Why do many WW II pix from the liberating armys show Hilter internment camp survivors in fairly decent health?

Question

I'm not concerned if the christian people running the site to the following link are anti semite or not, i'm concerned that if the photos are real, then everyone in the 3 camps listed (Aschwitz, Duchar, Belson) were not starving, beaten, and being readied for some gas chamber, correct?

http://christianparty.net/dachau.htm

I am picking up books and reading. That's why when some people throw out 6 million people of jewish faith where exterminated, i don't accept it blindly.

S. Wiesnthal ? stated in 2 books (1975? & 1990?) that there were no extermination camps locating on German soil. So if a great nazi hunter says there's were no extermination camps on German soil - he might know what he's talking about?

Here's 1 for u. Is a Soc Sec # required to work in America? If u answered yes, ur completely wrong. Write the Soc Sec Admin urself - they're tell u. My point is, people hav believed the SSN is mandatory for 70 yrs - when in fact it's voluntary. I work w/o 1.

These detainees arrived wks before the liberation?? The trains were in complete ruin.

Answer 1

This is another in your series of Holocaust denying "questions." The other was why did the Jewish World Congress declare war on Germany. Um. where is the Jewish World Congress located, have they passed any recent laws, how many tanks, guns and planes dd they have with which to wage war on Germany?
As far as the photos you reference on the "you don't care if it's an antisemitic site," try German civilians as your likely answer. Want 8,500+ photos showing starved, beated, gas chambered people----try the U.S. Army War college photo collection.

Answer 2

Well is there some reason, or better yet some data you could point out, that would support your thesis that the people shown in these photographs would not ultimately have shared the same deadly fate of the many Jews who were starved, beaten, shot by a firing squad, or gassed to death?

Couldn't these Jewish detainees have arrived just in the past few weeks or even days before liberation? Wouldn't some of these people have been administrative flunkies for the Nazis who ran these death camps and thus received a little bit more food and a little bit more rest than thos who were being worked to death?

Your question suggests you believe that if some death camp survivors did not look like death warmed over at the time they were liberated then Hitler's final solution was perhaps only a partial solution? Or maybe you are suggesting that these photos are evidence that some Nazi death camp commanders had a heart? What conclusion do you think that these photographs support if it isn't one or both of the suggestions I think probably appeals to you?

Answer 3

The photos cannot be real. The people in those three camps you listed-were starving, beaten, and worked half to death. This does very well sound like the kind of thing an Antisemite, a holocaust denier, or even the Nazis themselves would put up. Do not believe everything you see. It's ridiculously easy to tamper with a photograph. Do not believe everything you read. More importantly, do not believe what you find on the Internet unless you have found a reliable source. Sorry to sound so uptight, but frankly, I'm sick of these people.

Answer 4

I would probably question those photos. In the first photo many of the civilians there are wearing there own clothes, when it is fully known that when the Jews arrived at the camps they were stripped of all personal belongings. Secondly not all the members of concentration camps spent a lot of time there. Some people were apprehended in the later part of the war and sent to the camps right before their liberation. Also many Jews and Slavic people worked as slave laborers in German factories and other wartime efforts. Only when Hitler and the Nazi regime realized the war was turning badly for them did they begin to move those people into the camps, thereby replacing the Jews with actual Germans in the factories.

Answer 5

If you investigated further into this web site, you would find, among other lies, that the Holocaust was a hoax -- a claim supported by dubious statistics and false reasoning.

One reason people in a picture purporting to be "pix from liberating armies" may appear to be in "good health" is that a starch-heavy diet can give the appearance of good health. There were also a couple of "model" concentration camps that were used as PR by the Nazis to show that they were treating the inmates well. Again, appearances were deceiving.

The Holocaust is one of the most well documented episodes in history, and selected references/pix from an obviously biased source should be treated with the disdain it deserves.

Also, even if the the photos are real, and actually taken as indicated, your conclusion that "everyone in the 3 camps... were not starving, beaten..." is based on faulty logic. A couple of dozen people apparently in decent health is too small a sample size to generalize about the hundreds of thousands of people who did not survive the death camps.

Answer 6

Sorry, but I've been to Dachau and I've seen the pictures and videotapes the Nazis themselves took and then left at the camps. It was absolutely NOTHING like the images shown here. Why wouldn't the children look happy? After months (or possibly years) of starvation and slave labor, they're finally freed from their captors. Couldn't you compare their joy with a person freed from prison who was wrongly convicted? Should people be sad that they're free from imprisonment? If survivors were in "fairly decent health" why did so many die because the liberators gave them food? Their bodily functions had been so suppressed because of undernourishment that their bodies went into shock. If you're going to question anything at all about the Holocaust, question why those living in towns and villages less than a mile away from labor camps didn't notice what was happening? Many extremist groups claim the Holocaust never happened, or try to discount the severity of it. They are wrong.

Answer 7

Oh, now this is just ludicrous! Please provide a link that does not come from some lunatic Christian fringe website. I have seen photographs of those camps and they are as horrible as it can get. Bodies piled up like stacks of wood. People on line to take their "showers" which turned out to be gas chambers. Why are you doing this? How can you live with yourself when you have such hatred in your heart? I certainly hope you are not a Christian yourself. Jesus would be horrified at you!

Edit: All six of the Nazi extermination camps were in Poland! No one ever said they were in Germany!

Answer 8

i dont think you are a antisemite bc i dont know you well enough. I think that you are just stupid. learn your history! Ashwitz was one of the worset camps of all. pictures of the victims are straving and living skeletons. brusied. the pictures that you have seen are clearly a fake. Ever seen Normandy thats where the generals admitted what they did and that included those 3 camps. pick up a book and read and dont let yourself be a victim of someone who doesnt want to admit things reality.