Ernst
Zündel Replies:Rebuttal # 57:
Ernst
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Regarding photographs of the emaciated dead and dying in German concentration camps - again, it is cruel exploitation by the Holocaust Enforcers of an admitted but explainable human tragedy on an enormous scale. That tragedy was typhus and other contagious diseases.
The IHR answer is, of course, correct - but some aspects must be expanded upon. The basic and brutally frank facts are - human sensibilities aside - that corpses are corpses. Even the dead and dying can document important facts of history.
The Allied propaganda film, "Nazi Concentration Camps", that was shown to the jury in my 1985 Great Holocaust Trial, and was subsequently declared unfair and impermissible by the Ontario Court of Appeal, shows lots of dead bodies - mainly emaciated from diarrhea caused by typhus. It also shows perfectly healthy, well-fed inmates being filmed after the Allied takeover, washing the naked, still alive typhus victims who had soiled themselves because they were too weak to make it to the toilet. Dr. Butz shows a photo of inmates squatting by the hundreds in a field in Bergen Belsen camp, pants pulled down, all defecating. The camp ground is littered with paper - sheets of paper used by the typhus victims to wipe themselves in those fields. Body fluids are highly contagious. Additionally, the camp toilets were, by then, totally plugged up and no longer usable. (See the entire testimony of Dr. Russell Barton who was a witness for me in both the 1985 and 1988 Great Holocaust Trials at <http://www.webcom.com/ezundel/english/dsmrd/dsmrd15barton.html>
Here is what Dr. Barton says, to give you a glimpse from the Kulaszka book:
Barton was made an unofficial dietitian and found the camp had a kitchen set up with 450-kilo vats that were steam heated. (21-5160) There were four in one room and four in another. He also found record books listing the food that had been cooked and distributed going back to about 1942. Each of the different hut's larders listed the amount of food that had been sent in the big churns for distribution. He mentioned to his colleagues that if there had been a deliberate policy of extermination, why should there be this elaborate kitchen equipment? This, however, was not a popular view. (21-5161)
Barton made inquiries with inmates, including Jewish doctors, who told him that Belsen had not been too bad until the autumn of 1944. Then, as the Russian armies were advancing, they said they had been given the choice of remaining in the camps about to be overrun by the Soviets or being repatriated back to Germany. Many chose to return to Germany. As a result, from the autumn of 1944 to early 1945, some 53,000 people were moved into Belsen, which had room for only 3,000 inmates. The overcrowding was gross and the staff at the camp resented it. Josef Kramer, the commandant of Belsen, felt he had a responsibility to his 3,000 inmates but was apparently angry about the 53,000 that were dumped into the camp. Dr. Klein, the medical doctor at the camp, didn't know what to do. (21-5162, 5163)
Barton spoke to his superior, Dr. Meiklejohn, about the way the camp had been run. Meiklejohn felt it was best not to look into these things too deeply, that in the time of "fervour and distress" Barton's views would not make him very popular. This proved to be correct. (21- 5163, 5164)
Barton testified that on May 21st, it was decided to burn the camp down and to have the scene filmed for the purpose of showing the British to be "white knights" coming in to clear up the dreadful situation. Everything was arranged; work stopped for the whole of that morning. The flame throwers were ready in the tanks but the film makers hadn't got their cameras rolling yet. Suddenly, one of the tank commanders, in apparent enthusiasm, blew a flame into the hut that was to be burned, resulting in "tremendous consternation." They had to rush and put the flames out and start over again. That was but one example of what went on; there was the arranging of scenes that were pictured. (21-5164, 5165) Barton felt such artificial filming of the camp was the presentation of something which had no real purpose because the facts spoke for themselves; what worried him more, as he got towards the end of his stay at Belsen on June 1st, was the lack of integrity in dealing with the situation as it really was. (21-5165, 5166)
The incredibly naive answer by Nizkor - that there were tons of food locked up just a few miles away from where thousands starved - is staggering. All over Canada and America, there are thousands of starving people, hungrily looking at the full shelves of supermarkets. Can they just decide to help themselves? Of course not.
In war times, when food was scarce and tightly rationed, do the Nizkorites really think that without proper authorization orders, ration coupons, transportation etc., people could simply drive up to a warehouse and clean it out? Only simpletons raised in a society of peace and plenty, far removed from bombing and war, could make such an argument.
It is irresponsible in the extreme!
To come back to the photographs: Yes, many are faked. Yes, photos can be staged, were staged, were faked, were retouched, had false captions put on them. The evidence for that Allied policy is overwhelming.
How the Allies manufactured evidence and faked photographs and passed
off dead Gentiles as "Jews" can be seen by the frequently uncircumcised
penises of the "Jewish victims" displayed.