Some threads in this section that deal with the Holocaust in the Crimea include the following:Well if it is a well established fact, I can assure that it was well established by other documents, not this.
Mass grave of fascism victims found in Crimea
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=47302
The Wiking Division, The SS-Ahnenerbe and Einsatzgruppe D
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... &p=1269815
"Die 11. Armee und die "Endlösung" 1941/42: Eine Dokumentensammlung mit Kommentaren"
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... &p=1192741
I don’t have to do anything, as I didn’t write the book.You must show the correct sources if you make a schollarly work.
What I am saying is
a) It is a caption to a scan of a document on page 134
b) “Zu den akten” is mistranslated as “Juden Aktion” - yes that is an error. However, if the document is a list of security operations done the week of March 17, 1942, and the handwritten annotations document ethnic cleansing operations, then that mitigates things a bit.
c) Not all author’s get to write the captions in their books.
d) Errors happen. I just finished Lizzie Collingham’s [The Taste of War and found it absolutely brilliant - a must read book on WWII. In it on page 185, she mistakenly refers to “Florian Geyer” as an individual SS soldier as opposed to a honor title for the 8th SS Division. Is it a mistake? Definitely. Does it torpedo her work and make the book worthless? No.
You’re welcome to read his section on the German occupation (p.217 onwards) and check his footnotes and sources. If you find more errors, post them here! You could also consider contacting Robert Forczyk or Osprey Publishing and alert them to the error. Many authors publish errata, notes and additional commentary on their websites about their published works.As you say, "a well established fact"; it can´t be too much difficult then, to put the right documents.
I dunno - this seems to be protesting too much, especially since Forczyk seems to be a pretty respected author and extremely knowledgeable about the 1941-45 Crimean theater of war.And please, this in not an error in a picture caption, it´s a whole paragraph explanation, a very biased interpretation of the document and a misguided interpretation.
I am sympathetic to the scrutiny under which Holocaust historians are subject to, with doubter and deniers eager to pounce on every possible error or discrepancy. However, I don’t think one wrong caption in a book puts the entire Holocaust in the Crimea into doubt.It`s a well established fact (with the right documents) that the nazis kill jews and other people during WWII but you can´t try to prove this with documents that not prove that. With this conduct you only give the neonazis and argument that you are a liar and that you use documents that don´t prove nothing.