As I announced before, on Sunday there will be two more
demonstrations called "Free Ernst Zundel!" - one in the Toronto
area, and one in Edmonton, Alberta. Be there - if you can't, send a brief
message to 1315038@pop.primus.ca
or (if that email is blocked) to cafe@canadafirst.net. Further instructions
about the rally are on the Zundelsite, www.zundelsite.org
, and on many other websites.
Below is a message written by Dr. Robert Faurisson, Europe's
premier Revisionist. I have seldom seen the essence of Ernst Zundel as
closely captured as in this one. Be sure to spread it far and wide - now
that he is in prison, Ernst Zundel is getting more attention and respect in
sheer numbers worldwide, thanks to the Internet, than he ever did in all his
struggles since he declared war on the Holocaust hoax more than thirty years
ago:
Robert FAURISSON 21 March 2004
For Ernst Zündel
These lines are not addressed to those who already know
Ernst Zündel - the man, his deeds and his writings - but to the Canadians
who know only what the mass media, taken together, have chosen to report
about him. It may be feared that those Canadians have been led to misjudge
E. Zündel and, perhaps, hate him.
To those people, who, in my view, are mistaken, I should
say: examine with care the image of this man that most of the media in
your country try to give you, whilst practically never letting you hear
his voice. Use your discernment. To start, be on your guard against the
repetitive, hollow and vague nature of the accusations brought against
him. Do not let yourselves be taken in by the obsessive use of words like
"Nazi" or "anti-Semite". These terms are used against
him as easily and mechanically as stock insults. They are not born of any
attempt at analysis. Quite the contrary: it is people who want to spare
themselves just such an effort who resort to them. These words are
employed to kill those to whom they are applied or, at the very least, to
gag or send them to prison. Most often they are vituperations let fly to
vent spleen. Uttering them is somewhat like spitting, and spitting has
never been an argument.
Ask yourselves whether E. Zündel, rather than the monster
described for you, may not quite simply be a man attached to his country
of origin, Germany, whose desire is to defend his homeland against
horrific slanders.
If you hear it said that he "denies the Holocaust of
the Jews", reflect once again. Has he really asserted that, during
the Second World War, the Jews did not suffer? The answer is
"No". Has he actually maintained that Germany had no anti-Jewish
policy then? The answer again is "No". Has he seriously claimed
that Jews were not deported to concentration camps or labour camps? The
answer is yet again "No". Has he advocated racial
discrimination, or can there be found in his past any sign of racist
behaviour towards those with whom he has had contact as, for instance,
their employer? Still once more the answer is "No".
But then, if I am right and if I take it upon myself to
tell you that E. Zündel has never held the ideas falsely ascribed to him,
how is it that the mass media, in unison, have hidden this fact from you?
Ask yourselves. And try to find the answer.
I shall briefly tell you what E. Zündel has thought and
written in the past and what he continues to think today in the prison
where, for over a year, he his being held like the most dangerous of
criminals.
Like me and a fair number of other revisionists, he
challenges, on the strength of solid arguments, documents and forensic
reports, the core of what the Jews call their "Holocaust" or
"Shoah". Upon the conclusion of his research, he found that
Adolf Hitler had indeed sought a final solution to the eternal Jewish
question but, as is spelled out in plain writing in the relevant
documents, a "territorial final solution". He also found that an
extermination of the Jews had never been contemplated, much less
undertaken, but rather, as had often happened in the history of certain
countries, a transfer of the Jews out of Europe: the "territorial
final solution was to have been the Jews' resettlement in an autonomous
territory of their own outside of Europe, anywhere except Palestine. As
for the rest of E. Zündel's findings I shall, the better to make myself
understood, draw your attention to current events and the war in Iraq. You
have heard that Saddam Hussein possessed "weapons of mass
destruction". You know that such talk is a cold lie and that this lie
made possible a military butchery, a crusade of Good against Evil. War has
always been hand in glove with propaganda, in all times and places. Still,
to take but this one example amongst thousands of others, in the recent
century, during the 1930s and 1940s, a frenzied propaganda was built up,
especially in the great democracies of the West and the Soviet Union,
against the Axis powers ("the axis of Evil", in a sense) and,
especially, against Germany. The Allies thereby stirred their own soldiers
to warlike ardour and, after the vast butchery, justified their own war
and their own war crimes by heaping gruesome accusations on Germany. It
was claimed, in particular, that Hitler had ordered the building of
weapons of mass destruction and used those weapons to kill the Jews in a
methodical manner and in industrial proportions. In fact, no trace of any
such order has ever been found, nor any trace of the satanic weapons
called "[execution] gas chambers" or "[execution] gas
vans", and all the alleged "testimonies" of the existence
and operation of such chemical slaughterhouses have shown themselves to be
fraudulent. This is what so soundly struck E. Zündel. This is what he,
ever since, has wanted to bring to the eyes of the world. It is this
staggering discovery of colossal deceit that has led him to fight as he
has done and as he will do till his dying breath. It is for this, and
solely for this, that he is now being killed by inches.
We have all been told that the rarest of virtues is the
courage to fight for what one believes is true: the maxim is taught in the
schools and universities, in the works of great literature and in picture
books. It is a virtue much admired in certain men and women of the past.
But when, suddenly, the living example of such courage appears in present
reality, too often people fail to recognise it. They neglect it, or are
mistaken about it. Trusting in appearances, they lend a willing ear to the
rumours circulating with regard to the extraordinary person and, one fine
day, unawares, find themselves in the camp of the slanderers. Having
believed they had a great love of justice, they show themselves ready to
uphold Lynch law in the face of this nuisance to society and to the
fashionable way of thinking.
I may add that if you knew E. Zündel you would respect
him for his open-mindedness, intelligence, understanding of the most
various kinds of people, and sincerity. Then, upon discovering the true
personality of Zündel the peasant, the artist, the thinker, you would
very likely get the idea: "I was wrong about him. I've been fooled.
In my thoughts and words, by my acts or omissions, I've condemned a man
who, in reality, is a credit to his nation, to my own and to the whole
human race". You would ask yourselves how to right the wrongs that
have been done.
I have the solution. Take your example from E. Zündel. If
his ideas do not appeal to you, leave them to him but borrow a bit of his
courage. Protest against the fate reserved for him up to today in a
"high security" cell near Toronto and denounce the sham
proceedings that an alleged justice system is conducting against him.
In Canada, Paul Fromm organises, with the greatest
selflessness, the defence of our prisoner of conscience. To join in the
support of E. Zündel, start by helping Paul Fromm.
I thank you.
