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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (13504)	11/6/1997 1:38:00 AM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Hi Freddy, Good to see you back. I missed having a sparring partner. Almost as bad as the Holocaust stories not being believed is the automatic scorn hurled at anyone who questions anything about it. That's what I will now do. For example, there is a perception that huge numbers of people were incinerated in the ovens. It was soon discovered that it takes several hours and a lot of enegy to cremate each body. The goal was to eliminate bodies quickly and efficiently. It made sense for the Nazis to bulldoze trenches, dump bodies in, and cover them up. That's what was done, but the perception persists that large numbers of people were incinerated in the ovens. I rarely see this corrected by the holders of the Holocaust truth, but I finally heard this point reluctantly conceded by a Holocaust expert on Public Radio about 10 years ago, and never again since. Only a couple of people were cremated. It used too much energy, which was needed by the war machine, and was too slow. Another point that was reluctantly conceded was the number of people gassed at Auschwitz. The perception thousands, the reality zero. Again, why bother when other methods were easier. Why did the Nazis hold people in concentration camps more than 1 day if their intention was to eliminate them? Why even bother to feed them even the little bit that they did, when the army would be the first priority. I want to make it clear that I am not saying the Holocaust didn't happen. I am asking why these misperceptions are being perpetuated. For their shock value and political gain? I have sympathy for all of the victims and their families, but I will accept no guilt for the crimes that happened before my time, any more than I accept any guilt for "Original Sin". On a slightly lighter note, Francis Galton probably had it right that intelligence and criminality are inherited. Genetic evidence is beginning to show this. Shermer is not a very objective investigator. Do personally know any "bizarre cultist followers" of Ayn Rand that Shermer mentioned? Del