This document below was prepared and posted on the Zundelsite as an "Introduction to Revisionist Thought" during the first week of January, 1996. It was meant to be a lead-in to an Internet debate with another website, Nizkor, a "Holocaust Promotion Lobby" website.

This debate was aborted after the Simon Wiesenthal Center was notified of this debate and immediately went into an all-out offensive, starting with an article in the New York Times January 10, 1996, followed by 2000 letters to ISP's and university presidents in an attempt to prevent Revisionist material from being published on the Web.

In response to this censorship move, "computer kids" and cyberspace journalists worldwide took up the "sheltering" of the Zundelsite by creating Zundelsite Mirrors. From mid-January to mid-February, it was high electronic drama as in the most prestigous universities, "Zündel-Mirrors" sprang up spontaneously. We know of Zündel-Mirrors as far away as Australia.

The eventual outcome of this "first ever" Internet Cyberspace Stand-off and similar battles for Freedom of Speech on the Net was the US Communications Decency Act, rammed through the US Congress by special interest groups but recently dismissed as unconstitutional by three Philadelphia judges.

This judgment, presently, is on appeal.

The struggle for Freedom of Speech on the Net continues.

Ernst Zündel Replies:
Rebuttal #1:

Before I get into the actual rebuttal, I would just like to call attention to a few important points in (Nizkor's) detailed, elaborate summary:

1. I am described by Nizkor, citing Canada's Security Intelligence Review Committee, as a ". . . prolific publisher of hate literature." That is not quite correct.

In Canada, the distribution of hate literature is a criminal offense, as is bank robbery and child molestation. If you call me a bank robber in print and I am not a bank robber, that is called libel. If you call me a child molester and I am not a child molester, that is called libel also.

You called me in electronic print a ". . . prolific publisher of hate literature." You have just libeled me.

I have lived and worked in Canada for almost 40 years and have never been convicted of having published and/or distributed hate literature in that country. I have never even been charged with having published and/or distributed hate literature in Canada, although in Canada there are such things as "hate laws."

In point of fact, various judicial and police bodies, after extensive study, have specifically cleared me of that charge. Had there been proof, my enemies would have made sure I would have been charged and convicted.

I have been charged with ". . . spreading false news," a frivolous charge a malcontent, multi-millionaire Jewess brought against me. It cost Canadians approximately $6 million . . . and all, for what? The Supreme Court of Canada decided in the end that society may be enriched by cultural and intellectual diversity, which does include unpopular views on history and other matters of discomfort to certain minorities.

Below I summarize 8 points to serve as "Holocaust" Revisionism 101. Before I do so, I would like to state what I mean when I refer to certain individuals and groups collectively as the "Holocaust Promotion Lobby."

I use the phrase as a generic term to describe those people who have a vested interest in keeping the Holocaust Myth alive and who will act politically to make sure that this happens.

The Holocaust Promotion Lobby is a summarizing construct meant as a shortcut to describe a subset of the human race, most but not all of whom are Jews, with unique and identifying social and political characteristics and dedicated to the maintenance and enhancement of a dogma called the "Holocaust."

I use this phrase for summarizing purposes, as in "The Flower Generation" describing a hedonistic youth culture or "The Jet Set" describing the rich.

I will leave it up to each individual, Gentile or Jew, to decide for himself whether or not he belongs in that group.

What Revisionists are offering below is the state of the art on Revisionism as of right now. The final word is not yet in; it will come when more people in all kinds and sorts of disciplines will kneel into the murky matter of the "Holocaust" and find out for themselves was is and isn't true.

To capture the essence of what follows below, readers will need to understand that, after years of insisting that ". . . the Revisionists don't MERIT a response!" and refusing to engage in debate, at the beginning of the year a serious debate was actually planned - or so, at least, we thought.

A world-wide censorship move was unleashed to stop this debate from happening. Part of this effort by our opposition apparently caused Nizkor to back out of the debate, insisting that they merely talked of "linking." It is unfortunate that a debate didn't happen, but that is now water under the bridge.

The Nizkor folks now say that they prefer to "link," so we will let them "link." We would have liked a real debate with mutual and respectful cooperation. However, that was not to be, but since we promised we would answer a rebuttal, that is what we are doing now.

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By way of introduction, Revisionism has taken hold as an intellectual revival movement all over the world. People are beginning to ask questions about the Holocaust. These questions are uncomfortable. No longer can the Holocaust Promotion Lobby ignore the global interest in the TRUE facts surrounding very murky claims pertaining to the "Holocaust" by shouting "Anti-Semitism!"

In essence, Revisionism claims can be grouped into eight fairly distinct topics. They are, as elaborated below:  

This English document comes in eight parts. It is the original document on which the following translations are based. It summarizes the following eight Revisionist claims, broadly sketched: