Introduction
to Revisionist Thought
By Ernst
Zündel
3.
The Revisionist claim:
The numbers of "Holocaust"
victims are irresponsibly exaggerated.
The numbers game of alleged Jewish losses is indeed a vexing one.
Many, many people of all nationalities disappeared or perished in the
war and cannot be accounted for. Some lie in the ashes of Allied
bombings of German cities and buried beneath collapsed buildings;
others were incinerated in bomb-caused Allied firestorms; still
others perished in the Russian Gulags long after the shooting had
stopped.
It is unfair and incorrect to claim - as is routinely claimed - that
if a person cannot be accounted for, he or she perished due to
genocide - or, worse yet, due to gassings.
In fact, the "Holocaust" is the best example of
". . . death proved by the stories of million of survivors."
Does that not make you think?
The media is full of "survivor" organizations existing in every major
city of the Western World - from Toronto to Johannesburg; from Rio de
Janeiro to Los Angeles.
Suffice it to say that the Germans have paid over 4,300,000 pension
and restitution claims; 40% of those recipients live (or lived) in
Israel. Others are of Jewish background but have chosen to live in
other parts of the world.
If so many millions of Jewish people died at the hands of the
Germans, why are there so many survivors?
Aficionados of the "Holocaust" have often called Jacob Robinson a
"historian" and "internationalist jurist" and referred to him as a
prime source of authoritative information on what happened to the
Jews.
Jacob Robinson was, in fact, a cunning East European Jewish shyster
with a diabolical plan and agenda. He was the inventor/creator of the
"revolutionary concept" of the idea of the Nuremberg Trial for
Germany's leaders and the German Reparations scheme.
According to Nahum Goldman, former President of the World Jewish
Congress,
". . . Apart from my encounter with the survivors
of the concentration camps after the liberation, I only returned
officially to Germany in order to meet Chancellor Adenauer and
open negotiations about reparations. These reparations constitute
an extraordinary innovation in terms of international law.
Until then, when a country lost a war, it paid damages to the
victor, but it was a matter between states, between governments.
Now for the first time a nation was to give reparations either to
ordinary individuals or to Israel, which did not legally exist at
the time of Hitler's crimes. All the same, I must admit that the
idea did not come from me.
During the war the WJC (World Jewish Congress) had created an
Institute of Jewish Affairs in New York (its headquarters are now
in London). The directors were two great Lithuanian Jewish
jurists, Jacob and Nehemiah Robinson. Thanks to them, the
Institute worked out two completely revolutionary ideas: the
Nuremberg tribunal and German reparations. (Goldman, Nahum, The
Jewish Paradox, Grosset & Dunlap, 1978, p 122)
Put two and two together.
Reparation claims are based on number of victims - somewhat like an
insurance claim after a plane crash and a subsequent fire. It pays to
keep these numbers high. No mystery to that.
Now visualize an insurance company that has to pay for a fire in
which, supposedly, some family members perished. It does not take a
rocket scientist to figure out that if the insurance company is
prevented from checking vital documents, such as: ". . . who was
actually booked on that plane. . . ? - a non-existent "victim" uncle
or aunt could conceivably materialize, defrauding the insurance
company. These things are known to have been done to some insurance
companies.
To trot out the old canard of the "Protocol of Wannsee" (of Jan. 20,
1942) allegedly outlining the Nazi plans to "annihilate the European
Jews" shows real chutzpah. Even the Jewish Holocaust expert Yehuda
Bauer of Hebrew University in Jerusalem has said that Wannsee was a
meeting, but "hardly a conference," and that ". . . little of what
was said there was executed in detail."
Here is the quote in full, under the title: Wannsee's importance
rejected, in the Canadian Jewish News, Jan. 30, 1992:
"The public still repeats, time after time, the
silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was
arrived at. Wannsee was but a stage in the unfolding of the
process of mass murder." (Canadian Jewish News, Jan. 30, 1992)
According to the New York Times, November 12, 1989, (Bauer) added
when chided saying that he would not want to ". . . add grist for the
mills of the deniers of the Holocaust: "They can add, you know. . ."
(Auschwutz Revisionism: An Israeli Scholar's Case, NYT, Nov 12,
1989)
They did, and they do.
By doing so, they "shrunk the Holocaust." Let us take Auschwitz, for
example. According to a December 10, 1995 summary prepared by Dr.
Faurisson, here is a telling visual:
(In this graph, the tallest bar represents 9 million persons, and
the smallest bar represents 630,000 - 710,000, of whom 470,000 -
550,000 were believed to have been Jews. (For the actual and detailed
verification of both numbers and sources, go to Dr. Faurisson's
textual document, marked Appendix A)
The ever-shrinking numbers of Auschwitz "victims" should give
skeptical people - people who apply common sense to this topic -
pause to ponder. Yehuda Bauer, Jewish Holocaust scholar, admitted the
falsity of the 4 million figure in a November 1989 article, where he
comments on the cruel manipulation of the numbers of victims in
Auschwitz by Zionists and Communist propagandists and liars alike.
(Auschwitz Revisionism: An Israeli Scholar's Case. NYT, November 12,
1989.)
Let's mention the Red Cross here as well. This so-called
"humanitarian" organization has much to do with the fact that the
numbers are so unreliable.
The Red Cross played an ignoble role during and especially after the
war when dealing with alleged "Nazi atrocity" stories and statistics.
(See sworn testimony of Charles Biederman during the Zündel
Trial. Did Six Million Really Die? Report of the Ev idence in
the Canadian "False News" Trial of Ernst Zündel - 1988,
Edited by Barbara Kulaszka, pp 80-84. It is worth reading in
its entirety.)
Below I am merely offering two excerpts of this testimony, as
summarized in the Zündel Transcripts by Barbara Kulaszka in her
book: "Did Six Million Really Die?":
"Access to the documents was limited by the Bonn
Agreements of 1955 to former persecutees and their legal
successors on the grounds that the documents were all
person-related and therefore not open to the public. (11-2497,
2498). The wording used in the Bonn Agreement was that the
archives were "only to be evaluated in the interests of the former
persecutees themselves or their successors." (12-2676). The only
exception to this rule, as provided for under the agreements, was
that representatives of any of the ten Allied governments of the
supervisory body had the right to inspect the documents. (11-2497)
Any application by one of the ten governments for access was
reviewed by the Director of the ITS (Internal Tracing System); if
the Director felt it was not justified, he could submit the
application to the International Commission for the final
decision. He could not remember any request by Israel being
denied. (12-2711)"
In other words, Israel can look at the data, but German
researchers and historians cannot. Revisionists cannot. Ernst
Zündel cannot. Mr. Wiesenthal, presumably, can.
The Kulaszka trial transcript summary goes on to say:
Biedermann confirmed that as of December 31,
1983, the total number of deaths registered with the Special
Registry Office and various other registry offices was 373,468.
(11-2515) This figure represented death certificates issued
pursuant to received applications and was based, with respect to
the Special Registry Office, on camp records kept by the Nazis
during the war. (11-2516, 2517)
Biedermann agreed that at an international conference held by the
International Committee of the Camps in Vienna in 1977, the then
director of the ITS, Albert de Cocatrix, gave a speech which
indicated that as of December 31, 1976 a total of 357,190 names of
persons who died in concentration camps had been registered at the
Special Registry Office. Biedermann confirmed that these numbers
actually came from the ITS. (12-2640 to 2646) He pointed out,
however, that these figures resulted from applications. If an
entire family had died, there was no one to make an application
for a death certificate. Secondly, the ITS had complete
documentation for only two of the twenty-two concentration camps.
For the remainder, it had either partial or no documentation.
Therefore, if an application was made for a person who had
allegedly died in one of these camps, the ITS would not have the
records to justify a request to the Special Registry Office for a
death certificate. (12-2647)
It is really ridiculously simple. The numbers game on which the
reparations claims are based could be laid to rest tomorrow.
The Red Cross via its International Tracing Service in Arolson,
headed by Red Cross delegate, Charles Biedermann, has important
information on hand of every concentration camp inmate who ever went
through a German prisoner-of-war or civilian concentration camp.
These 14 million pieces of information could, with today's computer
technology, OCR software etc. be sifted, categorized, analyzed and
double-checked. In a very short time, this information could be made
available to the public, which would put an effective end to all the
abuse, misinterpretation, fudging and falsifying of alleged and real
numbers of "Nazi victims."
The German Government can and should have checked the inmates'
records 50 years ago. Why is this not being done? A good guess is
that then it would have been revealed for all the world to see that
false reparations claims were made and billions were paid and have
been fraudulently collected for a long time.
There are letters by the Arolson Tracing Service which at least give
a partial glimpse at what is available in those archives there. The
Red Cross, by accepting the currently worded 10-nation agreement or
mandate with which it administers this macabre but important legacy
of WW II, has become a willing accomplice in obfuscating research and
is, in fact, hiding historical facts.
I am on record saying that the Red Cross is deliberately
stone-walling an honest investigation into one of the saddest
chapters in human history. If the Red Cross does not like this
justified criticism, let them get out of the business of hiding the
truth from the public looking for answers.
Introduction to Revisionist Thought
By Ernst
Zündel
Index
Introduction
The Revisionist
claim:
PART I - The Holocaust is
useful postwar propaganda that started as a systematic, insidious
campaign during World War II as one of the tactics employed by
moneyed interests to rally the troops and engage the world,
specifically America, in what turned out to be, essentially, a
fratricidal war.
PART II - There is no proof
that the Holocaust, as depicted by the Holocaust Promotion Lobby and
the highly politicized Hollywood industry, actually occurred.
PART III - The numbers of "Holocaust"
victims are irresponsibly exaggerated.
PART IV - Official state policy
towards the Jews in the Third Reich was emigration, not
extermination.
PART V - Not a single document
has been found with Hitler's signature ordering the extermination of
the Jews.
PART VI - Zyklon B was a
fumigant. It wasn't a practical agent for mass murder.
PART VII - Zyklon B was highly toxic.
This being so, it would have been foolish and counterproductive to
endanger Third Reich personnel engaged in allegedly pulling bodies
from the execution chambers shortly after they were "gassed."
PART VIII - American execution
expert, Fred Leuchter, delivered a scientific break-through in
proving that the so-called gas chambers at Auschwitz could not have
been used for their alleged purpose."
