Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

I have just returned from a weekend lecture in Vancouver, Canada - an experience I shall describe tomorrow. Some experience as to inner impact as to what we are confronting now in Canada!

Meanwhile, let me wake up first with my beloved pot of coffee and ship you a "canned" ZGram meanwhile just to let those of you who knew that I was traveling know that I am back home, safe and energized, and ready to attack my overflowing basket of e-mail.

Here is the ZGram I wrote a couple of weeks ago as a "stand-by" ZGram in case of a clogged schedule or unforeseen events:

"Now that another legal round - more like half of a baker's dozen, actually - will soon be upon Ernst, I thought it might be interesting to get a preview of what happens in these courtroom when so-called "specialists" in Holocaustomania confront our Real Pro. It is interesting to know what kind of revelations come out of cross-examination of Holocaust promoters in court cases. Here is one summary of a witness for the State against EZ - a witness called Christopher Browning.

This Washington State professor said that the Crown (e.g., the taxpayers) paid him $150 an hour, plus expenses, to come to Toronto and testify that Ernst Zundel has spoken a falsehood. He said the Yad Vashem paid him $30,000 to write some books, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center paid him for some articles. He had testified that several documents, presented by the prosecutur, "disprove" many of the points made in "Did Six Million Really Die?"

Consider his "evidence":

• Browning admitted that he had never seen a gas van, and didn't know how one could work. He had, he said, not researched gas vans in German military archives, and had not seen any technical drawings, plans, technical literature or photos related to gas vans.
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• He admitted that the Yad Vashem, an Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Horror Museum, had supplied the photos of gas vans - and the captions under them - for his book Fateful Months.
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• He said that although he was unaware of standard German Army fumigation vans to help delouse soldiers' uniforms etc.. They "could" have existed, and that gas chambers "could" be used for delousing.
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• Heinrich Himmler's Posen Speech, he asserted, was the key document of the Holocaust. But, he admitted, he had never heard a recording of it. He also confessed he didn't know how it came into Allied hands, or that it was typed by three different typewriters, snipped and glued together of different pieces that had been spliced together. He never went to the German radio archives to listen to it.
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• Browning admitted he didn't know the US government stamped the captured Goebbels Diaries as "The US government neither warrants nor guarantees the authenticity of this document." He did however, rely heavily on these diaries to prove his holocaust theories, explained Defense Counsel Doug Christie.
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• This historian said he talked to prosecutors of alleged war criminals and asked those prosecutors for documents. He did not read or quote from trial transcripts. He admitted he neither talked to defense counsels of such trials, nor asked them for documents. But he denied that he researched the Holocaust with a view to proving any specific opinions.
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• Browning admitted he had seen only one of the aerial photos taken of Auschwitz from December 1943 to January 1945 on a wall display of the Yad Vashem Museum in Israel. He hadn't noticed, he said, whether smoke was coming out of chimneys of crematoria in the photo he saw.
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• The professor labeled the White Book, a report in which the National Socialist government of Germany explained why it invaded Poland, "Nazi propaganda." But he admitted he had never seen the White Book, had never read it, and had relied only on what other historians said about it to form an opinion.
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• He admitted that in his writing, he referred to only one volume of Hans Frank's (governor of the "General Government" area of Poland) 43 volume diary, and left out Frank's later Nuremberg denial of any guilt. He also said he hadn't studied the 1945 Nuremberg documents on Frank.
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• He had not studied the details of the German occupation of Poland, he admitted.
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• Auschwitz was not his area of expertise, he admitted, and he hadn't been in one of the eastern camps in 17 years.
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• Under cross-examination he couldn't say with certainty if the vast majority of German Jews escaped the German borders of 1938 or not.

All that to the tune of $150 an hour! Stay tuned. There's more to come from Ottawa.

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

"This wouldn't be the first time I've arrested somebody and then built my case afterwards."

(James Garrison)

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