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   From: thickirish@cunt.com   
      
   Majdanek   
      
   It all started in Majdanek. Majdanek is the name of a German   
   concentration camp on the outskirts of the Polish city of Lublin. It   
   was the first of the large German camps to be occupied by Allied   
   troops – in the summer of 1944. It was the first camp that was widely   
   reported in the Allied press.   
      
   During a press conference on August 25, 1944, the Soviets claimed   
   around two million victims for this camp. About a year later, during   
   the Nuremberg Military Tribunal, the So   
   viets were still claiming a death toll of up to 1.5 million. Many of   
   these victims are said to   
   have been killed in seven different gas chambers.   
      
   Three years after the war, a Polish “Commission to Investigate German   
   Crimes in Poland” reduced this number to “only” 360,000. The next drop   
   came after the collapse of the communist Eastern bloc; now it is said   
   to have “only” been 235,000 victims.   
      
   The most-recent reduction to 78,000 victims took place in 2005 by the   
   director of the Majdanek Museum. In addition, five of the seven   
   originally claimed gas chambers were no longer mentioned, without   
   explaining their silent scrubbing from history. (See the book on the   
   right for more.)   
      
   Of the initially claimed 2,000,000 victims, less than 4% are now left.   
   Critical historians have always pointed out that the number of victims   
   was overestimated. They assume around 42,000 docu   
   mentable victims. Their research also shows that there were no   
   homicidal gas chambers at all in that camp. What was presented as such   
   in the past were simply misunderstood or mislabeled disinfestation   
   systems   
      
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