* Leni Riefenstahl is as popular as ever. The famous Nazi-era filmmaker responsible for creating the classic "Triumph of the Will" introduced a new photo book to an appreciative audience and to what is described by the Associated Press as "sympathetic applause."
"Ninety percent of what (reporters) say about me is founded on nothing," Riefenstahl claimed in a choked voice. "I am 98 years old, but in all my life, I only worked for Hitler seven months."
* The on-line Irish Times reports that
". . . (t)he Simon Wiesenthal Centre yesterday criticised the international community's "silence" over an outbreak of anti-Jewish acts in the wake of the recent clashes in the Palestinian territories." It wants the UN to pass a resolution condemning the acts. The centre has reported more than 200 anti-semitic acts since the start of clashes in the Palestinian territories and Israel on September 28th, including more than 100 in France.
* Wiesenthalers, be sure to subtract the one below:
An inventive Italian teacher has been charged with "simulation of a crime". Described as being "of Jewish origins in the north-eastern city of Verona", he confessed to having told an anti-semitic fib.
He claimed he had been beaten by youths with metal batons who "hailed the Austrian far-right leader, Joerg Haider."
* Two Berlin teenagers, aged 14 and 17, have gotten themselves an international incident. Those two have confessed to scrawling "dirty Jews" and "Sieg Heil" at a memorial to concentration camp victims. The teen-agers told police that their motive was boredom. The cops let them go.
* No wonder Paul Spiegel, the head of Germany's Jewish community, wondered aloud again if Germany had learned ''the correct lessons'' from its Nazi past. Spiegel feels that reports about attacks on Jewish property etc ". . . have been widely ignored by politicians and law enforcement officials."
* Japan has discovered its very own Schindler - the late Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who ". . . saved thousand of Jews in World War II in defiance of his government."
As deputy Japanese consul in Lithuania, Sugihara ". . . gave Jews entry visas to Japan and helped 6 000 escape the Nazi Holocaust from 1940."
* In Israel, a bunch of Holocaust survivors were up in arms and literally did not want to face the music. According to an Associated Press report,
". . . Holocaust survivors have filed a petition to prevent the first scheduled live performance in Israel of the music of Adolf Hitler's favorite composer, Richard Wagner."
The Simon Wiesenthal Center put it succinctly, according to its director, Efraim Zuroff:
''The whole concept of the state of Israel is that it should be a place where Jews should not suffer these kinds of insults and pain."
The court ruled against the Survivors, however.
Does that mean that Israeli courts deliberately impose insults and pain on Israeli Jews - or does it mean that the Wiesenthalers are caught (again!) with egg on their faces?
* The Austrians were just about to sign what they believed to be the "final papers" on compensation for wronged Jews. Fat chance, we said before. It now turns out that Austria's Jewish community leader, Ariel Muzicant, wants negotiations to include compensation not only for survivors, but for descendants of Jews whose assets were stolen. To the third and fourth generation?
* Britain's Home Secretary, Jack Straw, eager beaver that he is, has launched his very own web site ". . . to help commemorate the millions of people who died in the Holocaust."
Said website includes links to other Holocaust and what are called "race equality" web sites. Expect the traffic to Revisionist web sites to jump, since many of these politically correct websites have links to us to warn the unawares of our existence.
* A Hungarian broadcast of October 22 said the following:
"The world has already condemned the crimes committed by the Nazi party. Holocaust victims still continue to bring their torturers to justice. The world should, in a similar way, condemn the crimes and criminals of Communism. This is included in the draft resolutions submitted to the international congress organized by the National Federation of Political Prisoners [Pofosz].
Pofosz Chairman Jenoe Fonay said it was ". . . intolerable that, by hiding behind previously designed laws, those who had acquired economic power and controlling positions in a good time could again get into power and deal with public matters." He wasn't speaking of the Eskimos.
* Get this: All new FBI agents must now visit the Holocaust Museum! Recently, the FBI has required that every new agent must take a 15-week "ethical training" course. This includes a visit to the Holocaust museum "to show them what happens when there is an absence of the rule of law."
Some, of course, would call this one-sided indoctrination in the Jewish version of the history of World War II - an odd decision for a police agency to take.
* The Boston Globe is after a story that will warm our revisionist hearts. Paul Parks, a black ex-G.I., was scheduled to be honored for helping to "liberate Dachau", even though some wicked people say he wasn't even there.
With a military record described as "riddled with contradictions," Parks was primed for the Raoul Wallenberg Award - even though some people claim there weren't any Negro soldiers in the vicinity of Dachau at the time the camp was taken over and 541 of the guards were murdered - I said murdered! - by US troops on 29 April 1945.
B'nai Brith, who did the honors at the ceremony, sniffed and said no matter! The award could always be stripped afterwards.
"The few people who knew whether Paul Parks was at Dachau, they're dead," one glib B'nai Brith member said.
* There has been a lot of noise about two upcoming television specials to play this week or next, depending on location. One is to feature the David Irving trial in a re-enactment treatment. The other is a special titled "Hate.com: Extremists on the Internet.''
Five minutes ago, word reached the Zundelsite that one of the so-called "hate websites" is owned by a Jewish webmaster. Graffiti on the Net.
* Rumania is taking a second look at Communist atrocities. One Col. Gheorghe Craciun, a former communist secret police officer, is charged with the deaths of 216 prisoners as commander of the Aiud prison four decades ago.
This is a first for Rumania. Thanks to the efforts by former political prisoners, It's the first time a senior communist official from the 1950s is being brought to justice.
Survivors say they are not seeking revenge or even punishment for Craciun, who ran Aiud from 1958 to 1964. They just want the truth to be told about the camp before they die.
* Spain has its own Revisionist troubles. A Muslim cleric who claimed Hitler was ''neither stupid nor mad'' and that a ''world without Jews would be paradise'' is facing possible legal action for "justifying the Holocaust".
Abdelilah el Aroua, 37, the imam for Sabadell's mosque at Can Puigjaner, said ''Hitler realized that (Jews) were ending up with all the wealth of Germany. . . . He merely sprayed insecticide on the worm so that the plant of Germany could grow.''
And while he was on a roll, this Muslim cleric added that he ''didn't agree with exterminating a people. But Hitler was right in his diagnosis" since Jews were a threat to the planet, adding that ''they rule in America and Europe and love money so much they keep it all.''
* Germany is ever more flush with Holocaust memorials and museums. At latest count there are 60 - Berlin having sprouted 6 of its own. And practically all Western countries have more than they need.
The Israeli historian Tom Segev knows why there are so many. Segev argues that countries put their spins on their own.
"In Poland and East Germany," he wrote in the Jerusalem Report magazine, "(they were) used to justify the imposition of communism by the Russians, in West Germany to justify the imposition of democracy by the Americans. For Israel, the Holocaust is an overriding justification for Zionism."
As Roman Halter, a Holocaust survivor and artist, reflected modestly: "The story is so horrendous, one doesn't want to overblow it."
* Zimbabwe is learning the Holocaust Game. Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday said that Whites who fought against independence fighters during the 1970s war would be tried for genocide, according to ZIANA news agency.
"The Americans are still chasing after the Nazis and we will also start looking for the Whites who fought with Smith; they must be arrested," Mugabe said.
Looks like the chickens are coming home to roost in Rumania, Hungary and Zimbabwe. When will the Germans demand that the mass murderers of its soldiers and civilians in Allied camps are hunted down and tried?
* Reuters journalist Philip Pullella has penned an article titled Jewish Scholars Grill Vatican on Holocaust."
It tells of six researchers - three Catholics, three Jews - who have asked for full access to the Vatican archives. Many of the questions ". . . referred directly or indirectly to the need to know what the wartime Pope knew about the Holocaust and when he knew it."
* France's Communists are experiencing trouble and are turning to - you'd never guess it! - Jesus! 100,000 members have deserted the party in the last few years, and according to an October 19, 2000 report by Lee Yanowitch,
". . . with their finances shaky, ranks thinning and leaders on trial for corruption, France's communists are turning to supermodels and Jesus Christ to drum up some cash and boost their flagging image."
Thirty monumental works portraying Christ, mostly paintings but including some sculpture, will go on display on Oct. 25 in the vast hall where the party's national committee holds its strategy sessions.
"The message of the exhibition is clear and simple: the love of others. Communism has a heavy debt to pay. We can't forget the gulags, the Eastern bloc countries," said Jose Fort, a communist who writes for the party newspaper l'Humanite.
"It could be seen as an invitation to understanding and tolerance," he added.
And according to Rene Chevailler, a former resistance fighter: "Perhaps they just want to show that Jesus was the first Communist."
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