SMITH’S REPORT On the Holocaust Controversy No. 146 www.Codoh.com January 2008

Challenging the Holocaust Taboo Since 1990

THE MAN WHO SAW HIS OWN LIVER

Introduction: Death and Taxes

Richard “Chip” Smith

Nine Banded Books is a new publishing house that has chosen to make my manu- script, The Man Who Saw His Own Liver, its first publication, which is an honor I very much appreciate. Chip Smith is the head honcho there and has done everything right, be- ginning with the imaginative idea of transposing the format of my one-character play, The Man Who Stopped Paying, into that of a short novel, The Man Who Saw His Own Liver. Not one word has been changed. It has been formatted in a simple, unique, and imaginative way, and is followed by a coda that, again, is an imaginative choice that never would have occurred to me. The Man Who Saw His Own Liver is at the printer now and we expect to have it to hand the first week in February. Following is the elegant and rather brilliant introduction written by the publisher.

radley Smith is one of those writers. Like Hunter Thompson or Hubert Selby; like B Brautigan, Bukowski, or the Beats. You read him when you’re young. You read him with a rush of discovery never to be forgotten. The prose is clean and relaxed and punctuated with a distinct, tumbling, rhythmic flair. It goes down easy. It makes you want to write. The world Smith made is suffused with a restless vitality that feels personal and true. Everything unfolds as pitch-perfect Zen comedy, where wanderlust and quiet desperation harmonize with the dimly consoling romance of existential resignation.

Reading Bradley Smith would dreams and books. He writes from lem came only when Bradley be a rite of passage. Except that it experience about war and bull- found his subject. There’s that ru- isn’t. Hipster clerks who trade in fighting, and that time when he ined passage from Job: “I was not the semiotics of outlaw literature was asleep in a Mexico City jail in safety, neither had I rest, neither have never heard of Bradley and a cellmate took a shit on his was I quiet; yet trouble came.” Smith. Or, if they have, chances foot. He writes, lyrically at times, And so it did. Not that he are their familiarity will be shaded about nature; about family and wasn’t asking for it. The broad by poisonous misapprehension. friendship and sin and shame, and strokes. A young man goes off to Bradley Smith writes about the the tragicomic folly of bureaucracy inner life as revealed through and organized religion. The prob- Continued on page 13 tremendous influence on my sel engine experts, scientists, or LETTERS views. engineers who would publicly en-

I want to hear from you. I read […] dorse his “Nazi gas chamber” everything you write. I regret that I I ask you to do two things: take theories. This should suggest to am not able to respond individu- the time to be grateful for and ap- the reader that his “Nazi gas cham- ally to each correspondent. I may preciative of your closest friend ber” theories were largely worth- publish your letter here. I may edit and don’t assume that he or she less. If his research did indeed re- it for length and/or content. Please will be around forever, because fute Holocaust revisionism, our make it very clear to me that I can, God only gives us this day. opponents most likely would have or cannot, use your name. Second, please if you can, send used it. a check or money order however Chuck Provan was a fine hu- Michael Hoffman large or small, to: Mrs. Carol Pro- man being, family man, theolo- Tuesday, December 11, 2007 van, 410 W. Main Street, Monon- gian, Bible scholar, and public From a public letter distributed via gahela, PA 15063. And please speaker. He even made a contribu- http://www.revisionisthistory.org/ pray for her and the surviving Pro- tion to revisionist historiography. I Charles D. Provan has died. I van children. I will tell you more have no intention of denigrating am at a loss for words. I only wish about this fine man and nonpareil his memory. Nevertheless, his at this juncture to notify the Chris- scholar in the future. For now suf- theories concerning the “Diesel gas tian and revisionist communities, fice it to say that the loss to me is chambers” were largely foolish. I that Charles D. Provan of Monon- more than words can express, but I am in the process of writing an gahela, Pennsylvania has passed submit to God’s will. article about this for CODOH. away from natural causes. He was See articles he wrote at IHR.org approximately 52 years of age. He and this one below: Bradley Smith leaves behind his widow, Carol http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v20/v20n1p It was a dark fall night in the and nine children, some of them 20_Provan.html early ‘90s and I was traveling quite young. He was predeceased alone on a revisionist media speak- by his eldest son, Matthias. Paul Grubach ing tour, driving a rented car, and The loss to this writer is incal- Chuck Provan, the revisionist was looking for Chuck Provan’s culable. Chuck was one of my best who believed in the “gas cham- car in the parking lot of a Burger and closest friends and one of the bers,” has unfortunately passed King in Monongahela, Pennsyl- finest Christian men it has ever away. I had no intention of writing vania. When I spied what I thought been my privilege to know. He had anything else about his “Nazi gas was the car, I saw the heads of a great love for and obedience to chamber” theories until I noticed three kids looking out the back God. that influential sources are now window to see what kind of fellow His knowledge of the Old and claiming he disproved the Holo- their dad was waiting for. New Testaments was vast and he caust revisionist view of the “Die- Chuck had invited me to stay at was one of the best and most sel gas chambers.” For example, his home. I remember the warmth learned modern critics of the Tal- in the online Wikipedia encyclo- of the old kitchen, he and his wife mud, having published a great deal pedia, we read: “Provan has dem- Carol and a few kids seated round of material on that subject in the onstrated the scientific feasibility the table gossiping and laughing pages of Rev. Herman Otten’s of mass murder by diesel gas vans and talking about matters we Christian News newspaper. More against the thesis of Friedrich P. thought important. He and Carol recently he has been writing col- Berg.” were deeply Christian, while I was umns for Christian News on Old This is blatantly false. First of already an empty vessel, as my Testament exegesis. He was the all, Fritz Berg rebutted most (if not wife has it. He was a Christian author of two books, The Bible and all) of Chuck’s “Diesel gas cham- scholar while I was a simple Birth Control and The Church Is ber” claims. Second, despite the writer. He ran a printing business Israel Now. fact that Holocaust revisionism’s that made a profit, while I was Chuck assisted me in my re- opponents were well aware of his committed to a business that was search, but to say that is an under- work, there was not one orthodox not a business and had little hope statement, since he was a pillar Holocaust journal that would pub- of ever becoming one. upon whom I depended. He was a lish his work, nor were there any Chuck had an inclusive nature. orthodox Holocaust scholars, Die- He welcomed me to his deeply 2 Christian home and family when I hear an angry or complaining word poor quality. I was not encouraged was not a Christian. He welcomed spoken in his house by either him to read a text supported by such an our talk about revisionism, while or Carol or any of the kids. Charles illustration, a fact that I now regret. he doubted much of what I be- had his finger on something. With regard to the diesel gas lieved. In the back of his ample At the IHR conference, I be- claims worked out by Fritz Berg printing shop he demonstrated to lieve it was in 2000, maybe 2002, and challenged by Chuck, my in- me how he made his video show- Chuck had put together a photo- stincts tell me to go with Berg. ing how many living bodies could copied booklet addressing Krema Berg is the one who has done the be squeezed into one square meter II, allegedly proving that the holes work, he has been focused on the of space. I found the demonstration that were supposed to have been in issue for two decades and longer, unbelievable. He was not insulted. the roof of the Krema to pour the his work has been out there to be He printed a flyer for me to dis- Zyklon crystals down were in fact examined by industry profession- tribute at Penn State University there. This was a big issue in the als, and none have done anything where I was to speak, but where ‘90s. The cover of his booklet con- significant to discount it. As of the talk was cancelled. He let me tained a photograph supporting his today, Berg’s work on this matter use his telephone for three days to thesis. I remember the photo being has been unassailable. Tomor- set up other engagements. He so poorly reproduced that it could row—well, tomorrow is always wished me luck, and he meant it. not be read. I was surprised, espe- another question. All the time I was there—and I cially he being a printer, that he stayed with him twice—I did not would distribute something of such

A look back at 2007 on CODOHWeb

Rodrigo Mendoza

he year 2007 may be best remembered as a year of heightened persecution of revision- Tists. A year when the forces opposed to freedom of speech managed to lock up or keep behind bars both Ernst Zundel and Germar Rudolf. It was the year that David Irving was re- leased from his Austrian prison. It was a year when Fred Toben and Georges Theil were em- battled by the thought-police in Australia and France respectively. It was unsurprisingly a year with little publication of hard revisionist journals or books. Where the fundamentalists were unable to prove revisionist arguments wrong, they simply took to persecution, defamation, and incarceration. It is the true mark of a tyrant not to mention the true mark of a group of people who recognize that their argument is lost. It is readily clear that the monstrous Holocaust myth cannot stand the light of day nor even the freedom to speak, to publish, or to research. There can be no mistake that the myth is untrue and now only supported by fervent followers and draconian laws. Although the anti-freedom ideas fly around the world at cy- we could experience 16,000 hits forces were relatively successful in ber-speed. per hour! combating revisionists on the old CODOHWeb was particularly People are accessing fronts, the new front is an entirely important in the service of evan- CODOHWeb from all around the different story. Like the Protestant gelizing the “good news” of Holo- world. Not only in still-free USA, Reformation, which was fired by caust revisionism. In 2007, we had but in the restricted nations as Guttenberg’s printing press, the over 5.1 million hits. Over 3.6 well: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Holocaust Reformation is fired by million files were accessed! Over the Czech Republic, France, Ger- the Internet. Just as ideas began to 145 million kilobytes of informa- many, the Netherlands, Poland. move more rapidly than ever in the tion was accessed! On a good day And of course there is the rest of early 16th century, today revisionist the world, where there are no laws 3 against revisionism, including all lished an electronic monthly letter and periodicals were closed to us, the Muslim nations, India, Japan, to keep our ever-growing on-line we took the debate to the campus. China, and throughout Latin readership aware of CODOH’s When major campus newspapers America. activities. began to close us down, we took CODOHWeb continues to fea- There can be no doubt that the campaign to the Internet dis- ture articles in German, Italian, 2007 was also the year of the cussion boards. When the boards Spanish, and other languages. video. CODOH had tremendous were taken over by Zionist zealots, The CODOH Revisionist Li- we shifted to the Web and our brary featured 86 new articles or own-moderated forums. When links in 2007, while the Founder’s Make no mistake—the revi- they burned our books, we posted Page featured new articles and sionist battle is a battle for intel- them on-line. When they closed photos of Bradley Smith, including lectual freedom. certain countries to revisionism, his rousing speech delivered at the we beamed revisionist truth into Tehran Holocaust Conference in those nations through cyberspace. December 2006. success thanks to the video One Revisionism is an idea. Ideas The lively CODOH Revisionist Third of the Holocaust, which was can never be chained or impris- Forum is now up to 24,000 posts banned on YouTube—now owned oned. With each new defensive on over 3,000 separate topics. In by Google, which has also banned strategy, a greater offensive strat- addition to the standard CODOH advertisements for Bradley’s book egy comes along. In the end, the sites, we launched a mirror site at Break His Bones—but which is censors will lose, for no matter www.codoh.info as one more way front-page business on how hard they try, the truth about to overcome the self-appointed CODOHWeb. In addition, how- the Holocaust will become under- censors of revisionist truth. ever, videos of Bradley Smith, stood. We will have many martyrs Bradley pulled off the smashing David Cole, David McCalden, along the way, but in the long haul success at the Mexican film festi- Fritz Berg, and others took on-line the truth will win out. I can’t pre- val, Corto Creativo 07, and then revisionism to the next technologi- dict what surprises 2008 has in we launched our MySpace page cal level. store for the Holocaust myth, revi- dedicated to our forthcoming film, Make no mistake—the revi- sionism, or revisionists, but I’m El Gran Tabu, at: www.my space. sionist battle is a battle for intellec- sure it’ll be one hell of a ride, and com/elgrantabu tual freedom. As our enemies CODOH will be there in the front Now, if this wasn’t trailblazing were unable to win the historical line of the charge. enough, we also launched: debate, they attacked on the free www.smithsreport.com and estab- speech front. When newspapers

The “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”: Extermination or Ethnic Cleansing?

Paul Grubach Reviews

The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust by Jeffrey Herf, Belknap Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2006

r. Jeffrey Herf, professor of history at the University of Maryland and a prominent stu- D dent of German-Jewish issues, has written a very interesting book that examines anew the National Socialist “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” and attempts to answer one of the most important questions surrounding World War II: Why did Nazi Germany so vehe- mently oppose and persecute the Jews? The Jewish Enemy has received very favorable re- views. In The Los Angeles Times, Jonah Goldberg wrote that “it may be the most important 4 book on the Holocaust in a decade.” Another reviewer in the influential Jewish newspaper The Forward also dubbed it “incredibly important.” Jay W. Baird, author of The Mythical World of Nazi Propaganda, 1939–1945, called it “indispensable for both students of the Third Reich and general readers.”

There is no doubt that this book reported. The reader of these re- mination of the Jews was now of- deserves a thorough response from ports is immediately struck by ficial policy. But then again, the Holocaust revisionist camp. their camouflaged vocabulary: ‘Fi- Reitlinger points out that German Here in the first of a projected se- nal Solution to the Jewish Ques- officials used code words after the ries of articles, we will examine tion,’ ‘solution possibilities’ ‘spe- summer of 1941 to avoid admitting Professor Herf’s theory about the cial treatment’ ‘evacuation’ ‘spe- to each other that such a mass “Final Solution,” the alleged Nazi cial installations’ ‘dragged murder policy even existed. policy to exterminate the Jews of through’ and many others.” Therefore, the Germans used the Europe. Future articles will exam- If the success of the Nazi kill- code word “The Final Solution” to ine other historical issues that are ing operations, the “gas cham- avoid admitting to each other that addressed in this well-written but bers,” depended upon the mainte- the publicly admitted and an- deeply flawed work. nance of secrecy, and the killers nounced mass extermination pol- Herf attempts to uphold an or- had to conceal their work from icy even existed!!! thodox view of the Final Solution. every outsider, mislead and fool Who were the Germans He believes the Nazis came to the victims, and erase all traces of trying to hide this murderous pol- power with the intention of exter- the operation, why would Nazi icy from? After all, according to minating the Jews of Europe, and leaders turn around and publicly The Jewish Enemy’s thesis, Hitler that they announced this objective tell the German populace that they and Goebbels had already an- to the whole world. By the sum- were exterminating the Jews? nounced it to the world! mer and fall of 1941, the German Why would the Nazis publicly an- Holocaust revisionism main- leadership publicly declared the nounce their plans to exterminate tains that there was no extermina- extermination of the Jews was of- the Jews of Europe, and, simulta- tion policy. Arthur Butz devel- ficial government policy. neously, in their secret correspon- oped a revisionist definition: “The As the leading historian for the dence try to hide and camouflage ‘final solution’ meant the expul- orthodox version of the Jewish fate something they publicly an- sion of all Jews from the German during the Third Reich, Raul Hil- nounced? In regard to this serious sphere of influence in Europe.” berg, asserts in his major work, dilemma, Herf provides no an- On March 20, 1942, Joseph The Destruction of the European swers. Goebbels had a conversation with Jews: “The success of the killing The late Holocaust histo- Hitler. Here is how the Propa- operations [of the Jews in the con- rian Gerald Reitlinger began his ganda Minister described the con- centration camps] depended…on magnum opus with a statement versation in his diary: “The Fuhrer the maintenance of secrecy. that renders Herf’s theory ridicu- remains merciless. The Jews must Unlike any administrative task lous. “‘The Final Solution of the be driven from Europe, if neces- confronting the bureaucracy, se- Jewish Problem,’” Reitlinger in- sary by using the most brutal crecy was a continuous prob- sists, “was a code-name for Hit- means.” lem…The killers had to conceal ler’s plans to exterminate the Jews Here we have a straightforward their work from every outsider, of Europe. It was used by German and frank description the Final So- they had to mislead and fool the officials after the summer of 1941 lution, which is consistent with victims, and they had to erase all in order to avoid the necessity of Butz’s definition. It was not a pol- traces of the operation.” admitting to each other that such icy of extermination, but rather one Hilberg, who studied the Ger- plans existed, but previously the of ethnic cleansing in which the man documents for decades, adds expression had been used quite Jews would be driven out of this most amazing claim about the loosely in varying contexts, the Europe, sometimes even by bar- alleged mass murder operations. underlying suggestion always be- baric means. The Germans omitted “mention of ing emigration.” As its spiritual father, Harry ‘killing’ or ‘killing installations’ in So, according to Herf the Elmer Barnes defined it, historical even their secret correspondence in leaders of the Third Reich publicly revisionism is the process of bring- which such operations had to be announced in 1941 that the exter- ing history into accord with the 5 facts, creating the most accurate “moral dichotomy” between Nazi highlighted the obvious: “The and truthful picture of the past as is Germany and its enemies, as Herf Holocaust is not an arbitrary but humanly possible. Its purpose is claims. Quite the contrary. The rather an internally coherent con- not to create alibis for any past raison d’etre for his orthodox view struct. Its central dogmas sustain political regimes. is plain to see. It serves the politi- significant political and class inter- Ergo, Holocaust revision- cal, social, and financial needs of ests. The Holocaust has proven to ism is not an apology for National various Jewish and non-Jewish be an indispensable ideological Socialism. The Nazi Final Solu- power elites. To be specific, it weapon. Through its deployment, tion was a brutal and cruel plan of covers up and obliterates Soviet one of the world’s most formidable ethnic cleansing, during which a Communist, American, Zionist, military powers [Israel], with a large number of Jews undoubtedly and British atrocities, and makes horrendous human rights record, suffered and perished; it was not a these victorious powers look has cast itself as a ‘victim’ state, plan to exterminate all the Jews “morally correct and good.” and the most successful ethnic within the German grasp. Just as The traditional view of the Fi- group in the United States [the revisionism is not an apology for nal Solution that Jeffrey Herf so Jews] has likewise acquired victim German National Socialism, it is ardently tries to promote accords status. Considerable dividends ac- also not an apology for the British the Jewish people a certain “moral crue from this specious victim- Churchill government, the Ameri- authority,” which plays a crucial hood—in particular, immunity to can Roosevelt administration, the role in their dealings with the non- criticism, however justified.” murderous Stalinist/Communist Jewish world. What is most inter- Is this why Jeffrey Herf pro- regime, or international Zionism esting is that it was admitted in the motes a distorted view of the Final and the state of Israel. Forward, the very important Jew- Solution? All of the war crimes and bru- ish newspaper that gave Professor All of the so-called “evidence” talities that were committed by the Herf’s book a favorable review, put forth by Professor Herf in The Germans were equaled and even that the Holocaust doctrine is an Jewish Enemy is consistent with excelled by the Allied powers. ideological weapon used against Holocaust revisionism. In order to Indeed, even Professor Deborah the non-Jewish world. It was see how this so, the reader is en- Lipstadt, revisionism’s most bitter stated: “The world is aware how couraged to read the “full text with academic opponent, admitted in jealously the Jewish community footnotes” of my review of The her Denying the Holocaust that guards the Holocaust, both as a Jewish Enemy at http://www. Stalinist Communism killed more memory and a weapon.” codoh.com /review/revenemy.html people than Nazism ever did. Even a believer in the tradi- The orthodox view of the Final tional view of the Final Solution, Solution does not underscore any Professor Norman Finkelstein, has

DAVID IRVING MAY SUE DEBORAH LIPSTADT --- AGAIN!

David Irving is preparing to and make a suitable appointment jurisdiction of the British High serve court papers on Deborah for this purpose; please also con- Court and I can locate her.” Lipstadt. Irving has emailed Lip- firm that you will take no steps to There were rumours on Tues- stadt informing her he intended to prevent court officers from ap- day night that Irving would try to institute unspecified court proceed- proaching you, and cause no steps gatecrash Prof Lipstadt’s talk at ings against her. This can only be to be taken to prevent court offi- Finchley Synagogue. But he said done while she is within the juris- cers from approaching you on this he had not tried to go, as he knew diction of the High Court. When occasion.” he would not be allowed in. Al- Irving found out that Prof. Lipstadt He would not divulge why he though Irving said that Prof. Lip- would be in the UK for a series of was planning to bring his latest stadt had not responded to his talks, he emailed her. threatened action, but confirmed email, when the JC spoke to her, In the email dated November that they were not related to libel. she said her solicitors, Mishcon de 30, Irving wrote: “Please inform “For now,” Irving told The Reya, had replied on her behalf. me whether you will be available Jewish Chronicle, “it goes back on A tantalizing story develop- for service of court proceedings, the shelf, until she is back in the ment. Who would have thought? ADOLF BERMAN AND THE ORIGIN OF 6 THE TREBLINKA GAS CHAMBER FRAUD

hat follows here is an exchange on the CODOH FORUM under the direction of v. W Hannover. It is the most daring, and maybe the most reckless, revisionist concept I have seen in some while. The idea that the Treblinka gassing story, a cornerstone of the Holo- caust story itself, began with “one man” would appear to be risible. But if you are willing to look at how this first informal exchange of ideas progresses, you have to wonder why it is a thesis that our academic historians have never (am I wrong about this?) attempted to address. What I am publishing here is severely edited for space, from an original exchange on the Fo- rum of some 9,000-plus words. I should point out that CCS, the originator of the theory, origi- nally posted on the CODOH Forum as “Carto’s Cutlass Supreme (CSS),” a joke that he now regrets but is stuck with. You would recognize him under a different moniker.

CCS Many of the Treblinka twentieth century, as Butz put it. “holocau$t” industry is being ham- storytellers have Czestochowa, This hoax was sanctioned by the mered for it as we speak. Poland links. This place comes up highest political circles. all the time in the literature. Abra- CCS: Yes, I think Dr. Adolf ham Bomba is from there. Yankel Hannover: The “a couple of Avraham Berman was probably Wiernik talks about people from Jews” = “larger holohoax story” the originator of the whole holo- there. I’ve seen it many more times seems far-fetched, but CCS’s caust story. He probably got it go- also. Perhaps these storytellers points about Treblinka make sense. ing, and then it took off. Hannover grew up together? Or knew each They do show a coordination of understood what I said: I think a other and then collaborated on the sorts on various points. Take Czestochowa cohort might have story? With the help of Adolf Auschwitz for example, look at been the source (with Berman's Berman at the Jewish Psychologi- key “eyewitness” statements that help) of the Treblinka story. cal and Psychotechnical Institu- were contrived to fit the Whether you read Arad, Hil- tions (CENTOS). “4,000,000 murdered at Ausch- berg, or Wyman, they all talk Alexander Donat mentions that witz” fraud, which even the cultists about the 1942 Polish Under- Wiernik was in touch with Berman now say is ridiculous. Look at the ground reports reaching Dr. Isaac before he wrote “A Year in Treb- absurd “geysers of blood mass Schwarzbart in London. Then go- linka” (page 147 of Death Camp graves,” claimed by more than one ing to Rabbi Stephen Wise in New Treblinka, 1979). It may turn out guy, which indicates coordination York, and from there to the New that the origin of the holocaust of the lies. The examples are end- York Times. August 1942 I believe. dates back to Adolf Berman, not less. Yet, historians still refer to the Pol- Adolf Hitler. Berman was closely ish “underground” as if it’s still a Ratatosk: Yes, he has a point. associated with Rachel Auerbach, secret. Berman was in that under- There is obvious coordination and with Dr. Isaac Schwarzbart in ground. And as the head of Jewish among Treblinka witnesses. But, to London, a huge source of the early Psychological and Psychotechnical say “That would be my guess on holocaust stories in the West via Institutions in Poland (CENTOS) the origins of Treblinka and of the the so-called “Polish Government he’s likely the originator of those larger holocaust story” is ridicu- in Exile.” That would be my guess reports. Here is what he said at the lous. on the origins of Treblinka and of Eichmann trial: “...and in the peak period we had about 1,000 work- the larger holocaust story. Hannover: Not so ridiculous ers, teachers, tutors, doctors, psy- as to realize that Treblinka was Ratatosk: So, the larger holo- chologists, nurses and so on.” like the rest of the scam, coordi- hoax story would originate with a It’s likely that he ran a holo- nated lies. In that sense CCS is couple Jews from a Polish village? caust propaganda campaign front- quite right. Of course, those lies Permit me to laugh. What we are ing it as an organization to help have been shattered by guys like dealing with is a hoax on the children. At the Eichmann trial he you and me, but nonetheless, coor- grandest scale. The hoax of the brags that CENTOS was a front for dination was attempted and the 7 underground activity, including found among piles of clothes and military activity. The propaganda Driansmith: This thread is ex- skulls scattered about the Treb- was designed to scare the Jews not tremely interesting. I consider pin- linka camp site when he visited it: to get on the emigration trains. ning down the origins of the Holo- That’s why horrific train stories caust story one of the most impor- CCS: Adolf Berman in the are mixed into death camp stories. tant, but most neglected, aspects of Eichmann Trial might be inter- Same with the “Jews to soap” revisionist research. After all, it is preted as a cameo appearance. Not story. They were harbingers of the very difficult to convince people unlike how Alfred Hitchcock “death camps” story. that the Holocaust is a hoax unless would walk through a scene in his In the Zundel trial Hilberg you can clearly identify the hoax- films as an extra. The psychologi- stated that he could never find the ers and the precise circumstances cal nature of his testimony on the origins of the soap myth. Look no in which the hoax was conceived witness stand mirrors the psycho- further than Adolf Berman. That’s and perpetrated. logical nature of the larger holo- my guess. That he would make up My own research has produced caust story. Possibly because, as a myth like that can be seen with very similar results to those given director of CENTOS, he’s the what this Doctor of Psychology in this thread. We usually find our- originator for what became “the tried to pull at the Eichmann trial. selves dealing with very similar holocaust”? He likely started the He held up to the court a pair of types of people—leftwing Polish Reinhard camps part and then oth- children’s shoes, which he claimed Jews, mostly members of the ers chimed in with the Auschwitz to [have found] in piles at Treb- Bund—and we also find that the part, and the British Psych Warfare linka after the war. The problem is stories tend to enter circulation at Executive got into it. Interesting that the standard story is that they times when the Germans were that the PWE and CENTOS both turned Treblinka into a farm after closing down particular Polish have “psychological” in their titles. the war, and eliminated all traces ghettos. Clearly, the aim was to Treblinka was the big death of evidence. He gave an alternate deter Jews from allowing them- camp in the beginning of the holo- version because he embellished on selves to be deported, perhaps be- caust story. Auschwitz came later. Rachel Auerbach’s fake account. cause as slave laborers they would Wiernik’s testimony was frankly The one with the bomb craters at have only ended up helping to sus- too stupid, as was the general Treblinka! She was getting carried tain the German war effort. Treblinka story (buried 700,000 away, so he took the liberty to get With Wiernik’s account, we then changed their minds and dug carried away even further! seem to pass a crucial stage in the them up? C’mon!) So Wiernik and I think it’s likely Berman is the fabrication of the Holocaust. Prior Treblinka faded into the back- originator of the holocaust story, to this, we just have vague allega- ground, replaced by Elie Wiesel and it took off from there with tions about what the Germans are and Auschwitz. other groups. It’s kind of obvious allegedly doing to Jews. With A key document supports this. when you think of it: a huge un- Wiernik, we seem to have—I think It is a House Hearing document derground organization in the for the first time–a coherent narra- designed to insure the “Punishment Warsaw ghetto, an organization tive that could serve as a model for of War Criminals” which led the with a staff of 1,000 with the word others to follow. Wiernik seems to way to the Purim-like hanging of “psychological” in the name. have opened the floodgates. A tor- 10 men at Nuremberg. The name C'mon! There’s a “convergence of rent of Holocaust testimony begins of the document is “Punishment of evidence.” He knew every major to emerge—much of which soon War Criminals. Hearings before player. And his brother? His reaches the Polish government-in- the Committee on Foreign Affairs. brother had the best relationship exile in London. House of Representatives Seventy with Stalin of anyone in Poland. Ninth Congress on House Joint Charles Krafft: Dr. Adolf He was the head of the Stalinist Resolution 93.” Berman’s testimony at the communist faction in Poland, so The above gobbledygook was a Eichmann trial contradicts the offi- that connection could very well pamphlet issued that had the min- cial story that there was no trace of have helped with the story coordi- utes of meetings that occurred on Treblinka at the war’s end except a nation in the USSR. March 22 and 26, 1945, as well as hastily erected farm house left to Holocaust believers are right: documents submitted for the two camouflage what had happened There was a guy named Adolf who sessions. The date of this hearing there. Here he presents a pair of started the holocaust. is important. It is a month before children’s shoes he claims he 8 US forces entered Dachau, and 3 trial may be in question because of the Jews. But that’s a lie too, de- weeks before British forces came a postwar gold hunt at Treblinka signed to make the Poles look bad into Bergen Belsen. Here’s why that purportedly left the ground and continue to push for Jews to it’s important: One version of the cover disturbed. He may very well immigrate to Israel. Poles being holocaust story is that the Allies have found children's shoes scat- “hyenas in the form of man” is her finally knew about the holocaust tered about as claimed. When ex- quote, which Hilberg then uses. when they came into these camps. actly was Berman there? There’s a Suppose there was digging there. That is the version most Ameri- good true story about ex-Treblinka That still wouldn't explain “tens of cans believe. commandant Globocnik’s treasure thousands of shoes of little chil- This congressional document, hoard in here […]: Nuremberg tes- dren” that Berman talks about, however, shows that the holocaust timony about conditions of the considering that Lukaszkiewicz’s story was already in place before camp in 1945 seems to contradict report didn't mention those shoes. that. But the holocaust version told the claim in the video that Dr. Lukaszkiewicz’s findings are in these hearings has Treblinka as Berman couldn’t have found any covered in Carlo Mattogno's book the main death camp, with Yankel children’s shoes there. on Treblinka. Auerbach, I believe, Wiernik and Samuel Rajzman as On December 29, 1945, after went to Treblinka with Lukasz- the main witnesses. Everyone in the conclusion of his preliminary kiewicz, but then they wrote con- the hearings room was handed a investigations, Lukaszkiewicz is- flicting accounts, with Auerbach’s copy of Yankel Wiernik’s “Year in sued a protocol with 14 para- an obvious fraud. The surveyor Treblinka.” He was the main guy graphs, which was presented by who accompanied Lukaszkiewicz at that point. It’s an important the Soviets at the Nuremberg Trial on that trip was, I believe, a man moment that betrays The Lie. A as Document USSR-344. Para- named “Trautsolt,” and he deter- month later Dachau and Belsen graph 3 bears the title “Protocol of mined that the burial pits were were replacing Wiernik and the tasks performed on the grounds round and in the middle of the Rajzman’s stories, which would of the death camp Treblinka,” camp, which no historians believes never have flown on a global level. which forms the object of the judi- today. Faurisson’s article on Treb- Eventually Dachau and Belsen cial examination. From November linka mentions this surveyor, as weren’t strong enough either, and 9 to 13, 1945, the examining mag- does Mattogno’s book. This whole took a back seat to Auschwitz. istrate of Siedlce, Z. Lukasz- thing is complicated because we're kiewicz, together with the State dealing with lies upon lies, and we Kiwichap: No doubt the origin Attorney for the District Court of haven’t even got into the bomb of the holocaust originated with Siedlce, J. Maciejewski, performed craters; there’s a thread on this too Jews. However, they sold this the following tasks on the camp here at CODOH Forum. The key propaganda lie to the politicians of grounds: point is that there’s no part of the the UK + Commonwealth, USA story that Polish peasants dug up etc. This lie fitted well with their CCS: Neither Raul Hilberg, the ground and uncovered thou- objectives. As Irving said, MI6 Yitzhak Arad, or the US Holocaust sands of children’s shoes. What was involved and once the wheel Memorial Museum website men- would have been the point of dig- was spinning—nobody could stop tion Globocnik hiding a cache of ging up 700,000 bodies to cremate it [without getting] burned in the gold. Rachel Auerbach is the them and thus destroy the evi- process. That was the cleverest originator of the “piles of shoes dence, if you’re then going to bury thing these Jews did. Their lying and skulls” story and she knew tens of thousands of children’s propaganda is our “official” war- Berman, so that’s likely why Ber- shoes? time story. To expose the holo- man said it. Auerbach’s account is Globocnik ended up in Syria as caust will cost the heads and repu- an obvious fraud and I think there a corresponding member of the tations of so many people, and I are threads here on it. But even her CIA-controlled Gehlen Organiza- don’t mean Jews. When the holo- account never mentions Globoc- tion. Page 399 in Yitzhak Arad’s caust topples, so will the West’s nik’s buried treasure. Her account book Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka “moral high-ground” regarding is called “In the Fields of Treb- mentions he died on May 31, 1945. WWII. linka.” She says that they were But nice to see that that Nazi- digging because the Germans Mideast link is going strong in this Charles Krafft: The 1/3 of the might have missed gold and dia- article!{which article?} Like a Holocaust episode about Dr. Ber- monds that were on the persons of good mystery novel for 12-year- man’s testimony at the Eichmann 9 olds, the article is peppered with Q. Dr. Berman, you were sub- in tens of thousands, and very, references to the CIA, STASI. And sequently one of the commanders very many shoes, amongst them with all the detail, it’s hilarious, as of the ghetto revolt? tens of thousands of shoes of little Hannover showed, when they fi- A. Of the Jewish underground. children. nally take a photo of all the in- Q. You saw the children who Q. Did you pick up one such credible treasure. participated in the ghetto battle? pair which you have retained to A. Yes. this day? Breker: The fact that Berman Q. Did you witness these little A. Yes, I have brought it here. and those around him were com- heroes? Q. You brought it here to show munists and Zionists is something A. Yes. I wanted to say some- the Court? that cannot be overlooked. The thing about this. When the disaster A. Yes, I wanted to show it. linked text […] is nothing more came about, our line was one of A. The pair of shoes of a child, than what the world has come to general mobilization, mobilization you have retained to this day? expect from this sort. The allega- in two directions; first of all in the A. I brought it as something tions contained are mere boiler- direction of the Jewish anti-Nazi very precious, for I knew that over plate claims that revisionist efforts fighting underground. And we did a million shoes like these were have stripped bare. Treblinka has everything possible in order to or- spread over all the extermination been unraveled in all ways. From ganize the youth, the workers, the fields of Europe. These are the the lack of physical evidence, lack intelligentsia, into an armed anti- shoes. of documents, to the quaky {?} Nazi underground. I took part in [The witness shows the Court a nature of the “eyewitnesses.” setting up the first organization of pair of children's shoes.] Obvious by its absence, and the armed Jewish underground in what is the final deathblow against the Warsaw Ghetto, within the Judge Halevi: Dr. Berman, did the cited bit of propaganda, is the anti-Fascist bloc created at the ini- you receive any assistance, did the fact that we see do not see men- tiative of the Polish Labour Party, Jews receive any assistance at the tioned the massacre of thousands the P.P.R., in the Warsaw Ghetto. time of the Holocaust? of Polish officers by the commu- Already at that time, youth and Witness Berman: Yes. I my- nists at Katyn. Given the very em- older children were also participat- self was in constant touch with the phasis on “Poles” and things “Pol- ing in this bloc. Polish underground and with relief ish,” we should expect to see this Q. Perhaps we can come to the institutions for children in the Ar- crime mentioned straight away. revolt. At the time of the revolt yan quarter, Polish institutions. But clearly those involved in writ- you were in the ghetto? And I can relate that also from the ing this text wanted to obscure that A. No. At the time of the revolt point of view of help for the ghetto fact, they wanted to sanitize and I was one of the representatives of fighters, and from the point of promote Zionism and communism the ghetto fighters on the Aryan view of help for the rescue of Jews at any costs. They were not inter- side to the Polish underground. we received a certain measure of ested in honesty. assistance. I cannot say that it was The infamous shoe testimony massive help, substantial, more- Laurentz Dahl: This is from follows: over the possibilities, then, for the Adolf Berman’s testimony at the Polish underground, for the Armia Eichmann Trial: Q. After the war you went to Ludova, for the P.P.R.—these pos- visit Treblinka—is that so? sibilities were not so great, but we Q. Before the Second World A. That is right. obtained help. And I am proud of War, you were the director of the Q. Perhaps you are able to tell the fact that the first revolver we head office of the Jewish Psycho- us in general terms what you saw received from the Polish anti- logical and Psychotechnical Insti- there? fascists for the Jewish anti-fascist tutions in Poland: “Centos”? A. When I came there it was bloc, we received in my room, in A. Yes. some weeks after I had been liber- the room of the director-general of Q. After the outbreak of the ated by the Soviet army, this was “Centos,” in the same way as I am Second World War you were one in January 1945. I saw a scene proud of the fact that amongst the of the directors of “Centos” in which I shall never forget: a tre- one thousand workers of “Centos” Warsaw? mendous expanse, extending over there were hundreds who were ac- A. Yes. many kilometers and on this area tive in the underground. Subse- there were scattered skulls, bones, 10 quently the ghetto fighters ob- and also with the circles connected “Jewish national underground tained help, not just on a single to the Armia Krajewa. We then committee” in this Aryan quarter? occasion, first of all from the Pol- decided to do everything possible One can only conclude that this ish progressive circles, first and to alert the Jewish and the non- man is uttering complete rubbish, foremost from the Armia Ludova. Jewish world to what was happen- with a communist bent, or, these In the efforts to save children, I ing in the ghetto and in the exter- ghettos were not as we’ve been also acted myself to a certain ex- mination camps and to the Jewish told they were. tent. We also had connections with people in Poland generally. And the Polish institutions for aiding we succeeded. We secured a par- CCS: I like that phrase “intel- children, and with the progressive ticular way of transmitting our ca- lectual center for the resistance.” parties, and also with the Catholic bles and our reports—fairly Like—I wonder what that could groups. lengthy reports—on all our activi- mean? Where to hatch a lie, per- ties, our operations for assistance haps? Berman tried the psycho- (The above aptly demonstrates and the struggle of the ghetto logical angle of persecuted kids the conflict between the under- fighters and all the ghettos, to three times: ground Jews like Berman, who London, to Washington and also to 1) His “Give the Child Some wanted to fight and have the Jews Moscow. stay in the ghetto, and the Juden- Joy” program, which he talks raete and ghetto police, who were Presiding Judge: When did about at the Eichmann trial. compliant with the Nazi policy of this begin? 2) Janusz Korczak taking the deportation. Herein also is the mo- Witness Berman: From 1943. orphans to Treblinka, which I be- tive for spreading rumors of Treb- And there was a closer tie from lieve he also talks about at the linka “gas chambers” among the 1944 and until the end. We also Eichmann trial. Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. — received cables from abroad, from 3) His exploiting a pair of Laurentz Dahl) Jewish organizations. children’s shoes before the court.

Judge Halevi: What cables, Laurentz Dahl: There is an Q. Did you succeed in sending and what did they say? article entitled “The Tale of War- out news to any territory outside Witness Berman: About res- saw and Treblinka,” written by the Nazi occupation, to the free cue operations and about various Elma Dangerfield and published in world? activities connected with the trag- Menorah Journal issue 31, 1943. A. Yes. It was in this way: edy of the Jewish people in Menorah was published in New When I crossed over to the Aryan Europe. I would also like to add, York, I believe. Unfortunately, the quarter, this was on 6 September that then, in those days, in the days only way for me to get access to 1942, on the day of the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto, in the days this journal is to travel 200 miles of the big “Round-up” the big of Treblinka, Auschwitz and Ma- (for various reasons). Any poster Umschlag when I was also aware jdanek, we then decided, and I de- with access to an American (re- that this was the last minute, in the cided that one of my most impor- search) library would probably Aryan quarter at the time, thanks tant missions would be—a struggle find it easy to locate the issue in to my contacts and those other against this plague which was question. It would be interesting to members of the Polish under- called Nazism and Fascism, until see what version of the Treblinka ground, we established a Jewish its total liquidation. national underground committee in legend Dangerfield offered her the Aryan quarter, and also a coor- (Reading this, it is indeed hard Jewish-American readers back in dinating committee between the not to consider the possibility that 1943. I have not been able to find conspiratorial Jewish national un- Berman was one of the central any comment on it online. derground committee in the Aryan people who created, spread and Can anyone help? quarter and the Jewish socialist coordinated gassing rumours con- You will find the full exchange organization, the Bund. We were cerning Treblinka and other al- on the CODOH Forum at: in touch with all the Polish under- leged death camps. —L.D.) http://forum.codoh.info/viewtopic. ground organizations. I was the php?t=2869&start=0 representative attached to the Pol- Breker: Can anyone explain how Jews in a Jewish ghetto could ish underground; we were in con- tact with the circles connected to move about freely in the Aryan Because the heart of this ex- the Armia Ludova with the P.P.R., quarter, and even more, establish a change suggests an almost in- 11 credible thesis, I ran it past Gene stories in human minds that cause Burkett, a trained historian, is Burkett, who wrote the lead on such things to be written (Jungian observing the cultural and political David Irving in SR144, “Hoefle archetypes)? Or psychosexual context of the time, without which Hoopla: David Irving Promotes the gassing story could not have modelings that all people share Revisionism—Again!” gained the credence it did gain. Burkett’s understanding of (Freudianism)? Or that certain The “environment” had to be these affairs is several leagues be- inevitabilities about human nature ready. Nevertheless, I am intrigued yond my own, so I wanted to know throw up certain problems, certain by the “fact” that there had to be what he thought of CCS’s spec- models, and certain ways of de- one moment in time, one morning, tacular speculations. This is his scribing things? one afternoon, one dark night, off-the-top-of-his-head response: “The Holocaust Story—at least when one man said it for the first as it pertains to the mass extermi- time—“gassings at Treblinka.”

nation in extermination camps Someone had to say it first, before Gene Burkett anyone else said it. I understand part—and it is THAT part that is “It’s only far-fetched in the untrue—is just based on the com- that the cultural environment ex- sense that a single reference in pop mon culture in Europe, and to a isted—had to exist—in which one culture is taken to make a one to lesser degree, America, as it stood man could say “gassings at Treb- one correspondence with an atroc- in 1939 and prior. No ONE person linka” and make it sound credible. ity story. That’s highly doubtful. concocted it from ONE source. It Still, one day there was no talk of gassings at Treblinka, and the next “You are familiar of course was a lot of people, fearful, disori- day one man said gassings at with the fact that there are Cinder- ented, and hateful who just reached for the bag of tricks available, and Treblinka. It “fit” into the histori- ella stories in all cultures. Does since they were all similar human cal and cultural moment Maybe it this mean that they all go back to beings living in a similar time with wasn’t Berman. Maybe he heard it one Cinderella who actually lived similar concerns they reached for from another man. But there had one day (“euhemerism”)? Does the same things. And, yes, the to have been one man who said it this mean that all the Cinderella same things writers, and film mak- first. If no one had ever said gas- sings at Treblinka, we would never stories can be “mapped” from one ers were reaching for, for other have heard of it, it would not have location to the next (symbolic purposes.” become a “myth.” transfer)? Does this mean that I have a feeling that I am go- there are various innate models of ing to be sorry I got into this.

is. The unwillingness of the Ger- pray for Roland to get Adolf back, IN THE NEWS man State to teach German dogs to and that Adolf will then bite Ro-

AT LAST! Haaretz reports read German is species-ism at its land where Roland most deserves that a German man has finally most vulgar. Roland says he to be bitten. been jailed for five months for planned to have Adolf put to sleep to mark the anniversary of Hitler’s BERLIN—The head of the teaching his pet dog to perform a German National Democratic Nazi salute. suicide in 1945. Of course he did. Gassing? Some things never Party (NPD), Udo Voigt, in an Thank G-d! It should have interview with Iranian journal- been sentenced to five years. The change. Adolf has now been placed in ists that was to be rebroadcast dog is named Adolf, and was on the political program Report trained by his owner, Roland, to a government animal shelter where staff, fulfilling contemporary re- Mainz, said that “Six million lift his paw sharply into the air cannot be right. At most, 340,000 when he heard the words “Heil education rituals, is training Adolf to compliantly raise his paw, people could have died in Ausch- Hitler.” The former car sales- witz… Jews always say: “Even if man—the German, not the dog— puppy-like, to shake hands, rather than perform the Nazi salute like a one Jew died that is a crime.” But was caught after he ratted Adolf of course it makes a difference out to a German policeman. Some real dog. Roland, meanwhile, is fearful that he will not be allowed whether one has to pay for six mil- things never change. lion people or for 340,000.” Performing a Nazi salute is to retrieve Adolf once he (Roland) outlawed in Germany. Of course it is out of the jug. We all should 12 Well, it does make a difference, caust appears to have needed a disgusting. The way modern art doesn’t it? Not that the folk con- particularly strenuous and un- likes it. Once the festivities nected with the Holocaust Industry ending effort—so many people were over the “art” could be are at all interested in the financial have, for so many years, ex- sent to the needy in Palestine, benefits gained from exploiting the pended so much energy in rais- Iraq, and Afghanistan. Six Million number. ing it and keeping it raised. If Upon airing of his remarks all this Holocaust-awareness- In 2005, Jean-Marie Le Pen there was an immediate debate by told a reporter for a weekly raising could be formulated into German politicians wanting to magazine that: “In France, at choke off funding for the NPD. a pill it could well drive Viagra least, the German occupation That could prove difficult because off the market. I’ll keep my eye was not particularly inhumane, the German constitution stipulates peeled and let you know. although there were some blun- that all political parties are to be Metropolitan Liverpool is to ders, inevitable in a country of treated equally. German democ- be the focal point for the up- 550,000 sq km.” The observation racy, however, is not unlike “de- coming National Holocaust angered the government, anti- mocracy” elsewhere. There are Memorial Day. Yoko has told racism organizations, and Jewish always some more deserving of it the Liverpool press: “It is an groups. So Le Pen was prosecuted. than others. honour to be part of such a He did not bother to attend the According to at least one poll, symbolic piece of artwork trial. the majority of the population in The prosecution asked that Le which will help people to learn Germany considers the NPD to be Pen be handed a five-month sus- undemocratic and damaging to the how important it is never to for- pended sentence and fined 10,000 image of the country. The govern- get the horrors of the Holo- euros ($14,530) for saying that the ment has in the past tried to ban caust.” Nazi occupation of France was the NPD, but failed after it Organizers have already “not particularly inhumane.” As an emerged that some members of the collected 1,000 pairs of glasses example of a hysterical, brutal, party who had given evidence in to start off the collection. Amer- racist, and demagogic language, legal proceedings were police in- ican Jerry Springer—a man who this one must stand alone. formers. once told his booking agent that The prosecution also requested Where’s the problem? These he would never have anyone that the head of Rivarol magazine, police informers were working for like me on his show—has sacri- Marie-Luce Wacquez, be handed a democracy, and against the un- two-month suspended prison sen- ficed a pair of his own eye- democratic machinations of the tence and be fined 5,000 euros, and Holocaust revisionist NPD. glasses to help raise awareness that the journalist who conducted of the Holocaust. It might be the interview be fined 3,500 euros. Yoko Ono, the widow of more helpful if these folk would This prosecution is one way in John (The Beatle) Lennon, consider donating a thousand, which awareness of the Holocaust has donated a pair of her eye- or ten or twenty thousand, arti- is raised, and at the same time one glasses to a Liverpool eyeglass ficial arms and legs to the Liv- way to demonstrate the peculiar art exhibition to help raise erpool Art Extravaganza. It bent of the personalities who are awareness of the Holocaust. would be more symbolic as art, dedicated to raising awareness of Raising awareness of the Holo- more imaginative, and more the Holocaust.

RICHARD “CHIP” SMITH continued from page one war, gets shot in the head, and one loses that one. Years go by. Times The man makes choices. day in a hospital ward decides to change. The writer works. The Choices make the man. Or maybe become a writer. Returning home, writer writes. Then comes this things just unfold the way they do. this aspiring writer flails and fails shattering, unconscionable epiph- No matter. Your friends and pro- and somehow ends up being any, when the muse steers head- fessors have it all figured out. prosecuted by the State of Califor- long into the “great question of Bradley Smith, they will assure nia for selling a book – Henry belief.” And the stakes are forever you, is the worst sort of character. Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. He changed. Bill Burroughs kills his wife and 13 the crime is casually bought and Smith’s monologue distills to the sold as countercultural mythology. Smith’s surrogate narrator, imprisoned logic of Sartrean hu- Uxoricide is sexy, or at least for- A.K. Swift, is at once quixotic manism. A dire predicament given. But Smith, you must recog- and apathetic. Thoreau and dooms us to brotherhood. In the nize, is a special case—a man Mersault. A tax resister who reckoning, there is grave responsi- whose defining transgression ex- can’t be bothered to go public. A bility. There is the longing for ists beyond the pale of permissibly libertarian with blood on his atonement. And in the marrow, decadent writerly lore. He stands hands. An absurd rebel, kicking “the wanting.” naked and guilty of something against the pricks. A writer with Smith’s surrogate narrator, wholly unredeemable. He dances no role. His is a helpless moral A.K. Swift, is at once quixotic and by the flame of the only evil still gesture telescoped through the apathetic. Thoreau and Mersault. A worth naming. distant lens of American tran- tax resister who can’t be bothered There’s simply no way to gloss scendentalism. to go public. A libertarian with it. Bradley Smith, the very best blood on his hands. An absurd re- people know and understand, is a bel, kicking against the pricks. A Holocaust Denier. Or “revisionist.” obliquely, in delicious criminal writer with no role. His is a help- Or “skeptic.” Whatever. Rumor traces. If that’s your game, chug a less moral gesture telescoped has it that he even dips hummus lug. There are reasons for every- through the distant lens of Ameri- with Ahmadinejad. Ask the next thing. And the book is always can transcendentalism. He stands question and you’ve made your open. athwart the immovable rout of first mistake. This is where things Still, it’s odd how easily we “bureaucrats, revolutionaries and get stuck. It’s too bad, really. But forget. In this instance, about the priests,” speaking softly in the one also very nearly perfect. At one Bomb. The way we forget about true voice; his call to reason un- end of the bar sits this avuncular death, perhaps. Decades pass and heard and unheeded, swallowed up old raconteur, sipping Mexican Cold War anxiety washes into gray in the churning clockwork of his- beer. He wears his heart on his newsreel nostalgia. Pakistan still tory. sleeve and laughs at death. Buy has nukes, and so does Dick Che- And so it goes. A working-class him a fish taco and he’ll tell you ney, yet the hundredth monkey dreamer is cast against implacable the funniest war stories you ever calls in sick. Nothing has changed. forces from without, and the story heard. Or maybe, if the mood is You simply learn to drop the sub- is as old as Sophocles. Seul contre right, he’ll bore you with the one ject. Somehow, the other Holo- tous. Impotent and beset by failure, about how he came to doubt the caust is passé. his fate is sealed in eternal meas- gas chamber stories. On the oppo- Removed from the once urgent ures of comic futility. Camus in- site end, your eyes meet the collec- nightmare panic of a billion child- sisted that where there is the great- tive, disapproving glare of Mom hoods, Bradley Smith’s epistle est danger there is also the greatest and Dad and everyone you’ve ever owes its resonance to simpler veri- hope. He was wrong, of course. trusted, imploring you to simply ties. Beyond the din of political There’s no cheating the reaper, or turn away. protest, beyond the cloying re- the taxman. Yet when hope is It’s happy hour, and everyone frains of refashioned liberation dashed and failure foregone, one is looking. You have a choice. Or theology, or regurgitated Chomsky man can laugh, or he can cry. Or maybe you don’t. If it helps, The loops, or Ron Paul bumper stick- he can relent. The trick, as A.K. Man Who Saw His Own Liver is ers, the bead hovers ever nearer the Swift—and Bradley Smith—might not a book about the Holocaust. At visceral quick, where the heart remind us, is in finding right rela- least not the one you have in mind. races and everything is music. tionship. But don’t take it from Of course, if you can’t bring your- Make no mistake, taxation is theft. Bradley. Just ask the Buddha. Or self to wade past the emanations But true freedom belies and defies Anne Frank. They understood and penumbras, you’ll find what every slogan. what the Nazis and bureaucrats you’re looking for. To be sure, the While the grim specter of nu- will never confess. crisis of apostasy is prefigured, clear annihilation looms just off- stage, the grit and gristle of WHERE I WAS WHEN I WROTE THE MAN WHO SAW HIS OWN LIVER 14

t was 1982 and I was living I don’t recall how it came to be, I had not gotten any positive re- I in Hollywood, working in but I began working on a play that sponses to the play. I still couldn’t construction in Topanga Canyon I would call The Man Who Stopped work so I kept sending it around. and in the mountains above Paying. It would be a one- One night I went to a dramatic Malibu. For the most I was doing character monologue dealing with “reading” out in the Valley some- concrete and block. In the 1970s I tax resistance and the nuclear arms place and watched a big, burly guy had become involved with protest- race from a subjective and some- read in a way that impressed me. I ing the nuclear arms programs of what unique point of view. The gave him a copy of the play and a the U.S. Government, and in 1979 way I worked was with blank file week later he called me from Colo- I was introduced to Holocaust re- cards and a pen. Lying on the floor rado where he was on vacation to visionism. In the 1970s it was one on my belly I would print the idea tell me he liked it, that there were thing after another. Rather like it is for one passage across the top of passages in the script that he now. one card, print the ideas for other wanted to speak. His name was One afternoon I was off- passages across the tops of other Jon Ackelson. loading concrete block from the cards, then arrange the cards on the Meanwhile, my friend Steve bed of a pick-up truck with a cou- carpet before me in a projected Leichter had read the play. Steve is ple Mexicans—illegals probably, I narrative order. It was a simple a Jew, he had gone to Israel when never asked—when in the middle matter to change the structure of he was a young guy and some of a “swing” with a block in each the narrative by changing the order Arab had shot him in the ass while hand, something cracked in my of the cards. he was driving a tractor. No hard back. The crack was so loud that After about five months, when I feelings, but he decided to make one of the workers straightened up, could sit up in a chair, I had Irene his way back to America. There looked around, and said: “Que fue put my typewriter on the dinning were a couple passages in the play eso?”—or “What was that?” room table and I finished the that might offend some Jews, and At first it didn’t hurt, but I manuscript. in the event did, but Steve liked it stood aside from the work just in I began passing photocopies of and volunteered to be my pro- case. After about an hour it started the play script around. Never heard ducer. This was a real windfall for to hurt. I thought it might get back. Turned out that Aldo Ray, me because Steve was the kind of worse so I drove my laborers to the actor who starred in the screen guy who knows how to do things. their pick-up corner and then on to adaptation of Erskine Caldwell’s It didn’t occur to me at the my mother’s little frame house in a God’s Little Acre, used the same time, but Aldo Ray—he was a canyon off Hollywood Boulevard a post office I did on Highland Ave- mainstream Hollywood guy— couple blocks behind Grauman’s nue off Franklin. I sent him a copy might have seen something in the Chinese Theater. Pretty soon I of the play. One afternoon a couple script he read that could be seen as couldn’t walk, and then I couldn’t weeks later I bumped into him at critical of Jewish tradition. Why stand up. To make a long story the mailboxes and asked if he had would he risk it? short, I spent the next five months found the time to read some of it. Ackelson and I began rehears- lying on my mother’s dining room He was rather a big fellow, and ing the play in the garage in which floor. he looked down at me with a the play is set. He and I were co- Irene, my future wife, slept in a steady, unfriendly eye. directors. We worked well to- little sewing room a few feet from “I read it. I don’t do that kind of gether. We had one initial diffi- where I was laying. She was taking thing,” he said. He didn’t move. It culty. There are passages in the care of my mother, who had multi- was as if he wanted to get into text where the character is strug- ple sclerosis and was in a wheel- something with me there in the gling with difficult material under chair. Marisol, her eight-year-old little post office. I waited. After a difficult circumstances. Ackelson daughter, was there too. Years moment he said: initially read in a way that empha- later Marisol was to tell me that “It’s not for me. I wouldn’t sized the pain and I suppose the that was the worst year of her life, touch it.” sorrow that he felt for the charac- having me lay around like that and It was clear that while he ter. It took two or three readings to having to go around or jump over wanted to say what he said, he get it across to Ackelson that no me to get to the front door. wanted to say something else too. line in the text could be delivered “Okay,” I said. “Thank you.” in a way that would suggest to the

15 audience that his character felt “Perhaps it’s right, then, that The Devil now…that’s where sorry for himself. No complaining, he’s alone in his garage work the drama is. He hasn’t let me no self-pity. No line. space speaking to us. Even though down yet. About that time Steve Leichter he’s married, and speaks of that got a business offer he could not love as tenderly as he does of na- refuse and moved his family to ture, he’s his own man in every So here we are. January 2008. I Berkeley, where I think he still is. sense. Jon Ackelson plays him with expect a productive, tho possibly In the end Irene loaned me the little abandon but a great deal of complicated, month. The February money to stage the play myself in heart. issue of this Report will be a little The Theater of Note, a small house “…Smith could become a kind late, but for good reason. I expect in downtown Los Angeles. It was of playwright laureate of an to have a good story to tell you. money she had earned cleaning American Greens party. But, then, Which will be the first chapter, if other people’s houses. he’d probably rather go it alone.” you will, of a book of good stories I announced the play in the Los to follow. Good for us, that is, not Angeles Times, Dramalogue, The Audiences grew slowly from for them. Free Press, and a couple other the first performance, to thirty and places. The first night there were forty, and on to the final perform- maybe a dozen people in the audi- ance. There had been a libertarian ence. Then there was one review conference in town and for the fi- Bradley printed, then another, and another. nal performance Mike Everling Each was positive. helped me fill the house that night Robert Koehler, writing in with the perfect audience. It was a Smith’s Report Stage Beat for the Los Angeles rousing performance by Ackelson is published by Times, headed his piece: and the audience alike, and I went Committee for Open Debate out in a small blaze of glory. On the Holocaust “The Difficulty of Battling Within the year I had given up Bradley R. Smith, Founder The Bomb” working with the nuclear arms is- For your contribution of $39 “Something occurred to me the sue and had turned to working with you will receive 12 issues of other day. What could be a more revisionism. Tax resisters could Smith’s Report. effective way of protesting the meet openly in the Unitarian In Canada and Mexico--$45 arms race than refusing to pay Church on Eighth Street, while the Overseas--$49 Institute for Historical Review was one’s tax bill that funds America’s Correspondence & checks to: side of that race? burned to the ground on the Fourth “…How odd to see your errant of July, 1984. Tax resistance was Bradley R. Smith notion, still fresh in the head, given radical, but had the open attention Post Office Box 439016 life in a play, namely Bradley of principled people. Revisionism San Ysidro, CA 92143 Smith’s ‘The Man Who Stopped was radical as well, but revisionists Desk: 209 682 5327 Paying.’ were judged to be evil and aligned Cell: 619 203 3151 “…[Smith’s] man who isn’t with the Devil. The artist in me Email: paying is big, burly, bearded and chose to challenge the Devil Him- [email protected] self rather than continue to ha- [email protected] working-class pure. He isn’t a col- legiate, but he’s well read (he rangue the bureaucrats. Web: www.Codoh.com compares the great “play” of to- Of course, it’s always the bu- day—nuclear arms protest—to the reaucrats. Republicans, National great plays of the past—“Lear,” Socialists, Democrats, Commu- “Antigone,” “The Oresteia”… nists. As a class, bureaucrats al- “…Bureaucrats are the enemy, ways choose to follow their leader for, while they maintain the wel- and dedicate themselves to con- fare system, they also maintain the vincing the people that their leader machines that will destroy that has a program … a path … to welfare…For the first time in a righteousness, truth, and liberty long time on stage an anarchist when righteousness, truth, and lib- libertarian has sounded out. erty are themselves the path. 16

SMITH’S REPORT On the Holocaust Controversy No. 147 www.Codoh.com February 2008

Challenging the Holocaust Taboo Since 1990

Jürgen Graf: An Interview

By Richard Widmann

n January, I was fortu- revisionist books and related Jürgen Graf: Unfortunately I nate to be able to conduct writings on the Holocaust, sen- circumstances do not allow me to the following interview with tenced to 15 months imprison- carry out any research. Since 2002, leading Swiss revisionist re- ment without probation at Ba- I have only published about ten searcher, author, and scholar den, Switzerland, on the ridicu- articles, most of which appeared in Jürgen Graf. Graf is the author lous charge of “racial discrimi- Vierteljahreshefte für freie of numerous articles and wrote nation.” Since 2002, Graf lived Geschichtsforschung. As you the devastating analysis of Raul in exile. Most recently, he has know, there will be no more issues Hilberg’s work, The Giant with been living in Russia with of this fine journal, but I can al- Feet of Clay. He has also co- ways write in Sans Concessions, a authored with Carlo Mattogno journal edited by French revision- several of the most important ist Vincent Reynouard, who re- analyses of various concentra- cently published my attack on tion camps, including: Treb- Guillaume Faye (“‘The New Jew- linka: Extermination Camp or ish Question’ or, the End of Guil- Transit Camp?, Concentration laume Faye”) and will also publish Camp Majdanek: A Historical my article about the number of and Technical Study, and Con- victims of the Majdanek concen- centration Camp Stutthof and tration camp, which is at present Its Function in National Social- being translated into English. ist Jewish Policy. Jürgen Graf However, I have found the was born in Switzerland in time to write a very large book for 1951. He studied Scandinavian Jürgen Graf the Russian market. It was trans- and Romance languages, and lated into Russian by historian English, at the University of his wife Olga, a historian from Anatoliy Ivanov and will probably Basel, where he was awarded Minsk. He earns his living as a come out in April this year. The the degree of Magister. He translator from numerous lan- title is The New World Order and taught German for four years at guages into German. the Holocaust. Like Germar Ru- the Chinese Culture University dolf’s Lectures on the Holocaust, in Taipei, Taiwan. He has re- Richard Widmann: What the book takes the form of a dia- searched and authored various have you been working on re- logue. A German lecturer, whom I revisionist works since 1991. In cently? Continued on page 5 1998, he was, on account of his Germar [Rudolf]. He is well, and nesses, or had their farms fore- LETTERS his usual self. He sings in the choir closed or confiscated. Families

I want to hear from you. I read in church and works in the prison were destroyed. Wives left their everything you write. I regret that I kitchen. He is fond of his Ameri- husbands, children died in misery. am not able to respond individu- can wife, and infatuated with his It was one horrendous price these ally to each correspondent. I may daughter. men and women paid so that publish your letter here. I may edit The censorship imposed here America could shake off its shack- it for length and/or content. Please has amounted to isolation. Small les, and remove the tyrant’s occu- make it very clear to me that I can, surprise for me! Obviously those pation from American soil. or cannot, use your name. who are still free are paralyzed and How many Americans know of fearful that they may be “Zün- these sacrifices made back then? ERNST ZÜNDEL delized.” Most are so muted in They know of Franklin, Washing- their criticisms that it amounts to ton, Jefferson, but those men stood I can hardly believe it. Your more or less acquiescence to the on the broken bones and broken Christmas letter was delivered to outrageous actions undertaken by lives of the others, those who me late this afternoon, 27 Decem- the enemies of freedom. really paid the price. If our own ber. It’s the first mail from you for When I compare how Angela generation thinks they can sip their ages. How the time passes. It was Davis, Nelson Mandela, or that café lattes, hit a few keys on their not so long ago that Paloma visited cop-killer Abu Jamal have been keyboard, and think that will bring, us in San Diego—and now she is a handled, packaged, and promoted or preserve, our cherished free- full-fledged mother of a lovely, until they were worldwide celebri- doms—Bradley, they will have a healthy child. Eden—what a cute ties, I don’t know what to feel. rude awakening. Freedom does not kid. I had to laugh about the pack- Angela and her friends, armed come that cheap. aged dog food, and the washing his guerrillas and worse, often draw I just spent my fifth Christmas hands in the toilet. I am glad to see tens of thousands of demonstrators in prison. Two more Christmases that your wife also is looking well in France and Germany, often fill- in prison will be my lot. My re- and has not aged a bit. I do see a ing whole sports stadiums. Com- lease date is supposed to be the 21st bit of gray on the top of her head. pare that to the pitiful efforts, and of March 2010. But I have seen too Bradley, I had a friend—a the few brave souls who came out many rules twisted, and too many grandmother whose grandson to hold up their placards, attracting laws violated, in three countries loved “Milk Bones” for decades, oftentimes more police than there over the last five years. I am leery one of the popular dog food are demonstrators. I don’t know of any promises, regardless of who brands. In a panic she called the what kind of mental and physical makes them. “Promises are, like manufacturer, spoke to the lab’s paralysis has overcome the voices [predictions] —made to be bro- chief researcher about what Milk and forces of freedom. ken,” said Lenin. Bones contained. He assured her That’s the danger of the Inter- All the best to you and your that it was made of the finest in- net people who sit in the safety and family. gredients, and that his own grand- security of their offices and dens, children got Milk Bones as regular sip a glass of Cabernet, or a cool MICHAEL HARDESTY meals. Only the finest was good beer, then turn to their keyboard enough for his grandchildren. with gusto and con themselves into The December 2007 issue is As to washing his hands in the believing that they have just done superb. More valuable articles, toilet, well, it’s all a matter of per- something meaningful for Free- plus I always enjoy your personal spective. Knowing the cleanliness dom. There will be a reality check, pieces. I very much appreciated the of your wife, little Brad could be and I think our cases here are it. One Third of a Holocaust movie worse off, considering the poor in I remember years ago publish- which I got from you and viewed some areas of the world. I hope ing some thing about the American two months ago. The voice box Paloma is careful—that pace she is Founding Fathers. It was called there sounds like John Malkovich! keeping is dangerous for anyone. “The Price They Paid.” It detailed Probably not. I particularly appre- Two, three hours to get across the the persecutions of some of the ciated the serious critiques of border? What a drag. early supporters of the American David Irving’s (non)expertise in Today I spent an hour walking Revolution. Many were incarcer- Holocaust revisionism. Enjoyed in the prison yard in the snow with ated, died in prison, lost their busi- his two-volume histories Hitler’s 2 War and Churchill’s War, plus the Certain Jewish interests fear intuition, the “higher emotional Dresden book. Not so impressed and resent Christian tradition. This center” of Gurdjieff perhaps, and with the rest, except for Uprising, is because the Gospels themselves direct knowledge). which was worthwhile (Hungarian show with astonishing clarity how Marques is scornful in his ref- revolt of 1956). Please keep up the such interests work behind the erence to Muhammad. The Qu’ran great work. scenes for their own welfare to the which came through him is one of detriment of others. That aspect of the great sacred books of the world NIGEL JACKSON the Gospels is astonishingly con- and has stood the test of time. temporary, although many Chris- Marques forgets that great intelli- The article by Richard Wid- tians won’t face the implications of gence was manifested in pre- mann (who is he?) was excellent it for our own times. literate cultures, with bards memo- and that by A.S. Marques very in- Turning to “Sobering Thoughts rizing tens of thousands of lines of teresting. What follows, however, on ‘The Perfect Religion’” by A. complex verse. Muhammad was is an important (in my view) re- S. Marques (also in Number 145), highly intelligent in that sense, sponse to certain items in Wid- it must be flatly stated that the which does not mean that we are mann and Marques. Holocaust cult is not, never has obliged to accept his interpretation There are two “false notes” in been, and never will be a religion. of his extraordinary experiences or Richard Widmann’s excellent es- A religion, by definition, involves the view of the Qu’ran held by say “The Holocaust” (Smith’s Re- a coming down of Heaven into the mainstream Islam. port, Number 145). In the first world of Earth; and there is no Why is all this so important for place, “myth” should not be con- such coming down in the Holo- Holocaust revisionists? Because fused with “belief” nor with “con- caust cult. The truth is that it is a our key weapon is truth; and our viction based on faith.'” A myth is cult of a political ideology (like grasp of truth needs to be based in a profound story that conveys a communism). It is also riddled a wise understanding of the nature truth about the “higher worlds” with deceit, fraud, and crime, of God, Man, and sacred tradition. which cannot be spoken in ordi- which indicates that beyond doubt Both fanaticism and rationalism nary, literal language. The word it will sooner or later collapse into are fatal false alleys for us. “myth” is probably derived from a ruin. root word meaning silent: a myth Marques is incorrect to speak of Nigel Jackson is a 68-year-old articulates that which normally we “the two primary world religions” poet, writer, and secondary have to be silent about. Strictly as “Holocaustianity and Islam.’” schoolteacher in Melbourne, Aus- speaking, the Holocaust story is a There are several such religions, tralia. pseudomyth, since in fact it has no including Judaism, Buddhism, contact with or authority from the Hinduism, Christianity, the “Old PAUL NEMETH higher worlds —or Heaven. Religion” (of worship of the God- More important, the “Christian dess or Great Mother) and Taoism, I was reading the newspapers conviction that they have the only as well as Islam. “Holocaustianity” and I found that a Jewish woman way to heaven and the only proper is a figment of the writer’s imagi- discovered that her granddad left a relationship with the Lord Al- nation. lot of money in a British bank, so mighty” very definitely is a regret- It is incorrect to say that Islam she immediately claimed it as her table example of intolerance. Ex- does not want free speech. It may inheritance. This article started me clusivist Christianity must be re- well be true that many Muslims do thinking yet again about the Holo- jected for two reasons: it is errone- not, just as in other contexts many caust and how difficult it is to ous and it is out of date (thanks to Christians do not; but such folk are prove something that never hap- the scholarship in comparative re- untrue to the wisdom of their own pened, or at least not as the Jews ligion of the last two centuries). It sacred traditions, turning ways to are portraying it. is a fatally unsatisfactory basis Heaven into imprisoning religious Then it hit me. Not one Jew from which to oppose the Holo- cults. “Faith in reason” is not “the has sued the International Red caust cult. (Needless to say, this only weapon we have” in counter- Cross for not reporting on the does not mean that I approve of ing the Holocaust cult. It is one Holocaust as it was happening un- attempts to suppress the celebra- useful tool. Reason (the logical der their very noses. They are su- tion of Christmas, whether pri- faculty) is a middle-level human ing the French railways for having vately or publicly.) faculty, not the highest (which are transported them out of France to 3 Auschwitz where all of them died correct me if I am wrong, but I start a fight they could not win? except, of course, one in every have never heard of such a lawsuit. Jews also know that as long as family. They are or were suing the I concluded that Jews did not they leave the I.R.C. alone, that Swiss Banks for money taken from sue the Red Cross because they that organization will not make them including accrued interest, knew that the one organization that any independent declarations on its yet not one has sued the Interna- could prove the Holocaust did not own, so the only smart thing to do tional Red Cross for having kept happen beyond a shadow of a is to let sleeping dogs lie. silent about the Holocaust. Please doubt would be the I.R.C., so why

The Enemy of My Enemy

John Weir

o you remember sitting Hitler had gotten the A-bomb first? allegedly tortured and killed a D with friends, when a Or Napoleon? I don’t know. prominent French Resistance fig- child, debating the merits of vari- Maybe my taxes wouldn’t be so ure, Jean Moulin. ous fictional characters or sports high? Two years after the German figures? Who would win in a fight In this vein, British film direc- defeat in 1945, Barbie became a between Batman and Spiderman? tor, Kevin MacDonald (not be con- counterintelligence agent for the What would be the outcome if two fused with the American psychol- U.S. Army. In 1951, Barbie relo- boxers from different decades met ogy professor by the same name) cated to Argentina, and later to in the ring when each was in his has a new film titled Enemy of My Bolivia. After Guevara’s death, prime? What if two movie mon- Enemy. In it he explores a rumor Barbie operated a company there sters fought it out? that former Nazi counterinsur- that helped funnel arms to Israel— The comic book industry has gency expert Klaus Barbie mas- circumventing an international attempted to satisfy this craving terminded the capture and execu- arms embargo on the Zionist state. for the meeting of alternate uni- tion of communist guerrilla icon Since these two men were in verses with special-edition graphic “Che” Guevara in October 1967. the same country at the same time, novels. Hollywood too has pro- Ernesto “Che” Guevara was a the stage is set for another Nazi- duced movies to answer these im- handsome young Argentinean doc- communist grudge match. Jour- portant questions with the likes of tor turned communist revolution- nalist Kai Hermann says, “He Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man ary who joined Fidel Castro prior [Barbie] always boasted—though I (1943), Freddy vs. Jason (2003), to his overthrow of Batista in Cuba cannot prove it—that it was he and there is even a series from the in 1959. As “supreme prosecutor” who devised the strategy for mur- merging of the Predator and Alien for the Castro regime, Guevara dering Che Guevara.” MacDonald science fiction horror fantasy mov- oversaw the show trials and execu- gives this boast credence. “The ies. That idea first came out as a tions of hundreds of military and Che claim came from several video game in 1993, to be fol- civilian leaders associated with the sources. I think it makes total lowed in 2004 and 2007 with mov- Batista dictatorship. With Castro’s sense when you understand what ies. There is a market for staging grip on Cuba established, Guevara Barbie was doing and who[m] he fanciful confrontations like these, went on a mission to spread violent was working for in the Bolivian and it seems people are supposed revolution, first in Congo-Kinshasa military.” to cheer for the lesser of two evils. and then in Bolivia, where he ar- He added, “I suspect Barbie’s A cynic—like me—may view this rived in late 1966. involvement was more on a theo- as the training of children for vot- Klaus “Butcher of Lyon” Bar- retical level and, if you think about ing as adults. bie joined the German Nazi SD at it, it makes sense from the point of In the world of political scien- the age of 22 in 1935. In Novem- view of the Bolivian Government tists and historians such musings ber 1942, at the age of 30, he be- and the Americans. He had hands- are called “counterfactuals.” How came the head of the Gestapo in on [!!!] expertise in exactly this would the world be different if occupied Lyon. In this position he field. He was strongly anticom- 4 munist. Neither the Americans nor the capture to his bosses at the he died due to a strategy formu- the Bolivians had anything like CIA. Guevara was executed the lated by a War Criminal. The this kind of experience.” following morning. CIA’s cynical use of Gestapo tac- Really? I don’t see how Ge- That Barbie was smuggling tics from a Nazi asset makes it stapo experience in a city in Nazi- guns to Israel in the late 1960s guilty of being as morally bankrupt occupied France transfers to a rural through his business in Bolivia is a as the Nazis. The idea that a Nazi guerrilla war in Latin America. good indication he remained an was able to capture and kill a Remember, in 1967, Lyndon John- American intelligence asset after commie superstar inflates the no- son had been fighting a communist he relocated to South America. tion of the Nazi threat. guerrilla war in Viet Nam for sev- His usefulness seemingly at an What if “Che” Guevara was eral years. Before that, Americans end, Klaus Barbie was extradited caught by a Nazi? Frankly, I have had fought guerrillas in the Philip- to France in 1983, where he was little sympathy for any involved. pines for several years at the turn convicted of war crimes. Barbie It is like putting a bunch of spiders of the previous century. Under died in prison in 1991. Similarly, together in a jar, or watching Hol- Truman, Americans tortured Ger- Rodríguez was implicated in the lywood monsters try to tear each mans to get them to confess and running of drugs to the U.S. from other apart. No matter the out- testify against each other. The Central America to help the CIA come, it isn’t going to be good. Americans under Eisenhower re- fund the war against the Sand- placed the Iranian government in a inistas in Nicaragua during the Sources: coup that installed the Shah Pah- 1980s. However, that doesn’t ver- “Nazi may have helped in lavi to the throne in the 1950s. ify the ex-Gestapo officer’s murder of Che” by David Smith Hijinks ensued. Add to this the boast—if he ever made such a http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sect long history of U.S. involvement claim. ion/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid= in Latin American affairs. Ameri- I have not viewed Mac- 10484032 cans had no experience of this Donald’s film, so I hesitate to draw kind? You must be joking. any conclusions about it. Never- Klaus Barbie. From Wikipe- The fact of the matter is that theless it seems that there would be dia, the free encyclopedia 26-year-old Cuban-born anticom- some motive in trying to link the ttp://en.wikipedia. munist Félix Ismael Rodríguez death of a communist revolution- org/wiki/Klaus_Barbie Mendigutia headed up the hunt for ary poster boy to a reputed Nazi Guevara in Bolivia. A trained CIA torturer. I can see several, and Che Guevara. From Wikipe- agent, Rodríguez apparently had more than one may be involved. dia, the free encyclopedia http:// no clever strategy for capturing Since MacDonald’s movie is ad- en.wikipeia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara Guevara, who was relatively iso- mittedly based on his suspicions, lated from local and Cuban support the desire to simply relate histori- Félix Rodríguez (Central Intel- during his year in Bolivia. What cal facts is probably not the reason ligence Agency). From Wikipedia, happened was rather simple. An he made it. the free encyclopedia. http://en. informant told the Bolivian Special Since nothing is more evil than wikipdia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_ Forces where the communist was a Nazi torturer in the mind of the Rodr%C3%ADguez_%28Central_ and they went and got him. public, “Che” Guevara’s death be- Intelligence_Agency%29 Rodríguez then relayed news of comes all the more tragic because

Jürgen Graf continued from page 1 have christened Dr. Friedrich without saying that I duly ac- would of course add a huge Bruckner, is holding a seminar at a knowledge this. amount of new information, as Russian institute for the benefit of revisionist research has greatly RW: Tell us something about students who are specializing in progressed since 1996. Neverthe- your book Holocaust Revisionism. German history. About 5 percent less I think that the booklet still is The arguments. of the contents are taken from Lec- a pretty good introduction to revi- tures on the Holocaust; it goes JG: I wrote this booklet in sionism. Somebody told me the 1996. If I had to write it today, I translation contains one or two 5 glaring errors. I have never seen which contains additional informa- law. But in case of a vote, the pos- the printed version. tion about my trial. The title of the sibility of fraud is very real. article is Holocaust Revisionism RW: What is the case the RW: What do you consider and Its Political Consequences. Swiss government has against the most important revisionist dis- you? RW: Is there any chance that coveries of the last few years? the anti-revisionist laws will be JG: In 1998 I went on trial in JG: The archeological exca- abolished in at least some of the Baden, Switzerland, for my first vations on the site of the alleged European countries that have four revisionist books plus the bro- “extermination camp” Belzec adopted them? chure About the decline of Swiss (Eastern Poland) and three docu- freedom. Together with my editor, JG: The decision of Spain’s ments which Mattogno and I found Gerhard Förster, who was so sick Supreme Court came as a great and in Russian archives and which at the time of the trial that he had pleasant surprise to me, but I am prove with absolute certainty that to be brought into the courtroom in afraid it is an isolated case. In the morgues of the Birkenau cre- a wheelchair, I had been accused Spain, the Jews are by no means as matoria could not possibly have of “racial discrimination” on the powerful as in Germany, Austria, been used as homicidal gas cham- basis of the Swiss anti-racist law, France, or Switzerland. Unlike the bers, as the orthodox historians which forbids such imprecise three first countries, Switzerland claim. crimes as “denying or minimizing has the institution of the “popular Ironically, the first of these genocide or other crimes against initiative,” which means that any two discoveries was made possible humanity.” party, organization, or group can thanks to the abysmal stupidity of This law had been introduced bring about a plebiscite on intro- the exterminationists. In 2000, the at the behest of Switzerland’s Jew- ducing a new law or abolishing an Holocaust Memorial Museum and ish community. I was sentenced to existing one if it gathers 50.000 a similar Polish organization pub- fifteen months in prison without signatures within one year. lished a book about the excava- probation and a fine of about In August 2007, the Swiss tions at Belzec (Andrzej Kola, Bel- 40,000 Swiss francs; Förster got Democrats, a small right-wing zec: The Nazi Camp for Jews in twelve months without probation party, launched such an initiative the Light of Archeological plus a fine, but he died in Septem- to seek the abolition of the anti- Sources. Excavations 1997–1999, ber, nine weeks after the trial. racist law, but on their own, they Warsaw/Washington 2000). Kola Of course, the judge did not will not possibly be able to gather pretended to have found material make the slightest effort to discuss 100,000 signatures. evidence corroborating that Belzec the arguments exposed in my On the other hand, collecting had indeed been an extermination books. After the Supreme Court them will be very easy if Christoph camp. had confirmed the verdict, I went Blocher, the most popular politi- But as Carlo Mattogno bril- into exile on August 15, 2000, my cian of the country, who was re- liantly demonstrates in his book 49th birthday. Should I return now, cently kicked out of the govern- Belzec in Propaganda, Testimo- I would most probably face a new ment, supports the initiative. Al- nies, Archeological Research and accusation because of the books though he has criticized the anti- History (Theses & Dissertation and articles which I wrote abroad racism law and demanded its abo- Press, Chicago 2004), the results and which are on the Internet, and lition, I doubt that he will muster of the excavations conclusively the fine, which I am of course un- the necessary courage to back the show that only some thousands of able to pay, would be transformed initiative. Such a step would con- people perished at Belzec, while into an additional prison term. Al- stitute a declaration of war against the orthodox historians claim together I would presumably go to the Jews, and Blocher is the owner 600,000 victims. prison for two to three years, nei- of a large company, which the The presence of human re- ther my wife Olga nor myself are Jews will spare no effort to ruin if mains on the site of the camp can willing to accept such a long sepa- he acts against them. easily explained by two factors: In ration voluntarily. According to an opinion poll 1941, Belzec had been a very in- On my website juergen- in the Zurich weekly Die Welt- humanely ruled labor camp before graf.nm.ru you can find a long ar- woche, a slight majority of the becoming a transit camp in March ticle in the English language which population favors abolishing the 1942, and between March and De- I wrote in Teheran in late 2000 and cember 1942, 434,000 Jews were 6 deported to this camp before being which would have had “unimagin- cient to distribute the existing transferred either to the occupied able consequences” (Wirths). ones? Eastern Territories or to labor On 4 August, Bischoff replied JG: Distributing the existing camps in the Lublin district. (The that such “corpse chambers” were books—especially Dissecting the figure of 434,000 results from a not necessary, as the dead bodies Holocaust and Lectures on the German document, the “Höfle would from now on be taken to the Holocaust—is very important in- telegram,” which is doubtless au- crematoria twice a day. This means deed, but the task of revisionist thentic but constitutes no evidence that the morgues of the crematoria, researchers is far from finished. As of mass murder, despite David Ir- which allegedly served as gas recently as 2002, Germar Rudolf, ving’s mendacious claims.) Un- chambers, could be used at any Carlo Mattogno, and I planned to avoidably, a certain number of time for storing corpses prior to write a huge documentation about these 434.000 Jews must have died cremation and could not possibly Auschwitz, Auschwitz: The Real at Belzec. be used as gas chambers. History. But Germar is now in jail; Moreover, the excavations In May 1944, the problem Carlo (who would write the bulk of showed that the two “gas cham- seems to have appeared again, for the work) and I have the material, bers” described by witnesses never on the 22nd the new chief of the but we lack the necessary re- existed. By ordering these excava- Central Construction Office, sources and have no editor. Other- tions and foolishly publishing their Jothann, answering a new letter on wise the book could be ready in results, the [U.S.] Holocaust Me- the subject, stated that he would about fifteen to eighteen months; if morial Museum and its Polish order the corpses to be taken to the we had a qualified translator (who friends have furnished irrefutable crematoria every morning. Accord- would of course have to be paid evidence that Belzec was not an ing to the orthodox historians, as adequately), he or she could trans- extermination camp. many as 400,000 Hungarian Jews late every chapter as soon as it was The three documents on the were gassed at Birkenau between be available in German, and the Birkenau crematoria were mid-May and early July 1944. If two versions could come out to- published and commented on in this were true, the morgues would gether. Carlo Mattogno’s article „Die have been used as gas chambers all Leichenkeller der Krematorien von the time, so how could any corpses RW: Do you see any chances Birkenau im Lichte der have been stored there! for a revisionist breakthrough? Dokumente“ (Vierteljahreshefte It would really be interesting JG: I only see two possible für freie Geschichtsforschung to hear what Robert Jan van Pelt, scenarios: 3/2003). Their background is a Deborah Lipstadt, or Michael Bi- very gloomy one: Birkenau was renbaum would answer if con- 1) A huge economic crisis infested by rats which feasted on fronted with these documents. We which will lead to the collapse of the corpses of deceased prisoners can easily understand why these the Jewish-dominated “democra- (in 1943, the daily mortality at people are mortally afraid of an tic” system of the West. If authen- Auschwitz and Birkenau was about open debate. tic nationalists come to power in 80, the main cause being typhus either the USA or some major RW: Which revisionist re- and other diseases). European countries, the hoax will searchers do you consider the most On 20 July 1943, a German of course be doomed. important ones? physician, SS-Hauptsturmführer 2) A confrontation between the Dr. Wirths, wrote a letter to the JG: In alphabetical order: Ar- Jewish puppet regime in Washing- chief of the Zentralbauleitung thur Butz, Robert Faurisson, Carlo ton and Russia which will induce (Central Construction Office) of Mattogno, Germar Rudolf and Moscow to deal Washington a Auschwitz, Karl Bischoff, urging Wilhelm Stäglich. Due credit must deadly blow by publishing docu- him to set up “Leichenkammern also be given to the pioneer, the ments proving that the “extermina- (“corpse chambers,” i.e. provi- great Frenchman Paul Rassinier, tion camps” belong to the realm of sional morgues) in the camp in even if his books contain many propaganda. There can be no doubt order to reduce the number of rats; errors (which is normal for any whatsoever that the Russians have being the carriers of bubonic pioneer). such documents. plague, these beasts could provoke RW: Are new revisionist an outbreak of this dread disease, RW: In the meantime, what books still necessary, or is it suffi- can we American revisionists do? 7 JG: Continue spreading the truth to those who want to hear it!

PAGES FROM A REVISIONIST JOURNAL How to Schedule an Event at a Mexican Cultural Institute

Bradley Smith

You will recall that last October gets around. I asked Paloma if she rito in front of the building that we decided that we would not knew anyone I might talk to who houses the small public library and spend any more time getting new could advise me. She gave me one CEMAC. We met with the coordi- footage for our documentary, The name. Alfredo. She said he knows nator, a lady named Marisol Mar- Great Taboo, but use the footage everyone, and that he’s radical, ino, in a small office with two we have with as much imagination and would probably be interested. desks. I explained that I wanted to as we could bring to bear on the A couple nights later Paloma in- present a “conferencia” where I matter and get the bloody film fin- troduced me to Alfredo. He turned would give a brief talk, show a 32- ished. Burt, my primary associate, out to be a very interesting, ener- minute cut from the documentary told me we were on the same page. getic guy in his thirties. I liked we are making, then open the floor He asked me to drive up to Santa him. He would drop by our house to questions. I gave a full outline Barbara, where we would get to- the next day and we would talk. of the materials, and my point of gether with our editor and have our The next day, there he was. We sat view. Ms. Molina said that the first postproduction meeting. at the dining room table drinking program I was outlining resembled I did. It went swimmingly. The tea. I outlined the issues for him one at the film festival she had at- moment before we were to say our and the kind of modest event I tended in June at Corto Creativo goodbyes, Burt asked me if I could wanted to set up. I needed a place 07. She was in the audience when I not arrange one more small event to do it that looked serious and was gave my presentation at that festi- in Baja, the purpose of which not noisy. He was interested in the val! She had found it to be very would be to get (more) footage, subject. He suggested a couple interesting. We were in! Thanks to very special footage that he wanted cafes, and gave me two contacts. Yusuf. to use in “framing” the film, addi- One, Yusuf, who makes commer- I had not yet seen the space that tional footage of Smith interacting cial videos, and the other his would be available. The three of us with Mexican students. Our under- cousin, who is a professor at a pri- walked down the hallway and into standing is that we each have “fi- vate university in Tijuana. He as- an auditorium that seated maybe nal cut” rights, that the vision di- sured me that both were very “lib- 250 people with ceilings fifteen, recting the film is his. The event he eral.” Which in Baja means “radi- twenty feet high. I hadn’t expected wanted me to set up was so modest cal left.” such a large space. Ms. Molina that I had no problem agreeing to That night I called Yusuf and a said that CEMAC was restructur- it. It would be nothing like the couple days later he came by the ing its administration for the com- event we set up at Corto Creativo house. He was a real livewire. He ing year—a new mayor had just 07 in June, which was such a suc- found the project to be very inter- been elected—and she would not cess. So, we were to get a little esting. My first priority was to find be able to help much with getting more footage after all. No crises. a location for the event. He sug- me an audience. I could live with Okay. gested that we talk to El Centro that. Now I had to choose a date Back in Baja I was a little Municipal de Arte y Cultura (CE- for the event. I had to coordinate stumped. After the June event, MAC). CEMAC is a city institu- the date with Burt, who wanted to which was sponsored by El {not: tion. It makes its space available come down and shoot the event La?} Universidad de las Califor- for filmmakers, provides a projec- himself and travels between Santa nias (UDC), all the folk I know tor and full screen, plus help in Barbara and Las Vegas on busi- around here understood that it had promoting events, all at no charge. ness. caused the university a lot of prob- Two mornings later Yusuf and I This was going to be more than lems. It’s a small town, and word met at the old park in central Rosa- we had planned for. But it would

8 be better: a revisionist event to be Paulino the fourth application, in- backed up by writers in the local held in an auditorium run by a de- cluding the fact that we were going area and in Mexico City. I called partment of the local Mexican to shoot the event, and stepped the advertising desk and asked government. Molina informed us back. Paulino showed the applica- when the deadline was for the next that the November calendar was tion to the lady, they talked for a issue. I was told that it was that closed, but there were a still a few few minutes, and then they turned day, Monday, 7t January at 3pm. dates open in December. No. Too to me all smiles. He introduced the Uh, oh. confusing a time for our event. We lady as Esperanza Valdez, the di- I sat down to the computer and would choose a date in January. rector of CEMAC, and that she wrote a quarter-page ad announc- The January calendar was wide welcomed my presentation and ing the event at CEMAC, format- open. I would get back to her. that the date of 18 January was ted it, and took it into the Baja There were a number of issues fine. Valdez was very friendly to- Times about 1:30pm. I asked that it to consider. The very modest event ward me, assuring me in Spanish be placed on page 3. It was late for that we had talked about a couple that all was well and that we would page-3 placement, but after some weeks before in Santa Barbara was do it. back and forth, it was agreed. I turning into something larger and I left the library walking on air. would pay a little extra for special more significant. In the end, we We were in. Now all there was left placement. That’s normal. It would decided on 18 January, a Friday to do was to create an audience. be $212. That was fine. I was told evening at 6pm. In early December We were in the Christmas season that they would call me the next when I returned to nail down the now. I would wait until the first morning so I could go in and see date with Marisol Molina, I found week in January. Then I would the proof. that she no longer worked at CE- move quickly. Develop a flyer in The next morning I got the call MAC, and had been replaced by a English that I would distribute to and went immediately downtown man in his thirties name Raul Pau- colleges and high schools in Rosa- to their offices, which are on the lino. I had to go through the whole rito. Develop email contact lists, second floor of the little arcade story again. Molina had spoken including the press in Tijuana. I that leads in to the Rosarito Hotel. pretty good English. Paulino spoke would solicit English- speaking They had reformatted my quarter- very little. I felt like I was having a audiences from expatriate and im- page from a horizontal to a vertical hard time getting through to him. migrant American circles in town. ad. It was beautifully done. I con- In the end he explained that I had Now I was thinking that at least gratulated them. I was informed to write out a request to CEMAC half the audience might end by that the paper would go to press explaining what the project was being Americans. It would be the that evening. It was set then. Noth- and what date I wanted to use same show I presented at Corto ing could change it. We were in. CEMAC facilities. Creativo 07. A slam dunk. This was going very well. I de- I returned the next day with an Christmas and the New Year cided it was time to go to CEMAC outline of the presentation and a celebrations were over. Now it was and inquire how I could best ap- request for to hold it on the 18th. time to get the job done. The flyer proach local campuses and organi- There was something wrong. He was not much of a problem. I still zations. Both Marisol Molina and showed me an application made by needed help in getting to the local Raul Paulino had volunteered to a third party and I saw he did not campuses. But I was okay. I give me their advice, based on want a full page of info, but only a worked on the lists. I could print their experience with promoting few lines. Okay. The next day I the flyer in one day, and distribute events at CEMAC. took in a brief, straightforward it the next two days. No time prob- This time I discovered that application to use CEMAC facili- lem. And then it occurred to me to while Raul Pauline was at his desk, ties on the 18th. This was very place an ad in the Baja Times, the there was a new lady at the second close, he said. But I had mentioned local English language paper. I that I was going to shoot the event, hadn’t planned to do that. the Baja and I had not said so on the appli- Times prints 12,500 copies every cation. I went back to the house, two weeks. It’s a pretty good added that note to the application, newspaper. Its primary and returned to CEMAC. U.S./Mexican news is taken from There I found Paulino in the li- the Washington Post–Los Angeles brary with an older lady. I gave Times syndicate. That material is 9 We went back and forth on this for maybe ten minutes when I asked in Spanish: “You seem to be hesitating about something. Is there a problem?” “Yes,” she said. “CEMAC will not allow you to use its facilities to present your conference.” “Why is that?” “It is because CEMAC does not sponsor events with the subject matter of your film.” “Did you just discover that on the telephone?” “It was the director.” The director is Esperanza Val- dez, the same lady who had per- sonally agreed that we could use the CEMAC facilities, specifically on 18 January. “CEMAC addresses cultural is- sues from a Mexican perspective.” “Is that it?” I asked.” “I am afraid it is.” Okay. I didn’t want to complain to Socorro Sanchez. I had just met her. It was not her decision. For the moment, there was nothing for it. I returned to the house in a funk. I called the desk at the Baja Times, told them what had gone down with CEMAC, and asked if I could cancel the ad. I was willing to pay a late penalty. I was told it was too late. The paper had offi- desk. She was very friendly and coordination of CEMAC was cially closed on Monday, today outgoing, the opposite of Paulino changing. “Yes,” she said in Span- was Wednesday, and it was just Her name was Socorro San- ish, “but they say the third time is too late. chez. I showed her the proof the a charm.” Now what? Inside my head announcement that was to run on We were both laughing when thought was walking in circles. I page three of the Baja Times, the phone rang on Paulino’s desk. had to tell Burt first off. I couldn’t 12,000 copies of which would be There are two desks, but only one find him. What were the possi- on the street on the 14th. We spent telephone. Paulino answered, then bilities? I could create an event out a couple minutes laughing at some passed the phone to Sanchez. of the cancellation of the event. small talk over how often the There was a brief conversation, Twelve thousand copies of the three, maybe four minutes, and Baja Times would be on the street when Sanchez sat back down at three days before the cancelled her desk she began questioning me event. The ad was on page three. about my academic background. I Everyone would see it. I could be explained that I am not an aca- at CEMAC the evening of the 18th demic, but a simple writer, and that and hand out flyers announcing I address free-speech issues. that the event had been censored. 10 Yusuf could be there to film the would be too late for the censors. teaches one class a week at CE- goings on. I could rent a backup Because immigration is a subject MAC. room and inform those who arrive of deep interest to Mexicans, we “What a coincidence,” Paloma for a 6pm event at CEMAC they could get an audience. We would told her dance teacher. “My dad could attend the new event in the have to find a way to segue into was going to show a film at CE- backup room at 7pm. Plus I could The Great Taboo. A very imagina- MAC next Friday, but they can- hand out other materials. At the tive idea. Daring. Very difficult to celled it.” Her teacher said he same time, we could still do the pull off. I said I would think about knew all about that. CEMAC can- original flyer made for CEMAC, it. celled the film because they had change it to give the address of the I called Yusuf, and a couple learned that it was “pro-Hitler.” backup room, and distribute it as I days later we met in the Cappuc- Not only that, but a couple months had planned to do the original. cino coffee shop downtown. I ex- ago someone had tried to exhibit a And invite the press to this, using a plained everything that had gone pro-Hitler film at CEMAC, had free-press angle to get them in- down, then told him about Burt’s been found out, and now they un- volved. concept. I wasn’t even finished derstood that I was behind that one I drove over to the Palacio Mu- with the latter when Yusuf began too. nicipal, and went to the offices of laughing and said: “Let’s do it.” Not only had I tried two times the Desarrollo Social (Human He didn’t even have to think about to exhibit a “pro-Hitler” film at Services), of which CEMAC is one it. He understood the drift of it CEMAC, but a simple teacher who entity. I asked to speak to right away. CEMAC had “messed” is not part of the CEMAC admini- Esperanza Valdez. I was told she with us (Yusuf speaks English, as stration, who only taught there one was at a meeting and would be does Alfredo), and now we would time a week, already knew about back within the hour. I left my “mess” with CEMAC. He would what had gone down, and about a name and number and asked her front for me. previous event that existed only in secretary to ring me up. After a Okay. I still wasn’t enthusiastic someone’s imagination. If he knew couple hours I called the secretary. about going back to CEMAC. But the story, being outside the circle She said not to worry, that she I relayed the information to Burt. of folk who run CEMAC, and would make an appointment for Burt was high on it. I think with knew about the rumor of an earlier me. I didn’t hear from her. The me, I don’t really like to trick peo- event, everyone in Rosarito who next morning I called again and the ple. But if anyone deserves it, it is was anyone knew about it. I re- secretary said she would make an the folk at CEMAC. What else did laxed. I understood that the appointment for me. I didn’t hear I have? Only my contact with Al- chances that Yusuf could pull off from her. I called in the afternoon. fredo’s professor cousin. Maybe the event we had talked about were No luck. I understood that I was she would sponsor a room for me out of the question. I was finished not going to hear from Esperanza where she teaches. Unlikely. This with it. In fact, while I was a little Valdez. is a small town. All the cultural bewildered, I was relieved. I called When Burt called I talked about elites know each other, or know Burt and told him I was finished the backup room concept. He was someone who knows those you do with CEMAC. He said okay. What not impressed. He didn’t think I not know. was there for him to say? would be able to pull it off. I could My brain was still walking in And so it goes. not guarantee that I could. He did circles. Yusuf would help me pull Two mornings later I was in the not think it worth his while to use off the CEMAC caper. There was patio feeding the parakeets—we two, maybe three days to get here, Alfredo’s professor cousin. The have about thirty of them in two do a nonevent, and get back to the brain was spinning, but in a rut, big cages—when an idea appeared work where he earns a living. He going over and over the same sce- in the head completely out of the did have an idea. If I could find a narios again and again. Then blue. No preliminaries. One mo- local who would front for me, we Paloma came home from work on ment the idea was not there, the could fix a date for a presentation the other side (she typically gets next, there it was. The image of a dealing with Mexican culture, per- here about midnight), and she told local guy I have met occasionally haps on the immigration debate, me she that at work her dance in social situations over the last and promise some extras. The “ex- teacher from the 9th grade had five or six years. Even in the mo- tras” would be The Great Taboo. It come in and had recognized her. ment, I could not believe that would be entirely unexpected. It They talked. The teacher now memory had called up his image. 11 How could memory have was. I had never considered doing This is not the story that last “thought” to go there? One mo- anything with him. Now, in the month I intended to tell you this ment I was giving the parakeets blink of memory’s eye, I saw us month. I intended to tell you the water, the next I see this guy’s im- working together to make a pres- story of our event at CEMAC. age before me. There was no pre- entation that would be unique in But the story I have told you liminary preparation. One moment the history of revisionist perform- here is the story that was. Now, nothing could have been farther ance. from my mind, the next there it next month….

GOLD IN THE FURNACE by Savitri Devi Savitri Devi Archive, Atlanta, 2006 0-9746264-4-9 Edited and with a preface by R. G. Fowler Hardcover with dust jacket, illustrated, indexed, 293pp.

Reviewed by Joseph Bishop

Modern Western civilization anymore in the sense that there is edge is undoubtedly viewed by the prides itself on its embrace of free- now a more general tacit ability to establishment as extremely threat- dom and the free expression of intuit what to reject and how to do ening on a variety of fronts and ideas, but revisionists of course so. This restriction of ideas and thus to be inhibited at all costs. understand that it is not always so. facts thus occurs without directives The authoress “Savitri Devi” is The broad de facto censorship of being issued or cabals hatched. one such “threat” as her published books and other materials is ac- Of course all such actions are works have focused on the ideal- complished through the usual be- often camouflaged in various dis- ism and ageless spiritual nature of hind the scenes pressures and a honest ways in pursuit of the de- this life-philosophy. A European general atmosphere—albeit mostly nial of any appearance of any in- native, she had spent most of her inexplicit—of knowing which tent to censor. Excuses like “too life in India and embraced Hindu- ideas to give or not give a hearing controversial” or “it may offend” Aryanism along with its more eso- to. Publishers will refuse certain or “not relevant today” are em- teric or mystic aspects. She be- manuscripts, reviewers will ignore ployed, as well as the more stale came a National Socialist in 1929 selected published works, publica- lines e.g. “limited space” or “no and engaged in espionage work on tions won’t carry advertisements public interest” or “too unpopu- behalf of NS Germany’s ally Ja- for them, and bookstores won’t lar.” Never mind that masses of pan, in India during the Second stock them. junk and trash easily characterized World War. But her greatest con- This is all somewhat covert and as controversial, offensive, irrele- tribution was in that after the war officially it does not involve cen- vant, of rarified interest, and un- she wrote and published a number sorship since nothing is banned, no popular, are routinely published, of works expounding this idealistic books are seized and pulped, gov- distributed, and reviewed all the philosophy of the race-sacred, pri- ernmental directives are not issued, time and that bookstores and li- vately printed in small numbers, no police or other authorities are braries are stocked with a verita- and which she mostly distributed used in enforcement. At least not ble mountain of garbage which one only to her friends and comrades. in the United States, where free- can’t even pretend anymore to Savitri Devi’s core idea was dom is perhaps less circumscribed have any redeeming value. But we that Adolf Hitler was an “Avatar” than elsewhere. These actions are understand all that. Or should. who existed and functioned sometimes carried through by the However, a deeper and broader “against time” in the sense that his expected Jewish activist groups de facto censorship has been estab- work and actions were ranged and organizations, but more espe- lished since the 1930s, earlier even against the inevitable cyclicity of cially through the vast array of than rational critiques of the Holo- history as posited by the Hindu- “others” who consciously or un- caust, and that is the repression of Aryan cosmological world-view. consciously serve them. It is knowledge of the innate nature of In this system, the world does not probably not even a “conspiracy” National Socialism. Such knowl- extend through time in a straight 12 linear fashion, but in cycles that Devi had managed to enter position of the philosophy of Na- repeat themselves through great Germany with thousands of propa- tional Socialism within the Hindu- ages. Our present age is thus ganda sheets extolling Hitler and Aryan cosmic context, its ideals, known as the “Kali Yuga,” the his philosophy, to distribute and its place in history—past, present, “last age,” a time of madness, war, keep that spirit alive. At that time and future——and its important suffering, stupidity, great material- she believed the alleged war role in the modern world in this ism, and in which virtually every crimes of the Nazis to be all fac- “Kali Yuga” or “last age.”. She race-destroying evil flourishes. In tual and that Hitler was still alive. carefully links this spiritual world- this age, all that is beautiful and Some individuals whom she met view with that of the ancient Ary- true suffers destruction, while Jew- assisted her in their distribution but ans and demonstrates an historical ish power and its anti-values reign ultimately she was found out and progression and surfacing of these supreme. This age is thought to arrested by the occupation authori- ideals throughout history. Her se- ultimately end in chaos and dark- ties, and given a sentence of im- cretly written book was inevitably ness, but to be succeeded by a new prisonment despite not even being found out and seized by the prison and golden age, one of light, love, a German national. Gold in the authorities but when she was ulti- and perfection. How this is to be Furnace,” is an account of her trial mately released she was able to accomplished or precisely when, and imprisonment at Werl, in persuade them to return it and to no one is vouchsafed to know. Westphalia. She was, in fact, one take the manuscript out with her. Still, in the author’s view, Na- of the first—perhaps the first— In time, she returned to India and tional Socialism and the memory postwar revisionists to be so im- the book was eventually published of Adolf Hitler is in some way to prisoned. in Calcutta in 1952. be central to the coming transfor- In confinement, she was given This and her other works have mation, the new dawn. Savitri the worst labor tasks and often remained very rare and almost un- Devi only saw Germany in the harassed by the authorities. But known among National Socialists early postwar period. She viewed while there, she met a number of and revisionists for many decades the devastation and ruins every- National Socialists and learned a until recently, when their volume where but she also noted that the great deal of the German experi- by volume reissue was begun in National Socialist ideal was none- ence during and after the war. She commemoration of her 100th birth- theless alive and well in a great learned how many of the alleged day in 2005 by the Savitri Devi number of people of all ages who Nazi crimes and atrocities were in archive. The archive itself can be survived the war, and not only in fact mere Allied propaganda, and reached on the Internet at Germany, but throughout Europe. learned of the far more extensive www.savitridevi.org. The publica- Heartbroken at the suffering and persecution, torture, murder, dis- tion of each volume of very high ruin, her spirit revived at seeing a possession, exile, and mass geno- quality in both hardbound and soft sort of mental “resistance” on the cide of Germans and National So- cover editions has been beset with part of many individuals in the cialists of many nationalities by numerous problems and delays face of the victor trials and execu- the victors, many of such crimes involving the usual de facto cen- tions, their draconian repressive still mostly unknown to this day— sorship discussed earlier above. laws, the starvation of the entire even to most revisionists. All revisionists are urged to study population, and the plundering and While imprisoned, she man- her work and gain insight into her dismemberment of Germany’s aged to secretly make notes and ideas, especially so as these are lands and resources. author this book. In this work, both very limited in number and Devi viewed such human ele- Devi discusses her life and occupa- will no doubt disappear as the cen- ments as the best human material tions, her postwar travels, her sorial chains of the “traditional of the time, a sort of “gold” which friends, the National Socialists she enemy” continue to tighten. had been purified in the “furnace” met in and outside prison, her do- of the war itself and its horrendous ings after her release from impris- This reviewer can be contacted postwar sufferings, and even the onment. She also recounts a very at: [email protected] need for National Socialism itself interesting supernatural experience Copyrighted 2008 by Joseph to be purified in this way. with a leading National Socialist. Bishop. All rights reserved. But the bulk of the book is her ex-

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Sylvia Stoltz, the former at- in persecution of the attorney or European governments, especially torney for Ernst Zündel, has judge involved. Germany and Austria, to prosecute been convicted for Holocaust During Zundel’s trial, Stolz Holocaust deniers have helped denial in once democratic Ger- called the Holocaust “the biggest curb denial activity. Dr. Rafael many. Shockingly, Stolz, who was lie in world history.” Rather than Medoff, the director of the Wyman hired to defend Zündel, who has demonstrating Zündel and Stolz to Institute, said Sunday there was been imprisoned in Germany for be wrong based on solid historical much the West could do to combat Holocaust denial now finds herself arguments, the judge has used the Holocaust denial. sentenced to three and a half years draconian German legal system to “When European governments in prison. In addition she has been stifle free speech. prosecuted individual Holocaust- banned by the court from practic- In his sentencing, the judge said deniers, it led to a decrease in de- ing law for five years. that Stolz had used the trial to deny nial activity overall,” he said. “But Stolz represented Zündel in his the Holocaust and to spread revi- when there was leniency, such as first trial in Germany, which col- sionist ideas. Truth is not a defense releasing David Irving from prison lapsed after she was banned from in Germany. early, it had the opposite effect. In the proceedings. Zündel was de- addition, American and European ported from the United States in aid to Arab or Muslim regimes that The annual report, “Holo- sponsor Holocaust-denial could be caust Denial: A Global Survey - used as leverage to persuade them 2007,” published by the Wash- to change.” Medoff coauthored the ington-based David S. Wyman year-end report with Holocaust Institute for Holocaust Studies, scholar Dr. Alex Grobman. found that Holocaust-denial ac- tivity was up worldwide, follow- NOTE: This David S. Wyman ing a drop in 2006 due to the im- story has been big on History prisonment in Austria of leading News Network, repeated in several denier David Irving. Irving re- forms with many professors identi- turned to the lecture circuit this fying themselves with it. I can’t be Sylvia Stolz year after his release, and other in constant dialogue with these Holocaust deniers continued their folk, there are not enough hours in 2003 for alleged immigration vio- activities in various countries, in- the day. I have settled on submit- lations. Zündel was initially sent cluding holding a conference in ting one simple question in the to Canada. The Canadian govern- Italy to defend Holocaust denial, “Comments” section below each ment arrested Zündel upon his ar- the report said. relevant story in which “gas cham- rival and held him until March In the Middle East, the report bers” are referenced in any signifi- 2005, when a judge ruled that this said, some Arab and Muslim re- cant way. This is the question. peaceful man posed a threat to na- gimes continued to sponsor Holo- tional and international security. caust denial, with the government “Re the German WMD, or ‘gas Following this ruling, Zündel of Iran organizing an internation- chambers’—can you give me the found himself deported to Ger- ally condemned conference of name of one (one) individual out many. Holocaust deniers in Teheran. At of the millions—or as we like to Zundel’s second trial ended in the same time, the report cited sev- say now, hundreds of thousands— February 2007 with his conviction eral hopeful developments: The one individual who was killed in a for denying the Holocaust. He was former prime minister of Indone- German gas chamber as part of a sentenced to the maximum of five sia, a prominent Muslim figure, program of genocide, and provide years in prison. has condemned Holocaust denial; the proof for the murder of that Germany, a country which fre- the United Nations General As- one (one) individual?” quently violates basic human sembly and UNESCO have both rights, has made it virtually impos- passed resolutions opposing Holo- My question is posted in the sible to defend oneself against caust denial; the European Union “comments” following a number “Holocaust denial” charges. De- has urged all its member states to of HNN articles. No one on HNN, fense of a Holocaust denier or even adopt legislation prohibiting Holo- and no one from the David S. judging in one’s favor could result caust denial; and efforts by some Wyman Institute for Holocaust 14 Studies, has attempted to answer Court of Canada for its spying Pleading “absolutely not the question. Silence—all the way operations, abuses of the law, guilty,” according to APA, Fröh- down. Students and laymen who deception, and agent provo- lich had already served 23 months find that there is no attempt to an- cateur agenda. behind bars since 2003. He gasped swer this question by academics Like some mobster in a U.S. in court as the additional 30 will gain a small insight into the trial who keeps invoking the Fifth months were added. Fröhlich, who relationship between academic Amendment, the CHRC is trying was expelled from the far-right historians and the taboo against to keep the veil of secrecy wrapped populist FPO party in 1994—is to revisionist arguments. tight around its spying operations appeal, said his lawyer, Harald on Canadian Internet dissidents. Its Schuster. Austria has one of the tool of choice is Section 37 of the strictest sets of laws surrounding Robert Faurisson is to face Canada Evidence Act. This allows Holocaust denial and neo-Nazi trial on charges of attending an government representatives the activity. anti-Holocaust conference in ability to prevent disclosure (hide) Iran. Faurisson said he received and claim immunity over the dis- a letter from the French judicial closure of information that the Dahlia, played by Jewess police (DCPJ), demanding he CHRC alleges to be injurious to Hedy Lamarr, is exchanging should present himself before the Canadian government security and vows of eternal devotion with court on January 24, IRNA re- operations of a federal agency. The Samson in the Holocaust Memo- ported. evidence Marc Lemire is challeng- rial Museum, where Samson On December 11, 2006, Iran ing before the Federal Court is ex- stands chained. He has been im- hosted a two-day conference enti- plosive and will blow the whole prisoned for reading “Holocaust tled “Review of the Holocaust: agenda of the CHRC into the open. Denial.” Shall Samson recant? Global Vision” aimed at probing In a 300-page record, prepared “My heart flies out to thee,” in- the West’s allegations that over six by lead counsel Barbara Kulaszka, tones Hedy in true Risë Stevens million European Jews were killed the abuse of Section 37 by the style. The descending chromatics by Germany during World War II. Commission was laid out in amaz- of “Mon coeur, s’ouvre à ta voix” In Tehran Faurisson repeated his ingly clear detail. Those 300 are heartrending. Samson is moved theories about gas chambers and pages decimate the Canadian Hu- to tears. Armed with the Rudolf said that for the past 32 years he man Rights Commission’s claims Report and Fritz Berg chemistry has been waiting for someone to and expose the spying operations lessons on toxicity, he rises and show him one of those chambers. of Canada’s Thought Control ap- strains against the chains, which The French Holocaust revision- paratus. This work is being for- can no longer restrain the truth. ist was convicted of “Holocaust warded by Barbara Kulaszka, The iron crashes to the floor, burst denial” by a Paris court in July Douglas Christie, Paul Fromm and by Samson’s mighty revisionist 2006 over remarks he made on Marc Lemire, all of whom worked muscles. The walls of the Holo- Iranian television. Faurisson, then with Ernst Zündel against Cana- caust Temple tremble as the cre- 77, was given a three-month sus- dian censorship while Ernst was matory ovens of truth begin to pended prison term and was also still in country. burn. Hedy/Dahlia screams “Sa- fined 7,500 euros. lome!” as the support beams of six Speaking on the Sahar 1 Iranian A Vienna court has sentenced million lies snap and she runs for satellite channel in February 2005, Wolfgang Fröhlich, a former city her life. Kapos are being crushed Faurisson said there was never a councilor, to four years in prison by the falling structure. The truth single execution gas chamber un- for Holocaust denial, adding an- has escaped. der the Germans. “So all those mil- other two-and-a-half years of a The only thing worse than Sam- lions of tourists who visit Ausch- previous suspended sentence. It son and the Gas Chamber would witz are seeing a lie, a falsifica- was the third time that Fröhlich, be Die Tote Stadt, the city of the tion,” he said. 56, was found guilty on similar living dead, moving from Bruges

charges, following letters he wrote to Auschwitz. One can just imag-

to Austrian members of parliament ine “Marietta lied” playing in the For the first time in history, camp theater, bringing tears to Der the Canadian Human Rights and Pope Benedict XVI denounc- ing the Holocaust as a “Satanic Führer’s eyes. Why, the Korngold Commission is being challenged soap opera might even remind him by Marc Lemire in the Federal lie,” the APA news agency said. 15 of dear Doctor Eduard Bloch, the that focus on the weaknesses of my very odd to not be able to commu- Jew who treated Hitler’s mother character, which I find interesting. nicate with Germar. Klara for terminal cancer. There Nine months—perhaps a might even be a portrait of Hedy normal gestation period for an Lamarr, posterior exposed in true academic interested in suppressing Ecstasy on top of the “gas cham- revisionist arguments. ber.” Auschwitz, like Bruges, is I wrote several paragraphs in still the city of the “living dead,” in response, then caught myself. I am more senses than one. not going to do that anymore (it Like Korngold’s protagonist, says here). I wrote that we have a we must now return to the world of fundamental issue between us: the living. During WWII did the Germans, or did they not, use gas chambers to This unique opera review, un- attempt to “exterminate” the Jews seen in the mainstream press, was of Europe? If they did, I have a submitted by “Voltaire.” very simple question for all concerned. The question is this:

OTHER STUFF “Can you provide the name of one (one) individual out of the Peter K. Clarke and I have had millions—or as we like to say Smith’s Report a few exchanges on the History nowadays, hundreds of is published by News Network site—a page thousands—who was intentionally Committee for Open Debate created for historians by historians. killed in a German “gas chamber” On the Holocaust On 24 December 2006 I wrote at Bradley R. Smith, Founder as part of a program of genocide the end of a longer exchange: “Mr. meant to exterminate the Jews of For your contribution of $39 Clarke: You write: ‘There is an Europe? Can you provide the proof you will receive 12 issues of extensive literature available for that one (one only) individual Smith’s Report. arguing that Germans did not [use gas-chamber murder? In Canada and Mexico--$45 WMD].” Why reject it out of “Take a run at it. Ask the Overseas--$49 hand? Do you have a couple, three ‘serious historians’ you like to Correspondence & checks to: names for me of these folk who refer to help you. argue that Germans did not use “I’m waiting.” Bradley R. Smith WMD (gas-chambers and gas I’m not going to hold my Post Office Box 439016 vans) to murder civilians during breath. It might be another nine San Ysidro, CA 92143 WWII?” months. Desk: 209 682 5327 Clarke did not respond and I Cell: 619 203 3151 figured it was finished. Then on Email: October 9, 2007—nine months I have received a post card [email protected] later—Clarke felt he could not just from Germar Rudolf (!), who [email protected] received my Christmas letter let it go. (post #103973). He Web: www.Codoh.com wrote, “The use of gas chambers along with Ernst. This is the first and gas vans by the Nazis is well- time I have heard from him for documented and no serious over a year. He did not reply to my historian argues otherwise […].” mail. I understood he was not re- Clarke wrote several ceiving it, so I simply stopped paragraphs in his response, writing, as I did with Ernst. There including some jokes about is something here that I don’t un- wasting my time drinking derstand, as our friend Paul margaritas on the Baja shore. Grubach has had a lively back and Which informs me that he has been forth with Germar the best part of to my Website and read some of the last year. Anyhow, whatever the stories there, stories oftentimes was wrong, is now fixed. It felt

16 SMITH’S REPORT

On the Holocaust Controversy

No. 148 www.Codoh.com March 2008

Challenging the Holocaust Taboo Since 1990

Deborah Lipstadt

The Power of One Question Working

Bradley R. Smith

n my cover letter that ac- strosity” of the Germans. As I re- been asked, it had gone the way of I companied SR 147, I out- ported last month, I posted one all other revisionist questioning of lined a direction for the Campus question. the Holocaust story. Project. Briefly, I had found that It occurred to me that I had put on History News Network, the “Can you provide the my finger on something. An idea Web page “for historians by histo- name of one individual out of so simple, so provocative in its rians,” I would regularly find my- the millions—or as we like to simplicity, that it was unique. I self in a back-and-forth with a few say nowadays, hundreds of asked a couple or three revisionist educated True Believers that thousands—who was inten- associates who know more than I would extend to 15,000 words and tionally killed in a German do if they knew of the question more. Typically, the folk debating “gas chamber” as part of a being asked before. I asked them if me would gradually drop out one program of genocide meant to they themselves had a good answer by one, until I made a final post exterminate the Jews of for the question, if they had any that no one would respond to. It Europe? Can you provide the answer whatever. None had heard was not that they found the discus- proof for that one (one only) the question being asked, and none sion to be without interest, but that individual gas-chamber had an answer to it. One of these my approach is so simple it is dif- murder? scholars did, however, advise me ficult to deal with, particularly if to simplify the language. His lan- In the event, no academic dis- you are (over-, perhaps?) educated guage had a simplicity and logic to missed the question, and none at- in American cultural clichés. it that that could not be denied. tempted to respond to it. Silence. At the end of one such back That was the final post in that dis- and forth—and I have to say in all “Can you provide the cussion. I followed the same proc- sincerity, with people who are name, with proof, of one per- ess with three other discussions, more knowledgeable than I am son who was killed in a gas though I began posting the ques- about most everything, and argua- chamber at Auschwitz?” tion earlier. Each time that was, bly more intelligent (I am not be- simply, the end of the discussion. I decided to set up a ing modest here, I am willing to Somewhere along the way there I Google search for “Ausch- observe that that’s how it is)—I realized that I could not recall any- witz,” and for “gas chambers” decided to make a simple proposal one ever having asked this ques- about the Holocaust, the gas Continued on page 10 tion before. Anywhere. If it had chambers, and the “unique mon- LETTERS

JOHN “BIRDMAN” deniers, 911 Truthers, or anyone so of St. Louis, then it is cost ef- BRYANT else, any more than any Democrat fective for them to buy the flyers candidate needs to apologize or from me in quantity of five thou- Michael Medved threw down feel guilty about accepting dona- sand or more at a time. I continue the gauntlet in an open letter to tions from pedophiles, Bolsheviks, this form of activism. Ron Paul where he stated: "Your Israeli-Firsters or Jewish suprema- Please discontinue sending me Presidential campaign has drawn cists, and any more than any Re- your newsletters. I do not like to the enthusiastic support of an im- publican candidate needs to apolo- see anyone waste postage and posing collection of Neo-Nazis, gize or feel guilty about accepting printing costs whining about how White Supremacists, Holocaust donations from warmongers, Mus- they get nothing done. Also, as I Deniers, 9/11 ‘Truthers’ and other lim-haters, torturers, Skull & am a German-American National paranoid and discredited con- Bonesmen, or fans of the idiot in Socialist, and you are married to a spiracists. Do you welcome—or the White House. Mexican, there exists a rift that I, repudiate—the support of such “Now I assume that, as an intel- for one, no longer wish to bridge. factions?" ligent man, you can see the logic [ If you are interested in Ed- Paul has apparently not re- of my argument; but should you mister’s proposal, you can reach sponded to Medved or to others not, then let's hear why you aren't him at:] who have thrown him similar chal- going to repudiate all of the folk I Duncan Edmister, Chairman, lenges, but there is in fact a very named, such as warmongers (for German American Voice simple way to respond which Israel), torturers (for Israel), Is- PO Box 220039 ought to permanently silence Med- raeli-Firsters (for Israel), Muslim- Kirkwood MO 63122 ved and his fellow Foreskinners: haters (for Israel), lobbyists (for Israel), and all the other wonderful CHRISTINE B MILLER "Dear Mr. Medved: As you folk who have made America the know, my philosophy is one of slave of a certain unnamed Re your reminisces of Norman individual freedom, and part of Mideast country. I'd say that Mailer and your bullfighting in the that philosophy has been expressed should keep you stammering for December issue of SR: I don’t very well by Jewish philosopher awhile. Careful not to get spittle on have time for ramblings, and I Fritz Perls: ‘I do my thing and you your microphone. don’t like bullfighting. To torture a do your thing. I am not in this bull and then stab it to death to world to live up to your expecta- DUNCAN EDMISTER entertain an audience I find abhor- tions, and you are not in this world rent. The Moslems during their to live up to mine. You are you Greetings: It can be said that it pilgrimage have to sacrifice a and I am I, and if by chance we is my wish that you have some sheep, cutting its throat either find each other, it's wonderful.’ success debunking the Holocaust themselves or a stand-by butcher. “What I am getting at is this: If myth. The avenue that you fail to A threshold is crossed. If I can cut a man gives me a contribution be- explore is doorknob Holocaust the throat of a sheep and watch its cause he wants to see me in office, flyer distribution. At the least, this thrashing before it dies it is not too then I am more than willing to ac- infuriates a sizeable minority of difficult to cut the throat of a per- cept his contribution without in- those who receive them and at best son. The Spanish civil war was vestigating his background, his perhaps a few people give consid- known for its cruelty on both sides. desires, his actions or anything else eration to a very pertinent topic. I can’t help but feel that this had to about him, all of which are quite The personality required of such do with the Spaniards being im- simply none of my business be- an endeavor is a quietly aggressive mured to death and suffering by cause I believe in the freedom of man who is willing to go to jail for their exposure to, and love for, bull individuals to act however they the right of Freedom of Speech and fighting. Under the Nazis animal will, as long as it is within the law Expression: a National Socialist. rights were writ large. “Quaele nie and the spirit of the Constitution. You may mention this in your next ein Tier zum Scherz, denn es fuehlt “In particular, I do not need to newsletter as a real effective and in wie du den Schmerz.” Or, “Never apologize or feel guilty about ac- fact inexpensive method of activ- hurt an animal for the fun of it, cepting donations from neo-Nazis, ism. Indeed, if any of your readers because it feels pain like you feel white supremacists, Holocaust live within three hundred miles or pain.” That’s what we were taught at school. The Nazis outlawed Ko- ness Plan!” in the October issue with other letters and The National sher butchering and animal ex- was hilarious. I sent it to my & Zeitung. perimentation. friends in Canada. Well, the Cana- At the same time, I thought dian customs officials were not Patrick McNally’s “A Shoah Busi- amused and confiscated the article

School Trips to Auschwitz

Nick Kollerstrom PhD

How is it "hate" to suggest there is evidence that millions of people were not murdered? — Kurt Bechle, United States

I am shocked that in what I always thought to be "liberal" and "open-minded" Europe, anyone could be convicted for voicing an opinion regarding history. — Dominique Amarante, United States

* The word Holocaust has to mean Georges Theil in ‘Heresy’ cites the * In the case of Auschwitz, one a fiery sacrifice of some kind, as it Arolsen total as 291,594 wartime has an independent check of mor- does in the Bible. In the 20th cen- deaths, and from this he derives a tality, a consequence of the high- tury this term could well allude to total of 'authenticated deaths in all water table around this camp. Bur- the incineration of German cities the Hitlerite camps of detainees of ial of corpses was impossible there by the UK and US, with up to one Jewish origin' as under 200,000. as it polluted the water supply, and million intentional civilian deaths. (1) He is in jail, for publishing this so all bodies had to be cremated. volume. Records exist for the quantity of * Is it a crime, to believe the data? coke used in the cremation-ovens. The primary evidence for the * Germar Rudolf’s volume had These records are intact over a number of Jews who died in Ger- cited a similar figure, however he two-year period around 1942, from man concentration camps lies in in addition surmised that there may which the quantity of cremations the archives of Bad Arolsen, in have been a comparable number of can be computed. Figures concor- Northern Germany. That archive such deaths that were non- dant with the Arolsen totals are has detailed records over half a authenticated. Thereby he reached thereby obtained. century with over 50 million pages a total figure of double this: "A of documents about people who realistic estimate of the actual * How many deaths were due to were in German camps during the number of victims, therefore, may cyanide poisoning, in the German war, accumulated over six decades. be twice as high as the total of vic- labour-camps? There exist two Maintained by the International tims registered by name in the re- independent sources for this. The Tracing Service and administered cords at Arolsen." (2) This volume US Army consultant pathologist by the International Committee of has been banned and burnt Dr Charles Larsen was sent over to the Red Cross, it has been used to throughout Germany and its bril- Dachau and other German labour validate all claims of holocaust- liant Editor is in jail. camps, at the end of WWII in survivors and in checking of lost 1945, to check out the piles of bod- ones. These archives are now be- * Thus, the published figures, for ies, and ascertain what their causes coming available. Jewish deaths in German labour- of death may have been. They had camps, that are based on the data- been due, he reported, to famine * No other source for this vital source available and not on mere and to outbreaks of typhus. He was data exists. And yet, the totals that conjecture, are twofold, and they put under quite a bit of pressure to derive from these vast archives differ by 100%. Only relatively state otherwise, that the deaths had cannot be found in any English- recently have these definitive Ar- been due to cyanide poisoning – language published volume! This olson totals become publicly avail- but, he refused to do so. See his is the most important thing. I know able. biography, Crime Doctor. (3) of only two books, one French and one German, that cite these totals. 3 * More recently, the Archival it was to be used: in order to save * Let us hope the schoolchildren manager of Arolsen has given an lives not to take them. (5) Q.E.D. visitors are properly taught about answer to this question, concerning the elegant swimming-pool at the number deaths recorded as * The UK Government funds Auschwitz, built by the inmates, having been due to cyanide poi- compulsory trips to Auschwitz who would sunbathe there on Sat- soning. He replied:(4): "unfortu- (two sixth-formers from every urday and Sunday afternoons while nately, we cannot reference a sin- school to go each year) and teach- watching the water-polo matches; gle document listing the death of a ing of ‘the Holocaust’ is compul- and shown the paintings from its detainee due to gassing by Zyklon- sory in secondary schools between art class, which still exist; and told B. As a rule, the Nazis gave other the ages of 11 and 14. What a pity about the camp library which had causes of death for inmates, who that they are not taken to see the some forty-five thousand volumes perished in the concentration gas-chambers, in these visits. for inmates to choose from, plus a camps. Thirty million have trooped range of periodicals; and the six With kind regards, through a postwar-reconstructed camp orchestras at Ausch- U. Jost ‘ washroom at Auschwitz - with its witz/Birkenau, its the theatrical Archival Manager" postwar-built big chimney beside performances, including a chil- it, that has no connection at all to dren’s opera, the weekly camp cin- One is puzzled that such news the main building; but alas they are ema, and even the special brothel should be regarded as unfortunate. not taken to see the blue, blue established there. Let’s hope they walls of the Birkenau delousing- are shown postcards written from * Chemical evidence, concerning rooms, i.e. the gas-chambers. It Auschwitz, some of which still cyanide compounds remaining in does seem a shame to go all that exist, where the postman would the walls of Auschwitz, provides way and not see the gas-chambers. collect the mail twice-weekly. (7) the best memory which the human The German gas-chambers have Thus the past may not always be race now has, concerning what got blue walls, because of all the quite, as we were told. happened there sixty years ago. cyanide used there. The ferrocya- Cyanide gas reacts and bonds very nide formed is blue, chemically the 1. Georges Theil, 'Heresy,' 2006, p.73. permanently with iron in brick- same as in a tube of blue paint - www.codoh.com/viewpoints/Heresy1. work. The German labour-camps whereas the alleged human gas pdf had efficient cyanide gas- chambers they will be taken 2. Germar Rudolf, Dissecting the chambers, for delousing mattresses around, have no trace of this blue Holocaust, http://vho.org/GB/Books/dth/fndstats. and clothes etc. Generally speak- in the walls, because cyanide ing, no-one promoting ‘the Holo- html, Section 7. wasn’t there used. 3. J.D.McCallum, Crime Doctor, Can- caust’ ever suggests they were ada 1979. There is also a newspaper used for gassing humans – because * Before a visit to Auschwitz, quote from him in 1980, ‘There never they were rather too small, and schoolchildren might want to see was a case of poison gas uncovered:’ also they had intricate apparatus, the Spielberg film, ‘Schindler’s www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp? as would have been broken by as- List,’ to see how fiction is fabri- ID=55 phyxiating humans. Instead, it has cated. The hellish image of piles of 4. U. Jost letter, 27th Nov. 2006: always been proposed that build- burning bodies was needed, in or- http://forum.yourforum.org/viewtopic. ings designated in German design- der to appropriate the word, ‘Holo- php?t=4441 plans as washrooms or morgues caust,’ with its fiery meaning. Kids 5. CODOH, ‘Cyanide Chemistry at had that function. The problem is, need to appreciate why this never Auschwitz’ that their walls have no significant happened: firstly, human bodies http://forum.yourforum.org/viewtopic. php?t=4111 elevation of cyanide above back- don’t burn, they are not combusti- 6. Ch. by Udo Walendy in Dissecting ground levels; whereas the walls ble. Second, no traces remain of the Holocaust,’ the ‘delousing chambers’ have ashes or bones from piles of burnt www.vho.org/GB/Books/dth/ enormously high cyanide levels: corpses, around the Auschwitz 7. CODOH, ‘Auschwitz In Memor- the difference is three orders of camps. Third, any ‘burning pits’ in iam’ http://forum.codoh.info/ view- magnitude. This suggests – no, it that region would have been too topic.php?t=4332&highlight= proves - that the ‘Zyklon-B’ cya- damp for anything to burn, owing nide was used exactly where the to the high water-table. (6) German design-plans indicate that

4 Eucharist and Holocaust

The Use of Heresy as a Mode of Political Control

Nigel Jackson

ho Murdered Chaucer? mic social shift that occurred with a weapon of political control. The W This is the name of a the overthrow of the liberal Rich- old story sheds light on the new. 2003 book by Terry Jones and four ard II by the reactionary, repres- This brief essay is intended to associated academics (Professor sive regime of Henry IV.’ Jones point up the parallel and its signifi- Terry Dolan, Professor Juliette argues that, while there is no proof cance for us at the present time. Dor, Alan Fletcher and Robert F. positive, it is highly likely that Yeager) which I discovered by Chaucer was murdered on the II chance recently in my local library. command of the ‘ruthlessly ambi- Subtitled A Medieval Mystery, it tious’ Thomas Arundel, Jones presents Archbishop was published by Methuen in a Archbishop of Canterbury, the Arundel as ‘a man without senti- sumptuous hardcover edition with power behind the throne of the ment or any shred of a genuine abundant colour illustrations of usurper. spiritual vocation’ (page 360). He artwork from the period. I was also vaguely aware from explains that he was the younger Geoffrey Chaucer was well- Shakespeare’s play Richard II that son of a great aristocratic family known to me as the writer of the this unfortunate monarch had been who entered the Church not from a marvellously witty and free- deposed and murdered by his suc- genuine religious vocation but as a spirited Canterbury Tales, which I cessor, but had understood road to wealth, power and prestige. had studied in Year 12 in 1956 and (wrongly, it now seems) that Rich- He would have viewed religious 1957. From that time onwards, I ard had been manifestly incompe- reform as a threat to his aspira- never forgot his ironic and satiric tent and deserved to lose his tions: ‘From his first election to a presentation of the follies and hy- throne. Just as Josephine Tey long bishopric at the age of twenty, pocrisies of mankind, especially ago alerted me through her book Arundel must have watched in hor- the misuse of sacred tradition by The Prisoner of Time to the possi- ror as a rising tide of opposition to various pseudo-religious profi- bility that Richard III may not have ecclesiastical wealth and privilege teers. It has been said that if, like been the evil person described by threatened to deprive him of his Shakespeare, he had been lucky Tudor propaganda and Shake- birthright. He would have seen all enough to write at the moment speare’s play Richard III, so Jones around him danger signs that the when modern English crystallized, has performed a similar revisionist Church was no longer the secure his work would be also household feat, it seems, for Richard II. ‘A haven of wealth and easy living knowledge throughout the English- hugely important book,’ is how the that [in his eyes] it ought to have speaking world. noted biographer of the king, Nigel been. There was a remote but real Examining the blurb of Jones’ Saul, has described Jones’ book. possibility that the Crown (Richard book, I was amazed to learn that, As I read into Who Murdered II) might actually seize the worldly although Chaucer was ‘celebrated’ Chaucer?, however, I noticed also possessions of the Church. End of in his own time ‘as his country’s a striking parallel between the career for T. Arundel Esq.’ (148) finest living poet, rhetorician and ways in which Richard’s chief An extraordinary aspect of that scholar: the pre-eminent intellec- enemies had used charges of her- career is the way in which Arundel tual superstar of his time’, we esy concerning the nature of the regained his position, which had know nothing at all of his death. Christian Eucharist as a means to been stripped from him by the ‘In 1400 his name simply disap- consolidate the usurper’s rule, and King and the Pope after he partici- pears from the record.’ The theme the ways in which currently pow- pated in an abortive revolt against of Jones’ book is that Chaucer and erful persons and groups use Richard II in 1397: ‘What is abso- his writings may have become ‘po- charges, in effect, of heresy con- lutely certain from the records is litically inconvenient in the seis- cerning the so-called Holocaust as that, from the moment Henry’s 5 rebels set foot in England, Arundel terialism was both difficult and Paul Strohm, a scholar of the reassumed the mantle of power risky’, for ‘the arguments were period, is quoted by Jones as fol- without even attempting to sanc- well founded’. (148-149) lows: ‘The question of the Eucha- tion his actions with royal author- Thus, ‘what Arundel and his rist had been deliberately installed ity. There is no record of his offi- fellow ecclesiasts needed was a as the litmus test of orthodoxy, cial reinstatement; he simply ig- topic on which the Church estab- precisely because its internal para- nored the Act of Parliament by lishment could attack the religious doxes and contradictions were so which he had been declared a trai- radicals without dragging in the pronounced, and its own under- tor and stripped of office, reas- inconvenient questions of ecclesi- standing among different camps of sumed his role as Archbishop, and astical opulence or priestly venal- the orthodox so fissured, as to con- nobody dared say a word against ity. Then, in 1379, John Wyclif stitute a ground so uneven that no it.’ (133) (I believe that monar- played straight into their hands. He one meant to stumble could fail to chists in Australia have to be wary presented them with a gift: a book stumble.’ (154) Likewise the that such a fiat may be attempted called De Eucharistia (Concerning Holocaust is an extremely compli- by Australian republicans upon the the Eucharist).’ (149) cated subject on which it is diffi- death of Her Majesty Queen Eliza- cult to be an authority unless you beth II.) III have mastered several disciplines Jones explains that both Arun- including history, science and the del and Henry needed to consoli- At the present time an extraor- German language; thus it is easily date their power against a range of dinary and bizarre situation exists manipulated as a means of political opponents. ‘The fact is that Henry in the world whereby a particular control of modern dissidents of was never safely seated on the view of a phase of history (known various kinds. Moreover, legisla- throne. Or that is certainly what as ‘the Holocaust’) is more and tion against ‘racial hatred’ or ‘vili- Henry himself thought. His reign more being required as an article fication’ is now associated with was beset with scares and alarms, of faith, publicly professed, with acceptance of the ‘Holocaust attempts on his life and abortive unbelievers subjected to a variety story’, so that, right now in Austra- uprisings. Henry occupied his of serious sanctions including im- lia (as an example), a local intel- throne, a suspicious, paranoid fig- prisonment, deportation, loss of lectual, Frederick Toben, is being ure riddled with guilt and sur- employment and income, public pursued by a Jewish opponent, rounded by potential revolt.’ (139) defamation by the mass media and Jeremy Jones, on the grounds that ‘His usurpation was not only affliction of a pariah status by in- Toben’s views have ‘caused of- bloody but heralded an escalation tellectual and artistic elites. fence’. It appears that merely of violence in the public exhibition It is instructive to see how showing one has been ‘offended’ of death.’ (144) something similar happened in by something may take precedence England at the beginning of the Another factor was the move- th over whether or not that something ment for reform of the Church 15 Century with ‘the Eucharist’. is true or false. which had gathered strength in Jones explains that Wyclif’s Semantic shiftiness is a sine England during the 14th Century controversial book enabled Arun- qua non of this sort of political and been tacitly, if not actively, del and other ecclesiasts ‘to change control. ‘”Heresy” was all about supported by Richard II. This was the ground rules by placing the what those in power deemed it to linked to the campaign to allow the sacrament of the Eucharist centre- be, and Arundel used it unasham- Bible to be read in the vernacular stage as the litmus test of religious edly as a political tool. He radi- English by all persons, and not orthodoxy. Henceforth, the exact cally redefined heresy in order to have the Holy Scriptures only pub- way in which you believed the isolate and identify his enemies. lished in Latin so as to be easily wine and bread of the Eucharist In doing so he cast his net over a manipulated by self-serving became the body and blood of wide range of beliefs and opin- priests. Jones refers to the Pope’s Christ was to determine whether ions….. No one could be quite sure ‘irritation with the English prel- you were a true believer or not….. who would, and who would not, be ates’ failure to deal decisively with By the time of Chaucer’s disap- pulled in.’ (164) This needs to be the would-be reformers’ and ex- pearance, belief in the Eucharist compared to the wide range of plains that these worldly bishops was about to become a matter of ways in which terms like ‘anti- knew that ‘to attack the arguments life and death.’ (149) semitic’, ‘racist’ and ‘neo-nazi’ are against clerical corruption and ma- currently used to inhibit a whole 6 series of important discussions and and that all and singular having prohibiting biblical translation and prevent their adequate airing in such books or writings of such unauthorized quotation, he forbade public forums, the dogma of the wicked doctrines or opinions public criticism of the clergy and Holocaust being the linchpin of the shall… deliver… such books or set limits on the discussion of theo- whole operation. writings to the diocesan of the logical ideas.’ (226) ‘His view Jones notes: ‘As early as 1395 same place within forty days from was simple: ecclesiastical authority he [Arundel] had called for the the time of the proclamation of this was… to be obeyed without ques- death penalty for heresy, but with ordinance and statute.’ (183-184) tion, and with deference.’ In the little response from Richard. Un- Arundel’s later Constitutions modern world, particularly in the der Henry IV, he was able to de- (1409)….. ‘sought not only to con- mass media, negative criticism of fine heresy as he liked and at last trol what people taught, read, and supporters of the official version of had the freedom to exterminate discussed, they also sought to con- the Holocaust - Jewish and other with fire those whom he wished to trol what people thought.’ (184) persons or groups, and public tri- exterminate.’ (155) Thus, in Janu- The world of education was inevi- bunals and courts (and in these) – ary 1401 Arundel ‘formally an- tably compromised: ‘Every war- is increasingly being forbidden and nounced to Convocation that their den, head, or keeper of a college or even penalized; and public figures number one objective was to be the principal of a hall or hostel,’ the who are charged in various ways “war on heresy”.’ (161) Shades of new Act demanded, ‘shall inquire with abusing the Holocaust story George Bush’s ‘war on terror’! diligently every month at least in or ‘defaming the dead’ are ex- Jones details the transformation the college, hall or hostel over pected to show deference in public of life in England that followed: which he presides, whether any recantations – which they often ‘The fight against heresy was to scholar or inhabitant of any such make with remarkable celerity. dominate the following decade. It college, hall or hostel, has held, Such recantations were also a changed the nature of politics. It defended, or in any way proposed part of Arundel’s suppression of changed the atmosphere in which any conclusion, proposition, or intellectual freedom. Jones notes ordinary men and women lived….. opinion, sounding ill for the Catho- that ‘there was one literary genre Heresy and treason were skilfully lic faith or good customs.’ (184) which flourished under both Cour- elided so that to question the work- Suppression of revisionist writ- tenay (Archbishop of Canterbury ing of holy Church quickly became ings in the present time is a well 1381-1396) and Arundel: the re- as unthinkable for the secular gen- attested phenomenon. Perhaps the cantation or confession.’ (320) try as it was for the parish priest or most striking example was the These did not have to be sincere or the university student. The war on German Government’s destruction genuine, but they had to be public. heresy… added a new dimension of the printer’s plates for Judge Jones provides a considerable list to a period already characterized Wilhelm Staglich’s The Auschwitz of eminent intellectuals who made by fear and intimidation….. The Myth in 1979; but more common grovelling retractions, especially country slid into a regime of Or- has been the refusal of public li- after 1401, when burning at the wellian thought-control and braries to accept revisionist books stake was threatened. McCarthyite witch-hunting.’ (161, into their collections and the mys- 163) terious disappearance of such IV

Arundel, Jones explains, ‘put books that have been so admitted. At the present time it is notice- heresy at the forefront of the reli- As for education, there appears to able how terrified public figures gious agenda and established an be a growing campaign to have are of any faintest taint that may be iron rule in which anything other ‘Holocaust Studies’ made manda- applied to them of fellowship with than his official line was not to be tory for schooling at both primary ‘Holocaust deniers’. Jones writes: tolerated. (183) The Act De Hae- and secondary levels. Books pro- ‘The 1401 statute De Haeretico retico Comburendo (1401) forbade moting the official or received ver- Comburendo [stated] that heretics anyone to ‘preach, hold, teach or sion of the Holocaust are fre- were to be “burnt before the people instruct anything openly or se- quently included in senior secon- in a conspicuous place; that such cretly, or make or write any book dary prescribed book lists; books punishment may strike fear into the contrary to the Catholic faith nor querying that version, never. minds of others.” Terror was its make conventicles nor hold Jones tells us further that ‘once acknowledged objective.’ (167) schools and also that none hence- Thomas Arundel had his grip on And Arundel made immediate use forth shall in any way favour such the reins of power, he set about of his power by the burning of the 7 ‘unrepentant heretic’ William to silence opposition by means of in prison and the mass media con- Sawtre at Smithfield. terror. Perhaps in each case the spire to ignore this or to treat it as ‘This was the new order of the manipulators themselves were/are a trivial matter. Jurgen Graf has day,’ writes Jones. ‘Neutrality was aware of the preposterous nature of had to take refuge in Iran to avoid not enough. Wit and humour and their propaganda, but saw/see even prison in Switzerland. Vincent insight were no longer viable that as useful. It is especially hu- Reynouard is subject to ongoing commodities….. Henry’s insecu- miliating for people to be made to persecution in France rity craved nothing less than the bow beneath the yoke of manifest Indeed, even as I prepared to panegyric, the vilification of his nonsense. write this short essay, I received predecessor, the justification of the Belief in the doctrine of tran- news of the latest persecution of unjustifiable, and the unabashed substantiation lingers on, even leading historical revisionist, 79- rewriting of history.’ (172) He though, as Jones points out, it has year-old Professor Robert Fauris- also says: ‘Arundel’s war on her- no warrant in the teachings of the son, by French authorities on 24th esy was to dominate not just the early Church and seems to have January, when he was subjected to early years of Henry IV’s rule, but virtually sprung up in the 11th Cen- a six-hour arrest and a search of the whole of the 15th Century as tury; but believers in it can no his house, then told that he was well.’ (164) longer do much damage to those now subject to three more penal Of course, in 2008 people are who disbelieve. The same is not actions. not literally being burned at the true with the Holocaust. Disbe- Perhaps a new Chaucer is stake for professing disbelief in the lievers in the official story in many needed to parody and satirize this official Holocaust story. The es- nations suffer dreadfully at the painful but also ridiculous situa- sential parallel that struck me was present time. Germar Rudolf, tion. the use of a preposterous pseudo- Ernst Zundel, Wolfgang Frohlich, rd intellectual concoction in each case Gerd Honsik and Sylvia Stolz are Melbourne, 3 February 2008

Our Voices: The Human Face of Holocaust Revisionism

Richard A. Widmann

hroughout my childhood I “Combat” which supplied a TV been. My teacher apparently Tfound myself drawn to audience with military action week agreed and gave me an A+ on the tales of warfare and combat. The in and week out and where the paper. Vietnam War was in full swing lines of good and evil were clearly By High School I had become and while people were growing drawn. There were also various disillusioned with government, their hair long and protesting the war movies that I recall watching media and other entrenched institu- war, I found myself singing along with my Dad, movies like “The tions. Like many teenagers, it was with Sgt. Barry Sadler’s hit, “The Battle of the Bulge” and “The a time of rebellion. I found myself Ballad of the Green Be- Longest Day.” questioning all orthodoxy from rets.” Although I was only a child Somewhere along the line I be- popular music to organized relig- in the ’60’s I remember keeping came interested in Pearl Harbor. It ion. I remember devouring Ayn track of the newspaper accounts of was here perhaps that my “revi- Rand’s novels, The Fountainhead war dead, figuring that if we lost sionism” began although I wasn’t and Atlas Shrugged. Rand was fewer men than the Vietnamese, even familiar with that term at the surely the catalyst to a growing we must be winning. time. Apparently, not unlike Viet- love of philosophy. Even at that early age, it was nam, something was wrong with In college I found myself read- evident that Vietnam wasn’t a the events at Pearl Harbor. As a ing the classics of literature but strictly black and white situa- term paper for Eighth grade Social also developing a profound taste tion. There was the Mai Lai mas- Studies I penned what would be for the German philosopher Frie- sacre and other stories of atrocities my first pseudo-revisionist work, drich Nietzsche. Although often being committed by our own “Could the Disaster of the Attack slandered as Nazi predecessor, I troops. Clearly Vietnam wasn’t on Pearl Harbor have been pre- saw Nietzsche as a hyper- World War Two. I enjoyed televi- vented?” My conclusion, of individualist. For me Nietzsche sion shows like “Rat Patrol” and course, was that yes it could have took the thinking I first encoun- 8 tered in Ayn Rand to another I set to work to verify it. I read as well as many historical revision- level. Soon, I also came to love the everything I could get my hands on ist treatments of the Second and music of Richard Wagner. from the "exterminationist" side of First World Wars. Nietzsche had written of him in his the argument. I read Reitlinger, The Birth of Tragedy and his The Hilberg, Dawidowicz and others. It y initial foray into revi- Case of Wagner. I recall also that became immediately apparent that M sionism was in 1987. I friends who listened to hard rock Butz was right. These books were was in my mid-twenties. This was and punk rock suggested I try so poor in their documentation of right before the exciting days of Wagner probably because his mu- the gas chamber claims, it was as- the Leuchter Report and the 1988 sic was bigger and louder than tounding. They would not make Zundel trial. Things were really anything some contemporary proper citations. They almost al- taking off and I was reading and group of musicians could churn ways contradicted each other. digesting everything I could get out. They would quote liberally from my hands on. My activities shifted Although I can claim only very Kurt Gerstein and never identify around 1995 as I began to read little German heritage, my ances- their source. I knew the “confes- about revisionism making head- tors came to the United States over sion” of Gerstein by this time and way on the Internet. It was really 150 years ago; I began to develop could identify these quotes on there that I began my writing. It a keen interest in things Ger- sight. It’s fair to say that it was was around this time that I discov- man. This ultimately led me to be- these works by traditional Holo- ered Bradley Smith. He had run a gin looking at the events of the caust historians that made my con- small campus advertisement in the Second World War—at the time, version complete, rather than any college newspaper of the graduate this meant nothing more than read- specific revisionist book or article. school I was now attending. I ing William Shirer. I was quite It wasn't long before I ordered a clipped the ad and sent him a taken with Rise and Fall of the catalog from the IHR and began note. I remember receiving a nice Third Reich and carried it with me purchasing revisionist titles as letter back. My “working relation- everywhere I went until I worked well. Early ones were Rassinier’s ship” with Bradley began, how- my way through its 1500 pages. The Holocaust Story and the Lies ever, when we were introduced by My friends at the time were of Ulysses, Staeglich’s Auschwitz: Greg Raven of the IHR. Greg was very freethinking types. We en- A Judge Looks at the Evidence, very active on the Internet and saw joyed cutting edge ideas, philoso- and Roques’ The Confessions of me as a potential help to Bradley phy, music and art. A close friend Kurt Gerstein. It was probably who was in the process of develop- introduced me to Loompanics, a Rassinier that had the most signifi- ing his first Website. bookseller of unusual books. It was cant influence out of these au- By 1999 I had attended David here that I first saw The Hoax of thors. The story of his time in the Irving's First Real History Confer- the Twentieth Century advertis- Concentration camp system as an ence, which enabled me to meet ed. Almost as a goof, I decided to inmate added to his sincerity. Why many of the big names in revision- order it. I expected it to be a neo- was this real Holocaust survivor ism. It was really a great event. Nazi treatise with swastikas em- censored? Why had I never heard This probably marked the peak of blazoned on every page. I was of him before? There was little my enthusiasm for revisionism. I quite surprised by Arthur Butz's doubt in my mind that I had been was doing important revisionist photo, which was anything but force-fed one version of the Holo- work and being recognized for it what I had imagined. He didn’t at caust story, one that fell dramati- by key revisionists from around all look like a neo-Nazi but rather cally short of the whole the globe. There really is a value in just like all those liberal college truth. Before long I had subscribed meeting other revisionists. Sitting professors I had studied under. to the Journal of Historical Re- down and having a meal and a I was quite taken with the book view. I have a somewhat obsessive drink and lively open free commu- and first came to the realization personality. When I become inter- nication is far more fulfilling than that I had believed in a tremendous ested in something not only do I typing the keys of a computer. falsehood for most of my life. At stick with it, but I also want to Through those years I met the time I kept my thoughts se- know everything about it. I became many key revisionists including, cret. I kept the book hidden as if it obsessed with the subject of Holo- Bradley Smith, Germar Rudolf, were something shameful. Uncer- caust revisionism and began to Ted O'Keefe, Fritz Berg, Samuel tain of the veracity of Butz's thesis, purchase every title I could locate Crowell, Arthur Butz, David Ir- 9 ving, Russ Granata, Fred Toben, y late 2005 I was shocked again. During the time I was away Michael Hoffman, Joe Bellinger, Bout of my slumber when I many old friends had passed away Doug Collins, Andrew Gray, Serge heard of the arrest and deportation or moved, others had become too Thion, and many others. My email of Ernst Zundel. Zundel of course busy with life to continue the communications included just had previous run-ins with the law, struggle. New voices had been about everyone who was anyone in but his ability to continue to send added to our ranks as well. New the world of revisionism. communications showed that there works like “One Third of the Following the events of Sep- was still some freedom left. The Holocaust” which would have tember 11, 2001, I found that I was cooperation of the United States been unthinkable years earlier was running out of steam. My closest with Canada and Germany to in- now attracting thousands of view- confidants and I were of the opin- carcerate this man seemed to be a ers. ion that revisionism had won the blow against freedom for all think- I believe strongly that we must intellectual argument (we hadn't ing people—not just revision- be engaged in this struggle as long fully comprehended the tremen- ists. In 2006, I was even more up- as good men are incarcerated and dous losses we would suffer on the set by the deportation of Germar persecuted around the world and as free speech battle front). European Rudolf (whom I consider the most long as falsehood prevails over nation after nation passed draco- important revisionist scholar in the truth. I have a profound sense that nian laws that would stifle free world today). Finally the arrest and revisionism is right and I refuse to speech and research on the Holo- incarceration of David Irving was be forced to think otherwise. Call caust. By early 2002, my activities the straw that broke the camel's it idealism or pure stubbornness, had dropped off and I largely got back. I could not stand by idly but I am in this fight for the long back to non-revisionist-related ac- while these good men went down. run. I look forward to the release tivities. My revisionism was lim- I reentered the struggle and con- of our thought-criminals and a ited to reading email, newsletters tacted Bradley to see how I could general amnesty for Holocaust re- and an occasional book title or help. visionists throughout the Western journal article. For a period of time Working with a rag-tag group world. I have no doubt that in a Bradley even was forced to close of supporters, I assisted the re- free society; the truth will emerge down CODOHWeb for not only cently redeployed CODOHWeb to with regard to the Holocaust story. had I lost heart for the work but get back to and even surpass its Bradley has pointed out to me my friend David Thomas who per- size and importance in the late that falsehood may always prevail formed the lion’s share of the ’90’s. Serving as editor, I helped to over truth. If that’s the case, I technical work ran out of steam as locate lost items, investigate bad guess I’ll be at this for a long time well. links, and generally update and to come. spruce up the Website once

DEBORAH LIPSTADT THE POWER OF ONE QUESTION WORKING Continued from page one.

Each time one or the other ap- Many of the alerts took me to The number of alerts I was now peared on the World Wide Web I Blogs run by individuals who were receiving were fewer than half of would be sent an “alert” by of no consequence to me. The what I had been receiving before. Google, referencing a story that Internet is an enormously vast ar- It was a step in the right direction. had appeared in any segment of the ray of Web sites and blogs and all But I was still receiving so many media or the Internet. My thought kinds of other things. Most of the alerts on “gas chambers” alone that was to follow up the alerts, and in alerts took me to sites that within it was not practical for me to take the comments section below each ten days I realized that I was get- the time to sort the wheat from the article, or in an email address to ting involved in something that chaff. the writer, send my question about with regard to time, it was not cost One Sunday morning while I the name of one person, with effective. My first response was to was still in bed it occurred in my proof, who was killed in a gas get rid of the “Auschwitz” alert imagination to send my question chamber at Auschwitz. and leave the alert for “gas cham- directly to Professor Debbie Lip- I quickly began receiving my bers.” It was “gas chambers” that stadt of Emory University and -- alerts. More than I had expected. my question directly addressed. and here is where thought and 10 imagination outdid themselves. off campus press. The same 18- to those at Emory. It could go to While I would address the letter word letter, followed with a note history and journalism departments directly to Professor Lipstadt via directed to those to whom I had on other campuses. Not only that, email, I would “copy” it to the “copied.” but the concept was cost-effective relevant academic departments at From the beginning I had no – by using email and the Internet Emory – to her peers. I would in- illusion that Professor Lipstadt there was no financial cost at all, clude those in administration, the might respond to me or to the let- though there would be the “cost” history faculty, Holocaust and ter. But the idea of copying the in time of putting together the Jewish studies, the journalism de- letter to Professor Lipstadt’s col- relevant email lists. The budget partment, and to the campus and leagues did not have to be limited

Don’t ask. There is no “other side" to the Holocaust Story then for this version of the Campus In the event, I found that I had “blind” carbon copy feature in my Project is nil in comparison to the used a method of copying – the computer program that would thousands, the tens of thousands of prove to be unfair to those to dollars I had to raise for the Cam- whom I copied it. Here is the text 04 February 2008 pus Project when I was running of the message I sent to about one essay-advertisements in student Prof. Deborah Lipstadt hundred fifty academics and stu- newspapers. I was only able to Professor of Modern Jewish dent journalists at Emory U and U carry out the project in that form History and Holocaust Studies Georgia. Both the letter to Lip- with the strong financial backing Emory University stadt and the note to her academic of one key supporter. Atlanta, Georgia peers in Atlanta took up less than On 04 February I emailed my one page. first letter to Professor Lipstadt Dear Professor Lipstadt: and “copied” it to the Emory ad- Can you provide, with proof, “The above (my letter to Lip- ministration, the academics in the the identity of one person killed in stadt) is the exact text of the 18- history and journalism depart- a German gas chamber at Ausch- word question that I have put to ments, to the editorial staff of The witz? Professor Lipstadt. We were told Emory Wheel, and to the editorial Thank you. for four decades that four millions staff of The Atlanta Journal- were killed at Auschwitz in gas Constitution. This was the begin- Bradley R. Smith chambers. Today we are told that ning of a campaign that could very about one million were killed well turn into a major story. there in gas chambers. I am ask- ing for the identity, with proof, of

11 one (one) person killed in a Ger- for a reaction. One response British flight attendant and intro- man gas chamber at Auschwitz. summed up the general reaction. duced the song to his WWDC ra- I am perfectly aware that in dio audience on December 17, America there is a taboo against “Frankly I don’t think your 1963. Within minutes, requests for asking this question, or any ques- challenge will be particularly ef- the record flooded the station. tion like it. I understand that in fective. If I was La Lipstadt I Within days, radio stations all much of Europe, and in Israel, would do something like the fol- across the United States were play- asking such a question can very lowing. I would describe how ing the song. Capitol Records was well cause you to be prosecuted transports were selected on the forced to release it on December and imprisoned for “thought ramp and those not selected for 26, three weeks earlier than sched- crimes.” Whether you are an aca- work were sent to the gas chamber. uled. When the band appeared on demic, a journalist, or an inter- Point out that we have the names Ed Sullivan's TV show on Febru- ested third party, I should think for a number of complete trans- ary 9, 1964, 73 million people -- that you would agree that my ports from France, Germany and an unprecedented 40 percent of the question to Professor Lipstadt the Low countries and that a large U.S. population at the time -- suggests an irony that for Ameri- series of registration numbers for watched. cans is, or should be, too obvious Auschwitz have survived (from "There's no doubt whatsoever to need explanation.” about 50 000 to 190 000 IIRC). that the Beatles would have con- Bradley R. Smith” From these registration numbers it quered America anyway," Beatles can be seen the majority of people historian Martin Lewis told USA After three days I had received on that transport did not enter the Today. "But the speed and magni- one response from an Emory pro- camp. Then pull out a number of tude of that stratospheric kick-off fessor, something of a wisecrack, SS confessions to homicidal gas- could not have happened without which I answered in kind, some- sings. [ … ] Marsha Albert. If the record had thing I probably will not do again, “All of the above is complete been released on January 13th, as and then a second from a professor nonsense, of course, but in the eyes planned, kids wouldn't have heard at U Georgia which turned into of 99.9% of readers it will have it 20 times a day, as they did dur- something interesting. been "proven." ing the school break. It would At this point I realized my er- never have sold 1 million copies in I was okay with how my folk ror in copying him using a pro- three weeks. There wouldn't have were reacting. No one had much gram whereby he was “blind” with been 10,000 kids at JFK to greet reason, in fact, to expect the con- respect to all the others I had cop- the Beatles. Marsha didn't start cept to work. With regard to revi- ied and was unaware of the fact Beatle mania. She jump-started it." that I intended to reproduce his sionist outreach, how many con- emails, and those of any others cepts do work? It may be too obvious for who might respond to the mailing, About this time a marketing comment, but I have begun a work on the Internet when he most article came across my desk via the for the Campus Project that in- likely understood our back and Internet titled “The Power of a volves asking one question, what I forth to be a private communica- Simple Question.” A Simple Ques- will refer to from here on out as tion. If I were to do that, and re- tion? Was someone from the other “The Question.” The Question is veal his name and position at the world trying to communicate with posed to the mouthpiece of the university, it would be essentially me? Holocaust Industry on the Ameri- a betrayal of trust. I couldn’t do it. The article tells the story of a can campus. But it will be copied Live and learn. 15-year-old girl in Washington to dozens, then hundreds, then I had explained what I was go- D.C. in 1963 who had heard about thousands of academics, those who ing to do to several of the folk who the Beatles phenomenon in Britain. administer them, and to the cam- work with me, and their response She wrote her local Washington D. pus and off-campus press. I do not was muted. They would wait and C. radio station and asked one expect that I will be able to “jump see. They did not expect much to question – why Americans could start” this project as that teen-ager come of it. I posted the letter to not hear music by the Beatles in allegedly jump-started the Beatles Lipstadt and the note to her peers America. Inspired by Marsha's phenomenon in the U.S., but I be- on the CODOH Forum and asked question, D.C. disk jockey Carroll lieve we can take The Question, James managed to get a copy of "I mailing by mailing, inexorably, Want to Hold Your Hand" from a 12 into the consciousness of the aca- how I would handle the response Holocaust Industry on the Ameri- demic community and the media. when it did begin to occur. I hadn’t can campus, and the academic re- One name, with proof. One out of yet begun to think of that. Once sponse to The Question, which in a million! It will be slow at first, these media events take off – and my mind academics cannot allow campus by campus, but it will that’s what I expect to make of this to be widely circulated without build with each mailing until it will project -- it can get crazy, it can responding to it. I would not have be impossible for our professor get away from you, and you lose to write reams of new stuff, I friend, and media, to ignore. At control of the story. My response would not have to be inventive – that point we will have reached was that I had to create my own an artist. This would be a very fo- what we call “critical mass.” In Blog identified with and focusing cused Blog, it required an abso- any event, that’s the idea. on Deborah Lipstadt and The lutely minimum budget, while Question. Guys like Widmann, dealing with such grand historical I worked out email lists for Mendoza and others had been and moral issues as the truth about Columbia University and U Cali- pushing me lightly for sometime to “gas chambers,” the Holocaust, fornia at Irvine and when I mailed develop a Blog for the Founder’s and the “unique monstrosity” of The Question I did not use the Page on CODOHWeb. I had hesi- the Germans, all of it in the “blind” carbon copy, but the tated. I had already tried blogging shadow, or the light if you will, of straight carbon copy feature. Every a couple times and after a few our best and most enthusiastic anti- one who received The Question weeks, each time, I had dropped revisionist gal, Debbie Lipstadt. could see for herself the identity of out. It was too much extra work, it I was in. With Gustavo’s help, all others who had received it. No overlapped with my journal and the Blog is already Online -- one could pretend that she did not with Smith’s Report, and it did not www.bradleysmthsblog. As of this receive The Question, did not appear to be work that was draw- writing very few people can get know it exists, did not know that it ing people to the page in any num- there. It does not yet come up was being asked, in essence, of all ber. through a Google search. In early who received it. But this time the situation was March I suppose the search en- I was not receiving any sig- different. This time the Blog would gines will be “crawling” it, and it nificant response. But this was not be about me. It would be fo- will be available to one and all. very early in the game, the very cused on Professor Deborah Lip- And we’ll be off and running. beginning, and I began wondering stadt, the mouth piece for the

IN THE NEWS

Beginning in March, a comic grandson Daniel who finds Bob, thousand Dutch students, other- book about the Holocaust will be the Auschwitz survivor, via the wise not known for their interest in tested in 15 Hungarian schools, Internet. Meanwhile, her friend this era of history, rated it 8.5 on a in Poland, and in 15 high schools Helena digs out a photo album, the scale of 1-10. Teachers also said in Berlin and the state of North- only memory of the old woman's they had never seen a classroom as Rhine-Westphalia and is meant parents. silent as when the children were to supplement existing history As Julia Sarbo, program man- reading the book. lessons. ager of the Anna Frank House The plans for the unusual teach- The Anna Frank House in Am- says, the publishers are awaiting ing tool, however, come amid sterdam and the Jewish Museum feedback on the comic book and concerns following studies have been working on the comic are negotiating its publication in showing that post-unification book, entitled "In Search of the Hungary. They want to provide it German children know appall- Truth," for a year and a half. The to libraries free, and to sell it in ingly little about the Holocaust story is a family investigation by bookstores, in Hungary as well as an elderly woman whose parents in Germany and Poland. She added and that there appears little in- were killed at Auschwitz. She sur- that they had chosen the comic terest in the increased coverage vived by hiding out on a farm, and book genre in the hope that it of the period. German young- has decided to return to find out would make teenagers more inter- sters seem to switch off when what happened to her companions. ested in the topic. The results ex- faced with the continuing con- She is accompanied by her curious ceeded their expectations, as one 13 troversy over any public men- Holocaust. That is to say, there Georges Theil, author of the tion of the Nazis. would be no "limits in advance" or book Heresy in 20th–Century "prewritten conclusions" about his France – A Case of Insubmission, Holocaust research. After all, was sentenced to six months in The French Government's France grants freedom of research prison on 08 January this year Hypocrisy, Islam and Holocaust for atheists and others who deny for attempting to revise the Revisionism, A Second Open the existence of God or attack the Holocaust story. Thiel accepted Letter to France's Ambassador Islamic and Christian religions.” his sentence but asked that he not to the US by Paul Grubach. A be imprisoned but allowed to re- copy of this letter was published in main home and be monitored by full in the Iranian Press TV. As of For the first time ever the “electronic tagging.” This appeal this writing the letter defending Canadian Human Rights Com- has been denied. The following Faurisson in the Iranian media got mission is being challenged by extracts of the ruling convey its 4,181 hits. Grubach’s first open Marc Lemire in the Federal substance: letter got 3,051 hits. Court of Canada for its spying [Excerpts] Grubach wrote operations, abuses of the law, “Whereas […] Mr Theil has French Ambassador Vimont: “As deception and agent provocateur openly challenged the validity of you are undoubtedly aware by agenda. his conviction, which he considers now, Holocaust revisionist scholar Like some mobster in a U.S. the corollary of a "law of conven- Dr. Robert Faurisson will probably trial who keeps invoking the Fifth ience", and openly persists in ana- stand trial for comments he made Amendment, the CHRC is trying lysing the charge of challenging at the Iran Holocaust Conference to keep the veil of secrecy wrapped the reality of crimes against hu- of December 2006. Allegedly, he tight around its spying operations manity as an illegitimate infringe- violated France's Gayssot Act, a on Canadian Internet dissidents. Its ment of his freedom of expression, statute passed in 1990 that prohib- tool of choice is Section 37 of the opinion and intellectual inquiry; its any public doubt about the al- Canada Evidence Act. This allows and whereas, in spite of his cul- leged Jewish Holocaust. government representatives the tural capital and his scholastic and “In September 2006, high ability to prevent disclosure (hide) socio-professional background, Mr school teacher Robert Redeker and claim immunity over the dis- Theil appears, still today, not in the made a scathing attack upon the closure of information that the least ready to mend his ways; Prophet Mohammed and the Is- CHRC alleges to be injurious to “Whereas Mr Theil has, more- lamic religion in the center-right Canadian Government security and over, stated remaining (sic) keen daily Le Figaro. Because of threats operations of a Federal agency. on contemporary history, and go- to his life, he was forced to go into The evidence Marc Lemire is chal- ing for that reason to Germany and hiding. The French government lenging before the Federal Court is Poland several times a year, and immediately came to his defense, explosive and will blow the whole has produced a document drawn offering him police protection and agenda of the CHRC into the open. up by himself and entitled "Guerre a public statement on his behalf. In In a 300 page record, prepared et paix en Dauphiné – Réplique à reference to Redeker's case, former by lead counsel Barbara Kulaszka, Robert O. Paxton", a document Prime Minister Dominique de the abuse of Section 37 by the concerning which his counsel has Villepin called the threats to his Commission was laid out in amaz- desired that it not be added to the life "unacceptable," and added: ingly clear detail. Those 300 case file without his having been "We are in a democracy. Everyone pages decimate the Canadian Hu- able to acquaint himself with it has the right to express his views man Rights Commission’s claims before hand; and whereas he has, freely, while respecting others, of and expose the spying operations furthermore, indicated that he is course." (See The New York of Canada’s Thought Control ap- working towards the publication of Times, 30 September 2006, p. A 3) paratus. This work is being for- a work denouncing the "lies" of the “That this is an outrageous lie warded by Barbara Kulaszka, second world war; is demonstrated by the ongoing Douglas Christie, Paul Fromm “Whereas the Chief Public plight of Dr. Faurisson. If France and Marc Lemire, all of whom Prosecutor has called for the rejec- was truly a democracy as former worked with Ernst Zundel against tion of the request for placement Prime Minister de Villepin claims, Canadian censorship while Ernst under electronic surveillance sub- it would defend Dr. Faurisson's was still in country. mitted by Mr Theil; right to freedom of research on the 14 “Whereas Mr Theil appears Judge for the Implementation The memorial covers 19,000 clearly desirous not only of carry- of Sentences square meters, or 205,000 square ing on his research tending to sub- Guillaume Girard feet. Hindered by design and con- stantiate his convictions but also struction disagreements that at- especially of carrying on his work [Note from G. Theil: The tracted global media attention, the and of disseminating his interpreta- prosecutor who participated at the memorial was completed in May tion of that historical period, the hearing in chambers, and to whose 2005 at a cost of 27 million euros theme of the holocaust plainly fea- requests Judge Girard acceded, is ($39.1 million). The most contro- turing among his favourite sub- called Vincent AUGER, and is in versial issue surrounding its design jects; fact a deputy chief prosecutor. His was the role of “Degussa,” the “Whereas it is fitting to recall fuming hatred of revisionists is company that supplied the anti- that the deeds which brought on almost funny. In him we can see graffiti paint for the blocks. Con- Mr Theil's conviction were com- something of a little French Mein- struction was briefly halted in late mitted in such circumstances as to erzhagen, and he makes one think 2003 after it emerged the firm's constitute repeat offence, Mr Theil back to the prosecutor-prelates of parent manufactured the poison having been convicted for identical the "Holy Inquisition". gas used in Nazi death camps. deeds by the court of appeal of This very day, January 14, (The name of one person, with Grenoble on January 16, 2000; 2008, I have lodged an appeal proof, is all we ask.) Holocaust “Whereas the absence of feel- against the ruling, acting on the memorial director Uwe Neu- ing of guilt on the part of Mr Theil definite advice of my lawyer, bar- maerker told Reuters on Monday and the risks of a repeat of the acts rister Eric Delcroix.] the damage was due to sunlight. for which he has been convicted do Giuseppe Furioso writes: “It's Georges Theil not permit of the granting of entirely appropriate that such a P.O. Box 50-38 placement under electronic surveil- hideous lie should be commemo- F-38037 Grenoble cedex 2, lance that he solicits; rated with such a hideous memo- France “The Court herby rejects the rial. It is also kind of prophetic that Email: [email protected] request of placement under elec- just as the story is beginning to tronic surveillance submitted by come apart, so are the concrete THEIL Georges; and Gives notice The Holocaust memorial in blocks that commemorate it. The that the present ruling is not sub- Berlin is showing signs of serious gods are sending a signal to us re- ject to appeal by either the Public wear and tear just three years visionists: Push on! Keep ham- Prosecutor or the person convicted after its completion, with cracks mering! Shine the light of day on […]. in more than half of its concrete everything! blocks, according to a new study.

OTHER STUFF that while there are French kids in called Shoa. In that sense, every- *** I was copied part of a back France, there are Jewish kids there one buys it. You know that and forth between Robert Fauris- too. Who woulda known? Sarkozy changed his own blabla. son and an American revisionist Lipstadt wrote: “All that this First he said every pupil in France regarding French President Nicolas does is thrust Holocaust education, should buy his kosher product. But Sarkozy’s announcement that which must be handled profession- it was not a success so he quickly every fifth-grader in France will ally and not politically and cer- changed his marketing. have to learn the life story of one tainly not in this haphazard fash- “He said: If not every pupil, at of the 11,000 French children ion, into a debate not of its own least every classroom could buy it. killed by the Nazis in the Holo- making. It’s the sales technique (in French: caust [so he says]. “What a mess and what an un- les soldes) practiced when you see Deborah Lipstadt thinks it a bad necessary one.” your merchandise is not selling. idea. “I don't think Jewish kids Faurisson observed that it is not Now most people think it a clever aged 10 should be engaged in such a mess at all. “At the end of the idea, an interesting affair, and they a project. How much more so a day it’s a remarkable success for are buying the idea. So typical of French kid?” The American noted the Jews. Everybody talks more the Jews and their Shoa-Business! that Debbie apparently believes than ever about the “product” They constantly change their his- 15 tory, their stories, but the mer- When I got in bed I suggested to bothered by “la mano larga.” In chandise itself remains the same. Irene that if we lay back against English that translates to “the long It’s not a mess.” back, she would be doing me a hand.” I had never thought of the great favor, that it would be the Holocaust story as a “product.” I quickest way for me to get warm *** It’s been a great month understood that it is constantly be- for the first time in hours. for traffic on CODOHWeb – close ing sold, but I had never conceived And when I asked that ques- to one-half million hits in January of it as being an exercise in mar- tion, in a flash of movement, alone. Mendoza is leading the keting a “product.” Leave it to memory went back almost sixty charge here. It is work that never Robert! A product! years to a rice paddy in North Ko- ends. Here’s the count for January. rea. It was November 1950. It was Total Hits 447,782 *** It’s been bitterly cold night, it was bitter cold, and it was Total Files 367,890 here at night. In the mid-40s. my first night in the field. We were Total Pages 174,651 Those of you who live where the probably ten miles behind the line, Total Visits 54,857 40s are neither here nor there are there was no particular danger, and already laughing. But we have no Total Kbytes 26,960,488 we were all looking around for the way to heat the house so a tem- best place to put our sleeping bags A heartfelt thank you for the perature in the low 40s, especially and get into them. The master ser- help you sent me in February, and if there is a wind, is cold. It is for geant, a man approaching 40 I my thank-you in advance for the me. Yesterday was Valentine’s should think, saw me standing help I will need in March. Day. We had to go to the other there trying to decide, came over side to do some banking and run and told me the best thing would some errands. We had Brad with be for the two of us to choose a Bradley us but I was thinking of a nice furrow and lie in it together, back supper someplace other than Taco to back, and that that would help Loco. us to stay warm. I was 20 years Smith’s Report There were rain storms, wind, old. He had been through the cam- is published by and what was to me a bitter cold. paign against the Japanese. I was By the time we got back to the uncertain that I could lie still for an Committee for Open Debate house, without supper, I was cold entire night. Anyhow, I agreed, we On the Holocaust through and through, my hands did it, and it worked. Bradley R. Smith, Founder were icy, I was tired, and all I And that too was the first night wanted to do was to get into bed that I heard the sounds of war. Ly- For your contribution of and get warm. But Brad was wide ing there in a little valley, in a fur- $39 awake. And then about midnight I row in the rice paddy, I could hear you will receive 12 issues of would have to drive over to the the artillery to the North. I was Boulevard and pick up Paloma, going to say that every once in a Smith’s Report. who was coming home in a jitney while I could see flashes of light, In Canada and Mexico--$45 from the frontier where she is but I don’t think I did. No lights, Overseas--$49 working on the other side. Irene only the sound of artillery welcom- took Brad to bed with her and put ing me to the battlefield, and my Letters and Donations to: him to sleep. I watched “The awareness that a lifelong dream Shield” until Paloma called saying Bradley R. Smith was about to come true. Post Office Box 439016 that she was arriving. I revved up San Ysidro, CA 92143 the car, drove over to the Boule- So--I had asked my wife, who vard, picked her up, brought her was already warm, if I could get Desk: 209 682 5327 back to the house, and I was done under the covers with my cold Cell: 619 203 3151 for the day. back to her warm back, and mem- Irene and Brad were both ory had taken me back to another Email: asleep in our bed. I woke Irene up cold night 57 years earlier. Now [email protected] so she could put Brad in the crib my wife spoke to me in Spanish: [email protected] and I changed in to my pajamas. It “Yes, you can,” she said. “But was bitter cold in the bedroom. I am tired. I do not want to be

16 SMITH’S REPORT

On the Holocaust Controversy

No. 149 www.Codoh.com April 2008

Challenging the Holocaust Taboo Since 1990

THE LIPSTADT QUESTION

Will They, or Won’t They?

have been emailing The Lipstadt Question – “Please provide the name of one person, I with proof, who was killed in a gas chamber at Auschwitz” -- to academics and the press now for six weeks. While the concept for the project started from nowhere -- I wish I could re- call the moment when the idea occurred to me but I cannot -- it has grown and deepened to an extent that I really did not foresee at the beginning. In fact, at this stage of the game I see no end to it at all. The politics of the question, why historians do not want to risk trying to answer it, why journalists do not want to risk asking it, gives us an endless number of open doors to go through. Initially this project was intended to make students aware of the implications of The Question, but is intended to make our educated elites aware of those implications—those who manage the taboo in the first place that protects the question from an open debate.

ere I will indulge myself ideas to be expressed. And the but by the wealthy who own our H by quoting one of my bet- second reason -- and I think a more media, and by the educated elites ters, Noam Chomsky. He wrote a important one -- is a good educa- who are agreed among themselves remarkable article published in Z tion. If you have gone to the best that there are certain things “it Magazine titled “We Own the schools and graduated from Ox- would not do” to say, or to think. World.” I will not discuss the arti- ford and Cambridge, and so on, That is exactly what we are up cle itself here, but only his final you have instilled in you the un- against regarding an open debate observation about how, with re- derstanding that there are certain on the gas chamber question. gard to intellectual freedom, there things it would not do to say; actu- I have run The Lipstadt ques- might be about as much of it in a ally, it would not do to think. That tion past hundreds of academics at “free” society as there is in a totali- is the primary way to prevent un- Emory U., U. Atlanta, Columbia tarian one. Here Chomsky quotes popular ideas from being ex- U., St. Cloud State U., U. Wiscon- George Orwell. pressed.’” sin-Milwaukee, Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology, U. Colo- “In the introduction to Animal I believe this is a point upon rado-Boulder, U. Kentucky, and Farm he said, ‘England is a free which most of us would agree. the campus and off-campus news- society … but unpopular ideas can This is what “taboo” is – having papers in and around those cam- be suppressed without the use of every reason to not want certain puses. The replies number less force … one reason is the press is ideas to be expressed. With regard owned by wealthy men who have to the gas-chamber taboo, it is not Continued on page 8 every reason not to want certain maintained primarily by the State, 1 tional), Maurice Van Eijnsbergen tion camp, has died. He was 97. LETTERS (a Dutch national), Jan Markowski Greenman was born in London in

I want to hear from you. I read and Georgej Ferenz (both Polish 1910 and was living in the Nether- everything you write. I regret that I nationals), Maurice Van Mevle- lands with his Dutch wife and am not able to respond individu- naar (a Belgian national), young son when it was occupied ally to each correspondent. I may Salvatore Verdura (an. Italian na- by the Nazis, who sent the family publish your letter here. I may edit tional), and Therese Klee (a British to Auschwitz in 1943. He pub- it for length and/or content. Please national of Honduras), Allied na- lished a memoir, An Englishman in make it very clear to me that I can, tionals and other Allied nationals Auschwitz, and lectured well into or cannot, use your name. whose names are unknown and old age. In 1988, he received the physical suffering to other persons Order of the British Empire from Greg Williams. interned there, Allied nationals and Queen Elizabeth II for his work particularly Harold Osmund le fighting prejudice. "Can you provide me the name, Druillenec (a British national), with proof, of one person who was Benec Zuchermann, a female in- Germar Rudolf killed in a gas chamber at Ausch- ternee named Korperova, a female witz?" internee named Hoffman, Luba Excerpts from a letter written That is a very good question. Rormann, Ida Frydman (all Polish by Germar to Paul Grubach. Ger- The matter was ignored at the Nur- nationals) and Alexandra Siwid- mar has been transferred from emberg Trial. However, at the ear- owa, a Russian national and other Mannheim to Rottenburg prison. lier Belsen Trials the British were Allied nationals whose names are I've been relocated on my own worried about establishing juris- unknown. request. I wanted to serve my time diction. Why, after all, would a Starotska, Kramer, Dr. Klein, here all along, but there was no British Court have any rights to try Weingartner, Kraft, Hoessler, chance of getting transferred ear- a German for acts against a Hun- Borman, Volkenrath, Ehlert, Gura, lier because there was no legiti- garian while in Poland? So the In- Grese, Lothe, Lobauer and mate reason [ … ] Well, that dictment included British citizens Schreirer were charged with hav- changed with an article in the local who allegedly were murdered at ing committed a war crime in that edition of a German tabloid in mid both Belsen and Auschwitz. How- they -- "… at Auschwitz, Poland, January, complaining about the ever, during the trial no evidence between 1st October 1942 and fact that Ernst [Zundel] and I are was presented to prove any deaths 30th April 1945 when members of together in the same prison, hence of any persons. How the British the staff of Auschwitz Concentra- able to exchange our criminal got the names they used, or if they tion Camp responsible for the thoughts. The head of Mannheim just made them up, is not clear. well-being of persons interned prison was quoted in the article as All except Starotska were there in violation of the law and having said that they were already charged with having committed a usages of war were together con- considering transferring one of us. war crime, in that they -- "at Ber- cerned as parties to the ill- So I requested my transfer. gen-Belsen, Germany, between 1st treatment of certain such persons My two German children live October 1942 and 30th April 1945 causing the deaths of Rachella Sil- not too far away from here. My Ex when members of the staff of Ber- berstein (a Polish national), Allied refused to visit me in Mannheim gen-Belsen Concentration Camp nationals and other Allied nation- and Heidelberg simply because of responsible for the well-being of als whose names are unknown and the distance. She has two small the persons interned there, in viola- physical suffering to other persons kids from her second husband and tion of the laws and usages of war interned there, Allied nationals, therefore no time to drive hours on were together concerned as parties and particularly to Ewa Gryka and end through the countryside to to the ill-treatment of certain of Hanka Rosenwayg (both Polish shuttle her two big kids to her dad. such persons causing the deaths of nationals) and other Allied nation- That's now a completely different Keith Meyer (a British national), als whose names are unknown.” matter, and I'll be seeing them in a Anna Kis, Sara Kohn (both Hun- See: http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/ fortnight. I am currently in a two garian nationals), Hejmech Gli- WCC/belsen1.htm man cell together with an imbecile novjechy and Maria Konatkevicz Note: the AP reports that Leon of an IQ of perhaps 80, optimisti- (both Polish nationals), and Marcel Greenman, the only Englishman cally speaking. He watches TV Freson de Montigny (a French na- sent to the Auschwitz concentra- 2 from breakfast to bedtime and amenities as well as a more relaxed Paul Grubach drives me up the wall with that. I regimen--rumors have it. It de- managed to get an hour nap time pends on how I behave, but since it The recently published, aca- after lunch during which that evil is somewhat unimaginable that I'd demic biography of Willis Carto, brainwashing machine stays off. I get in trouble here, it should be a Willis Carto and the American Far try to read and learn my English fairly likely scenario.The food here Right, by Professor George Mi- words while the TV is running, but is better than in Mannheim, not chael University of Virginia's Col- that's challenging, needless to say. necessarily more, but better: the lege at Wise, is a fine study of the Jogging is out of the question in bread is edible, we get more sal- man and the ideas he promotes. the tiny courtyard we have here, ads, fruits, milk products than in All of us (with the exception of but I can go to the gym four times Mannheim, and I can also buy yo- Richard)--Arthur Butz, Robert a week, and they do have a training gurt and quark. These are big Faurisson, Frederick Toben, Brad- bike in there. Today I rode it 50 plusses! The officials in here seem ley Smith, Mark Weber and Paul minutes uninterruptedly, and that to be more social, polite, accessi- Grubach--are mentioned and/or felt gooooood! I also keep up my ble than most officials in Mann- briefly discussed in the book. We exercises in the cell, although my heim, but I've been here only a are all together!! There is a long cell mate gapes at me once in a week, so that can be not more than and insightful discussion of the while, and that's not encouraging a preliminary judgment." Carto-IHR conflict. Germar is either. I'll remain in this cell, Germar’s New Address mentioned throughout the book, also. I only wish our dedicated probably for three months, after which I'm supposed to get relo- Germar Rudolf comrade Richard would have been cated into a different building, Schloss 1 mentioned for this fine work. most likely a more modern one D-72108 Rottenburg with single cells and some more Germany

A Report on the Latest Developments in Germany

Horst Mahler

Translated by James M. Damon

January 2008 kammer of “Staschu” (State Secu- for the alleged publishing crime of rity Agency) of Potsdam District denying “Holocaust,” which had he weekend before Sylvia Court to the effect that they were been six months, was increased to Twas jailed, we received a dropping the six most serious at least three years. This three-year letter from Potsdam court that charges against me, including 21 limitation for the separate counts caused Sylvia to exclaim, “This is separate counts of denying “Holo- in the indictment has expired in a bomb!,” meaning that it was caust.” Now they are saying that just a few instances. smashing good news. She was the statutes of limitations have ex- It is obvious that the court in right -- in fact, her exclamation pired. The basis for this ruling is Potsdam has deliberately allowed was actually an understatement. It obviously in error technically, at the statutes of limitation to expire. is actually a “super bomb” that has least for some of the counts. This As early as October 2006, and us- already been “fused,” and I have basis for the court ruling has also ing the same rationale, a different the other end of that fuse in my been “zurechtgezimmert” (tailored court of the same district had hand! or bent) by ignoring certain dropped an indictment against me On 17 December last year, changes in the regional press laws for “disparagement of the state,” when the outcome of Sylvia’s that had been rammed through by for which Rigolf Hennig was im- Mannheim trial was already obvi- the Central Jewish Council. prisoned for nine months. I was ous to everyone, I received notice Through these changes, the rela- not even aware of this at first. By of a ruling by the Staatsschutz- tively short statute of limitations Mannheim District Court stan- 3 dards, the counts in that indictment justice. On the basis of the courts’ eral things to light that heretofore (21 separate counts each with a verdicts and rulings, all of which had been submerged in silence. On sentence of 5 years) would have we have in hand, she has exposed page 82 of Vanity Fair’s Issue No. been a life sentence for me in view and demonstrated the short and 45 for the year 2007, we read the of my age, since the maximum simple formula for “Holocaust” following: would have been 15 years. prosecutions. It goes like this: “If “With his anti Semitic theories, All this is just the tip of the ice- Defendant A, who is charged with Mahler has inspired the extreme berg! The Federal judiciary’s lying and must therefore be pun- Right as no one else in Germany “quiet revolt” against “Holocaust” ished, presents evidence that he has done... Neo-Nazis listen to prosecutions is now in full swing. has told the truth, he is punished a Mahler because he philosophically Other judges in Stuttgart, second time, and this time his at- ennobles their nonsense...” How- Mühlhausen, Berlin, Bernau, torney is punished for defending ever it does appear that “Neo- Brandenburg, Potsdam and Lüne- him.” The institution of “Holo- Nazis” are not the only ones who burg‚ who have been putting caust” prosecution has destroyed are now paying attention to me. “Holocaust” trials of at least five itself by acting in such an obvi- Harald Martenstein made the fol- other Revisionists “on ice,” will ously despotic manner. The lowing remarks on the Friedman- now be carried along with the “Holocaust” judges should never Mahler exchange in the “Opinion” stream of events. From now on, have allowed their “secret” to be page of TAGESSPIEGEL issue for Mannheim will be known as so openly depicted! Sylvia has 6 November 2007: “Holonkenheim” (“home of struck at the very heart of the for- “In Germany / one does not scoundrels” -- a play of words on eign domination of Germany! Now confront rightwing radicalism. In- Halunkenheim.) that her accomplishment is clear stead, one runs away from it.... At least two dozen prosecutors for all to see, fewer and fewer Behind this kind of thinking lies and judges will soon be facing prosecutors and judges will be more than just antiquated theory charges of “evading punishment willing to support those judicial about the media, according to while in office,” and the Central atrocities of “Holocaust” prosecu- which the only thing that exists is Jewish Council with its attack dogs tions. what is presented in the media and will be cracking the whip. These that one can overcome discord trials are going to split the judicial here are signs that entire with silence... The uncontrollable establishment. They are going to Tgroups of prosecutors are Internet has demolished that the- throw it into total turmoil. The cor- now hesitating to sign their names ory, which was inspired by an irra- rect defense will have to be that no to “Holocaust” indictments, know- tional fear of the apparent omnipo- evasion of punishment has taken ing that they will be faced with tence of the rightwing radical ar- place. No conviction is possible defendants who follow Sylvia’s guments. It is as though Nazi slo- under Section 130 III, 90a, and 86a example. Sylvia [Stolz] has very gans could mesmerize the masses of Penal Code, therefore the de- effectively demonstrated how to merely by being uttered... Many of fendants must be exonerated. With scandalize these show trials, to us obviously have misgivings no convictions there can obviously convert the role of accused into about ourselves, since any one who be no evasion of punishment. I that of accuser and to function as really confronts ideas must first would never have dreamed that I prosecutor in these courts of for- allow them into his head.” would be the recipient of such eign inquisition. We have to con- Vanity Fair Chief Editor Ulf highly unlikely favoritism by the sider the whole phenomenon in its Poschardt wrote the following to judiciary of the Federal Republic. larger context. The jurists, who Süddeutsche Zeitung in its online The law normally works to the have now been exponiert (“raised edition of 2 Dec 07: disadvantage of German-minded to a higher level”) by Sylvia’s de- “Horst Mahler is the chief Germans, rather than protecting fense, are legally required by their ideologue of the extreme Right. their “guaranteed freedoms.” office to read my works. I can as- His views, horrible and absurd as However, the whole thing becomes sume that even if the jurists are not they may be, are secretly shared by quite plausible when you “add 2 convinced by my arguments, they a great many Germans.” and 2 together.” are at least aware of them. In Süddeutsche Online for 2 By her heroic conduct, Sylvia The clamor in the media over Dec 07, Friedman himself aug- has succeeded in unmasking the the debate between Michel Fried- ments this, writing that “Mahler disgusting fraud of “Holocaust” man and myself has brought sev- talks about what a not insignificant 4 part of the population is thinking. with ‘Heil Hitler, Mr. Friedman!’ In the Münchner Merkur, Bavarian Surveys show that, irrespective of that there are millions in Germany interior minister Joachem age and class, 10% to 15% percent who believe that Hitler had his Herrmann of CSU also criticized of the population admits racist good side. Twenty percent of all Friedman’s conduct, saying he prejudices. This is true even of Germans do not want to have a should have “broken off the inter- people in three piece suits... The Jewish neighbor. In a nation of 80 view immediately after the Nazi problem of rightwing extremism million, that is 16 million Ger- salute.” DIE WELT Online, 7 Nov has not died out. It continues to be mans! The fact that Horst Mahler 07 reported that the search words contemporary, present in a consid- unfortunately represents a sizeable “Michel Friedman Horst Mahler” erable portion of today’s youth.” group of Germans makes him in- in the Yahoo search engine found At another place Friedman teresting... For me, Horst Mahler 78,200 “hits,” while Horst Mahler writes, “Horst Mahler’s articulate must be taken seriously because registered 343,000, Sylvia Stolz and pseudoscientific agitation is millions of Germans are standing 161,000, and “Sylvia Stolz Horst influencing a portion of our youth behind him... A person who repre- Mahler” 20,300. “Strategic Si- and leading them to commit vio- sents a political direction with mil- lence” can no longer head off what lence against minorities.” lions of followers has become an is happening now, and the Ver- Regarding the departure of the actual social phenomenon.” lästerung (slandering) of our ideas chief editor of Vanity Fair, Ulf has been rendered ineffectual. Fear Poschardt, the Frankfurter Allge- he December 2007 edition of the “omnipotence of rightwing meine Zeitung writes on 11 Jan 08 Tof Jüdische Zeitung (Vi- radical argumentation” is spread- that he showed recklessness, enna) contains the following on ing rapidly. “...such as in the debate between page 3: “It was irresponsible and “Obviously Nazi slogans can en- Michael Friedman and the right- impermissible to offer Mahler such chant the masses, merely by being wing radical Horst Mahler... His a platform,” according to the Gen- expressed.” What an admission! Who- intention of demystifying Mahler eral Secretary of the Jewish Cen- ever said “Obviously a great many of was a spectacular failure.” In a tral Committee in Germany, us do not trust ourselves, since who- Stephan J. Kramer. ever wants to seriously grapple with perceptive observation, Henryk M. an idea must first allow it into his Broder writes in Spiegel Online, 4 Vice President Wolfgang Thierse of the Federal German head” -- wasn’t that person referring Nov 07 “...but the important thing) to his own experiences and anxieties is that he talks with Mahler, and Parliament is grumbling that the about being convinced by “rightwing does not land in hell, but rather Neo-Nazi spoutings of Mahler are radical” ideas? Have we come a long under the wheels of a demagogue ‘completely irrelevant’ and directs way, or not? Among the 16 million who is superior to him because he at Friedman ‘the unsettling ques- Germans that Friedman includes is more overbearing and intelli- tion of why he allowed himself to among my followers, there are surely gent... Finally Friedman loses his be used as a sounding board for several thousand prosecutors and nerve... the winner with the most rightwing extremist slogans.’” judges. What effect is that going to The chairman of the Unions- have on our present government of points is Horst Mahler.” foreign occupation? “... As Michel Friedman points fraktion Wolfgang Bosbach says, “I do not understand why Mr. So far I have had opportunity to out, Horst Mahler himself is unim- speak to Sylvia in prison just twice, portant... If Horst Mahler were the Friedman so damages his own in- once for 20 minutes and once for 30 only one involved, it would not be terests”, while Petra Pau, Vice minutes. When I mentioned Fried- worth the effort of talking to him, President of the Bundestag (Left), man’s figure of 16 million “right but he represents the most virulent speaks of an “incomprehensible wingers” she remarked: “In his wildest ‘brown beast’ on the rightwing public relations action for a maga- dreams it’s only 16 million!” She is in scene. It is important to talk to him zine.” Other acknowledged oppo- good spirits, and more determined because behind Horst Mahler there nents of National Socialism, such than ever to continue the struggle for as the chairperson of Bund- Germany’s liberation. Whoever are millions of ‘light brown’ coined the poetic phrase Zum Kampf (lesser intensity right-wingers)... estagsinnenausschusses, Sebastian Edathy (SPD), as well as Repre- auserkoren, zum Sterben bereit (“Cho- They are not all skinheads... some sen for struggle, prepared for death”) of them are representative fellow sentative Omid Nouripour of must have had her in mind. “Victory citizens from the midst of our soci- Green Party, also released criti- or death!” must be our battle cry. ety.’ Friedman said it occurred to cisms, according to TAGESS- him at the time Mahler greeted him PIEGEL of 6 Nov 2007 (page 4). 5 Experto Crede, or How to Escape from a Homicidal Gas Chamber

Thomas Kues

ost of us are familiar ing at each other; people were hit- ten minutes some of the victims M with the peculiar fate of ting each other. There were began to bite their hands and foam Moshe Peer, the young boy who healthy people, strong people, at the mouth, and blood issued survived six gassings in a gas weak people and sick people, and from their ears, eyes and mouth, chamber in Belsen (as related in suddenly I saw fumes coming in and their faces went blue. I suf- the Montreal newspaper The Ga- through a very small window at fered from all these symptoms, zette, August 5, 1993), or with Ar- the top. I had to cough very vio- together with a tight feeling at the nold Friedman, the man who sur- lently, tears were streaming from throat. I was half conscious when vived a gas chamber in Flossen- my eyes, and I had a sort of feel- my number was called out by Dr. burg (likewise unknown to histori- ing in my throat as if I would be Mengele and I was led from the ans) by means of breathing asphyxiated. (...) At that moment I chamber.” through the keyhole (cf. Death heard my name called. I had not Was Our Destiny, Vantage Books the strength to answer it, but I The witness then attributes her 1972). There exists however an- raised my arm. Then I felt some- astonishing survival to the fact other rare subspecies of gas cham- one take me and throw me out that, as a political prisoner, she ber survivors: those few lucky from that room. Hoessler put a was of "more value alive than ones who have escaped from a Hit- blanket round me and took me on dead.” Certainly, this is why the lerite extermination chamber prior a motorcycle to the hospital, guards were willing to risk of en- to or during a gassing. This article where I stayed six weeks.” tering the death chamber while a recounts briefly their amazing sto- mass gassing was actually in pro- ries. Regarding the curious fashion gress. The first of the gas-chamber es- in which the victims were brought The astonishing similarity be- cape artists to bear witness to her into the gas chamber, Litwinska tween Litwinska’s and Bialek’s experience was Sophia Litwinska. stated in a previous affidavit that testimonies must be what Pressac At the Belsen trial against Josef she and the others “slid down the and others call “a convergence of Kramer, who had also been com- chute through some doors into a evidence”! mandant at Auschwitz, Ms. Lit- large room.” Gas-chamber escapes did not winska testified: Witness Regina Bialek re- only occur at Auschwitz. There are counted a very similar incident in also two known reported cases “About half-past five in the an affidavit prepared for the same from Majdanek. The first involves evening trucks arrived and we trial: Mietek Grocher, a Polish Jew who were loaded into them, quite na- after the war settled in Sweden, ked like animals, and were driven “There were seven gas cham- where he now spends most of his to the crematorium. (...) The bers at Auschwitz. This particular days in retirement witnessing to whole truck was tipped over in the one was underground and the school children about watery soup way they do it sometimes with lorry was able to run down the with a rotten turnip thrown in and potatoes or coal loads, and we slope and straight into the cham- SS guards ripping Jewish babies were led into a room which gave ber. Here we were tipped uncere- apart. According to an interview in me the impression of a shower- moniously on the floor. The room the Swedish local newspaper Öst- bath. There were towels hanging was about 12 yards square and göta-Correspondenten on Decem- round, and sprays, and even mir- small lights on the wall dimly il- ber 8, 2004, Grocher managed to rors. I cannot say how many were luminated it. When the room was sneak out of a gas chamber at Ma- in the room altogether, because I full a hissing sound was heard jdanek: was so terrified, nor do I know if coming from the centre point on the doors were closed. People the floor and gas came into the “When I was in there I under- were in tears; people were shout- room. After what seemed about stood what was awaiting me and 6 the others inside that space. In- were made of unusually thick to tell us what the reaction of the stinctively I started to move a lit- iron. Since I did not push myself SS was when they discovered that tle backwards, without really forward, it happened that I was she wasn’t a German guard. Ap- thinking that I would manage to the last to step inside the gas parently they neither shot her, nor escape. By chance I managed to chamber. I looked at the ceiling. put her in the queue to the next do it. An officer started talking to Besides the usual shower heads I gassing! another officer and moved away a could see three large black holes. Stories as those recounted few steps. During that moment I Now I knew where I was! The above have little bearing on the gas managed to sneak away and re- heavy iron door began to close, chamber narrative in large, and unite with my parents in the but slowly, very slowly. And they are rarely if ever quoted by camp.” about at the same time gas began “serious historians.” It is however to pour out of the three large black a significant and disturbing fact According to another article on holes! that people such as Mietek Grocher which appeared in the “With supernatural power I Grocher, David Faber or Misha local Katrineholms-Kuriren on began to bang on the door, which Defonseca (”the wolf girl”) May 15, 1998, the guard discov- had still not closed completely. "I continue to pander their bizarre ered young Mietek sneaking out of am a German, I am a German yarns to school kids and the media, the chamber and fired all six shots camp police, I am a German completely undisturbed and of his revolver at him, missing the transport guard". I yelled these unquestioned by historians and escapee but hitting six other Ma- words over and over and at the journalists. Here we are not talking jdanek martyrs. So much for Ger- same time I beat on the door like of the generic ambulating man marksmanship! crazy. It began to open, but very Auschwitz survivor, speaking to Mr. Grocher tells the Östgöta- slowly. Blood was dripping from children of persecution and camp Correspondenten reporter regard- my forehead, from my arms, from misery, no doubt having some ing his feat: “I would say I'm the my knees. I lay there, all my basis in reality, and throwing in a only one who managed to do that.” weight put against the door, pant- few references to flaming But as we know, there are others ing for air, while it slowly opened chimneys or Mengele for good who have experienced the same before me (it seemed to take an measure. Such persons might be good luck! eternity). My whole body was given the benefit of doubt and be The second case from Ma- covered in cold sweat. I am going presumed to genuinely believe in jdanek concerns a Ms. Mary Sei- to suffocate. Then the door is the existence of the gas chambers denwurm Wrzos. At the end of the opened. Men wearing gas masks based on hearsay and camp war, this Polish Jew was saved and pull me out through the narrow rumors. Grocher and his ilk found herself in Sweden. There she opening. I hear a couple shots however seem to be accomplished left the following witness account fired at the women who try to get liars, even if the possibility for a book entitled De dödsdömda past me. Air. Air. At last air. Eve- remains that they have come to vittnar [”The doomed bear wit- rything is spinning. Then I lose believe their own lies. ness”, ed. by Gunhild and Einar consciousness. The silence of the historians, Tegen, Stockholm 1945]: “When I woke up the female their unwillingness to expose German-Jewish Kapo stood be- obvious frauds, is of course easy to “We walked three kilometers fore me. She helped me up and understand. If they denounced from the labor camp in Lublin to put me in order. (Everything had those patent liars openly, they the actual concentration camp taken less than half a minute.) would be at risk of waking up the [Majdanek], under guard by heav- When I looked at myself in the critical faculties of the public, ily armed SS men. We were taken mirror the next day, I saw that I whose interest would eventually to subterranean rooms that were had a gray stripe of hair on the left turn to the veracity of the very conveniently furbished. Each side.” testimony left by the key witnesses of us received a clothes hanger to to the alleged homicidal gas put our things on. The shoes had nfortunately, besides fail- chambers. At that point, our to be properly tied together. ing to point out exactly historians would have to face a “We went into the "shower U where this underground gas cham- large number of inconvenient room" completely naked, carrying ber, unknown to Majdanek histori- questions. only a towel and a piece of soap. I ans, was located, the witness fails immediately noticed that the doors 7 The Lipstadt Question. Continued from page 1 than ten, only two of which were uses to exploit the "unique mon- the wall of the St. Cloud multicul- substantial, and those without at- strosity" of the Germans for its tural center, which most of us tempting to answer The Lipstadt own benefit. And so on. If you are would agree is a vulgar act, at the Question. It may take a good 90 or so troubled by the Industry itself, very least. 120 days to make the small kind of why are you so disinterested in the You express real concern over breakthrough that will give me a story it uses as the foundation to the concept of the “other” in working idea about how to proceed support all it does? American culture. The “others” with the project. I have got an in- I know: taking this one on is you mention include illegal immi- creasingly abundant number of like asking for a bullet in the head grants, Somalis, Muslims, and ways to promote it. Normally I -- but in fact it is no more difficult Jews. You note: “I’m a Jew, and would talk about these matters a charge than what you have al- I’m constantly reminded that I’m here, or in the cover letter accom- ready taken on, and lost so much the ‘other.’” I agree that these feel- panying it, but again, in this in- over. For someone like me, unlike ings are usually present when you stance, I will not do that. No point yourself, I have nothing to lose so are not part of a majority. For my- in revealing tactics and strategy to it's full steam ahead. Anyhow, if I self, my wife is Mexican, my fam- those who will be determined to find one historian (I am not one) ily is Mexican, and we live in undermine both. Better to just do who can give me the name of one Mexico. I have some familiarity it. person, with proof, who was killed with the feelings you express. Here are a couple examples of in a gas chamber at Auschwitz, it At the same time, you identify the first releases I have sent out. will change my life considerably. with the vast majority of those who Each responds to a story that has Best, forward the concept of the “unique appeared in a student newspaper. monstrosity” of the Germans, This first is a personal letter to Bradley Smith while I am part of a minority that Professor Finkelstein. Founder, Committee for Open doubts it. With regard to this great Debate on the Holocaust moral issue, then, I am the “other.” www.codoh.com You suggest that the swastika, as 23 February 2008 symbol, represents those who in- [Editor’s note: Professor Finkel- tentionally killed 6 million Jews Professor Finkelstein: stein did not respond.] and 5.2 million non-Jews. It is uni- I wonder. Have you ever found versally understood that this the name of one person who has 05 March 2008 “genocide” was accomplished by been shown, with proof, to have the Germans using weapons of been killed in a gas chamber at Rabbi Joseph Edelheit mass destruction (gas chambers). Auschwitz? I'm in the process of Director, Religious and Jewish Rabbi Edelheit: have you read running this question past Deborah Studies any of the primary revisionist ar- Lipstadt and a few hundred histo- St. Cloud State University guments questioning the evidence alleging that Germans used these rians. So far, no takers. Dear Rabbi Edelheit: I know you are not interested in WMD to murder millions of inno- this matter -- David Irving has said I have read the transcript of cents? That is, have you ever held he is not interested either -- but it your interview with The St. Cloud a “conversation” with the “oth- does go to the issue you do deal Times, published on 02 March. ers”? I see no sign of it. You with so effectively, the exploita- http://www.sctimes.com/apps/pbcs would appear to be perfectly at tion of the gas chamber story by .dll/article?AID=/20080302/NEW home among the vast majority, the Holocaust Industry. No gas S01/103020063/1009 while the “others,” a despised mi- chambers suggests there was no In the interview you come nority, risk prison, career, and "Holocaust" in the establishment across to me as a decent and civi- most everything else to shine the sense of that term. No gas cham- lized man. The immediate purpose light of day on the charges against bers does not deny the catastrophe of the interview appears to be that the Germans. With your apparent the Jews suffered during the Hitle- the Times wanted your reaction to “true belief” in the unique mon- rian regime, but it does go to ex- the fact that someone at St. Cloud strosity of the “other” I believe you actly what the Holocaust Industry U. had scratched a swastika into risk making of yourself an intellec- 8 tual and cultural “nativist,” the folk [Note: Professor Finkelstein self is a mistake.” http://www. that in other parts of American spoke at U.Missouri on 03 March.] washington post.com/ wp-dyn/ con society are of such concern to you. tent/article/2006/07/17/AR200607 With regard to German “gas 08 March 2008 1 701154.html . If you agree, ask chambers,” I recently asked Emory yourself how such a terrible mis- Editor: The Maneater University Professor Deborah Lip- take could have been made, and U. Missouri stadt, author of Denying the Holo- why the Americans participated in 214 Brady Commons caust and other works, if she could the mistake and how, after more Columbia, MO 65211 provide the name of “one person, than half a century, we remain with proof, who was killed in a gas For Publication committed to the mistake. It was, chamber at Auschwitz.” The fundamentally, a moral issue. Yet Auschwitz gas chambers are at the Norman Finkelstein and the how do we justify it morally? The heart of the Holocaust story, at the Question He Will Not Answer answer in brief? The Auschwitz very heart of the “unique mon- gas-chamber allegations. strosity” of the Germans. Ms. Lip- Professor Norman Finkelstein On 04 February I asked Profes- stadt cannot respond to such a is widely recognized as a contro- sor Deborah Lipstadt of Emory U. question because her principles do versial critic of the “Holocaust In- and author of Denying the Holo- not permit it. That has caused me dustry,” Israeli policies and actions caust: The Growing Assault on to pass “The Lipstadt Question” on against the Palestinians, and the Truth and Memory, if she could to faculty in the history and jour- cynical exploitation of Jewish suf- provide “the name of one person, nalism departments at Emory, U. fering for the profit of those who with proof, who had been killed in Georgia, Columbia, U. Wisconsin indulge themselves with it. There a gas chamber at Auschwitz.” I did at Milwaukee, U. Kentucky, and is no doubt that he is an honorable, not expect her to respond. So I U. of Colorado at Boulder. courageous man who has been copied “The Lipstadt Question” to Our historians do not want to willing to risk his career and most her peers in the history and jour- answer the question, and our jour- everything else in order to say nalism departments of Emory U., nalists, on or off campus, do not what he thinks. I believe that what the U. of Georgia, and to the cam- want to ask it. Neither wants to he thinks is of the greatest impor- pus and off-campus press there. risk being identified with the tance. That’s one side of the story. Following Lipstadt’s example, “other.” I agree when you say that The other side, ironically, is none tried to answer the question. we need “more texture, more am- that he appears to be fearful of Professor Finkelstein, the great biguity” in addressing controver- challenging the story that is the “taboo breaker,” is caught up in sial political and cultural issues. To cornerstone of all he talks about, the same struggle, the same taboo, that end I’m passing this letter on the allegation that during WWII as the Deborah Lipstadts and the to folk in and around St. Cloud the Germans used weapons of academic establishment in general. State in search of an environment mass destruction (“gas chambers”), He cannot bring himself to address where “texture” and “ambiguity” particularly at Auschwitz, to mur- revisionist arguments which ar- are prized over assumption and der maybe a million innocent, un- guably demonstrate that the Ger- allegation. The starting point? armed civilians. It is the Auschwitz man gas-chamber allegation is the “Can you provide the name of one gas-chamber tales that morally first great WMD fraud orchestrated person, with proof, who was killed justify forwarding the idea of the by the U.S. Government and its in a gas chamber at Auschwitz?” “unique monstrosity” of the Ger- allies, Iraq being a poor second. mans. It is those tales that were Finkelstein recently wrote a mov- Bradley Smith -- www.codoh.com exploited to morally justify the ing tribute to Raul Hilberg, the invasion and conquest of Arab author of The Destruction of the Note: This letter to Rabbi Edel- land in Palestine by European European Jews, who he believes heit was copied to St. Cloud pro- Jews, and continues to be used to understood the gas-chamber ques- fessors in history, journalism, Jew- morally justify the U.S. alliance tion. To get the other side of the ish studies, and German, and to with Israel against the Palestinians. Hilberg gas-chamber beliefs, see working journalists in the campus As Richard Cohen has it in The Juergen Graf’s The Giant with and off-campus press in St. Cloud. Washington Post, “The greatest Feet of Clay http://www.vho.org/ mistake Israel could make at the GB/Books/Giant/. It would be moment is to forget that Israel it- good if Professor Finkelstein 9 would address this book, because it and to off-campus press. It's about Problem is a US Congressional goes to the heart of the Hilberg / time, I should think, that those who Delegation visited Dachau two gas-chamber / Finkelstein conun- teach at such institutions begin to days after its liberation and de- drum. suggest to their students that they scribed the gas chamber as having Last year I wrote Professor ask The Lipstadt Question, or con- a ceiling 10 feet high. Moreover, Finkelstein himself to ask if his sider not reporting on any story they said the shower fixtures were very independent mother, herself a whatever that pretends to deal with brass, not the sheet-metal shower- survivor of the German camps, had Auschwitz, gas chambers, or the heads seen in the ceiling today. told him that she had seen “gas Holocaust generally. It is not the Seems like somebody built them- chambers” with her own eyes. He responsibility of Journalism selves a gas chamber, only it did not respond. I have since writ- Schools to protect the taboo that wasn’t the Germans. The Dachau ten Professor Finkelstein asking if protects, in turn, Professor Finkel- Museum admits that no one was he could provide “the name of one stein's Holocaust Industry. ever gassed at Dachau (despite the person, with proof, who was killed eyewitness accounts!). in a gas chamber at Auschwitz.” Unfortunately, they don’t go on He did not reply. [Ken Meyercord followed up with to explain that no one was gassed So we have a nice irony here. this letter to Prof. Finkelstein.] there because the gas chamber

Finkelstein is an authority on the 12 March 2008 didn’t even exist when the Ger- moral and political corruption of mans were in control of the camp the Holocaust Industry, but can’t To: Prof. Norman Finkelstein: (By the by, did you know that seem to get it together to investi- German POWs and repatriates gate the story that morally justifies I have been wondering for were confined in Dachau as late as the existence of that Industry – the some time now about your views 1964?). rumor that Germans used homi- on so-called holocaust denial and I have done a fair amount of cidal “gas chambers” to kill hun- so was delighted to find your essay reading on the holocaust issue and dreds of thousands and maybe “Islamophobia and Holocaust De- find it a fascinating topic, with “millions” of innocent, unarmed nial” on your website. I was disap- many erudite and persuasive peo- civilians during WWII. The rumor pointed, however, to hear you ple propounding the revisionist that, as Richard Cohen has it, mor- sounding much like Deborah Lip- point of view (no extermination ally justified the “mistake” that is stadt (or Alan Dershowitz!): “no plan, no gas chambers, less than 6 Israel, a mistake that has helped rational person”, no “serious per- million dead). The video “One bring about more than half a cen- sons”, the “obvious truth”. Appar- Third of the Holocaust” (available tury of tragedy and murder in and ently, I am neither rational nor se- on the Internet at around Israel – largely paid for, rious. www.onethirdoftheholocaust.com) and still being paid for, by the U.S. In hopes of convincing you that , convinced me that the so-called Congress. those who question the orthodox Operation Reinhardt Death Camps I would ask Professor Finkel- holocaust story are indeed rational were in fact transit camps. Essays stein one more time: “One” person, and serious, let me cite one exam- on Auschwitz convinced me that with proof – one out of a “mil- ple. We all know about the gas there were no gas chambers at that lion”! Is that too much to ask? And chamber at the German concentra- camp. I would suggest to those who teach tion camp at Dachau. Eyewitnesses You speak of a “vast amount of and study journalism at U. Mis- described how the gassing took evidence”. Such as what? The gas souri School of Journalism: Ask place, as did a US Army documen- chamber story is based almost ex- the question. tary, a film which figured promi- clusively on eyewitness accounts Just ask it. nently in the Nuremburg Trials and (It’s instructive to consider that helped condemn a number of there have been more eyewitness Bradley Smith Germans to death. The gas cham- accounts of alien abductions than Desk: 209 682 5327 ber shown to tourists is a room of Nazi gassings). The lack of about 20 feet by 20 feet with a documentation for any extermina- Note to Editor: This letter was ceiling 7 ½ feet high. Shower tion plan is explained away by copied to academics at U. Mis- heads connected to no pipes are holocaust believers with the asser- souri-Columbia in History, Ger- embedded in the ceiling. tion that the Nazis were so man, and particularly to faculty in ashamed of themselves they just the Missouri School of Journalism 10 whispered the plan amongst them- the Gentiles have gotten out their who teach history, journalism, selves. How believable is that? It’s torches and pitchforks, no chance. German, and Jewish Studies on our not easy wiping 6 million people That’s why I call for an open university campuses. off the face of the earth without debate on the holocaust as soon as leaving some paper trail. possible, preferably sponsored by At this point I decided to As to the number killed, as with B’nai B’rith. pause, look around, and catch my most atrocity stories the estimates Professor Finkelstein Responds breath. The more I looked for sto- vary widely, even amongst holo- to Ken Meyercord. ries to address with The Lipstadt caust believers (For 40 years the Question, the more I found. There Auschwitz Museum held that 4 To: Ken Meyercord: appears to be no end to it. The op- million had been killed there, then Not interested. portunities for using the original revised the figure down to 1 ½ mil- Norman Finkelstein letters as drafts for op-ed pieces lion, not exactly a “rounding off”). were there, both for the campus

I think it would be prudent of and off-campus press. There was Saturday, 08 March 2008 the issue of radio, though I am not you to reflect on the ramifications if the holocaust revisionists are Ask a Librarian at the United enthusiastic about it any longer. right. Wouldn’t be particularly States Holocaust Memorial Mu- And then there were other oppor- good for the Jews, would it, espe- seum tunities, but I have decided against cially as they are seen as the pri- revealing them here, as I noted mary defenders of the myth, just as It occurred to me yesterday to earlier on. Jews are viewed in the popular contact the U.S. Holocaust Memo- Even this morning, while I was mind as the primary defenders of rial Museum and ask The Lipstadt working on this lead, I got two Israel. Is it wise for Jews, or any Question. To go directly to the new ideas that could be very effec- caring person, to leave the truth in horse’s mouth. That of the Mu- tive, one involving one of the most the hands of Aryan supremacists, seum -- not that of Professor Lip- important campuses in America. I Neo-Nazis, and anti-Semites? stadt. think I am at the beginning of a Wouldn’t it be better to get this all On the USHMM Website I am roll here. I have thought that be- out in the open now when anti- given the opportunity to ASK A fore. Sometimes I was, sometimes Semitism is a negligible factor in LIBRARIAN. I wasn’t. None, however, was so American society rather than in “Welcome to the Virtual Refer- simple conceptually as this one: hard times (for instance, after our ence Desk, a service provided by “Please provide the name, with policy in the Middle East has gone the Library at the United States proof, of one person killed in a gas south on us and it’s not a question Holocaust Memorial Museum. chamber at Auschwitz.” of $5 a gallon gasoline but no This service is intended to help And then there is the question gasoline at any price), which is you find information concerning of “Will They, or Won’t They?” after all when Jews have tradition- the Holocaust that is not available Answer The Lipstadt Question, ally had to worry? in your local library.” that is. I don’t know. The work is The only way to know whether to ensure that “they” will, and then Okay! This could prove to be the revisionists are right is to listen we will have a whole new ball- very helpful. I filled out the requi- to what they have to say. To hear game. But will they? The work is site form and put my question: them in person is about as likely as to see that “they” in fact will. Their “Please provide the name of one hearing Norman Finkelstein speak- work is to see that I fail. It’s a con- person, with proof, who was killed ing at the Harvard Law School, test, a game, but one with very in a gas chamber at Auschwitz.” and for much the same reasons. high stakes. I’m well into the game. I’ll play it as best I can, and Today, those of us who maintain that the holocaust myth isn’t the So there we are. The Virtual we will see who “wins.” If I win, it brainchild of conniving, lying Jews Librarian cautions me to not ex- will be a win for everyone, includ- but the offspring of wartime pect an immediate answer, but ing those who believe, who fear, propaganda might prevail (see suggests that I will hear from her that it would be a terrible loss. Samuel Crowell’s excellent mono- by 22 March. That’s reasonable. graphs on www.codoh.com); once Meanwhile, I’ll continue putting The Lipstadt Question to those

11 DAVID IRVING RELATES THE STORY OF HIS APPEARANCE ON DUBLIN RADIO WITH DEBORAH LIPSTADT

This is the entry for 09 thing, she asked toward the more recently by the "oli- March in Irving’s “A Radical’s second half? I replied that it garchs". The Jews themselves Diary.” Irving used to publish was a very interesting question have created six million reasons it as a sophisticated “newslet- but one whose answer deserved for anti-Semitism in the last ter,” but now it appears only far more time than she was go- century. online—another sign of how the ing to allow me in the remain- The public view of Nazis Internet is affecting media and ing minutes. I said up to 1937, was however universally grim, revisionism. I think Irving and I perhaps, but they became de- suggested Karen Coleman. A are the only two in our disor- railed in 1938 with the Night of flash of mischievous genius ganized camp who work auto- Broken Glass. I had not an- occurred to me: "Am I mis- biographically. Ernst Zuendel swered her question, pressed taken in recalling," I teased her, can be included here too, but he Karen, and I laughed out loud "that your own wartime presi- is not so interested in the form and agreed. dent, Éamon de Valera, went to itself as we are. Yes, we had Hitler's exam- the German legation and signed My own work does not com- ple to thank for motorways like the book of condolences on the pare to what Irving does with the magnificent M1 freeway death of Adolf Hitler?" Those his “Diary.” Irving is more from Dublin to Belfast, and we were bad times, agreed Karen. productive than I am – he once must never forget that his Na- No, I replied, it shows how po- noted that one has to be “born” tional Socialism gave mothers litical correctness shifts our into keeping a journal – and he their true value, or how they view of history. moves through and reports on a emphasized the importance of Lipstadt was furious at hav- world that I have no access to, family life. In far away Hong ing to debate with me, though either intellectually or socially. Kong, Lipstadt went ballistic; Karen Coleman said in intro- Nevertheless, we share an in- she reminded the listeners that ducing her that Lipstadt had terest in the personally reveal- in 1935 the Nazis passed the declared that there could be no ing form of the journal. Nuremberg Laws excluding the question of a debate. The Jews from public life. (Her American scholar ranted on and 09 March 2008 whole life centres around her on, using below-the-line race, not of course that she can phrases like rubbish, silly, and rom eleven a.m. a hi- be labeled a "racist".) much more, and I let her. In larious half-hour live F On the balance-arms of his- fact I pre-emptively added an- radio interview with Karen tory, I suggested, we had to tisemite and racist to her list of Coleman, for her Newstalk pro- weigh the good things against charges against me. gramme in Dublin; after a while the atrocities the Nazis commit- Lipstadt quoted John Lukács she brought in Deborah Lip- ted. A citizen in Nagasaki, or ("another Jew!" I interrupted stadt, who was delivering two Hiroshima, or Dresden might her) whose book in England I lectures, she said, in Hong well feel the Allies had at times had delayed for a year by threat Kong. After the scholar traded also acted atrociously. of libel action, she said. routine insults with me, I got in A lot of folks around the I pointed out that I had read some good right-hooks, about world might even rate the Nur- this Hungarian-born writer's US the packaged Holocaust and its emberg Laws as a positive edition, it contained complete marketing. (Coleman inter- achievement, I might have lies about me, e.g. accusing me jected that the "Holocaust" was added: the tormented residents of having invented quotations, only Jewish. I murmured that of the Gaza Strip, for example, and having stolen documents the citizens of Dresden might or those in the Palestinian from archives, and I had written well be aggrieved to hear that, "refugee camps" that still exist a warning letter advising him to and that the whole war was a sixty years after they began remove the lies before publish- Holocaust regardless of nation- their tragic existence; or the ing within the UK jurisdiction ality or religion.) ordinary Russians who have which he, well advised, then Did I think that National been fleeced out of billions did. Socialism had been a good 12 "I did him a favour," I sug- tively; it leaves them flounder- never were any] as an extermi- gested. Lipstadt snarled again ing. Ms Coleman calmed down nation camp, you made very that I should not be allowed to and behaved reasonably fairly, I effectively. Lipstadt's evasion debate, and I should never be thought, after the initial few of this issue was obvious. It invited. She did the radio- minutes. Again, you won hands seemed evident to me that interview equivalent of sweep- down. Your listeners will have Karen Coleman was surprised ing all the chess pieces off the heard Lipstadt's claims over by the strength of your argu- board in a tantrum. Tee-hee. and over again, but most of ments and your command of Somebody at Newstalk is going them will never have heard you the facts, and accordingly be- to get stick over this. or the case that you make. Now came less hostile as the pro- they know that there is such a gramme progressed. I imagine AFTERWARDS, an Irish case, and that it is a powerful that the same effect will have listener emails: one. been had on most of her listen- “Lipstadt sounded very ar- ers. “I was surprised to find they rogant. No wonder she was “At the end of the pro- had Lipstadt on the show. never called to the stand in the gramme, just before 1 pm, Ms Karen Coleman started out with court case. Her mouthy manner Coleman said ‘We have had a the argument-by-intimidation contrasted to her detriment with huge number of responses to method, ‘You can't possibly your reasonable tone. The Da- some of the items on the pro- believe … etc.’, which you chau point, and the fact that gramme. I am sorry that we countered perfectly by again there are 'eye-witnesses' of Da- haven't had time to give them’. being reasonable and factual. chau's gas chambers [where “Interesting.” Your calm manner disarms even the cowardly German your opponents very effec- Government makes plain there

IN THE NEWS caust, some teachers have “over- ics of the Soviet occupation of done” it. He made his frank state- eastern Germany after the defeat of Looks like German kids are get- ments after noting the "tremendous Adolf Hitler's regime. In all, an ting tired of the Holocaust, Holo- amount" of Holocaust literature estimated 60,000 people were sent caust, Holocaust (Holocaust?). and research in Germany which, he to "Special Camp No. 1" in 1945- Dr. Benedikt Haller, the German said, he has long ago given up try- 50. Foreign Ministry official who ing to keep up with. Over the past two years, re- serves as special representative for He cited a German newspaper searchers at Sachsenhausen have relations with Jewish organizations caricature published on the 60th pored over reams of files provided and issues relating to anti- anniversary of Hitler's rise to by the Russian government. By Semitism, is quoted as saying, power that depicted a German in a cross-referencing names with "German children tend to show bookstore, surrounded, literally death certificates, camp books and Holocaust fatigue." saturated with books about the other administrative records, they The remarks came just a day Holocaust. The official's remarks put together a list of 11,890 people before the official opening in Ber- were later criticized by American who died, a number in line with lin of the office of the Task Force educators as “inappropriate.” previous estimates. They said they on International Cooperation on determined the major cause of

Holocaust Education Remem- death was tuberculosis and other Researchers at the former illnesses, with hunger contributing brance and Research. The organi- Nazi Sachsenhausen concentra- zation, which was conceived a to the deaths. tion camp have finished compil- decade ago and has thus far oper- "Famine was a factor in deaths ing a list of nearly 12,000 Ger- all over Soviet territory," memorial ated informally, will comprise 25 mans who died there during its countries around the world, includ- director Guenter Morsch said. use as an internment camp by the "This supports the hypothesis that ing EU states, the US, Argentina Soviets after World War II. and Israel. the deaths were a result of famine. Soviet secret police used the There was no order from Moscow Haller suggested that in their camp just north of Berlin to im- zeal to teach the story of the Holo- to kill these prisoners." prison many Nazis as well as crit- 13 The Jewish Telegraphic The case was adjourned until Yitzhak Arad, a noted historian Agency reports that Dr. April. Toben, a native of Germany, and partisan fighter who served Fredrick Toben, founder of the was imprisoned in his homeland 21 years as the chairman of Is- Adelaide Institute in Australia, for seven months in 1999 for pub- rael's national Holocaust mu- has accused two Jewish federal lishing revisionist material on his seum, is suspected by Lithuanian justices in Australia of “propa- Web site. prosecutors of being involved in gating the Jewish Holocaust” to the wartime killing of Lithuanian “protect an historical lie.” He civilians. The issue came to light made his accusations against Jus- A Barcelona court has sen- when Lithuanian authorities sought tices Alan Goldberg and Stephen tenced Pedro Varela, the pro- to question Arad, a request Israel Rothman in a submission to the prietor of the ‘Libreria de Bar- has refused. Federal Court in February. celona’ bookshop, to seven On Wednesday, the current The Sydney court is hearing a months prison for the crime of chairman of Yad Vashem, Avner long-running case over Holocaust ‘justifying the Holocaust’ but Shalev, delivered a written protest denial material Toben appears to found him not guilty of inciting of the matter to visiting Lithuanian continue to publish on the insti- hatred and racial discrimination. Foreign Minister Petras Vaitie- tute's Web site. Toben was ordered The Appeal court therefore kunas. Shalev urged the minister to by the Federal Court in 2002 to partially allowed the appeal against bring the matter to a speedy resolu- purge the material from the site of the five year prison sentence tion. his institute, which is widely con- handed down by the Barcelona "It is clear that initiating crimi- sidered to be anti-Semitic. He is Third Criminal Court in 1998. The nal proceedings into Dr. Arad's facing possible contempt charges judgment reflects what the Spanish involvement in Lithuanian partisan for suggesting that Goldberg and constitutional court decreed: that it activity during World War II is Rothman's participation in his case is not criminal to question/deny tantamount to a call for an investi- “gives rise for concern that any genocide. The court also dismissed gation into all partisan activity," kind of justice can emerge from the allegations against Varela that Shalev wrote. "Any attempt to proceedings that directly impact on he had been motivated to incite equate those actions with illegal a contentious interpretation of an racial, anti-Semitic, ideological or activities, thereby defining them as historical event.” religious hatred. criminal, is a dangerous perversion

Jeremy Jones, a past president of the events that occurred in of the Executive Council of Aus- Lithuania is investigating a Lithuania during the war." tralian Jewry, has continued to former chairman of Yad Vashem pursue Toben through the courts. on suspicion that he murdered civilians during the Holocaust.

UPDATE ON HOFFMAN'S PROGRESS ON HIS FORTHCOMING BOOK, JUDAISM DISCOVERED

t is gratifying that people are subscribers are annoyed, words, for errors in spelling and I clamoring for my book, Ju- and income in general to our par- more importantly, in grammar, daism Discovered. In some cases ent enterprise, Independent History syntax, context and placement. the clamor is not completely grati- and Research, is down markedly. I can be a hero to those who fying however, since some donors However, as any of my friends want the book in their hands as are beginning to wonder if I will and family members can tell you, I soon as possible, by performing ever finish it. There is some grow- am not infallible. Far from it. And this work in cursory fashion at ing annoyance and irritability while the book is mostly finished high speed, or I can do the check- along those lines. (I have read the entire manuscript ing with great care, as it should be Donations to the project have over once; it needs some tinkering done. It's a case of earning human sunk to near zero, and because I and a bit of additional material; respect and disgrace in the eyes of have necessarily neglected produc- then a final proof-read and the in- God, or fulfilling the mandate I've tion of our Revisionist History dexing), at this point it demands been given. I apologize for seem- newsletter for several months in painstaking inspection of far in ing to be dramatic, but that's the favor of work on the book, those excess of one quarter million magnitude in which I view this 14 project which has taken more than 24 Hour Revisionist News Bureau: found it easy to dismiss Dershow- seven years to research and nearly [email protected] itz and find him to be an annoying a year to write. personality. So I was surprised to In the past my forecasts for When I read this send from find that for a few minutes on the completion have all been wrong. Mike Hoffman I could not help but Glen Beck show, he appeared to be (Last summer Jeff Rense asked to reflect on the fact that he is work- a human being. You never know. schedule an interview as soon as ing on a book that he is behind the book was finished; I made an schedule with. I’m working on a appointment for September. I told film that I am behind schedule The Southern Poverty Law you I was fallible!) I should hesi- with. He worries that some of his Center is one of the headquar- tate to venture a guess now, but I supporters may lose faith in him, ters for tracking “hate” on and will go out on a limb and say that, as do I. We even share the car off the Internet. I had some rea- barring any additional harassment problem, except that mine is not a son to go to the site and there I and obstacles--and there have been single part, but “el animal en- found that CODOH is not listed plenty thus far, unfortunately, tero.” among their collection of “hate” since the evil one never rests-- I And so it goes. sites. It caused me to recall that I have discovered that to be a fact on will finish by the end of this month or early April, and the books a number of Web pages where would be printed in May or early OTHER STUFF “denial,” racialist, and anti-Semitic

June and then an extra week must organizations are listed as “hate” One late night I was channel be allowed for them to arrive at organizations. CODOH appears to surfing the television when I our office by truck. be disappearing from these lists came across Glen Beck inter- Trouble has befallen us of late: one by one. viewing Harvard U. lawyer Alan the starter on our car went out and Dershowitz. This is a guy who it is we couldn't fix it immediately, easy to love to hate. Finkelstein The Armenian “genocide” is which caused damage to the flex has made mincemeat of him but increasingly in the news. Even plate (fly wheel). We got the Dershowitz goes about his busi- Deborah Lipstadt is encouraging starter fixed but the flex plate re- ness. It doesn’t help that physically it to be recognized as such. I have pair entails pulling out the trans- he appears to be a very unattractive not looked into the matter in any mission. At present we're renting a guy. substantial way. Did the Turks try car. Other "games" are being This was the first time I had to “exterminate” the entire Arme- played as well, patently intended to ever watched him “live.” I found nian people? Don’t know, so I will obstruct the book or dissuade this myself thinking that he has a good remain without an opinion on the writer from its completion. smile. That he was coming across matter. Yet, God is with us. Yesterday as a decent, interesting fellow. I When I was a child growing I obtained powerful new material couldn’t help it. I found myself up in South Central Los Angeles on the Sanhedrin's kangaroo trial kinda liking him. there was an Armenian family liv- of Jesus, which has supplemented Still, way back in the early 90s ing three doors up from us in a our section on the "Talmud and there was to be a debate at the U. little frame house painted brown Jesus." of Texas about running one of my that was common for our Life IS struggle, and we hap- revisionist advertisements in the neighborhood. The Boajins were a pily soldier on, grateful for the Daily Texan. I flew to Austin to grandmother, her son Art and his privilege of accomplishing this participate in the debate. David wife Peggy, and their son and imperative work by the grace of Cole went along as cameraman. daughter, Martin and Cora. And the Almighty, and through the con- We stayed overnight in a motel there was Uncle Haig, if that spell- tinuing interest and kindness of and when we walked onto campus ing is right. I never learned the truth seekers like you. the next morning we found a front- grandmother’s name. Sincerely, page story in the Daily Texan by But she had an interesting story. She had escaped from the Michael A. Hoffman II Alan Dershowitz labeling me as a Turks riding in a stage coach. Independent History and Research, “known anti-Black racist.” That’s all I was ever to know about Box 849, Coeur d'Alene, Because I had never written on the role she played as a victim in Idaho 83816 USA that subject, and because I was not what he said I was, I have always the genocide of the Armenians. I 15 heard the tale a number of times. because, as the authorities have Early this morning I woke from a This was in the 1930s. The Turks notified me, it is: dream where I was told to find out had been a real problem for the how many references there are in Armenians where the grandmother “ … dangerously inflammatory our media to the “gas chambers of had lived, but it was never sug- in that it advocates or encourages Auschwitz.” While awake these gested in any way that the Turks riot, insurrection, disruption of the past weeks, it had not occurred to had wanted to kill every Armenian institution, violation of department thought to wonder. – to wipe them out. I heard the or institutional rules, the isolation When I got up I googled “gas adults talking among themselves [sic] of which would present a se- chambers at Auschwitz” and dis- and to my own parents and others rious threat to the security, order or covered that via Google alone on the block, but extermination of rehabilitative objectives of the in- there are 370,000 references to the Armenian population of Tur- stitution or the safety of any per- those contraptions. Three hundred key, was never raised. In fact the son.” seventy thousand! And yet we do story was usually told with smiles, not have the name of “one person, Well, I see why it would be as if it were an amusing story. with proof” who was killed with prohibited. Who wants that kind of The Boajins were among the such a weapon? I think we are on stuff circulating among imprisoned best-liked families on our block. to something here. felons? I suppose in Germany they There were a number of reasons What do you think? have similar views toward this Re- for this, particularly among the port and that is why it was not de- kids. The grandmother raised livered to Ernst or Germar. chickens in the back yard and would kill two or three every Sat- Bradley urday morning to cook. There was The Lipstadt Question is go- a tree stump there and if I was on ing to take up most of my time time I would be allowed to lay the for the foreseeable future. Sev- chicken on its side and use a eral gambits are in the works, and Smith’s Report hatchet to cut off its head. It was a among the first is a direct contact is published by little creepy, but interesting too to with an academic recognized as Committee for Open Debate see how the headless carcass one of the leading intellectuals in On the Holocaust would flop around in the dirt, try- America. This was an idea given to Bradley R. Smith, Founder ing to right itself until it died. My me by a third party, one I initially mother thought it disgusting when rejected, but which I have come to I reported these events, I was ten, see as a sound idea. For your contribution of eleven years old maybe, but she I’ve had to step back a bit and $39 didn’t forbid me to take part. understand that there are more op- you will receive 12 issues of In any event, the Armenian portunities for the project than I Smith’s Report. “genocide” was represented by the can possibly handle in an organ- In Canada and Mexico--$45 Boajins as the “escape” at night of ized way. Over the last 30 days Grandmother Boajin in a stage there were events at Bernard Col- Overseas--$49 coach, and that was it. lege, Colorado State, Erskine Col- Letters and Donations to: lege, New York University, U. Nevada at Las Vegas, Rhode Is- Bradley R. Smith A number of fellows impris- land U. at Kingston, West Texas Post Office Box 439016 oned for such things as armed A&M – and the list goes on – San Ysidro, CA 92143 robbery, rape, drug dealing, and where I could have jumped in. I the other assorted felonies occa- Desk: 209 682 5327 could not handle all those stories, sionally ask me to send them Cell: 619 203 3151 but choose do fewer and do them Smith’s Report. Usually I put them well. Email: on the list. I don’t want to mention Last night I had a restless seven [email protected] any names here but I have been hours full of the kind of inconse- notified that one prisoner has been [email protected] quential dreamings that make you refused access to Smith’s Report wonder why the brain would bother with expressing them at all. 16 SMITH’S REPORT

On the Holocaust Controversy

No. 150 www.Codoh.com May 2008

Challenging the Holocaust Taboo Since 1990

A Conspiracy of Silence Deborah Lipstadt, Noam Chomsky The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies The American Jewish University

o you find it reason- Thursday, March 20, 2008 complicate matters somewhat, “D able, or unreasonable, [Surviving with Wolves] is still to ask for the name of one person, Professor Lipstadt and the Irony powerful.” with proof, who was killed in a gas of Surviving with Wolves WAIT A MINUTE! I got my chamber at Auschwitz?” There are wires crossed here. Professor Lipstadt has unflinch- only two ways for an academic to Lipstadt did not assign the lying ingly denounced the Misha De- respond to either of these ques- Holocaust memoir Surviving with fonseca book Surviving with tions. Either she can answer one or Wolves to her Emory University Wolves, wherein the Belgian lady the other of the questions, or she class on Holocaust Memoirs. The claims that “after the Nazis took can participate in and maintain a lying Holocaust memoir she as- her parents away, she—at age 7— “conspiracy of silence.” It is not a signed to students in her class was wandered across Europe, crossed real conspiracy of course, because Benjamin Wilkomirski’s memoir rivers, was befriended by wolves we all know what is going on and Fragments. It was with reference and managed to survive,” referenc- why, but the phrase has a nice has to that lying memoir, Fragments, ing reports that the lady made the a nice ring to it. that Professor Lipstadt, when con- whole thing up. In this issue of SR I will report fronted with the fact that it was a Lipstadt writes that Defonseca on this new campus campaign with fraud, said that while that fact “is not even Jewish," that “people an article on Deborah Lipstadt at “might complicate matters some- like this are beneath contempt,” Emory U., the U. of Minnesota what, [Fragments] is still power- that she is “this phony survivor,” Sigi Ziering Institute which ex- ful.” that “Holocaust survivors deserve plores the “Ethical and Religious The truth of the document then far far better,” and that she (Lip- Implications of the Holocaust,” is secondary to the literary accom- stadt) is "filled with loathing at this everybody’s hero Noam Chomsky, plishments of it’s lying author. Its person's action.” and the first of a series of opinion author may be contemptible, But here is the irony. Professor pieces addressed for publication in phony, loathsome and not even Lipstadt has assigned Defonseca's campus newspapers. Jewish, but if it is a good read and Surviving with Wolves in her own We’ll begin with every-body’s forwards the concept of the Emory University class on Holo- sweetheart, Emory University pro- “unique monstrosity” of the Ger- caust Memoirs. When she was fessor Deborah Lipstadt. Follow- mans, Lipstadt may well assign it. confronted with the fact that the ing is an article published on my book is a fraud, she replied that Blog: “One Person With Proof.” Continued on page 7 while such revelations “might 1 when he became an old man (the the European Jews. Hilberg at that LETTERS story is in First Kings.) There it is time was teaching at U. Vermont.

I want to hear from you. I read stated quite simply: “He got no Miller’s observations are very everything you write. I regret that I heat.” According to the record, a much on point and undermine Hil- am not able to respond individu- person was found to sleep with berg’s root theories about “exter- ally to each correspondent. I may him in order to give him warmth. mination” and genocide, I would publish your letter here. I may edit With your simple question suppose based on information de- it for length and/or content. Please (The Lipstadt Question) you have veloped by the Institute of Histori- make it very clear to me that I can, the Holocausters by the balls (can I cal Review. The interesting thing or cannot, use your name. say that?). They cannot answer here is that her letter was written your question nor do they wish to in 1987 – twenty years ago! Yet John King do so. The correct answer is that serious academics, such as Nor- no one, not even one person, was man Finkelstein, have understood Keep up the good work. We killed in a gas chamber during nothing of the revisionist criticism are the real “Holocaust Survivors” WWII. of Hilberg’s work. because we went through “holo- Miller also included a copy of caust education” and emerged Christine Miller the letter she received in return. without a lobotomy. Take care. “Dear Ms. Miller: I have read Thank you for your letter and You are earning your reward in with considerable astonishment your book, The Man Who Saw His Heaven through your Good Works. your letter of December 27 (1987). Own Liver. The style of the book is Truth is the word of the Lord. If the book by Professor Raul Hil- rather modern, and I think goes berg cannot convince you of the under the name of stream of con- Richard Barbarosa historical fact of the Holocaust, I sciousness (or is it sub conscious- despair of convincing you of any I think somewhere you men- ness?). I do not have a receptor for fact taught by any member of this tioned that you were a “hippie” that type of writing. As a person, I University’s faculty.” [Editor: Nah.] But along came the am all up front. And as much as I Sincerely, magnificent obsession that admire that Goethe guy, there are Lattie F. Coor changed you forever. I think the some of his poems which just ex- President” fact that you were arrested and ceed my limited imagination and tried for selling a book – in Amer- don’t fit in with my rather prosaic And so it goes. It is today as it ica – had something to do with outlook on life. But I do very much was then – but not quite. I will ad- your decision to fight for the like that sentence: “…means exist dress this issue in a forthcoming Truth. Since then you have fol- concretely in a way that ends do issue of SR. lowed, and served, the Truth, and not.” However, I did not like you it has transformed you into some- referring to Evil Nazi Doctors. Did Name Withheld at Editor’s Dis- thing larger than you were before. you have to reinforce that stereo- cretion The change has been so gradual type? Greetings to you and your that you may not have noticed it. I like your idea of “one name, family. Thanks for the Xmas letter Nevertheless, your supporters, with proof.” Weakness or no with the photos. It’s always good your friends, and your enemies weakness, it does not matter since to know about those you have ad- know you are an unusual man. I most Americans are encased in an miration for. Your work is impor- like you. armor of self-righteousness. All we tant to a lot of people. I don’t agree Your story about how you live can do is ban away at the armor with some of your ??? [sic] ways. in a cold house evokes my sympa- plates. I would like to see more But you are doing the work I can thy, because my house is cold. You sarcasm. Unfortunately, I can’t only wish I could do by exposing wrote about lying back to back bring it off. materials and those who print it, with your wife in order to get Ms. Miller included with this teach it, and advocate it. I tip my warm. I too am cold most of the note a copy of a letter she wrote to hat to you for all that you do. time, the result of insufficient thy- Lattie F. Coor, President of the I’m also glad to learn that your roid function: hypothyroidism, or University of Vermont, making a daughter is back home. She’s a poor blood circulation. That brings number of critical observations on knock-out. I hope she is thinking to mind the story of King David Raul Hilberg’s The Destruction of hard about continuing to use. Meth 2 was my drug of choice too. It is I’ve spent these six years learning wish you all the best life has to part of why I am in prison for now. a lot about race, history, and poli- offer. Thanks again for keeping my “Possession.” But then I was tics as well as “usury.” I have also broke, White ass on your mailing caught with a weapon (shank or done a lot of reading in classic lit- list. It’s almost over for me. Ten shive—a knife). I got five more erature and philosophy. more months or so. The best to you years for it. All at 80%. But all in I am hoping to hear good and yours. all, it’s not going to get me down. things about your family, and I

What Remains to Be Researched?

Thomas Kues

s has already been stated company is left apparently de- Next I will list a number of A by leading revisionist funct. possible research issues, divided Germar Rudolf, there are still Since 2005, Carlo Mattogno among the various “areas” of the many “Holocaust” issues left un- has written three books deserving alleged mass killing process. studied, many revisionist works translation: a debunking of the ar- Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ma- waiting to be written. We have guments presented by the extermi- jdanek. come a long way, for sure, espe- nationist camp’s new knight in • Given that the revisionist cially in the late 90’s and early shining armor, R.J. van Pelt hypothesis is true, Auschwitz 00’s with the publication of the (Auschwitz: La falsa "convergenza would have served as a transit eminent series Holocaust Hand- di prove" di Robert Jan van Pelt, camp for the hundreds of thou- books, but the scholarly revisionist Effepi, Genova 2007), as well as a sands of Jews who were not regis- work is still far from finished. We thorough critique of the methodol- tered at arrival. As Graf writes, should not rest on our laurels, but ogy of the late Holocaust historian those deportees were likely placed look forward and ask ourselves the Raul Hilberg (Raul Hilberg e i in quarantine before being sent question: what, in terms of re- “centri di stermino”, Effepi, away. Could it be somehow found search, needs to be done? Genova 2007). There has further out where exactly in Birkenau This article aims not to be an been published a volume on the those people were held? exhaustive survey, but rather a per- Auschwitz healthcare system, not • The contents as well as sonally chosen list of issues which yet available in translation. There documentary background of the I believe are in need of clarifica- is also a 46-page article dealing supposedly buried diaries of Birk- tion. It is my hope that this list will with the recent book on the Birke- enau “Sonderkommando” mem- serve to inspire new revisionist nau “gas chambers” by self-styled bers need closer scrutiny. The man research into some of the individ- Sonderkommando eyewitness who allegedly discovered some of ual cases. Shlomo Venezia, a book which has the documents, as well as their Books awaiting publication already been translated into several main historian, was a Polish- and translation. European languages and is touted Jewish historian named Ber Mark. Let us first direct our attention as a “unique document” by the Significantly, Pierre Guillaume at revisionist literature announced mass media. writes in his Law and History (p. as planned or awaiting publication. As was mentioned in an inter- 114) that Mark was “accused of According to the VHO website, we view by Graf (published in issue having manufactured false journals can look forward to a collaborative #147 of Smith’s Report), there is of children of the Warsaw ghetto.” effort by Germar Rudolf and Jür- also an extensive history of As source Guillaume gives a gen Graf on gas chamber eyewit- Auschwitz waiting to be written if French journal of historiography, ness testimonies, as well a critique the opportunity presents itself. We Revue d’histoire de la Seconde of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial are also looking forward to the guerre mondiale, January 1962. penned by Rudolf. Or rather definitive published version of This deserves to be looked into. should have been able to look for- Mattogno’s study on the Ausch- • Jürgen Graf has already ward to, since T&DP publisher witz crematoria. provided us with an article on the Rudolf languishes in jail and his latest victim figure revisions for 3 Majdanek. A critique of Tomasz served by local residents as well as gala camp, whose personnel was Kranz’ recent book Extermination in local archives. Such photo- sentenced by a Soviet show tribu- of Jews at the Majdanek Concen- graphs may potentially provide nal in 1961. tration Camp (Majdanek State insight into what really transpired • More case studies would Museum 2007) would also be wel- in the camp. be welcome when it comes to the come. • There is a need for further Einsatzgruppen shootings. The Reinhardt Camps and studies on the three Treblinka air • A survey of Polish and Chelmno. photos taken in 1941 and 1944, as Soviet wartime publications writ- • A thorough critique study well as for an expert critique on ten in Yiddish may provide new on the various eyewitness accounts the online article “Reconstructing insights into how the gas chamber of the Reinhardt camps, similar in Treblinka” by exterminationist story was created and dissemi- structure to Jürgen Graf’s Ausch- Charles A. Bay. A closer examina- nated. witz: Tätergeständnisse und tion of the photos contained in the How revisionist research may Augenzeugen would be desirable. Kurt Franz album is also desirable. be invigorated. As of yet, the only really thorough Is the scenery of the excavator Holocaust revisionism is strug- revisionist critiques are to be found photos reconcilable with the land- gling against many odds at the in an old book by Carlo Mattogno scape shown on the air photos? moment, not least of them the im- which is only available in Italian Does the building in of the excava- prisonment and legal ostracizing of (Il rapporto Gerstein: Anatomia di tor photos identified by extermina- important revisionists. As an effect un falso, 1985). tionists as the first Treblinka gas of the imprisonment of Germar • Mattogno, following the chamber building really match the Rudolf by the German inquisition, lead of Jean-Claude Pressac, iden- descriptions made by alleged eye- most of the publication of revision- tifies the ovens described by Bel- witnesses? ist research in the West has zec construction worker Stanislaw • More scrutiny needs to be stopped. However, there are some Kozak as Heißluftentwesungsöfen, devoted to the Euthanasia program lights in the darkness. Most impor- hot air disinfestation ovens (cf. (“T4”) and the claims of gas tantly, we have the Internet. Mattogno, Belzec…, pp. 45-6). Can chambers for the mentally ill. Thanks to electronic newsletters the ovens described by Kozak be What do we really know about the like this one and revisionist web- matched against documented “Brack method”? What was the sites such as CODOH and Heißluftentwesungsöfen? Product subsequent fate of the T4 person- VHO/AAARGH, the publication descriptions, patents and photo- nel (surely the majority) who did of revisionist material may con- graphs may possibly be available not go on to Aktion Reinhardt? tinue unabated, reaching new read- in the archives of German compa- • A book similar to Rudolf ers around the world. With the nies (such as Kori) or in specialist and Mattogno’s Auschwitz Lies, help of web forums and mailing journals of WWII Germany (such but focusing on antirevisionist ar- lists revisionist researchers can as Der praktischer Desinfektor). guments regarding the Reinhardt communicate with each other, ex- Kozak’s original account in Polish camps, would be welcomed. changing views as well as materi- should if possible also be dug up • A thorough revisionist als of study. and examined. study on Chelmno remains to be Writing a list of research to be • As hinted at by extermina- written. Shmuel Krakowski’s re- done, such the one above, gives tionist Belzec specialist Michael cent book Das Todeslager you a slightly bad feeling. More Tregenza (cf. ibid., p. 43), there Chelmno / Kulmhof (Wallstein exactly, you feel like you should may exist a number of photos 2007) could serve as a departure do it yourself instead of exhorting taken within this camp at its time point. others to do it. Each one of us can of operation by local Poles as well The Einsatzgruppen and Mis- of course only do what he is able as by SS camp staff. We know of cellaneous. to, but if we find our specialized four photos depicting SS and Jew- • The alleged extermination fields of knowledge and pool them, ish inmates in front of the “sorting of Jews in the Baltic States by a lot of significant work may be barracks”. Andrzej Kola gives as means of firing squads needs to be accomplished. Let us start today source for these pictures the photo looked into. Possible topics for and find out what part, however archive of the regional museum of case studies would include the al- small, each of us can contribute to Tomaszow Lubelski. Further pic- leged massacres at Fort VII and IX revisionist research. tures may possibly have been pre- in Lithuania and the Estonian Ja- 4 Germans Now Denying the Holocaust Telepathically

Mike James

27 March 2008 nicated anti-Semitism and holo- spokesman told IFPN. “The gov- caust denial. ernment takes very seriously re- BERLIN (IFPN) -- Germany’s ports that certain extremist ele- Central Council of Jews (ZJD) has EXTREMISTS ments in our society are engaged in demanded “immediate government telepathic holocaust denial and we “We know they’re doing it,” action” in response to unsettling are monitoring the situation says Stephan Kramer, General findings published in its quarterly closely.” social trends report, ‘Virulent Secretary of the ZJD. “They are Anti-Semitism in Germany Today, evading punishment by spreading HUMILIATING Issue 1, 2008’. anti-Semitic propaganda and deny- The report highlights a worry- ing the holocaust without writing a But official assurances came ing increase in anti-Semitic senti- word or moving their lips.” too late for Israeli tourists Shmuel ment and, more sensationally, the Although Kramer has dis- Linsky and his wife, Diane. dissemination of holocaust denial patched an unspecified number of “Just the other day I saw a very “by means of telepathy”. undercover Hassidic telepaths and relaxed German couple with their “It’s very frightening and kosher ‘sensitives’ briefed with the children spending our reparations something I cannot ignore given task of intercepting telepathic money on ice-cream and hot my horrific ordeal in Auschwitz, communications in streets, bars, dogs,” says Shmuel scornfully. which I miraculously survived by clubs, restaurants, cafes, subways, “They were deliberately and mali- hiding in a chimney until the camp shops, schools, workplaces and ciously acting in a way that sug- was liberated,” says the ZJD’s other venues where people may gested they were proud to be Ger- president, Charlotte Knobloch, choose to express a personal opin- man, without any sense of shame who is currently suing Google for ion without being overheard by or guilt. I suddenly felt very editorial control of YouTube. informers, he admits that telepathi- threatened by this kind of unspo- “Our own success in determin- cally communicated holocaust de- ken anti-Semitism and was over- ing what constitutes suitable view- nial is hard to prove. whelmed by the urge to radio an ing for Internet users in Germany “But only empirically,” he ex- Israeli F-16 fighter bomber.” has forced us to imagine alterna- plains. “Proof is an obsession of Diane Linsky nods her head in tive scenarios available to young those unable to conceive of the pained agreement. They had de- people who don’t trust what the truth. In the wrong hands, proof, or cided on an impromptu vacation in government or their teachers are a lack of proof, can be misused to Germany after watching Angela telling them.” establish certain facts incompatible Merkel on television deliver an “Never underestimate the with the truth. Not all facts are fac- impassioned speech to Israel’s par- power of the Jewish imagination,” tual. What do you want? Another liament, the Knesset. she adds. holocaust?” “Mrs. Merkel said that Ger- In Germany, anyone who ex- The German government, anx- mans would do everything they presses anti-Semitic sentiments or ious to reassure the Jewish com- could to help Israel and protect the who queries the holocaust by munity, has moved swiftly to calm Jewish people from anti- pointing to pre-war and post-war fears by allocating six million eu- Semitism,” she says, her voice Jewish population statistics or ros in research grants to the ZJD’s cracking. “But when we got here anomalies in the historical record hospitality and personal leisure we found we had to pay for our faces prison sentences of up to five expenses budget. own hotel accommodation and years. “We are doing everything we none of the restaurants will let us The law, however, is unclear on can to eradicate the scourge of eat for free, even though we’re the issue of telepathically commu- anti-Semitism in Germany and the Jews and have a long and unique European Union,” a government history of suffering.” 5 Shmuel too is overcome by said that ‘mental illness is a Jewish SURVIVORS emotion, hardly able to speak. “It’s issue’ and point to the findings of been humiliating. Even the waiters geneticists at John Hopkins Uni- Meanwhile, as news breaks that expect a tip, reminding me of my versity who have identified lamen- at least a hundred stone-throwing horrific ordeal in Auschwitz, tably high incidences of schizo- Palestinian children have been ei- which I miraculously survived by phrenia and bipolar disorder ther killed or maimed by vigilant hiding in a chimney until the camp among Ashkenazi Jews. Many suf- Israeli F-16 fighter pilots, the was liberated,” the 36-year-old Mr. fer from an autosomal recessive Linskys arrive back in Tel Aviv to Linsky adds bitterly. trait that goes back thousands of an emotional family reception. The Linskys say they had been years and which manifests as con- Shmuel’s great uncle, Rabbi made to feel “persecuted” and in- genital lying, delusional behaviour Dov Bronstein, hugs his relative tend to file a claim for compensa- and paranoia.” and can hardly contain his tears: tion. “In fact, we sued before we “Unfortunately, instead of be- “Even though I was born and came out here,” says Diane. “Our ing treated in high-security psychi- raised in New Jersey and never set lawyer in Tel Aviv was offering atric hospitals, many of these men- foot in Europe, I will never forget special terms and a 30 percent dis- tally ill, psychopathic Jews seem to my horrific ordeal in Auschwitz, count.” thrive in positions of leadership, which I miraculously survived by spanning the worlds of interna- hiding in a chimney until the camp PARANOID tional finance, the media, acade- was liberated.” mia, law and politics, not only in “It’s so good to be home,” says Critics however have blasted Europe and Israel, of course, but a visibly relieved Diane Linsky. the report as “hysterical”, “irre- also in North America and else- “We flew Lufthansa and we just sponsible” and “paranoid”. where.” knew the German pilots and air “Given the long history of he- “We need to ask ourselves why hostesses were telepathically deny- reditary mental illness among peo- they’ve been expelled from 109 ing the holocaust and sharing anti- ple of Jewish descent, I would be locations around the world since Semitic thoughts with some of the inclined to treat reports of tele- the middle of the third century, and European passengers .... and they pathically communicated anti- why we’re allowing them to repeat were saying, like, you know, ‘Let’s Semitism and holocaust denial the cycle over and over again, dump those lying Jews out over the with extreme caution,” one of harming not only themselves but Mediterranean’.” them, a leading professor of evolu- everyone else.” Lufthansa has promised to in- tionary psychiatry, told IFPN “I know it’s not a very politi- vestigate the allegations. anonymously. cally correct thing to articulate,” “The Jews have a propensity the professor concludes, “but when Michael James, an Englishman, for telling tall stories and a ten- it comes to Jews and some of the is a former freelance journalist dency to exaggerate things they ludicrous things they say, I’m resident in Germany since 1992 hear, or think they hear. Before afraid we’re dealing with some with additional long-haul stays in taking this much further, the Ger- very sick puppies.” East Africa, Poland and Switzer- man government would be well- Charlotte Knobloch strongly land. advised to read the wealth of disagrees. Jews have never harmed medical literature made available anyone, she says. [This satire was taken from the over the past 200 years by Jewish “The fact that the Jewish people Jeff Rense Web page. Mark Weber physicians themselves, much of have been expelled from 109 loca- has been interviewed by Rense which focuses on the very high tions around the world doesn’t several times. You can reach the percentage of dangerous psychotic mean there’s anything wrong with Webpage of Jeff Rense at illnesses and psychopathological the Jewish people or that they are http://www.rense.com/ ] disorders found among Ashkenazi in any way disruptive or insane,” Jews. A good starting point would she insists. “On the contrary, all of be the Disability Studies Quarterly, those countries, for no real identi- Volume 27, No. 4, published in fiable reason, experienced periods 2007.” of anti-Semitic mass insanity, “Even their top religious people which spontaneously disappeared admit they’re nuts. Rabbis Eric the moment we were gone.” Weiss and Nathaniel Ezray have 6 A Conspiracy of Silence Continued from page one class on Holocaust Memoirs. On March 28 2008 “Can you provide the name of the university campus, with regard one person, with proof, who was to the Holocaust story, Holocaust Professor Michael Birenbaum, killed in a gas chamber at Ausch- literature will beat out Holocaust Director witz?” history as often as not. The Sigi Ziering Institute: Ex- How can we fix this – get ploring the Ethical and Religious Thank you. Bradley R. Smith

Holocaust literature and Holocaust Implications of the Holocaust Blog: history into right relationship with American Jewish University http://bradleysmithsblog.blogspot.c one another? I would urge profes- Dear Professor Birenbaum: om/ sors serving out their time in his- Web: www.codoh.com tory, journalism, German, and In your recent article in The Jewish studies to find a few indi- Jewish Journal, “Israel and Its Re- Note: I will pass this communica- viduals among them, a mere hand- lationship to the Shoah,” you quote tion on to other academics at the ful, who are willing to address the Israeli historian Yehuda Bauer: American Jewish University, in- problem of providing us with “the “The reason why survivors turned cluding The Sigi Ziering Institute. name of one person, with proof, to Zionism is not hard to under- I invite any faculty member to re- who was killed in a gas chamber at stand. The murder of the European ply which, unless asked not to, I Auschwitz.” That would be a start. Jews seemed to vindicate the Zion- may publish. I doubt very much that our Profes- ist argument that there was no fu- sor Deborah Lipstadt will be the ture for Jews in Europe.” Further [Editor’s note: this letter to one who will risk it. Why should on you make the interesting obser- Professor Berenbaum was copied she risk it? The truth? What’s truth vation that “the Holocaust invites to 61 academics at the Jewish Uni- got to do with it? questions not answers.” versity of America, including fac- ulty at the Sigi Ziering Institute. Comments from Readers Accepting the fact that the gas None replied.] chambers of Auschwitz are at the March 25, 2008 March 30, 2008 very heart of the story of the “Shoah” and the “murder of the Chip said: Thanks for linking I was wrong. I spelled Professor European Jews,” I invite you to to the Butz article, which I found Michael Berenbaum's name wrong. answer this question: “Can you fascinating. I have long perceived That may be why he has not re- provide the name of one person, that the dialectic between revision- sponded to my request that he pro- with proof, who was killed in a gas ists and orthodox Holocaust schol- vide us with the name of "one per- chamber at Auschwitz?” ars is complicated by conflicting son, with proof," who was killed in epistemological assumptions, and On the home page of The Sigi a gas chamber at Auschwitz. What Butz's analysis provides an intrigu- Ziering Institute, of which you are else could it be? ing way of understanding the re- Director, it is stated that it is nec- sulting impasse. Had to read it essary to “ask those questions that March 31, 2008 twice. must be asked [in order to] honor Professor Eric Weitz, Chairman the past and forge a more compas- [The Internet link referred to History Department sionate future.” Because “Shoah” here is to “Wilkomirski and What University Minnesota It Means” by Prof. Arthur Butz. It and the phrase “the murder of the is part of an address delivered on European Jews” are implicit The Connection Between History May 27, 2000 at the 13th IHR charges of “unique monstrosity” and Moral Choice Conference in Irvine, California. against the Germans, and because Reproduced from The Journal of we really do want to “honor the Dear Professor Weitz:

Historical Review, 19/6, Novem- past and forge a more compassion- ate future,” do you believe it rea- On 04 February 2008 I asked ber/December 2000] Emory University Professor Deb- sonable, or unreasonable, for me to ask this simple question: orah Lipstadt if she could provide “the name of one person, with proof, who was killed in a gas 7 chamber at Auschwitz.” Professor NOTE: I will pass this on to My name is Bradley Smith. I Lipstadt did not reply. I have since academics in history, journalism, am not an academic, and I am not put the question to several hundred and others at U. Minnesota. I invite an independent “scholar.” I do academics but none has replied to any faculty member to reply have a web page that addresses the the question. which, unless asked not to, I may gas-chamber and related questions On the Web page representing publish on my Blog, “One Person from an angle that emphasizes in- the [University of Minnesota] Cen- With Proof.” tellectual freedom vs. the taboo ter for Holocaust & Genocide that protects these questions from a Studies (CHGS) I read that “Nazi NOTE TO THOSE WHO routine examination extermination camps located in TEACH JOURNALISM: Is this a www.codoh.com . If you go to the occupied Poland at Auschwitz- question that you feel comfortable Founder’s Page there you will find Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Bel- asking your colleagues in history? my unlikely personal background. zec, and Majdanek-Lublin begin There’s a story there. You like sto- I would like to ask you a ques- mass murder of Jews in gas cham- ries. That’s one reason why you’re tion that is not what I asked Pro- bers in 1942.” in journalism. If you want the fessor Lipstadt, but one that is re- Is it possible that CHGS might story, sometimes you have to risk lated to it. Do you believe it “rea- provide us with “the name of one discovering what the real story is. sonable” or “unreasonable” for me person, with proof, who was killed Still, I know -- it’s not for every- to ask historians and other academ- in a gas chamber at Auschwitz- one. ics the question I have asked Pro- Birkenau”—one name, with proof, fessor Lipstadt, and do you think it [Editor’s note: This letter was out of the million or so allegedly “reasonable” or “unreasonable” for copied in full to 104 professors at murdered there? me to think that if a million or so the Center for Holocaust and In the CHGS mission state- innocent civilians were murdered Genocide Studies, the Muslim Cen- ment I read: “By studying the his- in gas chambers at Auschwitz, our ter, and the UM School of Journal- torical development and lessons of historians should be able to pro- ism. None replied.] the Holocaust and other examples vide “the name of one person, with of collective violence, students 18 March 2008 proof,” who was actually killed in make the essential connection be- one of those contraptions? One out tween history and the moral Professor Noam Chomsky of a million? choices they confront in their own Massachusetts Institute The other night when I was lives.” of Technology first thinking of writing you it oc- While I agree with this senti- curred to me to take another look ment, the issue is not merely to Dear Professor Chomsky: at your article “We Own the make a “connection” between his- On 04 February I wrote Pro- World” that appeared originally in tory and moral choice, but to make fessor Deborah Lipstadt of Emory Z. When I first came across the a connection that is historically U to ask if she could provide “the title I felt I understood where you sound, and one that is “moral” in name of one person, with proof, would go with it without having that the evidence used to charge who had been killed in a gas read it, and that I would agree with the “other” with a “unique mon- chamber at Auschwitz.” your thesis. I had a similar “epiph- strosity” is judged using the same I understand that it is against any” when I first saw the title to standards to which we hold our- her principles to address such a [Buchanan’s] “A Republic, Not an selves. question or any person who would Empire.” In any event, I am very Professor Weitz: do you think ask it, so I copied the letter to aca- glad I returned to your article “We it reasonable, or do you think it demics in history and journalism at Own the World.” It ends by ad- unreasonable, to ask the Center for Emory, U. of Georgia, and the dressing exactly the issue that I Holocaust & Genocide Studies to campus and off-campus press in have been struggling with for two provide “the name of one person, that neck of the woods. No one decades now, unsuccessfully. with proof, who was killed in a gas attempted to answer the question. I There you quote Orwell re- chamber at Auschwitz”? have since sent it to academics at a garding the question of intellectual freedom where he suggests that Thank you. number of other universities, and no one has attempted to respond to there might be about as much of it in a “free” society as there is in a Bradley R Smith the question itself. totalitarian one. You write: “In the

8 introduction to Animal Farm he “right” to do what we want with it. your response to it on my Blog said, ‘England is a free society … With our intellectual elites, it "One Person With Proof" (you will but unpopular ideas can be sup- would appear to “not do,” indeed find the link to it at pressed without the use of force … to “not think” of the possibility www.codoh.com). If you choose to one reason is the press is owned by that the German gas-chamber story not respond, I will post this letter wealthy men who have every rea- might be the first great WMD alone. son not to want certain ideas to be fraud, encouraged by largely the Thank you (in advance as they expressed. And the second reason - same folk who invented the second say) for your time. - and I think a more important one WMD fraud – Iraq. -- is a good education. If you have I have neither wealth nor a Bradley R. Smith gone to the best schools and good education. That may be the Desk: 209 682 5327 graduated from Oxford and Cam- reason I am willing to ask histori- [Editor’s note: Rather than bridge, and so on, you have in- ans for the name of one person, emailing this letter to one of my stilled in you the understanding with proof, who was killed in a gas volunteer proof readers before I that there are certain things it chamber at Auschwitz. Why I am sent it to Professor Chomsky, I did would not do to say; actually, it willing to encourage journalists, the reverse. The next day my editor would not do to think. That is the who write about it endlessly, to ask pointed out that Patrick Buchanan primary way to prevent unpopular our historians for that one name, is the author of A Republic, Not an ideas from being expressed.’” with proof. I think it would very Empire, not Gingrich. Ever willing well “do” to ask such a question, to confess my sins, I emailed That is exactly my experience and to answer it. Chomsky.] with the “taboo” that in my view My question again -- do you protects the gas-chamber allega- think it reasonable or unreasonable 19 March 2008: tions from the routine examination for me to ask academics for the that all other historical questions name of “one person, with proof, “OK. I have to admit it. It was- are open to. In America our who was killed in a gas chamber at n't Gingrich. I can be careless. wealthy media owners and those Auschwitz”? Do you find it rea- Anyhow, it was only an epiphany. with good educations understand it sonable or unreasonable that I I hope the question interests you.” would “not do” to question the should expect journalists, and Bradley Smith www.codoh.com Auschwitz gas-chamber allega- those who teach journalism, to see tions, or the “unique monstrosity” this as a legitimate question to ask, [In the event, Professor Chom- of the Germans and Adolf Hitler. and to ask it? sky has not replied. Perhaps it Yet, as you note in WOTW, the This communication will re- really would not “do” for him to Hitler/gas-chamber story is ex- main private for ten days, until 02 say what he thinks. I don't know.] ploited endlessly to morally le- [April], while I await your re- gitimate the belief that we do, in sponse. If you respond to my fact “own” the world and have the query, I will post this letter and

OFF THE TABLE: A Monthly Column

[This first opinion piece was mailed to campus newspaper editors all across America. It’s aim is to broaden awareness of The Lipstadt Question re Auschwitz. All contact info, including the Web address of my “One Per- son, With Proof” Blog was included with the mailing.]

AUSCHWITZ AND THE PALESTINIAN CATASTROPHE by Bradley R Smith

05 April 2008 in a gas chamber at Auschwitz.” I have since asked this simple One out of the “million” or so who question of academic historians at On 04 February I wrote Emory were allegedly killed there. I cop- such institutions as Columbia Uni- University Professor Deborah Lip- ied the letter to her academic peers versity, University of Georgia, stadt, author of History on Trial at Emory. Professor Lipstadt did Saint Cloud State, U. Wisconsin- and other books, asking if she not reply. None of her peers re- Milwaukee, U. Colorado-Boulder, could provide “the name of one plied. U. Kentucky, The Center for person, with proof, who was killed 9 Holocaust and Genocide Studies at question what they have professed military, one which has hundreds U. Minnesota, the Jewish Univer- for so long to be absolutely true. of nuclear warheads at its disposal, sity of America, and the U.S. It is widely acknowledged that all morally justified by “Ausch- Holocaust Memorial Museum. No the American Government misled witz” and paid for by the U.S. historian at any of these institu- (to use the most restrained of Congress. tions has attempted to answer the terms) the American public with The allegation about the question. You can read these let- regard to Iraqi WMD. Even the Auschwitz WMD is routinely ex- ters at http://bradleysmithsblog. American professorial class, a ploited by the U.S./Israeli alliance blogspot. com/ . paradigm of timidity, feels free to as a root cause to morally justify When I send my question, “one question the State line on the Iraqi the destruction of Arab culture in person, with proof” to historians at WMD. Yet the possibility that the Palestine, the unending brutality a given campus, I copy the letter to Government that invented the Iraqi and humiliation of those Arabs, the professors in the Journalism de- WMD fraud may possibly have creation by force of Arab ghettos partment. I ask those teaching stu- invented the story that Germans for Palestinians, the creeping but dents how to become journalists if used “gas chambers” to kill a mil- ceaseless “settlement” and occupa- they believe it is “reasonable, or lion or so civilians at Auschwitz tion of Arab land in Palestine by unreasonable” to ask historians for alone – which would be our Gov- Israelis, and the wonton killing of the name of “one person, with ernment’s first great WMD fraud – innocent, unarmed Arab civilians. proof.” No professor in any jour- that question is absolutely off the There is a red, bloody, histori- nalism department has replied to table. cal thread that leads directly from the question. Why not? Why would the American Gov- the Auschwitz WMD fraud to the The American professorial ernment allege that the Germans Palestinian catastrophe today. class passively followed the U.S. used WMD to kill millions of in- When Americans listened to the Government line with regard to the nocent civilians during WWII if it charge that Saddam Hussein was “unique monstrosity” of the Ger- were not true? the new “Hitler,” that he had mans at Nuremberg and other war It is incontrovertible that the WMD that threatened Israel, we – crimes trials. Our Government de- Americans did use WMD – great as a people – were willing to ac- clared to the world that the Ger- fleets of heavy bombers -- to inten- cept this second U.S. Government mans had used WMD (gas cham- tionally burn alive hundreds of WMD fraud to morally justify a bers) to kill millions of innocent, thousand of innocent, unarmed second catastrophic attack on the unarmed civilians and the profes- civilians in all the major cities in Arabs in the Middle East. This sors, as a class, rather then do their Germany and Japan, ending with time in Iraq where there are now work in accordance with the ideals the nuclear holocaust of the civil- millions of Arab refugees and of their university, gulped down ian populations of Nagasaki and hundreds of thousands of dead, the Government story whole hog. Hiroshima. As it is with Ameri- damaged, and mangled Arab civil- The professorial class tradition- cans, those who carried out these ians. ally reacts to State power by sur- horrific deeds have come to be I believe it reasonable, not un- rendering to it. Consider how this known as our “Finest Generation.” reasonable, that you ask your pro- class of folk, as a class, sucked up The alleged unique monstrosity of fessor to give you the name of one to the Hitlers, the Stalins, the Mao the Germans and their alleged person, with proof, who was killed Tse-Tungs, even to pipsqueaks like WMD were exploited, then, to in a gas chamber at Auschwitz. Fidel Castro. At bottom, forgetting morally justify the use of WMD by What do you think? how much information they have the Americans – the use of which memorized, professors are only no one even tries to deny. Comments by Readers human. We all know how difficult Next, the U.S. Government ex- April 12, 2008 it is to consider standing up in pub- ploited the German WMD allega- lic to question the core values – the tion to morally legitimate the inva- Jeffrey Levine said... I think that taboos -- of the culture in which sion and conquest of Arab land in the people you are asking feel that we live. With regard to the profes- Palestine by European Jews. The there is massive evidence to sup- sors, they soon became committed allegation was, and is still, used to port the idea of a Jewish Holo- to what they had surrendered to. morally legitimate the U.S. alli- caust, and that asking the simple Now it would shame them profes- ance with Israel against the Arabs question you have demonstrates sionally and personally to begin to of Palestine, and to fund the Israeli the attitude of a denier. I would 10 like to know what you consider Bradley R. Smith said... Jeffrey: chael Berenbaum, for example, proof? Obviously there are thou- thanks for writing. I understand knows much more about this stuff sands of pictures of killings and that most people believe to be true than I do. As do any number of the hangings, there are lists of Jews what you believe to be true about thousands of academics who from cities that were transported to the Holocaust story. My question swarm across the American cam- concentration camps. There is pic- does not address the generality of pus forwarding the unique mon- torial evidence of mass graves. "Holocaust" but specifically the strosity of the "other." There are even written testimonies WMD (gas-chamber) story used to Re your question about Jesus: from Germans that participated in exploit the unique monstrosity of no, I cannot provide proof that he the killings. the Germans for the benefit of existed. The difference here is that There is a million times more those who exploit it -- endlessly. while I am willing to admit that I evidence for the Holocaust than Re what I would consider cannot provide such proof, it is there is for the existence of Jesus! proof of the use of gas chambers to clear that our professorial class, as Can you provide me with proof, he murder a million or so civilians at a class, is unwilling to forward a existed? Auschwitz: I will leave that ques- free exchange of ideas about "gas tion to those who have studied the chambers" and the unique mon- H. for the last sixty years. A Mi- strosity of the Germans.

Willis Carto and the American Far Right By George Michael

University Press of Florida, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8130-3198-9

Reviewed by Fredrick Toben

Preliminary remarks his change of mind, i.e. that he Carto faced a coup and lost control “stuffed up” in his MA thesis of his Institute for Historical Re- When in August 1998 Ade- where he claimed there was no view–IHR. Andrew Gray repre- laide Institute held its first interna- evidence for the existence of sented Carto and The Barnes Re- tional revisionist conference – and homicidal gassings at Auschwitz; view by travelling to Adelaide in its only one to date – there was and Irving in 2006 when he was person, and Mark Weber sent a much celebration all round because imprisoned in Vienna and follow- video address on behalf of the almost anyone who was active on ing his defence counsel’s advice, IHR. the world stage of revisionism, in recanted much of his evidence When the planned April 2004 particular Jewish Holocaust revi- given at the Zündel 1988 Toronto Sacramento Revisionist Confer- sionism, participated in person by trial in the hope of getting out of ence had its main venue cancelled, travelling to Adelaide, by live tele- jail soon after, something the and the organiser had a few days phone call, or by sending a video judges did not look favourably earlier cancelled the alternate presentation. There were two indi- upon, likening Irving to a prosti- venue, Mark Weber and some oth- viduals, who initially stated they tute who has not seen the error of ers wished to claim the remnants would participate but then pulled her ways. Irving’s Austrian im- of the conference as an IHR con- out literally at the last minute: prisonment lasted from 11 No- ference, instead of a neutral name, David Irving by not answering the vember 2005 to 21 December such as the Ernst Zündel Revision- phone and Joel Hayward by claim- 2006. ist Conference, so that Carto and ing illness. Interestingly, subse- I personally regarded the Ade- Weber loyalists could both attend. quently both Hayward and Irving laide Institute Revisionist Sympo- The Carto group refused to attend recanted their views on the exis- sium as a success story because, the IHR-bannered conference. tence of homicidal gassings during among other things, we managed All that changed when in Au- World War Two: Hayward in 2000 to bring together the two major gust 2006 The Barnes Review held when he claimed, without ever factions of Revisionists that its most successful conference ever offering details on what he based emerged in 1993 when Willis because most former Weber/IHR 11 loyalists attended, thus in effect of Carto’s life, 67 pages of detailed he later rightly focused the criti- sealing the rift and confirming that footnotes, over 356 references are cism on Jewish activities against Willis Carto’s vision stood, again, listed in the bibliography, and Palestinians. American foreign intact. there is a comprehensive index. I policy became skewed towards the Weber/IHR was not repre- do not recall coming across any Zionist goals, much to the distress sented at the December 2006 In- serious spelling errors and only of the American taxpayers who ternational Teheran Holocaust mention that the name Elisabeth is were funding US foreign policy in Conference but Carto/The Barnes written once with an ‘s’ and the the Middle East. Review was represented by Mi- second mention of the same person When in 1979 Carto founded chael Collins Piper who, as far as I with a ‘z’, the former being the the IHR it was inevitable that the am concerned, has taken on the German spelling of that name. ‘Holocaust’ and Zionist machina- daunting mantle of Andrew Gray. tions became the focal point of his Willis Carto thus stands su- Content world-view as expressed in the preme amongst Revisionists be- Journal of Historical Review. I recall that sometime during cause he successfully fought off Michael George treats in detail the early 1990s John Bennett of the the enemy from within his own how in 1993 the IHR was stolen at Australian Civil Liberties Union, ranks thereby ensuring that his po- gun-point from Carto’s business remarked to me that the Carto-IHR litical vision remained whole, and empire, and how under Mark We- split was occasioned by Carto’s that the battle for truth and justice ber it has in effect stopped func- overt political and racist attitude, has become that proverbial never- tioning, though the Internet web- something that the IHR opposed ending story. It is thus fitting that site still offers Revisionist material because it wished to retain a schol- George Michael, assistant profes- – but rather than offering pioneer- arly approach. Only this year, in sor of political science, University ing material, most of what is on 2008, it was Horst Mahler who of Virginia, has written a much- offer is what Carto built up over reminded me that the weakness of needed detailed biography of 82- the years. George mentions Carto’s the Revisionist position is its non- year-old Willis Carto who more impressive publishing record. political stance, i.e. particularly than anyone in the USA has con- Also, George’s detailed cover- Jewish Holocaust Revisionism will tinued the good fight with a formi- age of the various court cases show remain impotent if it does not em- dable team of loyal professionals. how welcome this split must have brace some political program. been for the arch-enemy, in par- From Iranian students I Form ticular the Jewish Defence League- learned that in Iran all is religion JDL, and the Anti-Defamation The hard-cover 342-page book and all is politics. This was a re- League-ADL. It is therefore no has 19 chapters: Introduction – sponse I encountered when I dis- comfort for those who to this day The Far Right before Carto – Early cussed the four Kantian questions retain control of the IHR when in Years, Right – Uniting the Right – and their academic disciplines: defence of their actions of 1993 The Birth of Liberty Lobby – What can I believe? – Religion; they refer to various court cases Francis Parker Yockey and Im- what can I know? – Theory of and judgments that favoured the perium – The Turbulent Decade – knowledge/science; what can I do? IHR. Jews and others opposed to Youth for Wallace – The Spotlight – Ethics/Moral Philosophy; what is Carto’s world view could only – Opposition – The Institute for man – Anthropology? stand back and watch with glee as Historical Review – The Populist Willis Carto has always seen once-trusted employees turned on World View – The Populist Party – the larger picture of what is needed their employer all because a once The Rise and Decline of the Chris- to effect change so as to promote in a lifetime multi-million dollar tian Patriot/Militia Movement – societal development. From his bequest enabled them to dream of Internecine Battles: The Struggle early beginnings, especially after getting something for nothing. with the IHR – The Barnes Review returning from World War Two And, again, George in much – Death and Rebirth? The End of service, Carto did not like the way detail shows how Willis Carto the Spotlight and the Emergence of America was heading and what the bounces back from the stabs-in-the American Free Press – Conclu- USA was doing overseas, in par- back that he has had to endure sion: Willis Carto and the Postwar ticular in the Middle East. Al- throughout his life, something that American Far Right. though first blaming Standard unfortunately is characteristic of There are six pages of black Oil’s Rockefeller for the grief and white photos detailing aspects caused to the Middle East peoples, 12 much political life, comes with the roller flattened them – and subdues itself was considerably more com- territory, so to speak. them to this day with the Holo- plicated, and more comic, than The question arises where does caust-Shoah guilt-trip lies. that statement suggests. a man like Willis Carto derive the And for more details on Willis The second point is that per- strength to withstand such chal- Carto’s most productive life please sons who are treated negatively in lenges? The obvious answer is that read the book because it fills in the book, and I will mention here his personal world view is sound many gaps and dispels some ugly only Ted O’Keefe and Mark We- and correct, otherwise it would not gossip with factual material not ber, inform me that they were not be possible to endure such stresses available anywhere else. Michael interviewed by Professor Michael without becoming addicted to George has done an excellent job for their side of any particular is- some substance, and Carto is not in giving us a detailed portrait of sue, statement, or anecdote. Again, addicted to anything. Willis Carto, a concerned man of I have not yet read the book, and I However, there is someone in vision – I salute both. am not suggesting that Willis his life that has stood by him for Carto and the American Far Right 48 years, something that speaks for The book can be ordered directly will not be an interesting read for itself – his wife, Elisabeth, and from almost all of us. I am only suggest- those who have met Elisabeth The University of Florida Press at: ing that it appears that Professor know that she fulfils what is http://www.upf.com Michael George did not walk the summed up in the somewhat hack- white line down the center of the [Editor’s note] I have yet to neyed phrase: behind every great road when he wrote his book. I will read this book, but it sounds like it man there is a woman. In this case not insist that he was obligated to would be especially interesting it is a German woman who went do so. I am only suggesting it reading for almost all of us. I through the horrors that was World would be a good idea while read- would note only two things here. War Two, and who by going to the ing him to keep in mind where, Where Toben writes “Michael USA escaped the re-education apparently, his interests are. George treats in detail how in program that was imposed on the 1993 the IHR was stolen at gun- Germans as the victors’ steam- point …” I can say that the event

Letter to Manuel Talens

Israel Shamir http://www.israelshamir.net/English/Eng34.htm

Editor’s Note: Israel Shamir is the last. Moreover, the original law Varela is fascinated by his mem- a Soviet-born Jew who immigrated will be revoked.” ory, or by a memory of Genghis to Israel, joined the Israeli Defense Khan, or Napoleon? What is more Force, and left the army to become Here Shamir writes: important to you, a live Palestinian a world-class writer and polemi- [Manuel Talens, a Spanish child or a dead German ruler? Gi- cist. He converted to Christianity writer and a translator of some of lad Atzmon, whom you rightly and lives and writes in Israel. Shamir’s essays, broke his contact admire, called for unity; you bring In the December 2006 issue of with Shamir and called for a boy- strife. SR I reported on a story from El cott as Shamir’s books were pub- I do not enjoy being in the same Mundo, Madrid, regarding the out- lished by “Pedro Varela, a Span- trench (as you put it) with a Christ- come of the State prosecution of ish Nazi editor and a staunch de- denier like you, but political activ- the publisher and bookstore owner fender of Hitler’s heritage.”] ity is not Thai massage, and en- Pedro Varela for “holocaust de- Following is Shamir’s re- joyment is not the main point of it. nial:” sponse. For me, our struggle is not a social El Mundo reported: “Freedom activity; it is a battle for life and of expression cannot be denied Manuel, Your obsession with death. In this battle, you became a even to the Nazis. The first sen- Hitler leads you astray. He is dead, liability because you block my tence given in Spain for the crime don’t you know it? Who could message from reaching people. of genocide apology will also be possibly care whether Senor Why is Hitler so important to you? How do you survive in Spain 13 among people who supported than Hitler. “Hitler” is a generic Senor Pedro Varela for his noble Franco, a staunch ally of Hitler? name for an enemy of Jews, like stand against NATO, against Why don’t you object if an author “Amalek”. Your deadly fear of Judeo-American aggression in the of ours is being published by a Hitler makes you a weak link for it Middle East, for his courage, for Jewish publisher, say by the New (together with your denial of his readiness to deliver my mes- York Times, which is on record as Christ) indicates your submission sage to the people of Spain despite publishing texts favorable to to the Jewish ordered universe. police persecutions, for his love of Sharon? I care little about Hitler and Spanish history, Spanish people, I really could not care less Nazis, but I have a profound dis- and the Spanish church. Though about Hitler. I support a present trust of anti-Nazis, of these guys my uncles fought for the Republic, Hitler (according to the Chief who walk around with an Israeli though I did not hide my Commu- Rabbi of Israel), Ahmadinejad. I flag and demand kaffiyes to be nist sympathies, Varela did not run feel no qualms about yesterday’s taken off. Indeed a man who is away like you do. Hitlers, be it Saddam Hussein, scared by the name of Hitler My reference to Christ is not in Nasser (according to MacMillan) should stay out of the Palestine vain: He who befriended whores, or Yasser Arafat (according to Be- debate, for he will have to spend fishermen and tax-collectors is my gin). I was published in Russia by much of his and our time by re- guiding light; His enemies, the Stalinists, and you were told by peating that he is not an antisemite. Pharisees who were careful whose President Bush that Stalin is worse I admire my Spanish publisher company they keep, are yours.

This appears to have been a implying that reckless Allied force IN THE NEWS clear cut case of self-censorship. pushed Hitler towards genocide.

The station management did not On 09 April Robert Fauris- The New York Times: Churchill son was being interviewed by know what Peltier and Faurisson were going to discuss until it began emerges here as a most fascinating Martin Peltier on the Paris radio figure - impetuous, childish, blood- station Radio Courtoisie. It had to happen. And now Martin Peltier has been sacked. If you want a thirsty, fearless, insomniac, book- been carefully agreed that they ish, bullying, determined, to name would stay away from Holocaust copy of the French transcript it can be requested at just some of his characteristics ... denial itself and discuss only the 'Human Smoke' [by Nicholson world wide persecution of revi- [email protected] . Baker] will not be admired by sionists. They would stay within those who argue that methods used the legal limits set down by the New Revisionist History Chal- to win a war may seem, especially Fabius-Gayssot law. Radio Courto- lenges Widely Held Views. Initial to novelists writing more than 60 isie ( www.radiocourtoisie.net ) is reactions to Nicholson Baker’s years later, impossible to justify ... considered a voice for right-wing Human Smoke. He has produced an eloquent and French politics. passionate assault on the idea that Prof Faurisson managed to de- The Independent (Britain):.. the deliberate targeting of civilians tail his own persecution as well as Outbreaks of revisionist history are can ever be justified currently questioning the deepest that of the Swiss Amaudruz, Aus- beliefs about the past of countless The Los Angeles Times:.. Nichol- trians Honsik & Fröhlich, Germans citizens in France, Britain and the son Baker's new book, Human Zündel, Stolz, Rieger, the Austra- US ... The maverick American au- Smoke, is a meticulously re- lian Töben, the Greek Plevris, and thor Nicholson Baker has just pub- searched and well-constructed the French Notin, Plantin, and lished Human Smoke ... It presents book demonstrating that World Gollnisch. Then, 27 minutes into Franklin D Roosevelt and, above War II was one of the biggest, the program, which was scheduled all, Winston Churchill as racist most carefully plotted lies in mod- for 90 minutes, the interview warmongers, aggressive conspira- ern history ... Churchill is a domi- tors, and blood-soaked war crimi- nant figure in 'Human Smoke,' de- ended without any preliminaries nals. The book suggests that a ne- picted as a bloodthirsty warmonger and was replaced with the sound of gotiated peace with Nazi Germany who, in 1922, was still bemoaning classical music. would have prevented more misery the fact that World War I hadn't than it caused, and comes close to lasted a little longer ... People are 14 going to get really angry at Baker address the war crimes of those [Editor replies: Yes, I do agree. for criticizing their favorite war. who intentionally massacred And I also confess that this should But he hasn't fashioned his tale unarmed German civilians, that have been cleared up in SR 149, from gossip. It is documented, German filmmakers are becoming last month. Apologies.] with copious notes and attribu- willing to make films that glorify tions. authentic German military heroes, while at the same time those who *** Robert Faurisson sent still live their lives to promote the me a note via email in which he As Germany’s military “unique monstrosity” of the wrote: “Congratulations, old presence expands into combat Germans embrace their own new man, for that issue [#149] and, zones in Kosovo and creation, The Holocaust Survivor especially, for ‘the Lipstadt Afghanistan, the nation is redis- Cookbook. question’ and also for Thomas covering its military traditions Yummy. Kues’ article. Best wishes. RF.” and shattering generation-long taboos. I was a little surprised to see German filmmakers recently that Robert had referred to me as shattered a two-generation-long OTHER STUFF “old man.” It’s always been “Dear Bradley.” Robert is 79, a year taboo by releasing a movie that We made an error in repro- older than me. When I responded I openly glorifies the iconic hero of ducing the translation an article addressed the note with: the Second Reich—the Red Baron. on Georges Theil in issue 148 of “Thanks, Kid.” Baron Manfred von Richthofen— this Report. The translator But memory did not let it go the most successful German fighter writes to correct the record. pilot of his era—shot down 80 and after a bit I understood what Allied planes and killed an “Gentlemen: I've received SR was going on. When I was in Te- unspecified number of Allied 148 and must write about two heran in December 2006 I was told infantry. things therein regarding our friend Robert was there but that first day As The Telegraph says of this and comrade Georges Theil. I could not find him. The next film: The Red Baron portrays a Smack in the middle of page 3, just morning when I went down to brilliant and honorable military after note reference 1, we read that breakfast, crossing a series of icy figure whose life and early death in he's in jail. Not true: they so far walks in a light snowfall, and combat Germans can celebrate prefer to keep him guessing walked into the modest room without blush. whether they'll really lock him up, where we would gather to eat, I The Jerusalem Post notes that although they have the "right" to found Robert at table in his bath- books by historian Jörg Friedrich, do so. They've done this before robe with his brother Jean and who compares the Allied actions to with, notably, Jean Plantin: sen- maybe one or two others. Memory his nation’s atrocities during the tence confirmed but not carried has lost track of the others. war, are best-sellers. Friedrich’s out. Robert’s hair was thin and book The Fire: Germany Under “Then, p. 15, there's this: “THE white as the falling snow. He Bombardment, 1940-1945 focuses COURT HEREBY GIVES NO- looked frail and was slumped on his viewpoint that the Allied TICE that the present ruling is down in his chair. A little wave of bombings of Dresden, Hamburg, ‘not’ subject to appeal by either the anxiety lapped at my heart. We Cologne, Kassel and Wurzburg Public Prosecutor or the person were all glad to see each other. I were unnecessary massacres. convicted […] Again, not true. had never before met Jean, who is Retired Chief Commander of How dismaying for me, the trans- bigger and younger (I was going to the German Armed Forces, Klaus lator, to see that "not" where it make a joke and say prettier too Naumann, supports Friedrich’s shouldn't be! I certainly didn't put but I won’t) than Robert. As it views: “What you have to deplore it there (please refer to my sending happened, Robert left the table is that the British systematically of January 21). Whoever thought it first, and when I was alone with put the extermination of the belonged there and followed Jean, with some anxiety, I asked German civilian population at the through really ought to have asked him how Robert was doing. center of their war strategy.” me first, don't you agree? Jean looked at me question- “Cheers, GN” ingly. I saw that he understood I So we learn that German was concerned about something, historians are becoming willing to and that he had guessed what it 15 was. He assured me that Robert moment. The mother said; “Oh, extreme ferocity is intolerable from was fine, that of course he was how sweet.” Afterwards I realized the points of view of reason and older, but he was just fine. how careless and unthinking my morality, both … we cannot re- And as the days of the event act had been. Neither of the par- main our whole lives prostrate be- wore on, that’s the way it turned ents could have expected that I fore the diktat handed down by the out to be. Robert was full of en- would do that. I had not expected powerful and the [inaudible] they ergy, ever on the move, absolutely to do it. Last night at Zurdo’s, impose ….” clear headed, forceful in his inter- standing in line behind the man views with others, and was self- with the shaved head; I was alert Not bad, eh? Meanwhile, the confident and assertive when he enough to suppress my impulse to full transcript can be found at: spoke publicly during our get- lay the side of my face on his bare http://www.thecivicplatform.c together with President Ahmadine- skull. Which I think was quite the om/2008/04/18/english-translation- jad. He left Teheran before I left, right decision. of-prof-robert-faurissons-latest- but he took the time one day to ask When I tell a story like this radio-interview/ me if I still liked to ski and I had to one I am aware that in the eyes of I’ll make it available to those say I could not. A bad knee. And some it diminishes my public stat- of you who are not online. then the morning he did leave, ure, if I can use that term. Never- grinning with a happy, gentle ma- theless, if we are going to create a levolence, he mentioned to me that “human face” for revisionism, it is he was looking forward to playing my sense of things that it will not a little tennis when he got back to hurt for one or more of us to con- France. fess to our ordinariness, our fool- Bradley I can’t play tennis of course. ishness, in public. We don’t have

Bad knee. to pretend to be extraordinary folk And so it goes. to ask The Lipstadt Question, or to Smith’s Report ask if we should or should not ask is published by

it. We only have to be willing. Committee for Open Debate *** Last night I went to a taco stand near the corner where our On the Holocaust street runs into the Boulevard. The *** Martin Peltier on the Bradley R. Smith, Founder man standing in line in front of me Paris radio station Radio Cour- was a bit shorter than I am and had toisie with Robert Faurisson. I For your contribution of shaved his head. It was a normal had put this issue of SR to bed $39 head, not long or flat but nicely when I learned that there is a tran- You will receive 12 issues of rounded. I had an impulse to press script available of the 29 minutes my cheek against what I imagined of Peltier’s interview with Fauris- Smith’s Report. to be its smooth warmth. Even in son. With some 4,000 words, I In Canada and Mexico--$45 the moment I wondered, what the cannot summarize it here, but this Overseas--$49 hell is that? brief into to the language used by And then memory recalled the Peltier will give you a sense of Letters and Donations to: afternoon at the revisionist confer- how it was that day in the studio. Bradley R. Smith ence in Sacramento three years ago “ … today we won’t be speak- Post Office Box 439016 when I met a couple who are read- San Ysidro, CA 92143 ers of this Report and who had ing about your ideas or your work, their new baby with them. I don’t Professor Faurisson, because to Desk: 209 682 5327 recall now if it was a boy or a girl. speak of those has been forbidden Email: to us by law. But the manner in The mother was holding the baby [email protected] in her arms and when we greeted which you have been treated by the each other she sort of lifted the media and government agencies is [email protected] baby up so I could see it and with- disgusting and shocking … that a out thinking I put the side of my society which has made blasphemy face down on its warm head and a virtue and loudly proclaims its caressed it with my cheek for a desire for unrestricted liberty re- presses “incorrect thought” with 16 SMITH’S REPORT

On the Holocaust Controversy

No. 151 www.Codoh.com June 2008

Challenging the Holocaust Taboo Since 1990

WHO SHOULD WE ASK?

Bertrand Russell Helps Define the Campus Project

began 2008 Campus Project on 4 February with an 18-word letter to Emory University I professor Deborah Lipstadt: “Can you provide, with proof, the identity of one person killed in a German gas chamber at Auschwitz?” That was it. I copied the letter, with additional text, to her colleagues at Emory U. and the U. of Georgia, and to the Atlanta regional press. In the beginning I focused on the departments of history and journalism. Over the ensuing weeks I included faculty in German, Jewish studies, political science, and communications generally. Hundreds of academics at top American universities have received the question, in each case contained in a text that addressed a specific story on their campus. One day in April, while In the midst of these reflec- caust question and the Ameri- working with faculty lists at tions I came across a quote can academic class from the Barnard College in New York from Bertrand Russell in his philosophical perspective of a City, it occurred to me to begin Philosophy of Logical Atomism, Bertrand Russell! to include the department of which I have not read. It ap- At the same time, I’m a man philosophy in each of my pears that he writes, “The point who knows his limits. That is, I sends. Why not? The issue of of philosophy is to start with have a limited knowledge of making charges against others something so simple as to seem my limits. One example of this without being able to demon- not worth stating, and to end is that I am a man who likes to strate that the charges are true with something so paradoxical keep things simple. That raises philosophical questions. that no one will believe it.” At means, not too much informa- Questions of ethics. The ques- that moment I understood that I tion (at this moment, inside the tion of how we should live. am asking trained historians brain, there was a little flash What sorts of things actually and other academics a question where I saw an image of Robert exist (gas chambers?). What is that is so simple that no one Faurisson looking at the ground knowledge—for example, what appears to think it worth ask- and shaking his head with some does the “knowledge” of gas ing, a question that implies an despair, but smiling a little too). chambers really consist of? answer that is so paradoxical in Now memory recalls that in my What is the logic of assuming our present cultural context that introduction to Confessions of a something is true when you no one is willing to contemplate Holocaust Revisionist—and cannot demonstrate that it is believing it. You can probably this was twenty yeas ago—I true? And then the question of not imagine the happiness I felt wrote “My lack of faith in whether this kind of logic is to discover that I was, on my “wise.” own, approaching the Holo- Continued on page 7 1 sets of the IHR’s controlling main not only unanswered, but LETTERS corporation, the Legion for the unasked, by his partisans is

Ted O’Keefe Survival of Freedom, worth evidence of their shameful ne- probably in excess of $20 mil- glect of truth, historical and Fred Toben’s review of lion today. otherwise. George Michael’s Willis Carto Toben follows Michael in and the American Far Right in misstating the facts of the real Arthur Butz the May 2008 issue of Smith’s “coup,” when Carto tricked It is easy to pass by Jeffrey Report is, unfortunately, gener- IHR’s staff out of the office, Levine's comment (SR #150, p. ally an accurate reflection of and then, with the help of two 10) without realizing that he the book’s curiously uncritical goons (one of them black, and has given the whole game evaluation of Carto. thus probably not a Barnes Re- away. In reaction to your “one Biographer Michael, to view subscriber), hired in San person, with proof” question he judge by his reference section, Diego, entered IHR’s office and writes “… the people you are talked only to Carto and one or sought to hold several of the asking feel that asking the sim- two of his subordinates, and has staff against their will. Carto ple question you have demon- for the most part uncritically and his thugs had armed them- strates the attitude of a denier.” accepted their version of his selves with clubs, tree Of course he is right. Our subject’s life and works. Thus branches, and other weapons, position is founded on simple he has largely avoided consid- and I shall long remember questions whose very posing is eration of Carto’s activities as a warding off an attempt by tantamount to denial, since the wheeler-dealer, and under- America’s (the planet’s?) “su- answers are obvious or at least played his notorious affinity for preme” revisionist to brain me easily available. That is why foolish conspiracy theories, with a billy club. the question in itself “demon- including the ancient Romans’ Fifteen years after those strates the attitude of a denier,” alleged invention of Hebrew, events, Carto has never satis- and not the attitude of an ortho- the Rockefellers’ secret pur- factorily accounted for the dox historian. This is somehow chase of the entire Japanese missing millions. Just a fraction understood, albeit in a foggy economy after World War II, of that money could enable re- and unfocused way, by the or- and many, many more (Michael visionists to carry out the nec- thodox historians you have seeks to dignify these notions essary research tasks that Tho- been bugging, who like to con- as Carto’s “intellectual eclecti- mas Kues has catalogued, in the sider other sorts of questions. cism”). Unsurprisingly, a por- same issue of SR as Toben’s trait of Carto emerges that his review, as well as to aid belea- Ernst Ringer revisionist admirers, as well as guered revisionists in Europe “One name with proof.” his many revisionist detractors, and elsewhere. You’ve hit the nail on the head. will find difficult to recognize. The undeniable failings of You have created a condensed Even so, close readers of the IHR under Mark Weber formula! Some time ago Fau- Willis Carto will grasp how relieve neither Carto, nor his risson said: “Draw me a picture Carto’s Byzantine efforts to biographer, nor his followers of of a gas chamber. . . .” exercise tight control over his their responsibilities to histori- various organizations (and their cal truth. That the questions of Jack Roesner finances), while avoiding all whether Carto has squandered At the close of WWII I was legal and personal liability, re- the entire Farrel legacy, or stationed in Wiesbaden, Ger- sulted in Wily Willis, like Wile salted it away for his own use; many for nearly three years. I E. Coyote, stepping into thin air of whether he is intellectually was with the U.S.A.F. serving once too often. His loss of con- capable of recognizing and or- as a Medical Technician at the trol of IHR came after the staff ganizing real revisionist re- 495th Medical Group Station quite properly approached the search; or whether he merely Hospital. Wiesbaden was a IHR’s governing board with desires to devote all of his re- small town, known mostly for complaints about Carto’s busi- maining efforts to pander to the its exclusive baths and health ness decisions and legal mis- readership of The Barnes Re- spas. My job in the hospital takes, as well as questions view and Son of Spotlight, re- brought me into contact with about the disappearance of as- 2 nearly all the American civilian the crowd and enjoyed the rest rounding up the Jews and put- personnel in town, and all of of the afternoon with all the old ting them in gulags? the German personnel working folk, singing and drinking beer My wife looked at me and in the hospital. and laughing our insides out. thought for a moment. Then she We had a Jewish nurse in Many years later, after re- said: our dispensary from Brooklyn, tirement JACK: WHEN DID “Maybe it was Saturday N.Y. She took a liking to me YOU RETIRE??, I began hear- night when the Nazis went and invited me to a Passover ing stories about the Jewish through Wiesbaden and those Service. I am Catholic from the Holocaust. Every time I picked Jews were taking a bath? cradle and knew nothing about up a newspaper there would be Judaism. At the time I knew a story about the poor victims David Ririe nothing about the Jewish Holo- of the Holocaust. Six Million I note that your passion for caust. Jews gassed and cremated! the work, at least from outward When Helen and I arrived "Wow," I would think. "I appearances, seems to be grow- where the event was taking was there right after the war. ing with age as well as your place and I opened the door to a There was still a curfew and no innovative thinking about how large banquet hall, the quests fraternization. So how come at to approach the subject and stir inside immediately began the time I never heard of the thinking and possible debate on pointing at me and whacking Holocaust?" the mother of all questions fac- their heads. There had to be at I would recall the afternoon ing our collective historical least six hundred old folk sit- with Helen as we celebrated identity. I often reflect on the ting there drinking, laughing, Passover with hundreds of old revisionist movement as con- and having a great time. But Jews in that big hall in Wies- densation under a concrete why were they pointing at me baden. One day I asked my foundation, slowly working its and whacking their heads? wife: way into the cracks and crev- Helen chided me softly: “If the Nazis murdered six ices, eroding away the founda- "Put your hat back on, Jack" million Jews like the media and tion, until the cracks become I did, and the crowd imme- everyone says they did, how visible and the work of time diately burst into applause, did they miss all those old folks and concentrated effort finally clapping their hands and laugh- in Wiesbaden when they were brings about a most hopeful ing raucously. Then we joined change.

WHO’S NEXT?

Professor at University College London Fired for Publishing on CODOHWeb

The opening remarks an academic specializing in “Dr Kollerstrom, 61, an below are taken from an objec- astronomy, posted the article, honorary research fellow at tive article published in The ‘The Auschwitz “Gas Cham- University College London un- Jewish Chronicle by Daniella ber” Illusion’ on the website of til Tuesday, stood by the claims Peled, dated 25 March 2008 the revisionist Committee for this week, but expressed sur- Open Debate on the Holo- prise that they had caused of- “[A] University College caust. He claimed that only one fence. And he insisted the uni- London professor has had his million Jews died in the war versity ‘had not actually told researcher’s fellowship with- and that ‘the only intentional me what’s so terrible about the drawn after he published an mass extermination program in article.’ He complained that he article claiming that the gas the concentration camps of had been accused of ‘thought- chambers of Auschwitz never WW2 was targeted at Ger- crime’ after spending months existed. Nicholas Kollerstrom, mans.’ researching it. 3 “And he added: ‘If a smaller Ahmadinajad and stop paying not announced until Tuesday number were gassed, then it, because that funding pro- and he just said, “I’ve no idea.” surely the Jewish community vides undue motivation for Uh-huh. I think Rachel should be pleased that it wasn’t holocaust “memories.” Ger- knew before anyone else did, so ghastly.’ many is helping to maintain the and I also believe that she initi- “Dr Kollerstrom, of St holocaust legend, by thus aid- ated the whole thing, for the John’s Wood, North West Lon- ing the state of Israel.’” following reason. At the top of don, said he prefers to call him- this thread you can see that she self a revisionist rather than a ======linked my name with the phrase denier. Revisionists, he said, “holocaust denier” and directly In a post on the CODOH ‘want to look at European his- underneath put a link to the Forum Professor Kollerstrom tory without quite so much hate David Icke site. Now, for a gave us some of the background and bitterness.’ college science department that to what went down at Univer- “A UCL spokesman said: is a totally lethal combination – sity College London. ‘The views expressed by Dr as she well knew. When my

Kollerstrom are diametrically head of department wrote to me Dr. Nicholas Kollerstrom opposed to the aims, objectives on Tuesday informing me that and ethos of UCL, such that we On Tuesday 22 April, the I’d been rubbed out, he merely wish to have absolutely no as- UCL notice board announces cited that David Icke link. He sociation with them or with that my Fellowship has been didn’t have to explain any their originator. terminated (1). I’ve been an more. “‘We, therefore, have no honorary post doctoral fellow So, what’s all the fuss choice but to terminate Dr in the Science and Technology about, chaps? Well, glad you Kollerstrom’s research fellow- Studies Department for about asked. A year or so ago I posted ship with immediate effect.’ 11 years, after I took my PhD a couple of articles—carefully “A source at the university there. The decision was made researched, from months poring also said that there had been on Monday 21 April by my over books in the British Li- concern at opinions Dr Koller- head of department, Steve brary, every reference checked strom had expressed regarding Miller. —on the CODOH site (Com- conspiracy theories over the On Monday, not knowing mittee for Open Debate on the July 7 2005 London bombings this, I go round to a member of Holocaust). They were both and the terror attacks of Sep- the UCL personnel department about WW2, and, yes, maybe tember 11, 2001. His areas of who deals with complaints they were both a bit anti- research include Newtonian against members of staff to dis- establishment. One called for a theory and the 19th-century cuss the stories he’d heard. She re-evaluation of “the Holo- British discovery of Neptune. said she had not then heard of caust” based on chemical evi- He is also the author of a yearly any such complaints but would dence. (2) Well for God’s sake, guide to Gardening and Plant- let me know. Later that day she you reply, what did you expect? ing by the Moon, which con- received the complaint sent I there argued that the lev- tains chapters on ‘Using the against me by “Johnny void.” I els of cyanide enduring in the Star Zodiac’ and ‘The Moon heard about the decision on walls ruled out the option that and Crop Yield.’ Wednesday. the main “gas chamber” at “In another, he wrote: ‘The Rachel North (a London Auschwitz, which 30 million verdicts of Nuremberg were Blogger of some local note, and have trooped through, could made final and binding for the a front for the Holocaust Indus- ever have been used for mass post-war FRG [Federal Repub- try generally) knew two days gassing. I suggested that it lic of Germany]. Germany has earlier, and posted the news of really was what it appeared to since paid a hundred billion my position being terminated be in the design plans, viz., a Deutschmarks to Israel by way on her blog, Monday 21April. I washroom. Now, does that of Holocaust-compensation — asked my head of department make me a pro-Hitler white clearly, that needs to be re- how she could have known supremacist neo-Nazi, as loads funded. Germany should take about the decision when it was of websites—following Ra- the advice of Iranian leader chel’s example—now pro- 4 claim? I don’t speak German, how the delousing procedure Clearly, I have committed don’t go to Germany, nor have would have worked. Different thoughtcrime, and the Holy I ever had the remotest interest people have sampled the walls, Sanhedrin is out to get me. Did in Nazi philosophy. I would and demonstrated that they I cast doubt upon their Sacred however be into arranging a have three orders of magnitude Dogma? Note how I am mor- special holiday tour to Ausch- more cyanide in them than the ally damned on the UCL web- witz for conspiracy-theorists, alleged human gas chambers. site, as having been expelled and this tour would actually My statement in that essay for an unstated reason: visit the gas chambers! cannot be summarized by say- Quote: “UCL has been No, you say, now you’ve ing “no Jews were gassed”— made aware of views expressed gone too far! The gas chambers which is part of the character- by Dr Nicholas Kollerstrom. at Auschwitz, where the cya- assassination program against [His] views are diametrically nide gas was actually used, still me now going round the web— opposed to the aims, objectives exist, and have charming blue for example there could have and ethos of UCL, such that we walls, on account of their being been loads of carbon-monoxide wish to have absolutely no as- fairly saturated with the iron- gassings in lorries or wherever sociation with them or with cyanide, inside and out, on ac- you want them to have hap- their originator.” count of what happened there pened—traditionally one-third Have I done something ter- sixty years ago. Tours don’t of ‘the Holocaust. But I am say- rible? They will not tell me visit them. They are smaller, I ing that you cannot have mass what. Calmly I reply, that sci- mean big enough to fit mat- extermination by cyanide in the entific enquiry must continue tresses in, which is the sort of traditionally-designated “gas and not be impeded by preju- thing they were used for, as chambers” of Auschwitz. There dice and dogma. we’d nowadays use DDT. And is just not the residual cyanide they still have some of the in- in the walls to permit that. tricate apparatus in, showing

A Brief List of the Conveniently Deceased

Thomas Kues

elow I have compiled a The author of this article stein) area carrying false pa- B list of former NS bu- does not suggest that all of pers, Himmler was arrested by reaucrats and camp personnel them were assassinated. Some British troops on May 22, 1945. who died after the war in a of them may indeed have ended According to the official narra- fashion which could be de- their own lives, for some reason tive, Himmler committed sui- scribed as “convenient” to the or other. In any case, their cide late on May 23 by biting upholders and propagators of deaths no doubt came conven- into a cyanide capsule which he the officially sanctioned Holo- iently for certain people. It is had somehow managed to keep caust narrative. They are all my hope that this list will spur hidden inside his mouth for a individuals who must have had new research into some of the whole day, despite eating a insight into the truth regarding individual cases. sandwich and being searched the “Final Solution” and the • Heinrich Himmler (b. by his captors in the meantime. alleged gas chambers. A num- 1900) was the head of the SS • Richard Baer (b. ber of them are also known to and thus the highest responsible 1911) was commandant of have denied the existence of for the “final solution to the Auschwitz I from May 11, such killing facilities. Most of Jewish problem,” alleged by 1944 and of Auschwitz II the listed people committed orthodox historians to have (Birkenau) from the end of suicide, many of them under meant the physical extermina- 1944 until the evacuation of the mysterious circumstances. tion of European Jewry. After camp in January 1945. After wandering the Flensburg (Hol- the war he lived near Hamburg 5 under the assumed name Carl • Odilo Globocnik (b. Germany, where he was sen- Neumann, working as a for- 1904) was the SS and Police tenced to life in prison in 1970. ester. He was arrested on De- Leader of the Lublin District of While awaiting appeal he met cember 21, 1960, and soon be- the General Government and and talked to Jewish journalist came the main defendant at the responsible for the construction Gitta Sereny, who later pub- Frankfurt Auschwitz trial, then of the alleged “pure extermina- lished alleged transcripts of the in preparation. Baer, however, tion camps” Belzec, Sobibor, conversations in her book Into never testified before the court, and Treblinka. According to That Darkness (1974). On June since he died in his prison cell most accounts, Globocnik al- 28, 1971, the day after their last in June 1963. The cause of legedly poisoned himself with a conversation, Stangl suddenly death is variously given by his- cyanide capsule just after being died, allegedly from a heart torians as “natural causes” or captured by British troops in attack. “circulatory ailments,” but the Austria on May 31, 1945. Other • Gustav Franz Wagner autopsy did not rule out “inges- sources claim he was killed by (b. 1911) was reportedly deputy tion of an odorless, non- partisans or Jewish “avengers” commandant at Sobibor. After corrosive poison” (cf. W. in May or June 1945. the war Wagner migrated to Stäglich, Auschwitz: A Judge • Hermann Höfle (b. Syria and later, in the early Looks at the Evidence, pp. 233– 1911) was Globocnik’s deputy 1950s, to Brazil, where he lived 5). According to a brief article and responsible for deportations under his own name, working in the French right-wing news- of Jews to the Aktion Reinhardt as a farmhand. After Simon paper Rivarol Baer had denied camps. After the war he was Wiesenthal initiated a hunt for a any knowledge of homicidal interned by British forces but man falsely identified as him, gas chambers during his pre- soon released. He allegedly the real Wagner voluntarily trial interrogations. committed suicide by hanging handed himself over to the Bra- • Josef Kramer (b. himself in a prison cell in Vi- zil special police in São Paulo, 1906) was the commandant of enna on August 20, 1962, just on May 30, 1978. According to Birkenau from May to Decem- before his trial was to begin. an article in the newspaper ber 1944. In a lengthy state- • Irmfried Eberl (b. Folha de São Paulo, June 2, ment made by Kramer to his 1910) was the first comman- 1978, Wagner had stated to the British captors on May 22, dant of Treblinka and a former Police: “I never saw any gas 1945, Kramer explicitly denied euthanasia doctor. After the war chamber at Sobibor” (Eu nunca the existence of gas chambers Eberl practiced undisturbed as a vi nenhuma camara de gas em at Birkenau. Kramer was sen- physician in the Swabian town Sobibor). On June 22, 1979, the tenced to death at a trial con- of Blaubeuren. He was arrested Rio Supreme Court dismissed cerning his time as comman- on January 8, 1948 by the all claims for Wagner’s extradi- dant of the Bergen-Belsen American occupying forces. He tion. On October 30, 1980, camp. He was hanged on De- allegedly committed suicide by Wagner allegedly committed cember 13, 1945. hanging in his custody cell on suicide by stabbing himself to • Friedrich Hartjen- February 16, 1948. death in the bathroom of his stein (b. 1905) was, together • Franz Paul Stangl (b. rural home. The circumstances with Kramer, in charge of Birk- 1908) served as commandant of of the suicide have been enau from the end of November Sobibor from March to Sep- deemed suspicious even by 1943 to the beginning of May tember 1942, and as comman- some exterminationist writers. 1944. He was sentenced to dant of Treblinka from Sep- Brazil citizen and former Sobi- death twice: first by a British tember 1942 to August 1943. bor inmate Stanislaw Szma- tribunal on June 5, 1946, the After the war he was briefly jzner, who “confronted” Wag- second time by a French tribu- interned but released and fled to ner at the time of his arrest, has nal on July 2, 1954. None of the Syria. In 1951 he and his family let out that he “believes” that sentences were related to his migrated to Brazil, where Wagner was in fact killed by activity at Birkenau. He alleg- Stangl, living under his own Jewish “avengers” (Die Zeit, edly died of a heart attack in his name, worked at a Volkswagen October 11, 1991). The author Paris prison cell on October 20, factory. He was arrested in is currently researching the 1954. 1967 and extradited to West 6 Wagner case together with lo- widow was not informed about sion in order to not have his cal Brazilian revisionists. her husband’s death until June wife shot by Berg. • Kurt Bolender (b. 1948 (cf. Henri Roques, The • Herbert Cukurs was a 1912) was another SS posted at “Confessions of Kurt Ger- Latvian who allegedly partici- Sobibor. When arrested in stein”). pated in a massacre of 30,000 1961, he initially denied kill- • Alexander Laak, for- Jews in Riga. After the war Cu- ings at the camp. He is alleged mer commandant of the Jägala kurs lived in São Paulo, where to have committed suicide by camp in Estonia, where a large he was later “recognized” by hanging on October 21, 1966, number of Jews were suppos- two Jews and became a target just before his sentence was edly massacred, is alleged to of extreme harassment by the pronounced. According to the have committed suicide by local Jewish community. In American magazine Time, Bo- hanging in his garage in Winni- 1965 Cukurs was tricked into lender left behind a suicide note peg, Canada. A number of going to Uruguay, where he stating that he was innocent. Laak’s subordinates had at the was brutally murdered with gun • Kurt Gerstein (b. time been given harsh sen- shots and hammer blows from 1905) was an engineer and SS tences at a Soviet show trial. unknown perpetrators. His dis- hygiene technician who in Al- According to an article in Der membered remains were then lied captivity after the war Tagespiegel, September 8, sent back to his family in a box. claimed to have visited Belzec 1960, Laak had declared the According to the newspaper and to there have witnessed a Soviet allegations against him Folha de São Paulo, Cukurs gassing of Jews. He wrote a to be “99% lies and Communist had insisted to his family that number of “reports” concerning propaganda.” In Michael El- he was innocent of the allega- the alleged visit, which were kin’s book Forged in Fury tions. later presented as “undisputable (1971) it is claimed that a Jew- proof” of homicidal gas cham- ish “avenger” named Arnie Note: The above list should bers. On July 25, 1945, soon Berg travelled to Winnipeg to by no means be considered after the French started interro- kill Laak, and that Laak hanged complete. gating him, Gerstein was found himself under Berg’s supervi- hanged in his cell. Gerstein’s

BERTRAND RUSSELL continued from page one information would wring the proof” question to this or that regarding ethics are normative heart of the most advanced professor. and can be concerned directly computer.” Twenty years ago, It was odd that thought with action, such as making and here I am, keeping com- would come up with this idea charges against others that pany with the Bertrand Russells while composing my brief letter cannot be demonstrated to be in the highest altitudes of the to Dr. Shapiro, as there is no true, or address issues of Good intellectual life. religious faculty, or any other and Evil—they call this faculty, at the USHMM. I “metaethics”—the problem of Back on the ground here— would suppose it is overrun by forwarding{??} the “unique” within days, while composing a Jewish Patriots, but you do not monstrosity (“Evil”) of the letter to Dr. Paul Shapiro, direc- have to be religious to be a Germans while not being able tor of the Center for Advanced Jewish Patriot, as we can ob- to demonstrate the charge to be Holocaust Studies at the United serve in U.S. media and corpo- true is certainly a question our States Holocaust Memorial rate worlds, or in the U.S. Con- professors of religion should Museum, thought suggested gress for that matter. You don’t address. that I should include the reli- even have to be Jewish. So from here on out, they’re gious departments along with But why the department of in. Academics trained in those in philosophy and the religious studies? It is norma- philosophy and religion. The other faculties when I ad- tive to see ethics within a same question that goes to dressed my “one person, with religious context as well as a faculties in history, journalism, philosophical one. If questions poli sci and all the rest of them. 7 Keeping it simple, asking the sor Eric Weitz, chairman of the Chomsky appears to have same question of all, holding history department at U. Min- thought it wise to not commit the door open for everyone, nesota. Neither Professor Weitz himself. Reflecting on who we anyone, to answer. Simplicity or his colleagues saw the rele- should ask about this important and paradox. That’s me. vance of moral choice in charg- question, I decided to go to the I reported here last month ing Germans with killing a mil- top of the Holocaust food chain that I had addressed my “one lion or so folk at Auschwitz in America. I wrote Dr. Paul person, with proof” question to when they cannot demonstrate Shapiro, director, Center of Professor Michael Berenbaum, that one person was killed Advanced (advanced!) Holo- director of the Sigi Ziering In- there. caust Studies at the USHMM, stitute at the American Jewish I wrote Professor Noam and copied those whom he di- University in Los Angeles, and Chomsky of MIT, adding a rects at the Center. I also copied copied it to his colleagues second question to the first: the Shapiro letter to the relevant there. There was no significant “Professor Chomsky, do you faculties at Georgetown U., U. response. I addressed the ques- believe it is reasonable, or un- Maryland, Johns Hopkins U, tion, which addresses “The reasonable, to ask such a ques- Barnard College, Howard U., Connection between History tion as my ‘one name, with and others in the NYC-WDC and Moral Choice,” to Profes- proof’ question.” Professor region.

29 April 2008 gassed each day at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Po- land. Over a million Jews […] were killed there Dr. Paul Shapiro, Director by November 1944.” My plea, as it were, is that Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies you provide me the name of one person, with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum proof—one out of a million—who was killed in a

Dear Dr. Shapiro: gas chamber at Auschwitz. Michael Berenbaum, Director of the Sigi Zier- On 12 March I wrote to the USHMM Virtual ing Institute at the Jewish University of America, Reference Desk to ask for the name of “one writes: “… the Holocaust invites questions not person, with proof, who was killed in a gas answers.” I find it to be the other way around. I chamber at Auschwitz.” You can read the brief am invited everywhere to read answers about inquiry here: German gas chambers, yet no academic is willing http://bradleysmithsblog.blogspot.com/ (dated 08 to respond to my simple question about German March). It’s been six weeks now but I have not gas chambers. heard from the lady who runs the USHMM’s You are a major figure at an institution that’s Virtual Reference Desk so I am turning to you, funded with tens of millions of dollars yearly, director for the Center of Advanced Holocaust which has 21,000 “separate historical collections” StuDr.dies Shapiro:at the Museum. can you provide me with the of documentary materials, and houses some (did I name of one person, with proof, who was killed read this right?) 42,000,000 pages of documents! in a gas chamber at Auschwitz? I have asked It does not appear to me that I am being unrea- hundreds of academics at such institutions as the sonable when I ask the USHMM Virtual Refer- Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at U. ence Desk, and now the director of the Museum’s Minnesota, the Sigi Ziering Institute at the Jewish Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, to pro- University of America, at Columbia, U. Georgia, vide me with the name of one person, with proof, Emory U., Saint Cloud State, U. Wisconsin- who was murdered in a gas chamber at Ausch- Milwaukee, U. Colorado-Boulder, U. Kentucky witz. One out of a million? If you believe I am and so on, but those folk appear to be lost. being unreasonable, I am entirely willing to have I don’t feel that being “lost” on this question is you tell me why. a possibility for the folk who work with you at If you would just do it, I could put an end to the USHMM. In the Museum’s own Holocaust the matter now. You answer the question, or have Encyclopedia I read that “up to 6,000 Jews were someone at the Museum answer it, and I quit ask- 8 ing it. One name, with proof. In the interest of full Thank you for your time. disclosure, I should note that I will copy this let- Bradley R. Smith ter to other parties I believe might find it interest- Desk: 209 682 5327 ing.

BARNARD COLLEGE Wishing you best of luck in tracking down this idiot, I am, HOWARD UNIVERSITY I have yet to hear from Dr. Sincerely yours, Shapiro or one of his colleagues Professor Carolyn M. at the USHMM. One Barnard Richard M. Pious Byerly is with the faculty in College professor to whom I Adolph and Effie communications and journal- copied the Shapiro letter did Ochs Professor ism at Howard University in write me a nice note. I include Barnard College Washington, D.C. She wrote (in it here to give you the flavor of part): how top academics at our top “Mr. Smith: Your question universities and a simple, para- Dear Professor Pious (I re- probably isn't being answered doxical revisionist are able to sponded): Thank you for writ- by the Holocaust Museum desk communicate with one another. ing. I confess to an immediate because it appears to be asked attraction to a man with a sense in rejection of the holocaust of the comic, even when it is a rather than in a sincere effort to Dear Mr. Smith: I write to little too obvious. Nevertheless, learn something. Your reasons you with some alarm and ur- this is a serious business, and for such provocation are not gency. Someone who is clearly, the question remains. If we are clear to me. Neither do I know from the content of the com- to continue to exploit for our why you have copied your munication below [my letter own benefit the charge of query to Dr. Shapiro to many addressed to Dr. Paul Shapiro], “unique” monstrosity against on our Howard University fac- clinically insane, has sent me the Germans, and if we are go- ulty.” and many other individuals at ing to hook our charge on the I replied (in part) that it Barnard and Columbia an e- Auschwitz gas-chamber story, would be “provocative” to find mail, signing it with your name we really should have the name a Jeremiah Wright at Howard— and organizational affiliation. of one person, with proof, who or any other campus. As the Once you read this nonsense was murdered there in a gas Reverend Jeremiah Wright has I'm sure you'll be as appalled as chamber. One out of a million? it, the U.S. administration I was, but I do believe there is a I want to assure you that I nuked Hiroshima and Ameri- way for you to proceed against sympathize with your predict- cans “didn’t blink an eye.” I this crank. ament at Barnard and in the actually remember that day. I You can utilize the re- academic world generally. It is didn’t blink an eye myself. I sources of various anti- always difficult, and even dan- was only fifteen years old, but spamming and anti-nuisance gerous, to challenge a taboo. my mother and father did not organizations to track this per- It’s difficult and dangerous for blink an eye either. None of us son down and obtain his assur- those who live in a cargo cult, blinked an eye. We felt morally ance that he will avoid sending and as Orwell pointed out, it is justified in the mass murder of further idiotic e-mails to particularly difficult and dan- innocent, unarmed Japanese strangers using your name and gerous in a “free” society for civilians. We believed that the affiliation. That should mitigate those who are well educated. Germans were monsters, the the damage this moron has The name of one person, Japs were “monkeys” (I per- caused you. Don't you just hate with proof, and we can have sonally remember the language it when someone uses these done with this little escapade. and the drawings). That is the new technologies to borrow My best wishes. language we use against the another person's identity, and “other” to morally justify what then bother people with unso- Bradley R. Smith we do to them. licited communications? 9 Professor Byerly replied (in where I treated with this matter goggles “11 million” + Holo- part) that “as a child who lived in some detail. caust she finds 479,000 refer- in occupied Germany for a “I believe it is only fair— ences to this Germanophobic number of years, I visited the and we can be ‘fair’ to Ger- lie being exploited by Mr. Dachau camp when it was still mans, can we not?—to ask that Wiesenthal and, perforce, the mostly intact. As an eye- one American academic name Simon Wiesenthal Center itself. witness to that facility, I have one person, with proof, who “Wiesenthal may have always understood the Nazi was killed in a gas chamber at meant well,” Lipstadt writes, atrocities as a deep scar on all Auschwitz—or Dachau if you “but he created a historical of our humanity … The Ger- will.” monster that now is rooted in mans under Hitler were meticu- Professor Byerly did not what people think is fact.” Pro- lous record keepers, and there want to go on with it. fessor Lipstadt does not explain are voluminous records of who how Simon could have “meant was killed at which camps, well” by creating a “mon- what kind of property was con- he first week in May I strous” lie about Germans. fiscated, and so forth. It's all Tlearned that Emory U. When Lipstadt accuses revi- available, and it's very chilling. professor Deborah Lipstadt has sionists of “lying” about the The Holocaust Museums been on a European tour of Holocaust, an accusation she is around the world (several of sites associated with the Holo- addicted to, does she sometimes which I have visited) contain caust story and is now flying suggest that the revisionists records of various kinds to an- back to Atlanta. On the plane “mean well?” swer your questions.” she reflects on the fact that Meanwhile, Simon Wiesen- Simon Wiesenthal, the name- thal’s Germanophobic hate-lie I replied (in part): “You note sake of the world renowned about the “11 million” is just that you visited the Dachau Simon Wiesenthal Center in the tip of the iceberg. Professor camp when it was still mostly Los Angeles, was a liar. Lipstadt does not address the intact, and as an ‘eye-witness’ Lipstadt writes: fact that Simon was a serial to that facility you have always “Throughout the trip I kept liar, like so many other Holo- understood the Nazi atrocities pushing the participants— caust survivors. Simon has a as a deep scar on all of our hu- sometimes relentlessly—to stay well-documented but largely manity. What atrocities? You true to the historical facts … suppressed, record of deceit, do not say what you saw there. history is not something to be mendacity and prevarication, as “It appears from these brief played with. While we may all noted here. The link here goes comments that you are not have different interpretations of to an article in The Journal of aware that the ‘atrocities’ once history, certain facts are immu- Historical Review titled “Wies- claimed to have been routine at table and we cannot play with enthal Re-Confirms: ‘No Ex- Dachau are now known to be them to serve other purposes. termination Camps on German largely false, and the killings- … I gave them the example of Soil.’” in-gas-chambers charge is now how the late Simon Wiesenthal known to be a simple fraud. invented, without any basis in At the end of April I began Not a complicated fraud, but a fact, the notion that the Holo- hearing about a Holocaust con- simple one. There is no proof caust constitutes the murder of ference to be held in Sachsen- that one person was killed in a 6 million Jews and 5 million hausen, north of Berlin, treating gas chamber at Dachau, despite non-Jews.” the “denial” of gas chambers the claims of the U.S. military That is, Simon Wiesenthal and the “extermination” of and others.” I referenced a was a liar. I did a piece for the Jews and others. chapter in my Confessions Blog about how when Lipstadt

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EXTERMINATION IN GAS CHAMBERS IN NATIONAL SOCIALIST CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMPS:

Historical Significance - Technical Development - Revisionist Denial

“[One] central topic of the conference is the analysis of revisionist propaganda, which is increasingly turning its attention to the gas chambers in the concentration camps of the ‘Deutsches Reich’ and an- nexed Austria. For instance, the existence of the gas chamber in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp has been cast into doubt in various forms. [ ... ] The conference aims to cast light on the intentions and structures of revisionist campaigns in an international comparison and to develop counter-strategies.”

I had some interest in working to work with the conference, and leagues. I had never done anything the Conference, but there was al- told me how to get a list of foreign like this before outside America. most no information on its Web correspondents who were based in Very interesting. In the end I sent a page, and what little there was was Germany. In the end, he took care press release to some 370 foreign in German. And then something of that for me. And then we began correspondents working in Ger- interesting happened. A German in working up a list of academic his- many. The core of the text follows. Ukraine got hold of me, urged me torians in Germany, and their col-

[This letter was sent to the national and foreign provide such a name. Most recently we have written press in Germany on 9 May 2008.] Dr. Paul Shapiro, director of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Controversial Holocaust Conference Memorial Museum, asking that he provide us with the name of one person, with proof, who was killed in a To be held in Sachsenhausen gas chamber at Auschwitz. Dr. Shapiro appears unable to respond. More than one million innocent, unarmed civilians The purpose of this conference appears to be two- were murdered in gas chambers at Auschwitz—or fold. First, to question the motivation (“intentions”) of were they? On 15 through 18 May a Holocaust con- those scholars who question the prevailing academic ference is to be held in Sachsenhausen, north of Ber- history of the Holocaust. And secondly, to develop lin. There is a real story here. A story that can only “strategies” to further the suppression of revisionist come to light by conscien-tious reporting by profes- arguments by strengthening an academic climate in sional journalists. which open debate and a free exchange of ideas re- These “counter strategies” are directed against garding the Holocaust story will continue to be a revisionist scholars such as Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen crime against the State. Graf, Arthur Butz, and Robert Faurisson. However, There is a real story here—a story that is being these revisionists will not be allowed to participate in suppressed, censored, and driven underground the conference to defend their views. In fact, these throughout Western culture. You don’t have to be a men risk arrest, trial, and imprisonment if they so scholar to ask questions about the Holocaust. You much as enter Germany. Revisionist scholar Germar don’t have to be able to argue what is true and what is Rudolf is in a German prison today in Rottenburg, false about these gas chamber assertions. near Stuttgart, for questioning received academic As a journalist, do you agree with Germany’s opinion on gas chambers and other elements of the foremost historian, Professor Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Holocaust story. that imprisoning non-conformist historians is consis- Doesn’t this sound like a “strategy” that means to tent with intellectual freedom and a free press? reinforce the suppression of legitimate ques-tions, le- As a journalist, would you find it reasonable, or gitimate debate, about what happened during World unreasonable, to ask historians at this conference for War II? the name of one person, with proof, who was killed in Meanwhile, we have written to hundreds of aca- a gas chamber at Auschwitz—or at Sachsenhausen? demics at American universities asking them for the Bradley R. Smith name of one person, with proof, who was killed in a Desk: 001 (209) 682-5327 gas chamber at Auschwitz. None has been able to Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust 11 http://www.codoh.com/ Blog: http://bradleysmithsblog.blogspot.com/ “As a historian, do you agree with Professor Hans-Ulrich Wehler, that imprisoning non-conformist On 13 May we sent essentially the same press historians is consistent with intel-lectual freedom? release to those who we understood were going to “As a specialist in the field of Holocaust studies, speak at the conference, and to their colleagues, are you able to provide the name of one person, with including historian Richard Evans at Cambridge proof, who was killed in a gas chamber at Ausch- University, author of Telling Lies about Hitler: His- witz—or at Sachsenhausen?” tory, the Holocaust and the David Irving Trial (Lon- don, 2002) The primary change to the text is with the My best wishes, two final questions. Bradley R. Smith Desk: 001 (209) 682-5327

each month. At the same time, the rorism by the German government IN THE NEWS full texts of my letters to academ- in the territories occupied by its

Lady Michele Renouf in- ics and journalists are posted on forces. Millions of persons were formed me via email that on 04 my Blog. Because a good number destroyed in concentration camps, May Alan Dershowitz, the Har- of you do not go Online, or do not many of which were equipped with vard lawyer and professional much like to read there, I will gas chambers for the extermination Jewish patriot, had given a talk make the full texts of these materi- of Jews, Roma (Gypsies), and at the U. of Baltimore Law als available in printed form. Next members of other ethnic or reli- School, in Baltimore on the subject month. gious groups.” Hitler's Legacy: of Holocaust denial, and 34 min- Nuremberg Trials. http://www.- utes of it is on YouTube. During Greg Alan informs me that third-world-traveler.com/ Interna- his remarks he made reference to there is an important develop- tional _War_ Crimes/Hitlers-Lega- Ernst Zundel; Bradley Smith; ment coming to light about the cy-Nuremberg.html David Irving … and Robert Fau- alleged attempt of the Germans “The Nazi government had a risson. to “exterminate” the Gypsies of policy of deliberately targeting I was busy working on the Europe. This is important be- Jews, people of Jewish ancestry, Sachsenhausen Conference mail- cause, until now, this has always and the Roma (also known as Gyp- ing lists etc. and didn’t have time been at the heart of the extermi- sies) for extermination as a peo- to watch it for ten days or so. But nation story—the Jews, but not ple.” http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/ there he is, with all the charm, the Jews alone. Here are some Transwiki:Holocaust_denial initial references to the develop- good humor, and self- confidence The most important book was ing Gypsy story. of your most successful Germano- published in 2000, The Nazi Per- At the Nuremberg trials it was phobic Jewish Patriot, arguing that secution of the Gypsies, by claimed that the National Socialists in the camps the Germans mur- Guenter Lewy (New York and Ox- intended to exterminate Jews, dered the children first in order to ford: Oxford University Press. xii Gypsies, Slavs, and other groups erase the Jewish gene pool. I will + 306 pp.). Lewy’s book estab- which the Nationals Socialists al- have something for Professor Der- lished many important revisionist legedly felt were “undesirable.” showitz as soon as I finish this facts. Example: Pontus Hiort’s Most of the attention has been fo- newsletter. Meanwhile, I suppose “Review of Guenter Lewy, The cused on the Jewish part of the it is only natural for me to wonder Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies,” Myth, but the tales of extermina- why Professor Dershowitz would H-German, Hnet Reviews, June, tion of Roma and Slavs are inextri- mention my name for the first time 2001. http://www.-h-net.msu.edu/- cably intertwined with the tales of in years. Might it have something reviews/- showrev.-cgi?path= 326- the extermination of Jews. to do with the The Lipstadt Ques- 04996604903. “With respect to war crimes tion? Lewy does believe that some and crimes against humanity, the I suppose all readers of this Re- Gypsies were murdered in gas tribunal [Nuremberg] found over- port understand that the full report chambers, while asserting that “no whelming evidence of a systematic is now uploaded onto the Internet documentation exists that the Na- rule of violence, brutality, and ter- 12 zis possessed a blueprint for Gypsy said it was a detail.” He asked the extermination,” the author still It’s bad enough that David reporter if saying that it was a “de- stresses that his arguments should Irving lost a libel trial to Deb- tail” should have caused him to be not be viewed as an attempt to orah Lipstadt and her publisher, fined 150 million francs. It does downplay the “criminality and ut- Penguin Books. He lost most eve- appear to be a rather excessive. ter depravity of the Nazi’s actions” rything there, including his May- Earlier this year, Le Pen ap- (p.149). fair flat, which has been described peared in court again charged with Even so, Lewy is under attack as a 1-million pound establish- saying that the Nazi occupation of from Believers. One article enti- ment. Now he has lost a suit France in WWII was “not espe- tled, “Downplaying the Porrajmos: against an elderly lady who runs a cially inhumane. … If the Germans The Trend to Minimize the Ro- B&B where he had stayed as he had carried out mass executions mani Holocaust,” was written by did research in the National Ar- across the country as the received Ian Hancock. Professor Hancock is chives at nearby Kew. The lady wisdom would have it, then there a Romani rights activist and the charged that Irving was intemper- wouldn't have been any need for only Gypsy representative on the ate and rude. In truth, he has been concentration camps for political Board of the U.S. Holocaust Mu- known to behave that way. Irving deportees.” He was handed a three- seum. For what it is worth, Han- sued for 2,000 pounds charging month suspended jail sentence. cock alleges that Lewy is arguing: that he was unfairly forced to leave Le Pen’s fortunes have recently his quarters, but lost, and was or- slumped, and his party faces mil- 1) That there was no racially dered to pay the landlady 60 lions of euros in debts after losing motivated general plan for a Final pounds to cover her court costs. state subsidies thanks to its poor Solution of the Gypsy Question; Déjà vu all over again. showing in last year’s parliamen- 2) That the Nazis made a dis- But the tag line, as it were, to tary elections. He was forced last tinction between sedentary and this story is the real story. We are month to put his party's historic migratory Romanis in the East and reminded that David Irving, aside headquarters on the market to face between mixed and unmixed Ro- from his other remarkable accom- up to the financial crisis. manis in Germany, and spared plishments, is the best literary some from death because of this; writer—by far—among revision- 3) That as a consequence the ists and is working on his autobi- Sergei Mironov, the speaker estimated number of half a million ography provisionally titled As I of the upper house of Russia's Romanis murdered is a gross ex- Lay There Drowning. I don’t parliament, proposed on aggeration, and that “perhaps the know about you, but I expect it to Wednesday that Russia and Is- majority” of them in Germany ac- be a fascinating, beautifully writ- rael join forces to fight against tually survived, and weren’t even ten account of a unique life. Holocaust denial theories and transported to the East; and attempts to glorify Nazism. Fed- 4) Because there was no intent eration Council Speaker Mironov to kill all Romanis, and because Jean-Marie Le Pen, France’s is representing Russia at celebra- policies against them were not mo- National Front leader, has re- tions in Jerusalem to mark the 60th tivated by Nazi race theory, their peated his statement that gas anniversary of the founding of the treatment cannot be compared with chambers used by the Nazis were State of Israel. The Israeli capital that of the Jews and therefore they “merely a detail” of World War is also hosting a three-day interna- do not qualify for inclusion in the II. He said he did not “feel an ob- tional forum to mark the event. Holocaust—in sum because their ligation” to believe the standard “I believe it would be useful for treatment did not constitute a story about Auschwitz. “I observe Russian and Israeli envoys to the genocide and it was not motivated that in Auschwitz there was the IG UN to promote jointly at regional by a policy based on Nazi race Farben factory where 80,000 peo- and international parliamentary theory. ple worked. These workers as far and political forums efforts to fight Altogether, these observations as I know weren’t gassed nor manifestations of extremism and look to blow a real hole through burned to death.” attempts to rewrite history and glo- the mid-section of the orthodox When asked about the reality of rify Nazism,” Mironov said. He Holocaust story. Who would have the deportation and the extermina- also proposed establishing in Jeru- thought it? The Gypsies? tions he says: “This is not the salem an international center for

problem, I didn’t dispute it but I 13 cooperation among representatives involves, obviously, expense but Prison would be quite bearable, of different faiths. more relevantly, of course, the po- if it weren’t for the other prisoners The forum in Jerusalem fea- tential for significant loss of life,” who turn this entire predicament tured over a dozen heads of state McClelland said. into a constant torture. I had been and government, including U.S. chatting on and off with one fairly President George Bush, Ukrainian Germar Rudolf decent inmate from Switzerland, President Viktor Yushchenko and who was appalled by the clientele Georgian leader Mikheil Sa- [This letter, written by Ger- residing here, but he has been akashvili, as well as a number of mar to Paul Grubach, got to me transferred to a different part of the Nobel Prize winners, including ex- two days before I had to close this prison for open detention, so that U.S. Secretary of State Henry issue. I could not resist publishing opportunity to talk reasonably is Kissinger. Former British PM it here. It is a very simple look at gone for good. Now I’m back in Tony Blair and Mikhail Gorbachev everyday life in a contemporary the desert. are also attending. German prison. No drama, no Complaining about the restric- theater – other than the dramatic tions imposed on all of us regard- theatricality of the acceptance of ing the use of our private money to Australia is preparing to take what must be accepted.] recharge our phone account—we Iran’s president to the Interna- can use only some of 30 Euros of it tional Court of Justice for “in- May 10, 2008 per month—an inmate offered me citement to genocide” and Holo- Dear Paul. Thanks for your let- a cell phone, although they are il- caust denial. ter of April 25. legal in here. He even demon- Kevin Rudd made a pre- Since April 10th I’ve been strated it to me and let me find out election pledge in October that a working in a department which how much a call to the U.S. Labor government would use the assembles fluorescent lamps. It is costs. While discussing transfer- 1948 genocide convention to take mind numbing work, but with- ring the account to somebody out legal action against Mahmoud out it I could not buy much sup- in the free world who can recharge Ahmadinejad for threatening to plementary food and could not it for me, we realized that we need “wipe Israel off the map.” call my wife in the U.S., so it has a new card for the phone, which is “The Iranian president’s re- to be. At work an older inmate when I was told that this can be peated extraordinary statements, asked me if he could move into my organized within two days. The which are anti-Semitic and ex- cell, because he was annoyed by business made me increasingly pressing a determination to elimi- his current cellmate watching TV nervous, so eventually I backed nate the modern state of Israel all day long. After he agreed that down. A few weeks later we had a from the map, are appalling by any he wouldn’t smoke in my cell, that massive cell search in this build- standards of current international there would be no TV at all, and ing, during which some 9 cell relations,” Rudd told Sky TV on that he doesn’t snore, he moved in phones were found. It took only a Wednesday. “They are an incite- the next day. few days for new cell phones to ment of international violence.” During the first night it turned become available. Also on Wednesday, The Aus- out that he does snore all night That tells you something about tralian newspaper quoted Attorney long, and pretty loudly. It also how well the officials have control General Robert McClelland as say- turned out that he has his radio on over what’s going on here. I won’t ing: “The Government considers all day long, 24/7, which means: even get into drugs, but needless to the comments made by Iranian it’s running even all night long, say, several inmates keep soliciting President Ahmadinejad, calling for although with very low vol- me, some even bragging about the the destruction of Israel and ques- ume. Fortunately, I have some ear- broad range of drugs they offer. I tioning the existence of the Holo- plugs, so I can deal with it some- think there is no place in the world caust, to be repugnant and offen- how, but it is annoying. He will where illegal activities are higher sive. The Government is currently have finished his term in a few than they are here. At least when it taking advice on this matter. days, so I’ll be by myself again comes to drugs. Oh well, I stay out “The alternative to not using starting Wednesday next week, of it. these international legal mecha- only to be confronted with some The irony of it all is that prison nisms is considering wholesale other weirdo sooner or later. is supposed to prepare us for a life invasion of countries, which itself without crime, when in fact the 14 only thing you really learn here is out that this was probably not a Alas, I overdid it somewhere, how to become a professional good idea. The little camber which although I don’t know where, criminal, if you weren’t one when has been in my right foot is re- when and how. But at 43 I’m no arriving. duced considerably, if compared longer 20 and need to take it Security in this place is a bad with my left foot, and it hurts al- slowly. I must say, though, that I joke. There was some of this going most constantly. The physician suspended my exercise on a very on in Stuttgart and in Mannheim as said that I shouldn’t jog anymore high level, so high that I had de- well, but not to such an extent. The for the rest of my life and should cided not to increase the load any- problem I am facing is that my not stand or walk much for the more, because I started to worry mail is being censored because I next six months or so to let the foot about any detrimental effect it am not allowed to receive any re- recover somewhat. I should focus could have if I went to more ex- visionist, right-wing, anti-Jewish on cardiovascular activities like tremes. So it’s probably a good or similar stuff. But looking at cycling, rowing, and swimming. thing to take a break and enjoy the some of the printed matter I have Well, it’s as if I had known this summer sun for a month or two. I received over the past 8 weeks or all my life, because that’s what keep doing my sit-ups, though, so, I must say that this censorship I’ve been doing since I turned because my back and ab muscles isn’t working either, because as 18. Alas, no such things to be had don’t ever seem to let me down, soon as incoming mail is in the here, so I guess I have to sit it out plus they are the most important English language, nobody seems to and wait for freedom to return. The anyway right after the heart, par- bother anymore. So I’ve been re- few training bikes they have I can- ticularly for a guy of 6 ft. 5. ceiving material from Frederick not use right now, because they are Many, if not most inmates have a Toben, from some U.S. radical reserved a) for inmates waiting for backache of some sort at some Muslim group, and from some die- work, b) for inmates who have time, because nobody has proper hard Confederates in Alabama, all signed up for special sports beds, chairs, tables, etc, but at least having tough material on Jews, groups. I’ve signed up for them as in this regard I’ve had no real including Revisionism. well, but the waiting list is 2 inches problems so far. I brought this to the attention of high, the official in charge said, so In Mannheim earlier this year I the official in charge of security, maybe next year… had such a phase, so the doc sent but so far to no avail. What did My cell workout has been sus- me to a physiotherapist. She had happen, though, is that a letter I pended as well, because my right some 6 inmates there all complain- wrote to a German supporter of breast muscle started acting up ing about backaches, but when she mine, describing these ridiculous again a few weeks ago after over- had us do some exercises, she said security gaps, got confiscated be- doing pushups—it’s the old injury to me that I am supple like a snake cause, so the prison claimed, I from volleyball from August last man and overly exercised. That made grossly untrue statements year. Plus my left shoulder hurts as was the trouble. I stopped doing about the prison. So it seems to me well as my right wrist, the latter any exercises for a few weeks, and that security issues here are solved from completely unknown and that put a stop to my mild back- not by addressing the issues but by obscure reasons, the shoulder, ache. So if I’m doing anything sweeping them under the car- however, I blame on a combination wrong, it’s that I’m doing too pet. But then again, I’m not sure of my own stupidity and the bad much. Seems to be my nature. Not exactly why my letter has been influence of working out with just when it comes to sports. Over- confiscated, because they won’t friends. I overstretched my liga- achieving everywhere… tell me. I only know that it is said ments in the left shoulder in late That’s all from here. You can to contain some untrue statement. spring 2004. I always had a weak convey this letter to the net com- As to my physical shape, it left shoulder, so I stayed away munity if you wish. seems that my right foot has caved from doing extreme triceps exer- in. Fact is that I always had flat cises like dips, but some pals con- Germar Rudolf, feet and that I never ran or jogged vinced me to do them anyway, Schloss 1, D-72108 much in my life, to my feet’s ad- which, led to my upper arm bone Rottenburg, Germany. vantage. It changed in here be- conking out of the socket. Ever cause there aren’t any bicycles or since, all I can do is stabilize the swimming pools in prison, so I had joint and be careful. OTHER STUFF to start running, I thought. It turns 15 Thomas Kues asks if a question. I didn’t understand the have a family to take care of. German revisionist was mur- full range of possibilities. I didn’t Please stay with me. dered in 1984? fully understand the simple pro- It is well known that French fundity of the question. revisionist historian and politician Now, after addressing The Francois Duprat was murdered Lipstadt Question to hundreds of with a car bomb in 1974. The academics, journalists, and Holo- Bradley anonymous Jewish terrorists who caust “experts,” and seeing the boasted about killing Duprat and handful of weak, uninformed re- severely injuring his wife were sponses I have received, I under- never apprehended. In his fore- stand that we are onto an outreach word to J¨¹rgen Graf's book Holo- project here, the possibilities of Smith’s Report caust or Hoax? The Arguments, which are unmatched by any that is published by Mario Consoli mentions this cow- we have ever carried out before. Committee for Open Debate ardly assassination, as well as the Space does not allow me to go into On the Holocaust detail here, and while there is no murder of "revisionist Prof. Bradley R. Smith, Founder Hermann Grive" in Cologne in use in telling our friends on the

1984. This brief mention caught other side what I am going to do For your contribution of my interest since I had never be- before I do it, I can say that I will $39 fore encountered the name of continue to forward my outreach to Hermann Grive. academics and journalists, and will You will receive 12 issues of For quite some time I have begin to add students and media Smith’s Report. into the mix. tried to find more information re- In Canada and Mexico--$45 garding this incident (Consoli does The simplicity of the project, not provide a specific date) but as in association with simple profun- Overseas--$49

dity of its core question -- and of yet my attempts have proved Letters and Donations to: futile. Trying to search for the wonder of wonders -- its cost ef- name (including variants) online fectiveness, is opening the door to Bradley R. Smith gives either no relevant hits or any a revisionist challenge of Holo- Post Office Box 439016 San Ysidro, CA 92143 links to Consoli's foreword. Nei- caust orthodoxy in a way that has ther have attempts at finding never been possible for us before. Desk: 209 682 5327 Grive's name in an old academical Because of the cost effective- who-is-who's rewarded me with ness of this project, the fact that it Cell: 619 203 3151 any results. utilizes email and the Internet in a Email: Who was Prof. Grive? What way that revisionists have never [email protected] before utilized it, the possibilities was the extent of his revisionist [email protected] activity? Was his killer or killers for outreach are enormous. While ever apprehended? I would be very the concept is powerfully simple, grateful if any reader of Smith’s and while I can manage the evolu- Report with insight into this case tion of the concept, I will need would share his or her knowledge help in developing and maintaining with us. the relevant (huge) email lists. This side of the work is not at all com- plicated, but it is very involved and As noted early on in this issue of time consuming. And I have to pay SR, I wrote Emory professor Deb- for it. orah Lipstadt to ask her for the Please stay with me here. This name of “one person, with proof” project has a tremendous outreach on 4 February. An eighteen-word potential, far beyond anything any letter. That was the beginning. of us have ever done to date. It is Four months ago. I had no idea in truly cost-effective, but it is not February how far I might be able free. I have people to pay, and I to take this project, this simple 16 SMITH’S REPORT

On the Holocaust Controversy

No. 152 www.Codoh.com July 2008

Challenging the Holocaust Taboo Since 1990

ONE NAME WITH PROOF

The Campus Project

PROFESSOR ALAN DERSHOWITZ

ady Michelle Renouf question the gas chambers, and no Dershowitz’s talk featured two Lalerted me to the fact that one takes them seriously. Thus of the monstrous crimes committed Harvard professor Alan Dershow- they play no role in the “conversa- by the Germans. Germans rounded itz had twice mentioned Ernst tion” about the Holocaust on cam- up all the Rhodes Jews, simple Zundel and me during a talk he pus or anywhere else. farmers and a community beloved gave on “Holocaust denial” at the Those who do not deny the gas by those among whom they had University of Baltimore School of chambers but at the same time lived for close to 2,000 years, Law on 04 May. She gave me a “minimize” the Holocaust, particu- shipped them by boat and train to link where I could view 34 minutes larly by questioning the value of Auschwitz where they were all of the talk on the Internet via eyewitness testimony, are the most killed. “All of them.” And then YouTube. I was busy with other difficult to deal with because these Dershowitz talked about how it stuff and didn’t look at it for a folk in the main are academics and was the children who were killed week or so. It’s a straightforward are, in fact, part of the conversa- first at Auschwitz. Always, the talk by a gifted and occasionally tion about the Holocaust. These children came first. The purpose charming fellow committed to the “minimizers” who dismiss much or was to destroy the genetic future of concept of the “unique monstros- all of the survivor eyewitness tes- the Jewish people. Get rid of the ity” of the Germans. The talk timony, must be taken seriously genes, you have gotten rid of the compromises him intellectually because they are in academia and Jews. and spiritually in interesting ways. include the likes of Norman As O’Keefe pointed out to me, Dershowitz divides Holocaust Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, Raul the obvious did not occur to this “deniers” into two broad catego- Hilberg and various Israeli aca- Harvard professor. If the Germans ries, those who deny the gas demics, among others. Dershowitz had wanted to destroy the Jewish chambers, and those who do not. does not refer to the fact that all gene stock they would have killed Early on in the talk Dershowitz eyewitness survivor testimony the “breeders” first – those who names Zundel and Smith as exam- about gas chambers has been were actually capable of transmit- ples of those who deny the gas shown to either be false, or testi- ting their genes to their lady chambers. They are very foolish mony that cannot be proven to be fellows, because only fools would true. No exception. Continued on page 3 1 dent, under the headline “Kohl- why didn't they use the advanced LETTERS Shamir: le courant passe” (Kohl- chemical weapons they had?

Shamir: the two get on well; Janu- Of course, the counter- Robert Faurisson ary 26, p. 4). It will be noted that argument is, the Germans weren't

Smith’s Report of June is re- Professor Greive, far from being a wedded to the idea of poison gas, markable. I shall go back to it next revisionist, had committed the sole just killing Jews, and poison gas week when I’ll be home. Mean- offence of being German and turned out to be more "efficient." while, I wish to answer Thomas teaching Judaic theology. After the But of course, the poison gases the Kues’ question about Hermann subheading “Rassurer” (to reas- Germans are alleged to have used Greive on page 16 of SR. sure) could be read these lines, in were hopelessly inefficient. This The professor was Hermann which I emphasise some words: raises the question as to why the Holocaust narrative is so based on Greive (not Grive) [this was an However, a pall was cast over poison gas. error made by Smith]. He was as- the occasion [of Kohl’s visit] In The Gas Chamber of Sher- sassinated on January 25, 1984 by by the tragedy at the Univer- lock Holmes Crowell explored this a Jewess in Cologne. He was not a sity of Cologne’s Martin in more detail in some of the later revisionist. The Jewess said she Buber Institute, where a fe- chapters. But basically the idea is could not stand the fact that a male Jewish student, firing the same: the notion of poison gas German would teach Jewish theol- gunshots at professors of non- was "in the air" so to speak for ogy. In March 1984 I wrote an ar- Jewish origin, killed one of many years prior to the Nazi pe- ticle on Céline in which I men- the great German specialists riod. It was "in the air" when Jews tioned that story to show how he of Judaism, Professor were being deloused as far back as was right about the Jews. If ever Hermann Greive: it was he the 1880's. It was particularly "in you are interested, you may ask who discovered the three un- the air" because the German GN to translate for you p. 486 of published letters of Theodore chemical industry led the world, my book Ecrits révisionnistes Herzl that Mr Kohl today of- and, for reasons of protecting pat- (1974-1998) from “En Allemagne, fered to the memorial dedi- ents, was highly secretive. une étudiante juive...” to cated to the Zionist move- Example: the chlorine used in “...responsabilité historique [etc].” ment’s founder. The perpetra- World War One was a byproduct [In the event, I did ask for a tor of the crime would appear of the Haber-Bosch process for translation of Faurisson’s article, to have been fanaticised by a nitrogen fixation, i.e., using high and I was sent these excerpts.] stay with an orthodox Jewish pressure to make ammonia, some- community in Jerusalem. This thing which won those two guys a misfortune seems unlikely to On the murder of Professor Nobel prize because it helped feed disturb the trust that the Hermann Greive (from Prof. the world (as fertilizer), and, inci- Chancellor has sought to con- Robert Faurisson’s article “Préci- dentally, for weapons as well. As I vey to his [Israeli] hosts. On sions sur Céline devant le men- recall, the Germans successfully the contrary: he has reas- songe du siècle” in Le Bulletin cé- defended their patent on the sured them, explaining that linien, Brussels, March 1984, p. 5- Haber-Bosch process after World the Germans have no inten- 7; reprinted in R. Faurisson, Écrits War One, thus tending to increase tion whatsoever of shirking révisionnistes 1974-1998, p. 483- suspicions about the miracle work- their historical responsibility 486) ing of the German chemical indus- [etc.]. try. “In Germany just recently, a There were already suspicions female Jewish student murdered about German chemical weapons Professor Hermann Greive. It hap- Ken Alsworth for the next war in 1921, when pened in Cologne on January 25, "The Riddle of the Rhine" was 1984. Not a word in the French You asked for some feedback written. You can do a search on press, apart from one exception on Widmann’s poison gas article: the Sherlock PDF for more on the worth mentioning for its manner, [see below—ed.] I thought it was above. tone and context: the article in Le good. The basic concept is this: If So, why the fixation on "poison Figaro by Jean-Paul Picaper, the the Germans wanted to exterm- gas"? Simple. The Germans were paper’s special Israel correspon- inate the Jews with poison gas, 2 supposed to be efficient, diaboli- ever. I mean, if you want to main- to, say, partisan or retaliatory kill- cally clever, and fixated on killing tain that the Germans killed "all ings). So you end up with the as- Jews. Not just killing Jews, but the Jews" (representative number: sembly line of death concept. killing ALL the Jews. So what six million), then you have to have Of course the Holocaust gas- kind of method would lend itself to an efficient method that reflects sing story -- which is really what that, in the popular mind? Poison German cleverness yet at the same revisionism is about -- is [expletive gas. Cremation ovens. The "Ger- time allows every single Jewish deleted]. I wonder how long before man method" of packing people death to be (a) a murder, and (b) someone in the establishment calls 500 to 10 square meters, or what- totally unambiguous (as opposed a spade a spade.

ONE NAME WITH PROOF Continued from page 1 friends in a historically normative 180 of his colleagues at the Har- well as the killing-the-children- manner, rather than saving these vard Law School and to other aca- first accusation, but decided to fo- folk as “workers.” demics on that renowned campus. cus on one of his bloody fantasies I emailed Professor Dersho- In the first draft I thought to in- rather than both. witz and copied my letter to him to clude the Rhodes Jews story as

Alan M. Dershowitz Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law 19 June 2008 Harvard University

Dear Professor Dershowitz: that the gas chambers did not exist, chambers so important?” And you and does not make a claim that the respond to your question by say- I watched you speak (thanks to “Holocaust” did not happen. It is a ing: “If there were gas chambers, YouTube) on 04 May at the very simple, direct question. To everything else from the [Holo- symposium titled “Defending date, not one academic has pro- caust] narrative follows.” The im- Truth: Legal and Moral vided me with such a name, and plication is, if there were no gas Imperatives of Holocaust Denial.” none has attempted to do so. chambers, everything else in the I understand that the event was For example, I have written the Holocaust narrative would “falter.” organized by the U. of Baltimore Director of one of the agencies that I think you are right about this. School of Law and the U.S. sponsored the symposium where In your talk you speak mov- Holocaust Memorial Museum’s you spoke, Dr. Paul Shapiro, direc- ingly, and I believe sincerely, Center for Advanced Holocaust tor of the U.S. Holocaust about the “importance” of the mass Studies. Memorial Museum’s Center for murder of Jewish children in the I agree with you that questions Advanced Holocaust Studies. genocide of the Jews. You argue about the Holocaust should be Could he provide me with the that “the children had to be killed open to the “marketplace of ideas.” name of “one person, with proof first” because they were “the ge- Since February I have been asking …” He has maintained the same netic future of the Jewish people.” academics to provide me with the discreet silence in response to this And: “They were the genes. That name of “one person, with proof, simple inquiry that most all others was the genocide.” who was killed in a gas chamber at have used to – how shall I put it – Professor Dershowitz: can you Auschwitz.” The first professor to to perhaps evade the question. provide the name, with proof, of whom I addressed the question In your talk at the U. Baltimore one Jewish child who was killed in was Deborah Lipstadt of Emory symposium you suggest that Holo- a gas chamber at Auschwitz? U., the lady whose virtues you caust minimizers like Hilberg, Professor Dershowitz: do you speak of with such enthusiasm dur- Chomsky, and Finkelstein are believe it is morally right for aca- ing your talk. In the event, Profes- more difficult to deal with because, demics to forward the charge sor Lipstadt did not respond. unlike straight out “deniers,” their against Germans of having mur- Since then I have asked hun- writings are not based on “the exis- dered a million or so civilians in dreds of academics that one ques- tence or non-existence of gas gas chambers at Auschwitz, and at tion. The question does not claim chambers.” You ask, “Why are gas the same time act out the role of 3 “bystanders” by refusing to com- Thank you for your time. vard Law School and to other par- mit themselves to providing the ties who I believe might be inter- name of one person – one child or Bradley R. Smith ested. one adult, with proof – who was murdered in one of those rooms? NOTE: I will copy this letter to some of your colleagues at Har-

ow I see that Dershowitz challenge. When the IHR's chief the idea. It would have been fun, N has mentioned me a sec- spokesman, Bradley Smith, invited but $220,000? I don’t think so. ond time. Why would this be? The him to debate the issue, Mr. Der- Now I have in fact invited Der- discipline of the Lipstadts and showitz responded that he would showitz to what could become a Dershowitzs is to not mention do so -- but only as part of a series debate. I have written him directly. Smith or CODOH in any context that would include the questions of I have asked him to provide us whatever, as it only gives us pub- whether slavery existed in the with the name of one Jewish child, licity. The latest Dershowitz com- United States or Elvis Presley were with proof, who was killed in a gas ments appeared on AISH.COM still alive or the Earth is flat. chamber at Auschwitz. He doesn’t Web site, a large, sophisticated "’That is the company of crack- have to do anything complicated page on the World Wide Web run pot 'ideas' into which Holocaust such as prove that the earth is not by apparently observant Jews—I denial comfortably fits. [Mr. flat, or that slavery really did exist say “apparently” because there is a Smith] knows he cannot win, but in America, or demonstrate that the lot about this site that is not en- he would like to be able to say that foolish rumor about Elvis Presley tirely clear to me. Including simple Alan Dershowitz regards the issue being dead is actually true. things like who runs it. There is no as worthy of debate.’” No, no, no. All I am asking for normal Home page. I do find that it This interview is odd in more is the name of one Jewish child, is set physically in New Jersey, way that one. with proof, who was killed in a gas which means very little to me. I have not been a spokesman chamber at Auschwitz. Easy! In an undated interview, with for IHR for some 15 years. And then there is another ques- no author listed, Professor Der- IHR did not fund my ads in tion. Dershowitz brings up my showitz is interviewed on the issue campus newspapers. CODOH name during a talk to law students of Holocaust denial. Dershowitz funded them with the help of one at U. Baltimore. Within a couple and the AISH.Com people speak primary contributor. weeks a Jewish religious Web site of me as still representing the Insti- I don’t recall asking Dersho- publishes an interview with Der- tute for Historical Review, witz to “debate.” I believe I would showitz where he addresses the whereas that formal relationship remember it. problem, as he sees it, of my Cam- came to an end about 1992. Here is I do recall writing Dershowitz pus Project. He mentions the early part of the text of the AISH.Com in 1993/94 that I was going to sue Campus Project, but does not men- interview: him for writing an article pub- tion the new Campus Project “Mr. Dershowitz, too, has been lished on the front page of The where hundreds of academics have active on college campuses, where Daily Texan in which he accused been asked to provide the name of he sees Holocaust denial and me of being an “anti-Black racist.” one person, with proof …. Der- minimization increasing. ‘When a I wrote him to state that, aside showitz has gone fifteen years denier speaks on a college or uni- from the fact that I am not one, I without mentioning my name. versity campus,’ he said last De- had never written a word about Now I find that he is thinking cember in a pod cast for the U.S. Blacks as a people from any per- about me. I don’t believe he wants Holocaust Memorial Museum, ‘I spective whatever. I received no to be thinking about me. see that as an opportunity to edu- response from Dershowitz, and Just one name, Professor Der- cate students instead of trying to when I looked into the matter of showitz, with proof, and we’ll be ban the speaker.’ suing I discovered that it would done with it. “The Institute for Historical take about $220,000 to get the suit Review, which places ads in col- of the ground. Still being a rela- lege newspapers seeking to refute tively rational person, I dropped the Holocaust, presents a different

4 HISTORY NEWS NETWORK

The last week in May I was the Truth About the American --- yes, or no. Not one would say browsing through History News Voter. that the slaughter of the Egyptian Network (HNN), the Web site es- I emailed Professor Rick children by the Jewish God could tablished “by historians for histori- Shenkman to ask what the problem be morally justified, and not one ans,” when I found that my posts was. He replied that my posts were would say that it could not be were being deleted. The first place deleted because they were in viola- morally justified. I discovered that I was being “dis- tion of HNN’s “civility rules.” I “And this is where it finally appeared” was in a back and forth figured it was because of the dis- caught my attention. If you are a I participated in addressed an arti- cussion of Rabbi Blech’s Miracle Jew and you do not believe the cle posted on HNN and written by of Jewish History. It was the last Exodus story is ‘history,’ and you a Rabbi Benjamin Blech. Rabbi serious discussion I had taken part say so, you undermine the Benjamin Blech is Associate Pro- in. I could even see how my re- authority of the Bible, which in fessor of the Talmud at Yeshiva marks could be judged to lack “ci- turn undermines the moral University and the author of Eye- vility.” justification for the Jewish witness to Jewish History (Wiley, Rabbi Blech writes: “It is the conquest of Palestine. If you are a 2007). “The Miracle of Jewish Jewish Bible that introduced the Jew and you are religious, and you History” is taken from that publi- commandment to remember: Re- do believe that the Torah is the cation. It is an over-the-top, un- member the Lord who took you ‘Word of God’ and that the usually gushing article about the out of Egypt, the house of bondage slaughter of the Egyptian children wonder of Jewish “history” over [ … ] Remember …” And he for the greater good of the Hebrew the last 3,000 years or so. I re- wrote about how the event is children was morally justified, you ported on this in issue 143 of “celebrated” each year in obser- are holding God to a lower Smith’s Report. Last October. vant Jewish households. standard of morality than the one The editors at HNN had never On HNN I asked why our to which we ordinary folk attempt before deleted a word I had writ- Rabbi Blechs would want to “cele- to hold ourselves to. You therefore ten. I had never been warned that brate” for 3,000 years an Exodus undermine the authority of the what I was writing was too radical story in which God killed the first- Torah, of the Old Testament, for HNN. Not a hint. But there it born of all the ladies of Egypt to thereby undermining the moral was. An 18,000 word exchange benefit the children of the Hebrew justification for the Jewish with some sophisticated academics ladies. I asked how he could “mor- conquest of Palestine. absolutely gutted. ally justify” such mass murder. I “What is at stake here is to not The founder and editor of His- volunteered the view that for me, it undermine the moral justification tory News Network is Professor was a pretty tacky story. Now, for the conquest of Palestine by Rick Shenkman. According to his thinking of Shenkman’s remark European Jews following WWII. bio on HNN he was educated at about “civility,” I could imagine That’s the long and short of it. Vassar and Harvard, and is a Fel- how this might offend the “civil- David Lieberman, E. Simon, low of the Society of American ity” rules of HNN. But that was six Elliott Aaron Green, and the Rabbi Historians. He is an associate pro- months ago and there hadn’t been Benjamin Blechs are simply fessor of history at George Mason a hint of a problem. In SR143 I Jewish cultural patriots. Whatever University. He gives lectures at wrote: works for Jews, works for them. colleges around the country on Believing doesn’t matter. Not such matters as American myths “At the beginning of this believing does not matter. The and presidential politics. In 1997 discussion I asked a very simple slaughter of Egyptian children he was the host, writer and pro- question: ‘How do we, how can does not matter. History, myth, ducer of a prime time series for we, morally justify killing the first- God, the Devil, nothing matters so The Learning Channel inspired by born of every lady throughout the long as it is (forgive me) good for his books on myths. Only recently land of Egypt in order to benefit Jews.” he has published a book he calls the children of the Hebrew ladies?’ Just How Stupid Are We?: Facing After a discussion of some 18,000 I wrote Professor Shenkman words not one of those and asked him again why I was participating would take a position 5 banned. “Is it because of the Egyp- period, in the early 1990s, would it the Auschwitz story. The Professor tian mothers?” have banned all those professors Shenkmans see this as too prob- Shenkman wrote that my posts who were ‘denying’ the four- lematic for the academics who post had “indicated” that I question “the million claim? Is that the standard on History News Network, which existence” of the Holocaust and of historical debate among aca- is there to forward certain view- added: “Sorry, but that's beyond demics that HNN is forwarding?” points and to suppress others. My the pale.” Professor Shenkman replied: “I point of view is that that is ex- I wrote Professor Shenkman am sorry but I am not spending pressly what is “beyond the pale.” that “Without any knowledge of any more time answering your how HNN defines that event, or emails.” Why is HNN important for the better that vast accumulation of So I am left with my question. Campus Project – One Name With events symbolized by the word What doubts? Shenkman doesn’t Proof – and for revisionism gener- Holocaust, I cannot be aware of care. He’s a professor. ally? History News Network is the what questions HNN permits to be What did I actually write? It only website on the Internet asked about its own definition of doesn’t matter. Professor Shenk- wholly devoted to the task of put- the Holocaust, or what questions man is a historian. ting events in the news into his- HNN prohibits being asked about Do I doubt something about torical perspective every day. The its definition of the Holocaust. Auschwitz that might be difficult site is updated daily in response to Without such a definition, how can to believe? Professor Shenkman breaking news. HNN is funded by I follow the HNN rules on such an doesn’t care. He’s a true believer. George Mason University. The exchange? I am left in the dark. That’s enough for him. magazine features articles by histo- [ … ] Vassar, Harvard, the Society of rians on both the left and the right. “On the other hand, if HNN has American Historians – so much More than 12,000 readers sub- published its own definition of the chopped liver. Belief is the issue scribe to its weekly newsletter. Holocaust (let’s agree that we both here. True Belief. The site attracts [more than] understand ‘which’ Holocaust we The Professor Shenkmans are 300,000 unique visitors every are talking about here) I need to the academic answer to the rever- month. see it so that I can promise, if I end Hagees. Hitler, Jews, the “Unique” in Internet talk refers believe the HNN definition of the Holocaust. True Belief--all the to one individual person. This event/s is reasonable (not perfect, way down. means that more than 300,000 in- only reasonable), that I can, in dividual persons have the opportu- good faith, neither question it or At first I thought I was “disap- nity to view Smith asking revision- express doubt about it.” peared” from HNN for questioning ist questions about matters relating Shenkman wrote: “I am told the moral judgment of the Jewish to WWII and the Holocaust and that you expressed doubts about God in the Torah. But I was told I the media representation of the Auschwitz. That's enough for me.” was banned for “questioning” the Holocaust story. You can imagine I asked Professor Shenkman: Holocaust. When I tried to find out how many complaints Professor [ … ] “Is there not one detail in what the prohibitions on HNN are Shenkman was getting behind the the orthodox history of Auschwitz for discussing the Holocaust, I was curtain, under the table, and from that can be questioned? Not one told that I had expressed “doubts” outer space by those who front for detail about which one can express about Auschwitz. I could not recall the Holocaust Industry. It must a reasonable doubt, if it can be what I had written, some of it go- have been a real bother for him to demonstrated to be reasonable? ing back close to three years. And suddenly reach a breaking point What are you saying here? For anyhow, why had it come up now? and take me down. Maybe it has close to half a century the profes- I had published thousands of something to do with the fact that sorial class, as a class, forwarded words on HNN without the hint of he has just published a new book the charge that some four millions a problem. And then the obvious. and would like not to be associated were killed at Auschwitz. In the Academics in universities all in any way with any revisionist. early 90s the professors came over America are being asked to What’s the ideal of a free press got around to the idea that [only] about provide the “name of one person, to do with anything when you have one million were killed at Ausch- with proof, who was killed in a gas a book to sell? witz. If HNN were active at that chamber at Auschwitz.” This does In short, then, Professor suggest that I have “doubts” about Shenkman and his “editors” have 6 prohibited me from posting on question about Auschwitz: “Can demic world, and through the HNN because I am the one person you provide the name of one per- Internet now. on the continent who is asking son, with proof, who was killed in We’ll stay with it. That’s what academics and those who manage a gas chamber at Auschwitz?” The we need to do. Stay with it. the Holocaust lobby one pertinent question is seeping into the aca-

German Poison Gas (1936 – 1944)

By Richard A. Widmann

hen the public thinks the Nazis would have needed to scientist at the time and head of its Wabout the topic of Ger- adapt Soviet tanks or divert the use premier scientific laboratory, the man or Nazi poison gas develop- of Zyklon B from delousing pro- Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for ment and usage throughout the grams designed to keep inmates Physical Chemistry in Berlin. In years leading up to and including alive to programs of extermination. his studies of the effects of poison the Second World War, images of The weapons required for an ex- gas, Haber noted that exposure to a vast extermination programs and termination program not only ex- low concentration of a poisonous the gas chambers of Auschwitz isted but were manufactured in gas for a long time often had the and other concentration camps quantities that would have sup- same effect (death) as exposure to immediately leap to mind. The ported such a program had one a high concentration for a short Holocaust story however suggests been ordered. time. He formulated a that the Nazis utilized methods, To understand German poison mathematical relationship between equipment and gas that were put to gas capabilities during World War the gas concentration and use in a way and for a purpose II, it is important to consider necessary exposure time. This other than for which they were briefly the use of poison gases dur- relationship became known as designed. It is suggested that, in a ing World War I. During the First Haber’s rule. rather primitive way, the various World War both sides used large During World War I, the Ger- concentration camp personnel de- quantities of poison gas. Over 1.3 mans and the Allies both used sev- veloped different methods to put million tons of chemical were used eral types of poison gas rather ef- into effect what it is argued was a throughout the war in agents rang- fectively. These ranged from chlo- coordinated extermination program ing from simple tear gas to mus- rine gas early in the war to phos- for Jews. tard gas. At the time that the war gene gas which was introduced by The traditional Holocaust story began, Germany had the leading I.G. Farben. Phosgene was about suggests the importance of adapt- chemical industry of any of the 18 times as powerful as chlorine ing equipment and methods to put combatants; in fact, they were the gas. Concentrations as low as into effect a centrally organized leaders in the entire world. The 1/50,000 were deadly. Throughout program for mass murder. It will major chemical factories were this period, the Germans would be argued that had the Nazi leader- situated in the Ruhr and were develop and initiate the use of sev- ship designed a program for the known as the Interessen Gemein- eral new gases only to have them mass extermination of Jews, the schaft Farben or I.G. Farben. copied by the Allies. In July 1917, weapons of such mass destruction The introduction of chemical I.G. Farben created a new gas ini- were already developed and could warfare was actively lobbied by tially called “Yellow Cross” by have easily been used. Nazi I.G. Farben and by its head, Carl German artillerymen. Yellow chemical warfare development was Duisberg. Duisberg not only urged Cross was more lethal than any- the most sophisticated in the that the German high command thing that had come before. This world. The poison gas developed use poison gas at a special confer- gas, dichlorethyl sulfide, came to during the years leading up to the ence in 1914, he personally studied be known as “mustard gas.” Second World War make the tradi- the toxicity of the various war Troops that were attacked by tional Holocaust story absurd. gases. Duisberg also supported mustard gas initially reported only There is no reason whatsoever that Fritz Haber, Germany's leading mild irritation to the eyes. It ap- 7 peared to do little or nothing and The compound that Schrader de- which allegedly was generated many troops did not bother to put veloped was Tabun, the world’s through the use of rather disparate on their gas masks when they en- first nerve gas. Tabun represented equipment. In Chelmno, according countered the gas. Within a day, an exponential leap in toxicity to Arno Mayer, prisoners were however, they would be in terrible level of poison gases. Even in “herded into the vans in which pain. Troops developed moist red very small amounts, the inhalation they were asphyxiated with carbon patches on their skin that grew into or absorption through the skin of monoxide fumes.” He goes on to large yellow blisters up to a foot Tabun affected the central nervous note, “There was nothing particu- long. Those hit with mustard gas system and resulted in almost im- larly modern or industrial about would die a slow agonizing death. mediate convulsions and death. either the installations or the op- In a ten-day period the Germans Tabun was so lethal that it quickly erations at Chelmno-Rzuchow.” used over a million shells contain- became clear that it could not be The second alleged killing cen- ing 2,500 tons of mustard gas used as an insecticide. Schrader, ter was Belzec. There we are told against Allied positions. As a side however, contacted the war minis- that after using bottled carbon note, the British too would use try and tests were carried out for monoxide, the operatives switched mustard gas in the final days of the the Wehrmacht. to using exhaust fumes from war. In one attack on October 14, By 1938, Schrader was moved trucks. In Sobibor, we are told that 1918, Adolf Hitler would be tem- to a new location to develop new the gas was generated through an porarily blinded by a British attack compounds for the Wehrmacht. engine. If we are to believe Kurt against the 16th Bavarian Reserve He discovered yet another com- Gerstein, Zyklon B was delivered Infantry Regiment. pound, isopropyl methylphos- there for sinister purposes as well. In the years following the First phonofluoridate, which he named At times we have also read of a World War, the major combatants Sarin. In the initial tests of Sarin submarine engine at Sobibor used announced their opposition to the gas on animals, it was discovered to generate CO to kill Jewish in- use of chemical warfare. In Ge- that Sarin was ten times as lethal mates. In Treblinka we read of neva in 1925 representatives of the as Tabun. At the close of the war, carbon monoxide pumped into a major powers signed a legal con- German chemists were actively chamber from the diesel exhaust of straint against the use of chemical engaged in the development of a captured Soviet tank. Even the warfare. Still, during the “inter- Soman gas. Soman, another orthodox Holocaust story contains war” years, various European organic chemical related to Tabun, an episode in which Auschwitz powers did in fact use poison gas. was estimated to be 200 times Commandant Hoess visits Treb- Among them were the British more deadly than Tabun. linka and concludes that the killing (against the Soviets in 1919), the Despite the toxicity and huge method there is inefficient. Italians (against the Ethiopians in stores of these lethal nerve gases, The final two “extermination 1935), and the Japanese (against the Holocaust story developed centers,” Majdanek and Ausch- the Chinese in 1937). around the use of two gases, car- witz, are said to have used Zyklon Throughout these years I.G. bon monoxide and Zyklon B. B as the agent of extermination. Farben continued to expand its Zyklon B was developed during The killing process described at scientific base. From the laborato- the 1920s when scientists working Auschwitz requires that someone ries of Bayer, one part of the I.G. at Fritz Haber’s institute developed climbs a ladder above the “gas Farben cartel, a scientist, Gerhardt this cyanide gas formulation to be chamber,” opens the can of Zyklon Schrader, made a major break- used as an insecticide, especially B with a special can opener, and through. On December 23, 1936, as a fumigant for grain stores. I.G. shakes out the solidified pellets of he prepared a new chemical as part Farben, interestingly, would sell hydrogen cyanide into a special of a study of potential pesticides. the production rights of Zyklon B shaft in the supporting column of During the test, Schrader used his right before the war to two private the chamber where the pellets new compound on lice in a con- firms, Tesch and Stabenow, of would over time turn into a gase- centration of 1 / 200,000. All of Hamburg, and DEGESCH, of Des- ous state. The absurdity of the the lice died within a few seconds. sau. Zyklon B story is that even ortho- By January of 1937, Schrader As the story goes, four out of dox Holocaust historians like Jean- discovered that his new agent had six of the principal “killing cen- Claude Pressac and Robert Jan van unpleasant side effects on humans. ters” used carbon monoxide gas, Pelt have admitted that typhus epi-

8 demics experienced at the camps ized and the methods were evolved quantities of Zyklon B when they required that everything be de- in a rather chaotic manner in the arrived at Auschwitz and Ma- loused and that “tons of Zyklon B field. jdanek that were there to combat were needed to save [Auschwitz].” Based on the development of typhus rather than to kill the in- So, the story goes, on one hand, sophisticated poison gases includ- mate population. Similarly the the Nazis were using Zyklon B to ing Tabun and Sarin, and their tales of submarine engines and delouse the camps and thereby manufacture in huge quantities, the captured Soviet tanks pouring out prevent the spread of typhus, while official Holocaust story appears diesel exhaust for mass murder on the other hand they were using absurd. Holocaust historians have appear to be nothing more than the the same agent to kill the very in- yet to answer the question why the result of wartime propaganda. Had mates whose lives they were at- Nazis would not have used Tabun the Nazi leadership wanted to ex- tempting to save. or Sarin had they wanted to carry terminate the Jews of Europe, they The Holocaust gassing story out an extermination of the Jews. had far more sophisticated and le- suggests a lack of coordination by Furthermore, even in the final days thal means to carry out such a plan. the Nazi government. There is a of the war, when the Nazi leader- The official Holocaust gassing simultaneous adoption of varied ship sought out new-sophisticated story requires a suspension of rea- methods, which would have weaponry, they did not use their son and a belief in the absurd. yielded varied results to carry out stockpiles of poison gas on either what is typically described as a front. This stands in stark contrast [This is an abstract of a longer centralized industrial “genocide.” to the popular image of Nazi article with citations which is cur- In fact, the official Holocaust story methods and thinking. rently being worked on.] itself suggests that the program There is little doubt that the was anything but centrally organ- Soviets discovered significant

Sobibor Strangeness – A Small Compendium

Thomas Kues

Of the three so-called Aktion Sobibor initially contained a ating the Sobibor gas chambers. Reinhardt “extermination camps,” smaller gas chamber building, According to a “confession” Sobibor near Wlodawa is the one which was later replaced with a penned by Bauer while in prison, least researched by revisionists. So second, larger building. Franz the first gas chambers were not far there has not been published Stangl, who oversaw the last phase made of brick or concrete but of any book-length revisionist study of the camp’s construction and wood (Schelvis, p. 101). It is sig- on this camp. As for extermina- served as commandant from March nificant that neither Schelvis nor tionist scholarship, the most in- to September 1942, described the Arad, while respectively quoting depth study is provided by Jules first installation as a “brick build- both witnesses, mention this glar- Schelvis’ Sobibor: A History of a ing” (Sereny, Into That Darkness, ing contradiction. Schelvis only Nazi Death Camp (revised edition p. 109). Erich Fuchs, who suppos- remark on Fuchs’ testimony: “Be- 2007). Since about a year ago, I edly installed the gassing engine cause he had put into place so have been looking into the his- and also participated in the first many installations over the course toriography of the camp as well as trial gassings, testified in 1963 that of time, he did not remember that the accounts left by former in- the chambers were housed in “a the first gas chambers at Sobibor mates. Below I will list some of concrete structure.” Erich Bauer had been constructed of wood” (p. the most interesting contradictions was supposedly nicknamed “The 114). How is that Stangl and that I have encountered within the Gasmeister of Sobibor.” In 1950 Bauer, two men who both should orthodox Sobibor narrative. he was sentenced to death (later have been familiar with this build- • It is alleged that, in simi- commuted to life imprisonment) ing, produced such divergent tes- larity with Belzec and Treblinka, by a West German court for oper- timony? 9 • The claimed number of not state the number of pits, and out inside a gas chamber building? gas chambers as well as their sizes give their measures as 30 meters In the Scotsman article published and capacities differ notably be- long, 15 meters wide, and 4 to 5 three days later the barrack con- tween the various witnesses, as meters deep (p. 24). Schelvis (p. taining the bullets is described as well as among exterminationist 110-2) claims with confidence (us- “a hospital barrack.” historians. Arad (Belzec, Sobibor, ing statements of Kurt Bolender as • Jules Schelvis notes that Treblinka, p. 31) writes that the reference) that there were always the railway passing through Sobi- first building contained three only two burial pits (and in addi- bor “ran through marshland” (p. chambers, each 4 x 4 meters, with tion to this a cremation pit over 28) and Arad writes that “the a capacity of 200 victims per which a grid of railway gauge was whole area was swampy” (p. 30). chamber. For the same building laid out). The dimensions of the A look at a 1933 map of the area Miriam Novitch (Sobibor: Martyr- second pit are left unclear. reveals several small lakes or dom and Revolt, p. 26) claim a to- As for the first one, Schelvis ponds close to the future camp, as tal capacity of 150 people. Schel- writes that it was 60 meters long, well as a number of marshy areas, vis on the other hand merely notes 20 meters wide and about 6 to 7 including a smaller spot inside the that the figures stated by the wit- meters deep. According to Polish future camp perimeter. Franz Su- nesses vary between 40 and 80 archaeologist Andrzej Kola, who chomel, who oversaw the liquida- victims per chamber. As for the supposedly carried out drillings at tion of Sobibor, testified in 1962 second building, Arad asserts that the former camp site in 2001, there that the barracks in Sobibor were it housed six chambers each meas- were seven grave pits with an av- constructed on top of “meter-high uring 4 x 4 meters with a total si- erage depth of 5 meters. The larg- piles” to avoid the danger of flood- multaneous capacity of 1,300 peo- est pit allegedly had a surface of ing. ple (p. 123). Novitch in turn writes 64 by 23 meters (210 x 75 ft.), In an interview in the early 70’s that there were five chambers, each while the second largest measured he further stated that no kill-ings 4 x 12 meters, with a total capacity 18 x 23 meters (60 x 75 ft.). It was were done in Sobibor “after the of 400 victims (p. 26). Schelvis (p. re-ported by the press (The Scots- snow thawed because it was all 115) simply refers to the 1966 ver- man, November 26, 2001) that the under water,” adding that “it was dict of the Hagen trial, which drill-ings revealed the upper layers very damp at the best of times, but found it “a reasonable assumption of the graves to contain cremated then it became a lake” (Sereny, p. that each of the six gas chambers re-mains, while the lower layers 115). In Arad we learn that in- could hold 80 people” i.e. 480 vic- con-tained non-cremated remains mates attempted to escape through tims in total. In 1950, former SS- in a state of decay. Are we to be- a tunnel (p. 311). The tunnel, Scharführer Franz Hödl gave a lieve that the SS staff, given a which was planned by a profes- testimony guaranteed to please all: whole year to work, did not man- sional miner, “could not go “…about 6 to 8 gas chambers had age to disinter all the buried deeper” than 155 centimeters be- been erected. The gas chamber had corpses? Why would the lower low the earth’s surface, because either 4 or 6 chambers on ei-ther layers of bodies have been left un- “there was a danger it might strike side of the central corridor, three touched, if there was an order from water.” Since a look at topographi- on the left, three on the right” Himmler to exhume and incinerate cal maps of the area shows that (Schelvis, p. 104). all bod-ies (cf. Arad, p. 170)? Lager 3, where the gas chambers • It is alleged that about one • Another press item (Asso- and mass graves were allegedly third of the victims were buried ciated Press, November 23, 2001) located, was situated lower than before cremated. Outdoor crema- states that Kola’s team found the the other parts of the camp, it does tions were supposedly begun in traces of a long barrack “about 70 not make sense to suppose the either the late summer – early au- yards from the mass graves.” In ground water to have been at a tumn (Arad, p. 171) or winter one of its corners, the archaeolo- lower level there, allowing for the (Schelvis, p. 110) of 1942. Arad gists had uncovered 1,700 bullets. 5-meter-deep grave pits alleged by writes that the bodies were buried According to Kola, the barrack Kola. Regardless, it is a mystery in an unspecified number of mass “might have served as a gas cham- why the SS construction staff, who graves “50 to 60 meters long, 10 to ber,” adding that further study was reportedly visited the future camp 15 meters wide, and 5 to 7 meters necessary. But why would execu- site already in late 1941 (Schelvis, deep” (p. 33). Novitch likewise do tions by bullet have been carried p. 27), would have chosen an area

10 dominated by marshland for an • According to Fuchs’ ac- been switched from engine exhaust extermination camp where tens if count of the first gassing, the vic- to Zyklon B. None of the afore- not hundreds of thousands of bod- tims undressed near the gas cham- mentioned communication is dis- ies were to be buried. ber and were gassed naked. Stangl cussed by Schelvis. Jacob • There has as yet been pub- on the other hand testified that he Biskubicz testified that he himself lished no documentation or scien- was “certain that the bodies were had seen a gas chamber with a col- tific report – in Polish, English or not naked, but were buried with lapsible floor. This also goes any other language – on the afore- their clothes still on” (Schelvis, p. unmentioned by Schelvis. On the mentioned 2001 Sobibor excava- 101). other hand he mentions that survi- tion, despite seven years having • It is alleged that none of vor Chaim Trager “claimed to passed. According to a personal the inmates of “Lager 3” survived have seen all the goings-on in La- communication from Mr. Yoram the camp’s existence, and that all ger 3 while building a chimney on Haimi of the “Sobibor Archaeo- contact between the inmates of a rooftop in that part of the camp” logical Project” (www.underso- Lager 3 and those of the other – yet he neither provides a quote bibor.org), Kola “has a problem parts of the camp was strictly pro- from Trager’s sensational account with the Polish government.” In- hibited. Still a number of Sobibor nor a reference to it. Novitch pre- terestingly, Schel-vis makes no survivors claim to have had con- sents a short account by the same mention of the exca-vation in the tact with Lager 3 through smug- witness, but it does not mention revised, post-2001 editions of his gled letters (or to have been aware any such observation. Where is the book. of such contact). For example we testimony that Schelvis is referring • The former Ukrainian learn in Arad’s book (p. 79) that to? guards interrogated by Soviet offi- the camp cook Hershl Zukerman cials tend to exaggerate the camp’s was the first inmate to become The above are only some of the area considerably, despite one of aware of the existence of the gas problems and paradoxes to be their main duties at the camp being chambers through the reply to a found in the orthodox historiogra- to patrol its perimeter. Mikhail letter which he had hidden inside a phy of the Sobibor “death camp” – Razgonayev in a 1948 questioning thick crumb pie (in the account a historiography almost exclu- gave its measure as “2-3 square published by Novitch the dish has sively based on witness testimony. kilometers.” Ignat Danilchenko become a dumpling). Moshe Bahir It is, at least to me, evident that stated in 1979 that the size of the describes letters about magical there is need for a thorough, scien- area was “approximately four bloodstains and gas chamber floor tific investigation into the camp’s square kilometers.” The actual area boards with embedded fragments history. It is also evident that such of the camp was less than half a of hands, cheeks and ears (!). research will not be carried out by square kilometer (cf. the so-called Stanislaw Szmajzner claims to the mainstream historians, but Rutherford map from 2002). have received letters from Lager 3 rather by skeptics and revisionists detailing how the killing agent had

IN THE NEWS. PROSECUTORS in Germany want 88-year-old John Demjanjuk to stand trial for his alleged wartime role herding prisoners into gas chambers in Poland. Demjanjuk is said to have beaten, whipped and sliced off the breasts of naked victims as they ran to their deaths at the Treblinka camp, near War- saw. The Ukrainian was sentenced to death by an Israeli court in 1988 but freed after his conviction was over- turned five years later. Now Demjanjuk - second on a list of most-wanted Nazi war criminals - could face another trial in Germany. Kurt Schrimm, Germany's chief Nazi prosecutor, said: "We believe he could be convicted by German criminal law." The Ludwigsburg-based Central Office for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes, which Schrimm heads, is in the process of applying to Germany's federal court of justice to have Demjanjuk extraditated from the US. Schrimm said prosecutors could make use of an exception in German law. Normally the justice system can only prosecute someone if the criminal is German or the crime was committed in country. In this case, Schrimm said, "a large number of the victims came from Germany and Demjanjuk was acting on German orders".

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Geo-Strategic Effects of Revisionism: The Iranian Lesson

Robert Faurisson

June 5, 2008 Three grounds are usually salem]” would one day “vanish brought up to explain this policy of from the page of time”. Ahmadine- he energy crisis is causing boycott and open hostility: 1) the jad took care to spell out his phrase Tworry. However, Iran, Iranian president is perhaps trying by specifying that, if all the inhabi- which possesses huge reserves of to arm his country with nu- tants of the land of Palestine – oil and gas, wishes to exploit them clear weapons; 2) it seems he Moslems, Jews and Christians – better, with our help, and sell us wants to exterminate the Jews in had the right one day to vote freely the products, a procedure that Israel; 3) he holds the extermina- and opt for a regime of their would lead to a marked softening tion of the European Jews during choice, the Zionist regime would of worldwide petrol, diesel, fuel oil the Second World War to be a disappear from Palestine just as, and gas prices. A good many na- myth. The first two grounds do not for example, the Communist re- tions have an eye on this great po- make much sense; only the third is gime disappeared from Russia. tential wealth and would be apt to serious and, for that reason, in- The Western media, as a whole, respond favorably to Tehran’s structive. have reported neither the exact business proposals. But the United In reply to the first ground, it’s wording nor the explanation. States has decreed the boycott of fitting to observe that if Ahmadi- The third ground is the true Iran and, up to now, the world’s nejad’s accusers possessed the one: if the Iranian president causes policeman has generally been slightest evidence that Iran was so much fear, it’s owing to his re- obeyed. President Mahmoud trying to acquire nuclear weapons, visionism. He has wielded the sole Ahmadinejad can make all the such evidence would long since weapon that can deeply worry the proposals he likes: he still finds have been brandished before the Jewish State and its ally, the himself considered a criminal. His world; however, up to now, they United States. He possesses what request for a collaboration that have supplied no real evidence I’ve called the poor man’s atomic would let him fully re-equip the and, in any case, if Iran had a nu- weapon. In the findings of histori- country’s drilling, production and clear bomb at her disposal, she cal revisionism he effectively processing operations is refused. could not launch it towards a geo- holds a “device of mass destruc- He goes so far as to suggest that graphic zone populated by as many tion” that would kill no one but countries using the single Euro- Palestinians as Jews; her bomb could neutralize Israel’s number pean currency pay in euros and no would kill or maim both popula- one political weapon: the Great Lie longer in dollars, but to no avail. tions without distinction. of the alleged Nazi gas chambers People turn their back to him. The second ground rests on the and the alleged genocide of Some threaten him. Even the Pope absurd manipulation of a text. Europe’s Jews. Raised in the relig- refuses to receive him. In many Ahmadinejad has had and contin- ion of “the Holocaust,” the peoples countries, his embassies and dip- ues to have ascribed to him an in- of North America and Europe gen- lomatic staff are deprived of con- cendiary statement according to erally believe in this Great Lie and tact with the local authorities and which the Jewish State is to be see Ahmadinejad as a heretic; thus foreign delegations; they have “wiped off the map”, words taken they dare not defend any policy of ended up with pariah status. One to mean the extermination of the rapprochement with Iran, or call may well ask oneself where such Jews in Israel. Actually, he’d for a lifting of the boycott, al- radical behaviour towards the Ira- merely repeated in 2005 Ayatollah though therein lies the only chance nians ever originated and why the Khomeini’s 1979 declaration that of seeing their energy costs de- international community acts so “the regime [in Persian, “rez- crease. Doubtless some of these obviously against its own eco- hime”] occupying Al Qods [Jeru- peoples’ leaders desire an under- nomic interests. 12 standing with Iran, but they back repression of revisionism is wors- the press reports state the opposite away at the prospect of being criti- ening, but it’s all a waste of effort and we haven’t been able to get an cized as accomplices of the new so far. The holocaustic propaganda answer from the Clerk’s Office). Satan, of the “denier,” the “nega- and Shoah Business grow ever Unsurprisingly, the court had tionist” who “kills the Jews once more deafening, but henceforth rejected all our arguments, notably again by denying their death.” they tend to annoy or tire people. the one invoking article 150 of the The news of the international Revisionism has long been an Belgian Constitution to request a “Holocaust” conference in Tehran intellectual adventure, experienced trial in the Court of Assizes, thus (December 11th - 12th 2006) rang by a certain number of academics, before a jury. out like a warning shot. By no researchers and various other per- It’s plain to see that in the last means reserved to revisionists, that sons ready to sacrifice their lives three years anti-revisionist oppres- conference was open to all. Con- or their tranquility for the defense sion has greatly worsened. The frontation of opposing views was of historical truth, and of justice. times when revisionist activists allowed, and it took place. The Today, revisionism is becoming, received suspended sentences are rout of the antirevisionists was on the international plane, a no- over: today, apart from the huge dramatic. And President Ahmadi- ticeable bone of contention; it is fines, actual imprisonment is al- nejad, already fully apprised of asserted by some and violently ways decided. I think especially of revisionist argumentation, was thus denounced by others, and is pre- Sylvia Stolz, Ernst Zündel and able to restate that “the Holo- sent even in certain political or Germar Rudolf, heroic people now caust” was a myth. Bush, Blair, economic altercations. It is des- languishing in German jails. Chirac, who know nothing of revi- tined to play no small role in the I think also of Georges Theil in sionism, responded by making a endless crisis in the Middle East as France, of Gaston-Armand terrible fuss. As for the Israelis, well as in the current energy crisis. Amaudruz, René-Louis Berclaz they are aware of the Jewish au- For the powerful, it will constitute and Jürgen Graf for Switzerland. thors’ utter inability to answer re- a threat and, for others, a way out. Historical revisionism belongs visionist arguments on the scien- In any case, the times when revi- to no one. Its findings are the fruit tific level; they now uphold their sionism could be treated with con- of traditional methods of inquiry Great Lie only with Elie Wiesel- tempt or quite simply ignored are where scientific expertise assists in style fake testimony or cinematic decidedly past. the appraisal of testimonies and in guff in the manner of Claude documentary research. They will Lanzmann, when they don’t resort be obvious to any honest individ- to novels, drama or even sham mu- IN THE NEWS ual, whether on the political left or seum exhibitions like those at Yad right, believer or atheist... Vashem in Jerusalem or the Holo- Vincent Reynouard (a father But it goes without saying that caust Memorial Museum in Wash- of seven children) makes the fol- its implications extend well be- ington; they have therefore seized lowing statement as he is found yond the historical scope of its out- the occasion to draw up a bill in guilty of “Disputing Crimes set. The stakes involved, gigantic the Knesset that would let the State Against Humanity” ones, are political and even theo- of Israel demand that any revision- logical. If some refuse to see this – ist, wherever in the world he might June 20, 2008 because of blindness, cowardice or be, be delivered to its own courts! On June 19, 2008, section 61 of mistaken strategy – our adversar- When there’s no proof to show, the ies, at their end, have understood the Brussels criminal court found cudgel is used. quite well. They know that a sud- Siegfried Verbeke and me guilty of The Zionists and their friends den bursting through of the histori- "disputing crimes against human- are getting more and more alarmed cal truth about the period 1914- ity," sentencing us to a year’s im- at the diffusion of revisionism over 1946 would call into question the prisonment and ordering us to pay the Internet. They make many at- 25,000 euros in fines, damages and world order founded at Nuremberg tempts, cynical or veiled, to in 1945-1946. various costs... Moreover, it or- strengthen Internet censorship but, This is why, in the face of peo- dered the immediate arrest of Sieg- up to today at any rate, they have ple whom they constantly present fried Verbeke and perhaps of my- not yet achieved their aims. as a small sect of cranks denying self as well (a friend of ours who Throughout the Western world, attended the hearing says no, but the obvious, they have special laws 13 passed in Europe and resolutions led! ..." is how people constantly [Ed: While I do not agree with adopted at the UN. The flagrant respond to those who, against the every sentiment expressed in this discrepancy between their con- “Rights of Man” and their natural communication, I do agree with temptuous talk, on the one hand, offspring: the unleashing of all most of them, and I admire the and their actions, on the other selfish inclinations, dare speak of man who wrote it. I am reminded hand, gives them the lie. To para- order, the Common Good, whole- of William Blake writing: "When I phrase the French wartime orator someness, moral standards, safe- tell the truth, it is not for the sake Philippe Henriot, I’ll say: guarding the genetic heritage, the of convincing those who do not "When a man can think of no birth rate, rights of kinship ... know it, but for the sake of defend- other way but imprisonment to rid Against all the cowards with ing those who do." Vincent Rey- himself of a verbal opponent, it’s their claims of prudence, concern nouard, with his courage and will- because he has no arguments. with efficiency, realism and what- ing sacrifice, bolsters the courage When a man is reduced to making ever else; against all the preten- of all of us.] up stupid lies, it’s because the truth tious twits whose lives are nothing is against him." but a series of intervals between The way ahead, therefore, is all assorted betrayals, we should re- Ernst Zundel discusses his laid out for us: we must continue peat Christ’s own teaching: “let legal situation in Mannheim to repeat the truth, the whole truth, your Yes be Yes, and your No be prison. Ingrid Rimland distrib- including the truth about what’s at No, for all else comes of evil.” No, uted this letter via email, which stake in this struggle. Far from be- the German homicidal gas cham- was written by Ernst in May, ing merely a sterile quarrel be- bers never existed. Yes, "the Holo- and translated and typed out by tween devotees of the past cut off caust" is a myth. For my part, I Karin Manion. He updates us on from present-day realities, the fight add: yes, Hitler embodied the hope his legal situation, for historical truth is, on the con- of Europe in the face of the ruin- trary, the continuation, on the in- ous ideals of 1789; yes, we must [ … ] But now for the actual le- tellectual level, of the war whose take up the best of what National gal situation on the ground here. I armed phase ended in 1945 with Socialism comprised in order fi- still am battling for my mail from the defeat of the Axis forces. And nally to surpass it and forge a doc- 2005, 2006, 2007. There are ap- it’s clear that this conflict, having trine that will be able to save our proximately 1500 Pcs. of mail in begun not on September 3, 1939 Old Continent. boxes that have not been released but on January 30, 1933, is the Some will condemn my actions to me. I negotiated a release-deal- modern form of the eternal strug- for the fact that I have seven chil- method with officials - instead af- gle between Light and Darkness. dren. They are wrong: if I act as I ter releasing some postcards and In the 20th century, National So- do, it’s first of all for my children, short letters - suddenly 185 letters cialist Germany embodied – doubt- to ensure a better future for them. were seized, that were 2 to 3 years less imperfectly but successfully However, our civilization will not old. The reason for the seizure? all the same – the very last attempt be saved by any sparing of efforts People wrote me ltrs. and cards to return to a well-ordered society, in the most vital struggles, which that contained compliments, call- that is, a society respecting the are (as is only logical) also the ing for me to hang in there etc.! - natural order. most dangerous, for when engaged that it was felt was opposed to the This is the reason why, even they threaten the very worst for the aim of my conviction. Remember, after the 3rd Reich was completely opponent, and so provoke his most I am still subject to spot censor- crushed militarily, the war contin- violent reactions. But, as Ches- ship! ued, and has continued up to today. nelong* said: "When evil is the I was also ruled ineligible for Our opponents in this never-ending most daring, good must be the transfer to the pensioner’s prison fight have a weapon of mass de- most courageous." in Singen, but was ordered to serve struction: the alleged "Holocaust." my whole time - that means till Since 1945, this lie has prevented *Pierre Charles Chesnelong (April March 1, 2010 here in Mannheim. any dispassionate debate on Na- 4, 1820-1894), was a French pol- The reasons? They were amaz- tional Socialism and, more gener- itician, devoted to forwarding the ingly frank about it. The Singen ally, on societies that respect natu- ideals of the Roman Catholic Facility would allow me to live in ral order. "We know where that Church. a much more relaxed and open atmosphere, with frequent trips 14 into town to shop, etc. Media peo- be paid *sofort* My court costs for Mails and lots of faxes on official ple would seek me out, and that Mannheimer Verfahren were as- letterheads by the highest authori- would result in articles and that in sessed at E 59,829.00 to this must ties in America, Germany and turn would bring unrest into the be added the payments for legal Canada, documenting and detailing institution, made up of mostly eld- fees for my own *Wahl-Anwalte* at least some aspects of this erly people all of whom would (chosen Solicitors) like Rieger, Dr. *Operation Atlantik* as the Ger- have suffered under the old re- Schaller, Silvia Stolz, R.A. Bock mans called the *Kesseltreiben* - gime, thus for the good of the other and Gisa Pahl in Hamburg, and the hunt for my capture in docu- inmates I would have to be kept now this new Mannheim Specialist ments going way back to the here, even though by age 62 I was lawyer. These costs too had to be 1990s. Dr. Schaller’s document to be entitled to serve my time in paid at once, since I can not - I finally condensed all this down to an *Altenknast*. am paying off these horrendous 63 pages - and for the first time Thus it was decided by the costs in installments. explained more or less coherently prison administration’s resident Dr. Schaller challenged the given the constraints and format of jurist - that I would get no relaxa- *non-counting* of my two years these Strasburg proceedings. The tion of conditions - but would have and one month in Canada’s Guan- title of the documents is: Ernst to serve my time in full, ohne tanamo North- (Toronto West and Zundel gegen BRD, the date it was Freigang, which is when one gets Thorold), with the local Staat- submitted was May 8, 2008. All to go into town in the presence of swanwaltschaft- that work, legal research, prepara- uniformed prison officials. But Strafvollstreckungskammer. They tion etc has to be paid by me. This instead I would serve my time ruled that the two years would not is an update for you! Could you locked up in prison. be counted as the lower Court send copies to Gunter Wild, Bar- I have taken a new woman Landgerich had decided last year bara, Doug Christie, the Lindsays Lawyer, she is a Specialist in already. We challenged that with and Willis Carto as well as Ingrid Prison Rights - and has now sub- the appeal court (Oberlandes- & Marc please? Maybe you mitted these decisions to the local gericht-Karlsruhe) they too ruled should type it first. Strafvollstreckungskammer. That against me, the two years would means we will have to appeal that not be counted. Now I have to Ernst Zundel, *3 rulings package* mentioned decide if I can raise the money to JVA Mannheim, above to the Oberlandsgericht go on to the Bundesgerichtshof Herzogenriedstr. 111 Karlsruhe. All that of course takes and then the Bundesverfassungs- 68169 Mannheim time. Time is in effect what is the gericht - and of course for the legal [Ed: I have since learned that aim of all this chicanery - for every fees for my lawyers. And, finally, on 27 June lawyers Schaller and day - I am forced to spend in the * one of the most important legal Alexandra Ritterhaus, specialist in non-relaxed* atmospheres I am moves - was to submit *eine prisoners' rights, pled for Zündel's entitled to by age and tradition Beschwerde* (complaint) an ap- release after June 30, when he will means what in America is known peal for review and redress with have served the 2/3 of his sentence as cruel and unusual punishment. the European Court of Human that is customary to qualify a pris- Should the OLG Karlsruhe decide Rights in Strasbourg. oner for release. The plea was re- against me - then I could appeal it That was one hell of a docu- jected. I have also been informed to the Bundesgerichthof and the ment to prepare, and I had to wres- that on June 2 Ingrid presented a Bundesverfassungsgericht. tle and argue with my own law- US court with documents proving All these legal moves take their yers, to expand the document to government malfeasance in the time because the Courts are busy, the events of my kidnapping and deportation of Ernst, and that on dockets are full, thus add this to expulsion first from the US, then May 8 Ernst brought his case to the legal fees and especially the explain the reasons for the arrest the European court of human court costs, which are steep here - and proceedings in Canada before rights in Strasbourg.] and are and have been regularly Blais - and how all this came assessed against me. For instance about. Luckily we gained access a 1 1/2 pge. decision, naturally to very important documents dur- against me, at E 1200.00 just for ing the Mannheim and the Ameri- this one sheet of paper and had to can proceedings that showed E-

15 Georges Theil’s sentence ting me “under house arrest with A Final Word. Or Two. of actual detention in prison, electronic surveillance would, on Robert Faurisson informs us passed by the Lyon court of ap- the contrary, be likely to encourage that he has received, for the first peal, is confirmed by judges in me in my convictions" (sic)! time in his life, a fund raising letter Grenoble, his town of residence. Indeed, it’s especially this third point that’s "worth the de- postmarked June 24 from Radio Friday June 27, 2008 tour." It seems drawn from a her- Courtoisie, the station that cut him esy trial, where the unlucky ac- off after 34 minutes of what was to In its four-point decision, the cused, found guilty of having "of- be a two-hour interview (See SR Grenoble court: fended the Scriptures," does not 151). The station boasts of its "plu- - dismissed the fact that my wife consider himself a delinquent; he ralism of expression" and de- might, for health reasons, have any persists in his attitude although scribes itself as an "oasis of moral imperative need of my presence by having already been convicted a health in a desert of disinformation her side; first time; allowing him the benefit and intellectual poisoning". - observed that I am retired; that of an adjustment of sentence could In spite of this kind of hypoc- my literary activities may be pur- only encourage him in his convic- risy, and worse, Robert is going to sued in detention; tions. stay with it. I’m going to stay with - noted especially “that Georges Some friends, certainly well- it. We’re all going to stay with it. Theil, who does not consider him- meaning, advise me to request po- Right? Until next month then. self a delinquent, has at no time litical asylum (outside the Schen- criticized his behaviour or consid- gen zone, of course) of a friendly ered calling himself into question; country (or one that’s at least neu- Bradley that he has persisted in his attitude tral concerning the substance of although having already been con- my conviction). I’ll do no such victed a first time; that allowing thing. It seems to me more positive Smith’s Report him the benefit of an adjustment of for our cause that I accept incar- is published by sentence could only encourage him ceration. And then, the remem- in his convictions”; brance organizations, along with Committee for Open Debate - ruled that he could enjoy the the cowards and others who slav- On the Holocaust special regime (art. D.490, D.493 ishly follow them, so need this Bradley R. Smith, Founder and D. 494) to the fullest extent miserable bit of extra fun, to be got possible. from having those who don’t ac- For your contribution of cept the historical slander and the “On these grounds: the Court, $39 gigantic swindle that’s resulted having heard the appeal, confirms You will receive 12 issues of from it suffer and bleed! the decision taken (actual impris- And, what do the historians of Smith’s Report. onment). "Liberté pour l’histoire," who just In Canada and Mexico--$45 “[Signed]: Mme Marie-Françoise recently held a seminar on the sub- Overseas--$49 ROBIN, Presiding; Mme Astrid ject, think of all this? Have they RAULY and Mme Catherine anything to say? Letters and Donations to:

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16 SMITH’S REPORT

On the Holocaust Controversy

No. 153 www.Codoh.com September 2008

Challenging the Holocaust Taboo Since 1990

The 20th Anniversary of the Leuchter Report

An Interview with Fred A. Leuchter

By Richard A. Widmann

rguably the most important the design, operation, and mainte- and he believed in the Nazi geno- A of all Revisionist studies, nance of gas chambers. From 1979 cide of the Jews. The Leuchter Report: An Engineer- to 1988, Leuchter had worked with Leuchter was asked by the De- ing Report on the Alleged Execution most of the states in the United fense team to go to Poland and un- Gas Chambers at Auschwitz, Birke- dertake a physical inspection and nau and Majdanek, Poland cele- forensic analysis of the alleged exe- brates the twentieth anniversary of cution gas chambers. On February its publication this year. Although 25, 1988 Leuchter set out to Poland most revisionists are familiar with to examine the alleged gas cham- the background of this trailblazing bers at Auschwitz, Birkenau, and work, a brief review is called for. Majdanek. Leuchter examined the In 1988 Ernst Zündel found him- buildings described in the literature self on trial for violating a “false to be execution gas chambers. He news” law in Canada. Zundel’s also conducted a forensic examina- “crime” was having published a tion in which physical samples of work which questioned the ortho- brick and mortar were removed and dox version of the Holocaust story, returned to the United States for Did Six Million Really Die? by chemical analysis. Richard Harwood. Following the The results of Leuchter's find- recommendation of Professor Fred Leuchter ings were submitted to the Court in Robert Faurisson, the Zündel de- Canada. Leuchter wrote in his re- fense team sought out a gas cham- States that carried out capital pun- port, "the author finds no evidence ber expert who could evaluate the ishment. He specialized in the de- that any of the facilities normally alleged gas chambers in Poland and sign and manufacture of execution alleged to be execution gas cham- report on their efficacy for execu- equipment including electrocution bers were ever used as such and tion purposes. systems, lethal injection equipment, finds, further, that because of the Bill Armontrout, the Warden of gallows, and gas chamber hardware. design and fabrication of these fa- the Missouri State Penitentiary Leuchter was a perfect choice, he cilities, they could not have been named Fred Leuchter as the only was the only expert on execution Continued on page 3 consultant in the United States in gas chambers in the United States, 1 chambers, ovens, and the SS. Ask gan. Everywhere, every time it is LETTERS anyone off the street what they truly used. know about the "Holocaust." Carlos Porter I guarantee you will hear that list of [Editor’s note: I have long ar- words recited, with maybe a few gued for what Vick argues against. Richard Widmann has asked me more names and places, but that's For some reason, I am coming if the Leuchter Report influenced it! around to his point of view, which me personally. I would like to say My position is this: none of us has long been held by many if not that to me there is nothing like the as revisionists accept the orthodox most revisionists.] Leuchter Report and never has story about anything on this list as been, before or since. One of the being true, so why do some of say, Greg Alan things it taught me was how little I "I do not deny the Holocaust," then “Can you provide me the name, really know about things, and to be try to proceed with our arguments? with proof, of one person who was careful about opinions where I don't It is clear that the reason some revi- killed in a gas chamber at Ausch- have any real expertise. sionists say this is to cater to appos- witz” is a very good question. The I translated the Rudolf Report, ing groups with the hope matter was ignored at the Nurem- both versions, and liked translating of avoiding the com- berg Trial. However, at the earlier it. I like technical translation work, mon accusations that revisionists Belsen Trials the British were wor- but I've never been able to read it, are anti-Semites, neo-Nazis, haters - ried about establishing jurisdiction. just read it, like a book. Impossible. - the usual. When we say we do not Why, after all, would a British I questioned a few of the things he deny the “Holocaust” we are con- Court have any rights to try a Ger- said, and he showed me I was tradicting everything we stand man for acts against a Hungarian wrong, right away. So I don't go for. It leaves the public confused on while in Poland? So the Indictment around talking about the "Moon what we question, what we believe, included British citizens who alleg- Hoax" and things like that, I don't and what we stand for. So we are edly were murdered at both Belsen have the background for it. I also written off and the public stays with and Auschwitz. like the Lüftl Report, which I also “The Legend." However, during the trial no translated. The Leuchter and Luftl We do not have to deny, and evidence was presented on any of reports are the two most readable should not deny, Jewish suffering the deaths or persons. How the scientific works I know of. during World War II. But we should British got the names they used or if I hope Leuchter continues to get deny that it included homicidal gas they just made them up is not clear. the credit he deserves, which is of chambers and the intentional mass All except Starotska were charged course enormous. I wish him well, murder of millions of Jews as a with having committed a war crime, wherever he is. German State policy. That is, we Best wishes. in that they: should deny the “Holocaust.” The key is to not question or Christopher Vick “ … at Bergen-Belsen, Ger- downplay Jewish suffering, but re- many, between 1st October 1942 When it comes to our research fuse to accept the "Holocaust" slo- and 30th April 1945 when members and efforts to take the truth to the gan. “Holocaust” itself is the great of the staff of Bergen-Belsen Con- world about the "Holocaust," I note slogan and has the power. So long centration Camp responsible for the that some revisionists will say “I do as the slogan stays alive it will con- well-being of the persons interned not deny the Holocaust.” I think this tinue to spread like the sickness it there, in violation of the laws and is a major mistake. Of course we is. This is not a personal criticism of usages of war were together con- do! Revisionist work has uprooted individuals who do not deny the cerned as parties to the ill-treatment the "Holocaust" legend from the “Holocaust,” but a plea that we of certain of such persons causing ground of fact, and in truth it is stick to our own guns and imple- the deaths of Keith Meyer (a British dead. The issue now is to win the ment a change of strategy. This new national), Anna Kis, Sara Kohn war of perception in the mind of the strategy will not lose ground for us. (both Hungarian nationals), He- public. We have already lost the ground we jmech Glinovjechy and Maria Ko- In the public eye the "Holo- have lost. Now is the time to begin natkevicz (both Polish nationals), caust" is the 6,000,000, Nazis, Hit- to win back the ground in public. and Marcel Freson de Montigny (a ler, Auschwitz, Anne Frank, gas We must deny the “Holocaust” slo- French national), Maurice Van 2 Eijnsbergen (a Dutch national), Jan nationals) and Alexandra Siwidowa, of persons interned there in viola- Markowski and Georgej Ferenz a Russian national and other Allied tion of the law and usages of war (both Polish nationals), Maurice nationals whose names are un- were together concerned as parties Van Mevlenaar (a Belgian na- known.” to the ill-treatment of certain such tional), Salvatore Verdura (an. Ital- persons causing the deaths of ian national), and Therese Klee (a Starotska, Kramer, Dr. Klein, Rachella Silberstein (a Polish na- British national of Honduras), Al- Weingartner, Kraft, Hoessler, Bor- tional), Allied nationals and other lied nationals and other Allied na- man, Volkenrath, Ehlert, Gura, Allied nationals whose names are tionals whose names are unknown Grese, Lothe, Lobauer and Schreirer unknown and physical suffering to and physical suffering to other per- were charged with having commit- other persons interned there, Allied sons interned there, Allied nationals ted a war crime in that they: nationals, and particularly to Ewa and particularly Harold Osmund le Gryka and Hanka Rosenwayg (both “ at Auschwitz, Poland, be- Druillenec (a British national), Polish nationals) and other Allied tween 1st October 1942 and 30th Benec Zuchermann, a female in- nationals whose names are un- April 1945 when members of the ternee named Korperova, a female known.” staff of Auschwitz Concentration internee named Hoffman, Luba Camp responsible for the well-being Rormann, Ida Frydman (all Polish

An Interview with Fred A. Leuchter continued from page 1 utilized for execution gas cham- pert author makes plain, could the challenged. Fred also knew the im- bers." design and construction of those portance of historical truth. His The presiding judge, Ron Tho- buildings have made their use as Report had no axes to grind. It mas, decided that Leuchter was mass gas-chambers feasible under wasn’t opposed to anyone and did qualified as an expert in the design, any circumstances." (Leuchter Re- not come with any hidden agenda construction, maintenance, and op- port: Focal Point Edition p. 6) despite what his detractors would eration of gas chambers. Leuchter Despite being universally ac- have you believe. Then, as now, was allowed to give his opinion on knowledged for his expertise in the Fred Leuchter is the real deal. the operation and suitability of the area of execution equipment, Germar Rudolf called him a “pio- various facilities to function as exe- Leuchter now found himself under neer.” I would call him a hero. cution gas chambers. The Report attack for his testimony. One can On June 30th of this year, Fred itself, however, was not allowed argue that it was the power of Leuchter allowed me to conduct the into evidence. Although the Report Leuchter’s Report, the irrefutable following interview: was not accepted by the court, it scientific analysis and the credibil- still had a staggering effect. Many ity of its author which caused those Widmann: Mr. Leuchter, your would become skeptical of the es- who would uphold the orthodox work, "The Leuchter Report: An tablishment version of the Holo- version of the Holocaust story to Engineering Report on the Alleged caust story based on its findings. attack him as viciously as they did. Gas Chambers at Auschwitz, Birke- Perhaps the most important im- Threats were made to prison offi- nau and Majdanek, Poland" is now pact of Leuchter’s work was on cials who chose to do business with twenty years old. In it you gave British historian David Irving. Leuchter. He was vilified in news- your best engineering opinion based Shortly after seeing the Report for print and on television. Legislation on years of experience as an expert the first time, Irving wrote, "Shown was used to prevent him from work- in execution equipment that "the this evidence for the first time when ing at his chosen profession. Even alleged gas chambers at the in- called as an expert witness at the criminal prosecution was brought spected sites could not have then Zündel trial in Toronto in April against Leuchter. been, or now, be utilized or seri- 1988, the laboratory reports were There is no doubt that Fred ously considered to function as exe- shattering." Irving goes on, "No Leuchter paid an extremely high cution gas chambers." Do you still significant trace [of cyanide com- price to defend the freedom of Ernst stand by that opinion, and if so pounds] whatsoever was found in Zündel. Fred, however, is one of why? the buildings... labeled as the those rare types who understands Leuchter: I gave my best engi- camp's infamous gas chambers. that when one person’s freedom is neering opinion and it still stands. Nor, as the reports' gruesomely ex- challenged, everyone’s freedom is Time has only solidified that opin- 3 ion. The Polish State Police Labo- thought? Specifically have you Widmann: What do you con- ratory, Germar Rudolf, Walter Lüftl read Germar Rudolf's report, which sider your most important life's and many others have followed my basically supports most of the con- work? investigation and confirmed my clusions of your own report? If so, Leuchter: I am an instrument findings. If anyone questioned my what is your opinion of Mr. Ru- maker and I consider my patents results and opinion at the time they dolf's work? and work electronic zing older in- cannot now. I certainly do not. I Leuchter: Yes, I do keep cur- struments my best work. I became did not take my investigation rent. And yes, I have read his re- involved in execution equipment to lightly. I had done the same work a port. I believe Germar's report to be prevent torture and perhaps this is number of times in the United an excellent work. Germar is a my best work because it was the States relative to defective execu- chemist and as such his approach to more humanitarian. I am very tion equipment and botched execu- the question is different from my proud of it. tions. I take my work and my repu- approach to it as an engineer. Our Widmann: What advice do you tation very seriously. The alleged differences are minor and stem from have for youth who may be faced gas chambers I investigated were disciplinary issues. I am honored with tremendous opposition to ideas not then, not now, or ever were gas that Germar Rudolf agreed with and and ideals that they feel, and even execution chambers. supported my work! know, are right? Should they take a Widmann: You have paid a Widmann: What is your opin- stand even in light of strong opposi- very high price for your involve- ion of the anti-revisionist legislation tion? ment with Holocaust revisionism. through out much of Europe, which Leuchter: I am not sure that this If you could do it all over again, has basically outlawed alternative is a fair question to ask me, Zündel, would you still take that now fa- viewpoints on the Holocaust? Faurisson, Germar or anyone else mous trip to the concentration Leuchter: I believe the legisla- that has been caught up in the fight camps of Poland? tion is anathema to free thought and and punished with such severity for Leuchter: I do not like what has free speech and those countries and telling the truth. We will all say, happened to me! I could not in those politicians that support such unequivocally, "Take a stand and good conscience walk away from legislation should be ashamed of fight." The harder the fight the Ernst Zündel then or now. He had a themselves. The voters in those tougher we get. right to the best defense he could countries should be ashamed that Widmann: Surely yours has muster and that was me. Further, I this legislation is being passed and been an interesting and some would believe everyone has a right to free enforced in their name and should say amazing life. Have you consid- speech and free thought. Yes, I remove the responsible politicians ered writing your memoirs? would do it again. from office. They are creating a Leuchter: Perhaps. See if you Widmann: Do you keep current Gulag within their own countries. can get someone to make an offer! with revisionist writings and

Errol Morris Shines a Light on Fred Leuchter

by William Halvorsen

gainst the baritone back- are supposed to be exercises in kind of movie he wanted to make, A drop of Fred Leuchter's irony, not documentaries in a strict the irony would have been non- reminiscences, film maker Errol sense. Yet the whole aim of revi- existent. As a result, instead of a Morris takes a journey inside the sionism is to dispel the double- revisionist breakthrough, or a deli- mind of the brilliant engineer of visions, and the superstitious delu- cious satire, Morris has been left execution systems in "Mr. Death: sions, which make irony possible. with very little, except, possibly, a The Rise and Fall of Fred A. This simply means that if Morris friend. Leuchter Jr." The film is difficult to had made a positive contribution to The first third of the movie in- evaluate, particularly from a revi- revisionism, the irony would have volves a quiet back and forth be- sionist perspective: Morris' films been tragic, but if he had made the tween Leuchter, whose smoky

4 voice, tinged with a Boston accent, ris' original conceptual problem. otherwise straightforward argu- is unmistakable, and Morris, whose Being Jewish, and brought up on ments with vast expanses of rhetori- constant snorts of laughter remind the mindset that simply accepts cal fog. us of the man who would be Curly. every aspect of the Holocaust un- Morris also called on James Superimposed throughout are the critically, he no doubt thought that Roth, the scientist who had origi- kind of visual juxtapositions for any one listening to his interviews nally confirmed Leuchter's findings, which Morris is famous: Fred mug- with Leuchter about Auschwitz but who now disavowed the value ging while tied up to an execution would regard them as hysterically of the work altogether. device, streams of dark brown cof- absurd, as, well, concentrated camp. While those adjustments tended fee pouring as Fred discusses his 40 to deflate Fred's arguments, they did cup a day habit, a Currier & Ives nothing to dispel the sense of injus- print as Fred discusses the possibil- tice the audience was bound to feel ity of an easeful execution. for Fred, whose life was destroyed - A more dramatic turn takes - to put it bluntly -- by activists who place about forty minutes into the will not accept that anyone can pub- film, as Leuchter discusses his role licly disagree with their cherished in the second trial of Ernst Zündel beliefs. So the film was again in 1988, who was tried for "spread- trimmed, a potential slant showing ing false information" because he Fred as a free speech martyr, and distributed a pamphlet that contra- another, accentuating the anti- dicted the standard Holocaust story. Germanism of the traditional Holo- In an attempt to defend his position, caust narrative, also, apparently, Zündel, at the behest of Robert Fau- ending up on the cutting room floor. risson, hired Leuchter, who wrote There's really not much left to the report that bears his name. do with the film, now, except to try Errol Morris It has been said that the film has spin control before viewings. At the undergone several changes since it But the problem was that for premiere in Los Angeles, Morris was first shown: it seems that at an once Morris broke the surly bonds appeared and came dangerously early showing at Harvard in late of satire and found himself soaring close to betraying the man who had 1998, several in the audience found weightless in reality. Fred is not a trusted him by calling him crazy. themselves agreeing with Fred's stupid person. His ideas are not in- It's probably not easy for Morris common sense arguments, while sane. His report, although flawed, to say these things. Not easy be- others felt that Morris was "defend- contained a genuine core of insight cause, even if he believes them, ing a Nazi." (Of course, Fred is nei- and inspiration. But Morris could what comes across in this film is a ther a Nazi nor a racist.) not see any of this; for once, he genuine liking and rapport between We can imagine what must could not appreciate the irony. Morris and Leuchter. Morris, a bril- have been Morris' amazement when Twenty years ago, he had college liant and eccentric film maker, he calibrated audience reactions that students laughing as old folks talked could appreciate the brilliant eccen- he had never expected to hear. Had about meeting their dogs in heaven. tricities of Fred Leuchter, even if he the ironist, recalling Nietzsche, He figured that Fred Leuchter didn't believe them. And what Mor- found his own irony? But it seems would be just as funny. He was ris must understand by now, is that likely that the problem can be traced wrong: as the saying goes, the joke Fred wasn't destroyed so much for back to Morris himself, just a little was on him. what he did or said about any one too confident of his ability to dis- By all accounts there have been thing, but just because he is a bril- cern the reality that none of his sub- several alterations made to the film. liant eccentric, which means that jects could see. First and foremost, Morris had to next time it just might be Errol In recent interviews, Morris has rebut Fred's arguments on Ausch- Morris' turn. But, as we noted at the chosen to stress his fascination with witz. To do this effectively, he beginning, a film that underlined death, as well as his status as a Jew enlisted the help of the eager Robert that truth wouldn't be funny any- who lost relatives in the Holocaust. Jan van Pelt, a professor of architec- more. It would be a tragedy.

There's probably an element of self- ture from Canada, who shows in exculpation here, but there's also a Reprinted from the November 2003 this film a remarkable talent for issue of The Revisionist hint as to what may have been Mor- self-promotion and for confusing 5 LEUCHTER TWENTY YEARS ON

Nicholas Kollerstrom, Ph.D.

sk anyone in the UK who alluded to as his ‘control.’ That’s as the DC samples and the AHGC (al- A has heard of the Leuchter it were, the theoretical weakness of leged human gas-chamber) samples. Report and you can be fairly sure his Report, at least in its chemical This is the central axis around they will tell you the same thing: it aspect. It was Fred’s Report that which future discussion of ‘the has been ‘discredited.’ But – really put these DCs on the map, Holocaust’ will have to revolve. “behold, O Dionysus,” as Nietzsche and drew everyone’s attention to The life-blood of science is replica- would have said, “I sing a new them: their functioning had been tion, whereby one result confirms song”: there are two different refer- completely covered-up at Nurem- another, and we’re seeing it here. ences we need to fully unpack the berg. They were where mattresses Then equally clearly we see that meaning of what Fred Leuchter ac- were de-loused, where the gas really there is no significant difference complished, with such amazing ra- was used. between the AHGC samples and pidity, twenty years ago. One sheds a tear at the way the those of ‘controls’ i.e. samples I don’t accept the charge that the main and more or less only British taken from living quarters, wash- Leuchter’s report is ‘flawed’ as debate over the Leuchter Report – rooms etc. This fact terminates the David Irving remarked at his trial. viz, the discussion at the Irving libel mass gassing story, at any rate for It’s not flawed, it just has a couple trial – took place without allusion to the five or so normally so- of weaknesses. And please bear in Germar Rudolf’s replication of the designated chambers at Auschwitz. mind that I am solely here con- Leuchter results in 1991. The tre- There is no ‘natural’ background cerned with his chemical measure- mendous power of the chemical level of cyanide in brick, so if ments, not with his professional argument here involved, comes around one part per million of cya- estimation as to how the chambers from the concordance between these nide appears in brickwork of these in question could never have func- two surveys. They used the same control samples as well as in the tioned as human gas-chambers. The method of analysing for iron cya- AHGCs, then this suggests that the practical weakness of his sampling nide, and the German lab (Rudolf’s rooms were fumigated once or lay in the presence of guards around samples) was slightly more accurate twice with the cyanide to de-louse the snowy walls of the Majdanek than Leuchter’s US lab. Both of them. disinfection chamber (DC) in Feb- these scientific investigations in- I developed a thread of several ruary 1988 which prevented Fred volved total career-termination of pages on the CODOH website, in from being able to take any samples the men involved, i.e. Leuchter and the course of which I approached there. That meant that he had only Rudolf both sacrificed their Mr Dan Desjardins on the some- one DC sample; it was quite a big livelihoods for the sake of scientific what arcane question of which one however, chiselled out from the truth. Rudolf in 1991 took a large Leuchter samples were ‘genuine,’ Birkenau DC. His Report has been number of samples from the DC i.e. taken from old WW2 brickwork scoffed at by various persons, e.g. walls, but only three from the of chambers where human gassing Pressac on the grounds that his stag- alleged human gas chambers at allegedly happened: those samples gering claim – surely the centre- Auschwitz. The latter fact is the not taken from such are what we are piece of his Report - of a 2000 fold weakness of his survey, as it were, here calling ‘controls’ - that’s quite difference in residual cyanide lev- if considered in isolation. an important concept if we are here els, was based only on this one We combine the two data-sets testing a scientific hypothesis. For- sample. together, after omitting all the sam- tunately, these enquiries stimulated Fred’s chemical argument was ples where the cyanide levels were Mr Desjardins to compose an article dualistic, contrasting the parts per too low to measure, and that gives on the subject (2), and his data there thousand cyanide level of this single us a total of forty cyanide measure- presented has been used for con- DC sample, with the parts per mil- ments (1). The two tables show this structing these charts. lion level of all his other levels. data. We can clearly see the two- This one sample he unfortunately thousand fold difference between 6

Leuchter’s chemical data needed land, and gave them permission to cyanide in the brickwork, which Rudolf’s replication - of a similar take and samples from the old could be merely a fraction of 1% of number of samples from much the walls. My CODOH essay The Walls the total, hence the need for these same chambers and the same of Auschwitz a Chemical Study re- very low concentrations. Orthodox, chemical method - to confirm its views the Kafkaesque endeavour pro-Holocaust studies always cite validity; and it also needed Mr Des- that followed. Dr Marciewicz et. al. this Marciewitz et. al. study as if it jardin’s careful retracing of exactly averred they were using a US had ‘refuted’ Leuchter. It’s a shame where Leuchter and his team had method published in 1947 which there are no Holocaust Studies in ventured, twenty years ago, to dis- was somehow one thousand times universities where students are al- tinguish between the AHGC and more accurate than the method used lowed to review these investiga- ‘control’ samples. by Alpha Laboratories in the US - tions, because students would see Leuchter’s work gets dismissed and they cited cyanide levels of through this ploy pretty quick. on the grounds made by Alpha-lab parts per billion in dormitories, etc! chemist Dr James Roth, interviewed I checked out this original reference 1. Leuchter took one DC sample, plus he took 14 others with measurable levels of in the 1999 film about Leuchter ‘Mr (and might be the only person in the cyanide. Mr Desjardins (ref 2) puts 5 of Death:’ that the cyanide gas would great debate who did so) by going these as ‘controls’ and 9 as AHGC samples. only have penetrated a mere ten to the Royal Society of Chemistry For the Rudolf data, likewise divided for microns into a wall. Rudolf’s quite in Piccadilly. inclusion in these charts, see tables 1 and 2 of the author’s ‘Walls of Auschwitz’ thorough investigation of cyanide The librarian there reached down (CODOH). For the two data-sets, see Ger- penetration into the wall is here of the first volume of the US Industrial mar Rudolf, The Rudolf Report, expert Re- value, showing how brick and mor- and engineering Chemistry (3) and port on Chemical and Technical Aspect of tar are permeable to cyanide gas blew the dust off it. Clear as day, the Gas chambers of Auschwitz , 2003 p.249 (was Roth maybe confusing brick the method went down to no more (Leuchter data) and p.254 (his data). with stone?) than 0.2 mg/l (in solution, and 2. D. Desjardins, The Leuchter Report Re- would be equivalent to around 2 visited, 2007 (CODOH); see also his Ken- Postscript: the Polish fake study mg/l. i.e. 2 ppm in the brickwork neth Stern's Critique of The Leuchter Re- from which it is extracted). Milli- port, 1997. Worldwide publicity was being grams and micrograms were being given to Leuchter’s trailblazing Re- 3. Joseph Epstein, ‘Estimation of Micro- muddled up by the Poles in a big port, and clearly something had to quantities of Cyanide’, Industrial and engi- way! The Poles used a devious ar- neering Chemistry 1947, 19, 272-274. . be done. So Dr Piper, the manager gument whereby they were only of the Auschwitz museum, ap- measuring the soluble component of proached a chemical team in Po- 7 Dan Desjardins Recalls his Introduction to Fred Leuchter

he "Leuchter Report" af- comparable cyanide detection levels ings, I finally paid attention to the Tfected me in a big way, in a for samples taken from the alleged implication of what he had done in bigger way, in fact, than I ever gas chambers within Kremas IV and terms of Birkenau’s delousing would have imagined it would. Of V versus rooms within these same chamber. Here, I finally understood, course, in the beginning, I thought it facilities officially identified as was an interesting benchmark, and was a very bold and ambitious pro- washing rooms, undressing rooms set out to extrapolate periods of ex- ject on the part of Revisionists. And and Sondercommando quarters. posure for the alleged gas chamber it caused me to wonder, as I sup- Whereas it appeared Mr. facilities based on what we knew pose it did many persons, why the Leuchter took the non-gas chamber relative periods of exposure for the Revisionists were the first ones in- samples ill-advisedly and made no delousing chambers. terested in applying scientific meth- point later about their variance rela- From this came a series of re- ods in order to examine the truth of tive the samples from the alleged finements regarding predicted ver- allegations regarding mass extermi- gas chamber sections of the build- sus measured residues and the ob- nation via homicidal gas chambers. ings, doing so proved to be an un- servation that the trace amounts de- Whereas previously the truths of expected windfall in terms of estab- termined by Alpha Analytic for the the matter had been established lishing ubiquitous cyanide presence, samples taken from the various based on the faith in eye-witness thus bolstering Dr. Robert Fauris- Kremas are not only in line with testimony, here, in one fell swoop, son's supposition that Zyklon B was delousing theory, but homicidal comes a mild-mannered yet brave used for hygienic (i.e., delousing) theory, as well. In sum, I concluded engineer whose scientific method rather than homicidal purposes. we needed another Fred Leuchter in upset the entire apple cart. I myself Later, in May 2000, while in the Chemistry department (no pun) have a scientific background, hav- Scotland, I made a point of seeing in order to do fundamental research ing earned degrees in both chemis- "Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of on gas-mortar reaction rates. This try and electrical engineering, so Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.," the unique if final article, posted last year by was interested in what Mr. Leuchter not altogether complimentary CODOH, is titled: “The Leuchter had done. So interested that by May documentary film about Fred Report Revisited.” 1996, some eight years following Leuchter made by Errol Morris. I met Fred Leuchter only once, Mr. Leuchter's seminal work, I trav- Although I was in Edinburgh at the that being during the 1992 Institute eled to Poland in order to retrace his time pursuing full-time studies in for Historical Review conference in steps and convince myself of the drama, I wrote a film review under Irvine. I remember I was impressed validity of what he had done. the same title which is available on with his retiring and even humble The result was two essays: "My the CODOH website (somewhat demeanor. Errol Morris captured Visit To Auschwitz-Birkenau, May edited from its original). David Irving making an uncompli- 30-31, 1996" (published through the Pursuing Fred Leuchter’s im- mentary comment about Leuchter IHR circa December 1996) and pact, there is one more article I but I can’t believe Mr. Irving meant "Kenneth Stern Versus The wrote based on promptings from it as it has been repeated, but rather Leuchter Report: A Critical Analy- Professor Nick Kollerstrom, who that Leuchter is guileless, lacking in sis," completed March 1997. One of had taken the trouble to read the the usual prejudices. For Fred the most revealing pieces of infor- first of the two essays mentioned Leuchter indeed impressed me as mation I provided in those follow- above. Forced to go back over my intelligent, thoughtful and intro- up studies was the fact there were earlier analysis of Leuchter’s find- spective.

Joseph Bishop Ponders Leuchter and Which Way Revisionism

y own copy of Leuchter's land,” prepared for Ernst Zundel on 1988. It is supposed to be the 'de- M work is the extensive “An April 5, 1988, by Fred A. Leuchter, finitive' version of his research, and Engineering Report on the Alleged Jr., Chief Engineer, and with a fore- is replete with diagrams, tables, Execution Gas Chambers at Ausch- word by Dr. Robert Faurisson, pub- charts, illustrations, graphs, and a witz, Birkenau and Majdanek Po- lished by Samisdat Publishers Ltd. bibliography. His work is more

8 popularly known as 'The Leuchter Of course, we know that this and all other areas of Jewish Report', or series of reports. in spite of these shallow argu- history or anything related to their I don't know that I could say ments, anyone seriously and objec- perceived interests. Revisionism that this material 'changed my life' tively examining revisionist work remains something very important, but it did leave me thoughtful. I would have to agree that World War but still relatively secret, going on didn't need convincing that the Two history, and Jewish history in dark corners far from the main- standard Auschwitz account, and during this period, has to be com- stream. It seems very nearly impos- the Holocaust story in general, was pletely re-written, also that an apol- sible to break into that mainstream, riddled with errors and falsehoods, ogy of sorts would have to be pro- in spite of the many years of effort Here was more firm evidence - this vided to the German people and the of individual revisionists. Yes, time from a chemical resi- National Socialist regime after all there is the occasional debate in a due analysis standpoint - that mil- these years of guilt. Additionally, college newspaper, or something lions of Jews could not have been, perhaps a refund to Germans (and appears on television or is heard on and were not, gassed by Nazis. others) of the gigantic payola, bil- radio, or something is published in a This new evidence is now part of a lions of which have been transferred major periodical, but in general re- multi-leveled sheaf of facts showing to Jews and to Israel for decades in visionism remains without serious that the Auschwitz account as popu- consequence of an assumed respon- influence on the intellectual or his- larly believed (and still purveyed) is sibility for alleged mass gassings - toriographical communities. just not true. There were not the centrality of the Holocaust, after An eye-opener and a surprise enough Jews in all of Europe under all. Beyond all that, it would also to me was the production of 'Dr Nazi control to even crunch the mean the identity or justification of Death', a strange pseudo-documen- numbers up to six million, there has Israel itself thrown into question tary account of the life and work of been no revelation of Nazi docu- and also the various postwar social Fred Leuchter. This appeared in mentation to show orders or ad- and political agendas predicated DVD format and was prominently ministration of a genocide cam- upon fear and guilt related to this displayed in major film rental out- paign, there was no evidence of supposed genocide of Jews. So lets across the United States. But cremation or burning of anywhere quite a bit is at stake here, much of once again it was a biased portrayal near that many bodies of victims, it a series of outgrowths from the of someone weird and kooky and the official and detailed death ros- Holocaust story. with stranger ideas. It was not a ters kept by the SS of fatalities of What has left me thoughtful presentation of revisionism or a call Auschwitz just didn't come close to here, however, is where this revi- to the individual to have a serious these numbers nor show a single sionist work has really been going. look at it. It was one of those death by gassing, etc. And now the Who is studying it? Who is even glimpses of the lunatic fringe, an Zyklon-B chemical residues. aware of it? After some thirty or affirmation of the Jewish-inspired The other side would argue that forty years of research and publica- perspective. These are not victories the Leuchter work is a typical ex- tion of so many fine revisionist ma- for revisionism, but more of the ample of 'advocacy research'. To terials, the whole subject itself still same. wit, an open National Socialist pub- remains 'El Gran Tabu' and is 'be- Today, thinking about Fred licist - Ernst Zundel - hires an exe- yond the pale' as a discussion. One Leuchter, I wonder towards whom cution specialist to go off to simply can still not question the revisionism is directed or what its Auschwitz to dig around and come Holocaust story or criticize any as- ultimate fate is to be. Do we have a up with some evidence and numbers pect of it. Even beginning to do so target audience? Are we aiming to to show that the gassing story is a shuts off the entire dialogue imme- reach and influence academics, or lie. They say that revisionists are diately. A portion of the general historians, or scientists, or the gen- racists and Nazis and that revision- population is aware of the existence eral public? What means are in- ism is a sum of ignorance and of 'Holocaust deniers but dimly per- tended, published materials or prejudiced denial borne of an ceives them as a sort of lunatic films? If we mean to reach the agenda to whitewash Nazi crimes in fringe. There is very little aware- thinking and reading public, then order to reconstitute National So- ness of the work of Staglich, San- revisionism may have reached a cialism. For the most part, this re- ning, Leuchter, Butz, Rudolf, Fau- small number, but few of them are mains the conventional wisdom to- risson and other revisionists. Jews responding. It seems to me that re- day. continue to control the discourse on visionism is not reaching people so

9 much as that individuals are reach- who inherit this planet. What will Jewish drive to keep it 'tabu' and ing it, people who are already re- revisionism mean to, say, the Chi- 'beyond the pale'. ceptive to its ideas and facts be- nese, or to black Africans? If revi- Ideas, solutions? cause they confirm their existing sionism were somehow, by some world-view and whatever that may miracle or constellation of miracles, Readers can contact consist of. to reach the mainstream and really Joseph Bishop at The world is changing rapidly. influence people, it would lead to a [email protected] The West itself and its generative great deal of change, and not merely people is in decline and in fact is in the study of history or of one disappearing. Western history is not small area thereof. Once again, a going to mean a whole lot to those great deal is at stake and hence the

Speaking about Satan

A note on Yehuda Bauer’s foreword to Filip Müller’s Three Years in the Gas Chambers

By Thomas Kues

ehuda Bauer was born in non-polemical comments on Holo- contribution to Holocaust literature. Y Prague in 1926. In 1939, he caust-related issues. The book “is a unique document”, and his family migrated to Pales- In 1979, Bauer wrote a foreword Bauer writes; “it is the testimony of tine. After fighting in the 1948 to the first English language edition the only man who saw the Jewish Arab-Israeli war, Bauer completed a of “Sonderkommando” eyewitness people die and lived to tell what he degree in history, and in 1960 he Filip Müller’s book Eyewitness saw.” Müller is thus not simply one received his doctorate. Bauer was a Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas eyewitness out of many, but a supe- founding editor of Journal for Holo- Chambers (Stein and Day, New rior kind of eyewitness who has caust and Genocide Studies and also York): a dazzling, true to G-d tale produced a unique testimony on his served on the editorial board of the about pits full of sizzling human fat, alleged experiences; a fate-stricken Encyclopaedia of the Holocaust corpses incinerated at express scribe chronicling the destruction of published by Yad Vashem in 1990. speed, munchies in the gas cham- his people. In 1998 he received the Israel Prize, ber, greenish-blue Zyklon B “crys- Indeed, his book is the “shatter- and in 2001 he was elected a mem- tals”, buckets jumping about due to ing, centrally important testimony ber of the Israeli Academy of Sci- the contractions of cut-off human of the sole survivor of the whole ence. tissue, beautiful naked girls prevent- span of the murder operations of the Bauer is regarded as one of the ing the author from committing sui- Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centre, foremost living (exterminationist) cide (so that he may bear witness of of the anus mundi.” Regarding the Holocaust historians. He is the au- the truth), and much more. This style of writing Bauer states that thor of numerous books dealing book was also exhaustively refer- Müller “tells the story in simple, with the Holocaust and Anti- enced to by Raul Hilberg in his straightforward language”, as well Semitism, including Trends in 1985 revised edition of The De- as with “no embellishment, no de- Holocaust Research (1977), Jewish struction of the European Jews (as viation.” According to the Israeli foreign policy during the Holocaust noted by revisionist Jürgen Graf in historian, Eyewitness Auschwitz is (1984), Is the Holocaust explicable? his critique The Giant With Feet of “not a work of art” but “a testi- (1990), and Rethinking the Holo- Clay). mony”. Thus if Bauer is to be caust (2001). One might therefore So what does Bauer write about trusted the book is not fiction of (adopting the mindset of the general Müller’s astounding book? To begin some sort, but a factual retelling of public) assume Bauer to be capable with, it is very apparent that Bauer actually transpired events observed of making qualified, insightful and regards it as a highly significant by the author. But what are we to

10 make of passages such as this (pp. testing to the door of the gas terrible accusation against God 46-47): chamber. There they gave me a and humanity.” “After their execution the cho- last push which made me land sen bodies were laid on a table. bang in the middle of the group of The implicit hero and symbol of The doctors proceeded to cut SS men.” Absolute Good in this great tale is pieces of still warm flesh from of course “G-d’s chosen people”, thighs and calves and threw them All of this transpiring in a sup- the Six Million Shoah Martyrs. into waiting receptacles. The posedly jam packed gas chamber Such is the underlying “thinking” of muscles of those who had been with armed guards standing around world-renowned Holocaust histo- shot were still working and con- outside! Yet in spite of the numer- rian Yehuda Bauer. No wonder then tracting, making the bucket jump ous similar nonsensical, absurd and that he can swallow any wild tale about.” blatantly propagandistic statements (provided it is kosher). This uncriti- Or the absurd capacity ascribed found throughout the book, Bauer cal attitude is especially evident in to the coke-fired crematory ovens maintains that Müller is a superior Bauer’s remark on the Auschwitz (p. 16): witness: victim figure:

“The powers that be had allo- “Müller is neither a historian “It is not known exactly how cated twenty minutes for the cre- nor a psychologist; he does not many people were murdered in mation of three corpses [in one analyze or dissect. But what he the Auschwitz gas chambers, but oven muffle]. It was Stark’s duty tells is of tremendous importance the estimates run around three and to see to it that this time was to both.” a half million.”

strictly adhered to.” The book apparently transcends Raul Hilberg stated in his The Or the following description of ordinary testimony, becoming Destruction of the European Jews Müller’s failed attempt to commit something of a religious or meta- (originally published in 1961) that suicide in the gas chamber (pp. 113- physical revelation: 1,250,000 people, whereof 1 million 114): Jews, perished at Auschwitz. In “This is a vital testimony, and 1953 Gerald Reitlinger estimated “Suddenly a few girls, naked it will undoubtedly serve as an the same number to between and in the full bloom of youth, element in attempting to approach 800.000 and 900.000 (The Final came up to me. They stood in understanding the dread that was Solution, p. 500). In 1951 French- front of me without a word, gaz- Auschwitz, although none of us Jewish historian Léon Poliakov ap- ing at me in deep thought and that were not there can cross the preciated the number of Auschwitz shaking their heads uncompre- threshold of knowledge.” victims to 2 million, a figure later hendingly. At last one of them used also by his colleagues George This clearly echoes Elie Wie- plucked up courage and spoke to Wellers (1973) and Lucy David- sel’s papal proclamation that “The me: ‘’We understand that you owicz (The War Against the Jews, Holocaust is a holy mystery, the have chosen to die with us of your 1975). By 1983, Wellers had low- secret of which is limited to the cir- own free will, and we have come ered his figure to 1.471.595. In cle of the priesthood of survivors” to tell you that we think your de- 1982 Yehuda Bauer himself (Novick, The Holocaust in Ameri- cision pointless: for it helps no vaguely estimated the figure to be- can Life, p. 211). Bauer for his part one.’ She went on: ‘We must die, tween 2 and 4 million (A History of does not hesitate to identify Hitler’s but you still have a chance to save the Holocaust, p. 215), only to Germany as darkness incarnated, your life. You have to return to lower this to 1,600,000 in 1989 and implicitly World War Two as a the camp and tell everybody (The Jerusalem Post, September 22, struggle against an Absolute Evil, in about our last hours,’ she com- 1989, p. 6). That in 1979 a leading the deceptively human shape of the manded. (…). I was surprised and authority in the field with no appar- SataNazis: strangely moved by her cool and ent ties to the Soviet Union spoke of calm detachment in the face of “He saw a civilization being between three and four million death, and also by her sweetness. destroyed by devils in ordinary, Auschwitz victims should tell us Before I could make an answer to human form. He not only saw the something about the intellectual her spirited speech, the girls took martyrs, he spoke to Satan. (...) integrity and mentality of Holocaust hold of me and dragged me pro- This unembellished telling is a historians. But Bauer is no ordinary 11 historian, he is in addition some- “We must contend with Filip on a fundament such as Three Years thing of a philosopher, criticizing Müller's testimony, if we want our in the Gas Chambers? Is it the civi- our western civilization while pro- civilization to survive.” lization of Aristotle, Voltaire and viding a reliable solution to our Nietzsche, or that of Freud, Mar- problems: What kind of civilization, we cuse, and Elie Wiesel? might ask ourselves, is it that rests

First They Came For….

Canadian "Hate Speech" -- Totalitarianism Is Not New

VDARE Highlights Persecution of Free Speech in Canada & Paul Fromm

By Kathy Shaidle

efore December 2007, most ada's "human rights" bureaucracy, classroom. After thirteen years of B Americans had no idea that which dates from the 1970s and has litigation, Fromm was stripped of bureaucrats in their neighbor to the mission-creeped from investigating his license to teach, although it was north had been waging a war on housing and employment discrimi- conceded he had never promoted free speech for over a decade. nation to suppressing politically his views in the classroom. Then well-known conservative incorrect speech. Recently, a Chris- Now, given their druthers, liber- columnist and author Mark Steyn tian printer was fined for declining tarian human rights champions announced that he and Macleans, to print gay activist propaganda, and would have chosen a more ideo- Canada's oldest weekly newsmaga- a Catholic bishop was harassed with logically photogenic poster child zine, were being charged by a Brit- a human rights complaint for a pas- than Paul Fromm. Many articles ish Columbia Human Rights Tribu- toral letter explaining Catholic claiming to detail Fromm's far right nal with "flagrant Islamophobia" for teaching on homosexuality— filed activities have appeared in Canada printing an excerpt from Steyn's as part of a "gay marriage" publicity 's admittedly liberal media over a book America Alone stunt. period of more than thirty years. At the same time, Ezra Levant, a But the fact is that a long chain- (See his—very volatile— entry on lawyer and lifelong libertarian pun- gang of other Canadians—not as Wikipedia.) dit based in Alberta, was brought famous, articulate or resourceful as Nonetheless, Fromm had a few before an Alberta Human Rights Steyn and Levant and in some cases respectable supporters, too, because Commission tribunal for his own positively insalubrious—have been the circumstances of his dismissal "crime": publishing the controver- persecuted and punished for years were nothing less than Orwellian. sial Danish "Mohammed" cartoons because they've offended Canada's A particularly eloquent condem- (his Western Standard, now defunct, politically correct Trudeauvian Es- nation of Fromm's fate appeared in was one of only two Canadian pub- tablishment. But almost nobody the Calgary Sun in 1997—written lications to do so.) Ever media complained. This is a case where by...Ezra Levant: savvy, Levant videotaped his defi- anti-Nazi German theologian Mar- "Three years ago, Fromm was ant opening statement—and up- tin Niemoller's much-cited lines investigated to see whether he was loaded it to YouTube.com. Over a ("They came first for the Commu- infecting his classrooms with his half-million views later, Levant was nists, and I did not speak up because own ideologies. He was exonerated. a free speech hero. I wasn't a Communist") really ap- Its sole condemnation: that Fromm's (At least on the internet. U.S. ply. political activities outside of school media bellwethers like the New For example, Paul Fromm. 'were inconsistent with the funda- York Times and Washington Post The former schoolteacher's prob- mental or core values' that a teacher still don't seem to have reported the lems started back in 1994, when his was supposed to teach… story.) employers, The Peel Region Board "Fromm is not using his class- Levant and Steyn are campaign- of Education, learned about the far room as a pulpit. According to ing for a drastic overhaul of Can- right company he kept outside the Fromm's employers, Fromm had 12 'demonstrated a profound disrespect the most vile speech and writing that Canadians' speech follows the for the principles of multicultural- becomes clear: because suppression government-approved ideology and ism and ethnocultural equity.' of it eventually leads to the inability terminology on the topic of free "But it is the Peel educrats, not to criticize government. speech itself." Fromm, who have demonstrated a "You know you've lost your Volokh found another case, profound disrespect for our tradi- freedom when you cannot call a Warman v. Beaumont , which was tions of free speech and political censor a censor." decided a month after the Fromm association."[ Free Speech Is Too Perhaps because of the differ- case, particularly troubling: Important, by Ezra Levant Calgary ence between U.S. and Canadian "Much of the complaint was Sun, January 17, 1997] libel law, Paul Jacob hasn't yet been about expressly racist, anti-gay, Others grudgingly (albeit qui- sued by Richard Warman for writ- anti-Semitic, and otherwise bigoted etly) appreciate Fromm's one-man ing that. Neither has Eugene Vo- speech; as blog readers know, I be- campaign against Canada's Human lokh, who brought his considerable lieve even such speech should be Rights Commission "thought po- legal acumen to bear on his blog protected, but there's little new at lice" in general and in particular one post analyzing the judge's decision: this point in Canada's restrictions of of its former employees, lawyer "It seems to me that Fromm was such speech. (...) Richard Warman, who has in effect simply expressing opinions that the "But the Canadian Human made a profession of filing com- court disapproved of—that people Rights Commission and Mr. War- plaints. who try to restrict 'hate speech' are man apparently do take this view. This campaign is Canada 's quin- 'enem[ies] of free speech,' that peo- According to them, the statement 'I tessential "why can't they both ple who are punished for hate don't care if it's a religious thing or lose?" free speech case, our very speech are 'dissidents,' that people not, if you don't want to follow our own chilblained Hustler Magazine, who for ideological reasons use the rules, even if it is taking off your Inc. v. Falwell, while lacking the law to restrict speech they disagree scarf thing for one lousy picture, latter's peerless entertainment value. with are ideologues who want only then stay out of my effing country!' U.S. columnist Paul Jacob's dis- to deny freedom of speech to those may be legally suppressed, on the tilled description (December 9, with whom they disagree. Who is grounds that it's "likely to expose 2007) of the rancorous Warman- an 'enemy of free speech' obviously persons to hatred or contempt on the Fromm relationship is impossible to turns on the speaker's view of free basis of religion." If the Commis- improve upon: speech, and the view that he expects sion had its way, how far further "What did Warman do? He filed his audience to share, or that he down the slope would Canada slip?" numerous complaints against 'hate wants to persuade his audience to Ironically, Volokh asked that speech' websites, and the govern- share. Who deserves to be labeled question just before Steyn and Le- ment took many of those sites with the generally positive term vant found themselves slipping right down…. 'dissident' depends on what dissent down that very slope. "Paul Fromm…has repeatedly the speaker believes to be legitimate But this was a question that Ca- called Warman an 'enemy of free and morally proper. nadian columnist George Jonas has speech.' And similar things. "Yet the Canadian justice system been asking for decades. Again and "And so what did Warman do? not only allows the suppression of again, Jonas has warned his fellow "He sued. certain viewpoints, and excludes journalists that one day, when they "For libel. them from free speech restrictions. ran out of "white supremacists" to "And won. With this case, it also tries to deny silence, the Human Rights Commis- "And was awarded $30,000. critics the right to label the speech sions would turn their attentions to "Why? The judge ruled [PDF] they support 'free speech,' and the them. Jonas wrote back in April that a government official working dissenters they like 'dissidents.' 2006: from duly enacted government pol- "The court is insisting that Ca- "Even a chief architect of the icy cannot be an enemy of free nadians' speech not only follows the concept, Alan Borovoy, general speech. That's just unthinkable! government-approved ideology on counsel of the Canadian Civil Lib- "Yes, in Canada you may not the topic of race, ethnicity, and re- erties Association, is beginning to speak the truth about free speech to ligion (an ideology that I agree notice the hideous chickens coming its official enemies. In Canada , the with, but that I don't think should be home to roost in his barnyard. 'Dur- reason why we must defend even legally coerced). It is also insisting ing the years when my colleagues

13 and I were laboring to create such clerical-fascist imams—against VDARE.COM NOTE: In the commissions,' he wrote last month their own freedom of speech." U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy's in the Calgary Herald, 'we never Of course, Canada's liberal latest attempt to pass federal "hate" imagined that they might ultimately commentariat didn't care about this legislation, by incorporating it into be used against freedom of speech.' incremental erosion of their God- the National Defense Authorization "Borovoy should have imagined given rights, and neither did average Act, was defeated on December 6, it, partly because it was self- Canadians—whose prejudices they 2007. For a pro view, click here; evident, and partly because I told largely share—because the victims contra, here. him so during our discussions of the were "white supremacists", conser- Kathy Shaidle (email her) has subject some twenty years ago. We vative Christians and "homo- been blogging since 2000, and runs argued about it nearly every Satur- phobes". the site FiveFeetOfFury. She and day in the late 1980s, sitting with The irony was noted by only a Ezra Levant, along with other Ca- friends in a Toronto cafe. It seemed few, such as the likes of Jonas nadian conservative bloggers and to me then, as it seems to me now, (who, not incidentally, survived writers, are currently being sued that Borovoy's crowd of left-leaning both Nazis and Communists before by.... Richard Warman. liberals could imagine all right how escaping from his native Hungary): VDARE, operated by British au- the 'human rights' laws they pro- that in hunting "fascists", the Hu- thor Peter Brimelow, is a U.S.- moted could be used against some- man Rights Commissions and their based website dedicated to immi- body else's freedom of speech— supporters eventually became the gration reform. some conservative fuddy-duddy's, very thing they claimed to hate ______for instance. What Borovoy's brand most: freedom-hating, rights- "When you silence the Men of of 'progressive' cosmopolitans squelching Nazis in everything but the Word, you will have to deal with couldn't imagine was that their laws name. the Men of the Sword." might one day be used by conserva- --Paul Fromm tive fuddy-duddies—even veritable

From Smith’s Blog, an Online Journal

George Washington on the out adequate inducement or justifi- or foolish compliances of ambition, U.S. alliance with Israel cation. corruption, or infatuation.” “It leads also to concessions to It can be argued that GW was a the favorite nation of privileges de- Elie Wiesel: Good questions little premature with this, but some- nied to others which is apt doubly to are better than good answers. times it’s better to be too early than injure the nation making the con- Yeah? too late. Did you watch the oily per- cessions; by unnecessarily parting formances put on by Barack Obama with what ought to have been re- Elie Wiesel spoke before a sold- and John McCain before their AI- tained, and by exciting jealousy, ill- out crowd at Rochester Church of PAC audiences? will, and a disposition to retaliate, in Christ in Rochester Minnesota. The the parties from whom equal privi- Livonia (MI) Observer & Eccentric From George Washington's leges are withheld. [emphasis sup- Newspapers give the story a sub- "Farewell Address" – 1796 plied] head that reads:

“And it gives to ambitious, cor- "Good questions are better than “[…] A passionate attachment rupted, or deluded citizens (who good answers. Good questions have of one nation for another produces a devote themselves to the favorite no answers." variety of evils. Sympathy for the nation), facility to betray or sacri- Professor Wiesel is a genius. If favorite nation, facilitating the illu- fice the interests of their own coun- I were to ask him to provide the sion of an imaginary common inter- try, without odium, sometimes even name, with proof, of one person est in cases where no real common with popularity; gilding, with the who was killed in a gas chamber at interest exists, and infusing into one appearances of a virtuous sense of Auschwitz, I believe Elie would the enmities of the other, betrays the obligation, a commendable defer- consider it one of those question former into a participation in the ence for public opinion, or a laud- that is too good to have an answer. quarrels and wars of the latter with- able zeal for public good, the base It follows then that there are only 14 answers to questions that aren’t “liars,” “sadists.” and general “no- fresh idea. It is an exercise in imagi- much good to begin with. goods.” Is the intent of such lan- nation, technology and judgment. This particular lecture was titled guage to victimize those it is used “The museum is digitizing 75 "The Power of Language for Rec- against? Sometimes? million records over the next three onciliation." Wiesel noted that ex- Adolf Hitler, Wiesel said, "re- years, videotaping interviews with amples of reconciliation, or the lack ferred to the extermination of six one-time concentration-camp in- thereof, can be traced to early scrip- million Jews as the 'final solution,' mates and using art and multimedia ture. Citing the biblical tale of Cain as if it was a mathematical prob- displays -- even a YouTube channel and Abel, he said that when “lan- lem." -- to create a record that will outlive guage fails, it is replaced by vio- If I were to ask how Elie Wiesel the now-elderly survivors. "We lence … Violence becomes the new can demonstrate that Adolf Hitler have to set up a dialogue in the ... “ language. That was true then, and it referred to “the extermination of six Yad Vashem then is going to is now. In other words, two brothers million Jews” anywhere under any digitize some of its records – 75 rejected reconciliation as a way of circumstances, would that be a million or so, which I suppose is life." question so good that it could not only a fraction of what these ener- Should I be encouraged to hope possibly have an answer? Would getic folk have been able to put to- that it is possible for those who be- asking the question itself be an act gether. Once Yad Vashem gets lieve the core Holocaust narrative of violence? Would it violate lan- these first 75 million records into its and those who doubt it could ex- guage? Would it maim, enslave, digital system, the institution might change language in an environment corrupt or pervert language? be able to provide the world with of openness and good will with an If so, how so? Another of those the name, with proof, of one person aim of reconciliation? Would Elie questions I suppose that is too good who was killed in a gas chamber at encourage such a peaceful ex- to have an answer. Auschwitz. Can’t wait. change? Or would he favor the What would we say to the possi- prosecution and imprisonment -- At Yad Vashem. An exercise in bility that by the time we enter a that is, an act of State violence imagination, technology and world without Holocaust survivors, against an individual -- of those judgment we will have entered a world where who doubt what he believes regard- it is understood there were no gas ing the core Holocaust narrative? The Wall Street Journal reports chambers at Auschwitz? The folk at “Wiesel said in times of ex- that Yad Vashem is planning for a Yad Vashem would have to exer- treme conflict and crisis, language world without Holocaust survivors. cise their powerful imaginations, is an early victim and is often ‘vio- The museum aims to capture the their complex technology, and their lated, maimed, enslaved, corrupted interest of future generations by deep moral judgment in interesting and perverted.’" That is, those who retelling the stories of those who new ways. Are they up to it? Are doubt what he believes about the survived the Nazi persecutions and they not? core Holocaust story are commonly those who perished. Now there is a Follow the money. labeled “haters,” “anti-Semites,”

SMITH FACES AN ETHICAL ISSUE

To Tell or Not to Tell

Dear Readers and Supporters: with this work advised me to not affects the white blood cells, low- tell you. The first response I re- ers the immune function, and I want to make this as simple ceived, from an attorney who pur- leaves you open to other stuff. It as possible. Something has hap- chased my first computer for me in first revealed itself in a lymph pened about which I have a choice the early 1990s, was very simple: node in the throat at the end of a – to tell you openly or to keep it to “We tell the truth.” very bad cold that I remarked on myself. I’ve decided, with the ad- Okay. I have been diagnosed here last May. vice of my wife and a couple three with non-Hodgkins, B-cell lym- I don’t hurt, I’m not sick, and associates, to tell you. I was struck phoma – or as we say on the street, B-cell lymphoma is not an aggres- by the fact that no one associated throat cancer. It’s a cancer that sive cancer. It’s not going to eat 15 me alive. It can be cured, and is The medicos there want to make So here we are. Smith has a cured with some frequency. There certain my heart is okay so I don’t unique project to manage. Smith are various approaches to getting a explode or perform some other has a problem. He can handle his handle on it, including chemother- outrageous act on the operating problem for the foreseeable future. apy and a number of new medi- table and give the VA a bad name. He needs your help—see the sepa- cines. The downside is that I have I think that’s reasonable. rate enclosure. issues with fatigue. I now have my own oncologist, He’s going to take this project The reason why I would not Dr. Go, a youngish Chinese. The to the top of the Holocaust food want to tell you about this is that I morning of our first interview I chain, to UNESCO and the United am about to kick off a significant noticed that his plastic I.D. badge Nations General Assembly via the revisionist project that I need your identifies Dr. Go as an M.D., but U.S. Holocaust Memorial Mu- help with. If you know that the guy that he is also a Ph.D. I asked him seum. It’s never been done before. saying he is going to forward the what he has his Ph.D. in. Laugh- You’ve been with him a long project has cancer it would only be ing, he said: time now. He’s always been rational on your part to wonder, to “You’re in luck, Bradley. Im- straight with you. Please do the consider, whether you should get munology.” best you can. in any deeper with him. You could Immunology is the exact spe- He believes you’re gonna like be throwing your money down a cialty that an oncologist needs what we get with this one. well. I can’t guarantee what is go- when dealing with lymphoma, a ing to happen over the coming cancer of the blood. I liked it that months, but I fully believe I will be he would laugh at that moment. able to manage this affair through And that set memory off and run- Bradley the 2008/2009 academic year. Af- ning. ter that, we’ll see. I’m fortunate that the VA is ab- I believe I owe you a brief out- sorbing the great bulk of the costs Smith’s Report line of the story: Last May I was at here. I only have these benefits the Chula Vista Veterans Admini- because I was wounded in combat is published by stration walk-in clinic where Dr. in Korea, by a Chinese. So, a Chi- Committee for Open Debate Lin, a Chinese lady, was to give nese blew me out of Korea with a On the Holocaust me a steroid injection in the left hand grenade. Now a Chinese Bradley R. Smith, Founder knee. I mentioned to her that I was lady, Dr. Lin, has discovered the just getting over a very bad cold cancer in a very early stage when For your contribution of and she decided to put her fingers she was only supposed to be giving $39 around my throat. She found a me a steroid injection in the left lymph node that was slightly swol- knee. A Chinese oncologist, Dr. You will receive 12 issues of len. She set me up with a appoint- Go, is going out of his way to Smith’s Report. ment at the VA hospital in La identify exactly which kind of In Canada and Mexico--$45 Jolla. lymphoma I have (there are some Overseas--$49 In the ensuing three months I 40 kinds) so that he can cure it. have had a Cat scan of the throat, a The story has come full circle! Letters and Donations to: needle biopsy of the lymph gland At the beginning Chinese infantry Bradley R. Smith there, a dry run at a surgical bi- tried to kill me, at the end Chinese Post Office Box 439016 opsy, a second needle biopsy, a doctors are working to save me. As San Ysidro, CA 92143 bone-marrow biopsy in the left I write this my wife is only now pelvis, a (full-body) Pet scan at the beginning to recover from her ten- Desk: 209 682 5327 U.S. Naval Hospital in Balboa, day addiction to watching the Bei- Cell: 619 203 3151 four more Cat scans covering the jing Olympics and repeats of the pelvis, abdomen, chest, and again Beijing Olympics. This Chinese Email: the throat, and a cardio ultrasound. thing has become a little mystical. [email protected]

This last is preparatory to the sur- It’s probably only coincidence. [email protected] gical biopsy that will finally be Still, just in case -- who has the made on the throat in a week or so. Tarot cards?

16 SMITH’S REPORT

On the Holocaust Controversy

No. 154 www.Codoh.com October 2008

Challenging the Holocaust Taboo Since 1990

SMITH TAKES REVISIONIST ARGUMENTS TO HUNDREDS OF UNESCO ORGANIZATIONS AND UN MINISTRIES WORLDWIDE

ast month I wrote here that democracy.” I am further informed been able to discover, UNESCO Lmy advance on the UN, that this human right “includes does not provide journalists with a and in particular on UNESCO, its freedom to hold opinions without working definition of any part of Economic, Social, and Cultural interference and to seek, what the UN General Assembly Organization, will take revisionism calls upon its member states to to the top of the world’s most im- reject. UNESCO does not define portant international forum, in the “Holocaust as a historical event.” capital of world media. It is not a It does not define what is meant by complicated concept, but one that “in part.” And it does not define is simple, direct, and with a built- what “activities to this end” might in power to it. Here I will outline mean. the work I completed in Septem- Your help in defining these key ber. This is only an outline, and it words and phrases in the 26 Janu- is only the beginning. ary 2007 call by the UN General Assembly to “reject any denial of 07 September 2008 the Holocaust as a historical event,

either in full or in part, or any ac- Mogens Schmidt Mogens Schmidt tivities to this end” would be very Deputy Assistant Director receive and impart information and much appreciated. General for Communications ideas through any media and re- Sincerely, and Information, Division for gardless of frontiers.” Freedom of Expression, Bradley R. Smith How does UNESCO reconcile Democracy and Peace this important “mandate” to defend UNESCO the basic human right of freedom After seven days I copied my Dear Deputy Assistant of expression and press freedom letter to Schmidt to the full Staff of Director-General: with the 26 January 2007 call by UNESCO's Communication and the UN General Assembly to all its I am informed that UNESCO is Information Sector and to the New 192 Member States to “reject any the one United Nations agency York University Department of denial of the Holocaust as a his- with a “mandate to defend the ba- Journalism with a note stating that torical event, either in full or in sic human right of freedom of ex- I had received no reply part, or any activities to this end”? pression and press freedom, which This is complicated by the ap- are the essential components of Continued on page 12 parent fact that, so far as I have 1 you ‘affirmationists’, ‘affirma- fact that the Majdanek Museum in LETTERS Zionists’ or ‘nega-Zionists’.” Poland dropped the number of In Goethe's Faust, Mephi- killed from 360,000 people killed Robert Faurisson stopheles is "the spirit that ever to 78,000 people missing. denies" (der Geist der stets It is worth noting that the Nur- September 21, 2008 verneint) and the public doesn't emberg Court claimed that 1.5 mil- Re Christopher Vick’s letter much like those who deny things. lion people were killed at Ma- (Smith’s Report, Sept. 2008, p. 2) If you don't care to be more or less jdanek and turned into fertilizer! likened to the devil in the public While the new figures still repre- “I do not deny; I affirm...” mind, avoid saying that you deny. sent a horrible tragedy, they show Personally I consider that for a the extreme exaggerations inflicted revisionist to adopt the word "de- Greg Alan on history by the Soviet and Brit- ny" (or "denial", or "denier") is to ish propaganda machines at the fall into the opposing side's game Alan wrote this letter to Mehr end of World War II. and adopt their language; it News Agency in Teheran upon Mehr News Agency's attention amounts to giving them a stick publication of the article he refers to this important issue is great. with which to beat us. to. This article is published in full Thank you again. Yours for Peace Whenever someone rebukes in this issue of SR. and Truth, me for denying "the Holocaust" I respond: "I don't deny anything in The article by Paul Grubach, Greg Alan that regard but, on the contrary, I “Ahmadinejad’s Reasonable San Francisco, California affirm. I affirm, at the end of my Stance on the Holocaust,” is an research and observations, that ’the excellent and thought-provoking Paul Fritz-Nemeth Holocaust’ did not exist; for me, article. Thank you for printing it. ‘the Holocaust’ is a historical lie”. Unfortunately, the Holocaust Hi Joseph, Myth is used by American politi- If need be, I sometimes add: "I I would like to congratulate cians as a fear-mongering tool ra- am neither a denier, nor a 'nega- you on a most thought-provoking ther than as a historical story sub- tionist'. I consider that it's you who article. ject to discussion. As an American deny; for me, you deny the obvi- “I wonder towards whom revi- I was embarrassed last year by Co- ous. Galileo denied nothing; it was sionism is directed or what its ul- lumbia president Lee Bollinger’s his opponents who denied; they timate fate is to be?” ignorant and rude reception for denied the obvious. Galileo, at the “Do we have a target audi- Iran's president. This year I am end of his research and observa- ence?” worried by presidential candidates' tions, stated that such or such con- “Are we aiming to reach and bellicose language about a "Second clusion was inexact and that an- influence academics, or historians, Holocaust." other conclusion was exact. or scientists, or the general pub- Belief in the Holocaust Myth He was a revisionist and had a lic?” is the new religion in the Western positive or pragmatic mind. “What means are intended, countries. It is generally unre- The revisionists are positive or published materials or films?” ported that several historians and pragmatic people, and to such an “If we mean to reach the think- scholars have been jailed for ex- extent that at times their opponents ing and reading public, then revi- pressing disbelief in the more ex- call them positivists, since, for a sionism may have reached a small treme Holocaust tales. The heroic positivist, the verification of cog- number, but few of them are re- Ernst Zundel and Germar Rudolf nizance through experience is the sponding. It seems to me that revi- are both in German jails for ex- sole criterion of truth. sionism is not reaching people so pressing doubt. Author David Ir- Sometimes, to make fun of my much as that individuals are reach- ving was jailed in Austria. opponents, I use irony (a weapon ing it, people who are already re- President Ahmadinejad cor- that's dangerous, for irony is not ceptive to its ideas and facts be- rectly commented that research always understood) and tell them: cause they confirm their existing and study on the matter are "If you call me a 'negationist', a world-view and whatever that may needed. Mr. Grubach gave several word that's a barbarism, allow me consist of.” supporting examples. Another im- to coin other barbarisms and call The way I see the problem is portant example is the unreported that the so called “revisionists” 2 have adopted the language of the and bombard the people with it. If we find that all of them incorporate inventors of the expression “Holo- the Great Lie works for the Jews, blatant lies, lies to which the Jew- caust”, an act meaning the forceful how much better should the Great ish “historians” are quite happy to and deliberate extermination of the Truth work for the historians who acquiesce. Yehuda Bauer quite Jewish race on the territories con- are investigating the subject of the cheerfully makes the statement: “It trolled by the Nazi regime and its life in the KZs. is not known exactly how many allies via the gas chambers. By accepting that the Jewish people were murdered in the Politicians the world over are groups call the investigators into Auschwitz gas chambers, but the living in mortal fear of the Jewish conditions in the KZs “revision- estimates run around three and half lobbies as was demonstrated by the ists”, we once again bend to their million.” We know that that state- genuflecting of Obama and then language. What happened in ment is a lie, yet Bauer makes it Palin to A.I.P.A.C. as their first act World War II is history, and his- without even blushing. in running for the highest and sec- tory is just one gigantic revision- ond highest office in the USA. ism in progress. Bradley has the right idea: Let us look at some other so- Keep repeating the same question called holocaust literature in which

Keine Liquidierung

by Arthur R. Butz Sept. 5, 2008

he 1977 publication of Keine Liquidierung. Irving's critics immediately TDavid Irving's fine mili- saw the logical flaw. If Hitler had tary history, Hitler's War, pro- In English: to specifically order that Jews on a voked an uproar over what should single transport not be killed, then have been a marginal point but Incarceration Dr. Jekelius is it plausible that Hitler would not which, with ironic collaboration Alleged son Molotov. have suspected that Jews' lives between Irving and his critics, has Jewish transport from Berlin. might be in danger, from his sub- become the central point of the No liquidation. ordinates, in other circumstances? book. This is the objection that caused A transport of Jews left Berlin Irving claimed that Hitler me to refer earlier to Irving's inter- on Nov. 27, and arrived in Riga knew nothing of physical extermi- pretation of Himmler's note as "il- during the night of Nov. 29-30.[3] nation of the Jews until late in the logical".[5] For revisionists, the Irving interpreted this brief note as war, and had even acted to thwart interpretation raises additional evidence that Hitler had ordered any such development. As evi- problems because it suggests that that the Jews on the transport in dence of the latter, Irving produced large-scale killings of Jews were in question must not be killed, and Heinrich Himmler's personally some sense the norm. that Himmler was therefore trans- handwritten and very brief notes Revisionists are not the only mitting a Hitler order. Originally, on a telephone conversation people who, while accepting this Irving believed that the telephone Himmler had on Nov. 30, 1941 interpretation, have problems with conversation took place after with Reinhard Heydrich, who was it.[6] Himmler had lunch with Hitler, but in Prague at the time.[1] In his left Irving recently made a speak- in fact the lunch with Hitler was column Himmler noted that the ing tour of the USA, and I went to after that conversation.[4] Irving's conversation was with Heydrich at his July 1 dinner meeting in Chi- interpretation of this note is also 1:30 PM. On the right there are cago.[7] Based on what I heard, the generally accepted interpreta- four lines that read as follows:[2] Irving is still, 31 years later, high- tion: it was in some sense an order lighting his original interpretation that the Jews on this transport Verhaftung Dr. Jekelius of the "Keine Liquidierung" note, should not be killed. Angebl[icher] Sohn Molotow. and the related "Bruns document". Judentransport aus Berlin. 3 They were the central elements of controlled had been suspended in Thus in late November there the little lecture he gave.[8] As I March 1941. After the attack on must have been controversy over recall, Irving's oral account added the Soviet Union in June, vast new the wisdom of these transports, and a verb or two to Himmler's note eastern territories opened up so the calls for their suspension or can- but there are no verbs, infinitives, question of resuming deportations cellation. The transport of Nov. 27 or imperatives there. Indeed there of the Jews arose again. Apart from Berlin was the first destined is no reason to assume that, in rela- from the general ideological im- for Riga that actually went there, tion to the "Judentransport", perative to remove the Jews, there and that is why "no liquidation" of Himmler had received or was was an argument that they were a this transport could have been transmitting an order by Hitler or security risk in German cities sub- worth specific discussion between anybody else, though that may jected to British air raids. A more Himmler and Heydrich. have been the case. Examination of convincing consideration was that I believe that this interpreta- Himmler's notes for the days pre- apartments were needed for Ger- tion is in logical accord with the ceding and following the conversa- mans who had been bombed out by facts and creates no fundamental tion with Heydrich does not yield the air raids. However there were mysteries. any clarification of the matter.[9] powerful arguments against depor- The remaining part of this sub- I said nothing during Irving's tations, above all the military ject is what happened to the Jews talk, as I considered the venue un- needs which were straining the when they reached their eastern suited to such debate. However I German rail system. I add that destinations, which Irving's re- have long had an alternative inter- there were always Germans who marks about Walter Bruns related pretation of "Keine Liquidierung" opposed the deportations for moral to. I limit myself here, however, to that I ran past Germar Rudolf in or personal reasons. interpreting "Keine Liquidierung". 2005. He asked me to write it up Witte says Heydrich stressed Those interested in the Bruns mat- for his journal but his deportation that the military needs must have ter can consult Irving's posted re- aborted that little project. Here I priority over deportations of marks and Robert Faurisson's shall present my interpretation and Jews.[11] In any case the contro- comments.[13] then show that it fits the context. versy went back and forth. A mid- Both German and English are October decision by Hitler in favor [1] David Irving, Hitler's War, ambiguous on what the "liquida- of deportations caused them to re- Hodder & Stoughton, London, tion" in Himmler's note applies to. sume. 1977, pp. 332,505. www.fpp.co. Irving and, it seems, all his critics, Thus any transport of Jews in uk/ Himmler/ Note301141b.html. assume the liquidation applies po- late 1941 was potentially a matter tentially to the Jews on the trans- of controversy. This is a general [2] See also Peter Witte et. al., port. I think it applies to the trans- explanation of why Himmler and eds., Der Dienstkalendar Heinrich port itself, so that the liquidation is Heydrich may have discussed the Himmlers 1941/42, Hans Christian to be understood in the sense of Nov. 27 transport on the phone, Verlag, Hamburg, 1999, p. 278. "cancellation" or "disbandment" of noting that it had not been can- [3] Christopher R. Browning, the transport. celed. The Origins of the Final Solution, I confirmed with Germar that There is a more specific expla- Univ. of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, the German word has the same nation. In the deportations of and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, 2004, flexibility in this respect as our 1941/42, Riga in Latvia was se- p. 396. "liquidation". lected as the destination of the Himmler was either reporting Jews from the Reich and Bohe- [4] www.fpp.co.uk/Himmler/ to Heydrich that the transport had mian Protectorate. However in the Note301141.html and Witte, 1999, not been canceled, or in some Fall of 1941, as the deportations op. cit.. sense discussed the fact with him. started, Riga was not prepared to [5] Smith's Report, no. 135, Why should they take time to note receive the transports so they were Jan./Feb. 2007, p. 6. http://www. such a fact? diverted to Kovno (Kaunas) in Li- There are both a general rea- thuania. The first five transports codoh.com/review/revjailing.html son and a specific reason. A 1995 destined for Riga departed the [6] cf Browning, op. cit., pp. paper by Witte[10] related how Reich Nov. 15-23 and were di- 396f. deportations of Jews to such east- verted to Kovno.[12] ern territories as the Germans then 4 [7] Irving held another meet- [10] Peter Witte, "Two Deci- depor tation.asp ing in Chicago on Sept. 5, billed as sions Concerning the 'Final Solu- [13]www.fpp.co.uk/Auschwitz perhaps his last event ever in the tion to the Jewish Question': De- /docs/Bruns/index.html. See also USA. As the tab was $20 at the portations to Lodz and Mass Mur- the 1992 exchange between Robert door and $140 for dinner, I didn't der in Chelmno", Holocaust and Faurisson and Irving: J. Hist. Rev., go. Genocide Studies, vol. 9, no. 3, vol. 13, no. 2, March/April 1993, Winter 1995, pp. 318-345. [8] Irving said that the Dr. Je- p. 25; http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v13/ kelius referred to in Himmler's [11] Witte, 1995, p. 320. v13n2p14_Irving.html . note was somebody who was stalk- [12] Browning, op. cit., p 395. ing Hitler's sister. Also Wolfgang Scheffler at [9] Witte, 1999, op. cit. . http://www.volksbund.de/schon_g elesen/spektrum/riga_english/

Ahmadinejad’s Reasonable Stance on the Holocaust

Paul Grubach

TEHRAN, Sept. 30 (MNA) nian leader was criticized for his to see that the orthodox view of the questioning of the orthodox view Holocaust is not well documented [This paper was originally pub- of the Holocaust. at all. lished by the Iranian Mehr News Directing his barbs at Ahmad- Perhaps Lee Bollinger be- Agency and has since been dis- inejad’s Holocaust skepticism, lieves the “Final Solution,” the tributed around the work via the Bollinger emphatically stated: alleged Nazi plan to exterminate internet..] “The truth is that the Holocaust is the Jews of Europe, is one of the the most documented event in hu- most documented schemes in hu-

n a recent interview with man history.” 2 At the dawn of a man history. If so, all he had to do I CNN’s Larry King Live, more enlightened age, this state- is consult some standard works on Iran’s President Mahmoud ment will be looked upon as ab- the Holocaust to see how blatantly Ahmadinejad rightly noted that the surd. As we shall soon see, Presi- false this is. Zionist lobby blocks neutral and dent Ahmadinejad’s view on the Holocaust historian Leon Po- objectively fair research on the Holocaust is actually very reason- liakov pointed out decades ago that alleged Holocaust. When Larry able, as the Holocaust is a ques- there are no documents to prove King asked him if, from his point tionable and even dangerous doc- that the Nazis ever had any plan to of view, the Holocaust did not hap- trine that needs more critical scru- exterminate the Jews of Europe: pen, the Iranian leader responded: tiny. "[T]he campaign to exterminate “No, what I am saying is let more For the purposes of this essay, the Jews, as regards its conception research to be done.” 1 I will ignore the mountain of Ho- as well as many other essential In late September of 2007, locaust revisionist evidence, and aspects, remains shrouded in dark- President Ahmadinejad had an- simply concentrate upon what is ness. Inferences, psychological other confrontation over the Holo- said by some important main- considerations, and third- or caust when he spoke at Columbia stream Holocaust historians and fourth-hand reports enable us to University’s school of interna- researchers who passionately be- reconstruct its development with tional and public affairs. At the lieve in the orthodox view of the considerable accuracy. Certain New York institution of higher Holocaust. The whole point will details, however, must remain for- learning he was given a hostile be this: By consulting mainstream, ever unknown. The three or four reception by Columbia’s president easily obtainable books and mate- people chiefly involved in the ac- Lee Bollinger. The intrepid Ira- rial on the subject, one will be able tual drawing up of the plan for to- 5 tal extermination are dead and no Consequently, there is a paucity of the “Shoah” at the Holocaust Me- documents have survived; perhaps documents, and even those we morial Museum in Washington, none ever existed." 3 have handicap the search for de- DC.: “I declare herewith under In short, the "evidence" that finitive evidence because of the oath that in the years 1941 to 1943, "proves" the existence of an al- problem of esoteric language." 5 during my tenure in office as leged Nazi plan to exterminate the These two admissions by Ho- commandant of Auschwitz Con- Jews is simply the guesswork of locaust historians Poliakov and centration Camp, 2 million Jews Holocaust historians. Hard docu- Dawidowicz directly undermine were put to death by gassing and ½ mentary proof is missing. Bollinger’s belief that the “Holo- million by other means.” 7 This was further corroborated caust is the most documented Does Bollinger believe that the by the late Holocaust historian, event in human history.” Accord- depositions of Hoess are impecca- Lucy Dawidowicz. In her widely ing to mainstream Holocaust histo- ble and unassailable pieces of evi- acclaimed book, The War Against rian Dawidowicz, the evidence that dence that prove the Holocaust is the Jews: 1933-1945, she made it supports the traditional view of the the most documented event in hu- clear that the orthodox view of the “Final Solution” is “sparse” and man history? If he does, then he is “Final Solution” is not well docu- “inadmissible as courtroom evi- guilty of another delusion. mented at all. That is, there is no dence.” In the same Vanity Fair article, hard documentary evidence to Does Lee Bollinger believe the prominent Holocaust historian De- prove that Adolf Hitler ever con- “homicidal gas chambers” in Nazi borah Lipstadt and “Final Solu- ceived of or knew of a Nazi plan to concentration camps are the most tion” expert Christopher Browning exterminate the Jews of Europe. documented murder devices in have admitted that Hoess’s confes- She wrote: "Though the abun- human history? If he does, then he sions are unreliable, as he had been dant documents of the German is guilty of another delusion. Let tortured by the British into con- dictatorship have yielded no writ- us consult mainstream Holocaust fessing to a fantastic and unbeliev- ten order by Hitler to murder the historians and researchers who able number of murders. “Hoess Jews, it appears from the events as firmly believe in the existence of was always a very weak and con- we know them now, that the deci- these murder machines. fused witness,” Professor Brown- sion for the practical implementa- In his 1988 Holocaust study ing admitted. “The revisionists use tion of the plan to kill the Jews was Why Did the Heavens Not Dar- him all the time for this reason, in probably reached after December ken?: The “Final Solution” in His- order to discredit the memory of 18, 1940--when Hitler issued the tory, Princeton University historian Auschwitz as a whole,” he added. first directive for Operation Bar- Arno Mayer pointed out that: 8 barossa--and before March 1, “Sources for the study of the gas Lipstadt then chimed in about 1941." 4 chambers are at once rare and un- the value of Hoess’s testimony: Elsewhere, she makes a similar reliable.” 6 Bollinger should ask “It’s the same with the soap sto- admission: "If Mein Kampf is the himself this: if the “gas chambers” ry.” (Previously, she admitted the terminus ad quem for the concep- are the most documented murder propaganda stories that the Nazis tion of the Final Solution, does its devices in human history, why are made soap from the bodies of Jew- beginning indeed go back to No- sources for their study both “rare ish corpses are simply untrue. 9) vember 1918, as Hitler himself and unreliable”? The Emory University Professor claimed? It is a hazardous task to One of the most important then added: “I get protests from construct a chronology of the evo- pieces of evidence traditionally [Holocaust] survivors, saying that I lution of the idea [the alleged plan adduced to “prove” the existence shouldn’t admit it’s not true, be- to exterminate the Jews] in Hitler's of homicidal gas chambers at cause it gives ammunition to the mind. The historical evidence is Auschwitz concentration camp has enemy. But I’m only interested in sparse and no doubt would be in- been the testimony of the former getting at the truth.” 10 admissible as courtroom evidence. commandant, Rudolf Hoess. In a The well-known author of this The very idea of the destruction of widely read 1993 article in the article, Christopher Hitchens, then the Jews as a political goal de- highbrow periodical, Vanity Fair, draws the appropriate conclusion, manded, when Hitler first began to it was pointed out that Hoess’s which delivers another blow to Lee advocate it, camouflage and con- following statement, specially Bollinger’s claim the Holocaust is cealment. Its later consummation mounted and reproduced, was an the most documented event in hu- demanded, within limits, secrecy. important exhibit and “proof” of man history: “Since Hoess was the 6 commandant of [Auschwitz] for eyewitness testimony is unreliable Auschwitz” figure was a deliberate only part of its existence, this and questionable? myth, couldn’t it also be true that means that—according to the Perhaps Lee Bollinger believes the new figure of 1.1 million vic- counter-revisionists—an important the alleged mass murders of mil- tims is also a concocted myth? piece of evidence in the Holocaust lions of Jews at Treblinka, Sobibor It must be emphasized that I Memorial is not reliable.” 11 and Belzec concentration camps quoted and referenced only main- So how about all of those are among the most documented stream Holocaust experts and “eyewitnesses” to the Holocaust? events in human history. If so, he sources who firmly believe in the Do they prove the Holocaust is the has fallen prey to another delusion, traditional version of the Holocaust most documented event in human because the Dutch Holocaust histo- in order to show how wrongheaded history? If Bollinger believes this rian Robert Jan van Pelt has con- Bollinger’s claim really is. I de- to be so, he should read Assassins ceded the evidence for mass mur- liberately avoided all of the other of Memory, which was written by der at these camps is very sparse at Holocaust revisionist evidence and French-Jewish historian Pierre best. In reference to these three logic I could muster. This alone Vidal-Naquet and was published camps, he wrote: "There are few should drive home to the reader by his own university’s academic eyewitnesses, no confession that how truly questionable the ortho- press. can compare to that given by dox view of the Holocaust really In various passages and foot- [Auschwitz commandant Rudolf] is, and how reasonable Ahmadine- notes, Vidal-Naquet briefly dis- Hoess, no significant remains, and jad’s admonition is. Namely, the cusses eyewitnesses who claimed few archival sources." 16 Holocaust needs more critical scru- they “saw gas chambers” where At the postwar Nuremberg tiny. there were none. 12 He admits Tribunal, the Allies alleged that the Not only is the traditional view “…there were imaginary gas Germans exterminated four million of the Holocaust a weak and flimsy chambers.” 13 That is to say, it people at the Auschwitz-Birkenau doctrine with a very sparse amount was claimed there were “homicidal concentration camp. Until 1990, a of evidence to support it, it is also mass gassings” where it is now memorial plaque at Auschwitz a dangerous ideological weapon agreed that there were none. He read: “Four Million People Suf- that has been used against the op- cites the false testimony “of a fered and Died Here at the Hands ponents of Zionism. As the re- Protestant theologian, Charles of the Nazi Murderers Between the spected Jewish political commen- Hauter, who was deported to Bu- Years 1940 and 1945.” 17 In July tator David Klinghoffer admitted chenwald, never saw any gas 1990, the Polish government's in the Forward: “The world is chambers, and who went on to Auschwitz State Museum, along aware how jealously the Jewish rave about them.” 14 with Israel's Yad Vashem Holo- community guards the Holocaust, In a paraphrase of Dr. Robert caust center, conceded that the four both as a memory and a weapon.” Faurisson’s Holocaust revisionist million figure was a gross exag- 20 argument, Vidal-Naquet’s transla- geration, and references to it were The Holocaust is a potent ideo- tor states the dilemma in the form accordingly removed from the logical weapon indeed, as it ap- of a question: “Moreover, since Auschwitz monument. Israeli and pears that Zionist ideologues are numerous eyewitness reports Polish officials announced a tenta- now going to use it against Iranian [about the “homicidal gas cham- tive revised toll of at least 1.1 mil- and Muslim people. In the January bers”] had already been discred- lion dead, about 90 percent being 8, 2006, issue of the San Francisco ited, on what basis could anyone Jews from almost every country in Chronicle, the ardently pro-Zionist accept any such testimony?” 15 Europe.18 Most importantly, Is- writer Edwin Black made this Bollinger should ask himself raeli historian Yehuda Bauer ad- statement: “Mahmoud Ahmadine- this question. If eyewitness testi- mitted the claim that the Germans jad has shot to the forefront of Ho- mony proves that the “Hitler gas exterminated four million people at locaust denial with his rabble- chambers” are among the most Auschwitz was a deliberate myth. rousing remarks last month. But documented events in human his- 19 it’s more like self-denial. The tory, then why did a book pub- I ask Lee Bollinger: Are the president of Iran need only look to lished by his own university’s aca- number of victims killed at his country’s Hitler-era past to dis- demic press put forth reasons that Auschwitz among the most docu- cover that Iran and Iranians were lead the reader to believe this same mented events in human history? strongly connected to the Holo- If the “four million murdered at caust and the Hitler regime, as was 7 the entire Islamic world under the Footnotes 16. Robert Jan van Pelt, The Case leadership of the mufti of Jerusa- for Auschwitz: Evidence from the 1. “Ahmadinejad talks Holocaust lem.”21 Irving Trial (Indiana University on CNN.” Online: Get the picture? According to Press, 2002), p. 5. http://www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?i this Zionist ideologue, Iranians in d=70415§ionid=351020101 17. Nuremberg document 008- particular and Muslims in general USSR; IMT "blue series," Vol. 39, are now “accomplices” in the al- 2. “Ahmadinejad Blasts Israel, De- pp. 24-25. Yisrael Gutman and leged mass murder of Jews during nies Existence of Iranian Gays Michael Berenbaum, eds., Anat- WWII. The alleged Holocaust is During Columbia Speech,” Fox- omy of the Auschwitz Death Camp now being used to besmirch the News.com, 24 September 2007. (Indiana University Press, 1994), image of Muslims. Online: pp. 61-62; Hitchens, p.117; Lip- In September 2007, President http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2 stadt, p.188, footnote. George W. Bush cited the Holo- 933,297823,00.html 18. Gutman and Berenbaum; Hit- caust ideology as a “justification” 3. Leon Poliakov, The Harvest of chens, p.117; Lipstadt, p. 188, for possibly attacking Iran and be- Hate: The Nazi Program for the footnote. ginning World War III. "Iran’s Destruction of the Jews of Europe active pursuit of technology that (Holocaust Library, 1979), p.108. 19. Yehuda Bauer, "Auschwitz: could lead to nuclear weapons," The Dangers of Distortion," Jeru- 4. Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The War Bush was quoted as saying, salem Post International Edition, Against the Jews 1933-1945 (Ban- "threatens to put the region already week ending September 30, 1989, tam Books, 1976), p.162. known for instability and violence p.7; Peter Steinfels, "Auschwitz under the shadow of a nuclear ho- 5. Ibid., p.202. Revisionism: An Israeli Scholar’s locaust."22 A former White Case," New York Times, Novem- House aide clarified the meaning 6. Arno Mayer, Why Did the Hea- vens Not Darken?: The “Final So- ber 12, 1989. Robert Jan van Pelt of Bush’s statement: "By using the makes a similar point, p. 109. word ‘holocaust,’ Mr. Bush has lution” in History (Pantheon, 1988), p.362. provided a moral reason to allow 20. David Klinghoffer, "Our Role the Jewish state to do what it needs 7. Christopher Hitchens, “Whose in Promoting Holocaust Denial," to do." 23 History Is It?,” Vanity Fair, De- Forward, 30 December 2005, p. 9. So there you have it. The Ho- cember 1993, p.117. locaust doctrine is being used to 8. Ibid. 21. Edwin Black, “Denial of Holo- “justify” an Israeli attack upon caust nothing new in Iran: Ties to Iran. Israel may be planning a war 9. Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Hitler led to plots against British of mass death, utilizing dubious Holocaust: The Growing Assault and Jews,” San Francisco Chroni- Jewish Holocaust claims dating on Truth and Memory (The Free cle, 8 January 2006, p. D-1. On- back to World War II as the “justi- Press, 1993), pp. 78, 188. line: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi- fication.” If we can debunk the 10. Quoted in Hitchens, p.117. bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/01/08 “justification” for a future war, we /INGODGH99Q1.DTL may be able to prevent the war and 11. Ibid. save tens of thousands of lives. 12. Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Assassins 22. Tim Shipman, "Will President For this reason, people who desire Bush bomb Iran?," Sunday Tele- peace and truth should subject this of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust (Columbia Uni- graph (Great Britain), 4 September Holocaust doctrine to critical ques- 2007. Online: tioning. In this way, we can all versity Press, 1992), pp.14, 181, footnote 44 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ possibly help prevent World War main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/02 III and bring peace and justice to 13. Ibid, p. 181, footnote 44. /wiran102.xml&CMP=ILC- the Middle East. mostviewedbox. 14. Ibid., p.14. 15. Ibid., p.xii. 23. Ibid.

8 Mengele: The Complete Story, by Gerald L. Posner and John Ware

Reviewed by Thomas Kues

(McGraw-Hill, New York 1986)

erald Posner is a Jewish- about Mengele from different smoke, or consulted a cremation G American journalist, born sources, one gains the impression expert, who could have told him in 1954 and perhaps most well- that the man had the ability of om- that flames simply do not exit cre- known for his book Case Closed: nipresence. matorium chimneys. But who real- Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assas- Rather than devoting time to ly expected Posner to do some crit- sination of JFK (1993). In it, Pos- eradicating the typhus epidemics ical checking? ner asserts that virtually all of the which several times plagued the As for the Auschwitz death findings of the Warren Committee Auschwitz camp complex, causing toll, he writes that it “is known to were correct, and that Oswald tens of thousands of deaths and be about 2.5 million” – this despite killed Kennedy without the assis- endangering inmate population as the fact that the standard works tance of anyone. The book met well as staff, Mengele is alleged to listed in his bibliography, such as much critique from researchers have been busy injecting dye into Hilberg and Reitlinger, claim a skeptical of the official scenario as eyeballs, performing experiments death toll between 1 and 1.5 mil- well as defenders of the lone gun- on twins (according to the witness lion. He also trusts camp comman- man theory, while on the other Vera Alexander’s testimony at the dant Höß’ claim that “the highest hand it was praised by the political Eichmann trial, a pair of Gypsy total of Jews gassed in twenty-four editors of American mainstream twins had the veins of their arms hours was 9000”. Besides Nyiszli, newspapers. House Select Com- and their backs sewn together), Posner quotes another thoroughly mittee on Assassinations chief in- indulging in cruel and bizarre acts discredited witness, Olga Lengyel, vestigator Gaeton Fonzi called it of surgery and transplantation, and, who in her book Five Chimneys “a dishonest book”. Critics noted of course, selecting Jews for the (1947) wrote that 24,000 Ausch- that Posner had avoided the mass gas chambers. Posner does not witz prisoners were killed each of documentation released in 1992, waste any ink discussing the reli- day, and that not only soap were denied obvious connections be- ability of the allegations leveled at made out of the killed Jews, but tween Oswald and various intelli- Mengele by former inmates. “The also sausages. gence operatives, as well as dis- barbarity of his crimes is not in Posner uncritically presents us torted and withheld information on doubt” he writes with confidence. with the whole gamut of Mengele the handling of the president’s The most interesting chapter to stories: dye injected into the eyes corpse (several lengthy critiques of revisionists is naturally that on of children, eyes “pinned up like the book are available at the web- Mengele’s service in Auschwitz. butterflies”, twins experimented on site assassinationweb.com). This In it, Posner relies especially on and dissected alive (including a background might be worth keep- the account of Miklos Nyiszli. In- one year old baby), typhus injec- ing in mind as we proceed to take a deed the first thing he does it to tions, the makeshift Siamese twins look at Posner’s first published quote Nyiszli’s description of of Ms. Alexander, one pair of book, Mengele: The Complete Sto- “enormous tongues of flames” ris- twins forced to have sex with an- ry (co-authored with TV journalist ing from the crematoria. Accord- other, small children lured into the John Ware). ing to Posner, “on a clear day, crematorium with sweets, prison- The Mengele of the title is flame and black smoke could be ers killed to produce skeleton sam- needless to say Josef Mengele, the seen for thirty miles, spewing from ples, electrical experiments…It is most vilified doctor in human his- the chimneys of the crematoria.” even reiterated (p.46) that Mengele tory. Countless former Auschwitz Perhaps he should have taken a had 300 young orphans killed by inmates have horror stories to tell look at the numerous Auschwitz throwing them alive into a flaming about him, one more outlandish air photos, of which exactly none pit. “Although some inmates who than the other. Reading the claims shows giant plumes of black knew Mengele have testified that 9 they never saw him commit an act In another writing (p.80-81) ently evil, and to his family, over- of violence,” Posner writes, “there Mengele (who in 1945 was sta- rode any consideration of higher are witnesses to corroborate every tioned at Gross-Rosen) points out morality or public duty – stranger one of these extraordinary allega- that the Allied newsreels depicting still that from somewhere in the tions”. Of course all we have is the skeletal concentration camp pris- supposedly enlightened ranks of witness testimony. What Posner oners and piles of corpses showed the younger Mengeles not a word calls “the most damning and com- a situation caused by a breakdown was leaked to the authorities, even plete document (...) ever compiled of infrastructure due to Allied after his death.” An explanation against [Mengele]”, a series of in- bombing. In another piece (p.154) not considered by Posner is that dictments drawn up by the West he notes, “The political lie tri- those people did not consider German Prosecutor’s Office, is in umphs and time and history have Mengele “patently evil”, and as- fact almost exclusively based on been warped and bowed.” It is sumed – or were convinced of – witness testimony. hard to believe that Mengele his innocence. A Munich pharmacist and his would have wanted to turn himself If Posner and Ware’s book has wife who met Mengele soon after in to be cleared in a trial if the al- one undeniable merit, it is the far the end of the war recall his words legation of selections for mass gas- from positive light it sheds on the to them (p.67): sings was indeed true. Posner so-called “Nazi hunters”, in par- writes in his preface that Mengele ticular Simon Wiesenthal and his I don’t have anything to took “perverse pride in what he did rivals, the Klarsfeld couple. The hide. Terrible things happened at Auschwitz.” If Mengele’s pri- reader is shown in detail how these at Auschwitz, and I did my mary work in the camp was to unsavory individuals not only fol- best to help. One could not do stave off epidemics and in other lowed the most bizarre leads in everything. There were terrible ways contribute to the saving of their hunt for men like Mengele, disasters there. I could only lives, his pride may of course have Eichmann and the allegedly still- save so many. I never killed been natural and far from perverse. alive Martin Bormann, but also fed anyone or hurt anyone. I can It is also mentioned repeatedly that misinformation and myths to the prove I am innocent of what Mengele never expressed any feel- press and judiciary, thus helping they could say against me. I ings of guilt. create and perpetuate the increas- am building the facts for my A recurrent theme is that per- ingly outré Mengele legend which defense. I want to turn myself sons who got into contact with in turn inspired movies like The in and be cleared at a trial. Mengele, including a number of Boys from Brazil. We learn that the people lacking any Nazi back- recklessness of “hunters” like La- The couple promptly advised ground, express doubts regarding dislas Farago even led to the Mengele that he should not turn the claims about him. Gitta Stam- deaths of innocent people. himself in, since he would not in mer, who together with her hus- In an especially bizarre turn, a any way receive a fair trial. Read- band lived with Mengele for thir- man named Erich Erdstein claimed ing the words ascribed to Mengele teen years, is described by Posner to have shot Mengele dead, much one may wonder what is meant by as harboring “unpalatable revision- like in the recent Georgia Bigfoot “terrible things”. Mass gassings? ist views” since in an interview she hoax. In 1977, Wiesenthal stated Most likely not, since Mengele stated: “I think some things about with confidence that Mengele “had equates them with “terrible disas- the Holocaust may have been in- two posh houses and was always ters”. It is hard to use the word vented”. Another protector, Wolf- surrounded by armed bodyguards disaster about premeditated mass gang Bossert, told interviewers: “I with walkie-talkies”, being a murder. Epidemic diseases and believe only a fraction of all the member of a fancifully-named malnutrition on the other hand things he is accused of.” It com- “surviving network of Nazi big- could rightfully be called just that. pletely baffles Posner that as many wigs”. Mengele was portrayed as This fits well with a sentence as forty people helped keep Men- killing off all “hunters” who got quoted from Mengele’s autobiog- gele’s identity and whereabouts a near to him, while enjoying the raphy (p.73): “It is natural and un- secret during the 1970s, and then patronage of various South Ameri- derstandable that the camps were covered up his accidental death at can generalissimos and organizing suffering very bad hunger after all a Brazil beach for a whole six drug trade (as well as experiment- the problems and therefore I saw years (p.294): “It is extraordinary ing on native Amazonians). In re- what was to be expected.” that such loyalty to a man so pat- ality Mengele, a broken old man 10 with a walrus mustache, was sit- This was not the last time he went 9, no. 1). Posner (p. xviii) pro- ting in a rundown bungalow to intelligence in order to get a sto- fesses to believe that Mengele watching telenovelas with the ry. In Case Closed, Posner ac- “never wrote about Auschwitz” in neighborhood gardener. What Pos- knowledges Peter Earnest, chief of the “more than 5,000 pages” of ner fails to recognize is that most the CIA’s Office of Public and writing he left behind at his death. of the claims regarding Mengele’s Agency Information, as being For a few months in 1985, Posner activity in Auschwitz are just as “very generous in his assistance”. had access to letters, diaries and an farfetched as those about his hid- Curiously, neither Earnest nor the autobiography penned by Mengele den life in South America. CIA received a single credit in Argentine. These papers were It would seem however that among the more than 2,200 notes brought to Germany by Rolf Men- Posner’s goal is not to dispel to that book. In Mengele, Posner at gele after his father’s death in myths as much as to expose the least portions out some tidbits 1979. According to the book’s bib- shortcomings and bad traits of oth- from his nameless sources, such as liography (p.354), the papers are er Mengele “researchers”. In fact, that Mossad murdered the former still in the hands of the Mengele Posner gladly repeats certain kinds Latvian SS man Herbert Cukurs in family. of hearsay (the not so obviously Uruguay in 1965 (p.213). Posner On page 316, however, we absurd type) when he needs to forgets to mention that Cukurs had learn that “some writings”, which paint Mengele and his protectors in been killed with hammer blows, had been withheld from Rolf in a bad light. For example he un- dismembered, and left inside a 1979, were seized in the home of critically quotes second-hand tes- crate for his family to find. To a the Bossert family, Mengele’s late timony that one of the protectors, reflective reader, this might per- protectors, by Brazilian police op- Wolfgang Gerhard, dreamed of haps say a thing or two about the erating together with West German dragging Simon Wiesenthal behind “Nazi hunting tactics” actually authorities. Among these writings his car, and that his wife “once employed by Israeli intelligence, was a “semi-autobiographical es- gave her landlady two bars of as well as the frequent claims of say” entitled Fiat Lux (“Let There soap, in their original 1943 wrap- former SS killed by a phantom-like Be Light”), which had been written pers, made from the corpses of “Nazi underground” supposedly by Mengele soon after the war. Auschwitz inmates.” out to hide traces of their war Posner’s only comment is that the Another interesting chapter of crimes. biblical title shows Mengele’s ego. the book is devoted to Mossad’s At close reading, Posner’s own Judging from a 1985 New York hunt for Mengele. We learn that pro-Zionist bias is revealed. For Times article (“Mengele Trail”, Willem Sassen, the man who re- example he calls the British pro- June 23), the seized writings were portedly found and interviewed tectorate Palestine “pre-state Is- never displayed to the press by the Adolf Eichmann in the early 60s, rael” and on numerous occasions investigators, only vaguely de- was contacted by Mossad agents, reminds his readers that Israel was scribed. As a professor of literature who lectured Sassen for twelve (and is, we suppose) “threatened” and free thinker, Dr. Faurisson not hours on “the unspeakable crimes” by its Arab neighbors. The South surprisingly provides a more in- of Mengele to get him to cooper- American wave of protests and sightful speculation: “…the title ate. Sassen soon discovered sev- violence against Jewish targets – leads me to think that in it Men- eral leads pointing to Mengele’s some of it indeed reckless and ex- gele shed some light on what really actual whereabouts, but the plan to treme – following the Eichmann happened at Auschwitz.” Indeed, if kidnap Mengele was dropped, kidnapping in 1960 is categorically Mengele in 1945 had thought that supposedly due to the existence of condemned as “outbursts of anti- something in his past needed elu- more pressing priorities. One may Semitism”, echoing the Daniel cidation, it was almost certainly wonder if it is possible that this Goldhagen thesis that “anti- Auschwitz. The writing may in was not Sassen’s first contact with Semitism has nothing to do with fact have been part of the self- Mossad, that he perhaps had been Jews.” defense material mentioned by a hidden cooperative all along, The important issue of the Mengele to the Munich pharmacist from the time he met Eichmann? writings left behind by Mengele and his wife. It also strikes one that In order to be able to tell the has already been treated in brief by the Bossert family might have de- Mossad story, Posner made contact Robert Faurisson (in his article liberately withheld this particular with a number of Mossad agents “My Life as a Revisionist”, The piece of writing from Rolf, who is who are credited anonymously. Journal of Historical Review, vol. described in Posner’s book as a 11 left-winger and a firm believer in nonsense about attempting to strip sonal writings apparently still held the orthodox Holocaust story. bodies in B…” With “B” is surely by his heirs? Without Fiat Lux and Is it even correct, as Posner meant Birkenau. This indicates the other confiscated writings, as writes, that Mengele never brought that Mengele did not hesitate to well as the other Mengele papers, up Auschwitz in his letters and bring up Auschwitz even in letters, made available to public scrutiny, diaries? In a letter about newspa- a medium by nature less “secure” the Mengele story will be far from per stories partly quoted by Posner than the diary. What else may he complete – and the “Auschwitz we read (p.163): “I have had to have written about the camp case” far from closed. deal these last weeks with this among the thirty pounds of per-

SMITH TAKES REVISIONIST ARGUMENTS…. Continued from Page 1 from Mr. Schmidt. This was my 17 September 2008 Does the CI Sector, of which first step out with the Campaign. you are Assistant Director- Paso a paso, as we Mexicans say. Abdul Waheed Khan General, support “exceptions” re- Step by step. Assistant Director-General for garding the free flow of ideas I had already begun working Communication and Information, about certain historical events? Division for Freedom of Expression, on the extensive mailing lists that I Democracy and Peace That is, does your Sector hold that will need to do this work properly. UNESCO some historical questions should To begin with, we are working on benefit from a free flow of ideas, the offices and staffs of such min- Dear Assistant Director-General: while some should not? istries and organizations associated In brief, is it to be understood with Member States of UNESCO The programs of the UNESCO that a “free flow of ideas” is meant and the UN, including: Communication and Information for some, but not for all? I would (CI) Sector are rooted in UNES- very much appreciate any clarifica- Permanent Delegations CO’s Constitution, which requires tion from your office regarding National Commissions the Organization to promote the this troublesome matter. Ministries “free flow of ideas by word and National Institutions image.” Sincerely Parliamentarians Bradley R. Smith Cities and Local Authorities

United Nations System

Intergovernmental Organizations 18 September 2008 Non-Governmental Orgs Private Sector Media To: Koichiro Matsuura Specialized Networks Director-General UN Educational, Scientific and I will focus on those offices Cultural Organization (UNESCO) that are most directly associated The United Nations with media, but I will work with them all. Dear Dr. Matusura:

Abdul Waheed Khan I share your shock and grief [I copied the following to Abdul over the tragic deaths of two Waheed Khan to all 195 offices of How does your office recon- newsmen in the Caucasus. I agree the National Commissions for cile this principal strategic objec- with you that “[t]he killings of UNESCO, to top university jour- tive of the CI Sector with the 26 journalists are crimes against soci- nalism departments in America, to January 2007 call by the UN Gen ety as a whole as they deal a blow some 140 campus newspapers eral Assembly to all its 192 Mem- to freedom of expression and ac- around the USA. Each send was ber States to “reject any denial of cess to independent information headlined simply: “Copy for your the Holocaust as a historical event, for the people of the region.” information.” Paso a paso, as we either in full or in part, or any ac- Please allow me to suggest that Mexicans say. Step by step.] tivities to this end”? the imprisonment of independent journalists and researchers for 12 “thought crimes,” as well as the September 23, 2008 will it ever end? Perhaps it will murder of such folk, are also end the day that the American Jew- “crimes against society as a His Excellency Ban Ki-moon ish Committee, or one academic whole.” They are so because, using Secretary-General somewhere on earth, provides you your own words, “they deal a blow United Nations – us – with the name of one per- to freedom of expression and ac- New York, NY 10017 son, with proof, who was killed in cess to independent information.” a gas chamber at Auschwitz. Over One example – one of hun- Dear Mr. Secretary-General: the past few months I have asked dreds of examples – is the case of The American Jewish Com- German national Germar Rudolf mittee has written you that it is who was extradited from the Unit- appalled to have learned that the ed States to Germany to stand trial President of the General Assem- for expressing doubt about certain bly, Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, aspects of the Holocaust story. He has agreed to speak at a dinner in remains in prison even as I write honor of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, you this note. the President of Iran, a person UNESCO did not defend whose blatant Holocaust denial has Germar Rudolf’s right to express been rejected by you, the Security an opinion about history that pre- Council, and the General Assem- ferred majorities disagree with. If Ban Ki-moon bly. As the AJC notes, President Ahmadinejad has termed the Holo- some 1,500 academics to provide caust a "fairy tale," and has called such a name, with proof, but none it a "fake." has responded. Why? The AJC notes that General Do you think that might be one Assembly Resolution 60/7 "rejects reason that President Ahmadinejad any denial of the Holocaust as an takes the orthodox Holocaust story historical event, either in full or in to be something of a “fairy tale,” part … [and that] General Assem- something of a “fake”? bly Res. 61/255 specifically calls The Holocaust story was orig- on states ‘unreservedly to reject inally exploited to morally justify any denial of the Holocaust as a the conquest of Arab land in Pales- Koichiro Matsuura historical event.’ Your statement tine by European Jews. Subse- that Holocaust denial is ‘not ac- quently one U.S. administration he is subsequently murdered by ceptable’ graces the home page of after another has supported the those who oppose an open debate the UN's Holocaust Remembrance catastrophic U.S. alliance with Is- on the Holocaust story, will UN- site.” rael against the Palestinians. If ESCO speak out for him then? The AJC further states: “Mr. there were to be an open debate on Will you personally feel “ag- Secretary General, under your able the Holocaust, rather than censor- grieved”? leadership, the UN has been clear ship of questions about the Holo- What position does UNESCO in its rejection of Holocaust denial. caust, it might bring about an open hold with regard to the imprison- You have reminded states that the debate on the U.S. alliance with ment of journalists and independ- Holocaust is ‘a unique and undeni- Israel and the rest of the appalling ent researchers who have questions able tragedy.’ The presence of the U.S. interventions against Arabs that the preferred majorities do not President of the General Assembly and other Muslims in that part of want to be asked? at an event in honor of Mr. Ahma- the world. Thank you for any observation dinejad would make a mockery of Mr. Secretary-General: not al- you might have with regard to this you, the United Nations, and the lowing a free exchange of ideas question. nations and leaders who have about any historical question is made a point of rejecting Holo- censorship pure and simple and Bradley R. Smith caust denial whenever, wherever, goes against the UNESCO man- Committee for Open Debate and by whomever it is made.” date to encourage free expression on the Holocaust Holocaust denial. Holocaust and a free press. I do not see how denial. Holocaust denial. Where 13 you can disagree. Would you like rested at Heathrow airport in Lon- BEHIND THE STRUCTURE to talk about it? don on an EU warrant issued by OF THE UNESCO CAMPAIGN Germany. Professor Toben is Sincerely, wanted by German authorities for You will have noticed that questioning the truth of the each of these letters addresses a Bradley R. Smith, Founder Auschwitz weapons of mass de- specific news story and that each Committee for Open Debate struction (“gas chambers”). He letter is focused on urging UNES- on the Holocaust will appear before the City of CO to honor its “mandate” to en- Westminster Magistrate's Court in courage the “free flow of ideas,” London where authorities will re- not only for preferred majorities, In addition to the other lists, quest he be extradited to Germany. but for all of us. The UNESCO this one was copied to all 140 UNESCO states very clearly mandate is very specific: Permanent UN Missions world- that “The right to freedom of opin- wide, as well as to the top talk ra- ion and expression is inscribed in “The right to freedom of in- dio figures, It has the added plus of number 19 of the 30 articles articu- formation (FOI) is a fundamental uniting for the first time in these lated in the Universal Declaration human right as stated in the UN releases the UNESCO “mandate” of Human Rights (UDHR) and General Assembly 1946, Resolu- to encourage the “free flow of stipulates the following: ‘Everyone tion 59. UNESCO’s mandate as set ideas” with the Auschwitz Ques- has the right to freedom of opinion out in its 1945 Constitution spe- tion—“One Name, with Proof.” and expression; this right includes cifically is mandating the Organi- This is what we want. freedom to hold opinions without zation to «promote the free flow of interference and to seek, receive ideas by word and image». Access 01 October 2008 and impart information and ideas to information is an essential com- through any media and regardless ponent of enabling this flow of To: Abdul Waheed Khan of frontiers.’” ideas to happen, both through FOI Assistant Director-General for Does Professor Toben not laws and more generally through Communication and Information, have the same rights as an Arabic- Freedom of Expression” (http:// Division for Freedom of Expression, or French-speaking individual? portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php- Democracy and Peace What is the CIF position on this? URL_ID=26066&URL_DO=DO_ UNESCO TOPIC&URL_SECTION Has CIF stated in plain lan- Dear Assistant Director-General: guage who among us has the right =201.html). to freedom of opinion and expres- We have been informed by the At the same time, with each let- sion, and who does not? If so, Communication and Information ter I point out that UNESCO ig- where can we read this parsing of Sector's (CIF) news service that nores this fundamental “mandate” the Universal Declaration of Hu- following the publication of the by passively accepting the 26 Jan- man Rights? Model Curricula for Journalism uary 2007 vote by the UN General Will CIF address the issue of Education last year, UNESCO has Assembly to “reject any denial of Professor Fredrick Toben of Aus- created an interactive wiki plat- the Holocaust as a historical event, tralia being arrested in England, form to adapt it to teaching jour- either in full or in part, or any ac- where he faces extradition to Ger- nalism in Arabic and French. tivities to this end.” many to face prison for asking a It is certainly welcome news In February I addressed my question about history? that we are helping spread this im- Thank you very much for your first public letter to Professor portant ideal to those who are re- attention. Deborah Lipstadt of Emory stricted to reading French and University asking if she could Arabic. At the same time we have Bradley R. Smith provide “the name, with proof, a suggestion: that the CIF Sector of one person who was killed in a Committee for Open Debate on encourage a re-evaluation of this gas chamber at Auschwitz.” I cop- the Holocaust, in solidarity with Wiki Journalism Education Cur- ied it to her colleagues at Emory, the UNESCO mandate to encour- ricula for those who live in Eng- U Georgia, and the Atlanta metro- age the free flow of ideas, not only lish-speaking countries. politan and campus press. I under- for those who represent privileged POINT: only today we are in- stood that I had the right question, formed that Professor Fredrick majorities, but for all. Toben of Australia has been ar- 14 and that I had sent it to the right ing the subject of the life in the Index on Censorship, United person. KZs.” Kingdom I have reported here how I That’s the plan. “Bombard” re- Institute for the Studies on Free used news stories as hooks to send levant academics, and relevant bu- Flow of Information (ISAI), In- the same Auschwitz question to reaucrats at the UN and UNESCO. donesia academics specializing in Holo- This is not a one-shot campaign, Inter American Press Associa- caust studies, directing Holocaust but one that must be followed up tion (IAPA), U.S.A. centers and organizations, and by until something begins to crack. • International Federation of the end of April I had put my One Here are some of the people and Journalists (IFJ) (and affili- Name with Proof question to Dr. organizations who are beginning to ates), Belgium Paul Shapiro, Director, Center for hear from me regularly. International Press Institute Advanced Holocaust Studies, (IPI), Austria United States Holocaust Memorial UNESCO's Communication Network for the Defence of In- Museum. In each instance I copied and Information Sector. It has of- dependent Media in Africa these letters to a growing body of fices throughout Africa, the Arab (NDIMA), Kenya academics in history, journalism, States, Asia and the Pacific, Eu- Pakistan Press Foundation and Middle East studies. rope and North America, and Latin (PPF), Pakistan It was when I began looking at America and the Caribbean. All Reporters sans frontières (RSF), Yad Vashem and was led via their offices are included in relevant France work with the UN and UNESCO mailings. Not every bureaucrat in Society of Professional Journal- that it came to me that I had the Arab States, or any Muslim ists (SPJ), U.S.A reached the place where, after country, is an enthusiast for the Union of African Journalists starting out with one lonely Holocaust Industry. mouthpiece for the Holocaust In- World Press Freedom Commit- tee (WPFC), U.S.A. dustry at Emory University, I The International Freedom of should be taking this story to the Expression and Exchange Network Writers in Prison Committee (IFEX) is literally that—a NGO (WiPC), International PEN, Unit- political and media center of the ed Kingdom world—the United Nations and network of associated organiza- New York City. tions for a free press. This is only a There is not room here to go OK. I’m on the road. I now partial list (a fraction) of its net- on about all the UN organizations have two questions. I have the work, all of which will hear from that will be hearing from us via Auschwitz Question, and I have us in organized sends. letters addressed to their own top the question that addresses UN- people, each one pointing out the ESCO directly and treats with its Cairo Institute for Human double standards being upheld by Rights Studies (CIHRS), Egypt double standards with regard to the the UN General Assembly on the free flow of ideas. I have begun to Canadian Journalists for Free one hand, and UNESCO on the integrate the two questions as in Expression (CJFE), Canada other. my September 23, 2008 letter to Egyptian Organization for Hu- And then, very importantly, His Excellency Ban Ki-moon, us- man Rights (EOHR), Egypt we must address the journalism ing the American Jewish Commit- Ethiopian Free Press Journal- professors who, as a class, through tee story as the news hook. ists' Association (EFJA), Ethiopia their unwillingness to ask the ques- Freedom House, U.S.A. tions that need to be asked about Here I want to give you a the Holocaust and the “unique Freedom of Expression Institute monstrosity of the Germans,” their sense of how widely I am distribut- (FXI), South Africa ing these materials. As Paul Fritz- unwillingness to simply report the Glasnost Defence Foundation, story, have effectively become Nemeth notes in his letter to Joe Russia Bishop (p.2), “Bradley has the mere stenographers for the Holo- right idea: Keep repeating the Greek Helsinki Monitor, Greece caust Industry. same question and bombard the Human Rights Watch (HRW), These lists are largely com- people with it. If the Great Lie International plete and are being used now. works for the Jews, how much bet- Independent Journalism Center, They include the top journalism ter should the Great Truth work for Moldova schools in America and will in- the historians who are investigat- clude Britain. Here is a partial list: 15 Columbia University, Graduate broad for, essentially, one man to your support. Building and main- School of Journalism carry out. The ongoing, time- tain the emails lists alone is not consuming work of compiling the without cost. Two individuals have New York University, Department lists is being taken care of by two come forward recently with sug- of Journalism part-time workers. I have set up gestions about how to get addi- Northwestern University, Medill the new mailing program that I tional funding, and I’m looking School of Journalism needed and it takes about 45 min- into it. If you have any ideas your- Stanford University, Department utes perhaps to send 1,250 re- self, I’m all ears. But right now, of Communication leases, without spamming. So far, you are the guys. There’s no one so good. else. Syracuse University, Newhouse We are on to something unique And this is the important point. School of Public Communication here, a campaign unlike any other The concept is, indeed, broad, but that has ever been carried out by UC Berkeley Graduate School of it is very simple. My releases—and any revisionist. Help me forward it Journalism I’m going to “bombard” these as best you can. And—thanks people with releases—are based on University of Maryland, Philip much. news stories created by UNESCO Merrill College of Journalism itself. The releases are brief, sim-

University of Missouri-Columbia, ple, and each will have the same

Missouri School of Journalism double focus: “Auschwitz” and

“the free flow of ideas.” Repeat, University of North Carolina at Bradley Chapel Hill, School of Journalism repeat, repeat. As I wrote here last month, I do not have to reinvent and Mass Communication the wheel every time I send a re- University of Wisconsin - Madi- lease. I know what the story is, I Smith’s Report son, School of Journalism and know where UNESCO and the is published by Mass Communication professorial class are failing, and I Committee for Open Debate know how to reach them. Washington and Lee University, On the Holocaust Walter Cronkite School of Journal- eanwhile you may won- Bradley R. Smith, Founder ism & Mass Communication Mder, and you have every University of Southern California, right to know since you are fund- For your contribution of Annenberg School of Communica- ing this work, how I’m feeling, $39 tions what with my own “lymphoma” question. I am pleased to report You will receive 12 issues of University of Miami, School of that there’s some good news. Smith’s Report. Communication Looks like the initial chemother- In Canada and Mexico--$45 apy session literally “melted” the University of Georgia, Grady Col- Overseas--$49 lege of Journalism malignant nodes in the throat and neck. Not a common experience I Letters and Donations to: Ohio University, E.W. Scripps am told. I’ve had a second chemo Bradley R. Smith School of Journalism session since but will not have re- Post Office Box 439016 sults until the end of the month. Iowa State University, Greenlee San Ysidro, CA 92143 School of Journalism and Commu- In short, the situation is better, nication it’s not worse. One downside is Desk: 209 682 5327 that my hair is falling out. I miss it. Cell: 619 203 3151 And then there are the metro- I feel like I’m losing part of my politan papers nationwide, as well natural beauty. But I’m assured Email: as the campus press at over one that it will grow back and that in [email protected] hundred colleges and universities. three or four months I’ll be just as [email protected] And so on. I have put all this pretty as I used to be. data here to give you some idea of the breadth of the Campaign. It ou’re going to stay with might occur to you that it is too Yme here, right? I need 16 SMITH’S REPORT

On the Holocaust Controversy

No. 155 www.Codoh.com November 2008

Challenging the Holocaust Taboo Since 1990

Elie Wiesel and the Issue of Indifference

Dr. William O’Neal, hand. been prepared to understand that Director of Graduate Studies Professor O’Neal, do you be- Elie Wiesel is the best known Ho- Chair, Department of History lieve Toledo's College of Arts and locaust fanatic in America? That he University of Toledo Sciences has prepared its students has spent his entire adult life for- Toledo, Ohio 43606-3390 in any way whatever to understand warding with an unequaled fanati- the issue of “indifference” with cism the charge of “unique mon- 26 October 2008 regard to Mr. Elie Wiesel himself? strosity” against the Germans, in- cluding the charge that they used Dear Dr. O’Neal: weapons of mass destruction (“gas chambers”) for mass murder at I am informed that on 30 Oc- Auschwitz, and that even though tober the University of Toledo's he was interned there, after more College of Arts and Sciences will than half a century he is unable to host a talk by Nobel Laureate Elie name, with proof, one person who Wiesel on "What the Ancient Mas- was killed in a gas chamber at that ters Can Teach Us About Confront- camp? ing Fanaticism and Building Moral Are UT students prepared to Unity in a Diverse Society." It’s an question Elie Wiesel’s indifference interesting idea for a talk, though to “Building Moral Unity” when looking around the world from the he writes "Every Jew, somewhere point of view of UNESCO, it does Elie Wiesel in his being, should set apart a not seem they have taught us zone of hate - healthy, virile hate - much. Do UT students understand for what the German personifies In the Toledo Blade Mr. Wiesel that for decades Elie Wiesel has and for what persists in the Ger- addresses a simpler issue, one he shown himself to be indifferent to man.”? A remark that for forty has addressed before, the issue of the fate of writers and publishers years he has refused to recant? “indifference.” We read again who question the orthodox Holo- Have UT students been pre- where he argues that “the opposite caust story and are arrested, tried, pared to understand the sheer silli- of love is not hatred, but indiffer- and imprisoned for such thought ness of a man like Elie Wiesel who ence.” That the opposite of educa- crimes in Germany, France, Aus- will claim that when he was struck tion, beauty, and life itself is indif- tria, Switzerland and other Euro- by a taxicab in mid-Manhattan ference. That “indifference is what pean nations? in New York, he flew an permits evil to be strong …” With regard to confronting Continued on page 14 Which brings me to the matter to “fanaticism,” have your students 1 would travel abroad in order to According to the estimates of LETTERS visit an archive. There is also the orthodox historian Jules Schelvis, factor that most Jews “know” what about 1,000 deportees were trans- Thomas Kues happened to this or that relative. ferred from Sobibór to labor camps They would simply not have much in Lublin and the Włodawa region, The importance of Arolsen incentive to look at the papers. Fi- most of them perishing there. An- nally, Jews who like Black dis- other small group was selected for About a year and a half ago, in cover that certain relatives were work within the Sobibór camp. SR#140, Professor Arthur R. Butz not gassed but perished or survived The rest, at least 33,000 people, published a short piece on the par- at some other place, may not were allegedly killed in gas cham- tial and severely restricted “open- bother about notifying the press, or bers utilizing engine exhaust. Only ing” of the International Tracing Yad Vashem for that matter. 16 of the 34,313 Dutch deportees Service archives in Bad Arolsen, It has been reported several are registered as having survived Germany, which contains millions times during the last few years that the war. Another case which might of Third Reich dossiers on concen- the Arolsen documents are to be be utilized for research involves tration camp prisoners and others, scanned and made searchable four French transports to Sobibór captured by the Allies at the end of through a database. According to which took place in March 1943. It the war. Butz noted that the ar- the article on Eugene Black in The is alleged that all of the 4,000 chive had actually been available Telegraph from August 23, 2008, French Jews carried on those for research until 1977, when it the post-war archive on displaced trains, without exception, were was suddenly was closed to the persons alone consists of more gassed at Sobibór. public. than 20 million pages. However, if it could be shown Recently, British newspapers What would critically minded through archival research that a carried the story of Eugene Black, researchers then be able to accom- majority, or at least a large number a Jewish “Holocaust survivor” liv- plish if this still-not-complete da- of these Dutch or French Jews had ing in Leeds. Mr. Black had made tabase was made fully available to turned up at some other location the shocking discovery that his two public scrutiny? First of all, it is to after their deportation to Sobibór, sisters, who for sixty years he had be expected that the documentation this would effectively refute the believed were gassed in Auschwitz held at Arolsen is far from com- officially sanctioned extermination in May 1944, had in fact been plete. Other documentation, cap- camp hypothesis, since there is no killed several months later, when tured by the Red Army 1944-45, is reason to believe that these West- Allies air force bombed a German likely to be hidden away inside ern Jews in the end were treated factory near Buchenwald. The dis- archives of the former Soviet Un- any differently from the Polish covery was made possible through ion. Jews who made up the bulk of de- the Arolsen archives, which Black My suggestion is that revision- portees to the Reinhardt camps, had partial access to thanks to be- ist researchers, if given the chance, and since no witness has claimed ing a “survivor”. Except for people should focus on people docu- that large-scale selections were like Black, the archives are avail- mented to have been deported to carried out in these camps. The able only to certain accredited re- the three “pure extermination verdict of the 1966 Sobibór trial searchers. Reportedly out of pri- camps” of Aktion Reinhardt – Beł- would collapse in an instant, and vacy concerns, information on per- żec, Sobibór, and Treblinka. It is the entire official historiography sons still alive will not be dis- alleged that 99% of the Jews sent on the Reinhardt camps would get closed. As Butz points out, this to these camps were killed there dragged down with it. practice might lead to a Catch-22 within hours of arrival. Between The possibility of said thing where the researcher has to docu- March and July 1943, nineteen happening may naturally be taken ment that the person whose fate he train transports carrying a total of as a reliable indication that the Ar- or she wants to find out more 34,313 Dutch Jews were sent from olsen archives will remain closed about is dead (or at least legally the internment camp at Westerbork to prying eyes. Only some kind of dead, which may have been the to Sobibór. These transports – in upheaval might change that matter. case with Mr. Black’s sisters). contrast to the alleged mass kill- Until then, exceptional cases like We might assume that Mr. ings at Sobibór – are well docu- Mr. Black’s will continue to tickle Black is very much an exception. mented. our curiosity. To begin with, few Jews live in

Germany, and not many people

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Roy from Norway us see. ludre to all the atrocity peddlers, whether they admit it or not—is a Welcome to Norway! I don’t Maria Stukel question whose time has come. It know if you are right or not, but if could be dodged, but it cannot be your are not allowed to speak here I am impressed and impressed avoided, so, “ … keep asking … ” in Norway, what you think, or can some more every time a new SR and if it hits a raw nerve, so much document, then in the next turn it spills out of my mail box. You are the better. means I can not do it either, and becoming one of the most impor- You have a very effective pen. that means tyranny. I will have to tant, and reliable, voices of histori- Use it to continue the battle we are be arrested for other things, be- cal revisionism, at least on this in and hopefully move on to vic- cause I didn’t stand up for you. So side of the Atlantic. You know how tory. May God bless your efforts. welcome. If you are right, this is to choose your contributors and And your family. more ugly than the reality they let your QUESTION—a coup de fo-

The Holocaust: Our Dominant Religion

By Paul Grubach

istinguished biologist, cizes and lampoons the world’s 199-200). It is important to note D widely admired author, traditional religions such as Chris- that of the eight characteristics he and prominent atheist and oppo- tianity, Islam, Buddhism and Juda- lists of a religious creed, the Holo- nent of all religion, Richard Daw- ism, he conspicuously ignores the caust doctrine has six of them. The kins is well known to most edu- most powerful religion in the God Delusion is not just an attack cated people. Since his authorship Western world today—the Jewish upon the God hypothesis; it is also of the classic book The Selfish Holocaust religion. an attack upon all organized relig- Gene and other works on evolu- Dawkins may rebut me by say- ion. In view of this, he should tionary biology, he has become one ing that his book is about the al- have devoted some space to a cri- of the most widely read scientists leged non-existence of God, and tique of this religion. Far from of our time. not about the truth or falsity of the questioning the Holocaust religion, In his latest book, The God Holocaust doctrine. He may even however, he appears to accept it as Delusion, Dawkins explains his insist that the Holocaust doctrine is “fact” (p. 64). atheistic philosophy in great detail. not a religion at all, and thus Dawkins points out that relig- Since Smith’s Report is not a reli- should not be a matter of discus- ions demand that “heretics, blas- gious or philosophical publication, sion in The God Delusion. After phemers and apostates should be in this short essay we will not dis- all, unlike the religions of Christi- killed (or otherwise punished, for cuss Dawkins’s arguments against anity, Judaism and Islam, Holo- example by ostracism from their the God Hypothesis, or my rebut- caust ideologists do not claim a families) [p. 199].” This most cer- tal. Divine Being revealed their doc- tainly applies to the Holocaust re- The reader who is interested in trine to man. ligion. In Germany, France, Aus- this controversy is urged to consult If Dawkins and his militant tria, Belgium, Switzerland and the longer, online edition of this atheist followers take this position, several other European countries, article on CODOH Web: “Richard they are sorely mistaken. as well as in Israel, there are gov- Dawkins, Militant Atheism and the Throughout the book Dawkins lists ernment-enforced laws that punish Holocaust Religion.” what he believes to be the salient people who contest or reject the While Dawkins ardently criti- characteristics of religions (pp. Holocaust religion.

3 Even in the United States decades ago that there are no doc- can compare to that given by where “freedom of speech” is en- uments to prove that the Nazis ever [Auschwitz commandant Rudolf] shrined in law and no “Holocaust had any plan to exterminate the Hoss, no significant remains, and denial” laws are on the books, and Jews of Europe: "[T]he campaign few archival sources [emphasis there is a supposed to be a “separa- to exterminate the Jews, as regards added].” tion of church and state,” the Unit- its conception as well as many oth- Does the reader see how this ed States government aided in de- er essential aspects, remains passage is harmonious with Daw- porting the Holocaust skeptics shrouded in darkness. Inferences, kins’s definition of “religious Ernst Zundel and Germar Rudolf psychological considerations, and faith”? Holocaust theologian van to prison cells in Germany. They third- or fourth-hand reports enable Pelt admits that the evidence for committed the mortal sin of de- us to reconstruct its development the mass killing of Jews at certain bunking the Holocaust religion. with considerable accuracy. Cer- Nazi camps is very sparse at Another characteristic of a re- tain details, however, must remain best—but it is virtuous to believe ligion according to Dawkins is that forever unknown. The three or four the story anyway, because it is a “Belief in God is a supreme virtue people chiefly involved in the ac- “moral certainty.” [p. 199].” For many influential tual drawing up of the plan for to- Dawkins continues: “Every- people in modern-day Western so- tal extermination are dead and no body, even those who do not hold ciety, belief in the Holocaust has documents have survived; perhaps religious beliefs, must respect replaced belief in God as the su- none ever existed." them with a higher lever of auto- preme virtue. So there you have it. The matic and unquestioned respect Expressing a widely held sen- "evidence" that "proves" the exis- than that accorded to other kinds of timent among leading US political tence of an alleged Nazi plan to beliefs [p. 200].” elites, Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of exterminate the Jews is simply the In the Western world the Holo- former presidential candidate John guesswork of Holocaust historians. caust religion has been raised Kerry, stated in the highly influen- Hard documentary proof is miss- above the traditional religions such tial Forward: “Need it be said ing. Indeed, it is an article of reli- as Christianity and Islam. Daw- again? The gas chambers, the bu- gious faith among Holocaust histo- kins’s atheistic book was a pub- reaucratic system of murder, the rians—supported with theological lishing event all throughout the efforts to sever an entire people arguments—that Hitler and the United States and Great Britain. from their place in the world, did Nazi hierarchy ordered the war- Millions throughout Britain and happen, did exist and remains a time mass extermination of the elsewhere saw his atheistic docu- unifying cause for those who Jewish people. In fact, the claim mentary. No Western government choose justice, now and forever that the Nazis ordered the mass formally condemned him or his more.” extermination of the Jews defies ideas. Furthermore, Dawkins’s That is to say, a belief in the the evidence, and is believed in own British government granted Holocaust ideology is a supreme spite of the evidence. knighthood to Salman Rushdie, virtue, as it is the basis for jus- Let us look at another example author of The Satanic Verses, tice—now and forever more. Cen- that shows how faith—a belief which deeply offended millions of turies ago, Catholic theologian with little or no evidence—is a Muslims throughout the world. Thomas Aquinas claimed that God virtue in the Holocaust religion. Yet, when Iran held its Holo- and his divinely revealed morality Holocaust theologian Robert caust-debunking, revisionist con- were the basis for justice in the Jan van Pelt conceded that the ference in December 2006, the world—now and forever more. "evidence" for the mass killings of governments of the US, Great Dawkins continues on about Jews at Treblinka, Sobibor and Britain, Russia, France, Canada, the characteristics of religion: Belzec—where allegedly millions Germany, as well as many others, “Faith (belief without evidence) is were murdered—is sparse at best. joined in religious chorus and is- a virtue [p. 199].” Likewise with In reference to these three camps, sued statements condemning the the Holocaust religion. According he wrote: "The evidence for the conference—proof that Holocaust to modern-day Holocaust theologi- role of Treblinka, Belzec, and So- religion is accorded a higher level ans, a belief in Holocaust dogmas bibor—sufficient as it may be to of automatic and unquestioned that lack evidence or defy the evi- come to a moral certainty about the respect than that accorded to tradi- dence is a great virtue. wartime history of those places—is tional religion. Leon Poliakov, a pioneer of the much less abundant. There are few Dawkins continues: “There are Holocaust theology, pointed out eyewitnesses, no confession that some weird things (such as the 4 Trinity, transubstantiation, incarna- In early 2006, Iran offered to of the Nazi Murderers Between the tion) that we are not meant to un- send a team of experts to the Nazi Years 1940 and 1945.” During a derstand. Don’t even try to under- concentration camps in Poland in June 1979 visit to the camp, Pope stand one of these, for the attempt order to critically evaluate the evi- John Paul II stood before this me- might destroy it. Learn how to dence for the alleged Holocaust. morial and prayed for and blessed gain fulfillment in calling it a mys- Polish officials immediately re- the four million victims. tery [p. 200].” jected the plan. "Under no circum- In July 1990, the Polish gov- In reference to the alleged stances should we permit this," ernment's Auschwitz State Mu- “Nazi gas chambers,” Chief Rabbi insisted Polish Foreign Minister seum, along with Israel's Yad Va- of the Holocaust Elie Wiesel Stefan Miller. "This is beyond all shem Holocaust center, conceded stated: “Let the gas chambers re- imaginable norms that such a thing that the four million figure was a mained closed to prying eyes, and is discussed," he added. gross exaggeration, and references to the imagination. We will never Dawkins’s criticism of “reli- to it were accordingly removed know all that happened behind gious faith” applies here. Accord- from the Auschwitz monument. those doors of steel. They say the ing to Polish Minister Miller, Ira- Israeli and Polish officials an- victims fought among themselves nians are supposed to accept the nounced a tentative revised toll of for a breath of air, for one more Holocaust religion on faith, as it at least 1.1 million dead. second of life, that they climbed on does not tolerate any arguments to Revisionist diplomat Dr. Fre- the shoulders of the weakest in the the contrary. After all, it is beyond derick Toben rightly pointed out so-called Todeskampf, the final all imaginable norms that the Ira- that, once again, John Paul’s suc- struggle among the dying. Much nians dare to contest the Holocaust cessor, Pope Benedict XVI, has been said when silence ought religion. blessed the alleged 1.1 million vic- to have prevailed. Let the dead Dawkins continues on the cha- tims, which shows that there is speak for themselves, if they so racteristics of religion: “Beautiful indeed a concerted effort to elevate choose. If not, may they be left in music, art and scriptures are them- the Holocaust ideology to the sta- peace.” selves self-replicating tokens of tus of a religion. We are not supposed to know religious ideas [p. 200].” The But most importantly, Israeli if the operation of the “gas cham- number of movies, novels, fiction historian Yehuda Bauer admitted bers” violates the laws of science, stories, works of art, etc. that are that the formerly "etched-in-stone as they should remain closed to inspired by the Holocaust religion fact" that four million souls were prying eyes. It is a religious mys- is seemingly endless. No further murdered by the Nazis at Ausch- tery as to what happened in these comment is necessary. witz was an intelligently designed alleged “gas chambers.” We are falsehood, concocted to serve an just supposed to accept their exis- The Holocaust as an “Intelli- ulterior political agenda. This tence…period! All questioning of gently Designed” Religion shows that “intelligent design,” as this theological mystery is to be Dawkins claims that religions Dawkins would say, is a part of the discouraged. Remain silent and are “consciously designed,” as re- Holocaust religion. gain fulfillment from leaving it a ligious beliefs are engineered by mystery. the religion’s leaders and founders Persecution under the Holo- in order to accomplish a specific caust Religion Dawkins on the Danger of purpose. In his own words: “Re- Dawkins continues on the Religious Faith ligions probably are, at least in dangers of religious absolutism: On this issue of “religious part, intelligently designed, as are “But let’s have no complacency in faith,” here is what Dawkins schools and fashions of art [p. Christendom. As recently as 1922 writes: “Faith is evil precisely be- 201].” in Britain, John William Gott was cause it requires no justification So too with the Holocaust re- sentenced to nine months hard la- and brooks no argument [p. 308].” ligion. At the postwar Nuremberg bor for blasphemy: he compared This directly applies to the Holo- Tribunal, the Allies alleged that the Jesus to a clown. Almost unbe- caust religion. Not only has the Germans exterminated four million lievably, the crime of blasphemy is Holocaust doctrine been raised people at the Auschwitz-Birkenau still on the statute books in Britain, above God and traditional religion, concentration camp. Until 1990, a and in 2005 a Christian group tried it has also been raised above sci- memorial plaque at Auschwitz to bring a private prosecution for ence itself, for it can no longer be read: “Four Million People Suf- blasphemy against the BBC for critically examined by skeptics. fered and Died Here at the Hands broadcasting Jerry Springer, the 5 Opera [p. 288].” ing point for all historical investi- implying that anything like this Likewise, Professor Daw- gations of the subject. It has fallen awful story could happen today [p. kins, let us have no complacency to us to recall that point with due 311].” with the Holocaust religion. As simplicity: there is not nor can You are 1000% wrong, Profes- recently as 2005, British historian there be a debate over the exis- sor Dawkins!! A story similar to David Irving was sent to an Aus- tence of the gas chambers." this happened right near Chicago, trian prison for over a year because Karl Popper, a philosopher of Illinois in 2005! A man was torn of his statements casting doubt on science, proposed that a statement from his wife and child and sent to certain aspects of the Holocaust (a theory, a conjecture) has the sta- a prison cell in Germany. The religion. Almost unbelievably, the tus of belonging to the empirical “justification” for this is that he is British government and militant sciences if, and only if, it is poten- a Holocaust heretic that contests free speech advocates like Richard tially falsifiable. The Le Monde the Holocaust religion. Germar Dawkins refused to come to his aid declaration assumes that the gas Rudolf is a German citizen. Law and never even lodged a protest. chamber story constitutes “a higher forbids Germans to contest the Ho- truth” and should therefore exer- locaust religion. If they do, they Holocaust Fundamentalism and cise authority in evaluating and go to prison. Therefore, Holocaust the Subversion of Science—the arranging the discoveries of sci- Inquisitors determined that a Ger- Danger of Faith in the ence and history. Not being falsi- man citizen who contests the Ho- Holocaust? fiable, it is not scientific. It is to locaust religion must not be al- be dogmatically accepted, not em- lowed to stay free in the United Dawkins explains his condem- pirically tested. States with his wife and child. He nation of religious fundamental- Thus, using Dawkins’s termi- must be torn from his family, and ism: “Fundamentalists know they nology, our 34 historians claim the then thrown in a German prison for are right because they have read “truth” of the “gas chambers” is an his Holocaust heresy. the truth in a holy book and they axiom, not the end product of a With regard to the story about know, in advance, that nothing will process of reasoning. The “Nazi Edgardo Mortara, Dawkins writes: budge them from their belief. The gas chamber” claim is true (!), and “[T]he extraordinary fact that the truth of the holy book is an axiom, if the evidence seems to contradict priests, cardinals and Pope seem not the end product of a process of it, it is the evidence that must be genuinely not to have understood reasoning. The book is true, and if thrown out, not the “Nazi gas what a terrible thing they were do- the evidence seems to contradict it, chamber” claim. It is a religious ing to poor Edgardo Mortara. It it is the evidence that must be faith, according to Dawkins’s crite- passes all sensible understanding, thrown out, not the book [p. 282].” ria, and it requires no justification but they sincerely believed they On this issue of “religious faith,” and brooks no argument. were doing him a good turn by here is what Dawkins writes: taking him away from his parents “Faith is evil precisely because it The Holocaust Religion and and giving him a Christian up- requires no justification and brooks Kidnapping bringing… Such is the power of no argument [p. 308].” Professor Dawkins rightly (mainstream, ‘moderate’) religion Well lo and behold! A similar brings to light the tragic story of a to warp judgment and pervert or- statement could be made about the Jewish child, Edgardo Mortara, dinary decency [p. 313].” Nazi gas chamber dogma. Let us who as a six-year-old in 1858 was A very similar statement could examine the famous, theological torn from his weeping parents by made about Germar Rudolf and the manifesto issued in 1979 by the 34 the papal police—acting under the Holocaust religion. Many High historians in the French daily, Le orders of the Inquisition—and the- Priests of the Holocaust religion Monde. The concluding paragraph reafter raised a Catholic. He rarely will undoubtedly tell you that by asserts that mass gassings of Jews ever saw his parents again. imprisoning people like Germar did take place and that no one can Dawkins points out that the Rudolf, they “are protecting soci- deny their existence without com- “justification” for kidnapping the ety from dangerous ideas.” Such mitting an outrage on the truth: child was that he was originally is the power of the Holocaust the- "The question of how technically baptized a Catholic: it was not an ology to warp judgment and per- such a mass murder was possible option to allow a baptized Chris- vert ordinary decency. should not be raised. It was tech- tian to stay with his Jewish parents [Copyright 2008] nically possible because it oc- (p. 311). curred. This is the necessary start- Dawkins comments: “I am not 6

SOBIBOR: A History of a Nazi Death Camp by Jules Schelvis

(Berg Publishers/USHMM, Oxford 2006)

Reviewed by Thomas Kues

ike all of the alleged “pure in Dutch in 1993 by De Bataafsche man trials). This fact is reflected in Lextermination camps”, So- Leeuw, Amsterdam, as the number of passages devoted to bibór near Włodawa is wrapped in Vernietigingskamp Sobibor. A this individual German guard, as obscurity. No more than a handful German edition, entitled Vernich- well as the epithets bestowed upon of books have been devoted to this tungslager Sobibor, was published him (”the hangman of Sobibór”). camp, where allegedly hundreds of by Metropol Verlag in 1998. The In contrast, Gustav Wagner, the SS thousands of Jews, most of them reviewed 2006 English translation man usually painted out to be the deported from Poland but also is based on the revised Dutch edi- Sobibór “angel of death”, is given from Austria and the Netherlands, tion from 2004. very little space, despite the many were killed in gas chambers with tantalizing questions surrounding engine exhaust and later inciner- Schelvis and Sobibór his arrest, extradition trial and sub- ated on giant “grills” made of rail- sequent “suicide” in Brazil in way gauge. In 1968, former So- First of all it should be noted 1980. bibór prisoner Stanislaw Szma- that the Dutch-Jewish author of the jzner’s book Inferno em Sobibor book is far from a disinterested Revision of the Sobibór death was published in Portuguese in Rio academic third party to the subject toll de Janeiro. In 1980, Israeli histo- he is treating. In June 1943, Schel- rian Miriam Novitch published a vis was deported from the Dutch Since the early post-war years it collection of short testimonies (So- camp Westerbork to Sobibór to- has been commonly alleged that bibor: Martyrdom and Revolt, gether with his wife and her fam- 250,000 Jews were murdered at Holocaust Library). The camp was ily. When arriving at Sobibór, the Sobibór between 1942 and 1943. treated in Yitzhak Arad's work Bel- young wife and her parents were The so-called Höfle telegram, dis- zec, Sobibor, Treblinka (Indiana sent away, allegedly to the gas covered by historian Peter Witte in University Press, Bloomington, chambers, while Schelvis and 81 2000, shows that 101,370 Jews had 1987), as well as in Gitta Sereny's other young men were transferred been deported to Sobibór by De- book about Franz Stangl, Into That to Dorohucza (Dorohusk), a near- cember 31, 1942. According to the Darkness (McGraw-Hill, New by labor camp (Schelvis was later new research on Jewish transports York 1974). A book on the Dutch sent to the Radom ghetto and from to Sobibór presented by Schelvis, Jews deported to the camp, De there on to Auschwitz, another another 70,000 Jews were sent to Negentien Treinen naar Sobibor by “extermination camp” which he the camp during 1943. This figure Elie A. Cohen, was published in miraculously managed to survive). should however be taken with a 1979. Two other former inmates The author thus writes about the grain of salt, as the evidence for at have written books on the camp as camp under the (we might assume least two transports (the last ones, well: Thomas Blatt wrote From the sincere) belief that Sobibór was a supposedly from occupied Soviet Ashes of Sobibor (Northwestern death trap where his nearest ones territory and containing several University Press 1997) and Sobi- were brutally killed by a group of thousand people) comes exclu- bor: The Forgotten Revolt (Issa- callous sadists. But the personal sively from eyewitness testimony quah 1997), while Dov Freiberg’s involvement of the author does not (pp. 218-220). The total death toll book Surviving Sobibor was pub- end with this personal trauma. In as per Schelvis thus amounts to lished in English by Gefen Books the drawn-out appeal process of approximately 170,000 people (p. in 2007. The work which will be former Sobibór SS Karl Frenzel 110, 198). As is not uncommon in reviewed here, Sobibor: A History between 1982 and 1985, Schelvis the field of Holocaust mathemat- of a Nazi Death Camp by Jules acted as a witness as well as Ne- ics, a large number of previously Schelvis, was originally published benkläger (a civil plaintiff in Ger- supposed victims – in this case 7 80,000 people – have suddenly Włodawa region. 700 Dutch men the camp commandant, but the turned into unexplained non- were sent to dig peat at Dorohucza most he probably ever did with beings. (p. 119). Allegedly only two – one them was to file them in a In the light of this revision of of them our lucky boy Jules – sur- drawer somewhere. No further the number of Jewish deportees, it vived the war. A number of women action was ever taken.” is curious to read what Erich Bau- were also sent to camps in Lublin. The assertion in the latter part er, the alleged gas chamber super- All in all some 1,000 Dutch Jews – of the quoted passage of course visor or “Gasmeister” of Sobibór, according to “rough estimates” – exclusively rests on the mass gas- had to say on the death toll. Ac- were selected for work camps in sings story, for which Schelvis pre- cording to Bauer’s “confession”, the General Government. sents not a single shred of docu- written while serving a life sen- If at least a thousand of the mentary or forensic evidence. The tence in a Berlin prison, he had on 34,313 deported Dutch Jews – who actual camp files may very well one occasion overheard camp in Sobibór eyewitness testimony have ended up on the shelf of some commandant Franz Stangl mention often are portrayed as being frail locked and barred KGB archive. that 350,000 Jews had been killed and less accustomed to physical at Sobibór (quoted in Klee et al., labor than the Eastern European Passed over in silence The Good Old Days, p. 232). Since Jews – were transferred to labor Stangl left Sobibór for Treblinka in camps in the Polish General Gov- The perhaps best way to find September 1942, it follows that the ernment, how many able-bodied out the weaknesses of this volume final death toll would be much Polish-Jewish deportees were then is not by scrutinizing what is writ- higher – that is, if we are to believe not selected for work in the same ten, but pointing out that what is Bauer’s testimony rather than the camps? not written – or more precisely, documentary evidence of the Höfle It may further be noted that the what is passed over in (conspicu- telegram. Despite this, the “repen- fact that the number as well as ous) silence by the author. Jules tant perpetrator” Bauer is consid- identities of the Jews deported to Schelvis’ Sobibor is (as admitted ered by Schelvis a key witness Sobibór from the Netherlands is by its subtitle) far from the defini- whose statements are assumed to known from registers, in the future tive history of the camp. It is in be truthful even when clashing may help us determine the actual places more thorough than Arad’s with those of other major eyewit- fate of the deportees. Allegedly, twenty years older book, but it is a nesses, for example on the issue only about 20 of them survived the curious “thoroughness” which whether the first gas chambers war. Full access for independent lacks in weight. The allegation of a were built of wood or concrete researchers to the Arolsen archives mass murder and subsequent burial (something I have treated in an could very well make this possible. and cremation of 170,000 people is online article for CODOH Web, Related to this, Schelvis provides never backed up with physical evi- “The Alleged First Gas Chamber the following revealing insight into dence, and the few war-time doc- Building at Sobibór”). It seems the deportee registration process uments shown do not prove any curious that Bauer, who, if the gas- (p. 52): homicidal activity. There is also no sing story was indeed true, must “Two copies [of the prisoner mention of the (still unpublished) have known with accuracy the ca- registers] were given to the trans- excavations and drillings report- pacities of the gas chambers as port leaders for the journey east, edly carried out at the former camp well as the average number of creating the impression, perhaps, site by Polish archaeologist daily gassings, could have been so that they knew the deportees by Andrzej Kola in 2001, despite wide off the mark as to put cre- name, and that the list would fa- Schelvis’ text being revised well dence in the figure reportedly men- cilitate registration on arrival at the after that date. tioned by Stangl. camp. What especially stays in my “At Auschwitz this may in- memory after reading this book is Transfers to labor camps in deed have been the case – unless one the photographs reproduced. the Włodawa region of course the victims were sent All in all Schelvis shows us some straight to the gas chambers. But 60 pictures (mainly passport type Schelvis devotes one of the the lists compiled for Sobibór photos of survivors and camp per- chapters of his book to the fate of were only ever intended to dis- sonnel), but most of them can be the Dutch Jews who were trans- guise the Germans’ true inten- viewed elsewhere or are frankly ferred upon arrival at Sobibór to tions. The transport leaders not very interesting. For example, some of the labor camps in the would have passed the lists on to we are shown a rather blurry photo 8 of a “heap of ashes” but it is im- looking old man on the photo this book.” possible to determine from the pic- knew the truth about Sobibór. Did Of course no informed revi- ture its dimensions or contents. No he dare confide it to anyone? To sionists deny the existence of the bones or bone fragments are visi- his friends? To his family? To him- camps themselves, it is the mass ble. The photo which stuck with self, in private writings possibly murders allegedly carried out in- me shows Hubert Gomerski, a be- left behind at his death? Most side them which are brought into spectacled old man with whitened likely we will never know, and for question – but naturally Schelvis hair wearing a cheap-looking beige us who are waiting for the true his- cannot let go of a good straw man. jacket. We see him slightly from tory of Sobibór and the other May one hope that Schelvis takes behind, as he is walking away Reinhardt camps to emerge from the time to read the online revi- from the camera along some street. the swamp of “Holocaust” mytho- sionist texts on his favorite “corpse According to the caption, Gomer- graphy, Mr. Schelvis’ book will factory”? I at least would welcome ski is hurrying away from the court unfortunately not provide us with his comments. building where he has appeared as more than a few puzzle pieces, Schelvis’ book is well worth a witness for the prosecution. On scattered among heaps of periph- buying (or borrowing) as a work of the same page, we are shown a eral information and obscurantist reference by those interested in the vintage photo of Gomerski in uni- rhetoric, such as Schelvis’ empty Aktion Reinhardt “death camp” form together with some other tirade against us accursed Holo- issue, since it contains lengthy members of the Sobibór staff. The caust skeptics (p. 3): quotations from a number of hard- caption of this photo claims that to-find witness testimonies. Gomerski was a callous and brutal “The SS staff quotations that Among other tidbits, we learn (on murderer. Is this true? Did he have been included in my book p. 176) that a former SS squadron really receive a fair trial back in have been taken from statements commander who assisted in the 1950, as implied by Schelvis? Was and interrogations which they hunt for escaped Jews after the he able to speak his mind openly to themselves endorsed with their Sobibór prisoner revolt, witnessed his interrogators and lawyers, or signatures. Still there are those how several of the escapees volun- was he, like Auschwitz SS man who stubbornly refuse to acknowl- tarily returned to the camp and Hans Aumeier, handed a number of edge – now also on the Internet – reported to the camp watch – a bit leading questions, demanding that the existence of the extermination unexpected it may seem for an al- he stated what he “knew” about the camps. They will find incontest- leged death camp! “gas chambers”? The anonymous- able evidence to the contrary in

9 Revisionism Is a Vital Component of Enlightenment

A Conversation with Prof. Egon Flaig University of Greifswald Germany

Translated by J. M. Damon

he following German interview with Prof. Egon Flaig appeared several weeks ago on the anti- T nationalist website “Endstation Rechts.” It is particularly interesting because it acknowledges that the BRD’s (“Bundesrepublik Deutschland”) Holocow approach to “Holocaust” dogma has not only failed to squelch “Holocaust” Revisionism, it has been disastrous for German intellectual life and therefore self-defeating. Who can blame the good professor for covering his posterior by rhetorically heaping praise on the draconian law (Paragraph 130 of the Criminal Code) that enforces the “Talmudic Inquisition” to which he objects? The translator is a bit out of his depth in translating subjects relating to ”Philosophy of Language,” “Cognitive Revolution” and “Linguistic Turns.” He requests corrections for anything he might have mistranslated. -- JMD

[ENDSTATION RECHTS is a judge those events? understood. We are now deal- German-language Web page.] ing with a grotesque comple- Prof. Flaig: First of all, let me mentarity of scientific relativ- On 30 April 2008 we met with express my gratitude to you ism in the context of “linguis- Prof. Flaig in a Rostock wine for allowing the debate to take tic turn” and moral funda- cellar to discuss critical as- place in this open format. mentalism in the public pects of our present Erin- However I must confess that realm. Both these monsters nerungskultur (cult of re- the controversy surrounding are now marching in lockstep, membrance) and the politics the debate did not particularly which is wreaking havoc with of history. Here we are releas- affect me at the time and still German intellectual life. ing the first part of this dis- does not do so. In my view we cussion, and we are also post- are dealing here with a Debat- ENDSTATION RECHTS: ing commentary at the end of tenunkultur (culture of phony Perhaps we should briefly de- this article. With regard to debate) that is causing fun- fine “linguistic turn.” This is commentary, we have to follow damental disruptions in our an expression borrowed from the guidelines limiting ex- ability to conceptualize, both philosophy that refers to a pression of opinion in Ger- historically and intellectually. change in modern thinking: it many. treats systems of thought as ENDSTATION RECHTS: Just reflexes of language and cul- ENDSTATION RECHTS: what do you mean by that? ture. In other words: we can Prof. Flaig, several months Prof. Flaig: An intellectual no longer reliably use lan- have passed since you were schism took place in the areas guage as an instrument to de- the topic of lively discussions of historiography and political scribe the world. Now it is the in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. discussion in the 1990s -- a other way around: the sub- In retrospect, how do you schism whose extent is poorly jects and their related though-

10 ts have become the products of one thesis more convincing of rational argument, step by a cultural Sprachspiel (word than any other. And now this step. Of course we must clar- game). Is this explanation infectious scientific relativism ify our relation to “Shoah,” but compatible with your under- has spread to the “Auschwitz this “Shoah Discourse” has standing of “linguistic turn”? Case.” now attained enormous domi- nance. This development be- Prof. Flaig: Yes. However, “Holocaust” con- gan with the Historikerstreit cerns the foundations of our ENDSTATION RECHTS: And (“Battle of the Historians”) ethical understanding of our- what does this have to do with during the 1980s. Jürgen selves. According to the con- the cult of remembrance as it Habermas’s ideas forced sci- cept of “linguistic turn,” hu- relates to the case of Ausch- entific debate onto the plat- man rights are just a game, a witz? form of public moralizing. To- play of words. The general day I must confess that I too Prof. Flaig: I’ll explain it to public does not accept this did not protest against that, you. With the “linguistic idea, however. Fortunately an and so in this regard I am my turn,” the phenomenon of re- openly acknowledged, publicly own victim. lativism has now invaded the held moral fundamentalism natural sciences. {Translator: has so far held the last lines of It was grotesque how they Do not confuse relativism with defense. dealt with the problems of relativity!} During the Enligh- “Revisionism” and increas- Considered in this light, the tenment, science enabled us to ingly slandered historians articles critical of me that ap- comprehend what was objec- such as Ernst Nolte. It is the peared in the Ostsee-Zeitung tive and irrefutable intersub- core concept of the Enlight- at the beginning of the year jectively (between the various enment that mankind ex- should be interpreted differ- disciplines). Today, however, pands his knowledge of the ently. In those articles, a mor- most scientists, like laymen, world step by step on the ba- alized (and therefore depoliti- are doing nothing except play- sis of rational and objective cized) public opinion was sub- ing Sprachspiele (word argumentation. Since we are consciously defending itself, games). Basically, it makes no all prone to error, science by not against me, but rather difference what one thinks definition has to progress against the consequences of today. Every kind or mode of through one mistake after an- its own unspoken premises. thought is equally valid, since other. Whoever intends to Where Auschwitz is con- it is nothing but an expression pursue science critically and cerned we have to oppose rela- of cultural identity. without prejudice in the spirit tivism precisely because it is of the Enlightenment must be This attitude is destroying the taking over everywhere. When constantly challenging and very basis of science. someone begins arguing dif- testing his knowledge. He ferentially we find that moral If there is nothing objective to must be prepared to revise it relativism is behind such ar- be debated, what is the point when this becomes necessary. guments. of discussion? If we accept Revisionism per se is a large that differing methods of ENDSTATION RECHTS: If part of the core substance of comprehending the world are we understand you correctly, the Enlightenment. all equally valid, then it is as you are saying that scientifi- When the scientific process of valid to practice voodoo as to cally and historically as well revising history is placed un- study atomic physics. In this as publicly there is no such der a general cloud of suspi- mode of non-argumentative thing as unprejudiced open cion, scientists no longer have debate, scientists can inform debate concerning “Holo- opportunity to evaluate argu- each other what they are caust.” thinking at the moment, may- ments in accordance with ob- Prof. Flaig: That is true. In be over coffee and a sweet roll, jective criteria. Even worse, my view this moralistic fun- but they no longer have any persons with intellectual in- damentalism developed in the binding criteria to consider terests – the heart and soul of 1990s and has taken the place 11 the Renaissance and Enlight- Raul Hilberg had estimated the existence of Section 130 of enment on account of their the number at slightly over the Penal Code. Paragraph open and objective quest for one million. 130 is society’s last line of de- truth and justice -- lose their fense against the delegitimi- This has nothing to do with respected position in society. zation of all claims to truth. moral relativization of atroci- In the intolerant culture of This delegitimization is sup- ties committed at Auschwitz. “politically correct stupidity” ported by cultural relativism On the contrary, such research as Rainer Paris calls it, the that is based on the “linguistic is necessary so that the mon- intellectual simply ceases to turn.” That is the reason why strous events can be explained exist. I demanded additional legisla- as a process brought about by tion against “denial of geno- And why is this? It is because technical, logistical, infra- cide” last spring in the Greif- in moralistic debates we no structural, organizational, po- swalder student magazine longer have to justify our ar- litical, demographic, ethnic “Moritz”. I specifically men- guments. Argumentation itself and ideological considerations tioned the genocide committed has been debased: moralizing (to name just a few). Without against the Armenians there. makes all arguments equally explanations there can be no I did so with heavy heart be- good and equally bad. Even science. cause in the long run, even worse: moralizing creates a However, scientific “explain- such laws as these will not be new hierarchy that is radi- ability” requires that all de- able to preserve the truth. cally anti-intellectual. The tails must be open to discus- Gutmenschen (do-gooders) are Commentary: This is an in- sion and debate, without ex- at the top of this hierarchy, teresting and balanced pres- ception. Otherwise a realm of and the winner of the debate entation of E. Nolte and the “unexplainability” is created is the person who screams Battle of the Historians. How- in the same undesirable way most loudly about his moralis- ever, Prof. Flaig contradicts as was done by the inquisi- tic superiority. himself when he advocates tions of the various religions. more stringent censorship. ENDSTATION RECHTS: Is the “Holocaust” any less Sine ira et studio we must be Does that mean that you are bestial because “only” one mil- allowed to discuss and inves- speaking out against Section lion persons lost their lives at tigate intellectual and histori- 130 of the Penal Code that Auschwitz? cal questions without fear of criminalizes expressions of Whoever is not prepared to having to drink “the bitter doubt concerning “Holocaust”? discuss these questions openly cup!” Prof. Flaig: Oh no, I’m not do- and objectively is not only de- ing that at all. There are sig- viating from scientific guide- nificant differences between lines, he is playing into the Forgive me this one time: Revisionists and Revisionists. hands of the neo-Nazis. There Some Revisionists are moti- is nothing more damaging to Do you know how it was when vated by the quest for truth, the “culture of remembrance” California became a state? which is completely legiti- than to refuse rational argu- The state had no electricity. The mate. Specifically, researchers mentation and not correct ob- state had no money. must be allowed to discuss vious errors. Such refusals Almost everyone spoke Span- numbers. For example, at the make it much easier for Revi- ish. There were gunfights in the beginning of the 1990s, a sionists of the other sort to streets. plaque was displayed at dismiss “Holocaust” as fantas- Auschwitz that enumerated tical propaganda. It was just like California today. four million (Jewish) victims. Because of the Revisionists of Except the women had real However, this allegation did this other sort, who are not breasts, and the men didn't not withstand scientific inves- concerned with truth but are hold hands. tigation. In the 1960s the rather attempting to erase Jewish “Holocaust” researcher past events, I am thankful for 12 ternet between 2000 and 2004 in 3. using as a murder weapon NEWSDESK Australia, Germany and other homicidal gas chambers. It is im-

On 01 October our friend Fre- countries. possible to discuss the “Holocaust” drick Toben was flying from the Dr Toben, who founded the with such an imposed constraint. I U.S. to Dubai when he stopped Adelaide Institute, smiled broadly therefore am merely reporting on over in London’s Heathrow air- as the judge handed down her de- matters that I am not permitted to port. There he was arrested for cision. A group of about 10 of his state. For example, if I state the crimes against memory and jailed supporters, including British Holo- “Holocaust” is: caust denier David Irving and for- on an EU warrant issued by de- 1. a lie; mocratic Germany. mer Australian beauty queen Lady 2. six million Jews never died, As Israel Radio has reported: Michele Renouf, who was espe- or “In a recent speech in Iran, he cially active in an especially pro- claimed that any evidence of Nazi fessional, sophisticated, and effec- 3. the gas chambers did not ex- gas chambers were ‘the products tive way in helping Toben with his ist, then I would claim that I am of a feverish pathological mind defense, also cheered the decision merely reporting on what ex- filled with pure hatred, mostly di- from the courtroom's small public pert Revisionists such as Profes- rected against Germans and any- gallery. sors Butz/Faurisson, et al, are stat- thing German ... the product of an Irving is quoted as saying, ing in public. Anyone who refuses appalling state of ignorance of nat- "This shows that we defeated to believe in these three pillars of ural and chemical processes’." Germany again, we've defeated orthodoxy will face a world- 0n 30 October Westminster Europe in fact … We've always wide group of enforcers who will Magistrates Court district judge believed in freedom of speech in use any means to destroy dissent- Daphne Wickham ruled the extra- this country, no matter how crazy ing voices. The problem is that dition could not go ahead because people's views are." these pillars are not set in concrete, the warrant contained only The High Court is expected to though attempts at setting them in "sparse" details about Toben's al- hear Dr Toben's case early next legal concrete have been under leged offences, including exactly year. way for decades - without success. what they were as well as where The latest victims imprisoned and when they took place. Following is Fredrick Toben’s for refusing to BELIEVE in the "This judgment makes no de- “disclaimer” for his Web site in Holocaust-Shoah narrative are termination as to whether the (al- Australia, which one could argue is Germar Rudolf, Ernst Zündel & leged) conduct (of Toben) ... not the most cautious, self- Sylvia Stolz in Germany; Siegfried amounts to an extradition offence," defensive vocabulary that could be Verbeke in Belgium, and Wolfgang Justice Wickham said. "But I do used. But you have to love his re- Fröhlich & Gerd Honsik in Aus- find the particulars in the warrant flection on anti-Semitism being a tria. are vague and imprecise. Therefore “disease.” If you wish to begin to doubt I don't find it to be a valid warrant the “Holocaust-Shoah” narra- and I can discharge the defendant." tive, you must be prepared for per- Granting Toben bail, the judge Dr Fredrick Töben's sonal sacrifice, must be prepared laid down a set of strict conditions Disclaimer: for marriage and family break-up, including that he come up with loss of career, and go to prison. £100,000 ($247,465) in cash as I am operating under a Federal This is because Revisionists are, security. He must also reside at a Court of Australia Gag Order that among other things, dismantling a specific address approved by Brit- prohibits me from question- massive multi-billion dollar indus- ish authorities, report daily to po- ing/denying the three pillars on try that the “Holocaust-Shoah” lice but not use the internet or which the “Holocaust-Shoah” sto- enforcers are defending, as well as speak to the media or attend public ry/legend/myth rests: the survival of Zionist-racist Israel. meetings. 1. During World War II, Ger- So, do not cry when the knock on However, lawyers acting on many had an extermination policy the door takes you away from fam- Germany's behalf said Dr Toben against European Jewry; ily and friends. Such experiences should be extradited so he could be can be character-building. put on trial for posting anti-Semitic 2. of which they killed six mil- Revisionists are not foolish or and revisionist material on the in- lion; naive but realistic as befitting

13 someone who still cherishes sure.” d. Antisemitism is a disease. You such life-affirming ideals as Love, catch it from Jewish behaviour. b. The term “antisemitic” is itself a Truth, Honour, Justice, Beauty! problem because it refers to lan- If you seek to create Beauty-Love,

guage-type and refers to the Ara- Honour-Justice and Truth, then feel Some definitions: bic-speaking peoples, not just the free to enter a. An antisemite is someone who Hebrew-speaking peoples; both condemns Jews because they are peoples use a Semitic language. Adelaide Institute's website. Jews, something I reject in my c. An antisemite is someone Jews maxim: “Don't blame the Jews, hate. blame those that bend to their pres-

Elie Wiesel and the Issue of Indifference Contiuned from page 1

“entire city block” before coming and in addition Internet links to validated information available down to earth again – that is, about forty-five (45) Web sites that mar- anywhere about the Holocaust. My two thirds the length of a football ket the orthodox Holocaust story. I list is used and accepted as com- field? am familiar with most of the sites. pelling by historians around the Will the UT College of Arts world. This represents only a small and Sciences begin to promote a Professor Charles Weinblatt fraction of my three years of Holo- free press and a free flow of ideas wrote in part: caust research. about the Holocaust question and “I retired from the University “Of course, you and your ilk its agents such as Elie Wiesel, or of Toledo in 2004 and I was cre- simply decide not to accept the will you, with indifference, con- dentialed by the same institution. I truth when you see it. But, there tinue to act out the role of being am also the author of a book about are many others like me, who will mere stenographers for a massive, the Holocaust, ‘Jacob's Courage.’ help young vulnerable minds see multi-billion dollar Holocaust In- After conducting three years of the truth.” dustry? exhaustive research into the Holo- Do you not agree that “indif- caust, I can safely say that your ference,” as Elie Wiesel has it, “is messages on the topic lack any I was struck by the swiftness what permits evil to be strong”? semblance with reality. of the Professor’s reply, his self- Thank you for your attention. “I am therefore angered and assured ignorance about where it is dismayed by your letter to the UT even claimed any longer where gas Bradley R. Smith History Department Chair, reviling chambers were used, and by his Committee for Open Debate on the Eli Wiesel and attempting to revise vocabulary. While he did not ad- Holocaust accurate history. Your messages dress one statement in my letter PO Box 439016 are shameful lies, proposed in or- regarding Elie Wiesel and the issue San Ysidro CA 92143 der to revise history in a way that of indifference, nevertheless what I Desk: 209 682 5327 incriminates the victim of crimes, had to say had no “semblance with rather than the perpetrators. reality,” he was “angry” and “dis- Note: This inquiry will be copied “The following extermination mayed,” I am a “shameful” liar to your colleagues. camps used gas: and so on. “Kulmhof i.e. Chelmno, Bel- What Weinblatt’s letter zec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek, brought to mind, and this was ef- My letter to Dr. William O’Neal, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, fortless believe me, was the title of Director of Graduate Studies, and Neuengamme, Sachsenhausen, the talk I gave in Teheran in De- Chair, Department of History at the Natzweiler, Stutthof, and Ravens- cember 2006 (two years already?): University of Toledo, was emailed brueck. “The Irrational Vocabulary of the the evening of the 25th and copied “I have provided here a list of American Professorial Class with to some 140 of Dr. O’Neal’s col- completely authentic and genuine Regard to the Holocaust Ques- leagues. On the 27th I received a web sites, used for academic- tion.” 1,000-word response from Profes- related research. These sources The “irrationality” of the vo- sor Charles Weinblatt of Toledo U., include the most venerated and cabulary. I was to have responded 14 to Professor Weinblatt about now, Deborah Lipstadt at Loyola Uni- vember. I’ll get around to Profes- copying to his colleagues, but versity is more important than fol- sor Weinblatt and his colleagues at something came up. A talk being lowing up with Charles Weinblatt Toledo U. very soon. delivered by Deborah Lipstadt at at Toledo U. As a matter of fact, Loyola University New Orleans, the release regarding Lipstadt went and I decided that to work with to some 350 academics and student America’s Holocaust sweetheart organizations at Loyola on 05 No-

A Brief Exchange with Mogens Schmidt Deputy Assistant Director-General for Communications and Information Division for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace UNESCO

I don’t expect top functionaries of democracy.' I am further in- UN General Assembly is a repre- at UNESCO and the UN to begin formed that this human right ‘in- sentative body of all the member immediately to respond my re- cludes freedom to hold opinions states. It has expressed a position leases, but that is what happened without interference and to seek, on the issue that does not infringe here. The response is very brief, receive and impart information and on your right to hold your opin- self-contradictory, and unrespon- ideas through any media and re- ions. sive, but it demonstrates what I gardless of frontiers.' believe is the strength of this cam- "Sincerely, paign, that it is not primarily who "Mogens Schmidt." you write to, but to whom you copy the original letter. In this in- Dear Dr. Schmidt: Thank you stance it was copied to most eve- for writing. You note that the UN ryone in Mr. Schmidt’s Sector at General Assembly has expressed UNESCO, plus offices around the an opinion on the issue of the world. Mr. Schmidt’s brief letter is Holocaust, one that "does not in- quoted below, as well as my sec- fringe on [my] right to hold [my] ond letter to him. opinions."

How is it that revisionist writers who do hold opinions about the Mogens Schmidt Deputy Assistant Director- Mogens Schmidt Holocaust "either in full or in part" General for Communications are routinely arrested, tried and and Information "How does UNESCO reconcile imprisoned in one European coun- Division for Freedom of Expres- this important ‘mandate' to defend try after another? How is it that the sion, Democracy and Peace the basic human right of freedom Communications and Information UNESCO of expression and press freedom Division for Freedom of Expres- with the 26 January 2007 call by sion, Democracy and Peace, UN- 13 October 2008 the UN General Assembly to all its ESCO, of which you, Sir, are the 192 Member States to ‘reject any Deputy Assistant Director-General, Dear Deputy Assistant Director- denial of the Holocaust as a his- do not acknowledge that this is General: torical event, either in full or in even happening? part, or any activities to this end'"? Am I not in the same danger of On 07 September I wrote you being arrested, tried, and impris- in part: "I am informed that UN- oned as such men as Germar Ru- ESCO is the one United Nations On Tuesday, October 7, 2008 you dolf, Siegfried Verbeke, David Ir- agency with a ‘mandate to defend replied: ving, Ernst Zundel, and now Fre- the basic human right of freedom drick Toben, who, even as I write, of expression and press freedom, "Dear Sir: is being held in a London jail un- which are the essential components “Thank you for your letter. The der threat of extradition to Ger- 15 many where he will be tried, as Rahm Israel Emanuel. Emanuel don’t want to kid you about it, but you have it, for "holding his opin- was born in Chicago in 1959, the it’s not impossible to deal with. ions" about the Holocaust? son of Benjamin Emanuel who I am afraid (forgive me) that it helped smuggle weapons to the But we are on to something is an inversion of logic and good Irgun, the Zionist militia of former very good with the One Name, sense for you to tell me that I have Israeli prime minister Menachem with Proof campaign, taking it to the right to hold my opinions about Begin. One of the most influential campus as at the beginning, but the Holocaust either in full or in politicians and fundraisers in his now taking it to UNESCO and the part when, at the same time, Euro- party, Emanuel accompanied UN as well. I don’t think I men- pean governments have the right to Obama to a meeting of AIPAC's tioned above that the second letter imprison me for holding such executive board just after the Illi- to Mogens Schmidt was copied to opinions in full or in part, and to nois senator had addressed the pro- the same folk I copied the first one do so without any protest, or even Israel lobby's conference that I had too, so everyone there is in on the any notice, from UNESCO. watched. And then there has been story. The next step is to get media Dr. Schmidt, please tell me his ferverently expressed determi- involved. There is no end to this clearly where your UNESCO Divi- nation to take care of Israel at all one, folks, no end. sion for Freedom of Expression, costs. I do need to stay focused, and I Democracy and Peace stands on Still, Obama as an individual is do need you to stay with me. the arrest, trial, and imprisonment a remarkable personality. We’ll see of revisionist writers who hold mi- what we’ll see. He might be the nority opinions about the history of cause of some number of conser- the Holocaust? vatives to look to their own values.

Bradley Sincerely, It is difficult to not be aware

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On the Holocaust Controversy

No. 156 www.Codoh.com December 2008

Challenging the Holocaust Taboo Since 1990

DEBORAH LIPSTADT And Holocaust Remembrance

In February this year I wrote facing society today -- "Holocaust Plan itself. Professor Lipstadt to ask if she Remembrance." The Guest Lectur- The HMI marketing program could provide the name, with er will be Dr. Deborah Lipstadt, is undercut by one of the great proof, of one person who was Professor of Modern Jewish and ideals of the university, the concept killed in a gas chamber at Ausch- Holocaust Studies at Emory Uni- of a free flow of ideas, so HMI witz. The professor did not re- versity. A subsequent Loyola press argues against the free flow of spond. Since then I have asked the release, dated November 3, up- ideas with regard to the Holocaust, same question of academics at dates and narrows the focus of Dr. against intellectual freedom, and universities all over America, the Lipstadt's exploration to "Contem- anyone who dares try it is con- directors of institutions devoted to porary Holocaust denial: a clear demned out of hand with the most forwarding the Holocaust Market- and present danger." vicious vocabulary imaginable. ing Industry, and to leading func- You may expect Dr. Lipstadt to tionaries at UNESCO. None has "forget" a good part of this matter replied to the question. In the name in her address at Loyola. of what goes around comes To that point you should expect Dr. around, it was Professor Lipstadt’s Lipstadt to forget, in the sense that turn once again. she will not raise it at all, or will not raise it seriously, how HMI is used to morally justify the arrest Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J, and imprisonment of men and President women throughout much of Eu- Loyola University rope who question the charge that Office of the President Deborah Lipstadt Germans used weapons of mass New Orleans, LA 70118 destruction ("gas chambers") to To one who stands to one side murder millions of civilians during 05 November 2008 of the existing taboos on the Amer- WWII. Dr. Lipstadt has said that ican campus, it is clear that Holo- she does not think it wise to impri- Dear President Wildes: caust Remembrance is a studied son men and women for memory

I note that the 2008 President's effort on the part of the multi- crimes, but she acts out the role of Forum on Current Issues and Con- billion-dollar Holocaust Marketing "Bystander" so long as troversies will seek to explore a Industry (henceforth HMI) to pro- the HMI marketing plan remains compelling contemporary issue mote the "forgetting" of whatever does not forward the Marketing Continued on page 11 1 away at 7:30 AM. The OPJ’s, a ists with its repeated provocations LETTERS young woman and a youngish of the Palestinians, it will be man, performed their search from putting itself in growing danger Robert Faurisson 6:20 to 10:30. and, eventually, bringing about, I refused to answer their ques- whether it likes it or not, the Zion- November 13 2008 tions. For nearly thirty years I’ve ist regime’s disappearance. For the Today, Thursday, November 13, been in the habit of responding to time being, that regime must at all at 6:15 AM, two investigators from all questions from the police with costs safeguard its number one the Police Judiciaire in Paris, hav- the words: “No answer”, even if propaganda weapon: the lie that is ing arrived in Vichy yesterday the questions are harmless ones. I the religion of “the Holocaust” evening, burst into my house ac- refuse to collaborate with the with its alleged homicidal gas companied by three uniformed French police and justice system in chambers. policemen, not without deliberate- their repression of historical revi- We may expect to be treated ly making a great deal of noise. sionism. like Palestinians. For my part, I This caused a severe nervous Once again, my two OPJ’s will not give in. People sometimes shock to my wife, who, at 77, suf- drew a blank. Once again, they find fault with me for forgetting, in fers from a heart condition; I now found neither the computer nor the my struggle, that a man’s first duty fear the possible consequences. documents sought. is to preserve the safety of his wife For the next hour and a half the They came bearing five (!) war- and children. But that, perhaps, is armed policemen kept her, her rants, the most important of these only a man’s second duty. Perhaps brother and his wife (the couple concerning my participation at the the first duty of a man is to be a had happened to be spending the Tehran conference of December man. night at our house) confined in a 11-12, 2006. The charges origi- I do not lose sight of the fact room, forbidding them to leave it. nated with then President Jacques than my lot remains enviable when The police’s loutish behaviour Chirac and an essentially Jewish compared with that of a good was all the more inadmissible as “anti-racist” organization. many other revisionists such as, for the two investigators (officiers de I ask indulgence of my corres- example, Ernst Zündel and Germar police judiciaire – OPJ’s) knew of pondents beforehand should they Rudolf in Germany, or Wolfgang my wife’s poor state of health. find that, for a certain period, I Fröhlich and Gerd Honsik in Aus- They had already visited us last leave their messages or letters un- tria, or Fredrick Töben in London. January 24. That morning, upon answered. I am once more entering I also think of the heroic Fren- reporting at Vichy police station to a time of turbulence. I have still chman Vincent Reynouard, his answer a summons, I was imme- not found a lawyer to replace Eric wife and their seven children. diately placed in custody. When Delcroix, who has retired. By the told that, after a questioning ses- way, I shall also ask my contacts Arthur Butz sion, the policemen would be tak- not to come forth with recommen- dations of this or that reputedly ing me back to my house and car- Thomas Kues' fear (SR #$155, courageous lawyer: there are in rying out a search, I’d informed p. 2) that the International Tracing fact only cowards and inveterate the OPJ’s that, as my wife had a Service archives will remain swaggerers. (A model of the type: weak heart, I had kept the matter closed to prying eyes is well- of my summons a secret. I told Jacques Vergès. It pains me to note founded, but one must clarify ex- how few people have seen through them that at a certain time soon my pectations, for reasons pointed out the act he puts on. His pet artifice, wife would be leaving the house, in a letter by Michael Haley clumsy as can be, is anti-racist and requested that they wait till Goldman, Director of the "Registry one-upmanship. “Barbie a racist? then to show up for their search. of Holocaust Survivors" at the You must be joking! No one was However, they paid no heed to my USHMM, published by the Jewish warning and, with their untimely ever more racist than the French weekly Forward on Oct. 31, 2008 colonialists or the Australians, ex- arrival, they had already given my (http://www.forward.com/articles/1 terminators of the Tasmanian wife a cardiac trauma. 4422/). Goldman explains: race.”) This November 13 I hauled "The archive was created in the In France as elsewhere at this them over the coals. I told them 1950s with no intention of it being moment, the Jews are demanding a what was what. And they calmed accessible outside of ITS head- greater crackdown on revisionism. down. quarters in Bad Arolsen, Germany. The three men in uniform went As long as the State of Israel pers- 2 The copies being received are digi- ument Center, also consisting of tal pictures of documents. Making old, non-electronic documents, Jamie Pound them searchable online would take furnish an example. Several years years." ago I wrote (Journal of Historical I've been acquainted with your If there were reports that "the Review, Nov./Dec. 2000; work for about six years now, since Arolsen documents are to be http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v19/v19n6p my friend Larry (a man you may scanned and made available 12_Butz.html) on the availability know) sent me a copy of your through a database" then such re- in the USA of the records of the book "Break His Bones". It still ports are wrong. The scans pro- BDC. It had been stipulated to the took me about six months to bust duced pictures, not text. That was House Committee on Foreign Af- out of my childhood conditioning to be expected. Goldman contin- fairs that "the microfilms [were] but here I am. The other night, I ues: being turned over to the US Na- showed the David Cole video to a "While survivors are welcome tional Archives and Records Ad- Jewish friend of mine. For the first to come to Washington to search ministration (NARA). In the half-hour, he was making fun of it the records themselves, at this process the BDC system of and calling Cole a Nazi. By the juncture the best way to get them 'finding aids' was to be reproduced, end, he was literally jumping up the information they need is for and a computer data base of the and down in the living room yel- trained researchers to work with files was to be created, for the use ling, "I was lied to about every- them, in person or remotely, and to of NARA." thing else! Why not this?" search the archive on their behalf." This expectation was not met. From this I infer that the The computerized index works in Another mind freed. : )

USHMM staff has some sort of Berlin, but only the Berlin staff is I'm a broke-ass musician/poet/ index so that if, e.g., it wants to allowed access. It does not work in artist/woodworker. I plan on slid- find the file for one Ehud Olmert, Washington, DC, even for the ing you some bucks one of these it can consult the index to find NARA staff, so one must travel to days but until then, goodwill is all where, in that great mass of pic- DC to search the BDC archives, I can offer. I just joined your fo- tures of documents, the documents and I don't know what sorts of dif- rum. I'll post links to the forum on for people having that or similar ficulties a revisionist will encoun- some other boards I frequent. Your names can be found. That index ter there. site is a great resource. More later, could be put online but we can in- To sum it up, prying eyes are the Great Spirit willing.. fer from Goldman's letter that it not welcome at the copy of the ITS won't be. archive supervised by the The archives of the Berlin Doc- USHMM.

Total Victory in Töben Case

Lady Michèle Renouf

n the afternoon of 19th October. Though not accused of Dr. Töben was facing a five-year O November 2008, while the any offence against English law, he prison sentence. A few weeks ago British Parliament debased itself in was detained under a European the Mannheim prosecutor Andreas an act of homage to the President Arrest Warrant issued by the Ger- Grossmann boasted to the press of a bandit state, a small group of man authorities, who sought to put that he expected Dr. Töben to be in campaigners won a major victory him on trial in Mannheim District a German prison by early next for freedom of debate with the re- Court for the “crime” of publishing year. Grossmann also indicated his lease of a jailed historian. historical source critical opinions inquisitorial pride in the fact that Australian academic Dr. Fre- on the internet. those incarcerated for their opi- drick Töben had been held in Lon- Such opinions are criminalized nions in Germany “have little don’s Wandsworth Prison since his by the notorious “Section 130” of chance of getting out before the arrest at Heathrow Airport on 1st the German Criminal Code, and end of their full sentence,” because 3 of their refusal to recant. Germany. Clearly the prosecutors the Extradition Act through the Happily Mr. Grossmann’s hu- had presumed that Dr. Töben House of Lords. She specifically bris met Nemesis in the Miss Mar- would defend himself, and that his assured Parliament in 2003 that ple form of District Judge Daphne amateur legal resources would be revisionist historians such as Dr. Wickham at the City of London insufficient against the might and Töben would not be subject to Magistrates Court in Horseferry expertise of the combined British extradition under European Arrest Road, who ruled that the German and German governments, Warrants for publishing their views warrant was invalid. British Crown prosecutors, act- on the internet. Yet five years later Judge Wickham upheld the ar- ing on behalf of their German she allowed her senior officials to gument of Dr. Töben’s defence counterparts, appealed to London’s proceed with exactly the type of barrister Ben Watson that the Ger- High Court in an effort to reinstate extradition which she had prom- man authorities had not given suf- the warrant and resume the extra- ised Parliament could never take ficient detail in their warrant as to dition process – but on 19th No- place. If she has any sense of per- the exact nature of Dr. Töben’s vember this appeal was dramatical- sonal honour or political responsi- “crime” – a deficiency which ly abandoned with an executive bility, Baroness Scotland will proved impossible to rectify, per- order made for his immediate re- submit her resignation forthwith. haps because of the vagueness of lease in a comprehensive victory Meanwhile Dr. Töben will pro- the very concept of ‘Holocaust’ in for Dr. Töben’s extradition experts. ceed with his historical work, se- Having begun the day in a cure in the knowledge that despite Wandsworth prison cell, Dr. Töben the perfidy of British politicians, spent the evening at a champagne the London courts have rescued reception in St. James’s as a guest their country’s honour and pre- of Michèle, Lady Renouf, who had served the proud heritage of Mag- coordinated his defence campaign na Carta. and recruited the specialist legal Let this victory for traditional team of Kevin Lowry-Mullins of freedom lead to the rolling back of Dass Solicitors and barrister Ben tyranny from those European Watson of 3 Raymond Buildings. countries which jail opinions and Lady Renouf believes that with increasingly jail lawyers for de-

Dr. Töben and Lady Renouf at a Dr. Töben now fully vindicated, fending them. Dr. Töben’s defeat champagne reception on the Germany’s oppressive laws are of the seemingly invincible should evening of his release now in the dock. The court of in- lead to a renewed offensive against ternational opinion now charges oppressive European laws, win- the German law, which itself does 21st-century Germany with crimes ning long-overdue freedom for not specify what may or may not against traditional European stan- Ernst Zündel, Germar Rudolf, Syl- be “denied” and does not even dards of justice and free scientific via Stolz, Gerd Honsik and Wolf- mention the supposedly “obvious” enquiry. These standards were in- gang Fröhlich – and the removal of method of industrial mass murder herited from Classical Greece, legal threats to Vincent Reynouard, by gassing. The authorities had which valued the inseparable four Jürgen Graf, Robert Faurisson and referred merely to “worldwide in- virtues of wisdom (with scientific many fearless scientists and other ternet publication” of historical attitude), temperance, courage and scholars who insist there should be arguments forbidden under Section justice. no exceptions to the normal revi- 130, without specifying exactly Joining the German state in the sionist method. They stand in de- which web page or email was con- dock is the U.K.’s Attorney Gener- fence of “debate and rational ar- cerned, or when it was published, al Baroness Scotland, who super- gument”, in defiance of the anti- or exactly where it was published. vises the Crown Prosecution Ser- educational edict of the Stockholm The warrant failed even to spe- vice which unjustly imprisoned Dr. International Forum 2000, which cify the manner in which Dr. Töben for fifty days on a warrant attempts to prescribe “guidelines Töben had infringed Section 130, which failed even to meet the min- for teaching about the Holocaust”. which refers vaguely to arguments imum standards required to allow These guidelines are about to which approve, deny or minimize an extradition hearing to proceed. be enshrined in the U.K.’s educa- the extent of what are asserted to Baroness Scotland herself (in tion policy, backed by a multimil- be the “manifestly obvious” histor- an earlier role as Home Office Mi- lion-pound propaganda industry ical facts about National Socialist nister) was responsible for piloting promoting a one-sided approach to 4 what should be a democratically scholars, freed from the Damoc- who indicated their willingness to debatable, multifaceted subject. lean shadow of 21st century Ger- contribute towards his £100,000 The sudden halt to the extradition man “justice”, stand ready to take bail security, happily no longer process against Dr. Töben has al- open debate of historical truth onto required. ready prompted diverse commen- this new front. tators, including the Jewish Chron- Dr. Töben’s European spokes- Further information can be ob- icle and the Jerusalem Post, to call man Lady Renouf wishes to thank tained from Lady Renouf, Tel/Fax for revisionism to be combated in all those well wishers who have 0208 460 7453, email: the classroom rather than the cour- helped to keep up Dr. Töben’s spi- [email protected] troom. Dr. Töben and his fellow rits during his incarceration and

The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies: A Major Change in the Nuremberg Myth?

Greg Alan

t Nuremberg Allied vic- dence. The year 2000 saw the pub- Gypsies also supports Lewy’s A tors presented the myth lication of The Nazi Persecution of claim. In 1940 2,500 German Gyp- that the National Socialist regime the Gypsies, by Guenter Lewy sies were expelled into the Central intended to exterminate all racial (New York and Oxford: Oxford Government of Occupied Poland, "undesirables"—Jews, Gypsies, University Press, xii + 306 pp.). Its and Lewy recounts the experiences and Slavs included. Most attention core finding was announced on the of 1,140 sent to a work camp at has been given to the Jewish part book’s cover: "Indeed, Lewy con- Hansk, a community in the district of the Myth, but the tales of exter- tradicts much existing scholarship of Chelm. By January 1941, "work mination of Roma are inextricably in showing that, however much the ceased and the SS guards departed. intertwined with the tales of ex- Gypsies were persecuted, there Many of the Gypsies now moved termination of Jews. The same ra- was no general program of exter- to the larger cities to look for any cial fervor that allegedly motivated mination analogous to the 'final kind of employment" (p. 78). Oth- the mass killing of Jews extended solution' for the Jews." er Gypsies settled in Siedlce, to the killing of other minority While Lewy is no Revisionist "where every family had its own groups; the same methods were regarding Jewish persecution, his room. They were no longer allegedly used at the same places book establishes many Revisionist guarded, though three policemen with the same personnel. Ausch- facts which erode the entire Ugly came by several times a day." Oth- witz was allegedly the extermina- Myth. Lewy’s claim of no Poraj- er Gypsies worked for the German tion center for both Jews and Gyp- mos is based on the fact that large railway. In August 1944, the au- sies, a place where the Nazis built numbers of German Gypsies were thorities of the Central Govern- huge underground gas chambers to not deported from Germany during ment "treated German Gypsies like exterminate all the "undesirables". the War and that none of the de- other Germans and issued them In the 1990’s Roma political ported Gypsies were subject to a papers certifying their right to re- groups started to call for more process of extermination. “While turn to Germany in front of the study of the Porajmos (Devour- the actual figures are not clear,” advancing Soviet forces” (p. 79). ing), the term coined to describe Lewy writes, "there can be little Some Gypsies were sent to the attempts by the regime in Nazi doubt that the number of Gypsies Auschwitz, but Lewy, in a sympo- Germany to exterminate most of left in Germany was substantial; it sium at the National Holocaust the Romani peoples of Europe. was not a handful" (p. 149). Of the Museum, insists, "The purpose of However, the research has created 28,627 Gypsies living in the Reich, sending the Gypsies to Auschwitz another anomaly in the fabric of up to 15,000 were left in Germany was to rid society of their pres- the Ugly Myth. Modern research at war’s end. ence, not to kill them." [1] He conflicts with the Nuremberg evi- The history of the deported points out that Gypsy families 5 were kept together, that there was ring to the 1989 case of Ruth Kel- in May 1943 and became chief no forced labor for Gypsies, that lermann, Lewy quotes the Ham- physician of the Gypsy family Himmler himself approved in- burg prosecutor, " ‘As regards the camp. "In addition to his duties in creased rations for pregnant moth- Gypsies, there is lacking a clear the hospital of the Gypsy camp and ers, and that doctors were ap- and traceable chain of orders, ana- on the ramp, Mengele found time pointed to attend to the care of de- logous to the order for the Final to engage in research on identical tained Gypsies. At least 2,000 of Solution of the Jewish Question. twins." the Auschwitz detainees are known And this conclusion is not contra- Mengele was also interested in to have survived. dicted by the occasional statements the physiology and pathology of Together, the large number of by important Nazi leaders such as dwarfism and children born with Gypsies left alone in Germany and Goebbels to the effect that one other abnormalities. During mea- the treatment of those Gypsies de- should make short shrift of the surements, which could last hours, ported belie claims of a program of Gypsies.’ Although it is possible to subjects had to stand naked in an extermination against the Gypsies. question the existence of ‘a clear unheated room. Mengele often Lewy shows that in prewar Ger- and traceable chain of orders’ cul- took photographs of these children. many Gypsies were "of no particu- minating in the Final Solution, it is After anthropometric, morphologi- lar interest to the Nazi leadership" difficult to gainsay the prosecu- cal, X-ray and psychiatric exami- and that racial animus toward tor’s conclusion that there is no nations many subjects were killed Gypsies was lacking (p. 15). The evidence for the existence of a by Mengele himself by injections policies of the National Socialists program to annihilate all Gypsies to the heart and dissected in a dis- were simply a continuation of the physically. The various measures secting room "outfitted with the policies in effect under the pre- taken against the Gypsies were most modern equipment." Mengele vious regimes which viewed Gyp- discussed openly and left a lengthy supposedly sent reports on all his sies as "asocial and given to paper trail. Hence we can be quite findings to Berlin with human or- crime" (ibid.). sure that no such plan was ever gans of "special scientific interest." Lewy reviews the categories of devised or put into effect" (p. 223). Another reported research Gypsies exempt from deportation, The Nazi Persecution of the project involved the study of "he- including racially pure Gypsies, Gypsies is an oddly schizophrenic reditary factors in eye color." This Mischlinge who had been adopted book. Lewy cites records of Gyp- study involved killing victims with by a racially pure group, Gypsies sies being released from custody interesting eyes. "In one case an who were legally married to per- after legal hearings, of Gypsies entire family of eight was killed so sons of German blood, "socially being treated the same as Germans, that their heterochromatic eyes adjusted" Gypsies, Gypsies en- of attempts by German authorities could be sent to Berlin." But more, gaged in work important for the to provide Gypsy camps with doc- "Mengele decided to study the war effort, Gypsies who could tors, better food, improvements in causes of noma and to find me- prove foreign citizenship (p. 142). toilets, drainage and dwellings. But thods of treatment." This involved Race and issues of "racial purity" then Lewy will present a shocking sending the head of a twelve-year- had no effect on classification story such as the tale of Joseph old Gypsy child to an SS laborato- whereas criminal history and work Mengele, who "personally killed ry. "Another subject of research status did. twins simply to resolve a dispute was malaria." And apparently, Dr. Lewy also refers to large num- over diagnosis and then have dis- Mengele "caught both typhus and bers of court cases and administra- sected the bodies while still malaria" as a result of his research. tive appeals which sought to pro- warm." [3] tect Gypsies from deportation and Auschwitz and Joseph Mengele The evidence for these stories is which were sometimes successful. epitomize the dichotomy in Lewy’s eyewitness testimony. On the other Cases of "incorrect" classifications book. Auschwitz was the alleged hand, actual Auschwitz camp regi- were raised and won. It is an inter- "Extermination Factory" for Jews stries show that the Gypsy camp esting insight into the complica- and Gypsies, and Lewy writes an held nearly 6,000 children under tions which arose in the applica- entire chapter on "The Life and the age of fourteen. 363 babies tion of the deportation orders. Death in the Gypsy Family Camp were born in the camp and regis- Of relevance to the Holocaust is of Auschwitz. " [2] In this chapter tered into the camp population. the discussion of the lack of an Lewy recounts a string of amazing Schools were established in bar- order for carrying out a general horror stories about Joseph Men- racks 29 and 31 for Gypsy children program of extermination. Refer- gele, who was posted to Auschwitz and extra rations provided for 6 children and pregnant women. of victims. In fact '[n]o direct or sterilization is also interesting. Lewy cites the testimony of sever- indirect evidence . . . has been de- While forced sterilization now al former inmates: One that Men- livered which could prove the exis- strikes us as an extreme act against gele had arranged special rations tence of a formal written order by an individual, Lewy discusses the for patients with diphtheria and Hitler to start the mass extermina- "Law for the Prevention of Geneti- thus saved their lives, and another tion of the Jews' (Hornshøy- cally Diseased Offspring" (passed that "it is incontestable that Doctor Møller, 1999:I:313)." When one by the new National Socialist gov- Mengele made efforts to make the remembers the controversy raised ernment on July 15, 1933) at some life of the Gypsies more bearable." by David Irving when he first pre- length, saying that it was "on the Lewy does not question the tales sented the thesis of "No order," surface…a eugenic measure with about Mengele or wonder how there is a certain irony that Believ- no racist or specifically National Mengele could have been respon- ers now use the fact to bash each Socialist connotations" (p. 39). The sible for the care of 20,000 or so other. law was based in part on the Amer- people in the Gypsy camp as well Hancock goes on, "There are ican Model Eugenic Sterilization as having the time for his multifa- dozens of examples of this kind of Law developed in 1922 and on a rious activities. The conflict be- insensitivity here and in Lewy’s Prussian draft law from 1932. tween horror tales and documenta- other writings. He [Lewy] repeats There was an appeal process and ry evidence only shows that "two for example Yehuda Bauer’s vi- the appellate court would regularly sides of Mengele’s character could ciously insulting statement that my overturn orders for sterilization in coexist with each other." Ultimate- people were nothing more than a between 7.8 and 25 percent of the ly, Lewy, finds Mengele "utterly 'minor irritant' as far as the Nazis appeals (p. 39). Lewy writes, Dur- depraved" (p. 161). were concerned." Hancock's fel- ing the 1920’s and early 1930’s, This tension between the find- low-traveler in Gypsy studies is the sterilization of persons with ings of modern research and the Ward Churchill. Least we forget, severe inherited diseases was en- "horror tales of Nuremberg" runs Ward Churchill described the dorsed in many countries, includ- throughout the book. But, for people working in the World Trade ing the United States. In Sweden, whatever reasons, Lewy keeps his Center as "little Eichmanns." large-scale sterilizations were car- faith in the stories of the Myth. Interesting Revisionist facts ried out well into the post-World Even so, Lewy is under attack surface throughout Nazi Persecu- War II period. However the num- from Mainline Believers. Ian Han- tion. Two are worth mentioning. ber of sterilizations was far greater cock is the only Gypsy representa- The use of the word "exterminate" in Germany than elsewhere. Lewy tive on the Board of the United as it related to Gypsies, and the gives the figures for the United States Holocaust Museum. In an National Socialist use of steriliza- States as 12,145 sterilizations in article, "Downplaying the Porraj- tion. In describing the round-up of the 24 years prior to 1932 and for mos: The Trend to Minimize the "work-shy" Gypsies, Lewy dis- Germany as 43,775 in just the first Romani Holocaust," Mr. Hancock cusses the rhetoric used by Ger- year of the sterilization law’s effect accuses Lewy of a "biased tone," man officials in the 1930‘s. "Some (ibid.). of being "patently absurd," and officials talked of sterilization and The entire Nuremberg Myth is "bizarre to say the least." Yet, even extermination of ‘the para- undercut by The Nazi Persecution Hancock then proceeds to affirm sites.’ Still none of this represented of the Gypsies: Claims of a pro- most of Lewy’s findings but holds anything terribly new….Moreover, gram of extermination of Gypsies them irrelevant. words such as ‘extermination’ did are wrong, the icons and images Hancock agrees with Lewy’s not necessarily mean physical kill- created by the Conquering Allies finding that there was no clear and ing. Hitler, for example, had often are false, Auschwitz was a place of traceable chain of orders for the spoken of the ‘extermination of detention for Gypsies and not a extermination of Gypsies but Germandom’ in the Austro- place of either forced labor or ex- writes, "Firstly, that there was no Germanic empire.” Believers in termination, the National Socialists 'general plan' is hardly unique to the mass murder of Jews rely on lacked racial animus against Gyp- the Romani case; the incarcera- the use of the word "extermina- sies and allowed large numbers to tions, deportations and gassings tion" as a part of their evidence, remain in Germany. took place nevertheless. We lack yet Lewy contends that there was Lewy’s findings are incompat- numbers of documented 'general no such meaning attached to poli- ible with claims of a separate pro- plans' for Nazi actions throughout cies toward Gypsies. grams of extermination for the entire period, for all categories Lewy’s discussion of forced other groups. While Lewy still 7 hangs on a cusp between modern III. shocks to women inmates under the research and the historical pollu- [2] “Roma and Sinti: Under-Studied auspices of testing their endurance; tion caused by Allied propaganda, Victims of Nazism: Symposium Pro- undertook to sterilize a group of he has taken a major step in de- ceedings, Center for Advanced Holo- Polish nuns with an X-ray machine stroying the Ugly Myth. caust Studies, United States Holocaust (one wonders what the point was); Memorial Museum 2002” at pp. 27– conducted experiments to change eye [1] The Gypsy camp "was located 28 (ushmm.org/research/center/ publi- color by injecting chemicals into close to the ramp on which the selec- cations/occasional/2002– children's eyes; and performed ampu- tion for the gas chambers took place. 06/paper.pdf). tations of limbs, brutal surgeries, and The smoke form the crematoria, less [3] Although Lewy does not recount an operation by which two Gypsy than four hundred feet away, was ever them all, Dr. Mengele reportedly also children were sewn together to create present" (p. 153). The Gypsy family studied the castration of boys and men Siamese twins. camp was at Birkenau II e near Krema without the use of an anesthetic; ad- ministered high-voltage electric

The Alleged Experimental Gassings at Bełżec

Thomas Kues

tanislaw Kozak, a lock- ern side, about 1.80 m high and nected to the ovens. The ovens Ssmith, was one of twenty about 1.10 m wide. These doors, as were 1 m 10 cm high, 55 m wide Bełżec locals who participated in well as those from the corridor, and 55 cm deep. Out of curiosity I the construction of the “extermina- were tightly sealed with rubber. All looked into an oven through the tion camp” southeast of this small the doors of this barrack opened oven door. I did not see any grids. Polish village. According to an toward the outside. The doors were The inside of the oven seemed to interrogation of Kozak held on very strong, made from planks be lined with refractory bricks. I October 14, 1945, he and the other three inches thick (...) did not see any other openings. villagers worked from November 1 Because of its great detail, this The oven door was oval in shape to December 22, 1941, with the testimony is of much interest to and had a diameter of some 25 cm construction of three barracks of anyone who seeks to understand placed about 50 cm above the varying sizes. The structure of the what really went on in the camp. floor. third and smallest barrack, which The perhaps most controversial Revisionists have pointed out by orthodox historians has been aspect of it concerns the three that the ovens constitute a clear identified as the alleged first gas ovens which the witness reports to anomaly, i.e. they are not objects chamber building, is described have helped install inside the “gas which one would expect to find in thus by Kozak: chambers”: a homicidal gas chamber. Revi- It was split into three rooms by Each of the three rooms had sionist historian Carlo Mattogno wooden walls, each room thus water pipes at a level of 10 cm suggests that the ovens were in fact measuring 4 by 8 meters; they above the floor. Furthermore, on Heißluftentwesungsöfen, hot air were 2 meters high. The dividing the western wall of each part of the disinfestation ovens, such as we walls were made of wooden boards barrack water pipes ascended ver- know existed in Majdanek and nailed to either side, the space in tically to a level 1 m above the other camps. In an article pub- between being filled with sand. On floor, ending with an opening di- lished in the French journal Histo- the inside, the walls of the barrack rected into the room. The elbowed rama in 1995, exterminationist were covered with cardboard; the pipes on the walls of the barrack researcher Jean-Claude Pressac floors and the walls up to a height were connected to the pipes run- proposed that the three Reinhardt of 1 m and 10 cm were covered ning below the floor. In each of the camps had originally been con- with sheets of galvanized steel. (...) three parts of the shed we set up structed as delousing and transit [T]here were three doors for access ovens weighing about 250 kilo- facilities and only later equipped to the three parts of the barrack. grams. One may assume that the with installations for mass killing. Each part had a door on the north- elbowed pipes were later con- The same article made it implicit 8 that the ovens described by Kozak scribed homicidal uses? A safety about room temperature or slightly were part of a delousing system brochure (“Carbon Monoxide in above that, portable braziers would which utilized steam or hot air. the Work Place”) issued by the have been fully sufficient even It is noteworthy that Yitzhak Canadian Industrial Accident Pre- during winter. There would have Arad, the foremost orthodox au- vention Association (IAPA) in- been no need for pipes running thority on the subject of the Aktion forms us that under the floor and on the walls. Reinhardt camps, in his standard Carbon monoxide is flamma- Rather such installations indicate work on said camps (Belzec, Sobi- ble. Mixtures of carbon monoxide that the air in the chambers had to bor, Treblinka: The Operation and air in the flammable range will be heated to significantly above Reinhard Death Camps, Indiana ignite if a flame or spark is present. normal room temperature – as is University Press 1987) quotes a Flammable mixtures containing the case with hot air disinfestation large portion of Kozak’s testimony, carbon monoxide and other gases chambers. including the description of the can be ignited easily by heated In Auschwitz: Technique and ovens, without providing any surfaces, open flames and even by Operation of the Gas Chambers (p. comment, however brief, on the the burning tip of a cigarette. The 66) Pressac quotes a “Medical presence of the latter. Later exter- serious nature of the flammability Field Manual” published in 1940 minationist writing, and especially hazard is reflected in the extensive by the US War Department. In this that of online-based anti- flammable range of carbon monox- we read that “small buildings or revisionists, has apparently felt it ide in the air. dugouts may be converted into hot necessary to address the issue. The same source gives the air disinfestors by installing heat- Their standard way of tackling the flammable range (in air by vo- ing apparatus which will heat the oven issue – as well as the fact that lume) for carbon monoxide as 12.5 air to 150 F[ahrenheit= 71 C].” Kozak does not mention any kind – 74 %, for sure a very extensive Thus Pressac knew that sheds like of gassing engine or other sort of range. This would indicate an inhe- that described by Kozak could be lethal gas – is to claim that the first rent danger in placing an oven in- converted into hot air disinfesta- months of the camp’s existence side a room where CO was to be tion chambers. constituted an experimental phase pumped in or released. If the pur- In addition, it might be pointed when bottled carbon monoxide and pose of heating the “gas chambers” out that the presence of the Kozak Zyklon B were used as killing really had been to make gassings ovens in the “gas chambers” would agents, rather than exhaust gas in cold weather more efficient, one itself have provided something of from some type of engine. The would have used small portable an obstacle to the killing process. ovens, it is alleged, served to heat braziers that could be easily car- First of all, they would take up the chambers so that the gas would ried in and out of the rooms prior some of the floor area, thus work more efficiently in cold to the gassing. There would have slightly lowering the capacity of weather. been no reason to use the 250 kilo- each chamber; and secondly, still A close reading of the texts gram heavy ovens connected to hot ovens would have caused pa- shows that the idea of an experi- piping. Since such ovens could not nicked reactions in those victims mental killing phase derives – ex- easily have been removed (and who were pressed against them, clusively, it would appear – from moved back in), we have to as- making the filling-up of the cham- the testimony of former Bełżec SS sume that they were still inside the bers more difficult. Josef Oberhauser, who stated that chambers when the victims were What then about the alleged bottled gas (supposedly carbon led in. But if the ovens had been experiments with Zyklon B? In the monoxide) was used to kill the used prior to the gassing, then German manual “Directives for the deportees in the first series of there would be the risk of still use of prussic acid (Zyklon) for the transports, and that a number of glowing remains of fuel (or possi- destruction of vermin (disinfesta- Jews, including a labor detail who bly even heated metal surfaces) tion)” presented at IMT Nurem- had worked on the constructing the igniting the mixture of carbon mo- berg as Document NI-9912, we camp, were gassed using Zyklon noxide and air. read of the precautions necessary B. The extensive piping work in when using Zyklon B. Among oth- But would the overall structure the chambers in fact belies the as- er things, we are informed that the of the chambers, as well as the sertion that the ovens were used building space where the gassing ovens described by Kozak, really for heating up the air prior to gass- takes place has to be carefully have been appropriate for, or even ings. Since the air in this case sealed, and that "presence of heat- compatible with, the above de- would only need to be raised to ing shafts, air shafts, breaks in the 9 walls, etc.” may prevent gassings Bełżec SS got hold of the gas. It gassing operation in the wooden from being carried out at all. It is was hardly available in the local barrack, sand had to be piled also pointed out that “untrained Polish market, but had to be re- against the outer door to try to rec- persons or persons who are trained quired from the German govern- tify this problem. After the gass- but who do not yet hold a certifi- ment–owned manufacturers via a ing, the sand had to be removed to cate may not be called in to work rather intricate bureaucratic allow access to the corpses. on gassing operations, nor must process. Does it really stand to reason, they be taken into gas-filled Was the barrack described by that the German staff, at the risk of rooms.” Kozak the alleged first phase gas their own lives, would have carried The early Bełżec staff was at chamber building, suitable for out gassings with Zyklon B in a this point exclusively drawn from Zyklon B gassings? Orthodox wooden shed which despite efforts the euthanasia program T4, where Bełżec chronicler Robin O'Neil could not be made airtight? This killings allegedly had supposedly writes in his online book Belzec: and other blatant absurdities been carried out using bottled car- Stepping Stone to Genocide: pointed out above shows that the bon monoxide, not Zyklon B. The gas chamber was nothing allegations of experimental gass- There is no indication that Ober- more than a wooden barrack. (...) ings with Zyklon B and bottled hauser or anyone else at the camp Despite all their efforts, the con- carbon monoxide are nothing but had undergone the training re- struction team was unable to make hot air. quired for safe use of Zyklon B. In the unloading doors airtight. Ac- addition one might ask where the cording to Werner Dubois, on each

“A Decisive Encounter” Vincent Reynouard

(Source: Vincent Reynouard, “En passant par Fleury-Mérogis” in Sans Concession no. 30-31-32, April-May-June 2008 – excerpt from pages 186–188)

It was reported in the French to pick him up. The police warned (my father, a doctor, was also the press that on September 4th the that this will traumatize the Rey- local mayor and a departmental police searched Vincent Rey- nouard children. councillor), brought up in a peace- nouard’s house looking for Vincent It is apparent that the remark ful village in Calvados (Norman- or evidence that would suggest about the locksmith means they dy) far from all the world’s where he was. Vincent’s wife, Ma- will enter the Reynouard house troubles, could become what he is rina, was there when the police without knocking. The suggestion today. Then I tell the following arrived. The search lasted about is that if Vincent wants to spare his anecdote: one-half hour and was carried out children this trauma, he will give Once when I was still quite in a respectful manner. They said himself up. Vincent does not ap- young (I must have been nine or they only wanted to question Vin- pear to be willing to cooperate ten), my parents took me to Paris cent for 15 minutes. Mrs. Rey- with the French police. for Christmas; on December 24th nouard replied that he was abroad, we went to see the animated dis- and that furthermore she unders- plays at one of the big stores (the tood that they were there to take don’t believe in chance. I Nouvelles Galeries, I think). There him to prison. Ithink all of us are born with I was with my sister, a year older, The police then responded by potentials that wait for the right gazing in wonderment at the me- saying they will return to the house moment to reveal themselves (at chanical figures moving in their with increasing frequency, that one least if we’re willing to let them). magical setting. The street was day ten police will be there at 5 am I’m often asked how the boy I crowded with people carrying bags in the morning, with a locksmith, was, born in a very good family full of presents, food, etc. It was all 10 celebration… At one point, I self-evident. When I came out with Socialism-without-the-camps.” turned round and saw, sitting on these thoughts of mine in conver- What’s more, the adolescent I the pavement, a poor old lady in a sation with adults, they answered was believed all the “Nazis and grey coat and a kerchief. In front by bringing up the “Nazi atroci- collaborators” had been killed in of her lay a bit of cardboard with a ties”. For a long time I believed in 1945 and that today, everyone few small coins. them. But I nonetheless admired thought like those around me. Thus I knew then the meaning of the I believed myself to be alone in the expression “heart rending”, for my world, alone in having understood heart was rent. that a new National Socialism The child I was couldn’t under- could be made without the camps, stand how a society that offered alone with the little swastikas I everything to some – amongst used to draw on sheets of paper. I whom me – could leave others got no sense of pride from it all but languishing in blackest misery. rather an abysmal anxiety. Would I Afterwards, at my aunt’s house, have to spend my whole life with- Christmas Eve was spoilt for me out anyone to share my views by the image of that poor old with? woman, an image that’s stayed The reader will understand why with me ever since. Why did I the discovery of revisionism and have this thought in my head when the certainty that it told the truth it would have been far easier to tell were a liberation for me. What I myself: hadn’t dared envisage turned out to “You’re lucky: make the most be correct. The “clear-cut dichot- of it and never mind that old wom- Vincent Reynouard omy” was actually just a symptom an”? Doubtless because Provi- of the prevailing lie. I was finally dence wanted to make me choose a Hitler for his social achieve- relieved of my misgivings. Then I certain path… ments and I used to say: “We’ll made my discovery of Maurice For I became a socialist – even have to make a new National So- Bardèche, which enabled me to though I didn’t know the word – cialist state, without the camps.” I develop the concept of deductive from that moment. And although I was told it was impossible, for Na- analogy. was to evolve, this socialism has tional Socialism led naturally to I of course owe everything to always stayed anchored within me. the death camps. the revisionists who have gone I dreamed of a society where there In my mind, however, I before me, but I remain certain would no longer be people like that couldn’t grasp how such a regime, today that without the sight of that little old lady… Later on, at about so good for its people, had been old woman on Christmas Eve in fourteen, I had the occasion to con- able to lead to such atrocities. The 1978 or ’79, the Catholic, National template photos of 3rd Reich Ger- clear-cut dichotomy troubled me, Socialist and revisionist Vincent many. I quickly understood that and sometimes even set me doubt- Reynouard would not exist. true socialism, the one I wished ing. But everyone told me… So for, had been realized by Adolf then I stayed alone, and a bit Hitler. To me the fact appeared ashamed, with my “National-

DEBORAH LIPSTADT continued from page one solid. At the same time, neither HMI or United States Holocaust Memorial HMI forwards its never-ending Professor Lipstadt can provide, Museum, as well as some 3,000 charge of "unique monstrosity" with proof, the name of one person other American academics. Neither against the Germans and uses who was killed in a gas chamber at Dr. Shapiro or any other academic every means at its disposal to crush Auschwitz. I have asked her that has attempted a reply. Do you be- any person who attempts to ques- question. She has not replied. lieve that in every instance this tion the charge—as if Germans do I have asked the same question of silence is honorable? not deserve the same human con- Dr. Paul Shapiro, Director, Center Those who market Holocaust sideration that all others deserve. for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Remembrance specialize in "for- 11 getting" that the free flow of ideas "camouflage their hateful ideology Bradley R. Smith is meant for all, not only for those ... under the [mere] guise of scho- Committee for Open Debate who are disposed to buy what is larship ..." But she will not venture on the Holocaust being marketed. It is meant as well to name one person, with proof, PO Box 439016 for those who are disposed not to who was killed in an Auschwitz San Ysidro, California 92143 buy it, so long as they are not con- gas chamber by her "Nazi rats." Desk: 209 682 5327 vinced that what they are being I am going to guess (forgive Email: [email protected] sold is the truth. me) that among the academics at The primary way that HMI Loyola there will not be one who spokeswoman Dr. Lipstadt defends will seriously challenge anything The above letter to President herself against any questioning of that Professor Lipstadt has to say Wildes of Loyola University, New the Auschwitz gas-chamber charge about "Holocaust," or "Remem- Orleans, was copied to 78 of his or that of the "unique monstrosity" brance," or "gas chambers," or resident academics, the student of the Germans (two examples of about the "unique" monstrosity of press there, and to Professor Lips- Holocaust "denial") is to use an the Germans. Not one. And so it tadt’s colleagues at Emory Univer- irrational vocabulary that invaria- goes, as we say. sity and the student press there. It bly characterizes those who do ask In any event, thank you for was also copied to some 185 edi- such questions as "extremist anti- your attention, and good luck with tors in the student press across the semites" and to compare them to your 2008 President's Forum. I nation. One of those student edi- "Nazi rats" spreading a "virulent imagine it will be a fine and even a tors, one, asked to be removed form [a bacillus] of antisemitism merry affair. from my mailing list. ..." She claims that revisionists

a report regarding the systematic OTHER STUFF liquidation of European Jews. Its Smith’s Report IsraelNN.com reports in part name partially quotes a phrase is published by that Yad Vashem, the Israeli Ho- from the Jewish prayer book: "You chose us from all the peoples." Committee for Open Debate locaust Museum in Jerusalem, On the Holocaust stands by the description that The interesting thing about this Bradley R. Smith, Founder appears next to the photograph would be to know why Pope Pius of Pope Pius XII in the museum XII “abstained from signing the exhibit, which notes that he "ab- Allied declaration condemning the For your contribution of stained from signing the Allied extermination of the Jews” and $39 declaration condemning the exter- “maintained his neutral position You will receive 12 issues of throughout the war.” Who would mination of the Jews" and "main- Smith’s Report. tained his neutral position want to explain it to me? For SR? In Canada and Mexico--$45 throughout the war." Above the text next to Pius ere I would like to thank Overseas--$49 XII's picture is a quotation from a Hthose of you who have poem by Israeli poet Nathan Al- begun to respond to my plea for Letters and Donations to: terman entitled From All Peoples”: funding that went out with issue Bradley R. Smith “While the ovens were fed by day 155 of Smith’s Report. It is already Post Office Box 439016 and by night, / The Most Holy Fa- beginning to make a difference. San Ysidro, CA 92143 ther who dwells in Rome / Did not Irene and I both hope you have Desk: 209 682 5327 leave his palace, with crucifix a lovely Christmas and, ignoring high, / To witness one day of po- the economic catastrophe brought Cell: 619 203 3151 grom. // Just to stand there, one down on so many of our citizens, Email: that you’re able to have a fine and day, / Where the child-lamb is [email protected] standing, each day anew / The prosperous new year. anonymous Child of a Jew.” [email protected] The poem, From All Peoples, Merry Christmas!~ was published in November 1942, after the Jewish Agency published Irene and Bradley Smith

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And then it was Christmas 2008

Dear Reader and Supporter:

Things change, but Christmas is forever. I still remember Christmas morning 1936. The little Christmas tree on the square little tabletop and on the floor below a squad of brightly painted lead soldiers marching in formation through the cotton snow.

Speaking of things changing, Irene and I now have three grandchildren rather than two. Last year I had photos of Lil’ Brad at two years and Selah Camille at one year. Now there is Anthony Reed. As I write this he is four weeks.

Lil’ Brad is three years old now. He is not a quiet kid or one for Preparing to celebrate his third birthday the solitary life. He wants to be in company and he wants to always be playing with other kids, playing with the dogs, or using every means at his disposal to get the attention of an adult to play with him. That’s what he wants to do, play around. He’s three years old. What the devil, eh?

It’s official. Three years old!

Selah Camille is two years old now. She spent Thanksgiving week with us and brought her mother and father with her. A good time was had by all. Lil’ Brad plays with her, typically, with great care to not push her around. I was pleasantly surprised to observe this. He can be rowdy.

Selah is exceptionally alert and very beautiful, as you can see. Here she is in her Hal- loween costume where she did trick or treat as a working member of a Cape Cod bee colony.

She appears to find it interesting work.

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Selah Camille in a less introspective mood.

Talking about this Christmas being much the same as last Christmas, but different, Paloma has given birth to our third grandchild, Anthony Reed, and is living with Lil’ Brad and their father here in the neighborhood, a five or six- minute walk from the house. So they’re gone, but they are very much around.

Anthony Reed at two weeks. Brad holding little brother.

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Irene and her husband preparing to enjoy this Christmas.

To allay the stray concern here or there, a few days after this photo was taken, Smith re- ceived his latest update on the lymphoma business. All good news, no bad news. Again! Christ- mas week I will have the last chemotherapy session and by February I am assured I will begin to regain my natural beauty. As you see, my wife does not have to worry about regaining hers, but walks it around inside and out without having to think about it. Remembering Ernst and Germar and Reynouard and Sylvia Stolz and the others, a shadow darkens the Christmas season for all of us. Still, life is what it is. This Christmas day we will drive down the coast a few miles to Gaviota (Seagull) where we will pass the day and have Christmas dinner with Irene’s (our) extended family. This is what we did last Christmas. It may become a tradition. It is our real hope that you too will have a swell Christmas, that you and your family will be in good health, with many reasons to be in good humor, and that a fine New Year awaits you. Merry Christmas.

Bradley and Irene

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