What about the numerous photographs and footage taken
in the German concentration camps showing piles of emaciated
corpses? Are these faked?
57. What about the numerous photographs and footage taken in the
German concentration camps showing piles of emaciated corpses? Are
these faked?
The IHR says:
Photographs can be faked, yes. But it's far easier merely to add a
caption or comment to a photo or a piece of footage that does not tell
the truth about what that photo or film actually shows. Does a pile of
emaciated corpses mean that these people were "gassed" or
deliberately starved to death? Or could this mean that these people
were victims of a raging typhus epidemic or starved due to the lack of
food in the camps toward the end of the war? Pictures of piles of
German women and children killed in Allied bombing raids have been
passed off as dead Jews.
Nizkor replies:
It's strange that the IHR says that piles of dead bodies are not
evidence that the Nazis practiced genocide. In the original answer to
question 1,
they mention "piles of clothes" and imply that if there were
such things, they would indeed be proof. Piles of clothes are proof,
but piles of bodies are not?
We also see here the implicit claim that the Allied soldiers went and
collected dead Germans, brought them to the camps, and photographed them
there. Some evidence to back up this absurdity would be nice, but of
course there is none.
The many starved people are evidence that the Nazis did not make
feeding their prisoners a very high priority. At the
Belsen
camp, hundreds of tons of food were found locked up, just a few miles
away from where tens of thousands starved to death. See
question 37 for a bit more on this topic.
As for the homicidal gas chambers, there are other pieces of evidence
that point clearly to their existence and usage. See
question 1,
for starters.
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