Copyright (c) 1997 - Ingrid A. Rimland

March 21, 1997

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:



An important Revisionist claim is as follows: "Zyklon B was a fumigant. It was not a practical agent for mass murder."

A big deal is made by the Holocaust Promotion Lobby about all the many invoices they have found for a delousing compound.

So what?

Lice, which carried deadly diseases like typhus, were a horrific sanitation problem during WW II for friend and enemy alike. As a matter of fact, refugees and soldiers alike, just like concentration camp inmates, were routinely and periodically deloused.

(And, by the way, their hair was shorn as well to make delousing easier. There were a lot of "skin heads" in those days . . . your worthy ZGram writer / editor having been one!

I well remember being periodically shorn like a sheep during lulls in the war - a utilitarian measure that made the itching stop!

I'm itching even now, remembering . . . )

The German Army, the SS, German civilian companies, hospitals, factories, ships, what have you - all used this Zyklon B compound during the war to get rid of vermin. All of them were issued invoices. The German Wehrmacht had stacks and stacks of them. Does that mean the German Army killed all of its own soldiers? Does it mean the hospitals killed patients?

Nonsense!

Zyklon B was a very effective means for killing vermin used in many armies, including the US Army, well into the 1970s. Check them for invoices!

Even more to the point, and even more telling, is the fact that there are lots and lots of invoices for Zyklon B for German concentration camps like Oranienburg and Theresienstadt - WHERE NO ONE CLAIMS PEOPLE WERE GASSED.

All these "incriminating" invoices, whether for the Army or the civilian concentration camps, prove only one thing: The Germans wanted to save lives - their own and their enemies' lives! - by killing lice and other deadly vermin.

And for that eminently sane, sensible and necessary public health measure in times of utter chaos and disintegration during the war, Germany's World War II leaders were imprisoned, tried, convicted and hanged after the war!

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

"The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract."

(Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)





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