IG Auschwitz production complex where Auschwitz prisoners worked (1941 under construction)
Almost everyone has heard of Auschwitz (in the West, Auschwitz is called Auschwitz), the German concentration camp of World War 2, where masses of prisoners — mostly Jews — were allegedly exterminated in the gas chambers. Widely believed, Auschwitz is the most horrific Nazi extermination center. However, the camp's terrible reputation does not match the facts.
Scholars disagree with Holocaust history
To the surprise of many, more and more historians and engineers are questioning the universally accepted history of Auschwitz. These "revisionist" scholars do not deny the fact that a large number of Jews were deported to this camp, or that many died there, especially from typhus and other diseases. However, the compelling evidence they present proves that Auschwitz was not an extermination center and that the stories of mass murder in the "gas chambers" are a myth.
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| IG-Farbenwerke Auschwitz. A Ukrainian welder at work. Photo: Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2007-0075 |
Auschwitz Camps
The Auschwitz camp complex was established in 1940 in the central-southern part of Poland. Between 1942 and mid-1944, many Jews were deported there.
The main camp was known as Auschwitz I. Birkenau or Auschwitz II was supposedly the main extermination center, and Monowitz or Auschwitz III was a major industrial center for the production of gasoline from coal. In addition, they were adjacent to dozens of smaller camps that worked for the war economy.
Four million victims?
At the post-war Nuremberg Tribunal, the Allies claimed that the Germans had exterminated four million people at Auschwitz. This figure, invented by the Soviet Communists, has been uncritically accepted for many years. For example, she often appeared in major American newspapers and magazines. [one]
Today, no serious historian, even those who generally accept the history of extermination, believes this figure. Israeli Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer said in 1989 that it was time to finally admit that the well-known figure of four million was a deliberate myth. In July 1990, the State Museum of Auschwitz in Poland, along with the Israeli Holocaust center Yad Vashem, suddenly announced that in total, probably one million people (Jews and non-Jews) had died there. None of these institutions said how many of them were actually killed, nor was the estimated number of people supposedly gassed. [2] Renowned Holocaust historian Gerald Reitlinger estimates that approximately 700,000 Jews perished in Auschwitz. Recently, Holocaust historian Jean-Claude Pressac estimated that about 800,000 people died in Auschwitz, of which 630,000 were Jews. While even these downwardly corrected figures continue to be incorrect, they show that the history of Auschwitz has changed enormously over time.
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| A manger in Auschwitz. Photo Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-2007-0085 |
Ridiculous stories
At one time, it was most seriously stated that Jews were systematically killed by electric shocks in Auschwitz. American newspapers, citing the testimony of a Soviet eyewitness from the liberated Auschwitz, told their readers in February 1945 that the methodical Germans killed Jews there using "an electric conveyor belt, on which hundreds of people could be electrocuted at the same time, and then transported to ovens. They burned almost instantly, producing fertilizer for nearby cabbage fields." [four]
In addition, at the Nuremberg Tribunal, the chief US prosecutor, Robert Jackson, alleged that the Germans used "a newly invented device that allows you to instantly 'evaporate' 20,000 Jews in Auschwitz, while leaving no trace of them." [5] No prominent historian today takes such fictional stories seriously.
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| On the stage of the theater in Auschwitz, a variety and circus group performs in front of the prisoners. Photo: Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2007-0097 |
"Confession" Hess
The key Holocaust document is the April 5, 1946 "confession" of the former commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Hess, presented by the US Prosecution at the main Nuremberg Trials. [6]
While it is still widely cited as undeniable proof that Auschwitz was an extermination camp, the claim was in fact a falsehood obtained under torture.
Many years after the war, British military intelligence officer Bernard Clark told how he and five other British soldiers tortured the former commandant, extracting a "confession" from him. Hess himself explained his torment in the following words: “Yes, of course, I signed a statement that I killed 2.5 million Jews. I could just as well say that there were 5 million of these Jews. There are ways by which you can get any confession whether it's true or not." [7]
Even historians who generally accept the Holocaust extermination story today admit that many of Hess's "sworn" claims are simply lies. For this reason alone, no serious historian-scholar today claims that 2.5 or 3 million people died in Auschwitz.
In addition, Hess's "affidavit" states that Jews were exterminated by gas in the summer of 1941 in three other camps: Belzek, Treblinka and Wolzek. The "Wolseck" camp mentioned by Hess is a complete fabrication. Such a camp has never existed, and its name is no longer mentioned in Holocaust literature. Moreover, those who believe in the Holocaust legend now claim that the gassing of Jews began in Auschwitz, Treblinka and Belzek only in 1942.
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| Residential sector in the barracks of Auschwitz. Photo: Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2007-0078 |
Lack of documentary evidence
After the war, the Allies confiscated many thousands of secret German documents relating to Auschwitz. None of them mentions a plan or program of extermination. When it comes to facts, the story of the extermination cannot be reconciled with documentary evidence.
Unemployed Jewish prisoners
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| Dental office in the Auschwitz camp. It employed the best Jewish doctorsPhoto: Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2007-0083 |
However, in fact, the evidence shows that a very large percentage of the Jewish prisoners were unable to work and yet were not killed. For example, in a telegram dated September 4, 1943, from the head of the Human Resources Section of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office (WVHA), it was reported that out of 25,000 Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz, only 3,581 were able to work, and the rest of the Jewish prisoners - approximately 21,500 or about 86% were disabled. [eight]
This was also confirmed in a secret report on "security measures at Auschwitz" dated April 5, 1944, by the Chief of the SS Concentration Camp System, Oswald Pohl, sent to the Head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler. Paul reported that there were 67,000 prisoners in the entire Auschwitz camp complex, of which 18,000 were hospitalized or disabled. In the Auschwitz II camp (Birkenau), supposedly the main extermination center, there were 36,000 prisoners, mostly women, of whom "approximately 15,000 were incapacitated." [9]
These two documents simply don't fit with the story of the Auschwitz extermination.
Evidence shows that Auschwitz-Birkenau was set up primarily as a camp for Jews who were unable to work, including the sick and old, as well as those who were waiting to be sent to other camps. This conclusion was reached by Dr. Arthur Butz of Northwestern University, who also says that this was the reason for the unusually high death rate there. [ten]
Princeton University history professor Arno Mayer, who is Jewish, admits in a recent book on the "Final Solution" that more Jews died in Auschwitz from typhus and other "natural" causes than were executed. [eleven]
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| Dormitories (as the photo is signed in the original) in Auschwitz. Above is not a gallows, but a canopy over the entrance to the barracks , a sleeping building. The purpose of the item with the handle (on the right) is not clear. Photo: Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2007-0092 |
Anne Frank
Probably the most famous prisoner of Auschwitz was Anne Frank, who became famous all over the world thanks to her famous diary. However, few people know that thousands of Jews, including Anna and her father Otto Frank, "survived" Auschwitz.
This 15-year-old girl and her father were deported from Holland to Auschwitz in September 1944. A few weeks later, in view of the advance of the Soviet army, Anna, along with many other Jews, was evacuated to the Bergen-Belsen camp, where she died of typhus in March 1945.
Her father contracted typhus in Auschwitz and was sent to the camp hospital for treatment. He was one of the thousands of sick and weakened Jews left there by the Germans when they left the camp in January 1945, shortly before it was taken over by Soviet troops. He died in Switzerland in 1980.
If the Germans had planned to kill Anne Frank and her father, they would not have survived Auschwitz. Their fate, though tragic, is inconsistent with the history of extermination.
Allied propaganda
The stories of gassing at Auschwitz are largely based on oral statements by former Jewish prisoners who themselves did not personally see evidence of the extermination. Their claims are understandable, since rumors of gassing at Auschwitz were widespread.
Allied planes dropped a huge number of leaflets in Polish and German on Auschwitz and the surrounding areas, which claimed that people were being gassed in this camp. The gas story of Auschwitz, which was an important part of the Allied war propaganda, was also broadcast over the radio to Europe. [12]
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| Auschwitz dining room. Photo: Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2007-0087 |
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| Auschwitz: Kitchen - cooking shop and cooking area. Photo: Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2007-0086 |
Testimony of survivors
Former prisoners confirmed that they saw no evidence of the extermination at Auschwitz.
Austrian Maria Fanherwaarden testified in Toronto District Court in March 1988 about her time at Auschwitz. She was interned in Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1942 for sexual intercourse with a Polish prisoner. As she was being taken by train to the camp, a gypsy woman told her and others that they would all be gassed at Auschwitz.
Upon arrival, Maria and the other women were told to undress and go to a spacious concrete room with no windows and shower. The horrified women thought that they would be killed now. However, instead of gas, water came out of the shower heads.
Maria confirmed that Auschwitz was not a resort. She witnessed the death of many prisoners from diseases, especially from typhus, some even committed suicide. But she saw no evidence of massacres, no gassing, no evidence of any plan of extermination being carried out. [13]
A Jewish woman named Marika Frank arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau from Hungary in July 1944, when 25,000 Jews were allegedly gassed and burned daily. She also testified after the war that she did not see or hear anything about the "gas chambers" during the time she was there. She heard "gas" stories only later. [fourteen]
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| The Ukrainian women's folk choir performs on the stage of the camp theater in Auschwitz. Photo: Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2007-0096 |
Released prisoners
Auschwitz prisoners who had served their sentences were released and returned to their home countries. If Auschwitz were actually a secret extermination center, the Germans certainly wouldn't be releasing prisoners who "knew" what was going on in the camp. [fifteen]
Himmler orders to reduce mortality
In response to the increase in deaths among prisoners as a result of disease, especially from typhus, the German authorities responsible for the camps took tough measures to combat diseases.
The head of the SS Camp Administration sent a directive dated 28 December 1942 to Auschwitz and other concentration camps. It sharply criticized the high death rate of prisoners due to disease and ordered that "camp doctors should use all means at their disposal to reduce the death rate in the camps." Moreover, the directive provided that:
The camp doctors should check the food of the prisoners more often than in the past and, together with the administration, make recommendations to the camp commandants... The camp doctors should see to it that working conditions and workplaces are improved as much as possible.
Finally, the directive stressed that "the Reichsfuehrer SS [Heinrich Himmler] has ordered that the death rate must be absolutely reduced." [16]
Internal regulations of German camps
The official internal regulations of the German camps clearly show that Auschwitz was not an extermination center. These rules included the following provisions: [17]
Those arriving at the camp must undergo a thorough medical examination, and in case of doubt [about their health] must be quarantined for observation.
Prisoners complaining of being unwell must be examined by the camp doctor on the same day. If necessary, the doctor must take the prisoner to a hospital for professional treatment.
The camp doctor should regularly inspect the kitchen to check the preparation of the food and the quality of the food. Report any deficiencies to the camp commandant.
Particular attention should be paid to the treatment of victims of accidents so that the productivity of prisoners is not reduced.
Prisoners to be released and transferred must first be examined by the camp doctor.
Aerial photography
In 1979, the CIA released detailed photographs of Auschwitz-Birkenau taken over several days during aerial reconnaissance in 1944 (in the midst of an alleged extermination there). These photographs do not reveal any traces of either mountains of corpses, or smoking chimneys of crematoria, or crowds of Jews awaiting death - all that supposedly happened there. If Auschwitz were the extermination center, as claimed, then all these signs of extermination would be clearly visible in the photographs. [eighteen]
Absurd allegations related to cremation
Cremation specialists have confirmed that thousands of corpses could not have been cremated daily at Auschwitz during the spring and summer of 1944, as is commonly claimed.
For example, Ivan Lagas, director of a large crematorium in Calgary, Canada, testified in court in April 1988 that the Auschwitz cremation stories were technically impossible. The claim that 10,000 or even 20,000 corpses were burned daily at Auschwitz in crematoria and open mines in the summer of 1944 is simply "absurd" and "completely unrealistic," he declared under oath. [19]
Gas chamber specialist refutes extermination story
Leading American expert on the gas chambers, Boston engineer Fred Leuchter, carefully examined the alleged "gas chambers" in Poland and concluded that the Auschwitz gassing story was absurd and technically impossible.
Leichter is one of the leading experts in the design and installation of gas chambers used in the United States to execute convicted criminals. For example, he designed the gas chambers for the Missouri penitentiaries.
In February 1988, he carried out a detailed on-site survey in Poland of the "gas chambers" at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek, still standing or only partly destroyed. In his deposition before the Toronto City Court and in his technical report, Leichter detailed every aspect of his research.
He stated that he had come to the convinced conclusion that the alleged gas installations could not have been used to kill people. Among other things, he pointed out that the so-called "gas chambers" were not tightly closed and ventilated and would inevitably poison the German camp personnel if these "gas chambers" were used to kill people. [twenty]
Dr. William B. Lindsay, a 33-year research chemist at the DuPont Corporation, also testified in court in 1985 that the Auschwitz gassing stories were technically impossible. On the basis of a thorough examination at the site of the "gas chambers" at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek, and on the basis of his professional experience and knowledge, he stated: "I have come to the conclusion that no one was killed in this way with Zyklon B (hydrogen cyanide gas) deliberately or intentionally. I find it absolutely impossible." [21]
Conclusion
The story of the extermination of people in Auschwitz was a product of military propaganda. More than 40 years after the end of the 2nd World War, it is necessary to take a more objective look at this chapter of history that causes such conflicting opinions. The Auschwitz legend is at the heart of the Holocaust story. If no one systematically killed hundreds of thousands of Jews there, as is claimed, then this means that one of the biggest myths of our time has collapsed.
The artificial maintenance of the hatred and emotions of the past prevents genuine reconciliation and lasting peace from being achieved. Revisionism promotes the development of historical consciousness and international understanding. That is why the work of the History Revision Institute is so important and deserves your support.
Mark Weber
History Revision Institute
Notes
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Nuremberg document 008-USSR. IMT blue series, Vol. 39, pp. 241, 261.; NC and A red series, vol. 1, p. 35.; C.L. Sulzberger, "Oswiecim Killings Placed at 4,000,000," New York Times, May 8, 1945, and, New York Times, Jan. 31, 1986, p. A4.
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Y. Bauer, "Fighting the Distortions," Jerusalem Post (Israel), Sept. 22, 1989; "Auschwitz Deaths Reduced to a Million," Daily Telegraph (London), July 17, 1990; "Poland Reduces Auschwitz Death Toll Estimate to 1 Million," The Washington Times, July 17, 1990.
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G. Reitlinger, The Final Solution (1971); J.-C. Pressac, Le Cr¦matoires d'Auschwitz: La Machinerie du meurtre de mass (Paris: CNRS, 1993). On Pressac's estimates, see: L'Express (France), Sept. 30, 1993, p. 33.
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Washington (DC) Daily News, Feb. 2, 1945, pp. 2, 35. (United Press dispatch from Moscow).
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IMT blue series, Vol. 16, p. 529-530. (June 21, 1946).
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Nuremberg document 3868-PS (USA-819). IMT blue series, Vol. 33, pp. 275-279.
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Rupert Butler, Legions of Death (England: 1983), pp. 235; R. Faurisson, The Journal of Historical Review, Winter 1986-87, pp. 389-403.
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Archives of the Jewish Historical Institute of Warsaw, German document No. 128, in: H. Eschwege, ed., Kennzeichen J (East Berlin: 1966), p. 264.
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Nuremberg document NO-021. NMT green series, Vol. 5.pp. 384-385.
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Arthur Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century (Costa Mesa, Calif.), p. 124.
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Arno Mayer, Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: The 'Final Solution' in History (Pantheon, 1989), p. 365.
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Nuremberg document NI-11696. NMT green series, Vol. 8, p. 606.
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Testimony in Toronto District Court, March 28, 1988. Toronto Star, March 29, 1988, p. A2.
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Sylvia Rothchild, ed., Voices from the Holocaust (New York: 1981), pp. 188-191.
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Walter Laqueur, The Terrible Secret (Boston: 1981), p. 169.
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Nuremberg document PS-2171, Annex 2. NC&A red series, Vol. 4, pp. 833-834.
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"Rules and Regulations for the Concentration Camps." Anthology, Inhuman Medicine, Vol. 1, Part 1 (Warsaw: International Auschwitz Committee, 1970), pp. 149-151.; S. Paskuly, ed., Death Dealer: the Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz (Buffalo: 1992), pp. 216-217.
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Dino A. Brugioni and Robert C. Poirier, The Holocaust Revisited (Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 1979).
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Canadian Jewish News (Toronto), April 14, 1988, p. 6.
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The Leuchter Report: An Engineering Report on the Alleged Execution Gas Chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek (Toronto: 1988). Available for $17.00, postpaid, from the IHR.
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto), Feb. 12, 1985, p. M3
Translation from English
Sergei Anglinov
Source :
http://rus-sky.org/history/library/articles/veber.php
Mark Weber is the editor of the Journal of Historical Review, published by the Historical Revisionist Institute six times a year. He studied history at the University of Illinois (Chicago), the University of Munich, the University of Portland and Indiana University (master's degree in 1977). For five days in March 1988, he testified as a recognized expert on the "Final Solution" and the Holocaust in a trial in Toronto District Court. He is the author of many articles, reviews and essays on various issues of contemporary European history. Weber also appeared on numerous radio broadcasts and on the national television program Montel Williams.
So was the Holocaust really?
An inconvenient truth. Destroying the Holocaust Myth
Why don't I believe in the Holocaust?
Auschwitz comme religion - Front National Suisse (hautetfort.com)
http://rus-sky.org/history/library/articles/veber.php
See also:
Thies Christophersen. Lies about AuschwitzSo was the Holocaust really?
An inconvenient truth. Destroying the Holocaust Myth
Why don't I believe in the Holocaust?
Auschwitz comme religion - Front National Suisse (hautetfort.com)
