Is the Holocaust a Hoax?
Within five minutes, any intelligent, open-minded person can be convinced
that the Holocaust gassings of World War II are a profitable hoax.
Fred A. Leuchter is America's leading specialist on the design and
fabrication of execution equipment, including homicidal gas chambers. In
1988, Leuchter scraped samples from the alleged gas chamber walls in
Auschwitz, Birkenau and Lublin. Cyanide residue would be clearly evident on
all these walls if gassings did occur. To his astonishment, Leuchter found
no significant cyanide traces in any one of these rooms.
In 1991, the Polish government repeated these tests to disprove Leuchter's
findings, but they as well found no evidence of any gassings ever occurring.
The structural integrity of these "gas chambers" is also extremely faulty.
These rooms have ordinary doors and windows which are not hermetically
sealed! There are large gaps between the floors and doors. If the Germans
had attempted to gas anyone in these rooms, they would have died themselves,
as the gas would have leaked and contaminated the entire area. Also, no
equipment exists to exhaust the air-gas mixture from these buildings.
Nothing was made to introduce or distribute the gas throughout the chambers.
There are no provisions to prevent condensation of gas on the walls, floors
or ceilings. No exhaust stacks have ever existed.
Though six million Jews supposedly died in the gas chambers, not one body
has ever been autopsied and found to have died of gas poisoning. We have
been shown piles of bodies from World War II, but most of these persons died
of typhus or starvation or Allied bombings and a great many of those were
murdered Germans, not Jews. Roughly the equivalent of ten football fields
should be packed full of gassed bodies to present as evidence, yet not one
body has ever been discovered.
The Germans documented everything in meticulous detail from shrubbery to
arbors, but no pre-war or wartime plans or documents exist that detail or
even mention any gas chambers for reasons of genocide. All documents ever
presented were drawn up AFTER the war.
Even if we threw away all the evidence and accounted for every so-called gas
chamber, it would have taken 68 YEARS to accomplish gassing six million
Jews!
Even The Diary of Anne Frank is a hoax. Portions of the diary were written
with a ball point pen. These pens were not in use at the time Anne Frank
lived.
It is not denied concentration camps existed. Tragically, many died of
typhus or starvation, as often happens in such situations. There is,
however, no evidence that any gassings occurred for the reasons of genocide.
Israel continues to receive trillions of dollars worldwide as retribution
for Holocaust gassings. Our country has donated more money to Israel than to
any other country in the history of the world -- over $35 billion per year,
everything included. If not for our extravagantly generous gifts to Israel,
every family in America could afford a brand new Mercedes Benz. Surely the
American people would be outraged if they realized their hard-earned money
is being squandered in these difficult times.
With all this money at stake for Israel, it is easy to comprehend why this
Holocaust hoax is so secretly guarded. The Jewish name for Holocaust is
"Shoah." In Zionist circles, it is known as "Shoah Business." If nothing
else, this unbelievable coverup demonstrates the irrepressible Zionist
influence and control of our country. Their only defense against the facts
is to cry out "antisemitic," "Skinhead" or "Nazi," whereas the majority of
those who question the Holocaust are ordinary citizens...though you would
never know it from the media.
In whatever way you can, please help shatter this profitable myth. It is
time we stop sacrificing America's welfare for the sake of Israel and spend
our hard-earned dollars on Americans.
(For more information contact The Institute for Historical Review P.O. Box
2739 Newport Beach, CA 92659 USA).
There are compelling reasons to believe that the so-called holocaust never
existed. Page 223, in The Diary of Anne Frank, (Pan Horizons edition, Pan
Books Ltd., London, 1989), indicates that the size of Auschwitz, the most
notorious of all German work camps, WAS VERY SMALL, with only 11,000 people
(many of whom may not even have been Jews) being evacuated by the Germans at
the time of the Russian advance in 1945. Certainly, compared to Spielberg's
film, Schindler's List (which Emilie Schindler, Oskar's widow, said was full
of lies), and other Jewish propaganda, that millions upon millions of Jews
were systematically exterminated, 11,000 people is a very small number.
Simple arithmetic tells us that the Germans would have had to have had
hundreds of camps, or else they would have had to exterminate 137 people PER
HOUR, in order for six million Jews to have been exterminated at such small
camps as Auschwitz, a feat that would have been humanly impossible
considering that, according to Douglas Reed's Behind the Scene and The
Controversy of Zion, a mere 850,000 soldiers and others were killed by the
entire German and Japanese war machines combined during WW2 (see p.397-400
of Douglas Reed's book Controversy of Zion). People who would believe the
Jewish propaganda that six million Jews were exterminated by Hitler must KEEP IN MIND THE SMALL SCALE CONSTRUCTION OF AUSCHWITZ AND THE VERY FEW OTHER GERMAN WORK CAMPS THAT EXISTED DURING WW2.
On July 13, 1994, a documentary on the life of Charles A. Lindbergh
broadcast on the Public Broadcast System (PBS - KENW-TV) said that when
Lindbergh visited one of these few camps in Germany following WW2, he was
told that 25,000 died in 1-1/2 years. Again, simple arithmetic tells us that
25,000 times a half dozen camps does not equal 6,000,000. In fact, it
doesn't even equal 600,000. . . .
It is an interesting fact that the number of so-called persecuted Jews KEEPS
INCREASING. Hal Greenwald, program director for the Hillel Foundation at
Duke University, a Jewish student group, has been promoting the idea that
NINE MILLION JEWS WERE EXTERMINATED IN HITLER'S GAS CHAMBERS (New York
Times, Nov. 9, 1991, AP). NOW IT'S 9 MILLION AND GROWING. ..JUST LIKE OUR
DEBT/TAX MONEY SUPPLY...THE NUMBERS JUST KEEP COMING OUT OF THIN AIR.
(The Bible Caused Economic and Financial Slavery in the New World Order by
Lee Cheney).
The Holocaust Issue: Three Christian Views
Christian Responsibility to Truth by Herman Otten
While most Revisionists appear to be opposed to the construction of the [US
government] Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, right next to some of our
nations's most cherished monuments, I say: Let it be built! One day it will
serve as a monument to the stupidity of modern man, who can still accept a
hoax as a fact. Hopefully it will then serve as a reminder to study all the
facts and evidence, and repudiate all hoaxes.
The day is surely coming when all the evidence showing that the Germans
never exterminated six million Jews can no longer be suppressed. Truth is
not determined by majority vote. I learned this lesson in high school, and
since then have repeatedly discovered how the majority of scholars, even
within our churches, can be in error. That our presidents, senators and
congressmen are all supposed to be convinced that the Germans killed six
million Jews, that almost all of our nation's professors and churchmen are
said to maintain that the Holocaust is a fact, doesn't make it a fact.
There is no dispute over the fact that large numbers of Jews were deported
to concentration camps and ghettos, or that many Jews died or were killed
during World War II. Revisionist scholars have presented evidence, which
"exterminationists" have not been able to refute, showing that there was no
German program to exterminate Europe's Jews, and that the estimate of six
million Jewish wartime dead is an irresponsible exaggeration.
The Holocaust -- the alleged extermination of some six million Jews (most of
them by gassing) -- is a hoax and should be recognized as such by Christians
and all informed, honest and truthful men everywhere.
Here are the reasons that have impressed me as particularly persuasive in
coming to my own conclusion that the Revisionist view of the Holocaust story
is the correct one:
- There is no convincing or substantial evidence for the allegation of mass
killings in gas chambers in the wartime German camps. Careful investigation
-- in particular that carried out by American engineer Fred Leuchter -- has
thoroughly discredited the "gas chamber" extermination claims.
- The most reliable statistics available cannot be reconciled with the
legendary "six million" figure. The best evidence indicates that no more
than a million, or perhaps a million and a half, European Jews perished from
all causes during the war years.
- Neither the major Jewish organizations in the United States, nor the
wartime Allied governments, nor the International Red Cross, nor the Vatican
acted as if they seriously believed the wartime extermination propaganda.
- Although the German government kept extensive and detailed records of its
wartime Jewish policy, not a single document has ever been found which
substantiates or even refers to an extermination program or policy. Instead,
the voluminous German records confiscated by the Allies at the end of the
war clearly show that the German "final solution" program was one of
emigration and deportation, not extermination.
- Even prominent Jewish "exterminationist" historians now acknowledge that
the stories of gassings and extermination in camps in Germany proper are not
true, in spite of the fact that such claims were once seriously made,
particularly at the great Nuremberg Trial of 1945-1946.
- The Holocaust story now centers on just six former camps in Poland. The
so-called "evidence" presented to prove mass exterminations in these camps
is qualitatively no better than the now discredited "evidence" once cited
for extermination in the camps in Germany proper.
- Much of the so-called "evidence" presented by "exterminationists" over the
years has already been thoroughly discredited. For example, the well-known
horrific photographs of piles of corpses taken in camps in western Germany
at the end of the war are now acknowledged to be photos of victims of
disease and malnutrition who perished as indirect victims of the war in the
final weeks and months of the conflict. Also, so-called "confessions" --
such as those of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoss -- have been shown to be
untruthful and extracted by torture. Many of the official reports and
testimonies presented as "evidence" by the prosecution in the Nuremberg
trials have since been shown to be lies.
- The fact that so many Jews "survived" German rule during the war -- many
of them even in so-called "extermination" centers such as Auschwitz-Birkenau
-- is enough to show that there was no German program or policy to
exterminate the Jews of Europe.
The Holocaust is a hoax. The time has come for Christian scholars and
pastors to recognize this, and to stop perpetrating a hoax as the truth. A
Christian is not free to believe and promote a lie about any person or
nation. True Christian scholars should at least read what the Revisionists
write.
Many have said to us: "What difference does it make? The truth of the
Holocaust is of no concern to Christians." Nonsense! A Christian is not free
to believe and promote a lie about any person or nation. A Christian is
guided by truth and facts, not emotions and majority opinion.
If Christians can accept as historical fact the Holocaust, despite all the
powerful evidence that it is a hoax, what does that say about their ability
to evaluate evidence? What about their scholarship? Is it any wonder that
some Revisionists, who have made a careful study of the Holocaust, question
the scholarship of Christians, so many of whom swallow as absolute truth
what is clearly a hoax?
I have been told numerous times, even by theologians who claim to be
orthodox: "I don't care whether it was six million or one Jew, even one is
too many." Such an attitude shows contempt for the truth. A Christian is to
show true love, and the Apostle Paul tells us that love is "happy with the
truth." (1 Cor. 13:6) The writing of Proverbs tells us: "Speak out for those
who can't speak, for the rights of those who are doomed. Talk up, render
fair decisions, and defend the rights of the poor and needy people."
(Proverbs 31:9)
A Christian bases his faith upon facts and absolute truth, not feelings and
emotion. A Christian recognizes that only God is all-knowing. A Christian is
willing to listen to evidence and evaluate various viewpoints. He doesn't
close his mind to the facts and evidence. He doesn't start out with the
assumption that the Jew is right and the German is wrong, or that the Jew is
wrong and the German is right. He looks at the evidence. Those who say they
don't care if it was six million or one are showing a despicable attitude
toward truth. They are saying: "We don't care about the truth." Such an
attitude is sinful and worldly. Is it any wonder that so many then go on to
act as it they don't care about another man's wife or property? The
truthfulness of the Holocaust is a moral issue. Those who maintain that the
Germans exterminated some six million Jews, most of them by gassing, are
seeing to it that the Christian Church can no longer avoid speaking out.
Churches are being pushed, as never before, to have special services
commemorating the Holocaust.
A Christian is ready to change his opinion if the evidence shows he is
wrong. Numerous times we have invited "exterminationists" to refute the
Revisionists.
Some tell us that we have not shown love to the Jews, and that we are being
racists and anti-Semitic when we publish articles by Revisionists
questioning the Holocaust, and when we insist that Jesus Christ is the only
way to heaven.
We have repeatedly emphasized in many editorials that the Bible teaches that
there is no special chosen race. All those -- regardless of color, race,
nationality, sex, wealth, et cetera -- who trust in the merits of Jesus
Christ alone for their salvation are God's chosen people and will go to
heaven. Those who tell Jews, Muslims, and any other non-Christian that they
worship the true God, and can get to heaven without Christ, are not showing
true love to the Jews and other non-Christians.
The so-called "fact" of the Holocaust is being used to deport innocent men
from this country who, as teenagers, served with the German armed forces. In
some cases they have been sent back to certain death in Communist lands. The
[US government's] Office of Special Investigation is using the Holocaust as
an excuse to force from the United States even such a reputable person as
the scientist Arthur Rudolph.
Israel is using the "fact" of the Holocaust as an excuse to execute John
Demjanjuk, an innocent Ukrainian-American. "The Jewish people have a long
score to settle with the Ukrainian people" says Dov Ben-Meir, a deputy
speaker of Israel's Knesset [parliament]. According to this top Israeli
official, "unaccounted numbers" of Ukrainians "collaborated with the Nazi
regime, especially in the annihilation of hundreds of thousands of Jews."
The "fact" of the Holocaust is being used by some to deny that Christianity
is the only true religion, or that Jesus Christ rose from the dead.
Israel is using the "fact" of the Holocaust as an excuse to kill
Palestinians in Israel. This slaughter, together with the anti-scriptural
notions of the Israel-first Millennialists, almost all of whom believe in
the Holocaust, could lead to another bloody war.
The Holocaust is not some innocent hoax, such as children's fairy tales that
entertain and have no evil consequences.
The "chosen people" and "Holocaust" myths make mission work among
non-Christians far more difficult. Arabs, who are told that the Bible
teaches that their land belongs to the Jews, find it more difficult to
believe what the Bible says about Christ.
(Herman Otten is a Lutheran pastor and editor-publisher of the weekly
Christian News of New Haven, Missouri. This commentary is excerpted from his
address at the Ninth IHR Conference. The complete text is published in the
Fall 1989 Journal).
"Victims Deserve Better" by Joseph Sobran:
I haven't been to the new United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, but even
a Washington Post reporter was shocked by what he describes its "outrageous"
anti-Christian propaganda. The exhibition apparently dates anti-Semitism
from the birth of Christ. And of course the implication of the Museum is
that mass murder is worse when its victims are Jews.
Some surprisingly critical notes have been struck in the reviews of the
Museum. Kay Larson, art critic for New York magazine, objects that "the
Germans depicted here . . . are almost exclusively Nazis. . . Most American
children who endure the walk-through will think of Germans as Nazi pigs."
She continues:
The Jews endured the most dementedly calculated and well-documented -- but
hardly the only -- case. To separate the Nazi evil from other evils is
understandable but Eurocentric. It trivializes all suffering but its own.
It awards special, extra-human stature to the victims. Nothing that occurs
inside Israel can be wrong, because Jews were gassed at Auschwitz. And so
people set themselves apart from, against, and above others.
She has caught the note of most Holocaust rhetoric: intense self-absorption.
This is a human reaction, and it can be excused up to a point. That point
comes when those whose rights have been violated begin disregarding others'
rights, as when Jewish apologists for Israel feel persecuted by criticism of
Israel's brutality toward non-Jews.
Even many pro-Israel Jews feel uneasy about the Museum being in America, on
government land, paid for with tax money. The implication of its presence is
that all Gentiles, especially Christians, need to be instructed, to have
their consciousness raised, even to be made to feel guilty about Jewish
suffering. As if we didn't know that murder and persecution are wrong! As if
Israel were a moral model for *us*!
In the same way, the implication of the word "anti-Semitism" is that the
chief moral test for anyone is whether he has the correct attitude toward
Jews. And again, this is understandable -- but also very narrow. Murdering
Ukrainians is every bit as evil as murdering Jews, after all. But why should
we even have to say that?
The wrong lesson is being drawn. You would think that the evil of Hitler was
mere anti-Semitism as such, rather than mass murder. But if anti-Semitism
were confined to country-club snobbery, even Jews wouldn't mind it too much.
The real evil is the use of the state as an instrument of death. Government,
perverted from it modest uses, can magnify every crime unimaginably.
That is the real "lesson of the Holocaust," the lesson our time still
refuses to learn. We think it's only the Hitler or Stalin version of the
superstate that is wrong. But think how America's conduct in World War II
would have appeared to our ancestors. It's hard for us to feel the sheer
monstrosity of bombing cities.
I recently heard some interesting testimony on this point. During that war
the US government commissioned a series of propaganda films from Frank
Capra, which were made under the collective title "Why We Fight." One of
them, "The Battle for China," describes the barbarity of the "Japs," also
called "Nips," and mocked them for their "grinning yellow faces." Among the
horrors perpetrated by the Japs was the unprecedented atrocity of bombing
cities, killing civilians by the thousands!
Of course Capra and his staff didn't know that the US government was
planning to do exactly that to Japanese and German cities. In their
innocence, they assumed that only a savage, alien race could have stooped to
such barbarism.
But we have supped full with horrors. Evil bores us. Its statistical
extremes have long since lost their interest, and there is something
ritually formulaic in the demands that we profess belief in, and abhorrence
toward, Nazi and Communist abominations. "Holocaust denial" has become the
big thought crime, denounced by Christians who are quite tolerant of those
who deny the Redemption. No similar opprobrium, by the way, attaches to
Gulag denial. After all, nobody who really believes a thing wants to force
others to profess belief in it. Sincerity never demands hypocrisy.
Even the word "Holocaust" has come to seem a polemical appropriation of
human suffering that verges on the indecent. I remember an old Jewish woman
I slightly knew who had a number tattooed on her wrist. That told me all I
needed to know about Hitler, and it would be pedantic to wonder whether a
regime that was willing to brand Jews like cattle meant to kill them all.
But it would have seemed morally crass to call what that woman had been
through as a girl "the Holocaust": It's beginning to sound like a brand
name, of special utility to glib hawkers. All the victims of World War II,
including Jews, deserve more respect than that.
(Joseph Sobran is a nationally-syndicated columnist, lecturer and
Critic-at-Large for National Review. This commentary is taken from his
"Washington Watch" column in the May 13, 1993, issue of The Wanderer, a
conservative Roman Catholic weekly).
"Examine All the Evidence" by Louis Vezelis:
On April 22, 1993, an ugly, monstrous edifice was dedicated in Washington,
DC. It is a grotesque museum dedicated to the victims of evil. The only
problem is that the majority of people throughout the world have been
conditioned like Pavlovian dogs to react irrationally to predetermined
stimuli. Those who refuse are summarily isolated from the rest of the
dehumanized human herd through use of meaningless but emotionally-charged
epithets.
It is quite easy to observe which newspapers are subservient to this modern
day hoax. The subject is the so-called "Holocaust Museum" built on public
land "generously" donated by the US government...
Insulting terminology in an editorial appearing in the left-wing,
pro-Zionist, anti-Christian Democrat and Chronicle [newspaper of Rochester,
New York] introduces the reader to the most obvious abuse of logic and good
taste. But, logic and good taste have systematically been expunged from the
American mind during a period of more than thirty years.
Well-informed American citizens demonstrated [in Washington, DC, on April
22] against the historically false accusations constantly made against the
German people and other nationalities whose only real crime was resisting
the international gangsters who facetiously call their brand of exploitation
"Communism."
The Democrat and Chronicle editorial starts out:
The mindless folks who were waving signs at the opening of the Holocaust
Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, last week claiming that the Holocaust
never happened merely demonstrate why the museum is so important: to
preserve the facts, before they disappear in the mists of history.
These "mindless folks" include none other than well-educated professors and
professional historians, investigative reporters and, in general, are among
the most descent people of a civilized society. It is their *right and duty*
to examine all the evidence, and draw the truthful conclusions concerning
what really happened in history.
There is already a strong indication that those who promote the Holocaust
story are afraid of the truth. That can only explain the need for ridiculing
those who seek only to present the entire matter before an open world forum
of unbiased and unprejudiced investigators. Because the preponderance of
objective and factual evidence shows the promoters of the Holocaust story to
be libelous frauds, sneak tactics and irrational emotionalism must be used.
We are concerned for the truth. Only those who are not of the truth must
resort to lies and bloodshed. Facts by themselves do not constitute truth.
Truth is in the judgment . . .
The Hollywood cosmetics exploiting the unfortunate victims of death do not
prove anything. For example, to film or photograph dead bodies, and then
label them according to one's political need is a travesty of justice and
truth beyond the capability of morally responsible individuals. Facts must
be correctly interpreted before they can tell something of truth.
Another example is the famous "Anne Frank Diary" which has been foisted upon
the American people at all levels. We all wept at the Hollywood tear-jerker
action on the silver screen. Decent people reacted as expected by the
unscrupulous falsifiers of fact. It has come to the attention of more and
more people that this diary is a fraud. Yes, it has been proven to be fake.
Public school facilities are periodically used to foist this fraud upon
unsuspecting citizenry to re-enforce the psychological brainwashing.
Anne Frank was not fake: She really did live. But everything else about her
life is a melodramatic, money-making operation to overwhelm the world with
hatred for a nation. . . No one says anything comparable about the children
brutally murdered by the Soviets when they occupied the Baltic States in
1940, and Germany in 1945.
A French Professor whose love for truth is greater than his love for fame
and life, Robert Faurisson, has proven that the alleged "diary" of Anne
Frank could not have been written by her . . .
While the American people are being lulled into very dangerous apathy by
being fed psycho-babble, a real holocaust, including child murder, is taking
place every day in occupied Palestine. . .
Could it be that someone is trying to put a guilt complex on the American
people so they will not dare raise a loud voice of protest against greater
evils?
(Louis Vezelis, O.F.M., is editor of The Seraph, a traditionalist Roman
Catholic monthly published by the Franciscan Friars (Order of St. Francis of
Assisi) of Rochester, New York. This commentary is from an editorial by
Bishop Vezelis in the May 1993 issue of The Seraph).
Articles reprinted by permission from The Journal of Historical Review, Vol.
13, Number 5 (Sept./Oct. 1993): P.O. Box 1306, Torrance, CA 90505, USA.
You Have a Right to Know the Truth!
David Irving: Intrepid Battler for Historical Truth by Mark Weber
Soviet premier Nikita Kruschev might have had David Irving in mind when he
once warned that historians are dangerous because they have the power to
upset everything. German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck once said that the
main thing is not to write history, but to make it. Irving is a man who has
been able to do some of both.
He is also living proof that the life of a historian need not be dull. The
leftist British daily The Guardian once commented, "If one can overlook his
outrageously odious views, Irving -- like Hitler -- can be a funny man. The
humor comes from a hint of self-mockery and an obvious delight in making
liberal flesh creep."
At the Eleventh IHR Conference in October 1992 -- as he had in his
presentations at the IHR Conferences of 1983, 1989 and 1990 -- this good
friend of the Institute for Historical Review not only shed new light on
important chapters of twentieth-century history, he delighted attendees with
humorous updates on some of the new ways he had found to make liberal flesh
creep.
In the three decades since he published his first book, Irving has firmly
established himself as not only one of the most successful and widely-read
historians of our time, but also as one of the most courageous.
He has an enviable track record of uncovering startling new facts about even
supposedly well-known episodes of history. His effectiveness is due in very
large measure to his discovery of original source materials, such as
diaries, original documents, and so forth, from both official and private
sources. He is tenacious in his ceaseless digging in just about every
important historical archive in the western world.
A professional historian, Irving has little respect for taxpayer-financed
scholars who are guilty of what he calls "inter-historian incest," and who
thereby help to keep alive dangerous myths and legends left over from
wartime propaganda.
His first work, The Destruction of Dresden, was published in 1963 when he
was 25 years old. Since then, he has published more than two dozen books,
many of them best-sellers, including biographies of Hermann Goring, Winston
Churchill, and Erwin Rommel. He is currently at work on a biography of
Joseph Goebbels.
Several of Irving's books have appeared in various languages, and several
have been serialized in prominent periodicals, including the Sunday Express,
the Sunday Telegraph and Der Spiegel.
Over the years, he has also contributed articles to some 60 British and
foreign periodicals, including the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Express in
London, the Mainichi Shimbun in Tokyo, and Stern and Der Spiegel in Hamburg.
Irving's reputation first came under vicious attack following the
publication in 1977 of Hitler's War, a monumental work that was hysterically
criticized for its contention that Hitler did not order the extermination of
Europe's Jews. The mass killings must have been carried out by Himmler and
his cohorts behind Hitler's back, Irving concluded at that time.
As a journalist for Time magazine once told him, "Until Hitler's War you
couldn't put a foot wrong, you were the darling of the media. After it, they
heaped slime on you."
So enraged was the Zionist Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith by this
book that the shadowy organization promptly added his name to its
ever-growing list of enemies. As it turned out, the ADL's troubles with
Irving were only just beginning.
The international campaign against him became even more vicious following
the publication in 1981 of Uprising, a history of the 1956 anti-Communist
revolt in Hungary. This book enraged the ADL crowd because it does not
whitewash the significant Jewish role in the Hungarian Communist regime.
Irving has made several highly successful speaking and promotion tours in
Germany, Canada, Australia, South Africa, the United States, and other
countries. German listeners in particular delight in hearing an Englishman
say out loud what many in that country believe in their souls but have been
intimidated into keeping to themselves. In Germany, Irving has become a kind
of conscience for a people who have been largely robbed of their own.
A startling climax in the second "Holocaust Trial" of Ernst Zundel in 1988
was the testimony of Irving, who was the last of 23 defense witnesses. He
stunned the completely packed Toronto courtroom by announcing that he had
changed his mind about the Holocaust story. During his three days on the
stand, he explained in detail why he now endorses the Revisionist view of
the extermination story.
In June 1989, Irving published the British edition of The Leuchter Report.
This handsome, illustrated edition, for which he wrote a foreword, was
launched by him at a press conference in London. He told the journalists
there that the infamous extermination gas chambers of Auschwitz and Majdanek
did not exist, except, perhaps, as the brainchild invention of Britain's
wartime propaganda bureau, the Political Warfare Executive (PWE).
A magnificent 860-page Focal Point edition of Hitler's War was published
last year. Taking account of his most recent research and insights,
references to so-called "extermination camps" have been removed from this
revised edition. And in his introduction, Irving deftly tears apart one
historical legend after another.
This work -- the product of decades of patient research and writing -- has
proven particularly enraging to the enemies of truth in history.
In addition to the usual lies, his adversaries have even turned to criminal
burglary and arson in their fitful and frantic efforts to silence him.
Not long ago, an official of the American Jewish Committee, a certain
Kenneth S. Stern, declared that Irving "NEVER has been considered a serious
historian." (The Oregonian, Portland, Oct. 7, 1992).
That is simply a bald-faced lie.
In fact, Irving's remarkable abilities have been acknowledged by some of the
most prominent names in the field. British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper,
writing in the Sunday Times of London, once declared, "No praise can be too
high for Irving's indefatigable scholarly industry." Trevor-Roper also
called Irving one of the "few guides I would entirely trust . . .
indefatigable in pursuit of the evidence, fearless in face of it, sound in
judgment . . ."
Another prominent British historian, A. J. P. Taylor, once wrote of him:
"David Irving is a patient researcher of unrivalled industry and success."
David John Cawdell Irving was born in Hutton, Essex, England, on March 24,
1938, the son of an illustrator and Royal Navy commander. His father and
mother were both well-known writers. After a liberal arts education at the
four-century-old Sir Anthony Browne's school in Brentwood, Essex, young
Irving won a scholarship to study physics at the Imperial College of Science
and Technology in London.
It did not take long, though, for him to realize that his life's calling
would not be in the hard sciences.
In 1959 he moved to Germany's industrial Ruhr region to spend a year working
in a steel mill to perfect his fluency in German. Then, after a stint
working as a clerk-stenographer with the US Strategic Air Command at an
airbase near Madrid, he returned to England to study political economy at
London's University College.
Irving speaks fluent German, very good Spanish, and quite passable French,
and reads several other languages.
On a personal note, he is the father of four daughters. His hobbies are oil
painting, travel, and cinematography, and his favorite song is the English
naval hymn, "For Those in Peril of the Sea."
He lives in the Mayfair district of London's West End, although in recent
years has spent quite a lot of time at a south Florida retreat, where he now
prefers to do his serious writing.
You'd need a pickup truck to carry away all the newspaper and magazine
clippings that have appeared over the years about Irving.
In January 1992, for example, a flurry of reports appeared in newspapers and
television broadcasts around the world suggesting that he had abandoned his
highly skeptical view of the Holocaust extermination story because of what
he had found in the postwar "memoir" of Adolf Eichmann, the German SS
officer who coordinated the wartime deportations of Jews.
Had Irving defected from the Revisionist camp? In the wake of this uproar,
he told the IHR: "My position remains unchanged." There were "certain
My-Lai-type atrocities" by German troops in the occupied Soviet territories,
but the "gas chambers and factories of death are legend," and there is no
wartime evidence of an order by Hitler to exterminate the Jews. In an
interview at the time with the London Jewish Chronicle (January 17, 1992),
Irving said, "The Jews are very foolish not to abandon the gas chamber
theory while they still have time."
Last May, a German court fined Irving 10,000 marks -- about $6,000 -- for
public statements he had made challenging the Holocaust story. His crime? At
a meeting in Munich in 1990, Irving had said that the building in the
Auschwitz main camp that has been portrayed for years as an extermination
gas chamber is a phony reconstruction (or, in German, "Attrappen").
The Munich district court refused to permit the defense to present even a
single witness or exhibit. For example, it would not permit Irving's
attorneys to call as a witness the director of the Auschwitz State Museum,
Dr. Franciszek Piper, who has privately confirmed on several occasions that
what Irving had told the meeting in 1990 is, in fact, the truth. After his
attorneys dramatically walked out of the courtroom to protest the judge's
outrageous rulings, Irving delivered a stirring plea for truth and justice
that has since been widely circulated in Germany on audio cassette and as a
leaflet. (For more on this trial, see the July-August 1992 IHR Newsletter).
Also last year, Irving played the key and highly publicized role in bringing
to light the long-suppressed diaries of Third Reich propaganda chief Dr.
Joseph Goebbels. Last July, the London Sunday Times, one of the world's most
influential papers, published extensive translated excerpts from the diary,
which Irving found and transcribed. (See report in the October 1992 IHR
Newsletter).
International and British Jewish organizations lost no time in attacking the
paper for employing Irving, and the resulting furor made headlines in
newspapers and magazines around the world. A report in the London Jewish
Chronicle headlined "Sunday Times comes under pressure" (July 17, 1992),
described the extent of the campaign to punish the paper for its
collaboration with Irving. Officials of the American Jewish Committee added
their voices to the worldwide pressure campaign, expressing particular anger
because the historian has addressed several IHR conferences. The Sunday
Times capitulated, and in breach of contract, refused to pay Irving the
agreed-upon fee of 83,000 pounds. He is suing.
On July 3, more than 300 Jewish demonstrators gathered outside Irving's
London residence to denounce him. The next day, July fourth (by the way, the
ninth anniversary of the devastating 1984 arson attack against the IHR
office-warehouse), a larger crowd of several hundred met at the same place
to shout more insults. Among the banners carried by the crowd of Marxists,
Jews, homosexuals and Rastafarians were placards reading "Return to the Road
of Lenin and Trotsky!," and "Build a Bolshevik Party, Tribune of All the
Oppressed!"
That same day, though, about 250 persons defied intimidation and threats to
hear and cheer Irving and other speakers at a Revisionist seminar in London.
Besides Irving, the audience heard addresses by Kirk Lyons, Leuchter's US
attorney, and Georgia attorney Sam Dickson (who addressed the 1986 IHR
conference).
In all this, it is gratifying to note that it is a Revisionist historian who
was -- once again -- at the forefront of historical discovery. In spite of
the well-organized international campaign to boycott and silence him, David
Irving remains at the vanguard of his profession -- and, by the way, SOLELY
on the basis of his indisputable knowledge, skill and industry.
It is also gratifying to realize that, as a result of each of those recent
controversies, hundreds of thousands -- if not millions -- of newspaper and
magazine readers around the world are now aware that a historian of
recognized international stature rejects critical aspects of the orthodox
Holocaust extermination story.
(Based on introduction of Irving at the Eleventh IHR Conference, 1992.
Reprinted by permission from The Journal of Historical Review, Vol. 13,
Number 1 (Jan./Feb. 1993): P.O. Box 1306, Torrance, CA 90505, USA).
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