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August 1943: British Intelligence say no gas chambers

By August of 1943, renown Holocaust historian Christopher Browning estimates that
"in the area of 2 million" Jews had already been killed by the Nazis in gas chambers.
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In August 1943, the Americans, British & Russians planned to publish simultaneously
the "Declaration of German Crimes in Germany." which was actually written by
the Americans. In the original draft, gas chambers were mentioned. It read:

These German measures are being carried out with the utmost brutality. Many of the victims are killed on the spot. The rest are segregated. Men from 14 to 50 are taken away to work for Germany. Some children are killed on the spot, others are separated from their parents and either sent to Germany to be brought up as Germans or sold to German settlers or dispatched with the women and old men to concentration camps, where they are now being systematically put to death in gas chambers.*

But at the suggestion of British Intelligence, the "gas chambers" were dropped.
We know this because the US Secretary of State Cordell Hull sent a telegram to
the US ambassador in Russia, advising him to omit the "gas chambers" part, as
the British say there's "insufficient evidence to justify the statement"

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*My Life as a Revisionist (September 1983 to September 1987) by Robert Faurisson

"The Poles, and to a far greater extent the Jews, tend to exaggerate German atrocities in order to stoke us up."

Victor Cavendish-Bentinck

British Joint Intelligence Committee 1943

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See also:
Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland - Wikipedia

Addendum - by this Site:

Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, believed that Polish and Jewish sources were unreliable because they had a vested interest in exaggerating German atrocities. Therefore, as late as the summer of 1943, Cavendish-Bentinck opposed the British government to make, at the allied conference in Quebec, a public statement about the systematic gassing of Jews.

"It is true that there have been references to the use of gas chambers in other reports; but these references have usually, if not always, been equally vague, and since they have concerned the extermination of Jews, have usually emanated from Jewish sources.

Personally, I have never really understood the advantage of the gas chamber over the simple machine gun, or the equally simple starvation method. These stories may or may not be true, but in any event I submit we are putting out a statement on evidence which is far from conclusive, and which we have no means of assessing." [1]

On August 27, 1943, Cavendish Bentinck made the following observation:

"In my opinion it is incorrect to describe Polish information regarding German atrocities as "trustworthy". The Poles, and to a far greater extent the Jews, tend to exaggerate German atrocities in order to stoke us up. They seem to have succeeded....

I think that we weaken our case against the Germans by publically giving credence to atrocity stories for which we have no evidence. These mass executions in gas chambers remind me of the stories of employment of human corpses during the last war for the manufacture of fat, which was a grotesque lie and led to the true stories of German enormities being brushed aside as being mere propaganda." [2]

[1] Victor Cavendish-Bentinck Minute, August 23, 1943, Public Record office, FO 371/34551
[2] Victor Cavendish-Bentinck Minute, August 27, 1943, Public Record Office, FO 371/34551

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