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SHOW ME OR DRAW ME A NAZI “TATTOOING MACHINE”(with documentary
appendices) BY CARLOS W. PORTER (If the links don’t work
paste the Internet addresses in the window of the browser. Some of the source articles are reproduced at the
end, in a documentary appendix.) INTRODUCTION: Of all the
multifarious “symbols of the Holocaust” (and EVERYTHING about the
Holocaust is symbolic), probably no symbol is more powerful than the
“Holocaust tattoos” of the “Holocaust survivors”. Wherever you
find Jews, you find “survivors”; wherever you find “survivors”,
you find “Holocaust tattoos”. One “survivor” at a public meeting
of some sort has the same sort of effect on the audience as a shot of
curare or displaying a crucifix in front of a vampire: the “tattoos”
(and the sob-stories with which they are inevitably accompanied), have a
paralyzing effect on almost everyone who sees them; yet, astonishingly
enough, apart from the tattoos themselves, there is not the slightest
proof that the National Socialists tattooed anyone, ever, at Auschwitz
or elsewhere else. Let us examine this matter dispassionately, in a bit
more detail.
EXHIBIT 1 http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0241/black/php Excerpts from Edwin
Black, IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi
Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation; long description
of the complexity of the registration number system, which allegedly
included a reference to the inmate’s occupation, in case the Germans
needed certain skills:
QUOTE: “In August 1943, a timber merchant from Bendzin, Poland,
arrived at Auschwitz. He was among a group of 400 inmates, mostly Jews. First,
a doctor examined him briefly to determine his fitness for work. His
physical information was noted on a medical record. Second, his full
prisoner registration was completed with all personal details. Third his
name was checked against the indices of the Political Section to see if
he would be subjected to special punishment. Finally, he was registered
in the Labor Assignment Office and assigned a characteristic five-digit
IBM Hollerith number, 44673. The five-digit Hollerith number was part of
a custom punch card system devised by IBM to track prisoners in Nazi
concentration camps, including the slave labor at Auschwitz. The Polish
timber merchant’s punch card number would follow him from labor
assignment to labor assignment as Hollerith systems tracked him and his
availability for work, and reported it to the central inmate file
eventually kept at Department DII. Department DII of the SS
Economics Administration in Oranienburg oversaw all camp salve labor
assignments, utilizing elaborate IBM systems. Later in the summer of
1943, the Polish timber merchant’s same five-digit Hollerith number,
44673, was tattooed on his forearm.” [COMMENT: In other words,
the alleged tattoo reference number was of such importance that the
tattooing could not be entrusted to a mere inmate. In addition to which,
the whole system could be frustrated by the inmates at any time, simply
by re-tattooing each other and altering the numbers on the tattoos.
The fact that tattoos can always be altered or covered would render any
tattooing system useless for identification purposes. Since the
Holocaust tattoos we see are nearly always very crude, the alterations
would be less noticeable, thus further defeating their alleged purpose.] EXHIBIT 2 http://www.chgs.edu/Educational_Resources/Curriculum/Auschwitz/Tattooing/auschwitz/tattooing.html. QUOTE: “The tattoos of the survivors have come to symbolize
the utter brutality and of the concentration camps and the attempt of
the Nazis to dehumanize their victims. The tattoos are also a testament
to the resilience of those who bear them. Yet despite the
importance of the tattoos, as testament, symbol and historical artifact,
little scholarship has been devoted to the subject. There exist
virtually no official period documents relating to the practice;
what we know stems from anecdotal evidence contained in camp records and
the accounts of those who were at the camps.” [COMMENT: In other words, there is no evidence
that it ever happened, except for the tens of thousands of
“survivors” displaying their “Holocaust tattoos”, 55 years after
the war. There are no documents, no tattooing equipment, nothing.] ENTER THE RUBE GOLDBERG “HOLOCAUST
TATTOOING MACHINE”
(continued from http://www.chgs.umn.edu/Educational_Resources/Curriculum/Auschwitz_Tattooing/auschwitz_tattooing.html
) QUOTE: “As the number
of prisoners brought to the expanding Auschwitz complex rose, so did the
death rate. But if a corpse were separated from its uniform,
identification was rendered all but impossible.” [COMMENT: If the Germans
were busy murdering people by the millions, why the hell would they care
about identifying them afterwards?] QUOTE: “With often
hundreds of prisoners dying per day, other methods of identification
were needed. In Birkenau the method used to tattoo the Soviet prisoners
of war was implemented for emaciated prisoners whose deaths were
imminent; [COMMENT: What is the
logic of this?] “the tattoos were later
made with pen and ink on the upper left forearm.” [COMMENT: In this case we
aren’t even talking about a “tattoo” at all. Perhaps this is the
origin of the legend.] QUOTE: “… After a month’s work the commission had
singled out approximately 300 “fanatic communists”. [footnote 3:
Danuta Czech, Auschwitz Chronicle 1939-1945, Henry Holt & Co., NY,
1990, p. 102]. Those designated as such were tattooed by means of a metal
plate [!] with interchangeable needles attached to it [!] The
plate was impressed into the flesh on the left side of their chests
[!] and the dye was rubbed into the wound.” [COMMENT: I sometimes
amuse myself by attempting to imagine how such a device would actually
work. NAZI ‘TATTOOING
MACHINE”, ALTERNATIVE DESIGN NO. 1: In other words, the Germans are
alleged to have used a sort of stencil formed of needles, which could
then be transformed at will into a stencil for any other number,
rather like the light bulb displays which used to form the words
“Merry Christmas” during so-called “End of Year Holidays” in the
United States. The “metal plate” would probably require at least one
hundred needles (see below) as well as an extremely complex mechanism
permitting the formation of a different stencil for each five-digit
number (i.e., needle 1 in position A1 would be moved laterally by a
lever mechanism to position A9, for example), and so on for 100 needles,
and, presumably, 100 levers. All to save a few minutes tattoo work with
one needle! Where are the plans, designs, specification sheets,
patents, order forms, manufacturing reports, provisional and final
acceptance forms, delivery vouchers, inventory reports, etc. for this
Rube Goldberg device? No such “metal plate” has ever been
found. No documents relating to it have ever been found. No tattooing
needles or other equipment has ever been found. In practice, such a
“plate” would probably cause a puncture wound followed by anaerobic
infection, in addition to infecting the entire camp with hepatitis,
syphilis, staph infections, possible septicemia and even gangrene. And
if the “plate” was to be autoclaved after each inmate, how many
thousands of “metal plates” would they need? Where did they all
disappear to? Either the needles were interchanged in position only, or
new needles were inserted from the back. Which is it? NAZI ‘TATTOOING
MACHINE”, ALTERNATIVE DESIGN NO. 2: “Interchangeable needles” may
mean that the needles were inserted from the rear of the plate after
each use, either manually or by means of some mechanism. In this
case, needle 1 in position A1 would be retracted through the back of the
frame, and another needle inserted in, for example, position A9. Since
tattooing needles normally penetrate the skin no more than the second
layer of skin, this means that the needles could only be about 1
millimeter long (unless the intent is to cause a puncture wound). In any
case, the frame would be contaminated by blood and body fluids after the
first use, thus contaminating the needles. And if the frame is to be
autoclaved or disposed of after each use, what use is the frame? NAZI ‘TATTOOING
MACHINE”, ALTERNATIVE DESIGN NO. 3: A “tattooing machine”
designed in the manner of a date stamp (actually suggested by Carlo
Mattogno; see below). 5 wheels, each with 10 surfaces, each surface
equipped with perhaps 15 to 30 needles, all controlled by a crank for
each wheel on the front and/or back of the device (exactly as with a
date stamp). In this case as well, the whole contraption would be
contaminated after the first use, rendering it useless. Tattooing
needles must be very sharp. In a device of this kind, intended for
“mass production tattooing”, the needles would naturally be dulled
after only a few tattoos, rendering them useless. The operator would
contaminate or infect himself while turning the wheels; the surface of
the “date stamp” would probably fail to come into contact with the
skin properly: tattoo stencils are flexible and curve to fit the body.
The human body is not flat and hard, like a piece of paper on a writing
desk. It appears that, prior to the invention of the modern, electrical
tattooing needle by an Irish-American named O’Reilly in 1891, only
slightly modifying an invention by Thomas Edison, unskilled tattooists
did, for short while, experiment with “tattooing plates” inlaid with
needles (see IDENTIFICATION OF THE LIVING, by Alphonse Bertillon,
translated by Ralph W. Webster, M.D., LEGAL MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY BY
MANY SPECIALISTS, edited by Peterson, Haines and Webster, W.B. Saunders
Company, Philadelphia, 1901, 1904. 1907, revised 1923,
volume p. 116: “There are, it seems, instruments which
produce the entire design at one application by means of a sort of plate
inlayed in relief with needles”;
Bertillon’s system of “anthropometric identification” was
adopted by the Paris Police Department in 1880.) Note that the
“tattooing plate” described by Bertillon does not involve
“interchangeable needles”, i.e., one could not turn a tattoo of the
Holy Virgin into a tattoo of Popeye the Sailor Man just by turning a
crank or a wheel to re-arrange the position of the needles; so the
mystery of the “tattooing plate with interchangeable needles” is far
from solved. One can only assume that these “tattooing plates” were
abandoned as a failure, as well as representing a very serious health
risk. Even today, ordinary, flexible plastic tattoo stencils can spread
disease if not sterilized after use, and are, today, ordinarily disposed
of after each job, along with all needles, tubes, thimble-sized ink
cups, rinsing and dilution goblets, wooden skin depressors, cotton
swabs, razors and latex gloves. Tattooists need to depress the skin as
they work, like a man shaving himself; they need to feel the skin. A
“tattooing” plate would obviously fail to do this. The needles would
either fail to penetrate properly or would have to be extremely long,
causing a puncture wound. In view of the unsanitary conditions at
Auschwitz, in my view it is the responsibility of Auschwitz
“survivors”, not only to describe the tattooing process in terms
that make sense, but to explain how they survived the inevitable staph
infections and hepatitis caused by the “tattooing process”
(hepatitis C causes cancer of the liver). Why are tens of thousands of
them still alive 55 years later? The modern electrical tattooing machine
is such a simple device that it can be improvised out of junk; this is
commonly done in prisons. A fresh tattoo is a open wound, and is
easily infected. It is hard to see why the world’s most
technologically advanced nation should install the very latest in
computer technology (in the 1930s!), build highly complex disinfestation
facilities using Zyklon, Argon, electrically heated hot air, steam,
ultrasound and autoclaves (for clothing), if the intention is to infect
400,000 people with hepatitis B and C, syphilis, staph, septicemia and
gangrene in the “filth of Auschwitz”. (Tattooing has also been known
to spread leprosy). If the Germans had an autoclave to use on clothing,
why not install an autoclave to use with ordinary tattooing equipment,
like everyone else? Germany is a maritime nation, with some of the
largest seaports in the world. There must have been dozens of German
tattooists in every German port. Why would they need all these Rube
Goldberg devices? Tattooing occurs in all
prisons (see, for example, http://www.convictsandcops.com/tattoo.htm.) and is usually a disciplinary offense, because it
spreads disease (see also PRISON TATTOOS, by Douglas Kent Hall). To get an idea of some of
the problems involved in “jailhouse tattooing”, take a piece of
paper and write a five-digit number on it with a pen, but using only
dots. You will probably need between 15 and 30 dots per digit. Now
imagine that the “pen” is a needle and that the “paper” is a
person’s skin. You would spend at least half your time swabbing the
blood away so that you could see what you were doing! Any open cuts or
sores on your hands would mean immediate infection by any blood-borne
disease carried by the person being tattooed, while failure to sterilize
your hands properly and use a new needle would infect all subsequent
persons being tattooed with any blood-borne disease carried by the first
person (or by yourself, at that stage). As one vendor of tattooing
equipment http://www.etnj.com/tatshack/disclaimer.html says, “YOU
AND ANYONE YOU TATTOO and/or PIERCE CAN & WILL CONTRACT
LIFE-THREATENING DISEASE OR SUFFER PERSONAL INJURY IF *PROPER PROCEDURES
ARE NOT PRACTICED”. If half a
dozen jailbirds infect each other with hepatitis in an American prison,
there is not much lost; but we are still far from the “industrialized
tattooing on an assembly-line basis” alleged as the basis of all these
Hoaxoco$t yarns. It is only a guess, but it seems probable to me
that the setup and disassembly time required for even one tattoo would
probably amount to no less than 20 minutes. This does not include
autoclaving and disposal. The needles must be soldered to the needle bar
(the part that vibrates up and down), then broken off and autoclaved (or
preferably disposed of) AFTER EVERY USE. This takes time. Where are
the plans, specifications, order forms, delivery vouchers, inventory
receipts, etc. etc. for millions of tattooing needles, thousands of
tattooing machines, related supplies,
“tattooing plates” and all the rest of it? Where are the
decisions, orders, and records relating to the persons tattooed? What is
the point of tattooing some people and not others, if no record is made
of the fact that a given person has been tattooed? Since a tattoo can be
altered or covered at any time (all you need is another jailbird with a
needle, cork, and some ink), this renders tattoos almost useless for
purposes of identification. For example, police “wanted”
posters always mention tattoos, but do not usually describe them.
They usually say: “Scar, right arm, tattoo, left shoulder”. Tattoo
cover-up work is a very big part of the tattoo industry. Almost the only
restriction is that white can only be applied over white, or over bare
skin. Anything else can be covered, with anything. SHOW ME OR DRAW ME A
“NAZI TATTOOING MACHINE”
To revisionists who say,
“Show me or draw me a Nazi gas chamber”, but who accept the fairy
tale of the “mass tattooings”, I say, “Show me or draw me a
Nazi tattooing machine”. EXHIBIT 3
ANOTHER RIDICULOUS
EXAMPLE OF GERMAN HOAXOCO$T “TATTOO TECHNOLOGY” The Auschwitz Tattooist:
Angie Fox, Australian Jewish News, December 19, 2003, posted on http://www.adelaideinstitute.org/Auschwitz/tattooist.htm (source website no longer carries the item) QUOTE: “Lou Sokolov wears a
permanent reminder of the three years he spent in Birkenau. Although it
is faded, the number 32407 is still clearly legible on his left forearm.
The tattoo which indelibly scars his tanned skin bears witness to his
encounter with hell on earth.” [Deletion]
“…
From August 1942 to late 1944 he, along with assistants, tattooed the
arms of 200,000 Jews from Holland, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Norway, Germany,
Greece, Italy, Latvia, Austria and Hungary. [COMMENT:
This obviously impossible claim is made necessary by the claim that he
tattooed 200,000 people. The intent is to hide the irrationality of the
whole procedure by deceiving us into believing that if a 5-digit number
can be tattooed in 30 seconds, then one person can tattoo 2 inmates per
minute = 120 inmates per hour = 1200 inmates per 10-hour day, probably
half the daily registration rate usually alleged at Auschwitz. This is
like saying that if my car can go 100 miles and hour, and Los Angeles
are 2000 miles apart, then I can drive coast to coast in 40 hours.] “Yet
those numbers have become long-lasting evidence of the most heinous
crime in history.
…
More than 400,000 tattoos were issued.” [COMMENT:
If you were going to tattoo 400,000 (or 200,000) people, wouldn’t you
want an electric tattooing machine? The book IBM AND THE HOLOCAUST by
Edwin Black describes the crucial information coded into Auschwitz
inmate registration numbers -- information required to assign inmates to
the right jobs. Would an inmate be entrusted with the job of tattooing
this vital information with 2 needles [!] and a piece of wood? (The
needles would presumably be very close together to make a thicker line.)
The obvious solution would be to assign a professional tattooist, a
member of the German armed forces, and keep proper records to ensure
that no duplicate or incorrect numbers were issued, etc. etc. If the
registration number says a man is a welder and it turns out he is a
carpenter, you’ve lost at least a day’s work, all because of a
careless error performed by a tattooist who is a prisoner and has no
motivation to do proper work – a man whose only motivation was to
sabotage the whole process as much as possible !] [COMMENT:
This contradicts the description of the numbering system given by Edwin
Black in his book IBM AND THE HOLOCAUST.] “By
that time, Sokolov had a number of assistants helping him cope with the
transports, which were arriving day and night. … Sokolov
also used his skill to save a man who was scheduled to be hanged after a
failed escape. He transformed the man’s tattoo into a picture of a
snake” [COMMENT:
FIRST
ARGUMENT: This is only one of the many stories on the Internet about
“miraculous escapes” brought about through the alteration of a
tattoo. For this reason, it is extremely unlikely that the Germans ever
tattooed anyone, and if they did, they would have made a record of it.
The Auschwitz archives survived the war intact. J.-C. Pressac claims to
have examined 80,000 documents at the Auschwitz State Museum, but there
is no mention of “Holocaust” tattooing in any of his books. Also,
wouldn’t the guy be in jail? Wouldn’t the Germans look for him
someplace? If the Germans knew the man was tattooed, wouldn’t they
look for a tattoo someplace? Wouldn’t the position of the snake be a
dead give-away? SECOND
ARGUMENT: Since this amounts to an admission that any tattoo can be
altered or covered at any time, why do the Holocaust survivors keep
their tattoos if they hate them so much? Why don’t they just cover
them up and forget about it? (Don’t tell me it is because tattoos are
forbidden by Jewish law: Jews are fascinated by tattoos and are getting
tattooed in large numbers. Many of them, including a few non-Jewish
idiots, all of them too young to be “survivors”, are getting
“Holocaust tattoos” to “remember the Holocaust”, or are asking
their rabbis whether such a thing would be permissible! The Israeli Army
is full of tattooed reservists. Tattooing is permitted in Israel
although it is prohibited in South Carolina and Oklahoma except by
medical personnel, for example, registered nurses.)
The truth is that “survivors” want to be able to produce
their “tattoos” every five minutes to “prove the Holocaust”, to
attract attention, and demand money. “Jewish life has two elements:
collecting money and protesting” (Nahum Goldman, THE JEWISH
PARADOX, p. 52). “Holocaust survivors” are entitled to claim
special DBs (death benefits) from the Federal Government of the United
States. All they need do to “prove” that they are “survivors” is
to show a tattoo, or even a scar resulting from tattoo removal! The
financial and political motivation is obvious. THIRD
ARGUMENT: The ancient Romans and other ancient peoples, including the
Japanese, tattooed criminals and slaves. Since escaped criminals and
slaves covered their slave and/or prison tattoos with other tattoos as
soon as they escaped, every person with a tattoo became suspect. This is
why tattooed persons have always been viewed with suspicion. FOURTH
ARGUMENT: “How do we know that what we are looking at is a tattoo”? Since
the tattoos almost invariably appear on the left forearm, and since most
people are right-handed, all one need do is take a fountain pen, write a
number on one’s left forearm, and presto! one is a “survivor”, and
one’s “tattoo” “proves the Holocaust”! This question is
also suggested by the extremely vague language used to describe the
tattooing procedure itself (for example, “the tattoos were later made with pen and ink on the
upper left forearm”, see above.) CONCLUSION: There is no doubt that
if the Germans had wished to tattoo 400,000 people they could have done
so. (The Waffen-SS were tattooed with their blood type). But it would
require proper procedures and proper equipment, voluminous
documentation, and proper record-keeping.
It is up to the Jews to prove where they got their tattoos,
and to describe these matters in language that makes sense. My
personal belief is that the Germans considered the idea of tattooing
inmates to facilitate recapture in the event of escape but abandoned the
idea. There is probably no
more than one single German document even mentioning it. Robert
Fausisson says he believes he saw it, many year ago, but is unable to
provide any further information. Auschwitz was full of common criminals
who, it may be surmised, tattooed each other in the camp (just as they
do in any other prison) (see testimony of Fritz Schmermuly, N.M.T. VI (
I.G. FARBEN CASE), pp. 825-830. It is hard to understand Schmermuly’s
testimony unless this is what he means. Neither the defense nor the
prosecution at Nuremberg appeared interested in finding out what he
meant. The passage is as follows: EXHIBIT
4 CROSS-EXAMINATION MR. MINSKOFF: Mr. Witness, will you tell the
court what your inmate number was that you have inscribed on your hand,
on your arm? A. 13955. It wasn't tattooed on my arm
for one reason [?]. Only Jews and foreigners had their arms tattooed.
That did not apply to Reich Germans. Q. You mean that did not apply to Aryan Reich
Germans? A. Well, there were some Germans who had
themselves tattooed voluntarily [?], but none of them were forced to do
that at Monowitz. [SCHMERMULY WAS A REICHS
GERMAN. DOES THIS MEAN THAT THE INMATES TATTOOED EACH
OTHER, OR THAT THEY APPROACHED THE GUARDS AND SAID, “HEY FRITZ, COULD
YOU DO ME A FAVOUR AND TATTOO ME WITH MY INMATE NUMBER? I MIGHT FORGET
IT.” SINCE TATTOOING OCCURS IN ALL PRISONS, IT IS MY
BELIEF THAT THE FIRST ALTERNATIVE IS THE MORE PROBABLE INTERPRETATION,
AND THAT THE INMATES TATTOOED EACH OTHER. JUST AS AN EXAMPLE, 20% OF ALL
INMATES OF THE SOVIET GULAGS OF THE 1930S WERE SAID TO BEAR “GULAG
TATTOOS”, OFTEN CONSISTING OF ANTI-SOVIET SLOGANS. ] I
believe that the Jews got the idea of tattooing each other from
criminals and tattooed each other solely to blackmail the Germans,
morally and financially. Another possibility is that the allegation is
of Communist origin. Footnote 17 of L’Affaire Faurisson,
interview with Storia Illustrata, states: (translation:
“The Polish communists themselves recognize that the tattooing
was intended to render escape more difficult and to facilitate
investigation as to the origins of captured fugitives; see Contribution
à l’histoire du KL-Auschwitz, publication of the Auschwitz Museum,
1968, pp. 16 and 99.” The
fact remains that there is no evidence that anyone was actually
tattooed. I
believe that the American authorities found it convenient to encourage
the inmates to make these accusations, but knew that they were not true,
and for that reason never made any effort to prove the truth of these
accusations at any “war crimes” trial. It’s like the “gas
chamber at Dachau” The Americans knew perfectly well that there was
never any “gas chamber at Dachau” and never attempted to prove that
there was, but it suited them to encourage others to say that there was
(see, for example, my article THE GAS CHAMBER AT DACHAU – NOW YOU SEE
IT, NOW YOU DON’T, available through the search engine on www.cwporter.com).
OBJECTION: “Would the Jews lie
to us?” Answer: that is not the point. The point is an inversion of
the burden of proof. If I go to court with a black eye and accuse
someone of assaulting me, I will not be permitted to say, “Are you
accusing me of lying? Do you think I gave myself this black eye?”
Under our legal system, the court need not pronounce as to the origins
of my black eye. The court is entitled to decide, on the basis of the
evidence, that is there is insufficient evidence of an assault, in which
case the defendant will be acquitted. But
since the question has been raised, the answer is, yes, the enemies of
National Socialism (not just the Jews) do, in point of fact, not to put
too fine a point on it, have a very poor record for truth and honesty.
For example, in 1944, the OFFICIAL VERSION of the “Holocaust”,
peddled to and by the World Jewish Congress, believed and repeated by
Anthony Eden, President Roosevelt, and the international organizations
in Geneva, was that the Germans were exterminating the Jews in TRAINS
FILLED WITH QUICKLIME (STORY OF A SECRET STATE, by Jan Karski, 1944,
available from www.alibris.com
or www.abebooks.com
for about 3 dollars, first edition). (Anybody who has every put
quicklime down an outhouse knows you can handle the stuff with bare
hands.) The book contains no mention of any other methods of mass
killing, and no mention of any “gas chambers”, and must be read
all the way through to appreciate this simple fact. Karski survived the
war by 50 years, became a professor at Georgetown University, hob-nobbed
with several Presidents, but never renounced this lie. Instead, he
compounded it with other lies: that he had ATTEMPTED TO WARN THE WORLD
OF THE “HOLOCAUST”, BUT WAS NOT BELIEVED. He is said to have adopted
an air of great suffering, like a Polish Elie Wiesel. On his own
account, he WAS believed. Americans were asked to make “greater
sacrifices” to save them from extermination by the Germans, not in gas
chambers, but in “quicklime trains”! This is why the Americans went
to war. Because of liars like Karski. The Internet is not reliable where
Karsi is concerned. One must read the book. So
the matter stands as follows. SHOW
ME OR DRAW ME A NAZI “GAS CHAMBER” SHOW
ME OR DRAW ME A NAZI “ELECTRICAL CHAMBER”
SHOW
ME OR DRAW ME A NAZI “VACUUM CHAMBER” SHOW
ME OR DRAW ME A NAZI “ELECTRICAL CHAMBER”
SHOW
ME OR DRAW ME A NAZI “STEAM CHAMBER” SHOW
ME OR DRAW ME A NAZI “PEDAL-DRIVEN BRAIN-BASHING MACHINE” SHOW
ME OR DRAW ME A NAZI “PORTABLE OVEN” SHOW
OR DRAW ME A NAZI “SPANKING
MACHINE” SHOW
ME OR DRAW ME A NAZI “QUICKLIME TRAIN” And,
last but not least, SHOW ME OR DRAW ME A NAZI “TATTOOING
MACHINE”
CARLOS W. PORTER FEBRUARY 2004
INTERNET SITES OF INTEREST: French page with history
of tattooing in various cultures: How tattoos work: http://doj.shef.ac.uk/student/web02/joa99nc/My%20Webs/how_tattoos_work.htm Prison tattoo artists
and prison tattoos: http://www.convictsandcops.com/tattoo.htm Very interesting
example of tattoo cover-up work. Any tattoo can be covered with another
tattoo. The difference here
is that Andy Nevil is one of the best tattooists in the world. If the
link doesn’t work, copy http://home.tiscali.be/rastamann/
into the window of your browser, look
for ARTWORK, EN COURS, then click on YVES, lower right: http://home.tiscali.be/rastamann/nouvellepage158.htm Health aspects of
tattooing. Disease prevention: http://people.howstuffworks.com/tattoo9.htm Invention, design and
principle of the modern tattooing machine: http://people.howstuffworks.com/tattoo5.htm How to make your own
tattooing machine (e-book for amateur and illegal tattooists): http://www.tmbamall.com/hermitware/tattooing.htm Home-made prison
tattooing machines and history of tattooing: Vendor of tattooing
equipment issues serious health warning: http://www.etnj.com/tatshack/disclaimer.html Issues of legal and illegal tattooing: http://www.luckyfish.com/laregs.html Hoaxoco$t tattoo sites
(note the lack of detail relating to the tattoo process): http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/Tattoos.html http://isurvived.org/StoryAlive_Holocaust.html http://www.moravian.edu/news/releases/2002/022.htm http://holocaust.hklaw.com/essays/1998/98GA1.htm US Government offers
financial motivation to obtain “Holocaust tattoos”: http://policy.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200302335 Neurotic Jewish
attitudes towards “Holocaust” tattooing and tattooing generally: http://judaism.about.com/library/3_askrabbi_c/bl_tattoos_holocaust.htm http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0425/2_62/103415711/p3/article.jhtml?term= http://www.babelguides.com/view/work/16773 http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=19990712&c=2&s=wiener Family of Jewish
tattooists: http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.09.19/living5.tatoo.html The use of tattoos as a political weapon and
“proof” of a “Holocaust”: http://isurvived.org/StoryAlive_Holocaust.html (complete with the usual “miracle”). European Union tattooing regulations: http://europa.eu.int/comm/consumers/cons_safe/news/eis_tattoo_reg_052003_en.pdf United States tattooing regulations – by state: http://www.nbbs.com/statetattoo.html
(very detailed -- click on state) http://www.tattoobodypiercinginstitute.com/bloodborne/states.html
Tattooing in late antiquity: http://www.ucpress.edu/scan/ca-e/161/gustafson.161.pdf
DOCUMENTARY APPENDIX: ANNEX 1 COMPLETE LIST OF ALL REFERENCES TO THE TATTOOING OF CONCENTRATION
INMATES AT NUREMBERG (13 NUREMBERG TRIALS, OVER 200,000 PAGES OF
TRANSCRIPT, MILLIONS OF PAGES OF DOCUMENTS, AND THIS IS ALL THERE IS).
FIRST NUREMBERG TRIAL (IMT) vol. VIII, p. 317: “COUNSELOR SMIRNOV: Do you have any proof that you were an inmate of
this camp? SCHMAGALEVSKAYA: I have the number which was tattooed on my arm. COUNSELOR SMIRNOV: That is what the Oscwiesim inmates call the ‘visiting
card’? SCHMAGALEVSKAYA: Yes.” [COMMENT: In a real trial, this would be called “arguing a matter not
in evidence”. I.e., before the possession of a “tattoo” could
be accepted as “proof” that a witness was in a camp, a showing would
have to be made that the Germans actually tattooed camp inmates. No
proof of this contention was ever offered.] NATIONAL MILITARY TRIALS; POHL TRIAL: (included to show irrationality of trial evidence generally) Opening Statements of the Prosecution and Defense: A. Extracts From
the Opening Statement of the Prosecution: The SS Industries: Part
1", in Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military
Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. Vol. 5: United States v.
Oswald Pohl, et. al. (Case 4: 'Pohl Case'). District of Columbia: GPO,
1950. pp. 242-247: “At
Dachau and Mauthausen, human skin of dead prisoners was used to make
lamp shades, saddles, riding britches, gloves, house slippers, and
ladies' hand bags. Tattooed skin was particularly valued by the SS men.” (Extracts From Testimony of Prosecution Witness Dr. Bernhard Lauber", in Trials of
War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control
Council Law No. 10. Vol. 5: United States v. Oswald Pohl, et. al. (Case
4: 'Pohl Case'). District of Columbia: GPO, 1950. pp. 412-416.) “Q. Did you receive a tattoo when you entered Auschwitz? A. Yes. My number is 161374. Q. Will you show the Tribunal your tattoo, please? A. Certainly. (Witness rises, unbuttons shirt and bares fore arm to
Court.)” Extracts From Testimony of Prosecution Witness Dr. Victor Abend: Part 1", in
Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under
Control Council Law No. 10. Vol. 5: United States v. Oswald Pohl, et.
al. (Case 4: 'Pohl Case'). District of Columbia: GPO, 1950. pp.
641-646: “…The following day we went to be tattooed, again under severe
beatings. Q. Were you tattooed? A. Yes. I have the number 160879. Q. Do you know whether they tattooed inmates in other concentration camps
or not? A. Only at Auschwitz. Q. In other words, any inmate who has a tattoo on his arm was an inmate at
Auschwitz; is that right? A. Yes. That is correct.” (The following two items are, again, included to show the irrationality of
the trial accusations generally) Extracts From the Closing Statement of the Prosecution: Part 3", in
Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under
Control Council Law No. 10. Vol. 5: United States v. Oswald Pohl, et.
al. (Case 4: 'Pohl Case'). District of Columbia: GPO, 1950. pp.
832-837: “Another inmate, from Camp Buchenwald and Dora, gave the reason for the
construction of the crematorium at Dora. For some Lime, the bodies of
the inmates were hauled from Dora to Buchenwald for burning. But it
became quite embarrassing to the SS, he said, when the drunken
drivers would lurch and careen over the highways spilling corpses out of
the truck-beds. People on their way to church would stumble over the
bodies. It obviously would not do to have these constant menaces
to traffic and religious meditation and so a crematorium was built at
Dora. This witness regularly conducted large parties through the
camp at Buchenwald. They weren't shown everything, he testified, but
they were able to see a great deal with their own eyes. He himself
showed the parties exhibits of shrunken skulls [sic] and tattooed
skin…” Judgement: B. Concurring Opinion by Judge Michael A. Musmanno: Treatment of
Concentration Camp Inmates: Part 2", in Trials of War Criminals
Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No.
10. Vol. 5: United States v. Oswald Pohl, et. al. (Case 4: 'Pohl Case').
District of Columbia: GPO, 1950. pp. 1088-1092. “At times, when an inmate's
death was decided upon, the camp commandant would inform him that on the
following day he was to try to escape. In the camp office, the man's
death already had been recorded "killed while attempting
escape." The Austrian Consul General, Dr. Stiedler, was informed
one day of the fate which awaited him the following day. Dr. Stiedler
pleaded that he could not do this since he was a faithful Catholic, and
condemned suicide. Nonetheless, the next day, while approaching a chain
of guards, he was shot down. (Tr. p. 97.) The witness, Josef Ackermann, who related the above incident, was an
inmate first in Dachau, then in Buchenwald, and then in Nordhausen. At
Buchenwald he served as physician's clerk in the pathological section,
and was required to keep records of autopsies. The chief of the medical
department in department [division] D, WVHA, Dr. Lolling, frequently
wrote the director of the pathological section at Buchenwald: "I
need immediately 10 entire skeletons, 12 skulls, or individual parts of
the body, or we need some interesting bullet wounds." One day the
camp physician, pointing to an inmate passing by, said to the witness: "Dr. Ackerman, I would like to have this skull on my desk
tomorrow." And then, according to the witness: "The very same evening, the prisoner was ordered to report to the
hospital and on the next day he was on my autopsy table and the skull
was taken apart, and it was turned over to Dr. Hoven." (Tr. p.
940.) One specialty of the pathological section of the Buchenwald concentration
camp was to remove the skin of prisoners and tan it: "Production was carried out by two ways, either it was put into a
transparent form, or it was tanned so that the skin became tough, like
leather." (Tr. p. 940.) The inmate who carried tattooed pictures on his body walked a precarious
path. He was immediately catalogued and his skin marked for the collection
(after his death) of tattoos kept in the special museum in
Berlin. Hunchbacks or other persons with a body structure of medical
interest excited the anatomical and macabre avarice of half-crazed
doctors who were not averse to killing to obtain the skeletons to
incorporate into the collections of the SS doctors, or the display in
the SS Medical Academy at Graz. (V/178, Do. 499-PS.) Delving into the medieval past for ideas on torture and brutalities,
devising schemes of their own for unique, sadistic practices on the body
and soul of their fellowmen, the degenerate and power-crazed SS men,
ever seeking some new, bizarre bestiality for their criminally warped
imaginations, went to the jungle tribes of Africa for anatomical
grotesquenesses not theretofore known in Europe. As Indians scalped
their deceased foes certain African tribes bore away the decapitated
heads of their fallen enemies, and by a certain process reduced them to
the size of a doll’s head. A returned traveller from Africa [COMMENT: Shrunken heads come from South America, not Africa. The shrunken
head produced at Nuremberg was later found to be hundreds of years old,
and originated from an anthropological museum. No forensic tests were
ever performed during any of the trials.] was taken into the pathological section to instruct the SS staff in the
mysteries of skull shrinking [!], and the revolting hideous thing was
done. Various heads were shrunk, and, according to the witness, the SS
men liked to have these things on their writing desks in order to
consider themselves important. (Tr. p. 943.)… » NATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL – I.G. FARBEN TRIAL Slave Labor-Count Three: E. Affidavits and
Testimonies of Prosecution Witnesses: 2.
Affidavit and Testimony of Norbert Wollheim: a. Affidavit", in
Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under
Control Council Law No. 10. Vol. VIII: United States v. Carl Krauch, et.
al. (Case 6: 'IG Farben Case'). District of Columbia: GPO, 1952. pp.
589-592. TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NI-9807 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 1476
I,
Norbert Wollheim, presently living at Wakenitzerstrasse 34 b, Luebeck,
having been informed that I shall be subJect to punishment if I make a
false statement, herewith testify under oath voluntarily and without
duress: … [Deletion] 3. Concentration camp Monowitz consisted of
approximately 20 barracks at the time when I arrived there in March
1943. As I found later, they were all quite full. Hardly any inmate had
a bed of his own. The total of inmates at that time was about 3 000
prisoners. We went to work for the first time in the IG plant already
the day after we arrived, having all been registered and tattooed. My
own prison number is 107,984. [POSSIBLE CRIMINAL ORIGINS OF THE LEGEND] “Slave Labor-Count Three: G. Affidavits and
Testimonies of the Defense Witnesses: 6. Affidavit and Testimony
of Fritz Schermuly, A German Convict Interned at Auschwitz Concentration
Camp: b. Testimony of Fritz Schermuly: Part 1", in Trials of
War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control
Council Law No. 10. Vol. VIII: United States v. Carl Krauch, et. al.
(Case 6: 'IG Farben Case'). District of Columbia: GPO, 1952. pp. 825-830.
“TESTIMONY OF FRITZ SCHERMULY BEFORE
COMMISSIONER MULROY DIRECT EXAMINATION DR. SEIDL (counsel for defendant Duerrfeld):
Witness, on 9/16/1947, you made an affidavit, Document Duerrfeld 402,
Duerrfeld Exhibit 103, [Reproduced immediately above.] available to the
defense. It was sworn before a notary in Munich on that same day ? WITNESS SCHERMULY: Yes. Q. Witness, are these statements made in that
affidavit made by you voluntarily? A. Yes, this affidavit was made voluntarily. Q. And it was signed by you voluntarily, was it? Q. In
order to complete the record, would you please state your full name and
the date of your birth? A. I, Fritz Schermuly, was born on the 21st of July
1897, at Munich. Q. I have a few supplemental questions to put to
you, Witness. At the beginning of your affidavit, you state that
after serving a term in prison for trade in narcotics you were sent
to a concentration camp, Mauthausen, in November 1941 on preventive
custody ? Q. Had
you been sentenced by another court in Germany before that ? A. As far as I remember, I was sentenced in 1920
with 7 days imprisonment; 1923, 2 years and 6 months; and in 1930, 1
year; in 1931, 2 years and 9 months; and then afterwards I served my
sentence in the camp. [Deletion] CROSS-EXAMINATION MR. MINSKOFF: Mr. Witness, will you tell the
court what your inmate number was that you have inscribed on your hand,
on your arm? A. 13955. It wasn't tattooed on my arm
for one reason. Only Jews and foreigners had their arms tattooed. That
did not apply to Reich Germans. Q. You mean that did not apply to Aryan Reich
Germans? A. Well, there were some Germans who had
themselves tattooed voluntarily, but none of them were forced to do that
at Monowitz. Q. Now, Mr. Witness, in your affidavit you
mentioned that you served the term of imprisonment for trade in
narcotics, and then were sent to the. concentration camp Mauthausen in
November 1941. On your direct examination by Dr. Seidl, you elaborated
upon your affidavit and mentioned several earlier convictions in 1920,
and 1923, and I believe one in 1931. You also added that you had a green
triangle, which is the criminal triangle. Now, Mr. Witness, just so the
record will be complete, will you tell the court the first time you were
convicted of a crime? A. I believe in 1920. Q. And will you tell the court what the nature of
the crime was? A. Because of theft. Q. Mr. Witness, will you now tell the court the
second time you were convicted of a crime? A. The second time in 1923, beginning of 1923,
April or so, because of theft, and because of receiving. Q. Now, Mr. Witness, I know this is some time back,
but isn't it a fact that you were convicted of a crime in May 1922 ? A. Quite possible, but I can't remember it now.
Yes, I think 2 months; I think so, yes. Q. And that was also for theft ? A. Yes, yes, theft, that is right. Q. And do you recall again in 1922, the following
month, being convicted for theft? A. Yes. Well, that concerned one trial. As far as I
remember, that was all one trial; 2 months. Q. Now, Mr. Witness, the 1920 conviction, and the
May 1922 convictions, and the June 1922 conviction, were three separate
convictions with three separate sentences. Now do you not recall that at
all at the present time ? A. I only know that I was imprisoned for 2 months.
It may have been connected with the other sentence, but I don't know. DR. SEIDL: Mr. Commissioner, I don't want to object
to that question; I am not sure whether the translation came through. He
said that there was one trial but that a number of deeds were considered
at the same time during that one trial. Perhaps the prosecutor will
repeat his question. MR. MINSKOFF: I w ill be glad to. Mr. Witness, will
you try to recall whether it is a fact or not that after the 1920
conviction which you spoke of, there were two convictions in 1922, 1
month apart, and both for theft, and both involved separate sentences A. Yes, I had two sentences, but only one sentence
was served by me but there were two actual trials connected in one
sentence, two procedures connected in one sentence; that is quite
possible, yes. Q. Alright. Mr. Witness, now the next time you
were convicted of a crime you state was 1923, in May. A. Yes, beginning of 1923. Q. And what was the nature of that crime ? A. That was receiving, theft, and burglary; all
together, a sentence of 3 years. Q. Perhaps there is a little confusion here, Mr.
Witness. I think you are a little bit ahead of me on your dates. I think
you are thinking about July 1923. Now in May 1923, do you recall whether
you were convicted of a crime of trading in gold and silver and
platinum, on the 14 of May 1923 [5/14/1923]? A. That was, yes, yes, that concerned that matter;
8 days or something I am not quite sure. That is quite possible, yes.
That was some illegal trading; yes. Q. And then the following month, Mr. Witness, do
you recall being convicted of grand larceny? A. Yes; 2 years and 6 months. Q. And
also 5 years loss of civil rights. A. Five years, yes. Continued: pp. 830-832. Q. And then, Mr. Witness, on the second of July
1923 were you convicted of another crime? A. That was receiving, yes. Q. That was receiving stolen goods ? Q. Now,
Mr. Witness, when was the next time that you were convicted of a crime? A. Nineteen-thirty, I think. Q. And what was the nature of that crime ? A. Receiving stolen goods.” ANNEX 2
EXCERPTS
FROM GERMAN PAPERBACK EDITION OF “IBM AND THE HOLOCAUST” BY EDWIN
BLACK. In August 1943, a timber merchant from Bendzin, Poland, arrived at Auschwitz. He was among a group of 400 inmates, mostly Jews. First, a doctor examined him briefly to determine his fitness for work. His physical information was noted on a medical record. Second, his full prisoner registration was completed with all personal details. Third his name was checked against the indices of the Political Section to see if he would be subjected to special punishment. Finally, he was registered in the Labor Assignment Office and assigned a characteristic five-digit IBM Hollerith number, 44673. The five-digit Hollerith number was part of a custom punch card system devised by IBM to track prisoners in Nazi concentration camps, including the slave labor at Auschwitz. The Polish timber merchant’s punch card number would follow him from labor assignment to labor assignment as Hollerith systems tracked him and his availability for work, and reported it to the central inmate file eventually kept at Department DII. Department DII of the SS Economics Administration in Oranienburg oversaw all camp salve labor assignments, utilizing elaborate IBM systems. Later in the summer of 1943, the Polish timber merchant’s same five-digit Hollerith number, 44673, was tattooed on his forearm. Eventually, during the summer of 1943, all non-Germans at Auschwitz were similarly tattooed. Tattoos, however, quickly evolved at Auschwitz. Soon, they bore no further relation to Hollerith compatibility for one reason: the Hollerith number was designed to trace a working inmate – not a dead one. Once the daily death rate at Auschwitz climbed, Hollerith-based numbering simply became outmoded. Soon, ad hoc numbering systems were inaugurated at Auschwitz. Various number ranges, often with letter attached, were assigned to prisoners in ascending sequence. Dr. Josef Mengele, who performed cruel experiments, tattooed his own distinct number series on ‘patients’. Tattoo numbering schemes ultimately took on a chaotic incongruity all its own as an internal Auschwitz-specific identification system. However, Hollerith numbers remained the chief method Berlin employed to centrally identify and track prisoners at Auschwitz. For example, in late 1943, some 6,500 healthy, working Jews were ordered to the gas chamber by the SS. But their murder was delayed for two days as the Political Section meticulously checked each of their numbers against the Section’s own card index. The Section was under orders to temporarily reprieve any Jews with traces of Aryan parentage. Sigismund Gajda was another Auschwitz inmate processed by the Hollerith system. Born in Kielce, Poland, Gajda was about 40 years of age when on f May 18. 1943, he arrived at Auschwitz. A plain paper form, labeled “Personal Inmate Card’, listed all of Gajda’s personal information. He professed Roman Catholicism, had two children, and his work skill was marked ‘mechanic’. The reverse side of his Personal Inmate Card listed nine previous work assignments. Once Gajda’s card was processed by IBM equipment, a large indicia in typical Nazi Gothic script was rubber-stamped at the bottom: ‘Hollerith erfasst’, or ‘Hollerith registered’. Indeed, that designation was stamped in large letters on hundreds of thousands of processed Personal Inmate Cards at camps all across Europe. The Extermination by Labor campaign itself depended upon specially designed IBM systems that matched worker skills and locations with labor needs across Nazi-dominated Europe. Once the prisoner was too exhausted to work, he was murdered by gas or bullet. Exterminated workers were coded ‘six’ in the IBM system. The Polish timber merchant’s Hollerith tattoo, Sigismund Gajda’s inmate form, and the victimization of millions more at Auschwitz live on as dark icons of IBM’s conscious 12-year alliance with Nazi Germany. IBM’s custom-designed prisoner-tracking Hollerith punch card equipment allowed the Nazis to efficiently manage the hundreds of concentration camps and sub-camps throughout Europe, as well as the millions who passed through them. Auschwitz’s camp code in the IBM tabulation system was 001. Nearly every Nazi concentration camp operated a Hollerith Department known as the Hollerith Abeilung. The three-part Hollerith system of paper forms, punch cards and processing machines varied form camp to camp and from year to year, depending upon conditions. In some camps, such as Dachau and Storkow, as many as two dozen IBM sorters, tabulators and printers were installed. Other facilities operated punchers only, and submitted their cards to central locations such as Mauthausen or Berlin. In some camps, such as Stutfhoff, the plain paper forms were coded and processed elsewhere. Hollerith activity, whether paper, punching or processing, were frequently – but not always – located within the camp itself, consigned to a special bureau called the Labor Assignment Office, known in German as the Arbietseinsatz. The Arbeitseinsatz issued the all-important life-sustaining daily work assignments, and processed all inmates cards and labor transfer rosters. IBM did not sell any of its punch card machines to Nazi Germany. The equipment was leased by the moth. Each month, often more frequently, authorized repairmen, working directly for or trained by IBM, serviced the machines on-site – whether in the midst of Berlin or a concentration camp. In addition, all spare parts were supplied by |
