bombsaway wrote: ↑Sat Jul 12, 2025 8:04 pm
…if you went to those towns in Poland and you found collected witness testimony from people who had recollections like,
yeah when I asked my father about [what this town was famous for] he said he'd never seen anything like, in fact had seen Jews entering and leaving en masse. This would be much more effective use of money, imo.
Strange why a revisionist wouldn't do that.
At school I had a polish mathematics teacher who was born in Posen in 1923.
He was 16 yrs old when Russia and Germany invaded and occupied Poland.
From 1939 until May 1940 he lived in Lwow in the Soviet occupied part of Poland.
From May 1940 until August 1944 he and his mother and brother managed to relocate and to live in the German occupied part of Poland, in Zolibuz, a suburb of Warsaw. This was arranged as part of an exchange between the Russian Soviets and NSDAP Germany. Russia had taken Polish Jews in exchange for non-Jewish Poles.
When I asked him why he chose to be part of an exchange he told me living under the German occupation was preferable as the treatment was much better in the ‘General Government’ of the German zone of occupation, compared to the Soviet occupied zone.
Here is the identity pass that he was issued with in September 1942 and given by the Germans.
(I have blanked out his surname).
He worked in the city centre of Warsaw and travelled the 30 minute journey to and from home by tram.
On August the 1st 1944 began the 63-day struggle by Polish resistance fighters and as a 21 year old he fortuitously had taken what turned out to be the last tram able to leave the city centre. Otherwise he would have been stuck there amidst the fighting.
When the resistance had been crushed he and his mother and brother were marched 10 kms through the devastated centre to Pruszkow. (His father was absent because as a Major in the Polish army he had fought the German invading army in Sept 1939, was captured and so for the rest of the war was a PoW in Bavaria).
In 2018 I visited him in his home with a tape recorder to discuss his war-time memories, in particular to learn what he knew — AT THE TIME — of the treatment of Jews by the occupying 3rd Reich’s military.
When we got onto the topic of ‘the holocaust’ he told me that everyone KNEW “the jews were being exterminated” in the camps. When I asked him exactly how he (they) “knew”, he replied: “we just knew”.
When I pressed him further to give an example of how any instance of such information was received by him or anyone known to him, he looked slightly perplexed and he couldn’t answer.
In other words, he HAD NO ANSWER to that question.
CONCLUSION: his memories of what he
knew as a teenager DURING the war had been irretrievably mixed up with what he was told and
heard/
read AFTER the war.
As is the case with almost all people alive at the time.
As I discovered was ALSO the case with Swedish diplomat Göran von Otter who famously was spoken to by Kurt Gerstein on a train from Warsaw to Berlin in August 1942. I obtained Otter’s diplomatic reports in Swedish before and after the war and they proved that
during the war he wrote NOTHING indicating knowledge of an extermination policy. But AFTER the hostilities ended, when the newspapers and newsreels were filled with detailed, anti-German atrocity propaganda, THEN von Otter was suddenly able to retro-actively ‘know’ certain details.
VERDICT:
That a faithful ‘believer’ like Bombsaway thinks interviewing children of people like my mathematics teacher to gain meaningful, credible information that can be used as ‘evidence’ of anything at all to do with the jewish experience during WW2 I find quite astonishing. These ‘believers’ don’t appear to understand anything about human psychology.
bombsaway wrote: ↑Sat Jul 12, 2025 8:04 pm If I was a [skeptic] like you guys are, I probably would have done something like that, definitely after the fall of the USSR in the 90s when most elderly people there would have been likely
eyewitnesses to either mass murder or transit camp activities.
Doh, you missed a huge opportunity there, but there's still time.
The above strikes me as an extremely idiotic viewpoint.