Supposed photographs from forced ‘confrontation’ of footage from concentration camps.

[Soza]

Now this could be absolutely out of context as i suppose it is. But can someone give me more context? Here’s the link: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/german ... amps-1945/

[Lamprecht]

The footage would have been of the emaciated prisoners and piles of disease victims from the final months of the war. These photographs/videos are often used as proof of some attempted extermination but are nothing of the sort. There was a lack of food, medicine, and clean water + a problem of overcrowding. In the past, disease was sometimes a bigger killer than soldiers during war time. The US Civil War is a good example of this:

"While it may be assumed that most causes of morality during the Civil War were due to battlefield injuries, it is statistically proven that disease was the number one killer during this time. According to “The Impact of Disease on the Civil War” by Intisar K Hamidullah, 3/5 Union troops died of diseases. 63% of Union fatalities were due to disease, 12% due to wounds, 19% of Union deaths were due to death on the battle field."

- http://civil-war-disease.leadr.msu.edu/statistics-2/

I suggest:
SS Officer Karl von Eberstein on the conditions of the camps / Piles of bodies & Emaciated Corpses
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[Waldgänger]

Any normal human being would be sickened and disturbed to see all those emaciated, diseased, starved, neglected corpses bulldozed by the hundreds into makeshift pits ... by Allied drivers, at & after the end of the War.

It is significant to me that in school we all see what these German soldiers see, and it's passed on to us as it was probably to them: images of the Holocaust. But these were none of the sort. Unfortunate, tragic, the costs of war in every single age (disease and famine, supply lines interrupted, loss of life from collateral damage, etc.), from ancient Greek battles to the Age of Exploration to today. Anything can be taken in a video and labelled something else.

Most of what these poor young men were forced to watch was the result of conditions in the camps because of the end of WW2, none of which prevailed in those camps for 95% of the war's duration.

[greatmystery]

It might be just me, but a lot of those guys look bored. Like they've been sitting there for hours.
It'd be interesting to know someone's interpretation of the photo without a title or heading given.
Also, there was no footage or photos of the gas chambers at work (because there were no gas chambers), so if it probably was like Lamprecht said and was footage of when the camps were liberated.

[Hektor]

It might be just me, but a lot of those guys look bored. Like they've been sitting there for hours.
It'd be interesting to know someone's interpretation of the photo without a title or heading given.
Also, there was no footage or photos of the gas chambers at work (because there were no gas chambers), so if it probably was like Lamprecht said and was footage of when the camps were liberated.

One can not see, what they are seeing. So one could insert anything there. But according to the Allies own reporting, they subjected their German prisoners to "Reeducation" sessions (a war crime?). Guess they showed all kinds of movies to them, while being deprived from any other source of information. Impressionable minds may have bought it. But from what I heard a lot of them remained skeptical.... Nevertheless this will have made some impression of sorts lasting after they returned home. The thing with false accusation is that, you never can really disprove them. Which in criminal court the burden of proof is on the accuser and why there are laws against libel, slander etc. To the audience, frequently thrown around accusations become credible over time, if they are not contradicted/refuted and actually prevented from being. Now that also provoke a reaction, if repeated to often. A clever way bypass this is by simply reporting about supposed victims that can tell tough luck stories. Keep accusations as indirect as possible... They become even more believable to the audience, given that they "concluded this themselves from the evidence and formed their own opinion".... And "who are you to challenge their superior intellect?"... The indirect methods may have done more to instill the fable than direct accusations and show trial although the later were certainly useful to instill belief.

[hermod]

Now this could be absolutely out of context as i suppose it is. But can someone give me more context? Here’s the link: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/german ... amps-1945/

The context: Some Germans going through the deceptive Allied denazification process by being compelled to watch a nauseating horror movie which was said to document the brutality & barbarity of the enemy (and so also the gentleness and civility of the makers of that movie) but in fact documented the frighful results of an unparalleled 5-year-long carpet bombing on the disease-ridden carceral population of a country bombed back to the Stone Age. Or in other words, a classic Allied PSYOP carried out through the use of falsely captioned graphic atrocity propaganda. Just basic psychological warfare. Nothing unusual.

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"The destruction of German cities, the killing of German workers, and the disruption of civilized community life throughout Germany [is the goal]. ... It should be emphasized that the destruction of houses, public utilities, transport and lives; the creation of a refugee problem on an unprecedented scale; and the breakdown of morale both at home and at the battle fronts by fear of extended and intensified bombing are accepted and intended aims of our bombing policy. They are not by-products of attempts to hit factories."
--- Air Marshal Arthur Harris, Commander in Chief, Bomber Commander, British Royal Air Force, October 25, 1943

[hermod]

When assessing those photographs today, it's good to know and keep in mind the fact that the Allies conducted thousands of autopsies in those camps in spring 1945 (i.e. when those pics were taken) and those autopsies demonstrated that those camp inmates had died "as a result of the conditions to which there were subjected rather than mass exterminations" (i.e. were killed by starvation and epidemics caused by the vast overcrowding of the last operational concentration camps and by the collapse of the infrastructure of the 3rd Reich in the final months of WWII). The constant use of those impressive pics as visual evidence for the Holocaust is thus a big deception.

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