Scott Smith wrote:None of this makes discrimination and atrocities "better," but the murder-factory thesis needs to be revised.
Why so, Mr. Smith?
Have you found evidence that, say, the 1,274,166 Jews from the General Government who arrived at Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka and Lublin-Maidanek until 31.12.1942, according to Höfle's message to Heim of 11 January 1943, ended up somewhere else than in the mass graves of these camps?
The document as intercepted and translated by the British decoding service at Bletchley Park, courtesy of Charles Bunch:
13/15. OLQ de OMQ 1005 83 234 250
State Secret!
To the Senior Commander of the Security Police [and the Security Service], for the attention of SS Obersturmbannfuhrer HEIM, CRACOW.
Subject: fortnightly report Einsatz REINHART.
Reference: radio telegram therefrom.
recorded arrivals until December 31, 42,
L [Lublin] 12,761,
B [Belzec] 0,
S [Sobibor] 515,
T [Treblinka] 10 335 [,]
together 23 611
sum total…[as per] December 31, 42,
L 24 733,
B 434 508,
S 101 370,
T 71 355, read: 713 555]
together 1 274 166
SS and Police Leader Lublin, HOFLE, Sturmbannfuhrer
Scott Smith wrote:As far as Genocide, it largely depends on whose ox is being gored.
Not at all. It is clearly defined in the 1948
Convention on thePrevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide:
Article 2
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Source of quote:
http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html
Scott Smith wrote:Hamburg and Hiroshima were also holocausts. The victims were "selected" because they were Germans and Japanese.
No, they were killed in military actions aimed at forcing their governments to surrender, and the killing stopped as soon as that surrender had been accomplished.
Whose surrender would have stopped the Nazi slaughter of Jews and other undesirables, Mr. Smith?
