Talk:Genickschussanlage

Doubts
I'm not a holocaust denier but this particular device doesn't apear to have served the claimed purpose.

Let's see the front side. I assume that it should be lots of blood. Did they wash it? If they did, why is dirt on the walls? Note that there is aproximately the same amount of the dirt on the front side and the back side, but only the front side should be washed in case of blood stains.

The back of the device should have burns caused by the hot gasses expelled by the firearms, but I see none. And, in fact, why such a sophistication? If they wanted to kill somebody, they had the very simple option to take a gun and pull the trigger right in front of the victim.

By the way, with such small wheels the cart, can be used only indoors on concrete flooring. And, considering it's size, if it would be filled with human corpses it would weight several tons. I don't thik anybody could move it with such small wheels.

I'm sure the holacaust was a very real thing. But not in that room.

To me it appears to be just what it looks, a simple height measuring device. Srelu (talk) 19:38, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I got serious doubts about this as well. Sounds like propaganda, even more than the gas chambers. 105.0.0.159 (talk) 20:29, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

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Soviet parallels
Fairly similar methods are attested from some of Stalin's hard labour/death camps in the late 1930s/40s: for instance Solzhenitsyn recounts in GULAG Archipelago, pt 3, how secret mass executions were carried out (attested by witnesses) in some camps: the condemned persons, who did not know that they were going to die, were marched on foot or driven on haycarts at night, hands bound behind their backs, to an outlying building. Each person in turn was led down a corridor into a special booth inside and once he/she was in, shot in the head by a man hiding in a corner or behind a small window from another room. Then dragged out and some of the blood washed off the floor, and then the next one led in and killed. The idea, of course, was to prevent the victims from clearly realizing they were all to be killed. The same method can also be seen re-enacted in the closing segment of Andrzej Wajda's film about the Katyn massacre; this is around the same time. 83.251.160.79 (talk) 12:32, 3 February 2019 (UTC)