re: #90 Sergey Romanov

Oh, sure. It’s the injection of “doubt” where there was none that pisses me off. It basically gives a cart blanche for prior denial (“So, there was doubt, we were right!”). The simple fact is that ~800,000 people entered the camp and never left, this is amply documented; the witnesses among the Nazis, survivors and bystanders all testified about extermination; the post-war investigation found lots of remains, including a thick layer of ashes between Treblinka I and Treblinka II. That the exact number of graves or their exact borders are not known is neither here, nor there.

Also, note that strictly speaking this is not a stake through denial’s heart. As I pointed out, the same results were obtained in Belzec, Chelmno and Sobibor, which didn’t sway the deniers. These finds won’t sway them too, since by “graves found” it is not meant that 800,000 corpses were found - those were incinerated and ashes scattered. The pits were found, along with some remains. It’s with the evidence enumerated above that this find is significant. Without this evidence we wouldn’t know how many people died there or who they were.

The evidence doesn’t fit their prejudiced view point and/or pet theories, therefore it doesn’t exist (or has been forged and placed there.)

Unfortunately no great surprise there. Does make me wonder a little bit what evolutionary advantage there is to willful denial of this degree since homo sapiens appears to be at least partially hardwired to doing this sort of thing.