
"Caucasia", 1998
Danzy Senna, p. 32
As any revisionist who has read about this camp will know, the mainstream narrative says that Treblinka was entirely dismantled, covered over, the ground tilled, and even lupins planted around a charming fake farmer's cottage, to hide the "genocide" which had occurred there. The Soviets could not possibly have taken photos of prisoners being liberated.
This goes to illustrate the ignorance that normal people have about the Holocaust. Their narratives are confused and meaningless clusters of emotion, half-remembered names, photographs. In order to discuss this issue rationally, one has to divest them of many built-up layers of sentiment that defy logic-making. It is a hard task, but a fascinating one and very rewarding when that one question hits them and they perk up and say "wait, what?"