Wetzelrad wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 4:53 am
I see, so if we "aren't seeing" headlines then DNA reunions are rare, but if we do see headlines then they are also rare. This conclusion cannot be falsified.
A small percent of DNA reunions are expected. Unless you make a statistically sound argument, copying even 50 articles, won't prove anything.
Of course, but it also doesn't mean the rest of the family was executed. In several of these cases family members could well have survived the war and died of old age. We're talking about octogenarians or older.
Again, why was he separated from his family as a young child?
To the contrary, its existence proves the phenomenon is consistent and not rare.
No it doesn't. You misused the word consistent here. The existence of an organization shows that these things do happen but it doesn't show that they are common. Common relative to what? The 6 million Jews that disappeared?
I am neither hyperfocusing nor cherrypicking nor generalizing 6 million Jews but merely responding to your several broad claims about what you personally think should be true with the most obvious and accessible evidence contrary to that. It's not actually my job to catalogue every reunited Jew to satisfy you. It's enough just to see that the phenomenon is common enough that it's easy to find.
Using random anecdotes from the internet is the perfect example of cherry picking. You have shown that it happens, why I acknowledged before you mentioned it. If you want to make a statistical argument, then do the math if you can.
No, because only a relatively small number of witnesses were direct eyewitnesses. The rest merely heard rumors and things of that nature. It is the direct eyewitnesses who matter, and it is they who have issues with lying and credibility. For example, Blaha testified that there were gassings at Dachau and that he was involved in one. The Dachau Museum says the "gas chamber" was never used, meaning they consider Blaha not credible. The Dachau Museum did not concern itself with what the thousands of other inmates said about gassing because none of them claimed to have seen or participated in it.
A relatively small amount of survivors directly saw people being gassed because those who saw it were killed. Of the 1.3 million people who were deported to Auschwitz, only 7,000 were alive when the Soviets arrive and very few Sonderkommando survived. So you are right that a relatively small number of people directly witnessed the operations of the gas chamber, but this was by design.
With respect to direct survivors, there were tens of thousands who were interned in concentration camps and saw deportations, the selections on arrival platforms, mass graves, executions, and crematoria smoke with the scent of burning bodies.
When the Soviets arrived, they saw and photographed piles of corpses, emaciated survivors, warehouses filled with shoes, hair, suitcases, prosthetic limbs, and partially destroyed gas chambers.
Why did the Nazis try to destroy the gas chambers and crematoria? How do you write off the discovery of piles of bodies and emaciated prisoners? There is so much evidence out there that you have to really dismantle so many different things and yet I haven't seen any compelling arguments other than a few minor things that are cherry picked.
