Tommo wrote:Just had the Einsatzgruppen thing thrown at me with this...
https://www.hdot.org/debunking-denial/ezg6-mass-graves/
According to Denial on Trial, mass graves have been found everywhere, and Rudolf has been shown up countless times.
How to respond, I dunno?
I haven't SEEN any evidence for mass graves, only told that they are there. And not told the context of what these ones were either.
Apparently they correspond with the Ops Reports too.
Be advised that we don't "deny" the existence of mass graves. But what exactly do they proof and does the content of the graves coincide with claims being made?
I watched recently a copy of the TV-movie "Nuremberg" (2000) and there was the testimony of a "Friedrich Graebe" mentioned. Not sure how accurate the movie portrayal was and I noticed various "artistic license" in action in the movie. But I think that movie should perhaps be discussed on its own. Anyway here is the Graebe testimony:
My foreman and I went directly to the pits. Nobody bothered us. Now I heard rifle shots in quick succession from behind one of the earth mounds. The people who had got off the trucks - men, women and children of all ages - had to undress upon the order of an SS man who carried a riding or dog whip. They had to put down their clothes in fixed places, sorted according to shoes, top clothing and undergarments. I saw heaps of shoes of about 800 to 1000 pairs, great piles of under-linen and clothing. Without screaming or weeping these people undressed, stood around in family groups, kissed each other, said farewells, and waited for a sign from another SS man, who stood near the pit, also with a whip in his hand. During the fifteen minutes I stood near, I heard no complaint or plea for mercy. I watched a family of about eight persons, a man and a woman both of about fifty, with their children of about twenty to twenty-four, and two grown-up daughters about twenty-eight or twenty-nine. An old woman with snow white hair was holding a one-year-old child in her arms and singing to it and tickling it. The child was cooing with delight. The parents were looking on with tears in their eyes. The father was holding the hand of a boy about ten years old and speaking to him softly; the boy was fighting his tears. The father pointed to the sky, stroked his head and seemed to explain something to him. At that moment the SS man at the pit started shouting something to his comrade. The latter counted off about twenty persons and instructed them to go behind the earth mound. Among them was the family I have just mentioned. I well remember a girl, slim with black hair, who, as she passed me, pointed to herself and said, "twenty-three years old." I walked around the mound and found myself confronted by a tremendous grave. People were closely wedged together and lying on top of each other so that only their heads were visible. Nearly all had blood running over their shoulders from their heads. Some of the people shot were still moving. Some were lifting their arms and turning their heads to show that they were still alive. The pit was nearly two-thirds full. I estimated that it already contained about a thousand people. I looked for the man who did the shooting. He was an SS man, who sat at the edge of the narrow end of the pit, his feet dangling into the pit. He had a tommy-gun on his knees and was smoking a cigarette. The people, completely naked, went down some steps which were cut in the clay wall of the pit and clambered over the heads of the people lying there to the place to which the SS man directed them. They lay down in front of the dead or wounded people; some caressed those who were still alive and spoke to them in a low voice. Then I heard a series of shots. I looked into the pit and saw that the bodies were twitching or the heads lying already motionless on top of the bodies that lay beneath them. Blood was running from their necks. The next batch was approaching already. They went down into the pit, lined themselves up against the previous victims and were shot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Friedrich_Graebe
Full name is Hermann Friedrich Gräbe (1900-1986) - Interestingly he has been accused of perjury at subsequent trials. Now I wonder was there any forensic investigation at the places where Graebe claims to has witnessed the shootings?
