Callafangers wrote: ↑Sun May 04, 2025 9:36 am
Nessie wrote:You are deflecting when you claim I lack evidence. There is a ton of evidence that Jews were identified, registered, arrested and sent to camps and ghettos 1939-44. There are huge areas of disturbed ground containing cremated remains at the AR camps and Chelmno, which corroborate witnesses to gassings, mass graves and pyres. Just because you find the way the pyres were set to be unbelievable, does not therefore mean they did not happen.
Nessie, you're sidestepping the core issue. No one disputes arrests or deportations; the contention is mass extermination. Your 'huge areas of disturbed ground' at AR camps and Chelmno don’t come close to the quantities needed for millions—excavations show remains in the low tens of thousands at best, explainable by disease or localized killings, not genocide.
That is your opinion. You assert it as if it is fact. When deniers claim there is a lack of grave space for over a million corpses at the camps, they make assumptions to minimise how many corpses could have fitted, ignoring decomposition and crushing under pressure, the lack of clothing, the smaller size of people and the lack of certainty over the actual sizes of the graves.
Fact is, those camps have the largest mass grave areas of any mass graves, from any large scale deaths, throughout history. There is evidence from eyewitnesses and documents, to prove how many arrived and were killed at the camps. That what has been found by archaeologists is not as much as you think it should be, is not evidence to prove no mass graves.
Witness accounts of gassings and pyres are riddled with inconsistencies...
You think that, but if you bothered to study witnesses and memory, you would see any inconsistencies are within what is to be expected and are explainable, such as hearsay compared to eyewitnesses. They are not inconsistent at all, when it comes to mass arrivals, killing inside chambers, mass graves and pyres. It is in the detail that they vary, such as what killed people inside the chambers and how big the graves were.
....and lack forensic corroboration at the claimed scale.
In your opinion. In my opinion, what archaeologists have found, is of a scale consistent with mass deaths.
'Unbelievable' isn't just my opinion; it's a logistical impossibility without evidence of fuel or mass grave capacity.
There is evidence of fuel. There is witness evidence to ordering and delivering of wood, the use of wood to start the pyres and the corpses being consumed by the fire, as seen by the pyre found at Ohrdruf. The archaeological and witness evidence is consistent with huge mass graves, larger than any others.
Nessie wrote:But that is exactly what you are trying to do, with your arguments about the physical impossibility of gassings, graves and cremations. Meanwhile, you deflect from your burden of proof, to evidence the gassings etc did not happen, using eyewitnesses, documents, physical and other evidence. You cannot do that, which is why you resort to argument.
Nice try, but the burden of proof is on you to prove extraordinary claims like industrial-scale gassings and cremations. Revisionists don’t need to 'prove a negative'; we highlight the glaring absence of evidence supporting your narrative. My arguments aren’t mere rhetoric—they’re grounded in the lack of physical traces, unfeasible logistics, and documented fabrications by post-war victors. You’re the one dodging by not providing concrete evidence matching your numbers.
When you make your claims, the burden of proof is on you. When you claim no mass graves, it is not up to me to disprove you, it is up to you to evidence no mass graves. You do that with witness who said there were no mass graves, and site surveys that found undisturbed ground. You cannot do that, so you shift the burden of proof.
I have provided concrete evidence to match the numbers, from Nazi documents recording how many went to the camps, to archaeological evidence of huge areas of disturbed ground containing cremated remains.
To make up for your lack of evidence, you resort to lying and logically flawed arguments from incredulity.
Nessie wrote:If millions of Jews arrested by the Nazis, from Norway to Greece, Estonia to France, and sent to camps and ghettos 1939 to 1944, were not killed, then there must have been an enormous camp and ghetto system packed full of millions of Jews in 1944. Or, evidence the Nazis were also releasing millions of Jews during that period. Where is that evidence? Where are your eyewitnesses, in particular the Nazis responsible for the guarding, or releasing, so many Jews? Where are the documents recording such a huge undertaking?[...]
This is a false dichotomy. You assume 'not killed' means 'still in camps' or 'released en masse.'
What else is there?
Wartime chaos, forced labor migrations, and Soviet territorial control obscure population tracking.
Millions of Jews still in camps and ghettos in 1944, or being released, would leave a lot of evidence. Where is it?
The lack of Nazi documents showing 'release' doesn’t prove death..
I know that, better than you. You have zero evidence of the Nazis releasing Jews they had arrested and sent to camps and ghettos, 1939 to 1944.
—it reflects incomplete records amid war and post-war destruction by Allies and Soviets alike.
It is odd how so many records survive, recording arrests, transports to camps and ghettos, and the populations of those camps and ghettos, but zero records survive of mass releases!
You ignore that deportations often meant transit or labor, not extermination,
Lie. Those deportations and people surviving, are accompanied by documentary records. Living people leave evidence they are alive. You ignore that you are claiming that somehow, millions of Jews lived out the war, 1944-5, in camps and ghettos, or released back into the general population, without leaving any records at all.
... and that Soviet suppression of data post-1944 could hide survivors.
How could the Soviets suppress data of c34,000 Dutch Jews still alive in 1944, in camps, or being released, presumably to return to the Netherlands? Same with all the French, Italian, Greek, Belgian, Norwegian, German and Austrian Jews.
The onus isn’t on me to produce witnesses; it’s on you to show death at the scale you claim.
When you claim no mass murders, the onus is on you to produce witnesses from the camps to say what did happen.
You are dodging that the Nazis regarded the Jews as enemies, and they spent a lot of time and resources, utilising the cooperation of the majority of countries they occupied or aligned to, identifying, registering and arresting Jews. Those Jews were sent, in their millions, to camps and ghettos, 1939 to 1944.
If you are correct and millions of those arrested Jews were not gassed or shot, then, in 1944, they would still be in the camps and ghettos, or you should be able to produce evidence of the Nazis releasing them and where they went to.
Since you know you cannot produce evidence to meet your burden of proof, you come up with excuses as to why there is no evidence.
Nessie wrote:The evidence that a few specific camps were used to murder millions of Jews comes from eyewitnesses, documents, the physical remains at those places and the circumstantial evidence around their operation. There is also evidence of motive and opportunity. There is no chronological gap in the historical evidence. The majority of the evidence for mass killings, comes from German sources and you are lying that historians rely on inferences.
Eyewitnesses often contradict each other and reality—many accounts are demonstrably absurd or coerced post-war. Documents lack explicit extermination orders; they show deportation, not death. Physical remains, as noted, are orders of magnitude too small for 'millions.' Motive and opportunity aren’t proof of action, and claiming 'German sources' en masse without specifics is a bluff—most 'evidence' is Allied-interpreted or post-war testimony under duress. Historians absolutely infer death from absences, not hard forensics. Stop dodging and show the graves or ashes for millions.
You are dishonestly minimising the scale of evidence to prove mass killings, to defelct from your lack of evidence of millions of Jews still alive in 1944.
Nessie wrote:A movement that ends at those places. You then fail to evidence further movement. All that movement ends in 1944. The ghettos are now all closed. Where were all those millions of Jews you say had not been killed?
Again, you’re assuming 'end of movement records' means 'death.' Records stop due to war chaos, Soviet control, and destruction—not proof of gas chambers. Ghetto closures signal relocation or labor drafts, not genocide. I don’t need to pinpoint every Jew’s location in 1944; you need to prove they were killed at the scale you allege. Wartime displacement and Soviet obscurity easily account for 'missing' data. Show me the bodies or cremation logistics for millions—otherwise, this is just more baseless assumption.
Show me the bodies! Where is your evidence of millions of Jews still alive in 1944? If that had happened, there would be a huge number of Nazis whose job it would have been to organise and guard all of those people. Can you name the department and Nazi who was responsible for running all those camps and ghettos?
Nessie wrote:Every country, from Norway to France, to Greece and Estonia, admits to their varying roles in assisting the Nazis with the arrest, imprisonment and even killing of their Jewish citizens. You ignore that those countries accept some of that vilification themselves. It was not just the Nazis. Romania and Serbia were responsible for their own Holocausts. Latvia and Lithuania actively assisted the Nazis. Why do you ignore them?
I’m not ignoring anything. Countries admitting to arrests or localized killings doesn’t prove a coordinated genocide of millions via gas chambers or mass shootings.
Arrests were widespread and involved millions of Jews. What you call localised killings were widespread in Eastern Europe, in particular in the Baltic and Balkan countries and Romania, resulting in the deaths of c 2million Jews.
Localized atrocities, yes—industrial extermination, no.
It involved the entire of Nazi Europe, except Denmark and Finland. How did they get to be exempt? Only Denmark and Finland could evidence where their Jewish citizens were in 1944. Explain why that was.
Post-war political pressures and victor’s justice shaped these 'admissions,' often to align with Allied narratives for leniency or aid. The scale you claim still lacks physical evidence, no matter who ‘admits’ guilt under duress or political motive.
France was a victor, but they admit to their complicity and cooperation in the Holocaust. The Dutch have not re-written their history and they admit to having one of the highest death rates of their citizens, due to their high level of cooperation. The Latvians have had decades to re-write their history, since they gained their independence. But they still admit to joining with the Einsatzgruppen and shooting their Jewish citizens and that was not a Soviet hoax.
Nessie wrote:You have been shown the physical evidence of the gas chambers and mass killing sites, or what can be shown after Nazi attempts to destroy as much of that evidence as possible. Now, explain your lack of physical evidence of camps and ghettos in 1944, to accommodate millions of arrested Jews.
You’ve shown nothing conclusive—alleged gas chambers lack forensic traces consistent with mass killings (e.g., FeCN levels), and 'disturbed ground' at AR sites accounts for far fewer remains than claimed. 'Nazi destruction of evidence' is a convenient excuse, not proof. I don’t need to show camps for millions in 1944; wartime chaos and Soviet control explain missing data far better than unproven extermination. Your burden remains: produce verifiable physical evidence for anything-like-millions killed. Until then, it’s just hot air. I’m still waiting.
Until you can evidence millions of Jews alive in camps and ghettos in 1944, or they had been released and were back in the general population, then then evidence produced to prove mass gassings, shootings, graves and cremations stands. That, in your opinion, the evidence produced is insufficient, is just hot air.