I feel a bit guilty for having waited until today to comment on the conclusion of the Irving-Lipstadt trial, but I was traveling and taking advantage of a little holiday ". . . far from the maddening crowd" (to borrow a well-worn but apt phrase) and away from my trusty computer. Now you know why there was no Thought for the Day for more than a week! I did not have with me my Bartlett's Quotations - a reference source I dearly love.
Today and tomorrow I will try to catch up to bridge the hiatus between the concluding arguments and the judge's final decision.
The thoughts below are excerpts from Ernst's March Power letter. Tomorrow I will add my own.
At first, the media tried its best to put the usual poisonous spin on the story. Irving countered that wisely by putting the daily court transcripts next to the poison pen lies, twists and turns of the opposition and its Holocaust Hustlers. Here was the Classic Irving at work. The great provocateur got under everybody's skin with his sharp tongue, which at times proved even too much for the judge - and poor Rampton, the Lipstadt-Penguin lawyer, repeatedly was on his feet, objecting to this, that and the other. Doug Christie told me years ago that the more the defense objects, the more you know you are scoring points. Christie was right! Irving was scoring points!
Soon the media would virtually black out testimony - a tactic which of course was defeated by Irving's Internet postings. One fellow by the name of Rae West performed sterling service by working tirelessly, day and night, to keep the Irving site updated. <http://www.fpp.co.uk/> Eventually, since practically everybody depended on the website for straight information, ignoring the traditional media, the politically correct scribblers were forced to cover the trial - or lose credibility.
Thank God one more time for the Internet!
Sensational articles about the Irving trial, with shocking headlines and even more astonishing "Irving quotes" appeared the world over.
The Holocaust on Trial!
D.D. Guttenplan, a Jewish writer whose 19-page article I have mentioned before and whose article appeared in the February 2000 Atlantic Monthly, knew that the Holocaust was on trial in London. (...) This in-depth article, the first of its length and depth in the American mainstream media since 1945, is quite remarkable - even though it is replete with Jewish agenda thinking. It still made some remarkable admissions, ". . . no soap from Jewish fat", ". . . no homicidal gas chambers used in Dachau", ". . . non-existence of gas chambers at Belsen" and many other concessions fought for so tenaciously for decades by Revisionists from Rassinier to Faurisson, from Barnes to Butz and Mark Weber.
(An 80-page booklet of response and rebuttal by me to Guttenplan's article is available for a donation towards printing and postage for US $10.)
Guttenplan's article, even though very important, was only one of what must be hundreds of articles about the trial around the world, especially the English-speaking world. There was even some German fall-out, but hardly anything in France or the other European countries. This shows that the Holocaust Protection Laws in place on the European continent had their effect. (...)
Manna from Heaven: Fall-out from the Irving Trial
I do not intend to give my friends "Irving overload" - however, many of my far-flung supporters live on farms, on mining properties, on Australian sheep stations, in the Argentinian Pampas, or in Namibia (German Southwest-Africa). They will not readily have access to newspaper vendors who sell the Manchester Guardian or the Times of London.
Here are just a few quotes from some of the newspapers I have mentioned in previous newsletters. I am taking these quotes at random to illustrate my point. I will use the most recent ones first:
* Eric Fettmann of the New York Post wrote this on March 8, 2000, headlined "Fettmann: The Holocaust can't be denied." He calls Irving "Hitler's spin artist", then writes ". . . for Irving has been in the forefront of a sinister and dangerous campaign that has allowed Holocaust denial to slowly but surely creep into otherwise respectable institutions."
[Re Auschwitz] 'It's baloney, it's a legend." He continues: "Make no mistake: Students in the not-too-distant future will take Irving's work seriously because some legitimate publishers and academicians remain willing to lend him credibility."
So that's it?! Irving has to be destroyed now - while they still feel powerful enough to do it - for soon, it will be too late?! That's the crux of the whole Irving case. They felt they had to stone the messenger so that others could not hear his message. They did it via character assassination - and now the character assassins are on trial in London!
Next, Fettmann lets slip that "Penguin and Ms. Lipstadt have already spent close to 2 million [British Pounds] on the case."
Wow! Already? Gee whiz, and here I thought I had big legal expenses! By my calculation, that's almost 3-4 million US dollars - and the case is not over yet! In fact, there will almost certainly be appeals!
Then Fettmann goes on to quote Irving's arguments: "The Holocaust, he says, was not a systematic attempt by Nazi Germany to annihilate European Jewry. . . only a few hundred thousand Jews died in German camps, mostly through disease and overwork. There were no gassings at Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps, says Irving". And then comes the quote they really hate: "More people died in the back seat of Senator Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddik than died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz."
That one is truly priceless! And they bought it for themselves to the singing tune of $3-4 million dollars?
Irving then goes on to hammer Wiesel the Weasel and says "the Holocaust is boring. If it's on TV, I switch it off." No wonder they are mad at him! He has the nerve to find their Holiest of Holies boring?!
* In a different section of the same paper a Jew by the name of Daniel Aaronovitch admits how useful the huge Holocaust "dead" have proven in stopping a Nazi or Fascist revival!
These write-ups show clearly that the Holocaust is their chief weapon! It is their shield and their battle ax! They know it! That's why they fight so hard to keep it and protect it!
* Aftenposten of Oslo, on March 8, 2000, had a somewhat strange article on Irving, headlined "In the War Room of David Irving." They quoted Irving as saying, ". . . the Holocaust school says that our documents are false, or that they are camouflaging reality. But they themselves have no documents. . . "
* The Berliner Morgenpost of March 8, 2000 brings a remarkable article - for the German journalist who wrote it, dangerously honest and balanced - restating once again Irving's core arguments: "Hitler did not order the extermination of the Jews. There is no proof for the mass murder via gas chambers in Auschwitz. The [gas] chambers which are shown there to tourists were built by the Poles." And they once again quote Chappaquiddik! Amazing! I was convicted in Germany for saying far less and fined over DM 30,000 in the early nineties. Are our labors bearing fruit, and have things changed - or what?!!!
* The London Sunday Telegraph of March 5, 2000 again quotes Irving saying that the gas chambers shown to tourists in Auschwitz were built by the Poles after the war as a tourist attraction. They, too, quote Chappaquiddik - man, how our enemies must hate that quote when they see it pop up everywhere!
Here is a telling excerpt from that article:
Last Tuesday, the Israeli government released the memoirs of Adolf Eichmann, which had been hidden in Israeli state archives for 40 years, to assist the defendants in the Irving libel case. Eichmann - the Nazi officer who carried out the attempted 'liquidation of Europe's Jews - describes watching the gassing of Jews in sealed trucks during 1942, and makes reference to the 'genocide against Jewry".
Mr. Rampton asks: "I expect you've been reading the Eichmann memoirs?"
"No, not with the little time I have, replies Mr. Irving, as though apologising to a fellow historian.
"Well, if you are, look for the word gaseinlage." [sic. Actually, Vergasungslager].
"Gaseinlage?" [sic. Actually Vergasungslager].
Mr. Rampton answers with brutal, precise emphasis: "Yes. Gassing camps."
So Eichmann, the man Israel kidnapped, held for years in solitary confinement, controlled all his reading matter, visitors, food, water, medicine - and who, most importantly, is now conveniently dead! - gets to prove "gassing camps"? Typical for them!
* The Independent of March 4 covers the Irving case again, as this paper has done from the beginning. They paraphrase Irving: "What he does say is that Jews were not gassed at Auschwitz, that Hitler did not order the extermination of Jews, and that there was no systematic plan to do so."
Then the reporter goes on to say: "Eyewitness accounts of the gas chambers by Auschwitz survivors have also been rubbished. The evidence of Henryk Tauber, who has told how he was forced to help incinerate the corpses of up to 2,500 Jews a day at Auschwitz stretched 'a reasonable historian's credibility,' Mr. Irving said."
And in response to Lipstadt-Penguin witness Jan van Pelt's assertion, ". . . that the use of gas chambers as an instrument of murder at Auschwitz was a 'moral certainty', Mr. Irving maintained that there were no holes in the roofs of the buildings through which cyanide pellets could have been fed."
The article closes by saying: "But Mr. Irving, claiming the chambers were used to delouse corpses of people who had died of natural causes, challenged Professor van Pelt to dig up the chambers and find proof of the holes."
Such are the media reports of the day! I could go on and on - but I think my readers get the message. The Holocaust was on trial in England - and the Holocaust Hustlers have lost a few teeth!
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Thought for the Day:
"This 'one world' will also require a common spiritual foundation, a religious basis. According to an official of the Canadian B'nai Brith organization, Jan J. Kagedan, this will be the Holocaust faith."
(Toronto Star, November 26, 1991)