Hello, I'm still alive, though no more working "at full throttle" due to a serious health problem. But I hope I'll make it for still a few years to come! By chance I stumbled over this discussion at CODOH and would like to give my two cents to it. I studied the reports in the Dutch press -...

You have provided no proof that HCN was used at Majdanek. Where did the "blue stains" mentioned in the thread's title come from, if not from HCN? About the use of CO at Majdanek, I wrote "IIRC" (If I Remember Correctly). You can feel free to doubt my memory. And please, Mr. (or ...

That's a good question, indeed. CO, for instance, which was also used at Majdanek in the beginning, IIRC, does not leave traces. Certainly when, since the fall of 1942, HCN was used, nobody in the SS thought (or better: was allowed to think) that Germany might lose the war, which could entail proble...

@The Warden: Are "Revisionists" prone to address posters who are critical with regard to "Holocaust Revisionism" in a condescending manner? It is not for the first time that I must remind a "Revisionist" poster to address me either with the name under which I'm posting,...

@ The Warden: Yet the claims the unregistered prisoners are dead Did I ever say that, and particularly in this thread? (Please remember the forum rules: "stick to the subject.") Is it too difficult for you to realize that you cannot make conclusions about the total number of people who die...

At Majdanek, the gas chamber was far too small to be used as an air raid shelter. In addition, its walls were not strong enough to withstand a bomb explosion. The SS in the camps had their own, concrete, underground or half-underground air-raid shelters, and the prisoners did not need such devices.

I am grateful to Hannover that he showed examples of customary gas-tight doors advertised for air-raid shelters in the late 1930s/early 1940s in Germany. Their function was to keep away poisonous gases that might appear in the environment from getting into the interior of a room. (Aside, these poiso...

Zulu said: I believe that the Jews and others who died at Auschwitz are listed on the official death books (Sterbebücher). There are only two small problems with these books: a) They refer only to registered prisoners, i.e. to the minority of the arrivals who had been taken in and had received a pri...

@ stefanob: Please remember that, at the place called "Treblinka," there were two camps, 2-3 miles apart. One was a small, regular concentration/forced labor camp, which was integrated into the system of prisoner migration between the camps, whereas the other was the very facility Revision...

Cloud said: How many trips were made in total, and on what dates did they occur? What were the names of all the personnel involved, what were their specific tasks, and how did they become involved in the first place? Which day had the most trips, and which had the least? What kind of containers were...

@ Hannover: Hans correctly, in his OP, pointed to the fact that the word "propaganda" three generations or more ago had another meaning than it has today. What is "Orwellian" with this? Every linguist will tell you that it is a quite normal phenomenon in every living language. Wh...

@ Hannover: I'm not a Treblinka expert, as an historian, I'm specialized in Dora and Auschwitz. But AFAIK at the site called "Treblinka" there were two different camps, a small one that functioned similar to all concentration/forced labor camps, and a few miles away the other that Revision...

@ Hannover: Pizzaman is right, but as far as I remember, the form was similar, though much shorter. You seem to have a problem with the word "persecution." Could it be, Mr. Hannover, that you presuppose that there was no persecution of Jews in the 3rd Reich? If so, we can end the discussio...

Hannover said: 1. Then why make claims about them 20 years later? 2. I'm only interested in the raw form used at that time, prior to what someone filled in. 3. So why should anyone believe you when you cannot even show us what was asked? ad 1: Well, I feel I have still a good memory. And if need be,...

@ Hannover: 1. You can't show us the forms you claimed to have studied. 2. Then you say "Of course nobody asked them explicitly, "Were you in camp X, Y, or Z ... ?" 3. Then you say "Those who accepted the questionnaires could not even know which camps, prisons, or ghettos existed...