Rumbula (Riga) Massacre Containment Thread

[HansHill]

As suggested by another poster, separating this off from another thread to avoid continual thread derailment. This thread is intended specifically for Exterminationists to defend the positive claims of the two alleged Rumbula massacres, and answer challenges posed by Revisionists.

To get us started, i asked the poster to address these challenges:

- The lack of bodies found by the Soviets (549 across 10 "massacre" sites, including Rumbula, falling orders of magnitude short of the 116,000 murders)
- Related to the above, a comment on the lack of forensics performed by the Soviets to identify those slain as indeed being Jews, and the cause of death. Give us something for God's sake, anything approaching the quality of the Katyn forensics would be nice. If this was not performed by the Soviets, then we'd appreciate a comment on why not?
- The eyewitnesses getting basic details wrong - i quoted one eyewitness earlier in that thread, please go back to read the basic errors in her account, or if by request I will re-post it here below.
- The sardine method, a comment on why we're wrong to be sceptical of this - give us something that helps us take this seriously.

[Nessie]

This is a rather odd way to investigate.

"...Exterminationists to defend the positive claims of the two alleged Rumbula massacres, and answer challenges posed by Revisionists. To get us started, i asked the poster to address these challenges..."

Revisionists love to set tasks and get others to run around looking for evidence, so that they can then assess that evidence. It is pure power play, by people who fail to recognise their complete lack of authority, training and expertise in the subjects they are critiquing. If only they could imagine what it would be like if one day, someone with no experience, demands that they prove themselves at their work, and how idiotic that would be.

Such demands to be spoon fed only deserve minimal work, so read this;

https://cnu.edu/news/2021/07/27-phil-latvia_blog/

[Stubble]

What the hell happened there?

I think we can all agree something happened.

[HansHill]

549 bodies were disposed of, across 10 sites, including Rumbula. Occams razor tells us these were casualties of war or something related. We don't know anything more than this unfortunately because the Soviets were unable or unwilling (take your pick) to produce any satisfying forensics.

[Stubble]

The orthodox consensus is that there were mass killings here to clean out the ghetto and make room for, I'd say different jews, but, they were killing those too, so, to, clear out the ghetto to murder the jews.

They have documents with rubber stamps and some have reasonable patents showing that people said they killed people in these places.

Surely they killed people in this massacre?

The bodies were taken into the woods and there is a memorial there and everything. It has one of those candle stick thingies on it.

https://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot ... o.html?m=1

The judenrat even gave the nazis a bone grinder for this operation when aktion 1005 kicked in. They got jewed on the coupons they were supposed to get though, because they didn't provide the motor to go with the bone grinder.