Re-read my initial post above. At the Nuremberg Trial and in the western media following the war, it was claimed that “gas chambers” existed in those camps in Germany.
For example, it was claimed and accepted as “fact” that there were mass-murder “gas chambers” at Dachau. And in fact, on the basis of survivor “eyewitness testimony” and a photograph released by the Americans, there was a time immediately after the war when the whole world believed that there were “gas chambers” at Dachau in which many Jews were killed.
At Buchenwald, horrific photos of these gruesome scenes were immediately circulated after WWII and have been widely reproduced ever since, giving the impression that Buchenwald was a mass killing center. The chief British prosecutor at the main Nuremberg trial, Sir Hartley Shawcross, declared in his closing address that
Paul Rassinier, was a French university professor, who fought in the French resistance and was awarded a decoration by the French government after the war. Rassinier became the “founder” of “Holocaust revisionism” because although he had been interned in several concentration camps in Germany due to his anti-Nazi activities during the war, he never saw a “gas chamber” in any of the camps.
The claims about people being killed in gas chambers contradicted by pathology evidence by the likes of Dr Larson, and also the evidence of the physicians I mentioned above. **They couldn’t inspect the camps in Poland as they were under Soviet control. **
In other words, immediately after the war, claims were made that were at variance with today’s “accepted facts,” which have themselves changed.
We are expected to accept that the testimony about Dachau & Buchenwald that was presented at Nuremburg, was false, but the claims about use of gas chambers in Poland (which could not be checked by US pathologists), were accurate?
Even though:
a) British Intelligence decrypts of communications at Auschwitz from 1942 onwards also refer to typhus outbreaks causing deaths (not gas),
b) there were several orders to reduce the death rates
c) The fact 3,000 babies were safely born at the maternity ward at Auschwitz (not a single death in childbirth)
d) The Red Cross visited the camps and reported on the outbreaks of typhus, especially towards the end of the war as supply lines were cut off.
e) There were football games right next to the Krema where people were supposedly being sent to the gas chamber? The Red Cross supplied uniforms for the teams
f) There was a swimming pool used by inmates and choir (see Jerusalem Post article I noted above - " ‘The Chorale from [Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony] was… performed by a Jewish children’s choir at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943… I was a member of that choir… I… remember my first engagement with culture, with history, and with music-in the camp…’"
g) There was a Post-Office.
h) Analysis of the cyanide levels on the walls at Auschwitz shows high levels in the delousing areas where clothing and bedding was treated for lice, and negligible levels in the claimed killing areas.
This strongly contradicts the theory that there was mass killing going on.
Remember the Allies deliberately spread rumors about “gas chambers” in German-occupied Europe through leafleting and radio broadcasts. Maria Vanherwaarden’s evidence was that she was told of those rumours on the way to Auschwitz in 1942. However, what happened was they had their hair shaved and were showered. In her time there from 1942-January 1945 the deaths she saw were due to black fever and typhus.
The anticlimactic truth was that gas chambers were for disinfecting clothes contaminated by lice. In other words, in the closing days of the war, the sanitary conditions in the concentration camps deteriorated markedly and outbreaks of eruptive typhus became a serious problem. As a countermeasure, the German military, which did not have DDT, used a hydrocyanic insecticide called Zyklon B to disinfect the clothes belonging to Jews and other camp inmates.
