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ADELAIDE INSTITUTE PO Box 3300 Adelaide 5067 Online Australia ISSN 1440-9828 Mob: 61+401692057 Email: info@adelaideinstitute.org Web: http://www.adelaideinstitute.org September 2017 No 1005 _____________________________________________________________________ VALE ERNST CHRISTOF FRIEDRICH ZÜNDEL 24 April 1939 – 5 August 2017 1 Fredrick Töben reflects on Ernst Zündel’s declaration of war on Judea >>Am deutschen Wesen wird die Welt genesen – We have changed the World<< Dear Ingrid, Family, and Friends of Ernst Ingrid, your email of 6 August 2017 deeply to release him. In any case, an old man would shocked and numbed me. not have the strength to strangle himself – which It is my quiet duty to notify you that my husband, Ernst would, indeed, have been the first horizontal Zündel, passed away yesterday at the home in the Black hanging ever to have succeeded. Forest in Germany where he was born. Details are still [>>David Irving advises that Hess was brutally strangled in sketchy, but I know that his sister, Sigrid, was with him Spandau in 1987 by an angry young Negro GI guard named when it happened. She found him unconscious and Tony Jordan, probaby using his tie; appalled by the irony of called the ambulance. He was pronounced dead shortly the circumstances, the unfortunate death was covered up by thereafter. Apparently it was a heart attack. That is agreement between the U.S. State Department and the British really all I know at this time. Please put this notice on Foreign Office, who ordered the Berlin police investigation your website. There will be an official press release in a stopped; Detlev Mehis, the Berlin prosecutor, himself visited few days. What can I say? Perhaps just this: "... that David Irving and told him this. The killer resigned the army, there has passed a radiance from this earth ..." but still lives safe in Berlin. There is no statutory limitation of Ingrid Zündel prosecutions, or Verjährung, for murder in Germany, but Spandau was in the British Sector.<< - FT responds: Is this a It is with immense sadness that I heard of Ernst's credible story? The security change-over was between Soviet untimely and unexpected death, and my thoughts and British details, so how would a US GI have access, and are with you in this time of grief. Judging by the then would he not be immediately transferred home? Why reaction of the Revisionist community the Ernst would he be angry? This sounds much like a fairy tale aimed to muddy the waters.] Zündel legacy is assured and he will remain a monumental example of the Revisionist Only 26 years later, in 1997, did Ernst personally powerhouse, without which we would not have advise me that this protest against Hess’ today, through the Internet, a raging debate continued imprisonment had been a part of his about matters Holocaust. Again, my very heartfelt global outreach work. condolence on your loss. Ernst had set out to defend the German people I draw comfort from the knowledge that you are against those hurtful allegations arising out of the not alone in this time of grieving for Ernst International Military Tribunal trials, the because you are supported by all of Ernst’s Nuremberg War Crimes Trials held for just on a countless friends. year, from 20 November 1945 to 1 October 1946, and the subsequent Frankfurt Auschwitz trials of For almost half a century Ernst has been out there 20 December 1963 to 19 August 1965. on the front line, a truly Germanic hero who has led in this Revisionist battle by setting a personal Of course, the latter Auschwitz trials were example to all who crossed his path. influenced by the precedent-setting The Zyklon B Case held by the British Military Court in Hamburg Though I had never heard the name of Ernst on 1-8 March 1946. It found that German Zündel before, the first time I came in contact industrialist Dr Bruno Tesch and Karl Weinbacher with Ernst’s actual work was in 1971 when I were found guilty of knowingly having between 1 witnessed a protest at the Stuttgart Königsplatz. January 1941 and 31 March 1945, supplied A handful of young people were protesting against Zyklon B gas for the murder/extermination of the continued imprisonment of Adolf Hitler’s civilians in concentration camps: former deputy, Rudolf Hess, 26 April 1894–17 “… from 1942 to 1945, systematically exterminating August 1987, in the British sector of Berlin’s human beings to an estimated total of six million, of Spandau Prison. Hess had been held there since whom four and a half million were exterminated by the the end of the war, and in 1947 was convicted of use of Zyklon B in one camp alone, known as crimes against peace and conspiracy to commit a Auschwitz/Birkenau.” http://www.worldcourts.com/imt/eng/decisions/1946 crime, and received a life sentence. It is almost .03.08_United_Kingdom_v_Tesch.pdf certain that British agents strangled him on 17 We all recall that it was Ernst’s 1988 trial that August 1987 because the Soviet Union was willing caused the Auschwitz-Birkenau plaques with the 4 2 million figure on them to be removed and Christophersen had to flee across the border to replaced with the 1-1.5 million figure. Denmark where he was safe from German Such trials, which reject any form of defence, are prosecution. He also appeared as a witness at nothing new in human history because these Ernst’s first 1995 trial. post-World War Two trials were conducted like the Here is Ernst interviewing Thies Christophersen witch trials of the late 15th to the late 18th über die Auschwitz Lüge in 1992: centuries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSa43yWqnpk, Just recently we were reminded of the Salem and the book: Witch Trials of 1692 and 1693 that resulted in 19 https://www.slideshare.net/Forisson/christophersen- accused being hanged and one 71-year-old man thies-die-auschwitzlge crushed to death with heavy stones all because of It became more intense for Ernst when in 1974 verbal witness evidence that a judge uncritically under his own publishing imprint, Samisdat accepted as proving the accused’s guilt. Publishers, he published that now legendary Did This witch trial procedure was then also the model Six Million Really Die? The Truth At Last, used in future Holocaust trials, but now rebranded by Richard E. Harwood/Richard Verrall. under the Human Rights legislation where truth, In 1976, Professor Arthur Butz had his definitive as in the witch trials, is no defence, but a hurt book published by Tony Hancock’s Historical feeling is enough to convict an accused. Review Press, HRP, in England: The Hoax of the Then, after the Stuttgart Hess protest and during Twentieth Century, which in later editions had a the late 1970s while teaching and travelling in subtitle added: The Case Against the Presumed Southern Africa, I came across individuals who Extermination of European Jewry. mentioned to me there are researchers in Two years later, in 1978, NBC screened the four Canada, USA, Britain, France, and Germany itself, part television miniseries Holocaust, coincidentally who are questioning the details, if not disputing broadcast on 16 and ending on 19 April, a day outright, the then prevailing post World War Two before Adolf Hitler’s birthday. This series began a narrative. relentless and definitive Holocaust fixation process These individuals had the courage to challenge that began engulfing the global community, and the alleged factual and truthful accounts of what which has endured to this day. transpired during those 12 years, 1933-1945, in Also in 1978 publisher Willis Carto established the particular the allegation that Jews were killed in Institute for Historical Review, IHR, and a year homicidal gas chambers. later the IHR held a significant inaugural Also, around the early 1970s German judge Dr conference, which brought together individual Wilhelm Stäglich, 11 November 1916–5 April Holocaust Revisionists from around the world, 2006, wrote an article in a magazine about his among them Frenchman, Robert Faurisson, and 1944 experience at Auschwitz. The fact that John Bennett from Australia. Stäglich was also a member of the so-called right- One of the major individuals behind this global wing nationalist party, NDP, saw him victimized revisionist information campaign, who aimed to by his own judiciary; he was forced into early offer a counter-interrpetation to the distortions retirement and had his pension halved for five produced by Hollywood was, of course, a resident years. Add to that, when in 1979 the article was living in Carlton Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada turned into a book: Der Auschwitz Mythos: – Ernst Zündel. Legende oder Wirklichkeit, in 1983 his University While Hollywood was distributing anti-German of Göttingen revoked the doctorate title it had hatred propaganda there developed among the conferred upon him in 1951 on account of his Hollywood establishment a great fear when they 1979 published book lacking academic distinction. realized that Ernst also revved up his mammoth This was a warning to the German academic drive literally flooding the world with the true establishment not to touch matters Holocaust. facts of the Jewish Holocaust. I mention Stäglich’s legal persecution because And as Ernst had anticipated, soon enough a this kind of professional witch hunting procedure Jewish woman came along to claim victim status, was then also viciously applied to Ernst by hurt feelings, allegations of renewed persecution Canada’s Jewish pressure groups and their willing by Neo-Nazis, and so on. A lady by the name of helpers. Sabina Citron felt so hurt by what she had read in In 1973 Thies Christophersen, 27 January 1918- Did Six Million really die? that on 18 November 13 February 1997, published a slim booklet, Die 1983 she initiated legal proceedings against its Auschwitz Lüge, wherein he recounts his time publisher for “spreading false news”, then still a spent at Auschwitz from January to December criminal act and a relique of 13th century English 1944, and where he had been in charge of the law, the “De Scandalis Magnatum” of 1275.