SMITH’S REPORT On the Holocaust Controversy
No. 157 www.Codoh.com January 2009
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Challenging the Holocaust Taboo Since 1990
The Growing Self-Accusation Movement In Germany
By Kevin Käther
Translated by J. M. Damon
[Translator’s note.] Truth Is Coming to the In the tradition of Henry Tho- Reich Capitol Day 2 of the of the Self- reau and Mahatma Gandhi, the Accusation Trial of Kevin new activists demand that they be Kevin Käther Käther tried and punished for their crimes. My self-accusation trial con- r. Kevin Käther is a rep- tinued on 18 November 2008, and M resentative of the grow- let me begin by saying that it was ing "Self-Accusation" movement, the best trial day so far! Court re- or citizens’ demanding that they be sumed shortly after 1 pm, at which charged and tried for crimes of time I continued submitting my opinion. evidentiary motions, namely the The following trial report re- body of facts establishing the sci- flects the growing courage, enthu- entific validity of Germar Rudolf’s siasm and freshness of vision analyses of the so-called “gas among patriotic young Germans as chambers” at Auschwitz. they answer the call for a new kind Today I submitted the Rudolf of civil disobedience. They are Kevin Käther Expert Report on the ‘Gas Cham- publicly “confessing” the “crime” bers’ of Auschwitz, making clear to of expressing opinions critical of Growing numbers of judges the Court that Rudolf’s critics have their government’s inquisitorial and public officials are also ex- been unable to disprove it. enforcement of official historiog- pressing their opposition to gov- For this reason, it is particularly raphy, as well as their govern- ernmental tyranny. How long will well suited to disprove the lies and ment’s slavish adherence to the the present regime be able to resist atrocity propaganda concerning the outrageous conditions imposed on popular pressure for human rights, alleged murders of millions of Germany by the victors of World a constitution and an end to mili- Jews and other races. Wars I and II in clear violation of tary occupation by the USA? In order to emphasize the scien- international law. Continued on page 2 tific validity of the Report, I also the German defendants were dictive “victor’s justice” in legal read the opposing report of the charged had actually occurred— disguise, which acted in defiance court-appointed expert Prof. Dr. Trans.] of international law and was there- Henri Ramuz, which he forwarded The “Manifest Obviousness” of fore criminal in nature. to the Third District Court in Châ- “Holocaust” was constructed on 3. The accused German pris- tel-St. Denis on 18 May 1997. the phony “determination of facts” oners and their defenders were not The Ramuz report further es- presented at the International Mili- allowed to present exonerating tablishes the scientific validity of tary Tribunal in Nuremberg and evidence and, in addition, the de- Rudolf’s work. the subsequent Auschwitz show fense was hindered, bullied and The Berlin District Attorney trials staged at Frankfurt by the harassed by monstrous stipulations has said that he considers Rudolf’s vassal BRD (Bundesrepublik or that made defense impossible. conclusion in his Lectures on the Federal Republic of Germany). 4. The defendants were subject Holocaust to be a criminal act. It is I made clear to the Court that to torture, as described by the Na- a quotation from Prof. Norman the “determinations of fact” made tional Socialist author and pub- Finkelstein’s book The Holocaust by the Allied military tribunal lisher Julius Streicher, before be- Industry: “Certain Jews falsify and could not be used in a legitimate ing forced to sign statements that exaggerate the Holocaust for fi- court of law because, as has been had already been prepared by the nancial and political advantage.” definitively proven, they were victors. [Prof. Finkelstein has familiar- based upon or obtained through 5. The Allied prosecutors ity with the subject of Auschwitz extortion, falsification of docu- committed widespread falsification Concentration Camp that is unex- ments, suppression of exonerating of documents, while burning tons celled among members of his gen- evidence, torture, false testimony of documents that would have ex- eration, since both his parents were and lying under oath. onerated the defendants against interned there during World War In a legitimate court, these “de- charges of “war crimes.” II. He grew up hearing his parents terminations of fact” could not 6. Disguised as a “commis- discuss Auschwitz with each other possibly be used to support “Mani- sion,” the Prosecution had inter- as well as with numerous friends fest Obviousness.” viewed and coached the witnesses who had also been interned As supporting evidence for my in the absence of the Defense, pre- there.—Trans.] presentation of facts I submitted vious to their appearance before In order to establish that Rudolf Carlos Porter’s book Not Guilty at the Tribunal. is correct in his evaluation, and Nuremberg, which is particularly 7. The charges made during the that I too am convinced of its va- informative and well documented. Nuremberg Show Trials of boiling lidity, I submitted Finkelstein’s I made the legal motion that the and roasting Jews were total fabri- book with the legal motion that it Court also take his book into con- cations made by biased witnesses. be read by the Court in Selbstle- sideration through Selbstlesever- 8. The charges made during the severfahren (in which members of fahren. Nuremberg Show Trials of making the Court read the evidence for Along with this motion, I also soap from the corpses of Jews themselves). requested an expert witness in the were likewise total fabrications My next point was to describe field of contemporary history, who made by biased witnesses. the origins of the Allied legal doc- will explain Porter’s findings con- 9. The charges made during the trine of “Manifest Obviousness” cerning the following. Nuremberg Show Trials of mur- (of “Holocaust”). 1. Carlos Porter’s study Not dering Jews with steam were total I pointed out that the source Guilty at Nuremberg is a histo- fabrications made by biased wit- and basis of “Manifest Obvious- riographical work of highest qual- nesses. ness” cannot even be mentioned in ity that adheres to professional 10. The charges made during German courts today. standards of historical research in the Nuremberg Show Trials of [The Allies borrowed this in- its academic development as well tanning human skins and making famous propaganda concept from as in its determination and evalua- lampshades of them were total fab- the Soviet show trials staged in tion of reliable sources rications made by biased wit- Moscow during the 1930s, in order 2. The International Military nesses. to avoid the burden of having to Tribune was not a legitimate court 11. The charges made during prove that the crimes with which of law, but rather a vehicle for vin- the Nuremberg Show Trials of 2 weaving stockings of human hair number of reparation suits filed by myself further commentary. Be- were fabrications made by biased alleged victims of “Holocaust.” sides, I have used all my eviden- witnesses. According to the Finance Ministry, tiary motions for the day. In the 12. The charges made during this number comes to course of this trial there will cer- the Nuremberg Show Trials of 5,360,710. This brings up an tainly be more to follow murdering Jews with electricity interesting question: if we go along Then came the big moment! were fabrications made by biased with the number of 6 million mur- The judge ruled that two of my witnesses. dered Jews, how can 5,360,710 of evidentiary motions for Selbstle- 13. The charges made during them be demanding compensation? severfahren (reading by members the Nuremberg Show Trials of This absurd situation inspired the of the Court) would be accepted. murdering Jews by means of a va- following motion: These motions concerned Germar cuum were fabrications made by In my Show Trial AG Berlin Rudolf’s Lectures on the Holo- biased witnesses. (275 Ds) 81 Js 3604/07 (157/08), I caust as well as Horst Mahler’s 14. The charges made at the hereby move to call an expert wit- motions on Judaism that were Nuremberg Show Trials of evapo- ness in Pathology. submitted during his trial before rating mountains of corpses with My Reason for this Motion: Berlin District Court in 2004. atomic bombs were fabrications According to a written notifica- The Judaism motion, which is made by biased witnesses. tion by the Federal German Fi- 511 pages long, develops the thesis 15. Therefore, these claims of nance Ministry of 10 Jan 1980 (VI that in its relationships with non- the “Manifest Obviousness” of the 6 -01478-P27/79), 5,360,710 Jews, Jewry is governed by a con- genocidal murders of millions of claims for “Holocaust” reparations cept of humanity that does not ac- Jews could never be accepted by a had been approved as of 1 July knowledge non-Jews’ claim to legitimate court of constitutional 1979. This figure gives rise to ex- freedom. law. tremely serious doubts about the The judge’s acceptance is sig- My next submission was a number of six million Jewish vic- nificant because until now, such comprehensive evidentiary motion tims. It has prompted the mother of evidentiary motions have always 105 pages long, covering all the Prof. Finkelstein, a Jewish woman been disallowed as “meaningless” relevant facts about “Holocaust” who with her husband was in- and rejected for reasons that were with reference to an expert witness terned at Auschwitz, to ask this “obvious.” for every fact. question: If everyone who claims Of course we must not “count This motion included 89 factual to be a survivor of Auschwitz real- our chickens before the eggs have determinations that relegate the ly is one, then whom did Hitler hatched,” because the case has not mendacious ploy of “Manifest Ob- kill?” [Source: The Holocaust In- been decided. viousness” to the dustbin of history dustry, p. 85.] By paying these However, my personal opinion where it belongs. The only obvious 5,360,710 claims for indemnity, is that just-minded and objective thing about “Manifest Obvious- didn’t the Finance Ministry deny persons cannot close their minds to ness” is that it is used by unscrupu- its own official version of “Holo- these two important works. lous prosecutors and courts to sup- caust”? The only logical conclu- To do otherwise would be un- press empirical truth and to im- sion that can be drawn from this is just and arbitrary to the point of prison seekers after the truth. If the that the story of the attempted ex- criminality. These works objec- gentlemen who employ it should termination of European Jews by tively present all the relevant facts be punished for their lies in the the National Socialists is a lie. to the reader. They will demolish way that Pinocchio was punished, Any expert witness in the science the historical lies of Germany’s they would need bedchambers with of Pathology will explain to the enemies, once and for all. ceilings 20 feet high, just to ac- Court that the dead are unable to The trial was adjourned until 9 commodate their noses! file claims for reparations. December. The last evidentiary motion I Berlin, 18 November 2008 Please disseminate this report submitted was rather startling and Kevin Käther as widely as possible. original, if I do say so myself. Per- haps a brief explanation would be I believe that with this eviden- Kevin Käther
By Richard A. Widmann
he current issue of Michael between the Axis and the Allies in several titles with themes similar TShermer’s glossy news- the outbreak and conductance of a to those of the books in question, stand magazine Skeptic features his war whose waging probably failed including Russell Grenfell’s Un- article “The New Revisionism: to help those who most needed it.” conditional Hatred (1953) , Harry Would we be better off if Hitler It appears that Mark Weber, di- Elmer Barnes’ Perpetual War for had won?” Those familiar with rector of the IHR, pointed out that Perpetual Peace, Rene Wormser’s Shermer and Skeptic recognize there is nothing particularly “new” The Myth of Good and Bad Na- that while Shermer has covered about these recent revisionist tions (1954) among others. topics such as Holocaust Revision- treatments and that revisionism of Shermer takes great issue with ism, 9-11 theories, and Intelligent this sort dates back to the 1950’s. an assertion by Mark Weber that it Design, the magazine upholds only Shermer seems somewhat doubtful is only a myth that the Allied de- the orthodox view of any of these feat of Nazi Germany represented subjects. In fact, Skeptic is typi- a triumph of good over evil. Weber cally only skeptical of the skeptics argues, as many revisionists have and rarely if ever of the orthodox. argued for the past 60 years, that In his latest article, Shermer the British-American bombing of takes aim at what he calls “the new German and Japanese cities and revisionism.” For those familiar the general conduct of the war as with historical revisionism, it re- well as the ethnic cleansing of ci- quires digging into the article, vilians following the war shatter which features photographs of Da- the popular myth of the Allies as vid Irving and Mark Weber, to fig- “good” nations. ure out what Shermer is driving at Another example of the “new with his phrase and how this dif- revisionism” according to Shermer fers from revisionism in general. is the use of moral equivalence Initially the article appears to between the actions of the Axis address comments made at the powers and those of the Allies in- June 2008 Institute for Historical of Weber’s assertion and rather cluding the Soviet Union. Here, Review (IHR) conference. In real- than embracing the truth of the although Shermer mentions the ity, however, it is the recent books statement, he stands separated aerial bombardments of Hamburg by Pat Buchanan, Churchill, Hitler from it and notes “according to and Dresden and the atomic bomb- and the Unnecessary War, Niall Weber,” when in fact it can be eas- ings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Ferguson, The War of the World, ily verified that revisionist histori- he quotes the court historians’ fig- and Nicholson Baker, Human ography of “the good war” dates ures and refers for example to Smoke that seem to have stirred back not only to the 1950’s but to 35,000 dead (not murdered mind Shermer’s interest and vitriol. the 1940’s and a whole host of re- you) at Dresden. He plays fast and Shermer claims that this new brand visionist authors who challenged loose with the details, attributing of mainstream revisionism “aims the popular wisdom of the day. David Irving’s question “Is there to reconfigure ‘the good war’ as The first generation of World any parallel between Dresden and ‘the unnecessary war,’ combine War II revisionists included F.J.P. Auschwitz?” to his 1971 [sic] book the two world wars into one long Veale and his 1948 Advance to Apocalypse 1945: The Destruction ethnic and economic conflict that Barbarism, Freda Utley’s The of Dresden. Irving’s book of that could have been avoided had Eng- High Cost of Vengeance (1949), title was in fact published in 1995 land left Germany alone, and to Montgomery Belgion’s Victor’s and was a revised version of his demonstrate the moral equivalence Justice (1949). The 1950’s brought earlier 1963 volume with a slightly believe that the Soviets were not word “new” is intended to suggest abridged title. attempting to expand geographical some sort of evolving revisionist Shermer reveals his limited vi- power and political control? evil, an angle that he may simply sion and naivety when considering It is difficult to believe that be exploiting to sell more maga- the question of moral equivalen- Shermer is being genuine in his zines to those even less informed cies. He writes, “The Allies killed argument. Perhaps the key to un- than himself. innocents on the road to victory, derstanding his thoughts is re- Shermer claims that the bottom but the killing stopped the moment vealed by his statement that the line of the “new revisionism” is the the Allies won.” He goes on, “Axis killed for racial purifica- race question. He believes that the “Auschwitz and Nanking were no tion.” Shermer takes issue with “new revisionists” are longing for more. The Allies killed into [sic] the idea that the “decline of the a return to some aristocratic order order to stop the killing by the west” was a consequence of the “where everyone knew their Axis, and for no other reason. The Allied victory. That World War II place.” Although he calls this aris- Axis killed for geography, for po- was not a victory for the Allies, but tocratic romance “ridiculous,” he litical control, for economic power, rather a defeat for Western values asserts that the real problem of this for racial purification, and for “new revisionism” is that it will pleasure, and the killing would lead to “racial and ethnic clean- have gone on and on and on were sing.” Such critiques, however it not for the Allies. Anyone un- crass, are not new at all. In 1994, able to see the difference should Deborah Lipstadt, in her anti- have his license to practice history revisionist screed Denying the Ho- revoked.” locaust, likened revisionists to rats It appears astounding that that threaten “to kill those who Shermer is unaware of the murder- already died at the hands of the ous treatment of East European Nazis for a second time by de- Germans from 1944 to 1950. The stroying the world’s memory of Allied revenge against the Ger- them.” Shermer in fact takes the mans has been described as “ethnic argument further than Lipstadt and cleansing” by Alfred-Maurice de Michael Shermer grossly charges that the logical Zayas. Maybe “Auschwitz was no consequence of “new revisionist” more” as Shermer states, but the is anathema to Shermer. This ar- thought is ethnic cleansing. Soviets ran death camps at Sach- gument is not only taken up by To prove his point, Shermer senhausen and Buchenwald. Tens Mark Weber, but is an important looks back to Adolf Hitler. As a of thousands of deaths have been subtext of both Buchanan’s and flimsy bit of evidence to prove documented in Soviet-run concen- Ferguson’s works. Hitler’s desire to exterminate the tration camps at former Nazi Shermer launches into a half- Jews of Europe, Shermer relies on camps. In two major books, James baked critique of the “what if” his- Hitler’s comments of January 23, Bacque addressed the huge death tory that he takes such issue with. 1942, “It’s the Jew who prevents rate of German civilians and pris- In fact, of course, if we can attrib- everything. I restrict myself to oners of war under Allied occupa- ute negative consequences to the telling them they must go away. tion. Second World War or the First But if they refuse to go voluntarily, It is on the level of cheap World War as the authors above I see no other solution but exter- propaganda to assert that the Allies have, or to the Holocaust myth (as mination.” Shermer’s quote ends killed only to stop the killing. I have in my “The Holocaust short however. He doesn’t reveal Were the Polish officers at Katyn Myth: The New Founding Myth of to his readers that Hitler continues forest murdered by the Soviets to American Society”), then it is only by saying, “A good three or four stop the killing? What of the brave reasonable that had such events hundred years will go by before defenders of Latvia, Estonia and never occurred, the consequences the Jews set foot again in Europe. Lithuania? Were they not fighting would be entirely different. They’ll return first of all as com- the Allied powers when the Sovi- While little of this sounds mercial travelers, then gradually ets rolled their tanks into their “new” to the informed student of they’ll become emboldened to set- countries? Can Shermer really revisionism, Shermer’s use of the tle here—the better to exploit us.” 5 A couple of days later Hitler would would prefer to live among their need to drop atomic bombs on un- say, “The Jews must pack up and own people. He doesn’t provide defended Japanese cities while the disappear from Europe. Let them any philosophical musings on the Japanese were making peace over- go to Russia.” Although Hitler’s subject but seems to accept his tures or to firebomb cities filled language is harsh, his thoughts own perspective as a type of “natu- with innocent civilians is part of indicate a program of mass depor- ral law” without any need of ex- what makes us moral beings. tation and certainly not mass ex- planation. Shermer apparently has Shermer, it seems, would argue termination. not spent time challenging his own that it is okay to torture prisoners Shermer asserts that the “new paradigms, or perhaps he simply or wipe out entire cities in order to revisionism” will lead to the “ex- understands that political correct- prevent the spread of Islamic ter- termination of masses of people ness pays his bills. rorism. racially or ethnically different from Shermer’s critique of what he Since the Second World War those in power.” For Shermer the calls the “new revisionism” is not millions of people have been mur- topic of race is foolishness. He only incorrect, it is cheap propa- dered by various regimes. Some writes, “Every person on Earth ganda, and it is outright dangerous. by the USA in the name of “de- comes from a single population of Shermer is unwilling to accept any mocracy,” some by our old ally, a thousand to ten thousand indi- criticism of “the good war” or the the Soviet Union, some by our viduals.” He goes on to babble “greatest generation.” Such criti- trading partner, the People’s Re- that “differences… are literally cism of our own behavior during public of China, and some by doz- only skin deep.” Shermer’s na- those conflicts will apparently lead ens of other “enlightened” coun- ivety in this area is incredible. to genocide. tries around the world. I am not Shermer surely believes that his Shermer misses the point that aware of anyone who was killed by egalitarian world view is morally revisionism has at its core the de- a revisionist—not the old ones nor superior to the world view of those sire to promote peace and goodwill the new ones. who accept racial differences or among nations. To question the
The Importance of an Unimportant Witness
By Thomas Kues
or those who study the al- dition to her court testimony, winced encountering this figure. F leged homicidal gas cham- Szmaglewska also wrote a longer After all, the official Soviet propa- bers of the Auschwitz camp com- account of her three years in Birk- ganda “estimate“ of the number of plex, Seweryna Szmaglewska is a enau, which was translated to Eng- Auschwitz victims was stated as rather irrelevant witness. A Polish lish and published as Smoke over four million. Where did the extra woman born in 1916, she never Birkenau (Henry Holt and Com- million come from? Szmaglewska claimed to have witnessed a gas- pany, New York 1947). claims that these figures were sing of human beings with her own In the book's foreword, the au- “given out at the time of the liqui- eyes. Nevertheless Szmaglewska thor herself states that “up to Janu- dation of the camp by the people has earned a place in Auschwitz ary 18, 1945, a total of about five working in the Political Depart- historiography since she and Ma- million people were burned in the ment of Oswiecim”. One may rie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier— crematories of Oswiecim [meant is wonder how inmates in such a pri- another witness who never claimed Auschwitz Stammlager] and Birk- vileged position to overhear and to have observed any gassings— enau. Of this number more than pick up information regarding the were the only former Auschwitz three million were Jews, poisoned supposed mass murder managed to inmates to testify before the Inter- by gas or the victims of epidem- give the number of victims as four national Military Tribunal in Nur- ics”. Even at the time of publica- times that of the total number of emberg after the war's end. In ad- tion some readers might have people deported to the Auschwitz 6 camp complex during its entire “In the barracks and among the Crematoria”, The Revisionist, Vol. period of functioning. Are we here barracks, under the sky and above 2 Issue 1). But why should we trust dealing with the same mysterious the earth, in the moveable air, science, when the eminent witness “factor of four” that Pressac “dis- heavy and motionless as a solid Szmaglewska in the foreword as- covered” when researching the body it [the smoke] fills the mouth, sures us that she speaks the truth, autobiographical writings of Dr. the throat, the lungs, it soaks into the whole truth, and nothing else Miklos Nyiszli? the clothes, it penetrates the food. than then truth (p. viii): As most former Auschwitz in- From the two nearest crematories, “I will give only the data of mates who cannot parade with two pillars crawl out in dark bil- what I observed or what I myself their own eyewitness observations lows, hitting straight into the sky endured directly. The events de- of the alleged homicidal gas and then falling down in spirals. scribed by me took place in Birke- chambers, Szmaglewska spends a nau (Oswiecim II). To avoid any considerable number of paragraphs misunderstanding, I wish to state on vivid depictions of watery tur- that I do not intend in any way to nip soup, grueling labor, beatings exaggerate the importance of the of inmates by Kapos and SS men, facts or to change them for propa- and selections of the sick and de- ganda's sake. Some things need no bilitated (for the gas chambers, of exaggeration. All that I write here I course). Especially enlightening is am prepared to testify before any Szmaglewska’s description of the tribunal.” female inmates’ attitude towards So we poor sinners better be- the medical care given in the camp lieve! But this is not all: the author (p. 32): also somehow knows to tell that “Because in the hospital each “great economies are being made sick woman is examined by an SS in the use of gas” so that “small doctor and when suspected of a children are being burned alive” contagious disease is exterminated, after having been led inside the there is among the Polish women Seweryna Szmaglewska crematoria separated from their the determination to avoid the hos- siblings and parents (p. 286). pital at any cost. It is generally “Sometimes in the dark the lava Among the book’s highlights of accepted that: better to lie in the bursts into active flames, the fire overblown propaganda writing are rain and mud than go to the hospi- belches powerfully from the throat doubtlessly the anti-German dia- tal where only death awaits you.” of the chimney, tearing through the tribes ascribed by Szmaglewska to One can only speculate about blackness to the deep blue sky and a fellow inmate called Barbara, how many sick Auschwitz inmates disappearing after a while. Some- whose “thought is like a sacred died in vain because of such an times—especially in the eve- light” according to the author. We attitude, born out of black propa- nings—the crematories vomit learn that Germans “in their cave- ganda and rumor mongering. flames for long hours, often until man mentality (…) can see only Szmaglewska of course has it that morning.” murder, loot, and blood as the in regards to typhus, “nothing is As has been pointed out by re- means to the end of all their en- done in the camp to eradicate the visionist Carlo Mattogno, no deavors” and that “it is the fault of disease” (p. 36). Why then the nu- plumes of smoke, whether black or the German nation that mankind in merous delousing chambers, one of any color, are to be seen on the our times has taken the wrong may ask. air photos of Birkenau taken in highway and gone through a pe- As a certified Auschwitz wit- 1944, at the very time when riod of insanity”, which should not ness, Szmaglewska also see it fit to 400,000 Hungarian Jews were surprise since “the soul of Ger- provide her (hopefully pious) read- supposedly gassed and cremated many has been bloodthirsty for ers with Dante-esque descriptions there; and the common claim of ages.” According to St. Barbara’s of ominous, towering crematory flames emanating from the crema- prophecy, “the truth will stand chimneys belching dark smoke and tory chimneys is nothing more over” Germany “like this pillar of hellish flames (anno 1944): than a rumor or fantasy (“Flames smoke from the crematory” – and Smoke from the Chimneys of which must mean that truth is in- 7 visible rather than indivisible – on his motorcycle and rides madly lies in the fact that she and the further the truth will beat Germany to one of the other camps where French Jewess and communist “like the crying of the children new amusement awaits him.” Vaillant-Couturier were the only whom you tossed alive into the Certainly no one in our enlight- former Auschwitz inmates to tes- fire”, and the German nation itself ened age would find such a por- tify before the International Mili- is doomed to scatter “like the hu- trayal to be “over-the-top”? Obvi- tary Tribunal in Nuremberg. The man bones scattered over the ously the camp authorities selected Soviet Union and its newly- fields” (pp. 257-9). only the most sadistic and perverse occupied satellite states choose Fortunately (for the entertain- of the bloodthirsty SS to supervise Szmaglewska and only ment of her readers) Szmaglewska and run the place, in order to as- Szmaglewska, when they could herself is no amateur when it sure a most effective and problem- have sent Miklos Nyiszli, Szlama comes to portraying the members free functioning of the camp. We Dragon or Henryk Tauber (Pres- of the SS (interchangeably referred also find a portrayal of SS men, sac’s star witness) to testify before to as “Germans” or simply “The high on drugs, conducting orgies the court about their observations German” for the sake of bigoted with female guards and German of the alleged homicidal gas clarity) (p. 303): Kapos from the women’s camp (p. chambers at Auschwitz. And “They [The SS] want to see 310). This supposedly went on where were the key witnesses from fear and horror take control of the while the prisoners spent “long the other camps, such as Rudolf whole being. Perversely, this is months” laboring from dusk till Reder and Jankiel Wiernik? Is it why they torture the corpses, why dawn, “feeding exclusively on un- possible that the powers behind the they torment the dead bodies of dercooked turnips” (p. 165)! IMT preferred having emotionally women, driving themselves to What then is the importance of distressed women ranting before fury, to ecstasy, to actual foaming Mrs. Szmaglewska and her testi- the court room about moldy tur- at the mouth. Only when they mony? To all appearances it is a nips and burning babies, to com- throw the dead body into the fire rather drawn-out and insubstantial mitting more or less detailed de- and see it jump, sizzle, and twist in description of inmate life in the scriptions of gas chambers and the flames do they succumb to fits women’s camp at Birkenau, with mass gassings to the protocol? Of of mad joy. Then the German no real information whatsoever on course, only an accursed heretic bursts into wild laughter, gives a the alleged mass killings by gas at would harbor such thoughts… salvo of shots into the air, jumps the camp. Rather, her importance
Just One Step from the Truth: Ian Kershaw and the Final Solution
Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution, by Ian Kershaw International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2008, 394 pages
Reviewed by Paul Grubach
Introduction was favorably reviewed by numer- ment on the book’s jacket, this col- ous mainstream media sources. lection of essays brings together an Kershaw is a highly ac- Considering Kershaw’s stature in the most important and influential I claimed historian and profes- academia, one should take very aspects of Kershaw’s research on sor of modern history at the Uni- seriously whatever he has to say the Holocaust for the first time. versity of Sheffield (Great Britain). about Hitler and National Socialist The titles of the four sections re- Widely considered to be an author- Germany. veal what topics are dealt with: ity on Nazi Germany, his two- According to the short state “Hitler and the Final Solution”; volume biography of Adolf Hitler 8 “Popular Opinion and the Jews in Deborah Lipstadt points out that that National Socialist leader Hitler Nazi Germany”; “The Final Solu- "Intentionalists contend that Hitler personally ordered the complete tion in Historiography”; “The Uni- came to power intending to murder extermination of European Jewry. queness of Nazism.” Without the Jews and instituted an unbro- Nonetheless, Kershaw admits question, this is one of the most ken and coherent set of policies that a written statement from Hitler important books published in 2008 directed at realizing that goal. In that orders the extermination of the about the “Final Solution” and the contrast, functionalists argue that Jews has never been found: “Pre- Holocaust. the Nazi decision to murder the dictably, a written order by Hitler Jews did not originate with a single for the ‘Final Solution’ was not The “Final Solution” Defined Hitler decision, but evolved in an found [p. 96].” And then, one incremental and improvised fash- page later he again raises skepti- Kershaw defines “the Final So- ion."[1] cism in the reader’s mind with re- lution to the Jewish Question” as gard to Hitler’s role in the Final “the systematic [Nazi] attempt to Solution: “Research had, in certain exterminate the whole of European ways, then, moved away from the Jewry [p. 60].” Of course, this is differing hypotheses about the date the traditional view, the one cur- of Hitler’s decision for the ‘Final rently accepted by mainstream his- Solution’ by implying—or explic- torians. itly stating—that no such decision Kershaw goes on to state the had been made [p. 97].” three major questions which, in his He throws even more doubt on view, surround the Final Solution. the traditional view of Hitler’s role They are: how and when the deci- in the Final Solution when he sion to exterminate the Jews came Ian Kershaw points out that the evidence upon about; what was Hitler’s role in which it is based is fragmentary So who does our academic au- this policy of mass murder; and and unsatisfactory: “It seems cer- thority on the Final Solution think whether the “Final Solution” fol- tain, given the fragmentary and is right? Kershaw says that “one lowed a single order from a long- unsatisfactory evidence, that all would have to conclude that nei- held program, or did it evolve in a attempts to establish a precise ther model offers a wholly satis- haphazard and piecemeal fashion moment when Hitler decided to factory explanation [p. 269].” One over a period of time (p. 61). launch the ‘Final Solution’ will paragraph later, he adds: “The va- After posing these questions, he meet with objections [p. 100].” garies of anti-Jewish policy both states: “The deficiencies and am- Kershaw concludes with this before the war and in the period biguities of the evidence, enhanced skeptical admission: “It seems im- 1939-41, out of which the ‘Final by the language of euphemism and possible to isolate a single, specific Solution’ evolved, belie any notion camouflage used by the Nazis even Führer order for the ‘Final Solu- of ‘plan’ or ‘programme.’” among themselves when dealing tion’ in an extermination policy So there you have it. The two with the extermination of the Jews, that took full shape in a process of orthodox/mainstream theories mean that absolute certainty in an- radicalization lasting over a period about the Final Solution are swering these complex questions of about one year [p. 101].” flawed, and, before the war and in can not be achieved [p. 61].” Throughout the book, Kershaw the period 1939-41, there was no In simple language, he is saying discusses the theories of various official, etched-in-stone plan or there is room for doubt with regard mainstream historians of the Final program to exterminate the Jews. to the answers mainstream histori- Solution. He points out that these Apparently, the latter assertion ans have given to the previous scholars have inferred different implies that the “intentionalist” questions. interpretations from the same evi- theory has been falsified. The “Intentionalists” and “Func- dence, indicating that the very evi- tionalists” Did Hitler Order the Extermina- dence upon which their interpreta- tion of the Jews? tions are based is circumstantial. Two camps have arisen among He is just one step away from ad- One of the standard dogmas of orthodox historians of the Final mitting that their evidence is very the traditional Holocaust story is Solution. Holocaust traditionalist weak, or even non-existent. 9 We quote Kershaw verbatim: broadened into a wider remit—by not be trusted with regard to detail, “As these varied interpretations of Heydrich or Himmler, is impossi- Adolf Eichmann, in effect the leading experts demonstrate, the ble to establish [p. 259].” ‘manager’ of the ‘Final Solution,’ evidence for the precise nature of a Dieter Wisliceny, one of his depu- The Unreliability of the Testi- decision to implement the ‘Final ties, and Rudolf Höss, the Com- monies of Rudolf Höss and Adolf Solution,’ for its timing, and even mandant of Auschwitz, all asserted Eichmann for the very existence of such a after the war that the orders passed decision is circumstantial. Though One of the most important on to them to implement the ‘Final second-rank SS leaders repeatedly pieces of evidence traditionally Solution’ derived from Hitler him- referred in post-war trials to a adduced to “prove” the orthodox self. Second- and third-tier SS ‘Führer Order’ or ‘Commission,’ view of the Final Solution has been leaders directly implicated in the no direct witness of such an order the testimony of the former com- ‘Final Solution’ were in no doubt survived the war. And for all the mandant of Auschwitz concentra- themselves that they were fulfilling brutality of his own statements, tion camp, Rudolf Höss. Kershaw ‘the wish of the Führer.’ There is there is no record of Hitler speak- points out that Höss “recalled after no reason to doubt that they were ing categorically even in his close the war receiving the extermina- correct, and that Hitler’s author- circle of a decision he had taken to tion order [to exterminate the ity—most probably given as verbal the kill the Jews—though his re- Jews] from Himmler in the sum- consent to propositions usually put marks leave not the slightest doubt mer of 1941.” Then, he immedi- to him by Himmler—stood behind of his approval, broad knowledge, ately notes that Höss is untrust- every decision of magnitude and and acceptance of the ‘glory’ for worthy as a witness: “But Höss’s significance.” what was being done in his name. testimony cannot be relied upon, Does the reader see the pre- Interpretations rest, therefore, on and in this case much points to the dicament here? He says Eich- the ‘balance of probabilities’ [pp. conclusion that he had erroneously mann’s, Wisliceny’s and Höss’s 256-257].” pre-dated events by a year and was testimonies are not reliable, and Kershaw concedes that some really referring to the summer of then he uses their testimonies as a post-war court testimony of Ger- 1942 [p. 261].” part of an ensemble of testimonies man military officers about the Another “chief witness” was to “corroborate” the orthodox view existence of an order from Hitler to Adolf Eichmann, a National So- of the Final Solution. exterminate the Jews is bogus: cialist bureaucrat who is widely Kershaw and the “Nazi Gas “The early post-war testimony of regarded as playing a seminal role Chambers” Einsatzkommando leaders about in the Final Solution. Consider the prior existence of a Führer or- what Kershaw has to say about the Professor Kershaw, certainly no der has been shown to be demon- reliability of Eichmann’s testi- revisionist, clearly accepts the tra- strably false, concocted to provide mony: “Eichmann’s testimony in ditional view of the Holocaust, as a unified defense of the leader of Israel in 1960 was also at times he speaks of the “horror of Einsatzgruppe D, Otto Ohlendorf, inaccurate. He claimed to remem- Auschwitz” (p. 237). Here, he is at his trial in 1947 [p. 258].” ber vividly Heydrich communicat- referring to the alleged systematic So, after the reader is exposed ing to him two or three months murder of European Jewry in the to all of this skepticism and doubt, after the invasion of the Soviet “Nazi gas chambers.” the question remains: what was the Union that ‘the Führer has ordered Despite that, he puts forth evi- nature of the “Führer order” for the the physical extermination of the dence that suggests certain “testi- Final Solution? Kershaw claims it Jews.’ But his memory was fre- monies” to the “Nazi gas cham- is not possible to provide an an- quently wayward when it came to bers” are highly questionable. He swer: “The nature and form of the precise dates and time. In this writes: “According to postwar tes- ‘Führer order’, and whether it case, too, it is as well not to build timony provided by his former amounted to an initiative by Hitler too much on such dubious evi- personal adjutant, Otto Günsche, himself or was any more than the dence [p. 261].” and his manservant, Heinz Linge, granting of approval to a sugges- Yet, on page 109, Kershaw Hitler showed a direct interest in tion—itself, in all probability, makes this problematic statement: the development of gas-chambers emanating from the local com- “Though their testimony is inaccu- and spoke to Himmler about the manders of the killing units and rate in a number of ways and can- use of gas-vans [p. 109].” 10 Buried in a footnote, Kershaw been responsible for such rumors. inadequate, and rumors about “the states the reason as to why the “Even so,” Kershaw writes, “the Nazi gas chambers” were circu- “testimonies” of Günsche and silence [in regard to the secrecy lated by foreign language broad- Linge with regard to the “Nazi gas that surrounded the ‘Nazi gas casts, Kershaw would at least give chambers” are unreliable: “The chambers’ and the almost complete some consideration to the Revi- passages in question make no men- absence of documentary sources sionist theory that these “Nazi gas tion of Jews and convey the im- relating to them] was not total. chambers” never existed and were pression that the victims of gassing Rumours did circulate, as two cas- the creations of Allied and Zionist were Soviet citizens. The text, es from the Munich ‘Special war propaganda. But clearly, this whose provenance and intended Court’ dating from 1943 and 1944 is not possible. The book was pub- recipient—Stalin—make it prob- and referring to the gassing of lished by the International Institute lematical in a number of respects, Jews in mobile gas-vans, prove [p. for Holocaust Research, Yad Va- goes on…to claim that gas cham- 203].” shem, in Israel. No further com- bers were first established, on Hit- In autumn 1943, a middle-aged ment necessary ler’s personal order, at Charkov, Munich woman confessed to have Was Hitler’s Brutality a Re- though, in fact, no gas chambers said: “Do you think that nobody sponse to Stalin’s Brutality? were erected on the occupied terri- listens to the foreign language tory of the Soviet Union [p. 115, broadcasts? They have loaded Kershaw implies that Hitler’s footnote 66].” Jewish women and children into a brutal plan to deport Jews was a That is to say, it was claimed wagon, driven out of the town, and response to Stalin’s wicked plan to that homicidal gas chambers were exterminated (vernichtet) them deport ethnic Germans, for he used at Charkov—where it is now with gas [p. 203].” For these re- writes: “Now, aware that the war known that they never existed. marks and for derogatory com- would drag on and conscious that But even more importantly, ments about Hitler, she was sen- the USA would probably soon be Kershaw substantiates what main- tenced to prison (p. 203). Another involved, he [Hitler] agreed to de- stream Holocaust historian Arno man was also indicted for having mands from a number of Nazi Mayer admitted as far back as claimed in September 1944 that leaders—exploiting Stalin’s depor- 1988: “Sources for the study of the Hitler was a mass-murderer who tation of hundreds of thousands of gas chambers are at once rare and had Jews killed by having them ethnic Germans from the Volga unreliable.”[2] exterminated by gas in a “gas- region to the wastes of western Kershaw concurs, for he writes: wagon” (p. 203). Siberia and Kazakhstan to press “Recorded comments about the Kershaw further points out that for retaliatory measures—to deport murder of Jews refer almost in- because the sources for the study Germans, Austrian, and Czech variably to mass shootings by the of the Final Solution and the “Nazi Jews to the east even though the Einsatzgruppen, which in many gas chambers” are so inadequate, war was not over [p. 105].” cases were directly witnessed by mainstream historians have in- Here, Kershaw raises anew this members of the Wehrmacht. The ferred very different interpretations question: to what extent was Nazi gassing, both in mobile gas-units from the same evidence: “The in- brutality a response to Soviet, Brit- and then in extermination camps, adequacy of the sources, reflecting ish and American brutality? was carried out much more se- in good measure the secrecy of the Kershaw and the Religion of the cretly, and found little echo inside killing operations and the deliber- Final Solution Germany to go by the almost com- ate lack of clarity of the language plete absence of documentary employed to refer to them, has led Kershaw admits the Jewish ex- sources relating to it [p. 203].” to historians drawing widely vary- perience in WWII has been ele- Not only does Kershaw confirm ing conclusions from the same vated to the status of a sacred re- that reliable documentary sources evidence about the timing and the ligion, as the very term “Holo- relating to the “Nazi gas cham- nature of the decision or decisions caust”, he points out, was initially bers” are almost non-existent, but to exterminate the Jews [pp. 254- adopted by Jewish writers and “has he also points out that “gas cham- 255].” been taken to imply an almost sa- ber” rumors were circulating One would think that after ad- cred uniqueness of terrible events throughout Germany, and foreign mitting that sources relating to the exemplifying absolute evil, a spe- language broadcasts may have “gas chambers” are very rare and cifically Jewish fate standing in 11 effect outside the normal historical and whatever their irrational basis, bers” never existed. Maybe the process…[p. 237].” He then quotes they did constitute a circular, self- Final Solution was, after all, a pol- Israeli historian Yehuda Bauer, reinforcing argument, impenetra- icy of deportation and ethnic who claims the “Holocaust” is now ble by rational critique, something cleansing, where Europe’s Jewish viewed as “a mysterious event, an which we genuinely call a Weltan- population would be removed from upside-down miracle so to speak, schauung, or ideology [p. 90].” Europe by brutal and ruthless an event of religious significance This criticism of Hitler hurls means. Maybe the “Nazi gas in the sense that it is not man-made right back at Kershaw and the co- chambers” were, after all, the crea- as that term is normally understood terie of traditional historians of the tions of Allied and Zionist war [p. 237].” Final Solution. As Kershaw has propaganda. But because of the Kershaw appears to gently re- clearly demonstrated in this book, dogmatic restraints that surround ject this “mystification” of the Ho- the traditional view of the Final mainstream historians of the Final locaust, as he does not even find Solution is clearly faulty and ques- Solution, Kershaw just cannot take Israeli historian Yehuda Bauer’s tionable. Yet, it is dogmatically this most logical step. attempt to make the Holocaust ap- believed and promoted anyway. pear “unique” as “very convincing Kershaw’s traditional view of the Footnotes or analytically helpful” (p. 271, Final Solution—a Weltanschauung [1] Deborah Lipstadt, History footnote 2). if there ever was one—is a circu- on Trial: My Day in Court with Even though Kershaw rejects lar, self-reinforcing argument, non- David Irving (Harper-Collins, the state religion of the Holocaust, falsifiable and impenetrable by 2005), p. 23. his mind is still locked up in a rational refutation. [2] Arno Mayer, Why Did the dogmatic slumber with regard to Kershaw is just one step away Heavens Not Darken?: The “Final the Final Solution. from admitting that, maybe, just Solution” in History (Pantheon, With regard to Hitler’s writ- maybe, there was no Nazi policy to 1988), p. 362. ings, speeches and ideas, Kershaw exterminate the Jews, and maybe, writes: “And, however repulsive, just maybe, the “Nazi gas cham-
Robert Faurisson and Dieudonne: A Scandalous Handshake
he Black French comedian, as he was handed his prize for so- TDieudonne, provoked out- cial unacceptability and insolence. rage by giving a heroism award on “I am not used to this kind of stage before 5,000 [!!!!] people to reception,” he told the cheering Robert Faurisson. Dieudonne audience. handed the spoof award for “social “I am supposed to be a histori- unacceptability and insolence” be- cal gangster.” fore an eclectic audience at Le Ze- Asked why he had honored nith, the largest music and theatre Faurisson at the weekend, the co- auditorium in Paris, where the far- median said, “I don't agree with all right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, his ideas, but for me what counts several figures on the French far- most of all is freedom of expres- left and a popular television quiz sion.” show host, Julien Lepers, were all When Faurisson appeared on present. stage at Le Zenith, Dieudonne told
The award was handed to Fau- the audience: risson—to enormous applause—by Dieudonne “Your applause is going to be a stage-hand dressed as a Jewish heard a long way from here. This deportee, with a yellow star on his when Dieudonne summoned Fau- handshake is already a scandal in chest. risson from the audience, Robert is itself.” At the end of his new show, reported to have looked astonished which he calls “I Acted the Fool,” 12 “Inconvenient History” The Launch of a New Revisionist Blog
By Jason Willis Myers
s readers of Smith’s Re- lishment of a unique database of Of course, there have been A port know, the past few information on a whole host of others who have continued the years have been some of the dark- subjects related to the “Holocaust,” fight for historical truth, but the est in the history of Holocaust re- we aim to continue the struggle point remains that there is a hunger visionism. Many leading re- against the story’s true believers for more revisionist activity. The searchers and activists from all on yet another front. We intend to blog project came about as a way over the world have been whisked counter the pervasive anti- to appease that hunger. away by the Thought-Police, sen- revisionist attitude in the main- During these dark years for re- tenced to long prison terms, and stream media, and spur new re- visionism, the world has experi- isolated from their families and search and encourage open debate enced the “Blog Invasion”, whe- loved ones as well as from the rest on the subject. As Germar Rudolf reby much power and influence of the movement. As the recent pointed out in a 2004 speech, revi- has shifted from traditional media Fredrick Toben affair reminds us, sionism has only just begun to into the hands of the blogosphere. the opponents of revisionism and cover the entirety of the subject. Blogs have become so pervasive various compliant governments We will endeavor to help shine a that a simple Google search for have not given up their desire to fresh light on other research- “blog” found over 3 BILLION silence and punish anyone who worthy topics, as well as take a hits, nearly 130 times more than dares challenge any part of the look at older issues from a differ- for the word: “Holocaust”. Non- Holocaust narrative. Many of these ent and fresh perspective. believers need to latch onto this figures, including Toben, were We know that the revisionist “invasion” to help spread the truth, targeted in countries which alleg- community has been craving more and remain current. Until now, edly respect freedom of speech. action and material from our writ- however, there has not been a last- There are few safe havens left in ers, researchers, and scholars. It ing effort to establish a compre- this war for the truth! has been years since the last major hensive revisionist blog in the In these bleak times it is in- English-language revisionist book English language. Though much cumbent upon all revisionists to do was printed, and many are hungry more limited in scope, one can eas- their part and spread the truth for new information and insights. ily see the power and effectiveness through all possible means. There Those few nobles who have suc- of the medium through Bradley have been noteworthy efforts and ceeded in persevering with revi- Smith’s One Person, One Proof the arrival of new voices and new sionist work have gained enormous blog. means to spread revisionist truth support and a large following: We are planning to have the during this time. New ideas and * Bradley Smith’s film El blog act as a regular community new advocates are the only way for Gran Tabu was well received and “newspaper” spreading revisionist the revisionist flame to remain sought after by many. news, providing historical analysis alight. That is why it is with great *Denierbud’s One Third of the on all sorts of questions, some of excitement that I announce to you Holocaust video series took off in which remain largely unknown, the coming launch of our revision- internet popularity and reached an reviewing books and movies re- ist blog! audience of tens of thousands, if lated to the “Holocaust” and revi- Several “Holocaust” skeptics not more. His continued work is sionism, and allowing an outlet for and doubters have come together also very popular. revisionist work and ideas of oth- and are working on the Revisionist *Thomas Kues, a member of ers as well. Another mission of the blog project. It is our hope to cre- the new blog team, has produced blog is to help refine revisionism, ate a new source of ideas and ma- many scholarly articles addressing and thereby make it stronger. We terial for Holocaust skeptics, all various aspects of the gassing nar- will encourage a healthy and re- presented in a scholarly and objec- rative, viewable in the CODOH spectful forum to help critique fel- tive manner. Through the estab- research library. low non-believers. Such an effort should be very beneficial, allowing work. All of us have been active no means aim to be “heroes” of us to strengthen our arguments and “deniers” over the years, and have revisionism, but will labour to en- correct prior mistakes, instead of involved ourselves in the spread courage free debate, spur on new carrying on the fight with flawed and defense of revisionism. Even ideas, and unplug others from the information. These alterations or so, we strongly encourage other “Holocaust” matrix. revisions will be done with both revisionists to express their views A specific launch date for In- care and precision. on “Inconvenient History” as well, convenient History is not yet set, The current six mainstay con- for it is as much your project as it but it is expected that we will be tributors, with over 30 years of is ours. We will allow Guest Con- up and running well before Spring “Holocaust” research experience, tributors to help provide a variety arrives. We will keep you in- bring various educational back- of revisionist views, particularly formed via Smith’s Report and grounds and viewpoints to our on focused historical topics. We by other avenues.
The Sentencing of Wolfgang In Austria, scientific research IN THE NEWS Föhlich of the FPÖ (Freiheitliche as well as all criticism of officially
Kevin Käther of the German Partei Österreichs = Austrian decreed historiography, along with Self-Accusation Movement has Freedom Party) to 6 Years and 4 been sentenced to eight months Months for the Crime of Under- in prison. All proofs he submitted stating “Holocaust” to the court were rejected as con- trary to "the evidence of the estab- Saturday, December 13, 2008 lished fact". His arguments were From: "neues-aus-berlin@betriebs- not rejected because they conflict direktor.de" with evidence that makes the Ho- Translated by J. M. Damon locaust an established fact. They were rejected because the Holo- It is another very dark day for caust is an established fact. justice and the law. Faurisson writes: “I do not In the case of the Engineer Wolfgang Fröhlich have the German text of the Wolfgang Fröhlich: yesterday the Käther’s judgment but, usually, it Appellate Court in Vienna pro- the laws limiting freedom of is like at Nuremberg, article 21 on nounced verdict in his appeal trial speech imposed by the Allies over ‘common knowledge’ and ‘judicial on account of excessive severity of 60 years ago, are enforced by po- notice.’ It is in the tradition of the sentence. (The lower court had litical show trials that impose 34 historians (Léon Poliakov, Pi- imposed a sentence of 6 years and many years of imprisonment. A erre Vidal-Naquet and 32 others; 4 months, with 5 years still a pos- Gedächtnisprotokoll (“recollected among them the most prestigious: sibility). The appeal was rejected. record”) of the trial summarized Fernand Braudel) who answered The sentence imposed by the lower the whole procedure, which be- me. court was upheld in full. Needless longs on a third-rate burlesque “‘It must not be asked how, to say, certain circles are jubilant. stage. (Austrian courts do not keep technically, such a mass-murder Once again an intrepid scientist a running account of what goes on was possible. It was technically and historian, tireless champion of during trial.) possible since it happened’ (‘Une human rights and critic of official The amazing servility of the déclaration d’historiens’, Le falsehoods has been taken out of Defense can be explained only by Monde, February 21, 1979). I nev- circulation for many years! This is the fact that if the defending attor- er received any other answer. a real catastrophe. It is yet another ney had represented the accused as “On February 21, 2009, it will national scandal providing more professional ethics require, he too be the 30th anniversary of that evidence of the complete bank- would have faced criminal indict- statement. I guess it was a Jewish ruptcy of the justice system in ment for the crime of “Resurrect- declaration for ever (in saecula Austria, which still pretends to be ing National Socialism.” saeculorum).” a constitutional state. The Defense made the incredi- ble statement that “democracy”
14 must find measures to correct per- find other means for reforming week for "its continued failure to sons who feel obligated to support errant persons and pleaded for mi- extradite suspected Nazi collabora- the truth and must therefore go to tigation of punishment! The Prose- tor Charles Zentai" to Hungary. prison. Whose side is such a de- cution argued that as an incorrigi- fense attorney on? ble repeat offender he deserved the It is of course much simpler punishment he received. and easier to do as Parliamentary Fröhlich argued that he never President Graf of the FPÖ did: dur- committed the offense of which he ing his inauguration he completely was convicted, namely complete threw his convictions overboard, denial of “Holocaust.” The presid- flying his banner in the direction of ing judge responded that if this the politically correct wind. were true he would not have been The Defense tells us that if we convicted, and that he could ad- criticize the draconian laws against dress nothing except his sentence. National Socialism we will be im- Fröhlich pointed out that under Dr Efraim Zuroff prisoned for many years, always such laws as these, freedom of re- under the same pretext. The Court search cannot exist, to which the Jeremy Jones, an expert on the does not accept counter evidence. presiding judge responded that it is issue who works at the Austra- It is astounding that such condi- up to Parliament to change the lia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council tions exist, while the government laws. (AIJAC), said, “I think there is a pretends to continue its support of moral issue that people really need the Enlightenment ideal of free- to believe that until their dying dom of opinion and research, as Australia has again been pillo- day, there is a chance there will be well as support of the Convention ried by Israel's Simon Wiesen- a knock at the door and they will on Human Rights. thal Centre for its failure to made accountable for any crime Fröhlich argued that he had al- prosecute Nazi war criminals. they have committed.” ways written to the same limited After being ranked lower than Sy- circle of addresses. His attorney ria in the centre's annual report in argued that a democracy should May, director Dr Efraim Zuroff gave Australia a fail mark this
Miriam Nisbet, Director cal languages, agreed a group of connectivity. People must be able Information Society Division, experts who opened the 2008 In- to create and receive information Secretary of the IFAP Council ternet Governance Forum in a ses- in their local language and to be UNESCO06 able to express themselves in ways their peers can understand.” 06 December 2008 We could not agree more. Yet there is an issue here that you have Dear Madam: not addressed. Your latest News Report from In Germany, Austria and the UNESCO Communication and France, for example, people are Information Sector's news service, not able to “create and receive in- dated 05 December 2008, is head- formation in the local language” – lined that is, in German or French – about the Holocaust question be- “Content in Local Languages cause it is prohibited by law, law is as Essential as Connectivity.” that is not challenged by Miriam Nisbet UNESCO. Are we to take this to Your release reads in part: mean that you agree that people “The power of the Internet is mul- sion on Reaching the Next Billion: should be allowed to “create and tiplied when people are able to Multilingualism … Content in lo- receive information” in their local access and use content in their lo- cal languages is as essential as language only in “some” lan- 15 guages? If so, in which languages Desk: 209 682 5327 other than German and French is it Sincerely, Web: www.codoh.com agreed by UNESCO, and by you, Bradley R. Smith, Founder that people should NOT be al- Advancing the UNESCO mandate to lowed to create and receive infor- Committee for Open Debate encourage a free flow of ideas, not for mation freely? a preferred minority, but for all. on the Holocaust Your response will be much PO Box 439016 appreciated. San Ysidro CA 92143
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