Lectures On The Holocaust #15 of HolocaustHandbooks, (3.10), Babi Yar, Nov 12, 2024
Holotruther
Published on May 31, 2025
P138, R: At various places in this book, Dr. Hoffmann says very clearly, in effect, that several things in the historical picture of the Holocaust are not evident. Thus he speaks “of the atrocities actually or allegedly committed by the Germans” (p.172). He discusses the fact that in the early reports of the Soviet Union and in the findings of the International Military Tribunal of Nuremberg, gassings in Auschwitz were treated as only a secondary matter (pp. 181-185). He speaks of
“gassing of people allegedly having occurred in Majdanek” (p. 182), calls the practices of the International Military Tribunal questionable (p. 185) and accuses the Soviet Union of having misled the International Military Tribunal by means of manifold forgeries of documents relating to supposed German atrocities (pp. 188, 210). He calls the total victims figure of the Holocaust, as also that of the Auschwitz camp in particular, “product of Soviet propaganda, intended to influence and indoctrinate public opinion, particularly, the thinking of the Anglo-Saxon countries” (p. 190, cf. 334f.). He deals with the mass murder of approximately 34,000 Jews from Kiev in the Babi Yar ravine, allegedly carried out in 1941 by German Einsatzgruppen, 303 in the chapter “Soviet Crimes Are Attributed to the Germans” and comments there with precision:304 “An evaluation of the numerous air photos in recent years apparently leads to the conclusion that, in contrast to the clearly visible, extensive mass graves dug by the NKVD [for their Polish victims of mass murder in Katyn…] the terrain of the Babi Yar ravine between the years 1939 and 1944, during the German occupation, remains undisturbed.”
L: What does that mean?
R: That means that the witness testimonies regarding this claimed mass murder, which report about enormous mass graves and gigantic open air cremations of
bodies, cannot be correct. I will speak in more detail about this case in chapter 3.10., where I will once again cite Dr. Hoffmann.
(3:10, p317) R: Well observed. The logistic and technical problems with the cremations would have been the same. But that is not my concern here. What concerns me here is the analysis of air photos, which were taken between 1939 and 1944 by German reconnaissance planes over Kiev and which the Americans ollected and stored in their National Archives after the war. The Canadian air photo interpreter John C. Ball analyzed some of these pictures, one taken on May 17, 1939, another from September 26, 1943,809 and a third from June 18, 1944. These photos are interesting for two reasons. First of all, they are so good in their resolution that distinct objects can be recognized, like large shrubs, trees,and cars. Secondly, the first photo is made before the time the alleged Babi Yar
massacre happened. The last photo analyzed was taken nine months after the Red Army reconquered the area. The most interesting photo, however, may be
the one of September 26, 1943, because that was exactly the time, when the huge pyres are said to have been burning at Babi Yar, see Ill. 122. However, all
these photos differ only in the fact that the vegetation in the meantime had grown, as is to be expected. There is nothing to be found that indicates any
human activity. Nothing. Nichts. Nada. Niente. Rien.
