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Stephen F. Pinter's famous letter in full

This letter was originally published in Our Sunday Visitor June 14, 1959:

I always enjoy Father Ginder's column but want particularly to comment on his column of May 17th, "Every Fourth American."

He quotes certain statements of V. S. Pritchett in Holiday magazine showing "savage hatred" of Germans. The Pritchett article follows a regular pattern of propaganda against everything German that runs through other magazines and some television programs. Happening just at this time, when we are trying to negotiate with the Communist gangsters regarding the German problem, it seems definitely like a conspiracy in favor of the Russians.

In addition, false statements appear in the Pritchett article, such as the reference to gas chambers at camp Dachau. I was in Dachau for 17 months after the war, as a U.S. War Department Attorney, and can state that there was no gas chamber at Dachau. What was shown to visitors and sightseers there and erroneously described as a gas chamber, was a crematory. Nor was there a gas chamber in any of the other concentration camps in Germany. We were told that there was a gas chamber at Auschwitz, but since that was in the Russian zone of occupation, we were not permitted to investigate, since the Russians would not permit it.

Pritchett also uses the old propaganda myth that millions of Jews were killed by the National Socialists. From what I was able to determine during six years in Germany and Austria, there were a number of Jews killed, but the figure of a million was certainly never reached. I interviewed thousands of Jews, former inmates of concentration camps in Germany and Austria, and consider myself as well qualified as any man on this subject.

Stephen. F. Pinter

St. Louis, Mo.

The archives of the North County Catholic Edition of Our Sunday Visitor are available online.

The newspaper came "In Two Sections" at this period, and although the June 14, 1959 edition is viewable online, the section containing Stephen F. Pinter's letter is conspicuously absent.

In the July 19, 1959 edition of the North County Catholic Edition of Our Sunday Visitor, letter were published from two readers who took issue with Stephen F. Pinter's views. One from a survivor of 5 camps, who claims 5,000,000 were killed at Auschwitz, and another from a veteran, who insists that he saw the Dachau gas chamber with his own eyes.

North County Catholic Edition of Our Sunday Visitor.
Official Newspaper of the Diocese of Ogdensburg, New York.
July 19, 1959. Vol. XLVIII, NO. 12. p.15

Stephen F. Pinter's letter was quoted in full in the October 1959 edition of the American Mercury.

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The American Mercury, October 1959

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