Archie wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 10:34 pm
I've had similar discussions with BA and Nessie before. They think undocumented migration is impossible (even though this is so common that "undocumented immigrant" is an established term, even today in 2025 with modern technology). I remember trying to explain to them that government statistics can be inaccurate/fake/etc and they were constitutionally incapable of imagining this. If they see a stat on google, they For various comparative examples, they would cite anecdotal accounts from popular media or would google government statistics. Government stats, even when they are accurately tabulated, are often not available for all population subsets (race, religion, etc).
Jews represent special demographic problems. They can adopt or discard their Judaism as it suits them. "Jew" can be defined by religion, by ancestry, by self-identification, etc. all of these will give different answers. Different countries used different definitions and of course the USA does not census them at all. This is why there are so many contradictory figures available for Jews. The difficulties are obvious to anyone who has spent even a little time trying to reconcile all of the different statistics.
Jews identified, registered and arrested, are the opposite of undocumented. The Nazi policy towards Jews was to have all of them documented and located, for which they got widespread cooperation from all the countries they occupied or were aligned to, except Denmark and Finland. We can locate those Jews, the Danish fled to Sweden and the Fins remained in Finland. Arrested Jews can be located, due to Nazi camp, ghetto and transport records.
The issue that all revisionists dodge, is where were all of those arrested Jews in 1944? If they were still alive, there would still be many ghettos and camps. But, the Nazis had been recording a dramatically falling Jewish population during the war. By 1944, the last ghetto at Lodz had closed. A-B's population dropped 1943-1944 and by liberation in 1945, it was only 7000. We know, from Nazi records and liberations, how many Jews were marched west and liberated by the Allies. Displaced persons and tracing agencies recorded only a few hundred thousand Jews.
Revisionists have a chronological gap, where they jump to after the war, because 1944 is such a huge problem for them. A highly documented and regimented group of people, for whom there is a lot of evidence of their locations, have disappeared by 1944. Many of them vanish at a few specific camps. There are records of life, from their registration to transportation, and then nothing.
Revisionists cannot even revise the history of those people, and evidence the Nazi department, and operation to keep millions of them alive. Instead, they deny, from denying they existed in the first place, to denying the need to trace them and find out what happened.