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Evidence from the Holocaust




Evidence from the Holocaust

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US Army staffers organizing stacks of German documents collected by war crimes investigators as evidence for the International Military Tribunal.
US Army staffers organizing stacks of German documents collected by war crimes investigators as evidence for the International Military Tribunal.
— National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.
HOW WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW

"The purpose of the Nuremberg trial was not merely, or even principally, to convict the leaders of Nazi Germany ... Of far greater importance, it seemed to me from the outset, was the making of a record of the Hitler regime which would withstand the test of history."
—Robert Storey, head of the US prosecution team
The goals of the International Military Tribunal (IMT) transcended verdict and punishment. The creators of the court were deliberately assembling a public record of the horrific crimes committed by Germans during World War II, including those of the Holocaust. American chief prosecutor Robert Jackson worried that "unless record was made … future generations would not believe how horrible the truth was."
In order to avoid any accusation of exclusive reliance on personal testimony, which later generations might perceive to be biased, prosecutors decided to base their case primarily on thousands of documents written by the Germans themselves. These masses of documents were translated into the court's four official languages, analyzed for their significance, and reproduced for distribution to defense attorneys and other trial participants. The prosecution presented other evidence through artifacts, diagrams, and photographs taken by Nazi photographers in concentration camps.
Nineteen investigative teams scoured German records, interviewed witnesses, and visited the sites of atrocities to build the case.
Eyewitness testimony presented at the Nuremberg trials laid the foundation for much of what we know about the Holocaust including details of the Auschwitz death machinery, atrocities committed by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units), the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto, and the original statistical estimate of six million murdered Jews.

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Encyclopedia Last Updated: May 11, 2012

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Encyclopedia Last Updated: May 11, 2012

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The holocaust was a hoax and the trials were a farce. The holohoax was disproven years ago. Stop continueing the lie and do some research on the subject before placing this type of misinformation on your site

Anonymous said...

Why is it that some just cannot process TRUTH - well documented TRUTH? How is it that well documented facts, photos, testimonies, bones, ashes, massive graves, rooms of torture, barracks to house thousands at a time, brick ovens, operating rooms where 'experiments' were conducted on unwilling victims, striped pajamas, showers with holes in the ceilings where the gas canisters were dropped down on the people locked inside and gassed them to death, military records of the Nazis listing details of all those they murdered, government records of the vaults and bank accounts of personal belongings the Nazis stole from the victims, Jewish seniors who are still alive with their numbers and stars still deeply tattooed in their skin, concentration camp detailed records of the deaths of those they murdered as recorded by the Nazis, records of the Russians and Americans stating and photographing what they saw at these death camps, and much more can be labeled as a 'hoax' and can be 'disproven'? You deniers - you are the ones who are espousing outright LIES due to your own personal murderous hatred - unfounded hatred of the "Jews" - those descendants of the Tribe of Judah from which Jesus Christ/Yeshua Himself was descended. These who have done NOTHING to you or yours could not possibly deserve such hatred. You who continually voice such hatred and espouse such lies are openly and blatantly displaying from whom you descend and whom you serve - satan the father of lies. There is no way to conduct an intelligent conversation with such hatred, for that hatred blinds your eyes and blocks your hearing. The day will come when this hatred will be turned back on you, and then we will see who will scream that your sufferings are not a 'hoax.' May God have mercy upon you where you have NONE for others.