Mattogno on Klooga

In chapter 13 of Mattogno, Graf and Kues’ magnum opus^[1], with the self-descriptive title "Asinine, Judeophantic Arrogance", Mattogno dwells at length (pp. 1481 to1484, plus images on pages 1485 and 1486) on the massacre of mostly Jewish inmates of the Klooga forced labor camp in Estonia in September 1944. I’ll address his arguments in this respect because they briefly touch the subjects of fuel requirements and duration of cremation^[2] and my name is mentioned, and also because they further reveal Mattogno’s ill-reasoning and intellectual dishonesty.

More Photographic Evidence of Exhumed Corpses in the USSR (Warning: Contains Links to Graphic Content)

Further to this previous post by Roberto, I add the following from the Yad Vashem site:

Bogdanovka

Krasnodar

Kramatorsk

Utena

Chernovtsy

Film of Exhumed Bodies at Majdanek

Here is a Youtube version of the film made by the Polish army at Majdanek on July 25, 1944, directed by Aleksander Ford. Exhumation of a mass grave is shown from 12:00 minutes into the film. The sequence of shots corresponds to the version summarized in the Spielberg archive here.

Friedrich Paul Berg yelled for "PHOTOS photos of gassing victims"...

.... and I showed him some.

The Atrocities committed by German-Fascists in the USSR (3)

The Atrocities committed by German-Fascists in the USSR (1)

The Atrocities committed by German-Fascists in the USSR (2)

As mentioned in the first blog of this series, a large part of the Soviet documentary "The Atrocities committed by German Fascists in the USSR", screened at the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal on 19 February 1946 (and unfortunately no longer viewable on Youtube), shows Nazi crimes committed outside the territory of the USSR in its borders as of 22 June 1941.

Samuel Fuller's Falkenau Footage

Yesterday I watched a documentary film made by one of my favorite movie directors, showing what would be a good exercise for any of our "Revisionist" friends:

Samuel Fuller Falkenau Vision de l'Impossible 1/4 Eng/Fr
Samuel Fuller Falkenau Vision de l'Impossible 2/4 Eng/Fr
Samuel Fuller Falkenau Vision de l'Impossible 3/4 Eng/Fr
Samuel Fuller Falkenau Vision de l'Impossible 4/4 Eng/Fr

Human remains inside the mass graves at Chełmno, Bełżec and Sobibór

The contents of mass graves at the Nazi extermination camps Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka and Chełmno are one of the obsessions of "Revisionist" Greg Gerdes, the "president" and only member of the fraudulent "association" that now calls itself "The National Association of Forensic Historians".

Nazi Propaganda Film from the Warsaw Ghetto (Revised and Updated Article)

A Nazi film crew, led by Willy Wist, shot over an hour of footage for a propaganda film in the Warsaw ghetto in May 1942. A summary of the scenes they filmed can be found here, along with Jonas Turkow's eyewitness account (from 1948) of why the film was shot. Out-takes from that film were found by Adrian Wood in 1998 and have been collated, along with the formal footage, into a documentary entitled A Film Unfinished. The documentary intersperses the footage with diary entries, such as those of Czerniakow and Lewin, which describe the staging and shooting of the film. It also re-enacts Wist's testimony from war crimes proceedings.

Scrapbookpages on Subhuman Cannibalism

In an online article headed Malmedy Massacre Trial, the Scrapbookpages webmaster shows a soft spot for the brave German SS-men accused of involvement in the Malmedy massacre of American prisoners of war.

The Atrocities committed by German-Fascists in the USSR (2)

[Last updated on 03.12.2011]

The Atrocities committed by German-Fascists in the USSR (1)

The Atrocities committed by German-Fascists in the USSR (3)


This is the second part of a collection of stills from the Soviet documentary film "The Atrocities committed by German Fascists in the USSR", shown at the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal on 19 February 1946, parts of which used to be viewable on Youtube.

The Atrocities committed by German-Fascists in the USSR (1)

[Updated on 03.12.2011 due to removal of YouTube video.]

[Updated on 13.03.2012 to replace broken links to the RODOH forum.]

The Atrocities committed by German-Fascists in the USSR (2)

The Atrocities committed by German-Fascists in the USSR (3)

"The Atrocities committed by German Fascists in the USSR" is the title of a Soviet documentary film shown at the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal on 19 February 1946, parts of which used to be viewable on Youtube.

Not that it matters much, but ...

... I have submitted proof that 10 mass graves at Bełżec and 4 mass graves at Sobibór each contain the remains of at least 19 bodies, in order to claim a $1,000.00 reward for each grave under "The National Association of Forensic Historians TM N.A.F.H. Crime Scene Investigation Challenge TM".

The respective 14 posts on the Skeptics Society Forum are listed in my post 2464 on the thread Archeological Investigations of Treblinka of the "Vanguard News Network" forum. The history behind these posts can be read in my post 12682 on the RODOH forum.

I don't expect to ever see a cent from a notorious liar and coward like Greg Gerdes, who (as I predicted) is already invoking non-compliance with certain "rules" about the wording of my submissions of proof to refuse payment in case Michael Shermer should take the time to read my posts and endorse the proof submitted (see my VNN post 2466 and the posts linked to at the end of my post 2464). But it's fun to see Greg Gerdes squirming, and I also hope that my posts on the Skeptics Forum will help to make more people familiar with evidence of mass extermination at Bełżec and Sobibór.

Mattogno, Graf & Kues on the Aktion Reinhard(t) Mass Graves (4)

Last updated on 02.03.2011 due to corrections in Part 1, which affect the estimated volume of Sobibór grave # 4 mentioned in sections 3.6 and 3.7.


Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

3. Mattogno et al’s Claims and Arguments

^3.5 Groundwater Pollution

^3.6 The "Actual" Surface of the Graves

^3.7 Density of Corpses in the Graves

^3.8 Conclusion



3.5 Groundwater Pollution

In a German-language online pamphlet preceding their Sobibór book, Mattogno, Graf and Kues tried to take their readers for a ride, arguing that the depth of the mass graves identified at Sobibór by Prof. Kola (grave # 4 is about 5 meters deep, grave # 3 up to 5.80 meters, see section 2.2) is not compatible with the high groundwater level in the camp’s area. They deliberately misrepresented an excerpt from Prof. Kola’s report about his Sobibór investigation to claim that excavations in a well "not far from the graves" supposedly had to be stopped at a depth of 3.60 meters because of a ground water stream.^[142] What Prof. Kola actually had written was that excavation in the well had to be stopped at a depth of 5.00 to 5.10 meters because of underground waters that had started appearing at a depth of 3.60 meters^[143].

Mattogno, Graf & Kues on the Aktion Reinhard(t) Mass Graves (3)

Last updated on 02.03.2011 due to corrections in Part 1, which affect estimates about the volume of and corpse density in the Sobibór mass graves and considerations regarding the area of the Treblinka mass graves.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 4

3. Mattogno et al’s Claims and Arguments

^3.3 Capacity of the Graves

^3.4 Soil Removed from the Graves


3.3 Capacity of the Graves


The mass graves identified by Prof. Kola at Bełżec were way too small to take in the bodies of all the camp’s victims, Mattogno claimed in his Bełżec book. He wrote ^[95]:

On the basis of experimental data, the maximum capacity of a mass grave can be set at 8 corpses per cubic meter, assuming that one third of them are children.260 Hence, the alleged 600,000 corpses at Bełżec would have required a total volume of (600,000÷8=) 75,000 cubic meters. The average depth of the graves identified by Professor Kola is 3.90 meters. Assuming a layer of earth 0.3 m thick to cover the graves, the available depth would be 3.60 meters.261 It follows that the burial of 600,000 corpses would have required an effective area of (75,000÷3.6 =) approx. 20,800 square meters. On the other hand, the surface area of the graves identified by Kola is 5,919 square meters and their volume 21,310 cubic meters, theoretically sufficient to inter (21,310×8=) 170,480 corpses – but then where would the other (600,000 – 170,480 =) 429,520 corpses have been put?

Mattogno, Graf & Kues on the Aktion Reinhard(t) Mass Graves (2)

Last updated on 02.03.2011 due to corrections in Part 1, which affect Table 3.2.1 in section 3.2.

Part 1

Part 3

Part 4

3. Mattogno et al’s Claims and Arguments

^3.1 Nature and Purpose of Archaeological Investigations

^3.2 Human Remains Found


3.1 Nature and Purpose of Archaeological Investigations

In his book about Bełżec, Carlo Mattogno tried to present the archaeological investigations carried out in the area of that camp by Prof. Kola in 1997-1999 as a (failed) attempt to "furnish the ‘material proof’ of the alleged extermination at Bełżec". Prof. Kola is supposed to have been hired in order to obtain corroboration of eyewitness testimonies through physical evidence, and the reason why he restricted his work on the mass graves to core drilling instead of excavating the graves and exhuming the corpses, according to Mattogno, was a concern – motivated by the core drilling results - that excavation would lead to conclusions incompatible with the historical record of Bełżec extermination camp^[43].

Mattogno, Graf & Kues on the Aktion Reinhard(t) Mass Graves (1)

Last updated on 02.03.2011 (corrections in Table 2.1.1 and related considerations, leading to corrections in Table 2.2.1)

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

1. Introduction

The largest single Nazi killing operation against European Jewry, known as Aktion Reinhard(t), centered around three camps on Polish soil that were exclusively built for and dedicated to the systematic killing of human beings. According to the most recent data available, these three camps accounted for about 1,394,000 deaths ^[1]. All known evidence indicates that much of the remains of these camps' victims still lie under the ground once occupied by these camps, especially in what is left of the huge pits that were used to bury the corpses of those murdered before it was decided to cremate them.

Mass Graves and Majdanek

In their Majdanek screed, Mattogno and Graf acknowledge that bodies were unearthed at Krepiecki, 12km from Majdanek:

the Polish-Soviet Commission, in its search of the camp grounds and Krepiecki Forest, discovered 467 bodies and 266 skulls, which were subjected to forensic analysis. The Commission also discovered 4.5m3 of ashes and bones

French Military Witness in Kaunas (Kovno)

Fifteen days after the Soviets liberated Kaunas in August 1944, the city was visited by Colonel Pierre Pouyade of the Normandie-Niemen regiment of the the Free French Air Force. Five months later, Pouyade was interviewed in Egypt and gave an account describing "heaps of corpses of men, women, and children in the streets and in ruined cellars." Reports of his account can be seen here and here

Human Remains Seen By American Journalists at Klooga and Babi Yar

On October 6th, 1944, the New York Times published this report from Klooga that had been filed by W.H. Lawrence four days earlier. The report began:

KLOOGA, Estonia, Oct. 2 (Delayed) Foreign correspondents were shown today the scene of the German executions on Sept. 19 - an act that demonstrated most conclusively that the Germans are in full scale retreat and are capable of cold- blooded slaughter even when it will serve little, if any, military purpose.

Thomas Kues: Mass Grave in Latvia

Revisionist fans of Thomas Kues will be distressed to learn that he has acknowledged the existence of a Jewish mass grave in Latvia. In this article he cites the following from Bernhard Press, The Holocaust in Latvia, p.159, describing a mass grave found by M. Morein in 1946:

(…) while looking for the corpses of his parents in 1946 near the village of Kukas near Krustpils, [Morein] discovered in a mass grave corpses whose clothes bore French labels