Posted on 12/29/2023 8:55:02 AM PST by MNDude
Anne Frank’s step sister, Eva Schloss, tells @piersmorgan on Good Morning Britain that the Auschwitz Liberation was faked with photographers and actors.
Two flags were raised that day: The first one was raised right after the brunt of the heavy fighting up Mt. Suribachi; A second, larger flag replaced the original one after a higher-up on one of the boats offshore demanded he wanted the flag. Rosethal’s photo was of the raising of the replacement flag.
“And the walking skeletons were still there at that later time?”
Seriously. I know Christian Bale went full skeletal once for his role in The Machinist, but it’d really be something if hundreds of concentration camp “actors” pulled off the same trick in 1945.
Yes, the headline was poorly written
Yes, it were.
“And the walking skeletons were still there at that later time?”
The soviets always had walking skeletons available.
The video was short, so I watched it.
What I got out of the video was that she was there in Auschwitz when it was liberated by the Soviets. At that time, there was snow on the ground (at least one foot).
Later, the Soviets realized that they should have taken pictures, so they did what was basically a recreation of what happened using actors. There was no snow.
The liberation did happen (she was there), but the pictures were done later.”
This is a good summary of what she said. I do not doubt that many people in Auschwitz were exterminated by the Nazis. My guess is the actual liberation would have looked a lot more horrific than what this recreation shows.
I do have a problem with governments and media recreating historical events and representing it as the actual event. Certainly many people in Gaza die in any conflict they have with Israel, but they often feel it is necessary to recreate the photographs or videos because they didn’t have a camera exactly where they wanted it to be.
I agree.
If it is a recreation, then it should be labeled as a recreation.
He’s Geraldo Rivera will a posh accent.
Soviets did the same with Stalin’s speech at Red Square during the October Revolution Parade as the Germans were poised just outside Moscow.
The speech happened, but they filmed it after the fact.
Also, many of Churchill’s speeches that you hear are not the real thing, but he re-recorded them years after.
“If it is a recreation, then it should be labeled as a recreation.”
Lol.
You would be fired from every Ministry of Propaganda on the planet.
Most of history is a lie—and most of the rest of it is only a partial truth.
Everybody has an agenda and a narrative to push.
Everybody.
I believe the “We will fight them on the beaches” speech was recorded later because they didn’t record Parliament meetings
Correct. And I must admit, it sounded like Churchill was sloshed when he recorded it.
It was the Soviets. You better believe what they tell you.
Soviets also said that the Germans committed the Katyń massacre.
I have a relative who is a Holocaust denier. I said if the Jews were “resettled” and not murdered, why were they never heard of again?
My dad saw both flags go up and he quipped “A dozen generals and a dozen admirals will have that flag by tomorrow”
I visited Buchenwald in 1977. The Soviet staff showed us a film showing only Soviets liberating the camp. According to history, the US liberated Buchenwald.
If they falsified history for one camp, it’s no surprise they did it for another.
LOL.
The Twitter user is at fault for that.
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As to pictures and more, Eisenhower did order the US to make documentation for a very good reason. Also....
"A Soviet Jewish soldier-artist, Zinowy Tolkachev, made his own documentary record of the atrocity. The many sketches that he made in the liberated camp were published in albums in Poland, Israel, and the USSR after the war."
Source: https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/liberation/day-of-liberation/
Additional source: https://www.history.com/news/auschwitz-liberation-soviets-holocaust
Were pix which Eva Schloss saw in another display mislabeled? Could be. Doesn't change the reality of the National Socialist atrocities.
Best wishes.
I visited Buchenwald in 1977. The Soviet staff showed us a film showing only Soviets liberating the camp. According to history, the US liberated Buchenwald.
Edward R. Murrow did a famous broadcast about Buchenwald.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlhQvPfYSXk
The US did capture some of the territory in what was to become the Soviet Zone of Germany, before they had to turn it over to the Soviets.
The Soviets turned it into an NKVD Camp after the war.
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