Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

• Rudolf Vrba, an extremely important eyewitness to the Holocaust Lobby, wrote "I Cannot Forgive", a book which stated in the foreword that it was "meticulous" and written with a "fanatical respect for accuracy" (p.2).
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• Under cross-examination, however, by defense lawyer Doug Christie in the Zundel case in 1985, Vrba backpedaled in panic and admitted that the book was merely an "artistic expression" which belonged to the "realm of a literary afternoon."
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• Kurt Gerstein, heavily relied upon by Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg as a "witness" to the Holocaust, was admitted by Hilberg to have been a person who had spoken "pure nonsense." ("Experts' admission: Some gas death 'facts' nonsense" Toronto Sun, January 17, 1985)
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• Fillip Muller, another important witness to shore up the gas chamber claim, wrote in his book "Eyewitness Auschwitz" that muscles of those who had been shot were cut from their legs by the Germans and thrown into a bucket. He claimed the muscles "were still working and contracting, making the bucket jump about."
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• Arnold Friedman, another prosecution witness in the 1985 Zündel trial, testified that he could tell different nationalities being burned in the concentration crematories. "Skinny Polish Jews" as opposed to "fat Hungarian Jews", claimed Friedman, gave off different-colored flames, shooting 14 feet high out of the chimney. (Zündel trial transcript 1985, pages 406-407) It mattered little to this man that flames do NOT shoot out of crematory chimneys, according to court testimony.
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• Dr. Henry Heller was "saved" at Auschwitz when a former colleague, a German, recognized him as he was being led to the gas chambers and "mercifully turned on the water instead of the gas." (Chicago Tribune, May 4, 1975)
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• Rudolf Kauer, a former inmate of Auschwitz, admitted he lied when he accused former Auschwitz personnel of beating a Polish girl on her breasts with a bullwhip, ripping one breast off. "I lied," he said. "That was just a yarn going about in the camp. I never saw it." (Miami Herald, July 7, 1964)
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• Prof. Michael de Bouard said this: "The record is rotten to the core. On one hand a considerable amount of fantasies, inaccuracies, obstinately repeated (in particular concerning numbers) heterogeneous mixtures, generalizations, and on the other hand, very dry critical studies {by Revisionists} that demonstrate the inanity of those exaggerations." (quest-France, August 1986)
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• From Samuel Gringauz, whose style is a bit overwrought, we have the following: "The hyperhistorical complex {of survivors} may be described as judeocentric, logocentric and egocentric. . . This is the reason why most of the memoirs and reports are full of preposterous verbosity, graphomanic exaggeration, dramatic effects, overestimated self-inflation, dilettante philosophizing, would-be lyricism, unchecked rumors, bias, partisan attacks, and apologies." (Jewish Social Studies, January 1950).
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• Yad Vashem director Krakowski, by contrast, speaks plainly. He says that many survivors, wanting to be part of history, may have let their imagination run away with them.

According to an August 1986 article in the Jerusalem Post: "Many were never in the places where they claim to have witnessed atrocities, while others relied on second-hand information given them by friends or passing strangers" according to Krakowski. Over half of 20,000 survivor accounts were found by Yad Vashem to be "unreliable" and "inaccurate."

Have you heard of "Brentar's Dog", whose name was entered as a "victim"?

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

"Truth is never alone; to know one will require the knowledge of many. They hang together in a chain of mutual dependence; you cannot draw one link without many others."

(Joseph Glanvill in "The Vanity of Dogmatizing")

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