This hits me particularly hard today.
I was just talking to my mother about Holocaust deniers yesterday (unfortunately, I know one who is now a former friend - his choice) and she was talking about how her parents did not talk about her family's time in the labor camp because the memories were just too painful. She said my grandfather never mentioned it and my grandmother only talked about it once toward the very end of her life. My mother and aunt only started talking about it in the 1990s, although my aunt has only talked to me about it once - after I posed a direct question question - and then changed the subject.
My mother and her family were not in a death camp, but a slave labor camp in Poland. Nevertheless, enormous numbers of people died and they burned the piles of bodies in the open air. As a result, she has demanded that we not cremate her body when she dies, because they spent years trying to avoid that fate and she has seen too many burned bodies. She has no difficulty believing that the death camps were worse. There was no real concern for human life in the labor camps and for groups of people targeted by the Nazis, a death camp was a logical solution to the problem and only a degree or two more intense than what she and millions of others experienced. She emphasized that it was not only Jews who were targeted to die in the death camps, but political prisoners, homosexuals, Roma, Russians, Poles, political dissidents, religious leaders and influential people who did not support Nazism, etc.
She also mentioned that there are people who do make up false Holocaust stories - she ran into one in Houston about a year ago - and her story didn't add up. It was obvious to anyone who lived through the era. But just because there are a few vocal frauds doesn't mean that there are not tens of thousands of people still living who endured that horror.
I decided to watch Anderson's sickening video - sickening because of his lack of common sense, logic, and grasp of fundamental facts. He is repeating a bunch of discredited material and assuming that data on cremations in the modern civilian world that are designed to provide the ashes of a single person to a grieving family, can be used to analyze mass cremations where the goal in to dispose of bodies as quickly and efficiently as possible with no concern for keeping the ashes separate, protecting the environment, of keeping the process safe for the slave workers. Moreover, the greatest maintenance issue for ovens, kilns, furnaces, etc., is the wear caused by the expansion and contraction of the device due to heating and cooling when the oven is not in use. If the device is kept in near constant use, there is much less wear and tear and maintenance required.
In any case,
here is a link discussing the allegations that the furnaces could not have consumed as many bodies as is officially claimed.
I can't believe that he's still out there and teaching what he teaches.
