The German concentration camp system in general. In its sub-categories you can find contributions focusing on certain camps.
By Richard Krege ∙ January 5, 2000
A detailed forensic examination of the site of the wartime Treblinka camp, using sophisticated electronic ground radar, has found no evidence of mass graves there. For six days in October 1999, an Australian team headed by Richard Krege, a qualified electronics engineer, carried out an examination of the soil at the site of the former…
By Samuel Crowell ∙ January 1, 1999
In this order, dated March 31, 1943, there is also a reference to the filling of another order, placed on March 6, 1943, for a “gas door 100 x 192 cm for corpse cellar I of crematorium III … of exactly the same type and size as the cellar door of the crematorium opposite it,…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ January 1, 1999
Auschwitz: The Final Count, edited by Vivian Bird. The Barnes Review, Washington, D.C.. 1999. Soft cover. 112 pages. Notes. $12.95. Vivian Bird's latest effort is an anthology of essays dealing with what he describes as the “true story” of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The title of this work as well as its recent promotions suggest…
By CODOH ∙ January 1, 1999
How can this photograph be reconciled with revisionist theory on the Holocaust? Two victims of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Photo was taken shortly after the liberation by U.S. troops. Date: April 14, 1945Location: Buchenwald,Credit: USHMM, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College ParkCopyright: Public Domain The photograph above taken shortly after the liberation of…
By Joseph P. Bellinger ∙ August 23, 1998
A rather remarkable international incident occurred in 1984 which would draw into question the entire issue of Auschwitz and victimization as the attention of the world became riveted on Poland, when a group of Carmelite nuns announced their decision to construct a convent on the grounds of the former concentration camp. The area chosen for…
By Samuel Crowell ∙ July 30, 1998
Gentlemen: The communication that follows below has appeared on the Nizkor Internet site and consists of a note (hereinafter referred to as R2) from a participant (Robin O'Neil, University College London) in the recent dig at the site of the Belzec concentration camp, as well as a further note from a German student requesting information….
By AnswerMan ∙ January 1, 1998
Dear AnswerMan, Were concentration camps during WWII really used in the way history portrays, did they really exist? John AnswerMan Replies: The concentration camps certainly did exist, by the hundreds! Prior to the war they were ordinary prisons that housed, in addition to ordinary criminals, a growing population of political prisoners and those identified as…
By Ahmad Shawqi ∙ January 1, 1998
The three lines of Arabic poetry are by the well-known poet Ahmad Shawqi. Shawqi was exiled by then British occupation of Egypt, and he wrote the poem while in exile. The three lines in rough meaning: Would the trees where nightingales are known to sit and sing be a forbidden luxury for them while all…
By AnswerMan ∙ January 1, 1998
Dear AnswerMan, How can you ask for proof of one person being gassed? Didn't Josef Kramer admit fully to the gassings? Tim AnswerMan Replies: Your question is clearly a response to Bradley Smith's question that appeared in several college newspapers requesting the name of one person that was gassed at Auschwitz with proof. Your “proof”…
By John Clive Ball ∙ January 1, 1998
Mass-murder denials: On at least one occasion, Germany publicly denied any intention to murder concentration camp inmates. An October 12 1944 letter talks of Germany's “press denial” of rumored intentions to murder Birkenau inmates. This letter has never been released to the public by the U.S. government. It is almost certain that in 1943, and…
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