Before we get into the "newsy" part, my apologies for missing last Sunday's Revisionist summaries. I was on the road for all of 10 days and could not pull together what my ZGram readers sent me. But now I am back, and things will be on even keel again.
Now to the world's Holocaustomania - and its opposing forces:
* One of my Zundelsite scouts reports from Germany: "Notice how the so-called 'shrinking' NPD is attracting the support of former right-wingers and former left-wingers. This is no surprise as Nationalism has positioned itself as the only voice of Germany against the Zionist-backed New World Order."
* The NPD, by the way, is already making plans to have supporters do a protest march on January 27 against the Holocausters. The specific goal of the march, the NPD said, was to protest plans, already well advanced, to build a Holocaust memorial near the Brandenburg Gate. In a statement, the party claimed that the Bundestag, the German parliament, had approved the project "against the will of a majority of Germans."
The report also said that other parties and organizations would also take part in "peacefully taking their opposition onto the streets of Berlin," and that the program would include an address to marchers congregating in front of the Brandenburg Gate. The city-state's senator for interior affairs, Eckhart Werthebach, called the planned march an "obvious provocation," and said he would examine possible legal avenues to have it banned.
* Another cyber-correspondent wrote: "Perhaps you are aware of the intelligent and honest Jewish-American author's recent book on the "Holocaust Industry" (Professor Dr. Norman Finkelstein's terminology). Other than the New York press, Finkelstein's publishers, Verso, reports that the rest of the American press has virtually ignored it. Who do you suppose controls all those newspapers and magazines, so that Professor Finkelstein's book is robbed of coverage afforded other authors? Don't be coy -- both you and I know the answer."
* And speaking of books: A magnificent revisionist anthology called "Dissecting the Holocaust", edited by scientist-in-exile Germar Rudolf, has just come out - and an absolute beauty it is!
The German language version was banned in Germany. The censors went hogwild, confiscated all the negatives and plates and raided hundreds of German homes for copies of the Forbidden Fruit. Adventurous souls may want to thumb their noses at the censors and purchase it in English by going directly to www.vho.org
* Apparently the ZDF Special "Who's Who in Revisionism" (my words. . . ) was run on German national television - for the third time! Some Zundelsite correspondents gleefully called it "an advertisement for Revisionism" since several URLs were given. I remember Ernst Zundel telling me how he cleverly positioned the Zundelsite URL over his shoulder on some boxes while he did the interview. :)
* According to an Associated Press release, ". . . controversy raged in Israel Sunday after a rabbi, Ovadia Yosef, who heads the biggest ultra-Orthodox political party, said the 6 million Jews who perished in the Nazi Holocaust died because they were "reincarnations of sinners." Well, the good rabbi must know!
* Jewish leaders and government officials in Germany have turned to celebrities to help rally public opinion against "neo-Nazis".
"The situation in Germany is unbearable," wailed Paul Spiegel, chairman of the Central Council of Jews. "We are not going to let a couple of thousand extremists ruin what we have built up over 55 years."
* Inquiring minds would like to know the name of the ". . . German army sergeant" suspected of registering a 'Heil Hitler' Web address last week. Authorities have refrained from identifying the suspect. Had he been a Revisionist, you bet we would have yet another shrieking witchhunt on our hands.
* According to AP reporter Angela Doland, the well-known Internet giant Yahoo! Inc. is back in French court in a legal battle over who should be held responsible for "online racism."
At issue is Yahoo's auction site where Third Reich paraphernalia can be bought and sold. Yahoo is pleading freedom of speech. Sounds familiar? We have been told that Yahoo is a Jewish-owned internet tycoon enterprise, and we assume the shoe is on the other foot.
* In Germany an interesting argument is being put forth against the rising tide of immigration: Put tighter controls on immigration in order to dampen "right wing extremism."
It isn't "neo-Nazis", we point out, who are streaming into the Fatherland.
* One Kristina Rotkirch from the former Soviet Union reports jubilantly that ". . . Russia's long silence over the holocaust has been broken."
"Now that Russia has recognised the place of the holocaust in the history of humanity, we can consider our country to be among the civilised nations who see this catastrophe as a human tragedy, and not just a national one", Russia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Social Affairs, Valentina Matvienko, writes in the foreword to the Russian language version of the book "Tell ye your children... A book about the Holocaust in Europe 1933-1945."
This seems to be the same book in translation that was force-fed to every parent in Sweden at the initiative of the Swedish government after officials discovered that there were a dozen or so Swedish revisionists getting somewhat vocal.
This book has an in interesting little comment slipped in - mentioning that after Babi Yar, a report was submitted to the People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs that changed the word "Jew" to "peaceful Soviet citizen".
Why-oh-why?
Ilya Altman, a Russian historian, shrugs her shoulders. She notes that ". . . up to the time of Perestroika, the Soviet Union did not want to see the Jews as a special category among the victims of the Nazis . . . The question involves such extremely complicated chains of cause and effect. Germany's intense and effective propaganda in the occupied areas was an important factor. The Jews were accused of all of the crimes of the Stalin regime, and they were killed specifically as carriers of the communist ideology'."
* Even poor Einstein isn't immune from attacks by revisionists, as rumor has had it for quite a while. Now it turns out that Einstein's brilliant E=mc2 was not his idea after all. It was in fact developed by Olinto De Pretto, an industrialist from Vicenza and published in a scientific magazine, Atte, in 1903.
So at least reports one professor Umberto Bartocci, a mathematical historian at the University of Padua.
Normally, plagiarism is a serious matter. However, Edmund Robertson, professor of mathematics at St. Andrew's University, has found a fine solution: "De Pretto deserves credit if his contribution can be proven. Even so, it should not detract from Einstein."
This news report, by the way, was completely censored in US mass media, and numerous US science magazines refused to print the report.
* Finally, a German-based ZGram reader wrote the following:
"I trust you may find this interesting. "Mr Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr." has just opened here. Will send some reviews if you wish."
Of course we wish! Please send!
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