A few weeks ago one of my compatriots wrote me a letter chiding me for using
the term "Holocaust" too sloppily - that is, on the enemy's terms,
the enemy's terms being the conventional ". . . 6 million gassed."
My friend thought that, as Revisionists, we should be more precise - what
we meant when we said "Holocaust" was the comprehensive field
of Revisionism that defined the loaded term as "alleged genocide"
- and we should stress that fine distinction every time.
Of course he is right - but using "Holocaust" that way makes the
debunking task at hand feel awkward and unnecessarily cumbersome for us
who do battle in the cyberstreets where we are trying to rush in where angels
fear to tread.
Therefore, I told my friend that I would try to put quotation marks around
the blasted money- and spirit-sucking credo- but that was as far as I'd
go.
Well, a tiny little mini-war resulted, with people taking sides. While no
great harm was done, some feelings ended up being bruised - and it is my
opinion we don't need that in our ranks. Let's overlook each other's foibles
and concentrate on what needs to be done.
Which brings me to another matter that Dr. Faurisson has called to my attention.
He calls it "reinventing the wheel", and that's precisely what
it is, and we don't need that either.
It has to do with packing, as he puts it, ". . . theories on theories
to show the same thing."
Says Dr. Faurisson:
"We have to work very hard, and then hide our science and be as short
and clear as possible. This needs a considerable effort. Pedantry is too
easy, in fact."
I'll show you by example - and what a splendid part of Revisionist history
it is!
Dr. Robert Faurisson, as early as 1975, discovered while visiting Birkenau
Concentration Camp that there were no special holes in the roof of the Leichenkeller
of Krematorium II where the genocidal Zykon B was supposed to have been
thrown in by the wicked Nazis to kill the Jews en masse.
He looked and looked - no holes! He thought that that was odd.
Now mind you - Dr. Faurisson was not a scientist in the hard sciences areas
- physics, chemistry etc. He was a scholar who used to teach French, Latin
and Greek - and yet Dr. Faurisson was the first man who saw what up to then
no German chemist, no American engineer seems to have discovered or speculated
on: the incongruency.
So there was this gentle professor from France and said, first to himself
and then then the world: "No holes - no 'Holocaust'".
Simple.
No holes - no "Holocaust".
Perhaps it was too simple for the world so brainwashed and so soaked with
images of gassings, ovens, skeletons etc. to make the leap and ask: Where
is the PHYSICAL evidence that there had been, indeed, a "Holocaust"?
I remember reading somewhere that not even Ernst took that simple argument
all that seriously when he first heard of it. While Ernst's radar, by that
time, was fingering the Zionist landscape, he too was programmed for "complex."
Then came the 1985 Great Holocaust Trial, followed by the even Greater 1988
Holocaust Trial, both taking Ernst Zundel to task for having dared to ask:
"Did Six Million Really Die?" Dr. Faurisson was present as a crucial
defense witness and advisor in both trials.
By then, it was getting highly dramatic between the Zionists and Zundelists.
Below is a short, slightly adapted excerpt from one of the Zundel bio documents:
"The Jewish Defense League and its thugs were of course on duty again
on the first court day of 1988, just as they had been during the 1985 Zundel
Trial. Ernst's bodyguard was numerically stronger this time and soon had
the situation under control. They steadily fought their way through to the
entrance of the courthouse.
The Toronto Police was also better prepared this time, and after only a
few minutes the ringleaders of the Jewish thugs were handcuffed and lying
face-down in the slush on the sidewalk while Toronto policemen knelt on
them and held them down.
The media couldn't have asked for anything better!
Their cameras clicked and whirred, and the none-too-pretty picture of the
Jewish terrorists lying handcuffed on the ground soon appeared on TV screens
and newspaper front pages throughout the country.
In the courtroom itself, Judge Thomas quickly hid behind the principle of
"judicial notice", which is unique in Canadian court tradition
but which occurs routinely in Revisionist trials in Germany, Austria and
Switzerland.
"Judicial notice" is a legal term and indicates that certain matters
are not open to doubt - such as, for example, that the sun rises in the
east and sets in the west, or that night follows day.
This was to be the principle pertaining to the "Holocaust"!
To apply such a legal principle in such a serious historical court case
in Canada, where so many issues were disputed, violated the Anglo-Saxon
tradition of freedom of speech and civil rights. Attorney Doug Christie
had to fight with the Judge over every word and every sentence.
Doug was able to tone down the Judge's "judicial notice of the Holocaust"-unfortunately,
however, he could not prevent it entirely.
This was important: it meant that Ernst was not to be allowed to defend
himself with all the facts at his disposal. The Judge simply forbade it.
The only question that remained to be settled was whether Ernst was ".
. . too dumb to understand the self-evident", or whether he acted ".
. . with malicious intent against the Jews" when he dared to raise
his questions about the "Holocaust"!
After all, the "self-evident" nature of the "Holocaust"
could be shown and "proven" with hundreds of books, written by
witnesses and historians, and freely available in any library!
All this in 1988!
Doug told Ernst that, given Judge Thomas's "judicial notice",
he as a defense attorney could not possibly win the case for Ernst. He advised
Ernst to restrict his defense to a minimum, not to waste his time, and to
save the money required for the enormous costs entailed in a "defense"
that could be no defense under the circumstances.
Doug kept beseeching Ernst: "Before this Judge, in this courtroom,
in this court, the battle is hopeless! I can't win it for you!"
Ernst requested time to think it over. A few days later he called his team
together, outlined the situation and told them:
"We're going to go on! This time I am not fighting for myself. I'm
fighting for the honor of my Fatherland. I want to have our extremely important
witness testimony recorded in the Canadian court transcripts and in the
history books for all time."
Ernst and Doug took hours-long walks through the snowy parks near the Zundel-Haus
and discussed in detail all the possibilities that were still open to them.
Next on the discussion agenda were the specialists, witnesses and court
experts who had come from all parts of the world to help.
Ernst sounded out their attitudes, and in the end he himself set the course
for the trial: in spite of his attorneys' and some of his foremost advisors'
recommendations, he would see the trial through as planned - in-depth and
as tough as it had been envisioned.
He declared that it would be Doug's task to block, to bypass, to ignore
the Judge's "judicial notice"-to hollow it out and to cut it down
to size, bit by bit, with a kind of "policy of small steps", until
in the end the Zundel Team would be able to demolish or at least invalidate
the government's evidence.
In this way the Zundel-Team engaged in judicial positional warfare, digging
down into the subject matter in a kind of judicial trench warfare - much
like many battles were fought in the First and often in the Second World
War.
It turned out to be a tough decision!
The Zundel-Haus became the Great Holocaust Trial Command Bunker extraordinaire,
from where phone calls, fax letters and press releases were fired out into
the world - daily and sometimes hourly.
A second house was rented to accommodate the guests and the additional bodyguards,
witnesses, lawyers, secretaries etc. Everywhere, important documents were
analyzed, sorted, classified, and reproduced on five photocopiers, to be
submitted in court at the right time. The psychic energy was high; production
was spectacular.
Soon everything was running smoothly.
In the course of the trial, cooks prepared almost 6,000 meals, which were
eaten jointly in two large canteen-like dining rooms. Carpenters reconstructed
"Auschwitz beds" exactly as per the design of the bunk beds of
Auschwitz - and witnesses, advisers and typists slept right there in the
building, crowded like sardines, in bunks stacked up to four high.
Inside the courtroom, day in, day out, Ernst's team of lawyers and advisors
now revised and rewrote Germany's recent history - "judicial notice"
or no "judicial notice"! The Crown attorney and the Judge could
hardly believe their eyes and ears, clearly frustrated by the happenings.
Slice by slice and day by day, the old "Holocaust" version was
dissected, scrutinized, debunked!
And in the middle of it all, there loomed, of course, the Zyklon B fairytale!
The Warden of one of the largest American prisons, Bill Armontrout, who
was to serve as Zundel witness and to testify about American-style gassings
of convicted murderers, suggested almost casually that he could recommend
an expert in execution equipment, Fred Leuchter from Boston, as witness
for the defense-in questions pertaining to gas chambers! Armontrout even
had the address and telephone number of this potential expert witness on
hand!
What a sensation! The legal team had not even known that such an expert
existed!
Ernst reacted with lightning speed, even though he was already in the midst
of the actual trial proceedings. He looked for a suitable scout to check
Leuchter out thoroughly.
Dr. Faurisson said to Ernst Zundel: "Please. Let me do this. This is
my trip." After all, he was the one who had first pointed out: "No
holes - no "Holocaust"!
It turned out that Leuchter believed in the "Holocaust", insofar
as he had heard about it. However, everything else about Leuchter indicated
that here was a man who knew what he was doing, who understood his job -
and who was honest and professionally ethical.
Dr. Faurisson flew back to Toronto to report to Ernst. Leuchter was asked
to come to Toronto himself to meet with Doug Christie and speak with the
other experts - and to analyze and to familiarize himself with the documents
and testimony of both sides, especially Dr. Raul Hilberg's trial transcripts
of the 1985 trial and the statements in his books.
The models of Auschwitz and Birkenau, which the Zundel team had constructed
to scale from German blueprints, discovered by Dr. Faurisson in his hands-on
research, were also shown and explained to Leuchter.
Ernst asked Leuchter for a cost estimate for his expert report and testimony.
The price was steep-but the testimony was extremely important!
Now what to do? From where was the extra money for Leuchter's report to
come? Ernst examined bank statements and current income from donations.
He compared the constantly accrueing expenses and considered tapping his
strategic financial reserve. He sounded out his supporters to see whether
any extra donations might be obtained. It was tough going - the funds were
just not there.
Meanwhile, Leuchter flew back to Boston.
Time was of the essence, since the trial was already approaching half-time.
Ernst spent entire nights on the telephone and explained the situation to
donors both large and small. In the end, some larger contributions from
several elderly German women and men became the deciding factor in this
historically so exceedingly important matter.
Ernst Zundel is Ernst Zundel - a man who doesn't deal in halves. He made
a bold decision. Leuchter would not merely testify. He would go after evidence
first-hand!
Together with a small, quickly-assembled group of translators, draughtsmen,
video- and cameramen, Leuchter would fly to Auschwitz and Majdanek in what
was then still Communist Poland!
There, he would examine and measure the facilities and draw up precise technical
building and construction plans. Working meticulously and wearing double
rubber gloves and face masks to prevent contamination, he would take material
samples, wrap them up carefully in vacuum-sealed bags, and smuggle them
back to the United States, where a well-known laboratory would examine and
analyze them for their Zyklon B content.
This dramatic expedition was to be carried out clandestinely while the trial
still continued in Toronto!
At the Zundel-Haus it felt like at the General Staff's Headquarters during
wartime! People were busy planning, testing, measuring, weighing, packing.
Work plans were drawn up. Visas, passports and plane tickets were arranged
in a great hurry.
And then the word was: "Silence!"
The Zundel-Leuchter-Holocaust-Expedition left North America and Europe at
different times and via different airports. Friendly Poles awaited them
to be of assistance at the other end. Everything went off without a hitch.
The rest is Revisionist history!
Leuchter's investigation was first rate pioneering work. Today millions
of people around the world already know that the forensic evidence of Leuchter's
report and Professor Roth's sample analysis have acquitted Germany of the
genocide of the Jews by means of "gas chambers."
Now is that a story - or what?!
I am telling you this because I want to credit Dr. Robert Faurisson for
all eternity with having been the first who said: "No holes - no 'Holocaust'."
Why is this so important? Because four words will re-shape the next century.
Dr. Robert Faurisson of France, who holds his own in any scholarly endeaver,
and who knows how to pile footnotes on footnotes, was THE first scholar
who, footnotes aside, put two and two together - and spoke four simple words.
No holes - no "Holocaust".
I saw a silly paper recently entitled "The Case of Missing Zyklon B"
where credit for debunking that part of Holocaustaumania is simply being
swiped - to put it very bluntly, stolen. That is intellectually dishonest
- and very shabby, besides!
Now you see papers stacked on papers, and footnotes stacked on footnotes.
Some clarify, and some obscure. Some add, and some subtract.
Remember KISS - "Keep It Simple, Stupid"? You learn that in undergraduate
school.
The point I want to make today is this: that ALL the credit for that first
hefty swipe at "Holocaustaumania" belongs to Dr. Robert Faurisson
of France for clarity of vision - and simplicity.
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves."