Here is a variation on the well-known theme - coming in a letter from South Africa:
I am following the current defamation court case in Britain between David Irving and Penguin Books with great interest.
I belong to a small nation, the descendants of the Boers, who were involved in a war against the British Empire a hundred years ago. The war was precipitated by mining magnates, Wehrner Beit and Cecil Rhodes as well as the British minister of Colonies, Mr. Chamberlain who wanted total control of the mineral riches of the Boer republics.
During this heroic struggle, the Boers received help from German, Jewish, Irish, French, American and Russian volunteers.
In order to subdue the Boers, the British instigated a scorched earth policy that lead to the total destruction of farmhouses and towns. Boer woman and children where interned in concentration camps. In the camps, 26370 Boer woman and children perished (85% of those that perished were children). That represented about 15% of the total Boer population of 180000. To put this figure in perspective, only about 4500 Boers died in battle during the three-year war.
There has never been any dispute about the number of Boer fatalities in the concentration camps and the causes. (Poor diet, leading to the rapid spread of diseases such as typhoid fever and dysentery; documented cases of glass particles in the food.)
There has never been any dispute about the number of Boer fatalities in the concentration camps. At every camp, a monument has been erected, listing the woman and children, including their birth and death dates, who perished in the camps. One can thus compile an exact list of all the fatalities (26370). This is possible of a conflict that happened a hundred years ago when the Boer population was to a large degree illiterate.
My question to you is:
Has an accurate list being compiled about the Jewish (and other) concentration camp victims, based on camp registers and cross-checked to other official or rabbinical records?
I presume that every citizen was registered at birth. The impression that I get from reading the arguments from both sides are that the statistics as to the number of fatalities are based on population counts before and after the war.
I find the Jewish reluctance to allow open debate about the number of fatalities strange. If indisputable evidence bears out the widely accepted number of 6 million victims, the argument can be settled for once and all.
Here is a very brief answer that just about says it all:
Yes, as far as we know, many if not all documents are in a storehouse in Arolsen, Germany - but guess what? Revisionists are not allowed in. The Allies are allowed in. The Jews are allowed in. But legitimate skeptics or even neutral historians are not allowed in - because the deep dark of the deception could be documented within weeks!
Does that not tell you something?
Another telling story was published some time ago in several German papers. Some people wanted a Berlin memorial with a wall that held all the names of the supposed victims.
The suggestion was treated with panic and hastily voted down because ". . . there would be too many repetitions of the same name, and people might become suspicious."
Ingrid
Two Thoughts for the Day that go together - (with apologies for the language):
1. "The only good German is a fucking dead German!!! The only mistake made at the end of World War II was that the Americans and Russians did not kill every god damn German Nazi or not (sic) and burn to the ground every building and plow the earth over with salt. You are a very dumb motherfucking idiot who knows nothing about histroy. (sic) My (sic) your time on this earth be very very short."
(From: WARAKOMSKI@aol.com, Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 19:11:08 EST)
2. "I don't want to come to a country whose government is made up of people who preach hatred."
(Elie Wiesel, as quoted in an article titled "Austria's Far Right Is Sworn Into Office")