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SHOW ME OR DRAW ME A NAZI “TATTOOING MACHINE” (with documentary appendices) BY CARLOS W. PORTER Click here for more of this article along with photos INTRODUCTION: Of all the multifarious “symbols of the holocaust” (and EVERYTHING about the holocaust is symbolic), probably no symbol is more powerful than the “holocaust tattoos” of the “holocaust survivors.” Wherever you find lying jews, you find “survivors;” wherever you find “survivors,” you find “holocaust tattoos.” One “survivor” at a public meeting of some sort has the same sort of effect on the audience as a shot of curare or displaying a crucifix in front of a vampire: the “tattoos” (and the sob-stories with which they are inevitably accompanied), have a paralyzing effect on almost everyone who sees them; yet, astonishingly enough, apart from the tattoos themselves, there is not the slightest proof that the National Socialists tattooed anyone, ever, at Auschwitz or anywhere else. Let us examine this matter dispassionately, in a bit more detail. EXHIBIT 1 http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0241/black/php Excerpts from Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation; long description of the complexity of the registration number system, which allegedly included a reference to the inmate’s occupation, in case the Germans needed certain skills: QUOTE: “ In August 1943, a timber merchant from Bendzin, Poland, arrived at Auschwitz. He was among a group of 400 inmates, mostly jews. First, a doctor examined him briefly to determine his fitness for work. His physical information was noted on a medical record. Second, his full prisoner registration was completed with all personal details. Third his name was checked against the indices of the Political Section to see if he would be subjected to special punishment. Finally, he was registered in the Labor Assignment Office and assigned a characteristic five-digit IBM Hollerith number, 44673. The five-digit Hollerith number was part of a custom punch card system devised by IBM to track prisoners in NAZI concentration camps, including the slave labor at Auschwitz. The Polish timber merchant’s punch card number would follow him from labor assignment to labor assignment as Hollerith systems tracked him and his availability for work, and reported it to the central inmate file eventually kept at Department DII. Department DII of the SS Economics Administration in Oranienburg oversaw all camp salve labor assignments, utilizing elaborate IBM systems. Later in the summer of 1943, the Polish timber merchant’s same five-digit Hollerith number, 44673, was tattooed on his forearm.” [COMMENT: In other words, the alleged tattoo reference number was of such importance that the tattooing could not be entrusted to a mere inmate. In addition to which, the whole system could be frustrated by the inmates at any time, simply by re-tattooing each other and altering the numbers on the tattoos. The fact that tattoos can always be altered or covered would render any tattooing system useless for identification purposes. Since the holocaust tattoos we see are nearly always very crude, the alterations would be less noticeable, thus further defeating their alleged purpose.] [You expect a tattoo to fade a bit, but this is very sloppy work, considering that the “tattoos” are alleged to have been of such crucial importance for identification and labour management purposes. Note as well that the location is not standardized: sometimes they appear on the inside of the arm, sometimes the outside. According to one yarn, the inmates were allowed to “choose” where they wanted their tattoos! Since any tattoo can be covered by another tattoo, the location must be absolutely standardized if the tattoo is to serve for the possible identification of escaped inmates: that way, any person with a tattoo in that location would be suspect. Failing to put the tattoo in the same place each time would render it even more useless than ever. -C.P.] EXHIBIT 2 http://www.chgs.edu/Educational_Resources/ Curriculum/Auschwitz/Tattooing/auschwitz/tattooing.html . QUOTE: “The tattoos of the survivors have come to symbolize the utter brutality and of the concentration camps and the attempt of the NAZIS to dehumanize their victims. The tattoos are also a testament to the resilience of those who bear them. Yet despite the importance of the tattoos, as testament, symbol and historical artifact, little scholarship has been devoted to the subject. There exist virtually no official period documents relating to the practice; what we know stems from anecdotal evidence contained in camp records and the accounts of those who were at the camps.” [COMMENT: In other words, there is no evidence that it ever happened, except for the tens of thousands of “survivors” displaying their “holocaust tattoos”, 55 years after the war. There are no documents, no tattooing equipment, nothing.] ENTER THE RUBE GOLDBERG “HOLOCAUST TATTOOING MACHINE” (continued from http://www.chgs.umn.edu/Educational_Resources/Curriculum/ Auschwitz_Tattooing/auschwitz_tattooing.html ) QUOTE: “As the number of prisoners brought to the expanding Auschwitz complex rose, so did the death rate. But if a corpse were separated from its uniform, identification was rendered all but impossible .” [COMMENT: If the Germans were busy murdering people by the millions, why the hell would they care about identifying them afterwards?] QUOTE: “With often hundreds of prisoners dying per day, other methods of identification were needed. In Birkenau the method used to tattoo the Soviet prisoners of war was implemented for emaciated prisoners whose deaths were imminent ; [COMMENT: What is the logic of this?] “the tattoos were later made with pen and ink on the upper left forearm.” [COMMENT: In this case we aren’t even talking about a “tattoo” at all. Perhaps this is the origin of the legend.] QUOTE: “… After a month’s work the commission had singled out approximately 300 “fanatic communists”. [footnote 3: Danuta Czech, Auschwitz Chronicle 1939-1945, Henry Holt & Co., NY, 1990, p. 102]. Those designated as such were tattooed by means of a metal plate [!] with interchangeable needles attached to it [!] The plate was impressed into the flesh on the left side of their chests [!] and the dye was rubbed into the wound.” [COMMENT: Another source for this fantastic yarn is Tadeusz Iwaszko, La deportazione al campo e la registrazione dei prigionieri, in: “Auschwitz. Il campo nazista della morte” [“Deportation to the Camp and Registration of the Prisoners”, in: “Auschwitz: The Nazi Death Camp”, by F. Piper and T. Swiebocka, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Publications, 1997, p. 54. The most amusing part (about how the machine proved “impractical” – like the height-measuring head-shot contraptions and other bizarre contraptions described by “survivors”) is usually deleted. Actually the whole passage is more or less a quotation from the “affidavit” of Tadeusz Iwaszko, naturally prepared following the Communist takeover of Poland. Remember, these are the same people who gave us the “quicklime trains”, “electrical chambers at Belzec” and the “steam chambers” and “vacuum chambers” at Treblinka. According to “Tadeusz Iwaszko” (whoever he was), the “interchangeable needles” were 1 cm long, 10 times the depth of an ordinary tattoo. In addition to causing a puncture wound, this would cause the ink to migrate beyond the intended location, blurring the tattoo, and, to some extent, defeating its intended purpose – legibility. Iwaszko’s affidavit reads, in part, as follows: “ A special metal stamp was employed, upon which the interchangeable figures were fixed, made up of needles approximately 1 cm long. By means of a heavy pressure of the stamp on the upper left part of the trunk, a tattoo of the entire number was obtained in one single motion by means of the intermixture of ink into the wound in the form of the numbers caused in this manner… [Deletion] Since use of the metal stamp proved rather impractical…” ] I sometimes amuse myself by attempting to imagine how such a device – with “interchangeable needles” — would actually work. NAZI ‘TATTOOING MACHINE”, ALTERNATIVE DESIGN NO. 1: In other words, the Germans are alleged to have used a sort of stencil formed of needles, which could then be transformed at will into a stencil for any other number, rather like the light bulb displays which used to form the words “Merry Christmas” during so-called “End of Year Holidays” in the United States. The “metal plate” would probably require at least one hundred needles (see below) as well as an extremely complex mechanism permitting the formation of a different stencil for each five-digit number (i.e., needle 1 in position A1 would be moved laterally by a lever mechanism to position A9, for example), and so on for 100 needles, and, presumably, 100 levers (or perhaps it was computerized). All to save a few minutes tattoo work with one needle! Where are the plans, designs, specification sheets, patents, order forms, manufacturing reports, provisional and final acceptance forms, delivery vouchers, inventory reports, etc. for this Rube Goldberg device? No such “metal plate” has ever been found. No documents relating to it have ever been found. No tattooing needles or other equipment has ever been found. In practice, such a “plate” would probably cause a puncture wound followed by anaerobic infection, in addition to infecting the entire camp with hepatitis, syphilis, staph infections, possible septicaemia and even gangrene. And if the “plate” was to be autoclaved after each inmate, how many thousands of “metal plates” would they need? Where did they all disappear to? Either the needles were interchanged in position only, or new needles were inserted from the back. Which is it? NAZI ‘TATTOOING MACHINE”, ALTERNATIVE DESIGN NO. 2: “Interchangeable needles” may mean that the needles were inserted from the rear of the plate after each use, either manually or by means of some mechanism. In this case, needle 1 in position A1 would be retracted through the back of the frame, and another needle inserted in, for example, position A9. Since tattooing needles normally place the tattoo between the second and third layer of skin, this means that the needles could only be about 1 millimeter long (unless the intent is to cause a puncture wound). In any case, the frame would be contaminated by blood and body fluids after the first use, thus contaminating the needles. And if the frame is to be autoclaved or disposed of after each use, what use is the frame? NAZI ‘TATTOOING MACHINE”, ALTERNATIVE DESIGN NO. 3: A “tattooing machine” designed in the manner of a date stamp: 5 wheels, each with 10 surfaces, each surface equipped with perhaps 15 to 30 needles, all controlled by a crank for each wheel on the front and/or back of the device (exactly as with a date stamp). In this case as well, the whole contraption would be contaminated after the first use, rendering it useless. Tattooing needles must be very sharp. In a device of this kind, intended for “mass production tattooing”, the needles would naturally be dulled after only a few tattoos, rendering them useless. The operator would contaminate or infect himself while turning the wheels; the surface of the “date stamp” would probably fail to come into contact with the skin properly: tattoo stencils are flexible and curve to fit the body. The human body is not flat and hard, like a piece of paper on a writing desk. It appears that, prior to the invention of the modern, electrical tattooing needle by an Irish-American named Samuel O’Reilly in 1891, only slightly modifying an invention by Thomas Edison, unskilled tattooists did, for a short while, experiment with “tattooing plates” inlaid with needles (see IDENTIFICATION OF THE LIVING, by Alphonse Bertillon, translated by Ralph W. Webster, M.D., LEGAL MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY BY MANY SPECIALISTS, edited by Peterson, Haines and Webster, W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, 1901, 1904. 1907, revised 1923, volume p. 116: “There are, it seems, instruments which produce the entire design at one application by means of a sort of plate inlayed in relief with needles”; Bertillon’s system of “anthropometric identification” was adopted by the Paris Police Department in 1880.) Note that the “tattooing plate” described by Bertillon does not involve “interchangeable needles”, i.e., it was still impossible to turn a tattoo of the Holy Virgin into a tattoo of Popeye the Sailor Man just by turning a crank or a wheel to re-arrange the position of the needles; so the mystery of the “tattooing plate with interchangeable needles” is far from solved. One can only assume that these “tattooing plates” were abandoned as a failure, as well as representing a very serious health risk. Even today, tattoo stencils can spread disease if not sterilized after use, and are, today, ordinarily disposed of after each job, along with all needles, tubes, thimble-sized ink cups, rinsing and dilution goblets, wooden skin depressors, cotton swabs, razors and latex gloves. (In modern practice, plastic stencils have been replaced by special tracing paper.) Tattooists need to depress the skin as they work, like a man shaving himself; they need to feel the skin. A “tattooing” plate would obviously fail to do this. The needles would either fail to penetrate properly or would have to be extremely long, causing a puncture wound. In view of the unsanitary conditions at Auschwitz, in my view it is the responsibility of Auschwitz “survivors”, not only to describe the tattooing process in terms that make sense, but to explain how they survived the inevitable staph infections and hepatitis caused by the “tattooing process” (hepatitis C causes cancer of the liver). Why are tens of thousands of them still alive 55 years later? The modern electrical tattooing machine is such a simple device that it can be improvised out of junk; this is commonly done in prisons. A fresh tattoo is a open wound, and is easily infected. It is hard to see why the world’s most technologically advanced nation should install the very latest in computer technology (in the 1930s!), build highly complex disinfestation facilities using Zyklon, Argon, electrically heated hot air, steam, ultrasound and autoclaves (for clothing), if the intention is to infect 400,000 people with hepatitis B and C, syphilis, staph, septicaemia and gangrene in the “filth of Auschwitz”. (Tattooing has also been known to spread leprosy). If the Germans had an autoclave to use on clothing, why not install an autoclave to use with ordinary tattooing equipment, like everyone else? Germany is a maritime nation, with some of the largest seaports in the world. There must have been dozens of German tattooists in every German port. Why would they need all these Rube Goldberg devices? CONCLUSION: The NAZI “tattooing machine” probably belongs to the same category of hallucination as the “wire cage Zyklon introduction cages” which were supposedly fished up and down through a “hollow, perforated, sheet-metal column” connected to a “hole in the roof” at Auschwitz II, as described by “eyewitness” Hendryk Tauber, all of which never existed because the columns at Auschwitz are of solid reinforced concrete and there are no “holes in the roof”. Tattooing occurs in all prisons (see, for example, http://www.convictsandcops.com/tattoo.htm .) and is usually a disciplinary offense, because it spreads disease (see also PRISON TATTOOS, by Douglas Kent Hall). To get an idea of some of the problems involved in “jailhouse tattooing”, take a piece of paper and write a five-digit number on it with a pen, but using only dots. You will probably need between 15 and 30 dots per digit. Now imagine that the “pen” is a needle and that the “paper” is a person’s skin. You would spend at least half your time swabbing the blood away so that you could see what you were doing! Any open cuts or sores on your hands would mean immediate infection by any blood-borne disease carried by the person being tattooed, while failure to sterilize your hands properly and use a new needle would infect all subsequent persons being tattooed with any blood-borne disease carried by the first person (or by yourself, at that stage). As one vendor of tattooing equipment http://www.etnj.com/tatshack/disclaimer.html says, “ YOU AND ANYONE YOU TATTOO and/or PIERCE CAN & WILL CONTRACT LIFE-THREATENING DISEASE OR SUFFER PERSONAL INJURY IF PROPER PROCEDURES ARE NOT PRACTICED”. If half a dozen jailbirds infect each other with hepatitis in an American prison, there is not much lost; but we are still far from the “industrialized tattooing on an assembly-line basis” alleged as the basis of all these Hoaxoco$t yarns. It is only a guess, but it seems probable to me that the setup and disassembly time required for even one tattoo would probably amount to no less than 20 minutes. This does not include autoclaving and disposal. The needles must be soldered to the needle bar (the part that vibrates up and down), then broken off and autoclaved (or preferably disposed of) AFTER EVERY USE. This takes time. Where are the plans, specifications, order forms, delivery vouchers, inventory receipts, etc. etc. for millions of tattooing needles, thousands of tattooing machines, related supplies, “tattooing plates” and all the rest of it? Where are the decisions, orders, and records relating to the persons tattooed? What is the point of tattooing some people and not others, if no record is made of the fact that a given person has been tattooed? Since a tattoo can be altered or covered at any time (all you need is another jailbird with a needle, cork, and some ink), this renders tattoos almost useless for purposes of identification. For example, police “wanted” posters always mention tattoos, but do not usually describe them. They usually say: “Scar, right arm, tattoo, left shoulder”. Tattoo cover-up work is a very big part of the tattoo industry. Almost the only restriction is that pure white can only be applied over pure white, or over bare skin. Anything else can be covered, with anything. SHOW ME OR DRAW ME A “NAZI TATTOOING MACHINE” To revisionists who say, “Show me or draw me a NAZI gas chamber”, but who accept the fairy tale of the “mass tattooings”, I say, “ Show me or draw me a NAZI tattooing machine”. EXHIBIT 3 ANOTHER RIDICULOUS EXAMPLE OF GERMAN HOAXOCO$T “TATTOO TECHNOLOGY” The Auschwitz Tattooist: Angie Fox, Australian Jewish News, December 19, 2003, posted on http://www.adelaideinstitute.org/Auschwitz/tattooist.htm (source website no longer carries the item) QUOTE: “Lou Sokolov wears a permanent reminder of the three years he spent in Birkenau. Although it is faded, the number 32407 is still clearly legible on his left forearm. The tattoo which indelibly scars his tanned skin bears witness to his encounter with hell on earth.” “I saw one and a half million people go through the chimney.” [Deletion] “… From August 1942 to late 1944 he, along with assistants, tattooed the arms of 200,000 jews from Holland, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Norway, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Austria and Hungary. A piece of wood attached to two needles and a pot of ink [!] were the tools of his trade. Each tattoo, he says, took 30 seconds. ” [Note: For the latest world’s record in super-fast, non-stop tattooing, see tattoorecord.htm – C.P] [COMMENT: This obviously impossible claim is made necessary by the claim that he tattooed 200,000 people. The intent is to hide the irrationality of the whole procedure by deceiving us into believing that if a 5-digit number can be tattooed in 30 seconds, then one person can tattoo 2 inmates per minute = 120 inmates per hour = 1200 inmates per 10-hour day, probably half the daily registration rate usually alleged at Auschwitz. This is like saying that if my car can go 100 miles an hour, New York and Los Angeles are 2

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