"The same holds true for statements regarding the February 13-14, 1945 bombing of Dresden as, in addition to several other areas, many victims reported the occurrence of an Allied strafing attack that never happened, and several witness statements suggested the death toll lay significantly above 100,000 victims, even though the actual death toll has recently been revised to around 25,000." (p.348)slay the inhabitants of a city that has become idolatrous and burn that city. - 613 Mitzvots (Commandments)
Know that this Christian nation, who advocate the messianic claim, in all their various sects, all of them are idolators. - Maimonides, Mishnah Torah, Avodah Zara
I shouldn't have be surprised that prospective Righteous Gentiles HC waded in with some Dresden holocaust denial—athough the use of the word "victims" will not please Deborah Lipstadt.
The canonical Holocaust story claims the Nazis exhumed and cremated upto 200,000 corpses in just six weeks at Babi Yar. Yet 11 months after the attack on Dresden, it was estimated by Soviet military govenor Major General Dimitry Duorovski, that tens of thousands of corpses still remained buried in the ruins of the city.
HC are surely aware of David Irving's April 24, 2009 discovery in the Public Record Office, of the British intercept of the 5:55pm, March 24th, 1945 (ie over five weeks after the attack) encoded transmission from the Dresden police chief to SS Oberfuehrer Dietrichs. The message stated that 80,000 to 100,000 people are estimated to have been reported missing, of which, 9,720 had been confirmed as fatalities. Of course many victims of the Dresden holocaust would have had no-one left alive to have reported them missing, therefore the true number of missing persons/victims would have been substantially higher.
HC cite a March 2010 BBC News article ("hardly anything but a tertiary source") on the The Dresden Historians' Commission report, which was actually published in October 2008, and therefore the commission was unaware of this intercepted message. But, as we all know, it wouldn't have made the blindest bit of difference to their preplanned Dresden holocaust minimizing even if they had been.
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"Another Desbois interviewee, a peasant, explained that the commander of Belzec camp requisitioned his wheat and barley sorting machine. When he went back to collect his machine, after the deportations had finished, he found that ten such machines were being used to sift Jews' ashes." (p.358-9)
HC know full well there are two totally separate wheat and barley sorting machine tales in Father "SS weather/gassings reports" Desbois' book, but HC decided to only mention the one.
Not mentioned by HC is the one on pages 23/4, when the son of a farmer told Desbois a story of the Nazis requisitioning his father's horse, his father later going up to Belzec death camp to get his horse back, (and presumably being let in to the inner part of the camp) where he witnesses wheat and barley sorting machines being used to "ventilate the ashes" of cremated Jews "to find dental gold."
The story HC do mention is on page 154. Father Desbois describes meeting a peasant who was chopping wood when the camp commander requisitioned his wheat and barley sorting machine. He too later went up "to the camp door" of Belzec factory of death to get his machine back:
"The Germans opened the door and I went into the front room where 10 wheat sorters had been placed. Poor Jews had had to turn the handles of the machines. Instead of wheat, they were ventilating Jews' ashes."
Father Desbois (p.155) says: "That day, I decided to take back, in a van, three wheat sorters". I'm guessing that he didn't have to requisition them, I'd wager Father Desbois left Belzec with only three of the ten wheat sorters/ash ventilators he was offered by entrepreneurial residents of Belzec.
"At least three Polish villagers testified to the investigators of Belzec in 1945 that they heard about the test gassing at Belzec from the Trawnikis." (p.359)
Seeing that the BBC had been broadcasting news of Nazis gassing Jews to Europe since at least January 1942, tens of millions undoubtedly heard about it.
