It just does not fit the mold for word > useage in NS documents. How many NS documents have you studied or does your knowledge come from other than simple scholarship? Have you ever read the Einsatzgruppen reports? You might just find that the word usage isn't very unique. Willing to take that chance? Even if the word usage WAS unique (which it isn't), you are still implying that the Americans, British or Canadians were too stupid to realize this and used terminology which would be "suspect." Is that what you mean? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 876 Sat Apr 11, 1992 POOH.BAH at 14:51 EDT 865 Hans-Peter: > The German word "vernichten" means to destroy, literally "to make naught". > The translations of annihilation or extermination are a bit flowery. What > was basically said was that the camp had a high death rate. The REASONS > for the high death rate would need to be established separately and do not > follow automatically from Dr. Kremer's wording. If "vernichten" means to destroy then "Vernichtung" means destruction. Yet, you state that "das Lager der Vernichtung" simply indicates a "high death rate." Destruction strongly implies ACTION that would account for a "high death rate." Plus, I don't believe that you are taking into consideration the total entry: From the diary of Dr. Johann Kremer 2 September 1942 This morning at three o'clock I attended a special action for the first time. Dante's hell seemed like a comedy in comparison. Not for nothing is Auschwitz called an extermination camp. ------------- What would be your guess as to what "Sonderaktion" means in this context and how does this complete entry influence your interpretation of "Vernichtung"? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 877 Sat Apr 11, 1992 POOH.BAH at 14:52 EDT 865 Hans-Peter: > On the other hand, Dr. Kremer was the fellow who thought Upper Silesia was > a tropical jungle, an observation which would have been news to the local > residents. First, Dr. Kremer never said anything about a "jungle." Second, as has been previously pointed out, the weather for that time could have been unusually warm. This last December I had friends contact me for information about the weather in Israel. They had just received a phone call from their son who was visiting there. Their son told them that he would have to delay his trip home because he was snowed in! They didn't know whether they should believe him or not. However, he was staying in Jerusalem and they did indeed have between 1- 1 1/2 feet of snow at the time. The Negev Desert also saw snow for the first time. Anyone who had never been to Israel might make a diary entry that Jerusalem (or even the Negev) was a "winter wonderland" and 50 years later, people such as yourself would scoff at them. Why don't you do a little research and find out what the temperature was at that time? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 878 Sat Apr 11, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 17:11 EDT >> The CBC (Radio Canada) evening news showed a group of people, purported to be a collection of Jews from the U.S. and other places voicing their displeasure with placard signs etc. to what they thought was a diminuation of the impact of the holocaust story. Sorry, Sheri, but since this topic is rather peripheral to my life rather than the centre of it, I do not record the time and date of these productions. Organized Jewish protests centered on Auschwitz have concerned the Camelite convent, the inaccuracy of the plaques, and the designation of victims by country of origin rather than by targetted group. When they were filmed voicing their "displeasure with placard signs etc," I presume it was prior to the revisions, since changes themselves have been welcome. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 879 Sat Apr 11, 1992 H.P.SKALIKS [Hans-Peter] at 17:12 EDT POOH.BAH...message 875 Oh come on, POOH.BAH, write a letter of complaint to the publishers of the OXFORD DUDEN GERMAN-ENGLISH dictionary and tell them that they don't understand any German. That dictionary states that "executiert" is used in Austria for "verpfaendet". My father worked for many years for the ministry of the interior, and saw countless thousands of official documents. Your document was the first one he has seen that uses that word in that context. It looks like the kind of thing that the allies put together as "proof" to justify the convictions at Nuremberg, which were in any case decided "in advance" by the politicians at Yalta. The only reason that the people charged with the murders of the Polish officers at Katyn were acquitted, in violation of the Yalta agreement, was that their lawyers were able dodge allied efforts to prevent their introduction of physical evidence which made nonsense of the allied forgeries. It was feared by the western allies that a conviction which flies in the face of the laws of time and space could expose the proceedings for the farce that they were. The Russians couldn't understand why a conviction which violates the laws of nature should be a problem, since they saw court proceedings as a political tool to advance the cause of the powers that be. They lodged a formal complaint of the acquittal. Naturally, they must have been aware that THEY and THEY alone were responsible for Katyn and numerous other atrocities as well. As a consequence of this and other events, I tend to take the presentation of "documents" with a grain of salt. The bike example of a few posts back is quite good. What some of the respondents appear to be telling me is that I have to accept their paper evidence in the form of statements, anecdotal reports, diaries, and that sort of stuff. I'm asking to see and examine the damaged bike, the physical evidence. I'm being told that it is impolite to ask to see that. -------------------------------------------------------------------- A quality forgery takes some time. The allies were frequently in a rush, since they had some 10 million former party members who needed to be "cleansed" in their de-nazification courts. They needed some dirt on all these people, and if there wasn't any, they simply manufactured it. -------------------------------------------------------------------- I have no quarrel with your contention that there are some very hot days in Upper Silesia, especially during the summer. It is also true, that -40'C or lower in the winter is not unusual. This is more than cold enough to have trouble vaporizing materials that boil in the vicinity of +25'C. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 880 Sat Apr 11, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 18:20 EDT Hans-Peter 879 >> I'm asking to see and examine the damaged bike Why don't you meet some survivors and take a look at their scars. You belong to the last generation physically able to do so. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 881 Sat Apr 11, 1992 POOH.BAH at 20:59 EDT 879 Hans-Peter: > Oh come on, POOH.BAH, write a letter of complaint to the publishers of the > OXFORD DUDEN GERMAN-ENGLISH dictionary and tell them that they don't > understand any German. That dictionary states that "executiert" is used in > Austria for "verpfaendet". Isn't it interesting that the definition must have altered from the time that _Das Wissen unserer Zeit: Immer auf dem neuesten Stand. Knaurs Lexikon A-Z_ was published in Muenchen in 1931? BTW, you stated that your German-English dictionary defines "executiert" (not exeKutiert"!) as "verpfaendet." Since when does a German-English dictionary define a German word with a German word? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 882 Sat Apr 11, 1992 POOH.BAH at 21:00 EDT 879 Hans-Peter: This is interesting. You state the case about the Soviets manufacturing evidence concerning the Katyn massacre and then use this as a reason why no document should be believed. BTW, you do know that the Nazis discovered that some what was later claimed to be "manufactured" evidence was indeed true (while the Nazis were in power, of course) and covered it up so as not to demoralize their troops or raise questions about themselves, don't you? Be that as it may, you originally claimed that the document which Termy posted had originally been written in English and then translated into German. Yet, you attempt to validate this with an example from the Soviets. Does that mean that you equate the Western Allies with the Soviets? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 883 Sat Apr 11, 1992 POOH.BAH at 21:01 EDT 879 Hans-Peter: > The bike example of a few posts back is quite good. What some of the > respondents appear to be telling me is that I have to accept their paper > evidence in the form of statements, anecdotal reports, diaries, and that > sort of stuff. I'm asking to see and examine the damaged bike, the > physical evidence. I'm being told that it is impolite to ask to see that. Paper is something that is physical. But, let's go back to the bike analogy. Let's say that the driver of the car was discovered to have written a letter of protest about how bike riders were taking over the highways and how he (or she) was sick of it and was going to do something about it. Are you suggesting that this "paper evidence" should not be used to prove motive? What you desire is FORENSIC evidence as opposed to just physical evidence. In 1945, the Krakow Institute of Forensic Expertise (the same Institute that did the recent study) performed forensic tests on six grills from the ventilation system of Krema II. Two reagents were used in those tests. The first reagent produced a bluish coloration indicating that Prussian blue had been formed. The second reagent produced an orange hue indicating that thiocynate had been created by the reaction. This combination indicated the presence of large quantities of hydrocyanic compounds. Now, you will probably claim that these test were done by the "communists" and, therefore, are invalid. Or, you will claim that there could be other reasons (besides gas chambers) for the existence of these hydrocyanic compounds. Yet, when these tests are combined with the other physical evidence (which you also deny as being "forged") the case is made. BTW, you never answered my question regarding Dr. Kremer's full diary entry for September 2, 1942. What is your interpretation of "Sonderaktion" and "das Lager der Vernichtung" in that entry? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 884 Sat Apr 11, 1992 POOH.BAH at 21:01 EDT 879 Hans-Peter: > A quality forgery takes some time. The allies were frequently in a rush, > since they had some 10 million former party members who needed to be > "cleansed" in their de-nazification courts. They needed some dirt on all > these people, and if there wasn't any, they simply manufactured it. Please cite sources for this and, while you are at it, you might attempt to explain why the document which Termy u/l'ed (you know the one in which "exekutieren" was used) was typed on the special typewriter used exclusively for documents for Hitler's approval or review. Are you now claiming that the Allies were careful enough to use the right typewriter but too hurried or careless to use the correct terminology? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 885 Sat Apr 11, 1992 POOH.BAH at 21:02 EDT 879 Hans-Peter: > I have no quarrel with your contention that there are some very hot days > in Upper Silesia, especially during the summer. It is also true, that > -40'C or lower in the winter is not unusual. This is more than cold enough > to have trouble vaporizing materials that boil in the vicinity of +25'C. Only if those materials are used outside in the -40'C temperature...which, as you know, was not the case. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 886 Sat Apr 11, 1992 POOH.BAH at 22:03 EDT 879 Hans-Peter: > My father worked for many years for the ministry of the interior, and saw > countless thousands of official documents. Your document was the first one > he has seen that uses that word in that context. BTW, isn't the Department of Transportation under the auspices of the Ministry of the Interior? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 887 Sat Apr 11, 1992 H.P.SKALIKS [Hans-Peter] at 22:40 EDT S.PIERCE6...message 880 Sheri, I have no doubt that survivors of the NS camps have deep physical and/or psychological scars. These wounds are quite real, and to my mind at least, not subject to dispute. My questions concern the overall dimensions, the estimates of the magnitude of this event. We are talking about a program for which there was no budget allocation and which no Reichstag ever voted to implement. It was not therefore a policy of the German state. Even if direct orders signed by Hitler were to be found at some future date, it does not alter the fact that this was essentially a private project of the National Socialist party. The program was apparently financed through confiscation of property from the victims and reasonably well concealed from the German general public. The "special actions" were generally implemented by paramilitary groups associated with the NS party. The Wehrmacht had more than enough to do just to maintain itself in the field. These other things tended to occur after the regular soldiers had come and gone. As a matter of fact, these measures would tend to have had the effect of undermining the field status of the Wehrmacht by increasing partisan activity against them. In the years that my father worked for the ministry of the interior, one of his jobs was to make sure that munitions and other supplies got to the front. The opinions of Mr. Speer notwithstanding, no official of the Reichsbahn ever refused to make a train available to transport supplies on the basis that the trains were booked to carry people to concentration camps. Any person who would have interfered with the transport of supplies in this way would have found himself in court charged with treason. -------------------------------------------------------------------- POOH.BAH...message 881 My apologies, a slight muscle spasm in my fingers changed the spelling. It should be "exekutiert" with a "k". I'm so used to this as an English word that I almost automatically spell it with a "c". The Duden does indeed print alternatives in German along with its English translation. -------------------------------------------------------------------- POOH.BAH...message 882 The principal difference between the western and eastern allies was in degree rather than quality. The western allies were certainly not saints. -------------------------------------------------------------------- POOH.BAH...message 883 Compounds involving the CN radical on the ventilation system grills would suggest at least one exposure to something containing hydrocyanic acid. The large amount comment does not follow from this evidence alone. If my memory serves me correctly, you said that these people also tested the walls and found more or less the same low figures as more modern research. This was explained as the result of weathering. Were these grills stored out of harm's way? Another post pointed out that the structure standing on the site now ,and which is described as the gas chamber, has no ventilation system and that the doors were used for this purpose. I think it was Sheri who revised the figures up again to 1.6 million. This many people don't vanish without a trace. Even if they were cremated with the most extreme efficiency, there should be at least 1600 tonnes of ash. If some of the victims were not cremated, then there should be even more remains. This sort of evidence has not been found. --------------------------------------------------------------------- For some reason, Dr. Kremer is being vague and evasive. He hints that something dark and unpleasant is happening, but he never actually SAYS what it is. You are projecting your understanding of what occurred onto his comments and then arguing that his comments prove your understanding. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 888 Sat Apr 11, 1992 H.P.SKALIKS [Hans-Peter] at 22:57 EDT POOH.BAH...message 886 I'm starting to think that this is a plot to wear me out. I'll answer this one and then I'm going to turn in. I do need some sleep from time to time. The Ministry of the Interior would have dealt with virtually all internal matters, but not necessarily directly. The Reichsbahn had its own administration. The railway would be financially responsible to the Ministry of the Interior, but not for day to day operations. There were some 5 million civil service types who managed the various ministries and departments. Present-day Germany requires even more people to administer the state. Americans would probably find such all-pervasive government disturbing. You don't have to go as far away as Germany. It apparently takes almost 2 million people to administer Canada, which has only one tenth the population of the U.S. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 889 Sat Apr 11, 1992 C.FINK4 [Carl] at 23:11 EDT Pooh.bah: >> What you desire is FORENSIC evidence as opposed to just physical >>evidence. In 1945, the Krakow Institute of Forensic Expertise (the >>same Institute that did the recent study) performed forensic tests >>on six grills from the ventilation system of Krema II. Two >>reagents were used in those tests. The first reagent produced a >>bluish coloration indicating that Prussian blue had been formed. >> The second reagent produced an orange hue indicating that >>thiocynate had been created by the reaction. This combination >>indicated the presence of large quantities of hydrocyanic >>compounds. Tested grills "..from the ventilation systems..."? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [Emphasis mine] Can you give more information on this report, Pooh? Raven, RUNGU, and J.WEIR have been saying that we have no evidence such ventilation systems even existed. Carl Fink ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 890 Sun Apr 12, 1992 D.BRIN1 at 00:49 EDT Mr. Raven: I see that you acknowledge that the crematoria were housed in the same facility as the gas chambers. Do you also acknowledge that these crematoria would tend to heat the entire building -- making them rather toasty, in fact? Ah, but you say that these crematoria would ignite the HCN gas from the chambers, causing an explosion. I decided to see what Jean-Claude Pressac had to say about the subject: "Leuchter's last claim about the homicidal gas chambers in connection with the cremation furnaces is that they are incompatible under the same roof. As soon as the door was opened to the area saturated with hydrocyanic acid, the same being without ventilation according to Leuchter, the gas would be spread throughout the crematorium, reaching the lit ovens, and, combined with the air, would have exploded, destroying the entire building. "HCN's flammability limits in air are from 5.6% (minimum) to 40% (maximum) in volume (6%-41% according to Du Pont). This signifies that upon contact with a flame there is an explosion if the concentration of hydrocyanic acid in air comprises between 67.2 g/m(cubed) and 480 g/m(cubed). Below 67.2 g/m(cubed) there is no risk, nor is there any at greater than 480 g/m(cubed), because there is not enough remaining oxygen for burning to begin. "The SS used doses of 5 g/m(cubed) in delousing and 12-20 g/m(cubed) in killing, well under the 67.2 g/m(cubed) threshold. Their gas chambers and crematoriums were not about to explode. "leuchter's 'impartial' opinion is based upon an incorrect calculation. The twisted idea comes from Faurisson. It is appalling that Leuchter should have backed it up without checking it out for himself." ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 891 Sun Apr 12, 1992 D.BRIN1 at 00:53 EDT Mr. Raven, you expressed your skepticism about insects' superior resistance to HCN while we were discussing this matter on the PEN network in Santa Monica. If you choose to deny that you expressed this skepticism, I will be happy to reproduce it here. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 892 Sun Apr 12, 1992 S.PIERCE6 [Sheri] at 03:18 EDT 887 Dr. Kremer testified to the existence of the gas chambers and the full dimension of a "special action" at his war crimes trial. So he clarified the "dark and unpleasant happening"s of Auschwitz. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 893 Sun Apr 12, 1992 H.P.SKALIKS [Hans-Peter] at 07:18 EDT D.BRIN1...message 890 Your concentration values reverse the statements made by POOH.BAH and others that the gas concentrations in the homicidal gas chambers would have been lower than in the delousing chambers. This was supposed to explain the relative absence of CN compounds in the walls of the shower room. Your figures would suggest concentrations up to 4 times that of the delousing chamber and yet it was the delousing chamber which had lots of evidence of HCN exposure. Working on the assumption that none of the respondents here are out to deliberately pull the wool over our eyes, it would appear that some of the expert sources being cited are just as speculative as F.Leuchter and others are accused of being. Such large variations in values, even to the point of contradiction, suggest very strongly that there is no definite information. S.PIERCE6...message 892 I'm not familiar with the Kremer trial, Sheri, but I do hope that it was not another Hoess confession in which the British interrogators created the confession and then subjected the accused to "physical pressure" (ie. beatings, torture, etc.) until the document was signed. Many of the trials of this period were comparable to those staged by the late and unlamented Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 894 Sun Apr 12, 1992 AH.STEIN at 09:58 EDT 887 Hans-Peter: >My questions concern the overall dimensions, the estimates of the magnitude of this event. Every once in a while, you include a small phrase such as this which indicates that you actually do recognize that the Holocaust did occur, and that you merely are uncertain about the exact number of Jews and others who were killed. Unfortunately, the tone of most of your messages are in line with those of the infamous Holocaust Deniers, and make it appear that you are trying to deny the Holocaust completely. You might want to make your interest clearer, so that you do not appear to be a tool of the neo-Nazi disinformation machine. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 895 Sun Apr 12, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:21 EDT 887 Hans-Peter: > It was not therefore a policy of the German state. Even if direct orders > signed by Hitler were to be found at some future date, it does not alter > the fact that this was essentially a private project of the National > Socialist party. I'm sure you have probably noticed that I don't say "Germany" or "Germans" did this or that but, instead, say "Nazi Germany" (when I need to mention the country) or "Nazis." In this way, there is some agreement between the two of us. However, your claim that just because the Reichstag never legislated a policy that it makes everything done a non-policy of the German state bears examination. You have said that your maternal grandfather perished in the euthanasia program. Just out of curiosity, do you consider the euthanasia program to be a "policy of the German state" or a "private project of the National Socialist party"? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 896 Sun Apr 12, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:21 EDT 887 Hans-Peter: > If my memory serves me correctly, you said that these people also tested > the walls and found more or less the same low figures as more modern > research. The Krakow Institute of Forensic Expertise tested the grills in 1945. It wasn't until 1990 that they tested the walls. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 897 Sun Apr 12, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:21 EDT 887 Hans-Peter: > Another post pointed out that the structure standing on the site now ,and > which is described as the gas chamber, has no ventilation system and that > the doors were used for this purpose. I believe it has been Raven who has been alleging that the gas chambers had no ventilation system. This, of course, is more disinformation. Even the blue prints indicate the ventilation shafts and there are construction orders for the ventilation fans, etc. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 898 Sun Apr 12, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:22 EDT 887 Hans-Peter: > I think it was Sheri who revised the figures up again to 1.6 million. If you will re-read Sheri's message you will discover that the 1.6 million was in reference to EVERYONE (as opposed to "Jews") who perished at Auschwitz. Does your rehashing this once again mean the you are denying that the Nazis exterminated non-Jews (i.e. homosexuals, Gypsies, Poles, Russian POWs, etc.)? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 899 Sun Apr 12, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:22 EDT 887 Hans-Peter: > This many people don't vanish without a trace. Even if they were cremated > with the most extreme efficiency, there should be at least 1600 tonnes of > ash. Could you please substantiate the figure of "1600 tonnes"? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 900 Sun Apr 12, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:23 EDT 887 Hans-Peter: > For some reason, Dr. Kremer is being vague and evasive. He hints that > something dark and unpleasant is happening, but he never actually SAYS > what it is. You have yet to answer the question. What is your interpretation of Dr. Kremer's diary entry. Please explain your interpretation of "Sonderaktion" and "das Lager der Vernichtung" for us. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 901 Sun Apr 12, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:24 EDT 889 Carl: > Raven, RUNGU, and J.WEIR have been saying that we have no evidence such > ventilation systems even existed. Three of the six grills that were tested are at the Auschwitz Museum (hence, physical evidence of the existence of the ventilation system). Also, the blue prints clearly show the ventilation shafts and there are purchase orders, construction orders, etc. for ventilation fans for the gas chambers. Raven's comments on the lack of ventilation systems come from Leuchter who states that "much of the reviewed material was literature purchased and viewed at the sites in Poland, including copies of original drawings of Kremas I, II, III, IV and V." However, these original drawings can only be obtained through the Auschwitz Museum. When queried, the Museum director stated in writing "neither authorization [for sample gathering] nor blueprints given to Leuchter from museum." Leuchter arrived at his false conclusions based solely upon the examination of piles of rubble. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 902 Sun Apr 12, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:24 EDT 893 Hans-Peter: > Your concentration values reverse the statements made by POOH.BAH and > others that the gas concentrations in the homicidal gas chambers would > have been lower than in the delousing chambers. First, D.BRIN didn't make these statements - he was quoting Pressac. Pressac was commenting on the MAXIMUM that would have been used (i.e. the quantity used in US gas chambers). However, assuming that the maximum would have been used all the time, that would mean that 12 g/m^3 was present for 15 minutes in each use of the homicidal gas chamber. Yet, the delousing chamber would have been exposed to 5 g/m^3 for at least 2 hours per occasion. The delousing chambers had no special ventilation system (but the homicidal gas chambers did) and had to air out more slowly. As a scientist I'm sure you realize that the LENGTH of exposure (if not more so) is just as significant as the concentration. Also, your comment does not consider the differences in environmental influences over the last 43 years. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 903 Sun Apr 12, 1992 POOH.BAH at 12:25 EDT 893 Hans-Peter: > I'm not familiar with the Kremer trial, Sheri, but I do hope that it was > not another Hoess confession in which the British interrogators created > the confession and then subjected the accused to "physical pressure" (ie. > beatings, torture, etc.) until the document was signed. Many of the trials > of this period were comparable to those staged by the late and unlamented > Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. Be careful....your agenda is showing. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 904 Sun Apr 12, 1992 D.BRIN1 at 15:54 EDT Hans-Peter: Quoting again from Pressac: "The HCN was in physical contact with the (homicidal) gas chamber walls for no more than ten minut for no more than ten minutes a day...In the delousing chambers, a minimum of 5g/m^3 was used over the course of several daily cycles, the length of which varied according to the amount of time chosen for the period of contact. This cyanide saturation for 12 TO 18 HOURS A DAY (emphasis mine) was strengthened by the heat the stoves in the room emitted...The walls were impregnated with HOT (emphasis mine) HCN for at least 12 hours a day..." I believe that this adequately explains how the delousing chambers could retain higher levels of HCN than the rubble of the homicidal gas chambers. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 905 Sun Apr 12, 1992 H.P.SKALIKS [Hans-Peter] at 16:11 EDT POOH.BAH...message 895 My grandfather fell victim to people who disregarded the established laws of Germany. The people who were responsible took their orders from the NS party, not from the German state or its legally constituted authorities. -------------------------------------------------------------------- POOH.BAH...message 898 In case it was missed the first time, I'm not denying anything. I'm trying to establish what you regard as the authoritative figure. They keep floating around so that I feel like somebody watching one of those "pea under a walnut shell tricks" where I have to guess where the pea is now. -------------------------------------------------------------------- POOH.BAH...message 899 There is a minimum of 1 kg of mineral ash in your typical person. Taking Sheri's figures of 1.6E6 x 1 kg = 1.6E6 kg = 1.6E3 tonnes. With your figures, it would only be 1.1E3 tonnes. Either way, it is rather too much to sweep into the privy where later investigators might miss it. -------------------------------------------------------------------- POOH.BAH...message 900 "Sonderaktion" leaves the impression of special action in the sense of being at variance with standard practice or regulations. "Interpretation" of something like this is speculation. It COULD mean what you obviously want it to mean, but it does not specifically state that. Why would "Sonder..." be used to describe an action which you argue was day to day routine, nothing unusual, and perfectly in accord with their instructions? -------------------------------------------------------------------- POOH.BAH...message 902 It is quite logical for both time and concentration to be significant. I was just asking for clarification, since the data was starting to creep all over the place and self-adjust to suit the occasion. You have answered my question. Thank you. -------------------------------------------------------------------- POOH.BAH...message 903 And what agenda is that POOH.BAH? The German government had to pay out huge sums to compensate the victims of the allied "courts" when the victims finally got the chance to present their cases before a regular court in which internationally recognized standards of evidence applied, rather than to a biased, political, alien, kangaroo court. What else can one say to a system in which the prosecutors and judges were of one nationality and the defendants of another and where laws created especially for this purpose were applied retroactively? ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 906 Sun Apr 12, 1992 H.P.SKALIKS [Hans-Peter] at 16:25 EDT D.BRIN1...message 904 Thank you Mr. Brin, for your clarification. I think POOH.BAH beat you to a response. Thank you also for the civil tone of your response. I'm a very patient person, but I am starting to get a little irritated with the tone and innuendo of some of the responses. A post in a badgering style is simply not worth the effort to make a reply. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 907 Sun Apr 12, 1992 H.P.SKALIKS [Hans-Peter] at 16:50 EDT AH.STEIN Alan, you will not be able to cite a single post in which I have made any personal attacks against you or been rude to you. Loaded words like "neo-Nazi" or "tool of...", etc. really don't enhance your presentation. My mind works in linear logic, so when I see you make these nonsensical statements about me personally, I start to think that if his thinking leads him this far off the mark here, then perhaps the rest of his statements are worthless also. ------------ Category 15, Topic 9 Message 908 Sun Apr 12, 1992 GRAFFITI [Ric Helton] at 16:52 EDT This topic has grown over 900 messages, and has been closed. The new topic for continuation of this discussion is Category 15 Topic 13. The same rules apply there. I have been pleased with the serious effort at discovery and intellectual debate here over the last week, and I hope it will continue. The first topic has been archived and is available for downloading in the Public Forum Library. (The filename is HOLO.ARC) This topic will be archived to the library over the next few days, so take this time to capture any messages you may wish to save before then. The message numbers in the topic will not be altered by cleaning, so references to message numbers will remain accurate. Discussion continues in Cat 15 Topic 13. Thank you. -Ric/PF*NPC ------------
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