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Old June 14th, 2016 #1
Karl Radl
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Default Remarkable Holocaust Nonsense #10: Freezing Men to Death in Barrels

Remarkable Holocaust Nonsense #10: Freezing Men to Death in Barrels


In yet another instance of absurd claims made about the Germans in the Second World War. I quote an assertion of Soviet origin about an SS Hauptsturmfuhrer named Gebauer freezing men to death in barrels at the Yanov (aka Janowska) concentration camp in south-western Poland.

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:

'Gebauer, with his own hands, used to strangle women and children. He froze men to death in barrels; their hands and feet were first tied, they were then lowered into the tubs and left there until they froze to death.' (1)

Right... so an SS Captain decided that he would strangle women and children as well as freeze men to death in barrels, because he was bored and 'murder was monotonous' so he came up with entertaining ways to kill as per Russell's account. (2)

In the first instance killing women and children by strangulation is a horrific thing to do for anything but a complete sadist, but what actual evidence do we have that Gebauer ever committed such horrific war crimes?

The answer is none other than one 'eye witness' named Manusevitch that the Soviet special commission 'investigating' the Yanov camp in 1944 – Russell's source via the medium of the Nuremberg Trials – ferreted out and used as black propaganda against the Germans who the Soviet Union was still at war with at the time of original publication. (3)

One wonders why the highly efficient Germans would have left an 'eye witness' to their 'brutal murders' alive during their liquidation of the camp in November 1943?

The answer is that they wouldn't and even if they did: Manusevitch's claims are unsupported hearsay and it is rather unlikely the Germans would have committed the crimes described. This is especially so because the German economy had been placed on a total war footing in late 1942/early 1943. Henceforth all labourers of whatever origin were of significant value to the Reich's war effort and strangling/freezing them was an ipso facto crime against the war effort.

Then you've got the whole absurd idea of Gebauer freezing men to death in barrels for no apparent reason, which is so absurd and overtly propagandistic that I don't even feel any particular need to point out the latent craziness of the claim.

This claim effectively debunks itself by its own sheer lurid improbability and the lack of any corroboration of the claims of one witness who gave testimony to a politically-motivated court in a totalitarian state in a time of war.

Really trustworthy: huh?


References


(1) Edward Russell, 1972, [1956], 'The Scourge of the Swastika', 14th Edition, Corgi: London, p. 123
(2) Ibid, pp. 122-123
(3) Ibid, p. 123, n. 1

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