Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

"Ted Turner has apologized to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for comments he made recently comparing Rupert Murdoch to Hitler. ADL had written to the CNN chairman that such inapt analogies "trivialize a profound historical tragedy," and should be avoided.

"I hope you and all those offended by this comment will accept my deepest apology," wrote Mr. Turner in response to the letter from Abraham H. Foxman, ADL national director.

The CNN chairman said he realized his choice of words was "unfortunate" and "offensive," and he regretted the comment. Explaining his comparison "referred only to the way Hitler managed the news in Germany," he assured ADL, "it was not intended to offend nor to trivialize the role of an individual who wreaked so much havoc upon the Jewish people."

Not only in America! It seems more and more that the arena of the Holocaust-related turbulence is definitely in Europe.

Now that France has been thoroughly soaked in Revisionist thought, thanks to the Roger Garaudy Affair, the action has now moved to England, for that is where the law - that there is "history" that you are not supposed to touch if you know what is good for you - is not yet quite entrenched, unlike in many other European countries.

• As per the Jewish Chronicle, No. 6650, October 4, a Labour government, if it wins the election, will act to make Holocaust denial a criminal offence, Opposition leaders pledged this week. Shadow Home Secretary Jack Straw confirmed that a motion committing a Labour government to such a law has the backing of the entire leadership.
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• "For two years, there has been a debate over whether to make it a crime to deny the Holocaust. Now Jack Straw has made it clear that we will," said Shadow Foreign Secretary Robin Cook at a Labour Friends of Israel fringe meeting. "The way to make sure it [a Holocaust] never happens again is to make sure we never forget it."
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• Mr. Shaw defined the promised legislation as a "much-needed measure." This legislation would reverse the Tory government's policy not to criminalize questioning the Holocaust. "Home Secretary Michael Howard has repeatedly turned down calls to introduce such legislation, arguing it would restrict freedom of speech and could increase racial tension," the Jewish Chronicle reports.
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• In an address to some 500 people at what is called the Blackpool Conference, a Mr. Blair, the speaker, revealed that the Jewish community's principles were
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• ". . . precisely those things for which Labour stands today . . . The renewal of our ties with the communities is one of the best things that has happened to us."
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• France, via England:
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• The October 9, 1996 Times of London had the following provocative headline: "French chemical firm is linked to Holocaust gas."
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• It goes on to speculate that a French chemical company may have played a role in the manufacture of poison gas that had been used, as we have all been told for half a century, ". . . to murder millions of Jews in Nazi death camps."
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• So says a French university professor who claims that her findings have been "censored" by a government-backed history journal.
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• The person who has discovered this newest wrinkle is Annie Lacroix-Riz, Professor of Modern History at the University of Toulouse. The good professor submitted an article to Etudes et Documents, a history journal published under the aegis of the Finance and Economics Ministry, in which she outlined possible links between the French chemical group Ugine and the manufacture of Zyklon B.
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• The journal refused to publish. Mme Lacroix-Riz had cited Ugine's role in the creation of a "mixed" Franco-German company, Durferrit-Sofumi, which earned huge profits by manufacturing insecticide between 1941 and 1943.
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• In two years, so her paper claimed, the corporate earnings from this insecticide skyrocketed fifteen-fold. Now the truth of her discoveries are being hushed up, according to the professor, and this is going to turn a legitimate historical inquiry into a full-blown political scandal.
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• This story is really complicated and technical, and I am only giving you the tip of this newest revelation in the ever-weakening attempts to prop the gassing fable of the Holocaust, but it might help to know that Mme Lacroix-Riz is a member of the Communist Party. It has been reported that she decided to make public her findings and the journal's rejection after receiving anonymous and threatening letters.
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• One was addressed to "Annie Lacroix-Riz who wants to make us believe that the supposed gas chambers are not a Hollywood lie. . . " (Source: http://www.hoffman-info.com)
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• Switzerland
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• A Reuters release of October 4, 1996 reports that a $20 billion class action suit has been filed on behalf of Nazi Holocaust survivors against Swiss banks for allegedly refusing to return victims' money, jewelry and other assets.
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• This suit was filed in a Brooklyn federal court, seeking $20 billion in actual damages, unspecified punitive damages and a full accounting of what happened to the goodies deposited by the survivors and their families. More than 100 banking institutions and individuals are involved as defendants. (!)
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• The claim is that Holocaust victims and survivors had deposited money and property in various Swiss banks for safe keeping until after the Second World War. (Source: ANA, October 5, 1996)

At this point, so it seems, there is no stopping this! It's far beyond Ernst Zündel and the Zundelsite!

There is so much confusion, crumbling and disintegration now involving powerful institutions and ego-driven personalities that I predict that in five years you will have Zundel paintings hanging in your living room, and you will tell your grandkids:

"Well, I for one believed this story all along, when NO ONE would believe Ernst Zündel and Ingrid started hammering away with her relentless ZGrams . . . !"

Ingrid

"Praised be the gods that made my spirit mad, Kept me aflame and raw to beauty's touch."

(Angela Morgan in "June Rapture")

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