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Zyklon B, Auschwitz, and the Trial of Dr. Bruno Tesch The Journal of Historical Review ------ William B. Lindsey Zyklon B, Auschwitz, and the Trial of Dr. Bruno Tesch H. Keith Thompson Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz: Last President of a United Germany James B. Whisker Gnostic Origins of Alfied Rosenberg 's Thought L.A. Rollins mp Yehuda Bauer and the 'Polemical and Apologetic Bias ' of Jewish Historiography -Book Reviews - -News and Comment- Volun~eFour, Nltntber Three Fa11 1983 - The Journal of Historical Review VOLUME FOUR, NUMBER THREE / FALL 1983 Zyklon B, Auschwitz, and the Trial of Dr. Bruno Tesch by William B. Lindsey Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz: Last President of a United Germany by H. Keith Thompson Gnostic Origins of Alfred Rosenberg's Thought by James B. Whisker BOOK REVIEWS: L.A. Rollins on A History of the Holocaust Mark Weber on Das Hossbach-'Protokoll': Die Zerstoerung Einer Legende Charles Lutton on Paris in the Third Reich: A History of the German Occupation, 1940-1944 The Journal of Historical Review is published quarterly by the INSTITUTE FOR HISTORICAL REVIEW Thomas J. Marcellus, Director Keith Stimely, Editor EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE WALTER B. ALLENDE, Ph.D. SAMUEL E. KONKIN I11 University of Buenos Aires The New Libertarian Buenos Aires, Argentina Long Beach. California AUSTIN J. APP, Ph.D. MARTIN A. LARSON. Ph.D. La Salle College (Ret.) The Spotlight ,/, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Washington, D.C. GEORGE ASHLEY, Ph.D. WILLIAM B. LINDSEY. Ph.D. Los Angeles Unified School District Research Chemist History Instructor JOHN BENNETT JAMES J. MARTIN, Ph.D. Victoria Council for Civil Liberties Ralph Myles Publishers Melbourne, Australia Colorado Springs, Colorado ARTHUR R. BUTZ, Ph.D. REVILO P. OLIVER, Ph.D. Northwestern University University of Illinois (Ret.) Evanston, Illinois Urbana, Illinois ROBERT FAURISSON, Ph.D. WILHELM STAEGLICH, Dr. Jur. (Ret.) University of Lyon-2 Badenweiler, West Germany Lyon, France UDO WALENDY, Diplo. Pol. DITLIEB FELDERER Verlag fuer Voiksturn und Revisionist History Magazine Zeitgeschichtsforschung Taby, Sweden Vlotho/Weser, West Germany PERCY L. GREAVES, Jr. CHARLES E. WEBER. Ph.D. Free Market Books University of Tulsa (Ret.) Dobbs Ferry, New York Tulsa, Oklahoma ANDREAS R. WESSERLE, Ph.D. Marquette University (Ret.) Milwaukee. Wisconsin The Journal of Historical Review is published quarterly by the Institute for Historical Review, P.O. Box 1306, Torrance. Cali- fornia 90505. United States of America. Subscription prices are as follows: One year. $30; two years, $50; three years. $70-or the equivalent in foreign currency. Foreign subscribers must t~dd $5 if paying by remittarice drewn on a foreign benk. 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Contents Trial of Dr. Bruno Tesch William B. Lindsey Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz: Last President of a United Germany 305 H. Keith Thompson Gnostic Origins of Alfred Rosenberg's Thought James B. Whisker Review Article Yehuda Bauer and the 'Polemical and, Apologetic Bias' of Jewish Historiogr-y 357 L.A. Rollins Book Reviews News and Comment 3 78 About the Contributors A Note From The Editor One of the first. most predictable reactions to be counted on by revisionist historians of World War I1 and of National Socialist Germany as they regale the uniniated with their views is: "But what about the trials-Nuremberg, and the others? Have they not left a record of ample proof of German crime and barbarity-thus vindicating the Allied struggle as a moral one that had to be waged?" The trials of the Germans have indeed left quite a record. And though real historians and historical thinkers (there remained a few even after the intellectual strai~htjacket descended on the West for the duration) have always expressed the most-extreme skepticism at, even contempt for, the idea that the true history of an epoch can be established by the evidence generated in politically motivated, rigged and farcical show-trials of the conquered by those who had beaten them down and had to keep them down, nevertheless it would be wrong to dismiss the historical value of such trials out of hand. Above all these trials did indeed generate evidence--of whatever kind and quality. And the historian is interested in any evidence. For him nothing is out of bounds. Unlike the judge or jury in a legal proceeding, he cannot be foresworn or constrained to totally dismiss or ignore any point of evidence because it was not obtained by-the-book-properly, because the source is tainted or compromised, or even because it might have been manufactured out of whole cloth. The rules of evidence in matters of justice do vary-sometimes they reflect a traditional and independent legality which stands with scrupulously blind eye. sometimes they reflect nothing but politics and dominance in blatant disregard of any real legality. (In a political trial the judgers may even operate on the effectual premise that to be ignored is any evidence nor tainted, coerced, or invented.) In any case rules of evidencefor courts ark different from rules of evidence for historians. A court wishes to determine guilt or innocence: a historian may or may not care about this, but if he does he is not so limited as a court-any court-in considering what evidences and factors are relevant. And he may be looking for a "whole truth" beyond the bounds of an indictment. Ultimately, he should want to know "what happened," not just "who is guilty." In answering the one it is sometimes possible to answer the other: not always. There are causes for every- thing, but there is not always "guilt." The historian looks beyond the lawyer and judge-and sometimes he looks at them. It can be a searching look, especially when themy and all that he must get his hands on in order to find-out "what happened" includes unsubstantiated, coerced, doctored, or otherwise specious evidence from the records of political trials. This evidence will indeed be considered, but perhaps in a different light than that which its generators intended. Yes, even the kind of trial justice that hops and punches can be useful to the historian; reaching into its pouch he might withdraw many interesting things. He might do what no lawyer can do: judge the judges. Time and the record allow this to happen. Unfortunate and despicable as were the trials of the Germans from the standpoints of traditional Western justice and humanity, their records and their verdicts nonethe- less do help us to determine the history of an epoch. But this is true in spite of. not because of, the bold and foolish announcements by their conveners that a large part of the purpose of the trials was to establish a historical, not just legal. verdict-and one meant to stand for all time. By looking carefully at the verdicts of these trials and at the evidence used to secure them, we gain at the very least an idea of the temper and methods of the times. Far more important, we can also draw a critical eye on the very issues the trials were meant to "settle." Have they been settled? In our lead article this issue we look at one case. William B. Lindsey's examination of the trial of Dr. Bruno Tesch is a milestone in revisionism as it relates to war crimes trials. Whereas cases in the famous IMT and NMT trials at Nuremberg have received abundant attention, the lesser-known series of British Military Tribunals which were convened with summary haste right after the war have not been so well plumbed. Because in many cases these were trials of technical specialists, not political or military figures, historians might have hesitated to delve into areas that would require technical competence in their details. Especially so revisionist historians. who have always believed in getting down to detail. It is no surprise, then, that the first critical study of the great Zyklon B trial-"evidence" from which has been and is one of the prime props of the devolved "Holocaust" legend- continued on p. 384 Zyklon B, Auschwitz, and the Trial of Dr. Bruno Tesch WILLIAM B. LINDSEY We still have judgement here, that we but teach Bloody instruc- tions, which being taught return To plague th'inventor. This even handed justice Commends th'ingredience of our poison'd chalice To our own lips. -Shakespeare, Macbeth The Prelude to "Justice" Toward the end of World War 11, the designated legal repre- sentatives of the United Nations,' meeting in London with Lord Wright, Chairman of the United Nations War Crimes Commission, established the London Agreements to implement earlier agree- ments by the United Nations at Yalta and other war conferences, and to finally concretize numerous threats and warnings made by the United Nations to the Axis nations during the course of the war. Their intention was to impeach, prosecute and punish the vanquished Germans and Japanese for crimes newly defined and delineated by the victors themselves, and to do this with tribunals created by them for that single purpose.
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