ZGram - 7/22/2004 - "Dr. Faurisson comments on Arolsen"

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

July 22, 2004

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

A few days ago, Michael Rivero of www.whatreallyhappened.com and I 
had some lively correspondence on the topic of vital World War II 
information being hidden from the public, in light of what is 
happening today with hidden forces controlling the flow of truthful 
information pertaining to the mysteries of 9/11 etc.  Somehow, 
Arolsen came up. 

I remember learning about Arolsen for the first time at the beginning 
of my acquaintance with Ernst Zundel, when I - then still a devout 
Holocaust Believer - asked him what his best evidence would be to 
back up his claim that the Holocaust was a gigantic, money-making 
hoax for Israel. 

Ernst mentioned Arolsen as the place that housed many of the original 
documents and statistics that could, with the help of computers, 
solve the riddle of the "gassed six million Jews" in a matter of a 
few weeks! 

I have never forgotten that comment - and I told Mike Rivero of 
Arolsen housing this information, but as being off-limits to 
revisionist, and particularly German, researchers - but as granting 
free access to Jews.

Mike found that shocking and asked for further evidence.  I asked 
Ernst where to find it, and Ernst said to ask Dr. Robert Faurisson. 

Dr. Faurisson's answer is offered below:

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Dear Ingrid,

The International Tracing Service (ITS) (or Internationaler 
Suchdienst) is in Arolsen near Kassel. The address is: Gross Allee 
5/9, D 3546 Arolsen.

Although situated in Germany and paid by the German taxpayers, it 
depends on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 
Geneva. It is headed by the Swiss Charles Biedermann who was summoned 
by Ernst Zündel at his 1988 trial in Toronto. Biedermann had a hard 
time with us; see Robert Faurisson, "The Zündel Trials (1985 and 
1988), The Journal of Historical Review (JHR), Winter 1988-1989, 
especially p. 425-426.

The essential mission of the ITS is to help those needing proof of 
their "persecution" by the [National Socialist regime] to collect 
special benefits - but, as it happened, ITS collected millions of 
documents pertaining to the concentration camps, to the ghettos, to 
the [Third Reich's]  general policy towards non-German civilians in 
occupied countries, etc. For instance we know they have German 
original records of inmates who died in the camps and special lists 
of dead who were cremated.

The ITS had a Historische Abteilung (HA) and used to publish every 
year Activity Reports which were rather interesting for the 
historians. Unfortunately, in 1979, they decided 1) to put an end to 
the HA, 2) to suppress in their Activity Reports the 2/3 which had 
some interest for the historians, 3) to create an International 
Committee in charge of controlling the access to ITS information, 
that committee having representatives of ten nations: USA, Israel and 
eight European nations.  [My comment:  Ernst told me that Germany is 
excluded]

They did so because of what they considered to be the damage caused 
by some who tried to exploit their data for bad purposes.

I must say that some rather amateurish revisionists tended (and still 
tend nowadays) to use the data of those Activity Reports (or of some 
other accounts of the ITS) in an inappropriate way. For example they 
would claim that, according to the 1978 Activity Report, only 361 653 
had died in the concentration camps from 1933 to 1945. In fact, this 
was the number of deaths registered by the Special Registry Office of 
Arolsen, and the ITS kept repeating that, since they had no death 
books for Treblinka and some other camps.  Such figures could not 
give you an idea of the total of deaths in all the camps, ghettos and 
so forth.

The ITS archives and files (40 kilometers, I guess) are a fantastic 
treasure for the historians. I have been in touch, directly or 
indirectly, with the ITS from January 1975 to April 1988 and I can 
guarantee you that as a revisionist I would enjoy going freely 
through their files to discover the real fate of people who were 
supposedly gassed. Remember how I discovered that a certain Simone 
Jacob, born on July 13, 1927 in Nice (France) and supposed to have 
been gassed  in Auschwitz on April 16, 1944, had in fact survived, 
married a Mr Veil and became the famous Simone Veil who was at a time 
President of the European Parliament. I wrote somewhere that she 
could be named President of the falsely gassed.

When the ITS will stop its activities in favour of the survivors or 
of their legal successors, we'll have to wait fifty years to get into 
their archives and files.

"Fifty years after the Service is closed, the material that has been 
so industriously collected can be made available to research" 
(Carlheinz Tüllmann, Rheinische Post, Düsseldorf, 14. Dezember 1985; 
article reproduced in English in The German Tribune, Hamburg, January 
12, 1986, p. 14).

So I am afraid we'll have to wait 2070 or 2080.

Ernst Zündel understood more than anyone how attached I was to the 
Arolsen matter. In a fax I sent him on May 1, 1990, I congratulated 
him for an initiative he had re the ICRC and the ITS and I added:

"The only thing that everyone, and especially every German taxpayer, 
should simply ask is: REOPEN THE HISTORISCHE ABTEILUNG OF THE 
INTERNATIONAL TRACING SERVICE IN AROLSEN".  And I added : "Remember 
that in my life of searcher I had at least two 'idées fixes' : 1) An 
expertise of the weapon of the crime in Auschwitz, 2) A free 
examination of the Arolsen files.

A triple "A": "Auschwitz And Arolsen". We got Auschwitz - we still 
need Arolsen.

Best wishes.   Robert Faurisson, July, 12, 2004

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