Hektor wrote:I recall Jerzy Potocki. And I think it is worthwhile investigating him and what he wrote and said further. What he said will however be dismissed by adherents of the Holocult. Simply because he is a Pole and hence genetically predisposed to Anti-Semitism. Yes, this is a subtext in debates. Because you have German, Polish or whatever ancestors you can be disqualified out of hand. I'd guess lots of Americans have German, Polish, etc. ancestry... So do many Europeans. In South Africa virtually all Afrikaans-speaking Whites DO HAVE some German ancestry and many of the others as well. I also met some Poles here during my studies. And they were interested about WW2 as well. I asked them about the Jews. The Pole said that he couldn't give an answer due to him not knowing them personally, but what he heard about them 'wasn't very good'. So there is of course a pretext with Poles about Jews, but doesn't that relate to their previous experiences with them (as a group)?
With the Germans it was a bit different. Prior to WW2 most (rural) Germans won't know a lot about them anyway. Jews were concentrated in some areas usually urban to metropolitan. Although some country sides had them as well. e.g. as cattle traders, but also as loan sharks. They were also seen differently as a cattle trader was indeed useful at times. They had to be a bit more careful with their sellers/buyers since bad business practices could backfire there. The high mobility is however an incentive to drop 'good business practices', since once you have the name of being a scoundrel, you simply move to elsewhere.
I don't there's a lot of interesting stuff about Potocki and wartime Holohoax atrocity propaganda because I remember that he dismissed as forgeries the embarrassing diplomatic documents found by the Germans when they captured Warsaw in 1939. It was later demonstrated that those documents were 100% genuine, but lying about your country's enemies is always regarded as patriotic during wars. So it's very likely that Potocki just told lies about the Germans at every opportunity between 1939 and 1945.
Don't the people who believe that Germans and Poles are genetically predisposed to anti-Semitism, know that Jews were regarded by most of the peoples in the world as genetically predisposed to lying? Who could unconditionally believe the Holocaust stories told by a people with such a reputation? And if anti-Semitic feelings make people unreliable, what do the Zionist feelings of most antirevisionist historians tell about their works on the Holocaust (given the fact that the Holocaust is undeniably very often used as carte blanche for the dispossession of the Palestinian people)? Are there good biases and bad biases?
Hektor wrote:What I wonder is how Americans did react to that kind of movies, atrocity articles, rallies, etc. During War Time it should be clear that what they get shown is hardly based on first hand information and that the government would have an ulterior motive on what they published about their enemy. But people tend to go for the 'golden mean'-fallacy. So if a government report said "They killed a 1000"... they'd say, "perhaps not a thousand, perhaps it's a 500 or perhaps even less"... That this is pure thumb-sucking or deception most won't be ready to outrightly admit. After all. They could not prove that it is untrue. And don't all the Newspapers say that? "They can't be all lying at once, can they"?.
And of course people tend to think that they are smarter than they really are: "If they'd ly to me, I'd immediately have noticed that". So their own overestimation of themselves gets into the way of reasonability there. I've noticed that over and over again. Not only in connection with Holocaust and World War Two.
The "truth is in the middle" thing (argumentum ad temperantiam) is most of time pure laziness and cowardice. Saddam Hussein had no weapons of semimass destruction in 2003. And Kaiser Wilhelm II didn't turn the corpses of half his fallen soldiers into soap and explosive during WWI. Both stories were 100% a lie.