Lemmingwise said:
Thanks for giving your answer, I'm always interested in reading personal accounts. No thoughts about the existence or non-existence of gas chambers?
Sorry, I was fairly tired when I wrote out the last reply to you and must have just missed this very pertinent question. I personally am inclined to believe in the
existence of gas chambers at many camps, but Birkenau in particular. They were a common method of large scale delousing of fabric in Europe at the time, and also what Zyklon B's intended use was for. However, the evidence for actual mass gassing of
people is very, very thin, and the method of supposed gassing at Birkenau at least, is suspect due to the claimed delivery method which was hazardous at best.
It's mostly based on survivor accounts (very many of them, which while not proof at least lends some credence to the allegations), and as even the holocaust revisionists/deniers in this and many threads keep bringing up, no one has yet been able to produce an ironclad document ordering the mass gassing of anyone in
any camp, and at this point in the timeline, anyone claiming to be in possession of a document or documents claimed to be proof of any such order would be mercilessly scrutinized along with those orders, and rightly so.
OK, informative, but I'm looking for a bottom line here. Given that there was a death camp network and it was used, it stands to reason that X people were sent to it, and of those, Y were killed meaning that Z survived. I'm looking for some kind of values for X and Z, which nobody seems to be interested in for reasons I'm not quite clear on.
This is because of a few reasons, really. It is still possible to find incomplete transport records to and from many camps both in and out of the "death camp network" the issue there is that many people have tried to figure out the values of X and Z over the years, and have always come up with inconclusive results due to lack of information or, as many have alleged, Zionist suppression of the documentation, which also lets me segue fairly neatly into your next 2 points.
Krokodil Overdose said:
True enough, but it's been 75 years. However new and novel it may have been then, three-quarters of a century on the bloom should have come off that particular rose, especially with subsequent events and revelations (the Great Leap Forward and the Killing Fields come to mind) should have brought new context and perspective to it. If we're being honest, the Holocaust was not particularly interesting, unique, or special in any way that doesn't involve cherry-picked criteria.
One of the main reasons the data gets cherry picked, the enduring memory of it never seems to fade, and the reason it is still held up as such an enduring tragedy is fairly simple.
Dishonest zionist political propaganda. The evidence of this, if nothing else, in the wake of the Holocaust is frankly glaring. As I said in my prior textwall, it is very easy to twist it emotionally as a way to absolve the tribes from blame any time it becomes convenient for them. I firmly believe that they (any J.ew really) should be called out for their blatant emotional manipulation every time they try that angle to deflect. I dislike nazis greatly, but I'm not at all a fan of zionists either.
Krokodil Overdose said:
Fine in theory, but that doesn't represent the reality that we live in. In 2020, the Holocaust is the de facto state religion of many European powers, is the only genocide whose denial is subject to social censure in nominally secular countries, was used to justify the foundation of a Middle Eastern ethnostate and is still used to this day to rent-seek off innocent people. Literally no other genocide is given that treatment.
I agree with all of this except for the de facto state religion part. From where I sit, it's not really a religion so much as an authoritarian method of censorship that only favors J.ews and those who enjoy flagellation, inflicted by the state or themselves. Unfortunately, changing it via new information is only going to get more difficult as the years roll by. And, as said, there are great political reasons to attempt to suppress new information from coming to light and destroying the current narrative, which in many ways puts J.ews and their supposed allies on easy street with the ability to deflect criticism so quickly.
So, it would be very easy to simply call me a fence sitter for the thoughts I've shared so far in this thread, and I would fault no one for doing so, even if I happen to disagree. Going forward, I will continue to do intermittent research, and I will remain a skeptic of claims in either direction in the absence of solid proof.