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Letters to David
Irving on this Website

A
S Marques
has received an interesting photo from an Australian film maker of a mound of shoes at the Neuengamme concentration camp, . Gradually the wartime propaganda legends dissolve.Shoe mountain, neuengamme

Photo source: IWM -Imperial War Museum UK

Holocaust
“did happen”

Paul
wrote to our correspondent A
S Marques:

Dear Sir, I read your remarks to David
Irving about the piles of shoes in the camps. I
am an Australian Filmmaker and 2 weeks ago I was
filming in Neuengamme Camp and found an
interesting Photo of a huge pile of shoes…I’ve
attached it to this letter.

sincerely Paul

The Caption to the photo
[click for image] says: “British Forces entering the Camp [in 1945] discovered a large pile of shoes. At first it was assumed the shoes had belonged to those murdered in the
Neuengamme or Auschwitz
concentration camps. In fact these shoes were the product of a 1943 collection in Hamburg.

The
Neuengamme camp acted as a colelction point for these shoes which were taken apart here or requisitioned by factories for their workers.”

Marques replied:

Thanks for your letter. Yes, it’s quite
interesting that a pile of shoes from Hamburg
should be stored in the nearby camp of
Neuengamme. One wonders where they might have
been storing salvaged
shoes from places like Dresden…

I take the liberty of forwarding the above message that you sent to me, with the photo and caption attachment, to
David Irving, who wrote on his website that “We do know that outer clothing including footwear was routinely removed from the bodies of German air raid victims, including thirty tons of clothing from those killed in the Dresden air raid alone, and turned over to recycling agencies.”

A
S MarquesPortugal

Our dossier on
Auschwitz | and on
the Dresden raid
Thirty
tons of shoes and outer clothing were removed
from Dresden air raid victims for
recycling
David
Irving first comments on the mountains of shoes.
“We have no real idea where the ones on display
at the Auschwitz tourist center came from,
forensically speaking.”
BBC News Sixty
years since liberation of Nazis’ Bergen Belsen
concentration camp — Mr Irving seems
somehow to blame, and comments

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