Saturday, July 02, 2011

Challenge to Supporters of the Revisionist Transit Camp Theory

[Updated on 16.03.2014 and 19.03.2014 to accommodate a change request by Eric Hunt expressed on the Skeptics Society Forum thread Reissue Muehlenkamp's Challenge so I can win.]

[Updated on 14.08.2017 to expand the choice of potential arbiters.]

This challenge was born out of an amenable conversation between my old friend Greg Gerdes and me on the threads $1,000.00 REWARD FOR THE NAME OF JUST ONE GASSED JEW and Transit Camp Challenge in the Revisionist Projects section of the Revisionist Workshop forum.



Challenge to Supporters of the Revisionist Transit Camp Theory
By Roberto Muehlenkamp

According to Revisionist scripture, the places known by history to have been extermination camps were mere transit camps, places where arriving deportees were bathed, had themselves and/or their clothing deloused, were perhaps given a hot meal or drink and then sent onwards to final destinations in the Nazi-occupied territories of the USSR, where they were resettled in camps or ghettos. The numbers that Revisionists claim to have been transited through these camps is enormous. The Korherr Report alone, which Revisionists claim must be understood literally in this respect, mentions 1,274,166 Jews transited to the "Russian East" through "the camps in the General Government" (mainly Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka, as we know now from the Höfle telegram) and 145,301 Jews transited to the "Russian East" through "the camps in the Warthegau" (obviously Chełmno/Kulmhof), until the end of 1942. So a total of 1,419,467 persons are supposed to have been transited to the "Russian East" in this period through these camps alone, instead of being gassed at these camps as all known evidence shows them to have been. Some of them would have succumbed to hardship on the journey or at the place of destination, but most would have survived the war and returned to their places of origin or emigrated after the war. Their names would have been carefully recorded (also in order to control them), and there would have been no reason for the Nazis to destroy these records or any other part of the huge paper trail that this gigantic resettlement operation would have created (on the contrary, all this documentation would have been their best safeguard against accusations that they had murdered these people). The deportees would have been seen along the route and at the place of final destination by a great many people, including but not limited to those in charge of transporting and accommodating them and the local population. From such witnesses, but especially from the surviving deportees themselves, there should be thousands upon thousands of accounts narrating their experiences. Having been subject to persecution by the Nazi government, the many surviving deportees, or at least a substantial part of them, would have filed compensation claims with the German Federal Republic after the war. There would be records about their return home or their emigration, and there would be records about their later whereabouts. From all these accounts and documentation, names of deportees transited through Chełmno, Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka to the "Russian East" should be all over the place, and it should be a piece of cake to find such names and proof that their bearers were transited through these places.

My challenge is the following:

I, Roberto Muehlenkamp, have at this moment a certain sum on a savings account, the existence of which I can prove and of which I am prepared to pay up to $ 4,000, $ 1,000 for each name, to the first Revisionist(s) who can provide, along with corresponding conclusive evidence, the names of up to 4 Jews who were transited through Chełmno, Bełżec, Sobibór or Treblinka (not necessarily one per camp, can be all four through one camp, two here and two there or any other combination) to the Nazi-occupied territories of the Soviet Union, i.e. the areas of what was then known as the Reichskommissariat Ostland, the Reichskommissariat Ukraine or the Soviet territories under German military administration, in the years 1942 or 1943. By transited I mean that the person in question must have been taken to the respective camp, then shipped from that camp to a certain destination in the Nazi-occupied territories of the Soviet Union as defined above, e.g. to Minsk, Riga, Kovno or Kiev.

This challenge is open to all Revisionists. However, as the available budget is limited to $ 4,000 in total, only the first Revisionist(s) to submit successful applications will be entitled to the reward of $ 1,000 per name. The budget may be enlarged at any time. Any opponent of Revisionism who wishes to contribute to the budget is welcome to contact me. Said person shall, if accepted, become a named co-promoter of this challenge and be individually liable for the amount contributed to the budget, which will be made public along with the co-promoter’s name and used after the initial $ 4,000 budget provided by me has been spent, if it should be spent. Joint and several liability among co-promoters shall be excluded.

Each Revisionist who accepts this challenge (hereinafter the "Applicant") will have 365 days from the date of his/her express acceptance in writing of the challenge to provide at least one name with corresponding evidence. Evidence accepted will be documentary records, whose authenticity must be proven upon request, or eyewitness testimonies by the transited person himself/herself and/or one or more persons who saw the transited person undergo the procedure described above and mention the transited person's name in a manner allowing for the transited person's identification. If such testimony is in an archive, a verifiable reference to its precise location in that archive must be provided for checking. If such testimony is not in an archive (if, for instance, some geriatric Nazi telling about how he saw an acquaintance of his undergo the procedure described above should be presented), assessment of that witness’s credibility will be accordingly more rigorous. The credibility and conclusiveness of the evidence provided will be assessed by either of the following persons (hereinafter referred as "Arbiter(s)"), at the Applicant’s choice:

1. Mr. Michael Shermer
2. Mr. James Randi
3. A board consisting of a professional "exterminationist" historian, a Revisionist "historian" or researcher, and a practicing judge or juror at a court of law in Europe or the US.

The Arbiter(s) must within 60 (sixty) days after proof submittal issue a categorical statement regarding each transited person presented by the Applicant, which in case of alternative 3 must be signed by all Arbiters, stating whether or not they consider the proof submitted as proving beyond a reasonable doubt, according to their standards of evidence, that the named person a) exists or existed and b) was transited through Chełmno, Bełżec, Sobibór or Treblinka to the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories as described above. The statement must read as follows:

«I/we [name(s) of Arbiter(s)], hereby state that the evidence submitted to me (us) by [name of Applicant] does (does not), in our opinion and according to the standards of evidence we have applied, prove beyond a reasonable doubt that [name of transited person] was transited to the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories in 1942 or 1943 through the camp [name of camp]. This means that we do (do not) consider it proven beyond a reasonable doubt that [name of transited person] underwent the procedure that Jews are supposed to have undergone according to Revisionist claims: taken to the respective camp, then shipped from that camp to a certain destination in the Nazi-occupied territories of the Soviet Union, i.e. the areas of what was then known as the Reichskommissariat Ostland, the Reichskommissariat Ukraine or the Soviet territories under German military administration.»

Endorsing statements issued within the aforementioned 60 days deadline will be immediately accepted by me, bar evidence known to me at the time that they were based on falsified documents and/or false or falsified testimonies. The amount of $1,000 corresponding to each proof accepted by the Arbiter(s) will then be transferred to the Applicant’s account. If the evidence submitted should subsequently turn out to consist of forged documents and/or false or falsified testimonies, criminal charges will be placed against the Applicant.

Given the utter impossibility of no names of transited persons having become known within more than six (almost seven) decades after the events in question, failure to submit at least one name with proof within the aforementioned period (365 days) will be taken as implying the Applicant’s admission that the Revisionist transit camp theory does not hold water. The same applies if all proofs submitted should be expressly rejected by the Arbiter(s) according to the above form, or if the Arbiter(s) should fail to pronounce themselves according to the above form about the proof submitted until the aforementioned deadline. In either of these cases, the Applicant will be required to, within five days after rejection has been notified, submit to me a signed written statement whereby he acknowledges that the Revisionist transit camp theory is baseless and unsustainable. This statement will be published on the present blog site. If the Applicant should run or post on a Revisionist website or blog, the Applicant will further be required to, at his choice, permanently remove that website or blog or permanently place or have placed that statement in a clearly visible manner on the front page of such website or blog. By accepting the challenge, the Applicant expressly undertakes to sign, submit and publicize and allow the publication of this statement in the manner described before, and to refrain from any subsequent claims that may put in question his conviction about the accuracy of this statement, in case he should fail to meet the challenge's requirements as described before. The statement that the failing Applicant will be required to sign has the following wording (the second sentence applies only to owners or contributors of Revisionist websites or blogs):

«I, [full name of Applicant], having failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that even one Jewish deportee was transited to the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories via any of the camps Chełmno, Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka, hereby acknowledge that I consider the Revisionist theory whereby these camps were not extermination camps but transit camps to be wholly baseless and unsustainable. I hereby undertake to immediately and permanently remove my website/blog [name and URL of website/blog], or to place on that website/blog’s front page a clearly visible copy or transcription of the present statement, and to refrain from any future claims that might call in question my conviction about the accuracy of this statement. »

Revisionists wishing to accept the challenge must send an e-mail to Roberto Muehlenkamp (cortagravatas@yahoo.com), stating the following (the text in round brackets is to be deleted if not applicable):

«I, [name of Applicant], (owner/contributor of the Revisionist website/blog [name and URL of the website blog]), hereby accept your Challenge to Supporters of the Revisionist Transit Camp Theory as stated on the Holocaust Controversies blog site under [url of Challenge blog], and undertake to, within 365 days after this date, provide proof of at least one person identified by name who was transited through either of the camps Chełmno, Bełżec, Sobibór or Treblinka to the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories in 1942/43, in the manner more precisely described in the Challenge, to the Arbiter(s) chosen by me from among those mentioned in the Challenge. You will be immediately notified of the Arbiter(s) identity and the proof submitted to such Arbiter(s).»


This challenge is not meant to be written in stone. It will be changed from time to time as deemed necessary for its improvement. Every change will be clearly identified. The terms of the challenge that will apply for each individual Applicant are those in force on the date that Applicant accepts the challenge, the Applicant receiving a PDF of the current version on that day by return mail. However, the Applicant will benefit from any changes favorable to Applicants that should be made after the Applicant’s acceptance, such as a co-promoter’s contribution to the budget or an additional Arbiter choice.

Reasonable change suggestions are welcome. One change suggestion has already been made by Greg Gerdes, though it can hardly be called reasonable. Gerdes demanded that CODOH’s founder Mr. Bradley R. Smith be appointed the challenge’s sole arbiter. I replied that this would be like putting Dracula in charge of the blood bank. However, and although I have the strongest misgivings about Mr. Smith’s capacity to make a critical, impartial and objective assessment of what evidence should eventually be submitted, and considering that Mr. Smith might rather want to become an Applicant to the challenge, I have agreed to grant Mr. Smith the opportunity to arbiter the challenge if he should wish to do so. In such case he should contact me under my aforementioned e-mail address and apply for the arbiter position, whereupon he will be added to the list of possible arbiters provided that he expressly undertakes in writing:
a) To make a critical, impartial and objective assessment of the evidence that should be submitted to him, according to accepted rules and standards of evidence,
b) To be sufficiently critical as concerns the evidence he accepts, namely to demand that the authenticity of documents submitted be proven (there being no knowledge after almost seven decades about the existence of documents whereby deportees were actually transited through the AR camps or Chełmno, one should be highly suspicious of any such document that is submitted),
c) To check that the archival references of recorded testimonies submitted are accurate, and to apply the most rigorous skepticism regarding any non-archived and hitherto unknown testimony that should be submitted,
d) To provide a verifiable justification of the assessment made and conclusion reached.
The requirement of such undertaking is not expressed regarding the other arbiters, as it is assumed that they will comply with these requirements anyway. If Mr. Smith should so require, however, it will be stated that all arbiters accepting the nomination will be required to sign the same undertaking.
Needless to say, adding Mr. Smith to the list of Arbiters will in practice make him the sole Arbiter, as I can’t think of a Revisionist who will choose any other Arbiter.

I assume that Greg Gerdes will inform Mr. Smith about this challenge.


Update, 03.07.2011, 16:10 hours GMT: the precision "by train" was removed from my explanation of what I mean by "transited", given that Jews are known to have also been taken to these camps (though in compatively smaller numbers) by truck, by horse carriage and even on foot. I have also allowed for the possibility that the hypothetical transport to the "Russian East" was made by means other than rail. The explanation therefore now reads as follows:


By transited I mean that the person in question must have undergone the procedure that Jews are supposed to have undergone according to Revisionist claims: taken to the respective camp, bathed and deloused and perhaps (but not necessarily) given a hot meal or drink there, then shipped to a certain destination in the Nazi-occupied territories of the Soviet Union as defined above, e.g. to Minsk, Riga, Kovno or Kiev.


The form of the Arbiter statement endorsing or not endorsing the proof submitted was changed accordingly and now reads as follows:


«I/we [name(s) of Arbiter(s)], hereby state that the evidence submitted to me (us) by [name of Applicant] does (does not), in our opinion and according to the standards of evidence we have applied, prove beyond a reasonable doubt that [name of transited person] was transited to the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories in 1942 or 1943 through the camp [name of camp]. This means that we do (do not) consider it proven beyond a reasonable doubt that [name of transited person] underwent the procedure that Jews are supposed to have undergone according to Revisionist claims: taken to the respective camp, bathed and deloused and perhaps (but not necessarily) given a hot meal or drink there, then shipped to a certain destination in the Nazi-occupied territories of the Soviet Union, i.e. the areas of what was then known as the Reichskommissariat Ostland, the Reichskommissariat Ukraine or the Soviet territories under German military administration.»


Update, 16.03.2014:
Pursuant to a request by "Revisionist" Eric Hunt on the Skeptics Society Forum thread Reissue Muehlenkamp's Challenge so I can win, the definition of "transited" now reads as follows:

By transited I mean that the person in question must have been taken to the respective camp, then shipped from that camp to a certain destination in the Nazi-occupied territories of the Soviet Union as defined above, e.g. to Minsk, Riga, Kovno or Kiev.


Update, 19.03.2014:
The template of the statement to be issued by the arbiter has been changed to the following:

«I/we [name(s) of Arbiter(s)], hereby state that the evidence submitted to me (us) by [name of Applicant] does (does not), in our opinion and according to the standards of evidence we have applied, prove beyond a reasonable doubt that [name of transited person] was transited to the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories in 1942 or 1943 through the camp [name of camp]. This means that we do (do not) consider it proven beyond a reasonable doubt that [name of transited person] underwent the procedure that Jews are supposed to have undergone according to Revisionist claims: taken to the respective camp, then shipped from that camp to a certain destination in the Nazi-occupied territories of the Soviet Union, i.e. the areas of what was then known as the Reichskommissariat Ostland, the Reichskommissariat Ukraine or the Soviet territories under German military administration.»




Update, 14.08.2017:

More than six years have gone by since my challenge was first published, more than three years since it was last updated. In that time "Revisionists" have not been able to provide one single name with proof that would meet the requirements of my challenge. Their best shot was one Siegmund Rothstein, who is supposed to have been deported to Treblinka and later ended up in Minsk. However, as Sergey Romanov ably demonstrated in his article The Rothstein canard, there are no sources according to which Rothstein was transported via Treblinka to Minsk. There is one set of sources according to which Transport Br leaving Theresienstadt on 26.9.1942, which carried 2,004 German and Austrian Jews including Rothstein, was bound for Treblinka extermination camp. There is another set of sources whereby that same transport was bound for the Maly Trostinec extermination camp near Minsk. So one of these two sets of sources (probably the latter) must be wrong as to the transport's final destination, and neither states that the transport went via Treblinka to Maly Trostinec (which would also have made no sense as both were extermination centers). So the "transit camp" theory regarding Chełmno, Bełżec, Sobibór or Treblinka remains as mere fantasy.

The flagrant failure of "Revisionists" to provide any evidence that would give substance to the "transit camp" theory was one of the stated reasons why one of the most important "Revisionist" activists, Eric Hunt, turned his back on "Revisionism", as expressed in his essay The End of the Line. Hunt considered this challenge to be "proof of how strong the accepted history is and how phenomenally weak and untenable the Revisionist / denier “transit camp” theory is".
Consciousness by "Revisionists" of the weakness of their position is suggested by the heavy-handed and blatantly dishonest, almost total censorship applied to posts submitted on the "CODOH Revisionist Forum" by who seems to currently be the only opposition poster on that forum (myself). Said censorship makes a mockery of the open debate that the "Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust" is supposed to pursue and provide, while at the same showing to what extent the CODOH moderator's slogan ("Only lies need to be shielded from debate, truth welcomes it.") applies to the desperate need to shield "Revisionist" falsehoods from debate. CODOH posts censored on laughably mendacious pretexts are being reproduced on the thread Yet another CODOH Memory Hole Festival of the RODOH forum (on which the boringly repetitive, hysterical and vulgar spam posts of Greg Gerdes are currently further suggesting that "Revisionist" discussion culture has sunk to truly abysmal levels).

While "Revisionism" sinks ever deeper into its own morass, there have also been some developments as concerns the potential arbiters of my challenge. CODOH founder Bradley Smith has died. James Randi has retired. Michael Shermer is likely to have no interest in assuming the arbiter role, judging by several e-mails I exchanged with him in connection with one of Gerdes' "challenges". All of this means that the list of potential arbiters has to be expanded to improve the chances of whoever might want to take my challenge to find an arbiter willing to judge the merits of their proof submission and issue a corresponding statement. I therefore include in the list of potential arbiters the following persons, all of them current or former/partial "Revisionists", in alphabetical order:

David Cole

Eric Hunt

David Irving

Carlo Mattogno

Germar Rudolf

Each of these individuals will be nominated as an arbiter of my challenge upon having sent to my e-mail address (cortagravatas@yahoo.com) a message containing the following:

1. A statement that he, [name], wishes to be an arbiter of my challenge.

2. Proof of identity (color copy of passport or identity card).

3. Color copy of a signed statement reading as follows:
«I, [name], hereby expressly declare that, if nominated an arbiter of Roberto Muehlenkamp’s "Challenge to Supporters of the Revisionist Transit Camp Theory" (http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.pt/2011/07/challenge-to-supporters-of-revisionist.html), I undertake to 
a) make a critical, impartial and objective assessment of evidence that should be submitted to me in response to said challenge, according to accepted rules and standards of evidence,
b) be critical and skeptical as concerns evidence that should be submitted to my assessment, especially demand that the existence and authenticity of claimed documents be proven,
c) make sure that archival references of claimed recorded testimonies are accurate, and apply the most rigorous skepticism regarding any non-archived and hitherto unknown testimony that should be submitted, and
d) provide a verifiable written justification of the assessment made and conclusion reached.»


For the sake of fairness, and although I have no doubts about their integrity and objectivity, the requirements stated under items 1 to 3 above shall also apply to Michael Shermer and James Randi, should they be interested in assuming the arbiter role.

In addition to the above, any other person wishing to be an arbiter of my challenge may apply for the arbiter role by sending me an e-mail with the elements mentioned under items 1 to 3 above. However, unlike in the case of the persons named above, I reserve the decision, independently of compliance with the formal requirements stated above, on whether or not to accept such application and nominate the applicant as an arbiter of the challenge, without having to state the reasons for accepting or rejecting such application. Persons known to me as sufficiently reasonable and objective will have a good chance of being nominated as arbiters. Persons known to me as compulsive liars and/or sociopaths, "Revisionist" or not, need not bother to apply, as their applications will of course be rejected.

All personal data submitted will be kept confidential in accordance with the Portuguese law regarding protection of personal data (Lei n.º 67/98, de 26 de Outubro, which transposes to Portuguese legislation Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data). A signed statement in this sense will be provided at the applicant’s request, before or after submission of the required application elements.

30 comments:

  1. I'm fully prepared to show proof of four Jews taken off the trains at these transit camps and transferred elsewhere.

    Your challenge is far too restrictive - Imagine if Greg Gerdes asked for the name of one Jew gassed specifically in crematorium 3.

    His challenge is for the name of one gassed Jew.

    Your intent is a parody of his, so why so restrictive?

    Not all revisionists believe those who went through the transit camps were "transited" to the "Russian East" , myself included. I believe the Russian East "final solution" was a plan that never materialized due to the Germans losing the war on the Russian front.

    However I have the names and evidence of four Jews who "survived" these transit camps and were transferred elsewhere.

    I have proof of far more than four Jews who were taken off the trains at these "pure extermination camps" and transferred elsewhere.

    Like you say "it should be a piece of cake" and it is.

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    1. Eric I'm sorry to insult but your films are purely laughable. In fact the quoted Jews you name who were "transited" from the camp entered in thousands and left in hundreds. And a perfect example shows inside your films (I am unsure of the interviewees name) mentions the highest number leaving the camp being around 500 that I have heard. As well In your film it would subjest a form of selection which would be not to shocking with contemperary evidence. Just as other camps had selection it might make sense for them to pick out the strong few whom were sent to Treblinka to be sent out on an Ox cart to the labor camps of the surrounding area, or even to another ghetto the train is heading to.

      Another Jew who is Interviewed in your films mentions he was selected as well with a group of 100 people to clean out the train while the others enter the camp. To which he was then reloaded onto the train and sent to majdanek (if I remember correctly). He even mentioned of getting a portion of bread that was a rather small serving, which is hardly anything that would be able to keep people alive and a small serving of coffee.

      Again it can be connected with the idea of selection and is very much prosented by selecting out the snippits of your testimony which I'm sure you intended people to overlook. The reason as to why you have failed to prove your argument in your films with this is proven really easy.

      The people at Holocaust Controversies don't understand your argument because it's comepletely absurd when you watch the full testimony of your few selected lines.

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  2. Selections of a small minority of deportees for labor elsewhere in the Lublin district have been acknowledged in the literature for a long time. Schelvis is an obvious example.

    You have to prove 'Russian East' because that's the euphemism the Nazis used in their documents well into 1943.

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  3. Eric,

    You didn't read the challenge properly. What you have to prove is that a named person underwent the procedure that Jews are supposed to have undergone according to Revisionist claims: taken by train to the respective camp, bathed and deloused and perhaps (but not necessarily) given a hot meal or drink there, then put back on the train and shipped to a certain destination in the Nazi-occupied territories of the Soviet Union as defined in the challenge, e.g. to Minsk, Riga, Kovno or Kiev. We know that some Jews were sent from B, S or T to other places in the Lublin district, e.g. Majdanek or Dorohucza. But that's not what the challenge is about. The challenge is about Jews bathed and deloused at B, S or T or at Chełmno and then sent onward to final destinations in the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories, which is what explains the deportations of so many people to these places according to the Revisionist transit camp theory. If you think you can provide such names, just send me an e-mail identifying yourself and accepting the challenge terms as per the required form.

    Your "restrictive" argument I didn't understand. What more do you think should be in there for the challenge to be less "restrictive", and why so?

    And no, the purpose of this challenge is not to "parody" Gerdes' challenge, though of course Gerdes' bluster about his challenge gave me the idea for this one. Gerdes' challenge parodies itself without any assistance, and Gerdes is a small fish in Revisionist waters despite his big mouth (and a highly counterproductive one at that due to his hysterical spamming, his transparent mendacity and his obnoxious behavior – if you’re interested in building support for Revisionism, Gerdes is a royal shot in the foot). Showing how Gerdes runs away from a challenge that unlike his dumb challenges is pertinent to the issue at hand (for as I said in the introduction, names should be all over the place if so large a number of people, 1.4 million in 1942 alone, had indeed been transported to the "Russian East" from these places and been resettled there and mostly survived the war there) is just a side benefit. The point of the challenge is another demonstration of the worthlessness of the Revisionist theory whereby Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka and Chełmno were not extermination camps but transit camps en route to the occupied Soviet territories. To the extent that Gerdes matters here, doesn't his NAFH challenge also focus on these four camps, by the way?

    I'm aware that not all Revisionists have this transit camp thesis about B, S, T and C. But the movement’s brains (Mattogno, Graf and Kues) claim this thesis, and among the many absurd attempts to explain away the evidence to large-scale homicidal gassing at these places it is indeed the least far-fetched, for it would be even more absurd to claim that these places were labor camps or that they didn't even exist and that the well-documented deportations to these places never happened. The transit camp theory gone, Revisionism would be left only with even feebler attempted alternative explanations, which MGK look down upon.

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  4. Here's some advice to "Revisionists" intending to answer the challenge.


    IIRC, Saul Friedlander mentioned that there were 100,000 Jews in the Red army. That's 100,000 potential witnesses to any such "Transit" of their coreligionists to the "Russian east". 100,000 people who could have easily assured their fellows- once the Red army entered German territory- that their families, whom they thought were exterminated, were safe or at least alive in the "Russian East"

    Christopher Browning also mentioned the following:

    - The Dreksler family, who crossed into the Soviet Zone at the outbreak of the War and got sent by the Soviets to a forest work camp near Arcangel.

    - Pinchas Nudman and other Jewish youths who, upon reaching Lvov also got sent to what was very likely the same work camp near Arcangel.

    These people were part of a community of survivors after the war. It's not a stretch to assume that people they know or other fellow Jews may have been sent to Arcangel during the period of 1942 onwards. They were in the perfect position to reassure their friends that their family members or at least their fellow Jews were not killed and were instead sent to the Russian east.

    I assume that Roberto Muehlenkamp would also consider sworn testimony from these people as evidence, even though they did not witness the "deportation process" as a whole and may have simply witnessed the final stages.

    good luck. People have been willing to wait for an answer for 65 years. One more year should be nothing at all...

    -I have proof of far more than four Jews who were taken off the trains at these "pure extermination camps" and transferred elsewhere.-

    Is this about the 90 Jews selected at Trawniki by WVHA head Pohl from a transport of about 1,000 to Sobibor, mentioned in Fischmann's report? Do you have evidence about the other 910?

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  5. 51 not 90. Lublin not Trawniki. But the crucial fact is surely that they were removed before Sobibor, not after, so could not have been deloused at Sobibor.

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  6. Once again, what the Applicant has to prove in regard to each Jew whose name he or she provides is that said Jew was, during the years 1942 or 1943,
    a) taken to either of the camps Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka or Chełmno, which are considered by historiography to have been extermination camps,
    b) bathed and deloused there, and then
    c) shipped from there to a place in the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories, i.e. to the Soviet areas under German military administration or the areas under Nazi civilian administration then known as the Reichskommissariat Ostland and the Reichskommissariat Ukraine.

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  7. - 51 not 90. Lublin not Trawniki. But the crucial fact is surely that they were removed before Sobibor, not after, so could not have been deloused at Sobibor.-

    You're right. I just reread the report now and found out that it was to Trawniki that the "laborers'" luggage was sent. Sorry about that.

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    Once again, what the Applicant has to prove in regard to each Jew whose name he or she provides is that said Jew was, during the years 1942 or 1943,
    a) taken to either of the camps Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka or Chełmno, which are considered by historiography to have been extermination camps,
    b) bathed and deloused there, and then -

    But that's too HAAAAAAARD! T_T

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  8. No worries. It's also worth noting that Fischmann is clearly unaware of Sobibor being a transit camp. He was told it was a labor camp. He was also misled about the destination: he was told it was to terminate at Izbica. Why were the Nazis deceiving their own people about the purpose of Sobibor?

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  9. your wrong again
    revisionists don't believe all supposed "extermination" camps were death camps
    some were labor camps and some were transit stations
    according to the holocaust official nuremburg story before the holocaust supporters revised their story over and over again
    the germans buried
    why do we have to prove to you that the holocaust never happened?
    why can't you prove that it did?

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    1. I realize I'm late to this party but I'm having an argument over the whole "transit camp theory" right now on another blog.
      You don't have to prove that the Holocaust never happened.
      What you have to prove is your alternate theory.
      So, if you believe the Holocaust never happened you need to prove what happened to the Jews during the war.
      Never mind the fact that 70 years of research by actual researchers and historians proved that the Holocaust happened.
      If you don't want to believe that, fine.
      But you do need to prove that your alternative is viable.
      So, if the Jews did not die, what happened to them?
      Where did the Nazis deport these Jews? Where is the proof? Are there train schedules? Names of commanders of these camps? Witnesses, including inmates or guards?
      Keep in mind the conditions in the Soviet Union at that time. This was an active war zone, including a vicious partisan war.
      Are there records of a German general objecting to these Jews sent into an operational area (soldiers don't like civilians in war zones, they get in the way and are security risks)?
      I know this is an old thread. I just wanted to say my piece.

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  10. «why do we have to prove to you that the holocaust never happened?
    why can't you prove that it did?»

    Outside "Revisionist" cloud-cuckoo-land, that proof has long been provided.

    Now it's up to "Revisionists" to demonstrate that there's something wrong with the proof, the way defense attorneys challenge the prosecution's evidence.

    The best way to do so would be to provide evidence that the Nazi extermination camps were actually transit camps.

    However, while historians and remembrance authorities have already established the names of a significant part of the persons murdered at these camps (the Dutch authorities alone have established the names of over 34,000 Jews murdered at Sobibór), "Revisionist" scum is not able, after almost seventy years, to provide a single name of a single person that entered Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibór or Treblinka and then was taken from there to somewhere in the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories.

    And that although, if these places had indeed been transit camps, names of people transited through them would be all over the place, for the reasons explained.

    This in turn is one of the reasons why, in order to cling to "Revisionism", one has to be either a Hitler-kisser or a Jew-hater or both. And to switch one's brains off.

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  11. Sorry to reactivate an old thread, but Eric has released his life's work, so I'm wondering if he's ready to claim Roberto's money. What say you, Eric?

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  12. If you dare to re-issue this statement, leave out the shower stuff because that is difficult to prove, and simplify it, - 1,000 for each Jew proven to have been sent to Treblinka, then afterwards Transited East .

    I'd like to make $4,000 in order to buy a shiny new editing computer.

    Also, put the money in escrow with the arbiter.

    Thanks.

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  13. If you dare to re-issue this statement, leave out the shower stuff because that is difficult to prove, and simplify it, - 1,000 for each Jew proven to have been sent to Treblinka, then afterwards Transited East .

    I'd like to make $4,000 in order to buy a shiny new editing computer.

    Also, put the money in escrow with the arbiter.

    Thanks.

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  14. The "shower stuff" has been taken out as it is a secondary detail, what matters is that the person was taken to one of the four camps known to history as extermination camps, then taken from that camp to a final destination in the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories as specified in the article.

    As the "simplify" thing, what simplification(s) exactly did you have in mind?

    And as to "money in escrow with the arbiter", that depends on who the arbiter is. I would have no problem with Michael Shermer or James Randi as the escrow agent, but if the arbiter is a "Revisionist" fellow he won't be entrusted to keep any money.

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  15. We should stipulate that "east" specifically means "out of German control." Merely going from Treblinka to Majdanek, which is technically east, won't count.

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  16. Sorry about bumping an old thread, but why would a "transit camp" be staffed by T4 personnel and receive transports form booth the west and the east (Galicia.

    Also the Koherr report is clear that it does not account for Jews in camps or ghettos, which is where they would have found themselves had the resettlement plan been carried out.

    Face it bitches, the only hoax here is the lies spread by the deniers.

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  17. i've posted in in russian deniers sites

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  18. Is anyone on here aware of any 'compare and contrast' research, carried out by a denier, in relation to comparisons between proper transit camps and the 'pretend' transit camps of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka ?
    Surely it would be a worthwhile exercise to undertake, for no doubt obvious comparisons would soon emerge which would help reinforce the denier 'transit camp' theory. It would be interesting to discover if any T4 staff were used as guards in Westerbork or Drancy, or whether these guards had to swear an oath of secrecy just like their Polish based comrades. A comparison of building design would be helpful, especially the camouflaged shower rooms and the tunnel like entrance to these bathing installations. Maybe the survivor numbers for each camp could be computed and compared with each other too. No doubt a pattern would soon emerge.
    I think someone like Carlo Mattogno would be interested in comparing the 'propaganda' reports made by the Dutch resistance to the ones made by their Polish equivalent. For in Carlo's eyes, these Polish reports were the foundation for the 'gassing myth' , as the Poles were so pissed with the Nazi invaders that they invented the gassing part all up, to demonise Germany. No doubt similar gas chamber or murderous steaming device claims were made by the Dutch and French regarding Drancy and Westerbork too?.... Or maybe not!
    How about recommendations for medals? Were any Drancy or Westerbork staff recipients of the Iron Cross ? Were these transit camps destroyed and transformed into farms like the Polish transit camps?
    Well, if no-one can point me in the direction of such research, then maybe i'll do some myself. Oh, looks like I already have !!

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  19. Of interest in this context are the following posts by "Revisionist" David Cole, pointed out by our reader "Reactionary" here:

    https://www.facebook.com/adam.parfrey/posts/10154399731275224

    http://www.countercontempt.com/archives/5335

    http://www.countercontempt.com/archives/5348

    https://www.facebook.com/BigInfidel/posts/10152833011214133?pnref=story

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  20. Yes I remember reading those articles by David Cole. Strangely he still believes the revisionists 'won' regarding Auschwitz. But he doesn't elaborate on this . Maybe he was referring to a similar document as to the Korherr report, which appears to have 'clinched' it for him as being the only evidence worth relying on to prove that that B,S,T were extermination camps.
    Obviously he came to the right conclusion but it seems strange he doesn't appear to rely on much else in the 'evidence' dept. Maybe his thought process still contains traces of that peculiar 'denier-style' lack of logic. ie he still ain't wired up right !
    On a serious note, Roberto and in respect of my previous post, are you aware of any 'comparisons' to proper transit camps performed by those in the chimp enclosure?
    It's just something that they usually would do, like comparing Auschwitz cremations to 'proper' civilian cremations, you get me, lol?
    I tell yer what though, I'd love to read such an article if they have attempted it. It would surely be up for an award in the 'comic science-fiction' genre at next years Basket Weavers Convention !

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  21. Just as an aside, Greg Gerdes made RODOH unbearable to read or post anything. I'm actually shocked the mods haven't shut him down.

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  22. «Just as an aside, Greg Gerdes made RODOH unbearable to read or post anything. I'm actually shocked the mods haven't shut him down.»

    Bad for them, good for us. No one like Greg Gerdes to make "Revisionism" look like a latrine.

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  23. A "Revisionist" posting as "Tommo" made a comment to this post. In accordance with HC’s Comments Policy this comment was deleted as it referred to a post more than 90 days old and added nothing of value. However, considering that this blog post is on the "What’s Hot?" list and has been recently updated, I think that Tommo’s comment should be addressed, even though it consist of little more than braggadocio about how great "Revisionism" is (which seems to be "Tommo"’s only act).
    My reply to "Tommo":

    «So let me get this straight...

    Anybody coming to this site and reading this can simply google 3 films.

    1. One Third of the Holocaust
    2. The Jewish Gas Chamber Hoax
    3. Treblinka Archaeology Hoax.

    ^To see immediately that this entire site, all of it's belligerents, the entirety of holocaust professors and the entire myth is a lie, beyond any rational doubt, with no possibility of being wrong, destroying any further ability to lie about it.»

    Who is "anybody", first of all? I have no doubt that "Revisionist" true believers can delude themselves into believing whatever fits their faith, but do you really think a casual, uniformed reader will necessarily be taken in by stuff whose very title ("Hoax" this, "Hoax" that) suggests one of those brainless conspiracy theories? "One Third of the Holocaust" doesn’t put it on so thick, at least at first sight, which is why we considered it worth debunking. In the series "Debunking denierbud videos and writings", links on this page, every one of the "One Third of the Holocaust" videos is duly torn to pieces.
    Second, you’re putting it on a bit too thick yourself with your "Revisionism über Alles" tune. Who outside the circle of your fellow believers do you expect to be impressed by that?

    Your hatred of HC is noted with amusement (especially the "holocaust professors" part, which reads like some "professor" once stepped on your feet of refused to acknowledge the merit you unduly thought you deserved). It is quite understandable, considering how many "Revisionist" bubbles we have burst over the years and how many of the movement’s "scholars" have been shown up as sloppy ignoramuses and/or downright liars. I strongly doubt that you would last very long in an open discussion with any of HC’s bloggers. One of them used to be a "Revisionist", by the way. I had a long discussion with him about Rudolf’s Prussian Blue stuff and found him to stand head and shoulders above the rest of the CODOH crowd (which has further deteriorated since). Anyway, now he’s on our side.

    «And that's BEFORE they even read a single revisionist book!»

    Who reads "Revisionist" books without falling asleep after a few pages? Have you ever read one? I for my part have found Mattogno’s otherwise exhaustingly boring screeds to be quite useful as source collections. If you ignore the rubbish he writes in between, the testimonies and documents he quotes at length are quite interesting and a service that Mattogno is doing to the deconstruction of "Revisionism". Despite that, and notwithstanding the long-windedness that has alienated at least one other "Revisionist" (none less than Faurisson), Mattogno remains the best you’ve got. He seems to be currently the only one who does research, as opposed to just regurgitating the same old stuff on discussion forums.

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  24. «Therefore the entire purpose of this article is to prevent people who don't know from say, watching these 3 films, WOW. Because once the myth is busted, that's it, nobody can be duped by this again.»

    Wishful thinking seems to be the only thinking that "Revisionists" usually excel in, and you are obviously no exception to the rule. The only thing those videos manage to "bust", once one looks at them more closely, is your "Revisionist" canon. And the last thing I want is to keep people from looking up these videos, especially "One Third of the Holocaust". I’ll be glad to discuss with you any argument you may have against our aforementioned destruction of this masterpiece of ill-reasoning and mendacity.

    The purpose of this article is quite another. It is to expose a gaping hole in the "Revisionist" canon that "Revisionists" cannot even start filling. History is not written by picking at bits and pieces of evidence, like "Revisionists" do, but requires a coherent narrative based on solid evidence. "Revisionists" cannot offer anything of that. They cannot explain what else is supposed to have happened to the millions they claim were not killed, or how this monumental "hoax" by an enormously powerful, influential and invisible (yet at the same time stupidly blundering) conspiracy is supposed to have been pulled off (let alone provide even the slightest shred of evidence that there ever was any such "hoax"). This flagrant weakness of "Revisionism" has led at least one "Revisionist" activist (Eric Hunt) to turn his back on "Revisionism". Hunt expressly referred to my challenge as one of the reasons that make him change his mind.

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  25. «Now even IF the revisionists cannot show even a single name of a transited jew, there is a blatantly obvious reason why- because the information for that would not be around, and before it is claimed that is preposterous, THAT'S exactly what your claiming about the Nazi's! Not only that they destroyed all the records but all the evidence of the camps existence!! Lol»

    Not exactly the most coherent of statements, and contrary to what you claim there’s no reason whatsoever why "the information for that would not be around". The Nazis had an understandable interest in destroying all evidence regarding transportation to the Aktion Reinhard(t) camps and what happened there (which is why only a few bits and pieces of the related documentation was recovered), but why on earth should they have destroyed evidence showing that people were transported from these camps to the "Russian East", received there and accommodated in ghettos or labor camps, etc.? That long paper trail would have been their best defense against allegations that they had murdered these people, and thus something the Nazis would carefully preserve. "Revisionists" may now argue that the "hoaxers" of their fantasies somehow got hold of all this exculpatory documentation and destroyed or concealed it to accuse the Nazis of crimes they didn’t commit. But then those "hoaxers" would also have had to make the SS-men and Trawniki guards who described the mass killings in some detail confess to crimes they didn’t commit, fooling or obtaining the connivance of German judicial authorities for this purpose. They would further have had to silence all the many exculpatory witnesses that defense attorneys at NS-crimes trials (who very aggressive to the point of not only trying to tear incriminating witnesses apart, but even practicing "Revisionism" in the courtroom) would have been only too glad to present. And last but not least, they would have had to make sure that none of those supposed deportees to the "Russian East" (about 1.4 million through the AR camps alone, most of whom would have survived) ever showed up to tell the "true" story. All of which means that evidence supporting the "Revisionist" transit camp theory would be all over the place if that theory held water. But there is nothing. Not one single name. Yad Vashem has got something like 4.5 million names, IIRC. Let’s assume that one third of those are double-counts and other mistakes (an unrealistic proposition given their checking system), and there will still be 3 million names of Jews murdered by the Nazis. Yet "Revisionists" cannot provide even a single name of a "transited" Jew. That shows the bankruptcy of "Revisionism" as clearly as anything.

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  26. «The Revisionists succeeded in forcing a total concession of all the Western Camps.»

    The "Revisionists" did nothing at all as concerns the "Western Camps", actually. All initial misconceptions regarding such camps, like the one that there was homicidal gassing at Dachau, were removed by serious historians.

    «The revisionists succeeded in destroying Auschwitz and Madjanek to the point where it's basically officially all but conceded, by way of the evidence left which in fact demolishes the exterminationist position.»

    Here we have more wishful thinking. No one has "conceded" anything as concerns AB and Majdanek, and the physical evidence left there (besides the documentary and eyewitness evidence) clearly points to mass murder. Germar Rudolf has tried as hard as he could to prove that Prussian Blue would necessarily have formed in the homicidal gas chambers. He not only failed to do so but destroyed his own argument (a conclusion I reached at the end of my long discussion with former "Revisionist" Jason Myers, which I have been reconstructing on the RODOH forum). The holes that "Revisionists" claimed were not there have been identified. "Revisionists", even including Mattogno, have never addressed the whole body of published evidence that proves mass murder at AB, unless I missed something. And of course "Revisionists" haven’t been able to otherwise account for the fate of the hundreds of thousands of Jews from various countries that they claim were not gassed there (including without limitation the missing Hungarian Jews. Who do they expect to "concede" anything when they have so little to show?

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  27. «Now we come to Aktion Reinhardt- where there is not a single shred of evidence FOR an extermination AT ALL LOL»

    I don’t know where you’ve been all these years, but the fact is that regarding these camps there is not only a sizable body of eyewitness evidence (mostly from former SS-men and Trawniki guards, not from Jewish inmates, and mostly procured by judicial authorities of the German Federal Republic), there is also conclusive documentation (including, without limitation, the Höfle telegram, the correspondence between Ganzenmüller and Wolff, the Stroop Report, the Wehrmacht war diary entry about the unbearable stench of insufficiently buried Jews emanating from Treblinka), and what physical evidence has been explored at Belzec and especially Sobibór has confirmed what becomes apparent from other evidence, identifying mass graves and even the ruins of a building that must have been the Sobibór gas chamber.

    «And is by far the most absolutely insane part of the whole narrative of the lot by several orders of magnitude, making Auschwitz look believable (relatively speaking).»

    Mass murder is always insane, but as concerns the logistics there’s nothing about these camps that would be implausible if you take a closer look. Mattogno has bravely tried to demonstrate such implausibility. And failed, see the series starting here and here. Even a "Revisionist" on RODOH acknowledged that Mattogno’s arguments regarding the cremation of air-raid victims at Dresden were self-defeating, and that it would have been better if Mattogno had not written anything in this respect.

    «No evidence = evidence right?»

    No, the situation is the following: all known evidence points to mass extermination, none points in any other direction. And as a large amount of evidence pointing in another direction would exist if "Revisionists" were right, this is further proof that they are wrong.

    «Revisionists have proven conclusively that nobody was killed or buried in or around these camps in any "extermination" manner or capacity, therefore the question "where are they" or "what happened to them" is for you to tell us.»

    We know where they are. They are where all related evidence shows them be. The "Revisionist" who tried to prove that there were no soil disturbances suggesting mass graves at Treblinka ended up shooting "Revisionism" squarely in the foot with his GPR scan.

    «We know of course, circumstantially there's no doubt.»

    Yeah, you "know" they went where you should be able to find and identify thousands upon thousands of them but cannot find a single one. Not one name from about 1.4 million supposed deportees to the "Russian East". Pathetic.

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  28. «Further "Roberto" as anyone can see by going to the CODOH forum was obliterated in every encounter he has had on the issue.

    In fact, I've never heard of a single case of Roberto ever not getting wasted there.

    Which raises the question "Is Roberto really a denier undercover like PRessac?" Considering he has done more for revisionism than revisionism itself by deliberately going there and losing.»

    You are either an inveterate liar like CODOH moderator "Hannover" or so spectacularly naïve as not to have realized how debates with opposition posters are "won" at CODOH, especially by "Hannover". They are "won" by censoring inconvenient opposition posts on laughably far-fetched pretexts, including without limitation the worn-out "dodging" claim.

    Here you can see a list of 111 posts submitted by me on CODOH that were censored. The list has grown since that post and will keep on growing as I add reproductions of further censored posts (I still have quite a large collection of unpublished ones), then go back for more.

    CODOH moderator "Hannover"’s flagrant censorship on a forum that is supposed to promote and offer open debate is further evidence of the sorry current state of "Revisionism". On a "Revisionist" forum a whole bunch of "Revisionists" needs to be protected by censorship from a single opposition poster (currently me). The moderator’s slogan whereby "only lies need to be shielded from debate" is proven true over and over again by the moderator’s own behavior. And that’s perfectly fine with me. "Revisionism" in self-destruction mode as "Hannover" makes a mockery of the forum’s "open debate" promise is a spectacle to behold.

    If you want real open debate sign up on the RODOH forum (where Greg Gerdes is vying with "Hannover"’s "Lily" alter ego to make "Revisionism" look like a heap of cattle manure). If those two were plants, they couldn’t be doing a better job.

    Incidentally, Roberto is my real name. Unlike you I don’t hide behind an alias.

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