ZGram 6/8/2004 - "Holocaust 101 - Part VI"

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June 8, 2004

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Herewith the conclusion of the "Holocaust 101" series:

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The Revisionist Claim: American execution expert, Fred Leuchter, 
delivered a scientific break-through in proving that the so-called 
gas chambers at Auschwitz could not have been used for their alleged 
purpose."

After the Leuchter Reports, Fred Leuchter has been viciously attacked 
for two reasons: 1) He did not have an engineering degree when he 
wrote his trail-blazing studies, and 2) he was paid by the Zündel 
Defense and, hence, considered beholden to the Revisionist point of 
view.

The proof is in the pudding.

What Leuchter found can be, and has been, independently verified by 
specialists  who have impeccable degrees.

Fred Leuchter was, prior to having his career and reputation ruined 
by the Holocaust Promotion Lobby, a most sought-after specialist in 
execution type equipment in America, as per Warden Bill Armontrout, 
who recommended him.

Warden Armontrout testified in the 1988 Zündel Trial that there was 
only one consultant in the United States that he knew of in the 
design, operation and maintenance of gas chambers, and that 
consultant was Fred Leuchter.

It was Armontrout who urged Zündel to contact Leuchter. (Armontrout 
Testimony: As summarized in Did Six Million Really Die? Report of the 
Evidence in the Canadian "False News" Trial of Ernst Zündel - 1988, 
Edited by Barbara Kulaszka, pp. 351-353)

Leuchter was a highly competent, well-paid and respected man in his 
field - until he was ruined financially and in his reputation by the 
vicious attacks of the Holocaust Promotion Lobby that saw its 
lucrative racket, netting billions of dollars for years, challenged 
by the Leuchter findings.

Furthermore, Leuchter was qualified by Judge Thomas as an expert 
witness during the Zündel trial. Any serious researcher could have 
verified that by checking the Zündel Trial 1988 transcripts 
pertaining to Leuchter's testimony. (Leuchter Testimony as summarized 
in Did Six Million Really Die? Report of the Evidence in the Canadian 
"False News" Trial of Ernst Zündel - 1988, Edited by Barbara 
Kulaszka, pp. 354-362)

The second charge is that Leuchter was paid by the Zündel defense - 
and, hence, his finding are automatically labeled to be "suspect."

Of course Fred Leuchter was paid by the Zündel defense. He was hired 
to go to Auschwitz in a highly dramatic, secret mission while Ernst 
Zündel was on trial in Toronto in 1988, fighting for his freedom and 
reputation. There was no time or money to scout around for someone 
else.

He was not, however, a "fly-by-night" specialist, as has been 
repeatedly claimed.

Furthermore, Leuchter stated at the outset to Zündel and his lawyer, 
before he ever went to Auschwitz, that he believed the Auschwitz gas 
chamber claim, and if he found it verified, then he would state so 
under oath and in his report.

Zündel still engaged and sent him because he was sure of his facts 
and counted on Leuchter's professional integrity.

Leuchter went. He saw. He came back a much-enlightened man.

Read what he had to say. (Leuchter, Fred A. The Leuchter Report: The 
How and the Why. Journal of Historical Review 9, (1989): 133-139.)

So Leuchter was paid for his work. So what? Who paid for the Pressac 
investigation and book? Who paid for the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation? 
Who paid for the study of the Zündel case condensed in a book called 
"Hate on Trial"? (Gabriel Weimann and Conrad Winn, Hate on Trial, 
Mosaic Press, Oakville, 1986)

(No, not who you think! At least in part, the Canadian taxpayers did!)

Dr. Hilberg and Dr. Browning were paid by the Government of Canada 
for their expertise to bolster the Holocaust Promotion Lobby claim. 
Browning alone got almost $25,000 for testifying against Ernst Zündel 
- courtesy of the Canadian tax payers.

Do these two facts, that Leuchter was paid, and that Leuchter did not 
have the necessary rubber stamps to do the work he did negate 
scientific findings that can be double-checked and verified? When 
Leuchter was asked what stood in the way of someone being paid to 
malign his (Leuchter's) scientific findings, Leuchter stated simply:

"Anyone who would do that would risk his professional standing."

Revisionist reality is grim. Right now in [many countries in Europe], 
if a scientist verifies the Leuchter findings, that scientist loses 
his job and [more often than not] goes to prison.

A case in point is the Lüftl Report. Walter Lüftl is an Austrian 
engineer. He was for years president of the Austrian Chamber of 
Engineers, the representative body of all Austrian engineers. He was 
a court-approved expert frequently called to testify in engineering 
matters. He investigatedAuschwitz and came to similar conclusions to 
Leuchter's. The Austrians promptly charged him criminally for stating 
his best engineering viewpoint - that the Auschwitz "gassing" 
facilities were fakes. This caused him lots of grief. As a 
consequence, he resigned his position. The media had a feeding 
frenzy. After several years, the case was quietly dropped by the 
state.

Even worse fared young Germar Rudolf, a German scientist of the 
finest qualifications, with not a speck on his credentials and his 
record. He wrote a magnificent report. (Das Rudolf Gutachten, 
Cromwell Press, 1993.) His life and career are ruined, while 
Browning's fortune soared. [At present, Rudolf lives in exile in 
America, in fear of deportation to Germany, where he will be 
immediately jailed.]

For this reason alone, you don't see many people volunteering to 
tramp to Auschwitz with their own engineering gear.

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In Summary:

No one denies the concentration camps. They were detention centers, 
in numbers not nearly as high as is claimed. They were not killing 
centers.

In fact, according to the Time Life book series on prisoners, German 
concentration camps numbered less than one-sixth the number of camps 
the USA had for the Japanese, Germans, Italians and P.O.Ws, and 
considerably fewer camps than the Allies' vicious ally, Stalin, had 
in his Gulag.

These camps like Auschwitz harbored Jews, among many other 
nationalities. They also harbored criminals, including German 
criminals. They harbored traitors, spies and others who were 
sabotaging Germany at war.

It bears repeating that in the infamous "Holocaust" we have the only 
case of "genocide" that is daily "proven" by survivors. Nobody 
survived Stalin's killer squads in Katyn, and very few if any 
survived the icy tomb of Kolyma and many other Stalin camps.

It is sadly true that tens of thousands of all kinds of nationalities 
died in different German camps, largely of diseases caused by 
malnutrition, overcrowding, lack of hygiene and lack of medicines. 
Undoubtedly some died of neglect and even cruel treatment by brutal 
guards.

Human nature being what it is and was, there must have been 
atrocities. No one denies there have been individual atrocities. Who 
can surmise how a guard might have felt and acted who was just told 
that his own baby was incinerated in the true Holocaust that was 
called Dresden - a defenseless, strategically unimportant city filled 
with refugees? What if he just found out that his own mother lay 
buried in the ruins of Hamburg or Berlin? He will not have felt 
kindly toward those whom he considered enemies. Under the 
circumstances, Jews may have been high on that list.

These experiences were not unique to the "Nazi camps."

They were shared by tens of millions in Stalin's Gulags in political 
and in prisoners-of-war camps. This fate was shared by the Dutch at 
the hands of the Japanese, and by the British and Canadians in Burma, 
Singapore and Hong Kong. It was shared by the Americans in the 
Philippines, and by the Germans in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia 
and France.

And let us not forget that it was shared by Germans in Germany after 
the war in the American Army's Rheinwiesen death camps described by 
Canadian author James Bacque in his book "Other Losses" and in his 
recently released new book, "Of Crimes and Mercies" on the topic. 
Bacque claims that nine million Germans died as a direct result of a 
deliberate Allied policy.

All of these deaths were tragic deaths. They were tragic for Jews, 
and they were tragic for Germans. They were tragic for all involved 
in that war. To quote Dr. Robert Faurisson, eminent Revisionist: "You 
keep talking about war crimes. War itself is the crime." (Š)

The fact is that tens of thousands of people were shipped via trains 
from Auschwitz in Poland to other camps in the Altreich (Germany 
Proper) at the end of the war - Elie Wiesel, Sabina Citron and Anne 
Frank among them.

This was done at German expense and German inconvenience. It was 
hardly done to kill them. They could have been easily left behind to 
starve to death in the abandoned concentration camps as people were 
scrambling to get away from Communism.

There were no German "death camps." Period.  People died in every 
wartime concentration camp for any number of sad reasons, including 
old age.

One final point needs to be made, and it has to do with the 
world-famous Auschwitz Plaque.

For decades, it was claimed on this plaque that four million people 
were genocidally put to death at Auschwitz. [This plaque] had the 
following inscription in 19 languages:

"Four million people suffered and died here at the hands of the Nazi 
murderers between the years 1940 and 1945".

For almost half a century, approximately 500,000 gullible tourists 
have been deliberately deceived by intellectual con-men and immoral 
crooks while visiting the theme park of anti-German lies and horrors 
at Auschwitz and Birkenau - where tour guides, books and films 
insisted for decades that everything the visitor saw was ". . . in 
its original state."

The new text reads as follows:

"May this place where the Nazis assassinated 1,500,000 men, women and 
children, a majority of them Jews from diverse European countries, be 
forever for mankind a cry of despair and of warning." (Luc 
Rosenzweig, "Auschwitz, la Pologne et legénocide" (Tr.'s Note: 
Auschwitz, Poland and the genocide), Le Monde, January 27, 1995, p. 
1).)

Why the lowered numbers?

Now the Holocaust Promotion Lobby says, "Well, gee, that wasn't us. 
The Soviets dreamed them up."

According to this line of argument, the wicked Soviets

". . . purposely overstated the number of non-Jewish casualties at 
Auschwitz-Birkenau by many times their true numbers. With the end of 
communism in Poland and the former Soviet Union, officials at the 
Auschwitz museum have meticulously lowered the casualty figures in 
line with the estimates of historians who, for years, have insisted 
that between one and 1 1/2 million people perished at 
Auschwitz-Birkenau - 80 - 90% of them Jews.1 (The Breitbard Document, 
as published by the Simon Wiesenthal Center ) (Š)

An ad placed in December 1995 by the Jewish Anti-Defamation League in 
the New York Times. This ad asked: What happened to the missing Jews?

That is precisely what Revisionists ask - a question for which they 
have been hounded, beaten, spat at, vilified, charged, tried and 
jailed and even killed.

Why is it "criminal" to want to know why the numbers are shrinking 
and shrinking - like a balloon that has been pricked?

Is it not good news, rather than bad news, that millions didn't die 
at Auschwitz? Is that not reason to rejoice?

After an intensive write-in campaign initiated by the Zündel Team and 
directed to Mr. Gorbachev a few years ago, the Soviets finally 
released the remaining Death Books of Auschwitz, which they had 
captured in 1945.

Surprise! Guess what?

The so-called "four million", revised to "1.5 million," have shrunk 
to 74,000 proven deaths!

All meticulously recorded - name, date, nationality, religion, time, 
reason and cause of death!

German researcher Tjudar Rudolf, who is fluent in German, English, 
French, Yiddish and Polish and understands most slavic names and 
languages, has painstakingly gone over all these Soviet/Auschwitz 
death register books and totaled the number of Jewish deaths 
according to name and religion - even allowing for slavicized names.

The end result?

Slightly over 30,000 Jewish dead in Auschwitz.

That is a tragic enough number of people. Why the need to exaggerate? 
To justify what? A vicious hate campaign for half a century against a 
former enemy? A regime which entered the pages of history some 50 
years ago? Is that what this is all about?

Or is it not rather to keep the Germans in perpetual mental, 
political, economic and financial bondage and to make them 
susceptible to ever new, thinly disguised blackmail schemes which 
have extorted over 100 Billion DM out of them for the Holocaust 
Lobbyists and the members of their tribe, institutions and 
organizations - not to forget the State of Israel?

The ethnic abuse of Germans and Germany must stop. The Holocaust is 
not, and never has been, about this touted "Jewish victimhood." It is 
about extortion. Power politics. And money and revenge and hate!


The German people, most of whom were not even born when the tragedy 
of the Second World War befell their country, have been paying huge, 
huge sums of reparations to the Jewish state and people - many of 
them beneficiaries who themselves were equally not yet born when what 
the world now has been taught to call "The Holocaust" took place.

Victimizing ever new generations of Germans for the misdeeds, real 
and imagined, of their grandfathers and soon great-grandfathers is no 
way to bring peace, tolerance and harmony to the world.

Ernst Zündel is on record saying that the persecuted of yesterday 
have become the persecutors of today.

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April 4, 1996