ZGram - 6/7/2004 - Holocaust 101 - Part V"

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Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny:  Now more than ever!

June 7, 2004

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Continuing with the "Holocaust 101" series:

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The Revisionist Claim: Not a single document has been found with 
Hitler's signature ordering the extermination of the Jews."

It is a heartening development to have the Holocaust Promotion Lobby 
in general finally admit that there was, in fact, no Führer order 
ever to exterminate the Jews. Revisionists credit themselves for 
having secured this admission.

At the 1988 Zündel Trial, defense attorney Christie placed a 
transparency on an overhead projector, which stated:

Alleged Extermination of the Jews

No Order
No Plan
No Budget
No Weapon
(No expert report stating:
"This was a homicidal gas chamber")
No Body
(No autopsy stating: "This is or was the body of a person killed by 
poison gas.")

for this alleged mass extermination campaign!

That there existed such an order had been a much-repeated claim for 
decades, and many people still believe there was. Dr. Raul Hilberg - 
known as the "Pope of the Holocaust" for having authored "The 
Destruction of the European Jews," (often referred to as "The 
Holocaust Bible") a man who is widely regarded as the "#1 Expert" on 
Holocaust matters, has managed to bring his perception of the 
Holocaust a little more in accord with the facts, thanks to 
Revisionist influence, to wit:

*	In his 1961 edition of his book, "The Destruction of the 
European Jews," Dr. Hilberg wrote that there were two Hitler orders. 
(Hilberg, Raul, The Destruction of the European Jews, Quadrangel, 
Chicago, page 177)
*

*	At the 1985 trial of Ernst Zündel, Hilberg continued to 
insist that the orders existed, stating that he would not be 
correcting what he wrote in 1961 in his new, forthcoming edition. 
(Did Six Million Really Die? Report of the Evidence in the Canadian 
"False News" Trial of Ernst Zündel - 1988, Edited by Barbara 
Kulaszka, pp 851-852)
*

*	Shortly after his testimony, Hilberg then proceeded to delete 
all references to a Hitler Order in the body of his new edition, 
published in 1985. (Hilberg, Raul, "The Destruction of the European 
Jews," Holmes & Meyer, New York, 1985, p 402 (in Did Six Million 
Really Die? Report of the Ev idence in the Canadian "False News" 
Trial of Ernst Zündel - 1988, Edited by Barbara Kulaszka, pp 112-113)
*

*	In this new edition, the reference to a "Hitler Order" is 
buried in a footnote that now reads as follows:


"Thus came about not so much a plan being carried out, but an 
incredible meeting of minds, a consensus, mind-reading by a far-flung 
bureaucracy." (Did Six Million Really Die? Report of the Evidence in 
the Canadian "False News" Trial of Ernst Zündel - 1988, Edited by 
Barbara Kulaszka, pp 112-113)


"Did this include nods and winks?" asked Zündel defense attorney, 
Douglas Christie, in the 1988 Zundel Trial.

Let's let the reader guess.

Did the Nazis whisper in each others ears how to exterminate millions 
and millions of Jews? Believable? Maybe so is the Easter bunny!

Even Holocaust historian Christopher Browning noted this as a major 
interpretational change in Hilberg's work, speaking of his colleague 
as "the Revised Hilberg." (The Revised Hilberg, Simon Wiesenthal 
Annual, Volume 3, 1986)

So now it is agreed by friend and foe alike except by those who still 
need to catch up - there was NO Führer order!

What is still left are two incendiary words: "Final Solution" - or, 
the German equivalent, "Endlösung."

Let's look at those.

It is true that the words "Endlösung" or "final solution" were used 
in reference to the Jews. So what? Does that prove anything? Does 
that mean "extermination"? Does a "final solution" to the 
unemployment problem mean the government is going to exterminate all 
the unemployed?

During the war, the phrase was used in Canada when dealing with the 
Japanese - and nobody claims today that Canada was planning genocidal 
things with reference to Orientals!  In a recent television 
documentary about Canada's wartime policy toward Canadians of 
Japanese origin, documents were unearthed that talked about "The 
Final Solution" to the "Japanese problem" - which was relocation, 
denaturalization and deportation of the Japanese from Canada to 
Japan. This was exactly what Germany's policies were towards the Jews 
- for almost the same reasons. The country was at war, and Jews were 
seen as subversive to the government and to the war effort - just as 
Japanese were seen as subversive to Canadian wartime policies.

Germany's policies were far less race-based and much more ideological 
in nature than Canada's. As a matter of fact and record, tens of 
thousands of Jews lived and worked in Germany during the war outside 
concentration camps, even in Hitler's capital, Berlin - one of them 
being the famous Rabbi and Zionist leader Leo Boeck, who was a 
practicing rabbi in 1943!

If you doubt that, check on the 1943 Berlin telephone book!

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