Introduction
to Revisionist Thought
By Ernst
Zündel
5.
The Revisionist
Claim:
Not a single document has been
found with Hitler's signature ordering the extermination of the
Jews."
It is a heartening development to have the Holocaust Promotion
Lobby in general finally admit that there was, in fact, no
Führer order ever to exterminate the Jews. Revisionists credit
themselves for having secured this admission.
At the 1988 Zündel Trial, defense attorney Christie placed a
transparency on an overhead projector, which stated:
Alleged Extermination of the Jews
No Order
No Plan
No Budget
No Weapon
(No expert report stating:
"This was a homicidal gas chamber")
No Body
(No autopsy stating: "This is or was the body of a person killed by
poison gas.")
for this alleged mass extermination campaign!
That there existed such an order had been a much-repeated claim for
decades, and many people still believe there was. Dr. Raul Hilberg -
known as the "Pope of the Holocaust" for having authored "The
Destruction of the European Jews," (often referred to as "The
Holocaust Bible") a man who is widely regarded as the "#1 Expert" on
Holocaust matters, has managed to bring his perception of the
Holocaust a little more in accord with the facts, thanks to
Revisionist influence, to wit:
- In his 1961 edition of his book, "The Destruction of
the European Jews," Dr. Hilberg wrote that there were two
Hitler orders. (Hilberg, Raul, The Destruction of the European
Jews, Quadrangel, Chicago, page 177)
- At the 1985 trial of Ernst Zündel, Hilberg continued to
insist that the orders existed, stating that he would not be
correcting what he wrote in 1961 in his new, forthcoming edition.
(Did Six Million Really Die? Report of the Evidence in the
Canadian "False News" Trial of Ernst Zündel - 1988, Edited by
Barbara Kulaszka, pp 851-852)
- Shortly after his testimony, Hilberg then proceeded to delete
all references to a Hitler Order in the body of his new edition,
published in 1985. (Hilberg, Raul, "The Destruction of the
European Jews," Holmes & Meyer, New York, 1985, p 402) in 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 112-113)
- In this new edition, the reference to a "Hitler Order" is
buried in a footnote that now reads as follows:
"Thus came about not so much a plan being carried out,
but an incredible meeting of minds, a consensus, mind-reading by a
far-flung bureaucracy." (Did Six Million Really Die? Report of the
Evidence in the Canadian "False News" Trial of Ernst Zündel -
1988, Edited by Barbara Kulaszka, pp 112-113)
"Did this include nods and winks?" asked Zündel defense
attorney, Douglas Christie, in the 1988 Zundel Trial. Let's let the
reader guess.
Did the Nazis whisper in each others ears how to exterminate millions
and millions of Jews? Believable? Maybe so is the Easter bunny!
Even Holocaust historian Christopher Browning noted this as a major
interpretational change in Hilberg's work, speaking of his colleague
as "the Revised Hilberg." (The Revised Hilberg,
Simon Wiesenthal Annual, Volume 3, 1986)
So now it is agreed by friend and foe alike except by those who still
need to catch up there was no Führer order.
What is still left are two incendiary words: "Final Solution" - or,
the German equivalent, "Endlösung."
Let's look at those.
It is true that the words "Endlösung" or "Final Solution" were
used in reference to the Jews. So what? Does that prove anything?
Does that mean "extermination"? Does a "Final Solution" to the
unemployment problem mean the government is going to exterminate all
the unemployed?
During the war, the phrase was used in Canada when dealing with the
Japanese - and nobody claims today that Canada was planning genocidal
things with reference to Orientals!
In a recent television documentary about Canada's wartime policy
toward Canadians of Japanese origin, documents were unearthed that
talked about "The Final Solution" to the "Japanese problem" - which
was relocation, denaturalization and deportation of the Japanese from
Canada to Japan. This was exactly what Germany's policies were
towards the Jews - for almost the same reasons. The country was at
war, and Jews were seen as subversive to the government and to the
war effort - just as Japanese were seen as subversive to Canadian
wartime policies.
Germany's policies were far less race-based and much more ideological
in nature than Canada's. As a matter of fact and record, tens of
thousands of Jews lived and worked in Germany during the war outside
concentration camps, even in Hitler's capital, Berlin - one of them
being the famous Rabbi and Zionist leader Leo Boeck, who was a
practicing rabbi in 1943!
If you doubt that, check on the 1943 Berlin telephone book!
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."
