Wetzelrad wrote: ↑Sat Aug 01, 2026 5:35 pm
Revisionist writings on Joshua Kaufman include Carolyn Yeager's
three articles as well as one more recent article by Eric Hunt. The latter is so excessively crass that I won't even link to it, but it does raise some useful points, some of which I borrow below.
Kaufman claimed to work in Birkenau in an above-ground gas chamber (01:28:17)
not in any crematorium (01:23:28, 01:28:53). But the bodies he moved were taken by stretcher to the crematorium (01:25:20). No such arrangement ever existed, according to the experts.
Kaufman claimed that he was not Sonderkommando but rather a repeat volunteer who helped remove bodies from the gas chamber for the Sonderkommando (01:23:28). This is a distinction unknown to the experts, and therefore invented.
Kaufman claimed all the Sonderkommando were regularly killed to keep them from talking (01:27:34), but he was not killed with them. This is a gaping hole in the supposed plan to eliminate witnesses.
Kaufman claimed that gassing victims were inexplicably "frozen together" and he had to "break bones" to do his work (01:23:48, 01:25:04, 01:49:15). Nothing like this results from Zyklon gas.
He asked how people including deniers can believe his stories if he himself doesn't (01:48:30-01:49:45).
It's unbelievable. And this is what I wonder, how people can believe to my stories? It's not a story. This what-- I say it every time, what I went through. How they can believe me if I don't believe in nothing? I wonder if you who will believe me. I wonder if her if she'll believe me. I would-- if you would tell me the stories what I am telling you, I wouldn't believe you.
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If you tell me, I would listen to you, but I would never believe it. And I'll say it again. And I don't believe your story, whatever you are doing with this collection of the Holocaust survivors. And I'm not angry of the deniers either. If I don't believe, how they can believe?
He said that after the war Hungary was more antisemitic than before, with the antisemites thinking "we came back more [than] when we left" (03:44:37, 03:45:16).
He called Pope Pius XII an antisemite (03:58:10).
He claimed Jonathan Pollard's prison sentence was motivated by antisemitism (04:51:31).
My experience is that people who claim to see antisemitism everywhere are blinded by tribalism and unable to be honest narrators of history.