Copyright (c) 1997 - Ingrid A. Rimland

March 3, 1997

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:



At the end of last October, I ran a ZGram on Christopher Browning, a professor at the Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA who, according to a student ZGram reader who wrote in yesterday,

". . . is up for the Dept. Chair position for the newly created "Holocaust[TM]" studies chair person at Harvard University in competition with Goldhagen. . . If you have any work on Browning, please pass it along. Maybe I can get a public debate with him? You never know . . . "


Wouldn't that be a treat! We do have work on Browning. He is well known to us.

After Professor Hilberg, known as the "Pope of the Holocaust", did not fare too well under withering cross-examination by Doug Christie during the 1985 Great Holocaust Trial - and because he had perjured himself in one of his answers - the Crown had summoned Browning at the recommendation of Hilberg to help them prosecute the stubborn Swabian dissident who kept on wondering out loud, as he still does, the brute, right on the Zundelsite: "Did Six Million Really Die?"

It was revealed during Browning's cross-examination by Christie in the 1988 Zündel Trial, known as the "Second Great Holocaust Trial", that Israel's Hate and Horror Museum, Yad Vashem, had supplied Professor Browning with photos of so-called "gassing vans" - replete with captions he took over verbatim while writing some books for the Simon Wiesenthal Centre. It should also be noted that the Simon Wiesenthal Centre paid him $30,000 for writing some slim volumes and articles based on such sundry "research". Browning's scholarly "claim to fame" rests on those kinds of endeavors.

Additionally, Professor Browning's contribution to the Great Holocaust Myth is for all times enshrined in what is known as the "Big Red Book", a brilliant condensation of the 1988 Great Holocaust Trial - a trial that was meant to conclude, once and for all, that Ernst Zundel had spoken a falsehood when he asked: "Did Six Million Really Die?"

In this magnificent document, a classic in its own right, Professor Browning has an entire chapter all to himself as the Crown's live chief prosecuting witness.

To the tune of $150 an hour plus expenses and a total of approximately $25,000 of Canadian taxpayers money, Professor Browning revealed to posterity the depth of his knowledge on Holocaust matters, as follows:

* He admitted that he had never seen a gas van, and didn't know how one could work. He had, he said, not researched gas vans in German military archives, and had not seen any technical drawings, plans, technical literature or photos related to gas vans.

* He admitted that the Yad Vashem, an Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Horror Museum, had supplied the photos of gas vans - and the captions under them - for his book "Fateful Months". Browning took over their captions verbatim.

* He said that although he was unaware of standard German Army fumigation vans to help delouse soldiers' uniforms etc., they "could" have existed, and that gas chambers "could" be used for delousing.

* Heinrich Himmler's Posen Speech, he asserted, was "the key document proving the Holocaust." But, he admitted, he had never even heard a recording of it, much less bothered to investigate or verify its authenticity.

· He also confessed he didn't know how this document came into Allied hands, or that what allegedly remains of the manuscript was typed on three different typewriters and snipped and glued together of different pieces of dissimilar paper that had been spliced together. He never went to the German radio archives to listen to this most important document.

* Browning admitted he didn't know that the US government stamped the captured Goebbels Diaries, now in the possession of Stanford University, with a clear warning: "The US government neither warrants nor guarantees the authenticity of this document." He did however, rely heavily on these diaries to "prove" his Holocaust theories, explained Defense Counsel Doug Christie.

* This historian and Holocaust expert said he talked to the prosecutors of alleged war criminals in Germany and asked those prosecutors for documents of the prosecution. He admitted under cross-examination by Zündel's attorney, however, that he did not read or quote from any of the actual trial transcripts.

· * He neither talked to defense counsels of such trials, nor asked them for defense documents. But he denied that he researched the Holocaust with a view to proving any specific opinions.

* Browning admitted he had seen only one of the aerial photos taken by the Allies of Auschwitz from December 1943 to January 1945 - on a wall display of the Yad Vashem Museum in Israel during a tour of the museum. He hadn't noticed, he said, whether smoke was coming out of chimneys of crematoria in the photo he saw.

* The professor labeled the official German Government White Book on the outbreak of the Polish hostilities - a report in which the National Socialist government of Germany explained why it had invaded Poland - as "Nazi propaganda" and dismissed it out-of-hand. He admitted under intense cross-examination that he had never seen the White Book, had never read it, and had relied only on what other historians said about it to form an opinion.

* He admitted that in his writing, he referred to only one volume of Hans Frank's (governor of the "General Government" area of Poland) 43- volume diary, and left out Frank's later Nuremberg denial of any guilt. He also admitted that he had not examined or studied the 1945 Nuremberg tetimony of Frank or the documents on Frank.

* He had not studied the details of the German occupation of Poland, he admitted.

* Auschwitz was not his area of expertise, he admitted, and he hadn't been to one of the eastern camps in 17 years - and when he had gone to them, he went as a tourist.

* Under cross-examination he couldn't say with certainty if the vast majority of German Jews escaped from German control of 1938 or not.


This gentleman is now in competition, we understand, with Daniel Goldhagen - he of the "Hitler's Willing Executioners" fame - and three others for the Department Chair position for the newly created "Holocaust" studies chair at Harvard University?

We ought to all write in and offer our vigorous support to Professor Browning being chosen for the honor. It might advance Revisionism mightily.

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

· "If you would succeed in life, you must be solemn - solemn as an ass. All great monuments are built over solemn asses."

(Thomas Corwin)



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