HansHill wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 4:54 pm
Nessie wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 3:41 pm
Credibility is separate from lying. Someone can be credible and lying through their teeth, they are a very convincing liar. The best test for witnesses is not credibility, it is truthfulness. That is not to say credibility is unimportant. If someone is telling the truth, but they make constant mistakes, exaggerate, get emotional, mix hearsay with what they saw, repeat rumours, the details they give should be treated as suspect.
Elie Wiesel is the best example of such a witness. Wiernik gets emotional, he exaggerates and makes claims that cannot be correct, but his narrative of how TII functioned, its layout, who else worked there and the rebellion, are all corroborated. That corroboration establishes his truthfulness. Just take his story narrative and descriptions with a pinch of salt.
Your inexperience with and ignorance of witnesses, is why you are reduced to making pithy remarks, rather than contributing to the understanding of witness testimony.
Two things can be true at once:
1) Wiernik is lying
2) Wiernik is not credible
If you knew more on the subject you would know that people can be credible and telling the truth, credible and lying, not credible and telling the truth and not credible and lying.
Examples of why he is not credible: He has a clear ideological / personal / ethnic disdain for the Germans, calling them "satanic" on multiple counts, vile, amongst other things. These obvious ideological biases, along with his clear hyperbole, exaggerations, inconsistencies and impossible claims means that, unfortunately for you, however you want to dress it up - Wiernik is lying and far from credible.
There are credibility issues. That is not as unfortunate for me as you think it is. It is to be expected that Wiernik would be anti-Nazi, after what happened to him. All the Jewish witnesses use hyperbole etc, whereas the Nazis are all more matter of fact and less emotive. That is explained by who is the victim and who is the perpetrator and that in this instance, the perpetrators had arguments that they were not doing anything illegal at that time, they were dealing with an enemy threat, and they were acting under orders.
You cannot prove he is lying that TII had gas chambers, mass graves and pyres. To do that, you need evidence, such as an admission from him, he is lying, or a witness who was there who states there were no gas chambers, or an archaeological survey that finds no buried cremated remains, or a document that records regular mass transports back out of the camp.
It is typical of denier ignorance of investigations and evidencing, that they think opinion on credibility is the same as evidence to prove lying.