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Ursprungligen postat av
Utopia.
Posten bör läsas i sin helhet, den är ganska lång och specifik. Jag skulle gärna höra förintelseförnekarnas svar på denna post (ingen ironi, är genuint intresserad)
Nu har jag ju visserligen inte sett till några "Förintelseförnekare" häromkring, men jag kan ju alltid ge min synpunkt som historieintresserad amatör och liberal och "kättersk" Holocaust-troende.
Det verkar krävas något slags registrering eller liknande för att man skall kunna läsa hela texten, så allt jag har sett är ditt urklippta citat. Men utgår man bara från det är ju den allra bästa vederläggningen att påpeka att påståendet om att ingen någonsin "förnekade Förintelsen" helt enkelt är en total lögn.

Ingen av de i den stora Nürnberg-rättegången åtalade huvudmännen bland nationalsocialisterna hade nämligen innan de arresterats hört talas om någon "Förintelse" av judenheten, annat än ibland genom fiendemakternas propagandasändningar i radion. (Vissa, till exempel Speer, blev dock sedan med tiden övertygade, eller påstod sig ha blivit det, av de "bevis" som rätten framförde.) Jag citerar ur boken
Interrogations av Richard Overy -- En garanterat koscher författare och allt annat än en fritänkande revisionist -- som beskriver förhören av de anklagade, sidor 178-9:
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Nothing was denied more vehemently in the interrogation rooms at Nuremberg than the persecution of the Jews . . . The major war criminals all denied that they had been involved directly in the persecution of the Jews. Many of them admitted openly that they had been anti-semitic, though few were willing to confess that they were still convinced anti-semites . . . But even those who remained loyal to the racist sentiments of the movement denied all knowledge of or responsibility for the policy of extermination. Alfred Rosenberg, whose Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories embraced geographically some of the chief locations of the Holocaust, was typical. Interrogated about his views on the Jewish question, Rosenberg admitted that he had always advocated a comprehensive anti-semitic policy . . . But when it was suggested to him a few minutes later that he bore some responsibility for the atrocities committed in the east, he refused not only to accept that he had anything to do with a policy which was 'in the hands of the police', but denied almost any knowledge of what the police were doing. The most he would admit to was having heard rumours that Jews were persecuted by the native Soviet population and 'that certain Germans had shot some Jews'. He denied all knowledge of the system of camps; he claimed to learn about the extermination of the Jews only from listening to foreign radio broadcasts.[7]
The other defendants sang the same refrain . . .
Ett utdrag ur ett förhör med riksutrikesminister von Ribbentrop den 10 september 1945:
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Q. Did you know that there were hundreds of thousands of people killed in concentration camps?
A. No, I certainly did not.
Q. That also is an astounding thing to me.
A. I can absolutely say 100 per cent clear [sic], that I did not . . .
Q. I grant you it is secret but you cannot have hundreds of thousands of people dying in concentration camps and not know.
A. Is that true, Colonel?
Q. I think it is conservative. I think millions is nearer.
A. I can't imagine that.
Q. There are lots of things you can't imagine. You have an education coming to you.
De två sista raderna är verkligen på pricken; både von Ribbentrop och de andra fick ju veta en väldig massa saker om bland annat "Förintelsen" i rätten som de som medlemmar i riksregeringen och överkommandot aldrig hade hört talas om medan den skall ha pågått, enligt egen utsago . . .
En revisionistisk sida som bekräftar detsamma som exterministen Overy villigt erkänner:
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v12/v12p167_Weberb.html
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Extermination denied
Along with the millions of people around the world who avidly followed the Nuremberg proceedings by radio and newspaper, the defendants themselves were shocked by the evidence presented to substantiate the extermination charge. Above all, the testimony of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and Einsatzgruppen commander Otto Ohlendorf made a deep impression. Contrary to what is often claimed or insinuated, however, the Nuremberg Tribunal defendants declared that they did not know of any extermination program during the war. /94 These men were, in a sense, the first "Holocaust revisionists."
The main Nuremberg defendant, Hermann Göring, who had been Hitler's second-in-command and designated successor during most of the Third Reich years, vehemently denied knowing of any extermination program during the war. "The first time I learned of these terrible exterminations," he exclaimed at one point, "was right here in Nuremberg." The German policy had been to expel the Jews, not kill them, he explained, and added that, to the best of his knowledge, Hitler did not know of any extermination policy either. /95
During a rare unguarded break between court sessions, fellow defendant Hans Fritzsche privately asked Göring about the truth of the extermination charge. The former Reichsmarschall solemnly assured Fritzsche that the accusation was not true. The Allied evidence for the charge, he insisted, was inaccurate or incomplete and totally contradicted everything he knew about the matter. In any case, Göring added, if there had been any mass killings, they certainly were not ordered by Hitler. /96
General Alfred Jodl, chief of the operations staff of the Armed Forces High Command, and probably Hitler's closest military adviser, gave similar testimony to the Tribunal. Responding to a direct question about this matter, he said: /97
I can only say, fully conscious of my responsibility, that I never heard, either by hint or by written or spoken words, of an extermination of Jews ... I never had any private information on the extermination of the Jews. On my word, as sure as I am sitting here, I heard all these things for the first time after the end of the war.
I fråga om att få ställde sig upp i rätten och protesterade mot påståendena finner detta sin tämligen uppenbara förklaring i domstolens skenheliga stadgar:
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/imtconst.asp
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Article 19.
The Tribunal shall not be bound by technical rules of evidence. It shall adopt and apply to the greatest possible extent expeditious and nontechnical procedure, and shall admit any evidence which it deems to be of probative value.
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Article 21.
The Tribunal shall not require proof of facts of common knowledge but shall take judicial notice thereof. It shall also take judicial notice of official governmental documents and reports of the United Nations, including the acts and documents of the committees set up in the various allied countries for the investigation of war crimes, and of records and findings of military or other Tribunals of any of the United Nations.
Det var alltså
inte tillåtet för de anklagade eller deras försvarare att bestrida av rätten etablerade "sanningar", och hade en gång en tribunal eller kommission bestämt något räckte det för att detta skulle anses hugget i sten. Inte heller krävdes bevis för vad som ansågs vara "allmänt känt" sedan tidigare, och det var upp till domstolen själv att helt godtyckligt avgöra vilka bevis den ville godkänna eller inte. Med sådana villkor var förstås domen given. Den som ville kunna hoppas på att komma undan med livet i behåll fick inte ifrågasätta de av skådeprocessen fordrade axiomen, utan gjorde istället bäst i att "spela med" samt ge sina medåtalade skulden för så många verkliga eller imaginära brott som möjligt. Precis som i de gamla häxprocesserna och inkvisitionsdomstolarna, eller för den delen skenrättegångarna mot högt uppsatta gammelbolsjeviker i Sovjetunionen på 1930-talet, var domstolen inte ute efter att förutsättningslöst söka reda på sanningen, utan enbart att bekräfta den Sanning som man redan hade bestämt var den som gällde.
Trots detta är även detta påstående som Quora-skribenten kommer med en
lögn.

Också i rätten bestreds ganska så friskt vederhäftigheten i främst vittnesmål och beedigade intyg. Rudolf Hess, till exempel, i sitt slututtalande innan domen föll:
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Some of my comrades here can confirm the fact that at the beginning of the proceedings I predicted the following:
(1) That witnesses would appear who, under oath, would make untrue statements while, at the same time, these witnesses could create an absolutely reliable impression and enjoy the best possible reputation.
(2) That it was to be reckoned with that the Court would receive affidavits containing untrue statements.
(3) That the defendants would be astonished and surprised at some German witnesses.
(4) That some of the defendants would act rather strangely: they would make shameless utterances about the Fuehrer; they would incriminate their own people; they would partially incriminate each other, and falsely at that. Perhaps they would even incriminate themselves, and also wrongly.
All of these predictions have come true, and as far as the witnesses and affidavits are concerned, in dozens of cases; cases in which the unequivocal oath of the defendants stands in opposition to the sworn statements of the former . . .
Mycket mer material kan postas, här hindras jag i praktiken endast av gränsen för hur stora inläggen får vara, som jag nu tangerar. Men det ovan framförda bör räcka för att visa att Quora-skribenten antingen blåljuger eller -- liksom de flesta dogmatiskt "Förintelse"-troende -- är djupt okunnig om vad som faktiskt sades under rättegångarna och i förhören.