The Holocaust
Deportation, Ethnic cleansing, Genocide, Mass murder, Slave laborDeportation, Ethnic cleansing, Genocide, Mass murder, Slave laborNSDAP Germany, German-occupied territories
| Date | 1941 - 1945 |
|---|---|
| Location | NSDAP Germany, German-occupied territories |
| Type | Deportation, Ethnic cleansing, Genocide, Mass murder, Slave labor |
| Deaths | 6000000 |
| Description | In its capitalized form "The Holocaust" refers in the Western world to the treatment of the Jewish populations of Germany and German occupied territories during WW2 (1939-45). Its use in this format stems from about the mid-1960's (i.e. more than 20 years after the events it claims to define). It does not appear in histories or documents before that time. |
| Blamed on | NSDAP Germany, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich, Adolf Eichmann |
Official narrative
The four fundamental tenets of the Official Narrative of "The Holocaust"
- Hitler was virulently anti-Semitic when he entered politics in 1920, and this prejudice either was or became deeply embedded in all Germans.
- Extermination of the Jewish populations of Germany and the countries it occupied during World War II gradually became official German government policy after Barborossa (Jun 1941) and was declared to the Nazi Gauleiters by Hitler in a meeting on 12th Dec 1941, specifically by nominating the SS as being solely responsible for all displaced or captured Jews. (Alternatively that extermination because undeclared official policy in 1939 with the Einsatzgruppen in Poland. Or perhaps in 1933).
- Gassing in purpose-built gas chambers by cyanide gas (from Zyklon-B) led to the large majority of the deaths of Jews killed during the war. Or was the most important part of the extermination.
- The total number killed was about 6 million.
Criminal offence to question the official narrative
In [How?] much of Western Europe and in Russia it is a criminal offence to publicly question any of the holocaust tenets. Anyone who challenges the Official Narrative will be branded antisemitic and a "Holocaust Denier" and likely be subject to total ruination - loss of career, freedom, relationships, and sometimes life. The Wikipedia is notable for aggressively pursuing all three tactics to all four endings. The laws commonly applied are commonly defined as "Hate Laws" and are justified on grounds of the prevention of incitement to racial/religious hatred and/or recurrent antisemitic genocide.
Revisionism
One of the first, or perhaps the first, holocaust revisionist is actually a French communist, pacifist and holocaust survivor Paul Rassinier. He was a member of the French resistance effort, although he was against violence, he distributed fake identity documents and helped people to escape the Nazis and their collaborators. Due to the Nazis discovery of many of Rassinier's fake papers, and subsequent interrogation of the owners, Rassinier was identified and arrested. The Gestapo arrested him on 30 October 1943. They tortured and interrogated him, crushing his hands, breaking his jaw and rupturing his kidney. After this he was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. Here it is said that the conditions were atrocious, hunger, disease, overwork, exhaustion and physical abuse by the S.S. and the corrupt mafia of the Häftlingsführung. (A group comprised of prisoners who formed a self-government). However Rassinier attributes his survival to several factors, his relationship with a work-shy SS officer at the camp, landing a cushy job and as he had developed nephritis as a result of his torture, he was put in the infirmary for no less than 250 days. After the war finished, Rassinier was confused by the claims of gas chambers in Buchenwald, since he knew first hand that there were none. He knew that those who had claimed this were among those who had added to the torment inside the prison as part of the Haftlingsfuhrung. However, he still believed that there were gas chambers in other camps.
Rassinier then decided to visit those who claimed to know of such chambers with a very specific list of questions. A rigorous test of whether their story was consistent. According to Rassinier, everyone he interviewed would not be able to answer his pressing questions and would say that they themselves had not seen it, but that they had had a friend who died there and that the story comes from them. The essence of historical revisionism, as it applies to "The Holocaust", is the rigorous and detailed probing of the three tenets of its Official Narrative. There is no settled consensus among those labeled as Revisionists by a deeply hostile Establishment, other than that dispassionate examination of the available evidence renders the Official Narrative deeply suspect.
Holocaust Revisionists such as Carlo Mattogno, Robert Faurisson, Ernst Zundel, Udo Walendy, Germar Rudolf and many others, who are often labelled "Holocaust Deniers", do not dispute that the German National Socialist Party set up a network of concentration camps and that large numbers of Jews and others considered "enemies" of the Third Reich died from abuse, starvation, disease outbreaks, cruel-unusual human experimentation and other war crimes. Rather they dispute one or more of the four fundamental tenets of the Official Narrative detailed above.
Holocaust revisonism example
The validity of the label "extermination camp" and in particular the use of Zyklon-B gas in purpose-built gas chambers as a mass killing method: Revisionists accept that Zyklon-B gas was routinely used to delouse clothing in purpose-build delousing chambers as part of pervasive measures against typhus outbreaks; but it is argued that "extermination" camps are more accurately described as "labor" camps; and that a number of studies, notably by U.S. government execution expert Fred Leuchter and chemist Germar Rudolf which found no traces of Zyklon B in the supposed "gas chambers" cast considerable doubt (not to say totally disprove) the homicidal Zyklon-B "gas chambers" of the Official Narrative. None of these studies have been effectively countered, other than by recourse to demonization and even imprisonment of those who produced and published them. The essentially fraudulent nature of the current "Gas chamber" at Auschwitz, was confirmed by its Museum Director Dr Franciszek Piper in a video-taped interview with David Cole in 1992, and again confirmed by a Polish government agency the Institute of Forensic Research (Instytut Ekspertyz Sadowych) of Krakow, which replicated the findings of Fred Leuchter. It was not used to kill millions of Jews as, to this day, visitors are led to believe; rather it was built by the Soviet occupiers after the war had ended and is a good example of the nature of the deceits practiced by Official Narrative promoters. [1] [2]
"Confessions" of the "Holocaust" by Hitler
Many Official Narrative believers are quick to point Hitler's quote about the "destruction" of the Jewish race in Europe: “Today I will once more be a prophet: If the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevization of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!” Revisionists astutely point out that the rest of the quote is deliberately omitted, which clarifies this truncation and explains that Hitler was only referring to the fact that if the Jews were successful in starting a war (which they were), they would expose their surreptitious actions to the world, and the world would revolt and remove them from their positions of power. There is also the question of the words "ausrotten" and "vernichten/vernichtung", which translates respectively to "uproot" and "annihilate/annihilation". ON apologists state this is clear evidence for the desire of the NSDAP to eliminate the Jews of Europe and the rest of the world, but revisionists explain these terms were not applied and were not applicable to people, rather they were used for abstract concepts, like crime or corruption. It can be definitively stated that Hitler never stated an intent to kill Jews in any of his public speeches or private conversations.