Hannover wrote:I just saw at a lesser quality forum that 'holocau$t' Industry spokesman Roberto Muhlenkamp has posted a variety of photos in response to a challenge put to him to actually show excavations of sites like: Treblinka (900,000 Jews allegedly buried), Auschwitz (1,250,000 alleged Jew remains are claimed to exist), Sobibor (200,000 Jews are allegedly buried there, and Babi Yar (34,000 Jews allegedly buried there
Of course none of the fakes below are said to be from the sites requested. But alas, this is what Roberto offered up as a way of dodging the challenge.
First of all, I have nothing to do with any "industry". I post and write blog articles on my own initiative and in accordance with my own interests. It's a hobby, nothing more.
The pictures I posted were not posted in response to or in order to dodge any challenge. They were posted to make the point that photos cannot be reasonably expected to prove, especially to prove all by themselves, the death toll of a genocide or other major human catastrophe, be it the Nazi genocide of Europe's Jews, other Nazi crimes, crimes committed by Stalin's regime in the Soviet Union, the battles on the Eastern Front during World War II, the area bombing of German cities during World War II or the flight and expulsion of ethnic Germans during and after World War II.
As concerns physical remains the camps Treblinka (ca. 800,000 deaths), Sobibór (ca. 170,000 deaths), Auschwitz (ca. 1 million deaths), and the killing site at Babi Yar, the following information can be provided:
Auschwitz: There are some mass graves of inmates who perished after having been left behind during the German evacuation of the camp in early 1945, but other inmates as well as deportees killed upon arrival (the overwhelming majority of the camp's victims) were cremated, after which the cremation remains were crushed and ground and transported to a nearby river, where they were thrown into the water. For this reason it is not possible to find the cremation remains of most people killed at Auschwitz, or at least most of the cremation remains. Where corpses were cremated in open-air pyres, some cremation remains remained in the soil and were detected during a prospection carried out in the 1960s. Other than that I know of no physical examination of the camp's soil in search of cremation remains.
Sobibór: Most of the victims' corpses were cremated on one or more grates in the open air, after which the cremation remains were crushed and ground and returned to the emptied mass graves. An archaeological investigation by core drilling in 2001 identified seven graves containing cremation remains, with the larger graves also containing corpses in wax-fat transformation in the bottom layers. No excavation was carried out as doing so would have contravened Jewish religious beliefs. However, the mapped outlines of the graves match with patches of greener soil that can be seen on air photographs and a satellite photograph taken years after the aforementioned survey. Subsequent archaeological research focused in finding the gas chamber building. Excavating in the mass graves was not permitted by Jewish religious authorities, thus there were only some peripheral excavations in the course of which large amounts of bone fragments were found. Also found was on additional mass grave containing only cremation remains. One excavation found corpses in a rather shallow mass grave, which may or not have been related to Sobibór's operation as an extermination camp.
Treblinka: Also here most of the victims' corpses were cremated, Due to intensive robbery digging after the war, postwar crime site investigations found an area of ca. 1.8 hectares covered by cremation remains as well as larger human remains (bones and skulls), which were present in the soil to a depth of 7.5 meters as established by excavation. Reports about this investigation as well as photos taken in the course thereof, which show parts of what the reports describe, have been published on the internet and can be shown upon request. A recent archaeological survey using non-invasive geophysical methods discovered several pits considered to be mass graves or parts of mass graves. However, the larger part of the mass graves area, which in all probability is located underneath the memorial that was erected in the 1960s, have not yet been explored.
Babi Yar: The corpses of the about 34,000 Jews shot there in September 1941 and of the victims of further killings were cremated in late 1943 by a special German unit employing Jewish forced laborers. Thus all that was left of these corpses were cremation remains like bone fragments and larger bones. There was a concentration camp (Syrets) near the Babi Yar raving, whose inmates largely perished or were killed. The corpses of these inmates were not cremated, probably because there was no more time to do so. Soviet investigators found these corpses after the area was reconquered by Soviet troops, and photographed some of them. Photos of dead Syrets inmates have been published on the internet and can be shown upon request.
That's about what can be said about human corpses or the remains thereof at the aforementioned places, in a nutshell. All above information can be duly substantiated with sources, if requested.
Hannover wrote:What Roberto has posted can best be described as the work of the Communist / Zionist Propaganda Factory, really corn ball, embarrassing stuff.
Such statement requires substantiation. What evidence there that the photos in question are "the work of the Communist / Zionist Propaganda Factory"? What evidence is there that such a "factory" ever existed at all?
Hannover wrote:As has been said, debunking the impossible '6M Jews, 5M others, & gas chambers' really is too easy.
Actually the claimed debunking is what is impossible, due to the fact that all known documentary, eyewitness, physical and demographic evidence substantiates the historical record whereby between 5 and 6 million Jews and well over 5 million others (mainly Soviet prisoners of war, civilians who starved to death during the siege of Leningrad and civilian victims of massacres in the course of anti-partisan warfare, to a smaller extent Gypsies, disabled people and members of other minority groups) were killed in criminal actions by Nazi Germany and/or its European allies, while on the other hand there is no evidence substantiating any alternative scenario, such as mass emigration of Jews from Europe or deportation of those that history considers to have been killed in extermination camps via transit camps in occupied Poland to the
Reichskommisariat Ostland, the
Reichskommissariat Ukraine or the Soviet territories under German military administration.
Hannover wrote:I have posted comments below each staged / fake image, yours are welcomed. Enjoy the laughable cut & pastes, enjoy the laughs.

Another claim that requires substantiation. What evidence is there that any of the scenes shown in the pictures below was staged, or that any of the images was manipulated by "cut and paste" or in another manner?
Hannover wrote:
no proof that these are Jews, no proof they were 'holocaust' victims, no proof of German responsibility
The dead people on the picture are not claimed to be Jews. The photograph's caption in the Yad Vashem photo archives (
http://collections1.yadvashem.org/search.asp?lang=ENG&rsvr=7) is "Borisov, Belorussia, Corpses strewn throughout the camp, after the liberation, 06/07/1944". As the bodies were still lying around when the Soviet army reconquered the area, it's unlikely that the corpses shown are of Jews. A likelier possibility is a last-minute execution of non-Jewish labor camp or prison inmates by the retreating Germans. As to proof of German responsibility, it is hardly realistic to expect that from a photograph, as photographs showing both victims and perpetrators of mass crimes are a rarity. Proof of who did the killing has to be sought in other evidence.
Hannover wrote:
caption:
"probably of Soviet POWs in Dulag 131, winter 1941"
"Probably"?
supposedly shot, but no blood, no proof that these are jews, no proof they were 'holocaust' victims. no proof of German responsibility
It is not claimed that the people whose corpses are shown in the picture were shot. Their emaciated corpses rather suggest death from starvation, which was what killed most Soviet prisoners of war in German captivity. It is also not claimed that the corpses were of Jews; the overwhelming majority of Soviet POWs who died in German captivity were not Jewish. As to German responsibility, that follows from a custodian nation's responsibility for the welfare of POWs in its custody, which means that if the POW's custodians allow the prisoners to die of starvation or disease, they are responsible for such deaths.
Hannover wrote:
caption:
Bobruisk, Belorussia, Burial of corpses in a mass grave, probably of Soviet POWs in Dulag 131, winter 1941.
No blood, no mass grave as claimed there to see, no proof of German responsibility
Again, it is not claimed that the people whose corpses are shown in the picture were shot. The presence of a mass grave follows from the logic that heaps of corpses would hardly be allowed to lie around in the open. As to German responsibility, see previous comment.
Hannover wrote:
pasted in soldiers on what looks like disease victims from Belsen.
The photograph's caption reads "Bobruisk, Belorussia, Burial of corpses in a mass grave, probably of Soviet POWs in Dulag 131, winter 1941". The soldiers shown on the picture, with one possible exception, seem to be POWs themselves. There is no evidence that the photo is in any way related to Belsen, nor is there any evidence or indication that the photo was manipulated.
Regarding the context of the Bobruisk photos, see the translated excerpt from Christian Gerlach,
Kalkulierte Morde, pp. 774, under
http://holocaustcontroversies.yuku.com/the-fate-of-soviet-prisoners-of-war-t1896.html#p28436. Search for "Bobruisk". Same in the excerpt from Christian Streit' article translated under
http://holocaustcontroversies.yuku.com/the-fate-of-soviet-prisoners-of-war-t1896.html#p28438.
Hannover wrote:
Laughably pasted in people, needs no discussion. No proof that the corpses were 'holocaust' related, no proof of German responsibility, only a few even look like corpses.
Again, there is no evidence or indication that people were "pasted in" or that the photo was manipulated in some other way. The photo is captioned "Lyady, Belorussia, Corpses of Jews". Jews were actually massacred in the Lyady area, according to Yad Vashem:
The Germans occupied Lyady on July 18, 1941. Only some of Lyady’s Jews were evacuated (via the railway station seven kilometers from the town), and many who attempted to escape were forced to turn back. In March 1942, all of Lyady’s Jewish inhabitants, along with Jews who had arrived from other localities, were forced into a ghetto. The Lyady ghetto was liquidated at the beginning of April 1942. Only five Jews who were in Lyady during the Nazi occupation survived.
http://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/index.asp?cid=489So it's quite probable that the photo indeed shows corpses of murdered Jews. The comment that only a few of the remains shown look like corpses I don't understand. They all look like corpses to me.
Hannover wrote:
supposedly shot, but no blood, no proof that these are jews, no proof they were 'holocaust' victims, no proof of German responsibility
The caption of this photo is "Belorussia, Corpses, probably of Soviet POWs in Dulag 131, winter 1941". It is not claimed that the people whose corpses are shown have been shot, or that they are Jews. Other comments see above. I don't understand why this photo is shown twice, by the way.
Hannover wrote:
supposedly shot, but no blood, no proof that these are jews, no proof they were 'holocaust' victims, no proof of German responsibility
I see no reason why blood should be distinguishable on a black and white photograph whose resolution is not the best, of people who at least mostly look like they have been shot in the head or neck while lying down and whose blood would flow onto the corpses below them according to the law of gravity. The photo's identification in the Yad Vashem archives is the following:
Title: Proskurov, Ukraine, Bodies of local residents who were tortured and murdered by the Germans.
Archival Signature: 4147/11
Name of submitter: באמצעות
Source: The National Archives for Photos & Films, Kiev
Credit: The National Archives for Photos & Films, Kiev
Places: Proskurov,Proskurov City,Kamenets Podolsk,Ukraine (USSR),Ukraine (USSR)
There are several online sources (which will be provided upon request) according to which the Jewish population of Proskurov (today Khmelnytsky) was murdered by the Nazis during World War II. The positioning of the corpses is also in line with mass shootings by mobile killing squads according to a method implemented by SS-
Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln, who also organized the massacre at Kamenets-Podolsky (see below). It is not realistic to expect that the Jewishness of the victims or the perpetrators should be visible on the photograph. Both follows from other evidence, which the photograph merely corroborates and illustrates.
Hannover wrote:
supposedly shot, but no blood, no proof that these are jews, no proof they were 'holocaust' victims, no proof of German responsibility
Regarding the "no blood" argument, see above. The resolution of the photograph is even worse than that of the previous one, making the expectation of blood visible on this black-and-white photograph even more unrealistic. Unlike in the previous photograph the location and context of this photograph are not known, but the amount and positioning of corpses, and the fact that they are obviously of both sexes, suggests what is known from other evidence about the way Jews were massacred by mobile killing units in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union.
Hannover wrote:
bizarre compilation with vegetation thrown in, supposedly shot, but no blood, no proof that these are jews, no proof they were 'holocaust' victims, no proof of German responsibility
I see no evidence or indication of a compilation or the presence of vegetation. It rather looks like some of the dead people shown in this photograph had their skulls blown open by shots fired at close range and their brain matter came out. As to the "no blood" remark, see above - this photo is of even less quality than the previous ones, so the expectation to distinguish blood on it is even less realistic. This photograph, like two other photographs shown below:


has been attributed to the Kamenets-Podolsky massacre in late August 1941, which is addressed in my article under
http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.pt/2013/02/the-kamenets-podolsky-massacre_12.html. The submitter stated that he had obtained the photographs from Hungarian officers, which is realistic insofar as Hungarian troops were present on site. A part of the massacre's victims were Hungarian Jews.