Here are 60 direct quotes from 40 different Nazi officials about what they were doing to Jewish people, sourced to the original documents and recordings. All of it is from 1938-1944, so none of it is from post-war confessions.
Page 1 opens with Hitler, Goebbels, and Himmler, but it also includes people like Oberleutnant Walther, a field officer who wrote in a report that shooting Jews was faster than shooting Gypsies, "100 men in 40 minutes," and noted they were calm when they died.
The Goebbels entry is from his private diary.
Later pages have Himmler ordering troops to "drive Jewish women into the swamps," Romania's head of state saying "I say there is no law, I take full legal responsibility," and a Wehrmacht field marshal whose kill order Hitler praised and sent to every Eastern Front commander as a model.
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Franz and other SS are a huge problem for deniers. Jailed for 30 years, released for health reasons, and never recanted. If you were imprisoned for 30 years because of a "hoax", wouldn't you write hundreds of letters to journalists/CODOH/Nazi sympathisers to expose the injustice?
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patrick p retweeted
Holocaust deniers have no evidence & dismiss overwhelming evidence & testimonies of survivors, perpetrators, trials & even the sites of mass extermination. They rely on bland assertions that have no basis in reality- like the 9/11 conspiracy theorists who deny planes hit the WTC.
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Reposting with a couple of small caption corrections.
Here's Kurt Franz, the head of the Treblinka extermination camp, interviewed in the early 90s:
"They were led in there and came up here into the so-called gas chamber, and there they were gassed. That's how it was, and it's a fact, and I won't go back on that."
He also served at Belzec, another death camp. After being asked whether the people killed there were criminals, he remembered a mother and daughter who begged for each other's life:
"No, I wouldn't say that, because then, in Belzec, I wouldn't have spoken with the woman and her daughter, who each pleaded for the other's life. The daughter pleaded for the mother's life, and the mother for the daughter's."
Of the 434,508 Jews sent to Belzec, only 2 (both men) were known to have survived. The mother and daughter who pled with Franz were killed.
Holocaust deniers claim Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka were "transit camps", where Jews were sent further east. This is strange because 1. everyone (30ish folks) who was put on trial admitted they were death camps and 2. deniers can't name a single person who was resettled. Of ~1.5 million Jews taken to these three camps, only ~130 were ever seen alive again.
Sourced from the documentary Der Judenmord: Deutsche und Osterreicher berichten (WDR, 1998). English captions translated from Franz's German, with lots of help from @gaemsae. Cut and captioned by me.
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"[The Jews] ran the gauntlet because, of course, they hesitated at the first shots. Then they were jabbed with bayonets and ran into the pit.
And I was outraged that this SS officer, with a captured Russian rifle, even joined in the shooting from two meters away, so that after half an hour he stood there, his Klepper coat splattered with brains and blood down to his knees."
This is from Klaus Hornig, a German police officer and lawyer who served with Police Battalion 306 in occupied Poland. He refused an order to shoot Jewish prisoners in 1941, and was imprisoned and sent to Buchenwald. More on his life here: gedenkort.at/personen/8b222a…
Sourced from the documentary Der Judenmord: Deutsche und Osterreicher berichten (WDR, 1998). English captions translated from Hornig's German, with lots of help from @gaemsae. Cut and captioned by me.
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patrick p retweeted
Those article are referencing the estimated number of jews in Russian territory. Stop being a gullible tool.
Bottom-of-the-barrel revisionists post pre-war newspaper headlines containing "six million Jews" as proof the figure was recycled or fabricated. I ran the same newspapers.com search for every number from one to nine, 1900 to 1939. "Three million" tops the list at 2,552. "Six million" ranks fifth.
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And yet...
Urgent orders for ydrogen cyanide detectors:
x.com/ppow84/status/20975106…
Chamber by chamber findings of studies to identify traces of cyanide in Auschwitz/ Auschwitz-Birkenau:
On Feb 26, 1943, about two weeks before the first gassing in Krema II, Auschwitz urgently requested 10 gas detectors from Topf & Sohne. Topf replied that they were having a hard time locating the hydrogen cyanide residue detectors.
Keep in mind, we're supposed to believe this was for a morgue.
>We acknowledge receipt of your telegram, which reads: “Send immediately 10 gas testers as discussed. Submit the cost estimate later.”
>In this connection, we inform you that already two weeks ago we asked five different firms about the indicator devices for hydrogen-cyanide residues that you requested. Three firms have declined, and replies from two others are still outstanding.
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"Then all the prisoners quickly had to check for small children who'd been covered up. They brought them all out and quickly opened the door.
Bang, they threw all the children inside and slammed the doors shut … And believe me, how they screamed inside when they threw the children in. Only then did the people realize what was happening."
Richard Boeck, an SS driver at Auschwitz, describing the gassing of a transport of Dutch Jews at Bunker 1 in Birkenau. Parents had hidden their kids under the piles of clothes in the undressing hall.
The interview is audio only, so I took some time to model the buildings he mentions using both his testimony and other people's accounts of Bunker 1 (a farmhouse the SS converted into a gas chamber.)
Sourced from the Imperial War Museum (USHMM RG-50.148.0001). The 3D models and visuals were done by me. English subtitles translated from his German, then cut and captioned by me.
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Fun fact: You absolutely can both acknowledge that other groups in the U.S. have been treated far worse than Jews and not diminish the Holocaust.
Ah yes because the Jews are known for being hanged, lynched, systemically being murdered, targeted by the American government… oh wait none of that is them… they were slightly persecuted once in Germany and since then they haven’t stfu about it
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What's even more hilarious: because of the many obvious errors on a technical level Rudolf came to suspect that the real author of the Leuchter report might actually by Robert Faurisson, a professor of literature. And: Faurisson directly told him he wrote the Leuchter report!
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Listen to a mass murderer explain the paperwork.
Nuremberg, 3 January 1946. Otto Ohlendorf, commander of Einsatzgruppe D, calmly describes how his unit rounded up Jews in the USSR: registration, the lie of " resettlement, " trucks to antitank ditches, firing squads.
His own voice. His own words. English subtitles.
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Jozefa Anasiewicz recounts watching from her house in Belzyce, Poland, as the town's last Jews, many of them women and children, were shot at the synagogue wall:
"A mother had two daughters. The mother in the middle, a daughter on either side. And they shot them … they turned toward the synagogue, by the wall, and were shot from behind."
"They shot them, and into the pit! Into the pit. Shot them and into the pit. Then the next ones."
"They were running away, sir. They were running toward my house. They ran to my shed. There was a woman, a young woman. They shot her there, in my cowshed."
"It was there maybe two or three weeks. The Ukrainians came a second time. Then they began shooting … And they kept taking two or three at a time to the synagogue wall and shooting them."
When the interviewer asked who dug the pit: "The Jews they were shooting! The very same Jews they were shooting … At first it was a small pit. After about two days... it smelled. And they were to dig another pit."
The shooting she's referencing happened in May 1943, when SS-Oberscharfuhrer Reinhold Feiks and his SS Ukrainian auxiliaries shot 500 to 600 Jews in Belzyce, including 150 children.
Sourced from USHMM's Polish witness interviews (RG-50.488.0029, recorded July 8, 1998, interviewed by Michal Cichy). English captions translated from Anasiewicz's Polish, cut and captioned by me.
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This is the full, unedited interview (besides my added captions), in case anyone is interested.
Besides the shootings, she has some really interesting stories about her life and upbringing.
She also describes the deportations in Oct 1942 where Jews from the surrounding towns and villages, most of them old people, women and children, were brought into Belzyce and a few days later taken to the train, most likely to the extermination camp Sobibor.
There are also some really sweet stories about rolling out matzah with her Jewish neighbors.
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Für mich ist es der Fettsack mit der Fahne, der zu faul ist aus seinem Sessel aufzustehen.
NOW: Swastika-wearing National Socialist Movement leader Burt Colucci speaks about Jewish people at Prosper, Texas town hall.
No current counter-protesters present after police officially trespassed the only three.
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Sobibor est un centre de mise à mort où les Juifs étaient transportés à la seule fin d’être assassinés en masse.
La Shoah, c’est ça. L’extermination systématique d’un peuple massacré hors tout objectif militaire.
Les comparaisons avec le présent sont ignominieuses.
Jan Piwonski, a Polish railway worker at the Sobibor station, talking about the eerie silence following the extermination camp's first transport. No one knew where the Jews had gone, until the smell of their decomposing bodies spread through the area, and more transports kept arriving.
On the morning after the transport, when he had come back to work: "Simply silence. Nothing was happening … Apart from the sentries carrying out their normal guard duty, where we could see into the camp there were no groups visible doing any work. Already then, we began to suspect that the Jews must have been taken somewhere. But where?"
"After two or three days following the first transport, another transport arrived. At the same time, the mystery, let us say, of where the Jews from the first transport had gone began to reveal itself. In the area, the stench of decomposing human bodies began to spread."
"Very hot days had begun; it was the start of summer … around thirty degrees, and from what we observed and inferred, we concluded that the first transport had been murdered."
"When, after a few days, new transports began arriving, we knew that the people brought in those transports would be killed here."
Sourced from the Shoah outtakes, USHMM (RG-60.5031, reel FV3340). English captions translated from Piwonski's Polish and checked against the USHMM transcript, cut and captioned by me. This is condensed to avoid the interpreter interruptions, but I'll post the full clip as a reply.
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Jan Piwonski, a Polish railway worker at the Sobibor station, talking about the eerie silence following the extermination camp's first transport. No one knew where the Jews had gone, until the smell of their decomposing bodies spread through the area, and more transports kept arriving.
On the morning after the transport, when he had come back to work: "Simply silence. Nothing was happening … Apart from the sentries carrying out their normal guard duty, where we could see into the camp there were no groups visible doing any work. Already then, we began to suspect that the Jews must have been taken somewhere. But where?"
"After two or three days following the first transport, another transport arrived. At the same time, the mystery, let us say, of where the Jews from the first transport had gone began to reveal itself. In the area, the stench of decomposing human bodies began to spread."
"Very hot days had begun; it was the start of summer … around thirty degrees, and from what we observed and inferred, we concluded that the first transport had been murdered."
"When, after a few days, new transports began arriving, we knew that the people brought in those transports would be killed here."
Sourced from the Shoah outtakes, USHMM (RG-60.5031, reel FV3340). English captions translated from Piwonski's Polish and checked against the USHMM transcript, cut and captioned by me. This is condensed to avoid the interpreter interruptions, but I'll post the full clip as a reply.
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