Does this mean you now abandon both ausrottung and auschaltung as ironclad synonyms of vernichting and are now depending on this single statement of umbringen to support your claim of this speech proving the german command intent to exterminate the jewish people?
I think you missed my post here,
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/the-holocaust-thread.68380/post-10219525
Where I say explicitly I thought these terms are not ironclad, and then I had a short back and forth with our native german speaker on this point.
The other part of the speech that strikes me is the secrecy surrounding this task, (read the full speech here:
https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-human-behavior/himmler-speech-posen-1943) and also the 'moral' difficulty of it, which does not jibe with mere relocation of Jews. He also talks explicitly of 'bodies'
'Most of you will know what it means when 100 bodies lie together, when 500 are there or when there are 1000.'
In addition the other speeches I quoted voice similar sentiments, and are even more explicit. On Oct 6, he even defines extermination as murder. So yeah it's very likely that's what he's talking about
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/the-holocaust-thread.68380/post-10220283
Also and this important--I think it is wrongheaded to look for 'single' pieces of evidence to 'prove' an event like the Holocaust, because any conceivable piece of evidence could be fabricated. Rather a constellation of evidence makes the event likely, and the more you've got the likelier it becomes. At a certain point you stack up the various hypotheses for what happened and pick the most evidenced one. Based on my review of the overall evidence, if the Posen speech was gone it wouldn't really weaken the case at all. For me it's most important for the insight it gives into how SS leaders spoke about the event.
If you want to claim a moral highground, try to do it without condescending.
I'm sorry if I come off as condescending, you guys just amuse me a little and I can't help myself I guess.
But I don't think I have the moral high ground whatsoever. In my opinion you've arrived at your beliefs not because you are a bad person or dishonest or anything like that, but because you were taken in by misinformation from charismatic personalities or clever meme makers. So many people fall for this shit in all walks of life, I don't view you as being fundamentally different from like people who were convinced (or still are?) that Trump was an agent of Putin. It's not even a question of intelligence really.
I might not be here for the next few days but I would suggest in the meantime that anyone interested check out my google drive, which has both revisionist and orthodox books
drive.google.com
In particular 'Eichmann Before Jerusalem' is an interesting read, because in my mind his Argentina material is the best 'single' piece of Holocaust evidence. Himmler's speeches would be easy enough to fabricate with a skilled voice impersonator, but it's a harder sell that the holocaust propagandists would get an Eichmann impersonator to do 18 hours of impromptu seeming conversation with a bunch of other people impersonating the very real members of the Sassen group, record that to tape + transcribe the recordings with handwritten notes which might be further questioned + produce Eichmann "memoirs" saying basically the same thing, with Eichmann's handwriting all over it, good enough to fool David Irving apparently
If you're looking for the closest thing to proof, this is it, unless you believe the Mossad or something would be capable of this, at a time when the state of Israel already existed, Holocaust was an accepted historical fact and revisionism as a public movement did not yet really exist
edit: the tapes are 29 hours apparently, with the total transcripts being much longer since the tapes were repeatedly copied over
"Willem Sassen also used tape for his own texts and was plainly fascinated by its possibilities. At the time, the tape recorder was a very modern piece of technology. He started using it as a matter of course, and played with it in private as well, recording plays, dance music, and his own singing and whistling, which can still be heard on the few surviving tapes. Together with the transcripts and Eichmann’s corrections, the recordings that reemerged in the late 1990s present a very precise picture of Sassen’s working methods. The tapes were typed up relatively quickly by various helpers, then recorded over. New tapes were expensive, both in Buenos Aires and elsewhere, and they weren’t easy to get hold of. Today we have around one thousand pages of the transcript (including the pages of corrections) and twenty-nine hours of recordings, including doubles of tapes that were copied later. Not only do they prove that the transcripts are an authentic source; they are also a window into the year 1957—and the front room of the Sassen house."
So the "most common usage" you were talking about fell out of use three hundred years ago?
Yeah, sorry I'm less old than that.
And yeah, I'm gonna need a source on that still being common use in the 20th century.
Here's an old Duden I could find:
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.14880/
It says 'vernichten' (destroy). But it's from the 50s so I guess the Jews already got to it.
Edit: Found something better:
https://fwb-online.de/lemma/ausrotten.s.3v
1: "eliminate (a plant or similar) by ripping, picking, or cutting out or clearing out (as in a forest)"
Examples start with the Luther bible (1545): cutting down some asshole's grove, rip out a plant then it withers, destroy some weeds.
So the destructive kind of uprooting that I mentioned
2. "obliterate, eradicate"
Earliest example from 1499
3. "kill, destroy"
Earliest example from 1699
Nothing but destructive processes for "ausrotten" for 500 years.
This article finds dictionary entries from 1935 and 1906.
https://phdn.org/archives/holocaust-history.org/himmler-poznan/ausrotten.shtml
Revisionists will continue to say this language is completely innocent and figurative, having little relevance to overall policy, apparently even the term 'biological eradication' (biologische Ausmerzung)
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