Introduction
to Revisionist Thought
By Ernst
Zündel
Introduction
This document below was prepared and posted on the Zundelsite as
an "Introduction to Revisionist Thought" during the first week of
January, 1996. It was meant to be a lead-in to an Internet debate
with another website, Nizkor, a "Holocaust Promotion Lobby"
website.
This debate was aborted after the Simon Wiesenthal Center was
notified of this debate and immediately went into an all-out
offensive, starting with an article in the New York
Times January 10, 1996, followed by 2000 letters to ISP's
and university presidents in an attempt to prevent Revisionist
material from being published on the Web.
In response to this censorship move, "computer kids" and cyberspace
journalists worldwide took up the "sheltering" of the Zundelsite by
creating Zundelsite Mirrors. From mid-January to mid-February, it was
high electronic drama as in the most prestigous universities,
"Zündel-Mirrors" sprang up spontaneously. We know of
Zündel-Mirrors as far away as Australia.
The eventual outcome of this "first ever" Internet Cyberspace
Stand-off and similar battles for Freedom of Speech on the Net was
the US Communications Decency Act, rammed through
the US Congress by special interest groups but recently dismissed as
unconstitutional by three Philadelphia judges.
This judgment, presently, is on appeal.
The struggle for Freedom of Speech on the Net continues.
Ernst Zündel Replies:
Rebuttal #1:
Before I get into the actual rebuttal, I would just like to call
attention to a few important points in (Nizkor's) detailed, elaborate
summary:
1. I am described by Nizkor, citing Canada's Security Intelligence
Review Committee, as a ". . . prolific publisher of hate literature."
That is not quite correct.
In Canada, the distribution of hate literature is a criminal offense,
as is bank robbery and child molestation. If you call me a bank
robber in print and I am not a bank robber, that is called libel. If
you call me a child molester and I am not a child molester, that is
called libel also.
You called me in electronic print a ". . . prolific publisher of hate
literature." You have just libeled me.
I have lived and worked in Canada for almost 40 years and have never
been convicted of having published and/or distributed hate literature
in that country. I have never even been charged with having published
and/or distributed hate literature in Canada, although in Canada
there are such things as "hate laws."
In point of fact, various judicial and police bodies, after extensive
study, have specifically cleared me of that charge. Had there been
proof, my enemies would have made sure I would have been charged and
convicted.
I have been charged with ". . . spreading false news," a frivolous
charge a malcontent, multi-millionaire Jewess brought against me. It
cost Canadians approximately $6 million . . . and all, for what? The
Supreme Court of Canada decided in the end that society may be
enriched by cultural and intellectual diversity, which does include
unpopular views on history and other matters of discomfort to certain
minorities.
Below I summarize 8 points to serve as "Holocaust" Revisionism 101.
Before I do so, I would like to state what I mean when I refer to
certain individuals and groups collectively as the "Holocaust
Promotion Lobby."
I use the phrase as a generic term to describe those people who have
a vested interest in keeping the Holocaust Myth alive and who will
act politically to make sure that this happens.
The Holocaust Promotion Lobby is a summarizing
construct meant as a shortcut to describe a subset of the human
race, most but not all of whom are Jews, with unique and
identifying social and political characteristics and dedicated to
the maintenance and enhancement of a dogma called the "Holocaust."
I use this phrase for summarizing purposes, as in "The Flower
Generation" describing a hedonistic youth culture or "The Jet Set"
describing the rich.
I will leave it up to each individual, Gentile or Jew, to decide for
himself whether or not he belongs in that group.
What Revisionists are offering below is the state of the art on
Revisionism as of right now. The final word is not
yet in; it will come when more people in all kinds and sorts of
disciplines will kneel into the murky matter of the "Holocaust" and
find out for themselves was is and isn't true.
To capture the essence of what follows below, readers will need to
understand that, after years of insisting that ". . . the
Revisionists don't MERIT a response!" and refusing to engage in
debate, at the beginning of the year a serious debate was actually
planned - or so, at least, we thought.
A world-wide censorship move was unleashed to stop this debate from
happening. Part of this effort by our opposition apparently caused
Nizkor to back out of the debate, insisting that they merely talked
of "linking." It is unfortunate that a debate didn't happen, but that
is now water under the bridge.
The Nizkor folks now say that they prefer to "link," so we will let
them "link." We would have liked a real debate with mutual and
respectful cooperation. However, that was not to be, but since we
promised we would answer a rebuttal, that is what we are doing
now.
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By way of introduction, Revisionism has taken hold as an intellectual
revival movement all over the world. People are beginning to ask
questions about the Holocaust. These questions are uncomfortable. No
longer can the Holocaust Promotion Lobby ignore the global interest
in the TRUE facts surrounding very murky claims pertaining to the
"Holocaust" by shouting "Anti-Semitism!"
In essence, Revisionism claims can be grouped into eight fairly
distinct topics. They are, as elaborated below:
This English document comes in eight parts. It is the original
document on which the following translations are based. It summarizes
the following eight Revisionist claims, broadly sketched:
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."
