“ I commanded Auschwitz until 1 December 1943, and estimate that at least 2,500,000 victims were executed and exterminated there by gassing and burning, and at least another half million succumbed to starvation and disease, making a total dead of about 3,000,000. This figure represents about 70% or 80% of all persons sent to Auschwitz as prisoners, the remainder having been selected and used for slave labor in the concentration camp industries. Included among the executed and burnt were approximately 20,000 Russian prisoners of war (previously screened out of Prisoner of War cages by the Gestapo) who were delivered at Auschwitz in Wehrmacht transports operated by regular Wehrmacht officers and men. The remainder of the total number of victims included about 100,000 German Jews, and great numbers of citizens (mostly Jewish) from Holland, France, Belgium, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Greece, or other countries. We executed about 400,000 Hungarian Jews alone at Auschwitz in the summer of 1944.”
I know, he was probably lying because he wanted a noose around his neck.
Liberals bring foul mouths to Free Republic. They can't help themselves. Then they quote Nazi commanders to support their "truths." They can't help themselves with that, either. Finally, they misuse quotes, like you did. I already accept that some gassing was done with trucks and motor exhaust. I very specifically questioned the poison gas chambers only. That's it. A single mechanism of mass murder, not the fact of the mass murders of the holocaust. And for that, I get your mental vomit, and a quote which very carefully does NOT specify the percentage of "gassing," which could easily just mean the truck exhausts. Also, he says that two and a half million victims were executed BY "gassing and burning." But they didn't burn people alive in the camps - that's how they disposed of the bodies, right? So why didn't he say that those who died from starvation and disease were ALSO burned?
I'll tell you why - because he was a captured Nazi who signed what he was told to sign, and so your reference is meaningless because it makes no sense taken verbatim.
Ultimate here's what you're cursing me over, you collectivist filth-mouth - I am agreeing that million of Jews were murdered in the camps. I am merely disagreeing on the particular method of their murders, and saying that I believe they were killed like all of the rest of the murdered prisoners - through starvation, disease, overwork, hanging and shooting. Isn't that enough?!
Yet THAT is the big bad thing you literally curse me over. So why is it so important that the Jews were killed differently than everyone else? Isn't the killing the important part? Isn't that the heinous crime? Aren't the deaths of the millions of Slovacs - Poles, Ukranians, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Czechoslovakians, Turks, and everyone else just as horrific? Weren't their lives just as precious?
Crawl back to the hive and get more instructions.