tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post116378486886082833..comments2024-03-20T07:25:58.202+00:00Comments on Holocaust Controversies: The Ugly Voice as Don Quixote UnhorsedNicholas Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14852758011968360596noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post-1165606930991740942006-12-08T19:42:00.000+00:002006-12-08T19:42:00.000+00:00>Only Treblinka needed the “DMZ” approach, not Bel...>Only Treblinka needed the “DMZ” approach, not Belzec or Sobibur?<BR/><BR/>I don't know what this means.<BR/><BR/>>Was the anti-tank obstacle fence in Treblinka also woven with fine boughs and trees?<BR/><BR/>Yes.<BR/><BR/>>Did the Germans also built the Majdanek ‘gas chambers’ right next to the main road so they don’t raise suspicions by hiding them out of view?<BR/><BR/>Majdanek has a very complicated history. It was not designed as a killing center, and this was even more ad hoc than the other camps.<BR/><BR/>a.m.Andrew E. Mathishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057529769573506419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post-1165599443602583262006-12-08T17:37:00.000+00:002006-12-08T17:37:00.000+00:00>>Rather than raising suspicion among the civilian...>>Rather than raising suspicion among the civilian populations by ordering poison gasses to known concentration camp locations or building a concrete wall around the camp, they made do with what they had around.<BR/><BR/>Raise suspicion as to what? That people are being exterminated or cremated by the thousands? For months, day after day, train loads of people walked in but never came out, that wouldn’t have raised any suspicions. The look of the fence is the problem. A concrete wall or a high solid fence around a wartime camp (same as a prison) would have raised suspicions among the local populations but nightly stinky ash-spreading bonfires of human flesh wouldn’t. (I thought someone said that the ashes and stench were hovering all over Poland.)<BR/><BR/>I also thought that Gerstein was delivering poison Zyclon-B frequently without raising any suspicions. <BR/><BR/>I may buy that a friendlier looking fence wouldn’t scare off the incoming people. But two fences with 40 or 50 meters of desert in-between is not exactly a welcoming sign either. <BR/><BR/>What’s the point of a second fence 40 or 50 meters from the first? Maybe 5 or 10 meters of no-man’s land, but fifty? This isn’t the Korean DMZ or the Gaza-Israeli border, maybe not even there you have such a gap between fences. (I am surprised that Colonel Arad doesn’t know that).<BR/><BR/>A couple of questions:<BR/><BR/>Only Treblinka needed the “DMZ” approach, not Belzec or Sobibur?<BR/><BR/>Was the anti-tank obstacle fence in Treblinka also woven with fine boughs and trees?<BR/><BR/>Did the Germans also built the Majdanek ‘gas chambers’ right next to the main road so they don’t raise suspicions by hiding them out of view?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com