Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Jasenovac Images (Extremely Graphic)

The Ustasha documented many of their crimes at Jasenovac. Their methods of killing were cruder than most of those used by the Nazis, and they were just as sadistic towards Serbs as Jews. These images are therefore very graphic. Note that Himmler received reports of these atrocities so this was not hidden from the Nazis. Infact Hitler had told Pavelic that "a nationally intolerant policy must be pursued for fifty years." These were the results:

Execution

Numerous

Beheading by Hacksaw

Throat Cutting and the Brode massacre (attended by German soldiers)

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Serbian Military Report on Shooting of Jews and Gypsies

NOKW-905, Commander of 9th company, 433rd Infantry Regiment, to 704th Infantry Division, Report on the Shooting of Jews and Gypsies, 1/11/41, reproduced here:


The wives of the Jews were assembled in front of the camp. They were crying and screaming as we drove out...

[...]

The shooting of Jews is easier than that of Gypsies. It has to be admitted that Jews are very composed as they meet death – they stand very quietly – whereas the Gypsies cry, scream and constantly move around once they reach the execution site. Some of them even jumped into the ditches before the shots were fired and pretended to be dead.

At first my soldiers were not impressed. On the second day, however, it became clear that one or the other did not possess the nerves to carry out the executions for a longer period of time. It is my personal impression that one does not have any mental qualms while actually shooting. These appear days later while one reflects upon it quietly in the evening.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Denier Hoaxes: Ball and Krege

A minority at CODOH has started to realize that Krege's claimed work on Treblinka is a hoax, not simply because it is unpublished but because it claims no soil disturbance at all. As can be seen in this post and this one, the slightly smarter Kollerstrom and Kingfisher types of poster are aware that there would have to be some disturbance if the dead from transports and disease were buried there. The same criterion can be used to consign John Ball's balls to the trash: Ball argued here that the soil at all three Reinhard camps was undisturbed. Today, Ball's site still claims that "Belsec [sic] was actually a logging camp where tree stumps and thin soil would have prevented corpse burial." Moreover, in 2004, none other than Graf was sticking to the "no disturbances" line here: "all traces of similar soil disturbances are missing in Treblinka and Belzec." Graf 2004 therefore demurs from MGK 2010. Such is the empty vessel that sails from the remnants of pro-Nazi apologetics. [Footnote: thanks to Jason Myers for pointing me in the direction of Ball].

Thomas Kues on recent archaeological finds at Treblinka

It comes as no surprise that "Revisionist" coryphée Thomas Kues tries to explain the recent finds of Caroline Sturdy Colls at the site of Treblinka extermination camp in accordance with his "Revisionist" theories.

Wednesday, January 04, 2012

CODOH Reactions to the Critique

Reactions on the "CODOH Revisionist Forum" to the HC critique of Mattogno, Graf and Kues are recorded and commented on the RODOH thread Our Holiday Gift to Mattogno, Graf and Kues: The AR Critique.

The most commendable effort so far to address arguments included in the critique was made by "Toshiro", albeit in connection with my earlier blog about Mattogno’s Chelmno book. See my response to this gentleman’s latest post in my RODOH post 13314.

Update, 09.01.2012: See my RODOH posts 13321, 13322 and 13323.

Update, 20.01.2012: More from Toshiro, discussed in my RODOH post 13325.

Sunday, January 01, 2012

Homicidal gassings at the first Frankfurt Auschwitz trial – A statistical survey

About 7000 SS men and auxiliary women were serving in the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, some with relatives nearby, external authorities were in contact and corresponding with the Auschwitz camp, hundreds of thousands of people were deported to the site and a certain number of civilian workers had access to the camps. Not too far away were villages as well as the town of Auschwitz. In short, there were many people involved in and around the Auschwitz complex.

Now, suppose the Revisionist view on Auschwitz, i.e. the falseness of homicidal gassings, is true. Then this mass of people with different backgrounds, abilities and personalities should generate substantial testimonial evidence to support. Yet, only very few accounts are known – three come to my mind, Wilhelm Stäglich[1], Thies Christophersen[2] and Walter Schreiber[3], none of them can be classified as actual eyewitness against homicidal gassings and none is without substantial problems. Is this really it?