Psych Warfare in WWII became Post War Propaganda turned History
In WWII there were 22 labor camps that have come to be called concentration camps or death camps. Of these 22 camps 16 were in Germany and 6 were in Poland. After the war ended the 16 camps located east of the Iron curtain were internationally inspected, the prisoners were liberated and conditions in the camps as in the rest of Germany were abysmal. People were emaciated, as there were food shortages. Many people had died from disease which is a natural side effect of extreme hunger. As the body wilts away the immune system drops and diseases one used to be able to fight can become lethal. There were however no homicidal gas chambers. This did not stop the American OSS (Later called the CIA) from trying to fake one. At Dachau a camp originally created to house anti-Nazi Germans, the Americans built a large crematory. It had not been there during the war. The rumors of gas chambers in the Polish camps were spreading. However, this effort failed as America soldiers had taken before and after photographs. The press was free enough to debunk this deception before it took root
In the East the Soviets also reconstructed or some would say simply constructed, a gas chamber at Auschwitz. Upon inspection it is clear that the building once had internal walls and toilets and these were simply removed to create one large room. Holes were also put in the ceiling and a chimney, purely for show that is not even attached to the building, was created adjacent to it
Of all the other 5 camps in Poland, none of them have any and there is no physical evidence of any gas chambers. This has caused people to doubt the veracity of the homicidal gas chamber claims. Also clams about gas chambers disguised as showers, such as at Majdanek which actually has showers hooked to water wells, and no traces of Zyclon B in the shower rooms or any other rooms other and a clothing delousing chamber, further cast doubt on the story. A list of obvious exaggerations also cast doubt on the war time rumors. There were alleged shock chambers, steam chambers, death by a roller coaster that led to an oven, death by freezing in a giant refrigerator, death by an electrocuted pool, death by felling trees, gas vans, being fed to a bear and an eagle, claims of rivers of blood, and all manner of objects made from human body parts most infamously the skin lampshades, human soap, human hair stuff mattresses, which apparently is why prisoners got haircuts, not to prevent lice but because German women wanted to sleep on lice filled mattresses stuff with human hair. There were shrunken heads, human pelvis ashtrays, and an array of paraphernalia displayed by the OSS to German citizens post War as part of a de-Nazification program. It was and is propaganda. The props were not authentic; they built off of war time rumors. So the question becomes where is the line? Just because some things were rumors doesn’t mean that everything was. Likewise just because some atrocities were real doesn’t mean any and all claims of horror are true no matter how farfetched
A huge problem is that questioning ANY aspect of the Holocaust is illegal in most European countries and will cause one and has caused people to be put in prison. Making a Historical event illegal to question has also caused more doubt not less about the event. There are some people motivated for a love of Hitler or even actual anti-Semitism that simply won’t believe an extermination plan existed and will not believe in homicidal gas chambers regardless of nonphysical evidence like witness testimonies, no matter what because it does not fit their world view. There are far more people however who will not doubt homicidal gas chambers and six million deaths no matter what because of a hatred of Hitler and Nazism which strongly stems from the belief in the Holocaust. In this way the atrocity propaganda is self enforcing because if it is believed for even a second then it become impossible to doubt because, in the mind that person, doubting such a thing makes them a Nazi and the Nazis did this horrible thing. In a way it can be like believing a religion because of the fear of Hell. One has to already be religious to fear Hell since the concept of Hell is also part of that religion. What it does though is it keeps those of the faith from straying. It’s atrocity/fear propaganda with cyclical enforcement
It does not make on e a Nazi to doubt, question, or even reject war propaganda claims about Nazi Atrocities. It also does not make one anti-German to believe the propaganda. If the Holocaust narrative is 100% true then what is the evidence. If it is not then why and how did it come to be that so many people believe it anyway?
Two authors stationed in America and Japan, places where it is not yet illegal to explore these questions have complied the works of many researchers as well as primaries sources form the 1930-80s that cast light on this
