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Dario Gabai (or Gabbai, 2 Sept. 1922 – 25 March 2020) was a Greek Jew deported to Auschwitz in March 1944. Possibly incentivized by his brother’s interview with Israeli historian Gideon Greif a few years earlier (see the entry on Yaakov Gabai), Dario started giving his version of events in numerous media venues, soon after…
Yaakov Gabai (or Gabbai, aka Ya’akov, Jaacov, Jacob; born in Athens in 1912) wrote a brief text about his alleged experiences in Auschwitz in 1983, almost four decades after the events, when asked to do so by Erich Kulka. Some ten years later, he was interviewed by Israeli historian Gideon Greif. He arrived at Auschwitz…
Gyula Gál was a Hungarian physician who was deported to Auschwitz, where he stayed until the camp was conquered by the Soviets. Not quite two months later, he wrote a report about Auschwitz, which contains the following peculiar statements, among others: The camp’s total death toll was 5 million persons, 3½ million of them Jews,…
Moshe Garbarz (born on 28 Dec. 1913) was a Polish Jew who emigrated to France in 1929. He was deported from there to the Auschwitz Camp on 17 July 1942. In 1945, he was evacuated to Buchenwald, where he was liberated by U.S. troops in April. In 1983, an autobiographic book titled Un Survivant (A…
A gas chamber is an enclosed space or room to expose items to a chemically active gas in order to achieve certain effects. There are three main types of gas chambers: Training/testing gas chambers: used by military and civilian-defense agencies to test gas-protection equipment and to train personnel in their use. Disinfestation or fumigation gas…
A gas van is a large-capacity truck or van allegedly used to murder passengers in the rear cargo hold via engine exhaust gas. Soviet Gas Vans In the mid-1930s, Isai Davidovich Berg – a Russian Jew and head of the economic department of the NKVD for the Moscow region – had the idea of using…
A series of wartime documents from the Auschwitz Camp authorities mention terms such as ‘gastight door’ or ‘gastight window.’ Polish investigators right after the war, and subsequently many orthodox scholars, have claimed that this so-called “criminal trace” points at the existence of homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz. However, a thorough analysis of these documents shows…
The company Gaubschat Fahrzeugwerke Ltd. was a Berlin coachwork manufacturer mainly known for producing bus coachworks. During the war, the company also built custom-made coachworks (bodies) for trucks. In April 1942, the German Department of Homeland Security (Reichssicherheitshauptamt, RSHA) approached Gaubschat with the intent to equip the cargo boxes of special vehicles ordered but not…
After Germany’s victory over Poland and the annexation of West Prussia and the Warthe Region in early 1940, German officials developed a plan called “Generalplan Ost” (“General Plan East”) that aimed at Germanizing these regions and resettling those parts of the population that they thought could not be integrated, including all Jews. These people were…
Germany had four roles within the context of the Holocaust: Perpetrator Crime Scene Victim Propagandist The last role is discussed in detail in the section on Germany of the entry on propaganda, so it will not be covered here. Perpetrator If we consider Austria as not being a part of Germany, then the main perpetrator…
Kurt Gerstein (11 Aug. 1905 – 25 July 1945), SS Obersturmführer, was a mining engineer by education, and from early 1942, head of the technical disinfection services of the hygiene department of the Waffen-SS’s health services. In that role, he was involved in supplying the Auschwitz Camp with the pesticide Zyklon B. He also inspected the…
Szaja Gertner was a Polish Jew who was deported to Auschwitz from Łódź, Poland, on an unknown date. His testimony was published in a Polish book in 1945. Right after his arrival, he claims to have been assigned to the so-called Sonderkommando. There he claims to have witnessed things that are absurd or demonstrably impossible:…
Some witnesses have claimed that mass graves filled with murdered Jews emitted geysers of blood. It ought to be unnecessary to provide scientific proof for this to be physically impossible. Among those who claimed this are: Adolf Eichmann Kurt Marcus Elie Wiesel Rudolf Reder Related, but not quite as extreme, are claims that the victims…
At least since the time of Raul Hilberg’s initial work in the early 1960s, orthodoxy has partitioned the claimed 6 million Jewish fatalities into three major categories: camps, shootings and ghettos. Under the headings “German controlled ghettos” and “Theresienstadt,” Hilberg allots “over 700,000” Jewish deaths – on his way to a total figure of 5.1…
Richard Glazar (29 Nov. 1920 – 20 Dec. 1997) was a Czech Jew who waited 49 years before having his alleged memories of his stay at the Treblinka Camp published in a book titled Trap with a Green Fence (the German edition, Die Falle mit dem grünen Zaun, appeared in 1992). Although the orthodox narrative…
Odilo Globocnik (21 April 1904 – 31 May 1945), SS Gruppenführer, during the war SS and Police Leader of the General Government (occupied Poland), and in charge of implementing the Aktion Reinhardt. After the war, he was arrested by a British unit, who interrogated him, possibly with the help of their customary torture, after which…
Richard Glücks (22 April 1889 – 10 May 1945), SS Gruppenführer, head of Office Group D of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungs-Hauptamt), and as such head inspector of the concentration camps. Glücks’s office was responsible for organizing the German concentration camps and making sure that they were optimized to deliver…
Joseph Goebbels (29 Oct. 1897 – 1 May 1945) was the National-Socialist leader of the Berlin district as well as the Third Reich’s Minister of Propaganda from its very beginning to the bitter end, when he committed suicide. Goebbels was meticulous in keeping a diary with almost daily entries. In addition, his list of speeches…
Szloma Gol was a Jew from Vilnius. On 10 August 1946, he signed an affidavit. He claimed in it that he was part of a team of 80 prisoners who were shackled by the legs. They were then forced to exhume and burn corpses from mass graves near a Vilnius suburb called Ponary from December…
Among the vast documentation of the Auschwitz Camp are documents showing that the camp’s dentistry collected and submitted to the camp’s Political Department, on regular intervals, gold and other precious metal alloys originating from tooth fillings. The orthodoxy presents these as proof of the claim that members of the Sonderkommando had to extract gold teeth…
Szymon Goldberg was a former inmate of the Treblinka Camp. He claimed that Jews were killed in masses at Treblinka by three methods: First, by pumping the air out of the gassing cabins, then introducing the exhaust gas of some vehicle – rather than from a stationary engine, as the orthodox narrative claims today. Ether…
Abraham Goldfarb was deported from his hometown Międzyrzec Podlaski on 18 or 25 August 1942 to the Treblinka Camp. On 21 September 1944, a Soviet investigative commission interrogated him. The resulting testimony was later submitted by the Soviets during the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal (Document USSR-380). A second, undated deposition by Goldfarb, published in a…
Hermann Göring (12 Jan. 1893 – 15 Oct. 1946), Reichsmarschall, was the second-most powerful man in the Third Reich after Adolf Hitler. During World War One, he was a decorated war pilot, becoming something of a national hero. During the Second World War, his main responsibilities lay in organizing Germany’s economy and its air force….
Amon Göth (11 Dec. 1908 – 13 Sept. 1946), SS Hauptsturmführer, was in charge of constructing and then heading the Płaszów Camp. As such, he ended up getting prosecuted by the SS-internal court system for looting inmate property and selling it on the black market. He was arrested in early 1945, but due to the…
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