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What I'm looking for here are the answers to numerous questions asked on the http://thisisaboutscience.com/ website.

But before I get to the questions that I'm most interested in, I would first like to address the opening statement:
BELZEC, CHELMNO, PONARY, SOBIBOR and TREBLINKA II

Are the remains of over 2.1 million Jews really buried in the 100 alleged mass graves?

Executive Summary / Fundamental Statement of Fact: It is alleged in orthodox historiography that, during WW II, hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of corpses were buried in numerous “huge mass graves” at Belzec, Chelmno, Ponary, Sobibor and Treblinka II. However, despite all the deceptive allegations to the contrary, the truth is, the largest (in terms of quantity of remains) of the one hundred graves / cremation pits that are fraudulently alleged to have been “scientifically proven” to currently exist at these sites, in which verified human remains have been tangibly located via bona fide, verifiably honest and conclusively documented archaeology, contained the remains of - ONLY FIVE PEOPLE.

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So my first question is: Is the above statement of fact true or false?
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There are different archaeological approaches that can be used such as LIDAR, ground penetrating radar, core sampling, partial excavation, full excavation. The less invasive techniques can usually tell you only if there is disturbed ground.

If you look at the German excavation at Katyn, they excavated over 4,000 bodies in the presence of thousands of neutral observers. In the report they presented many pages of photos establishing cause of death. Nothing even remotely like this has ever been produced for the 1.5M supposedly killed at the AR camps. There were some early excavations done by the Communists, but these had little hard data and few if any relevant photos. More recently, there has been some very belated archaeology done at the sites. The photograph from Sobibor is from one of the later digs.

In terms of actual dead bodies that have been photographed, it indeed seems to be the case that the number is extremely small. But the true believers will say that this is because the Germans dug up and burned almost all of the bodies. As a cremated body is only about 5% of the volume of a whole corpse, this makes it easier for them to skirt around the awkward lack of sufficient remains. Revisionists meanwhile focus on the fact that 1) there is no way that such a huge number of bodies could have been buried there to begin with (this would leave disturbed ground where the graves originally were), 2) they could not have burned that many bodies using the method described (as it requires enormous amounts of wood, etc). 3) The only people who are permitted to do archaeology there have been committed a priori to the truth of the Holocaust.

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Jewish archaeology is only recognized by themselves. Jesus was found in the Talpiot Tomb and James Cameron Jacobovici proved it. :)
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Thank you for your reply Archie, but my first question is:

Is the following statement of fact true or false?
It is alleged in orthodox historiography that, during WW II, hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of corpses were buried in numerous “huge mass graves” at Belzec, Chelmno, Ponary, Sobibor and Treblinka II. However, despite all the deceptive allegations to the contrary, the truth is, the largest (in terms of quantity of remains) of the one hundred graves / cremation pits that are fraudulently alleged to have been “scientifically proven” to currently exist at these sites, in which verified human remains have been tangibly located via bona fide, verifiably honest and conclusively documented archaeology, contained the remains of - ONLY FIVE PEOPLE.
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Keen wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 3:20 pm Thank you for your reply Archie, but my first question is:

Is the following statement of fact true or false?
It is alleged in orthodox historiography that, during WW II, hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of corpses were buried in numerous “huge mass graves” at Belzec, Chelmno, Ponary, Sobibor and Treblinka II. However, despite all the deceptive allegations to the contrary, the truth is, the largest (in terms of quantity of remains) of the one hundred graves / cremation pits that are fraudulently alleged to have been “scientifically proven” to currently exist at these sites, in which verified human remains have been tangibly located via bona fide, verifiably honest and conclusively documented archaeology, contained the remains of - ONLY FIVE PEOPLE.
Hi Keen, this question is multifaceted and needs to be broken down into its smaller parts, for example it lists multiple camps across multiple locations, all with different circumstances, and digs being performed at different times. Also, i'm not clear what the quote means by "remains of only five people" because it also refers to "corpses" above.

If we're to take it as how many corpses were found, then yes indeed the Holocaust narrative and its proponents come up self-admittedly short.

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Here is the concluding findings from the Examining Judge who led a 5-day excavation at just one of sites you mentioned, Treblinka, as led by an eyewitness (Samuel Rajzman) to the supposed mass graves that he claimed, as an eye-wtiness, were there. There are however other factors at play such as, what exactly were they looking for: corpses, or ash? (or gas chambers... or all three!)

This then shifts the question away from "how many corpses were found" (none) to "how many tonnes of ash were found". As you can probably expect this answer is far more nuanced, in that yes some ash was found (really they call it 'cremains' as often it is mixed with sand, and other ash, eg from the wood).

There are some key considerations here, the first is what the claim actually is. at Treblinka ~750,000 people were buried (as corpses) left, then dug back up again, and cremated on pyres. We must assume then, that this is what we are looking for (at Treblinka).

There was a later dig performed at Treblinka in 2011 by Caroline Sturdy-Colls, who also came up practically empty handed - i will cite from Germar Rudolf's Holocaust Encyclopedia:
The orthodoxy claims that some 764,000 bodies
were buried at Treblinka before the incineration of
corpses was started. The British investigations only
located a disturbed-soil volume of some 15,600 m3.
Taking the top 50 cm off as a grave cover, this leaves
some 14,300 m3 to bury corpses. If the bodies were
as densely packed as in the mass graves discovered
at the Treblinka I Camp (only a little more than a
body per cubic meter), then only some 14,300 bodies
were buried there. If we increase that packing density
to an unheard-of extreme value of 10 bodies per cu-
bic meter, then some 143,000 could have been buried
there.
While this may seem like something, we must rememeber; they found disturbed earth. We know Treblinka itself was heavily shelled, and in fact was previously dug and excavated by Łukaszkiewicz. So in the final analysis, all attempts at finding "bodies" (corpses or otherwise) have come up completely empty handed.

I have also just dealt with one of the locations, Treblinka which is the biggest with arguably the most attention given to it. If you are able to review the work i cited above "Holocaust Encyclopedia" it contains entries for the other sites too. There are also other books from the Holocaust Handbook series (Carlo Mattogno covers Belzec in HH Volume 9, and Sobibor in Volume 19). Hopefully some of this was helpful.
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Hi Keen, this question is multifaceted and needs to be broken down into its smaller parts, for example it lists multiple camps across multiple locations, all with different circumstances, and digs being performed at different times. Also, i'm not clear what the quote means by "remains of only five people" because it also refers to "corpses" above.

If we're to take it as how many corpses were found...
Thank you for your reply HansHill. I will break down my true or false question into two parts:

Is the following statement of fact true or false:
It is alleged in orthodox historiography that, during WW II, hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of corpses were buried in numerous “huge mass graves” at Belzec, Chelmno, Ponary, Sobibor and Treblinka II.
Is the following statement of fact true or false:
The largest (in terms of quantity of remains and regardless of the type of remains) of the one hundred graves / cremation pits that are alleged to have been “scientifically proven” to currently exist at Belzec, Chelmno, Ponary, Sobibor and Treblinka II, in which verified human remains have been tangibly located via bona fide, verifiably honest and conclusively documented archaeology, contained the remains of - ONLY FIVE PEOPLE.
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Keen wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 5:22 pm HansHill
Hi Keen, this question is multifaceted and needs to be broken down into its smaller parts, for example it lists multiple camps across multiple locations, all with different circumstances, and digs being performed at different times. Also, i'm not clear what the quote means by "remains of only five people" because it also refers to "corpses" above.

If we're to take it as how many corpses were found...
Thank you for your reply HansHill. I will break down my true or false question into two parts:

Is the following statement of fact true or false:
It is alleged in orthodox historiography that, during WW II, hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of corpses were buried in numerous “huge mass graves” at Belzec, Chelmno, Ponary, Sobibor and Treblinka II.
True.
Is the following statement of fact true or false:
The largest (in terms of quantity of remains and regardless of the type of remains) of the one hundred graves / cremation pits that are alleged to have been “scientifically proven” to currently exist at Belzec, Chelmno, Ponary, Sobibor and Treblinka II, in which verified human remains have been tangibly located via bona fide, verifiably honest and conclusively documented archaeology, contained the remains of - ONLY FIVE PEOPLE.
This now requires a matter of opinion - it cannot be answered with an objective 'true' or 'false'. The reason is that the term "verifiably honest" cannot be objectively validated. The same applies to 'bona fide', 'tangibly located', and 'conclusively documented'. These terms invite debate as to their meaning and to the acceptable threshold for each of them.
  • At what point is something not just honest but verifiably honest? To know this, we would have to already know the truth of what happened (fallacy: affirming the consequent).
  • At what point is something acceptable as 'bona fide' ("in good faith")?
  • Does 'tangibly locating' something in the context of buried corpses require that it is physically, individually uninterred?
  • Which sources and what kind of documentation is acceptable as 'conclusive'?
While I greatly appreciate the effort to 'boil down' the key questions on this matter, there is a reason these debates have gone on so long, even after the above questions started being asked. While I do think the answers to the above questions cumulatively support the revisionist position, others will continue to try to argue otherwise.

Given the style of argumentation here, I am reminded of a gentleman named Greg Gerdes, whose involvement in revisionist work and forums predates mine by a couple years, but whose work I have always appreciated (even if seen as controversial by some, on either side of the debate). In any case, welcome to the forum, Keen. 8-)
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Is the following statement of fact true or false:

It is alleged in orthodox historiography that, during WW II, hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of corpses were buried in numerous “huge mass graves” at Belzec, Chelmno, Ponary, Sobibor and Treblinka II.
Callafangers:
True.
Callafangers, is the following statement of fact true or false:

It has been alleged in orthodox historiography and/or the media that mass graves have been discovered by archaeologists / forensic investigators at Belzec, Chelmno, Ponary, Sobibor and Treblinka II.
Is the following statement of fact true or false:

The largest (in terms of quantity of remains and regardless of the type of remains) of the one hundred graves / cremation pits that are alleged to have been “scientifically proven” to currently exist at Belzec, Chelmno, Ponary, Sobibor and Treblinka II, in which verified human remains have been tangibly located via bona fide, verifiably honest and conclusively documented archaeology, contained the remains of - ONLY FIVE PEOPLE.
Callafangers:
This now requires a matter of opinion - it cannot be answered with an objective 'true' or 'false'. The reason is that the term "verifiably honest" cannot be objectively validated. The same applies to 'bona fide', 'tangibly located', and 'conclusively documented'. These terms invite debate as to their meaning and to the acceptable threshold for each of them...
Callafangers, is the following photo of two excavated graves at Sobibor an example in which verified human remains have been tangibly located via bona fide, verifiably honest and conclusively documented archaeology?

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Keen wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 8:30 pm Callafangers, is the following photo of two excavated graves at Sobibor an example in which verified human remains have been tangibly located via bona fide, verifiably honest and conclusively documented archaeology?
This has been my impression but I cannot say I am especially familiar with these specific corpses beyond what I have skimmed through in forums like this one, and elsewhere. I do think these corpses are better aligned with your criteria than perhaps any others which are allegedly buried at Sobibor.
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Sorry Callafangers, I was editing my last post and didn't see this one.
Callafangers, is the following photo of two excavated graves at Sobibor an example in which verified human remains have been tangibly located via bona fide, verifiably honest and conclusively documented archaeology?
This has been my impression but I cannot say I am especially familiar with these specific corpses beyond what I have skimmed through in forums like this one, and elsewhere. I do think these corpses are better aligned with your criteria than perhaps any others which are allegedly buried at Sobibor.
So is your answer to the question yes or no?

This is the question I added above:
Is the following statement of fact true or false

It is alleged in orthodox historiography that, during WW II, hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of corpses were buried in numerous “huge mass graves” at Belzec, Chelmno, Ponary, Sobibor and Treblinka II.

Callafangers:

True.
Callafangers, is the following statement of fact true or false:

It has been alleged in orthodox historiography and/or the media that mass graves have been discovered by archaeologists / forensic investigators at Belzec, Chelmno, Ponary, Sobibor and Treblinka II.
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Keen wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 8:45 pm Sorry Callafangers, I was editing my last post and didn't see this one.
Callafangers, is the following photo of two excavated graves at Sobibor an example in which verified human remains have been tangibly located via bona fide, verifiably honest and conclusively documented archaeology?
This has been my impression but I cannot say I am especially familiar with these specific corpses beyond what I have skimmed through in forums like this one, and elsewhere. I do think these corpses are better aligned with your criteria than perhaps any others which are allegedly buried at Sobibor.
So is your answer to the question yes or no?
My answer is "yes" but I acknowledge this as my personal opinion. I also acknowledge that there is not an objective answer to the question. Any individual's answer will be subjective, which was my earlier point, as there is room for interpretation.
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Callafangers wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 9:39 pm
Keen wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 8:45 pm Sorry Callafangers, I was editing my last post and didn't see this one.

This has been my impression but I cannot say I am especially familiar with these specific corpses beyond what I have skimmed through in forums like this one, and elsewhere. I do think these corpses are better aligned with your criteria than perhaps any others which are allegedly buried at Sobibor.
So is your answer to the question yes or no?
My answer is "yes" but I acknowledge this as my personal opinion. I also acknowledge that there is not an objective answer to the question. Any individual's answer will be subjective, which was my earlier point, as there is room for interpretation.
Callafangers, would you say that there is a preponderance of evidence that the archeological excavations of these two graves was legitimate?

Can you name one person who believes that the corpses in these two graves were not tangibly located via bona fide, verifiably honest and conclusively documented archaeology?
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Keen wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 9:49 pm
Callafangers wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 9:39 pm
Keen wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 8:45 pm Sorry Callafangers, I was editing my last post and didn't see this one.



So is your answer to the question yes or no?
My answer is "yes" but I acknowledge this as my personal opinion. I also acknowledge that there is not an objective answer to the question. Any individual's answer will be subjective, which was my earlier point, as there is room for interpretation.
Callafangers, would you say that there is a preponderance of evidence that the archeological excavations of these two graves was legitimate?
I would say so, yes. And to "jump the gun", I would also say that the alleged hundreds of thousands buried at any given AR camp do not meet this same standard. So I think we are in agreement here.
Can you name one person who believes that these two graves were not tangibly located via bona fide, verifiably honest and conclusively documented archaeology?
No, but that doesn't make it any less subjective. Someone could still argue that the corpses shown in the photos and in the documentation could have actually been moved there, or that the reports or excavation are otherwise falsified in some way. Concepts like 'bona fide' and 'verifiably honest', etc., leave this open to interpretation, even if the overwhelming majority of people - if not all of them - might interpret it in the same way.
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No, but that doesn't make it any less subjective. Someone could still argue...
Just because someone can always "argue" a point, doesn't mean that a point has not been or can not be proven.

I could "argue" that 2 + 2 doesn't equal 4, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't.

Callafangers, If I killed 50 people and buried them in one huge mass grave in my back yard, under one meter of soil, could the existence of that grave and those bodies be proven using modern scientific / forensic / archaeological methods?
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Keen wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 10:34 pm Callafangers
No, but that doesn't make it any less subjective. Someone could still argue...
Just because someone can always "argue" a point, doesn't mean that a point has not been or can not be proven.

I could "argue" that 2 + 2 doesn't equal 4, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't.

Callafangers, If I killed 50 people and buried them in one huge mass grave in my back yard, under one meter of soil, could the existence of that grave and those bodies be proven using modern scientific / forensic / archaeological methods?
"Proof" is not so simple. Someone will not necessarily accept your inferences (hence, your "proof") unless they agree with your premises (including the definitions of terms used therein). We only approach objective proof once there is some universal consensus on the terms used, such as in an equation like "2 + 2" (we all generally agree on what '2' is). The terms used are more subjective in things like, 'bona fide' and 'verifiably honest', etc., which is why debate can become extensive for things like AR camp burials, but not for equations like 2 + 2 = 4.
Callafangers, If I killed 50 people and buried them in one huge mass grave in my back yard, under one meter of soil, could the existence of that grave and those bodies be proven using modern scientific / forensic / archaeological methods?
I would think so, yes. But this is because I would likely have enough trust in the administrative/government authorities who have conducted the excavation, so that I could believe what they had done was legitimate. Someone with different experiences or insights with your local government/administration might have suspicions about that very same excavation.
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