Chronology of major accounts and media coverage

This is an excellent point, 1clown.

Pretty much the story is the same today in its essentials as it was in 1945-46 at the end of the war when the newsreels were bombarded with pictures of sick and emaciated inmates Liberated from concentration camps like Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald and Dachau ─ informed by the earlier propaganda claims that the Germans had gassed and cremated Jews and tried to turn their corpses into fertilizer, and that the German Reichsbank had collected their gold teeth to make currency.

The earliest narrative, what I call the "Liturgy," dates in comic book format to the late Summer of 1944 when Treblinka was captured and Majdanek was liberated, and the Soviets showed photos of crematoria ovens and alleged gas chambers. However, there are claims of homicidal gassings that go back as far as 1942, where Polish/Jewish/Communist sources claimed that Jews were being killed in steam or diesel gaschambers. For example, A year in Treblinka by escapee Jankiel Wiernik was published (English, Polish, Yiddish) in New York in 1944.

An even earlier story on the Nazi Genocide story comes from an article by the Jewish journalist and Hollywood mogul Ben Hecht in the Reader's Digest from February, 1943, called "Remember Us," but the narrative is not liturgically complete with gassings.



Below is an atrocity-propaganda comic book published in New York in the Summer-Autumn of 1944, and the influences of the Majdanek narrative are fairly obvious, with the disrobing, gassing, cremation "Liturgy" now essentially complete:

1. Jews are shipped to Death Camps from occupied Europe for annihilation.
2. They are made to undress for delousing and their clothing and shoes are stolen for salvage.
3. The hot shower is meant to facilitate the poisoning ─ later the showers are just a ruse.
4. They are led into a sealed room and "Zyklon-B" poison is tossed in somehow for gassing.
5. The victims have their gold teeth stolen.
6. The bodies are cremated by the hundreds of thousands in rows of German-built "murder ovens."
7. The ashes are collected as corpse factory fertilizer.

Prof. Robert Faurisson long ago noted that there were not more than a handful of primary eye-witnesses who had (or claimed to have had) any direct experience with a Homicidal Gas Chamber (HGC).

Most of them with a few exceptions were just relating hearsay, or experience with something banal like the laundry or fumigation and delousing. The Nazis did have steam autoclaves and fumigation chambers for disinfecting clothing and other hygienic purposes, and pesticides like Zyklon-B, but these things have rather innocent or non-homicidal context.

Prof. Faurisson's 1979 objections, published in Le Monde, were met with an hysterical petition of 34 signatures from prominent French historians ─ displaying some incredible circular logic ─ that it was unnecessary to question "how" the Genocidal gassings occurred since they occurred.

Faurisson was fined and began an incredible ordeal of legal harassment for asking a taboo question. Very few champions of freedom-of-speech were willing to support Faurisson's right to speak regardless of whether or not they agreed with him.

The petition against him, I call this the "Monkey Manifesto," because its 34 signatories, many of whom were otherwise laudable historiographers like Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, all made monkeys of themselves by attempting to answer Faurisson's objections with a tautology and a catechism instead of arguments and evidence.

There are very few historical subjects that we treat as dogmatically as the Holocaust, or the Big-H as I call it. You can doubt and blaspheme almost any other religious faith, but you cannot question the Holocaust, or anything significant or "essential" about it ─ especially the so-called homicidal gas-chambers (HGCs).

Prof. of History Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptics magazine, wrote a book in 1997 called, Why People Believe Weird Things, which contained a chapter on Holocaust Denial. But Shermer never even tried to present Revisionist ideas; it was just that all Revisionists were anti-Semites and kooks.

Shermer tried a little harder with a book called Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? (2002). This time Shermer got some help from Alex Grobman, a Jewish PhD who presumably is less clueless about the Holocaust than Michael Shermer.

But it was the same problem. The anti-Deniers are far less interested in exploring any arguments against the Holocaust than they are in pathologizing those who don't swallow the Holocaust enchilada whole.

Dr. Shermer's great insight was called "Convergence of Evidence." What this means is that when two stories that are rich in details that (independently) converge, the probability is greater that the stories are true than if they had lone (or common) claims with possibly invented stories and insights.

It is far easier to "remember" known details when asked than it is to "invent" unknown details that fit a coherent narrative after the fact.

So, the Holocaust is "True" because it is "the most documented set of historical facts" ever devised ─ or so the story goes.

Shermer forgot to mention that these facts only "converge" when the sources are INDEPENDENT of each other, especially informationally. That is why police officers tend to separate the suspects that they arrest so that they do not have time to "get their story straight" with each other prior to questioning.

Once you contaminate the narrative stream with the news media and Hollywood, and so on, any primary Holocaust narrative devolves into almost useless hearsay. That is why witnesses in court are allowed to testify about what they know and experienced firsthand, not about what they think they know or have heard secondhand.

Prof. Faurisson understood, if Prof. Shermer didn't, that the actual amount of primary eye-witnesses for Nazi homicidal gas-chambers were as scarce as hen's teeth.

On the famous Phil Donahue TV show in a 1994 episode, this blew up on Michael Shermer, who was not prepared. On the TV program, Donahue had Holocaust Deniers David Cole and Bradley Smith who were to be set straight by Prof. Shermer.

Cole was frustrated that Shermer had not done any homework on the subject matter, and after Donahue kept asking questions about his Jewishness he stormed off the stage, leaving Bradley Smith alone with the audience questions. Shermer then interrupts to explain that the well-known story that Jews were made into soap by the Nazis was not true ─ "not a lie but a mistake" ─ to which an elderly Jewess in the audience, who claimed to be a survivor of seven months in Auschwitz, angrily said that Shermer was wrong, that he was not there. She knew "the smell" from cooking the Jewish cadaver soap, "like roast chicken." 

Clearly this lady had been told something that wasn't true and had juxtaposed her own or other's experiences with the laundry in some wartime context like a concentration camp, to become part of the Hollywood atrocity narrative. Bradley Smith asked why that is the case. He wondered, why were people like this lied to?

Degreed Chemist Germar Rudolf has now taken over CODOH publishing from the late Bradley Smith, and they are relentlessly publishing new volumes on the Holocaust, often written and edited by Carlo Mattogno. There is a new book on Dachau and at least three Holocaust Handbook Series volumes on the Auschwitz Sonderkommando, the Jews who were allegedly forced by the Nazis to gas and cremate their ethnic coreligionists.

I would say that Faurisson's dicta that there are only a handful of primary source eye-witnesses to the homicidal gas-chambers remains as true as ever ─ "perpetrators, victims, and bystanders" ─ and as the late Columbia-educated engineer and Revisionist Friedrich Paul Berg would often say, "they are all Liars."

1clown wrote:

I don't think that you understand the true believer's ability to rationalize the conventional narrative of the holyhoax. The impossibilities are completely understandable "exaggerations" or "emotive language" that do in fact describe an underlying event. Just because the description of an event is wildly impossible doesn't mean that an actual event didn't take place. As described, the gas chambers were impossibilities but that doesn't negate the existence of gas chambers. Thus the impossibilities described by the alleged eyewitnesses are sidestepped and the conventional narrative continues.

Wiernik was a communist terrorist whose recollections are far from tainted but influenced by the various groups below, most likely not his work at all, but terrorist jews using his name for their own nefarious purposes.


Here we have an alleged extermination camp at Birkenau where another terrorist who murdered SS guards were given a second chance. This is pure fantasy.



This is the reality:
The Germans crushed the revolt. Nearly 250 prisoners died during the fighting and guards shot another 200 after the mutiny was suppressed. Several days later, the SS identified four Jewish female prisoners who had been involved in supplying explosives to blow up the crematorium. All four women were executed.....link