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

[curlyeric.livejournal.com]

He is an asshat. It took all of about 3 minutes to find loads of documentation as to the use of, procedures for, testimonies of people involved, and why there is less documentation than other parts of the nazi regime. His "theory" does not explain any of the documentation that I found quickly and easily.

Info on operation of the gas chambers
http://www.nizkor.org/faqs/auschwitz/auschwitz-faq-06.html

Chemical used
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyklon_B

Testimonies
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/document/DocAusc2.htm

All in all his entire article reminds me of the anti-evolutionists that say an eye can not be evolved. While laying out documentation and theories that seem compelling to the uninformed, they do not stand up against even the smallest amount of scrutiny. While he claims not to be a revisionist, he is advancing revisionist causes by claiming a reasoned argument where no controversy exists in the historical community.

[marnen.livejournal.com]

Excellent; thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for (I didn't have a chance to do research before I posted, and today has been a busy day -- I was going to do this in the next day or two).

Assuming the references check out, these pretty well shoot Lyle Burkhard's argument all to hell.