Quote from Sirtatocar:
When they can't refute something, they must turn to the lie. Obviously, if the Red Cross was forbidden any part of the camps, they would have mentioned that in their official reports when they reported in effect that they found no evidence of mass killings. In fact, Red Cross officials were not forbidden to go anywhere in the camps, no matter what coerced testimony from Germans after the war might be alleged. It is obvious that the Red Cross would have said, " We were told that there were mass killings there, but the Nazis would not let us inspect these areas." But the official reports show none of this, not even a whiff of this. Numerous International Red Cross inspection teams were completely satisfied that no exterminations were occurring as evidenced by their official records of their visits.
The basis of the Nizkor line of argument is completely flawed of course.
The International Red Cross could go anywhere they wanted, it was part of the Geneva accords, that's why they were allowed in the first place. No part of the camp was forbidden to them. Furthermore, if the Nizkor report is correct in saying that Jewish prisoners and Auschwitz told them about the gas chambers, why wouldn't the Red Cross ask to go and look at the these alleged places of extermination. there is nothing in the Red Cross report that says the Nazis would not let inspect parts of the camp, which if that would have been the case, of course they would have mentioned it in response to the inquiries of the U.S. government. Instead, they wrote that they investigated the matter and found no evidence of any exterminating facilities.
In fact, of course, the Red Cross distributed over a million packages to prisoners and interviewed thousands. You can't keep the killing of thousands of people a day secret in any prison or facility, especially in Concentration camps where people can move about far more freely than in a cell-block kind of prison. If the gassing were truly going on, prisoners would have told them about it and the Red Cross would have investigated and asked to see parts of the camp where the allegations centered.
In fact, there was no widespread belief among the prisoners that gassing were occurring. Even Elie Wiesel in his famous autobiography of his long stay at Auschwitz makes not one reference to gas chambers, which is now the one central symbol of the Holocaust Story. In fact, there were a number of competing stories about Nazi extermination, from electrical floors to death by steaming, to diesel engine gassing, all which cannot stand the text of time or any forensic analysis.
The overriding point is simply this.
The Red Cross did inspect the alleged death camps, including Auschwitz.
The Red Cross made the repeated inspections during the height of the alleged Holocaust.
The Red Cross could go anywhere they wanted in the camps.
The Red Cross specifically investigated the mass extermination rumors.
The Red Cross did interview thousands of prisoners.
The Red Cross in a formal letter to the U.S. Government in November 1944 in response to the earlier request to investigate the extermination allegations, said it found no evidence of any mass killings of Jews or anyone else.
In addition, what does common sense tell us.
If the Germans had an enormous, super-secret, mass extermination apparatus and program of killing millions of Jews in Auschwitz and the other concentration camps would they let the Red Cross in at all, or keep them out of the camps just like the Soviets did and the allies did at the end of World War II?
The fact of the matter is simple and undeniable.
There was a non-German, anti-Nazi international body that went inside the Nazi Concentration camps during the height of the alleged Holocaust. It included Americans, British, French, Swiss and many foreign nationals. They investigated found nothing of the Holocaust as alleged and formally reported that the allied governments.
No matter what sophistry the good historians use, this startling fact cannot be ignored or explained away.
But.... This is far from everything that's to it. Nizkor quotes proven liars as trustworthy witnesses.
Nizkor quotes Dr. Hans Münch as a trustworthy withness:
Hans Münch stated in The Auschwitz Declaration dated January 27, 1995:
- Utterly impossible, contradicts the laws of physics and chemistry and is a pure invention. This man is just quoting worn out literary precedents.
Muench declared:
- Problem, the official story says there were no death documents for those allegedly "gassed".
Remember, this is a guy who claims to have taken part in 'gassings', but was curiously acquitted.
Muench is not an uninterested party with no stakes in the matter. He underwent trial in 1946-47 in Communist Krakow, Poland and whatever he said about his direct experience with the "Auschwitz gas chamber" back then compromises him today. Therefore his reason for re-stating an outdated version of the gas chambers story would simply be an attempt at coherent behaviour on his part, the desire not to be seen as a liar, which he failed to accomplish.
I, as an amateur historian, am just asking for the convincing refutation of two (2) arguments. That shouldn't be a problem for Holocaust historians, should it?
1) Wiesel's extreme exaggerations present in his book (See my previous post).
2) The fact that The Red Cross couldn't find any gas chambers.
If anyone can refute these, I will stop doubting the Holocaust...
