Author: Webb

Gorbachev documents Soviet guilt at Katyn

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MOSCOW — President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, seeking to defuse the single biggest issue poisoning relations between the Soviet Union and neighboring Poland, gave Polish President Wojciech Jaruzelski documents Friday that showed that Soviet secret police killed thousands of Polish army officers during World War II and buried them in mass graves in a Russian forest.

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Auschwitz and the Poles fighting the distortions

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Israel TV has followed the BBC, the curator of the [Auschwitz] museum, Kazimierz Smolen, and now also Netanel Lorch (The Jerusalem Post, September 3) in falling into the trap of claiming that four million people died in Auschwitz. Indeed, that is the figure engraved in stone in Auschwitz itself, and our Israeli pundits accept it without bothering to check.

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‘Instantaneous’ two-day-long gassings

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3. The Duration of the Gassing

Rudolf Höss declared that, on the occasion of the first gassing accomplished by his deputy Fritzsch, the Zyklon B provoked “the immediate death” (den sofortigen Tod) of the victims. (fn 20) The article in the Polish Fortnightly Review reports instead that “all the prisoners died during the night. All night the rest of the camp was kept awake by the moans and screams originating from the shelter.” Finally, the Polish Investigation Commission asserts that ‘next afternoon’ some prisoners were still alive, “therefore further cyclon was poured out and the doors again tightly closed, to be reopened the next evening, when all the prisoners were dead.” Therefore, all the victims died immediately, or during the night, or two days later.

Source: Carlo Mattogno, “The First Gassing at Auschwitz: Genesis of a Myth,” The Journal of Historical Review, Vol. 9 number 2.

The ordinary Auschwitz tourist

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AUSCHWITZ: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers

Any normal human being, visiting the Auschwitz camp for the first time, feels a deep emotional shock. The weight of history allows of no other response. An ordinary but motivated tourist, I nearly did away with myself one evening in October 1979 in the main camp, the Stammlager, overwhelmed by the evidence and by despair. […]

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Source: Jean-Claude Pressac, AUSCHWITZ: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers, page 537, mazal.org/Pressac/Pressac0537.htm

Extermination by bear and eagle at Buchenwald

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Time ‘Too Painful’ to Remember

The Golden Age Club in the basement of an upper Manhattan synagogue was abuzz with gossip, laughter and the shuffle of cards when the rabbi, himself 79 years old, struck a spoon against a metal ash tray to get everyone’s attention.

In the [Buchenwald] camp there was a cage with a bear and an eagle. Every day they would throw a Jew in there. The bear would tear him apart and the eagle would pick his bones.”

Source: ARI L. GOLDMAN, The New York Times New York, N.Y., pg. A10, 1 pgs

Webmaster note: This story was revealed by Morris Hubert, who claims to have been an internee at Buchenwald (November 10, 1988). Perhaps he was thinking of the zoo at Buchenwald.

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