This is all the proof I need.
RG
U.S. Policy During WWII:
U.S. Army & the Holocaust
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U.S. Policy:Table of Contents
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/us_pol.html>|Auschwitz
Bombing Controversy
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/aubombtoc.html>|"We
Will Never Die"
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On April 5, 1945, units from the American Fourth Armored Division of
the Third Army were the first Americans to discover a camp with
prisoners and corpses.
Ohrdruf
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Ohrdruftoc.html>was
aBuchenwald
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/buchtoc.html>sub-camp,
and of the 10,000 male slave inmates, many had been sent ondeath
marches
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0005_0_05012.html>,
shot in pits, or their corpses were stacked in the woods and burned.
The Americans found the camp by accident – they did not set out to
liberate camps, they happened upon them – and found starved, frail
bodies of hundreds of prisoners who had managed to survive, as well
as the corpses. InNordhausen
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Nordtoc.html>,
on the 11^th , the American Timberwolf Division found 3,000 corpses
and 700 starving, ill, and war-wounded survivors who were slaves in
theV-2 rocket factories.
An Austrian-born Jewish U.S. soldier, Fred Bohm, helped
liberateNordhausen
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Nordtoc.html>.
He described fellowGI'sas having "no particular feeling for fighting
the Germans. They also thought that any stories they had read in the
paper, or that I had told them out of first-hand experience, were
either not true or at least exaggerated. And it did not sink in,
what this was all about, until we got intoNordhausen
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Nordtoc.html>."
When the American Combat Team 9 of the 9^th Armored Infantry
Battalion,Sixth Armored Division
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/ww2/6tharmored.html>were
led toBuchenwald
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/buchtoc.html>by
Russians, the camp contained 30,000 prisoners in a pyramid of power,
with German Communists at the top, in the main barracks, and Jews
and gypsies at the bottom, living inLittle Camp
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/littlecamp.html>,
in an assortment of barns.
Buchenwald
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/buchtoc.html>barrack
prisoners were reasonably healthy looking. TheLittle Camp
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/littlecamp.html>had
1,000 to 1,200 prisoners in a space meant for 450. Witnesses
described prisoners as "emaciated beyond all imagination or
description. Their legs and arms were sticks with huge bulging
joints, and their loins were fouled by their own excrement. Their
eyes were sunk so deep that they looked blind. If they moved at all,
it was with a crawling slowness that made them look like huge,
lethargic spiders. Many just lay in their bunks as if dead." After
liberation, hundreds of prisoners died daily.
GeneralsGeorge Patton
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Patton.html>,
Omar Bradley, andDwight Eisenhower
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/iketoc.html>arrived
inOhrdruf
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Ohrdruftoc.html>on
April 12, the day of PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt's
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/ww2/fdrtoc.html>death.
They found 3,200 naked, emaciated bodies in shallow
graves.Eisenhower
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/iketoc.html>found
a shed piled to the ceiling with bodies, various torture devices,
and a butcher's block for smashing gold fillings from the mouths of
the dead. Patton became physically ill. Eisenhower turned white at
the scene inside the gates, but insisted on seeing the entire camp.
"We are told that the American soldier does not know what he was
fighting for," he said. "Now, at least he will know what he is
fighting against."
After leavingOhrdruf
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Ohrdruftoc.html>,Eisenhower
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/iketoc.html>wrote
to Chief of Staff General George Marshall, attempting to describe
things that "beggar description." The evidence of starvation and
bestiality "were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick," Bradley
later wrote about the day: "The smell of death overwhelmed
us."Patton
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Patton.html>,
whose reputation for toughness was legendary, was overcome. He
refused to enter a room where the bodies of naked men who had
starved to death were piled, saying "he would get sick if he did
so," Eisenhower reported. "I visited every nook and cranny." It was
his duty, he felt, "to be in a position from then on to testify
about these things in case there ever grew up at home the belief …
that the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda."
(Seemingly, he intuited then that these crimes might be denied.)
Eisenhower
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/iketoc.html>issued
an order that American units in the area were to visit the camp. He
also issued a call to the press back home. A group of prominent
journalists, led by the dean of American publishers,Joseph Pulitzer
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/JPulitzer.html>,
came to see theconcentration camps
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cc.html>.
Pulitzer initially had "a suspicious frame of mind," he wrote. He
expected to find that many of "the terrible reports" printed in the
United States were "exaggerations and largely propaganda." But they
were understatements, he reported.
Within days, Congressional delegations came to visit
theconcentration camps
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cc.html>,
accompanied by journalists and photographers. GeneralPatton
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Patton.html>was
so angry at what he found atBuchenwald
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/buchtoc.html>that
he ordered the Military Police to go to Weimar, four miles away, and
bring back 1,000 civilians to see what their leaders had done, to
witness what some human beings could do to others. TheMP's were so
outraged they brought back 2,000. Some turned away. Some fainted.
Even veteran, battle-scarred correspondents were struck dumb. In a
legendary broadcast on April 15,Edward R. Murrow
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/murrow.html>gave
the American radio audience a stunning matter-of-fact description
ofBuchenwald
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/buchtoc.html>,
of the piles of dead bodies so emaciated that those shot through the
head had barely bled, and of those children who still lived,
tattooed with numbers, whose ribs showed through their thin shirts.
"I pray you to believe what I have said about Buchenwald," Murrow
asked listeners. "I have reported what I saw and heard, but only
part of it; for most of it I have no words." He added, "If I have
offended you by this rather mild account ofBuchenwald
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/buchtoc.html>,
I am not in the least sorry."
It was these reports, the newsreel pictures that were shot and
played in theaters, and the visits of important delegations that
proved to be influential in the public consciousness ofthe still
unnamed German atrocities and the perception that something awful
had been done to the Jews.
Then the American forces liberatedDachau
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/dachautoc.html>,
the first concentration camp built by the Germans in 1933. There
were 67,665 registered prisoners inDachau
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/dachautoc.html>and
its subcamps; 43,350 were political prisoners; 22,100 were Jews, and
a percentage of "others." As Allied forces advanced, the Germans
moved prisoners from concentration camps near the front to prevent
their liberation. Transports arrived atDachau
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/dachautoc.html>continuously,
resulting in severe deterioration of conditions. Typhus epidemics,
poor sanitary conditions, and the weakened state of the prisoners
worsened conditions further and spread disease even faster.
On April 26, 1945, as the Americans approachedDachau
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/dachautoc.html>about
7,000 prisoners, most of them Jews, were sent on adeath march
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0005_0_05012.html>to
Tegernsee. Three days later, American troops liberated the main camp
and found 28 wagons of decomposing bodies in addition to thousands
of starving and dying prisoners. Then in early May 1945, American
forces liberated the prisoners who had been sent on the death march.
AfterWorld WarII
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/wwtoc.html>,
the Allies were faced with repatriating 7,000,000displaced
personsinGermany
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Germanytoc.html>andAustria
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Austria.html>, of
whom 1,000,000 refused or were unable to return to their homes.
These included nationals from the Baltic countries, Poles,
Ukrainians, and Yugoslavs who were anti-communists and/or fascists
afraid of prosecution for collaborating with the Nazis and Jews. The
Allies were forced to service citizens of 52 nationalities in
900DPcamps, under the aegis of theUnited Nations
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/UN/untoc.html>Relief
and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). Lack of trained
personnel, absence of a clear policy, and poor planning and
management prevented the agency from fulfilling its role properly.
Private relief organizations were gradually permitted to operate in
the camps, but at best could provide only partial aid. Consequently,
the United States Army, with a shrinking budget and inexperienced
personnel, assumed major responsibility for theDPs. It was not a
responsibility they anticipated or they welcomed but they had no
other choice.
Each national group and religious denomination demanded recognition
of its own problems. In order to avoid charges of discrimination,
the American army adopted a policy of evenhandedness toward all
theDPs, a policy that adversely affected JewishDPs housed in the
same camps with Poles, Baltic nationals, and Ukrainians. In those
camps, the Jews who survived theHolocaust
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/holo.html>remained
exposed to antisemitic discrimination. They were living among
antisemites who had hostility toward them. Furthermore, only after
liberation could survivors begin to feel, to sense what had been
lost. Others could return home, Jewish survivors had no homes to
which to return.
The American army was beleaguered. Trained for war, they had to
juggle multiple assignments: the occupation, the Cold War, and the
problems of survivors who were naturally distrustful of all
authority and in need of medical and psychological attention.
Short-term problems, such as housing, medical treatment, food, and
family reunification, were acute. The army had no long-term
strategy. The survivors had nowhere to go.Britain
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Englandtoc.html>was
unwilling to permitJewish immigration to Palestine
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Immigration/palims.html>and
theUnited States
<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/usatoc.html>was not
ready to receive refugees.
Homosexuals continued to suffer, even with the end of the war.
Paragraph 175 of the German legal code stated that male
homosexuality, but not female lesbianism, was punishable by
imprisonment. After 1943, male homosexuals had been forced to wear a
pink triangle and were sent to the death camps. After the
liberation, the Americans did not repeal Paragraph 175 and sent
homosexual inmates liberated from the camps to other prisons.
Preferential treatment to Jews was denied on the ground that this
would be a confirmation of the Nazi racial doctrine, which
differentiated between Jews and others. The Jews were therefore
dealt with according to their country of origin; Jews from Germany,
for example, were classified as "enemy aliens," just like the Nazis.
American troops who liberated the concentration camps felt sympathy
for the JewishDPs, and many JewishGISand officers went out of their
way to assist the survivors. But that sympathy did not extend to men
who arrived on following troop rotations. Unfamiliar with history
and facts, they had little or no sympathy for the Jews. It did not
help that concentration camp survivors mistrusted people, were
hypersensitive, and had acquired habits that did not compare
favorably with the local German and Austrian population. Some
objected to the fact that they took care of their biological needs
in hallways and outside; one officer provided a simple solution of
latrines and the problem ceased.
Americans' contacts with antisemitic Germans stirred up innate
personal prejudices held by troops. Some American commanders
suspected that theDPs from Eastern Europe included Soviet agents,
and that Jews had a predisposition to communist beliefs. The Army
also treated theDPs as if they stood in the way of the pre-Cold-War
rush to rehabilitate Germany. By June 1945, conflicts were heated
enough for President Truman to send Earl G. Harrison to the American
Zone on a fact-finding mission. His visit was complete with
political overtones and his report was a bombshell.
His conclusions were harsh, even overstated:
We appear to be treating the Jews as the Nazis treated them
except that we do not exterminate them. They are in
concentration camps in large numbers under our military guard
instead ofSStroops. One is led to wonder whether the German
people seeing this are not supposing that we are following or at
least condoning Nazi policy.
His recommendations were equally dramatic:
Jews must be recognized as Jews. They should be evacuated from
Germany quickly. One hundred thousand Jews should be admitted to
Palestine. President Truman endorsed the Report, rebuked the
army, and intensified pressure on Britain. He opened up the
United States for limited immigration.
After the pogrom by Polish fascists that killed 60–70 Jews
in*Kielce, Poland, on July 4, 1946, more than 100,000 Jews fled to
the American Zone aided by*Beriḥah, overcrowding the camps and
straining the Army's budget, but when the administration tried to
close the borders, the American Jews pressured them to reopen them.
Twice the American government kept the borders open.
From April 1945 to the summer of 1947, the JewishDPpopulation in
the American Zone exploded from 30,000 to 250,000 as the Jews fled
the Soviet Bloc. The Jews had no place else to go, since no one
would take them in. As their needs grew, and U.S. Army charged with
caring for them was being restricted by budget cuts, the U.S. tried
to transfer control of the Jews to the local German governments,
which the Jews refused to accept under any circumstances.
On April 19, 1947, General Lucius Clay, commander of the American
forces in Germany closed the borders to the American Zone and
deniedUNaid to newcomers, but 12,000 Jews from Romania and Hungary
managed to enter. The American Army usually closed their eyes to
illegal immigration, especially when the immigrants were Jews. But
as time went by, and troops were replaced, the communication,
tolerance, and relationships deteriorated between the Americans and
the Jews, especially in matters concerning the black market, which
led to raids and even violence.
When Israel was established in May 1948 and Congress passed the
Wiley-Revercomb Displaced Persons bill allowing 100,000DPs to come
to America, the situation changed again. The camps were essentially
empty and changed the Army's attitude to those who remained behind.
At the end of the day, the Army has been praised by some historians
and scholars, and reviled by others. Typical are Abraham Hyman who
calls the postwar period and the Army's treatment of the JewishDPs
the Army's finest hours. Leonard Dinnerstein, a historian,
criticized the Army for being insensitive and unduly harsh.
On 9/13/2016 9:54 AM, Ron Ristad wrote:
RG,
That's your proof? Every aspect of the Holocaust narrative either has no verifiable evidence to back it up, or the evidence disproves it. If it were true then there should be overwhelming evidence to support it (official records, bodies, thousands of photos, intercepted traffic, chemical analysis, etc., etc.) but there is none. Absolutely none. What evidence there is from chemical analysis, etc. proves that it could not have happened.
-RR
-----Original Message-----
From: R George
Sent: Sep 13, 2016 10:34 AM
To: sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: Looking for the truth
You know very well what evidence.
The use of extermination camps (also called "death camps")
equipped with gas chambers for the systematic mass extermination
of peoples was an unprecedented feature of the Holocaust. These
were established at Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Jasenovac, Majdanek,
Maly Trostenets, Sobibór, and Treblinka. They were built for the
systematic killing of millions, primarily by gassing, but also by
execution
and extreme work under starvation conditions. Stationary
facilities built for the purpose of mass extermination resulted
from earlier
Nazi experimentation with poison gas during the secret Action T4
euthanasia programme against mental patients.
Tell these kids how glorious it was to serve Der Fuhrur.
