Wetzelrad wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2026 10:21 pm
Nessie wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2026 6:28 am
What eyewitnesses, documents etc are you referring to? You said "best revisionist arguments", but where is your evidence?
You know what the evidence is. You have a prior familiarity with it. You've already had it partially quoted to you in this thread. You've already accepted that it exists in this thread. A question like this is designed purely to waste my time.
You don't have evidence, instead you rely on argument.
Nessie wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2026 6:28 am
So, in your opinion, what the Nazis chose to document and retain documents of was a matter of how secure they felt and how much local support they got.
It is not an opinion. It is a fact that the EG were more open about killing Jews in their documentation. They did not use euphemisms or coded language.
This does nothing to answer the problem posed.
I asked, "Why did the Nazis extensively document shooting executions but not gassings?"
And you responded, "They did not use euphemisms or coded language."
You therefore confirm my premise and have no answer for why this glaring discrepancy in the evidence exists.
I answered the question. The mass shootings in the east had a lot of support from local people. Gassings in the west started with disabled Germans, which had a lot of opposition and had to be formally cancelled. The Nazis knew that expanded gassing operations, especially of western Jews, would have a lot of opposition, so the higher level of secrecy continued.
In any case, in December 1942, when Himmler reported to Hitler that 363,211 Jews had been executed over 4 months, he did not say how. That figure could have included gassing and shooting.
https://holocausthistory.site/1942-12-2 ... ur-months/
That was a rate of deaths that would easily meet the final c6 million death toll.
Nessie wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2026 6:28 am
As to the retention of documents, that appears more to be due to oversight, with documents being missed, when so many were being destroyed.
What is the evidence that these documents were "missed" or an "oversight"? That sounds like something you just made up!
There are very few AR documents and none pertaining directly to the camps. But, in certain locations, such as the Auschwitz Construction Office and in Berlin, documents were found, that evidence mass murder.
Nessie wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2026 6:28 am
In 1941-2, Auchwitz was not a death camp, instead, it was part of the euthanasia programme, for disabled prisoners.
There were allegedly ~150,000 gassings at Auschwitz by the end of 1942. If you want to say that that was "not a death camp", I won't stop you.

Meaning that in 1942, the death camps were the AR camps and Chelmno. A-B, as the largest labour camp, euthanised the largest number of prisoners. In 1943, when the AR camps had closed, Birkenau was then the death camp for the last remaining large populations of Jews.
However, that only exacerbates your trouble. If these alleged 150,000 gassings were conducted under an official euthanasia program, where are the documents to show for it? Why were real euthanasia killings and real Einsatzgruppen shootings (and hangings) from 1941-1942 documented but not this enormous number of gassings? Again, the contrast is black and white!
Gassings, shootings and euthanasia projects were all documented, most commonly as executions. I have explained to you why those who recorded the shootings were more open with their language and details, than those who recorded the gassings.
You have failed to explain why the supposed case against gassings, over shootings, is based on argument, rather than evidence.