
Originally Posted by
Papa Luigi
Not so Tillerman, so called Holocaust denial[sic] stems from a recognition that war is a ghastly and bloody business in which all sides commit atrocities. War is in fact a process in which both sides commit atrocious acts against their opponenets with the aim of either terrorising them into submission or exterminating them if they continue to resist. To therefore claim that any one side in a war is uniquely evil as a result of causing deaths among the opposing side is therefore somewhat disingenuous.
It is therefore rather hypocritical of Allies who took part in the carpet bombing of the civilian residential areas of German cities that had no military value, to then get on their high horse about allegations that Jewish civilians had been killed in concentration camps. There is no moral difference between dropping a high explosive bomb on a house full of terrified German civilians and allegedly sprinkling Zyklon B pellets into the ventilation shaft of a crudely made gas chamber. Both actions would have been committed with the intention of killing innocent civilians; old men; women; and children.
We should now examine the logic of the allegations made. Germany was during the second half of WWII beset on all sides by Allied armies that were vastly stronger numerically, to such an extent that they would have routinely been outnumbered by three to one. Consequently, Germany was desperately short of manpower as all available able bodied men had been enlisted into the military. The German war effort relied upon slave labour, predominantly the labour provided by the inmates of the concentration camps.
Therefore, while it is beyond dispute that large numbers of concentration camp inmates died tragically in the closing stages of the war, due to disease and malnutition resulting from the destruction of German infrastructure by Allied bombing, it would have been completely illogical for the Germans, a nation renouned for their relentless logic, to have wasted time and resources exterminating a large proportion of their slave labour force.
Given that evidence of a deliberate policy of extermination is non-existent, other than for the often inaccurate, often self-contradictory and enormously histrionic accounts of Jewish ex-inmates, all of whom stand to benefit financially from a believe that they had suffered grave injustice at the hands of the Nazis, and given that the mechanism so described for the alleged extermination is so preposterously 'Heath Robinson' and totally out of character for the Germans, a nation renouned for their engineering prowess, any objective observer would regard the allegations of deliberate genocide as unreliable, at the very least.
Had the Nazis actually wished to exterminate the Jews, then as I have explained elsewhere, they could, without recourse to elaborate technology, have built a single industrial abattoir, which could have dispatched six million people within a little over a month. There would have been no need to divert vast resources and manpower to this task over a prolonged period - it would have been one abattoir, one month, job done!
Lastly, given that in the aftermath of WWII millions of German POWs were shipped off to slave labour camps in Siberia and Canada and elswhere, many never to return, and the German people were deliberately kept in conditions of deliberate starvation under the Morgenthau Plan (JCS 1067) and that between 1945 and 1948, 7 million German people apparently 'disappeared', those who promote the Jewish Holocaust as a uniquely evil event, are on very shaky ground indeed.
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