I've visited Auschwitz and the only gas chamber that is currently standing is one that the museum has BUILT on the main site its not authentic, the ones at Berkenau were destroyed. This is what i mentioned on my previous post, the Auschwitz musuem does not make it clear as to what is original and what has been built post-Nazi, which to me is very misleading.
Yes there were crematorium, but most concentration camps have means to dispose of bodies.
You say millions and millions were killed, it is fact that the the figures originally from the 1940s which stated tens of millions have been shrinking as time passes on.
I have studied it in depth and i am undecided, it was possible the Nazi's gassed many people as the eye witness account's seem to be verified - weather they gassed them and then cremated them or allowed them to die through malnutrition and starvation who knows for sure anymore? But in terms of malnutrition and starvation, by the mid 40s most of Germany was in this bad state due to the turning tide of war.
The only thing that sticks in my mind is that there is no released documentation that specifically calls for the systematic murder of these unwanted peoples, no signed order from Hitler, Himmler, Heydrich or anyone - does that mean it didn't happen? again nobody will know, but there were concentration camps, people abuse power so there is always going to be atrocities.
The funny thing is people keep on associating the Holocaust as a purely Jewish event, the Nazi's put all unwanted into concentration camps, Gypsies, disabled, political prisoners etc.. etc..
As i said before what ever happened was an atrocity but why do we always harp on as if the Nazi's were the only ones to kill potentially millions of people?
Stalin conservatively killed around 20 million during the red terror.
Chairman Mao conservatively killed around 80 million - DURING PEACE TIME.
So why do we assign this higher importance to a holocaust? again, im not taking anything away from what happened, whatever did happen we cannot be sure but why don't we talk as much about the red terror and Stalin's purges? why don't we talk about the amount of people Mao killed? They far outnumber any possible numbers that have been mentioned to happen in the Holocaust of the 1940s.