Nessie wrote: ↑Tue Nov 18, 2025 3:56 pm
Archie wrote: ↑Tue Nov 18, 2025 2:20 pm
Can you cite for me a single revisionist who disagrees with the idea that the LKs were morgues and were used for corpse storage?
Butz - air raid shelters
Crowell - showers
Mattogno - flips between showers, delousing, corpse stores and air raid shelters, without providing a chronology
Deniers on X - mostly delousing without noticing the support Rudolf and Leuchter have.
Okay, thank you for confirming that you have no clue what's going on. None of these authors satisfy my request. You have failed to produce even one example because there aren't any. You even tried to cheat by broadening the field to all X users which would include a bunch of clueless casuals and you failed to supply an example even from there.
Nessie wrote: ↑Tue Nov 18, 2025 7:33 pm
https://www.hdot.org/debunking-denial/a ... -shelters/
"In 1997, Arthur Butz, a professor of electrical engineering at Northwestern University and a Holocaust denier, claimed that Cremas/Gas Chambers 2 and 3 in Birkenau were “ideal for adaptation as air raid shelters…there was no better choice at Auschwitz.”
Your confusion (dishonesty?) here is that you are making the false assumption that the air raid shelter hypothesis would preclude any other usage. From Wilhelm Staeglich,
At that time, gas-tight doors were not uncommon, since every cellar had to double as an air raid shelter. The peepholes in these doors were a source of light and a means of observing the outside.
Note he says every cellar had to
double as an air raid shelter, i.e., it would be a
secondary usage.
Butz NEVER argued that the cellars were
exclusively air raid shelters and your claim that he did is a distortion. He accepted that they were morgues, first and foremost.
https://ihr.org/journal/v20n2p17_crowell-html
"The Basement Showers of Crematorium III
Samuel Crowell
Well before the Second World War ended, the claim that the Nazis lured their victims into gas chambers under the pretense that they were entering showers was widely reported in the press. This linkage of showers and gassing is probably one reason why Allied soldiers, finding naked bodies in the camps, simply assumed that these were gassing victims, although we now know that typhus victims were stripped after death in order to burn the clothing and destroy the typhus-bearing lice."
Like Mattogno, they are vague on chronology and they do flip flop between various uses.
There were plans (not implemented) to add 100 hot water showers in the Kremas. There were 14 showerheads listed on an inventory for Krema III. Again, having a few showers somewhere in a large crematorium building does not mean corpses could not be stored in the cellars. False assumption on your part. Pressac assumed, with no proof, that the 14 showerheads were fake, but 14 fake showerheads to fool 2,000 gassing victims does not make much sense. The most rational conclusion is that these were real showers which again is not mutually exclusive with the morgue usage.
The whole air raid shelter debate has evidently sailed over your head. There was never any disagreement among revisionists over the fact that the cellars were morgues. The open question is over the
secondary usages related to the gas-tight features for which there is not enough documentation to give a dispositive answer.