Remarkable Holocaust Nonsense #29: Dump Trucks and Kerosene Fire Pits at Auschwitz
Returning to a fan favourite ‘Remarkable Holocaust Nonsense’ we have the claim by principal Eichmann trial witness and ‘Holocaust Survivor’ Yehiel De-Nur (1) that the German camp authorities/staff at Auschwitz ‘dumped’ Romani (= ‘gypsy’) women and children into and set alight to them using kerosene in order to ‘burn them alive’ and presumably also dispose of their corpses.
De-Nur writes that:
‘The crematorium was stuffed beyond capacity. All at once more trucks arrived from the train platform carrying a living load of gypsy women and children. Since the crematorium could not cope with any more and the holding barracks were filled beyond maximum capacity, the truck dumped their load into the pit, and the S.S. man turned to address the first man in our row and ordered him to take the container of kerosene and empty it over the women and children.
“No! No!” he said in Dutch.
I’ll never forget the anguished look of refusal on his face; just as my ears will keep resounding with his Dutch “No!” A “No” of that kind had never before been given to a German in Auschwitz.
While the women and children were beginning to catch fire the S.S. man walked over behind our row and kicked the Dutchman in the buttocks. The latter’s skeleton-body, like a piece of driftwood, toppled into the flames.’ (2)
The problem with this narrative is several fold; in that firstly the ‘Gypsy Holocaust’ is an outright myth where the German documentation outright contradicts the claim of ‘mass extermination’ as Carlo Mattogno has demonstrated in a lengthy article in ‘Inconvenient History’.
Secondly what De-Nur is describing here is patently some kind of – what we would now call a - dump truck which while the concept had been invented in the United States around the turn of the twentieth century were not in widespread use (3) nor did the Germans have any dump truck type vehicles among their military vehicles which were the type used to transport jews to, from and within camps like Auschwitz. (4)
In fact, dump trucks were only really widely used in the years after the Second World War when De-Nur wrote his ‘memoirs’ which he has clearly inserted into his narrative.
Thirdly the use of a killing and disposal method of merely pouring kerosene on the Romani women and children in a – presumably pre-dug burial – pit is ludicrous since kerosene (aka jet fuel) was in notoriously short supply to the German war effort at the time (1943/1944) (5) so casually dumping a jerry can of it over a bunch of Romani women and children to ‘burn them alive’ would not only have been stupid but likely resulted in the individuals concerned being subjected to an immediate court marshal for ‘sabotaging the war effort’.
Fourthly De-Nur seems to imply that in burning the Romani women and children alive in a pit would also destroy all the evidence of the crime itself including the bones which is clearly ludicrous, but since De-Nur only implies this and doesn’t state it. We cannot definitely hold this against him, but it is never-the-less likely that De-Nur seems to have believed this to be true based upon his wording in the quoted text.
Thus we can see that this claim made by a primary ‘Holocaust witness’ at the second most important ‘Holocaust’ trial – the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem in 1961 – is almost certainly fabricated as it contains at least three instances where what is claimed contradicts known reality: firstly German policy towards the Romani people, secondly the Germans using dump trucks at Auschwitz which they aren’t otherwise known to have used there and thirdly the alleged use of jet fuel (kerosene) as an accelerant to murder said Romani women and children.
It just doesn’t make any sense: does it?
References
(1) Yehiel De-Nur, 1998, [1989], ‘Shivitti: A Vision’, 1st Edition, Gateways: San Francisco, p. 32; https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/eichmann/witnesses.asp
(2) De-Nur, Op. Cit., pp. 49-50
(3) For example, see: https://www.fullbay.com/blog/dump-truck-history/
(4) See: https://truck-encyclopedia.com/ww2/germany/german-trucks.php
(5) Shawn Keller, 2011, ‘Turning Point: A History of German Petroleum in World War II and Its Lessons for the Role of Oil in Modern Air Warfare’, Published Academic Thesis: Air Command and Staff College, pp. 9-10; 17; 23