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11 Apr 2005 10:16:34 AM |
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The PHOTOGRAPHS III |
The Photographs
We’ve all seen "The Photographs." Endlessly. Newsreel photos taken by
U.S. and British photographers at the liberation of the German camps,
and especially the awful scenes at Dachau, Buchenwald, and
Bergen-Belsen. For instance, look at the one at the top of this
leaflet. These photos and films are usually presented in a way in
which it is either stated or implied that the scenes resulted from
deliberate German policies. The photographs are real, but their
interpretation is false.
Even mainstream historians admit that there was no German policy at
any of those camps to kill the internees. In the last months of the
war, while Soviet armies were invading Germany from the east, British
and U.S. bombers were destroying every major city in Germany with
saturation bombing. Transportation, the food distribution system,
medical, and sanitation services all broke down. That was the purpose
of these air raids, which was the most barbaric form of warfare in
Europe since the Mongol invasion.
Millions of refugees fleeing the Soviet armies were pouring into
central and western Germany. As a result of the ongoing war, of
starvation, and epidemics, millions of civilians were dying all over
Germany. The camps were not exempted from this tragedy. Camps that
were still under German control were overcrowded with internees
evacuated from the east. By early 1945, these inmates suffered from
malnutrition and epidemics like typhus and cholera, to which many
succumbed. When the press entered the camps with British and U.S.
soldiers, they found the results of that. They took "The Photographs."
Still, at camps such as Buchenwald, Dachau, and Bergen-Belsen tens of
thousands of relatively healthy internees were liberated. They were
there in the camps when "The Photographs" were taken. There are
newsreels of these internees walking through the camp streets laughing
and talking. Others picture exuberant internees throwing their caps in
the air and cheering their liberators. It is only natural to ask why
you haven’t seen those particular films and photos while you’ve seen
the others hundreds of times
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"Any people who have been persecuted for 2000 years
must be doing something wrong" Kissinger - A Biography,
Walter Isaacson, page 561
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| User: "Ron Jacobson" |
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| Title: Re: The PHOTOGRAPHS III |
11 Apr 2005 12:06:53 PM |
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(snip Chris Carpenter's spam)
http://www.holocaust-history.org/~dkeren/camps/belsen/index.shtml
http://www.holocaust-history.org/~dkeren/documents/taubner-verdict/index.shtml
http://www.holocaust-history.org/~dkeren/documents/auschwitz/index.shtml
http://www.holocaust-history.org/~dkeren/documents/wetzel-letter/index.shtml
http://www.holocaust-history.org/~dkeren/documents/jaeger-report/index.shtml
RJ.
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| User: "amigo cabal" |
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| Title: Re: The PHOTOGRAPHS III |
11 Apr 2005 08:32:56 PM |
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All this reminds me of that manufactured Osama tape!
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| User: "morghus" |
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| Title: Re: The PHOTOGRAPHS III |
12 Apr 2005 09:02:05 AM |
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wrote:
The Photographs
We've all seen "The Photographs." Endlessly. Newsreel photos taken
by
U.S. and British photographers at the liberation of the German camps,
and especially the awful scenes at Dachau, Buchenwald, and
Bergen-Belsen. For instance, look at the one at the top of this
leaflet. These photos and films are usually presented in a way in
which it is either stated or implied that the scenes resulted from
deliberate German policies. The photographs are real, but their
interpretation is false.
The photographs of Bergen-Belsen are the favorites of the holocaust
promoting crowd. But what the holohucksters always deliberately fail to
mention is that In March 1944, Bergen-Belsen had been designated as a
recuperation camp for factory workers who were too sick or exhausted to
work. The first 1000 sick prisoners were brought from the factory in
the Dora camp near Nordhausen. Sick workers were regularly shipped in
from the other camps.
As the war neared an end, food and supplies to Bergen-Belsen were
almost completely cut off by the daily bombing raids on Germany that
destroyed the supplies and transportation facilities. Bombing raids on
Belsen itself destroyed the water purification plant and the delousing
facilities. As a result, epidemics swept the camp.
Still the Germans managed to keep many of the inmate alive and healthy.
Here are some pictures of some liberated prisoners from Belsen (notice
that they appear well fed.):
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/BergenBelsen/BergenBelsen05.html
The pictures usually shown are those of the sick inmates who died
because of Allied neglect after the camp was liberated. According to a
1992 Associated Press report, more than 60,000 prisoners were very much
alive at the Belsen camp when the Allies took over. In the weeks
following, more than 28,000 inmates died while supposedly under the
care of the well supplied American and English forces. The truth is,
the Allies did little to try to save the sick inmates from dying.
Those pictures of bulldozers pushing emaciated bodies into pre-dug mass
graves were taken long after the camp was liberated.
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