Apparently, they are, according to both Colls and Berman.
Can someone explain to me like I am 5 years old why a pair of shoes are 'proof of genocide'?
I apologize that the owner of the video has disabled playback. The link should still work. In the event that it does not, this is an oration by Colls titled;
2024 Holocaust Memorial Lecture featuring Professor Caroline Sturdy Colls
Re: Are Shoes Proof of Mass Murder?
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2026 8:27 pm
by HansHill
The only thing a pile of shoes prove, is that my alimony payments were cashed.
Re: Are Shoes Proof of Mass Murder?
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2026 8:54 pm
by Stubble
She goes on about the shoes for 20 minutes, and so did Wiernik's handler Berman at the Eichmann trial. More time has been spent discussing these shoes in court than was spent discussing Treblinka at the IMT.
Re: Are Shoes Proof of Mass Murder?
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2026 12:01 am
by Eye of Zyclone
In 1944, Soviet propagandists claimed that 800,000 pairs of shoes were proof that 2 million people had been killed in Majdanek, but it turned out that they weren't after all.
Re: Are Shoes Proof of Mass Murder?
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2026 12:44 am
by Callafangers
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This seems an understatement... It should actually be calculated as follows:
2M / 78K = 25.6
Meaning the 2M estimate is 25.6 times higher than the 78K, which is a ~2,500% overestimation.
I notice the Christian crosses also prominent in the 1944 sign... useful as a [manipulative] emotional appeal to the Christian West.
I don't think I have ever noticed before today that Wiernik's handler was the guy who presented the child's shoes at the Eichmann trial...
In this presentation from Colls, she drones on about these shoes for what seems like an eternity, but was actually only 20 minutes (a third of the presentation).
Aktion Reinhardt is 1/3 of the Holocaust, the shoes are 1/3rd of the Colls presentation, I am sure there is some kind of gematria in there...
It is obvious some cross-section of society finds something murderous about missing shoes.
Re: Are Shoes Proof of Mass Murder?
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2026 1:23 am
by Eye of Zyclone
Stubble wrote: ↑Sat Jun 06, 2026 1:12 am
Either way, that's a lot of lost soles...
Re: Are Shoes Proof of Mass Murder?
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2026 10:34 am
by borjastick
I've seen the pile of shoes display many times on the internet and the idiots who comment on this and similar displays and how they think it is absolute proof of mass murder and gas chambers. The other prominent display cases are of course piles of suitcases and piles of wire framed spectacles.
I'm not sure most people who see this type of picture and comment on how terrible it was and how can anyone deny the holocaust have actually spent much brain power arriving at these conclusions. The displays are proof of slightly less than naff all except the shoes were surplus to requirements of a camp inmate. We know that the camp system went through clothing and personal belongings and sent much of it back to Germany for re-use. It does not prove anything more than just that.
I have asked the question on the facebook pages that show this kind of mind manipulation about what these pictures prove and usually get very little response.
Auschwitz is a very clever mind game where most people arrive at the camp already believing in the gas chamber nonsense and just seek proof and comfort in being there and having their existing belief confirmed. They question nothing and simply wander through the camp and museum accepting all the mind games they are subjected to. It is a very clever manipulation of the gullible.
The good thing is on facebook pages that show shower heads and claim they were conduits of death gas, many people have arisen and now use the 'wooden doors' and 'windows in the gas chamber at Majdanek' comments which is hilarious and the source of much hilarity. What it all says to me is the story of the 6m is wearing very thin.
Shoes are like scratches in Krema I, just emotional appeals.
Re: Are Shoes Proof of Mass Murder?
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2026 8:11 pm
by Hektor
TlsMS93 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2026 11:55 pm
Shoes are like scratches in Krema I, just emotional appeals.
Indeed. At best shoes prove the existence of shoes, not what happened to the person that wore them previously. But they are great for innuendo and manipulating the gullible.
Imtiaz. Jun 30
Among the most heartbreaking exhibits at Auschwitz are the children’s shoes. Each pair belonged to a child with a name, a family, dreams, and a future. Seeing them together is a reminder that behind every number was a human life.
This is a good example of how the ‘six million’, ‘mass-gassing genocide’, quasi-religious belief-system is promoted using emotionalised messages.
I.e. its appeal is emotional not rational.
It appeals to ‘feelings’ not ‘reason’.
E.g. when I first discovered those particular, clearly-deceptional aspects of the holyH belief-system and told certain colleagues at work, a female colleague heard about that and approached me at a tea-break and said these irrational words of ‘strawman’ illogicality (this is a translation — she didn’t say it in English): “I KNOW the holocaust happened because I personally saw a woman with a number tatooed on her fore-arm”.
Imtiaz. Jun 30
Among the most heartbreaking exhibits at Auschwitz are the children’s shoes. Each pair belonged to a child with a name, a family, dreams, and a future. Seeing them together is a reminder that behind every number was a human life.
This is a good example of how the ‘six million’, ‘mass-gassing genocide’, quasi-religious belief-system is promoted using emotionalised messages.
I.e. its appeal is emotional not rational.
It appeals to ‘feelings’ not ‘reason’.
...
I find the comments he gets more heart-warming.
Re: Are Shoes or tattooed numbers Proof of Mass Murder?
Imtiaz. Jun 30
Among the most heartbreaking exhibits at Auschwitz are the children’s shoes. Each pair belonged to a child with a name, a family, dreams, and a future. Seeing them together is a reminder that behind every number was a human life.
This is a good example of how the ‘six million’, ‘mass-gassing genocide’, quasi-religious belief-system is promoted using emotionalised messages.
I.e. its appeal is emotional not rational.
It appeals to ‘feelings’ not ‘reason’.
E.g. when I first discovered those particular, clearly-deceptional aspects of the holyH belief-system and told certain colleagues at work, a female colleague heard about that and approached me at a tea-break and said these irrational words of ‘strawman’ illogicality (this is a translation — she didn’t say it in English): “I KNOW the holocaust happened because I personally saw a woman with a number tatooed on her fore-arm”.
Just to be clear.
When this female work-colleaugue said this to me, I had not said to anyone at work that I thought the holocaust didn’t happen.
I don’t believe the statement “it never happened” is accurate and I have never ever said that, nor ever argued that. Obviously most parts of the ‘holocaust’ narrative are irrefutably true. Strawman 1.
Piles of about one thousand pairs shoes do not prove millions of people were murdered at Auschwitz. Strawman 2.
Even if the pairs of shoes numbered one million, that does not prove the impractical and non-credible tale that one million jews were gassed to death by HCN using zyklonb pellets at Auschwitz. Strawman 3.
The undisputed fact that some jewish inmates at Auschwitz had numbers tatooed on their forearms does not mean that system of tattooing was part of any system of mass-murder of all jewish inmates. The fact that so many jooish people with tatooed numbers SURVIVED incarceration in concentration camps proves the exact opposite of what the holyH holocaust legend claims. Strawman 4.
N.B.
1. The Auschwitz concentration camp complex was the only camp that tattooed prisoners for identification.
2. Almost all categories of prisoners there who were selected for labour after 1941 had numbers tattooed, NOT JUST JOOZE.
Tattooing of non-Jooish prisoners Soviet POWs: they were actually the first group to be tattooed at Auschwitz starting in the autumn of 1941. Initially, they were tattooed on the left side of their chest, but later arrivals were tattooed on their forearms. Their numbers were often preceded by the letters SU.
Roma and Sinti: their numbers included the letter Z for Zigeuner, the German word for ‘gypsy’.
Other tattooed European nationalities: Political prisoners, Jehovah's Witnesses, and others from across occupied Europe who were registered into the camp's working population were also given tattoos.
Not everyone at Auschwitz received a tattoo. The vast majority of people sent to Auschwitz — certain groups like ethnic German prisoners, police prisoners, and short-term "labour education" inmates — were generally exempt from being tattooed.
~ Source: Gemini Ai