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Real0ne -> RE: Antisemiticism on the collarme boards. (1/23/2013 9:02:28 AM)
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
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Given the dichotomy between the very complex nature and history of Auschwitz and the habit of many to consider the camp only as a "top-secret mass extermination center," many people, including bona-fide historians, survivors, and not so bona-fide holocaust deniers, often commit the fallacy of composition: they reason from the properties of the part of Auschwitz that was engaged with mass extermination to the properties of Auschwitz as a whole. A favourite example of the negationists is the so-called swimming pool in Auschwitz I. They argue that the presence of a swimming pool, with three diving boards, shows that the camp was really a rather benign place, and therefore could not have been a center of extermination. They ignore that the swimming pool was built as a water reservoir for the purpose of firefighting (there were no hydrants in the camp), that the diving boards were added later, and that the pool was only accessible to SS men and certain privileged Aryan prisoners employed as inmate-funcionaries in the camp. The presence of the swimming pool does not say anything about the conditions for Jewish inmates in Auschwitz, and does not challenge the existence of an extermination program with its proper facilities in Auschwitz II.
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Now for the deniers, where did the millions of bodies in all the mass graves at the concentration camp come from? Movie industry special effects?
lets stick with the pools and other entertainment at the camps we can talk about bodies some other time. One thing at a time.
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The German-Australian revisionist Frederick Toben has brought to our attention the fact that today, beside the swimming pool at Auschwitz I, there stands a signboard bearing, in Polish, English and Hebrew, a notice intended to have the visitor believe that the pool was in fact a simple reservoir for the fire brigade. It reads as follows:
"Fire brigade reservoir built in the form of a swimming pool, probably in early 1944."
He asks when exactly this signboard appeared. I myself have no idea but the inscription is just as fallacious as any number of the Auschwitz museum's other allegations or explanations. One fails to see why the Germans, rather than settling for an ordinary reservoir, would have made one in the fashion of a swimming pool... complete with diving board.
The pool was a pool. It was meant for the detainees.
Marc Klein mentions it at least twice in his 1947 recollections of the camp. In an article entitled 'Auschwitz I Stammlager' he wrote:
"The working hours were modified on Sundays and holidays, when most of the kommandos were at leisure. Roll call was at around noon; evenings were devoted to rest and to a choice of cultural and sporting activities. Football, basketball, and water-polo matches (in an open-air pool built within the perimeter by detainees) attracted crowds of onlookers. It should be noted that only the very fit and well-fed, exempt from the harsh jobs, could indulge in these games which drew the liveliest applause from the masses of other detainees." (De l'UniversitÈ aux camps de concentration: Telmorgnages strasbourgeois, Paris, les Belles-lettres, 1947, p. 453).
In his 1948 booklet 'Observations et reflexions sur les camps de concentration nazis' he further wrote:
oh and incidently they did have reservoirs and guess what?
They looked like reservoirs.
any wonder so many people have talked so snarky about it?
The kind of fraud seen that generates anti [add whatever here]
The way I see it we are in an internet information world and no amount of orwellian shuffle can hide the facts.
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