Of all the multifarious ‘symbols of the Holocaust’ (and everything about the Holocaust is symbolic), probably no symbol is more powerful than the ‘Holocaust tattoos’ of the ‘Holocaust survivors.’ Wherever you find Jews, you find ‘survivors’; wherever you find ‘survivors,’ you find ‘Holocaust tattoos.’ One ‘survivor’ at a public meeting of some sort has the same sort of effect on the audience as a shot of curare or displaying a crucifix in front of a vampire: the ‘tattoos’ (and the sob-stories with which they are inevitably accompanied), have a paralyzing effect on almost everyone who sees them; yet, astonishingly enough, apart from the tattoos themselves, there is not the slightest proof that the National Socialists tattooed anyone, ever, at Auschwitz or anywhere else. Let us examine this matter dispassionately, in a bit more detail...