tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post3426627740392504512..comments2024-03-20T07:25:58.202+00:00Comments on Holocaust Controversies: The Auschwitz Museum's instant factchecking of a "gas chamber survival" storyNicholas Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14852758011968360596noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post-70902266528368328062017-07-16T22:09:53.004+01:002017-07-16T22:09:53.004+01:00Arik, you wrote:
"atill, in the summer of 19...Arik, you wrote:<br /><br />"atill, in the summer of 1944 most, if not all, of the jews coming in transports from Hungary were sent straight to their death."<br /><br />This is inaccurate. More than 100,000 Hungarian Jews were selected for work, please see http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/2009/12/number-of-hungarian-jews-gassed-in.html<br /><br />This has since become a mainstream figure.Sergey Romanovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04063444062099331337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post-17193082978350425852017-01-15T22:25:37.094+00:002017-01-15T22:25:37.094+00:00Arik:
"I'm still new to thia site but i ...Arik:<br /><br />"I'm still new to thia site but i find it to be very interesting and important. Would you be willing to find information regarding the archologic surveys being done for some years in the death camps as to the findings and discoveries?"<br /><br />This theme has been exhaustively covered on the blog, see the tags for graves and open air incineration as well as individual camp names.Nicholas Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14852758011968360596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post-74462727568544427822017-01-15T12:11:57.955+00:002017-01-15T12:11:57.955+00:00"the fact that it was, as a rule, Jews unable..."the fact that it was, as a rule, Jews unable to work who were selected for the gas chambers" i belive you should say it in a time and a place context. As a rule, in most of the first death camps, the majority of jews were sent to death regardless to their ability to work.the camps were relatively small and nedded limited amount of forced workers. Auschwitz is a different matter in that sense since it had a hugh industrial area coneccted to it which received many workers from the transports of jews and atill, in the summer of 1944 most, if not all, of the jews coming in transports from Hungary were sent straight to their death.<br />Selection in that sense was done mainly to separate man from the female, childen and sick as a way to control and prevent resistance. <br />I'm still new to thia site but i find it to be very interesting and important. Would you be willing to find information regarding the archologic surveys being done for some years in the death camps as to the findings and discoveries? arikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13243079069178108753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post-35959882110566486302016-10-08T08:28:33.518+01:002016-10-08T08:28:33.518+01:00" Holocaust deniers, who, like parasites, cli..." Holocaust deniers, who, like parasites, cling onto such stories".<br /><br />Intentional or not, it's always a fun to use the deneier-nazi own semantics against them. Whever "debating" with one there's no bigger pleasure than having a chance of making a nazi see how idciotic his alt-right memes are ("Achtung! Remember the 70 Billion Holodomor victims!!!").Gabihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07712750358743399545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post-65301590197046166422016-10-07T18:06:50.410+01:002016-10-07T18:06:50.410+01:00> You say, after just citing Gena Turgel nee Go...> You say, after just citing Gena Turgel nee Goldfinger.<br /><br />OK, if we are being formal, the older a person is, the more possibility of false memories, so assuming your claims are true, she may still not be telling deliberate untruth.<br /><br />Less formally: my statement should be understood in context of their GC survival claim: they're not liars because of this claim. I might have formulated it better, but it's just a blog post, relax.Sergey Romanovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04063444062099331337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post-65125734943077574942016-10-07T18:00:34.024+01:002016-10-07T18:00:34.024+01:00Unfortunately I have no idea about the origin of t...Unfortunately I have no idea about the origin of this information.<br />My working, half-assed hypothesis is that the Soviets or fellow travelers somehow managed to plant this disinformation.Sergey Romanovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04063444062099331337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post-1083856982304655912016-10-07T03:43:12.185+01:002016-10-07T03:43:12.185+01:00"Doerries said Schellenberg was flown from St..."<i>Doerries said Schellenberg was flown from Stockholm on the 17.06.45 by the Americans, was kept at a private house near Frankfurt, and was not interrogated until the 26th</i> [recte: 27th]".The Black Rabbit of Inléhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12083144769375557650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post-33841803897524988492016-10-07T03:19:57.278+01:002016-10-07T03:19:57.278+01:00@ SR
After seeing this on CODOH and subsequently ...@ SR<br /><br />After seeing <a href="https://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?p=80414#p80414" rel="nofollow">this</a> on CODOH and subsequently looking at Waverly Roots' book, I found your <a href="http://katynfiles.com/index.html" rel="nofollow">other website</a>! I think it's very good, even though I'm no doubt missing things using Google translate.<br /><br />What's your thoughts on how Stockholms-Tidningen got hold of these alleged details from Schellenberg about Katyn?<br /><br />The date indicated by the NYT "last Tuesday" i.e 26.06.45 does kinda tie in with the "first interrogation of Walter Schellenberg" "27.06.45" cited by Doerries and found in UK NA: KV 2/94. All of the British files on him [KV 2/94 to 99] can be brought and downloaded on Kew's website. I have the first two which contain details on his first three interrogations and a very lengthy report on what was learnt from him, but there's no mention of Katyn. Here's the <a href="http://fotos.fotoflexer.com/7e7bbef873d139b7852399054b642d93.jpg" rel="nofollow">cover</a> of the first interrogation and the <a href="http://fotos.fotoflexer.com/180b32fa653559b8639fe7d54a830b12.jpg" rel="nofollow">page</a> which your <a href="http://katynfiles.com/content/petrov-40311.html" rel="nofollow">colleague quotes</a> via Doerries' book.<br /><br />Doerries said Schellenberg was flown from Stockholm on the 17.06.45 by the Americans, was kept at a private house near Frankfurt, and was not interrogated until the 26th. They also state that he wrote his memoirs whilst in Sweden [05.05.45 - 17.06.45] and provided copies to several people including Hillel Storch of the WJC.<br /><br />Finally, and maybe irrelevantly, Christer Jaederlund, the Berlin correspondent for Stockholms-Tidningen, was one of the party the Germans took to Katyn in April 1943.The Black Rabbit of Inléhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12083144769375557650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post-55837275100861356472016-10-06T23:36:05.589+01:002016-10-06T23:36:05.589+01:00SR >>> "These people are not liars d...SR >>> "These people are not liars despite the fact that their testimony is not accurate."<br /><br />You say, after just citing Gena Turgel nee Goldfinger.<br /><br />She gave an affidavit to the British at Belsen on 7 May 1945 stating that she'd been in Auschwitz for "two days" after leaving Plaszow on "14th January 1945" [UK NA: WO 311/1326/2]. Czech's AC confirms the 1945 version of her story: 178 female prisoners arrive at Birkenau from KZ Plaszow on 17 January 1945 [p.782]. 176 of them were amongst the group of 5,345 female prisoners who were evacuated on 18 January 1945 after first heading for Auschwitz I [p.785] and leaving Auschwitz in the evening [p.786].<br /><br />In her 1987 memoirs she first told her gas chamber cum shower story which she claimed happened in the main camp. The room had "no windows and narrow openings in the ceiling" and "huge metal doors" [p.84]. The shower in the CS has four huge windows, 2/3 extraction vents in the ceiling and no doors.<br /><br />She extended her stay at Auschwitz from one night to "under a month" [p.88], and now she left Plazsow for Auschwitz in "December 1944" [p.78].<br /><br />"We were given yellow-striped coats and dresses" [p.85] after the non-gassing incident which occurred on their arrival [p.84-85].<br /><br />Most of the time the barrack stove didn't work but if it did they huddled around it [p.85].<br /><br />There were no set days when the beet soup ration was distributed [p.85].<br /><br />She heard "transports coming and going day and night". "In one incident I saw a truck full of children arriving. They had no chance at all and were dumped straight into the ovens." [p.86] But aside from the one she was part of, no other transports arrived at Birkenau on 17.01.45 [Czech p.781-5].<br /><br />Wherever they went they could smell the "crematorium" [p.86].<br /><br />"Every morning we got dressed and stood by our bunks while the blockowa counted us." [p.86].<br /><br />"Some of us had regular jobs" [p.87].<br /><br />"At the end of each day the blockowa sounded a whistle, the signal to stop work and return to our barracks. Our hours varied, but they were always long, and we were usually so exhausted that we could hardly summon up the energy to stand and be counted." [p.87].<br /><br />"The notorious pioneer of these experiments was Dr Josef Mengele, the camp commandant. I once caught sight of him in the distance, but I do not recall his looks very clearly." [p.89] By 2007 Mengele was now the one who segregated them on their arrival. [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7XsyFnn5Ws" rel="nofollow">@ 5:14</a>]. <br /><br /> <br />Gena Turgel was a liar, but she's so old now she probably can't remember she invented all these claims about her overnight stay in Auschwitz.The Black Rabbit of Inléhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12083144769375557650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post-78578725957170999522016-10-06T21:45:24.115+01:002016-10-06T21:45:24.115+01:00Some journos are getting more soft-headed, but the...Some journos are getting more soft-headed, but the Auschwitz Museum's response was just great: dry and factual.<br /><br />People should understand two simple points:<br /><br />1. Just because something is uttered by a witness, Holocaust survivor or not, does not mean it's true. It should be critically evaluated regardless of anyone's feelings.<br /><br />2. False/shoddy testimonies play straight into the deniers' hands.Sergey Romanovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04063444062099331337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post-9074517564616121882016-10-06T21:14:50.381+01:002016-10-06T21:14:50.381+01:00A related irritation is when politicians try and t...A related irritation is when politicians try and talk about things they know nothing about.J Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893548775462142380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post-72396775407068314652016-10-06T21:14:00.266+01:002016-10-06T21:14:00.266+01:00These stories are really irritating. It's wha...These stories are really irritating. It's what happens when journalists try to write about things they know nothing about.J Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893548775462142380noreply@blogger.com