There are two new developments of interest to us. One is the blossoming controversy over the Adolf Eichmann diaries. Eichmann, as most will remember, was hanged in Israel in 1962 for his alleged masterminding of the Jewish genocide. While waiting for his execution, he wrote a 1300 page diary. Israel has, so far, refused to release this highly interesting document. His sons now want it for themselves.
The other development is the German/Zionist billy club tried out for size on amazon.com, the largest online bookstore website in the world, located in the USA but with branches apparently in several countries, including Germany.
Amazon sells books the German government disapproves of, and after the appropriate noises by the Holocaust Lobby, an attempt is now underway to tell an American company what it can or cannot sell on the Net.
This will be interesting - and fun to watch from the sidelines. It is also an important and precedent-setting case for all of us who deal in ideas, be it in books, tapes etc.
First, Eichmann.
I happened to do a syndicated live radio show last night, of which more shall be said later. Suffice it to say here that naturally, the Holocaust tale of the "gassings" came up. The host got aggravated and pointed out in a voice choked with wrath that was it not a fact that Eichmann had "confessed" to the gassings while in prison?
To which I said sweetly, and here I quote from memory:
"Yes, I know. Just a couple of days ago I read about an Eichmann diary controversy that has erupted. Apparently the Israelis are sitting on that diary and won't release it. Isn't that odd?"
To which he said: "What good is it? It was written while Eichmann was in prison."
To which I said: "Just now you said that he confessed. What good is a confession from prison?"
Now I regret I wasn't quick enough on my feet to add that Israel is the only country in the so-called "democratic" world that had its Supreme Court legitimize torture. What do we know what Eichmann had to endure while he tried to write this document for history?
What is exceedingly interesting about this matter is that Israel has refused for so long to release this diary. More than a few people worldwide have been speculating for a very long time that had it been an incriminating document against the Germans and their policies, you and I would have heard about it plenty in the last 38 years.
I have before me several news items, from which I am quoting below:
* The Associated Press, in an article titled "Debate on Eichmann Memoirs rages" by Dina Kraft, August 8, 1999:
"Still another party is weighing in on what to do with the jailhouse memoirs of executed Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.
"Lawyer Amos Hausner, whose father prosecuted Eichmann in a dramatic trial in Israel nearly four decades ago, said Sunday he opposed efforts to release the memoirs and would do whatever he could to see they remain under wraps.
"Repeating the same line of argument his father Gideon Hausner used to convince then-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in 1962 to keep Eichmann's 1,300 page manuscript locked up in Israel's state archives, the younger Hausner said it would be dangerous to publish what he called a war criminal's lies.
"'There cannot be two versions about something as horrible as the Holocaust,' Hausner said. (...)
"The Justice Ministry said last week that it was considering the request by Holocaust researchers to release the manuscript and that a decision was expected soon."
* Another Associated Press article by Karin Laub, dated today:
"The Justice Ministry said the 1,300 pages in which Eichmann tries to portray himself as a mid-level official who only followed Hitler's orders would be released at the 'earliest opportunity' in a scholarly fashion, with background and commentary." (...)
(Here I am interspersing a few of Ernst Zundel's comments to the various articles)
EZ: "Let's wait and see how they are giving it the Zionist slant."
AP:
"An attorney for Dieter Eichmann said today that his client is seeking sole publication rights and objects to letting a third party, such as a research institute, handle the text's release."
EZ:
It looks like the Eichmann son has done his homework and has learned a few things about Zionist methods.
AP:
"Eichmann remained unrepentant. He tried to back up his contention that he was merely a mid-level official. He quoted from war-era documents and provided a detailed account of the Nazi policy toward European Jews, chronologically and country-by-country, (Israel state archivist) Friesel said."
EZ:
In German we say: 'That's where the hare sits in the pepper!' That is what's troubling them! That detailed account of Nazi policy is what gives them the nightmares - for it will be very embarrassing for the Zionist position to have it revealed to the world the meshing of German National Socialist racial policy with Zionist racial and financial policies in the 1930s and 1940s.
AP:
"Tom Segev, an Israeli journalist who repeatedly pressed for the release of the material, said Israeli officials apparently were concerned that Eichmann's attempt at a whitewash would be used as propaganda material by neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers."
EZ:
Blast those Holocaust deniers, right? Tom Segev, courageous researcher and historian that he is, exposed parts of the Nazi-Zionist collaboration in his book, The Seventh Million. (1993 by Haim Watzman Publisher: Hill and Wang . ISBN 0-8090-1570-6) It's clear that Segev knows that the Holocaust is being exploited by Zionists - then and now!
AP:
"However, Segev has said Israel could not keep the material under wraps while at the same time demanding that other countries open their Holocaust archives."
EZ:
"I bet you it's another "peace process" style tactic with endless delays, explanations, put-off dates, unkept deadlines, broken promises etc. What does it all mean? It means: Right on! They can't demand from the Swiss, the French, the Argentines et al "to come clean" - to open even private banking information to Jewish inspection, and then hypocritically hide Eichmann's account of events.
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The second item is the amazon.com matter.
A few weeks ago there were slight rumblings in the media that amazon.com did the unthinkable: They openly marketed politically incorrect books the Wiesenthalers don't approve of.
When I saw that, I said to myself: "Well, here we go. Another Marco Polo." As many will still remember, the Japanese Marco Polo magazine was financially destroyed when it ran an article a few years ago casting doubt on the holiest of holy Western cows.
And sure enough, before long we heard that amazon.com was in deep, deep doodoo on the stock market. Up to very recent times, they had done exceedingly well.
What happened? Again, your guess is as good as my guess.
Here are snippets of yet another AP article, dated August 9, 1999 and titled "Germany Probes Sale of Books on Web":
AP:
"The government is investigating whether Germans can circumvent laws banning Nazi books in Germany by buying them from Internet booksellers, the Justice Ministry said Monday.
"Under German law, books espousing Nazi philosophy are banned from public display or sale, punishable by up to five years in prison."
EZ:
Maybe this will finally bring home to intellectuals of North America what "freedom" Bonn-Republic-style looks like.
AP:
"But while Amazon.de -- the German affiliate of Amazon.com -- does not sell books such as Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf,' a German could easily access the U.S.-based site and have the book delivered to Germany. The issue was first raised after the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center wrote letters of complaint to the justice ministry and several Internet book stores." (...)
EZ:
Those democratic Wiesenthalers! I wonder how they will explain this latest and blatant attempt at dictating from Los Angeles to people in far-off Germany what they can buy and might want to read. They already have muzzled ISPs in Canada from carrying websites they don't like. Will they be able to do it to America? Or will people say: "Enough is enough!"?
Amazon.com is not the Zundelsite. The freedom of speech struggle has vastly expanded with this latest censorship move. It will be fun to see two giants wrestle.
Thought for the Day:
"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way - everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want - everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear - anywhere in the world."
(FDR, Message to Congress, January 6, 1941)