bombsaway wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2026 10:54 pm
Stubble wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2026 9:54 pm
bombsaway wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2026 9:24 pm
Just tell me who's lying, which documents (if any) were forged etc, did the meeting actually happen, etc
Is it that you don't know, or you just don't care?
Blobel and Hoess are obviously unreliable witnesses. The document regarding delivery of a flamethrower is not specific and isn't addressed to Blobel.
yeah it is for him
OMW de OMX 1100 7 Tle
To SS Cavalry Brigade
From the PI devices assigned by the head of the Army Armaments Office and...on 11.7.42 are to be provided to SS Sonderkommando BLOBEL.
1 set...parts for small flamethrower...
1 flamethrower refill wagon...
3 safety suits for flamethrower...
3 safety gloves...
3 safety masks...
....
3 nitrogen bottles 10 liters...
1 hydrogen bottle 40 liters...
...
2 barrels flamethrower oil 200 liters...
...
by order
FICK, SS Obersturmbannführer
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You can take this as a challenge to do the most basic task of history: "analyzing and interpreting evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened"
In this case you can answer to how Blobel's flamethrower ended up in Hoess's testimony, with the date in
British radio intercept matching the timeline specified
obviously a lot of this is going to be speculative so you should speculate away. orthodox historians have speculated about things like the final solution decision date, and specific details about that decision
The part in bold is the 'easy out' here. The radio intercept would have been known to intelligence and would have been run through interrogators.
Another possibility is that Blobel received and used a flame thrower in a demonstration to Hoess. This begs the question why it wasn't mentioned in earlier protocols or testimony. It's a detail that he 'remembered' later, after, you know, being persuaded to.
Another possibility is that the whole thing is mundane and trivial, and that Blobel passed the flame thrower down the chain to whomever asked him to request it for them. Later the radio intercept was shown to Hoess...
Another possibility is that everything is on the up and up, and, Blobel cremated a body in front of Hoess using a flame thrower and 400 liters of fuel oil. That's not exactly the right tool for the job, but, then again, if we are taking him at his word, the body disposal at Babi Yar was inefficient, ineffective and incomplete, so, I guess you do you buddy.
I'll get around to digging in to this later. I need to track down the truly to the intercept and try to determine if delivery was made, and disposition of the unit. Build a 'timetable' of it as it where.