Understanding the Swimming Pool Photo at Novaky Concentration Camp

Understanding the Swimming Pool Photo at Novaky Concentration Camp

Over recent months the photo below of jewish inmates swimming at the Novaky concentration camp in Slovakia – which was in operation from mid-1942 to August 1944 - which has sometimes been mis-labelled as being a photo of inmates at Auschwitz – remember Auschwitz had large numbers of both jewish and non-jewish inmates – in the swimming pool there.

A group of people swimming in a pool

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This naturally caused absolute panic among the promoters and bastions of the ‘Holocaust’ industry, so they put a mealy-mouthed ‘fact check’ via Reuters which stated that:

‘A World War Two-era image of people in and around a swimming pool at a forced-labour camp in Slovakia is being miscaptioned online to distort facts around the treatment of Jews in Nazi-run concentration camps during the Holocaust.

Holocaust experts told Reuters the image shows a forced-labour camp in Slovakia – different to Nazi concentration and extermination camps – where conditions were not typical of those generally endured by Jews imprisoned at that time.’ (1)

The problem with this ‘fact check’ is obvious in that the Novaky swimming pool photograph isn’t ‘being used to distort facts’ but rather correct the mental image the majority of the population have about the German – and that of the countries that made up the Axis in general – concentration camp system, which is the real reason that the ‘Holocaust’ industry panicked.

Since if they were so concerned about historical accuracy then this photo would be included in collections regarding the ‘Holocaust’ showing that the concentration camp system wasn’t always the Kafka-esque nightmare they portray it as.

However they panicked because the image of happy and healthy jews swimming in what is clearly a concentration camp – note the distinctive wire fences and wooden huts you can slightly see in the background – completely undermines the entire ‘Holocaust’ narrative as conventionally claimed and suggests to even the most clueless viewer that something is ‘rotten in Denmark’ with the ‘Holocaust’ claim if this is genuine.

This is why the ‘fact check’ by Reuters is so desperate to claim that the situation at Novaky was ‘unusual’ so as to stress that Novaky was the exception not the rule, but the problem – of course – is that other camps also had swimming pools while Buchenwald even had a camp zoo.

‘Yad Vashem’ even admits that Novaky had said swimming pool which inmates regularly used among other such facilities for the jewish internees:

‘Labor camp in central Slovakia. The first Jews were brought to Novaky in late 1941, but the camp began operating in earnest in mid-1942, when the Germans began the mass deportation of Slovak Jewry. Novaky was created due to the efforts of the Slovak Jewish Center, which had asked the Slovak government to establish camps where the Jews could work and thus be spared from deportation.

Novaky, one of the largest labor camps in Slovakia, held 1,600 Jewish prisoners. Most were skilled craftsmen and carpenters who worked in workshops. The products they produced were high-quality and made the camp an economic success. Novaky was run by a Judenrat that managed to manipulate the Slovak camp commandant, who was a drunk. The conditions at the camp were not bad: food rations were adequate, the prisoners ran their own school, medical clinics, and welfare institutions, and cultural activities such as drama, religious studies, and sports were allowed. In fact, the camp even had a swimming pool. An underground was also in existence at Novaky.’ (2)

The point being that exercise facilities and medical clinics plus assorted other welfare institutions were also not uncommon in the German camps either with Auschwitz’s only surviving quarterly medical facilities report (for the period of September to December 1943 [aka smack bang in the middle of the ‘Holocaust’]) to the Central Concentration Camp Administration states that the following medical facilities were provided for inmates:

‘The prisoners’ infirmary offered the following specialty wards in the reporting quarter:

X-ray room

Pathology and hematology laboratory

Ear-nose-throat ward

Optician

Light therapy

Medicinal herbs pharmacy

Dietetic kitchen

Dental clinic’ (3)

As well as a brothel for inmates (which Novaky didn’t have the benefit of):

‘A brothel was established in Block 24 with 19 women. Before their selection, the women were tested for Wa. and for Go. These tests are readministered at regular intervals.

Admission into the brothel is permitted every evening after roll call. An inmate physician and an inmate nurse orderly are always present during operating times who perform the required sanitary measures.’ (4)

The point being that as with Novaky; Auschwitz – which remember also famously had a swimming pool – offered a lot of facilities to inmates – for example Auschwitz had multiple orchestras (5) and multiple inmate sports teams (football, volleyball and baseball plus it boxing and wrestling matches) (6) - that simply aren’t remembered because – like the Novaky swimming pool photograph – they directly contradict the ‘hell on earth’ narrative.

Thus, we can see that even thought Reuters’ ‘fact check’ desperately tries to counter the truth by dishonesty; it simply can’t get around how obvious it is that something about the ‘Holocaust’ narrative is ‘rotten in Denmark’.

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References

(1) https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/photo-shows-pool-in-slovak-labour-camp-not-nazi-concentration-camp-idUSL1N36V2TO/

(2) https://wwv.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%205969.pdf

(3) Carlo Mattongo, 2016, ‘Healthcare in Auschwitz: Medical Care and Special Treatment of Registered Inmates’, 1st Edition, Castle Hill: Uckfield, p. 47

(4) Ibid., p. 48

(5) https://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/camps/death-camps/auschwitz/camp-orchestras/

(6) https://www.auschwitz.org/en/education/e-learning/podcast/sport-and-sportstpeople-/