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Old August 11th, 2016 #1
Karl Radl
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Default Remarkable Holocaust Nonsense #14: The Twelve Million Murders

Remarkable Holocaust Nonsense #14: The Twelve Million Murders


In yet another instance of absurd claims made about the Germans in World War II. I quote an assertion made by Sir Hartley Shawcross at the Nuremberg Trials that the Third Reich had murdered twelve million people in its concentration and alleged ‘death’ camp system.

This is reproduced from the wildly popular history of 'Nazi atrocities' named 'The Scourge of the Swastika' authored by Edward Russell (aka Lord Russell of Liverpool) who was a key figure in the Nuremberg and Tokyo War Crime Trials.

I quote:

‘Speaking of these Sir Hartley Shawcross, the chief prosecutor for the United Kingdom at the trial of major war criminals, said in his closing speech, ‘Twelve million murders! Two-thirds of the Jews in Europe exterminated, more than six million of them of the killers’ own figures. Murder conducted like some mass production industry in the gas chambers and the ovens of Auschwitz, Dachau, Treblinka, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Maidanek, and Oranienberg.’’ (1)

Now in the first instance the idea that the Germans somehow murdered twelve million people in three years (i.e. 1942-1945) while fighting a total war on multiple fronts is quite frankly ludicrous. The Germans never had the manpower, the resources or even the time to conduct an operation of so huge a scope that would have inevitably almost ground their war effort to a standstill due to the resources and manpower needed to run such a program.

In the second instance the fact that Shawcross states that the figures are ‘six million more than their own estimates’ informs us that the figure is derived from somewhere else other than German documents. This already suggests that we are dealing with a propaganda figure here, because it is extremely unlikely that official estimates from the people doing the killing are likely to be less correct than those who are looking at the matter from the outside.

These same documents I should add don’t support a six million death toll either, but rather a few hundred thousand dead jews and maybe million or two others as a result of disease, natural causes, accidents, mistreatment, deteriorating conditions in their place of residence or as the result of punishment.

In the third instance it is worth noting that Shawcross claims that the Buchenwald, Dachau and Oranienberg concentration camps had gas chambers, which is now universally admitted to not have been the case. A tiny group of historians claim that Mauthausen had one small gas chamber and was visited by gassing trucks, but this is generally regarded as unlikely as well.

This is just another case of more improbable and impossible rubbish being written about the conduct of the Germans in the Second World War.


References

(1) Edward Russell, 1972, [1956], 'The Scourge of the Swastika', 14th Edition, Corgi: London, pp. 145-146

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