On Saturday, June 21, [2003]
chemical engineer (Dipl. Ing.) Wolfgang Fröhlich, 51, was
arrested in Vienna, Austria, and taken to prison. His trial could
last two days, as the public prosecutor wishes, or as long as
two or three weeks, as his attorney, Dr. Herbert Schaller, hopes.
For seven years, Fröhlich had sent to jurists, members of
parliament, politicians and journalists, thousands of copies of
his writings, in which he says that the alleged wartime Nazi extermination
gas chambers are, as he put it, a lie. Remarkably, he suffered
no real legal consequences. Then, following the publication in
2001 of his 368-page file, Die Gaskammer Lüge
("The Gas Chamber Lie), the authorities decided to arrest
him. But he went into hiding, and the police apparently made no
serious effort to find him.
Fröhlich's arrest on June 21 may, perhaps, be connected with
a statement in Vienna two days earlier by Rudolph Giuliani. On
June 19 the former mayor of New York, speaking as a US government
representative, told participants at a two-day Conference on Anti-Semitism,
held in Vienna by the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE), that Revisionism should be stopped. In an article
published a day earlier in The New York Times, "How
Europe Can Stop the Hate, he said, referring to officials of the
European states: "Making sure their citizens have an honest
understanding of the Holocaust is vital, as revisionist viewpoints
put us at risk of a repetition of race-based genocide. On June
16 and 17, President George W. Bush criticized "revisionist
history' and "revisionist historians for expressing doubts
about the official version of the US war against Iraq.
In a way, Ernst Zündel and Wolfgang Fröhlich may be
the first revisionist victims of Bush and Giuliani.
In January 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, manipulated
by Henry Morgenthau, Jr., his Treasury Secretary, created the
War Refugee Board (WRB), which fabricated its infamous report
on the "German extermination camps-Auschwitz and Birkenau.
In September 2001, President George W.Bush, manipulated by Paul
Wolfowitz, his Deputy Defense Secretary, created the Office of
Special Plans (OSP), which fabricated untrue reports about Iraqi
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). The OSP is headed by Abram
Shulsky. The OSP individuals who are responsible for the WMD reports
call themselves "the Cabal (from "cabala). (This has
been acknowledged by Seymour M. Hersh in The New Yorker,
May 12, 2003, and by Jacques Isnard in Le Monde, June 7,
2003, p. 7.)
Similar lies. Similar liars. Similar beneficiaries. Similar victims.
Therefore, it seems, a similar Revisionism is needed.
Note: On June 17, the French daily Le Monde published an
ironic front-page article entitled (in French): "Saddam was
evil, therefore he had prohibited weapons". To Le Monde
I sent a one-sentence letter, meant for publication: "Hitler
was evil, therefore he had gas chambers and gas vans". My
brief letter was not published.
23 June 2003
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