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Auschwitz: myths and facts

Who was actually spread rot in the Nazi concentration camps? Russians. It was only for the Russians that warnings were posted that "Russians who take water here will be shot." With the occupied French, for example, the Nazis were much more correct. Why do Europeans have hatred for Russians, for Russia? Because we are others. Our dictionary contains the word " conscience”, while Western Europeans do not have it. Only we will not go into metaphysics, but put the facts: photographs of Auschwitz. And let's start with a group photo of emaciated Jewish prisoners released from the concentration camp.

Well, what about all this disgusting Holocaust story lies are everywhere, anyone can verify this myself. Make sure for sure: look at the change of official memorial plates at the entrance to the Auschwitz Museum! After all, at first it was absolutely precisely, in a judicial proceeding, internationally, moreover, it was reliably clarified that 4 million people died in Auschwitz. And two years ago Also reliably Polish historians have calculated that the death toll in Auschwitz was not 4 million, but 1 million ( second line of the list, left column).

We translate the title of the table from Polish: "Estimates of the number of victims in the main German death camps on Polish soil during the war."

Can the new number be trusted? And why is it possible for her, but the previous, official one, is not? And before that, somewhere in 1980, the commemorative plaque, which is in the photo on the left, was changed to another with a figure of 2 million dead.

Of course, even one million is a terrible figure. And the fascists are notorious villains, like the Americans who bombed Vietnam or the racist Jewish moneylenders. But we will not drown in emotions, but will try to soberly assess and understand: if the so-called. The Holocaust is the death of 6 million Jews, because it was calculated long before 1980, i.e. before the change of the sign in Auschwitz. And even more so before calculations of Polish historians of our century.

So why is the figure of 6 million not adjusted depending on the new, updated and more truthful data??? Agree, 4 million and 1 million, 90% of which supposedly are Jews - a big difference! But no, they tell us about the mythical 6 million, absolutely regardless of the facts. That is why we stated that all Holocaust stories are blatant and blatantly undisguised lies. A lie that does not withstand the application of even the rudiments of common sense.

Auschwitz: myths and facts

Production complex I.G. Auschwitz where prisoners of Auschwitz worked (1941 under construction)

Almost everyone has heard of Auschwitz (in the West, Auschwitz is called Auschwitz - note. Transl.), a WWII German concentration camp where masses of prisoners - mostly Jews - were allegedly exterminated in gas chambers. Auschwitz is widely believed to be the worst Nazi extermination center. However, the terrible reputation of the camp does not match facts.

Scholars disagree with the Holocaust story

To the surprise of many, more and more historians and engineers are questioning the generally accepted history of Auschwitz. These "revisionist" scholars do not deny the fact that a large number of Jews were deported to this camp, or that many died there, especially from typhus and other diseases. However, the compelling evidence they present proves that Auschwitz was not a fighter center and that the stories of massacres in the "gas chambers" are a myth.

IG-Farbenwerke Auschwitz. Ukrainian welder at work.
Photo: Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2007-0075

Auschwitz camps

The Auschwitz camp complex was established in 1940 in the central-southern part of Poland. Between 1942 and mid-1944 many Jews were deported there. The main camp was known as Auschwitz I. Birkenau or Auschwitz II was supposedly the main extermination center, while Monowitz or Auschwitz III was a major industrial center for the production of gasoline from coal. In addition, there were dozens of smaller camps adjacent to them, which worked for the war economy.

Four million victims?

On the post-war Nuremberg Tribunal The Allies claimed that the Germans massacred four million people at Auschwitz. This figure, invented by Soviet communists, was accepted uncritically for many years. For example, she often appeared in major American newspapers and magazines.

Today, no serious historian, even those who generally accept the history of extermination, does not believe this figure. Israeli Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer declared in 1989 that it was time to finally admit that the well-known figure of four million was notorious myth. In July 1990 State Museum Auschwitz in Poland, along with the Israeli Holocaust center Yad Vashem, suddenly announced that all died there, probably one million people (Jews and non-Jews). None of these institutions said how many of them were actually killed, nor was the estimated number of people supposedly gassed. Noted Holocaust historian Gerald Reitlinger estimates that approximately 700 000 Jews died in Auschwitz. Recently a Holocaust historian Jean-Claude Pressac estimated that about 800 000 the person of whom 630 000 were Jews. Although even such tweaked towards decreasing number continue to be unfaithful, they show that the history of Auschwitz has changed enormously over time.

A manger in Auschwitz. Photo Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-2007-0085

Ridiculous stories

At one time, it was most seriously stated that Jews were systematically killed in Auschwitz electric shock. American newspapers, citing the testimony of a Soviet eyewitness from the liberated Auschwitz, informed their readers in February 1945 that the methodical Germans killed Jews there using "an electric conveyor belt, on which one could simultaneously kill with an electric shock hundreds of people and then transport them to the oven. They burned almost instantly, producing fertilizer for the nearby cabbage fields."

In addition, at the Nuremberg Trials, the main prosecutor from the United States Robert Jackson claimed that the Germans used "a newly invented device that allows instantly "evaporate"20,000 Jews in Auschwitz, with no trace left of them." Today, no prominent historian takes seriously such fictitious stories.

On the stage of the theater in Auschwitz, a variety and circus group performs in front of the prisoners. Photo: Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2007-0097

"Confession" Hess

The key Holocaust document is the "confession" of the former commandant of Auschwitz Rudolf Hess dated April 5, 1946, presented by the US Prosecution at the main Nuremberg Trials. While it is still widely cited as undeniable proof that Auschwitz was an extermination camp, the claim was actually false, obtained under torture.

Many years after the war, an officer of the British military intelligence Bernard Clark told how he and five other English soldiers tortured former commandant, seeking a "confession" from him. Hess himself explained his torment in the following words: "Yes, of course, I signed a statement that I killed 2.5 million Jews. I could just as well say that there were 5 million of these Jews. There are ways in which you can get any confession, whether true or not."

Even historians who generally accept the Holocaust extermination story today admit that many of Hess's "sworn" claims are simply lies. For this reason alone, no serious historian-scholar today claims that 2.5 or 3 million people died in Auschwitz. In addition, Hess's "affidavit" states that Jews were exterminated by gas in the summer of 1941 in three other camps: Belzek, Treblinka And wolzek. The "Wolseck" camp mentioned by Hess is a complete fabrication. Such a camp has never existed and its name is now not mentioned in Holocaust literature. Moreover, those who believe in the Holocaust legend now claim that the gassing of Jews began in Auschwitz, Treblinka And Belzeke only in 1942.

Residential sector in the barracks of Auschwitz. Photo: Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2007-0078

Lack of documentary evidence

After the war, the Allies confiscated many thousands of secret German documents relating to Auschwitz. None of them mentions a plan or program of extermination. When it comes to facts, the story of the extermination cannot be reconciled with documentary evidence.

Unemployed Jewish prisoners

Dental office in the Auschwitz camp. The best Jewish doctors worked in it Photo: Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2007-0083

It is often claimed that all Jews who were unable to work were immediately killed in Auschwitz. Old, young, sick, or weakened Jews are said to have been gassed as soon as they arrived, and those temporarily left to live were worked to death. However, in fact, the evidence shows that a very large percentage of Jewish prisoners were disabled and yet they were not killed. For example, in a telegram dated September 4, 1943, from the head of the Human Resources Section of the SS Economic and Administrative Office (WVHA), it was reported that out of 25,000 Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz, only 3,581 were able to work, and the rest of the Jewish prisoners were approximately 21,500 or near 86% were disabled.

This was also confirmed in a secret report on "security measures at Auschwitz" dated April 5, 1944 by the Chief of the SS concentration camp system Oswald Paul sent to the Head of the SS Heinrich Himmler. Paul reported that there were 67,000 prisoners in the entire Auschwitz camp complex, of whom 18,000 were hospitalized or disabled. At the Auschwitz II camp (Birkenau), supposedly the main extermination center, there were 36,000 prisoners, mostly women, of whom "approximately 15,000 were disabled".

These two documents simply don't fit with the story of the Auschwitz extermination.

Evidence shows that Auschwitz-Birkenau was created mainly as a camp for disabled Jews, including the sick and old, as well as those who were waiting to be sent to other camps. Dr. Arthur Butz from Northwestern University, who also says it was responsible for the unusually high death rate there.

Professor of History at Princeton University Arno Mayer, who is Jewish, admits in a recent book on the "Final Solution" that more Jews died in Auschwitz from typhus and other "natural" causes than were executed.

Dormitories (as the photo is signed in the original) in Auschwitz. Above is not a gallows, but a canopy over the entrance to the barracks, a sleeping building. The purpose of the item with the handle (on the right) is not clear. Photo: Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2007-0092

Anne Frank

Probably the most famous prisoner of Auschwitz was Anne Frank, who became known throughout the world thanks to her famous diary. However, few people know that thousands of Jews, including Anna and her father Otto Frank, " survived"Auschwitz.

This 15-year-old girl and her father were deported from Holland to Auschwitz in September 1944. A few weeks later, due to the advance of the Soviet army, Anna, along with many other Jews, was evacuated to the camp Bergen-Belsen where she died of typhus in March 1945. Her father contracted typhus at Auschwitz and was sent for treatment to the camp hospital. He was one of the thousands of sick and weakened Jews left there by the Germans when they left the camp in January 1945, shortly before it was taken over by Soviet troops. He died in Switzerland in 1980.

If the Germans had planned to kill Anne Frank and her father, they would not have survived Auschwitz. Their fate, though tragic, does not agree with a history of extermination.

Allied propaganda

Stories of gassing at Auschwitz are largely based on oral statements by former Jewish prisoners who themselves did not see evidence of extermination. Their claims are understandable, since rumors of gassing at Auschwitz were widespread. Allied planes dropped a huge number of leaflets in Polish and German on Auschwitz and the surrounding areas, which claimed that people were being gassed in this camp. The gas story of Auschwitz, which was an important part of military propaganda Allies, was also broadcast on radio to Europe.

Auschwitz: dining room. Photo: Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2007-0087

Auschwitz: Kitchen - culinary workshop and cooking area. Photo: Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2007-0086

Testimony of survivors

Former prisoners confirmed that they did not see evidence of the extermination at Auschwitz. Austrian Maria Fanherwaarden testified in Toronto District Court in March 1988 about her time at Auschwitz. She was interned in Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1942 for sexual intercourse with a Polish prisoner. As she was being taken by train to the camp, a gypsy woman told her and others that they would all be gassed at Auschwitz.

Upon arrival, Maria and the other women were told to undress and go to a spacious concrete room with no windows and shower. The horrified women thought that they would be killed now. However, instead of gas, water came out of the shower heads. Maria confirmed that Auschwitz was not a resort. She witnessed death from diseases many prisoners, especially from typhus some even committed suicide. But she did not see no evidence of any massacres, no gassing, no evidence of any plan of extermination being carried out.

Jewish by name Marika Frank arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau from Hungary in July 1944, when 25,000 Jews were allegedly gassed and burned daily. She also testified after the war that she did not see and nothing did not hear about the "gas chambers" at the time she was there. She heard "gas" stories only later.

The Ukrainian women's folk choir performs on the stage of the camp theater in Auschwitz.
Photo: Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2007-0096

Released prisoners

Auschwitz prisoners who served their sentences released and returned to their home countries. If Auschwitz was really a secret extermination center, then the Germans would certainly not release prisoners who "knew" what was going on in the camp.

Himmler orders to reduce mortality

In response to the increase in deaths among prisoners as a result of disease, especially typhus, the German authorities responsible for the camps adopted stringent disease control measures. The head of the SS Camp Administration sent a directive dated 28 December 1942 to Auschwitz and other concentration camps. It sharply criticized the high death rate of prisoners due to disease and ordered that "Camp doctors must use every means at their disposal to reduce the death rate in the camps." Moreover, the directive provided that:

The camp physicians must, more often than in the past, check food prisoners and, together with the administration, make recommendations to camp commandants… Camp doctors should ensure that working conditions and workplaces are have been improved, as much as possible. Finally, the directive stressed that "the Reichsfuehrer SS [Heinrich Himmler] had ordered that the death rate should be absolutely reduced."

Internal regulations of German camps

The official internal regulations of the German camps clearly show that Auschwitz was not extermination center. These rules included the following provisions:

– Arriving at the camp must pass thorough medical examination, and in case of doubt [regarding their health] should be sent to quarantine for observation.

– Prisoners who complain of illness must be examined by the camp doctor on the same day. If necessary, the doctor should place the prisoner to the hospital for professional treatment.

– The camp doctor must regularly inspect the kitchen to check the preparation of the food and the quality of the food. Report any deficiencies to the camp commandant.

- Particular attention should be give treatment victims of accidents so that the productivity of prisoners is not reduced.

– Prisoners to be released and transferred must first be examined by the camp doctor.

aerial photography

In 1979 CIA published detailed photographs of Auschwitz-Birkenau taken over several days during aerial reconnaissance in 1944 (in the midst of the alleged extermination there). These photos do not show no no traces of mountains of corpses, no smoking chimneys of crematoria, no crowds of Jews awaiting death- everything that supposedly happened there. If Auschwitz were the extermination center, as claimed, then all these signs of extermination would be clearly visible in the photographs.

Absurd allegations related to cremation

Cremation experts have confirmed that thousands of corpses could not be cremated daily at Auschwitz during the spring and summer of 1944, as is commonly stated.

For example , Ivan Lagas, the director of a major crematorium in Calgary, Canada, testified in court in April 1988 that the stories of the Auschwitz cremation technically impossible. The statement that 10,000 or even 20,000 corpses were burned daily at Auschwitz in crematoria and open mines in the summer of 1944 is simply " absurd"and "completely unrealistic," he declared under oath.

Gas chamber specialist refutes extermination story

Leading American expert on gas chambers, engineer from Boston Fred Leichter(Fred Leuchter) carefully examined the alleged "gas chambers" in Poland and came to the conclusion that the story of gassing in Auschwitz absurd and technically impossible.

Leichter is one of the largest specialists in the design and installation of gas chambers used in the United States for the execution of convicted criminals. For example, he designed the gas chambers for the Missouri penitentiaries. In February 1988, he conducted a detailed on-site survey in Poland of the "gas chambers" in Auschwitz, Birkenau And Majdanek still preserved or only partly destroyed. In his deposition before the Toronto City Court and in his technical report, Leichter detailed every aspect of his research.

He stated that he had come to the firm conclusion that the proposed gas installations could not be used to kill people. Among other things, he pointed out that the so-called "gas chambers" were not closed tightly and were not ventilated and would inevitably poison the German camp staff if these "gas chambers" were used to kill people.

Dr. William B. Lindsey– research chemist who worked for 33 years at the DuPont Corporation – also testified in court in 1985 that the gassing stories at Auschwitz technically impossible. Based on a thorough site survey of the "gas chambers" at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek, and on the basis of his professional experience and knowledge, he stated: " I have come to the conclusion that no one has been killed in this way with Zyklon B (hydrocyanide gas) intentionally or deliberately. I find it absolutely impossible."

Conclusion

The story of the extermination of people in Auschwitz was spawn of military propaganda. More than 40 years after the end of the 2nd World War, it is necessary to take a more objective look at this chapter of history that causes such conflicting opinions. The Auschwitz legend is at the heart of the Holocaust story. If no one systematically killed hundreds of thousands of Jews there, as is claimed, then this means that one of the biggest myths of our time has collapsed.

The artificial maintenance of the hatred and emotions of the past prevents genuine reconciliation and lasting peace from being achieved. Revisionism promotes the development of historical consciousness and international understanding. That is why the work of the History Revision Institute is so important and deserves your support.

Notes

1. Nuremberg document 008-USSR. IMT blue series, Vol. 39, pp. 241, 261.; NC and A red series, vol. 1, p. 35.; C.L. Sulzberger, "Oswiecim Killings Placed at 4,000,000," New York Times, May 8, 1945, and, New York Times, Jan. 31, 1986, p. A4.
2. Y. Bauer, "Fighting the Distortions," Jerusalem Post (Israel), Sept. 22, 1989; "Auschwitz Deaths Reduced to a Million," Daily Telegraph (London), July 17, 1990; "Poland Reduces Auschwitz Death Toll Estimate to 1 Million," The Washington Times, July 17, 1990.
3. G. Reitlinger, The Final Solution (1971); J.-C. Pressac, Le Crématoires d'Auschwitz: La Machinerie du meurtre de mass (Paris: CNRS, 1993). On Pressac's estimates, see: L'Express (France), Sept. 30, 1993, p. 33.
4. Washington (DC) Daily News, Feb. 2, 1945, pp. 2, 35. (United Press dispatch from Moscow).
5. IMT blue series, Vol. 16, p. 529-530. (June 21, 1946).
6. Nuremberg document 3868-PS (USA-819). IMT blue series, Vol. 33, pp. 275-279.
7. Rupert Butler, Legions of Death (England: 1983), pp. 235; R. Faurisson, The Journal of Historical Review, Winter 1986-87, pp. 389-403.
8. Archives of the Jewish Historical Institute of Warsaw, German document No. 128, in: H. Eschwege, ed., Kennzeichen J (East Berlin: 1966), p. 264.
9. Nuremberg document NO-021. NMT green series, Vol. 5.pp. 384-385.
10. Arthur Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century (Costa Mesa, Calif.), p. 124.
11. Arno Mayer, Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: The ‘Final Solution‘ in History (Pantheon, 1989), p. 365.
12. Nuremberg document NI-11696. NMT green series, Vol. 8, p. 606.
13. Testimony in Toronto District Court, March 28, 1988. Toronto Star, March 29, 1988, p. A2.
14. Sylvia Rothchild, ed., Voices from the Holocaust (New York: 1981), pp. 188-191.
15. Walter Laqueur, The Terrible Secret (Boston: 1981), p. 169.
16. Nuremberg document PS-2171, Annex 2. NC&A red series, Vol. 4, pp. 833-834.
17. "Rules and Regulations for the Concentration Camps." Anthology, Inhuman Medicine, Vol. 1, Part 1 (Warsaw: International Auschwitz Committee, 1970), pp. 149-151.; S. Paskuly, ed., Death Dealer: the Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz (Buffalo: 1992), pp. 216-217.
18. Dino A. Brugioni and Robert C. Poirier, The Holocaust Revisited (Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 1979).
19. Canadian Jewish News (Toronto), April 14, 1988, p. 6.
20. The Leuchter Report: An Engineering Report on the Alleged Execution Gas Chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek (Toronto: 1988). Available for $17.00, postpaid, from the IHR.
21. The Globe and Mail (Toronto), Feb. 12, 1985, p. M3

Translation from English

Sergei Anglinov

Mark Weber is editor of the Journal of Historical Review, published by the Institute of History Revisionism six times a year. He studied history at the University of Illinois (Chicago), the University of Munich, the University of Portland and Indiana University (master's degree in 1977). For five days in March 1988, he testified as a recognized expert on the "Final Solution" and the Holocaust issue in a trial in Toronto District Court. He is the author of many articles, reviews and essays on various issues of modern European history. Weber also appeared on numerous radio broadcasts and on the national television program Montel Williams.

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Mothers deemed fit for work were forcibly torn from their children. Selected prisoners of the camp died due to inhuman working conditions, hunger, cold, cruel punishments, epidemics and medical experiments.

Auschwitz

(Dedicated to the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz)

Recently, in August 2016, my wife and I toured some cities of Eastern Europe: Prague, Karlovy Vary, Krakow, Lvov, Khmelnitsky, Kyiv. The main purpose of our trip is to visit the graves in my wife's hometown, in Khmelnitsky. In all cities, we were interested in Jewish life and the attitude of the local population towards Jews and Jewish history in the Czech Republic, Poland and Ukraine.

We decided to stay in Krakow because we wanted to visit Poland and its ancient capital and, most importantly, visit Auschwitz. Immediately upon arrival at the hotel in Krakow, I booked a tour to Auschwitz the next day. My wife canceled this tour, remembering how hard it was for her after visiting the concentration camp in Dachau, where we went while in Munich. For me, a survivor of the Holocaust in Odessa, it was very important to see Auschwitz with my own eyes. The tour cost 155 zlotys (about $50), and a comfortable sightseeing bus picked me up from the hotel at the appointed time.

Auschwitz is located about 50 km from Krakow, and the road took us a little over two hours, taking into account heavy traffic. During this trip, the girl guide accompanying us told us the general history of the Auschwitz concentration camp. I supplemented this information with my photos, which I took during the Auschwitz tour.

Oswiecim (in Polish Oswiencim, in German Auschwitz), the most infamous of all the Nazi death camps and which became the site of the most mass extermination of people in the history of mankind, was founded near the Polish city of Auschwitz on May 20, 1940 and was immediately renamed Auschwitz by the Germans . The main task of German concentration camps was the physical destruction of prisoners after the use of their slave labor. Those recognized as disabled were killed immediately in the gas chambers. The category of "suicide bombers" a priori included children, the elderly, the disabled and the sick.

Mothers deemed fit for work were forcibly torn from their children. Selected prisoners of the camp died due to inhuman working conditions, hunger, cold, cruel punishments, epidemics and medical experiments.

For the foundation of the camp, brick one-story and two-story buildings of the former Polish, and earlier Austrian barracks were used. The main Auschwitz I camp was opened on June 14, 1940, where 728 Polish political prisoners were deported from the Tarnow prison. Initially, members of the Jewish community of the city of Auschwitz were forcibly involved in the construction of the concentration camp, who, in particular, rebuilt the vegetable store into a crematorium with a mortuary. During the construction, the second floors were added to all one-story buildings. In total, there were 24 two-story buildings (blocks) in the Auschwitz I camp. On average, the number of prisoners there ranged from 13 to 16 thousand, but in 1942 their number reached 20,000. All blocks from cellars to attics were used to accommodate prisoners.

After the start of the war with the USSR, it was planned to turn Auschwitz into the main camp for Soviet prisoners of war, where in early October 1941 about 20 thousand prisoners of war of the Red Army arrived, of which about 200 survived a year later. On October 28, 1942, Soviet prisoners of war were transferred to the large camp complex Birkenau (Auschwitz II), which was located 3 km from the main camp. The camp complex also included Auschwitz III, founded by the chemical concern IG-Farben for laboratory research near the small village of Monowitz. This camp also contained prisoners who worked in German enterprises. As the entire Auschwitz camp complex was being built, the entire local Polish population was evicted. The Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau camps have completely turned into a plant for the extermination of people.

In the spring of 1942, Auschwitz I was surrounded by a double fence with barbed wire, through which a high voltage current was passed.

It seemed that it was impossible to escape from this hell. But there were escapes. A book about Auschwitz that I bought there after the tour ended describes the escape of two prisoners from Birkenau in November 1943. At night, they made a short circuit in the wire fence of the camp, thereby turning off the lighting, cut the barbed wire and were free. An SS chase was organized behind them, from which they left by swimming across the Vistula River. They became the first witnesses to the German crimes in the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps, writing a pamphlet that was published in Washington. Then they were smuggled to London, where they met with the leaders of the Allies and told them about the monstrous crimes of the Germans in the destruction of millions of people in the Auschwitz concentration camps.

The Nazis decided to use Auschwitz I and later Auschwitz II to exterminate the Jews of Europe as part of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" program. The location of the entire complex of Auschwitz concentration camps in the place where the railway tracks from Central and Western Europe contributed to the transformation of this complex into a machine for the mass destruction of people.

For destruction in Auschwitz, they used Zyklon-B gas - hydrocyanic acid. Experiments on its use for the destruction of large groups of people were carried out in the autumn of 1941 on Soviet prisoners of war in the basement of the 11th block in Auschwitz I. After this experience, the Nazis began to use the bomb shelter building to destroy people. Victims were herded into a bomb shelter and Zyklon-B capsules were thrown into it through a pipe. However, the bomb shelter was not large enough and was located in the camp, which made it impossible to keep the murders secret. Later, the Nazis equipped two houses in the Birkenau area for gas chambers, the so-called. "white house" and "red house". These houses were outside the camp and were completely sealed. After the murders, a special team (Sonderkommando), consisting of camp prisoners, removed the victims from the gas chambers and buried them in pre-dug ditches. However, these houses were not suitable for mass destruction. Then, near Auschwitz I, the first crematorium was built, which included a gas chamber, in which up to 1000 people could be killed at the same time. Later, by the spring of 1943, four more huge crematoria were put into operation in Birkenau, each of which was capable of destroying up to 2,000 people at a time.

The first trains with Jewish victims from Europe began to arrive at Auschwitz II in the spring of 1942, and Auschwitz-Birkenau became the center for the extermination of Jews arriving from various countries and regions. Jewish women from Slovakia were the first to be deported to Birkenau, then Jews from France, Belgium and Holland, later from Italy and Yugoslavia. In the spring of 1943, Jews were deported from Greece and from various parts of Poland, including Krakow. In 1944, 430,000 Hungarian and thousands of Italian Jews arrived here.

According to the testimony of the commandant of the Auschwitz camps, Rudolf Hoess, about 2.5 million people died there at the Nurenbeg trials, of which half were Jews. The other half of the people killed included Polish political prisoners, Soviet prisoners of war, gypsies and others. By the way, gypsies, as well as Jews, were destroyed by entire families.

The process of destruction proceeded as follows. Those selected for destruction were sent directly from the railway platform to the gas chambers and crematoria. At first glance, these were ordinary buildings with large chimneys. The victims were herded into the basement of the crematoriums, into the so-called "cloakroom". People were ordered to undress and remember where they left their clothes. Then they were taken to the "shower". Anyone who showed any resistance was beaten or poisoned by dogs. Undressed, the victims went to the gas chamber. There were shower heads under the ceiling of the cell, through which water never flowed. The cell in Birkenau had 210 square meters, and 2000 people were driven into it, then the doors were tightly closed. By order of the duty SS doctor, cylinders with Zyklon-B were opened, and their contents were released through the ventilation pipes into the gas chamber. Within 15 minutes, hundreds of men, women and children were dying in terrible agony. The Nazis on the street started several motorcycles to drown out the screams of the dying, but this did not help - terrible moans were heard everywhere. Gold teeth were pulled out from the dead, rings and earrings were removed, women's hair was cut off. After that, the corpses were transported to the crematorium ovens, where the fire hummed continuously. All these actions were performed by the prisoners included in the Sonderkommando. At the peak of the activity of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, its number was about 1000 people.

Prisoners who were selected and not immediately sent to the gas chambers remained in the camp barracks and were doomed to slave labor in various industrial enterprises located around Auschwitz. By doing this, the Nazis maintained the appearance that Auschwitz was a detention and forced labor camp. Those who were selected to work in Auschwitz were indeed pushed into the shower, before which they were completely stripped, all their belongings were taken away, and all their hair was shaved, including intimate places. After a shower, where they were first scalded with hot water, and then cold was allowed to run out faster, they were given some strange rags to wear, regardless of the right size. While in Auschwitz, the surviving prisoners gradually began to understand what fate was in store for their loved ones who had not passed the selection. They realized that they themselves were in a state of constant mortal danger, as fresh labor arrived at the camp every day.

Auschwitz was the only camp in the Nazi system where, starting in 1943, the number was tattooed on the prisoner's arm, and in children, even babies, the number was most often tattooed on the thigh. In other camps, the number was sewn onto the prisoner's uniform. The prisoners of Auschwitz belonged to various nationalities and spoke 18 languages, including Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew, Italian, French and even Norwegian. Depending on the reasons for the arrest, the prisoners received triangles of different colors, which, together with the numbers, were sewn onto camp clothes. The triangle for political prisoners was red, for criminals it was green, for gypsies it was black, for homosexuals it was pink. Jews wore a six-pointed star and a yellow triangle, and Soviet prisoners of war had a patch in the form of the letters SU, the rest were marked with a green triangle.

Auschwitz had a very strict daily routine. The prisoners got up early, at 5-6 in the morning, depending on the season, to the sound of three shrill siren blasts, which ruthlessly interrupted their heavy sleep. Then the struggle began with wet shoes, into which it was barely possible to squeeze inflamed and swollen feet from edema, and tie these shoes with a wire that replaced the laces. After the rise, a formation was made, where the recount of prisoners was a terrifying procedure. The number of prisoners in the formation had to converge with the number on the list of the guards. This meant that the formation could last for hours, and all this time the prisoners had to be on the parade ground in any weather. After building, the prisoners were sent to work according to work teams. At first they worked on the expansion of the camp, and then they were used as slaves in the industrial facilities of the Third Reich near metallurgical plants, mines and factories. Every day columns of emaciated slaves left and entered through the gate with the cynical inscription "Arbeit macht frei". The prisoner had to do the work by running, without a second of rest. The pace of work, meager portions of food and constant beatings increased mortality. During the return of the prisoners to the camp, the dead or exhausted, who could not move on their own, were dragged or carried in wheelbarrows. And at this time, a brass band consisting of prisoners played for them near the gates of the camp.

The Jews worked at the most difficult jobs for 10-12 hours a day. Those who were unable to work due to illness or physical exhaustion were usually sent to the gas chambers. Some prisoners were used for work in the camp. A special role was played by the "Sonderkommando" - prisoners who took out the bodies from the gas chambers and transferred them to the crematoria. The ashes of Birkenau prisoners were thrown into the ponds in the camp or used as fertilizer. The living conditions of the Auschwitz prisoners were very harsh. One of the main problems was hunger, since the entire daily diet consisted of 150 grams of bread and a liter of watery stew. The camp clothes were quite thin and provided little protection from the cold. Linen was changed at intervals of several weeks, and sometimes even once a month, and the prisoners did not have the opportunity to wash it, which led to epidemics of typhus and typhoid fever, as well as scabies. The first prisoners who arrived at the camp slept on straw, which was scattered in a thin layer on the floor, later hay bedding appeared. In rooms that could hardly accommodate 40-50 people, there were often 200 or more.

In Auschwitz, in addition to adults, there were also children who were sent to the camp with their parents. These were the children, mostly of Jews, but also of Gypsies and Poles. Most of the Jewish children perished in the gas chambers as soon as they arrived at the camp. The rest, after a strict selection, were sent to the camp, where they were subject to the same strict rules as adults.

Most of the Jews doomed to die arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau with the conviction that they were being taken "to a settlement" in eastern Ukraine. This was especially true of Jews from Greece and Hungary, to whom the Germans even sold non-existent building plots and offered work in fictitious factories. Therefore, people sent to the camp for destruction brought with them the most valuable things, jewelry and money. Upon arrival at the unloading platform, all belongings and valuables were taken away from people, and SS doctors selected the deportees. Those who were recognized as disabled were sent to the gas chambers. According to Rudolf Goess, there were 70-75% of those who arrived.

In the summer of 1944, when the Red Army carried out a massive offensive from the east, and the Allied armies landed in the west, the Germans began evacuating concentration camps from the Baltic countries and from Poland, driving prisoners to Germany. The prisoners had to walk hundreds of kilometers on foot, many of them died on the way, and these stages were called "death marches". This was also the name of our hundred-kilometer hauls from the Berezovka station to the Domanevka concentration camp during the Holocaust in Odessa.

In November 1944, as the Allies approached Auschwitz, the gassings ceased. Himmler ordered the destruction of the crematoria. The evacuation of prisoners from the camps of the Auschwitz system continued until their release on January 27, 1945. As early as January 25, the SS men set fire to 35 warehouse barracks, which were full of things taken from the Jews - they did not have time to take them out. Over a million men's and women's suits and pairs of shoes were found in partially surviving warehouse barracks. By the time the Red Army arrived there, about 7,500 prisoners remained in Auschwitz. The first to enter Auschwitz was an assault detachment of the Red Army under the command of Major Anatoly Shapiro.

In memory of the victims of the camp in 1947, Poland created a museum on the site of Auschwitz I, included in the list World Heritage UNESCO, and it's a pity that the legacy is so sad. In 1996, the German government declared January 27, the day of the liberation of Auschwitz, the official day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust, and on November 1, 2005, the UN adopted a corresponding resolution.

We received this general information about the Auschwitz concentration camps during our two-hour trip from Krakow to Auschwitz. We were brought directly to the main gate of the camp and handed over to the Auschwitz guide, who gave us radiotelephones, distinctive stickers and asked us to write down her name, since it is easy to get lost among the many thousands of other visitors on the territory of Auschwitz.

The whole tour with a visit to the concentration camp in Birkenau took us 3 hours. Our tour began from the main gate of the Auschwitz I concentration camp, on which is written: "ARBEIT MACHT FREI" ("Work sets you free").

Everything we saw and heard from the guide, a Polish girl with good English, horrified us. Auschwitz is a place of evil, inhumanity and, of course, a death factory. In the beginning, we were shown the rooms where the prisoners slept on a concrete floor covered with a thin layer of straw.

In another room, thin mattresses filled with a small amount of hay lay on the floor. In each such room there were up to 200 prisoners. With the increase in the number of prisoners in the camp, wooden three-tiered bunks with a bedding of rotten straw appeared. The prisoners were covered with rags and everything that was. Next, we were shown a toilet hut, where primitive toilets stood close to one another along the walls, which looked like a miracle of civilization compared to the toilet hut in Birkenau. There we saw three long concrete ramps, two of which had holes thickly carved into them on both sides to relieve themselves. The people sitting above the "glasses" actually rested on each other's backs and shoulders. Prisoners were only allowed to go to the toilet twice a day for no more than 30 seconds at a time. The third ramp was a kind of washbasin. There, cold water flowed through the gutter, and the prisoner was given only a few minutes to wash. The prisoners were allowed to take a shower very rarely, and for them it was a real holiday.

Residential and toilet barracks were of the same type, but there was building or block No. 11, which was one of the most terrible places in the concentration camp. Unlike other blocks, its doors were always closed, and the windows were completely bricked up. Rooms along a long corridor housed prisoners awaiting the verdict of the emergency police court, which came to Auschwitz from Katowice once or twice a month. It was a Gestapo court with extraordinary powers of immediate execution, akin to the Soviet Cheka (once again, there was so much in common between the soviets and the fascists). This court began its activity in the middle of 1942 to consider "serious crimes of Poles and Jews", concerning, first of all, their participation in armed resistance. Listening to foreign radio broadcasts was also considered a serious crime (therefore, after the occupation of Odessa, one of the first orders of the Romanian administration was to demand that everyone hand over their radios), theft, deceit, receiving stolen goods, and damaging German property. For such crimes, a civil court could sentence them to imprisonment or a fine, but the emergency court of the Gestapo sentenced almost everyone to death. None of the accused were ever acquitted, and only 5% of the defendants were sentenced to imprisonment. Within 2-3 hours of its work, the court passed up to two hundred death sentences. There we were shown a room where those sentenced to death were forced to undress. If there were few of them that day, then the sentence was carried out right here. If there were a lot of those sentenced, then they were taken to the "Wall of Death", which was located behind a high fence between buildings 10 and 11. We saw this wall built of black insulating boards sheathed with absorbent material.

The wall was the last facet of the lives of thousands of people sentenced to death by the Gestapo court for their unwillingness to betray their homeland, attempted flight and "political" crimes. More than 5,000 people were shot in the back of the head here. Beginning in the spring of 1944, the sentences were carried out in the Birkenau crematorium, where the corpses were immediately burned.

In the cellars of block 11 there was also a prison, in which not only punished prisoners were placed, but also local residents and political prisoners suspected of helping prisoners. It was also here that the deadly gas Cyclone-B was tested on Soviet prisoners of war for the first time. In one of the basements of block 11 there were also 4 vertical punishment cells measuring 90 × 90 centimeters, which served to punish prisoners for minor violations. The prisoner was punished for picking an apple or finding a potato in the field, urinating during work, or for working too slowly. In this punishment cell, a person could only be standing. So he stood without food and water for as long as the SS wanted. Often this was the last punishment in the prisoner's life. Another punishment for the slightest offense was a severe beating with a whip. They tied the prisoner's hands and feet and tied him to the crossbar so that he could be beaten on the back. They beat him until the prisoner lost consciousness. The most terrible punishment was reminiscent of medieval torture. Prisoners were hung by their tied hands on hooks from high posts or truss beams under the roofs. Such punishment was accompanied by wild pain in the arms and shoulders and ended either in death or a complete rupture of the ligaments, after which the prisoner remained disabled, unable to work, and the gas chamber was waiting for him.

We were shown block 10, where the camp hospital was located and where weakened prisoners who had no hope of recovery ended up. Since the hospital was always overcrowded, the SS doctors periodically "purged" the sick and sent them to the gas chamber or injected a lethal dose of phenol into the heart. In the hospital, the Nazi doctors also carried out their criminal experiments. Dr. Josef Mengele conducted pseudoscientific experiments on newborns, dwarfs, twins, children with physical disabilities and other "non-standard" people, as well as experiments on forced hypothermia of adult prisoners. Another professor, Karl Klauberg, conducted criminal sterilization experiments on Jewish women in order to develop a rapid method for the biological destruction of the Slavs.

In addition, new drugs and medicines were tested here, as a result of which hundreds of prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp died. Usually, if a prisoner got into the "hospital", then he no longer left it alive, so the "hospital" was called "the threshold of the crematorium." All this was told to us by our guide while we were standing at block 10.

Then we were led to block 24. On the second floor of this block, a brothel was organized, where beautiful young women were selected, and even girls for amateur pedophiles and forced into prostitution. Only the highest officer ranks could visit this brothel. Near this block, we were told about the fate of other female prisoners of Auschwitz who were selected and not immediately sent to the gas chambers. Of the 400,000 registered prisoners of Auschwitz, 130,000 were women. Mortality among female prisoners of Auschwitz was very high. Thus, out of 28,000 women who arrived at the camp in 1942, only 6,000 survived by the end of the year. Women were mainly used in construction work, landscaping and landscaping of the camp, in transport within the camp and camp farms. They also worked in hospitals, in kitchens, in showers, in warehouses, and sorting things left after the exterminated Jews. The fate of pregnant women was tragic. Until mid-1943, all pregnant women were immediately destroyed. Then they were allowed to give birth, but the newborns were immediately destroyed, then only Jewish newborns were destroyed, and Jewish women, whose pregnancy was missed during the selection, were forced to have abortions. Many women were subjected to painful experiments by SS doctors, often ending in the death of prisoners. By ethnic composition: out of 130,000 registered female prisoners in Auschwitz, 82,000 were Jewish, 31,000 Polish and 11,000 Gypsies, the rest were Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, German, French and Czech women.

We went into some other buildings and in one of them we saw the “Book of the Daily Status”, in which, with German pedantry, the names and camp numbers of all the prisoners killed that day were entered. Nearby on the stand are suicide notes written on scraps of paper by prisoners sentenced to death. Portraits of prisoners hang in all the corridors, and there seems to be no end to them.

The most depressing impressions remained after visiting the exhibition of personal belongings of the prisoners who died in the walls of the camp. We saw mountains of things found in the warehouses of Auschwitz after its liberation, many glasses that were intertwined with their temples, individual mountains of dishes and personal hygiene items, and a huge mountain of human hair. This is all that remains after the destroyed people.

In conclusion, we were taken to building No. 5, where the crematorium was located. We saw two ovens out of three, which were reconstructed from preserved metal elements. There we saw carts on rails, with the help of which the corpses were pushed into the furnace. During the day, this crematorium burned 350 bodies. At the entrance to the crematorium building there is an obelisk, the inscription on which reads: “You are in the building where the SS massacred thousands of people. Please remain silent, remember their suffering and show respect in the name of their memory."

Next to the crematorium, we were shown the building where the office of the camp commandant, Rudolf Hess, was located. On March 29, 1947, the trial of Rudolf Hess took place in Warsaw. The Polish Supreme People's Court sentenced the commandant of Auschwitz to death by hanging. We were shown the gallows on which Hess was hanged, at the exit from the concentration camp in Auschwitz I. This gallows is at least some consolation and retribution for the millions of people who were killed here.

From everything I saw, I was in such a depressed, depressed state that I could not even speak. The brain tried and could not realize the scale of human cruelty that was going on within the walls of this concentration camp. I was sure that I had had enough of what I had seen in Auschwitz I, but according to the plan of our tour, we were taken to Auschwitz II-Birkenau. From the bus stop to the concentration camp, I still had to walk probably a kilometer, which was hard for me, especially under the impression of Auschwitz I.

Auschwitz-Birkenau was Hitler's largest mass extermination concentration camp. This concentration camp began to function on March 1, 1942. At the same time, the deportation of Jews there from France and Slovakia began, in May 1942 from Germany and Austria, in July from Holland, in August from Belgium and Yugoslavia, in December from Norway, in March 1943 Jews were brought from Greece, in October 1943 of the year - from Italy, in May 1944 - from Hungary. Every day, 10 echelons with prisoners arrived at the concentration camp from the occupied territories. Each echelon had 40-50 wagons, and in each wagon from 50 to 100 people, while 70-75% of newcomers were destroyed immediately. On the territory of Birkenau, four crematoria with gas chambers and two temporary gas chambers were built in March-June 1943 in peasant houses converted for this purpose. In total, five crematoria functioned in the Birkenau concentration camp with a capacity of about 270 thousand corpses per month.

At the beginning of 1942, the mass extermination of Jews in gas chambers began and continued until November 1944. In January 1945, all gas chambers and crematoria at Birkenau were dismantled before it was liberated on January 27, 1945 by Soviet troops. According to documents from the archives of the Russian FSB, published in 2010, more than four million people were killed in the Birkenau concentration camp, and most of them were Jews. Also, up to 75 thousand Poles, about 20 thousand Gypsies, about 15 thousand Soviet prisoners and up to 15 thousand prisoners from other countries (Czech Republic, Yugoslavia, France, Germany, Austria) were destroyed.

On June 14, 1947, a memorial complex and a museum were opened on the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

Our acquaintance with the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp began with a demonstration car standing on rails. Recently, concentration camp prisoners from Europe were brought in such wagons.

As you can see from the photo, the car is very durable. At first, ordinary freight cars with small windows covered with barbed wire were used. The Jews pushed into such wagons understood where they were being taken, and some ran along the road, breaking boards from the floor or walls of the wagon and jumping out as the train was moving. The guards, of course, opened fire on them. Therefore, the escapes were mainly made at night. Escapes were also prevented by other people from such a car, knowing that everyone from this car would be punished. In general, the task of the Germans was to create an illusion among the transported victims that they were being taken to a new settlement, so that people would not worry until the last moment before destruction. Therefore, there were signs on the platform showing the direction, for example, to Warsaw or Berlin, although this was the final unloading platform. Even when people undressed in front of the gas chamber, the Nazis asked them to carefully fold their belongings and remember the place where they undressed.

The Birkenau camp was also surrounded by a double barbed wire fence, through which a high voltage current was passed. Between the two rows of fences there was a railroad track.

The territory of the camp was much larger than in Auschwitz I, and one had to walk a lot from one building to another. I trudged somewhere at the end of the group, since I could hear our guide through the radiotelephone. We were shown one wooden hut, in which the prisoners of the camp lived, with multi-tiered wooden bunks, on which they slept, huddled closely together, because. barracks were not heated.

Then we were taken to a restored crematorium, where a model of a gas chamber was demonstrated with a room where people undressed. On the mock-up, people look relatively calm, as they were convinced that they were being sent to the bathhouse. The model shows that on the other side of the wall of the gas chamber there was a crematorium, where the fire hummed continuously day and night. In case of overflow or damage to the ovens, the bodies were burned in pits behind the crematoria. All these actions were performed by prisoners who were part of the Sonderkommando.

We were also shown at Birkenau the unloading platform, where trains with European Jews arrived from the spring of 1942 to mid-May 1944. This platform was called the "Jewish Platform" (Judenramp). At first, there was no platform, and people, including the sick, the elderly and children, had to jump from the cars to the ground (as we did when unloading in Berezovka). Then they made a wooden platform and soon replaced it with a concrete one. On the unloading platform, SS doctors made a selection of newly arrived prisoners: healthy and strong people they formed columns and sent to the camp, while the rest, who were classified as "unfit for work", were taken by trucks to the gas chambers. The last shipments of unfortunate Nazi victims arrived from Hungary in the spring of 1944 (Sonderaktion Ungarn).

Near the memorial to the victims of Auschwitz-Birkenau, we were given free time so that we could stand there and realize that we had visited the most sinister place on earth, where millions of innocent people were killed in a short period of time, first of all, the elderly, women and children.

Along the entire memorial there are plates in all languages ​​of the prisoners who were here, including in Russian with an appeal to all living people to remember the fascist concentration camp and the Auschwitz death camp and prevent its repetition.

When Jews were taken to concentration camps, no one told the unfortunate that they were being taken to be slaughtered. People were told about deportation, about what awaits them in a new place new life and work.

Very few things were allowed to be taken. The calculation was that the poor fellows would find a way to take at least some valuables with them anyway.

Usually the Germans quickly discovered their last "treasures" among the simple belongings of the captives. But a mug with a secret turned out to be too tough for them.

Only the bottom, rusted over time, betrayed the secret of the long-dead owner to scientists.

The care with which the prisoners of the camps hid their belongings indicates that people understood perfectly well that they would be mercilessly robbed. On the other hand, the unfortunate, it seems, still had hope for a better future. Otherwise, Jewish families would have simply surrendered to the mercy of fate, without inventing any tricks.

Now the dead man's jewels will also be on display. Museum workers are sure that the former owner of things seriously hoped that he would be able to leave the camp alive. Alas, the unfortunate one remained forever in Auschwitz.

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As part of the analysis of the myths of the Second World War, it would be appropriate to present the publication of the historian Mark Weber, who dealt with the topic of the "Holocaust" and came to the conclusion that the main conclusions on it, related to the murder of 6 million Jews, are a strong exaggeration. Of course, the revision of the history of the "Holocaust" does not mean that this crime is removed from the Reich. No. What are dozens of "Babi Yars" in the occupied territories of the USSR. But its scale, as well as the share of the Russian population in the lists of those killed in German concentration camps, needs a thorough correction.

Let's also clarify that the mention of the term "myth" in the most profane version, when the myth is likened to a lie, I categorically do not like. but we will not pull out their text.

We look at ss69100 to Auschwitz: myths and facts

Who was actually spread rot in the Nazi concentration camps? Russians. It was only for the Russians that warnings were posted that "Russians who take water here will be shot." With the occupied French, for example, the Nazis were much more correct.

Why do Europeans have hatred for Russians, for Russia? Because we are others. We have the word “conscience” in our vocabulary, but Western Europeans do not have it.

Only we will not go into metaphysics, but put the facts: photographs of Auschwitz. And let's start with a group photo of emaciated Jewish prisoners released from the concentration camp.

Well, what about all this disgusting Holocaust story lies are everywhere, anyone can verify this myself. Make sure for sure : look at the change of official memorial plaques at the entrance to the Auschwitz Museum! After all, at first it was absolutely precisely, in a judicial proceeding, internationally, moreover, it was reliably clarified that that 4 million people died in Auschwitz.

And two years ago Also reliably Polish historians have calculated that the death toll in Auschwitz was not 4 million, but 1 million ( second line of the list, left column).

We translate the title of the table from Polish: „ Estimates of the number of victims in the main German death camps

on Polish soil during the war.

Can the new number be trusted? And why is it possible for her, but the previous, official one, is not? And before that, somewhere in 1980, the commemorative plaque, which is in the photo on the left, was changed to another with a figure of 2 million dead.

Of course, even one million is a terrible figure. And the fascists are notorious villains, like the Americans who bombed Vietnam or the racist Jewish moneylenders. But we will not drown in emotions, but will try to soberly assess and understand: if the so-called. The Holocaust is the death of 6 million Jews, because it was calculated long before 1980, i.e. before the change of the sign in Auschwitz. And even more so before calculations of Polish historians of our century.

So why is the figure of 6 million not adjusted depending on the new, updated and more truthful data??? Agree, 4 million and 1 million, 90% of which supposedly are Jews - a big difference!

But no, they tell us about the mythical 6 million, absolutely regardless of the facts. That is why we stated that all Holocaust stories are blatant and blatantly undisguised lies. A lie that does not withstand the application of even the rudiments of common sense.

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Auschwitz: myths and facts

Production complex I.G. Auschwitz where prisoners of Auschwitz worked (1941 under construction)

Almost everyone has heard of Auschwitz (In the West, Auschwitz is called Auschwitz - note. Transl.), a WWII German concentration camp where masses of prisoners - mostly Jews - were allegedly exterminated in gas chambers. Auschwitz is widely believed to be the worst Nazi extermination center. However, the terrible reputation of the camp does not correspond to the facts.

Scholars disagree with the Holocaust story

To the surprise of many, more and more historians and engineers are questioning the generally accepted history of Auschwitz. These "revisionist" scholars do not deny the fact that a large number of Jews were deported to this camp, or that many died there, especially from typhus and other diseases. However, the compelling evidence they present proves that Auschwitz was not an extermination center and that stories of "gas chamber" massacres are a myth.

IG-Farbenwerke Auschwitz. Ukrainian welder at work.

Photo: Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2007-0075

Auschwitz camps

The Auschwitz camp complex was established in 1940 in the central-southern part of Poland. Between 1942 and mid-1944 many Jews were deported there.

The main camp was known as Auschwitz I. Birkenau or Auschwitz II was allegedly the main extermination center, and Monowitz or Auschwitz III was a major industrial center for the production of gasoline from coal. In addition, there were dozens of smaller camps adjacent to them, which worked for the war economy.

Four million victims?

At the post-war Nuremberg Trials, the Allies claimed that the Germans massacred four million people at Auschwitz. This figure, invented by Soviet communists, was accepted uncritically for many years. For example, she often appeared in major American newspapers and magazines.

Today, no serious historian, even those who generally accept the history of extermination, believes this figure.

Israeli Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer said in 1989 that it was time to finally admit that the well-known figure of four million was a deliberate myth. In July 1990, the State Museum of Auschwitz in Poland, along with the Israeli Holocaust center Yad Vashem, suddenly announced that probably one million people (Jews and non-Jews) had died there in total.

None of these institutions said how many of them were actually killed, nor was the estimated number of people supposedly gassed. Noted Holocaust historian Gerald Reitlinger estimates that approximately 700,000 Jews perished in Auschwitz.

Recently, Holocaust historian Jean-Claude Pressac estimated that about 800,000 people died in Auschwitz, of which 630,000 were Jews. Although even these downwardly corrected figures remain incorrect, they show that the history of Auschwitz has changed enormously over time.

A manger in Auschwitz. Photo Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-2007-0085

Ridiculous stories

At one time, it was most seriously stated that Jews were systematically killed by electric shocks in Auschwitz. American newspapers, citing the testimony of a Soviet eyewitness from the liberated Auschwitz, told their readers in February 1945 that the methodical Germans killed Jews there using "an electric conveyor belt, on which hundreds of people could be electrocuted at the same time, and then transported to ovens. They burned almost instantly, producing fertilizer for nearby cabbage fields."

In addition, at the Nuremberg Tribunal, chief US prosecutor Robert Jackson alleged that the Germans used "a newly invented device to instantly 'evaporate' 20,000 Jews in Auschwitz without leaving a trace of them." No prominent historian today takes such fictional stories seriously.

On the stage of the theater in Auschwitz, a variety and circus group performs in front of the prisoners. Photo: Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2007-0097

"Confession" Hess

The key Holocaust document is the April 5, 1946 "confession" of the former commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Hess, presented by the US Prosecution at the main Nuremberg Trials.

While it is still widely cited as undeniable proof that Auschwitz was an extermination camp, the claim was actually false, obtained under torture.

Many years after the war, British military intelligence officer Bernard Clark told how he and five other British soldiers tortured the former commandant, extracting a "confession" from him. Hess himself explained his torment in the following words: “Yes, of course, I signed a statement that I killed 2.5 million Jews. I could just as well say that there were 5 million of these Jews. There are ways by which you can get any confession whether it's true or not."

Even historians who generally accept the Holocaust extermination story today admit that many of Hess's "sworn" claims are simply lies. For this reason alone, no serious historian-scholar today claims that 2.5 or 3 million people died in Auschwitz.

In addition, Hess's "affidavit" states that Jews were exterminated by gas in the summer of 1941 in three other camps: Belzek, Treblinka and Wolzek. The "Wolseck" camp mentioned by Hess is a complete fabrication.

Such a camp has never existed, and its name is no longer mentioned in Holocaust literature. Moreover, those who believe in the Holocaust legend now claim that the gassing of Jews began in Auschwitz, Treblinka and Belzek only in 1942.

Residential sector in the barracks of Auschwitz. Photo: Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2007-0078

Lack of documentary evidence

After the war, the Allies confiscated many thousands of secret German documents relating to Auschwitz. None of them mentions a plan or program of extermination. When it comes to facts, the story of the extermination cannot be reconciled with documentary evidence.

Unemployed Jewish prisoners

Dental office

in the Auschwitz camp.

The best Jewish doctors worked in it

Photo: Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2007-0083

It is often claimed that all Jews who were unable to work were immediately killed in Auschwitz. Old, young, sick, or weakened Jews are said to have been gassed as soon as they arrived, and those temporarily left to live were worked to death.

However, in fact, the evidence shows that a very large percentage of Jewish prisoners were unable to work and yet were not killed. For example, in a telegram dated September 4, 1943, from the head of the Human Resources Section of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office (WVHA), it was reported that out of 25,000 Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz, only 3,581 were able to work, and the rest of the Jewish prisoners - approximately 21,500 or about 86% were disabled.

This was also confirmed in a secret report on "security measures at Auschwitz" dated April 5, 1944, by the Chief of the SS concentration camp system Oswald Pohl, sent to the Head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler. Paul reported that there were 67,000 prisoners in the entire Auschwitz camp complex, of whom 18,000 were hospitalized or disabled. In the Auschwitz II (Birkenau) camp, supposedly the main extermination center, there were 36,000 prisoners, mostly women, of whom "approximately 15,000 were incapacitated."

These two documents simply don't fit with the story of the Auschwitz extermination.

Evidence shows that Auschwitz-Birkenau was set up primarily as a camp for disabled Jews, including the sick and old, as well as those who were waiting to be sent to other camps. This conclusion was reached by Dr. Arthur Butz of Northwestern University, who also says that this was the reason for the unusually high death rate there.

Princeton University history professor Arno Mayer, who is Jewish, admits in a recent book on the "Final Solution" that more Jews died in Auschwitz from typhus and other "natural" causes than were executed.

Dormitories (as the photo is signed in the original) in Auschwitz. Above is not a gallows, but a canopy over the entrance to the barracks, a sleeping building. The purpose of the item with the handle (on the right) is not clear. Photo: Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2007-0092

Anne Frank

Probably the most famous prisoner of Auschwitz was Anne Frank, who became famous all over the world thanks to her famous diary. However, few people know that thousands of Jews, including Anna and her father Otto Frank, "survived" Auschwitz.

This 15-year-old girl and her father were deported from Holland to Auschwitz in September 1944. A few weeks later, in view of the advance of the Soviet army, Anna, along with many other Jews, was evacuated to the Bergen-Belsen camp, where she died of typhus in March 1945.

Her father contracted typhus in Auschwitz and was sent to the camp hospital for treatment. He was one of the thousands of sick and weakened Jews left there by the Germans when they left the camp in January 1945, shortly before it was taken over by Soviet troops. He died in Switzerland in 1980.

If the Germans had planned to kill Anne Frank and her father, they would not have survived Auschwitz. Their fate, though tragic, is inconsistent with the history of extermination.

Allied propaganda

The stories of gassing at Auschwitz are largely based on the oral statements of former Jewish prisoners who themselves did not personally see evidence of the extermination. Their claims are understandable, since rumors of gassing at Auschwitz were widespread.

Allied planes dropped a huge number of leaflets in Polish and German on Auschwitz and the surrounding areas, which claimed that people were being gassed in this camp. The gas story of Auschwitz, which was an important part of the Allied war propaganda, was also broadcast over the radio to Europe.

Auschwitz: dining room. Photo: Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2007-0087

Auschwitz: Kitchen - culinary and cooking area. Photo: Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2007-0086

Testimony of survivors

Former prisoners confirmed that they saw no evidence of the extermination at Auschwitz.

Austrian Maria Fanherwaarden testified in Toronto District Court in March 1988 about her time at Auschwitz. She was interned in Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1942 for sexual intercourse with a Polish prisoner. As she was being taken by train to the camp, a gypsy woman told her and others that they would all be gassed at Auschwitz.

Upon arrival, Maria and the other women were told to undress and go to a spacious concrete room with no windows and shower. The horrified women thought that they would be killed now. However, instead of gas, water came out of the shower heads.

Maria confirmed that Auschwitz was not a resort. She witnessed the death of many prisoners from diseases, especially from typhus, some even committed suicide. But she saw no evidence of massacres, no gassing, no evidence of any plan of extermination being carried out.

A Jewish woman named Marika Frank arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau from Hungary in July 1944, when 25,000 Jews were allegedly gassed and burned daily. She also testified after the war that she did not see or hear anything about the "gas chambers" during the time she was there. She heard "gas" stories only later.

The Ukrainian women's folk choir performs on the stage of the camp theater in Auschwitz.

Photo: Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2007-0096

Released prisoners

Auschwitz prisoners who had served their sentences were released and returned to their home countries. If Auschwitz was really a secret extermination center, then the Germans would certainly not release prisoners who "knew" what was going on in the camp.

Himmler orders to reduce mortality

In response to the increase in deaths among prisoners as a result of disease, especially typhus, the German authorities responsible for the camps adopted stringent disease control measures.

The head of the SS Camp Administration sent a directive dated 28 December 1942 to Auschwitz and other concentration camps.

It sharply criticized the high death rate of prisoners due to disease and ordered that "Camp doctors must use every means at their disposal to reduce the death rate in the camps." Moreover, the directive provided that:

The camp physicians should, more frequently than in the past, check the nutrition of the prisoners and, together with the administration, make recommendations to the camp commandants... The camp physicians should see to it that working conditions and workplaces are improved as far as possible.

Finally, the directive stressed that "the Reichsfuehrer SS [Heinrich Himmler] has ordered that the death rate must be absolutely reduced."

Internal regulations of German camps

The official internal regulations of the German camps clearly show that Auschwitz was not an extermination center. These rules included the following provisions:

Those arriving at the camp must undergo a thorough medical examination, and in case of doubt [about their health] must be quarantined for observation.

Prisoners who complain of being unwell must be examined by the camp doctor on the same day. If necessary, the doctor must take the prisoner to a hospital for professional treatment.

The camp doctor should regularly inspect the kitchen to check the preparation of the food and the quality of the food. Report any deficiencies to the camp commandant.

Particular attention should be paid to the treatment of victims of accidents so that the productivity of prisoners is not impaired.

Prisoners to be released and transferred must first be examined by the camp doctor.

aerial photography

In 1979, the CIA released detailed photographs of Auschwitz-Birkenau taken over several days during aerial reconnaissance in 1944 (in the midst of the alleged extermination there). These photographs do not reveal any traces of either mountains of corpses, or smoking chimneys of crematoria, or crowds of Jews awaiting death - all that supposedly happened there.

If Auschwitz were the extermination center, as claimed, then all these signs of extermination would be clearly visible in the photographs.

Absurd allegations related to cremation

Cremation experts have confirmed that thousands of corpses could not have been cremated daily at Auschwitz during the spring and summer of 1944, as is commonly claimed.

For example, Ivan Lagas, director of a large crematorium in Calgary, Canada, testified in court in April 1988 that the Auschwitz cremation stories were technically impossible. The claim that 10,000 or even 20,000 corpses were burned daily at Auschwitz in crematoria and open mines in the summer of 1944 is simply "absurd" and "completely unrealistic," he declared under oath.

Gas chamber specialist refutes extermination story

Leading American expert on the gas chambers, Boston engineer Fred Leuchter, carefully examined the alleged "gas chambers" in Poland and concluded that the Auschwitz gassing story was absurd and technically impossible.

Leichter is one of the leading experts in the design and installation of gas chambers used in the United States to execute convicted criminals. For example, he designed the gas chambers for the Missouri penitentiaries.

In February 1988, he carried out a detailed on-site survey in Poland of the "gas chambers" at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek, still standing or only partly destroyed. In his deposition before the Toronto City Court and in his technical report, Leichter detailed every aspect of his research.

He stated that he had come to the convinced conclusion that the alleged gas installations could not have been used to kill people. Among other things, he pointed out that the so-called "gas chambers" were not tightly closed and not ventilated and would inevitably poison the German camp personnel if these "gas chambers" were used to kill people.

Dr. William B. Lindsey, a research chemist who worked for 33 years at the DuPont Corporation, also testified in court in 1985 that the Auschwitz gassing stories were technically impossible.

On the basis of a thorough survey at the site of the "gas chambers" at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek, and on the basis of his professional experience and knowledge, he stated: "I have come to the conclusion that no one was killed in this way with Zyklon B (hydrocyanide gas) deliberately or intentionally. I find it absolutely impossible."

Conclusion

The story of the extermination of people in Auschwitz was a product of military propaganda. More than 40 years after the end of the 2nd World War, it is necessary to take a more objective look at this chapter of history that causes such conflicting opinions. The Auschwitz legend is at the heart of the Holocaust story. If no one systematically killed hundreds of thousands of Jews there, as is claimed, then this means that one of the biggest myths of our time has collapsed.

The artificial maintenance of the hatred and emotions of the past prevents genuine reconciliation and lasting peace from being achieved. Revisionism promotes the development of historical consciousness and international understanding. That is why the work of the History Revision Institute is so important and deserves your support.

Mark Weber

History Revision Institute

Notes

1. Nuremberg document 008-USSR. IMT blue series, Vol. 39, pp. 241, 261.; NC and A red series, vol. 1, p. 35.; C.L. Sulzberger, "Oswiecim Killings Placed at 4,000,000," New York Times, May 8, 1945, and, New York Times, Jan. 31, 1986, p. A4.
2. Y. Bauer, "Fighting the Distortions," Jerusalem Post (Israel), Sept. 22, 1989; "Auschwitz Deaths Reduced to a Million," Daily Telegraph (London), July 17, 1990; "Poland Reduces Auschwitz Death Toll Estimate to 1 Million," The Washington Times, July 17, 1990.
3. G. Reitlinger, The Final Solution (1971); J.-C. Pressac, Le Cr¦matoires d "Auschwitz: La Machinerie du meurtre de mass (Paris: CNRS, 1993). On Pressac" s estimates, see: L "Express (France), Sept. 30, 1993, p. 33.
4. Washington (DC) Daily News, Feb. 2, 1945, pp. 2, 35. (United Press dispatch from Moscow).
5. IMT blue series, Vol. 16, p. 529-530. (June 21, 1946).
6. Nuremberg document 3868-PS (USA-819). IMT blue series, Vol. 33, pp. 275-279.
7. Rupert Butler, Legions of Death (England: 1983), pp. 235; R. Faurisson, The Journal of Historical Review, Winter 1986-87, pp. 389-403.
8. Archives of the Jewish Historical Institute of Warsaw, German document No. 128, in: H. Eschwege, ed., Kennzeichen J (East Berlin: 1966), p. 264.
9. Nuremberg document NO-021. NMT green series, Vol. 5.pp. 384-385.
10. Arthur Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century (Costa Mesa, Calif.), p. 124.
11. Arno Mayer, Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: The "Final Solution" in History (Pantheon, 1989), p. 365.
12. Nuremberg document NI-11696. NMT green series, Vol. 8, p. 606.
13. Testimony in Toronto District Court, March 28, 1988. Toronto Star, March 29, 1988, p. A2.
14. Sylvia Rothchild, ed., Voices from the Holocaust (New York: 1981), pp. 188-191.
15. Walter Laqueur, The Terrible Secret (Boston: 1981), p. 169.
16. Nuremberg document PS-2171, Annex 2. NC&A red series, Vol. 4, pp. 833-834.
17. "Rules and Regulations for the Concentration Camps." Anthology, Inhuman Medicine, Vol. 1, Part 1 (Warsaw: International Auschwitz Committee, 1970), pp. 149-151.; S. Paskuly, ed., Death Dealer: the Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz (Buffalo: 1992), pp. 216-217.

For five days in March 1988, he testified as a recognized expert on the "Final Solution" and the Holocaust issue in a trial in Toronto District Court.

He is the author of many articles, reviews and essays on various issues of modern European history. Weber also appeared on numerous radio broadcasts and on the national television program Montel Williams.

Auschwitz: myths and facts

Who was actually spread rot in the Nazi concentration camps? Russians. It was only for the Russians that warnings were posted that "Russians who take water here will be shot." With the occupied French, for example, the Nazis were much more correct. Why do Europeans have hatred for Russians, for Russia? Because we are others. Our dictionary contains the word " conscience”, while Western Europeans do not have it. Only we will not go into metaphysics, but put the facts: photographs of Auschwitz. And let's start with a group photo of emaciated Jewish prisoners released from the concentration camp.

Well, what about all this disgusting Holocaust story lies are everywhere, anyone can verify this myself. Make sure for sure: look at the change of official memorial plates at the entrance to the Auschwitz Museum! After all, at first it was absolutely precisely, in a judicial proceeding, internationally, moreover, it was reliably clarified that 4 million people died in Auschwitz. And two years ago Also reliably Polish historians have calculated that the death toll in Auschwitz was not 4 million, but 1 million ( second line of the list, left column).

We translate the title of the table from Polish: "Estimates of the number of victims in the main German death camps on Polish soil during the war."

Can the new number be trusted? And why is it possible for her, but the previous, official one, is not? And before that, somewhere in 1980, the commemorative plaque, which is in the photo on the left, was changed to another with a figure of 2 million dead.

Of course, even one million is a terrible figure. And the fascists are notorious villains, like the Americans who bombed Vietnam or the racist Jewish moneylenders. But we will not drown in emotions, but will try to soberly assess and understand: if the so-called. The Holocaust is the death of 6 million Jews, because it was calculated long before 1980, i.e. before the change of the sign in Auschwitz. And even more so before calculations of Polish historians of our century.

So why is the figure of 6 million not adjusted depending on the new, updated and more truthful data??? Agree, 4 million and 1 million, 90% of which supposedly are Jews - a big difference! But no, they tell us about the mythical 6 million, absolutely regardless of the facts. That is why we stated that all Holocaust stories are blatant and blatantly undisguised lies. A lie that does not withstand the application of even the rudiments of common sense.

Auschwitz: myths and facts

Production complex I.G. Auschwitz where prisoners of Auschwitz worked (1941 under construction)

Almost everyone has heard of Auschwitz (in the West, Auschwitz is called Auschwitz - note. Transl.), a WWII German concentration camp where masses of prisoners - mostly Jews - were allegedly exterminated in gas chambers. Auschwitz is widely believed to be the worst Nazi extermination center. However, the terrible reputation of the camp does not match facts.

Scholars disagree with the Holocaust story

To the surprise of many, more and more historians and engineers are questioning the generally accepted history of Auschwitz. These "revisionist" scholars do not deny the fact that a large number of Jews were deported to this camp, or that many died there, especially from typhus and other diseases. However, the compelling evidence they present proves that Auschwitz was not a fighter center and that the stories of massacres in the "gas chambers" are a myth.

IG-Farbenwerke Auschwitz. Ukrainian welder at work.
Photo: Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2007-0075

Auschwitz camps

The Auschwitz camp complex was established in 1940 in the central-southern part of Poland. Between 1942 and mid-1944 many Jews were deported there. The main camp was known as Auschwitz I. Birkenau or Auschwitz II was supposedly the main extermination center, while Monowitz or Auschwitz III was a major industrial center for the production of gasoline from coal. In addition, there were dozens of smaller camps adjoining them, working for the war effort.

Four million victims?

On the post-war Nuremberg Tribunal The Allies claimed that the Germans massacred four million people at Auschwitz. This figure, invented by Soviet communists, was accepted uncritically for many years. For example, she often appeared in major American newspapers and magazines.

Today, no serious historian, even those who generally accept the history of extermination, does not believe this figure. Israeli Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer declared in 1989 that it was time to finally admit that the well-known figure of four million was notorious myth. In July 1990, the State Museum of Auschwitz in Poland, along with the Israeli Holocaust Center Yad Vashem, suddenly announced that a total of probably died there. one million people (Jews and non-Jews). None of these institutions said how many of them were actually killed, nor was the estimated number of people supposedly gassed. Noted Holocaust historian Gerald Reitlinger estimates that approximately 700 000 Jews died in Auschwitz. Recently a Holocaust historian Jean-Claude Pressac estimated that about 800 000 the person of whom 630 000 were Jews. Although even such tweaked towards decreasing number continue to be unfaithful, they show that the history of Auschwitz has changed enormously over time.

A manger in Auschwitz. Photo Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-2007-0085

Ridiculous stories

At one time, it was most seriously stated that Jews were systematically killed in Auschwitz electric shock. American newspapers, citing the testimony of a Soviet eyewitness from the liberated Auschwitz, in February 1945 informed their readers that the methodical Germans killed Jews there using "an electric conveyor belt, on which it was possible to kill with electric shock at the same time hundreds of people and then transport them to the oven. They burned almost instantly, producing fertilizer for the nearby cabbage fields."

In addition, at the Nuremberg Trials, the main prosecutor from the United States Robert Jackson claimed that the Germans used "a newly invented device that allows instantly "evaporate"20,000 Jews in Auschwitz, with no trace left of them." Today, no prominent historian takes seriously such fictitious stories.

On the stage of the theater in Auschwitz, a variety and circus group performs in front of the prisoners. Photo: Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2007-0097

"Confession" Hess

The key Holocaust document is the "confession" of the former commandant of Auschwitz Rudolf Hess dated April 5, 1946, presented by the US Prosecution at the main Nuremberg Trials. While it is still widely cited as undeniable proof that Auschwitz was an extermination camp, the claim was actually false, obtained under torture.

Many years after the war, an officer of the British military intelligence Bernard Clark told how he and five other English soldiers tortured former commandant, seeking a "confession" from him. Hess himself explained his torment in the following words: "Yes, of course, I signed a statement that I killed 2.5 million Jews. I could just as well say that there were 5 million of these Jews. There are ways in which you can get any confession, whether true or not."

Even historians who generally accept the Holocaust extermination story today admit that many of Hess's "sworn" claims are simply lies. For this reason alone, no serious historian-scholar today claims that 2.5 or 3 million people died in Auschwitz. In addition, Hess's "affidavit" states that Jews were exterminated by gas in the summer of 1941 in three other camps: Belzek, Treblinka And wolzek. The "Wolseck" camp mentioned by Hess is a complete fabrication. Such a camp has never existed and its name is now not mentioned in Holocaust literature. Moreover, those who believe in the Holocaust legend now claim that the gassing of Jews began in Auschwitz, Treblinka And Belzeke only in 1942.

Residential sector in the barracks of Auschwitz. Photo: Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2007-0078

Lack of documentary evidence

After the war, the Allies confiscated many thousands of secret German documents relating to Auschwitz. None of them mentions a plan or program of extermination. When it comes to facts, the story of the extermination cannot be reconciled with documentary evidence.

Unemployed Jewish prisoners

Dental office in the Auschwitz camp. The best Jewish doctors worked in it Photo: Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2007-0083

It is often claimed that all Jews who were unable to work were immediately killed in Auschwitz. Old, young, sick, or weakened Jews are said to have been gassed as soon as they arrived, and those temporarily left to live were worked to death. However, in fact, the evidence shows that a very large percentage of Jewish prisoners were disabled and yet they were not killed. For example, in a telegram dated September 4, 1943, from the head of the Human Resources Section of the SS Economic and Administrative Office (WVHA), it was reported that out of 25,000 Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz, only 3,581 were able to work, and the rest of the Jewish prisoners were approximately 21,500 or near 86% were disabled.

This was also confirmed in a secret report on "security measures at Auschwitz" dated April 5, 1944 by the Chief of the SS concentration camp system Oswald Paul sent to the Head of the SS Heinrich Himmler. Paul reported that there were 67,000 prisoners in the entire Auschwitz camp complex, of whom 18,000 were hospitalized or disabled. At the Auschwitz II camp (Birkenau), supposedly the main extermination center, there were 36,000 prisoners, mostly women, of whom "approximately 15,000 were disabled".

These two documents simply don't fit with the story of the Auschwitz extermination.

Evidence shows that Auschwitz-Birkenau was created mainly as a camp for disabled Jews, including the sick and old, as well as those who were waiting to be sent to other camps. Dr. Arthur Butz from Northwestern University, who also says it was responsible for the unusually high death rate there.

Professor of History at Princeton University Arno Mayer, who is Jewish, admits in a recent book on the "Final Solution" that more Jews died in Auschwitz from typhus and other "natural" causes than were executed.

Dormitories (as the photo is signed in the original) in Auschwitz. Above is not a gallows, but a canopy over the entrance to the barracks, a sleeping building. The purpose of the item with the handle (on the right) is not clear. Photo: Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2007-0092

Anne Frank

Probably the most famous prisoner of Auschwitz was Anne Frank, who became known throughout the world thanks to her famous diary. However, few people know that thousands of Jews, including Anna and her father Otto Frank, " survived"Auschwitz.

This 15-year-old girl and her father were deported from Holland to Auschwitz in September 1944. A few weeks later, due to the advance of the Soviet army, Anna, along with many other Jews, was evacuated to the camp Bergen-Belsen where she died of typhus in March 1945. Her father contracted typhus at Auschwitz and was sent for treatment to the camp hospital. He was one of the thousands of sick and weakened Jews left there by the Germans when they left the camp in January 1945, shortly before it was taken over by Soviet troops. He died in Switzerland in 1980.

If the Germans had planned to kill Anne Frank and her father, they would not have survived Auschwitz. Their fate, though tragic, does not agree with a history of extermination.

Allied propaganda

Stories of gassing at Auschwitz are largely based on oral statements by former Jewish prisoners who themselves did not see evidence of extermination. Their claims are understandable, since rumors of gassing at Auschwitz were widespread. Allied planes dropped a huge number of leaflets in Polish and German on Auschwitz and the surrounding areas, which claimed that people were being gassed in this camp. The gas story of Auschwitz, which was an important part of military propaganda Allies, was also broadcast on radio to Europe.

Auschwitz: dining room. Photo: Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2007-0087

Auschwitz: Kitchen - culinary workshop and cooking area. Photo: Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2007-0086

Testimony of survivors

Former prisoners confirmed that they did not see evidence of the extermination at Auschwitz. Austrian Maria Fanherwaarden testified in Toronto District Court in March 1988 about her time at Auschwitz. She was interned in Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1942 for sexual intercourse with a Polish prisoner. As she was being taken by train to the camp, a gypsy woman told her and others that they would all be gassed to death in Auschwitz.

Upon arrival, Maria and the other women were told to undress and go to a spacious concrete room with no windows and shower. The horrified women thought that they would be killed now. However, instead of gas, water came out of the shower heads. Maria confirmed that Auschwitz was not a resort. She witnessed death from diseases many prisoners, especially from typhus some even committed suicide. But she did not see no evidence of massacres, no gassing, no evidence of any plan of extermination being carried out.

Jewish by name Marika Frank arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau from Hungary in July 1944, when 25,000 Jews were allegedly gassed and burned daily. She also testified after the war that she did not see and nothing did not hear about the "gas chambers" at the time she was there. She heard "gas" stories only later.

The Ukrainian women's folk choir performs on the stage of the camp theater in Auschwitz.
Photo: Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2007-0096

Released prisoners

Auschwitz prisoners who served their sentences released and returned to their home countries. If Auschwitz was really a secret extermination center, then the Germans would certainly not release prisoners who "knew" what was going on in the camp.

Himmler orders to reduce mortality

In response to the increase in deaths among prisoners as a result of disease, especially typhus, the German authorities responsible for the camps adopted stringent disease control measures. The head of the SS Camp Administration sent a directive dated 28 December 1942 to Auschwitz and other concentration camps. It sharply criticized the high death rate of prisoners due to disease and ordered that "Camp doctors must use every means at their disposal to reduce the death rate in the camps." Moreover, the directive provided that:

The camp physicians must, more often than in the past, check food prisoners and, together with the administration, make recommendations to camp commandants… Camp doctors should ensure that working conditions and workplaces are have been improved, as much as possible. Finally, the directive stressed that "the Reichsfuehrer SS [Heinrich Himmler] had ordered that the death rate should be absolutely reduced."

Internal regulations of German camps

The official internal regulations of the German camps clearly show that Auschwitz was not extermination center. These rules included the following provisions:

– Arriving at the camp must pass thorough medical examination, and in case of doubt [regarding their health] should be sent to quarantine for observation.

– Prisoners who complain of illness must be examined by the camp doctor on the same day. If necessary, the doctor should place the prisoner to the hospital for professional treatment.

– The camp doctor must regularly inspect the kitchen to check the preparation of the food and the quality of the food. Report any deficiencies to the camp commandant.

- Particular attention should be give treatment victims of accidents so that the productivity of prisoners is not reduced.

– Prisoners to be released and transferred must first be examined by the camp doctor.

aerial photography

In 1979 CIA published detailed photographs of Auschwitz-Birkenau taken over several days during aerial reconnaissance in 1944 (in the midst of the alleged extermination there). These photos do not show no no traces of mountains of corpses, no smoking chimneys of crematoria, no crowds of Jews awaiting death- everything that supposedly happened there. If Auschwitz were the extermination center, as claimed, then all these signs of extermination would be clearly visible in the photographs.

Absurd allegations related to cremation

Cremation experts have confirmed that thousands of corpses could not be cremated daily at Auschwitz during the spring and summer of 1944, as is commonly stated.

For example , Ivan Lagas, the director of a major crematorium in Calgary, Canada, testified in court in April 1988 that the stories of the Auschwitz cremation technically impossible. The statement that 10,000 or even 20,000 corpses were burned daily at Auschwitz in crematoria and open mines in the summer of 1944 is simply " absurd"and "completely unrealistic," he declared under oath.

Gas chamber specialist refutes extermination story

Leading American expert on gas chambers, engineer from Boston Fred Leichter(Fred Leuchter) carefully examined the alleged "gas chambers" in Poland and came to the conclusion that the story of gassing in Auschwitz absurd and technically impossible.

Leichter is one of the largest specialists in the design and installation of gas chambers used in the United States for the execution of convicted criminals. For example, he designed the gas chambers for the Missouri penitentiaries. In February 1988, he conducted a detailed on-site survey in Poland of the "gas chambers" in Auschwitz, Birkenau And Majdanek still preserved or only partly destroyed. In his deposition before the Toronto City Court and in his technical report, Leichter detailed every aspect of his research.

He stated that he had come to the firm conclusion that the proposed gas installations could not be used to kill people. Among other things, he pointed out that the so-called "gas chambers" were not closed tightly and were not ventilated and would inevitably poison the German camp staff if these "gas chambers" were used to kill people.

Dr. William B. Lindsey– research chemist who worked for 33 years at the DuPont Corporation – also testified in court in 1985 that the gassing stories at Auschwitz technically impossible. Based on a thorough site survey of the "gas chambers" at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek, and on the basis of his professional experience and knowledge, he stated: " I have come to the conclusion that no one has been killed in this way with Zyklon B (hydrocyanide gas) intentionally or deliberately. I find it absolutely impossible."

Conclusion

The story of the extermination of people in Auschwitz was spawn of military propaganda. More than 40 years after the end of the 2nd World War, it is necessary to take a more objective look at this chapter of history that causes such conflicting opinions. The Auschwitz legend is at the heart of the Holocaust story. If no one systematically killed hundreds of thousands of Jews there, as is claimed, then this means that one of the biggest myths of our time has collapsed.

The artificial maintenance of the hatred and emotions of the past prevents genuine reconciliation and lasting peace from being achieved. Revisionism promotes the development of historical consciousness and international understanding. That is why the work of the History Revision Institute is so important and deserves your support.

Notes

1. Nuremberg document 008-USSR. IMT blue series, Vol. 39, pp. 241, 261.; NC and A red series, vol. 1, p. 35.; C.L. Sulzberger, "Oswiecim Killings Placed at 4,000,000," New York Times, May 8, 1945, and, New York Times, Jan. 31, 1986, p. A4.
2. Y. Bauer, "Fighting the Distortions," Jerusalem Post (Israel), Sept. 22, 1989; "Auschwitz Deaths Reduced to a Million," Daily Telegraph (London), July 17, 1990; "Poland Reduces Auschwitz Death Toll Estimate to 1 Million," The Washington Times, July 17, 1990.
3. G. Reitlinger, The Final Solution (1971); J.-C. Pressac, Le Crématoires d'Auschwitz: La Machinerie du meurtre de mass (Paris: CNRS, 1993). On Pressac's estimates, see: L'Express (France), Sept. 30, 1993, p. 33.
4. Washington (DC) Daily News, Feb. 2, 1945, pp. 2, 35. (United Press dispatch from Moscow).
5. IMT blue series, Vol. 16, p. 529-530. (June 21, 1946).
6. Nuremberg document 3868-PS (USA-819). IMT blue series, Vol. 33, pp. 275-279.
7. Rupert Butler, Legions of Death (England: 1983), pp. 235; R. Faurisson, The Journal of Historical Review, Winter 1986-87, pp. 389-403.
8. Archives of the Jewish Historical Institute of Warsaw, German document No. 128, in: H. Eschwege, ed., Kennzeichen J (East Berlin: 1966), p. 264.
9. Nuremberg document NO-021. NMT green series, Vol. 5.pp. 384-385.
10. Arthur Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century (Costa Mesa, Calif.), p. 124.
11. Arno Mayer, Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: The ‘Final Solution‘ in History (Pantheon, 1989), p. 365.
12. Nuremberg document NI-11696. NMT green series, Vol. 8, p. 606.
13. Testimony in Toronto District Court, March 28, 1988. Toronto Star, March 29, 1988, p. A2.
14. Sylvia Rothchild, ed., Voices from the Holocaust (New York: 1981), pp. 188-191.
15. Walter Laqueur, The Terrible Secret (Boston: 1981), p. 169.
16. Nuremberg document PS-2171, Annex 2. NC&A red series, Vol. 4, pp. 833-834.
17. "Rules and Regulations for the Concentration Camps." Anthology, Inhuman Medicine, Vol. 1, Part 1 (Warsaw: International Auschwitz Committee, 1970), pp. 149-151.; S. Paskuly, ed., Death Dealer: the Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz (Buffalo: 1992), pp. 216-217.
18. Dino A. Brugioni and Robert C. Poirier, The Holocaust Revisited (Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 1979).
19. Canadian Jewish News (Toronto), April 14, 1988, p. 6.
20. The Leuchter Report: An Engineering Report on the Alleged Execution Gas Chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek (Toronto: 1988). Available for $17.00, postpaid, from the IHR.
21. The Globe and Mail (Toronto), Feb. 12, 1985, p. M3

Translation from English

Sergei Anglinov

Mark Weber is editor of the Journal of Historical Review, published by the Institute of History Revisionism six times a year. He studied history at the University of Illinois (Chicago), the University of Munich, the University of Portland and Indiana University (master's degree in 1977). For five days in March 1988, he testified as a recognized expert on the "Final Solution" and the Holocaust issue in a trial in Toronto District Court. He is the author of many articles, reviews and essays on various issues of modern European history. Weber also appeared on numerous radio broadcasts and on the national television program Montel Williams.