The best examples of cherry-picking and what that causes, are the AR camps and A-B Kremas. By cherry-picking, so-called revisionists have concluded that the AR camps were transit, customs, hygiene, property sorting camps, where people changed onto wider gauge trains. The Kremas were showers, corpse stores, bomb shelters and delousing chambers. There are even some who argue they cannot have been delousing chambers. When evidence is cherry-picked, it is impossible to reach a consensus. The so-called revisionists also cannot reach an evidenced, logical conclusion, as to what eventually happened and where people were in 1945. They fail at history.ConfusedJew wrote: ↑Tue May 20, 2025 3:50 am I'm seeing two big issues come up that hopefully you guys can help me understand better.
1. There is a ton of different pieces of evidence, in my opinion, all pointing to the same narrative. What I see happening here is that people cherry pick issues with individual pieces of evidence that don't fully invalidate those individual artifacts or testimonies, let alone the entire body of evidence.
In general, how do you guys think about inconsistencies in evidence and how to interpret that? I just think these issues are blown out of proportion again and again so I'm looking for some kind of meta heuristic to be more objective about these things and reduce the bias in discussions, which we all have to some extent.
Exactly, why would the Nazis cooperate with reports by the Polish Government in Exile, if their reports about mass murder in certain camps were fake? Why would the Nazis not counter those reports, with evidence of millions of Jews still alive, in camps and ghettos, in 1944? If the hoax was a Soviet one, why would Latvia, on gaining independence, not blow that hoax, and reveal that Latvian Auxiliary Police units did not join with the Einsatzgruppen, shooting Jews?2. If this is just a hoax or postwar narrative, how is it possible for all these different fake sources to have come up with different people that were mostly disconnected during and after the war? I don't see how it's physically possible for so many different people to fabricate so much evidence and testimonies without coordinating. Can you explain that to me? I don't think anything like that has ever happened before in the history of the world.
How to interpret inconsistencies in evidence is to gain as wide an understanding of all the available evidence as possible, and WITHOUT favouring any preconceived conclusions and by being alert to any possible subliminal confirmation biases that one might have. This requires some self-awareness and an ability to read and assimilate arguments and viewpoints that contradict one’s own current understanding with fairness and honesty.ConfusedJew wrote: ↑Tue May 20, 2025 3:50 am I'm seeing two big issues come up that hopefully you guys can help me understand better.
1. There is a ton of different pieces of evidence, in my opinion, all pointing to the same narrative. What I see happening here is that people cherry pick issues with individual pieces of evidence that don't fully invalidate those individual artifacts or testimonies, let alone the entire body of evidence.
In general, how do you guys think about inconsistencies in evidence and how to interpret that? I just think these issues are blown out of proportion again and again so I'm looking for some kind of meta heuristic to be more objective about these things and reduce the bias in discussions, which we all have to some extent.
Firstly, it wasn’t only a post-war narrative. It was concocted as ‘atrocity’ propaganda during the war. It is called psy-op warfare. That is short for ‘psychological-operations’. The British head of that was Victor Cavendish-Bentinck. One of his chief operatives was a Jew of Australian and German origins and upbringing/education.ConfusedJew wrote: ↑Tue May 20, 2025 3:50 am 2. If this is just a hoax or postwar narrative, how is it possible for all these different fake sources to have come up with different people that were mostly disconnected during and after the war? I don't see how it's physically possible for so many different people to fabricate so much evidence and testimonies without coordinating. Can you explain that to me? I don't think anything like that has ever happened before in the history of the world.
Inconsistencies in the evidence, are caused by mixing hearsay with eyewitness testimony, and normal differences in memory and recollection by the witnesses. Revisionists grossly exaggerate the level of inconsistency between the witnesses, by ignoring the difference between hearsay and eyewitnesses and by ignoring what is known to be normal witness behaviour.ConfusedJew wrote: ↑Tue May 20, 2025 3:50 am ...In general, how do you guys think about inconsistencies in evidence and how to interpret that? I just think these issues are blown out of proportion again and again so I'm looking for some kind of meta heuristic to be more objective about these things and reduce the bias in discussions, which we all have to some extent.
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were to guess why no t4 personnel were chosen to perform gassing that had experience with gassing, it would be because THERE WERE NONE.
'Fangers already covered that.ConfusedJew wrote: ↑Tue May 20, 2025 2:18 pm Not all witnesses are valid. Even if a witness is largely credible, you shouldn't expect their recollection to be 100% accurate and they might even be partially dishonest.
That meme doesn't really represent the situation.
As a general rule, going forward, how would you like to deal with imperfections in the evidence or testimonies? I just want to make sure that we all operate out of good faith and shared understanding of how to approach evidence so that we keep things as objective as possible in order to do our best to discuss the truth.
were to guess why no t4 personnel were chosen to perform gassing that had experience with gassing, it would be because THERE WERE NONE.
So-called revisionism would not work, if the witnesses were honestly assessed. They need 100% of the eyewitnesses to be lying.ConfusedJew wrote: ↑Tue May 20, 2025 2:18 pm Not all witnesses are valid. Even if a witness is largely credible, you shouldn't expect their recollection to be 100% accurate and they might even be partially dishonest.
That meme doesn't really represent the situation.
As a general rule, going forward, how would you like to deal with imperfections in the evidence or testimonies? I just want to make sure that we all operate out of good faith and shared understanding of how to approach evidence so that we keep things as objective as possible in order to do our best to discuss the truth.
Du bist ein Jude. The only people pushing the narrative are the Jews who connect the apparent dots of evidence to form the picture they want. They did this in the Torah and then invented Christianity and Islam followed. An example is the description by Raol Hilberg on the "Death trains" where he interprets Scheduling Order Fahrplananordnung (Fplo) 587. Death TrainsConfusedJew wrote: ↑Tue May 20, 2025 3:50 am There is a ton of different pieces of evidence, in my opinion, all pointing to the same narrative. What I see happening here is that people cherry pick issues with individual pieces of evidence that don't fully invalidate those individual artifacts or testimonies, let alone the entire body of evidence.
My God, do you mean that in the German concentration camps there could be none of these things, only gas chambers or torture rooms? Now if you are referring to the places that are BELIEVED to be gas chambers, revisionism has a certain consensus on that. Morgue then air raid shelter in Stammlager, morgue in Birkenau, delousing chamber and bath and disinfection in Majdanek.Nessie wrote: ↑Tue May 20, 2025 6:26 am
The best examples of cherry-picking and what that causes, are the AR camps and A-B Kremas. By cherry-picking, so-called revisionists have concluded that the AR camps were transit, customs, hygiene, property sorting camps, where people changed onto wider gauge trains. The Kremas were showers, corpse stores, bomb shelters and delousing chambers. There are even some who argue they cannot have been delousing chambers. When evidence is cherry-picked, it is impossible to reach a consensus. The so-called revisionists also cannot reach an evidenced, logical conclusion, as to what eventually happened and where people were in 1945. They fail at history.
This is great actually because it is reasonable objective although you could argue and refine certain aspects of this rubric. I uploaded the rubric to ChatGPT and asked it how it would evaluate the testimonies of Adolf Eichmann.Stubble wrote: ↑Tue May 20, 2025 2:24 pm
'Fangers already covered that.
https://www.codohforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=350
I asked it to identify areas where his testimony would be suspect and this is what it came back with.Final Score: ~81/100
Interpretation: “Generally reliable document with minor concerns.”
Eichmann's testimony is highly valuable, especially for understanding Nazi administrative processes and ideology. However, self-interest, shifting narratives, and selective presentation reduce its probative value in some areas. Historians typically cross-check it with other independent evidence and give it partial but important weight.
It gives some reasons, which you can look through, which are very interesting. And then highlights the areas where the testimony are most questionable and why:"Eichmann’s testimony is both rich in detail and rife with contradictions, and your framework rightly demands scrutiny of self-interest, shifting narratives, and selective presentation. Below is a focused breakdown of the most concerning elements within each of those categories—specifically how they may undermine parts of his testimony."
I asked it how the flaws and inconsistencies in his testimony undermine his description of the Final Solution:Claim 1 - “I was only following orders"
Contradicted by prideful Sassen remarks and organizational authority he wielded
Claim 2- “I didn’t know what was happening in the camps”
Refuted by transport documents, Himmler speeches he referenced, and contemporaneous Nazi knowledge
Claim 3 - “I was powerless”
Undermined by consistent role in coordinating deportations and dealings with top officials
Claim 4 - “I had no ideological motivation”
Contradicted by earlier comments expressing belief in anti-Jewish policies
In between, they give a lot of concrete examples.Eichmann’s inconsistencies and inaccuracies undermine his personal credibility, but they do not undermine the existence or core details of the Final Solution—and in some cases, they unintentionally confirm it.
Conclusion
Eichmann’s distortions do not undermine the existence or the central details of the Final Solution. They undermine:
His credibility as a reliable narrator
The extent of his claimed ignorance or powerlessness
The specifics of his self-portrayal
But far from weakening the historical case for the Final Solution, his testimony—when analyzed critically—actually reinforces it by aligning with other evidence, even when it tries not to.
You can look through the entire AI thread below, but please address the core arguments made here. If you want to use AI, more power to you, there's no reason to denigrate it in my opinion.Meta-Analysis: Can Eichmann’s Inconsistencies Rationally Undermine the Gas Chamber Narrative?
Only under two assumptions:
1. That most or all corroborating evidence is also compromised (coercion, fraud, or misunderstanding).
2. That Eichmann’s ignorance is genuine and indicative of the broader Nazi leadership's ignorance.
But both assumptions collapse when evaluated:
Other Nazis confessed to direct involvement (Höss, Blobel, Broad).
Allies and neutral parties documented the camps (e.g., Polish resistance, Soviet liberators, U.S. military).
Physical and forensic evidence exists (e.g., gas chamber remains at Majdanek, Zyklon B traces in Auschwitz ruins).
Eichmann’s own boasts pre-trial contradict his courtroom denials—which would be the opposite pattern if he were being manipulated into confession.
I'm being intellectually honest here, but I am personally not sure how you can explain away the testimony of all of the perpetrators. I can't imagine why the Nazis would testify against themselves while on trial. I find the counter arguments on this forum to be very interesting and thought provoking, but not compelling. But I'm here engaging in good faith so I'm curious where this will take us.
were to guess why no t4 personnel were chosen to perform gassing that had experience with gassing, it would be because THERE WERE NONE.
You're not being intellectually honest at all. Despite being corrected on multiple occasions, you've repeated the lie that there are "hundreds of thousands of witnesses" to the Holocaust, despite the actual number of eye-witnesses numbering barely 20 people. As for perpetrator confessions, I challenge you to name a perpetrator you find most convincing and then explain why that particular testimony is important.ConfusedJew wrote: ↑Tue May 20, 2025 4:34 pmI'm being intellectually honest here, but I am personally not sure how you can explain away the testimony of all of the perpetrators. I can't imagine why the Nazis would testify against themselves while on trial. I find the counter arguments on this forum to be very interesting and thought provoking, but not compelling. But I'm here engaging in good faith so I'm curious where this will take us.