Re: Callafangers' statements of fact / rebuttable presumptions about Belzec and Sobibor
Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2025 12:07 pm
True. No serious person can believe that such a massive wartime population transfer would have resulted in a death toll of zero deportees. A mortality rate of 10 or 20% would necessarily have generated a need for the disposal of hundreds of thousands of corpses in that area and beyond. I was not challenging that. I was just reminding everyone that caution is advised when dealing with statements from these people, whose dishonesty and political biases are no longer in doubt.Callafangers wrote: ↑Thu Nov 27, 2025 6:36 amFair point. There's no question we are at the "mercy" of the team that did the digging/drilling, having to decide whether or not we can trust they did so with sincere intentions, appropriate competence, and documented their findings accurately. There is a lot that can be said about the contents of the reports but I lean toward the interpretation that they were most likely well-intentioned. And as it turns out, their findings align well with non-incriminating corpse quantities reflecting Sobibor as a common-sense economic and disinfestation border/transit facility.Eye of Zyclone wrote: ↑Thu Nov 27, 2025 3:37 am For info, grey and black layers of soil are not necessarily layers of ashes. Hydric soils also display grey and black layers.
It is always interesting to me that everyone seems to acknowledge that the ghettos generally didn't have their own crematory facilities. We are all just supposed to assume the many thousands of corpses (from disease, etc.) were buried somewhere nearby, maybe because 'Shmuel Bergstein' said so, in some instances (but not all)... Meanwhile, outdoor pyres and typhus control measures were already taking place at nearby border facilities and trains from the ghettos were already being sent en route toward these border stations. Thus, findings of thousands or even low-mid tens of thousands of corpses at the 'Reinhardt' sites (if being charitable) is perfectly within a revisionist interpretation, no further minimization needed.
All of that said, yes, the reports (e.g. Kola) are weak, vague, and with all of the political (and ideological) motives and liars surrounding the 'Holocaust', it is very much justified to expect much more before concluding on too specific a range of actual corpses here. We know with certainty that property (furniture, clothing, papers, etc.) were being burned and buried en masse.

