What is the difference between “Disarmed Enemy Forces” and “Commissioners’ Orders”? People went to the scaffold only in the second case.Stubble wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:30 pmIn Rhine Meadow if I recall correctly, yes.TlsMS93 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:27 pm In the Holocaust, no department was in charge, as Raul Hilberg said, nor was there a budget. So demanding from us which department took care of this is counterproductive in the matter. Which department took care of the expulsion of 14 million Germans in the post-war period? If not, then were they gassed and cremated and did they destroy the evidence as well?
No, you defaulted back to black propaganda in your reply, and you also missed how I noted that grey propaganda doesn't apply to reporting of the Holocaust, either.Stubble wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:29 pm I believe I addressed all of that in my first paragraph, let me check.
Oh, I did...
'Perhaps grey propaganda or simply propaganda would be a better term. My operating definition for black propaganda differs from the wikipedia definition, which is fine. I'll just call it propaganda.
Like you say, not all propaganda is false. Another point is that almost all propaganda contains within it kernels of truth.'
Thanks for ignoring that part of my post in your quote though.
Do you see now why I pointed out you were defaulting to the wrong term?When the vans turn into homicidal gas vans or the steam chambers turn into homicidal vacuum chambers or homicidal gas chambers, that's the propaganda. It's misinformation, not malinformation. That's what I would call black propaganda. Like the dead babies thrown out of incubators or weapons of mass destruction propaganda. There was no real basis for it. I'm not saying that Kuwait didn't have a nicu, I'm saying Iraqi troops didn't throw premature infants on the cold floor and leave them to die.
I appreciate you taking the time to put this coherent and well composed post together. Regardless of how I personally feel I may or may not have properly addressed the propaganda statement I had made, contained in this rather brief post are some little gems of knowledge for me to look at and inspect. They are just loosely tossed about in there, but, enough information is given for me to follow up on.SanityCheck wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 9:50 pm
Your understanding of the reporting of the extermination camps in 1942 doesn't really match the reality...
You’re gonna need to give me a page number because those passages do not appear the edition of Hilberg I have.TlsMS93 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 9:02 pm “But what began in 1941 was a process of destruction that was not planned in advance, not organized centrally by any agency. There was no project and there was no budget for destructive measures. They [these measures] were taken step by step, one step at a time. Thus, it emerged not so much a plan being executed, but an incredible meeting of minds, a consensus – mind-reading by an extensive bureaucracy.”
The Rhine Meadow Camps were directed against ordinary soldiers... Guess you mean the Commissary order. That wasn't about ordinary soldiers..TlsMS93 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 9:15 pmWhat is the difference between “Disarmed Enemy Forces” and “Commissioners’ Orders”? People went to the scaffold only in the second case.Stubble wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:30 pmIn Rhine Meadow if I recall correctly, yes.TlsMS93 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:27 pm In the Holocaust, no department was in charge, as Raul Hilberg said, nor was there a budget. So demanding from us which department took care of this is counterproductive in the matter. Which department took care of the expulsion of 14 million Germans in the post-war period? If not, then were they gassed and cremated and did they destroy the evidence as well?
I was synthesising a lot, including factoring in sources which haven't been discussed in the literature.Stubble wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 10:23 pmI appreciate you taking the time to put this coherent and well composed post together. Regardless of how I personally feel I may or may not have properly addressed the propaganda statement I had made, contained in this rather brief post are some little gems of knowledge for me to look at and inspect. They are just loosely tossed about in there, but, enough information is given for me to follow up on.SanityCheck wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 9:50 pm
Your understanding of the reporting of the extermination camps in 1942 doesn't really match the reality...
Thank you.
Again, I appreciate your time.
I'm also not going to be nit picky and say 'well, but' or 'what about'. I'm genuinely more happy that you have provided me with a bit of a chronology than I am slighted by some trivial detail.
I will end this comment with a question, are there any well sourced books that cover this niche in history? Has anyone written anything specific to this part of the holocaust timeline? If so, could you recommend 1 or more for my consumption?
Please don't say another encyclopedia. Those volumes read like some combination of stereo instructions and pravda and I'm not even sure I gleaned much from them.
But they say that executing political commissars was illegal, otherwise there would have been no need for an order for it and not even Hitler would have considered them to be exempt from the Geneva Conventions just because the USSR did not join.
This quote from Hilberg is an explanation from his book that he used at a meeting in New York in 1983. I used his book because he summarizes it there. If you have his book, you know very well the origin and what he meant. Now, will you deny that he said this?Numar Patru wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 10:24 pmYou’re gonna need to give me a page number because those passages do not appear the edition of Hilberg I have.TlsMS93 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 9:02 pm “But what began in 1941 was a process of destruction that was not planned in advance, not organized centrally by any agency. There was no project and there was no budget for destructive measures. They [these measures] were taken step by step, one step at a time. Thus, it emerged not so much a plan being executed, but an incredible meeting of minds, a consensus – mind-reading by an extensive bureaucracy.”
Here he is again (p. 559):Of major importance for anti-Jewish operations was the territorial web of two main offices: the Main Office Order Police and the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). These two main offices had three types of regional machinery: one in the Reich, another in occupied territories, the third in areas undergoing invasion (see Table 6-9).
You were saying?The SS camps were originally under the jurisdiction of the SS and Police Leaders, but starting in October 1943 and continuing in 1944, a series of transfers took place in the course of which the camps were taken over by the SS Economic-Administrative Main Office (WVHA), i.e., the agency that controlled the concentration camps. A heretofore undisputed territorial and functional control of the camps by the SS and Police Leaders was now reduced to a purely territorial (disciplinary) jurisdiction. The new master was the WVHA.
Much appreciated, I will assimilate this. If you can think of something perhaps more niche and specific, send the title my way.SanityCheck wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 11:18 pmI was synthesising a lot, including factoring in sources which haven't been discussed in the literature.Stubble wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 10:23 pmI appreciate you taking the time to put this coherent and well composed post together. Regardless of how I personally feel I may or may not have properly addressed the propaganda statement I had made, contained in this rather brief post are some little gems of knowledge for me to look at and inspect. They are just loosely tossed about in there, but, enough information is given for me to follow up on.SanityCheck wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 9:50 pm
Your understanding of the reporting of the extermination camps in 1942 doesn't really match the reality...
Thank you.
Again, I appreciate your time.
I'm also not going to be nit picky and say 'well, but' or 'what about'. I'm genuinely more happy that you have provided me with a bit of a chronology than I am slighted by some trivial detail.
I will end this comment with a question, are there any well sourced books that cover this niche in history? Has anyone written anything specific to this part of the holocaust timeline? If so, could you recommend 1 or more for my consumption?
Please don't say another encyclopedia. Those volumes read like some combination of stereo instructions and pravda and I'm not even sure I gleaned much from them.
Saul Friedlander, The Years of Extermination (2007), emphasises diaries, Jewish as well as non-Jewish, and also brings up some of the unpublicised reports I mentioned, like the Vendel report, or the Polish underground reporting on Bronnaia Gora, while covering the onset of the key camps and the overall trajectories. He covers the whole of Europe, but Poland is unsurprisingly prominent. He also cites witnesses and German documents, but the emphasis on contemporary reactions inside Europe foregrounds the contemporary sources I was talking about. His chapters typically start with the bigger picture of Hitler and Himmler, but he will show how a Hitler speech prompted reactions in different diaries when the diarists heard the speech. The contrast with the diarists in western Europe is striking, as he notes for 1942 - they would hear things but not much detail, and not believe the reports fully, whereas in eastern Europe there was much more knowledge, from more direct sources. But there were contrasts between Lodz and Warsaw, and one should compare with midsized ghettos like Bialystok and Wilno. Friedlander also used some studies of the Polish underground's attitudes towards Jews, which can be easily overlooked when focusing on the camps, since much of the political spectrum was basically not keen on the Jews resurfacing after the war, or was overtly antisemitic. He spends a lot of time on the attitudes of the churches across Europe and in Germany, which is also very helpful.
This is really the best mainstream overview currently available, although not without its limitations; I would have liked him to have covered the cremations (in the camps and Aktion 1005) more. But this is also affordable.
On the Polish underground, Joshua Zimmerman, The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939-1945, is affordable despite being a university press title (£25 on Kindle and £27 in paperback via amazon.co.uk, so amazon.com should be proportionate in $). Zimmerman only uses Polish sources and literature, but this one perspective is still noteworthy, although in an ideal world it would be contrasted with the Jewish underground and with the Polish underground's reporting of Zamosc, Volhynia, Katyn etc. This appeared in 2015. There were two monster studies of the same theme in Polish in 2009 and 2018, with the 2009 study (by Adam Pulawski) covering up to spring 1942 and surely being something Zimmerman knew about, but Zimmerman was going through the files and underground press as well. So while this is not a 'full history' it covers a lot of ground.
Sonderaction 1005 refers to the operation to cremate corpses. We know who was in charge, officials involved and who was responsible for the work and where that work took place.TlsMS93 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:27 pm In the Holocaust, no department was in charge, as Raul Hilberg said, nor was there a budget. So demanding from us which department took care of this is counterproductive in the matter. Which department took care of the expulsion of 14 million Germans in the post-war period? If not, then were they gassed and cremated and did they destroy the evidence as well?
Estonia, Croatia, Serbia and Luxembourg were officially declared Jew-free. Denmark was de facto Jew-free after the mass escape in 1943. Most of Germany and Austria were regarded as, or declared to be, Jew-free.
And yet jews appeared in the hundreds of thousands in central and western europe and the end of and after the war. It must be cherry picking season for Nessie Bum Bum he loves 'evidence' when it is memories and statements by jews and hates evidence of no gas chambers/mass graves/burning pits/disposal of thousands of tons of cremains etc. Anyone can produce a period in history where social and common exposure of a sect or group of people such as witches was accepted but yet we now know to be false. He is also doing the old trick oft played by the climate change doom mongers who refuse to accept any comment or statement of fact if it is not proferred by a recognised 'expert' in the field. Yet we know, in that case most climate scientists either were bought off to bend the knee to the MMGW crap or refuse to be drawn on the matter. Those who spoke and speak out against the lies of the global warming scam are sacked, de-funded, ostracised etc.
Can you show me evidence of that?borjastick wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2025 9:32 amAnd yet jews appeared in the hundreds of thousands in central and western europe and the end of and after the war.
How ironic that you cherry-pick whilst accusing me of cherry-picking. The evidence from Germans and other non Jews, is a significant part of the evidence for mass murders.It must be cherry picking season for Nessie Bum Bum he loves 'evidence' when it is memories and statements by jews..
What evidence is that? For example, you do not have any archaeological ground survey results that show no disturbed ground where witnesses claimed the mass graves were located.... and hates evidence of no gas chambers/mass graves/burning pits/disposal of thousands of tons of cremains etc.
Revisionists use the false analogy of comparing the evidence for the Holocaust to that used to convict witches.Anyone can produce a period in history where social and common exposure of a sect or group of people such as witches was accepted but yet we now know to be false.
Who is more likely to be correct, a trained expert, or an untrained, opinionated, biased non expert?He is also doing the old trick oft played by the climate change doom mongers who refuse to accept any comment or statement of fact if it is not proferred by a recognised 'expert' in the field.
You can change my mind with evidence, such as a witness who worked at Belzec and states there were no mass gassings, or transport records that show hundreds of thousands of people left TII. Got any?Yet we know, in that case most climate scientists either were bought off to bend the knee to the MMGW crap or refuse to be drawn on the matter. Those who spoke and speak out against the lies of the global warming scam are sacked, de-funded, ostracised etc.
I don't expect to ever change the mind of a luddite like Nessie Bum Bum because he comes here not to learn and debate but to spread evil and disinformation, to cause trouble and upset the apple cart. I used to believe and then saw the light. He still believes because he's of the tribe and knows that israel and the tribe are better off with a massive lie called the holocaust running alongside their hysterical and lunatic endeavours in the middle east. As for his claims to be a super sleuth he couldn't tell the truth or see a lying suspect if it bit him on the a-se.