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Nyet12/04/2011 7:03:32 am PST

So I decided to see what the Pink Swastika has to say about the camps. Among other things:

At Auschwitz, for example, Kapo
Ludwig Tiene became the most prolific mass murderer of all time
by strangling, crushing and gnawing to death as many as 100 boys
and young men a day while he raped them (ibid.:143).

Now, I know Auschwitz history quite well, but this is the first time I’ve heard about this particular alleged monster. Google search showed that this whole claim is based on some of KaTzetnik’s stories (and KaTzetnik, AKA Yehiel Dinur, was basically a crazy guy without credibility). More shocking is that even the Conservapedia gets it right!
conservapedia.com

Cameron also makes the oft-repeated claim that an “Auschwitz executioner”, Ludwig Tiene, performed numerous violent homosexual acts. The only evidence of Tiene’s existence comes from a single book, They Called Him Piepel, a.k.a. Moni or Atrocity, by Auschwitz survivor Yehiel Dinur[2]. Dinur had, understandably, serious issues with post-traumatic stress disorder for the remainder of his life following his two-year incarceration at Auschwitz. His literary works about Auschwitz have been criticized by fellow survivors as being factually inaccurate[3]. Some modern Jewish scholars describe his works as pornographic fiction rather than accurate historical accounts. At any rate, Tiene was described in the book as a Lageralteste- a senior camp inmate, not one of the Nazi guards[4].

Such is the scholarship of the Pink Swastika.