My Holocaust Problems
by Giuseppe Furioso
April 8 2006 at 11:18 AM
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My Holocaust Problems
by Giuseppe Furioso
The Holocaust consists of three basic elements: (1) Approximately six 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 death 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 greater
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 six 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 on whether it could have happened
but whether it did happen. In fact many of the doubts that I have are a 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 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 there 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 their 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 of the 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 (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 world
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 legendary German sense of efficiency?
5) Why after sixty years have historians been unable to come up with a single
German document that points to a holocaust? Should we believe the likes of Raul
Hilburg 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 flagship of the Holocaust gulag,
has been reduced from an immediate post war figure of 3 million, to a figure of
somewhat less than one million? Why do many respond to this observation by
saying, “ what's the difference whether it's 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 one used to
send daily reports 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 one another 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 the disposal of tens of thousands of
victims 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 themselves remained sufficiently contaminated by the
hydrogen cyanide gas that they would have had the capacity to kill anyone who
touched them who were not wearing protective gear.
11) Why do we no longer hear claims that the Germans manufactured soap, lamp
shades and riding britches from the bodies of dead Jews…could it be that in the
light of modern forensics and DNA knowledge 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.
14) Elie Wiesel has been described as “the Apostle of Remembrance” yet in his
memoir, ‘’Night’’ which deals 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?
15) Virtually every survivor who was examined at Auschwitz says that he or she
was examined by the infamous Dr. Mengele.
16) 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 alleged
final resting place for Holocaust victims has remained undisturbed since at
least the last ice age?
17) ‘’Proof’’ of the holocaust rest primarily on survivor testimony; there
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 against OJ Simpson at his trial and he was FOUND INNOCENT!
18) 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.
19) 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 say the
world is flat or that slavery never existed?
20) Promoters of the Holocaust have expressed concerns about the 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.
21) Survivors of the holocaust have testified that smoke billowed from the
crematoriums 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 crematoriums do not
produce smoke of any color?
22) 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 were disposed of by burning in
huge open air pits using railroad ties and gasoline. Why is that there is no
evidence of these huge funerary pyres in the high resolution surveillance photos
taken by Allied aircraft who were over flying the camp on a daily basis during
this time period. Furthermore, why have no remains been found, since open pit
burning, even when gasoline is used, generates insufficient heat to totally
consume a body?
23) All of the liberated camps were littered with corpses; is there a single
autopsy report or any other forensic evidence that shows that even a single one
of these deaths was a consequence of poison gas?
24) The death toll for the Holocaust relies exclusively on population statistics
provided by Jewish sources; has any independent demographic study been produced
that shows that approximately six million Jews were “missing” at the end of the
war.
25) Why do the wartime inspection reports of 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 either these
crimes were not occurring or that the Red Cross was complicit in a cover up.
26) Why has there been no effort to respond to the Leuchter Report?
27) “The Holocaust was technologically possible because it happened “. Why is
this intellectually bankrupt argument, which turns scholarship 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?
28) What other historical truths rely to the extent that the holocaust does on
so-called “eye witness” testimony…and why have none of these witnesses ever been
cross examined?
29) According to the official version of the Holocaust, the Jews remained
ignorant of their fate until the very end so skillful were their Nazis murderers
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 echelons of
government.
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