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To: Public Netbase NewsAgent
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Subject: Re: Revisionism as a framework
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From: Alexander Baron <A_Baron@abaron.demon.co.uk>
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Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 18:52:33 -0700 (PDT)
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Article: soc.history.what-if.14277
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Score: 100

In article <mvanalst-2506961935540001@rbi142.rbi.com>
mvanalst@rbi.com "Mark Van Alstine" writes:
> In article <835638920snz@abaron.demon.co.uk>, A_Baron@abaron.demon.co.uk wrote:
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> > In article <neume001.835569787@maroon.tc.umn.edu> neume001@maroon.tc.umn.edu
> > "Craig J Neumeier" writes:
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> > > This is why I referred to the Nazis as well as the victims as
> > > eyewitnesses. It is hard to see what possible motivation Eichmann had
> > > for lying under oath to the Israeli court that tried him. (It is also
> > > odd that *not* *one* camp survivor agrees with the revisionists.)
> >
> > Not true.
Because there are plenty of survivors who didn't witness gassings or who
passed through the camps totally unaware of them.
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> Care to share you reason(s) for why this is "not true," Al?
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> > > Historians simply do not work this way. An enormous body of coherent
> > > evidence, from many different sources and more than one perspective,
> > > cannot be simply dismissed with vague references to the unreliability of
> > > eyewitnesses. If it could, we would be forced to disbelieve in, say, the
> > > English Civil War, let alone the existence of most major historical
> > > figures from Socrates to FDR.
> >
> > What about all the witnesses to the UFO crash and subsequent cover-up at
> > Roswell?
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> Indeed, what about "them?" Do you, perhaps believe there is a shred of
> credibility here? Or are you simply flogging your "UFO = Holocaust" dead
> horse again for old time's sake?
The UFONUTS make similar claims to the Exterminationists. They claim that
documents and hard evidence exist then fail to produce them.
--
Alexander Baron



