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Thank you, Con, for that well-thought argument. I'd also like to express my thanks to the audience for taking an interest in this topic. This isn't going to be as easy as I had initially thought. My opponent saturates his rebuttal with some of the same methods of psychological influence as those put forth by the mainstream media to propagate the evidently questionable Holocaust storyline. He attributes any dispute to the widely-accepted account to "alien abductions" and "Big Foot sightings", despite the fact that the popular Holocaust storyline is far more resemblant of fantasy-based conspiracy than the claims made by revisionists. Con demonstrates his inadequate education regarding modern events by citing the "9/11 Truth movement" as a reference for absurdity. Clearly, he is not aware of the thousands of qualified architects and engineers who have petitioned against the conclusions of the 9/11 Commission [1], due to the unrealistic conclusions pertaining to WTC7, in favor of an independent investigation-- hardly the mark of "fringe crazies". Con's initial argument is one of ad hominem attack against anyone who disputes the Holocaust storyline, as being a "Holocaust denier", regardless of which aspects and to what extent these individuals challenge the proclaimed events (bear in mind, the same is being applied now with the term "9/11 denier"). Throughout his rebuttal, Con makes repeated accusations of "pseudo-science" being the method of influence by revisionist scholars, ignoring the fact that the same accusation holds equal ground against Holocaust affirmationists, even going as far as to cite one author's personal opinion of the Institute for Historical Review and one proclaimed revisionist as purported evidence to the illegitimacy of revisionist studies. 1) In Response to: The Nuremberg Trials The first objective argument made by Con is in reference to the Nuremberg Trials, where more than a dozen SS members testified to having witnessed some aspect of the alleged 'extermination plan', primary emphasis being on Rudolf Hoess. According to both Hoess, himself, and an anti-Nazi publication, Hoess' wife and children were given death threats to disclose his whereabouts [2], and Hoess was subsequently tortured by British soldiers upon capture [3]. Furthermore, according to Senator Thomas Dodd, a US Representative at the Trials, the Nuremberg staff is about "seventy-five percent Jewish" [4]-- hardly the environment for a fair trial. My opponent believes that the Nazis who were on trial "had the most incentive to lie" and that it would have been a good legal strategy to do so. Let's consider that in any case where death is a potential penalty, a stated confession is often a way to escape such a fate. It is worth mentioning that the majority of SS who had 'confessed' to their crimes escaped a death sentence, several of them even being set free for being 'good' Nazis. Either way, testimony is worthless in any trial if it does not correspond to empirical evidence. Consider that nearly half of these Nazi testimonies contain references to Diesel exhaust gas chambers or 'gas vans'-- the plausibility of which has since been thoroughly demolished [5]. Hoess' testimony contains some of the most fundamental impossibilities regarding details of the administration of Zyklon-B as a method for execution, claiming it took only "3 to 15 minutes" to kill everyone in a gas chamber. This is, of course, a demonstrably impossible claim with any reasonable scrutiny as Zyklon-B pellets continue to outgas for several hours and there has never been any sustaining explanation for how these fatally-toxic pellets could have been disarmed to permit body removal between gassings. Most importantly, there is no significant iron-cyanide residue in the walls of any alleged gas chamber [6]. As a motive for influencing Nazis to lie in favor of a 'Holocaust', it's important to understand what had been gained post-war as a direct result of the alleged storyline being solidified by the Nuremberg Trials for the Jewish movement known as "Zionism". As a reparation for alleged Nazi atrocities, half of the country of Palestine was awarded to the Zionist movement as a "Jewish homeland" by the UN Partition Plan in 1947 [7]. 2. In Response to: Documentation My opponent makes the unfounded claim that there are many documents that support the alleged 'extermination plan' by citing no more than a link with half a dozen pieces of proclaimed "documentary evidence", several of which are now regarded by both sides of the Holocaust debate to be forgeries, and two entirely untraceable documents that have received critical acclaim by 'extermination' propagators without any physical evidence to back up the alleged implications. The 'Jaeger Report' was 'discovered' more than a decade after the war and is one of the only publicly-available documents in reference to the alleged "Einsatzgruppen" executions. The storyline, according to the tortured testimony at Nuremberg, is that nearly 2 million Jews were shot in various cities and then buried in mass graves. That could be 100 graves of 20,000 bodies or 1,000 graves of 2,000 bodies. Of course, no mass grave of any kind has ever been found that would fit this description, nor that of any other genocidal 'mass grave' as alleged by any of these reports. The alleged 'Himmler Report' is even more insubstantiated. It contains no official stationary, no signatures, initials that could be easily added, no filing or reference number, has shown no forensic confirmation via mass graves of any kind for numbers given and could have been typed by anyone. To be absolutely clear, there has been no physical evidence to support the claims made in any of these unverifiable documents. Con's next assertion illustrates his lack of familiarity with this topic: "When I said 'there were *many* other documents,' I wasn't exaggerating. 'Allied prosecutors submitted some 3,000 tons of records at the Nuremberg trial.' ... That means 6,000,000 pounds (lbs) of records corroborate the Holocaust." To suggest that there are more than a handful of documents, forged or authentic, to fortify the mainstream Holocaust storyline is ludicrous. The ones cited here by my opponent are among the few that have ever been claimed to exist. Con asserts that "many" documents support the 'gas chamber' hypothesis and 'extermination plan'-- perhaps, he wouldn't mind referring me to a larger collection of such material? Perhaps, in these "6,000,000 pounds(lbs.)" of incriminating documentation, there might be a blueprint of any of the alleged 'chambers', a documentary depiction of any gassing procedure, an autopsy report of any 'gassed' victim, a signed 'extermination' document, or otherwise? --- I will demonstrate the reality of Con's assertions regarding "Photos/video footage" and "Survivor testimony" in subsequent posts, while including any upcoming rebuttals, due to a limited character count per round. --- REFERENCES: 1. Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, http://www.ae911truth.org... 2. "Legions of Death", Rupert Butler, 1983, Hamlyn Paperbacks, p. 235 3. "Commandant in Auschwitz", Rudolf Hoess, Weidenfeld and Nicolson,. 1959, p. 173-175. 4. "Letters from Nuremberg: My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice", Christopher Dodd, Random House, 2008, p. 135. 5. "The Diesel Gas Chambers: Ideal for Torture - Absurd for Murder", Friedrich Paul Berg, http://www.codoh.com... 6. The Rudolf Report, Section 6, http://www.vho.org... 7. "The Zionist Story", Ronen Berelovich, http://www.youtube.com...