For anyone interested, I found and read most of the book "Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers by Jean-Claude Pressac" for free online. It is very dry reading with most of it based on construction blueprints. Apparently, when the Nazi's evacuated the camp, many of the documents at "Auschwitz Zentral Bauleiting" (construction office) were not destroyed. Details about cracks in flue liners due to over use, bitumen based "damp proofing" causing delays, etc.
@clintonearlwalker Well done! This book has a very limited run and was quite rare. Pressac had been a holocaust denier and he went to Auschwitz to prove that it did not happen and he ended up writing this book. That is why no denier liar has ever done any research again!
@alanheath Thanx for that. I must admit that I was "shocked" when I first got a computer and started watching Holocaust vids and seen the denier comments that were in complete contradiction to what I could see right in front of my eyes. I personally find it quite disgusting that people would post these things on these videos, in many cases posted by the survivors themselves. Anyway, thanx for your videos, Cheers and Merry Christmas from Maryland, USA.
@clintonearlwalker The thing about the internet is that it is open to everyone. In normal life we do not come into contact with people who have mental health issues, racists and others. However the internet brings us into contact with them. For racists, the only thing that matters is their own illogical hatred and if it is necessary to ignore the truth that does not matter. Then there are those that will argue night is day. Fortunately these nutters are a tiny - if vociferous - minority.
@alanheath I find the amount of hatred direct toward "Jews" to be staggering. I've only ever known of one "Jew" in my personal life, and that was in about 1970. Maybe it's a European thing, while there is much racism and hatred in the US, most of it isn't directed at Jews, at least not to the point of gas chambers. The internet is a different story though, as it covers most of the world. Sometimes these deniers, haters, liars, just make me angry with their nonsense and spam.
@clintonearlwalker I think they need to blame someone for their own failures in life. It is not them so it must be a conspiracy against them. I cannot think of any other reason.
Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers by Jean-Claude Pressac is an excellent resource. I prefer it over professor Van der Pelts although bougth are excellent researchers in thier own rights.
thanks for the video once again. I will visit poland one day.
@honour123 Pressac's book is very rare. It is all the more valuable as he went there the first time to prove it did not happen. I have a lot more videos on the Nazi death camps which may be of interest.
I was reading Hoess's memoirs, and I read the part where he says that the local air defense filed complaints about the fires resulting from the cremations. Now, I know that the open air cremations and smoke are confirmed by eyewitnesses and photos, but I was wondering if it could go further: are you aware of any documented complaints by the air defense? Those would be just as damning as the Ostrow Garrison's complaint about Treblinka. Thank you.
@yamureska I am aware of Hoess's comment about the fires and his excuse to continue with them despite the risk of acting as a beacon to industrial targets which by the summer of 1944 were in range of Allied bombers. I read the comments of one Herbert Loebel who was a prisoner and later a pilot and he thought the fires could be seen for up to 75 miles in ideal conditions. I am unaware of air defence documentation but would think it worth following up - if anyone can.
@AlexsiMAC hitler did kill Germans, he would kill communists, german Jews and political opponents, I feel sorry for you if you believe other wise, in auchwitz Hitler committed genocide, and killed 1.5 million people, I went there last month and there was no birds around, as if they could smell the death.
@riotskater4 In the first place WHO misses that (except possibly you)? In the second, what has that got to do with this video other than the fact that Stalin and Hitler started the war together? And in the third, Stalin did not kill 50m people - unless you are counting those that died in WW2 which Stalin helped the Nazis start.
Another very informative video, Alan, and thank you. Am I correct in thinking that the chambers of Kremas 2 and 3 were the same size, and that there were two chambers in each building? And were Kremas 4 and 5 identical, or were they smaller? I've been trudging my way through several documents, but they are rather vague as to the exact size and layout of the buildings.
@MSM4U2POM Thanks for the comments. Two and three were the same size although at one stage the chamber was split into two. Four and five were smaller. The construction records survived and there are plans for these buildings.
Stalin was still 10x worst, no he didn't kill just one race or religion, but whoever opposed his will. you can cound the 60 million people the nazi's killed compared to the 60 million soviet russia killed. Both horrible leaders but stalin was in my opinion the worst dictator ever.
@sutton123454 These figures are nonsense. WW2 - started by Hitler (admittedly in collaboration with Stalin) killed around 50m people. And Stalin was not responsible for 60m deaths - this is quite clear from the population statistics and the growth of the population. By exaggerating the death toll you are belittling the suffering of those that did die.
@sutton123454 There may well be papers all over the internet - I doubt if there are any facts. How do you explain that the population statistics show nothing of the sort?
@alanheath they killed people from countries they occupied in work camps and other ways, plus you don;t think they cover up what they did like the nazi's did? use your noodle. The Katyn massacre you think that was the only thing russia did? you're ignorant towards what russia had did to many people and some of the greatest people in history are noted as saying "stalin was 10x worst then Hitler" even top generals in the american army like G.S. Patton...
@sutton123454 The person incapable of using his noodle is you. You are the one who is ignorant. You have in front of you the Soviet censuses and instead you ignore it.
I do not doubt that millions were killed by Stalin but ignorants like you who make absurd claims belittle the suffering of the victims. Look facts in the face and not propaganda. How do you explain the census figures - the first two before Stalin was in power? You can't and you are too ignorant to attempt to explain it.
@alanheath Approximately 20 million, including up to 14.5 million needlessly starved to death. At least one million executed for political "offences". At least 9.5 million more deported, exiled or imprisoned in work camps, with many of the estimated five million sent to the 'Gulag Archipelago' never returning alive. Other estimates place the number of deported at 28 million, including 18 million sent to the 'Gulag'. That's more then Hitler killed of the jews and all concentration camps.
@sutton123454 What are your sources or are you making this up? How come these numbers don't appear in the population censuses? What does other estimates mean - name sources? A person deported is not murdered (although in many cases it certainly happened).
@alanheath Stalin killed 42 million people - men, women and little children. In all of history, only Mao could possibly have killed more. I personaly know people from Poland when it was soviet union controlled and they even say today they would of rather lived under nazism then communism.
@sutton123454 A few hours ago you said Stalin killed 60m - now it is down to 42m. That is 18m suddenly he did not kill.
Do you not see how you insult the victims and the suffering of millions in this way?
So you know people in Poland? Na pewno też mówisz po polsku. I fail to see what relevance that has. Personally I would prefer to live under Stalin than Hitler and that likewise proves nothing. And I also was in Poland when it was occupied by the USSR.
Do you have any photographs of these "absolutely" blue stained walls that you've seen because I've seen many photos of the inside and haven't seen any blue colouring.
@alanheath Are they anywhere on the internet to see? No that I'm doubting you, I'm just confused because I heard that the chambers were hosed down after every gassing to prevent this build up.
@andrewuk184 They are not on the internet. I presume they were hosed down given the amount of human waste that must have occurred - I am not a chemist but I think the outer layer of the concrete absorbed the gas particles.
@rastiskawina It's too easy to to just simply say holocaust deniers are "people with mental problems - nothing else " and they are just anti-Semites. Many deniers are not anti-Semitic and have other reasons for opinions. I am a Holocaust historian and teacher of the Jewish Holocaust. Simply saying they are mental is like saying Hitler and 80 million Germans were just "Evil", there is allot more to it than that.
@ttestates I have never heard of a denier who was not an anti Semite. I knew one person who had doubts who was not but when presented with the evidence, he said it all went away.
I deny the existence of God. I dont believe that angels appeared before British troops at Mons in 1914. I find it hard to believe that a peasant girl led the French to victory in the 100 years war. But I find zero logic for saying the Shoah did not happen.
Some of the camp had been rebuilt and buildings fixed to show their original positions and functions. Because of that, deniers offer this as their proof it never existed at all. Just like parts of Alcatraz Island were repaired in the US for tourism so it was for Auschwitz. The Crematoriums did exist along with the gas chambers. They are and were clearly drawn out on the blueprints and constructed by laborers. They were referenced in numerous SS documents and plans and used for their purposes.
Some of the camp had been rebuilt and buildings fixed to show their original positions and functions. Because of that, deniers offer this as their proof it never existed at all. Just like parts of Alcatraz Island were repaired in the US for tourism so it was for Auschwitz. The Crematoriums did exist along with the gas chambers. They are and were clearly drawn out on the blueprints and constructed by laborers. They were referenced in numerous SS documents and plans and used for their purposes.
At about 3 minutes into this video, you said that you have been under this gas chamber. So, there is a part of the gas chamber under the rubble that you can crawl into? I wasn't able to find much in the way of reference to it anywhere else on the internet. Is that area open to the public?
It is said that the Nazis destroyed Kremas 2 and 3 in order to hide the proofs of their gas chambers. so how do we no they were gas chambers?
we no the russians hanged Rudolf Höss out side krema 1 and it was passed as an original gas chamber for 40+ years but today the story has changed and they now admit the russians reconstruted krema1 after the war and wasnt even a gas chamber at the time of liberation
Buildings change use frequently and it ceased to be used as a gas chamber at the time of liberation. The building I am in now used to be a house and now it is an office! What does that prove? No story has changed.
As can clearly be seen in this film the Nazis did not destroy the gas chambers. There is plenty of documentary and eye witness evidence.
Alan - Not to decry what you're doing, but I think you owe it to the subject matter to prepare before speaking. That would avoid rather unfortunate exchanges with sceptics on matters like uncertainty about the amount of gas required, something I've never come across in the literature. If reference to it does exist somewhere, do cite it. Also 'epitome' is pronounced eh-PIT-oh-me and it's Robert Jan van Pelt.
Why did the Germans bring people down into a cellar only to haul the bodies upstairs again after the gassing had taken place? Would it not have been easier to build the gas chamber on the same floor as the cremation facilities?
The idea that the Germans did not know how much gas it took to kill the people in the gas chamber must be wrong. The Germans would have found that out following the first few gassings.
1. The bodies were taken by a lift to the ground floor for destruction. I think this is a far more efficient way rather than having the destruction of the bodies on the same floor as happened in gas chambers four and five.
2. The individuals may not have known. It was certainly known to the people in charge. Bear in mind that the gas would not always work the same, the quality would have varied and the speed of its diffusion would depend on the heat of the gas chamber.
Thank you for your reply. I have the following comments:
1. How could it be "far more efficient" to herd people downstairs, gas them in a cellar and then haul their bodies upstairs with an elevator? A much more efficient way of doing it would have been to gas and burn on the same floor.
2. The people in charge would of course have issued instructions concerning the amount of gas to be used. Do you have any support for your statements or are you just speculating?
1. You need to speak to someone who deals with industrial efficiency. My experience is somewhat limited but basing it on common sense you need a lfow all in one direction. It seems to me though that Krematoria 2 + 3 were more efficient than 4 +5 which used the system you suggest. Of course further refinements could have been made.
2. Basing this on testimony which is available in archives of Auschwitz and trials.
The building was already built and they had to make the best of the existing facilities. I agree that there would have been a jam at the door and it would have been more efficient to use two doors. However on the same argument they were not going to halt murdering people for a couple of months to rebuilt it any more than they were going to scrap badly designed tanks.
Initially it was trial and error with the first use of zyclone b gas being used at Auswitchz 1. I would assume at some point they knew exactly how much to use.
This is a very odd theory. The Germans would have strived to make the gassing process as efficient as possible. It the "technicians in charge" knew how much gas that should be used, they would have instructed the people doing the gassing to use the correct amount of gas. But you are saying that instead of doing this, the Germans persisted in using an inferior process, year after year?
Very few industrial processes are perfect and I refer you to an annual reports from major industrial concerns (pick a couple at random) which will outline plans to update methodology.
Clearly there was a process of learning how to do it. I am not suggesting that every time the wrong amount ot gas was used.
You may work somewhere where people understand what they are told first time. I wish I did.
I have a collection of VHS cassettes from 1988 - 1992 and there is a lot of material I would like to publish here.
However I am having a lot of technical difficulties. I can record to DVD without difficulty but the problem is in converting .VOB files to .AVI that has both sound and picture or to .WMV that does not use a huge amount of memory.
My PC only has 1MB of RAM. We have professional equipment in the office but it is only mac.
Any ideas of how to do this without incurring too much cost?
The fact that the SS blew their revolting equipment apart when facing defeat is more than enough proof of their horrific design & use. I cannot help but imagine the thoughts of the prisoners forced to build what would become the instruments of their own demise.
Personally I feel that laws against Holocaust denial are misplaced, since the deniers are so easily defeated in debate, that jailing them gives them false credence & martyrs status.
Did you convince Irving of the true events at Bikenau?
I am afraid he still refuses to accept that Krema 2 was a homicidal gas chamber. On the other hand he is transferring the victims of this camp to the Reinhard killings so the numbers add up!
As for denial laws, I was initially against them but am now reconsidering. The fact is that criminal libel exists in British law for example and possibly in other countries as well. Denier liars are not expressing an opinion but are deliberately falsifying which is possibly criminal.
Agreed. Their purpose is both an attempt at long-term rehabilitation of Fascism, and a base expression of their Antisemitism.
Specific laws against denial, are IMO, counter-productive. It invests deniers with martyr status, & the attracts the gullible with the "there must be something to hide if they make talking about it illegal". They are so easily defeated in debate. Why did they blow up the Kremas if they were innocent? Why did no SS man ever claim hoax as a defence?
1. Alot of the population of Germany didn't know about the conentration camps, they knew that the Jews, Intellectuals, homosexuals and disabled were being taken somewhere, but they didn't know about the Concentration Camps.
2. They do not agree with Anti-Semitism. Th Fascists yes - but not all Germans. Yes, it is a very suspicious that there is a pile of debris there, with strange holes in it. But to be honest, the Governments of the world knew about it. It's just that the soldiers were.
I think many Germans did know about the concentration camps but not about the extermination camps (since those were mostly in Poland). Like, how could you have lived in the Munich area and not known that KZ Dachau was in your own backyard even if you couldn't walk right up to it? I think a lot of Germans simply accepted KZs as a place where 'criminals' or 'enemies of the state' were sent to do hard labor. And if you didn't want to end up there yourself you'd better not say a word against it.
@rastiskawina It's too easy to to just simply say holocaust deniers are "people with mental problems - nothing else " and they are just anti-Semites. Many deniers are not anti-Semitic and have other reasons for opinions. I am a Holocaust historian and teacher of the Jewish Holocaust. Simply saying they are mental is like saying Hitler and 80 million Germans were just "Evil", there is allot more to it than that.
Quite random, but I was wondering what happened to the gas chamber door here? would it still be burried under the rubble, or was it taken away before the building was destroyed?
But it is important to remember that majority of victims were or were called jews by the nazis, as Antisemitism is still alive. Holocaust deniers use the holocaust as a new device to create hate for Jews. Therefore, jews suffer twice from the holocaust. They were the victims and now their relatives are targets of new hate speeches by deniers. So one must mention that most victims were jews. That does not mean that the other victims count less,but they haven't enemies that deny their suffering.
That is a very good point. Whereas at least 130,000 of the victims of Auschwitz were not Jewish, the gas chambers were built specifically for the murder of Jews.
Also remember that, had the Germans won the war, tens-of-millions of Poles and other Slavic peoples would have been fed into Birkenau for extermination. Perhaps the Reinhard camps would have remained open to receive them as well.
It progressed from mentally and physically disabled people to Jews. The next "mercy killings" would have been excess "subhuman" populations in the East.
"Genocide" was coined by an exiled Polish Jew to described what the Germans were doing to the Poles.
Thank you alanheath for posting your materials, so that youtube is not only a place for holocaust-deniers such as Moodester and properwired (just to name two of them). Go to their profiles and you will find many more Antisemites here on youtube. It is terryfying. To the issue who died: Nobody denies that other people than jews died, but why does it matter which race or religion they had?6 Million people were murdered!
Just ignore these idiots. There is one who comes up with a couple of new names each week (without exaggeration) but it is the same person. One wonders what a sad case he must be to have nothing better to do other than make up accounts to spread his stupid spite.
This displays the ability of human being capable of killing millions for an idealogy without remorse.
However I do take exception for it being portrayed as an act against only jews. The truth is that many has perished here who were non jews, amongst them gypsies, the mentally sick, poles, russian pow's, and those who tried to stand against the Nazi's.
The only people who deny the holocaust are Nazis themselves. I do not really understand why as no Nazi war criminal ever denied it which would have been the logical line of defence.
@rastiskawina@rastiskawina It's too easy to to just simply say holocaust deniers are "people with mental problems - nothing else " and they are just anti-Semites. Many deniers are not anti-Semitic and have other reasons for opinions. I am a Holocaust historian and teacher of the Jewish Holocaust. Simply saying they are mental is like saying Hitler and 80 million Germans were just "Evil", there is allot more to it than that.
@ringer1021 Thats the result of the influence of German snitchers undermining other countries, spreading lies about Germanys past and present. Since 1999 I had been openly tortured in several countries by German officials to force me back to Germany. With the knowledge and often against the declared will of the local authorities. But the German NAZI state puts a lot of pressure on other states to gain contacts and influence abroad. My brother Markus Bott was assassinated because of our homepage
if you like myself, know only a limited amount about what really happened, please dont believe people who deny these events untill you have done a little recearch, the more i look into this the weaker these claims become. and i am not a jew so you dont need to accuse me of being biest, i only am trying to learn about history and people are trying to distort it as i am trying to learn.
That's what I thought. To be honest, if I were posting these videos, I think I would disable the comments. I have a hard time stomaching the comments of Holocaust deniers that are often left.
I am all for free and open debate about the historical reality of the Holocaust. That is the only way the negationists will be exposed for what they are. I am not convinced, however, that youtube is the proper forum for such an endeavor. Usually, it demeans the tragedy. That is just my opinion.
You have a good point - but I have met many interesting people because of these videos and it gives students a chance to ask questions. I am obviously putting them up for a reason and that reason is to educate and share my knowledge. This would be somewhat negated by refusal to allow comments.
You also have a good point. I appreciate your documentation efforts and I don't take issue with your decision. On the contrary, I am hopeful knowing that someone cares. As we move farther away from this, the universal significance of the Holocaust will come into view. We need to understand what it means for humanity and western civilization so that we can avoid culminating in Necropolis. We will only get that through full and frank discussion.
And I certainly didn't mean to imply that your efforts demean the tragedy. Both of my grandfathers fought in WWII. My paternal grandfather, a regimental surgeon, cared for liberated prisoners in Dachau and prepared documents for the Nuremberg trial. When I was growing up, both were entering retirement and talking about the war. I learned about the Holocaust before I started grammar school and I have struggled with the subject for my entire life. I get a little touchy about it sometimes.
just to get some facts straight...the holes in the roofs at the gas chambers were disguised as shower heads..tricking what would be 100s of ppl stuffed in the room..& it WAS sionide (ik i spelled it wrong)..not rumors..ik this all from the holocaust museum in washington DC...which im assuming the narrator hasnt visited since hes prolly from england lol..anyway its a great place to go to learn..& they do in fact have an original showerhead taken from the chambers themselves..otherwise great vid!
The holes were not disguised. The holes in the roofs of Krema II and III led to hollow columns made of wire mesh. There were four of these columns in the chamber in a staggered formation along the central row of columns included as support in the original mortuary design. There were phony shower heads in the chamber to support the "bad und disinfektion" ruse, and some parts of the installation did survive. I am not sure if they were the shower heads or covers to the air-extraction system.
The holes were not disguised as shower heads. The holes lead into four hollow columns made of wire mesh. These columns were staggered along the central support columns included in the original design. The gas chambers in Kremas II and III were outfitted with fake shower heads to maintain the "bad und disinfektion" ruse. When the installation was dismantled, most of those features were removed. I remember reading that some survived, but I think it was covers to the ventilation system.
In the first place who is ignoring it - there are plenty of films on this site alone relating to it.
In the second, 88% of the Jewish population of Poland was murdered whilst around eight percent of the non Jewish population was murdered. If you think that that is on 'a par' then obviously your mathematics teacher was not up to much.
Mr Alan Heath, what are your figures on the Polish losses at the hands of the Nazis and at the hands of the communists? What is your nationality? Im of Polish descent.
The gas they used to exterminate all the people, HCN, was zyklon B. This is an insecticide ( still used today in Czech to kill insects ect.) The Nazi's wanted to know how much to use so they tested it on 250 gypsy children. Horrible acts were performed. I can't stand it when people deny the Holocaust.
I just found it strange that you criticise holocaust deniers yet have conducted an interview with Irving who an english court found to be an "active Holocaust denier,".
"Why do you have this video as well as an interview with David Irving?"
What's wrong with not being afraid to confront and be confronted by people who may have a different interpretation of the shoah? Doing this enhances his credability over the professional historians who hid their cowardice behind the "I don't debate deniers" shield .
You don't need to watch very many of Alan Heath's movies to figure out where he stands on the holocaust
I am also confused as alanheath has clearly stated that David Irving has never denied the existance of the Holocaust but there are planty of David Irving videos on You Tube were he does just that.
He also has a video of him visiting Sorbibor with David Irving, so I do not know what he is up to.
An overview based on newest facts. Oświęcim (Oshvienchim - in english) means to sanctify. The place is an ancient pre Christian of place of worship. (German mispronunciation Auschwitz, means the same with aus=o, and schwitzen = święcić). The camp was established by Germans to exterminate Poles in 1940. The focus was switched to Jews in 1942. The records have been destroyed by the Germans. Latest best estimates, Jews 750,000, Poles 150,000.
The camp was not established by the Germans but by the Austrians as a transit camp for people wishing to emigrate to America. It was later used as a Polish army barracks before the Nazis converted it into a camp. Not all the records were destroyed and can be seen in the archive. Latest best death estimates, at least 900k Jews, around 130k non Jewish Poles.
Well done mate! Always wanted to visit this place myself and will hopefully do it soon. I would assume that theres an erie feeling to the place. What many people forget that many other peoples such as homosexuals, jypsies and political ''enemies'' were murdered in these camps.
Witold Pilecki (1901 1948) During World War II, he became the only known person to volunteer to be imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp. While there, he organized the resistance movement in the camp, and as early as 1940, informed the Western Allies of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz atrocities. He escaped from the camp in 1943 and took part in the Warsaw Uprising. Executed in 1948 by the communists. Until 1989, information on his exploits and fate was suppressed by the communist regime.
This is refuted by the negative results of the examination of the control samples from living quarters, which are said to have been subjected to a single gassing, and the fact that in the period of fumigation of the Camp in connection with a typhoid epidemic in mid-1942 there were still no crematoria in the Birkenau Camp. The first crematorium (Crematorium II) was put to use as late as 15 March 1943 and the others several months later.
NOTE: Last two posts are quotes from the IFR Report 1994
Leuchter (2) claims that the vestigial amounts of cyanide combinations detected by him in the materials from the chamber ruins are residues left after fumigations carried out in the Camp "once, long ago"(Item 14.004 of the Report).
I was led to believe that the walls were tested for residue from the gassings but they yielded no results. Yet you describe the walls as being "absolutely lined with blue"?
You should read, "A Study of the Cyanide Compounds Content In The Walls Of The Gas Chambers in the Former Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camps", which explains the testing methodology and also how Leuchter's fictional report was refuted. The revisionists deny the IFR report refutes Leuchter, but it does - literally!
@alanheath see:Daily Mirror, Jan 05, 2008 - "before reaching the Polish camp".Liverpool Daily Post, Jan 05, 2008 - "parents were killed in a Polish death camp". Fayetteville Observer, Jan 09, 2008 - "Treblinka, the Polish death camp". Yorkshire Post, Feb 23, 2008 - "to visit the Polish death camp". The Post and Courier (Charleston Net), Mar 1, 2008 - "kill his mother in a Polish ghetto". BBC, Mar 7, 2008 - "Polish death camp". MK News, Mar 15, 2008 - "four Polish concentration camps"
@alanheath Examples: Wall Street Journal, February 5, 1999. The Guardian, January 2005. Israeli Haaretz, June 21, 2005 and June 22, 2005. Toronto Star, September 21, 2005. The Vancouver Sun, September 30, 2005. Australian Jewish News, November 11, 2005. Balkanalysis - November 30, 2005. The New York Times, December 5, 2005. San Francisco Chronicle, January 1, 2006.German Die tageszeitung. Der Spiegel.Canadian Daily Gleaner.Garforth Today,Apr 2,2008-"the trip to the Polish camp".Variety,May6,2008
Well done - you copied this out of Wikipedia. Now take it to the level of the sources and then come back and says that it says here that Poles were responsible. I took out a couple at random and it says nothing of the sort.
Are you joking? see the "Daily Telegraph" wrote about "The Polish concentration camp in Majdanek" in its report on Erna Wallish. The Sun on 16.06.2008 of the article Soaking up atmosphere, The Nazi who sent 100s to death camps written by Brian Flynn, in which under a picture of John Demjanjuk the words Polish gas chambers. World History People and Nations (Holt, Rinehardt&Winston publishing company, 2000) page 729 use of the phrase Polish death camp. More: google.
No I am not joking. The source was you. You provided a stack of references - I picked three at random and none of them referred to Poles being responsible for gas chambers or concentrations camps or anything. I read the Telegraph article and as far as I remember it said nothing of the sort either. I am a serious historian - I check facts to their source and not base them on someone's opinion. I do not have any of these articles to hand so I suggest you say where they are on the net.
Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp(1940-1945)(Konzentrationslager Auschwitz in German),
in German-occupied Poland (1939-1945).
SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss -- 1940-1943,SS-Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel -- 1943-1944, SS-Sturmbannführer Richard Baer -- 1944-1945. The Final Solution (German: Die Endlösung), Zyklon B, Generalplan Ost, AB-Aktion, Operation Reinhard, Einsatzgruppen,Heydrich,Eichmann, SS,Gestapo,SA
Rudolph Hoss was called back into service at Birkeneau to deal specifically with the mass murder of an inteended 700,000 Hungarian victims in May 1944. Infact 450,000 were deported there before Horthy stopped it.
For anyone interested, I found and read most of the book "Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers by Jean-Claude Pressac" for free online. It is very dry reading with most of it based on construction blueprints. Apparently, when the Nazi's evacuated the camp, many of the documents at "Auschwitz Zentral Bauleiting" (construction office) were not destroyed. Details about cracks in flue liners due to over use, bitumen based "damp proofing" causing delays, etc.
clintonearlwalker 1 month ago 2
@clintonearlwalker Well done! This book has a very limited run and was quite rare. Pressac had been a holocaust denier and he went to Auschwitz to prove that it did not happen and he ended up writing this book. That is why no denier liar has ever done any research again!
alanheath 1 month ago
@alanheath Thanx for that. I must admit that I was "shocked" when I first got a computer and started watching Holocaust vids and seen the denier comments that were in complete contradiction to what I could see right in front of my eyes. I personally find it quite disgusting that people would post these things on these videos, in many cases posted by the survivors themselves. Anyway, thanx for your videos, Cheers and Merry Christmas from Maryland, USA.
clintonearlwalker 1 month ago 2
@clintonearlwalker The thing about the internet is that it is open to everyone. In normal life we do not come into contact with people who have mental health issues, racists and others. However the internet brings us into contact with them. For racists, the only thing that matters is their own illogical hatred and if it is necessary to ignore the truth that does not matter. Then there are those that will argue night is day. Fortunately these nutters are a tiny - if vociferous - minority.
alanheath 1 month ago
@alanheath I find the amount of hatred direct toward "Jews" to be staggering. I've only ever known of one "Jew" in my personal life, and that was in about 1970. Maybe it's a European thing, while there is much racism and hatred in the US, most of it isn't directed at Jews, at least not to the point of gas chambers. The internet is a different story though, as it covers most of the world. Sometimes these deniers, haters, liars, just make me angry with their nonsense and spam.
clintonearlwalker 1 month ago
@clintonearlwalker I think they need to blame someone for their own failures in life. It is not them so it must be a conspiracy against them. I cannot think of any other reason.
alanheath 1 month ago
Those who are denying: what the heck were these buildings FOR, anyway? Arts and crafts?
JimmyBoi2 4 months ago
@JimmyBoi2 What do you think Krematorien were for? Obviously they were for cremating corpses. Other tales are tales.
ShishiSonson 3 months ago
Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers by Jean-Claude Pressac is an excellent resource. I prefer it over professor Van der Pelts although bougth are excellent researchers in thier own rights.
thanks for the video once again. I will visit poland one day.
honour123 6 months ago 2
@honour123 Pressac's book is very rare. It is all the more valuable as he went there the first time to prove it did not happen. I have a lot more videos on the Nazi death camps which may be of interest.
alanheath 6 months ago
May I ask you something, Mr. Heath?
I was reading Hoess's memoirs, and I read the part where he says that the local air defense filed complaints about the fires resulting from the cremations. Now, I know that the open air cremations and smoke are confirmed by eyewitnesses and photos, but I was wondering if it could go further: are you aware of any documented complaints by the air defense? Those would be just as damning as the Ostrow Garrison's complaint about Treblinka. Thank you.
yamureska 6 months ago
@yamureska I am aware of Hoess's comment about the fires and his excuse to continue with them despite the risk of acting as a beacon to industrial targets which by the summer of 1944 were in range of Allied bombers. I read the comments of one Herbert Loebel who was a prisoner and later a pilot and he thought the fires could be seen for up to 75 miles in ideal conditions. I am unaware of air defence documentation but would think it worth following up - if anyone can.
alanheath 6 months ago
@AlexsiMAC hitler did kill Germans, he would kill communists, german Jews and political opponents, I feel sorry for you if you believe other wise, in auchwitz Hitler committed genocide, and killed 1.5 million people, I went there last month and there was no birds around, as if they could smell the death.
Pandathegr8 6 months ago
@AlexsiMAC Hitler was responsible for the deaths of around 6m Jews and many millions more non Jews. I think Hitler was the worse mass murderer.
alanheath 6 months ago
@alanheath Stalin killed 30 - 50 million people and people seem to miss that
riotskater4 3 weeks ago
@riotskater4 In the first place WHO misses that (except possibly you)? In the second, what has that got to do with this video other than the fact that Stalin and Hitler started the war together? And in the third, Stalin did not kill 50m people - unless you are counting those that died in WW2 which Stalin helped the Nazis start.
alanheath 3 weeks ago
very good video. thank you.
greets from germany
TheCabana90 8 months ago
i went there today!!!
das242 9 months ago
Another very informative video, Alan, and thank you. Am I correct in thinking that the chambers of Kremas 2 and 3 were the same size, and that there were two chambers in each building? And were Kremas 4 and 5 identical, or were they smaller? I've been trudging my way through several documents, but they are rather vague as to the exact size and layout of the buildings.
MSM4U2POM 10 months ago 7
@MSM4U2POM Thanks for the comments. Two and three were the same size although at one stage the chamber was split into two. Four and five were smaller. The construction records survived and there are plans for these buildings.
alanheath 10 months ago
Stalin was still 10x worst, no he didn't kill just one race or religion, but whoever opposed his will. you can cound the 60 million people the nazi's killed compared to the 60 million soviet russia killed. Both horrible leaders but stalin was in my opinion the worst dictator ever.
sutton123454 11 months ago
@sutton123454 These figures are nonsense. WW2 - started by Hitler (admittedly in collaboration with Stalin) killed around 50m people. And Stalin was not responsible for 60m deaths - this is quite clear from the population statistics and the growth of the population. By exaggerating the death toll you are belittling the suffering of those that did die.
alanheath 11 months ago
@alanheath The's papers and facts all over the internet that Stalin's regime killed 60 million people and even started before world war 2.
sutton123454 11 months ago
@sutton123454 There may well be papers all over the internet - I doubt if there are any facts. How do you explain that the population statistics show nothing of the sort?
1897 - Russian population around 127m
1926 - USSR 147m
1937 - 162m
1959 - 208m
1970 - 241m
1979 - 262m
1989 - 286m
How do you explain that? What are your sources?
alanheath 11 months ago
@alanheath they killed people from countries they occupied in work camps and other ways, plus you don;t think they cover up what they did like the nazi's did? use your noodle. The Katyn massacre you think that was the only thing russia did? you're ignorant towards what russia had did to many people and some of the greatest people in history are noted as saying "stalin was 10x worst then Hitler" even top generals in the american army like G.S. Patton...
sutton123454 11 months ago
@sutton123454 The person incapable of using his noodle is you. You are the one who is ignorant. You have in front of you the Soviet censuses and instead you ignore it.
I do not doubt that millions were killed by Stalin but ignorants like you who make absurd claims belittle the suffering of the victims. Look facts in the face and not propaganda. How do you explain the census figures - the first two before Stalin was in power? You can't and you are too ignorant to attempt to explain it.
alanheath 11 months ago
@alanheath Approximately 20 million, including up to 14.5 million needlessly starved to death. At least one million executed for political "offences". At least 9.5 million more deported, exiled or imprisoned in work camps, with many of the estimated five million sent to the 'Gulag Archipelago' never returning alive. Other estimates place the number of deported at 28 million, including 18 million sent to the 'Gulag'. That's more then Hitler killed of the jews and all concentration camps.
sutton123454 11 months ago
@sutton123454 What are your sources or are you making this up? How come these numbers don't appear in the population censuses? What does other estimates mean - name sources? A person deported is not murdered (although in many cases it certainly happened).
alanheath 11 months ago
@alanheath Stalin killed 42 million people - men, women and little children. In all of history, only Mao could possibly have killed more. I personaly know people from Poland when it was soviet union controlled and they even say today they would of rather lived under nazism then communism.
sutton123454 11 months ago
@sutton123454 A few hours ago you said Stalin killed 60m - now it is down to 42m. That is 18m suddenly he did not kill.
Do you not see how you insult the victims and the suffering of millions in this way?
So you know people in Poland? Na pewno też mówisz po polsku. I fail to see what relevance that has. Personally I would prefer to live under Stalin than Hitler and that likewise proves nothing. And I also was in Poland when it was occupied by the USSR.
alanheath 11 months ago
So intresting thanks for posting I would like to see the camps one day , is there much to see of Auschwitz III - Monowitz
thank you
BrainDamageEclips 1 year ago
@BrainDamageEclips Many parts of camps were industrial areas and Monowitz falls into this category. It is still in use today as a chemical works!
alanheath 1 year ago
Do you have any photographs of these "absolutely" blue stained walls that you've seen because I've seen many photos of the inside and haven't seen any blue colouring.
andrewuk184 1 year ago
@andrewuk184 Yes I do.
alanheath 1 year ago
@alanheath Are they anywhere on the internet to see? No that I'm doubting you, I'm just confused because I heard that the chambers were hosed down after every gassing to prevent this build up.
andrewuk184 1 year ago
@andrewuk184 They are not on the internet. I presume they were hosed down given the amount of human waste that must have occurred - I am not a chemist but I think the outer layer of the concrete absorbed the gas particles.
alanheath 1 year ago
well im glad wee allies kicked the the germans naziz bastards..this.its the one of the reason i will never learn german lanuages...
roadrunner304 1 year ago
WHAT WAS THE REASON OF THE HOLOCAUST???
rtchakar 1 year ago
ive got an auschwitz in my pants
HaroldHHard 1 year ago
@rastiskawina It's too easy to to just simply say holocaust deniers are "people with mental problems - nothing else " and they are just anti-Semites. Many deniers are not anti-Semitic and have other reasons for opinions. I am a Holocaust historian and teacher of the Jewish Holocaust. Simply saying they are mental is like saying Hitler and 80 million Germans were just "Evil", there is allot more to it than that.
ttestates 1 year ago
@ttestates I have never heard of a denier who was not an anti Semite. I knew one person who had doubts who was not but when presented with the evidence, he said it all went away.
I deny the existence of God. I dont believe that angels appeared before British troops at Mons in 1914. I find it hard to believe that a peasant girl led the French to victory in the 100 years war. But I find zero logic for saying the Shoah did not happen.
Can you tell me a reason for holocaust denial?
alanheath 1 year ago 2
very interesting and highly relevant
rastiskawina 1 year ago
Some of the camp had been rebuilt and buildings fixed to show their original positions and functions. Because of that, deniers offer this as their proof it never existed at all. Just like parts of Alcatraz Island were repaired in the US for tourism so it was for Auschwitz. The Crematoriums did exist along with the gas chambers. They are and were clearly drawn out on the blueprints and constructed by laborers. They were referenced in numerous SS documents and plans and used for their purposes.
cwilliams3567 1 year ago
@cwilliams3567 When I was in London, the Tower of London was being repaired. No doubt the denier liars will claim that this is a fake as well.
alanheath 1 year ago
Some of the camp had been rebuilt and buildings fixed to show their original positions and functions. Because of that, deniers offer this as their proof it never existed at all. Just like parts of Alcatraz Island were repaired in the US for tourism so it was for Auschwitz. The Crematoriums did exist along with the gas chambers. They are and were clearly drawn out on the blueprints and constructed by laborers. They were referenced in numerous SS documents and plans and used for their purposes.
cwilliams3567 1 year ago
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alanheath 1 year ago
At about 3 minutes into this video, you said that you have been under this gas chamber. So, there is a part of the gas chamber under the rubble that you can crawl into? I wasn't able to find much in the way of reference to it anywhere else on the internet. Is that area open to the public?
fourier2020 2 years ago
It is not open - it is a pile of rubble. A lot of archaeological work has been done on the site since then.
alanheath 2 years ago
@fourier2020
hi
HaroldHHard 2 years ago
It is said that the Nazis destroyed Kremas 2 and 3 in order to hide the proofs of their gas chambers. so how do we no they were gas chambers?
we no the russians hanged Rudolf Höss out side krema 1 and it was passed as an original gas chamber for 40+ years but today the story has changed and they now admit the russians reconstruted krema1 after the war and wasnt even a gas chamber at the time of liberation
MrPooinabox 2 years ago
Buildings change use frequently and it ceased to be used as a gas chamber at the time of liberation. The building I am in now used to be a house and now it is an office! What does that prove? No story has changed.
As can clearly be seen in this film the Nazis did not destroy the gas chambers. There is plenty of documentary and eye witness evidence.
The Russians did not hang Hoess.
alanheath 2 years ago
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alanheath 2 years ago
Alan - Not to decry what you're doing, but I think you owe it to the subject matter to prepare before speaking. That would avoid rather unfortunate exchanges with sceptics on matters like uncertainty about the amount of gas required, something I've never come across in the literature. If reference to it does exist somewhere, do cite it. Also 'epitome' is pronounced eh-PIT-oh-me and it's Robert Jan van Pelt.
fendweller 2 years ago
im hungarian i read a book by miklos nyisli about mengele and it described everything
damonkat26 2 years ago
My thanks to Alan Heath for presenting the
truth in his videos. And as members of
the human race the rest of us also have
a moral obligation to be defenders of the
truth.
LoneTinaja 2 years ago 7
Thank you for your comment! I have also got a lot more information on the Shoah with films of other camps as well.
alanheath 2 years ago
Why did the Germans bring people down into a cellar only to haul the bodies upstairs again after the gassing had taken place? Would it not have been easier to build the gas chamber on the same floor as the cremation facilities?
The idea that the Germans did not know how much gas it took to kill the people in the gas chamber must be wrong. The Germans would have found that out following the first few gassings.
groffe12 2 years ago 3
Good questions.
1. The bodies were taken by a lift to the ground floor for destruction. I think this is a far more efficient way rather than having the destruction of the bodies on the same floor as happened in gas chambers four and five.
2. The individuals may not have known. It was certainly known to the people in charge. Bear in mind that the gas would not always work the same, the quality would have varied and the speed of its diffusion would depend on the heat of the gas chamber.
alanheath 2 years ago
Thank you for your reply. I have the following comments:
1. How could it be "far more efficient" to herd people downstairs, gas them in a cellar and then haul their bodies upstairs with an elevator? A much more efficient way of doing it would have been to gas and burn on the same floor.
2. The people in charge would of course have issued instructions concerning the amount of gas to be used. Do you have any support for your statements or are you just speculating?
groffe12 2 years ago
1. You need to speak to someone who deals with industrial efficiency. My experience is somewhat limited but basing it on common sense you need a lfow all in one direction. It seems to me though that Krematoria 2 + 3 were more efficient than 4 +5 which used the system you suggest. Of course further refinements could have been made.
2. Basing this on testimony which is available in archives of Auschwitz and trials.
alanheath 2 years ago
1. I agree that common sense would dictate a flow all in one direction. So why did not the Germans set up such a system in any of Krema 2, 3, 4 or 5?
2. Whose testimony?
groffe12 2 years ago
The building was already built and they had to make the best of the existing facilities. I agree that there would have been a jam at the door and it would have been more efficient to use two doors. However on the same argument they were not going to halt murdering people for a couple of months to rebuilt it any more than they were going to scrap badly designed tanks.
alanheath 2 years ago
Initially it was trial and error with the first use of zyclone b gas being used at Auswitchz 1. I would assume at some point they knew exactly how much to use.
kevphillips02 2 years ago
I am sure the technicians in charge knew. Whether this filtered down to those carrying out the instructions is another thing.
alanheath 2 years ago
This is a very odd theory. The Germans would have strived to make the gassing process as efficient as possible. It the "technicians in charge" knew how much gas that should be used, they would have instructed the people doing the gassing to use the correct amount of gas. But you are saying that instead of doing this, the Germans persisted in using an inferior process, year after year?
groffe12 2 years ago
Very few industrial processes are perfect and I refer you to an annual reports from major industrial concerns (pick a couple at random) which will outline plans to update methodology.
Clearly there was a process of learning how to do it. I am not suggesting that every time the wrong amount ot gas was used.
You may work somewhere where people understand what they are told first time. I wish I did.
alanheath 2 years ago
I have a collection of VHS cassettes from 1988 - 1992 and there is a lot of material I would like to publish here.
However I am having a lot of technical difficulties. I can record to DVD without difficulty but the problem is in converting .VOB files to .AVI that has both sound and picture or to .WMV that does not use a huge amount of memory.
My PC only has 1MB of RAM. We have professional equipment in the office but it is only mac.
Any ideas of how to do this without incurring too much cost?
alanheath 2 years ago
i was in Mauthausen.
sdkfz162kingtiger 2 years ago
Nazis committed a horrible genocide and killed millions of my people!!
To all neonazis, nazi wannabes, white supremacist pigs, racists and haters: Watch out!! Because Israel is the apple of my eye and I will wreck you...
MrYinon 2 years ago
my great grandfather was an SS guard who worked here! EEK~
Jasey2007 2 years ago
Are you serious? Did he ever talk about it?
SabuPtolemy 2 years ago 4
I would hate him
he should be killed.
xLynsieMarie 2 years ago
Tusk? Ratzinger?
ramziuPL 2 years ago
@Jasey2007 really?
rastiskawina 1 year ago
1 word comes to me : horrible !!! very hard to face this suffering without sorrow
decebal1969 2 years ago 2
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alanheath 2 years ago
Would you say that the 1,135,000 figure brought up in the Hoess memoirs is about accurate.
nukeseeker 2 years ago 2
That seems probable to me.
alanheath 2 years ago
The fact that the SS blew their revolting equipment apart when facing defeat is more than enough proof of their horrific design & use. I cannot help but imagine the thoughts of the prisoners forced to build what would become the instruments of their own demise.
Personally I feel that laws against Holocaust denial are misplaced, since the deniers are so easily defeated in debate, that jailing them gives them false credence & martyrs status.
Did you convince Irving of the true events at Bikenau?
Palfium66 2 years ago
I am afraid he still refuses to accept that Krema 2 was a homicidal gas chamber. On the other hand he is transferring the victims of this camp to the Reinhard killings so the numbers add up!
As for denial laws, I was initially against them but am now reconsidering. The fact is that criminal libel exists in British law for example and possibly in other countries as well. Denier liars are not expressing an opinion but are deliberately falsifying which is possibly criminal.
alanheath 2 years ago
Agreed. Their purpose is both an attempt at long-term rehabilitation of Fascism, and a base expression of their Antisemitism.
Specific laws against denial, are IMO, counter-productive. It invests deniers with martyr status, & the attracts the gullible with the "there must be something to hide if they make talking about it illegal". They are so easily defeated in debate. Why did they blow up the Kremas if they were innocent? Why did no SS man ever claim hoax as a defence?
Palfium66 2 years ago 4
1. Alot of the population of Germany didn't know about the conentration camps, they knew that the Jews, Intellectuals, homosexuals and disabled were being taken somewhere, but they didn't know about the Concentration Camps.
2. They do not agree with Anti-Semitism. Th Fascists yes - but not all Germans. Yes, it is a very suspicious that there is a pile of debris there, with strange holes in it. But to be honest, the Governments of the world knew about it. It's just that the soldiers were.
mevidek 2 years ago 2
I think many Germans did know about the concentration camps but not about the extermination camps (since those were mostly in Poland). Like, how could you have lived in the Munich area and not known that KZ Dachau was in your own backyard even if you couldn't walk right up to it? I think a lot of Germans simply accepted KZs as a place where 'criminals' or 'enemies of the state' were sent to do hard labor. And if you didn't want to end up there yourself you'd better not say a word against it.
SabuPtolemy 2 years ago 10
@Palfium66 holocaust denier liars are people with mental problems - nothing else
rastiskawina 1 year ago
@rastiskawina It's too easy to to just simply say holocaust deniers are "people with mental problems - nothing else " and they are just anti-Semites. Many deniers are not anti-Semitic and have other reasons for opinions. I am a Holocaust historian and teacher of the Jewish Holocaust. Simply saying they are mental is like saying Hitler and 80 million Germans were just "Evil", there is allot more to it than that.
ttestates 1 year ago
What a lovely and well narrated video, thank you for sharing such a touching subject
Freddiedambrum 2 years ago 3
Quite random, but I was wondering what happened to the gas chamber door here? would it still be burried under the rubble, or was it taken away before the building was destroyed?
CornishPasty2009 2 years ago
It is gone. However archaeological excavations in 2006 discovered fake shower equipment.
alanheath 2 years ago
The functions of Auschwitz-Birkenau were
mass murder and the production of
revenue and materiel for Germany from
the exploitation of human beings when
they were alive and after they died. The
Nazi crimes against humanity are
unequaled in world history. The human
race must never let this happen again.
LoneTinaja 2 years ago 27
good thing the bosnian conflict died down because i could have possibly escalated in to this.
StEEzYSqEEzY 2 years ago
@LoneTinaja It has happened again, Cambodia exterminated 2/3 of the population,
per capita more than the Jews.
Bosnia-Herzegovina: 1992-1995 - 200,000 Deaths
Rwanda: 1994 - 800,000 Deaths
Pol Pot in Cambodia: 1975-1979 - 2,000,000 Deaths
Presently in Darfur as I write human beings are being murdered.
"Never Again" will "Never" Happen. Human being are not yet evolved for peace.
ttestates 1 year ago
But it is important to remember that majority of victims were or were called jews by the nazis, as Antisemitism is still alive. Holocaust deniers use the holocaust as a new device to create hate for Jews. Therefore, jews suffer twice from the holocaust. They were the victims and now their relatives are targets of new hate speeches by deniers. So one must mention that most victims were jews. That does not mean that the other victims count less,but they haven't enemies that deny their suffering.
tAcco9911 2 years ago 14
That is a very good point. Whereas at least 130,000 of the victims of Auschwitz were not Jewish, the gas chambers were built specifically for the murder of Jews.
alanheath 2 years ago
Also remember that, had the Germans won the war, tens-of-millions of Poles and other Slavic peoples would have been fed into Birkenau for extermination. Perhaps the Reinhard camps would have remained open to receive them as well.
It progressed from mentally and physically disabled people to Jews. The next "mercy killings" would have been excess "subhuman" populations in the East.
"Genocide" was coined by an exiled Polish Jew to described what the Germans were doing to the Poles.
sjrr5545 2 years ago
@tAcco9911 there are very few holocaust denier liars. but they are very active on the internet.
rastiskawina 1 year ago
Thank you alanheath for posting your materials, so that youtube is not only a place for holocaust-deniers such as Moodester and properwired (just to name two of them). Go to their profiles and you will find many more Antisemites here on youtube. It is terryfying. To the issue who died: Nobody denies that other people than jews died, but why does it matter which race or religion they had?6 Million people were murdered!
tAcco9911 2 years ago 25
Just ignore these idiots. There is one who comes up with a couple of new names each week (without exaggeration) but it is the same person. One wonders what a sad case he must be to have nothing better to do other than make up accounts to spread his stupid spite.
alanheath 2 years ago
This displays the ability of human being capable of killing millions for an idealogy without remorse.
However I do take exception for it being portrayed as an act against only jews. The truth is that many has perished here who were non jews, amongst them gypsies, the mentally sick, poles, russian pow's, and those who tried to stand against the Nazi's.
kapus123 2 years ago 13
You are wrong. This gas chamber was built for the sole purpose of killing Jews even although other people may have been murdered in Krematorium 2.
alanheath 2 years ago
I don't understand people that deny that the Holocaust ever happened when there is more than enough undeniable proof that it did happen.
Excellent descriptions and good video. Thank you for posting it.
ringer1021 2 years ago 17
The only people who deny the holocaust are Nazis themselves. I do not really understand why as no Nazi war criminal ever denied it which would have been the logical line of defence.
alanheath 2 years ago
@alanheath Nazis or neo Nazis?
rastiskawina 1 year ago
@ringer1021 the reason for denial is mental illness. End of story.
rastiskawina 1 year ago
@rastiskawina @rastiskawina It's too easy to to just simply say holocaust deniers are "people with mental problems - nothing else " and they are just anti-Semites. Many deniers are not anti-Semitic and have other reasons for opinions. I am a Holocaust historian and teacher of the Jewish Holocaust. Simply saying they are mental is like saying Hitler and 80 million Germans were just "Evil", there is allot more to it than that.
ttestates 1 year ago
@ringer1021 Thats the result of the influence of German snitchers undermining other countries, spreading lies about Germanys past and present. Since 1999 I had been openly tortured in several countries by German officials to force me back to Germany. With the knowledge and often against the declared will of the local authorities. But the German NAZI state puts a lot of pressure on other states to gain contacts and influence abroad. My brother Markus Bott was assassinated because of our homepage
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alanheath 2 years ago
if you like myself, know only a limited amount about what really happened, please dont believe people who deny these events untill you have done a little recearch, the more i look into this the weaker these claims become. and i am not a jew so you dont need to accuse me of being biest, i only am trying to learn about history and people are trying to distort it as i am trying to learn.
simyan2008 2 years ago 8
i think its terrible how humans can do something like this makes me truly sick.
But id like to inform you not only jews died in this camp and you didn't mention that fact.
shuggy1991 2 years ago 7
I mention it over and over again in films I have made. This film is about gas chamber number two, the victims of which were almost entirely Jewish.
alanheath 2 years ago
I may have double-posted. Sorry about that.
sjrr5545 2 years ago
Not at all - thank you for trying with your infromed comment. Unfortunately I have to put in an acceptance form due to heavy spamming on this film.
alanheath 2 years ago
That's what I thought. To be honest, if I were posting these videos, I think I would disable the comments. I have a hard time stomaching the comments of Holocaust deniers that are often left.
I am all for free and open debate about the historical reality of the Holocaust. That is the only way the negationists will be exposed for what they are. I am not convinced, however, that youtube is the proper forum for such an endeavor. Usually, it demeans the tragedy. That is just my opinion.
sjrr5545 2 years ago 8
You have a good point - but I have met many interesting people because of these videos and it gives students a chance to ask questions. I am obviously putting them up for a reason and that reason is to educate and share my knowledge. This would be somewhat negated by refusal to allow comments.
alanheath 2 years ago
You also have a good point. I appreciate your documentation efforts and I don't take issue with your decision. On the contrary, I am hopeful knowing that someone cares. As we move farther away from this, the universal significance of the Holocaust will come into view. We need to understand what it means for humanity and western civilization so that we can avoid culminating in Necropolis. We will only get that through full and frank discussion.
sjrr5545 2 years ago 5
And I certainly didn't mean to imply that your efforts demean the tragedy. Both of my grandfathers fought in WWII. My paternal grandfather, a regimental surgeon, cared for liberated prisoners in Dachau and prepared documents for the Nuremberg trial. When I was growing up, both were entering retirement and talking about the war. I learned about the Holocaust before I started grammar school and I have struggled with the subject for my entire life. I get a little touchy about it sometimes.
sjrr5545 2 years ago 5
i completely agree
nederwiet1 2 years ago
@alanheath it is sad that there is so much spamming on sites like this!
rastiskawina 1 year ago
alanheath May i ask you something really crazy? I hered that Auschwitz maybe haunted. Now is that true if so did you experance anything?
YamatoTitanic 2 years ago
I have never heard of anything like that!
alanheath 2 years ago
its almost certain this place has spiritual activity, probably german,
madhobbit 2 years ago
just to get some facts straight...the holes in the roofs at the gas chambers were disguised as shower heads..tricking what would be 100s of ppl stuffed in the room..& it WAS sionide (ik i spelled it wrong)..not rumors..ik this all from the holocaust museum in washington DC...which im assuming the narrator hasnt visited since hes prolly from england lol..anyway its a great place to go to learn..& they do in fact have an original showerhead taken from the chambers themselves..otherwise great vid!
danman745 2 years ago
The holes were not disguised. The holes in the roofs of Krema II and III led to hollow columns made of wire mesh. There were four of these columns in the chamber in a staggered formation along the central row of columns included as support in the original mortuary design. There were phony shower heads in the chamber to support the "bad und disinfektion" ruse, and some parts of the installation did survive. I am not sure if they were the shower heads or covers to the air-extraction system.
sjrr5545 2 years ago 2
The holes were not disguised as shower heads. The holes lead into four hollow columns made of wire mesh. These columns were staggered along the central support columns included in the original design. The gas chambers in Kremas II and III were outfitted with fake shower heads to maintain the "bad und disinfektion" ruse. When the installation was dismantled, most of those features were removed. I remember reading that some survived, but I think it was covers to the ventilation system.
sjrr5545 2 years ago 2
Mr Heath could you please give me a link to the film or films that you have made referring to Polish losses.
wanpior 2 years ago
As with everything else, try using the search engine not only on my channel but on the site as a whole.
alanheath 2 years ago
It appears we are dealing here with a Polish holocaust on par with the Jewish, I wonder why that is being ignored?
wanpior 2 years ago
In the first place who is ignoring it - there are plenty of films on this site alone relating to it.
In the second, 88% of the Jewish population of Poland was murdered whilst around eight percent of the non Jewish population was murdered. If you think that that is on 'a par' then obviously your mathematics teacher was not up to much.
alanheath 2 years ago
Mr Alan Heath, what are your figures on the Polish losses at the hands of the Nazis and at the hands of the communists? What is your nationality? Im of Polish descent.
wanpior 2 years ago
I think that Polish deaths in WW2 and are not less than five million people from all causes - of which only around 4% are military.
As it says on the channel page, I am British.
alanheath 2 years ago
The gas they used to exterminate all the people, HCN, was zyklon B. This is an insecticide ( still used today in Czech to kill insects ect.) The Nazi's wanted to know how much to use so they tested it on 250 gypsy children. Horrible acts were performed. I can't stand it when people deny the Holocaust.
PwnerKev 2 years ago 4
Why must ppl. still disaknowledge up to this very day that this existed at all? Dingo heads.
soxmonki 3 years ago 4
Why do you have this video as well as an interview with David Irving? I suppose you must not agree with him on the true extent of the holocaust then?
bardilla 3 years ago 3
This is a ridiculous accusation as is clearly borne out by the amount of material I have posted on the holocaust.
alanheath 2 years ago
Sorry I think you misunderstood the point.
I just found it strange that you criticise holocaust deniers yet have conducted an interview with Irving who an english court found to be an "active Holocaust denier,".
bardilla 2 years ago
I can't see your point. In no interview with me does he deny the holocaust - on the contrary as far as the Bug camps are going he is exaggerating it.
alanheath 2 years ago
"Why do you have this video as well as an interview with David Irving?"
What's wrong with not being afraid to confront and be confronted by people who may have a different interpretation of the shoah? Doing this enhances his credability over the professional historians who hid their cowardice behind the "I don't debate deniers" shield .
You don't need to watch very many of Alan Heath's movies to figure out where he stands on the holocaust
smellwig 2 years ago
bardilla
I am also confused as alanheath has clearly stated that David Irving has never denied the existance of the Holocaust but there are planty of David Irving videos on You Tube were he does just that.
He also has a video of him visiting Sorbibor with David Irving, so I do not know what he is up to.
Spiceyhotdog 2 years ago
Where do I say that David Irving has never denied the holocaust? Evidence? Or did you just make it up.
I am still waiting for answers to your other slanders which are:
1. Which of my films is a 'perverted film (with me) running around the room screaming heil hitler ?
2. Which historian has debunked me?
3. What evidence have I distorted?
So now there are four questions for you to answer. You are not doing very well are you?
alanheath 2 years ago
@alanheath Did you ever get an answer?
rastiskawina 1 year ago
@rastiskawina I don' t think so!
alanheath 1 year ago
An overview based on newest facts. Oświęcim (Oshvienchim - in english) means to sanctify. The place is an ancient pre Christian of place of worship. (German mispronunciation Auschwitz, means the same with aus=o, and schwitzen = święcić). The camp was established by Germans to exterminate Poles in 1940. The focus was switched to Jews in 1942. The records have been destroyed by the Germans. Latest best estimates, Jews 750,000, Poles 150,000.
wanpior 3 years ago 5
The camp was not established by the Germans but by the Austrians as a transit camp for people wishing to emigrate to America. It was later used as a Polish army barracks before the Nazis converted it into a camp. Not all the records were destroyed and can be seen in the archive. Latest best death estimates, at least 900k Jews, around 130k non Jewish Poles.
alanheath 3 years ago
Well done mate! Always wanted to visit this place myself and will hopefully do it soon. I would assume that theres an erie feeling to the place. What many people forget that many other peoples such as homosexuals, jypsies and political ''enemies'' were murdered in these camps.
250GTLUSSO 3 years ago 4
it was not 1.2 it was 1.4
kingdud99 3 years ago
i might take a trip there
kingdud99 3 years ago 4
Ah really, I'm almost crying when i see the gaschambers, its so hard to imagine there where like half milion of people killed.
ty for uploading this,
and i'm going to watch youre other vidieo's
(sorry for my bad english, i'm from holland =))
essiej666 3 years ago 6
There is nothing wrong with your English - it is perfectly understandable.
I have information from the site of every death camp in Poland on my channel which may interest you!
alanheath 3 years ago
I am glad that this was useful to you. I have many more films here both of Auschwitz Birkenau and of the Shoah in general.
alanheath 3 years ago
Witold Pilecki (1901 1948) During World War II, he became the only known person to volunteer to be imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp. While there, he organized the resistance movement in the camp, and as early as 1940, informed the Western Allies of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz atrocities. He escaped from the camp in 1943 and took part in the Warsaw Uprising. Executed in 1948 by the communists. Until 1989, information on his exploits and fate was suppressed by the communist regime.
ferdovit 3 years ago 17
It was acually Cyklon B gas, not cyanide.
henkestenke 3 years ago
Zyklon B gas is hydrogen cyanide (HCN)
alanheath 3 years ago
Ok, sorry...btw, was this cremactorium close to the hell´s gate? I can´t remember the scematics.
henkestenke 3 years ago
Both KII and KIII have solid, reinforced concrete pillars, not the hollow ones that are claimed.
LawrenceErnie 3 years ago
You clearly do not understand the difference between solid concrete support pillars and the hollow ones used to drop the gas.
alanheath 3 years ago
o matko
olka5134 3 years ago 2
This is refuted by the negative results of the examination of the control samples from living quarters, which are said to have been subjected to a single gassing, and the fact that in the period of fumigation of the Camp in connection with a typhoid epidemic in mid-1942 there were still no crematoria in the Birkenau Camp. The first crematorium (Crematorium II) was put to use as late as 15 March 1943 and the others several months later.
NOTE: Last two posts are quotes from the IFR Report 1994
napoleonbone 3 years ago 17
Leuchter (2) claims that the vestigial amounts of cyanide combinations detected by him in the materials from the chamber ruins are residues left after fumigations carried out in the Camp "once, long ago"(Item 14.004 of the Report).
napoleonbone 3 years ago 14
I was led to believe that the walls were tested for residue from the gassings but they yielded no results. Yet you describe the walls as being "absolutely lined with blue"?
andrewuk184 3 years ago 4
You should read, "A Study of the Cyanide Compounds Content In The Walls Of The Gas Chambers in the Former Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camps", which explains the testing methodology and also how Leuchter's fictional report was refuted. The revisionists deny the IFR report refutes Leuchter, but it does - literally!
napoleonbone 3 years ago 10
i alredy gone to auchwitz. all those germans were crazy
andrestui 3 years ago 7
nice vid mate....going next year with family to visit...
coxy99 3 years ago 6
ja jestem polakiem i wkurwia mnie jak sie mówi polskie obozy!! to sa niemieckie obozy na terenie polski!!
xXxBasikxXx 3 years ago 2
Nikt nie mowi o polskach obozach oprocz polski nationalistów. To jest buzdury od Radio Marii i podobnych.
alanheath 3 years ago
@alanheath see:Daily Mirror, Jan 05, 2008 - "before reaching the Polish camp".Liverpool Daily Post, Jan 05, 2008 - "parents were killed in a Polish death camp". Fayetteville Observer, Jan 09, 2008 - "Treblinka, the Polish death camp". Yorkshire Post, Feb 23, 2008 - "to visit the Polish death camp". The Post and Courier (Charleston Net), Mar 1, 2008 - "kill his mother in a Polish ghetto". BBC, Mar 7, 2008 - "Polish death camp". MK News, Mar 15, 2008 - "four Polish concentration camps"
mikinomiki 3 years ago
@alanheath Examples: Wall Street Journal, February 5, 1999. The Guardian, January 2005. Israeli Haaretz, June 21, 2005 and June 22, 2005. Toronto Star, September 21, 2005. The Vancouver Sun, September 30, 2005. Australian Jewish News, November 11, 2005. Balkanalysis - November 30, 2005. The New York Times, December 5, 2005. San Francisco Chronicle, January 1, 2006.German Die tageszeitung. Der Spiegel.Canadian Daily Gleaner.Garforth Today,Apr 2,2008-"the trip to the Polish camp".Variety,May6,2008
mikinomiki 3 years ago
Well done - you copied this out of Wikipedia. Now take it to the level of the sources and then come back and says that it says here that Poles were responsible. I took out a couple at random and it says nothing of the sort.
alanheath 3 years ago
Are you joking? see the "Daily Telegraph" wrote about "The Polish concentration camp in Majdanek" in its report on Erna Wallish. The Sun on 16.06.2008 of the article Soaking up atmosphere, The Nazi who sent 100s to death camps written by Brian Flynn, in which under a picture of John Demjanjuk the words Polish gas chambers. World History People and Nations (Holt, Rinehardt&Winston publishing company, 2000) page 729 use of the phrase Polish death camp. More: google.
mikinomiki 3 years ago
No I am not joking. The source was you. You provided a stack of references - I picked three at random and none of them referred to Poles being responsible for gas chambers or concentrations camps or anything. I read the Telegraph article and as far as I remember it said nothing of the sort either. I am a serious historian - I check facts to their source and not base them on someone's opinion. I do not have any of these articles to hand so I suggest you say where they are on the net.
alanheath 3 years ago
Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp(1940-1945)(Konzentrationslager Auschwitz in German),
in German-occupied Poland (1939-1945).
SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss -- 1940-1943,SS-Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel -- 1943-1944, SS-Sturmbannführer Richard Baer -- 1944-1945. The Final Solution (German: Die Endlösung), Zyklon B, Generalplan Ost, AB-Aktion, Operation Reinhard, Einsatzgruppen,Heydrich,Eichmann, SS,Gestapo,SA
SpitfirevsV2 3 years ago 7
Rudolph Hoss was called back into service at Birkeneau to deal specifically with the mass murder of an inteended 700,000 Hungarian victims in May 1944. Infact 450,000 were deported there before Horthy stopped it.
historicrecord 3 years ago 8
COOL!
shaddar666 3 years ago 5