Survivor guilt
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They claim that 1.1 million people were killed in gas chambers by using a pellet based insecticide. Where are the piles of bodies, the ashes? And no, using Soviet accounts is not reliable.
Whatever "original claim"? Concentration camp was always the official name. Extermination camp was the unofficial name, the whole operation was secret. The official purpose was these were just transit camps in the "resettlement to the East". They were also told they were being sent to work.
The reason why Poland, besides the place that had most Jews in the world so logistic side was obvious, was that Poland (like I just mentioned in https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/12jJUaaUH1/x/c/4JAfAZNrtzc) just didn't exist at all anymore, and so it was a "black hole" where neither German nor any other laws applied.
(Actually the Americans later used a similar logic to set up the X-Ray Camp not anywhere on the American soil but at Guantanamo Bay in a legal loophole.)
In the USSR they needed no camps to rid of the Jews because they just either shot them or instigated the locals to pogroms. But they took many of the Soviet POWs to Poland in order to to kill them, including at the newly build Birkenau Camp that later became Auschwitz II (http://auschwitz.org/en/history/categories-of-prisoners/soviet-pows/).
No, they claim that 1.1 million people died at Auschwitz during the entirety of it's operation, in total. Gas Chambers, shootings, starvation, disease, etc.
Obviously the Soviet numbers aren't reliable, the did some 'back of the envelope' math and didn't even bother to consider maintenance windows, which is why the Camp Commandant of Auschwitz had to correct them at Nuremberg in his own trial.
Where's all the ash from my fire place?
I have a chimney. That's where a portion of it goes. The hotter I burn it, the less ash will be left over. For the remainder that I do have, I can literally just toss it out as fertilizer. Steel nails and all. The ash will get absorbed relatively quickly, and dispersed very easily.
I've been burning wood for decades. There are no visible ash piles anywhere on my property, good lord, why would there be. It snows and rains and ash is light.
If I really cared and wanted to bury it, I could do that too and really nothing would be damaged or altered.
On the hospitals: http://auschwitz.org/en/history/camp-hospitals/
The people who played football were the guards first of all, sometimes playing with the kapos (prisoners working as overseers, also wearing civilian clothing and well fed).
There was a water Reservoir, you don't swim in that.
They didn't have their own medical staff, there was small hospital, mainly used for the staff. National Socialists lived at Auschwitz.
There were hospitals (multiple, just like there have been many Auschwitz camps, including the 3 main camps). You either got better (enough to go back to the work) or were selected to be executed. Or just died there.
http://auschwitz.org/en/history/camp-hospitals/
Also Polish and other such prisoners weren't "planned to be gassed". If they were to be executed they would be either just shot or got a lethal injection, for routine methods, or publicly hanged in special cases (such as a failed escape attempt), or starved to death in an underground dungeon also in special cases (like famously in the case of Saint Kolbe who volunteered for such a death to take place of an another). Or the kapos were just casually told to beat them to death.
My family member was in one of Auschwitz camps. She wasn't any "political prisoner", she was taken as a teenage slave just to work in a factory.
funnier thing about gassing claims is even: it would been pretty much most expensive way to kill, and chambers are claimed to be so small you couldnt fit even kid inside
adding ofc, denying that jews werent treated as 2nd class citizen would be lunacy; to see why gotta understand pre-era to nazi regime, where jews were big on germanys banking and finances, when markets of germany crashed and most germans lost their income. during nazi regime for sure jews were evicted and their businesses were claimed out (most in hate due that great depression predating nazi regime) and some sure were killed too in camps; modern medicine owes pretty much all it has to nazi germany; beside that conditions on camp were sure bad, sickness running rampart and bodies were carted into furnace (gotta burn or at least bury bodies if you dont want even worse pandemic hitting place)
I guess they need to set the story straight on wikipedia then.
Did you read the one on GamerGate yet?
Yet you don't question the narratives that were set before you were born, only the ones you have lived to see.