Witness Krzepicki Debate Thread

[Nessie]

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It’s almost like I’ve heard Nessie’s lame spiel six million times already and know exactly what he’s going to say.

What you call "lame spiel" is how historians, journalists, lawyers and criminal investigators have been assessing witness evidence for decades, if not centuries. Corroboration is the most reliable, credible and accurate way of assessing a witness. You have failed to show how that is wrong and a better way to assess witnesses.

You certainly cannot do that with Krzepicki.

Nessie, it is poor form to assert that your posts are representative of exemplary professional practice when in reality it seems nobody endorses much of anything you say. The PhD people who have posted here by and large have not only declined to endorse your posts, they generally seem to go out of their way to distance themselves from you. That is the opposite of endorsement. You claiming to represent the best in historical practice is sheer delusion.

Historians evaluate sources using source criticism. Sources are given greater or lesser weight depending on various criteria. What Nessie does bears no relation at all to competent historical analysis. Nessie simply defends his precious Holocaust at all costs and defends the witnesses as needed, usually by grading them so leniently that failure is impossible.

Historians etc do use source criticism and they use corroboration. You have a theme of trying to suggest I act differently to all others, to defect from the truth, which is that it is you who assesses evidence, in particular, witnesses differently from all others.

That is why everyone is swerving assessing Krzepicki, because you know how easy it is, for me to point to your mistakes.

[slob]

If not relevant, please delete.

Having a mooch round https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers for Krzepicki , not much turned up really, only this of interest?

If it is the same man. he appeared to be in some jewish/Polish civilian military group, for a free Poland etc. He was based in Bydgoszcz, isn't that the Polish name for Bromberg?

Who knows, maybe he took part in the Bromberg Massacre?

[pilgrimofdark]

A comfortable, neat little bathhouse set in the middle of a wooded area. There was nothing more to see. But as one stood in front of the entrance to this “bathhouse” one could see hills of lime, and beneath them the giant, still-open mass graves where tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of “bathers” lay in eternal rest. Later on, I was told that here, too, they had begun to cremate the bodies in the ditches.

- Jakub Krzepicki
Source

How does Krzepicki know this?

Krzepicki has to be told this by late January/early February at the latest, when his account is said to have been buried in the Ringelblum Archive milk cans.

But everyone seems to agree -- Łukaszkiewicz, Arad, Webb, Berger -- that Himmler didn't visit Treblinka until late February/early March, after which bodies in mass graves were dug up and cremated.

(Obviously, Mattogno disagrees this Himmler visit happened at all, but that's not the issue here.)

Did Krzepicki get "told" something that hadn't begun to happen yet, and wouldn't happen until after this account attributed to him was buried? Or were there reports floating around the Warsaw Ghetto around January 1943 about the Katyn-Himmler-Treblinka exhumation-cremation connection?