Oh puhleeze. The Nazis did everything they could to keep the gassing of their victims secret so why would they take photos?
They even concocted a convoluted language full of code words to hide their actions (read "The Language of the Third Reich" by Klemperer)
- even they weren’t sick enough to actually record the gassings they carried out on film.
Actually, why have those you believe are behind what you think is the lies about the Holocaust not forged photographs that they could then claim to be the ultimate proof
of the gas chambers? You’re always proclaiming evidence has been faked - photos of mass murder by gassing would be the obvious thing to fake.
And yet there are no such photos. What a missed opportunity
If Friedrich Berg was better informed, he would have known that:
1) the bodies were all destroyed immediately upon removal from the gas chambers, incinerated either in crematoria or open air pits.
2) The SS was explicitly forbidden to take photographs of executions and hangings, or record them in their personal writings: the regime was
terrified that word of their actions would get out.
SS Lieutenant General Kruger signed a decree on 14th August 1940 stating that “any participation of spectators and photographing are forbidden”
General Otto Woehler Chief of Staff of the 11th Army and co-ordinator of Einsatzgruppe D threatened severe punishment for anyone who disobeyed:
“No photographs will be made of such abominable excesses and no report of them will be given in letters home. The production and distribution of such photographs
and reports on such incidents are looked upon as undermining the decency and discipline in the armed forces and will be severely punished. All existing photographs
and reports will be confiscated along with the negatives”.
In 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, Head of the Gestapo and SS, repeated this, ordering that “the taking of pictures are mass executions and requested the commanders
of the Order Police hunt for pictures, films or plates circulating among their own men”.
Some amateur photographers (when I have the time, I'll post the Sonderkommando photos) were sufficiently brave to ignore these rules, but to have taken photographs in such
a public location as the gas chambers would have been unthinkable.
I assume you're going to posted a few of these "countless" pictures?Posted by Cosmored (here)
Pictures of countless healthy prisoners in the same camps are generally not shown for reasons that are all too obvious.
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So true, Savannah.Posted by Savannah (here)
This thread seems very important now with what we are clearly seeing in the world today.