Iris wrote:Show me the thesis that I have proffered here in this thread. Exact quotes please.
An obnoxious request to follow your obnoxious line of questioning. You have not proferred any thesis here in this thread because you are simply being belligerent without any clear aim, certainly not one you're stating explicitly. You present an aggressive line of questioning without making clear why/how any of it challenges the importance of the facts stated in the original post of this thread and defended thereafter. It's just noise.
The question was: Is there evidence (which means ANY kind of evidence, regardless of what level) that jews did in fact remain on the [Treblinka] line long enough to reach Treblinka/Malkinia and then got transited further east. IOW, is there evidence that that is a fact and not merely an assumption?
[...] what are your definitions of "direct evidence" and "indirect evidence"?
I'll save you a Google search since you apparently can't be bothered to learn common terms and phrases in English before debating here. My definition agrees with this one (the legal definition):
"The legal definition of direct evidence is evidence that directly proves a key fact. On the other hand, indirect evidence, which is sometimes called circumstantial evidence, is a set of facts that, if they are true, allows a reasonable person to infer the fact in question."
Rather than to ask if there is evidence and then try to ascertain what level if the answer is yes, Butterfangers wants us to specify what level of evidence we are talking about in each and every question.
False. I cited evidence that Jews who went to TII may have also been transited further east. I said:
The evidence we do have that this occurred is indirect (such as the fact that Jews were transported further east via direct transports (i.e. not stopping at AR camps), that there was obviously no mass murder in TII, that some claim to have transited out of "Treblinka" (to Majdanek, etc.).
Rather than acknowledge it and move on, you repeated your question, asking again whether I had "evidence". I made clear I have no "direct evidence" as such.
In all of this, your own point is non-existent. Nothing you are saying--nothing at all--comes close to challenging in any way whatsoever what was put forth at the beginning of this thread, which we have seemed to veer far off-topic from since then. It seems quite at odds with the rules of this forum, frankly. What you are asking has near-zero bearing on the topic of this thread.
Why do you keep asking these obnoxious, belligerent questions? Do you have a point to make, here? Any day now?
But you can prove that jews disembarked from a train heading east on the Treblinka line before they got as far at TII?
I never claimed "proof". What I did was share evidence. The evidence for Jews having disembarked is stronger than any evidence suggesting they did not. This is simple, obvious, etc. yet you refuse to acknowledge it.
If you believe otherwise, you need to explain
why these stops were made and their duration. There is only one rational explanation for these stops at present. You evade this fact.
Look at Butterfangers talking out of both sides of his mouth:
No. You are quote-mining however you can to suggest a contradiction, here.
I have said repeatedly:
[Establishment historians] are no longer simply having to answer the question of, "how many are buried in mass graves at Treblinka?" but also "how many even arrived there in the first place?".
...we no longer have any idea how many ever made it to Treblinka (TII)
...we have no clue how many Jews actually set foot in TII...
Therefore, my statements which you quote as evidence of contradiction, such as:
...evidence strongly suggests many (if not most) of them disembarked before ever getting as far as Treblinka.
or:
it can be argued a majority of them never arrived at TII
and:
I think some, or many, or perhaps even most of them could have continued past Treblinka.
...are actually 100%, entirely compatible with one another. This is obvious to anyone reading this thread with good intentions and not simply trying to throw shade for whatever reason.
There is one instance I do need to clarify:
Iris wrote:Butterfangers;
I recall seeing some Revisionist works that cite some limited examples of cases where Jews were transited out of TII (or "Treblinka") after having stopped there.
Oooops.
Butterfangers just cant stop contradicting himself.
You're correct that this was a "contradiction" (or rather, at most, a mistaken recollection) given that I initially thought the testimony from Eric Hunt's Treblinka documentary had some witnesses who named TII specifically but through the course of this thread I watched that segment again and saw that all mention "Treblinka" more generally.
Thus, I am not aware of any instances where individual Jews claim to have been at TII, specifically, before being transited further east. I would not be surprised to find some, given the other indirect evidence which I am aware of, as already stated.
Look how far off-topic we have gotten.
To bring things back on-track, how about you tell us what you feel the significance of these labor camps en route toward Treblinka are, Iris?
Why do you seem to deflect from the obvious significance of these camps? What are your intentions in this regard?
Jews were laborers. They were sent eastward to do labor. They stopped for long periods at labor camps
before those trains ever made it to Treblinka. There is no other reason which explains these lengthy stops other than departures/exchanges of passengers.
You admit you do not know how many Jews ever set foot in TII.
Surely, you are aware that there are others who
do think they know how many Jews set foot in TII, or at least an estimate. Some of those who think this also think these Jews were 'exterminated'. You and I would likely agree these 'extermination' claims have already been demolished. But up until recently, these people (exterminationists/Believers) have still been able to say, "
well, where did they [those who did arrive at TII] go?". They felt they had strong evidence to support that there were a certain estimated number range of Jews who must have "gone" somewhere (either out of, or buried under, TII). With the information shared early in this thread, they can no longer make this assumption of any particular number or range. And that is significant, no matter how hard you try to dodge that fact with spurious lines of questioning.