June 23, 1996

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:




Today I want to pitch two books because, above all else, I believe that we must take our spiritual nourisment as conscientiously as our vitamins. Unless we heal our souls, we will not heal this planet.

That healing ointment is the Truth-to the extent is is accessible.

First, David Irving's newest book, Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich.

Up-front, I will make a confession: I haven't read a single one of Irving's impressive list of titles. I should have but didn't. I have already made a resolution that I will speedily catch up.

I developed an early aversion to Irving during the "Hitler Diaries" hullabaloo some twenty or so years ago when he was called to Germany as an expert to state if they were genuine or not. At that time, he was still the darling of the media and the Establishment, and I remember well my visceral reaction to what I thought was pandering to a decided enemy.

Since then, I have watched Irving with growing admiration, because to have become an outspoken revisionist has cost this self-assured and dauntless writer plenty. As many of you know, Irving saw the light during the second Zündel Trial in 1988 when he was given the Leuchter Report to study and met Leuchter personally. To his eternal credit, he has steadfastly stuck to his guns on Leuchter's findings.

And since his latest book has been so poisonously vilified, it must contain some mighty uncomfortable truths-or else, why all that hysterical shrieking? Therefore, I let Greg Raven speak who sells this title through the Institute for Historical Review:

The Book 'They' Don't Want You to See!

Defying an international censorship campaign, here at last is David Irving's Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich.

This stunning new biography made headlines around the world in April when one of America's most prominent publishers -- succumbing to what the London Times called "prolonged protests from Jewish pressure groups" -- broke its contract and halted publication.

Before it gave in to a vicious campaign that included death threats, St. Martin's Press was praising Goebbels as "monumental in scope ... Insightful ... draws on masses of previously unpublished materials ... Masterful ... masterpiece of research as well as a compelling story ..."

Now you can enjoy your own copy of Irving's brilliant product of seasoned scholarship and gifted writing. You'll treasure this sumptuous hardcover masterpiece of nearly 700 pages, with more than a hundred photos, many in full color.

The New York Times Book Review calls this a "Rolls Royce" of a book, "filled with costly color photographs," written in "lively and compelling" prose, with "155 pages of footnotes."

Typical of the grudging praise that Goebbels and Irving have been receiving in Britain is the commentary of George Stern in the Literary Review:

"As with his books on Hitler and Göring, Irving tries to show how events looked to Goebbels. He is the first to use Goebbels' full diary, 75,000 pages, recently found in Moscow. He has interviewed many people, including surviving Nazis, and has used innumerable memoirs and diaries. The result is unique, as though Goebbels had a video recorder on his shoulder... Irving supplies well over a hundred photographs, some as sharp and as colourful as if they were taken yesterday... Irving's trademark research into original manuscripts is uniquely impressive".

In his Daily Telegraph review, British historian John Keegan wrote:

"David Irving knows more than anyone alive about the German side of the Second World War. He discovers archives unknown to official historians and turns their contents into densely footnoted narratives that consistently provoke controversy... His greatest achievement is Hitler's War, which has been described as `the autobiography the F=FChrer did not write' and is indispensable to anyone seeking to understand the war in the round. Now he has turned his attention to Joseph Goebbels... The result is a characteristic Irving book: 530 pages of text and 160 pages of relentless references..."

Writing in London Daily Mail, historian Tom Bower commented:

"... Irving attracts credibility and attention by his indefatigable energy, intelligence and resourcefulness. Compared with most British historians, often a dull, lazy breed, Irving has spent a lifetime ceaselessly crisscrossing the globe to gather eyewitness evidence about World War II... As a formidable researcher, Irving has regularly surprised and challenged other historians and his archival armoury could not be ignored. ..."

The price is $49.95, plus shipping ($3 domestic, $5 foreign). For orders of more than one book, include $1 for each additional book. California residents must add 7.75% ($3.87) state tax.

The address is:
Institute for Historical Review
P.O. Box 2739
NewportBeach, CA 92659, USA.

For faster service, fax your credit card order to: 714-631 0981. Do NOT send me orders by e-mail. Especially, do NOT send your credit card numbers by e-mail, as e-mail is not a secure method of communicating.

The second book, also sold through the IHR, is You Gentiles-also available through IHR, though I am not sure of the price. I don't remember when a book has so impressed me as this one. It was written by Maurice Samuel, a Jew, author of The Outsider, Maurice Samuel: I, the Jew and Whatever Gods.

To say it is a stunning book does not come close to describing its stylistic beauty and penetrating insights. I started underlining it, and I have quotes on practically every single page. This reading is a must for anyone who wants to understand just what the coming struggle for the people on this planet is about. The author speaks of "us" and "them" not as people so much as of spiritual forces that essentially serve different cosmic mandates-and that this primal duality is of such depth and fundamental cleavage we can't avoid its tragic consequences, no matter how we try.

Here is one passage, just to give you a flavor:

". . . another question, more subtle and disturbing, must be faced. . . There are two life-forces in the world I know: Jewish and Gentile, ours and yours. If this be a truth, we must not be driven from it if, like many other truths, it is overlaid and obscured by the irrelevancies of life, by the intersection and confusion of currents.

Here is the gentile life-force; here is the Jewish life-force. What their origin was I cannot say. I can only surmise dimly what circumstances, reacting upon what original impulses, produced the Jewish life-force, a consistent and coherent force, a direction in human thought and reaction.

To you others belongs the gentile life-force, a mode of life distinct from ours. . .

Your outlook on life, your dominent reactions, are the same today as they were two thousand years ago. All that has changed is the instrument of expression. . . the cleavage is there, abysmal and undeniable. In the main, we are forever distinct. "


Other, often-quoted passages are:

"We Jews are accused of being destroyers: whatever you put up, we tear down. . . We are not iconoclasts deliberately: we are not enemies of your institutions simply because of the dislike between us. . . .

Because your chief institution is the social structure itself, it is in this that we are most manifestly destroyers. . . You feel our disruptive difference most keenly, most resentfully, in our deliberate efforts to change your social system. . . we cannot help ourselves: any more than you can help resenting our interference. While we live we must give utterance to our spirit. The most insistent effort on your part will fail to change our nature. . .

In everything we are destroyers-even in the instruments of destruction to which we turn for relief. The very socialism and internationalism through which our choked spirit seeks utterance, which seem to threaten your way of life, are alien to our spirit's demands and needs. . .

A century of partial tolerance gave us Jews access to your world. In that period the great attempt was made, by advance guards of reconciliation, to bring our two worlds together. It was a century of failure. . .

We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers for ever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands. We will forever destroy because we need a world of our own, a God-world, which is not in your nature to build."


Here is a shocking book, and a magnificent book. Above all else, it is a truthful book. Whatever else our side might sometimes righteously and sometimes in frustration heave at the "other side" or, better said, against the "other side"-one theme recurs in street talk and in the most scholastic essays: "You cannot ever trust a Jew to speak the truth."

Here is one Jew who speaks the truth. Trust him-or suffer the consequences! This book will deepen you.

Ingrid


Thought for the Day:

"Show me the books he loves,
and I shall know
The man far better than
through mortal friends."


(S. Weir Mitchell)



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