So here is my answer to the Revisionists, and it begins by a question: How on earth can one doubt the reality of the Holocaust in face of the outstanding proofs of its existence?

        It is estimated that 9 million people from 23 nations died in concentration camps--not all by gassing, it is true. The whole Jewish population in countries occupied by the Germans amounted to 8,295,000. 3 to 6 million Jews (nearer to six than to three) plus hundreds of thousands Poles and 500,000 gypsies were exterminated for racial reasons. It means, therefore, that 3 to 6 million non-Jews (nearer to three than to six) were exterminated for political, expansionist, territorial, or resistance reasons. France lost 200,000 people in concentration camps; approximately 70,000 Jews (out of a population of 340,000 in 1940) and 130,000 non-Jews. (1).

        They did not all die in gas chambers, but whatever they died from was a consequence of the decision by Hitler and his accomplices to suppress them, as you will see from Hitler and his accomplices' own words in the following paragraphs, A to F.

A.         HITLER MAKES NO SECRET OF HIS IDEAS AND HIS PLANS. He writes in Mein Kampf (2) (My Struggle) between 1925 and 1927, partly while he is in prison for a failed coup. He feels a pathological hate for the Jews and explains that they are despicable, dangerous,  the worst enemies of the German race--the Aryan Race. He says so in Mein Kampf.

        Page 81: "I gradually began to hate them", (The Jews.)

        Page 83: "From a feeble cosmopolite I had turned into a fanatical anti-Semite."

        Page 419: "The Jew was always only a parasite in the body of other peoples." (3)

        Page 906: "The Jew today is the greatest agitator for the complete destruction of Germany".

        (For more opinions of Hitler on the Jews see Appendix A)

B.        HITLER MAKES NO SECRET OF HIS RACIAL POLICY which is inspired by the French writer, Gobineau, who, around the l85O's, advocated the superiority of the Aryan race. Hitler does not limit his racial policy to the destruction of the Jews.

        In Mein Kampf, he writes:

        Page 827: "What is important for the earth's future is ... whether Aryan humanity maintains itself or dies out."

        Page 84: "By warding off the Jews, I am fighting for the Lord's work."

        (For more opinions of Hitler on racial policy, see Appendix B)

C.        NEITHER DOES HE MAKE ANY SECRET OF HIS EXPANSIONIST TERRITORIAL POLICY:

        Page 935: "Only a sufficiently extensive area on the globe guarantees a nation freedom of existence."

        Page 937: "Looked at purely territorially, the area of the German Reich compared with that of the so-called world powers, altogether vanishes."

        Page 949: "A reckoning with France (Alsace-Lorraine) will retain significance if it provides the rear cover for an enlargement of our national domain of life in Europe (Poland and Russia)."

        Page 950: "We direct our gaze towards the lands in the east."

        Hence the war against Poland. Heinrich Himmler, on March 15 1940, says to the camp Commander of occupied Poland: it is the Nazi Policy to see to it that all Poles disappear from the world."

D.        HAVING EXPOSED HIS POLICY, HITLER DEVELOPS HIS NATIONAL SOCIALIST PARTY and recruits the team of men capable and willing to apply his ideas, Their spirit is summed up in Walter Buch's (Supreme Judge of the Nazi Party) declaration: "The National Socialist has recognized (that] the Jew is not human...." (4)

        The members of the team know they are committing crimes. Goebbels writes in his diary on March 27, 1942, about the first extensive mass execution at Auschwitz: "The procedure is pretty barbaric and is not to be described here more definitely... 60% will have to be liquidated, 40% can be used as forced labor." (5) and (6) For more extracts of the spirit of Hitler's accomplices, see Appendix C.

E.        THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH EXPOSES THE VOCABULARY USED, AND ITS EVOLUTION, WHEN REFERRING TO THE ELIMINATION OF PRISONERS. Why use a coded language if it is not to hide the criminal nature of the orders given?

        Euthanasia begins before the war but develops with the war that makes all killing easier. Gassing rooms are disguised as shower rooms and prisoners are given soap and towels when led to the gas rooms. The public gradually became suspicious. The Bishop of Münster filed murder charges against persons unknown; and Hitler, on August 24, 1941, stopped the operation called the T4.

        Special treatment (S.B.) Sept. 20, 1939, SS Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich sends a telegram: "To avoid any misunderstandings, please take note of the following.... A distinction must be made between those who may be dealt with in the usual way, and those who must be given special treatment. The latter covers subjects who, due to their objectionable nature, their dangerousness, or their ability to serve as tools of propaganda for the enemy, are suitable for elimination without respect of person, by merciless treatment" (namely by execution). (7)

        By the spring of 1943, the meaning of the words "special treatment" seemed to be so widely known that, in Himmler's view, it could no longer fulfill its camouflage function. (8)

        Resettlement and deportation appear in 1941 after the invasion of Russia. Report on Dec. 7, 1941: "The resettlement of Jews, about 2,500 in number was accomplished the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of December. Subsequent executions are to be expected, as part of the Jewish population has fled. It is in hiding and must be captured." The word "resettlement" was added by hand over the typed word "execution," scratched out but still visible. (9)

        Final Solution, Goering's creation. All agreements about the ultimate aim of the "final solution" were adopted and transmitted verbally, except once : Hitler canceling in writing a liquidation order, because the previous shooting in the same town had been too public. (10)

        Other Examples of Coded Language

        When proposing to decorate soldiers who had participated in the shooting of Jews, the motif must be worded: "accomplished a special war mission".

        See also the letter of the German railroad Systems concerning the transport of load (prisoners). Page 11

        More on the use of Code Words:

        On 20 February, 1943, the Auschwitz camp management sent telegram no. 4645 to its superiors at Oranienburg, near Berlin

        Subject: transfer of 5,022 Jews from Theresienstadt.

        Reference: Your telegram of 17 February, 1943, 2,000 Jews of whom 418 were selected to be put to work (254 men, 164 women), i.e., 20.9 percent; 24 January, 1943, 2,029 Jews, of whom 228 were selected to be put to work (148 men, 80 women), i.e., 11.8 percent; on January 27, 1943, 993 Jews, of whom 284 were selected to be put to work (212 men and 72 women), i.e., 22.5 percent.

        Special lodgings: 21 January, 1943, 1,582 (602 men, 980 women and children); 24 January, 1943, 1,801 (623 men, 1,178 women and children); 27 January, 1943, 709 (197 men, 512 women and children)

        The men assigned to special lodging because of their bad state of health; the women because children were in majority in their group.

F.        WHAT METHODS WERE USED TO EXTERMINATE THE PRISONERS?

        Anything from bad treatment, overwork, forced labor, underfeeding, illness, shooting, or gassing was employed

        The principle was to obey two main considerations:

        "means designed to achieve the annihilation of the Jews should be adopted regardless of economic considerations" and

        "must be carried out with considerable circumspection, and in a way that does not attract too much attention...." (11)

        Overwork, forced labor: Heydrich refers to "further possibilities of a solution after previous authorization by the Führer (Hitler) .... Under appropriate direction, in the course of the final solution, the Jews are now to be suitably assigned to labor in the East."  "In big labor gangs, with separated sexes, Jews capable of work will be brought to these areas, employed in the road building, in which task a large part will undoubtedly disappear through natural diminution. The remnant that may eventually remain being undoubtedly the most capable of resistance will have to be appropriately [my underline.  RB] dealt with, since it represents a natural selection and in the event of a release is to be regarded as a germ cell of a new Jewish renewal." (12)

        Underfeeding and illness: Evidenced by all the photos taken of prisoners still alive when the camps were liberated.

        Shooting: As proved by report on "The Solution of the Jewish Problem," October 4, 1942, describing mass murder, apparently adding that death by firing squads had created problems, and that it was necessary to find an alternative method of extermination. As proved also by the coded wording used when decorating soldiers who had participated in the shooting of Jews: "accomplished a special war mission."

        Gassing: Was performed under various methods: in Gas Vans by connecting the exhaust pipe to the inside of the bus (very inefficient, long, difficult to control and to hide), by Brack's machines. "In our present position, we cannot afford to have scruples about taking advantage of Brack's facilities for the elimination of Jews who are not fit to work...." (13)

        The capacity of these machines being insufficient to treat the flow of prisoners brought for extermination, Hitler and his accomplices built the necessary concentration camps and extermination centers.  See maps 1, 2, and 3.

        Can one still deny that gas rooms were used to exterminate people? If they were only for delousing, why were the prisoners obligated to undress and leave their clothes before entering the gas room? Why were mass graves and crematoria built just next to the gas chambers? Why, when it became evident that Germany would be invaded, did Himmler, anxious not to leave traces of the poison gas murders committed on the prisoners, order on November 24, 1944, the destruction of the Auschwitz crematoria?

        In his deposition in Court in Krakow on May 10, 1945, Szlama Dragon described the last phase: "Crematorium V operated until the final days of the Germans' presence in the camp. They blew it up shortly before they fled. That was on January 20, 1945. During the last period, only bodies of those who had been killed in the camp were incinerated there. Nobody was gassed any more."

        "In about the middle of January, Auschwitz was evacuated in panic. In front of all the administration buildings there were fires in which documents were burning, and the buildings that had served to carry out the greatest massacre in the history of mankind were blown up."

        If the gas chambers were only for delousing, why did Rudolph Höss, Commander at Auschwitz, expose during the Nuremberg Trial, in which he was condemned to death, the horrible details of a mass execution?

        "The Jews who were detained to be exterminated were escorted as quietly as possible -- men and women separated -- to the crematoria. In the undressing room, the prisoners who made up the special work detail (14) told them in their own language that they were going to have a bath and be deloused: they should put their clothes in order and take care to note where they had left them, so as to be able to find them again quickly after the delousing.... The prisoners and the SS men stayed in the room until the last minute. Then very quickly the door was hermetically sealed and a can of gas was immediately thrown onto the floor.... Through the peephole one could see that those who were near the air duct died immediately.... The others began to struggle, to scream, to choke. After a maximum of twenty minutes, nobody moved."

        Pery Broad says, "There was never a break. Hardly had the last corpse been dragged out of the chamber to the crematorium ditch in the corpse-covered yard behind the crematorium, than the next batch was already unloading.". See maps 1, 2, and 3    At such speed it was hardly possible to carry all the clothing out of the cloak-room. Sometimes the high-pitched voice of a forgotten child was heard from under a bundle. The child would be pulled out and held in the air and one of the brutes who assisted the executions would put a bullet through his head.

        (For more details on executions, see depositions by Rudolf Höss, Dr. Bendel, Pery Broad and others in the appendices.)

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