here are my answers:
QUESTION 1: When the German high command decided to remove a minority it found troublesome, which of these options did they consider?
1. Attempt to arrange another location to receive them, eg Eastern Europe, Palestine, Madagascar, Siberia?
deporting european jews was quite the day dream. resettlement efforts would have only been possible after a victory in the war.
2. Make use of them as forced labour for the war effort?
they did this. a great deal of jews died in labor camps.
3. Send them to the nearest military camp to face a firing squad?
they did this, look up the einsatzgruppen.
4. Round them up from all parts of the country and transport them across vast distances to a remote industrial estate in the far south of an adjacent country which needed their labour, but then curiously to kill them with an inefficient method designed for an entirely different purpose?
these ‘vast distances’ were quite easily traversed by railroad. the gassings were an incredibly reliable and efficient manner of mass murder. the holocaust was successful, after all.
QUESTION TWO: You are in charge of the work camp at Auschwitz and need to maintain a fit and healthy workforce for the factories. Do you divert treatment from protecting your workforce, running down scarce stocks of protective chemicals, to kill people who could otherwise be used to maintain workforce levels?
murdering jews took priority over their labor (slave labor only made up like a few percent of total german war-time material output, by the way). so assuming this is even my decision to make (it most likely is not), i would probably be ideologically driven to redirect these chemicals to kill a population i perceive as racially inferior and genetically prone to subverting and destroying my people.
further, see below as to why this is a stupid argument regarding competing chemical supply.
QUESTION THREE: If not at Auschwitz, where, then, did the gassing of Jews take place?
it did occur at auschwitz, among other places. fumigation chambers for delousing take significantly longer and require more of the chemical. there is both more time and material to stain the walls blue. gas chambers in operation were cycled in any time from ten to thirty minutes, airing out the zyklon b and preventing further staining. further, the gas chambers were demolished, and exposure to the open and elements air dilutes the staining significantly (this is probably because prussian blue doesnt penetrate far into the material, see
here)
QUESTION 4: So, if there were about 3 million Jews in the relevant area before the Holocaust, and about 5 million that survived it, how many perished between 1941 and 1945?
this is wrong. the actual number was
over ten million. this is something even adolf eichmann backs up in the
wannsee protocall.
The fifth argument goes over the boiling point of Zyklon B. Forgetting, of course, that boiling is not equivalent to evaporation. their question is just 'Do you think that the truth can be obtained through torture?', which is not worth answering. anyways: zyklon B can evaporate into the air at minus 18 degrees celsius. to quote a commenter from the
holocaustcontroversies blog, ‘Zyklon B manufacturers wrote (before WWII) that at 20°C most of HCN has evaporated within 30 minutes. One Zyklon B specialist said that experimental measures provided a 28% HCN evaporation rate from ZB after 5 minutes at 20°C (that's 86% after 30 minutes). In Krema II gas chamber, an HCN concentration of 3000ppm would be reached in 5 minutes. 300ppm is enough to kill in a few minutes. 3000ppm always kills in one minute.’
QUESTION 6: Is it not reasonable to suggest that if the Allies had discovered reliable evidence of German atrocities, these writers and organisations would have jumped on it and publicised it widely after the war to discredit the enemy?
germany and the germans were no longer the enemy, the soviet union was.
this question also hinges off of the argument that the holocaust was never mentioned by the allies immediately after the war (even though there are examples such as eisenhower (who the writer mentions, by the way) who can be quoted as to demanding evidence collection of the liberated camps, so the crimes cannot be denied later on), or in german documentation or communications made during the war. this is despite that german coded speak of the final solution as 'resettlement', 'evacuation', et cetera can almost always be substituted for murder. in some cases, words like 'liquidation' were documented, which is a lot more on-the-nose.
his final question about the illegality of holocaust denial criminilization, which is not worth answering. instead,
here is an accredited historian who was an expert witness against denier david irving arguing against holocaust criminlization.
the substack has other denier claims and quotes which have been pretty thoroughly debooonked before. i have not addressed them in this post, though i may in the future, and will upon request. reposted after spoiler formatting got fucked by bold lettering, was too lazy to fix it.