SMITH’S REPORT On Controversy

No. 159 www.Codoh.com March 2009

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Challenging the Holocaust Taboo Since 1990

The Case of Bishop Williamson

By Richard A. Widmann

n January 24th of this year that one of the four bishops, Rich- Williamson further explained, “I O news of Pope Benedict ard Williamson, had given an in- believe that the historical evidence XVI lifting a ban of excommunica- terview with Swedish television in is hugely against 6 million Jews tion on four Bishops from the So- which he questioned the orthodox having been deliberately gassed in ciety of St. Pius X was of little in- Holocaust story. Williamson says gas chambers as a deliberate policy terest outside of certain segments in the interview, which is posted of . I believe there of the Catholic Church. The Bish- on YouTube, “It is my understand- were no gas chambers." ops were ordained by Marcel Le- ing that according to the best sci- Jewish groups were quick to febvre in 1988 without the author- entific express their outrage. The usual ity of the Catholic Church, ulti- suspects had statements published mately resulting in the excommu- throughout the press and the inter- nication by John Paul II. net with a concentrated effort to The official decree issued on pressure the Vatican to change its January 21st read in part, “On be- mind on the excommunication or half of the faculties expressly at minimum to distance itself from granted by the Holy Father Bene- Williamson. Rabbi David Rosen dict XVI, in virtue of the current of the American Jewish Committee decree, I lift the censure of ex- called the lifting of excommunica- communication latae sententiae to tion “shameful.” Rabbi Marvin Bishops Bernard Fellay, Bernard Hier of the Cen- Tissier de Mallerais, Richard Wil- ter in Los Angeles called the action liamson and Alfonso de Galarreta an "astounding departure." Anti- declared by this Congregation on Defamation League spokesman July 1, 1988, while I declare null Abraham Foxman bellowed, "Giv- of juridical consequences, as of en the centuries-old history of anti- today, the decree released in the Bishop Williamson Semitism in the church, this is a past.” most troubling setback." Almost immediately this act of estimates, 200,000 to 300,000 Initially the Vatican stood reconciliation within the Catholic Jews died in National Socialist strong. 's chief rabbinate Church became an international concentration camps, but none of then severed ties with the Vatican. news sensation as it was revealed them in homicidal gas chambers.” Israel’s highest religious authority

sent a letter to the Pope expressing the war, on loose pages where the I have one comment on Tho- "sorrow and pain" at the papal adding of text might not have been mas Kues' interesting comparison

Continued on page 2 difficult. Should not Weber have of the and Alfred told us that the source he is citing Wetzler books (SR no. 158). The as a reference rejected the view he Wetzler book was translated into, LETTERS is propounding? Other diary quotes and published in, German in 1967 from Goebbels which Stäglich was (J. Lánik, "Was Dante nicht sah", NICK KOLLERSTROM more inclined to view as genuine Die Buchgemeinde, Vienna) and (not quoted by Weber) expressed could easily have been used in the I felt that the article you pub- the view the ‘Endlosung der Ju- first Zündel trial. One reason that lished by Mark Weber in your last denfrage,’ i.e. ‘,’ was didn't happen was that the book issue was deeply corrupt. It cen- a then-ongoing process of export- was frankly published as a novel. tered on certain alleged quotes ing Jews eastwards. Why ask a witness if any of the from ‘Goebbels’ diary,’ concern- The originals of these diaries events described in his novel were ing the alleged German mass- are kept in Stanford University real? I haven't seen "Escape from extermination program of Jews. library, California. If Weber is Hell" (2007), but I can easily be- After Weber has accepted these, he holding a title, Director of a ‘His- lieve that the Wetzler book has finds that revisionist arguments are torical research’ institute, then been upgraded to a memoir. That mere ‘heartless quibbling.’ He puts should he not have bothered to was what happened to Thomas in a reference here to Wilhelm visit these, and check them out— Keneally's novel "Schindler's List". Stäglich, ‘Auschwitz: A Judge and scrutinize the entries deemed The Ministry of Truth moved fast Looks at the Evidence.’ Turning to by Stäglich to be fraudulent— when the movie came out. the relevant page we find that before citing them as his central I do not believe it is correct Stäglich does not accept the au- argument for dismissing the revi- that, as Fritz Berg writes, "Ger- thenticity of these diary pas- sionist enterprise? Historians are mar's journal will almost certainly sages—especially that of 27.3.42 people who like checking their be revived when Germar is re- which Weber quotes. Stäglich con- primary sources. leased". My information is that sulted an expert on this matter and Germar will not resume any of his also quoted his skeptical view; he ARTHUR BUTZ former publishing activities. Do also related the fishy way in which not expect a white knight! these diary pages turned up after

The Case of Bishop Williamson, continued from page one decision. Finally, under what truly forts to outdo each other in de- and unquestionable solidarity amounted to the pressure of inter- nouncing Williamson. By the end with our brothers receivers of national Jewry, the Vatican began of the week, the Catholic leader- the First Covenant, I hope to distance itself from Williamson. ship in the German city of Regens- that the memory of the Shoah It issued a statement calling Wil- burg banned Williamson from en- leads mankind to reflect on liamson’s comments “unaccept- tering its churches. Gerhard Lud- the unpredictable power of able.” In a front-page article, the wig Mueller, the Catholic bishop evil when it conquers the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore of Regensburg, said that William- heart of man. May the Shoah Romano stressed that Pope Bene- son would not be allowed to set be for all a warning against dict XVI deplored all forms of an- foot in his cathedral or on any oth- forgetfulness, against denial ti-Semitism and that all Roman er church property. Next, even the or reductionism, because the Catholics must do the same. The Society of St. Pius X publicly dis- violence against a single hu- Vatican also emphasized that re- sociated itself from Williamson. man being is violence against moving Williamson’s excommuni- Less than a week into the fire- all. No man is an island, a cation by no means implied that storm, the Pope was forced to issue famous poet wrote. The Shoah the Vatican shared Williamson's a statement on January 28th: particularly teaches, both the views. old and the new generations, With this crack in the founda- “While I renew with affec- that only the tiresome path of tion, various Catholics began ef- tion the expression of my full listening and dialogue, of love 2

and of forgiveness leads the hatred," a crime in Germany, pun- dence, I will correct myself. peoples, the cultures, and the ishable by up to five years in But that will take time.” religions of the world to the prison. The pressure has failed to ab- hoped-for goal of fraternity Israel too would continue to ate. Williamson has been con- and peace in truth. May vio- exert its influence. The Ministry demned along with the Pope’s de- lence never again crush the of Foreign Affairs issued a cision by , lib- dignity of man!” statement saying, "The rein- eral Catholics, U.S. legislators, statement of a Holocaust denier Israeli leaders, German Chancellor Under pressure to relieve the by the Holy See offends every Angela Merkel, and Jewish writer pressure from the various Jewish Jew, in Israel and around the and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wie- groups, Williamson was forced to world, and humiliates the mem- sel. make a statement. His statement ory of all and Legal charges have now been however fell significantly short of survivors." made against Williamson in Ar- the full recantation that Jewish Enough was enough. By Feb- gentina. Argentinean officials groups demanded. Essentially the ruary 4th, the Vatican ordered said, “We are going to make a statement was an apology to the Williamson to "distance himself" formal legal complaint and he may pontiff for having caused "distress from his views "in an absolutely face up to three years in prison.” and problems" through his revi- unequivocal and public manner." The story of Holocaust revi- sionist views on the Holocaust. Williamson however still refused sionism’s latest martyr has not Williamson noted that his remarks to recant. In an interview with played out fully. Chester Himes, were “imprudent.” , Williamson said, an African American author who The mob essentially went wild. was no stranger to controversy, Fifty Catholic members of the “Throughout my life, I once wrote, “Martyrs are needed to United States Congress wrote to have always sought the truth. create incidents. Incidents are Benedict to express their "deep That is why I converted to Ca- needed to create revolutions. concerns." They wrote, "We do not tholicism and became a priest. Revolutions are needed to create question your reasons for revoking And now I can only say some- progress.” The progress of Holo- the excommunication of Bishop thing, the truth of which I am caust revisionism—that is, getting Williamson or your right to do so, convinced. Because I realize to the truth of what did and what but we fail to understand why the that there are many honest did not happen to Europe’s Jews revocation was not accompanied and intelligent people who during the Second World War— by an emphatic public rejection of think differently, I must now cannot be stopped. There is no his denial of the Holocaust." review the historical evidence doubt that the present is a difficult The Regensburg District Attor- once again. I said the same time for Holocaust revisionists, but ney Guenther Ruckdaeschel said thing in my interview with the future for the idea that is revi- authorities were investigating Swedish television: Historical sionism is remarkably bright. The whether Williamson’s remarks evidence is at issue, not emo- truth cannot be jailed. could be considered "inciting racial tions. And if I find this evi-

Bishop Williamson driven from

The Argentinean government Renouf told reporters that Bishop Irving first met Bishop Wil- condemned Bishop Williamson’s Williamson is being treated “ap- liamson at a garden party at Ir- views on the Holocaust as “deeply pallingly”, and persecuted by a ving’s house in Windsor last Octo- offensive to Argentine society, the new religion called “Holocaustian- ber, according to the London Jewish people and humanity” and ity”. Times. Photographs of the bishop he was given ten days to get out of It looks like Williamson and at the party were removed from town. On 25 February the bishop David Irving have been in an ex- Irving’s website at the bishop’s arrived at Heathrow airport in Lon- tensive back and forth, with Irving request, but the photos remain don. perhaps playing a major role in widely available on the Internet. Michele Renouf and others met advising the Bishop on how best to There is nothing unusual about him at the airport where she of- deal with the press on matters re- them, other than that they exist. fered him legal assistance. Lady lated to the Holocaust. 3

CLAPPING FOR TINKERBELL

By John Weir

oward the end of January told Pope Benedict that she is to Shoah is very important for several T2009, Bishop Williamson, have veto authority over Roman interrelated power structures to a Roman Catholic clergyman asso- Catholic staff and dogma. Not bad maintain. The Shoah has certainly ciated with the Society of Saint for someone whose country is slid- been called the founding myth of Pius X, was quoted as saying in a ing into an economic depression. Israel, but it appears to be the television interview, “I believe that founding myth of the modern the historical evidence is strongly PASCAL’S WAGER German republic as well. Ameri- against—is hugely against—6 mil- can foreign policy is also heavily lion Jews having been deliberately “Belief is a wise wager. influenced by the Hitler paradigm, gassed in gas chambers as a delib- Granted that faith cannot be and analogies are erate policy of Adolf Hitler.” proved, what harm will come to made any time the U.S. State De- This quote appeared in a Janu- you if you gamble on its truth and partment wants to threaten another ary 26, 2008 CNN website news it proves false? If you gain, you country. article. A response from an appar- gain all; if you lose, you lose noth- ent “Jewish leader” who— ing. Wager, then, without hesita- PROFESSION OF FAITH according to the headline—was tion, that He exists.” “outraged” got a one-word quote: Group activities, like singing or Belief in God is a bit different “Rabbi David Rosen of the Ameri- marching together, have been from a belief in the Holocaust. can Jewish Committee called the shown to promote group cohesion. You have to wait until you die to move by the Catholic Church [to Likewise, the rapid punishment of discover your reward for belief in lift the excommunication of Bi- nonconformity discourages the God. With the Holocaust you find shop Williamson] ‘shameful.’” questioning of authority. Ritual is out a lot quicker your punishment That about sums up the Holo- established to give insiders a sense for disbelief. Along with the pro- caust story and why belief in it of worth and security. In hierarchi- fessions of belief in the Nazi gas persists long after it should have cal structures, ritual plays a huge chambers were calls for Bishop become defunct. role in establishing who is in au- Williamson’s renewed excommu- After the taboo was broken by thority. These associations and nication, and denunciation by the Bishop Williamson, a parade of institutions are intolerant of any- Pope of what he said. There can be editorials and quotes professing thing that undermines the credibil- no positions of authority for people belief in the gas chambers and six ity of those in control. The Holo- who do not believe. Within a few million dead Jews story appeared caust myth is official. It is the days, after the bishop refused to in the news. During the first week state-sponsored foundation of the retract his statements—only prom- of February, prodded by who German Republic. In addition, it is ising to review the historical evi- knows who, German Chancellor protected like an endangered mi- dence—he was stripped of his po- Angela Merkel, a Protestant, re- gratory bird in a growing number sition as head of a seminary in Ar- leased a statement to the press that of countries. As a result, when gentina. stated “… the Pope and the Vati- someone in a position of authority This has been the pattern re- can must make it unequivocally questions the myth, that person is garding anyone with a position clear that there can be no denial denounced quickly and forcefully with any institution, be it church, that the Holocaust happened.” The to protect a stupid story that would school, or government. Once official position then is that the have long ago been forgotten if it someone has been identified as Holocaust is an article of faith and had not become an important po- being employed by someone that a litmus test for anyone who wants litical myth. can be publicly, politically pres- to be in a position of authority, The ritual has been set in place. sured, the pressure starts. This whether it be in a religious or secu- And we will see it again and again. indicates that the belief in the lar institution. Chancellor Merkel It is reminiscent of the scene from

Peter Pan (by Scottish novelist and The story and the a belief. Bishop Williamson playwright J. M. Barrie [1860– Holocaust myth are beliefs. They should know this: As a member of 1937]) when the faerie, Tinkerbell, compose part of an emotionally the clergy his business is the swallows poison intended for Pe- held opinion that is treated as a promulgation of his faith. This is ter. Peter then gets the audience to fact. Many negative emotions are why the first thing that is attacked demonstrate its belief in faeries by associated with both the story and by the promoters of the gas cham- clapping in order to restore her to any challenge made to it. These ber nonsense is a revisionist’s cre- life. Not clapping would mean emotions are purposefully an- dibility. If there is no credibility, you are guilty of fatacide—the chored to the story to protect it no new belief can be anchored. murder of a faerie (I just made that from any challenge. A great ex- Because the recipient has been told word up). Anytime the dying ample of this technique is the sin- by a source he regards as reliable Holocaust story is questioned, we gle-word quote uttered by Rabbi not to trust revisionists, and has a will be told we must demonstrate David Rosen, the American Jewish strong emotional attachment to his our belief in the story by clapping Committee’s International Director beliefs, any information presented for the gas chambers. of Inter-religious Affairs: “Shame- to the contrary is rejected. ful.” This is how the taboo is set and PRAESTET FIDES Shame is now associated with enforced. There is a NLP practi- SUPPLEMENTUM SENSUUM any person who does not accept tioner who specializes in teaching DEFECTUI [“Let faith supply the gas chambers and the six mil- men “speed seduction.” One of what the senses cannot”] lion dead Jews as a fact, and for the things he tells his students is In the world of Neuro- anyone who tolerates that person. the techniques he teaches works Linguistic Programming (NLP) a This is one more layer on the ta- even on those women who are fa- belief is an emotionally held opin- boo. With that one word, Rabbi miliar with how they work. They ion that is treated like a fact by the Rosen created an anchor. Even do not work on every woman, person who holds it. NLP is a considering listening to someone however. So, even though a per- spin-off of hypnotherapy devel- who would like to present revi- son understands someone is using oped around thirty years ago, but sionist information is now meant an anchor in an attempt to manipu- the principles upon which it is to create a feeling of shame. late feeling, an emotional state based are as old as human behav- This is not new. I loaned some may be induced despite this ior. One of the major principles of of my revisionist material to a awareness. NLP is fixing an association be- friend a few years ago and he said tween an action or an object, and he felt guilty reading it. This is BELIEF VERSUS an emotional state. For instance, how the taboo is self-enforced. KNOWLEDGE the sense of smell is strongly asso- People are taught in school and in ciated with emotions. People the media to associate strong emo- A problem with Bishop Wil- smell cookies baking and think tional states with propaganda of all liamson’s answer to the question pleasant thoughts about childhood. sorts. It not just with the Holo- posed to him about a statement he The smell is associated with mem- caust that this technique is used. made years ago is that he intro- ories and an emotional state. To How do you feel when you see duced his reply with the phrase “I make one of these associations is your national flag? Why do you believe.” While I am sure Bishop called “anchoring.” It is like Pav- think it is waved on TV news? Williamson has no interest in lov’s dog experiments where the You have been trained since child- teaching mid-twentieth-century dogs associated the sound of a bell hood to stand at attention and feel history, and has no desire to be- ringing with being fed and would respect when you see the flag. The come an expert in revisionist re- salivate when a bell was rung flag is there to enhance credibility. search, if he is going to express an whether there was food present or When it comes to the news media, opinion on the topic of Nazi gas not. People operate the same way, one rule of thumb is to understand chambers at Auschwitz and the only people communicate with the more flags and uniforms you number of Jews who died as a re- each other better than they can see, the bigger the lie you are be- sult of a Hitler government policy, with animals. Therefore, much ing told. he has to tell the interviewer what more complex anchors can be cre- Credibility is a major compo- he knows, and not what he be- ated in people. nent in the success in setting an lieves or believes he knows. emotional anchor and establishing 5

When he says “I believe,” Bi- the Internet or Eastern Europe. It be tried with the knowledge of shop Williamson is challenging an doesn’t take an expert to recognize how people view beliefs and how established set of beliefs with one a car, even a wrecked car. Look- emotions have been anchored to of his beliefs. That sort of ap- ing at a set of blueprints for a them. proach puts the Bishop, or anyone building and reading that a room is The gas chamber story is a who might doubt the gas-chamber labeled “morgue” instead of “gas clumsy lie. That is not a belief. story, at a definite disadvantage. chamber” does not demand the That is a fact. It is knowledge. Remember, a personally held be- expertise of an engineer. It doesn’t There was constant communica- lief is treated by its holder as fact. take much research to figure out tion between the concentration The holder is also emotionally at- that cremators running on some- camp, its inmates, and its staff with tached to it. Anyone hearing thing other than faerie dust cannot the outside world up to its aban- someone say “I believe” will view reduce three bodies in fifteen min- donment in January 1945. Pack- what is being expressed as an opin- utes. ages and letters went in and out of ion. Since the hearer will under- Revisionists have attempted, the camp. Staff came and went. stand his own belief as “fact,” he well before the publication of the Prisoners were transferred and re- assumes any contrary “opinion” or Leuchter Report, to show that it is leased from the camp. Photos were “belief” would only be expressed possible to do chemical tests to taken of activities there: both by by someone in an inferior position, determine if cyanide was used in a people on the ground and Allied and will immediately discount any- room because it leaves a stable aircraft. As late as September 1944 thing said due to the qualitative chemical residue that can be meas- inspectors for the International Red difference between a presumed ured decades later. Those who de- Cross visited Auschwitz. “fact” on the one hand and a mere fend the gas chamber story reply There was nothing secret about “belief” on the other. that nobody can tell by looking at a Auschwitz and Birkenau. Every People who have not read space, or chemically testing it, day the SS office at Auschwitz enough about gas chambers to un- whether it was ever used as a gas sent radio messages to Berlin derstand the subject should defer chamber and that the only depend- headquarters giving prisoner tal- the question to someone who does. able source for such proof are lies. The British intercepted and Bishop Williamson referred to the eyewitness accounts. Revisionists read at least some of these trans- Leuchter Report and air photos in want to verify or discredit the missions throughout the war. This his reply. While the Leuchter Re- eyewitness accounts. Those that is a fact. As late as August 1944 port is great and presents much rely on those accounts for their the British RAF called a suggested necessary information, invoking it beliefs will never accept that the mission to bomb the Auschwitz pits the credibility of sources for stories are not, at least in a general gas chambers “fantastic.” They did one opinion against the credibility sense, true. not mean that the suggestion was of another. What the Leuchter Re- It is obvious that the Holocaust “terrific.” They meant “fantastic.” port presents is an expert opinion. is a taboo that will not be dis- The clapping for Tinkerbell had At the time it was written, 1988, lodged by pitting one set of not yet begun. the Soviet Union still existed. Few sources against another set of people in the West had access to sources. New approaches need to

Reflections on the Case of Aribert Heim

By Thomas Kues

his news just in! Efraim dad Totenkopf, Chile. Dr. Doom, tirement on the beach of Eilat, Is- TZuroff and his Brave Na- Doc Oc and Darth Vader are sus- rael, as befits a Jewish Holocaust zi-busters have traced 94-year-old pected to hide in the same location. Survivor. Aribert Heim, a.k.a. Dr. Death, to Meanwhile the nemesis of the X- Now, to get back from the his secret mad scientist lair in Ciu- Men, Magneto, is enjoying his re- world of cartoons to an even more 6 outlandish one: Aribert Heim, born rassment a parallel case would years after the supposed events, in 1914, former camp doctor at the bring, but he apparently can’t get while numerous suspects of other concentration camps Mauthausen enough of the dubious PR the war crimes, real or alleged, can 1941-1942, is still searched for by “Last Nazi Hunt” brings him. Ac- live openly in freedom. For exam- Israeli intelligence and eager Nazi cording to his statements to press, ple, why is it that the people who hunters. As with Mengele, there he won’t stop the hunt until he ei- had US soldiers and civilians ex- are even trophy hunters—in this ther finds Herr Doktor Heim alive posed to plutonium, radiation and case a Jewish vigilante and com- or else a grave, a body and a DNA dangerous drugs in the 1950s and pulsive liar named Danny Baz, sample. The lack of the same kind 60s, or the perpetrators behind the who claims to have killed Heim of evidence, we may note, does not Sabra and Shatila massacres in without being able to display so stop Mr. Zuroff and legions of his Lebanon, are not brought to jus- much as a broken monocle for Holocaust co-religionists from be- tice? proof (Georgia Bigfoot anyone?). lieving in the death of millions of Browsing Internet debate fo- The frantic quest to bring the alleged Jewish genocide victims rums and news site reader com- geriatric Austrian to “justice” has during World War II… ments, one notices that more and led the daring Dr. Death bounty ’s incompetence, or more people—most of them indi- hunters to all sorts of exotic loca- perhaps rather unwillingness, when viduals who would not dare ques- tions with nice beaches and tourist it came to the capture of top profile tion the tenets of Holocaust dog- attractions, such as Argentina, “Holocaust war criminal” Josef ma—detect the hypocrisy of the and . Naturally the Mengele was apparent, not to say Zionist “Nazi hunters” and find it recent revelation—provided by suspicious, as they had him cor- absurd that resources are spent to Heim’s own family—of Heim’s nered at least once and let him slip prosecute old men (and women) death from intestine cancer in Cai- away (cf. Posner). One might even most likely on their death beds or ro in 1992, has not stopped the suspect that Israeli intelligence, or in a state of senility. The visibility spectacle dubbed “The Last Nazi parts of it, for some reason have of this hypocrisy has been rein- Hunt.” become reluctant to bring more forced by the recent IDF butchery Last we heard of him, Efraim Nazi war criminals to “justice” and in Gaza. There are also such cases Zuroff, that stalwart protector of are leaving the “hunt” to organiza- as Solomon Morel and Yitzhak True Justice, still not convinced of tions like the Simon Wiesenthal Arad, suspected Soviet-Jewish the death of Dr. Death, was headed Center whom they likely view as killers who are given shelter by the for . There may still incompetent without proper back- Israeli state while old Germans and be some stones left unturned in up. One can easily guess at the Eastern Europeans who as boys Tapiocaville and San Teodoros! It reasons for such a stance. served as interpreters in anti- seems unthinkable to these dedi- First, there is the problem of partisan units or as trainers of con- cated men that Heim met the same old age. Neither Israel nor its ser- centration camp guard dogs are glamour-less fate as Mengele. As vant state Germany seems to have stripped of citizenships and extra- related in my review of Gerald any scruples when it comes to de- dited to stand trial for their alleged Posner’s book on the omnipresent manding the extradition of geriat- war crimes. The hypocrisy has be- Auschwitz doctor (SR#154), Si- ric alleged Nazi war criminals, as come too blatant. mon Wiesenthal and friends spent demonstrated by the continued There is another risk con- considerable time and resources efforts to put 88-year-old John nected to the advanced age of the propping up the Hollywood Men- Demjanjuk on trial. The analysts of alleged war criminals, namely the gele of The Marathon Man and Mossad on the other hand must possibility that, having resigned The Boys from Brazil in addition to realize that (a) large-scale judicial themselves to dying, they will dare harassing Latin American general- processes against 90-year-olds are to speak their hearts openly— issimos not of their liking, while not practically feasible, and (b) something not necessarily wished the real Mengele, a tired-looking that the extremely advanced age of for by the show trial prosecutor. fellow with a walrus moustache, the accused will arouse sympathy This in turn brings us to the second was lying dead in a grave plot reg- in some people, and that many reason, namely the presence of the istered under a false name for more more will find objectionable the revisionists and their scholarship. than a decade. concept that perpetrators of one While most of the large “Nazi tri- Wiesenthal’s successor Zuroff certain war crime must be hunted als” up till the 1970s could be held is most likely not after the embar- and brought to trial more than 60 with no or negligible critical ob- 7 servation of the proceedings, trials to a large degree on lies and exag- stand trial due to his advanced age, held today will be followed in de- gerations. In a larger context, the the truth about these allegations tail, the witness testimonies will be continued hunt for “Nazi war crim- will possibly never surface. scrutinized and the presented evi- inals,” like other perpetuations of So what’s next? What will dence gone through by knowl- the “Holocaust” narrative, serves happen once the news likely edgeable skeptics. to deflect the world’s attention reaches us that Dr. Death has been That this scrutinizing activity from Israeli war crimes and Zion- confirmed dead? Who, if anyone, is extremely marginalized or else ist-controlled American empire will be the next target of Zuroff driven underground by anti-heresy building. and his jackals? There is Alois legislation does not matter as much By now the “hunters” in their Brunner (b. 1912), claimed to be as the fact that continued Nazi war search for “Holocaust perpetra- alive in Syria but most likely dead crime trials means free fuel for tors” possibly yet at large have since 13 years ago, a senile Aus- Holocaust revisionism. A repeat of come very close to the bottom of trian 95-year-old named Milivoj the Jerusalem Demjanjuk trial the barrel, but Doktor Heim, de- Ašner, a number of Aktion Rein- could only help further damage the spite being absent in much of the hardt guards (most of them born overall credibility of “Holocaust” previous Holocaust literature (he around 1910) whose post-war fates eyewitness testimony. It is possible lived openly under his own name are unknown, including the sup- that the Mossad has chosen to ei- in West Germany until 1962), is posed constructor of the alleged ther let the old “criminals” be or to quite a find. Medical doctors espe- Bełżec gas chambers, Lorenz quietly assassinate the ones cially make good monsters. Most Hackenholt, reportedly seen deemed a risk to Israeli interests, people lack much experience of alive in the late 1940s. i.e. those who openly denied hav- military personnel, not to say con- If Hackenholt, known to have ing Jewish blood on their hands centration camp guards. been a heavy drinker, is still alive (cf. former Mossad operative Gad On the other hand fear of doc- today, he would be 94 years old. In Shimron’s book on the 1965 brutal tors is quite widespread. The as- true fashion, extermi- murder of Latvian SS Herbert Cu- tounding power of the physician to nationist Michael Tregenza in an kurs in , The Execution of heal wounds and cure illness easily online article (“The ‘Disappear- the Hangman of Riga [Vallentine inspires the belief in a shadow ance’ of SS-Hauptscharfuhrer Lo- Mitchell 2004], with the less than side: the medical doctor as a poten- renz Hackenholt”) strongly implies believable subtitle “The Only Exe- tially malevolent force able to in- that certain German judicial au- cution of a Nazi War Criminal by flict harm of an almost supernatu- thorities (“Fourth Reich” ele- the Mossad”). ral nature. Combine this with the ments?) are covering up Hacken- But why then do Zuroff and conditioned suspension of disbelief holt’s escape trail; but as I have company keep up their “Nazi hunt- among the general public when it shown in an article for CODOH ing” efforts? The most obvious comes to “Holocaust”-related mat- (“Bełżec – The dubious claims of reason is of course that they want ters and we get normally intelli- Michael Tregenza”), this re- to have their paychecks keep roll- gent people who believe in stuff searcher is willing to believe any ing in. In order to achieve this, like Mengele’s makeshift Siamese outrageous thing in support of his they need to prop up the escaped twins or his alleged experiments Shoah delusion. Nazi boogey man, the idea that a with dye injected into eyeballs. Everything seems to indicate vast number of monstrous Nazi With Aribert Heim we have al- that the SWC pursuit of Aribert butchers are still alive, either legations of gasoline injections, Heim, “The Last Nazi Hunt,” will armed to the teeth on South Amer- amputations of organs without an- end in a fiasco. Time is slowly but ican ranches and in Middle Eastern esthesia, collections of human surely running out for the orthodox desert hideouts or disguised as heads etc. In short, the usual gamut “Holocaust” narrative, and the friendly grandpas in western sub- of mad doctor goodies. And as al- “Nazi Hunters” are likely to be the urbia, supported by a well- ways, the mass media has reported first buried by the tidal wave of financed secret Neo-Nazi network said allegations as if they were inevitable change. aiming at establishing a “Fourth proven facts. Given that Heim Reich.” As shown in Posner’s book probably is dead and that if in fact and elsewhere, this picture is based captured alive he is not likely to

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The Jewish Myth of the Holocaust and the USAian Myth of the Good War

By Patrick S. McNally

ince Mark Weber has de- I think it helps to keep in mind In fact, for the first couple dec- S veloped the idea that a ge- the distinctions, dependencies and ades after WWII the majority of neric form of Jewish Power exists tensions which exist between what attempts to justify the USAian and functions essentially inde- may be better viewed as two sepa- myth of the Good War made only pendently of the Holocaust Indus- rate but related myths. On the one casual reference to the Jewish try, I think it helps to draw a com- hand there is what one may prop- myth of the Holocaust. At the time parison and contrast with Iraq and erly define as the truly Jewish the main argument offered was the war there. myth of the Holocaust. On the that because Hitler was so aggres- There is certainly much which other hand, there is what may be sive the world had no choice but to could be pointed to as evidence of better regarded as the USAian resist him and so the war was a the role of the Israel Lobby in the myth of the Good War and the Good War. Iraq war. So if Weber's paradigm Greatest Generation. Strictly Ironically, it was the growth of is correct, then it would be fair to speaking these are not identical as public skepticism towards motives expect that the public response to some authors, such as David for war around Vietnam which had the Iraq war should be very similar Wyman, have even gone so far as the effect of moving the more to the way most people view the to almost directly attack the properly Jewish myth of the Holo- war against Hitler. In fact, no war USAian myth of the Good War for caust to the front and center. In in US history has so swiftly the sake of the Jewish myth of the the context of Vietnam, few people brought forth large-scale anti-war Holocaust. Wyman has argued felt any motivation to want to go protests as did the Iraq war. Pro- that the whole Western world es- back and reexamine all of the pur- tests had begun to spread across sentially abandoned the Jews to ported evidence about an alleged the USA in the fall of 2002 before Hitler and hence showed itself to Nazi extermination program. And the invasion of Iraq had even been be almost crypto-Nazi. yet an unavoidable fallout effect launched. This is one of the major points from Vietnam was that people be- Nothing comparable to the of difference which would separate came much more skeptical about broad coalition of support which neo-conservatives from someone Good War claims. It was in that Roosevelt managed to put together like Wyman. Neo-conservatives context that the myth of the Holo- after entering WWII can be seen in such as David Horowitz have al- caust started to come to the fore. the public attitude towards the ways placed a strong emphasis on Defenders of either the Roose- Bush administration in these last the need to appreciate the impor- velt administration specifically or eight years. In general that's a very tance of the USAian myth of the of US interventionism more gener- good development, but I think it Good War and not to appear to ally began to acknowledge that, makes a mockery of Weber's at- slight it in favor of the Jewish yes, that were many complexities tempts to cast everything in a uni- myth of the Holocaust. Neo- in the great power politics of the form framework which references conservatives are, among other time, but whatever else you may a generic Jewish Power. The fable things, people who appreciate that say against the Roosevelt admini- of the Holocaust is a myth with a the majority of USA citizens are stration it was a good thing that life of its own and goes quite be- not really going to care directly they stopped the Holocaust. In- yond the more ordinary mundane about the Jewish myth of the Ho- creasingly that classical form of types of phenomena which John locaust except to the extent that the USAian myth of the Good War has Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt and latter provides an argumentative become more and more entangled others have discussed in other con- basis for upholding their own with the properly Jewish myth of texts. USAian myth of the Good War. the Holocaust, and I think that 9 shows in many cultural forms as a When the Great Depression oc- pansion on a global scale in the muddled entanglement of concepts curred in the 1930s, it made many 20th century was not specifically of USAian identity with Jewish people feel open to revisionist the creation of any brand of Jewish identity. Although Christian Zion- views of World War One. When Power. The fact that the USA rose ism has been around for a long the Second World War was fol- to world power status as a result of time, it moved very publicly to a lowed by a boom in the 1950s, a victory over Hitler and that this forefront position during the 1970s people everywhere suddenly began has created a dependency relation- in the run-up to Ronald Reagan's to accept the idea that the war had ship between the USAian myth of election in 1980. That was also the really all been worth it after all. the Good War and the Jewish myth same time-frame when the Holo- From Vietnam down to Iraq the of the Holocaust is significant and caust Industry exploded on the trend has been that long-running deserves to be brought to light in scene with an NBC series and be- wars only expose the weaknesses public understanding. came a very public shibboleth of of the US economy, and so people And it's certainly true that as USAian culture. I don't think that are generally more skeptical to- long as this myth of the Holocaust was just a coincidence. day. Patterns of that type are not remains bound up with such Although this merging of the really determined by any form of USAian mythologies, many Jewish USAian myth of the Good War in Jewish Power, and Weber appears lobbying groups will enjoy a level with the Jewish myth of the Holo- to be raising the latter to a mystical of power which comes from the caust has done much to feed the level by charging that it can func- myth and is totally out of propor- Iraq war, there is simply no evi- tion and has always functioned the tion with even the monetary assets dence that the Iraq war itself has same independently of the myth of which such Jewish groups do pos- built any lasting myths of its own, the Holocaust. sess. But Weber has raised such and there is no sign that attempts If Weber or anyone else wishes Jewish groups to a hosanna-like by Jewish lobbying groups to pro- to define a goal in broader terms level which they simply do not mote the aims of the Iraq war have beyond mere historical investiga- deserve. The import of the Holo- had any success which can be tion, then I'd recommend moving caust in USAian culture as a re- compared with the way that so away from singular focus on Jew- demption of the myth of the Good many USAians readily accepted ish Power. The US began advanc- War actually runs much deeper the myth of the Good War against ing to the role of global imperial than can be accounted for only by the background of economic pros- interventionism immediately after focusing on Jewish Power, despite perity in the 1950s. conquering the last territories in the fact that the latter has fed off of All traditional signs are that the West. That need to replace the and deliberately promoted the for- wars are popular or not depending old tendency of expansion to the mer. Weber has apparently missed on the economy which follows. West in the 19th century with ex- this in his focus on Jewish groups.

Mark Weber and Me: Our Back and Forth over Two Fundamental Questions

Bradley Smith

February 01, 2009 9:03 PM are missing one cornerstone of the issue. –Bradley Bradley, Once again, I appreciate From: Bradley Smith your offer to let me respond, in To: Mark Weber [Editor’s Note: This first email Smith’s Report No. 159, to com- appears to have been overlooked in mentaries about my recent on-line Mark: I should say that as a matter the below correspondence.] essay that appeared in issue No. of form you should answer clearly ======158. -- Mark the two questions that Butz put to you via Faurisson in his article for February 02, 2009 2:57 PM [Full text of Weber’s reply is re- SR 158. If we don't have that, we ceived here with Weber’s email.] Mark Weber To: Bradley Smith ======10

February 02, 2009 3:52 PM Once again, I appreciate that, “Clarification and Outlook” piece as you’ve assured me, you’ll pub- as it is. Mark Bradley Smith To: Mark Weber lish my “Clarification and Out- ======look” response in the next issue of Mark: Got it. Thanks. It's rather Smith’s Report. February 06, 2009 7:09 PM too long but we'll see. I'm leaving If space is a consideration, I’d for the other side shortly. I'll be at Bradley Smith To: Mark Weber be glad to provide a shorter version the VA until tomorrow night. Lat- for publication. Sincerely, Mark er. --B Mark: Smith’s Report is a newslet- ======ter. I use it to publish stories that I ======find of some significance to those February 05, 2009 2:31 PM February 04, 2009 5:08 PM interested in Holocaust revision- Bradley Smith To: Mark Weber ism, interested in taking Holocaust Bradley Smith To: Mark Weber revisionist arguments to the public,

Mark: Please reply to the two and interested in breaking out of Mark: Please point out to me your primary questions. They are the the taboo against those arguments. specific answers to the two ques- core of the issue. --B It’s not easy. The fact that it is not tions that Butz references via Fau- ======easy has not, does not, deter me risson. --Bradley from trying, or make me feel that ======February 05, 2009 9:43 PM to try is not worthwhile. No one ever told me it would be a walk in Wednesday, February 04, 2009 Mark Weber To: Bradley Smith 5:23 PM the park. But I remember writing Bradley, Thanks for your fol- very early on, not as a scholar but [Omitted—duplicate of above 5:08 low up message. as a simple writer, that if Fauris- send.] It's difficult for me to believe son’s arguments about the gas ======that you honestly regard those two chambers were correct, the history th questions, which you now want me of the 20 century would have to February 05, 2009 11:38 AM be rewritten. I am surprised at how to answer, as "the core of the is- Mark Weber To: Bradley Smith sue," considering that you have well this innocent suggestion held never put those questions to me up, and holds up today. Bradley, Thank you for your mes- yourself, not even during our last Meanwhile, in issue 158 of sage [referring to previous mes- telephone conversation. Moreover, Smith’s Report I published an arti- sage from Smith]. those two questions were not in my cle by Arthur Butz where he wrote In my “Clarification and Out- Jan. 7 essay, which—as you point that Robert Faurisson has asked look” piece, sent to you on Mon- out in Smith’s Report No. 158—is you two brief questions that bear day, I did not respond to the two the foundation of this entire dis- on the gas-chamber thesis: questions you mention. Indeed, cussion. 1. Do you believe that the Ger- and as can see for yourself, I did The “Clarification and Out- mans decided on and planned a not respond to many points and look” piece I sent to you on Mon- physical destruction of the Euro- accusations made in the critical day was written because you as- writings published in the last issue pean Jews? (“the specific crime”) sured me an opportunity to re- of your newsletter. To address all spond in the pages of Smith’s Re- 2. Do you believe in the exis- the points would have absorbed port to the commentaries about my tence and the use by the Germans more time than I can spare, and Jan. 7 essay, “How Relevant is of homicidal gas chambers or gas more space than you can provide. Holocaust Revisionism?” In that vans? (“the specific weapons of In my response, I dealt with is- piece, I have responded to what I the specific crime”) sues and criticisms that I think are regard as the most pertinent points most relevant and important. If a in the wide-ranging commentaries Butz wrote: “As I write this reader is disappointed that I failed that appeared in Smith’s Report Faurisson has gotten no reply. to address this or that point, or an- No. 158. Those two questions relate funda- swer this or that question, he is, of Perhaps at some later time I’ll mentally to the historic mission of course, free to assume whatever he deal with those two questions. For IHR and were asked of the Direc- wishes by that. now, though, I prefer to keep my tor of IHR by a key former associ- ate of the IHR, under circum- 11 stances wherein the Director's ad- lish my response in the next issue wishes by that. Once again, I ap- herence to the mission was obvi- of your newsletter. preciate that, as you’ve assured ously in question. Weber was ethi- In your e-mail message to me me, you’ll publish my ‘Clarifica- cally obligated to answer.” of Jan. 29, you wrote: “Mark: Are tion and Outlook’ response in the I agree with Butz. I believe you you going to reply to Butz and next issue of Smith’s Report. If are ethically obligated to answer some of the others in SR 158? The space is a consideration, I’d be Faurisson’s reasonable questions. deadline for issue 159 is 10 Febru- glad to provide a shorter version Now, just as you decided by your- ary. If you are going to reply, for publication.” self to stop publishing books on about how many words do you Your response to that was a Holocaust revisionism, decided by think you'll need? I have to plan short e-mail message sent later that yourself to stop publishing the IHR ahead a bit.” same day: “Please reply to the two Journal, I will decide when to pub- You made no mention of any primary questions, the two primary lish and not publish any given arti- condition regarding the content of questions. They are the core of the cle in Smith’s Report. my reply. issue.” To that point I will publish your On Feb. 2 I sent you the re- In this message as well, you reply to criticisms of your article sponse you had invited me to sub- did not say that my reply to those "How Relevant is Holocaust Revi- mit. Later that same day you sent two “primary questions” was any sionism?", as I said I would, when me an e-mail message thanking me kind of condition for publishing you reply to the two questions that for it. You wrote: “Got it. Thanks. the response you had invited. Robert Faurisson asked you, the It’s rather too long but we’ll see.” In my reply (also of Feb. 5) I two questions that Arthur Butz Two days later, on Feb. 4, you wrote: holds that you are ethically obli- wrote me a short message: “Mark: “It's difficult for me to believe gated to answer, the two questions Please point me to where in your that you honestly regard those two that I published on page one of text you answered specifically the questions, which you now want me Smith’s Report, issue 158. two questions referenced by Butz to answer, as ‘the core of the is- For the record, I am going to via Faurisson.” sue,’ considering that you have make this exchange public. You This was your first mention to never put those questions to me have written nothing here that is me of those two questions. But yourself, not even during our last crazy. You have only written that even in this message you did not telephone conversation. Moreover, you do not want to answer two tell me that an answer to those two those two questions were not in my brief questions that address the questions was any kind of precon- Jan. 7 essay, which—as you point core issues of Holocaust revision- dition for publishing my response. out in Smith’s Report No. 158—is ism. That is your right. Just as it In a message sent to you the the foundation of this entire dis- was your right, I suppose, to stop next day, Feb. 5, I wrote: cussion. The ‘Clarification and publishing the Journal for Histori- “In my ‘Clarification and Out- Outlook’ piece I sent to you on cal Review, it is my right to not look’ piece, sent to you on Mon- Monday was written because you publish your article in Smith’s Re- day, I did not respond to the two assured me an opportunity to re- port until I find that it meets my questions you mention. Indeed, spond in the pages of Smith’s Re- minimal editorial standards. and as can see for yourself, I did port to the commentaries about my --Bradley not respond to many points and Jan. 7 essay, `How Relevant is Ho- ======accusations made in the critical locaust Revisionism?’ In that writings published in the last issue piece, I have responded to what I February 10, 2009 12:43 PM of your newsletter. To address all regard as the most pertinent points the points would have absorbed in the wide-ranging commentaries Mark Weber To: Bradley Smith more time than I can spare, and that appeared in Smith’s Report. Bradley, Thank you for your mes- more space than you can provide. No. 158. Perhaps at some later sage of Feb. 6. When you pub- In my response, I dealt with issues time I’ll deal with those two ques- lished my Jan. 7 piece in Smith’s and criticisms that I think are most tions. For now, though, I prefer to Report, No. 158, along with sev- relevant and important. If a reader keep my ‘Clarification and Out- eral commentaries, you invited me is disappointed that I failed to ad- look’ piece as it is.” to submit a response to the critics. dress this or that point, or answer On Feb. 6 you responded with You told me that you would pub- this or that question, he is, of a message in which, for the first course, free to assume whatever he time, you told me that an answer 12 by me to those “two primary” article. I made no suggestion as to answer the two questions. Where's questions is a condition for pub- what any respondent might write.” the problem? Of course, I suppose lishing the submission you had I do not recall that you have you can't really say what the prob- invited. ever put these two “primary ques- lem is. I can only suppose that you You wrote: “To that point I tions,” or any other questions, to are concerned about [what] will be will publish your reply to criti- any other contributor to your made of your answers to these two cisms of your article ‘How Rele- newsletter, or to any other IHR absolutely fundamental questions vant is Holocaust Revisionism?,’ director. If you really believed that with regard to the unique mon- as I said I would, when you reply my response to those two “primary strosity of the Germans. If that is to the two questions that Robert questions” is important, it’s diffi- indeed the case, should you not be Faurisson asked you, the two ques- cult to understand why you waited concerned with what will be made tions that Arthur Butz holds that until Feb. 4 or Feb. 5 to mention of your disinclination to answer you are ethically obligated to an- this to me. Sincerely, Mark the two questions? swer, the two questions that I pub- ======I can only guess why we are lished on page one of Smith’s Re- going through this exchange. My port, issue 158.” February 10, 2009 2:52 PM readers can only guess. Butz and To belatedly impose such a Faurisson can only guess. As I say, Bradley Smith To: Mark Weber condition seems manifestly unfair, I carelessly took it for granted that not merely to me, but to readers of Mark: You write: "If you really you would answer the two ques- your newsletter who may be inter- believed that my response to those tions. Why would you not? Never- ested in my response to critics of two ‘primary questions’ is impor- theless, I was wrong. It seems to my Jan. 7 piece. tant, it’s difficult to understand me, with regard to Smith's Re- Moreover, you are now impos- why you waited until Feb. 4 or port, that you have two options ing on me a condition that you Feb. 5 to mention this to me." here. have not imposed on others whom I was careless, and now I see One: you can answer the you’ve invited to write for your rather innocent as well. I just took %*&$(#@ questions. newsletter. In your front page “in- it for granted that you would an- Two: you can let the guessing troduction” in Smith’s Report No. swer the two questions, fundamen- game go on. 158, you told readers that you had tal questions, when put to you by I can only guess why you “asked a few important names at someone like Arthur Butz, via Ro- would prefer the second to the one time associated with the Insti- bert Faurisson, and published on first. tute for their reactions to Weber’s page one of Smith's Report. Again, --Bradley

The Campus Campaign

By Bradley Smith

AT YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY

Last month I reported that The Student editors and their advi- two sophisticated editorials on the Jambar at Youngstown State Uni- sors at The Jambar have acted with importance of intellectual freedom versity (Ohio) was the first campus courage and independence in the in the press, as well as a number of paper to publish my ad headed “A face of strong opposition by indi- letters-to-the-editor by myself and Question for the U.S. Holocaust viduals representing the Anti- from students on both sides of the Memorial Museum.” Youngstown Defamation League, Youngstown issue. They’ve done a bang-up job. State is situated between Cleve- State’s own Center for Judaic and Here is a selection of what has land, Ohio, and Pittsburgh, Penn- Holocaust Studies, many students, been published in The Jambar and sylvania. There are 13,000 students and even the President of the uni- made available on campus of some on campus and 1,000 faculty. versity. The editors have published 14,000 students and academics. 13

We will not protect bad ideas President Woodrow Wilson Holocaust Memorial Museum." In from public scrutiny. said, "I have always been among the ad I note that I have asked those who believed that the great- more than 2,000 American aca- The Jambar Editorial Board est freedom of speech was the demics if they can provide, "with greatest safety, because if a man is proof, the name of one person who January 29. We ran an ad last a fool the best thing to do is to en- was killed in a gas chamber at week which appears again today courage him to advertise the fact Auschwitz." I note that none has. from a man named Bradley R. by speaking." And I note how the gas chamber Smith of the Committee for Open story has been exploited to morally Debate on the Holocaust. In it, he justify the U.S./Israeli alliance calls into question whether the Ho- From The Judaic and Holo- against the Palestinians. Ms. locaust actually occurred. caust Studies Advisory Com- Kochman's response to the text of The response from readers has mittee the ad suggests, among other been, uniformly, to ask us why we things, that I promote a "view of would run such an ad. They point Helene J. Sinnreich, Director history that is manifestly false and out how offensive the ad is, espe- February 10. We were dis- profoundly offensive," that the text cially to those who have had rela- mayed to see the content of the of the ad "is fraudulent, deceptive tives die in the Holocaust, or sur- advertisement placed by the noto- or misleading," is "outside the vive it. They wonder why we rious Holocaust denier Bradley R. bounds of decency and good would give voice to what many Smith in the Jan. 29 and Feb. 5 taste," that it is an "attempt to would classify as hate speech. issues of The Jambar. Smith de- promulgate anti-Semitism," that I As a newspaper, we are in a po- ceptively poses his anti-Semitic am forwarding a "conspiracy the- sition to control speech, or to de- questions as though engaging in ory claiming that Jews have perpe- fend it. We could easily say that legitimate academic debate. How- trated a scam of monumental pro- since this particular ad is extreme ever, his views, like those of other portions," implied that "Jews have in nature, it should be suppressed. Holocaust deniers, are demonstra- manipulated the media, [and] the But then, who defines extreme? If bly false. During the Second academic community," and—well, we start to suppress the voices we World War, the Germans engaged you probably get the idea. It's don't believe in, it would start with in the systematic and deliberate called "defamation" of character. this ad, but could spill over into far murder of European Jewry. Gas- This Regional Director of the Anti- less volatile areas. sing, shooting, intentional starva- Defamation League did not ad- If we set that precedent, per- tion, lethal medical experimenta- dress the central question that is at haps future editors could take it a tion and other means were em- the heart of the ad. It is likely that step further and suppress views ployed to kill two-thirds of the Ms. Kochman did not address the they disagree with on issues such Jews of Europe. question because she cannot an- as abortion, global warming or We encourage every student to swer it. She cannot provide us with taxes. take advantage of the many oppor- the name of one person, with If we only allow the acceptable tunities available to the Youngs- proof, who was killed in a gas voices to be heard, what would town State University community chamber at Auschwitz. I'm going happen when we disagreed with to learn about the Holocaust and to take a chance here. Is there one the acceptable voices? other genocides. Holocaust scholar on the Youngs- We are an open forum. Just as town State University campus who Smith was able to run his ad in our can provide the name, with proof, pages, anyone is free to shout him From Bradley R. Smith, of one such person? down, and is welcome to do so. We enjoy a tremendous free- Founder, CODOH From David C. Sweet, dom in this country. It is not a February 12. The Jambar President freedom not to be offended. Ra- printed a 400-word letter by Shari ther, it is a freedom to hear all Youngstown State University Kochman, Regional Director of the voices, and have ours be heard. It Anti-Defamation League, in which February 17. The recent pub- is through the marketplace of ideas she criticizes The Jambar for pub- lication in The Jambar of an adver- that bad ideas are defeated. lishing an advertisement by myself tisement paid for by Bradley R. titled: "A Question for the U.S. Smith of the Committee for Open 14

Debate on the Holocaust has standing the idea of the university. perpetuate a lie in denying a his- spurred discussion, debate, contro- It is not merely to promote intel- torical fact. My wife and I had the versy and concern. In response, lectual freedom, but also to pro- rare opportunity to go to the mov- The Jambar editorial board pub- mote intellectual responsibility in ies earlier this month, and we saw lished a thoughtful editorial that the pursuit of truth. It is contrary the Academy Award-nominated stated, "As a newspaper, we are in to the ideal of the university to film, "The Reader." The film re- a position to control speech or de- promote deliberate lies." volves around the trial in the 1960s fend it. We could easily say that of a Nazi prison camp guard and since this particular ad is extreme I wholeheartedly agree with Sil- the debate in a seminar of German in nature, it should be suppressed. ber's comments. It is one thing to law school students assigned by But then who defines extreme?" their professor, a Holocaust survi- Prior to this issue emerging in vor, to observe the trial. The stu- The Jambar, I was not familiar dents are divided as they come to with Mr. Smith's organization or grips with the evil acts of an older his views. Spending some time on generation of Germans. The law the Web quickly identified his professor used the trial as a teach- goal in running these ads. In my ing moment. search, I was struck by a state- At YSU, we are fortunate to ment, by John Silber, who was have the Center for Judaic and Ho- president of Boston University in locaust Studies that has a long tra- 2000 when their student newspa- dition of Holocaust education. per ran a similar ad. Silber stated Here is my suggestion: I encourage in part in his open letter to col- the editors of The Jambar to join leges and universities, "Anyone with our Center for Judaic and Ho- who cares about the truth is under locaust Studies to sponsor a forum the obligation to think twice be- exploring the range of issues cov- President David C. Sweet fore offering a platform to those ered in your editorial, as the con- who systematically lie by denying publish strong and divergent opin- cept of "promoting intellectual re- the Holocaust. Those lies are at ions on issues such as abortion, sponsibility" while protecting free- the heart of the advertisement global warming or taxes, as your dom of speech.. submitted by Mr. Smith. The ad- editorial points out. It is another to vertisement begins by misunder-

IN THE WASHINGTON JEWISH WEEK

On 18 February The Washing- People who, I imagine, would nev- George Mason University. ton Jewish Week published an arti- er talk to me. Nicole Ocran is the editor in chief cle on the Campus Campaign writ- Mr. Kredo quotes me: "It's my of The Broadside, at GMU. Kredo ten by staff reporter Adam Kredo. view that the academic class is writes: “When The Broadside's It is titled “Denying the denier. responsible for allowing the [main- advertising department delivered Local college papers say 'No' to ad stream] press to thoughtlessly use to Ocran a copy of that ad for re- challenging the Holocaust.” Kredo the vocabulary of what I call the view, the 20-year-old recalled and I had spent several days in a Holocaust Marketing Industry to thinking, ‘It didn't sit well with back and forth via email. I found forward the taboo that protects the me; it would have been just a lot him professional and a decent guy story from routine critical exami- more trouble than it's worth [….] it to work with. The article is inter- nation. On campus, my ads speak wouldn't have been worth any of esting in that it provides a little to those professors and to students the trouble of backlash that would background re three student news- who may not yet be entirely cowed have been caused by it.’" papers that refused my ad, as well by their professors." Fair enough. Ms. Ocran did not respond to as the deputy national director of Then he gives us some information inquiries from me. So this was the Anti-Defamation League, and that I did not have. news. I think her case is the case Dr. Paul Shapiro of the USHMM. with many who work in journal-

15 ism, on or off campus. They are demands that one put in an ad or speed. He is very good on the tele- made impotent via shame—the accept an ad that is full of lies and phone, which is a key part of the Tinkerbell syndrome as John Weir is completely a hoax,’ Jacobson work. He puts a good face on that has it—and/or no professional ide- said. ‘People say, Oh, I don't want part of the work. als. to be denying free speech, when free speech is not truly at stake.’” Again, I want to thank those of University of Maryland. I had Mr. Kredo did not ask Kenneth you who have contributed to the provided Kredo with a copy of the Jacobson where the lies lie (have I Campus Campaign. I have spent brief correspondence with The Di- made a pun here?) in my ad, or some of the funds on updating our amondback as demonstrating one where the hoax is. two computers, on continuing to kind of typical exchange I might create our email lists, and now a new hire. We are just getting have. The United States Holocaust “Last week, Smith sent an e- Memorial Museum. As all the big started. I have not let the work mail to the paper's advertising de- fish in this story reply, or avoid with UNESCO go. It is all part of partment, pitching his ad. In turn, any real reply, so we have it here the same work: the universities, the he received this pithy response: with the director of the Center for United Nations, and the press. ‘Thank you for your interest in the Advanced Holocaust Studies at the We can do this. We are doing Diamondback, however we will be US Holocaust Museum, Dr. Paul it. Please stay with me here. You unable to place your ad in our pub- Shapiro. Shapiro told Kredo that are the guys. lication due the sensitive nature of he “does not intend to respond to the content,’ wrote the paper's ad- Smith’s inquiry. Deniers are not vertising manager.” looking for the truth, they are seek- The advertising staff at the UM ing to deny," Shapiro said. "There Bradley Diamondback refused to comment hasn't been a crime in history as on the matter, terming it “private.” well documented as the Holocaust. The proof is here [at the USHMM] Smith’s Report The Anti-Defamation League. for those people who want to is published by “Kenneth Jacobson, the ADL's know." Dr. Shapiro was not ques- Committee for Open Debate deputy national director, called tioned about his “proof.” On the Holocaust Smith's method of partial denial Bradley R. Smith, Founder particularly ‘dangerous,’ saying he story at Youngstown

State is still developing. It T For your contribution of is a core example of what we can $39 do. Beginning with a small adver- tisement and a brave and sophisti- You will receive 12 issues of cated editorial staff, we worked Smith’s Report. our way up through the Youngs- In Canada and Mexico--$45 town food chain to the president of Overseas--$49 the university. And as I noted above, the story is still developing. Letters and Donations to: A second story is off the Bradley R. Smith ground at Temple U, and there will be stories working at three more Post Office Box 439016 Ken Jacobson San Ysidro, CA 92143 campuses by the time you have

the new campaign is a false at- this to hand. Desk: 209 682 5327 I have a new hire, Roberto Her- tempt to posit Holocaust denial as Cell: 619 203 3151 nandez. He is taking over much of a matter of free speech. [Smith] ‘is Email: a Holocaust denier of the first or- the email and telephone communi- cation with campus advertising and [email protected] der who, more than anyone, tries to promote it particularly through the editorial staffs. I thought I could [email protected] campuses,’ [….] ‘He plays on take care of it myself. Not a them as if the First Amendment chance. Now that Hernandez is here, everything has picked up 16