Posted: May 02, 2010 2:39 pm
Aurlito wrote:So maybe the pictures are from their dead bodies?Which was helped on by a 500 calorie a day diet, lack of medical supplies, etc.
They were suffering enough. so why would they kill them?
Because the Nazis hated the Jews and viewed them as vermin. What do you do with a sick black rat who you think is spreading the plague? You kill it without caring about how the rat is suffering. You have no idea how bad the antisemitism in Europe was. There is also an independent convergence of evidence for the genocide, so it was not merely death due to diseases as many Holocaust deniers like to assert.
"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before in the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.... When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom to-day this poor people is plundered and exploited."
-Adolf Hitler, in his speech in Munich on 12 April 1922
Official Nazi documents: Orders for large quantities of Zyklon-B (the trade name of hydrocyanic acid gas), blueprints for gas chambers and crematoria, and orders for building materials for gas chambers and crematoria).
Eyewitness testimony: Survivor accounts, Jewish Sonderkommando diaries, and confessions of guards and commadants all tell of has chambers and crematoria being used for mass murder.
Photographs: Photographs not only of the camps but also secret photographs of the burning of bodies at Auschwitz and Allied aerial reconnaissance photographs of prisoners being marched to the has chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The camps themselves: Building and artifacts at the camps and the results of modern forensic tests that point to the use of both gas chambers and crematoria for killing large numbers of people.