In your article on the convent at Auschwitz (Sept. 20, 1989) you state
that the "Nazi Holocaust. . . killed six million (Jews)" and
that "of the four million people killed at Auschwitz, two and a half
million were Jews".
Can you substantiate these figures and the claim that the victims were
killed deliberately? If not, would it be too much to ask that you follow
normal journalistic practice and prefix each such reference by the word
"alleged" or "purported"?
You would do your readers an additional service by pointing out that the
entire Holocaust thesis (planned genocide of the Jews by the Germans) is
disputed by revisionist historians who argue convincingly that the story
was a hoax perpetrated on the public by Zionists to win sympathy and support
for the State of Israel. Recently the revisionist case was strengthened
by the publication of scientific evidence (Leuchter Report) that the inner
walls of the alleged "gas chambers" had never been exposed to
hydrogen cyanide gas, with the exception of a small chamber used for delousing
clothes.
Whether or not the Holocaust was a hoax, it is becoming clear, thanks to
the courageous efforts of Tolstoy, Irving, Bacque and other independent
writers, that the Allies themselves have much to answer for, not least
of all the moral and material support which they provided to Stalin, much
of which was used to subjugate his own people and to extend his cruel regime
throughout Eastern Europe.
Sincerely,
Ian Macdonald
September 20, 1989