I am discussing the Holocaust denial.?

Question

A Holocaust denialist argues that Auschwitz had amusement. She raises the following pictures as evidence. Is this true?

http://i.imgur.com/JjTH5E8.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/zZK8cX6.jpg

And She also claims that a swimming pool for inmates also existed.

http://i.imgur.com/Ajg6Gmk.jpg

I can hardly speak English. I am writing sentences by machine translation. I m sorry if the sentences were unnatural.

Answer 1

They argue that there were doctors for the prisoners. The doctors did not treat the prisoners, they treated the staff. They also officially registered every death as being caused by natural causes. Any such things as showers and swimming pools were for the guards, not the prisoners. There was one camp the Nazis allowed the Red Cross into on a regular basis. This camp had an orchestra, neat and clean housing, adequate food, etc. It was a propaganda set. That's the bottom line with Nazis and their supporters, everything they say is propaganda or an outrageous lie. Nazis were some of the most evil people who have ever lived.

Answer 2

Hello kikka,



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See under the heading “Theresienstadt: A Propaganda Hoax”:



“In 1944, succumbing to pressure from the International Red Cross and the Danish Red Cross following the deportation of nearly 400 Danish Jews to Theresienstadt in the autumn of 1943, SS officials permitted Red Cross representatives to visit Theresienstadt. By this time, news of the mass murder of Jews had reached the world press and Germany was losing the war. As an elaborate hoax, the SS authorities accelerated deportations from the ghetto shortly before the visit, and ordered the remaining prisoners to "beautify" the ghetto: prisoners had to plant gardens, paint houses, and renovate barracks. The SS authorities staged social and cultural events for the visiting dignitaries. After the Red Cross officials left, the SS resumed deportations from Theresienstadt, which did not end until October 1944. In all, the Germans deported nearly 90,000 German, Austrian, Czech, Slovak, Dutch, and Hungarian Jews from the camp-ghetto to killing sites and centers in the “East”; only a few thousand survived. More than 30,000 more prisoners died in Theresienstadt itself, mostly from disease or starvation.”



https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007822



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“Excerpt of well-known propaganda film made by the Nazis to show the International Red Cross and others that they were not mistreating Jews in the "ghettos." Documentary footage depicts the life of Jews in the ghetto of Theresienstadt [Terezin] in Czechoslovakia as harmonious and joyful.”:

https://www.ushmm.org/online/film/display/detail.php?file_num=565



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Image taken upon the liberation of Theresienstadt concentration camp:

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_ph.php?ModuleId=10007505&MediaId=6653





People may also query the presence of a swimming pool:



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“Höss [Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Hoess (Höss), Auschwitz concentration camp commander 1940 to 1943] lived with his wife and children in a villa just outside the [Auschwitz concentration] camp grounds. Other SS personnel were also initially allowed to bring fiancees, wives, and children to live at the camp, but when the SS camp grew more crowded, Höss restricted further arrivals. Facilities for the SS personnel and their families included a library, swimming pool, coffee house, and a theater that hosted regular performances.[102] ”



Footnote 102:

Steinbacher, Sybille (2005) [2004]. Auschwitz: A History. Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck. ISBN 0-06-082581-2



Extract Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp#CITEREFSteinbacher2005



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Film from the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp:

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_fi.php?ModuleId=10005189&MediaId=174





I hope this helps.



Robert.

Answer 3

What are those photographs supposed to demonstrate?



EDIT: Take your first photograph – what is the relevance of the fencers? The sign says it is a company sports society, there is nothing which definitively points to it being in any of the camps.

Answer 4

The evidence for the Holocaust is so overwhelming there are many accepted facts in history that are never debated anymore on much less evidence. So the only reason for the denial are Nazi or other Jew haters including Islamists who want to see Israel destroyed and feel that Israel was created due to sympathy for the victims of the Holocaust. The evidence includes eyewitness accounts extremely detailed German records of the Final Solution and the testimony of the Allied armies who liberated the camps. General Eisenhower made his troops bear witness to the death camps and had the towns people come and tour the camps.

Answer 5

The holocaust was real. It happened. The evidence includes photographs, film footage, the places where it happened, and first hand accounts by prisoners and the soldiers who rescued them. It is well documented as fact.

The only doubt is the number of victims. Many scholars have argued that the numbers were vastly exaggerated but nobody has produced conclusive proof whether the number was 6 million or one million.