payne1000 wrote:
How did the Germans kill even a million Jews at Auschwitz if the gas chamber wasn't built until 1947?
Why would the Germans want to kill the only labor force they had for their war industries?
How could the Germans spare the energy needed to kill that many when they were operating a war on two fronts?
I must say you definitely have a talent for anti=Semitic revisionism. You go out of your way to find as much revisionist history as you can. Every obscure, unreliable source you can find that will support your anti-Semitism is fair game. As with the laws of science and the principles of engineering, you ignore like the plague all factual documentation of accurate history. You do whatever it takes to force the evidence to fit your hateful agenda.
No human being with even a modicum of compassion for his fellow man can fathom the black hearted nature of someone like you. It would clarify matters here if you would, in your own words, explain why you are so consumed with hatred for anything Jewish, whether it be Zionism, Judaism, Israel, or simply the Jews themselves.
When one considers the factual history of genocide (and democide), is truly baffling how you can perceive Israel as the most heinous perpetrator of genocide in human history. Even more puzzling is how you can even include Israel among the perpetrators of genocide. The only explanation is anti-Semitism. No other reason.
Now, about the Nazi extermination of Jews, and others.
While it is admittedly difficult to compile exact figures, since the Nazis did not maintain registration records for those who were to be exterminated immediately upon arrival at Auschwitz, it seems accurate to assert that the number of Jews killed fell somewhere between one and one-point-six million.
According to figures provided by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, the overall number of victims of Auschwitz in the years 1940-1945 is estimated at between 1,100,000 and 1,500,000 people. The majority of them, and above all the mass transports of Jews who arrived beginning in 1942, died in the gas chambers. (Waclaw Dlugoborski and Franciszek Piper, Eds. Auschwitz 1940-1945. Central Issues in the History of the Camp. The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2000, 5 vols., 1799 pp., ISBN 83-85047-87-5) Numbers by CountryPolish-Soviet Area approx. 4,565,000
Germany 125,000
Austria 65,000
Czechoslovakia 277,000
Hungary 402,000
France 83,000
Belgium/Luxembourg 24,700
Netherlands 106,000
Italy 7,500
Norway 760
Romania excluding Bessarabia, N. Bukovina and northern Transylvania 271,000 - 287,000
Yugoslavia 60,000 - 67,000
Greece 60,000 - 67,000
Totals number of Jewish victims
5,700,000 - 5,860,000Source: Yehuda Bauer. A History of the Holocaust. New York, Frankin Watts Revised edition 2001
Numbers: Death CampsAuschwitz 1,100,000 Jews and 200,000 others
Maidanek (Majdanek) 78,000 including 61,000 Jews, 12,000 Poles, 5,000 others including Soviet prisoners of war.
Chelmno 320,000
Treblinka 762,000
Sobibor 167,000
Belzec 434,000 - 500,000
Total fatalities 2,857,000 - 3,139,000
Holocaust Encyclopedia: AuschwitzCenter for Holocaust and Genocidal Studies: Auschwitz Death CampFYI: the answers to your three questions are available to those honest enough to look for them.
1) emarine already answered the first one. Auschwitz I was first constructed to hold Polish political prisoners, who began to arrive in May 1940. The first extermination of prisoners took place in September 1941.
2) The Nazis were industrious, their labor/death camps were factories for processing human beings. They didn't feed the prisoners much, nor did they provide any health care, they just worked the healthy ones until they either dropped dead or became too weak to go on, and these they killed in the gas chambers, or shot them. Moreover, upon arrival at the death camps the Nazis usually immediately put to death the elderly, the infirm, the crippled, the ill, the children, all of whom were arriving by the thousands every year.
3) Again, the Nazis were industrious, and since they plundered every country they conquered, they had plenty of resources, both human and material. Not until late in the war did the Nazi resources for labor and materials begin to dry up. Those damned damned Allies anyway, they totally screwed up Hitler's plans.
Now it is your turn, payne, to once again brush this all aside, label it as Zionist propaganda, and call me a Zionist shill. And, we will once again have the opportunity to see the ignorance of a black hearted anti-Semite.