Nessie wrote: ↑Sun Dec 21, 2025 12:11 pm
I point out your mistake, thinking the stops were at the camp, rather than the village station. This is a local timetable, for local trains, that stopped at Belzec village;
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You have got very confused and attribute that to stops at the camps, with Jewish transports that came from the ghettos, when you said "Each train is stopped at the station for 3-6 minutes before departure. Does this mean the mass cremations (and screams of the 'gassings', etc.) were stopped 6+ times per day for at least several minutes, to minimize the suspicion of regular travelers?".
Nessie, this correction
already came from Hans on the previous page and it was a minor point. Belzec village and Belzec camp
used the same train station and were only 1 mile apart from one another. It's the same place.
There was regular civilian traffic traveling throughout the area -- even encouraged to do so, officially.
Nessie wrote:So, it is about 1/2 km away, so easily far enough for people not to be able to see into it, or witness "horror-screams".
We are talking about volcanic plumes of smoke, which I have mentioned numerous times. I mentioned screams exactly once, on the previous page (for a different camp).
Nessie wrote:No, it is something you failed to take into account. To the Nazis, Poles and Slavic people in general, were one up from Jews, to be used as cheap, forced labour. All Poles were removed from government positions, and many of the intelligentsia were killed.
Repeating yourself doesn't make it true. Your explanation actually justifies why the Poles would
not wish to keep Germany's "dark secret". Even if your insistence is that most were antisemitic, this doesn't explain most of them being okay with murder factories nor of them staying silent even post-war. Your position is clear and it makes no sense.
Nessie wrote:As I go on to say, the Nazis had to switch from burial, to cremations, which were not the original plan. They did not anticipate a smell issue and when that happened, they had to just get on with that work. Who were the local Poles going to complain to anyway? Do you seriously think Poles could complain about Nazis?
The smell was an issue, so they disinterred the corpses causing more smell, then burnt it all on pyres non-stop for a year, ensuring even more people would smell it?
The local Poles might complain to Polish police or international journalists or friends/family overseas. They might photograph it. They might at least document or publish their experiences
somehow, to reflect this extraordinary spectacle which lasted non-stop for many months, rain or shine.
Nessie wrote:Belzec village and the AR camp Belzec, are not the same place. They are nearby, but their function and management was completely different. Same with Sobibor and TII.
Yes, their function and management was Operation Reinhardt which is why we find pits filled with artifacts and junk property in abundance and hardly any corpses, as you've been forced to acknowledge in the ongoing Sobibor thread.
They aren't just 'nearby'. All are within one mile of the corresponding village's center, and using the same train station (or at least referencing it, for Treblinka).
Nessie wrote:How does it pass "over" the camps? You said "It describes numerous routes travelers can take directly through the 20-km radius around each death camp that would constantly smell of burning corpses and hair.". How admit that they would be around 1/2 km away, so how is that "over"?
Nessie, 450 meters is a walking distance of ~5-7 minutes at most. To pass by a massive pyre of hundreds of corpses (which would be visible at a distance of up to ~20km or more) is incredibly close-up. All that is hidden are the flames.
Nessie wrote:The main issue the Nazis did not plan for, was the smell.
And so they created way, way, WAY more smell and a massive, volcanic beacon to show everyone exactly where the smell was coming from.
