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8.
The
Revisionist Claim:
American
execution expert, Fred Leuchter, delivered a
scientific break-through in proving that the
so-called gas chambers at Auschwitz could not
have been used for their alleged purpose."
After the Leuchter Reports, Fred Leuchter
has been viciously attacked for two reasons:
1) He did not have an engineering degree when
he wrote his trail-blazing studies, and 2) he
was paid by the Zündel Defense and,
hence, considered beholden to the Revisionist
point of view.
The proof is in the pudding.
It is true that Leuchter did not have an
appropriate degree. Jesus Christ didn't have
a degree in Christianity. Marx did not have a
degree in Marxism.
What Leuchter found can
be, and has been, independently verified
by engineers who have impeccable degrees.
Fred Leuchter was, prior to having his
career and reputation ruined by the Holocaust
Promotion Lobby, a most sought-after
specialist in execution type equipment in
America, as per Warden Bill Armontrout, who
recommended him.
Warden Armontrout testified in the 1988
Zündel Trial that there was only one
consultant in the United States that he knew
of in the design, operation and maintenance
of gas chambers, and that consultant was Fred
Leuchter.
It was Armontrout who urged Zündel to
contact Leuchter. (Armontrout Testimony: As
summarized in Did Six Million Really Die?
Report of the Evidence in the Canadian "False
News" Trial of Ernst Zündel - 1988,
Edited by Barbara Kulaszka, pp. 351-353)
Leuchter was a highly competent, well-paid
and respected man in his field - until he was
ruined financially and in his reputation by
the vicious attacks of the Holocaust
Promotion Lobby that saw its lucrative
racket, netting billions of dollars for
years, challenged by the Leuchter findings.
Furthermore, Leuchter was qualified by Judge
Thomas as an expert witness during the
Zündel trial. Any serious researcher
could have verified that by checking the
Zündel Trial 1988 transcripts pertaining
to Leuchter's testimony. (Leuchter Testimony
as summarized in Did Six Million Really Die?
Report of the Evidence in the Canadian "False
News" Trial of Ernst Zündel - 1988,
Edited by Barbara Kulaszka, pp. 354-362)
The second charge is that Leuchter was paid
by the Zündel defense - and, hence, his
finding are automatically labeled to be
"suspect."
Of course Fred Leuchter was paid by the
Zündel defense. He was hired to go to
Auschwitz in a highly dramatic, secret
mission while Ernst Zündel was on trial
in Toronto in 1988, fighting for his freedom
and reputation. There was no time or money to
scout around for someone else. He was not a
"fly-by-night" specialist, as has been
repeatedly claimed.
Furthermore, Leuchter stated at the outset to
Zündel and his lawyer, before he ever
went to Auschwitz, that he believed the
Auschwitz gas chamber claim, and if he found
it verified, then he would state so under
oath and in his report.
Zündel still engaged and sent him
because he was sure of his facts and counted
on Leuchter's professional integrity.
Leuchter went. He saw. He came back a
much-enlightened man.
Read what he had to say. (Leuchter, Fred A.
The Leuchter Report: The How and the
Why. Journal of Historical Review 9,
(1989): 133-139.)
So Leuchter was paid for his work. So what?
Who paid for the Pressac investigation and
book? Who paid for the Beate Klarsfeld
Foundation? Who paid for the study of the
Zündel case condensed in a book called
"Hate on Trial"? (Gabriel Weimann and Conrad
Winn, Hate on Trial, Mosaic Press, Oakville,
1986)
(No, not who you think! At least in part, the
Canadian taxpayers did!)
Dr. Hilberg and Dr. Browning were paid by the
Government of Canada for their expertise to
bolster the Holocaust Promotion Lobby claim.
Browning alone got almost $25,000 for
testifying against Ernst Zündel -
courtesy of the Canadian tax payers.
Do these two facts, that Leuchter was paid,
and that Leuchter did not have the necessary
rubber stamps to do the work he did negate
scientific findings that can be
double-checked and verified? When Leuchter
was asked what stood in the way of someone
being paid to malign his (Leuchter's)
scientific findings, Leuchter stated
simply:
"Anyone who would do that would risk his
professional standing."
Will there be highly reputable professionals
in the engineering field willing to come
forward and replicate what Leuchter did? We
will just have to see.
Revisionist reality is grim. Right now in
Germany, if a scientist verifies the Leuchter
findings, that scientist loses his job and
goes to prison. Another case is the
Lüftl Report. Walter Lüftl is an
Austrian engineer. He was for years president
of the Austrian Chamber of Engineers, the
representative body of all Austrian
engineers. He was a court-approved expert
frequently called to testify in engineering
matters. He investigated Auschwitz and came
to similar conclusions to Leuchter's. The
Austrians promptly charged him criminally for
stating his best engineering viewpoint - that
the Auschwitz "gassing" facilities were
fakes. This caused him lots of grief. As a
consequence, he resigned his position. The
media had a feeding frenzy. After several
years, the case was quietly dropped by the
state. Even worse fared young Germar Rudolf,
a German scientist of the finest
qualifications, with not a speck on his
credentials and his record. He wrote a
magnificent report. (Das Rudolf
Gutachten, Cromwell Press, 1993.)
His life and career are ruined, while
Browning's fortune soared.
For this reason alone, you don't see many
people volunteering to tramp to Auschwitz
with their own engineering gear.
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In
Summary
No one denies the concentration camps.
They were detention centers, in numbers not
nearly as high as is claimed. They were not
killing centers.
In fact, according to the Time Life book
series on prisoners, German concentration
camps numbered less than one-sixth the number
of camps the USA had for the Japanese,
Germans, Italians and P.O.Ws, and
considerably fewer camps than the Allies'
vicious ally, Stalin, had in his Gulag.
These camps like Auschwitz harbored Jews,
among many other nationalities. They also
harbored criminals, including German
criminals. They harbored traitors, spies and
others who were sabotaging Germany at
war.
Once more: They were
detention centers. They were NOT killing
centers.
Nobody survived Stalin's killer squads in
Katyn, and very few if any survived the
icy tomb of Kolyma and many other Stalin
camps. It bears repeating that in the
infamous "Holocaust" we have the only case
of "genocide" that is daily "proven" by
survivors.
It is sadly true that tens of thousands of
all kinds of nationalities died in different
German camps, largely of diseases caused by
malnutrition, overcrowding, lack of hygiene
and lack of medicines. Undoubtedly some died
of neglect and even cruel treatment by brutal
guards. Human nature being what it is and
was, there must have been atrocities. No one
denies there have been individual atrocities.
Who can surmise how a guard might have felt
and acted who was just told that his own baby
was incinerated in the true Holocaust that
was called Dresden - a defenseless,
strategically unimportant city filled with
refugees? What if he just found out that his
own mother lay buried in the ruins of Hamburg
or Berlin? He will not have felt kindly
toward those whom he considered enemies.
Under the circumstances, Jews may have been
high on that list.
These experiences were not unique to the
"Nazi camps."
They were shared by tens of millions in
Stalin's Gulags in political and in
prisoners-of-war camps. This fate was shared
by the Dutch at the hands of the Japanese,
and by the British and Canadians in Burma,
Singapore and Hong Kong. It was shared by the
Americans in the Philippines, and by the
Germans in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia
and France.
And let us not forget that it was shared by
Germans in Germany after the war in the
American Army's Rheinwiesen death camps
described by Canadian author James Bacque in
his book "Other Losses" and in his recently
released new book, "Of Crimes and Mercies" on
the topic. Bacque claims that nine million
Germans died as a direct result of a
deliberate Allied policy.
All of these deaths were tragic deaths. They
were tragic for Jews, and they were tragic
for Germans. They were tragic for all
involved in that war. To quote Dr. Robert
Faurisson, eminent Revisionist: "You keep
talking about war crimes. War itself is the
crime."
To claim there were atrocities and then
equating them to genocide is viciously
deceptive. The statistical and logistical
riddle about where which Jews went to what
camps, and why, and when, was documented a
long time ago by a highly detailed book by
Walter Sanning called "The
Dissolution of European Jewry." (
Sanning: "The Dissolution of European
Jewry.")
In the latest twists and turns of the
Holocaust Promotion Lobby's dance around the
Great Holocaust Myth they will have you
believe that the death camps were mostly in
the "East," (where most of the Jews were said
to have lived) and that few died in the "Old
German Reich" - because it would have been
easier to keep a secret in the East.
Wow! What a flash!
The fact is that tens of thousands of people
were shipped via trains from Auschwitz in
Poland to other camps in the Altreich
(Germany Proper) at the end of the war - Elie
Wiesel, Sabina Citron and Anne Frank among
them.
This was done at German expense and German
inconvenience. It was hardly done to kill
them. They could have been easily left behind
to starve to death in the abandoned
concentration camps as people were scrambling
to get away from Communism.
There were no German
"death camps." Period. People died in
every wartime concentration camp for any
number of sad reasons, including old age.
One final point needs to be made, and it
has to do with the world-famous Auschwitz
Plaque.
For decades, it was claimed on this plaque
that four million people were genocidally put
to death at Auschwitz. As summarized by Dr.
Faurisson, until April 3, 1990, this
"commemorative" Plaque - where the Pope and
presidents of many nations were taken so they
could genuflect to non-existent victims, had
the following inscription in 19
languages:
"Four million people suffered and died here
at the hands of the Nazi murderers between
the years 1940 and 1945".
For almost half a century, approximately
500,000 gullible tourists have been
deliberately deceived by intellectual con-men
and immoral crooks while visiting the theme
park of anti-German lies and horrors at
Auschwitz and Birkenau - where tour guides,
books and films insisted for decades that
everything the visitor saw was ". . . in its
original state."
The new text reads as follows:
"May this place where the Nazis assassinated
1,500,000 men, women and children, a majority
of them Jews from diverse European countries,
be forever for mankind a cry of despair and
of warning." (Luc Rosenzweig,
"Auschwitz, la Pologne et
legénocide" (Tr.'s Note:
Auschwitz, Poland and the genocide), Le
Monde, January 27, 1995, p. 1).)
Why the lowered numbers?
Now the Holocaust Promotion Lobby says,
"Well, gee, that wasn't us. The Soviets
dreamed them up."
According to this line of argument, the
wicked Soviets
". . . purposely
overstated the number of non-Jewish
casualties at Auschwitz-Birkenau by many
times their true numbers. With the end of
communism in Poland and the former Soviet
Union, officials at the Auschwitz museum
have meticulously lowered the casualty
figures in line with the estimates of
historians who, for years, have insisted
that between one and 1 1/2 million people
perished at Auschwitz-Birkenau - 80 - 90%
of them Jews.1 (The Breitbard Document, as
published by the Simon Wiesenthal Center )
Sure, blame the Russians and the Poles.
Don't give the Revisionist credit that the
numbers are shrinking and ever more shrinking
under the magnifying glass of scholarly
scrutiny.
Why not take yet another look at Dr.
Faurisson's revealing chart?
Dr. Faurisson, as is his style, being the
careful scholar and meticulous researcher
that he is, a man who is scrupulously honest
with friend and foe alike, will tell you what
is known so far. (Full explanation in
Appendix A)
The chart above was compiled in December 1995
in response to an ad placed by the Jewish
Anti-Defamation League in the New York Times.
This ad asked: What happened to the missing
Jews?
That is precisely what Revisionists ask - a
question for which they have been hounded,
beaten, spat at, vilified, charged, tried and
jailed and even killed. Why is it "criminal"
to want to know why the numbers are shrinking
and shrinking - like a balloon that has been
pricked?
Is it not good news, rather than bad news,
that millions didn't die at Auschwitz? Is
that not reason to rejoice?
Will we ever really know what happened and
how many victims there were? Not if we cannot
ask questions!
After an intensive
write-in campaign initiated by the
Zündel Team and directed to Mr.
Gorbachev a few years ago, the Soviets
finally released the remaining Death Books
of Auschwitz, which they had captured in
1945.
Surprise! Guess what?
The so-called "four million", revised to
"1.5 million," have shrunk to 74,000
proven deaths!
All meticulously recorded - name, date,
nationality, religion, time, reason and
cause of death!
German researcher Tjudar Rudolf, who is
fluent in German, English, French, Yiddish
and Polish and understands most slavic names
and languages, has painstakingly gone over
all these Soviet/Auschwitz death register
books and totaled the number of Jewish deaths
according to name and religion - even
allowing for slavicized names.
The end result?
Slightly over 30,000
Jewish dead in Auschwitz.
That is what "Holocaust" Revisionism has
achieved!
From all we know as of today, according to
this man's educated analysis, some 30,000
Jews thus lost their lives, mainly to
diseases and overcrowding, in Auschwitz and
surrounding work camps affiliated with the
main Auschwitz complex.
That is a tragic enough number of people. Why
the need to exaggerate? To justify what? A
vicious hate campaign for half a century
against a former enemy? A regime which
entered the pages of history some 50 years
ago?
Is that what this is all about?
Or is it not rather to
keep the Germans in perpetual mental,
political, economic and financial bondage
and to make them susceptible to ever new,
thinly disguised blackmail schemes which
have extorted over 100 Billion DM out of
them for the Holocaust Lobbyists and the
members of their tribe, institutions and
organizations - not to forget the State of
Israel? Which did not even exist at the
time of the alleged crimes that were
supposed to have been committed by the
Nazis?
The ethnic abuse of Germans and Germany
must stop. The Holocaust is not, and never
has been, about this touted "Jewish
victimhood." It is about extortion. Power
politics. And money and revenge and hate!
The German people, most of whom were not even
born when the tragedy of the Second World War
befell their country, have been paying huge,
huge sums of reparations to the Jewish state and
people - many of them beneficiaries who
themselves were equally not yet born when what
the world now has been taught to call "The
Holocaust" took place.
These German people have a right to all the
facts. The Holocaust Promotion Lobby is brazenly
misrepresenting their "facts" to fit its agenda
of intolerance toward all those who would
question its unconscionable, underhanded methods
and goals, employing secret agents, slush funds,
boycotts, threats and Holocaust terrorism.
Victimizing ever new generations of Germans for
the misdeeds, real and imagined, of their
grandfathers and soon great-grandfathers is no
way to bring peace, tolerance and harmony to the
world.
Ernst Zündel is on record saying that the
persecuted of yesterday have become the
persecutors of today.
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April 4, 1996
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Introduction -
The Revisionist
claim:
PART I -
The Holocaust is useful postwar propaganda
that started as a systematic, insidious campaign
during World War II as one of the tactics employed by
moneyed interests to rally the troops and engage the
world, specifically America, in what turned out to be,
essentially, a fratricidal war.
PART II -
There is no proof that the Holocaust, as
depicted by the Holocaust Promotion Lobby and the
highly politicized Hollywood industry, actually
occurred.
PART III -
The numbers of "Holocaust" victims are
irresponsibly exaggerated.
PART IV -
Official state policy towards the Jews in the
Third Reich was emigration, not extermination.
PART V -
Not a single document has been found with
Hitler's signature ordering the extermination of the
Jews.
PART VI -
Zyklon B was a fumigant. It wasn't a practical
agent for mass murder.
PART VII -
Zyklon B was highly toxic. This being so, it
would have been foolish and counterproductive to
endanger Third Reich personnel engaged in allegedly
pulling bodies from the execution chambers shortly
after they were "gassed."
PART VIII -
American execution expert, Fred Leuchter,
delivered a scientific break-through in proving that
the so-called gas chambers at Auschwitz could not have
been used for their alleged purpose."
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