News Flash! - Ernst Zündel jailed!

Auberon Waugh, "...I cannot help asking myself what sort of truth it is that requires these sanctions."

Another
Revisionist
author
JAILED!

17 February 2003 - Ernst Zündel Held in Batavia, New York, Detention Center, IHR

14 February 2003 - Authorities Prepare to Deport Ernst Zündel, Institute for Historical Review

14 February 2003 - Zundel headed back to Canada; Holocaust denier and self-styled freedom-of-speech activist won't be deported to Germany, U.S. official says, by Colin Freeze, Globe and Mail

February 6, 2003 - Good Morning from the Zündelsite [published by Ingrid Rimland]: Ernst Zündel was arrested yesterday, allegedly on an immigration violations matter. In a nutshell, he was told that he had missed showing up at a scheduled immigration hearing in May of 2001.

Ernst asked if he could call his lawyer. He was told that he could not.
I asked if I could call a lawyer, and I was told that I could not.
The demeanor of the men, I felt, was threatening. Ernst said he wanted to read the document he was to sign, and was told the men did not have all day.
Nonetheless, he read it very carefully, then told them that he never received a request for a hearing. ... [goon squads in the USA - welcome to a free country, Ernst!]

On Monday morning, January 13 [2003], Gaston-Armand Amaudruz was jailed in Switzerland for having expressed doubts about the existence of homicidal gas chambers in World War II German concentration camps, and for saying that he did not believe the figure of six million wartime Jewish dead. Complying with a summons, the publicist and retired teacher, who is 82 and in poor health, presented himself to the special “high security” penitentiary at l’Orbe, about 20 kilometers north of Lausanne. He is to be held there for three months. In addition, there are fines and court and legal expenses.

Letters to the prisoner can be sent to: Gaston-Armand Amaudruz, Etablissement de l’Orbe, CH-1350 Orbe, Switzerland

For more on the Amaudruz case, see “Switzerland: Prison Term for 'Holocaust Denial',” in the March-April 2000 Journal of Historical Review. Posted at: http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v19/v19n2p58_Swiss.html

Does the
shoe fit
the other
foot?

...the tabloid Bild has called for recognition to be given to the suffering inflicted on the German population during the strategic air campaign of 1940-45.

The newspaper's campaign, provoked by a new German history of the bomber offensive, breaks six decades of virtual silence on the subject, and is being seen as the latest manifestation of a belief among Germans that they too were victims of the war - albeit a war started by their country.

The newspaper is serialising Der Brand (The Fire: Germany Under Bombardment 1940-45) by the historian Jörg Friedrich, which claims to be the most authoritative account of the bombing campaign so far.

Mr Friedrich claims the British government set out at the start of the Second World War to destroy as many German cities and kill as many of their inhabitants as possible. Civilian deaths were not collateral damage, he says, but rather the object of the exercise. He argues that Churchill had favoured a strategy of attacking the civilian population centres from the air some 20 years before Hitler ordered such raids.

Britain's war leader is quoted during the First World War as saying: "Perhaps the next time round the way to do it will be to kill women, children and the civilian population."

...For the past year Germans on both the Left and Right have been locked in a new and intense debate about the war and their role as its victims as well as perpetrators. The debate was sparked by Günther Grass, the Nobel prize winner, in a novel fictionalising the wartime account of a passenger ship [Wilhelm Gustlof] torpedoed by the Soviet navy killing thousands of Germans on board.

Fritjof Meyer, a leading editor of Der Spiegel, quietly abandons Krema II at Auschwitz as a gas chamber, saying -- on the basis of Pelt's latest research finds -- that it was never used, and only being prepared for possible use as one (yeah, right); until now, it was claimed that a million souls perished in that underground mortuary, with cyanide dropped through holes in the roof...

Now Meyer writes that all the killings, such as they were, were done off site in the two "bunkers" (i.e. the converted peasant cottages of which the Auschwitz officials Aumeier and Höss both talked, and which I freely agreed at the trial may have been used on a modest scale for gassings). That is, unless I have read the paper completely wrongly. Meyer also cuts the number killed there from 4,000,000 to not much over 300,000, which is close to what the Kraków Trial found in 1947. [Video, 2.6MB, Avi]

In delicious vignettes, Meyer reveals too that

• until the Soviet collapse in 1989 Auschwitz staff were promised instant dismissal if they publicly doubted the figures: but he himself still goes on to quote as an authority the very Auschwitz official, Franciszek Piper, a communist (and Jewish) "historian", who issued the threats of dismissal; and that
• my old enemy and rival, the late Martin Broszat, quietly deleted from his "scientific" publication of the Rudolf Höss memoirs all the blatantly phoney figures which might otherwise have aroused scepticism.

...I alert Mark Weber at the IHR to the posting, and he replies overnight: "This is terrific -- amazing even. We are all in your debt for scanning and posting this latest revisionist breakthrough."

I agree. Another breakthrough. The Battleship Auschwitz is still sinking after all -- if it has not been sitting, just upright, on the sandy bottom ever since 1988, already mortally torpedoed by Fred Leuchter...

Communism - Communist Party - Bolshevik Revolution - Soviet Union

WW2 and "the Holocaust"

Katyn Forest massacre

Revisionism, in general

in 1943 the Nazis tried to surrender. At the time, Earle was Naval Attache in Istanbul when he was approached personally by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the German Secret Service. Canaris told him that the German generals felt Hitler was leading Germany to destruction. They could not accept Roosevelt's policy of "unconditional surrender," but if FDR would offer "honorable surrender," the army was prepared to stage a coup d'etat. They believed that Russia represented a threat to Western Civilization and they were ready to present a non-Nazi German bulwark against Communist designs in Eastern Europe.

To make a long story short, FDR repeatedly ignored this proposal which could have ended the war in 1943 and saved millions of lives. Canaris and hundreds of other decent German officers were tortured and killed by the gestapo.