Low-Level Contrary Statements
Okay, then. Now let's get on with bombsaway's "challenge" even though it is somewhat rigged.
Are there "low-level" statements supporting the revisionist thesis? Or are there zero as BA (and Nessie) have implied?
No implication from me, there is zero eyewitness evidence from anyone who worked at an AR camp, Chelmno or inside an A-B Krema who provides any testimony that describes a different process from mass transports, selections, undressing, gassing, cremation and/or burials.
This is in no way a trivial request. The witness statements we have available are overwhelmingly from war-crimes trials and other published sources which are of course biased toward orthodox accounts.
The Nazi and Jewish eyewitness have opposing, conflicting biases, yet they agree with each other.
Even worse, the accounts of those who "worked in the Kremas" are tilted toward Soviet and Polish "investigations." Do you really think the Extraordinary State Commission was looking for statements contradicting their narrative? Do you think any witnesses would have been foolish enough to give such testimony to the ESC? If such testimony had been given, do you think these statements would have been given any publicity or would have been featured in published sources? Please be serious.
In fact the majority of the SS camp staff tried for their work at A-B, the AR camps or Chelmno, were tried by German prosecutors in a series of trials, primarily, but not exclusively, in West Germany. It was the perfect time, for a revised history of activities in those places to be forthcoming, especially since West Germany was at the forefront of the Cold War with the Warsaw Pact. The West would have benefitted greatly, by those West Germans exposing the lies of the Poles and Soviets.
Once we start talking about obscure sources, you can't just assume that X, Y, Z doesn't exist, especially on the revisionist side. On the orthodox side, an army of Jews have gone over pretty much everything, many times over. The same is not the case for revisionists as we have very limited resources. "Mattogno would have mentioned it." That's foolish. Mattogno is one man and his efforts, though laudable, are meager compared to the collective efforts of scores of paid professional researchers. Mattogno has not been through everything. Not even close. The Nuremberg prosecution alone was an extraordinary effort that revisionists will never be able to match (pending major technological breakthroughs).
If such testimonies do exist, they are likely to be unpublished and/or extremely obscure.
There are multiple revisionists who have had access to archives such as the documents at the A-B archive. Many archives are being digitised and can new be accessed. Yet, over the decades, revisionists have failed to find a single eyewitness who supports their various claims such as the Leichenkellers only ever stored corpses or that TII was a transit camp.
That said, there are a number of low-level statements that I think do support the revisionist thesis (usually accidentally). Here are a few and these are just ones I happened to be aware of. I have never actually looked for them since I think this whole exercise is misguided to begin with for reasons already explained.
Interesting that Archie acknowledges accidents, as that is what makes the hoaxing of the Holocaust so incredibly unlikely, as someone, somewhere, will accidentally blow it. Whether that is an eyewitness revealing what really happened, or an archivist making evidence public.
-Dr. Nyiszli accidentally admits that the LKs were in fact used as air raid shelters. Nyiszli is rubbish but this particular detail is an admission against interest and he would not have had any reason to make it up. Nor can it be well explained as a false rumor. If there was a "rumor" it would like be true. To say it other words, Nyizsli's statemnts about the gassings are not credible. His accidental reference to air raids is credible. No, that isn't inconsistent.
That was not an accident. It is what happened. It made sense for those working inside the Kremas, to shelter in the most secure part of the building. He is an eyewitness who describes sheltering inside the gas chambers.
-Walter Schreiber was an engineer at Huta.
L.: What did the Huta Corporation build?
S.: Among other things, crematoria II and III with the large morgues.
L.: The prevalent opinion (considered to be self-evident) is that these large morgues were allegedly gas chambers for mass killings.
S.: Nothing of that sort could be deduced from the plans made available to us. The detailed plans and provisional invoices drawn up by us refer to these rooms as ordinary cellars.
L.: Do you know anything about introduction hatches in the reinforced concrete ceilings?
S.: No, not from memory. But since these cellars were also intended to serve as air raid shelters as a secondary purpose, introduction holes would have been counterproductive. I would certainly have objected to such an arrangement. (HH #42, pg. 77-78)
The special action at A-B was to be kept as secret as possible. Not involving someone who was part of the original design of the Kremas, in subsequent modifications and operation, makes sense. Hence, Schrieber likely did not know, or he was lying. He is not an eyewitness to the operation of the Kremas, 1943-4.
This statement was recorded late (1999) and it can be critiqued on various grounds. But I share just to point out that it is false to say there are "zero" contrary witnesses.
-Anonymous 1944 Account
Unpublished. Polish Underground Movement (1939-1945) Study Trust; a reference number was not given
February 2, 1944
“The concentration camp in Auschwitz.”
The crematorium is underground; it is built following the pattern of an air raid shelter. Only the chimney protrudes above ground, in whose construction the informant was also involved. The informant does not know where the gas chambers are located; he merely heard that they are underground, built on the pattern of the crematorium.
Krematorium miesci sie pod ziemia zbudowane na wzòr scronu przeciwlotniczego. Nad powierzchnia ziemi unosi sie jedynie komin, przy budowie ktòrego byl zatrudniony ròwniez informator. Gdzie mieszcza sie komory gazowe, informator nie wie, slyszal jedynie, ze sa pod ziemia, zbudowane na zwòr krematorium. (HH#36, pg 92)
The only reason I know about this is because Graf cites it for other reasons. He seems to have missed the significance of the air raid shelter.
Bombsaway will of course say this doesn't count because it is anonymous. However, it's also from Feb 1944 which is very early (and therefore preferred) and it says the source is someone directly involved in the construction. Imo, this is a far better source that ESC witnesses or Jewish memoirists.
What is interesting about it is that the source has apparently heard rumors about "gas chambers" yet he has no idea where these were located. Which is funny since he was building them! The people building the gas chambers didn't know they were building gas chambers. Interesting. And I think it's because it wasn't one. And then the point about it being similar in design to an air-raid shelter, though not conclusive by any means, gives some support to the arguments of Butz and Crowell.
Only someone desperate, would introduce hearsay evidence of a claim the Kremas had gas chambers, as evidence they had an alternative function. Schreiber stated that holes in the roof would be contrary to an air raid shelter design, and the anonymous Polish worker speaks about the chimney. A chimney next an air raid shelter risks it being hit and landing on the shelter, hence Krema I's chimney was demolished in 1944.
The examples given are not mistakes whereby eyewitness blow the actual purpose of the Kremas.
Sanity Check - "Thus, currently revisionists can console themselves by affirming their incredulity..."