KRAMER Former challenge facilitator

Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 1,434

Siegfried Verbeke, Belgian Suicidal At first, one just doesn't know how to respond to a claim letter such as this one. I have omitted a long introduction which basically repeats several passages in the Challenge rules verbatim, and have skipped ahead to the actual claim:



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Statement of Paranormal Ability. Limits of the proposed demonstration.



Hundreds of thousands (even millions) of Jewish people are killed in the Auschwitz gas chambers by hydrogen cyanide (HCN) in the form of Zyklon B. The effect of HCN is based on the fact that it paralyzes the respiration of every individual cell in the body. Oxygen can no longer be transported from the blood through the cell walls and into the cells. As the vital cell functions are thereby starved of oxygen, the human being suffocates.



This proceeding has been depicted by thousands of eye-witnesses and by the confessions of the German perpetrators.



Among them; the testimonies of the camp commandant Rudolph Hoss, Dr. Charles Sigismund Bendel, Henryk Tauber, Michal Kula, Pery Broad, the Franke-Griksch Report...etc, etc.



All these testimonies confirm that death came in between 2 minutes and maximum 15 minutes exposure to Zyklon B.



Moreover in many trials these gassings have been proved. During the I.G.Farben trials Dr. Herbert Rauscher, Zyklon B expert of the company Degesch (which provided Zyklon B to many customers in Germany and Europe) was shown a can of Zyklon B and testified under oath. After been submitted a can of Zyklon B he was asked by the judge Telford Taylor how much Zyklon B was needed to kill the people in the gas chamber. He answered: "If you open this 500gr box of Zyklon B it will easily kill all of the people in this courtroom within 2 minutes"



The applicant is ready to be exposed to Zyklon B at least 15 minutes in the same architectural and atmospheric conditions as witnessed by perpetrators and victims. Because the gas chamber at Auschwitz I is still intact and shown to hundreds of thousands of tourists as the original gas chamber, it would be obvious to do the test there.



If this would be possible, the applicant is ready to undergo the test in a building similar to the original 1941-1944 Auschwitz gas chambers and in the same atmospheric and other conditions.



The test will be in favor of the applicant if he is still alive after 15 minutes. Moreover, the applicant will stay in the test room as long as possible and under medical assistance.



-Siegfried Verbeke



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An unpublished scene from MAN IN THE GLASS BOOTH, perhaps?



I don't know if this is a bona-fide Holocaust Denier or just some garden-variety luncatic, but ya know...I just don't even care.

I have no plans to ponder this claim for even a millisecond longer than is required.



This claim has been summarily rejected because testing would result in certain death for the applicant.



Anyone wanna debate that assessment? Be my guest.