How do you know that the air raid shelter had been anything but an air raid shelter before the Russians entered the camp?
How do you know that it wasn't? There seems physical evidence that the building had many uses over time - pointed out by the narrator himself.
Like what?
The narrator in the video did not question what the historian said about the conversion from Gas Chamber to Air Raid Shelter between 1942 and 1943 (note I might be getting the dates wrong from just one viewing).
He did not ask Piper about it because that would have been suspicious. I know of no reason to believe these rooms ever WERE gas chambers other than dubious post-war testimonies.
Besides, the key feature of the film is that it exposes the fact that the "gas chamber" in Auschwitz was nothing but an air raid shelter when the Russians arrived. Back then, the admiittance of this fact by an official as important as Piper was quite a big deal and shocking to many.....
It is far from common knowledge. Most people are not aware of the use of Zyklon B for delycing and are just told it was used for killing people.
How did I know this then? I have not made any detailed study into this matter, yet it is something I already knew and regarded as quite common knowledge.
Every now and then, they air a documentary that mentions it. You must have seen one of them
I'm not saying that this info is not in the public record. I'm merely pointing out that it's a fact not often mentioned, resulting in people thinking it was used for killing people and for killing people only.
I admittedly may be mistaken because I've only viewed the video once... but doesn't the narrator state that when he talks about the three Auschwitz's at the beginning of the video? Sorry if I am mistaken.
Like I said, it's been years ago since I last watched the vid... although this does seem a bit too relevant to forget or ignore.
I look forward to the further videos then
Good. Once you've gone through them, feel free to ask me for book titles if you're still interested in further research.
You have higher expectations of mere tour guides than I would have then. I would not take a mere tour guide at face value. They are often merely given a prepared text to recite.
I guess tour guides in my country are better trained and more passionate than those in your country. I doubt I ever met a Belgian tour guide who wasn't passionate about the topic at hand and who couldn't spontaneously tell lots of details many people don't know about.
Yes. However, the videos are the materials you provided for us to watch. I could have watched them without doing you the courtesy of reply, but I chose to give you my initial response. I am not yet feeling inclined to carry out a detailed study, maybe the later videos will do this. We shall see
I can post some book titles whenever you want them. I already explained you that I posted these videos because people are more inclined to spend one or two hours watching a video than to spend several days or weeks reading a book, unless they're already passionate about the topic on forehand.
Was the Auschwitz complex a military barracks before it became a concentration camp? This is new for me. Please elaborate.
Confirmed. The narrator says this around 4 minutes into the first video
I'll have to do some further research on that.