After reading Blatt's 1977 article, check at
an interview with Blatt on Youtube.com, done 30 years later, conducted
by a holocaust believer. You will see that, because Blatt doesn't
know enough about guns, he is still unable to make up a believable
story that involves guns. At minute 3:20 he says that SS officer Gustav
Wagner shot a boy 9 times and the boy stood there, while Wagner reloaded
the clip, and the 10th shot made him fall down.
9 bullet holes and the boy didn't fall down? 9 bullet holes in front
and who knows how many exiting in back? And the boy doesn't faint;
he doesn't go into shock and fall down. Any bullets to the stomach
do not make the boy double up in pain and fall over. He just stands
there and waits for Wagner to reload. And Blatt still throws in the
irony: it was all over a box of sardines or anchovies.
Another thing we saw in the 1977 story is that Blatt was oblivious
to how cowardly and dishonorable he made himself look at times in
his story. It could be that, because holocaust eyewitnesses live a
life full of praise with no criticism, they are unaware of how they
make themselves look when they make up their stories. Thus 30 years
later, we see Blatt still oblivious to this. Here's an example: in
the following video, Blatt states that the Jewish leader of all the
other Jews in the camp (Oberkapo Hubert Berliner) told the SS about
a Jewish escape attempt. Berliner "snitched" on his fellow
Jews and that led to 6 Jews who had planned the escape being shot
(See Yitzhak Arad's book Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka. Page 304). But
did Blatt shun this traitor to the Jewish people, Hubert Berliner, after
that? No he continued a friendship with him. See the following video.
Lastly I want to add that one common response that holocaust believers
have to holocaust deniers, is this:
If it's all a hoax, then why did no one come forward, even years
later and say it was a hoax.
The answer is that the Germans who knew it was a hoax were the ones
in the camps. Not the German public or those outside the camp. The
Germans who worked in delousing camps framed as death camps, like
Sobibor and Treblinka; or who worked in labor camps framed as death
camps like Auschwitz. They were vulnerable to prosecution. Any German
who worked in these camps, could have a Thomas Blatt figure come along
and say "I saw you beat my father!" on the witness stand.
Thomas Blatt's testimony, for instance, was largely responsible for
putting Karl Frenzel in jail for his whole life. In an interview between
Blatt and Frenzel (yes, Blatt interviewed Frenzel in 1984!) published
in the appendix of Blatt's book From the Ashes of Sobibor (1997) (and
we'll have to take Blatt's good word on what was said in the interview.)
we see Blatt saying to Frenzel:
BLATT:
Duty. That's what it always comes down to, duty. Why did you club
my father to the ground immediately upon arrival? Was that your duty
too?
FRENZEL: I don't remember.
[...]
BLATT: (...) You took him to Lager III, the crematorium, and shot
him
FRENZEL: That wasn't me.
