Wetzelrad wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 5:34 pm
Nessie wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 11:47 am
Social media is awash with people believing the most blatantly idiotic claims. It is frightening how easy it is, to get so many people to believe in obvious hoaxes. For example, X is full of people who genuinely believe that the Germans during WWII, were incapable of making a gas tight door, that used wood as part of its construction and how many have been fooled into thinking the wood and glass door that presently leads into where people can view the inside of Krema I, is the door that originally led into the gas chamber.
So you consider it "blatantly idiotic" for people to accept the Auschwitz Museum's presentation of a gas chamber? The museum is responsible for having a cheap wooden door in the room, not anyone else.
What the Museum failed to do, was make it clear that there was a wall, the outline of which is seen in the floor, between that door and the original gas chamber. That mistake was cleared up a long time ago.
Probably over 99% of visitors have no idea that this door belongs to a different room because the museum is too embarassed by this error to tell them so or to fix it. Robert Jan van Pelt, who is no friend to revisionists, has made stark admissions about the museum's lack of honesty on this.
People online, who do the most basic of research, including asking AI, such as Grok on X, will quickly find out about the missing wall.
People on X are also rightly concerned about why a room used for mass executions would be equipped with a door of wooden construction. They wonder, how are wooden planks going to hold back not only gas but hundreds to thousands of people? It's absurd on its face. The door could not remain airtight with a mass of people fighting for their lives to destroy it. Since a mass of humans can destroy concrete walls, they could definitely damage a wooden door. Skepticism in this area is well warranted.
You already know all this but want people to forego critical thinking.
They could do some research and find an eyewitness description;
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=82890
"It was a wooden door, made of two layers of short pieces of wood arranged like parquet. Between these layers there was a single sheet of material sealing the edges of the door and the rabbets of the frame were also fitted with sealing strips of felt. At about head height for an average man this door had a round glass peephole. On the other side of the door, i.e. on the gas chamber side, this opening was protected by a hemispherical grid. This grid was fitted because the people in the gas chamber, feeling they were going to die, used to break the glass of the peep-hole. But the grid still did not provide sufficient protection and similar incidents recurred. The opening was blocked with a piece of metal or wood. The people going to be gassed and those in the gas chamber damaged the electrical installations, tearing the cables out and damaging the ventilation equipment. The door was closed hermetically from the corridor side by means of iron bars which were screwed tight."
No person, with no tools, can force open a door like that.
It is certainly true that the world is full of people vulnerable to belief in hoaxes. The average person does not investigate things but merely adopts whatever they are told, even when the evidence is false or scanty. That is exactly how the Holocaust Narrative took power, with its human soap, its electrocution chambers, its 20 million deaths, and other such nonsense. If people can be convinced of things like that, things which we could describe as "the most blatantly idiotic claims", it is relatively easy to convince them of gas chambers.
The average person, who unquestioningly believes Holocaust denier/revisionist tropes, online, without checking them, is being a fool. It is so-called revisionists who obsess about the obvious atrocity stories and exaggerated death tolls. Historians and credible sources ditched them decades ago, recognising that they were false. You are assuming that there was widespread belief in those tails. People who presently believe in the wooden door claim, are the type of people who, back in 1945, were falling for the atrocity stories.