Re: Holocaust Revisionism vs. Flat-Earth Theory
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2025 9:59 pm
What is a "mass" event?bombsaway wrote: ↑Sun Aug 17, 2025 9:33 pmHistorical conclusions about mass events in the past 1000 years or whatever ALWAYS follow this pattern. That's why I said if your claims become accepted, this would be a singular occurrence.Archie wrote: ↑Sun Aug 17, 2025 9:30 pmThat link does NOT support your claim that historical conclusions can only be based on "direct" evidence. It is not about historical method at all.bombsaway wrote: ↑Sun Aug 17, 2025 7:11 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_evidence
Here you go. So eg, saying that prior plans existed, is not direct evidence that they were resettled. The Korherr report is direct evidence of population movement I guess, your only piece of such evidence, but it is a highly problematic document that revisionists widely take issue with. You can make whatever claims you want, but it is true that in history (let's limit to past 2000 years) mass events are not asserted without direct evidence, and now the ball is in your court to show otherwise.
Historians rely on "intervening inference" all the time.In law, a body of facts that directly supports the truth of an assertion without intervening inference. It is often exemplified by eyewitness testimony,[1][2] which consists of a witness's description of their reputed direct sensory experience of an alleged act without the presentation of additional facts.[3][1] By contrast, circumstantial evidence can help prove via inference whether an assertion is true,[4] such as forensics presented by an expert witness.
The direct/indirect distinction does not even correspond to strength of evidence. Witness testimony is the most "direct," yet it is generally the weakest form of evidence.
Who cares if the evidence is "direct" or indirect?
Actually, disagreement over "mass events," including recent ones, is common. Only "the Holocaust" is unique in that significant disagreement is basically not allowed. With Stalin's crimes there is a huge range in estimates of the numbers killed. Robert Conquest claims huge numbers in his books. At the other extreme you have certain Stalin apologists who claim it's all fake propaganda.