TlsMS93 wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 10:22 pm
So the problem with the Holocaust is that we do not have anyone at the top of the hierarchy of the regime determining a policy of extermination of a people. What we have are inflammatory words that anyone has said in moments of pressure, and isolated witnesses, and confessions under torture or after the sentence was applied. All the defendants in Nuremberg declared themselves innocent, including Speer. None of them were convicted because they determined the policy of extermination. Hitler and Himmler were not tried. So the Holocaust is basically a Frankenstein monster of isolated and lower-level parts of certain atrocities that, within a negative vision that they constructed of Nazi Germany, this event emerged that was structured over time and still continues.
I'm not sure how you can say that when there's so much concrete evidence suggesting that is incorrect. Maybe you can explain to me the following excerpts which are very clear to me.
From the Wannsee Protocol (January 20, 1942), which was a secret document recording the meeting of senior Nazi officials where they coordinated the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question.
Under appropriate direction the Jews are to be utilized for work in the East in an expedient manner in the course of the final solution. In large (labor) columns, with the sexes separated, Jews capable of work will be moved into these areas as they build roads, during which a large proportion will no doubt drop out through natural reduction. The remnant that eventually remains will require suitable treatment; because it will without doubt represent the most [physically] resistant part, it consists of a natural selection that could, on its release, become the germ-cell of a new Jewish revival.
Even though the Wannsee Protocol doesn't use the word 'gas chamber,' it was not a kill order. It was a coordination meeting among bureaucrats already carrying out a genocidal operation. Based on hundreds of internal documents, orders, and testimonies, it's clear that the Nazis used euphemisms to disguise mass murder in bureaucratic language. This has been cross-referenced across thousands of documents and testimonies. Rudolf Höss, Adolf Eichmann, and others explained what the terms meant in practice.
For example, the Einsatzgruppen were required to send official reportsto Berlin about their updates. Some reports said 2,300 Jews subjected to "special treatment" while others, submitted shortly after, explicitly said 2,300 Jews shot. This shows they were reported on the same incident and special treatment was used interchangeably with being shot.
Heinrich Himmler's Posen Speech (October 4, 1943)
In a speech to SS officers, Himmler explicitly refers to the extermination of the Jewish people.
I am referring here to the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish people. This is one of the things that is easily said: "The Jewish people are going to be exterminated," that's what every Party member says, "sure, it's in our program, elimination of the Jews, extermination - it'll be done." And then they all come along, the 80 million worthy Germans, and each one has his one decent Jew. Of course, the others are swine, but this one, he is a first- rate Jew. Of all those who talk like that, not one has seen it happen, not one has had to go through with it. Most of you men know what it is like to see 100 corpses side by side, or 500 or 1,000. To have stood fast through this - and except for cases of human weakness - to have stayed decent, that has made us hard.
Many Holocaust deniers, claim that his speech is vague and doesn't actually mean extermination, but Himmler clearly distinguishes between talking about extermination and actually carrying it out. This is not vague bureaucratic language—it’s a boast to senior SS officers.
Some argue that it's a fabrication, but it would be impossible to it would be virtually impossible to forge Himmler's voice, SS distribution formats, and detailed historical references. Multiple independent historians and institutions have all authenticated the speech.
Goebbels' Diary (March 27, 1942)
Beginning with Lublin, the Jews in the General Government are now being evacuated eastward. The procedure is a pretty barbaric one and not to be described here more definitely. Not much will remain of the Jews. On the whole it can be said that about 60% of them will have to be liquidated whereas only about 40% can be used for forced labor.
Many Holocaust deniers also say that the diaries were forged or inauthentic but they were handwritten and professionals have authenticated the entries through handwriting analysis, paper type, ink aging etc.
Others say he was just speculating about what was going to happen but at this time, Jews were already being sent to extermination camps by early 1942.
Other's say that the diary is taken out of context, but if anything, he shows no confusion or moral uncertainty—only cold approval. His language is consistent with Nazi euphemism, but even he breaks through it at times like when he used verbiage like “liquidated” or “not much remains”.
Some say it was propaganda or an exaggeration but it was written for himself, not for propagandistic purposes, and much of what he is saying lines up with deportation schedules, death camp operations, and other Nazi documents.
Himmler and Goebbels were both top Nazi insiders who couldn't have carried out such an operation without Hitler's knowledge and approval.