A German survivor?

[comrade seinfeld]

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/history/verbat ... 744300.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/history/verbat ... 744337.htm

I think that the above websites (or pages) would be relevant to students of the Holocaust. It is necessary to listen to the content, so I am sorry if the technology is not available.

I would think that it puts matters in relative perspective. I wonder what others think that it tells us about the Holocaust.

[Hannover]

I see nothing specific about the so called 'holocau$t' here. The only connection I can make is the absurdity of things "verbatim", or what's called in Orwellian leftist academia, "oral history".

We know full well that verbal testimony is highly suspicious unless confirmed. Lawyers will tell you that "eyewitness" testimony is one the weakest pieces of information they can have unless it's confirmed by physical evidence.
While I admire this man's anti-war leaning, his story from the summary at the website listed is riddled with problems.

It's says he was in the Battle of the Bulge and was awarded the Iron Cross for taking out Soviet tanks. The Battle of the Bulge did not involve the Soviets, but was a German offensive on the western front late in the war.
Its says he lied about his war history to avoid prosecution...prosecution for what? What activity?.. the Battle of the Bulge? I would really like to hear that one.

It says:

He was imprisoned in the French prisoner of war camp Thoree le Pins. There he witnessed suicide and starvation and emerged after 6 months weighing only 78 pounds. He found his parents in Eastern Germany who were living in very reduced circumstances under the Russian Communists who they despised.

But yet the Germans made the ultimate attempt to stop the barbarity of Communism in it's tracks, but he calls it "indoctrination". Where's the critcism of Communist practices? I love the spin the writer makes.."very reduced circumstances".

Lord knows what else this crank has to say. He's a classic example of someone saying what he thinks some want to hear and what he feels will reap reward....much like 'holocau$t' "survivors" and so called "eyewitnesses". Revisionists eat those liars for breakfast.

- Hannover

[comrade seinfeld]

Apparently I did not give the page where people can click on the audio links, which is http://www.abc.net.au/rn/history/verbatim/ , although people who are much more computer literate than me would probably have no difficulty working that out.

I don't have time to say much, but I would have thought that the main lesson concerning the Holocaust in the article concerned was that there was general brutality on both sides of the conflict, so that the Jewish experience in the Holocaust was not unique. As far as Hans Post was concerned it seems he was just an ordinary soldier who had nothing to do with the Jews, but he was still treated as a war criminal.