Are Shoes Proof of Mass Murder?

[Stubble]

Apparently, they are, according to both Colls and Berman.

Can someone explain to me like I am 5 years old why a pair of shoes are 'proof of genocide'?

I apologize that the owner of the video has disabled playback. The link should still work. In the event that it does not, this is an oration by Colls titled;

2024 Holocaust Memorial Lecture featuring Professor Caroline Sturdy Colls

[HansHill]

The only thing a pile of shoes prove, is that my alimony payments were cashed.

[Stubble]

She goes on about the shoes for 20 minutes, and so did Wiernik's handler Berman at the Eichmann trial. More time has been spent discussing these shoes in court than was spent discussing Treblinka at the IMT.

[Eye of Zyclone]

In 1944, Soviet propagandists claimed that 800,000 pairs of shoes were proof that 2 million people had been killed in Majdanek, but it turned out that they weren't after all.

[Callafangers]

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This seems an understatement... It should actually be calculated as follows:

2M / 78K = 25.6

Meaning the 2M estimate is 25.6 times higher than the 78K, which is a ~2,500% overestimation.

I notice the Christian crosses also prominent in the 1944 sign... useful as a [manipulative] emotional appeal to the Christian West.

[Stubble]

Agreed.

https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculat ... tion=solve

Either way, that's a lot of lost soles...



I don't think I have ever noticed before today that Wiernik's handler was the guy who presented the child's shoes at the Eichmann trial...

In this presentation from Colls, she drones on about these shoes for what seems like an eternity, but was actually only 20 minutes (a third of the presentation).

Aktion Reinhardt is 1/3 of the Holocaust, the shoes are 1/3rd of the Colls presentation, I am sure there is some kind of gematria in there...

It is obvious some cross-section of society finds something murderous about missing shoes.

[Eye of Zyclone]

Either way, that's a lot of lost soles...

[borjastick]

I've seen the pile of shoes display many times on the internet and the idiots who comment on this and similar displays and how they think it is absolute proof of mass murder and gas chambers. The other prominent display cases are of course piles of suitcases and piles of wire framed spectacles.

I'm not sure most people who see this type of picture and comment on how terrible it was and how can anyone deny the holocaust have actually spent much brain power arriving at these conclusions. The displays are proof of slightly less than naff all except the shoes were surplus to requirements of a camp inmate. We know that the camp system went through clothing and personal belongings and sent much of it back to Germany for re-use. It does not prove anything more than just that.

I have asked the question on the facebook pages that show this kind of mind manipulation about what these pictures prove and usually get very little response.

Auschwitz is a very clever mind game where most people arrive at the camp already believing in the gas chamber nonsense and just seek proof and comfort in being there and having their existing belief confirmed. They question nothing and simply wander through the camp and museum accepting all the mind games they are subjected to. It is a very clever manipulation of the gullible.

The good thing is on facebook pages that show shower heads and claim they were conduits of death gas, many people have arisen and now use the 'wooden doors' and 'windows in the gas chamber at Majdanek' comments which is hilarious and the source of much hilarity. What it all says to me is the story of the 6m is wearing very thin.

[HansHill]

https://holocaustencyclopedia.com/objec ... rtees/832/