I have been reading more about the health care stuff. The witnesses from the Auschwitz (and Monowitz) hospitals confirm the same story - health care was expanded in 1943 in response to the absurd slave-labor death rate and the fact that almost every surviving slave was too ill to work properly; this was done solely to get slave laborers healthy enough to work again; if Jewish slave laborers could not get healthy they were selected and gassed; and among Jews, only slave laborers got health care (the large majority of Jews who were not slave laborers were gassed as soon as possible after arrival).
These witnesses were not only Germans prosecuted for their crimes and their Jewish accusers. They also included Polish inmates, such as Dr. Stefan Budziaszek, who attested to all the above (health care for inmates including working Jews; no health care for non-working and selected Jews who were gassed; selections for the gas chamber of Jewish slave laborers who did not recover in the hospital: etc. (Note that while Jewish inmates had to as a rule be treated by Jewish doctors, Budziaszek was in a kind of supervisory role at the Monowitz hospital which contained various Jews.)
"Revisionists" pretend the reality of health care in the camp is some groundbreaking discovery. But the general story of slave-laborers receiving health care including limited surgical procedures was confirmed by witnesses at the Nuremberg trials. So none of this contradicts even the earliest "mainstream" and "official" narrative of the Holocaust.
And why the Germans did this makes perfect sense - they wanted more labor efficiency in their slave army at Auschwitz, which engaged in labor that assisted the war.
These witnesses were not only Germans prosecuted for their crimes and their Jewish accusers. They also included Polish inmates, such as Dr. Stefan Budziaszek, who attested to all the above (health care for inmates including working Jews; no health care for non-working and selected Jews who were gassed; selections for the gas chamber of Jewish slave laborers who did not recover in the hospital: etc. (Note that while Jewish inmates had to as a rule be treated by Jewish doctors, Budziaszek was in a kind of supervisory role at the Monowitz hospital which contained various Jews.)
"Revisionists" pretend the reality of health care in the camp is some groundbreaking discovery. But the general story of slave-laborers receiving health care including limited surgical procedures was confirmed by witnesses at the Nuremberg trials. So none of this contradicts even the earliest "mainstream" and "official" narrative of the Holocaust.
And why the Germans did this makes perfect sense - they wanted more labor efficiency in their slave army at Auschwitz, which engaged in labor that assisted the war.
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