Edit- Let's say, for example, that they were making mass graves. Last year, using the newest equipment, I excavated 4 trenches that are 3' deep, 10' wide and 200' long. It took almost 2 days per trench. That was in an open field where we didn't have to remove any trees. I don't know if you've been to Germany, but it's heavily treed. It's absolutely agreed that there were not enough ovens to have cremated all of the bodies and mass graves have been located, so we simply know for a fact that not all of the murdered Jews were cremated. That means that a lot of trees had to be removed and a lot of earth had to be moved, and that takes time, manpower and resources. Diesels (edit- I mean in heavy equipment) back then were not nearly as efficient as they are now, and Germany had resource problems. I'm just sayin'.
The thing is that most people just want to accept what they have been told without ever actually looking at the numbers. I'm a numbers guy. This is not a new concept, or something I saw on a conspiracy website, this stuff occurred to me when I was a kid in high school back in the 1970's and was learning about that period in history. The numbers just never made sense to me.
However, the fact is that whatever the actual numbers, it was horrific and that's where people want to leave it. They don't care if it was 1 million or 6 million, it was a genocide and nothing about what happened should questioned, and if you do question it you are an anti-Semite, a holocaust denier, a heretic and a hater in general. Whatever.
There never were (and never will be) exact numbers. The estimations are based on a number of factors. The Nazi's own records, witness statements, and survivor stories all played into it.
As far as resources go, they didn't require heavy equipment to dig mass graves, they had slave labor to do that. Give a thousand people shovels and shoot a couple of slow diggers, and you can get a motivated workforce. The weak/starved/sick ones were the first ones in the hole. When they ran out of places to dig, or wood to burn, they just piled them up and left them to rot.
I caught that. My point still stands.
Edit- Let's say, for example, that they were making mass graves. Last year, using the newest equipment, I excavated 4 trenches that are 3' deep, 10' wide and 200' long. It took almost 2 days per trench. That was in an open field where we didn't have to remove any trees. I don't know if you've been to Germany, but it's heavily treed. It's absolutely agreed that there were not enough ovens to have cremated all of the bodies and mass graves have been located, so we simply know for a fact that not all of the murdered Jews were cremated. That means that a lot of trees had to be removed and a lot of earth had to be moved, and that takes time, manpower and resources. Diesels (edit- I mean in heavy equipment) back then were not nearly as efficient as they are now, and Germany had resource problems. I'm just sayin'.
The thing is that most people just want to accept what they have been told without ever actually looking at the numbers. I'm a numbers guy. This is not a new concept, or something I saw on a conspiracy website, this stuff occurred to me when I was a kid in high school back in the 1970's and was learning about that period in history. The numbers just never made sense to me.
However, the fact is that whatever the actual numbers, it was horrific and that's where people want to leave it. They don't care if it was 1 million or 6 million, it was a genocide and nothing about what happened should questioned, and if you do question it you are an anti-Semite, a holocaust denier, a heretic and a hater in general. Whatever.
There never were (and never will be) exact numbers. The estimations are based on a number of factors. The Nazi's own records, witness statements, and survivor stories all played into it.
As far as resources go, they didn't require heavy equipment to dig mass graves, they had slave labor to do that. Give a thousand people shovels and shoot a couple of slow diggers, and you can get a motivated workforce. The weak/starved/sick ones were the first ones in the hole. When they ran out of places to dig, or wood to burn, they just piled them up and left them to rot.
That's too depressing to think about. Fuck.