Holocaust Evidence

WARNING:  SOME OF THE LINKS IN THIS CHAPTER, PARTICULARLY THE VIDEO CLIPS, DEPICT (OR DISCUSS) WAR-RELATED TOPICS AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.  PROCEED WITH CAUTION.

Recognizing some people will simply not believe an atrocity occurred unless they see evidence of it themselves, commanders like General Patton insisted that neighbors of concentration camps observe the evidence:

• After Patton and his troops liberated Buchenwald, German citizens of nearby Weimar were forced to view the results of Nazi crimes against humanity.


• German civilians were also made to walk past a group of thirty Jewish women starved to death by SS troops during a 300-mile march across Czechoslovakia.


• Eight hundred concentration camp workers were murdered by SS guards near Namering, Germany. A German girl is overcome by the sight as she, and others, view the evidence of their leaders' misdeeds.

When the camps were liberated, many survivors were barely alive.

• People, nearly dead from starvation at Ebensee, Austria, were kept at a camp reportedly used for "scientific experiments."


• Prisoners of Mauthausen, near Hitler's Austrian hometown of Linz, welcome Cavalrymen of the 11th Armored Division.

Evidence of Hitler's intent to kill people, and the staggering results of those efforts (including his corrupting influence on the country's legal system), are hard to believe. Given the enormity of Nazi barbarism, and the abundant proof of  heinous deeds at places like Auschwitz, it is incomprehensible to think anyone could deny what happened.

Yet, it is possible to deny (or disguise) many things. Even Hitler masked his own debilitating illness: Parkinson's Disease.