Thursday, November 30, 2006

The Iranian freak-show in December

Iran to host Holocaust conference
Nov 28 6:20 AM US/Eastern
Iran, which disputes that Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, is to hold a conference next month to allow historians to clarify "hidden angles" of the Holocaust, the foreign ministry has revealed.

The December 11 and 12 international gathering aims to "create opportunities ... for a suitable scientific research so the hidden and unhidden angles of this most important political issue of the 20th century become more transparent," said a statement on the Iranian foreign ministry's website.

Iran's fiercely anti-Israeli regime is supportive of so-called Holocaust revisionists, who maintain that the systematic slaughter by the Nazis of mainland Europe's Jews and other groups during World War II was either invented or exaggerated.

The event is organized by the ministry's Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) which has called on researchers and lecturers to take part in the conference.

The gathering, titled "Study of Holocaust: A Global Perspective", has been scheduled to coincide with international Human Rights Day on December 10, it said.

"This conference fully respects the Jewish religion and is away from politicization and propaganda," the statement said.

Topics include "anti-Semitism, Nazism and Zionism: collaboration or animosity; the concept of Holocaust and its roots; views of revisionists; denial or admittance of gas chambers," it added.

"The laws against those who deny Holocaust and killing of the Palestinians," are also to be discussed.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has prompted international anger by dismissing the Holocaust as a "myth" used to justify the creation of Israel.

In mid-August, Tehran staged an international contest of cartoons on the Holocaust, in response to the publication in Western papers last September of controversial caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.
A lie upon lie, of course. If the conference will not be politicized, why hold it in Iran in the first place? Iran has nothing whatsoever to do with the Holocaust, except for its Moonbat president denying it. So it's all about politics and propaganda after all, contrary to the foreign ministry's statement.

They try to dress this sham gathering in a cloak of rationality: ahh, but vee are just examining ze issue viz an open mind!

Except, when someone publicly "examines" the evidence for or against flat earth with a so-called "open mind", (s)he automatically implies that the evidence against flat earth is not conclusive.

Same here - there would be no need for so-called "researchers" in Iran to gather this pseudo-conference if they weren't deniers in the first place. Since the evidence for the Holocaust is clear and overwhelming, by the mere act of "public scrutiny" of this issue these people have discredited themselves.

And if you think this is not so, maybe you also think that the Flat Earth Conference has a chance to be rational and respectable too?

A "revisionist" has a wet dream

If the holocaust industry throws the lightest bone now, it would topple the whole monolith and that would lead to the destruction of the so-called "Jewish state" within a year.

Not only German "reparations" would stop overnight amidst immense bitterness, but Americans would refuse to give more credit to such a morally ugly entity that insults the whole humanity. And because the illegal "state" of Israel is build on racket rather than economy, it would become unable to sustain the loss of its parasitic pumps glued on the back of mankind. The whole "country" will stop soon, including the military.

Then, the world would be liberated. That time shall come.
CODOH truly has gathered all the filth...

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

More Ugly Voice debunkings are forthcoming...

Meanwhile, don't forget to check out Roberto's ongoing smashing of WN/Stormfront scum here.

In other news: Jonnie "Not Hannover!" Hargis has been silently plagiarizing posts from RODOH forum.

Poor, poor Jonnie-boy.

Monday, November 27, 2006

Sunday, November 26, 2006

New evidence about the division of Leichenkeller 1

First, a quote from Prof. van Pelt's expert report:
The only part of Tauber's testimony that cannot be confirmed in the blueprints or by means of other documents in the archive of the Auschwitz Central Construction Office is the division of the gas chamber of crematorium 2 into two spaces. This has become for Holocaust deniers an occasion to refute the validity of the whole of Tauber's testimony. However, there is independent corroboration of this in Daniel Bennahmias's memoirs of his stay in Auschwitz. He stated that after some time, the gas chamber of crematorium II was divided into two spaces, with a smaller one at the back.
The plan for the newly restructured Crematorium II entailed gassing smaller groups in the farther end of the gas chamber and larger groups in the remaining area. This was more or less what happened, but exceptions did occur. These exceptions had to do with the erratic pattern of the transports' arrival. This, if the smaller chamber was occupied and a larger transport arrived, the larger chamber might have been used for any number of persons. As new transports arrived, however, the smaller chamber was 'tended to' when there was time, but the larger functioned at all times. Despite the foregoing, the system still proved its efficiency because there were fewer people to process and a smaller area to clean. After splitting the chamber in this way, and employing the technique described, it was not unusual for the smaller of the two chambers to remain sealed and intact with its complement of people for as long as four or five days or longer. When the door finally was opened, the Sonderkommando was assaulted by an overwhelming stench and the ghastly sight of putrid flesh.


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Actually, there is more evidence about the splitting of the Leichenkeller 1. It's not only Bennahmias and Tauber, whom van Pelt defends:
At the end of 1943, the gas chamber was divided in two by a brick wall to make it possible to gas smaller transports. In the dividing wall there was a door identical to that between the corridor and the original gas chamber. Small transports were gassed in the chamber furthest from the entrance from the corridor.
But also Dr. Bendel:
From there, completely naked, he went through a narrow corridor into the gas chambers proper (there were two). Built of reinforced concrete, they had such low ceilings that they gave the impression on entering that they were falling on you.

In the middle of these chambers, descending from the ceiling, were two mesh tubes with external valves through which the gas was introduced.
Josef Erber:
In each of these gassing areas were two ducts: in each duct, four iron pipes ran from the floor to the roof. These were encased with steel mesh wire and inside there was a tin canister with a low rim. Attached to this tin was a wire by which it could be pulled up to the roof. When the lids were lifted, one could pull up the tin canister and shake the gas crystals into it. Then the canister was lowered, and the lid closed.
(There were 4 introduction columns per chamber before the division, so Erber can only be referring to the state after the division, when there were 2 columns per chamber.)

Yehuda Bacon:
In crematoria Nos. 1 and 2 there were two rooms of gas chambers; here, inside the Entkleidungskammer, there was yet another structure which they called a Rutschbahn (a chute) for people with artificial legs who could not walk; they transferred them by the chute directly into the rooms for undressing which were very near the gas chambers. In crematoria Nos. 1 and 2 there was a very long hall divided into two. I asked them the reason for this and they explained that sometimes there were not enough people and it was a pity to waste the gas, so the people were put into only one half of the hall.

[...]

Above there were lights covered with wire, and in each gas chamber there were two pipes leading from the ceiling to the floor, and around them there were four iron columns surrounded by strong wire. When the operation was over and the people were forced inside, the SS opened some device above, like with a drainage pipe, and introduced Zyklon B. There were two of these in each gas chamber in crematoria Nos. 1 and 2 - that is to say, there were 4; their dimensions were 40x40 centimetres; below were the ventilators and also holes for cleaning with water. Afterwards, when they dismantled the crematoria, we saw the ventilators separately.
Josef Sackar (We Wept Without Tears, pp. 110, 111):
Where did these pillars stand?

In the middle of the room, in the middle of the gas chamber. In the middle between the two parts of the room. In the middle of the room, along it, two in each room.

[...]

Were there two gas chambers in Crematorium II[III]?

There was one room that could be divided into two. When a small transport came - two hundred, three hundred, or five hundred people - they opened only one room by closing the door in the middle of the room that led to a section that made the room longer.

In other words, could gas chamber be divided into two parts?

Yes, like a door of a passageway between two rooms in a house.

Was it a sliding door?

No, a door that was closed hermetically.
And now comes a new unexpected piece of evidence from the commandant of Auschwitz himself, Rudolf Hoess. Unexpected, because, it seems, he didn't mention such a detail in his other testimonies. This one comes from an "interview" which Hoess gave to the American psychiatrist Leon Goldensohn while in Nuremberg. Goldensohn's notes contain information about his talks with many high-level Nazi perpetrators in Nuremberg, such as Goering and Ohlendorf. They were finally published in 2004, and here's what Hoess said to Goldensohn on April 9, 1946 (p. 304):
In 1942 the great crematoriums were completed and the whole process was then done in the new buildings. New railroad tracks led to the crematorium. The people were selected as before, with the only exception that the ones unable to work went to the crematory instead of being marched to the farmhouses. It was a large, modern building; there were undressing rooms and gas chambers underground, and crematory above ground, but all in the same building. There were four gas chambers underground; two large ones each accomodating two thousand people and two smaller ones each accomodating sixteen hundred people. The gas chambers were built like a shower installation, with shower outlets, water pipes, a few plumbing fixtures, and a modern electrical ventilation system so that after the gassing, the room could be aired by means of the electrical ventilation apparatus. The corpses were brought by elevators to the crematory above. There were five double stoves.
Although Hoess' description leaps from "the crematoriums" to "the crematorium" and back, it is clear that he is talking about the summary quantity of the underground gas chambers, thus confirming the above testimonies about the division of Leichenkeller 1.

While one should be cautious about Hoess' numbers, if we take his proportion of maximum capacity numbers seriously (and they're not fantastic at all), then, given the measurements of LK1 (30x7 m) we can guess that the larger chamber was ~16.7x7 meters and the smaller one was ~13.3x7 meters:



From the above sketch an apparent explanation for uneven division follows: probably, the gas chamber was divided unevenly because in the very center there was a column, which would otherwise pass through the new wall.

Hoess' testimony confirms all the testimonies about the division, but specifically Bennahmias' testimony about the chambers of different sizes.

Faurisson "is not able to understand complex technical or scientific problems"

That was said not by just any bozo, but by a "revisionist" guru Fritz Berg at RODOH forum:
Faurisson is a great hero of revisionism generally and for me as well, even though he has made mistakes. He is not able to understand complex technical or scientific problems.
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So much for this silly cartoon:

Saturday, November 25, 2006

Another "somewhat honest" denier

Am I a holocaust sceptic? Actually, I am not a holocaust sceptic. I unreservedly deny that there was any program to persecute the Jews. Scepticism does not enter into it. I know for a fact that the Jews got everything they deserved. Persecution does not even rate in this endeavour. The 'German' Jews, if I were in charge, would have been executed, every single one of them, Man. women & child, if they were proved to be traitors to Germany. The rest I would have put in prison camps. Why? Because I am no fool. I know what they were up to, sabotage and filthy dirty behaviour, just as they are promulgating in the United States of America and globally today. I make no apologies for it. Paul Grubach has it wrong. He is too soft on the Jew! Like Pastor Wickstom and Pastor Jones, every Jew needs to be killed. I am a Christian, I hate, Like David, King of Israel, every Jew with a PERFECT HATRED.

[...]

The Jews, every single one, are devils. The spawn of Satan & Eve. You who are saved know this, you who do not are lost. I am not speaking to you cowardly lot. You may as well leave the thread and go watch TV, you know how much you love the Jew tube.
I am a Christian, I believe the bible. I believe Jesus. I am heading off to eternal life. The rest are heading off to hell.

Ah good, I got that off my chest. Time for a cuppa tea.
This guy is for real, BTW. At the Cesspit he is known as "kiwichap".

Friday, November 24, 2006

Aktion Erntefest in two recent OSI cases

50. Pursuant to Himmler’s orders in the fall of 1943 to liquidate the remaining Jews in Lublin District, 42,000 Jewish inmates at forced labor camps were shot on November 3-4, 1943 in what was called “Operation Harvest Festival” (Erntefest). On November 3, 7,000 Jews at Trawniki were shot by outside SS and police forces. They were forced to undress and were then machine-gunned in ditches they had been forced to dig a few weeks before. The prisoners at Dorohucza were marched to Trawniki on November 3, where they were also shot. The 14,000 prisoners at Poniatowa were shot on November 4.

51. Kuras stated that he was given a two-week leave (although he took three weeks) to visit his sick grandfather and was not at Trawniki during Erntefest. He said that when he returned from his leave to Trawniki the Jews had all been killed.

USA v. Andrew Kuras, 2004, Government's statement of material facts not in dispute in support of motion for summary judgement

In the ruling, the Seventh Circuit quoted sworn testimony by Kumpf in which he described his duties as a guard during the Nov. 3, 1943 massacre at the SS labor camp at Trawniki. As Kumpf explained, he “was watching them shoot some people.” Some of the victims were “still halfway alive,” he acknowledged, and if someone attempted escape, his assignment was “shoot them to kill, shoot them to kill.”
USDOJ press release, 24.02.2006.

The parties dispute whether Kumpf arrived before the massacre, but Kumpf admits that he guarded the pits after the executions to watch for escaping survivors. Although instructed to shoot any escaping victim, no attempts were made on his shifts. Soon after the massacre, a group of Jews were brought to Trawniki to sort the victims' clothing, recover the dental gold from the bodies, and burn the corpses. Kumpf recalled the stench of the burning bodies.
USA v. Kumpf, Josias, 2006.

Do you know of more US cases in which defendants told about Aktion Erntefest (Operation Harvest Festival)?

Some news items, fresh and old

(with thanks to Rick Halperin)

Deported Holocaust Denier Goes On Trial

by TJ Reporter - Thursday 16th of November 2006
The trial of a man accused of being one of the world’s foremost Holocaust deniers began this week in Germany.

Germar Rudolf, 42, appeared in court in Mannheim on Tuesday following his deportation from the United States last year.
(Read the rest here.)

(HC Note: Rudolf didn't appear as a witness at Irving's trial (which was in 2000, not 1998.)

Millions Of Nazi Docs Opened To Public
The 21-year-old Russian sat before a clerk of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate's office, describing the furnaces at Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp where he had been a prisoner until a few weeks previously.

“I saw with my own eyes how thousands of Jews were gassed daily and thrown by the hundreds into pits where Jews were burning,” he said.

“I saw how little children were killed with sticks and thrown into the fire,” he continued. Blood flowed in gutters, and “Jews were thrown in and died there”; more were taken off trucks and cast alive into the flames.
(Read the rest here.)

It seems there will be quite a few interesting testimonies in this archive, and it is hardly a consolation for deniers.




For some it is a Holocaust industry:
Profiting from the Holocaust
If lawyers ever wonder, in a rare moment of introspection, why they are generally held in low esteem, they need look no further than the obscene fee application pending before a federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Burt Neuborne, the court-appointed lead settlement counsel in a class action brought on behalf of Holocaust survivors against Swiss banks, has turned himself into the poster boy for avaricious attorneys. He demands $4.75 million for his role in administering the $1.25-billion settlement and determining distribution of the money.
(Read the rest here.)

Holocaust survivor wants her paintings removed from Auschwitz
Dina Babbitt once made a deal with Josef Mengele, the notorious Nazi doctor who subjected concentration-camp prisoners to horrendous medical experiments.

He needed someone to illustrate his perverse racial theories with portraits of Auschwitz's Gypsy prisoners, an inferior group according to Nazi ideology. A trained artist, she agreed to do the work as the price of saving her mother, as well as herself, from the concentration camp's gas chamber.

As things turned out, Babbitt, her mother and the portraits survived. She eventually settled in northern California, while seven of her paintings wound up in a museum at Auschwitz dedicated to preserving a historical record of the Holocaust.


Ever since discovering in 1973 that they were there, Babbitt has tried to get them back. Museum officials have steadfastly stonewalled her request, once invoking the legal principle of work for hire — the concept that the patron, not the artist, holds the rights to a commissioned work of art.
(Read the rest here.)

There's been lots of news about Babbitt. Here's the Museum's response, with which it is hard to disagree. Items and documents of historical value should stay in museums, period.

Auschwitz renovation sparks concern
A proposal to renovate the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp is drawing criticism from Holocaust survivors in Israel, who fear modernization will disturb the camp's original state and the somber memorial to those who suffered and died there.

The renovations, proposed last month by Piotr Cywinski, 34, the new director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, call for updating five exhibits housed in former prisoner barracks, and establishing a new education center to modernize the message of the memorial for younger generations.

Cywinski added that preserving original artifacts, including hair samples and personal belongings that were stripped from prisoners, is also a high priority.

Holocaust survivors in Israel, however, are worried that the renovations could make the camp seem more like a museum and less like the site where nearly 1.5 million people, most of them Jews, were slaughtered by the Nazis during World War II.

"We have a lot of museums. We have a lot of places where we talk about the Holocaust, but Auschwitz is the original place where it happened," said Noach Flug, president of the Center of Organizations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel. "You must have the feeling as it was then, the smell and the look. It is important not to change."

[...]

"It is a symbolic place and therefore it is important that the gas chambers and the crematoriums and the blocs and all the hairs and the shoes, all these thing should be in the original form," said Flug. "It should be as it was."
(The full article is here).

Flug's criticism is misplaced. Updating exhibits is not even an "option", it is a necessity. It is also necessary to remove or update the memorial plaques with "1,5 million" death toll, which are incorrect (the death toll is closer to 1 million) and which have thus become an easy target for deniers.

Besides, the crucial parts of Auschwitz and Birkenau - the crematoria - will never be in their "original state", since Krema I in the main camp is a reconstruction by the Soviets, and Birkenau crematoria are but ruins. So what all the fuss is about?

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Islamic activist admits he donated cash to Irving

An interesting news item in The Observer:
Asghar Bukhari, a founder member of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC), which describes itself as Britain's largest Muslim civil rights group, sent money to Irving and urged Islamic websites to ask visitors to make donations to his fighting fund.

[...]

Bukhari confirmed sending the letters in 2000. 'I had a lot of sympathy for anyone who opposed Israel,' Bukhari told The Observer said. 'I wrote letters to anyone who was tough against the Israelis - David Irving, Paul Findley, the PLO."I don't feel I have done anything wrong, to be honest. At the time I was of the belief he [Irving] was anti-Zionist, being smeared for nothing more then being anti-Zionist.
The explanation rings hollow, of course: 2000 was the year of Irving v. Lipstadt, so unless Bukhari was e-mailing Irving from under a rock, he knew perfectly what exactly he was doing and who was David Irving.

Monday, November 20, 2006

Mogilev gassing

Here's a clip which includes some footage from an early experimental gassing.
05:38:38 CU pipes from a German police car bearing a license plate POL-28545 and a German police truck with license POL-51628 (as well as military unit markings: 7 circle-with-flag IX). Apparently metal piping is directed into the brick work of a small brick building, in an area that appears to be a bricked up window or door. Projected against the wall is what appears to be the shadow of a man in uniform. Five emaciated men pass on an open farm cart/wagon to a wooded location; a tall naked emaciated man and two emaciated children (different from those seen first) are led by a man and a woman in white lab coats to the building. Small red cross appears on man's white coat sleeve. The man and woman put blankets around the patients' shoulders as they are led toward the building (and over a child lying on the cart). A uniformed man - probably German - is visible in the background, along the fence, watching the scene. CU car and pipes connecting the car exhaust to the building. [Scene is consistent with descriptions of September 1941 experimental killings by Einsatzgruppe B of patients from a local asylum in the area of Mogilev, Belarus. Corresponding still images were used in evidence at the trial of Albert Widmann.]

A treasure trove of the Holocaust/WWII atrocities-related videos

A great addition to USHMM "Special Collections" section:

Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive at USHMM

Want to see the Auschwitz liberation video or the video of the Dachau gas chamber as it existed on May 3, 1945? Then go straight to USHMM's great site.

Sunday, November 19, 2006

H.E.A.R.T. as an educational resource

Earlier materials about H.E.A.R.T. at this blog:

H.E.A.R.T. defenders and their methods

H.E.A.R.T. defenders and their methods (cont.)

On the demise of deathcamps.org: how fakes and arrogance killed a great undertaking




One of my colleagues, who will not be named here, has called this to my attention.

Recently at the H.E.A.R.T. site a "Holocaust glossary" went up, authored by a certain "CL". It is rather funny - it doesn't even contain an entry for Auschwitz. It does for Birkenau, though, but claims that "[f]our purpose built gas chambers and crematoria were eventually functioning in the camp". The author is blisfully unaware of the fact that the number of the chambers was higher than than number of crematoria - each crematorium eventually had several gas chambers (Krema II and III gas chambers were eventually divided into two, summing up to 4 GCs for these two crematoria; Krema IV and V contained at least 2 gas chambers each from the beginning), plus there were 6 gas chambers in the Bunkers (which belonged to Birkenau).

The most humorous entry is about Hitler:



Not only he is called "Adolph", his date of birth is given as his date of death!

Some "education"!

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In other news: "someone" has been spamming Wikipedia with H.E.A.R.T. ads. I think I know who this "someone" is ;-)

Update: since "CL" is currently monitoring this blog, the "Hitler" mistakes have been immediately corrected. Let's see when he adds Auschwitz and corrects his Birkenau entry :-)

Update 2: since "CL" is reading us anyway, he should also correct more silly mistakes, like:
Extermination camp

A location to which Jews and others were deported, in order to be executed by efficient mass assembly-line killing methods. The camps, Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka, were located in occupied Poland.
Where are Auschwitz and Majdanek?
Belzec

One of the four Polish death camps.
Just four? Really? Are you a closet denier, or something?

Update 3: the Wikipedia pages have been deleted by "Holocaust_Research_Team"'s request. The background is this: "Holocaust_Research_Team" began spamming Holocaust-related Wiki entries with ads like this one (see the complete list):
There is an excellent online research for studying the Holocaust and all related information. http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ H.E.A.R.T Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team Their Mission: Today there are many resources available for those wishing to learn more of what the world has come to know as "The Holocaust" - the planned extermination of entire ethnic, religious, political, and other groups by the government of a sovereign state, Germany, and her allies during the years 1933 -1945. Memorials, museums, and sufficient books to fill entire libraries are devoted to the subject. But the advent of the internet has created a new, globally accessible source of information on the Holocaust. Some of this information is valuable, often unique. Much of it, poorly researched and sourced, is not. The hateful writings emanating from the twisted minds of those who would deny the reality of what is irrefutable are much worse.
He was repeatedly warned about spamming, as was evident from his talk page, the screenshot of which you can find here. Embarrassed, "Holocaust_Research_Team" tried to erase his talk page, but was told not to, by admins. It is also evident from his history page, the screenshot of which can be found here. Then "Holocaust_Research_Team" requested the deletion of his talk page, and his wish was granted. And the deletion log of his user page states that the reason for deletion was "Blatant advertising" (screenshot).

Then our good friend from H.E.A.R.T. created a new account, "HolocaustResearchProject". And immediately started adding his links again, and again he was warned to stop advertising (also look here (screenshot)). In fact, currently all of his edits have been reverted.

Update 4: Some more details. Our H.E.A.R.T. "friends" also posted from this IP address (as has been discussed here (screenshot)).

Update 5: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org has been blacklisted (screenshot).

Update 6: The link in the German version has been inserted from IP 198.22.153.10, belonging to Pegasystems Inc. (101 Main Street , Cambridge, MA). Carmelo Lisciotto works at Pegasystems.

Update 7: IP address from update 4, 71.243.87.210, is from Boston, MA according to our blog counter:
Host Name pool-71-243-87-210.bos.east.verizon.net
IP Address 71.243.87.210
Country United States
Region Massachusetts
City Boston
ISP Verizon Internet Services Inc
I.e., it is simply Carmelo Lisciotto spamming from home, rather than from work.

Saturday, November 18, 2006

New anti-denial blog

Holocaust Denial Absurdities, run by our old YouTube acquaintance, Sobe. From what I've seen from him, he's a smart and thoughtful fellow.

It cannot be guaranteed that we will agree with everything he writes in the future, but so far what he has posted looks good. Check it out.

Another One Bites the Dust

Note to readers: Hurry up and read this, because the denier in question here is likely to erase his posts. Take screenshots if you're able.

Friedrich Paul Berg, probably most famous among the anti-deniers for his remarks to Dr. Danny Keren of the Holocaust History Project that the "Nazis and SS were the good guys" during WWII.

So much for that "we're not deniers" crap and the other "a terrible tragedy befell the Jews of Europe, but not mass murder" garbage that Berg et al. spew.

Anyway, if you look at this RODOH thread that began on the topic of producer gas as an alternative to the CO sources at the Reinhard(t) camps and Zyklon-B, you'll see Fritz Berg make a blunder of epic proportions. Debating our own Nick Terry, Berg is told that "KTI chemists helped out, as you surely should know by now," by Nick.

Berg responds, "Who are KTI chemists?"

[[insert sound of crickets chirping, followed by immense laughter]]

Nick replies, "You realise you just destroyed any credibility you might have had on the subject of CO gassings by the Nazis in WWII by saying this."

Fritz won't admit his blunder and, yes, the thread is polluted by remarks by me to Berg about his having posted my parents' address in Usenet a year or so ago, but the "biggest expert on CO gassings" in the world just shot himself in the foot with a sawed-off shotgun.

Today was a good day...

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

H.E.A.R.T. defenders and their methods (cont.)

"In response" to my posting about the H.E.A.R.T. defenders and their methods, one of the culprits ("Robert James Jones JR.") posted the following links:

http://defeat2jews.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-to-infiltrate-and-destroy-holocaust.html

http://promoteholocaustdenial.blogspot.com/2006/11/holohoax-and-jews-still-controlling.html

Again, these need no comment, but I'll just copy the contents in case the culprit decides to delete them.
Read more!
How to Infiltrate and Destroy Holocaust Websites and Destroy the Jewish Conspiracy!

To my many ardent fans on the Internet and most especially my Blogger fans.

Most of you know of me from my infamous exploits infiltrating Pro-Holocaust Websites and Web Groups, and for my never-ending battle against Yad Vashem and the Jewish Conspiracy.

My good friends David Irving and my associate Nick Terry have spent many years disgusing ourselves as Holocaust sympathizers. We've lured in suspected Jews and Jewish controlled groups by playing ourselves as Anti-Revisionists and fighters of denial when nothing could be further from the truth.

Nick Terry has especially played a key role in bringing down the Jews and the jew controlled media. His work at Colleges in London where's he's played the role of Historian have lent legitimacy to our effort and helped us gain secret access to the most secretive of plans that the Jewish conspirators have hatched.

We promise all of you that we will continue our work against the Jews and their allies, we will attack anyone who protects the Jews and their filthy lies.

We ask for your support in David Irvings great mission, his website can be found here: www.fpp.co.uk

David has been a true inspiration for Nick Terry and for myself.

Thank you and keep up the fight against the Jewish Conspiracy. End the Holo-Hoax!

Sergey Romanov
Jew Hater and Destroyer of Anything Pro-Holocaust
[email]

Posted by Sergey Romanov at 8:10 AM


http://defeat2jews.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2006-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&updated-max=2007-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=1

http://promoteholocaustdenial.blogspot.com/

The Holohoax and Jews Still Controlling the World!

Hey everyone,

In between spending our time infiltrating holocaust websites and posting slander and filth on our many blogs, one of our key revisionist blogs being http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com ,
this is the blog where we pretend to be debunking denier sites, it's really fun suckering in these Jews and their supporters, it also makes a great tool to convince the Zionists, and Holohoaxers that we are really on thier side and believe in there fake claims about the holocaust.

Everyone knows the holocaust never happend it's all a pack of lies, David Irving is a hero to our cause.

Nick Terry and Sergey Romanov

Posted by Sergey Romanov at 7:42 AM 0 comments


Tuesday, November 14, 2006
How to Infiltrate and Destroy Holocaust Websites and Destroy the Jewish Conspiracy!

To my many ardent fans on the Internet and most especially my Blogger fans.

Most of you know of me from my infamous exploits infiltrating Pro-Holocaust Websites and Web Groups, and for my never-ending battle against Yad Vashem and the Jewish Conspiracy.

My good friends David Irving and my associate Nick Terry have spent many years disgusing ourselves as Holocaust sympathizers. We've lured in suspected Jews and Jewish controlled groups by playing ourselves as Anti-Revisionists and fighters of denial when nothing could be further from the truth.

Nick Terry has especially played a key role in bringing down the Jews and the jew controlled media. His work at Colleges in London where's he's played the role of Historian have lent legitimacy to our effort and helped us gain secret access to the most secretive of plans that the Jewish conspirators have hatched.

We promise all of you that we will continue our work against the Jews and their allies, we will attack anyone who protects the Jews and their filthy lies.

We ask for your support in David Irvings great mission, his website can be found here: www.fpp.co.uk

David has been a true inspiration for Nick Terry and for myself.

Thank you and keep up the fight against the Jewish Conspiracy. End the Holo-Hoax!

Sergey Romanov
Jew Hater and Destroyer of Anything Pro-Holocaust
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006
End the Zionist Lies

The Jews are the evil of the world!

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End the Zionist Lies

The Jews are the evil of the world!

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Once again you can see Carmelo Lisciotto's "fingerprints". The fingerprints of H.E.A.R.T.S's representative. Make up your mind about the credibilitiy of www.HolocaustResearchProject.org.

Update: the profile of the impersonator is at http://beta.blogger.com/profile/18230340736316856245

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Monday, November 13, 2006

H.E.A.R.T. defenders and their methods

Recently we've been getting some of the most pornographic, vile, vulgar and libelous messages we've ever seen, both on the blog and by e-mail.

Ironically, these messages were not from our Nazi opponents, who sometimes stoop to this level, but not that often.

They were left by defenders of so-called "H.E.A.R.T." ("Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team", http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org), and all this followed my exposure of H.E.A.R.T. founder Chris Webb's key role in demise of deathcamps.org (and intrinsic lack of credibility of his new venture).

Below I will quote some of these messages by a H.E.A.R.T. representative and a H.E.A.R.T. defender (who may be one and the same person).

But if you wish to avoid feeling dirty, better skip this posting. Consider yourself warned.

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According to whois, holocaustresearchproject.org domain is registered by a certain Carmelo Lisciotto. Lisciotto is a former ARC member, who, according to my conversations with one "neutral" (i.e., not taking sides) ARC member, was forced to leave the group because of an internal conflict.

When ARC broke up, Chris Webb apparently immediately contacted Lisciotto to use him as a webmaster for his new H.E.A.R.T. group.

Some time before my posting, I contacted Lisciotto, and some reciprocal taunting ensued, which later grew into a slightly more constructive discussion, but only for a very short time. When Lisciotto issued a veiled threat that he, knowing some people at Google, can "have sites added or removed almost at will" (in the search engine database), of course, I promised to publish his e-mail if anything happens, after which an accusation that "[m]aking threats is childish" followed (apparently, Lisciotto didn't see any irony here). The next (unprovoked) message was:
dude you must be gay....
Talk about childish behavior.

After the posting was made, and the link was sent to several relevant people (including some notable Holocaust scholars), Lisciotto basically went nuts and posted the following:
Hey Idiot,
Does posting peoples names on blogs like a silly little faggot from where ever the fuck you are from make you happy?
I think your daddy must have stuck his finger up your ass way too many times when you were a child.

If you wish to knock on another website fine, when you start publishing peoples names and copies of emails that were never meant for public circulation you've crossed the line.

You, Nick terry and the other blogging faggots need to cut the shit and get on with your lives.

If you meet me in person you will be doing a lot of apologizing that I can assure you.
-Carmelo
After realizing that he had sent his bigoted rant accidentally to a large group of people, including serious mainstream scholars, he was quick to issue an "apology", though the deed was done and couldn't be reverted.

That wasn't enough for Lisciotto, who, posting anonymously as "Holoscholar" has left the following comment under the post in question:
Hey Sergey, do you ever spend time with a cock up your ass?
He quickly deleted it, but, of course, all comments also arrive to us by e-mail, so it was rather pointless.

Lisciotto's obsession with "gays", "faggots" and "cocks up asses" may be explained rather easily (Usenet remembers everything...), and it shows him to be a hypocrite (especially considering his political conservatism and alleged Christianity).

Since "Holoscholar's" blog is set up as an official H.E.A.R.T. outlet, it is fair to say that he (Lisciotto) is a H.E.A.R.T. representative.

Now you can judge H.E.A.R.T.'s credibility also by the words of its representative.

Apparently realizing that he is harming his cause more than helping it, "Holoscholar" has disappeared from the thread in question. Instead, a certain "Robert James Jones JR." appeared (account created in October, obviously specifically to troll at this blog). Judging by the style, and by the fact that nobody but Lisciotto would have a greater motive to troll here, I suspect just who that "Robert James Jones JR." is. But judge for yourself.

RJJR began spamming the thread with libelous accusations, which really need no comment. Here are some of them:
mr sergee I've recieved more reports of other Holocaust Survivors you have abused and degraded. Is this a habit with you?

Sergey Romanov the abuser of innocent Holocaust victims.

Truly a disgusting man you are. Does Nick Terry also abuse holocaust victims and survivors?

Quite a disgusting group and digusting blog this http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/ is....

Again you have made a post about having a "cock in your ass" that is how many post that YOU HAVE MADE that have that line reprinted in it.
Is that you subtle way of being an exhibitionist?

Mr sergeee Mr sergee....
It is so interesting to watch you 3 idiots attempt to bait me into a debate.
The original post shows Sergee and Nic terri getting "kicked out" of the ARC group.
(It shows nothing of the sort, BTW.)
VERIFIED DENIER and ABUSER of HOLOCAUST SURVIORS namely Sergey Romanov
They clearly don't want you or to be associated with your HOLOCUST DENIAL BLOG http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/
How many more Jews and Holocaust survivors will you attack and abuse Mr. Sergey Romanov?
How much more suffering will you and Nick Terry of http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/ cause to the victims of the holocaust with your revisionist lies???
The three of you should combine your IQ's and come up as a single idiot and stead of three. It would be more economical, and the cock would then be in all your asses :)
It is my understanding that this Neo Nazi Sergey Romanov even went so far as to publicly attack a Holocaust Survivor and belittle and degrade the man. All of this for what end?
What is the purpose of all of this Facist style hatred?

http://Holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com reads like a chapter of DER STURMER.

Is sergee mr Streicher now?

Such a den of iniquity as this shameful lying blog is a scar of all those who choose to respect the victims of the Holocaust.
It should be fairly obvious as to the reason that Nick Terry Sergey Romanov were kicked out of the a r c webgroup, they were exposed for being deniers, and holding memberships in revisionist organizations against the charter of the arc board. Thus they were shown the door. That then spurred this attacking revisionist block article that here on this revisionist blog http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/
Certainly I have never come across such a vipers nest of holocaust denial and revision as this blog http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/
I feel very sorry for you mr terri and mr sergee that you would stoop to such low levels and attack a holocaust treasure for your twisted goals.

May I ask you one question? Do you make some monies from this type of activities? Why do you put so much effort into destruction? Did not the Nazi's do enough of that on their own? Or are you part of that mindset only hiding it so well to trick people?
But the venom you unleash is self evident and one doesn't need a bloodhound to smell the that there is most definitely something fishy about your group of people mr sergee and mr terri.

Hiding behind the guise of fighting holocaust denial when your true intentions is rewrite truth is clearly shown
Etc., etc., etc.

Now, there are two options. Either this is the same H.E.A.R.T. representative - and then what this tells us about this group? Or this is an "average" H.E.A.R.T. defender, which also doesn't reflect well on the credibility of the above group.


Later developments: H.E.A.R.T. defenders and their methods (cont.).

Saturday, November 11, 2006

My, oh my

Roberto single-handedly crushes that cesspit known as Stormfront.

I especially liked this bit from pompous ass with the nickname "SirMosley":
(impossible, of course, since the 2km2 pits, once dug, are visible 24-7).
Almost nobody would expect high intelligence from a WN, but, frankly, I expect even a schoolboy to know that, as Roberto pointed out, 2200 m2 equals 0.0022 km2

Iranian Trashy Pics contest

I've been "out of town" for about a week, so I didn't notice this discussion of the so-called Holocaust Cartoon contest at Respectful Insolence.

Even from the standpoint of denial, I think there were "better" cartoons, but the third place is the most pathetic of the "winners". Because ... why Faurisson? He's not the most prolific or influential denier out there. Perhaps because the author has only read Fauri's books?

And then again, even thinking within a denier "framework", the "myth" of the gas chambers is alive and well, so the third cartoon is factually false even from a denier point of view. Oh, well. An average denier is not known for brightness.

Thursday, November 09, 2006

A note for the folks at the Cesspit

… can be found here .

Who Owns Whom?

As I noted in an earlier post, Jonnie "Hannover" Hargis made a post about me on Monday, November 6, at 2:29 p.m.

I reacted that evening with the post linked to above. But I forgot my initial reaction. And that reaction was to phone Jonnie Hargis's supervisor and apprise her that, once again, a UCLA employee was engaged in illegal activity at work.

The posts during the work day stopped.

So who owns whom, Jonnie?

And I guess the real question is, "Do you feel lucky?"



Well, do you, punk?

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

If 'Vernichtung' doesn't mean 'extermination'...

...then why does intellectual midget Jürgen Graf say that Raul Hilberg's magnum opus should not be called Die Vernichtung europäischer Juden ('The Destruction of European Jews') but rather Die Verfolgung europäischer Juden ('The Persecution of European Jews')?

Oops!

Running out of Tylenol at the Cesspit

Oh, the joys of CODOH forum.

Apparently disturbed by various damningly antisemitic and callous entries in the Goebbels diaries, one intrepid denier has noticed that wartime publications have a different tone to them - yes, that's right, one is a diary and the other is for public consumption. Therefore, the diary must be a forgery. Little does the denier know that no less a personage than (arf arf) David Irving endorsed the authenticity of the diaries, and simply glossed over or twisted the 'inconvenient' bits.

When they declare something faked, you know their brains are hurting.

A response to «SirMosley», a «White Nationalist»

As narrated on a thread of the RODOH forum pointed out here, I have been posting on the «Holocaust Thread» of the «Stormfront White Nationalist Community», for the reasons and with the results described in more detail in my RODOH posts # 7345, # 7370, # 7392, # 7412 and # 7416. Basically the record is that my posting gave the White Nationalists too much trouble, whereupon the moderator decided to add another restriction to my being outnumbered and my posts subject to moderator approval, by imposing a limitation to five posts per day on me. Unwilling to accept this cowardly dictate, I cancelled my posting on that thread after the second enforcement of said dictate and informed the WN’s accordingly. I also invited them to discuss with me on the RODOH forum, but this invitation was rejected, mostly under pretext of the beaten “you are not worth discussing with” – excuse. After I had already announced my departure, the moderator, as punishment for my having clearly told one of the fellows what I thought of him, quite unnecessarily tightened the restriction to just 4 posts per day. In RODOH post # 7416, I told the gentleman what he could do with every one of those 4 posts.

One of the WN regulars, who posts under the handle «SirMosley», seems to particularly like me, or then he is obsessed with his inability to best me in debate, which I presume makes a dent in his «White Pride» self image. Not only does he continue rambling against me after I have left (to which I respond on the above-mentioned RODOH thread), he also dedicated me an article on his own blog, which can be read here and was kindly pointed out to me by our reader True Voice. This article, the contents of which have already been addressed in two posts of mine on the SF board that were not published on the «Holocaust Thread» due to the aforementioned restriction and are now transcribed in my RODOH posts # 7393 and # 7397, I will now comment on.

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SirMosley (hereinafter "SM")
A Response to "Cortie", an Exterminationist
by SirMosley


"Cortie" is a diminutive of the handle I used on the SF thread, Cortagravatas. I don’t remember having kept pigs together with any of these people to warrant such familiarity, but OK. "Exterminationist" is one the designations that the adepts of the "Revisionist" religion invent for their opponents. Others include "Holohoaxer", "Holocaust Enforcer" and similar crap.

SM
Exterminationists like to explain away the absence of any genocidal activity in the aerial photography of Auschwitz


Oops, first mistake already. As we will see later, there are only two air photographs of Auschwitz-Birkenau corresponding to a set of days for which major extermination activity is documented. And as we will also see, both of these photographs show signs of that activity.

SM
on the grounds that there would be no visible traces of such activity most of the time anyways, and that it would be an incredible coincidence for the planes to have flown over at the moment killings were occuring.


I wouldn’t speak of an "incredible coincidence", but I maintain that the overflight of a reconnaissance plane need not have coincided with a period in which there was visible killing and/or body disposal activity on the ground at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This, in turn, is perfectly sufficient to counter the claim that air photography calls in question the accuracy of the overwhelming documentary, eyewitness and also physical evidence to the killing of hundreds of thousands of Jews at Auschwitz-Birkenau in the late spring and summer of 1944.

SM
An example is the following:

Quote:
Deniers claim that between April and October 1944 there is not one aerial photograph that shows extermiantion activity. First of all, we do have photographs of people in long lines being marched towards Crematorium V, where the gassing would have taken place. But, as for direct evidence, what could we realistically expect to see? The undressing, gassing, and cremation were all done inside the crematoria buildings. It was highly unlikely that an Allied plane would have flown over at the same time as smoke was coming out of chimneys or from an open-pit burning. Indeed, it would be an extraordinary coincidence if we had such a photograph. - Shermer and Grobman. Denying History. p. 150


As I said before, I don’t agree with Shermer and Grobman in what concerns the "extraordinary coincidence", nor is that necessary.

SM
A second example is taken from Wiernik, the lunatic who speaks of Jewish girls flying over ten foot barbed-wire fences:


This remark refers to the following episode of Chapter 8 of an English translation of Wiernik’s A Year in Treblinka available online:

When they had eaten and drunk their fill, the Ukrainians looked around for other amusements. They frequently selected the best looking Jewish girls from the transports of nude women passing their quarters, dragged them into their barracks, raped them and then delivered them to the gas chambers. After being outraged by their executioners, the girls died in the gas chambers with all the rest. It was a martyr's death.

On one occasion a girl fell out of line. Nude as she was, she leaped over a barbed wire fence three meters high, and tried to escape in our direction. The Ukrainians noticed this and started to pursue her. One of them almost reached her but he was too close to her to shoot, and she wrenched the rifle from his hands. It wasn't easy to open fire since there were guards all around and there was the danger that one of the guards might be hit. But as the girl held the gun, it went off and killed one of the Ukrainians. The Ukrainians were furious. In her fury, the girl struggled with his comrades. She managed to fire another shot, which hit another Ukrainian, whose arm subsequently had to be amputated. At last they seized her. She paid dearly for her courage. She was beaten, bruised, spat upon, kicked and finally killed. She was our nameless heroine.


Note the intellectual dishonesty of SirMosley, who makes a single episode into several by speaking of «Jewish girls flying over ten foot barbed-wire fences».

The episode of the girl "leaping" over a barbed wire fence is not necessarily as preposterous as it appears at first sight, for the following reasons:

• The "girl", as becomes apparent from the context, was actually a young woman.

• The statement that this young woman "leaped" over the fence, in the English text, may be a mistranslation from the Polish original of Wiernik’s account, which may have referred to her having quickly climbed over the fence.

• The fence was not as aggressive as an ordinary barbed-wire fence because, being obviously one of the fences of the Treblinka "tube" through which the victims were taken to the gas chambers, it was clad with saplings so as to prevent its being viewed through. It may have looked like this reproduction of a similar fence in the Sobibor death camp in the movie Escape from Sobibor.

• The fence was not as high as the witness erroneously, or hyperbolically, stated it to be. On page 42 of Yitzhak Arad’s Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka. The Operation Reinhard Death Camps, we read the following (bolding emphases are mine):

Transport Square in the Lower Camp was connected to the extermination area by the "tube", or, as the Germans in Treblinka called it derisively, "the road to heaven" (Himmelstrasse). The tube was nearly 100 meters long and 4.5 to 5 meters wide. It began near the women’s undressing barrack, continued east and then south to the extermination area. It was fenced on both sides with barbed wire 2 meters high and intertwined with tree branches so that it was impossible to see in or out. The "tube" crossed a grove of trees, which continued eastward up the camp fence. At the entrance to the "tube", near the women’s undressing hut, a sign said: "To the Showers" (Zur Badeanstalt)


But let’s assume that this part is absolute nonsense. Let’s assume that there is other nonsense in Wiernik’s account as well. So what? There’s also much in Wiernik’s account that is clearly not nonsense, for it is not only plausible but also confirmed by evidence independent of Wiernik. I provided examples of such convergence in my SF post # 13119 and in my article Historiography as seen by an ignorant charlatan …. That’s what counts for history, and why I think dismissing Wiernik altogether on account of one or the other nonsense in A Year in Treblinka is throwing out the baby with the bath water.

SirMosley quotes the following passage from Chapter 9 of A Year in Treblinka:

Work was begun to cremate the dead. It turned out that bodies of women burned more easily than those of men. Accordingly, the bodies of women were used for kindling the fires. Since cremation was hard work, rivalry set in between the labor details as to which of them would be able to cremate the largest number of bodies. Bulletin boards were rigged up and daily scores were recorded. Nevertheless, the results were very poor. The corpses were soaked in gasoline. This entailed considerable expense and the results were inadequate; the male corpses simply would not burn. Whenever an airplane was sighted overhead, all work was stopped, the corpses were covered with foliage as camouflage against aerial observation.


and comments as follows:

SM
Such nonsense is offensive. Covering a cremation pyre heaped with thousands of corpses, using foliage, really.


Careful, SirMosley: where is Wiernik talking about pyres heaped with thousands of corpses here? He is referring to the first experiments that the SS made in burning the bodies; these need not have been on a very large scale and probably were not, as the SS might have wanted to ascertain if the method worked before they wasted many gallons of gasoline on pyres that would not burn satisfactorily because they were missing an essential factor, the draft (which the grids later provided). And he’s also not saying that the cover-up operation was effective, only that the SS scrambled to cover up the still unincinerated heaps – if they were already burning they would have had to put out the fire before. Once they had worked out the right method and were able to burn thousands of bodies a day, one thing they obviously had to do as well was say «Fuck aerial observation, nothing to do about it» (I don’t think there was much if any enemy aerial observation in Poland in early 1943 anyway; the planes must have been Luftwaffe planes, and the concern was probably about Luftwaffe officers asking what was going on rather than about the enemy spotting anything.).

SM
The following was a response to the exterminationist "Cortagravatas", aka Roberto, a frequent Stormfront and RODOH poster.


Frequent RODOH poster is correct. As to Stormfront, I wrote well over 100 posts there, but my stay with those beautiful people lasted only from 22.10.2006 to the early morning (GMT) of 06.11.2006, thanks to the moderator’s above-mentioned policies.

SM
This is exactly what he [Cortie] thinks was happening at Auschwitz.


That is, to put it plainly, a lie. I never claimed that the Birkenau incineration pits were covered up to hide them from air reconnaissance, as SM well knows. Like other "Revisionists" I have observed over the years, SM obviously prefers to argue against claims he would like his opponent to have made rather than those his opponent actually did make.

SM
Let's think about those pits for a second.

Note that the smoke in the May 31st, 1944 picture only corresponds to an area of about 50 square meters on the ground, meaning that they could be from 50 bodies at most.


SM’s claim is duly noted, evidence and calculations supporting that claim would be appreciated.

SM
If 50 were being done at a time, then for the 5,000 plus a day being burned, there would have to have been 100 different cremations. To cremate a human being requires a temperature of 1600 degrees farenheit for at least 2 hours, though most crematoria will tell you it takes five hours for them to cremate a body with all of their modern cremation techniques.


Two or five hours? Where did SM get that from? According to a participant from a British cremation conference in 1975, quoted by "Revisionist" guru Carlo Mattogno and referred to in John Zimmerman’s article Body Disposal at Auschwitz, the cremation of one body in a coffin takes one hour:

Mattogno cited a participant from a British cremation conference in 1975 who stated that the "thermal barrier" for a cremation was 60 minutes. [106] He ignored the comments of another conference particpant who suggested that most of the burning occurred in the first 30 minutes:

After about half an hour, whether the furnace has gotten up to a temperature of 1100°C or whether it is 900°C, there is a rapid fall away, and I think the investigations should be concerned with the last twenty minutes or so of the cremation cycle. At that time you have in the cremator a very small quantity of body material...roughly the size of a rugby football, about twenty minutes from the end of the cremation, and this is the thing which is most difficult to remove. [107]


SM
So, even saying just two hours per each cremation in these pits, that means to dispose of 5,000 bodies with 50 bodies at a time for two hours each, would take 200 hours, or 8 1/3 days of 24 hour operation.


What makes SM think that all pits were of the size he surmises, or that the smoke seen on the photograph of 31 May 1944 is even from the whole of one incineration pit? It might as well be that what we are seeing is a pit much bigger than corresponds to the size of the smoke plume, which has only started burning at one of its ends so far.

SM
We know that most of the cremation would be going on in these pits owing to the non-functioning of most of the other crematoriums.


What is "most of the other crematoriums" supposed to mean, and where’s the evidence? We know that Krematorium IV went out of order soon after it was commissioned, and Krema V was also out of order or didn’t work properly at the time of the operations in question, which was one of the reasons why incineration pits were used. But what about the two big crematoria, Nr. II and Nr. III? What evidence is there that they were not functioning at the time?

SM
Of course, the whole concept of burning these bodies in pits is stupid. It adds nothing to the process.


Burning bodies in pits is stupid? Not necessarily, as the walls of the pit would prevent heat loss. The only problem would be the draft, which would require careful configuration of the pit and constant tending of the fire. In his otherwise unremarkable article about Combustion Experiments with Flesh and Animal Fat, Carlo Mattogno quotes an expert in carcass incineration, the German engineer Wilhelm Heepke:

"This type represents the most widespread and the most modern method of individual burning and, if properly done, yields remarkable results. The carcasses are burnt in or above pits, the purpose of which is to concentrate the heat upon the object as much as possible, i.e., to improve the economy of the operation, and to allow an autopsy of the carcass to be made without having to worry about spreading the infection by squirting blood or by body parts set aside. Regarding the layout of the pits, essentially the same considerations apply as for burials, except that the pits have to be made deeper by 0.5 - 1.0 meters, to a total of 1.5 - 2.0 meters, in order to allow for the ash generated. The choice of a suitable place depends primarily upon the prevailing wind.

The simplest procedure is to dig a pit 2.5 m long and 1.5 m wide and deep in the vicinity of the carcass and to fill it almost completely with firewood logs about 1 m long. In order to achieve a good draft, the wood must be stacked lengthwise and crosswise in alternate layers; it must first be soaked in petroleum to ensure good and rapid burning. The easiest way to do this is by means of a narrow pail or bucket filled with petroleum, with both ends of each log being dipped into the liquid. It is also recommended to line the sidewalls of the pit with such logs placed vertically and close together.[…]"


If I understand Heepke correctly, he is not saying that burning carcasses in or above pits is particularly efficient or particularly "stupid". He’s just saying that it is a widely applied method.

SM
Now, Cortie says that this whole thing was so quick that it only took a short amount of time such that a plane would not notice it.


Oh, did Cortie say that? Cortie doesn’t remember, even though he usually has a good memory.

SM
Let's say it took two hours in total to dispose of the average of 5,000 bodies killed a day. The average volume of a human body is .07 m3, so 5,000 bodies pressed together and allowing for skinny bodies and fat bodies would be 350 cubic meters. Let's say, as Bendel does, that there's 3 pits of 72 m2. That's 216 m2.


Note that Bendel, whose pertinent statements are quoted here and who wasn't necessarily good at estimates of this kind, was just referring to the pits behind Krematorium V (which he called Krematorium 4):

The twin Krematorien 3 and 4 (IV and V), more commonly known as the "forest Krema" (they were located in a pleasant clearing) were of more modest dimensions, and their eight furnaces could handle one thousand bodies a day.(13) At the time I entered the Sonderkommando, the throughput of these furnaces had been deemed insufficient (14) and they were replaced by three cremation pits, each 12 meters long, 6 wide and 1.5 deep.


There were further incineration pits near "Bunker V", one of the farmhouses used for gassing in 1942 that had been reactivated for the same purpose at the time of the deportation of the Hungarian Jews between May and July 1944. Henryk Tauber is one of the witnesses mentioning these pits:

At the same time, the old Bunker 2, with its incineration pits, was also made ready for re-use. I never worked there.


There is at least one element of evidence suggesting that the incineration facilities by "Bunker V" were at least as large as if not larger than those behind Krema V. The notes written by Rudolf Höss in the sequence of his interrogations by Polish examining judge Jan Sehn, which are transcribed here, contain the following statement (my translation):

The burning capacity near V was practically unlimited as long as burning could be carried out day and night.


At any rate, it is manifestly false to assume that all bodies incinerated in the open were incinerated in the pits behind Krema V, described by Bendel among other witnesses.

SM
They'd have to be nearly a meter and a half deep just to fit the bodies, and obviously they would not be absolutely compressed together, or there'd be no draught; so for allowing whatever grilling/grating arrangements that you want, it would probably have to be at least five meters deep.


SM’s claim that the pits would need to be at least five meters deep is taken note of, but it is worthless without evidence and calculations underlying this figure, which SM did not provide.

SM
Do you think burying something five meters deep in marshy ground is going to burn well? So much so that it's all done in two hours? Most of the bodies would not even be hot.


Here comes the old "marshy ground" herring. Cremation specialist Heepke, quoted by Mattogno, mentioned a procedure that was worked out to match the contingency of marshy ground:

"Now many cases of carcass disposal occur in swampy areas such as meadows, moors, or river valleys. In these areas the high water table makes it impossible to go down to 1.5 m, and thus one would have to abandon the idea of using an efficient procedure, such as case B in Table I. In their effort to allow such a method to be used also in swampy terrain, Drs. Profé and Lothes, in their further experiments carried out in 1903, used [iron] beams laid across a pit only 0.75 meters deep to support the carcass. A collapsible windscreen, about 1 m high and made from iron plate, was then placed all around the pit. The screen thus took over the function of the missing depth of 0.75 meters; any heat losses can be countered effectively enough by surrounding [the screen] with a layer of earth. These trials, listed in section C, lines VII, VIII, and IX in Table II [see document 3] led to very satisfactory results, nearly equal to those of method B. For comparison, Table II also lists, in section D, lines X and XI, two trials where the carcass was placed directly on the fuel in pits 0.50 - 0.75 meters deep and burnt without any grid or windscreen.

From the above data one may conclude that it is possible, in the open, to burn carcasses efficiently, economically, and in a relatively short span of time, provided that methods B or C are used. These methods, according to Tables I and II, yield the following for 1 kg of carcass:

a fuel requirement of 0.5 kg of wood having a vaporization power of 4.5 kg and a heating power of 775 kcal [Translator's note: the author has apparently corrected fundamental scientific data for various types of losses].

a duration of the process of 45 seconds

a cost of 1.33 pfennigs"


As to the "marshy ground" itself: there was a drainage system at Birkenau for drying up the marsh, and in another article Mattogno mentions a «catastrophic» fall in the ground water table around Auschwitz in early 1944:

Furthermore, a "catastrophic" fall in the ground water table in the area around Auschwitz had already been noted in February 1944. This is evident from a letter from the head of the Central Building Administration Jothann "to the Regierungspräsidenten - Division IIIQ - Kattowtiz" dated 10 February 1944, which begins as follows:[9]
"As a result of the catastrophic fall in the ground water level in the area around Auschwitz, the wells sunk to supply the concentration camp and related operations are no longer sufficient." (See Fig.1)


The water level might again rise a little in the spring, but not necessarily enough to compensate for the «catastrophic» fall mentioned. Then, in the summer, it would again drop considerably, maybe to the «catastrophic» level mentioned.

So no, the incinerations were not necessarily done in marshland.

SM
Let's say they figured that out and so made these pits particularly shallow, a half meter deep maximum. But that would require making the pits much longer or wider to fit 5,000 bodies, since a half meter x 216 m2 would only be 108m3 of volume, whereas we'd need 350m3 to fit the bodies packed together. Assuming five meters of depth space to fit the bodies and all the grills and all the relevant spacing in a 216m2 trench, the surface area would have to increase by 10 fold to bring the depth down from 5 meters to .5 meters and and to still be able to fit the 5,000 bodies with the grill, so that's 2,160m2 of pits.


Assuming SM can prove his 5 meters depth postulation, that is.

SM
Do I see a 2km area of pits on that picture?


Well, there would be several pits, some of which would be in the area of «Bunker 5», which is not visible on the picture, while others would be near Krema V. All of them together would, assuming SM's claim about the depth is correct, need to have an area of 2,160 square meters (to put this into perspective, that’s about 30 % of the area of an average soccer field).

SM
No.


How can SM say that so categorically? How can he tell whether or not how many pits of what sizes are visible on this air photograph?

SM
So apparently they were covered up. By huge tarpes? A 2km2 square tarp would be noticeable.


Sure about that? It wouldn’t be one tarp with an area of 2,160m2, by the way. It would be several tarps on several pits in two wooded areas, that of Krema V and that of «Bunker V», of which only the first is visible on the photo. The other is somewhere at the end of the arrow pointing from the square labeled «Execution Area» on the photo as shown here, but you don’t see it. There’s a close up here, which I would like SM to look at and tell us how he established that there are no pits and no tarps in the area where the smoke comes from. I submit you can’t tell from that photo whether or not there are pits there.

SM
Foilage? 2km2 worth of leaves?


As much as you would need to cover 30 % of a soccer field, but I don’t think there was any cover-up.

SM
Preposterous, as it would not cover up hardly anything at all unless you had another few thousand pounds of it on hand. In any case, 2km worth of piled up leaves would be about as noticeable as possible.


In a wooded area? I don’t think so.

SM
And why would there be such pits? Burning massive amounts of bodies in an open pit is the singularly most stupid way of desposing with corpses.


Nonsense, see above.

SM
If the pits were not this size, then the cremation would have been very much a day-long affair.


Assuming SM can substantiate his five meters depth claim and give us a calculation of how long incineration would last under his assumptions. Just saying so doesn’t make it so.

SM
If the planes could capture people marching and people registering, they could certainly capture this.


Sure, assuming it was an all-day affair, which SM hasn’t yet demonstrated.

SM
If they were being burned about 50 at a time, as the May 31st photo indicates


No, it doesn’t, see above.

SM
if it is taken to be smoke from cremated bodies (an unjustified assumption, of course),


Why, what else would it be?

SM
then it would take over 8 days to clean up one day's worth of gassing.


As the assumption that the plume of smoke on the 31 May photo shows all they had pit-wise is without foundation, so is the conclusion.

SM
So, that leaves the pyres. Thousands of bodies as well as the wood, 650 pounds of wood for 5,000 people = 3,250,000 lbs of wood. Let's say that, due to German engineering genius and the working of at least some of the crematoriums, only 1/3rd of that amount was needed. An average 2x4x8 weighs about 7 pounds. That's 464,285 2x4x8s worth of wood, for a total volume of 29,714,285.714 cubic feet of wood, or 5627 cubic miles. For a warehouse 100 feet wide and a 30 feet tall, that's almost 2 miles long to contain all that wood. And that is for one days work.


My calculations are the following: assuming that these 5,000 bodies weighed 45 kg on average, which I consider reasonable given that they were mainly of women and children, we have 225,000 kg of body mass that required burning every day. Assuming 2 kg of wood per kg of body weight (which I consider the upper range for mass incinerations, based on the data mentioned in section 4.2 of my article Carlo Mattogno on Belzec Archaeological Research), that would be 450,000 kg or 450 tons of wood per day – 10 five-ton trucks, nine trips. Let’s assume they brought in dried birch wood for the job, which according to this site weighs 2840 – 3650 pounds or 1,288 to 1,656 kg per cord. We take the lower value, to that we need more cords, which favors SM’s argument. 450,000 kg of wood is thus 349 cords. 1 cord is ca. 3.6 cubic meters, 349 cords is 1,265 cubic meters.The small appartment where I live has about 100 square meters and is about 3 meters high, that’s 300 cubic meters. Little more than 4 times this would be sufficient to store the wood required, according to my calculations.

Now I’ll do it with SM’s assumptions: about 1,100,000 pounds of wood is about half a million kg or 500 tons of wood, corresponding to 388 cords of wood or 1,406 cubic meters of dry birchwood. SM’s warehouse would be ca. 30.5 meters (100 feet) wide, 9.1 meters (30 feet) tall and 3,218.7 meters (2 miles) long. The volume of that warehouse would be 893,350 cubic meters. My 1,406 cubic meters would fit in there more than 635 times. I think there’s something wrong with SM’s calculation. According to mine, his warehouse needs to be no more than about 5 meters (ca. 16.4 feet) long.

SM
So, for a week, you'd need several two mile long warehouses. And where are they? That's a million pounds of wood.


No, for a week you’d need just about 10,000 cubic meters. That’s about 7 warehouses 31 meters long, 5 meters wide and 9 meters tall, or 9 meters wide and 5 meters tall. But what makes SM think they’d stockpile for a week and not just a day or two?

SM
A million lbs of wood was just moved back and forth quite casually, and was placed in storage so nobody would see it, in buildings 2 miles long, that were also hidden.


Nonsense, see my above calculations.

SM
No Cortie, the trenches pictured there could not possibly accomodate enough bodies to burn so quickly that the whole operation could be done and cleaned up such that a plane never once saw what was going on. The pits and the crematorium capacities are simply not big enough.


That’s what SM hasn’t yet even come close to demonstrating. I’m especially interested in how he established that no trenches of the size required according to his calculations, for which he also still owes the backup, can be seen on this photograph or this closeup thereof. My take is that one cannot tell from that picture what pits are there or not let alone how big or small they are. And keep in mind that the picture shows only one of the two pit areas.

SM
Therefore, it would take multiple "runs", with an absolute minimum of two hours just to burn the bodies, and another hour to set everything up properly and get it going. Two runs would not be sufficient; with 180m3, it would take at least 3 runs to dispose of 350m3 of bodies with the appropriate grills set up (since you could not pack 180m3 of bodies in with no space each time, or nothing would burn; it would be at least half that). That's a minimum six hours out of a twelve hour day. We also have to include the gassings and all that in this time. Now we're getting into something that, assuming an impossible speed of cremation (two hours each), would turn into an 8-9 hour operation, out of a 12 hour day (this being May-June).


A 12 hour day in May-June in Poland? I think 15 or 16 hours of daylight is more appropriate at that time of the year, and there’s no reason why they shouldn’t have taken advantage of all of it. There’s also no reason why they shouldn’t have taken advantage of the nighttime to do at least a part of the work of bringing up the wood to the incineration sites and building the pyres.

SM
Therefore, it does turn into an all day operation, meaning that a plane flying over at any part during the day would catch at least some part of the operation, especially when there are photos from a number of days.


Well, even according to SM’s calculation there are 3 daytime hours in which a plane would catch nothing at all (according to mine that would be 6 or 7 hours). As to there being «photos from a number of days»: there are photos photos made by Allied planes on May 31, June 26, July 26, August 23, August 25 and September 13, and a photo made by Luftwaffe on July 8.

June 25 and June 26 there were no gassings, so forget the June 26 photo.

There were also no gassings on 26 July, and there was only on small gassing on 25 July, so forget the 26 July photo, too.

August 22: at least 759 Jews from Mauthausen were killed in the gas chambers, according to Danuta Czech’s Calendarium, see the Veritas Team 3rd Response of the “Scholars’ Debate” on the RODOH forum, (Steve Mock’s post # 891). August 23: no gassings mentioned. The photo of 23 August 1944 shows a large plume of smoke, which probably comes from the burning of the bodies of the Jews gassed on August 22.

Then we have 25 August 1944. On this day, as explained in more detail in the Veritas Team 3rd Response, there may have been a gassing of 1,500 registered prisoners at the camp, but this is not certain. Even if this gassing took place, the cremation could have taken place during the night, and even if this comparatively smaller operation (by the Birkenau standards of 1944) took place during the daytime, a coincidence between a reconnaissance plane’s flying over the camp and smoke coming out of the chimney of one of the two large crematoria (it would not have been necessary to use the incineration pits) would still be more improbable than probable, because of two "technical" scenarios explained in the Veritas Team 3rd Response and also because the cremation of 1,500 corpses in 30 furnaces à 4 bodies per hour would not necessarily take up all of the daytime hours on a day with early sunrise and late sunset. Add to this the fact that, according to photo analyst Lucas, only a part of the photograph is "good quality photography", and the chances of not seeing eventual incriminating features like smoke on the photograph are even higher.

As to the last photograph, taken September 13, these are the data from Danuta Czech’s Calendarium, mentioned in the Veritas Team 3rd Response:

September 12: 300 Jewish children from Kaunas are gassed.
September 13: On 13 September 1944 one transport has joined Birkenau with a total of 929 men and boys registered and, more importantly, as Danuta Czech informs us, 900 women and girls from the former Theriesenstadt Family Camp were put into Birkenau sector B-Iid, i.e., not gassed.

Most probably the bodies of 300 Jewish children were quickly burned on September 12, so no signs of this gassing would show on the September 13 photograph. On September 13, there were no gassings.

This leaves us with just two photographs, those of 31 May and 8 July, that correspond to a set of days in which there was gassing on a large scale.

SM
Of course, it would take much longer than two hours for each cremation in reality, and would probably take several days (just burning one in a normal, modern crematorium normally takes five hours, and that is with specialized equipment) of continuous operation for the whole thing.


The "modern crematorium" nonsense was already discussed above.

SM
If it was somehow super quick (two hours or less, assuming appropriate use of fat people and other apparently self-combusting bodies), taking only one run, then you'd need to show much bigger pits then these narrow trenches to fit all the overflow from the crematoriums in them in one go.


Readers may wonder where SM got "these narrow trenches" from. The answer is in the report of an air photo analyst by the name of Carroll Lucas, who located the following on the 31 May 1944 photograph:

Situated within the northwestern perimeter of the Birkenau complex, across the road from a line of barracks and adjacent to, but south of, the two buildings designated as Crematoria IV &V, are series of narrow trenches excavated in echelon within a large area of bare soil. Twelve of the trenches (having a total length of approximately 800 feet) are open, whereas another 9 trenches (totaling approximately 650 feet) appear to have been filled in. The open trenches appear to be shallow but precisely oriented, with little scattered soil. They appear to have been dug by hand, with the excavated soil stored between the trenches. These have all the appearances of hand dug, mass grave sites used to dispense the residue from the adjacent crematoria.


However, the location of these trenches is not compatible with eyewitness testimony regarding the location of the pits behind Krema V. So whatever these trenches are – if they are actually trenches – they are unlikely to have anything to do with the incineration pits. In the Veritas Team 3rd Response, this issue was addressed as follows:

Thus the air photograph can be considered further independent corroboration of Tauber’s testimony regarding the location of the pits and of Pressac’s identification of this location. On the other hand, this means that the “series of narrow trenches excavated in echelon within a large area of bare soil”, identified by air photo analyst Carroll L. Lucas “adjacent to, but to the south of, the two buildings designated as Crematoria IV & V” (Zimmerman, Holocaust Denial, page 291) are not the “mass grave sites” that Lucas assumed them to be or, at any rate, none of the incineration pits mentioned by Tauber.


SM
And even then, with two hours out of a twelve hour day, that's a 6 - 1 shot at catching them right in the act at every photo, and of course we have more than six photos.


No, we have only two photographs that correspond to a set of days in which there was gassing on a large scale. Both of them show smoke. None of them shows smoke corresponding to full-scale operation of the incineration pits (though I think the July 8 photo, see here a closeup, shows a larger plume of smoke than the one of 31 May) but that only means the camp was photographed at a time when the incineration pits were not operating full scale, either at the start or towards the end of the incineration process.

SM
It would be extremely *unlikely*, even at the most absurd estimate of burning, for the planes to not catch one sight of it.


Yeah, a 6:1 shot would be reduced to a 3:1 shot, according to SM’s probability calculations, which are not exactly convincing, in my opinion. For unless it can be demonstrated that the planes flew over at very different times on each day while the gassing and body disposal process took up exactly the same hours of every day on which major extermination operations took place, the number of overflight days wouldn’t necessarily increase the probability of taking a photograph at the "right" moment.

SM
Given a realistic number, assuming huge pits and the million pounds of wood, it would take four or five hours for the burning, and another few hours for the gassings and transport, thereby making the odds closer to 66-70% of flying over while some visible part of the operation was going on.


SM is assuming a total of 8 out of 12 hours on a day of major gassing and incineration during which either or both would be going on. With my 15-16 hours of daylight in summertime Poland, which I think are more reasonable than his 12 hours, the chance of the plane taking pictures on 31 May or 8 July 1944 would be closer to 50 %. But even if SM’s odds were the right ones, and even if the odds were higher in favor of photographing at the «right» moment, this wouldn’t necessarily mean it happened. And with all the eyewitness and documentary evidence pitted against him, with no plausible, evidence-backed alternative scenario as to what happened to 300,000 Hungarian Jews who got into Auschwitz-Birkenau but never got out, I’d say SM needs a 100 % certainty, and even then he would still have a lot of explaining to do.

SM
But every time the dice rolled in the favor of the Nazis. Odd how you're God takes care of his chosen people; perhaps this is why Wiesel had his crisis of faith.


A Jew-hater’s horseshit, not worth wasting a comment on.

SM
How bodies were burned in pits anyways is, of course, absurd.


Nonsense, as already explained.

SM
So with no pits,


SM hasn’t demonstrated this.

SM
no pyres (since there was not sufficient wood;


SM hasn’t demonstrated this either.

SM
you can find you're picture of stacked up wood from Pressac if you want, I certainly doubt it is a million pounds worth),


Certainly not, but there’s absolutely no reason why there should be a photo showing 350-400 cords of wood around.

SM
and barely functioning crematoria,


Another of SM’s unsubstantiated claims.

SM
how were the bodies disposed of again?


As described by many witnesses, the plausibility of whose testimonies SM hasn’t ruled out so far. A more interesting question would be: what, if not murder, happened to the overwhelming majority of the Hungarian Jews deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, who were never again seen alive. Out of 508,861 Jews deported from Hungary to Auschwitz-Birkenau or to Austria, only about 126,000 returned to Hungary after the war or emigrated to other countries (data from Laszlo Varga, "Ungarn", in: Wolfgang Benz et al, Dimensionen des Völkermords. Those who returned had either been registered at Auschwitz-Birkenau as able to work, or sent from there to other camps, or sent directly to other camps without passing Auschwitz-Birkenau. What happened to the rest?