Irving in Birkenau - the watch towers

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Visit of David Irving to former Nazi death camp of Birkenau. Here he finds that the watchtowers overlooking the unloading ramps do not appear to be in the photographs taken by the SS of prisoners arriving to be murdered.

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[SamLuvsJamesDean]

Alan, I noticed also that a boxcar on display on the railway lines isn't visible. They must have just put it which is why We can't see it in this video. They must have just added it years after you visited Auschwitz.

[alanheath]

@SamLuvsJamesDean That must be something new. I have not been there since August 2008. There are box cars on display at other places such as Mittelbau Dora, Stutthof and Radegast.

[SamLuvsJamesDean]

@alanheath I understand now! Thank you. I ask this because I remember seeing a black and white photograph of people going into the camps and watch towers were visible. So the watch towers that are still standing were those use during war?

[alanheath]

@SamLuvsJamesDean Those on the perimeter are permanent ones. Those alongside the lines were temporary and could be moved around if needed.

I have a photograph of temporary guard towers used by the DDR on a film about the Inner German Border at Marienborn - Helmstedt.

[SamLuvsJamesDean]

Alan, the watch towers i'm confused about. Are you concluding that there were no watch towers during the time Auschwitz was in use? Because I'm pretty sure watch towers were there. Guards would watch over prisoners and deportations on the watch towers inside the camp. So that I'm confused about.

[alanheath]

@SamLuvsJamesDean There are two types of watch tower - permanent and temporary - the same principle was used on the DDR border. The permanent ones can be seen in other films. Temporary ones may have been used when large numbers of people were coming in although clearly they are not there all the time. Certain photographs were taken by the SS from a height too. What we see here is inside the camp - not on the perimeter of it.

[llewesa]

Maybe the real problem is the passage of time and decay.T he irony is that Auschwitz is now a very non threatening place of remembrance i.e everyone who enters can leave unmolested. There isn't the smell of burning flesh and smoking chimineys anymore and whatever else.Therefore its very easy for people to dismiss the whole situation as propaganda.What lay beyond that gate was very real for the people concerned .Irving wouldnt have had time to consider the situation at the time i think.awful !

[llewesa]

Hi Alan; this is very interesting and intimate; i feel like i am there almost; i notice a peculiar sound and anomaly after irvings rude remarks;paranormal activity?; it has been reported apparently.photos ; video etc.What is so scary about the place is that is so nondescript.I will watch the rest now.

[SamLuvsJamesDean]

@alanheath Ok I understand now. Thank you Alan. For clearing that up. I was confused about that for awhile and been asking everywhere. I should just asked you a long time ago. At least I got my answer now. Thanks again!

[merseywhogirl]

Hi Alan, as far as I am aware, Dr Wladislaw Dering is the only prisoner that I'm aware of who was released from Auschwitz I to work at Clauberg's clinic which I believe was in Vienna. Of course, he was a notorious character - who castrated dozens if not hundreds of Jews. Jack Oran (Yakov Skurnik) talks about him in his book. I, too, am not aware of anyone being released from Birkenau, at least not in my research!

[alanheath]

@PompeyNaziWatch Are you sure that really happened though? There is no mention in archival material that I could find - although Schindler's List was very accurate from a historical point of view (there are some very minor mistakes, so small I cannot recall them now).

[PompeyNaziWatch]

Only 300 ever left alive - those women in 1944 on Oscar Schindler's "list".