Here is an analysis by Peter Winter:
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OSKAR GRÖNING
The Oskar Gröning trial dissolved into farce The “Bookkeeper of Auschwitz” trial dissolved into a farce after Oskar Gröning accused “eyewitnesses” of exaggerating, while an analysis of his own account of a “gassing at Auschwitz” has shown it to be completely inconsistent with all established “evidence” and includes a patently bogus claim that dead male corpses achieved erections while they were being cremated.
The “outrageous” and even laughable” details of Gröning’s wild delusions are apparent from a close reading of his original statement, and a comparison with all the established claims from the
Holocaust storytellers over the location of the “gas chambers’ at the camp.
Apart from rejecting many of the “eye-witnesses’ claims as “exaggerations,’ the following has also emerged from Gröning’s testimony:
• Gröning said the Red Cross visited Auschwitz and were shown around Camp 1.
• That Gröning freely admitted that what knew about Auschwitz was limited to what “other people had told him.”
• This included his claim that the camp could “dispose’ of 5000 people every 24 hours, which he specifically said other people had told him.
• Gröning said he never saw or experienced any of the “5000 per day death process” himself, despite spending about two years at the camp.
• That he contracted typhus from the prisoners and nearly died from the disease.
• That he was reading from a script prepared for him, and could not remember questions asked of him only a few minutes before.
This prepared script was particularly relevant when it came to his account of witnessing a “gassing’ at the camp, and the fact that his account was completely different to the “gassing in crematoria bunkers’ told by the
Holocaust narrators.
• Gröning had, contrary to the English-speaking media’s reporting, said so little of significance that one of the plaintiffs in the case, alleged “survivor’ Eva Kor told the German media that
“He did not really say much. I’m a little disappointed.”• The English-language coverage of the Gröning trial was subjected to strict censorship in the controlled media in Britain and America, where the editors and journalists have both cherry-picked what they wanted to report and have even fabricated statements and claimed that Groening has made them in court.
Ironically, the court proceedings were much more accurately reported by the media in Germany, as exemplified, for example, by the coverage provided by the Bild newspaper.
Two articles in Bild in particular covered Gröning’s actual testimony in some detail, and, apart from a few sarcastic editorial insertions, have provided a completely different perspective on Gröning’s “confession’ than claimed by the UK and US media.
The first Bild article, titled “
Das Auschwitz-Geständnis des SS-Manns Oskar Gröning” (
The Auschwitz confession of SS man Oskar Gröning), dated 22-04-15, contains Gröning’s exact testimony regarding the “gassing’ he claims to have witnessed. The original German is first and an English translation follows:
Gröning’s claims completely different to all other “Eye-Witness” accountsGröning’s account differs radically from all the “eye-witnesses” and official accounts, which have claimed that the gassings were carried out in underground bunkers attached to the crematoria in Auschwitz Camp 2.
Instead, as detailed above, Gröning said the gassing he witnessed took place in a “farmer’s house in the forest’” and in the middle of the night.
Firstly, although it is clear that his “gassing in a farmhouse in the middle of the nights in the forest” bears no relation to any other account, claim or eye-witness, the controlled media all over the world blindly accepted this claim as the truth, and propagated it without comment.
Holocaust Storytellers will doubtless try and claim that this “farmhouse in the forest” was one the so-called “provisional gas chambers,’ also known in Holocaust legend as the “red” and “blue” houses, or “bunker 1” and “bunker 2.”
As can be seen from the “official’ map of the Auschwitz camp, which claims to show all the “gassing locations,” the “bunker 1” and “bunker 2” (“g” and “h” on the map above, circled) are located at the northern boundary at the western end of the Birkenau camp, and right up against the camp perimeter.
Gröning’s claim that the farmhouse gassing was “hidden in the forest” is therefore clearly inconsistent even with the official Auschwitz
Holocaust story.
Furthermore — and this is the most telling part — Gröning’s testimony in the Luneberg court room appears to be little more than a written summary of his 2005 interview with
Der Spiegel magazine, titled
‘Der Buchhalter von Auschwitz,’ (The Accountant of Auschwitz, 09.05.2005).
According to the coverage of the trial reported by the Abendblatt newspaper, titled “
KZ-Buchhalter Gröning: “Die SS galt als zackige Truppe” (
Concentration Camp Accountant Groening: ‘The SS was considered a smart troop’ 21.04.15), it was here that it became obvious that Gröning was just reading from a script prepared for him.
As the Abendblatt said:
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Hier steht umgebracht”, sagt er fast irritiert mit einem kurzen Blick in das vor ihm liegende Manuskript.“
Here it says killed,” he said, almost irritated with a brief look at the manuscript before him. In fact, it seems that most of the script from which he has been reading in court, has been extracted almost verbatim from that Spiegel interview. There is however one important exception to this verbatim retelling, and that is the part which deals with the “gassing in the forest’ allegation.
The outrageous claims in the Gröning “Confession”In the Spiegel interview, he described the “gassing’ he witnessed as follows (German original in Der Spiegel first, then English translation):
It was during this testimony that Groening accused the “eye-witnesses’ giving testimony in the court room of having exaggerated their descriptions:
Gröning’s refusal to listen to any more testimony on Thursday April 23, 2015, for example, after being forced to hear a “survivor’ rehash the “I pulled gold teeth from dead corpses” fake horror story, provided yet another uncomfortable moment.
The Meaning of “Entlassung”Then came the part where, according to many media reports, Gröning was supposed to have said that he “could not imagine Jews leaving Auschwitz alive.”
A close reading of the actual testimony, detailed in the Bild report, reveals that he in fact did not say this, and instead actually only said that he could “not imagine Jews being released.”
The German word “entlassung” was deliberately mistranslated by the English-language mass media to mean “murdered” instead of its actual meaning, to be “released” or “laid off” (as in being laid off work).
Furthermore, the fact that Gröning was reading off a prepared script became obvious once again when the judge asked him a question not related to the prepared manuscript, as the Bild reported:
Frage: „Haben Sie sich damals vorstellen können, dass die Juden jemals lebend aus dem Lager rauskommen und Nachkommen haben könnten?“
Gröning zögert sehr lange, bespricht sich mit seinen Anwälten. Dann: „Jetzt habe ich leider Ihre Frage vergessen.“
Question: “Could you imagine at the time that the Jews ever could get out alive from the camp and could have descendants?”
Gröning hesitated for a long time, and then conferred with his lawyers. Then [he said]: “Now I have unfortunately forgotten your question.”
Wieder bespricht er sich mit seinen Anwälten. Schließlich sagt er: „Ich konnte mir nur vorstellen, in Auschwitz 1 sind Entlassungen getätigt worden.“
Frage: „Auch Entlassungen von Juden?“
Antwort: „Nein.“
Nachfrage: „Konnten Sie sich das vorstellen?“
Gröning: „Nein, ich konnte mir das nicht vorstellen.“
Again he conferred with his lawyers. Finally, he said: “I could only imagine in Auschwitz 1 that releases were made.”
Question: “Even Entlassungen of the Jews?”
Answer: “No.”
Another question: “Could you imagine that?”
Gröning: “No, I could not imagine that.”
In other words, Gröning actually said that he could NOT imagine Jews being released in Auschwitz: and not that he could not imagine Jews being killed there — which is precisely the opposite of how most English-language media outlets presented the exchange.
The Groening “Confession”: Invented HearsayFrom the above it can be seen that Groening’s ridiculous claims about “erect penises” on “dead men being cremated on grates” after being gassed in a “farmhouse hidden in the woods in the middle of the night” are clearly invented.
The “gassing in the forest” is clearly a fiction developed in his Groening’s own mind, brought on by who knows what psychological impulse. Once caught up in the story, Groening was left with little alternative to follow the “don’t-deny-it-happened-but-I-was-not-involved” type confession. It was a dangerous game which ultimately saw him sentenced to four years in prison —on the basis of a claim which was clearly untrue.
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