Archie wrote: ↑Tue Jan 13, 2026 1:55 pm
It shows that you haven't actually read the literature you are attempting to comment on.
You are looking at everything with Holocaust goggles. You are looking at vague statements (even where it's admitted there's no confirmation) and are interpreting these statements as people being convinced of "the Holocaust" while ignoring all the contrary evidence and context.
William Shirer signed a petition in Dec 1942 protesting the "extermination" of the Jews (based on the Allied declaration), yet later he would claim that he didn't know about the Holocaust until Nuremberg and that it hit him like a "thunderclap" when he found out. The atrocity stories were generally heavily discounted up until the concentration camp "liberations" and Nuremberg. Thus we get mainstream historians like David Wyman remarking that in even in 1945 “apparently, the American correspondents were unaware of or disbelieved earlier reports of Auschwitz, including the much publicized one released by the WRB the preceding November.”
I said they believed massacres were happening and that gave a probabilistic basis to supporting the December statement
F.K. Roberts of the Foreign Office considered on 27 November that there was still ‘no actual proof of these atrocities’, but he added, ‘their probability is sufficiently great to justify action’.
Why was their probability sufficiently great? Because of things like this
On September 12, 1941, the MI-6 staff declared in a note: "The fact that the Police are killing all Jews that fall into their hands should by now be sufficiently well appreciated."
in response to radio messages they were receiving
“By late October, the American embassy expected that all Jews in Germany would be deported within a few months, and in mid-November, it added that able-bodied Jews were being sent from Germany to Russia for forced labor.6 Meanwhile, the American military attaché in Berlin reported separately at around the same time that there was no question that SS units were killing Jews in many occupied localities in Russia. The normal procedure for the Nazis upon taking over a city, he said, was to establish local commandos, to separate the Jews, and to shoot them.”
The military attaché was Colonel William D. Hohenthal.
Official Secrets
Richard Breitman
So there's a basic logic to this, which is that non-working Jews in Russia are being mass killed, therefore non-working Jews deported to Russia would likely be mass killed as well.
Where do you have internal government coms saying that the probability of corpse factories is "sufficiently great"?