For inexplicable reasons, from hatreds to sheer obstinacy, there are people out there who either doubt the truth of what is known of The Holocaust or choose to deny that truth. The weight of Testimony we have been provided with has overwhelmed History with an intolerable sense of degradation. Thus far, we have as yet no other means of comprehension but the living Testimony of the Survivors, the eye witness proof and the verification from those who committed these crimes! All of these who provide confirmation of what is known are fast leaving us with the statements of what they have known. Then, when we all manage to agree and accept that we do not have a written directive from Hitler, what stops some from accepting the abundance of Truth that is available?
This is the convergence of Truth that cannot be denied. There has been a revisiting to certain assertions and even assumptions. But if Hoess was to revise his figures from 4,000,000 Murdered at Auschwitz down to what we accept today, that is an assessment made when all evidence had not been properly gained, garnered, gathered. This in no way lends any credence to those who say if that figure is no longer accurate, the truth of 1,100,000 Murdered Jews of Auschwitz cannot be relied upon. We cannot contradict what is True, what we can do is review the evidence in order to come forward with a more complete assessment!
We know all too well that Hitler would not allow anyone else to direct, what was his most fundamental directive, die Endlosung der Judenfrage, The Final Solution of The Jewish Question, yet advocates of Hitler’s ultimate power accept he had little overall power! While issuing forth, all arms of the Reich were directed toward a ‘Weltanschauung’ that held a vision of a captive world directly trodden under a German Nazi jackboot. Within that world view, the Jews of the world were to be scourged, purged, ‘resettled’ in those captive eastern lands and then eradicated. It is without any doubt that Hitler, der Fuhrer of a proposed 1,000 year Reich, orchestrated every aspect of his myopia and the assault upon the Jews of Europe was part of that mindset.
While many, like Himmler, Heydrich, Hoess, Stangl and Eichmann controlled the day to day operations, the baton of Hitler was framing and orchestrating every movement. I have been involved in the subject of The Holocaust for so many years, I have noticed the tool of denial that seeks to extricate Hitler from the midst of this uniquely awful crime. For the life of me I cannot understand why any in this world would want to revere a man who even denounced his own Germanic peoples. While he achieved the destruction of so many millions of different peoples, 50 to 70 Millions from every nation of the world, he also sought to subjugate what was to be the acceptable residue from the remainder of the World. Within that destruction History will record that 6,000,000 Jews of Europe were selected exclusively for destruction.
Those who would wish for that proposed scenario ignore the pertinent fact that they too might well have formed part of that vanquished and subdued peoples – surplus to his needs? The hatred that Hitler held for the world, the contempt he felt for that world and the very capacity to deal destructively with that world should ensure there is a rightful abhorrence of the man. What Hitler stood for would have ensured all but an exclusive band of blond, blue eyed ‘aryans’ dined at the top table of a repugnant Nazi era. Where, you ask, does this infatuation with Hitler come from; where does his hatred for the Jewish People emerge? I have to suggest that it is not so much an adoration of a hate-filled leader but an allegiance with what filled Hitler with so much hate, an anti-Semitism stretching back over 2,000 years.
If Hitler can be cleansed of his capacity to destroy the Jews in such a unique Genocide, those antisemites, race haters and bigots will have a hero who proposed to destroy what they now seek to deny. There is much of what Hitler proposed and ensured, and there are some of these fraudulent aspects of a discredited theory which now form part of a revised history that some deniers seek to adorn our genuine study with.
i) The capacity to murder,
ii) the subjective review of statistical analysis,
iii) the inability to see the truth and;
iv) a corporate psychosis that promotes an abundance of self promoting and propagating drivel.
The deniers tend to blend mathematical theorem with conjecture, in order to add a form of substance to a lack of true or competent study. Within the Camp system itself there are many ways to prove how divergent the analysis can be so I will attempt to counter what you reckon has been suggested. Operational from May 20th. 1940, the Auschwitz camp was established to shield the world from a view of what was yet to come for all of Hitler’s enemies. By September 3rd. 1941, Zyklon ‘B’ was being used at the Auschwitz facility and an estimated 1,100,000 Jews were Murdered there. By my own estimation this could rise toward 2,500,000 given Auschwitz’s capacity to murder in all its satellite camps.
The Death Factory at Birkenau was operational from October 1941. I stress here that all reliable estimates, as to the destruction that was conducted here, amounts to some 1,100,000 to 1,600,000 Jews who were murdered alongside many other peoples of Europe. Those Jewish murdered however, presented Hitler with a very serious concern. Once he fully realised that the world would have the evidence of what had been accomplished in this genocide of the Jewish People of Europe, the task of concealment was undertaken. After 12 months of der Einsatzgruppe operations, which had ranged against the Jews of the East, Blobel was called upon, with Sonderkommando 1005.
Blobel now set about eradicating the very evidence of all that der Einsatzgruppe had achieved. Some 1,250,000 Jews had been shot to death and buried in pits, ravines and anti-tank ditches. There are names to conjure up the terror for those Jewish People, names like Babi-Yar, Ponary, Bikernieki and Tuchinka. All had to have the evidence of the crimes perpetrated there disposed of. Following this clean up operation of the killing sites, Blobel moved his expertise into those Death Camps, where the bodies of the murdered who had been previously buried in mass graves. These were systematically disinterred and burnt. What argument now emerges from a denial of the evidence has been a miscalculation of the logistical endeavour Blobel clearly was well prepared for.
We can assess this undertaking by acknowledging that the remains of a burned body amounts to some 0.004245 cubic metres of ash. If we accept this as the average, then there are three assessments to be made based upon the agreed analysis concerning Auschwitz and Birkenau. This is the figure to be presented at 1). Also, if we are to reckon with the denier’s miscalculation of the ability to dispose of Jewish Bodies, we need to look at a human dimension of the overall crime, to assess the ability of the Death Camp to deal with such numbers. On average a human body has an overall volume of some 0.1910 cubic metres, and this estimate will be made at the figure 2). That said these are my evaluations of the hypothesis:-
1) 1,100,000, 1,600,000 or 2,500,000 Jews murdered, cremated or burned would realise the volume of ash of this magnitude 4,669 cubic metres, 6,792 cubic metres or 10,612 cubic metres respectively.
2) 1,100,000, 1,600,000 or 2,500,000 Jews murdered and buried would require a space that would amount to 210,210 cubic metres, 305,600 cubic metres and 477,500 cubic metres respectively.
In operation from October 1941 Majdanek there are estimates of 200,000 to 360,000 Jews having been Murdered there.
A burned body amounts to 0.004245 cubic metres of ash, the figure at 3). On average a human body has an overall dimension of 0.1910 cubic metres and this estimate will be made at the figure 4). These are my evaluations of the hypothesis:-
3) 200,000 or 360,000 Jews murdered, cremated or burned would realise the volume of ash of this magnitude 849 cubic metres or 1,528.2 cubic metres respectively.
4) 200,000 or 360,000 Jews murdered and buried would require a space that would amount to 38,200 cubic metres and 68,760 cubic metres respectively.
In operation from November 1st. 1941 the Aktion Reinhard Camp Belzec have estimates from 500,000 to 680,000 and up to 1,250,000 Jews having been Murdered there.
A burned body amounts to 0.004245 cubic metres of ash, the figure at 5). On average a human body has an overall dimension of 0.1910 cubic metres and this estimate will be made at the figure 6). These are my evaluations of the hypothesis:-
5) 500,000, 680,000 or 1,250,000 Jews murdered, cremated or burned would realise the volume of ash of this magnitude 5,094 cubic metres, 6,792 cubic metres or 10,612 cubic metres respectively.
6) 1,200,000, 1,600,000 or 2,500,000 Jews murdered and buried would require a space that would amount to 229,200 cubic metres, 305,600 cubic metres and 477,500 cubic metres respectively.
In operation from December 8th. 1941 Chelmno has estimates 150,000 and up to 400,000 Jews having been Murdered there.
A burned body amounts to 0.004245 cubic metres of ash, the figure at 7). On average a human has an overall dimension of 0.1910 cubic metres and this estimate will be made at the figure 8). These are my evaluations of the hypothesis:-
7) 150,000 or 400,000 Jews murdered, cremated or burned would realise the volume of ash of this magnitude 636.76 cubic metres or 1,698 cubic metres cubic metres respectively.
8) 150,000 or 400,000 Jews murdered and buried would require a space that would amount to 28,650 cubic metres and 76,400 cubic metres respectively.
On March 1st. 1942 the Aktion Reinhard Camp Sobibor came on stream and has estimates of 225,000 to 300,000 Jews having been Murdered there.
A burned body amounts to 0.004245 cubic metres of ash, the figure at 9). On average a human body has an overall dimension of 0.1910 cubic metres and this estimate will be made at the figure 10). These are my evaluations of the hypothesis:-
9) 225,000 or 300,000 Jews murdered, cremated or burned would realise the volume of ash of this magnitude 955.125 cubic metres or 1,273.5 cubic metres respectively.
10) 225,000 or 300,000 Jews murdered and buried would require a space that would amount to 42,975 cubic metres and 57,300 cubic metres respectively.
On June 1st. 1942 the Aktion Reinhard Camp Treblinka became operational and has estimates 700,000, 900,000 and up to 1,200,000 Jews having been Murdered there.
A burned body amounts to 0.004245 cubic metres of ash, the figure at 11). On average a human body has an overall dimension of 0.1910 cubic metres and this estimate will be made at the figure 12). These are my evaluations of the hypothesis:-
11) 700,000, 900,000 or 1,200,000 Jews murdered, cremated or burned would realise the volume of ash of this magnitude 2,971.5 cubic metres, 3,820.5 cubic metres or 5,094 cubic metres respectively.
12) 700,000 900,000 or 1,200,000 Jews murdered and buried would require a space that would amount to 133,700 cubic metres, 171,900 cubic metres and 229,200 cubic metres respectively.
The question of combustible material needed is exhaustive, and I do not have the time, at this moment, to enter into that assessment. Needless to say, when the deniers attribute an amount of timber, coal oil, gasoline etc., to the cremation of a body, that figure does not compute to a far larger total of bodies, as each body is combustible and will ignite and maintain the necessary heat to burn other than itself. An abundance of human fat has a value which the deniers also seem to dismiss! But such expertise as is needed to explore in more detail these pertinent assessments, is not mine!
It belongs to scientists and experts far greater than I to evaluate such a hypothesis! On a personal level can we allow for the Survivor to suffer the indignation of having their Testimony ridiculed and denied or the veracity of Truth expunged from History. What would it say for the 6,000,000 Jews who were Murdered in The Holocaust? They are to be forgotten? No, the question for History will be,
Always to Remember, Never to Forget.
