Talk:Thies Christophersen

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Almost everything in this article leans toward a lie. Search the web if you need any accurate information. Lie 1 - never SS anything Lie 2 - prevented from seeing his family - saw one son just before he died 159.105.80.141 11:37, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

He wasn't allowed a visa to bury one son I believe. Telling his eyewitness story didn't endear him to many.159.105.80.141 12:24, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

If you think there are any inaccuracies - whether just two, or "almost everything" - you are quite welcome to argue your case here, ideally with some sources. Calling the inaccuracies "lies" is rather inflammatory though. I only translated the article so I can't vouch for any of the content, or the intentions of its German-language authors. Lfh 12:33, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Intersting to hear this is from the German edition I guess. Germans should be able to fill in the details far better than the rest of the world - of course there is the possibliity that they are less able ( depending on how total the censureship of information is there. ) Search the web - better than trying to beef up wiki - get a wider view. 159.105.80.141 14:57, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Besides being stationed nearby, Christophersen states that he also frequently visited the Auschwitz and Birkineau camps in particular to find recruits for farming projects. Being able to directly interact with inmates there is why he is certain the mass-extermination claims are fabrications. 72.73.77.116 (talk) 03:52, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Germans knew nothing about the Holocaust
Another German that knew and saw nothing. There are millions of them. The Nazis must have been master of keeping this totally secret.

Actually here we have a German who was an eyewitness - we seem to love eyewitnesses except those who disagree with us it appears. The idea that such a large project - the holocaust - could be done with so many people and over such a large time period without any documentation is..... well it needs a lot of eyewitnesses to make up for the deficient ( far more than we have I would suggest). The documents that are available - tons of them - all point away from a holocaust. The Germans may not have known or saw anything for the simple reason that there may not have been anything to know or see. Also no group -even Germans - are that good at keeping secrets and running giant governmental burearucies by word of mouth.159.105.80.141 (talk) 11:48, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah and if you even dare say something like this in Europe they throw you in jail. What kind of truth needs this much protection? I wouldn't say there wasn't a holocaust. I just think, as you may, that the figures are very bloated.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hannibalcaesar (talk • contribs) 15:29, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

I believe he was with his son when he died - the courts/one judge in his last year decided he was too sick with cancer to harass anymore. His "special leader" job was as an agronomist ( growing dandelions with several hundred prisoners as laborers to research dandelion latex being used for a rubber substitute I believe). The German wiki seems to make an very big deal out of him and Zundel making 2 CDs in one day - maybe nonthreatening people make 2 CDs in 2 days only in Germany. In America I believe most game shows, soap operas, etc entire year seasons are wrapped up as fast as possible - in Do You Want to Be a Millionaire, I am certain that the host and guests do not come back tomorrow to film 2 more minutes. I would guess the entire year is wrapped in a week or so. Maybe Germans would call that cheating.159.105.80.141 (talk) 18:54, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Refs. for the apparent smear attempt "...sentenced to prison several times for a number of crimes..."?
I have removed this line from the article: "He was sentenced to prison several times for a number of crimes..." It had no citation and I can find no evidence for such a claim. I therefore assume it to be an ad hominem smear. According to an article by Mark Weber, Christophersen was imprisoned in 1980: "In the 1980s he served a year in prison on charges of 'insulting the state' ("Verunglimpfung des Staates") and "insulting the memory of the dead." But this as a source I think would not be deemed acceptable as a wiki reference. And anyway it does not mention any other imprisonments nor any such thing as a number of other crimes. So unless and until anyone can find a verifiable acceptable reference as a source, I have deleted it. --Mystichumwipe (talk) 14:13, 18 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Sounds pretty much like in a repressive dictatorship. Jailing people for telling what they experienced? 105.8.6.153 (talk) 19:30, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

'but was deported in 1996'
German article says something different, but they do not reference their sources directly. Xx236 (talk) 08:07, 2 August 2023 (UTC)