Another Hackneyed Auschwitz "Revelation"!
Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:09 Robert Faurisson
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The latest issue of the German mass-circulation daily Bild announces the recent discovery of new documents on Auschwitz, writing, in particular, that one of them seems to prove the existence of a homicidal gas chamber in that camp. In Berlin, Hans-Dieter Kreikamp, head of the Federal Archives, thinks that in this "discovery" he has found the way to silence the revisionists.
In reality, there is strictly nothing new about this type of document, and the building plans of the "gas chamber" in question (Gaskammer, fully spelt out) are those of a simple "delousing facility" (Entlausungsanlage, fully spelt out as well).
Besides, a passage in the Bild article demonstrates the unease of our fraudsters. Here it is in German, followed by an English translation: "Dass in der 11,66 mal 11,20 Meter grossen "Gaskammer" nicht Kleidungsstuecke mit dem bei der SS ueblichen Blausaure-Mittel entlaust, sondern Menschen vergast werden sollten, muss als sehr wahrscheinlich angenommen werden." "It must be considered very likely that in this 11.66 by 11.20-meter "gas chamber" it was not garments that were deloused in the SS's usual way with hydrogen cyanide, but that it was human beings who must have been gassed."
The reader will have noted: "It must be considered very likely [!] that it was human beings who must have been gassed."
This passage was left out of the articles in the French or English-language press which have, so far, come to my attention and which claim to quote Bild.
I shall permit here myself to remind readers that I was the first in the world to publish the building plans for the Auschwitz crematoria supposed to have housed homicidal gas chambers; the spaces in question were actually either morgues, an air-raid shelter, or some other innocuous rooms. I discovered those drawings in 1976 in the camp archives and began publishing them with an article in the Spanish magazine Interviu (February 1979), a piece carrying a photo of me holding a sheet with crematorium plans altogether comparable to the ones now shown in Bild. In the nearly thirty years since then, I have never ceased going over the conclusions to be drawn from those plans and from a number of other elements, like the inspection of the purported crime scenes at Auschwitz, or, on the one hand, the scientific bibliography regarding delousing, disinfection or anti-infestation methods using Zyklon B and, on the other hand, the procedure for executing a condemned prisoner with hydrogen cyanide gas as followed in certain American penitentiaries. (Invented shortly after the first world war and still in use today under another name, "Cyanosil" , Zyklon B is a hydrogen cyanide-based substance). From then onwards, nearly all the revisionist researchers (Fred Leuchter, Germar Rudolf, Carlo Mattogno and many others) have made extensive use of those plans or of others still, which Bild discovers today just as someone might discover the moon or the Loch Ness monster. Indeed the anti-revisionists have also, at their end, had to publish these plans and then attempt, though in vain, to challenge the obvious significance thereof. Such was precisely the case with the French pharmacist Jean-Claude Pressac. I'll recall that he, after having deployed the formidable means put at his disposal by the Klarsfeld couple to uphold “the Holocaust†argument in general and that of the alleged homicidal Auschwitz gas chambers in particular, wound up writing that, all things considered, those arguments were fit only "for the rubbish bins of history" (Valerie Igounet, Histoire du negationnisme en France, Paris, Gallimard, 2000, p. 652).
In the end, the Bild reporter has done nothing but recycle an old rumour.
It remains to be seen whether the Jewish authorities find fault with his clumsiness or, instead, congratulate him for being so willing to help with their propaganda.
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Germany’s Bild Zeitung "Proves" That Auschwitz Was An Extermination Camp
Monday, 10 November 2008 14:33 Andrew Winkler, The Rebel Media Group
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Germany's biggest tabloid, BILD, famous for its daily breast baring playmates on page 3, finally fulfilled a demand that landed countless revisionist historians such as Ernst Zuendel, Germar Rudolf and Fredrick Toeben in prison: Provide "proof" that the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz was in fact an extermination camp. [1] Not surprisingly, the Jerusalem Post frohlocks, "The evidence provided by BILD rebuts the last of those who would deny the Holocaust." [2]
As someone who has been struggling for years to believe a government and media promoted “truth” that is so "self-evident" that contradicting it, regardless how well documented, will land you in prison or at least ruin your career, I couldn’t wait to study the "evidence" provided by BILD. Having said that, my expectations weren’t all that high. In Germany, BILD has a reputation of systematically distorting the truth, if not blatantly lying, in pursuit of its commercial and political agenda. In fact, the name of Jewish owned BILD - in the eyes of most Germans - is almost synonymous with lying media. Could this really be a genuine attempt to prove holocaust revisionists wrong?
Have a read for yourself.
BILD shows documents of horror recently discovered in Berlin
The constructions plans of Auschwitz
By RALF GEORG REUTH
They are documents of horror. Accurately drawn. Locations plans, outlines and side views of buildings, all on yellowed paper, mostly on a 1:100 scale. They are the plans of the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz
The original documents that BILD publishes on the 70th anniversary of Crystal Night on 9 November 1938, were allegedly discovered during the cleanup of a Berlin apartment. They are from the years 1941 to 1943 and were now made available for BILD.
The documents are 28 big format plans on paper. They show amongst other things the infamous entrance at the end of the railway ramp.
Prisoner barracks. The "delousing facility" with "gas chamber". A crematory and overviews of "areas of interest" of the SS.
One of the plans was personally annotated and signed by the then "Reichsführer SS“ and chief-organiser of the genocide, Heinrich Himmler, using a green pencil.
The Managing Archive Director of the Federal Archive in Berlin, Dr. Hans-Dieter Kreikamp, considers the found documents to be of "extra-orderinary" significance. Kreikamp to BILD: „The plans are authentic evidence of the planned systematic genocide of European Jewry.“
The documents also reveal that anybody involved in the planning and construction of the concentration camp knew that it was intended to gas humans on an industrial scale. The documents also rebut the very last holocaust deniers.
The most moving document of horror: the plan for a "delousing facility". Doors lead from an "undressing room" to a "wash and showerroom" and from there to a "dressing room".
The undressing room also had doors leading to two "entrance rooms" and from there to "airgates" and from there to „gas chambers“. The plan says there black on white: "gas chamber".
It must be assumed as highly likely that in the 11,66 by 11,20 meter gas chambers humans and not lice were gassed with the preferred cyanide product of the SS. The plan, drawn by a "Prisoner No. 127" in Auschwitz was from from 8 November 1941. At that point of time, camp commander Rudolf Höß was already experimenting with cyanide product "Zyklon B", murdering sick prisoners and Russian prisoners of war in the original Auschwitz camp.
Something else is notable about the plan which was commissioned by the construction management of the "Waffen-SS and Police": It documents once more that the the industrial scale mass murder of the Eurepean Jewry wasn't only decided during the so-called Wannsee conference in January 1942, but much earlier.
It is uncertain whether the "delousing facility" in Auschwitz-Birkenau were built exactly according to those plans. Certain is that the the mass gassing of European Jews in Auschwitz began in spring 1942 in a former farm, the so-called "Red House".
The camp commander Höß said on that topic during his trial, "The arriving prisoners had to undress. Initially they walked quite calmly to the rooms... until some started getting suspicious and talking about suffocation, extinction. That at once caused a panic. However they were quickly driven into the chambers and the doors locked by screws."
Höß added, "The following transports, we investigated from the beginning who were the troublemakers and kept an eye on them. If tehy were making noises, they were immediately lead behind the building and shot with a small gun that couldn't be heard from the other prisoners."
In 1942, the murdered Jews were initially burnt in trenches. Already in October the year before the building of a big crematory had been considered. In November, the first blueprints were drawn. The one available to BILD shows a first draft with side view and outlines, again on a 1:100 scale.
Especially revealing: the drawing of the basement. It shows the foundation of the crematories, that were later supplied by Erfurt company "Topf und Söhne".
On the blueprint there was a drawing of the "L.Keller“ (Leichenkeller, i.e. cellar for the dead body). It measures a width of eight meters. The Waffen-SS didn't decide on the lenght. "Length as needed", it says there.
Altogether, four big crematories were built in the extermination camp. The majority of the murdered in the Auschwitz, in total over a million people, were burnt there, after cutting off the hair and pulling out the gold teeth.
All that is left of them are the names in the death books and the warning memories.
What strikes me most about the BILD article is that it admits only to assume that the gas chamber on the blueprint were intended to kill prisoners, not de-louse prisoner uniforms, because at the time of the drawing camp commander Höß was supposedly already trialing Zyklon B on sick prisoners and Russian POW. Apart from that, BILD bases its genocide accusations on the confessions made by Auschwitz commander Höß.
If the BILD reporter had bothered reading any of the revisionist standard literature such as Artur Butz's "Hoax of the twentieth century" or Germar Rudolf's "Lectures on the holocaust", he would know that Höß's confession was written in English, a language he didn't understand, with no translation attached. In other words, Höß didn't know what he was signing. If he had done his research, the BILD reporter would also know that most, if not all confessions in the Nuremberg war crime tribunal were the result of torture and coercion.
Given those facts, I remain unconvinced that the gas chambers on above blueprints had any other purpose than desinfecting the prisoner clothes. BILD and Federal Archive Director in fact did the cause of the Holocaust promoters more harm than good. Far from giving holocaust revisionism the promised final blow, it provides further evidence that the genocide accusations made against Germany have no leg to stand on.
Footnotes:
[1] http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/vermisc...en-wurden.html
[2] http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...cle%2FShowFull
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