December 12, 2006
My Holocaust Problems - A Primer for Beginners
By Guiseppe Furioso
The Holocaust consists of three basic elements:
1. Approximately 6 million Jews were deliberately killed.
2. These killings were part of a state-sponsored program on the part of
the
Third Reich whose ultimate goal was the total eradication of the Jewish
people.
3. The bulk of these murders took place in special camps where the
principal
mechanism of execution was the homicidal gas chamber that utilized Zyclon
B,
a commercial pesticide whose active ingredient was hydrogen cyanide.
That the Third Reich possessed the technological and administrative means
to
carry out such a vast amount of killing there is little doubt. The Soviet
Union with significantly inferior assets in these areas was able to kill
far
larger numbers of human beings. Furthermore, the armies of the Third Reich
succeeded in killing at least ten million of its heavily armed military
opponents in the course of World War II. Hence, the killing of 6 million
unarmed civilians should not have presented any unique problems to such an
industrially advanced and bureaucratically efficient state as Nazi
Germany.
On the contrary, it would have been far easier.
My doubts about the Holocaust are not centered around whether it could
have
happened, but whether it did happen. In fact, many of the doubts that I
have
are the direct consequence of the fact that I have no doubt that it
actually
could have happened; but certainly not in the ways that have been
described
thus far in the "official" literature.
It is part of the Western tradition that in legal, scientific, and
intellectual matters that those asserting something have the burden of
proof, and that those who disagree are not required to provide evidence.
This tradition however has been turned on its head regarding the Holocaust
since the "historical truth" of the Holocaust has been posited in advance.
Furthermore, even to express doubts can result in criminal penalties in at
least 11 so-called democratic countries and the ruining of lives and
careers
in numerous others.
Listed below are some of the "problems" I have with the Holocaust. Should
these be cleared up, it would go a long way toward my accepting it. They
are
in no particular order.
1. Why did Elie Wiesel and countless other Jews survive the Holocaust if
it
was the intention of the Third Reich to eliminate every Jew they got their
hands on? Elie was a prisoner for several years; other Jews survived even
longer. Most of these "survivors" were ordinary people who did not have
any
unique expertise that the Germans could have exploited for their war
effort.
There was no logical reason for them to be kept alive. The very existence
of
more than a million survivors even today, some sixty years later,
contradicts one of the basic components of the Holocaust, i.e., that the
Germans had a policy to eliminate every Jew they got their hands on.
2. Why is there no mention of the Holocaust in Churchill's six-volume
History of the Second World War or the wartime memoirs of either De Gaulle
or Eisenhower or any other lesser luminaries who wrote about the Second
World War? Keep in mind all these were written years after the war ended
and
thus after the Holocaust had been allegedly proven by the Nuremberg
Trials.
With regard to the Holocaust, the silence of these "cognoscenti" is
deafening!
3. What was an inmate infirmary, a maternity ward and a brothel doing in
Auschwitz if in fact it was a death camp?
4. Why would the Germans round up Jews from their far-flung empire,
thereby
tying up large numbers of personnel and rolling stock, while fighting a
war
on two fronts, to deliver people to "death camps" hundreds of miles away
who
were then executed upon arrival? Wouldn't a bullet on the spot have
appealed
to the legendary German sense of efficiency?
5. Why after sixty years have historians not been able to come up with a
single German do***ent that points to a Holocaust? Should we believe the
likes of Raul Hilberg that in the place of written orders there was an
"incredible meeting of the minds" by the literally tens of thousands of
people who would have had to coordinate their actions in order to carry
out
an undertaking of this magnitude?
6. How come it is still insisted upon that six million Jews were killed
when
the official Jewish death toll at Auschwitz, the flag****p of the Holocaust
gulag, from an immediate post-war figure of 4 million to a figure of 1.1
million? Why do many respond to this observation by saying "what's the
difference if it was six million or one million." The answer is that the
difference is five million. Another difference is that saying so can get
you
three years in an Austrian jail. Just ask David Irving!
7 . All of Germany's wartime codes were compromised including the ones
used
to send daily re****ts from Auschwitz to Berlin. The transcripts of these
messages make no mention of mass executions or even remotely suggest a
genocidal program in progress. Furthermore it has been insisted that the
Germans used a kind of euphemistic code when discussing their
extermination
program of the Jews, e.g., final solution, special treatment,
resettlement,
etc. Why was it necessary for them to use such coded euphemisms when
talking
to each other unless they thought their codes had been cracked by the
Allies?
8. The water table at Auschwitz lies a mere 18 inches below the surface
which makes claims of huge burning pits for tens of thousands of bodies
untenable.
9. Initially, claims were made that mass executions in homicidal gas
chambers had taken place in camps located within the boundaries of the old
Reich, e.g., Dachau, Bergen-Belsen. "Evidence" to that effect was every
bit
as compelling as what was offered for other camps, located in occupied
Poland, yet without explanation in the early sixties we were told that
this
was not the case and that all the "death camps" were located in the east,
i.e., Poland outside (some would say conveniently) of the probing eyes of
Western scholars.
10. No one has been able to reconcile the eyewitness accounts that
personnel
entered the gas chambers after twenty minutes without any protective gear
and the fact that Zyclon B was a "time-release" fumigant that would have
had
a lethal capability for at least another twenty-four hours. And that even
after twenty-four hours the corpses would have remained sufficiently
contaminated by the hydrogen cyanide gas that they would have had the
capacity to kill anyone who touched them who was not wearing protective
gear.
11. Why do we no longer hear the claims that the Germans manufactured
soap,
lamp shades and riding britches from the bodies of dead Jews? Could it be
that in light of modern forensics and DNA knowledge that these claims are
totally untenable?
12. Why do we no longer hear claims that huge numbers of Jews were
exterminated in massive steam chambers or electrocuted on special grids?
"Evidence" of this was presented at Nuremberg. Evidence that sent men to
the
gallows.
13. Elie Wiesel has been described as the "Apostle of Remembrance" yet in
his memoir, "Night," which deals with his stay at Auschwitz, he makes no
mention of the now infamous homicidal gas chambers. Isn't this a bit like
one of the gospels making no mention of the cross?
14. Virtually every survivor who was examined at Auschwitz says he or she
was examined by Dr. Joseph Mengele.
15. According to survivor testimony, hundreds of thousands of Jews were
executed at Treblinka and then buried in mass graves in the surrounding
area. Why is it that extensive sonar probing of these burial grounds
reveals
that this final resting place for Holocaust victims has remained
undisturbed
since at least the last ice age?
16. "Proof" of the Holocaust rests largely on survivor testimony; there is
little if any hard evidence. The best of this has been described by Jean
Claude Pressac as merely "criminal traces." Even Judge Grey who presided
at
the Irving-Lipstadt trial commented that he was surprised the evidence
pointing to the Holocaust was "extremely thin." To paraphrase Arthur Butz,
"a crime of this magnitude would have left a mountain of evidence. Where
is
it? There was more hard evidence found against OJ Simpson at his trial and
he was found innocent!"
17. Why has Holocaust Revisionism been criminalized in at least eleven
countries? What other historic truth needs the threat of prison or the
destruction of one's career to maintain itself? Should someone be sent to
prison for expressing skepticism about the official Chinese claim that
they
suffered thirty-five million dead in World War II?
18. Why do the court historians insist that "denying the Holocaust" is
like
denying slavery or saying the earth is flat, when it is nothing of the
sort?
The leading Revisionists are first-rate scholars who hold advanced degrees
from the world's leading universities. Is there anyone comparable among
those who would say the earth is flat or that slavery never existed?
19. Promoters of the Holocaust have expressed concern about remembering
the
Holocaust once the last survivors die. Why haven't Civil War historians
expressed similar concerns since the last survivor of that conflict died
in
1959?
20. Survivors of the Holocaust testified that smoke billowed from the
crematoria as they consumed the bodies of murdered victims. Some
eyewitnesses even claimed they could detect national origins by the color
of
the smoke. How can this be reconciled with the fact that properly
operating
crematoria do not emit smoke of any color?
21. According to the official version of the Holocaust hundreds of
thousands
of Hungarian Jews were rounded up in mid-1944 and sent to Auschwitz, where
most were gassed immediately upon arrival and their bodies disposed of by
burning in huge open air pits using railroad ties and gasoline. Why is
there
no evidence of these huge funerary pyres in the high resolution
surveillance
photos taken by Allied aircraft who were overflying the camp on a daily
basis? Furthermore, why have no remains been found, since open pit
burning,
even when gasoline is used, generates insufficient heat to totally consume
a
body?
22. All of the liberated camps were littered with corpses; is there a
single
autopsy re****t or any other forensic evidence that shows that even a
single
death was as a consequence of poison gas?
23. The death toll for the Holocaust lies exclusively on population
statistics provided by Jewish sources; has any independent demographic
study
been produced that shows that 6 million Jews were "missing" at the end of
the war?
24. Why do the wartime inspection re****ts of the camps made by the
International Red Cross contain no references to mass executions? It
strains
credulity that such monumental crimes could be hidden. The only
explanations
are that these crimes were not occurring or that the Red Cross was
complicit
in a cover-up.
25. Why has there been no effort to respond to the Leuchter re****t?
26. "The Holocaust was technically possible because it happened." Why is
this intellectually bankrupt argument, which turns scholar****p on its
head,
considered by the promoters of the Holocaust as historical truth,
considered
a sufficient response to the mounting Revisionist evidence to the
contrary?
27. What other historical truths rely to the extent that the Holocaust
does
on eyewitness testimony, and why have none of these eyewitnesses every
been
cross examined?
28. According to the official version of the Holocaust, the Jews remained
ignorant of their fate until the very end, so skillful were their Nazi
murders in deceiving their victims. How can this ignorance be reconciled
with the fact that the Jews have historically been as a group the most
literate and highly informed people on the planet with legendary access to
the highest levels of government?
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