This will probably piss off almost everyone reading this, but...

[marnen]

While reading some critical evaluations of whether the Third Wave experiment happened as described, I happened on a page arguing that there were no gas chambers in Nazi death camps. This is not a piece of Holocaust denial -- the writer of the article seems to think that most of the other details of the Holocaust are too well documented to be in any question -- but it does appear to be a well-reasoned, thoughtful job. If anyone can find holes in his arguments, I'd be interested to know what they are.

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Update, about 13 hours later: While I'm not withdrawing my post, I'm beginning to think I may have posted too soon. The article appears to have been less well thought out than I originally thought. That's what comes from posting on impulse in the wee hours of the morning...

Comments

[marnen.livejournal.com]

Millions of people were killed for no reason other than they believed something that wasn't EXACTLY the same as the people in power.

Nobody's disputing that -- at least, I'm not. But neither do I think that it is good to believe a falsehood. In other words: the Nazis did enough bad things that are well documented. It serves no purpose to attribute things to them that they did not do.

Did the Nazis build gas chambers? I'm not taking a side on that question at the moment. But I think that, like any other claim of that sort, it deserves careful investigation. The memory of the Nazis' victims would not be honored by anything less.