From: mvanalst@rbi.com (Mark Van Alstine) Newsgroups: alt.revisionism Subject: Re: I'll ask again: Why is Holocaust denial a "bad thing"? (Was: Clack, clack, clack, clack, clack) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 22:50:57 -0700 Organization: rbi software systems Lines: 112 Message-ID:References: <333680c1.1508325@news.sprynet.com> <19970328060500.BAA08509@ladder01.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rbi142.rbi.com X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.0.5b5 In article <19970328060500.BAA08509@ladder01.news.aol.com>, ceacaa@aol.com (Ceacaa) wrote: > Miloslav Bilik wrote on 23 Mar 1997 > >I agree that Auschwitz was less efficient > >as a murder system than > >Treblinka or other camps, but we shouldn't > >forget that Auschwitz had > >two uses: labor, and murdering of the people unable to work. > > > > On March 23 Mr. Bilik raised the claim that > Auschwitz was a labor camp. The presumption > behind that claim is that the labor was > profitable. But, if it cost $10 per day to feed, house, > guard and manage an inmate, why keep an inmate > around who was only producing $8 per day of goods > or sevices? It is a money loosing proposition. And Mr. Allen's source for his above unsubstantiated claim that it "cost $10 per day to feed, house, guard and manage an inmate" is? As we can see below, the cost for the upkeep of Nazi concentration camp prisoners per day was RM 1.34 per male prisoner and RM 1.22 per female prisoner. In comparison, the daily wages paid by German companies (e.g. I.G. Farben) to the SS for the use of prisoner labor was RM 3 for unskilled labor and RM 4 for skilled labor. That would imply that the SS made a per prisoner daily _profit_ of somewhere between RM 1.66 and RM 2.78. (cf. van Pelt, _Auschwitz_, p.208.) > Mr. Bilik: Let's figure out what the BASIC > EXPENSE in maintaining a prisoner was, food, housing, > guards, fences. Summary costs for the upkeep of prisoners in concentration camp The costs for clothing, accomodation and food per capita and day are: a) for female prisoners RM 1.22 b) for male prisoners RM 1.34 These sums were calculated as follows: a) _Clothing_ The calculation of the cost of male clothing is based on the supplies budget of January 18, 1944, (wear and tear) includ- ing cleaning and repair. The annual sum is: RM 142.35 = per capita and day RM -.39 The calculation of the costs of female clothing is based on the supplies budget of Janaury 19, 1944, (wear and tear) including cleaning and repair. The annual sum is: RM 96.43 = per capita and day RM -.27 b) _Accomodation_ The cost of accomodation is based on H.Dv. 320/2 page 12, No. 56 and amounts per capita and day to RM -.30 This includes: a) camp equipment and replacement RM -.05 b) management costs (heating, kighting, cleaning, water supply etc.) RM -.15 c) rent of premises RM -.10 --------- total RM -.30 c) _Food_ According to the information supplied by the concentration camp the cost of food, including supplements for prisoners engaged in heavy work, per prisoner and day is RM -.65 Source: Distal and Jakusch, _Concentration Camp Dachau 1933-1945_, p.139, Translation of plate 287; Reference: Bundesarchiv Koblenz > This would be the first step in looking at your claim > that the Germans kept all those tens of thousands of > inmates working in profitable activities. Indeed. Too bad Mr. Allen never took this first step before blathering his above drivel. > As opposed to the Revisionist view that the > Germans often put people to work at > "make-work" tasks. Indeed. Such "make-work" as sorting the plunder of the victims murdered in the gas chambers for shipment back to Germany; working (and dying) in the DEST quarries; Building (and later working at) the I.G. Farben synthetic fuel plant at Monowitz; and, cruelest of ironies, being forced to build their own private hell: KL Auschwitz. For those interested in Mr. Allen's prolific Holocaust denial and crackpot "theories," please peruse DejaNews and visit the Nizkor Project at: http://www.dejanews.com/ http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi?people/a/allen.andrew Mark -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties--but right through every human heart--and all human hearts." -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, "The Gulag Archipelago" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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