AAARGH
D'abord le texte complet de la Lettre 151 qui explique pourquoi
le site de l'Adelainde Institute a dû censurer certaines
de ces propres lettres parues sur son site à la demande
de Jeremy Jones, le persécuteur juif australien.
From: "Adelaide Institute" <info@adelaideinstitute.org>
Subject: Newsletter 151
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 22:40:15 +1030
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ADELAIDE INSTITUTE
Online
ISSN 1440-9828
December 2001 - January 2002 No 151
Christmas and New Year Greetings
12 December 2001
Dear Associates and Supporters
Adelaide Institute ends its eighth year of operations with some
satisfaction because we have done our bit for the cause of Revisionism
and, of course, for the cause of free speech. Yet it seems to
me that those with whom I discussed our future developments, tended
to see some limitations as to what we can actually achieve in
the future.
Since the 11 September (S11?) indents the world has to contend
with much more than just this 'Holocaust' story that is distorting
our world culture. However, that we now quit this battle is, to
most of you, not yet appropriate. There's still work to be done
- much work because the proverbial enemy of free speech is forever
busy attempting to limit the free flow of information. Without
this free flow of information, we cannot develop a full picture
of what factors hinder us in reaching a comprehensive understanding
of whatever interests us.
On the homefront, recent significance is the appearance on the
scene of an American who has lodged a complaint with the Human
Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) against Phillip
Adams. My letter to The Age on this matter is self explanatory:
10 December 2001
In her article, 'The mad charge of the rights brigade' (The Age
10/12), Dr Janet Albrechtsen is certainly focusing on the essence
of free speech that surrounds Phillip Adams' possible appearance
before the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC),
i.e. "that we must support those who think differently -
no matter how stupid the thought".
In Germany three teachers, who made similar disparaging comments
about the US and the 11 September catastrophe, were legally punished.
It is a delicious irony that Adams, the millionaire media guru
of the socialist left, is now faced with the thought police that
the politically correct brigade wishes to inflict upon all Australians.
Leaving aside the fact that the left-right wing political dichotomy
has become unhelpful in solving immediate pressing social, economic
and political problems, I feel a certain Schadenfreude in witnessing
how the 'revolution is devouring its own children'. When this
happened at the close of the French Revolution, it was dictator
Napoleon who sealed their fate by declaring "the revolution
is now over".
My joy, however does not quite extend to Phillip Adams' case because,
although he despises my work and publicly calls it 'toxic sludge',
he has also publicly stated that our Adelaide Institute's website
should not be censored on account of his love of free speech.
Australia's Zionist, Jeremy Jones, took me to HREOC, and twice
I walked out because before this star chamber truth is no defence.
Hence, so my reasoning, where truth is no defence, lies flourish
and as lying is immoral, the HREOC's proceedings were immoral.
Needless to say, the Commissioner found I had posted offensive
material on our website and ordered I take it down and sign a
written apology that I would no re-publish the alleged offending
material anywhere else. This kind of legal decision is exactly
what happened during the Soviet show trials, where written confessions
were forcibly extracted, and then the accused was still sent to
the Gulags - all because of expressing an opinion that ran counter
to the prevailing orthodoxy.
During the Soviet Union's reign, dissenters were labelled revisionists
and anyone who dared publicly to make critical statements, was
given the treatment. No-one was permitted to criticise the party
that ruled the empire.
The dogma that is infesting our western democracies is the 'Holocaust',
defined as the allegation made against Germans that they systematically
exterminated six million Jews in homicidal gas chambers, in particular
at Auschwitz.
Although this allegation has been thoroughly investigated by dissenting
historians, and others, who claim it has no basis in fact, official
dogma in western democracies will punish anyone who dares publicly
to express a dissenting view.
Dissenters are variously labelled 'haters', 'Holocaust deniers',
antisemites', 'racists' and 'neo-Nazis'. I personally object to
being labelled in such a way, except that I admit to being a Holocaust
denier because I would hate to be a 'Holocaust liar'.
All Australia's leading media outlets have fallen into line and
chant the Holocaust mantra, but from personal experience I know
that a number of leading public figures share my doubts. But the
pressure to conform to the Holocaust dogma is so great that it
is easier to yield to it than to fight it.
This is what I may also do when my case is heard in the Federal
Court early next year. I may, in the Galilean spirit, sign that
written apology for having offended Australia's Jews by being
a Holocaust denier, but I will then walk out of court a free man
- and continue to enjoy wine, women and song!
Dr Fredrick Toben
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The Federal Court matter is another factor I have discussed with
many supporters. What to do? Already we have deleted the alleged
offending material from our Adelaide Institute website, thus directly
complying with the first of two demands made upon us by the HREOC
commissioner.
Naturally, this has not satisfied Jones and he has now succeeded
in submitting a Statement of Claim to the Federal Court. I unsuccessfully
opposed the prelimiary actions to this point on account of this
dispute being an historical matter, something our Australian judiciary
should, among other things, leave well alone.
I had some legal assistance in framing my various responses, but
it appeared that Justice Branson was not convinced by my arguments
that this matter be dismissed. She, in fact, is quite eager to
have it proceed to a hearing.
Also, I have been forsaken by my legal advisers behind the scene
"for fear of the Jews". Justice Branson did advise me
from the very beginning that I should get legal counsel to assist
in this case. Now I find that there is no-one who is courageous
enough to assist - even behind the scene. This "fear of the
Jews" even extends to my legal contacts in New Zealand.
In view of this it was suggested that perhaps we had better go
off-shore with our website; legally sell the domain name adelaideinstitute.org
to someone in the USA, then just continue with a hardcopy newsletter
that does not mention things Jones complains about.
There is merit in this suggestion because fighting the various
allegations in court will be a fruitless exercise for us. The
outcome is already pre-determined.
The offending material that we had on our website consisted of
Newsletters No. 50, 53, 54, 56 and 57.
In Jones' Particulars, we read:
[17.] Particulars Of Offence, Insult, Humiliation Or Intimidation
17.1 The Nazi genocide is not a fact but an opinion held of a
group ofindividuals acting with malicious intent who are opposed
by persons fighting to establish the "truth";
2. There is no evidence that millions of people were killed in
homicidal gas chambers;
3. There was no Holocaust, and that Robert Faurisson (with whom
the Respondent aligns himself) has demonstrated that there was
no gassing of Jews and therefore, no Holocaust;
4. The perceived knowledge of the Nazi Holocaust is nothing more
than an "allegation" leveled by "defamers and libellers",
and there were "alleged homicidal gassings"; [web page]
5. There was a "Jewish-Bolshevik Holocaust" which is
not "alleged" and in which "Jews" were "murderers";
[web page]
6. The Holocaust is "an evil lie" used to exploit "morale
sensibility", promote "feelings of guilt" and extort
money from the United States' Government and "German taxpayers";
[Newsletter No. 50]
7. That "the Jews" have a "responsibility in massacring
Christians"; [Newsletter No. 50]
8. Invocation of anti-Jewish stereotypes,misrepresent Judaism
and threatened that if Jews "can not come to terms with the
dark side of your own history, then you will be history";
[Newsletter Nos. 50, 57 - and claims by David Brockschmidt]
9. That "Jews inspired gems of genius" inspired John
Calvin in his activity of "Hacking off heads"; [Newsletter
No. 53, and claims by V S Stinger]
10. That there is a "Mezuzah-Monitored Machine-Gunfire of
the American media", where the "Mezuzah" is a Jewish
religious symbol and is referred to insultingly to identify Jews
as deserving of contempt and hatred; [ibid]
11. That "it appears in reality that God has "chosen"
Jews to demonstrate how people should not behave"; [Newsletter
No. 53, and claims by Jack King]
12. That Jews have a 'talmudic" habit of deceit and manipulation;
[ibid]
13. That "the Talmud" condones lies, deceit, perjury,
brutality, greed, vile obscenities, sodomy, paedophilia, bestiality,
hatred of gentiles, Christians in particular, and sadistic killings
of Christians simply because they are Christians"; [ibid]
14. That anti-Semitism "has been deliberately promoted by
Jews for political and publicity purposes; [Newsletter No. 53,
and claims by Eric Butler from the Australian League of Rights]
15. That there is a "Pseudo-Religious Dogma of the "Schmolocaust"
(as an offensive and intimidating remark which is clearly intended
to offend and intimidate) and refers to Jews as a particular ethnic
group and suggests that as an ethnic group, they engage in political
subversion; [Newsletter No. 54] (I think this may be Jack Selzer's
expression.)
16. That there is a "fake" - "Protocols of Elders
ofZion" which is "a faithful documentation of the Judo-Communist
method of political subversion; [ibid]
17. That comments that: "Jews brought forth the homicidal
ideology which enveloped half of the planet like a cloud of poison
and killed off a hundred tones or more than a lousy 6,000,000"
and reprints extracts from "Mein Kampf"; [ibid]
18. That some Jews are "AshkaNazi" and by spelling the
reference to "Ashkenazi" Jews (Jewish persons who emanated
from nations in Central Europe) as "AshkaNazis"deiberately
insults and intends to insult a significant part of the Australian
Jewish community; [Newsletter No. 56]
19. That directly compares Jews and Nazis; [ibid]
20. That there was a "Jewish/Bolshevik holocaust", which
is not referred to as "alleged" and which shows that
"Jews" are "murderers"; [ibid]
21. That there is an "alleged homicidal gas chamber story";
[ibid]
22. That "Holocaust maniacs and the Holocaust racketeers"
made an "Auschwitz horror show", and that "This
Holocaust racket turns over billions of dollars world-wide, creating
hatred against Germans and spreading depression into the hearts
of young and old Jews and Gentiles alike"; [Newsletter No.
57, and claims by David Brockschmidt]
23. That "the Bolshevik Regime" was "created and
sustained by Jews"; [Newsletter No. 57]
and
24. That the crimes of Stalin in the Soviet Union in general are
"Jewish".
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If truth is a defence in the Federal Court, then we have few problems
in settling the truthfulness of these things complained of. Then,
of course, we are just expressing our considered opinions on contentious
matters, so to speak, in the national interest.
From the above, Jones makes his own interpretations:
[20.] Each of the Internet Acts and each of the Newsletter Acts
and each combination of them is reasonably likely to offend, insult,
humilitate or intimidate (i) the Applicant or (ii) Australian
Jews, or (iii) Australian Jews who had immigrated to Australia
and whose national origin was a European nation, and their direct
descendants, because of accusations against and derogatory generalisations
about them in their character as Jews. In particular:
20.1 The proposition that Australian Jews are acting maliciously,
dishonestly and manipulatively in presenting the Holocaust as
other than allegations or assertions;
20.2 The proposition that Australian Jews are distorting and manipulating
the events of the Holocaust to create a myth for the promotion
of the social, political and economic interest of the Jewish people;
20.3 The proposition that individuals who maintain the received
history of the Holocaust are racketeers who for money create hatred
against Germans and spread depression into the hearts of young
and old Jews and Gentiles alike;
20.4 The proposition that Australian Jews and Christians who interact
with them engaging in sensitive study and consideration of the
Holocaust attempt toimpose guilt on non-Jews, in particular Christians;
and
20.5 The proposition that if anyone committed an evil act and
happened to be Jewish it was because of their Jewishness that
they committed the evil act.
21. Reasonably likely effects of the Internet Acts and each of
the Newsletters Acts and each combination of them are that:
21.1 The right of Australian Jews to live in Australia free of
harassment is challenged;
21.2 It is more difficult for Australian Jews who immigrated to
Australia to escape the Holocaust or having survived the Holocaust
to express their feelings of pain and hurt connected with the
Holocaust;
21.3 Distress, pain, insult and offence is cause by reason of:
(a) the reference to "lousy 6,000,000" in Newsletter
54;
(b) the risk of being perceived as "defamers and libellers",
when communicating about their experiences during the Holocaust
to other Australians;
(c) Suggestions that there was no Holocaust and on the web page:
http://www.adelaideinstitute.org/about_adin.html that there were
but "alleged homicidal gassings";
(d) the proposition that in seeking restitution for the wrongs
done to Jewish families during the Holocaust, Jews are propagating
"an evil lie" used to exploit "morale sensibility",
promote "feelings of guilt" and extort money from the
United States' Government and 'German taxpayers";
(e) Invocation of anti-Jewish stereotypes, misrepresentations
of Judaism and threats Jews "will be history";
(f) the proposition that "the Jews"have a "responsibility
in massacring Christians";
(g) the proposition that the Talmud teaches deceit and manipulation
and condones lies, deceit, perjury, brutality, greed, vile obscenities,
sodomy, paedophilia, bestiality, hatred of gentiles, Christians
in particular, and sadistic killings of Christians simply because
they are Christians;
(h) the proposition that anti-Semitism "has been deliberately
promoted by Jews for political and publicity purposes";
(i) the proposition that "God has 'chosen' Jews to demonstrate
how people should not behave";
(j) the proposition that the "Protocols of Elders of Zion"
is "a faithful; documentation of the Judo-Communist method
of political subversion"; and
(k) presentation of Australian Jews to the public as part of an
evil conspiracy because they are Jews.
21.4 People will act negatively towards Australian JEws;
21.5 Australian Jews will experience anxiety about the way in
which non-Jewish Australians might view and treat them; and
21.6 Australian Jews will experience an adverse effect on the
quality of life in Australia.
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I always thought Jeremy Jones was a Jewish Australian rather than
an Australian Jew. What is the difference between an Australian
Jew and a Jewish Australian? Also, his other legal trick is that
he claims to be speaking on behalf of the present members of the
Executive Council of Australian Jews. This is a cheap but perhaps
powerful political trick.
Then comes his claim for a written apology:
22.4 an order that the respondent Dr Fredrick Toben,deliver to
the applicant, Jeremy Jones, a written state,ment of apology,
signed by the respondent in the following terms, and further that
a copy of that apology as delivered should appear on the home
page of the Adelaide Institute Website for so long as the Adelaide
Institute Website exists in any form:
"I hereby unreservedly and unconditionally apologise to you
and to the Australian Jewish community for having published materials
inciting hatred against the Jewish people in contravention of
the Racial Discrimination Act.
I undertake that neither I nor any employee or agent of mine (actual
and ostensible) will publish any such material in the future and
that all such material which is presently published by me, or
by any employee or agent ofmine (actual or ostensible) in any
print or electronic media (including the Internet) will forthwith
be withdrawn from publication".
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Is it feasible that I sign this thing, this unconditional surrender
document? In my letter to the newspaper I indicated that I may
just do it. Why? Three reasons:
1. I lack the funds to fight an effective Holocaust trial; we
would need to bring The Rudolf Report into these proceedings,
and have Michael Hoffmann dissect for us Talmud references. A
number of individuals have advised me that avoiding a fight would
not be considered to be an act of cowardice.
2. I cannot find competent legal counsel to mount a proper defence
because "for fear of the Jews". This case brings constitutional
matters into play; it needs to challenge the constitutionality
of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, the formulation of which
was solidly in the hands of Australia's Jewish Zionists.
By applying this Act, Justice Branson is turning Australia into
a racist country. The 1967 Referendum united Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal
Australians. It was the wish of most Australians not to exclude
Aborigines from the political process. The Racial Discrimination
Act again opens up the racial divide that the Referendum closed.
What really bothers me is the number of Jewish Zionist judges
in the Federal Court. Recently retired judge, Marcus Einfeld,
was an unapologetic Zionist who propagated wild claims for Israel's
right to continue its policy against the Palestinians - and this
while a Federal Court judge!
Another example of someone who now is a Federal Court judge is
Alan H Goldberg, Q.C., who in 1984, as Chairman, Anti-Defamation
Committee, Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), penned
the following letter to Mrs Joyce Steele, O.B.E., former Minister
of Education, Parliament of South Australia. The president of
the ECAJ at that time was Mr Isi Leibler, C.B.E.
Dear Mrs Steele
I am writing to you in my capacity as Chairman of the Anti-Defamation Committee of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, the official roof body of Australia's Jewish community, about a serious and disturbing matter which concerns yourself.
The back cover of the recently published -- edition of John Bennett's Your Rights contains an endorsement of this book by yourself, together with a number of similar endorsements. I attach a photocopy of this back cover in case you are unaware of this fact.
Given your distinguished record of achievement on the South Australian and Australian political scene, you are probably unaware that by your endorsement of Bennett's booklet, you appear to lend the weight of your reputation, as well as that of the South Australian Liberal Party, to the approval of what the entire Australian Jewish community regards as one of the most vile and offensive pieces of anti-Semitic racism to be published in Australia in recent years.
Although Bennett's book may indeed contain...information of value, you may be aware that for some years Bennett has continuously been publicising the outrageous and wholly untrue lie that the Nazi Holocaust involving six million Jews during the Second World War - the mass murder of six million Jewish men, women and children by Hitler and the Nazis - did not occur but was a lie invented after the war by lying Jews for financial and political ends. Since you have read (John Bennett's book) you will be aware of the odious lie which he repeats on pages ... of his book, photocopies of which are attached. In an effort to whitewash the Nazis, Bennett also states ( page..., also attached) that "Hate sessions in the media directed against Hitler and the Nazis are so pervasive that a visitor from Mars might think WW II is still in progress". Numerous other statements attacking the Jewish people are also to be found in this book.
Internationally, such pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic statements have almost entirely been confined to obviously crank and extremist neo-Nazi groups in Europe and America while in Australia their main source of propagation, apart from John Bennett, is The League of Rights, the extremist right wing body known for its anti-Asian, anti-Aboriginal and anti-Semitic racist attitudes.
We find it both surprising and regrettable that a former public official of your distinction is seen to lend the weight of her reputation to a view which is an obvious and total distortion of history and an insult to the many millions ofvictims of Nazi suppression. Your endorsement of a book containing Bennett's extremist and racist views will, we believe, come as a considerable shock to your many admirers, both in South Australia and elsewhere and will tarnish your high reputation for fairminded public service. It also gives considerable distress to Australia's Jewish community, especially to the 10,000 or more Australian Jews who survived Hitler's concentration camps, while your endorsement may help to legitimise the use of Bennett's work in schools and universities. We are also sure that your endorsement would be greeted with both amazement and consternation by the South Australian Liberal Party and by the South Australian media, should it become known.
In all the circumstances it would seem desirable and appropriate that you should disassociate yourself from Bennett's anti-Semitic views and I would be most grateful if you could take some appropriate steps to this end.
Yours faithfully
Alan H. Goldberg Q.C.
Chairman, Anti-Defamation
Committee, E.C.A.J.
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I wonder who is being defamatory and intimidatory! Jeremy Jones
is steeped in this culture, and he is known as the 'foreign minister'
of Australia's Zionist.
My submitting this letter to Her Honour, Justice Branson, brought
forth no response. Counsel for Jones, Stephen Rothman, claimed
it was "irrelevant".
My aim was merely to show what tactics our Zionist friends use
when they defend their self-defined turf.
Attached to this letter I also had copies of two well-known items
by Terry Lane and PhillipAdams. Therein we can see that what is
happening to me is nothing special - I'm just another one of those
that Australia's Jewish Zionists find threatening, for whatever
reason. It is a nonsense that these Zionists get away with their
bullying tactics, then claim victim status and seek legal protection
so that they can "get away with it".
Terry Lane
I Surrender - printed in the Australian Jewish News on 4 December 1992:
I have said publicly that I will never write or speak on the subject of Israel or Palestine ever again. Here is why.
The Zionist lobby in this country is malicious, implacable,mendacious and dangerous. They have caused me a great deal of lost sleep - and in the end my insomnia has not contributed anything to the resolution of the conflict of Palestine. I might as well keep my mouth shut and get some sleep.
What's more, once the expression 'antisemite' hits the air, or, heaven forefend, the sacred formula 'six million' is uttered, then I know from bitter experience that there is not one manager or editor in the country who will defend an underling. We are thrown to the jackals.
In the end the truly tolerant have no defence against intolerance. I surrender. To the Zionists I say: you win. To the Palestinians: forgive my cowardice.
Terry Lane is an ABC broadcaster and a newspaper columnist.
Phillip Adams
A difficult friendship - an excerpt from an article printed in, The Australian:
I then received an extraordinary letter from Bill Rubinstein which
I found offensive in tone and remarkably patronising. As it illustrated
some of the very points that I'd made in my talk to the doctors,
I published it in The Australian and all hell broke loose. Lots
more letters accusing me of being an antisemite.
All in all, it was such a bruising and unpleasant experience that
I decided not to write on Jewish matters again. Or at least take
a long sabbatical from matters semitic.
I could cover pages with evidence of my good-will to the Jewish
community.
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There we have it from two individuals who have been towing the
official Holocaust dogma line for years. Were I to sign that piece
of paper, then I would only be following notable media personalities
into the wasteland of silence, and letting the liars and distorters
and deceivers get away with it. Haven't I been up front claiming
that we must not let them get way with it?
But Jeremy Jones' awowed aim has been to "stop them [anyone
who is not with him] from functioning". My signing the piece
of paper may avoid expensive litigation that in itself wouldnot
remove the stupid Holocaust story from our school text books.
Can you imagine a judge of the Federal Court of Australia daring
to stand up to the Australian Zionist lobby and invoking common
law principles in my favour? I think not.
On Monday 17 December, Mrs Olga Scully >olgascully@yahoo.com.au>
is also in the Federal Court defending herself against Jeremy
Jones' allegations that she is spreading anti-Zionist material.
Were it not so serious, then I feel like laughing that Jones claims
to have been hurt by reading Olga's material. Jones is a politician
who struts the world stage inciting hatred against anyone who
disagrees with his Zionist world-view. So much for his tolerance!
So, what am I to do? Participate in a proceeding that cannot be
objective about this nonsense claim because it is an historical
issue and should thus never be litigated in a court of law? Most
probably the proceedings in court will not worry about truth as
a defence because the framing of the Racial Discrimination Act
merely requires applicants to prove they have suffered hurt feelings.
And Jones has to make credible that he is offended by the material
of which he complains.
Many things have passed through my mind and as I privately indicated
to a number of supporters, when you have to wipe a loved one's
bottom because he is dying and incapable of doing it himself,
then some priority-setting is in order here.
Is it important to continue exposing the Holocaust lies? Who cares
anymore, except a handful of individuals world-wide?
Why is it that the world has remained silent on the related Palestinian
plight for so long - three+ generations living in the largest
concentration camp in the world run by Jewish Zionists?
In this sense I would be pleased to hear from you again on this
issue and I thank you for making it all possible. We need your
generous support.
While on this topic of support, we do have to consider what to
do when individuals are faced with the situation that their valuable
books are not wanted by their next-of-kin. Some individuals have
already passed their Holocaust collection on to us because they
cannot read anymore.
But all this can be a task that we'll focus on in 2002, and so
I wish you a very happy, healthy and productive New Year.
Fredrick Töben
PS.: Sadly we farewell Henk and Michael as our trusted Associates
of long standing, and welcome Mohammed Hegazi, who has been with
us since the beginning. Please also excuse this letter format
but I am working on WordPad because my Office 2000 disk number
has stillnot arrived. Let me offer you two items for reflection:
one gives a clear view of what ails the West, and the other what
ails the Middle East and, by implication, why the West is saturated
with protective Holocaust laws:
Steep slopes of Wadi Kziv in Western Galilee are covered by
thick vegetation; oleanders and cypresses look into shallow ponds
formed by its springs. I like this secluded canyon. In hot summer
days one can hide in an intricate deep cave and lay in its cool
clear waters, waiting for deer and hoping for a nymph. In cooler
days, I would climb up the Crusader castle of Monfort rising on
a hill amidst the canyon, sit in its donjon and gaze towards distant
Mediterranean Sea.
It keeps many memories. The 12th century Zionists, Teutonic knights
bought the castle and founded here the movable state of the Order.
They were defeated by Salah ad-Din, this paragon of valour and
compassion, who allowed them to depart with their weapons and
honour for Eastern Europe. On the steep path leading to the spring,
met and parted lovely characters of Arabesques, the exquisite
novel by a Palestinian writer Anton Shammas. Shammas, a native
of nearby Fassuta, is probably the only non-Jew in the world who
writes his books and poems in Israeli Hebrew.
Farther west, the brook of Kziv flows into the sea at the ruins
of a Christian village of Ahziv, destroyed by Jews in 1948. In
this village, in long-gone 1920s, a local Palestinian girl was
visited by another local Palestinian woman, the Virgin. In other
words, it is a typical place in the unusual land of Palestine.
These days, you can roam it all by yourself. It is empty of people
as the rest of countryside. The land of Palestine is in trouble,
deepest trouble since black 1948. People do not venture down here
anymore, leaving the canyon to its lean and wiry boar. Walking
downstream, I spotted a few of these gracious animals, so different
from their domesticated cousins. Only out of the gorge, on the
plain of Acre, I came across some human presence. There were a
few Thai or Chinese peasants working the fields of local kibbutz.
A middle-aged kibbutznik sat in the shadow overseeing their work.
I joined him for a smoke and a drink of cold water.
He looked like an epitome of a good Israeli, large, sunburned,
with a friendly smile, bushy mustachio and brisk talk. Fifty years
ago, he or rather his predecessor, a fighter of the Jewish Storm
Troops, the Palmach, would seize the lands of Ahziv and expel
its peasants to Lebanon. Some thirty years ago, he would work
the stolen land with his own hands. Now, he oversees the Thais
working this land. Very soon, he told me, he will go for a while
to New York, to visit his son. Then, some Russians from Maalot
town will do the overseeing for the kibbutz. Not many Jews are
interested in working the land, or even in overseeing Thais working
it, he said. Kibbutz hopes to get a building permit, build housing
and sell the real estate. It is a valuable site, near Naharia
and Acre, and it will sell well, despite the crisis, he said.
I shook hands and bid farewell to him, to the sweaty Thais, to
the green fields, to the mountains of Lebanon to the north, concealing
the refugee camps with the former dwellers of Ahziv, to the Galilee
range with its Russian town of Maalot, and took train homewards,
to Jaffa. The train carried a few Africans, probably illegal immigrants
judging by their shy looks. A Romanian building team was gulping
beer and burping loudly. They were imported from their impoverished
East European land to build the houses for immigrants, as the
Jews do not want to be employed in construction in Israel as well
as in California. A Jewish Israeli lawyer in black yarmulke leafed
papers in his semi-opened briefcase. A blond and armed Israeli
soldier talked Ukrainian with its fricative h's to his corpulent
girlfriend. He extolled his own heroic fight against multitude
of Arab terrorists under her admiring eyes. A group of Moroccans
discussed the closure of Acre steel plant and their slim chances
to find another work. The crisis is deepening, one of them said,
it is as bad as in 1966.
The train rode through Haifa, and I thought of hundreds of thousands,
maybe millions of Americans, Jews and Christian Zionists, who
lobby, pray, support and pay - no, not for the Jewish state built
on the ruins of Palestine. It would be bad enough; but reality
is worse. I thought of millions of Palestinians, rotting in refugee
camps and jails, dispossessed, expelled - not by the monster of
evil occupation and land grabbing, but by something worse - by
a ghost.
The Jewish state is a virtual state that quickly loses all remaining
connection to reality. This ghost of a state kills people and
collects money in America; it continues some nefarious existence,
like the legal term, `estate of the deceased'. Its fields are
worked by imported guest workers, guarded by imported Russians
and Ethiopians, explained by Israeli professors teaching forever
in American universities and by brave generals on the lookout
for a big shake. The unemployment grows daily, vital services
are on strike; the tourist industry collapsed, hotels are boarded
up and other branches of national economy are close to collapse.
Israelis buy flats in Florida and Prague, while houses in Israel
could not be sold. Sharon's desire to punish Palestinians was
similar to punishing one's own left hand: Palestinians and Israelis
are intertwined and integrated, and this separation kills the
economy of both.
From far away of America, Israel looks like a giant, nuclear state,
great friend of the United States, a Jewish state that is a source
of pride for American Jews. A visitor leaves our shores with a
strong feeling of our identity and prosperity. Only we, permanent
residents, know that it is a cardboard sham. Israel is collapsing,
as its active citizens emigrate in despair, while generals complete
the destruction of the country. A cruel fate befalls the native
Palestinians: a ghost kills them, a spiritless body walking in
Zombie-like trance the corridors of the Congress and the deserts
of Middle East.
For the sake of this spectre, important American Jews squeeze
every penny from their employees and countrymen, cut down on pensions
to old and assistance for children, reduce the health and education
budget, dry up help to Africa and Latin America, build improbable
coalitions with notorious racists of Pat Robertson's kind, demand
destruction of Iraq, bless bombing of Afghani refugees, keep Afro-Americans
in their ghettos, undermine their host society, making enemies
to themselves and to America. These deeds are vile enough, but
they are useless as well. Zionist experiment practically collapsed.
It can run for many yeas to come on life-supporting machine, as
a brain-dead vegetable. It can kill people, maybe even start the
world war. It cannot become alive.
The Jewish state of Israel is a state of mind; it is but a projection
of the American Jewish mind. Worries and problems it articulates
are American Jewish problems. For Israeli `Jews', there is no
need of segregation, of war, of subjugation of natives. We eat
no bagels with lox, speak no Yiddish, read no Saul Bellow or Sholom
Aleichem, and avoid synagogues. We prefer Arab food and Greek
music. My neighbourhood has seven pork butchers to a kosher one.
Forty per cent of Tel Aviv weddings are done outside Jewish framework:
young Israelis prefer to go to Cyprus to get married, just to
avoid contact with Rabbis. Tel Aviv is the gays' capital of Middle
East, though according to Jewish law, gays should be exterminated.
If American Jews would not bribe Israelis on a large scale, we
would just forget about the Diaspora and dissolve into the hospitable
Middle East. If they continue to bankroll us, we shall oblige
them with a small show of Jewishness.
We are master-sellers of illusion, and as long as there are buyers,
we shall provide. In 1946, a group of dedicated men from all over
the world came to Palestine under the aegis of the UN. They were
sent to prepare the ground for partition of the land. Among other
places, they came to the southernmost kibbutz Revivim in the arid
Negev, and came across a wonderful flowerbed with roses, anemones,
and violets in front of the kibbutz office. In their report, the
members of the delegation expressed their amazement and stated,
`Jews make the desert bloom, let them have Negev'.
As they left, the kibbutz youngsters went out and pulled the flowers
out of sand: they have bought fresh flowers same morning on the
Jaffa market and have planted them as props for the duration of
the visit. This small outlay transferred Negev with its two hundred
thousand Palestinians to the Jewish state. Majority of them were
expelled across the newly drawn border, to the camps of Gaza or
Jordan. It was cruel and useless: even now, fifty years later,
Negev south of Beersheba has smaller population than in 1948.
In order to populate depopulated lands, Mossad broke and terrorised
Jewish communities of North Africa. The Jews were brought in,
sprayed with DDT lice-killer and placed into refugee camps that
soon became towns of Netivot, Dimona, Yerucham. They are still
there, in the towns of unemployment and misery, drawing social
benefits and probably disliking Ashkenazi Jews as much as anybody
could. Not in vain, they write `Ashkenazim to Auschwitz' on the
walls of their towns.
A few weeks before the Intifadah, Israeli establishment imprisoned
hugely popular leader of Oriental Jews, Rabbi Arie Deri. Tens
of thousands of Moroccans gathered at the gates of the jail demanding
his release. Intifada saved the skins of Ashkenazi Jews from the
civil war, but not forever.
Thus the conjuring tricks of Revivim, conquest of Negev, expulsion
of Palestinians, destruction of Moroccan Jewish community succeeded
separately and failed altogether. Zionist leaders dreamed to make
Palestine as Jewish as England is English. They failed. Palestine
is Jewish as Jamaica is English.
The land of Palestine is being ruined now, in front of our eyes.
Its beautiful old villages are bombed to oblivion; churches are
emptied of their flock; olives are uprooted. Such ruin did not
befall the land since the Assyrian invasion 2700 years ago. Nothing
could comfort us in face of this great destruction, and certainly
people connected to it - whether Israeli killers or their American
Jewish supporters - will be damned forever.
Still, a wry irony of history will remain as a footnote in the
books of future: the Jewish leadership committed these crimes
in vain, and received no profit out of it. Even if the last Palestinian
would be crucified of the hill of Golgotha, even that would not
bring to life the virtual Jewish state of Israel.
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1. The first German serviceman killed in the war was killed by
the Japanese (China, 1937), the first American serviceman killed
was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940), the highest ranking
American killed was Lt. Gen. Lesley McNair, killed by the US Army
Air Corps. So much for allies. NB. an extra 'l' gives us all-lies.
2. The youngest US serviceman was 12 year old Calvin Graham, USN.
He was wounded and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about
his age. (His benefits were later restored by act of Congress)
3. At the time of Pearl Harbor the top US Navy command was Called
CINCUS (pronounced "sink us"), the shoulder patch of
the US Army's 45th. Infantry division was the Swastika, and Hitler's
private train was named "Amerika". All three were soon
changed for PR purposes.
4. More US servicemen died in the Air Corps than the Marine Corps.
While completing the required 30 missions your chance of being
killed was 71%.
5. Generally speaking there was no such thing as an average fighter
pilot. You were either an ace or a target. For instance Japanese
ace Hiroyoshi Nishizawa shot down over 80 planes. He died while
a passenger on a cargo plane.
6. It was a common practice on fighter planes to load every 5th
round with a tracer round to aid in aiming. This was a mistake.
Tracers had different ballistics so (at long range) if your tracers
were hitting the target 80% of your rounds were missing. Worse
yet tracers instantly told your enemy he was under fire and from
which direction. Worst of all was the practice of loading a string
of tracers at the end of the belt to tell you that you were out
of ammo. This was definitely not something you wanted to tell
the enemy. Units that stopped using tracers saw their success
rate nearly double and their loss rate go down.
7. When allied armies reached the Rhine the first thing men did
was pee in it. This was pretty universal from the lowest private
to Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it) and Gen. Patton
(who had himself photographed in the act).
8. German Me-264 bombers were capable of bombing New York City
but it wasn't worth the effort.
9. German submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet.
10. Among the first "Germans" captured at Normandy were
several Koreans. They had been forced to fight for the Japanese
Army until they were captured by the Russians and forced to fight
for the Russian Army until they were captured by the Germans and
forced to fight for the German Army until they were captured by
the US Army.
11. Following a massive naval bombardment 35, 000 US and Canadian
troops stormed ashore at Kiska. 21 troops were killed in the firefight.
It would have been worse if there had been any Japanese on the
island.
++++++++++++++++++++
Nous avons donc décidé
de republier ces lettres, en les tirant de nos archives:
THE FAURISSON FORUM
AN EXPERT TAKES US TO TASK
On 20 August 1996, Professor Gerald Fleming, Emeritus Reader in
German at the University of Surrey, England, had a bone to pick
with us. Here is his letter.
Dear Dr Töben
My attention has been drawn by colleagues to 'Internet' information
emanating from the Adelaide Institute, under the date and time
referred 07/15/96 17:30:00. I quote from the item in question:
Swiss historian Jurgen Graf and Italian expert Carlo Mattogno
visited the once-secret Moscow archives. Their findings put to
shame the work of the British Professor Gerald Fleming [ and the
French pharmacist Jean Claude Pressac]
Since the comment in question is not only absurd and scurrilous
but teetering on the brink of being libellous, I am giving you
some factual information regarding my archival research sessions
in Moscow ( and other) State Archives:
(i) I have worked in Russian State Depositories for seven years,
several weeks on each occasion.
(ii) I have seen and examined all relevant Auschwitz documents
and photocopied large numbers of these.
(iii) My reports and publications relating to my archival sessions
in Russian Archives are well known.
(iv) The expression "put to shame", referring to my
work, as compared with the recent visits by two named western
revisionist writers, is inappropriately false and unacceptably
polemical.
(v) Should such or similar comment reappear on Internet under
the heading Adelaide Institute, I shall take action to protect
my academic interests and factual historic position. The western
revisionist writers named by you will be informed of the 'Internet'
comment as here described.
Finally. also for your information, it is I who was the first
Western
academic historian and researcher who gained access to these important
collections of World War 2 files of German origin and important,
previously closed materials closely related to these files, all
in Russian State depositories.
Finally I note that you enter a caveat in Adelaide Institute The
Intellectual Adventure of the 20th Century, where you say: "if
I offend because I am politically incorrect.then I claim it as
my right, under the free speech principle, to say these things."
- The words "put to shame the work of" are not politically
incorrect, they are downright malevolent and quite unworthy of
any serious scholar. Let me say, that in 37 years of University
work I have not come up against such nonsense before, and I will
not allow it to pass again.
With regard to your comment about privileged free speech, I cannot
easily put out of my mind Dr Goebbels' taunt:
It will always remain the best joke made by the democratic system,
that it provided its deadly enemies with the means of destroying
it. Quite so!
Sincerely
Gerald Fleming
OUR REPLY OF 30 August 1996
Dear Dr Fleming
The tone of your 20 August letter indicates to me that you have
been getting away with huffing and puffing and bluffing for a
long time. I refer specifically to the nonsense you espoused in
the film Blueprints of Genocide ( See: Adelaide Institute newsletter,
No 27). As a credible historian, I would suggest, your time is
up for one simple reason: Over these past 37 years you set out
to prove that homicidal gassings took place at Auschwitz concentration
camp. According to Sir Karl Popper, a reasonable person can prove
anything. The scientific method, however, sets out to falsify
hypotheses. We know, of course, that anyone who attempts to approach
the homicidal gassing hypothesis in such a way is immediately
branded by you, et al, as Holocaust denier, or worst, as an antisemite
indulging in hate-talk. What you have been doing in your research
is attempting to maintain the ideology-religion of the Holocaust.
The pain you may justifiably feel when reading our Web site may
rest to a large degree on the fact, as Charles Morgan put it:
The effect of superficial education among western peoples has
been to make them gullible by the terror of being gulled. Bearing
in mind that it is still not criminal in our western democracies
( except in Germany and France, et al, to demonstrate the falsity
of premises, let me conclude by quoting Professor Robert Faurisson:
The Nazi gas chamber is alleged to have physically existed; yet
no-one can provide us with a representation of it. This gas chamber
is immaterial and magical.one cannot describe or draw the alleged
homicidal gas chamber of Auschwitz as one cannot describe or draw
a square circle or a circular square.
Most sincerely
Fredrick Töben
PS: I shall be placing our correspondence on our Web site.
AN EXPERT TAKES PROFESSOR FLEMING TO TASK
When we received Professor Fleming's letter, we asked Professor
Robert Faurisson for a comment. Here is his response of
30 September 1996:
Gerald Fleming, emeritus reader in German,
University of Surrey (GB) is, if I may say so, a KGB novelist.
He is more a novelist than an historian. He was appreciated by
the Soviet authorities and the Soviet publications. Even recently,
after the Soviet Union disappeared, he kept paying tribute to
the outstanding talent of the Red Army in interrogating German
prisoners and extracting from them the desired confessions that
the American Army had not been able to obtain.
In 1984, in a review of his book: Hitler and the Final Solution,
a subservient journalist had to concede:
"His sometimes flamboyant writing and the structure of his
book as a kind of thriller will annoy some historians" (The
New York Times, December 28, 1984, p. c-23).
According to a Jewish fellow, "His book has been favourably
reviewed in Riga and Moscow publications, and he believed that
Soviet authorities would grant him permission for a visit to the
Red Army archives", he said. (The Jewish Chronicle, October
12, 1984, p.4).
Hitler and the Final Solution ( University of California, 1984)
is a
translation from his Hitler und die Endlsung ( Munich, Limes Verlag,
1982).
The book was supposed to answer David Irving's challenge for a
single document showing that Hitler knew before the end of 1943
that there was an extermination of the Jews going on. Of course,
Fleming was unable to provide such a document. So he should have
refrained from presenting his book as an answer to such question,
and he should have avoided writing that D. Irving's thesis ( that
there was no Hitler order to liquidate the European Jews) amounted
to "eine Fiktion" (p.37, footnote 56).
It was a nonsense to write a book about the existence of a document
that could not be found and shown. But Fleming thought he could
bring us another document, perhaps as sensational, a document
proving that there was an extermination program of the Jews by
the Nazis. This is how he dared to publish A Resettlement Action
Report, now nearly forgotten but revealed at that time - 1982
- as an extraordinary discovery. It was a fraud. Even a layman,
not intoxicated by the Holocaust propaganda, could have seen at
first glance that this so-called Report with no date and no signature
was full of preposterous details about Auschwitz.
Anyone interested in the matter should read an excellent analysis
written by a young Canadian revisionist, Brian A Renk; see The
Franke-Gricksch A Resettlement Action Report: Anatomy of a Fabrication,
Journal of Historical Review, Fall 1991, p.261-279.)
Readers who wish to get, as quickly and as soon as possible, an
idea of G. Fleming as an historian could look at some photos in
his book. On one and the same page appear two photos coming from
the Archiv des [Kommunist] Polnischen Justiz-ministeriums. One
is supposed to show a Gaswagen to asphyxiate people and the other
one two German prisoners holding Zyklon B cans as they were supposed
to do when they asphyxiated inmates in Majdanek. In fact, the
Gaswagen is an ordinary Magirus truck with nothing suspicious
about it and the prisoners ( obviously afraid) are holding Zyklon
B cans which were used for disinfestation.
In 1993, the media trumpeted all over the world that Fleming had
discovered in the Soviet files the proof that execution gas chambers
had been built and used in Auschwitz. He wrote a long and sensational
article under the title Engineers of Death ( See The New York
Times, July 18, 1993, p. E19; see also Protokolle des Todes, Der
Spiegel, 40/1993 [4 October 1993], pp.151, 156, 158, 160, 162).
In fact, Fleming had not found any such document but only minutes
of the Soviet military police interrogation of four German engineers
who had, during the war, participated in the building of Auschwitz-Birkenau
crematories for Topf and Shne company and who, after the war,
were still working in the same company in Erfurt.
The American army had interrogated these engineers and had released
them. When Erfurt was handed over to the Soviet Army, the Soviets
arrested the engineers, questioned them and.got the confessions
they expected. The most important of those engineers were Fritz
Sander and Kurt Prfer. The first died from a heart attack right
at the beginning of his interrogation. The second died from a
cerebral haemorrhage in 1952; we have a photo of K. Prfer when
he was a free man and a photo of the same when he was in the Soviets'
hands; the difference speaks volumes and I would say that K. Prfer's
face photographed by the Soviets is terrifying (See: Der Spiegel,
p.160)
The confessions were extremely vague and in the style of; I heard
I was told I saw from the outside (Ja, ich sah die Gaskammer -
von aussen) (Der Spiegel, same page). And it happens that the
very rare precise responses do not fit with the details of the
story as given today, nor with what we can see today in Auschwitz.
For instance, one of the confessed said: In der Decke (of the
Krema II "gas chamber") waren quadratische ffnungen
(25 by 25 zentimetre) (Der Spiegel p.162. The trouble is that
even today you can see that not one square opening exists in the
ceiling. [This fact gave rise to Faurisson's now famous quip:
No Holes, no Holocaust!. Ed.] In 1994, G. Fleming was the author
with the collaboration of architect Robert Jan van Pelt of the
film [Auschwitz] Blueprints of Genocide. (BBC, May 9, 1994). The
climax in this film was reached with a document introduced by
the following words:
"It says very clearly, You will be able to kill and you will
be able to burn simultaneously in this building"(Crematorium
II).
But, first, in the film the document is surreptitiously shown
and in such a way that nobody can see the German words. Second,
the document in fact does not say anything of that kind. It is
a simple Aktenvermerk of January 29, 1943, aboutelectricity supply.
It has not even the very common Secret stamp. In reality, it mentions
Verbrennung mit gleichzeitiger Sonderbehandlung which means cremation
with simultaneous special treatment.
Note that the swindlers translated special treatment into to kill
and that they went so far as to change the word order putting
first to kill and afterwards to burn. The German text, even with
such a translation, could never have designated a criminal activity
consisting first in gassing people and, afterwards, burning the
bodies of the gassed people. The word "Sonderbehandlung could
mean, by its place in the phrase, anything except to kill because
this special treatment was simultaneous with burning.
It is obvious that, if Fleming and Van Pelt had discovered any
German text which says very clearly what the Holocaust historians
had been trying to find for such a long time, that very text would
have been published, shown and commented on in every newspaper,
film, book and Holocaust Museum. R. Hilberg, E. Wiesel, S. Wiesenthal,
S. Klarsfeld would have celebrated the discovery of the century.
Instead, they did not say one word.
At the end of that film, G. Fleming totally misquoted what the
German engineers had confessed to the Soviets. This film contains
nothing on the technique and operation of the Nazi gas chambers
and there is nothing about the alleged quadratische Offnungen
in the roof of the Krema II gas chamber. On January 28, 1995,
Jan Taylor announced in The Sydney Morning Herald that Van Pelt
was due to construct a computer model of the [Auschwitz] camp.
We are still waiting for the result. I. for one, would be interested
to see if he dares to show the four special openings in the roof
of that gas chamber through which, we are told, the Zyklon B pellets
were dumped. People interested in the transcript of [Auschwitz]
Blueprints of Genocide have the choice between the British and
the American versions. The British version gives a text adapted
from the programme transmitted on 9 May 1994; the German document
appears on p.20 with a deceitful comment in English (1).
The American transcript is more faithful although we are told:
This transcript has not been proof-read against the videotape.
(2) Therefore, G. Fleming is in fact not only a KGB novelist;
he is a fraud.
Footnotes
(1) Horizon, Blueprints of Genocide, Text adapted from the programme
transmitted 9 May 1994, 26 pages + 6 pages. See Mariette Jackson,
Acting Publishing Manager, Broadcasting Support Service, 252 Western
Avenue, London W3 6XJ UK.
(2) Nova Show # 2204. Air Date: February 7, 1995, 8 pages ( 2
columns), WGBHEducational Foundation. Journal Graphics, Box 2222
, South Easton, MA 02375 (USA).
Robert Faurisson, Vichy, 3 September 1996
It has to be now admitted that finally there is no proof, no evidence
whatsoever that the Nazi gas chambers ever existed, claims French
"historian and novelist" Jacques Baynac.
Extremely hostile to revisionists and especially to Robert Faurisson
( with whom he had a dispute in October 1980) and a friend of
exterminationist historian Nadine Fresco, with whom he published
a few years ago an article in Le Monde against R Faurisson, J
Baynac seems now desperate. In a long article published in two
issues of a Swiss newspaper ( Le Nouvea Quotidien, September 2,
p. 16, and September 3, p.14), he draws the conclusion that obviously
no one can bring any proof that the Nazi gas chambers ever existed.
The strange solution he advocates is to try instead to find the
proof that the non-existence of the so-called gas chambers is
impossible!
The article is bursting with hard criticism against the historians,
the lawyers, the journalists who, in his opinion, have been, for
so many years, accumulating so many methodological and tactical
errors that today, as a result, the revisionists appear, on the
scientific plane, as a winner. A major blunder, he thinks, was
to trust and to use Jean-Claude Pressac. In France, according
to the Fabius-Gayssot law ( 13 July 1990), inspired by Great Rabbi
Ren-Samuel Sirat, it is a criminal offence to dispute the existence
of "crimes against humanity" as defined and punished
by the International Military Tribunal at Nrnberg in 1945-46,
or by any French or international court. As a matter of fact,
this means that, in Voltaire's country, anyone who questions the
Holy Jewish Trinity - the alleged genocide, the alleged Nazi gas
chambers and the alleged 6 million - is liable to a prison sentence
( 1 month to 1 year), or a fine (2,000F to 300,000F) and other
possible penalties.
But, as we see now, the trouble is that none of those judges did
care for any evidence of the Nazi gas chambers.
Therefore, how should anyone in France be sentenced for not believing
something which obviously was not proven by those judges?
PROFESSOR FAURISSON'S TRIAL POSTPONED
The Jaques Baynac Affair
On 15 November 1996 Professor Robert Faurisson had to appear in
a Paris court for having published on 19 April 1996 at the beginning
of the Abb Pierre affair - a press release wherein he stated that
he was pleased to see people like Roger Garaudy, Abb Pierre, and
three of their friends, apparently coming on to the side of the
Revisionists who claim that the alleged genocide of the Jews and
the alleged Nazi gas chambers are one and the same historical
lie. Faurisson and his defence lawyer, Eric Delcroix, raised the
following argument: The 1990 Fabius-Gayssot law ( alias "Lex
Faurissonia") which forbids anyone to contest so-called "crimes
against humanity" as defined and punished in 1945-46 by the
Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, is not a law but an
"act of violence" against the French judges who, according
to that communist-socialist law, are deprived of their normal
right to look into the basic FACTS and to decide whether the accused
has the FACTS right or wrong. Strangely enough, judges are left
with only one right - to determine how hard they are going to
sentence a revisionist.
E Delcroix and R Faurisson announced they had just asked the "Cour
de cassation" (Supreme Court of Appeal) to decide whether
such a law infringes not so much the rights of an accused or of
any individual than the very rights of the judges themselves.
The Tribunal could have refused to wait for a decision of the
Cour de cassation and could have immediately continued the proceedings,
as demanded by the public prosecutor and the Jewish attorney and
his five associates. The tribunal decided otherwise and Faurisson's
trial is now postponed until the Cour de cassation hands down
its decision.
Apart from the legal argument something else happened which unsettled
the prosecutor, the Jewish attorney and the three judges. Faurisson
had warned them that on 2 and 3 September 1996 in a Swiss newspaper,
Le Nouveau Quotidien, French historian Jacques Baynac, had published
two long articles in which he claimed that today - even if it
was "heartbreaking to say it or to listen to it" - one
has frankly to admit there is no real evidence that the Nazi gas
chambers ever existed. Faurisson concluded that the difference
between the historian and himself is this:
Further, Baynac enjoys freedom of speech,
whereas Faurisson faces one month to one year in jail, a fine
of 2,000F to 300,000F ($US400 to 60,000) and other penalties.
The Jewish attorney, Serge Lorach, looked worried because he was
not aware of Baynac's articles. After the hearing he approached
Delcroix and Faurisson and requested a copy of Baynac's articles,
and of Faurisson's press statement.
Another Expert Challenges Professor Fleming's Credibility
We asked Swiss historian Jürgen Graf to comment on
Professor Fleming's letter to us. Here is Mr Graf's response.
Basel, 11 November 1996
In August 1996 I corresponded with Professor Fleming and although
he did not answer a single one of my questions I was surprised
by his letter's civil tone. Of the questions directed at him,
here are the two most pressing ones:
1. During his research in the Moscow archives, did he find any
documentary proof that there were homicidal gassings? I am still
waiting for a reply. His silence leads me to conclude that he
did not find any such documentary proof because no such documents
exist. In January 1945 about 90,000 pages of Auschwitz files fell
into the hands of the Soviet liberation army. It appears that
the retreating Nazis had heedlessly left behind these documents
which they could have easily destroyed before evacuating the camp.
The Germans didn't think that these documents could later incriminate
them! Had anyone found the much desired documentary evidence which
would prove homicidal gassings, then this would have triumphantly
been presented to the world. But no - for over four decades the
Soviets hid in their archives the mountain of paper. Why?
Instead of offering us documentary evidence to prove the gas chamber
Holocaust, Fleming produces the Soviet prison confessions made
by Kurt Prfer and other engineers of the Bauleitung. If these
confessions are acceptable as proof, then the 1937 confessions
extracted from the old Bolsheviks for the Moscow show trials -
who confessed to being Fascist and Imperialist agents - now also
become a credible historical source.
2. For some unexplainable reason, Fleming cites in his Hitler
und die Endlsung ( Limes, 1982) the so-called Franke-Griksch Report
as an important documentary source for the Holocaust. This report
is a crude forgery because it is full of absurdities. For example,
it states that the ovens of Birkenau could burn 10.000 bodies
per day; the corpses of recently deceased persons burned especially
well; Jews hid jewellery in hollow teeth, etc. Besides Fleming,
there is only Jean-Claude Pressac who takes this report seriously.
Pressac refers to it on p.238 of his tome Auschwitz, Technique
and Operation of the Gas Chambers, Beate Klarsfeld Foundation,
1989. Neither Reitlinger nor Hilberg, neither Paliakov nor the
Enzyklopdie des Holocaust list Franke-Griksch in their index.
Why not? They should if the document offers such clear proof that
the gas chambers and the Holocaust happened. Fleming did not answer
my question why the "Holocaust experts" do not take
seriously the Franke-Griksch report. Without doubt Gerald Fleming
is an expert in his field, German Linguistics.
However,
as far as the 'Holocaust' is concerned, he is a third-rate propagandist.
In 1993 French and Latin teacher at Therwil secondary school,
Baselland, 42 year-old Jrgen Graf, published his book Der Holocaust
auf dem Prfstand (Guideon Burg Verlag, Postfach 52, CH 4009 Basel,
Switzerland). He was dismissed without notice from his teaching
post. A little later Graf published an enlargened version of his
book under the title Der Holocaust-Schwindel which summarises
the revisionist arguments up to 1992.
Other books followed: Auschwitz Ttergestndnisse und Augenzeugen
des Holocaust, August 1994, and Todesursache Zeitgeschichtsforschung,
October 1995, both published by Verlag Neue Vision, Basel. In
all his books Graf contends that there is no documentary nor forensic
evidence which confirms the orthodox view that mass extermination
of Jews in homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz is a proven historical
fact. In July/August and November/December 1995, together with
Italian Auschwitz specialist, Carlo Mattogno, Graf visited the
special Auschwitz archives in Moscow. After carefully sifting
each of the 90.000 pages of documents, he concludes that there
is not a single document available which proves that the gas chamber
Holocaust did not occur. After a particularly primitive and degrading
campaign to have anti-racist laws in Switzerland, the referendum
of 25 September 1995 adopted Paragraph 261 with 54.7%.
In April 1995 Sigi Feigel began an action against Graf and his
publisher, Gerhard Frster, for having written and published the
Auschwitz book. Graf hopes that because the book was written before
the new law came into effect the judicial concept - nulla poena
sine lege - ( no crime without a law) will not be replaced by
a Stalinist show trial. Graf and Frster have been interviewed
by police but to date nothing has followed therefrom. The obedience
displayed by Austrian, French and German authorities towards religious
and ethnic minorities is not, as yet, followed by the Swiss judiciary.
On 15 February 1996 the Jewish paper, Maccabi, asked why Graf
had not already been imprisoned on account of his political extremist
views. Graf was likened to a serial rapist because there is little
likelihood that he, and Frster, will stop their work. If such
incitement to hatred continues, then perhaps the anticipated trial
can only lead to a guilty verdict. Then the judge would have to
display heroic courage in finding both Graf and Frster innocent.
Sadly, heroic judges are far and few between because few persons
with backbone are appointed to the bench. It is therefore expected
that the Swiss judiciary will also adopt the Offenkundigkeit of
the Holocaust ( taking judicial notice of the Holocaust without
requiring any evidence to be led in court to prove the allegations).
Graf claims that the Swiss will then be forced to believe that
20 to 30 persons can fit into a space of one square metre; that
the Sonderkommandos in Auschwitz were immune to Prussic blue gas;
that it is possible to throw Zyklon granules through non-existing
holes in ceilings; and that corpses would burn nine to fifteen
times faster at Auschwitz in 1943-4 than in 1996. In this way
police power turns a 'free democracy', which finds itself in its
final phase of pure idiocy, into a state ideology. (Freely translated
from Jrgen Graf's Vom Untergang der schweizerischen Freiheit,
available from Zundelsite: http://www.webcom.com/ezundel/english
)
Mr Le Pen Congratulates President Bill Clinton
(From our Paris correspondent, 13 November 1996)
Jean-Marie Le Pen congratulates Bill Clinton on his brilliant
re-election and wishes him good luck in fulfilling his new mandate
as president of the United States. Now that Bill Clinton is no
longer tormented by election concerned, Le Pen hopes the President
will return to a more humane foreign policy which is more in accord
with freedom and consideration for all peoples as embodied in
the spirit of the American constitution. Le Penn said, "It
is highly desirable for the harmony of the entire world that the
president of the United States at last distance himself from the
internationalist lobbies and that he stop making his country be
the executor of the dirty work of the New World Order. With this
in mind, the first evidence of his good will could be to lift
the deadly embargo which strikes the Iraqi civil population. Such
a decision would be a good omen for all persons who seek peace
and justice." It is hard for any non-French to imagine the
pressure felt by the French: cars are burning every night somewhere
in France, people can no longer find any work, but the ONLY concern
of our president and government is to fight against the National
Front.
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Adelaide Institute Newsletter
Open Letter to: Mr Jeremy Jones, Executive Vice-President, Executive
Council of Australian Jewry
In June 1996, Mr Jones lodged a complaint with the Human Rights
and Equal Opportunity Commission against Adelaide Institute claiming
that material on our website was offensive to Jews. In our newsletter
No 50 we reprinted an article Mr Jones wrote for the Australia/Israel
Review. Here is David Brockschmidt's reply: Hi, J.J.! How are
you doing, mate? Jeremy Jones sounds like Jesse James to me -
a real redneck name. Were your ancestors real cowboys from Colorado
or Texas? Did you grow up in Dodge City and was your old grand
dad still riding the outlaw trail with Wyatt Earp? Well, J.J..,
old eagle eye, when I watch you on TV I can see you in cowboy
boots, a Stetson on your head and a mustang under your saddle
riding off into the sunset looking for Scarlet O'Hara and Golda
Myer - they are both gone with the wind. What a great scene, J
J. I can really see you riding from Dodge City to Fort Laramie
in company of Wyatt Earp, Tom Mix , Jesse James, Billy the Kid,
Ronald Reagan and Little Johnny Coward - the Good, the Bad and
the Ugly! Tough luck, J.J., that you got stuck here `down under'
and had to swap the mustang for a brumby. Now let's have a look
at the other easy rider marshalls you have on your team trying
so desperately to keep David Irving out of Australia and the lid
on the Australian revisionist movement. First you've got Marshall
Doron Ur in Western Australia who would like to introduce the
death penalty for every racist. Do you know the definition of
a racist, J.J.? A racist is a person who wins an argument with
a multiculturalist! Racists are very scarce in Australia, J.J.
If you want to find a lot of racists, then go to Israel. The Falasha
Jews, Sephardic Jews and Palestinians will show you plenty of
them in the `Holy Land'. Second, you have Laurie Rosenblum from
Queensland, the champion of freedom of speech in Australia. He
wants to censor the Internet, especially to deny access to the
naughty revisionists who ask uncomfortable questions to which.
Laurie Rosenblü mchen has no answer. Well, a rose is a rose
is a rose! Laurie I prefer Gertrude Stein to your offerings.
Third, you have the dean of multiculturalism ,`King Isi' Leibler,
on your team. He believes and supports the interaction and intermarriage
of the Goys ( Gentiles) but wants to stop the intermarriage between
Jews and Gentiles! What kind of a multi-culti is he? And, of course,
there is Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi-hunter and Nazi-agent, according
to Bruno Kreisky. If the leaders of the Greek or Italian community
in Australia, for example, produced a team with such an attitude
in regard to intermarriage, I am convinced that the majority of
the world-wide Jewish community, including Rabbis Cooper and Hier
of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles where these two
holy men run the Museum for (in)- tolerance, would scream "racist".
I heard they use about 80% of their time chasing Holocaust revisionists
through the Internet. I'm happy to inform them that it is too
late to put the Revisionist genie back into the bottle. You can
shoot a few messenger boys and girls but the message and the questions
for which you have no answer will not go away. The Holocaust racketeers
, as the late Professor Knopfelmacher called them, have to come
to terms with reality. This is especially so since Christopher
Hitchens and Professor Yehuda Bauer relegated the lampshade and
soap stories to the dust bin of history. Well, J.J., this is quite
a law and order team riding with you for freedom of speech, multiculturalism,
and justice. I had a look at your complaints against Adelaide
Institute to the Human Rights Commission and the Attorney-General's
Department. I think you have a problem distinguishing between
Holocaust deniers and Holocaust revisionists. If you would like
to know the difference, J.J., ask Philip Adams. He can send you
a transcript of his interview with Christopher Hitchens. I think
it is about time that you guys hopped on to the bandwagon of historical
revisionism otherwise you'll miss the train of history. Remember
what good old Gorbarchev said: "Who comes too late will be
punished by life itself", especially after the death figures
of the whole Auschwitz complex have come down from 4 million to
a maximum of 8oo,ooo according to your big gun, Jean-Claude Pressac.
Last but not least, we'll have a surprise for all non-haters in
our cultural program. It is called The Longest Hatred; exploring
anti-Gentilism in The Babylonian Talmud and the Schulchan Aruch.
Anti-Gentilism, as we all now know, is the cause of anti-Semitism.
We will ask Deborah Lipstadt to run this lecture because she is
a Professor of Jewish Religion. If she is booked out, would you,
J.J., please be so kind to ask Rabbi Cooper and or Rabbi Hier
whether they are prepared to run our seminar? We will also apply
for funding from Wizo B'nai B'rith, Irv Rubin and his JDL stormtroopers,
and the Kosher whiskeyman and head of the Anti Defamation League,
Edgar Bronfman. We hope at least he supplies the booze. Remember
him? He once called the Austrian people a bunch of anti-Semitic
dogs. Love and compassion is the answer to the brotherhood of
humankind - and not the anti-Gentilist hate of your Babylonian
Talmud. J.J. Now, J.J., if you don't like to join us in the search
for truth in history, we can have a high noon in Adelaide City.
Let's shoot it out with the pen and not with a gun - or even better
in an open-end live TV debate between revisionists and exterminationists
in a world wide satellite link-up. We could call the debate: The
Nazi-Jewish Holocaust experts from both sides look at the evidence
and try to find out what happened and what did not happen, why
it happened and who paid for it. Calling us haters, Holocaust
deniers, racists, anti-Semites and/or neo-Nazis will not suppress
the truth because doesn't need the protection of the racial vilification
law. Truths stands on its own - and only a lie needs the protection
of the law. Keep your bullets and your powder dry. May truth prevail.
You are also invited to the world's first revisionist culture
week in Adelaide: 14 - 20 April. We reserved the uncensored David
Irving video The Dresden Holocaust for Doron Ur and all his freedom
of speech mates. The kosher dinner for our honourable Jewish guests
will be `gefillte' Fish prepared by our chef Benni Morgenstern
and served by his Russian wife, Herta Deutsch. And for you, J.J.,
a special present: Voltaires, famous maxim: I may disagree with
what you say but I shall defend to the death your right to say
it.
This will be presented to you in a costly gold-plated frame with
non-reflecting glass and written in Yiddish.
You must reflect on it, J..J.!
Shalom, D. Brockschmidt
For over 50 years Mr Eric Butler, advisory director of The Australian
League of Rights, has observed the Australian political scene.
Where other conservative voices have become mute and shied away
from mentioning names and organisations regarded as a problem,
Butler speaks openly about a `perceived Jewish-Zionist problem'
mainly concerning international world finance. Butler is a proud
royalist and nationalist whom Zionist organisation and the media,
owing for want of an argument, have tarred with the anti-Semitic
brush. Here is the article, Immigration Debate Must Be Civilised,
that he wrote for the League's On Target, published on 24 January
1997. Students of what is known as `anti-Semitism' are aware that
`anti-Semitism' is defined as expressing hatred of the Jewish
people, or anti-Jewish Acts, much of this type of `anti-Semitism'
has been deliberately promoted by Jews for political and publicity
purposes. In his classic work, The Zionist Connection, American
anti-Zionist Jew Dr Alfred Lilienthal provides documented evidence
of this type of provocative activity. Many of the illiterates
masquerading as serious journalists reveal not only their illiteracy,
but also their philosophic bias as they churn out their comments
on immigration and race issues. Many are blatant totalitarians
who resent the emergence of political representatives like Graeme
Campbell and Pauline Hanson. Like a cracked record they keep sneering
about "the threat of racism", this rarely defined, probably
because illiterates are unable to manage this. The forced programme
of multiculturalism, particularly at a time when there is large
scale unemployment and economic tensions, is a guaranteed recipe
for ethnic conflict. The minimising and progressive resolution
of this type of conflict requires basically two steps: first being
a drastic reduction in the immigration rate and the end of the
policy of multiculturalism; and the second being implementation
of an economic programme which will make it possible for those
seeking to join the production system to do so. The fostering
of any type of ethnic hatred at the present time should not only
be deplored, but should be condemned by all those who genuinely
want to halt any further social disintegration. An item in the
Melbourne Herald Sun of Saturday, January 18, highlights the threat
from those groups who are being deliberately provocative. Entitled,
RACISM HAS A PRICE TAG, the report starts, T shirts with anti-Asian
and other racist slogans are being sold by a new shop opened by
the racist organisation National Action. National Action chairman
Michael Brander said he hoped the shop would get the group's anti-Asian
immigration message across middle Australia. There is a photo
of Michael Brander outside the shop which displays the Eureka
flag. One cannot help noting the number of self-styled nationalist
movements which use a flag which has no relevance to Australia's
genuine heritage. Although I have only met Michael Brander briefly
on several occasions, I would say that he is probably a genuinely
well-meaning young man. But he is politically naïve if he
believes that the type of programme he supports is going to have
any impact on `middle Australia'. The history of the National
Action movement in Australia shows that some of the types it attracts
are sometimes psychopaths, susceptible to manipulation by others.
Growing social disintegration, with a growing younger underclass,
must inevitably result in the recruitment of more social misfits
into the ranks of those who are desperate about the future. Increasing
numbers do not believe that they have a future, as witnessed by
the suicide rate. Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett is so alarmed
that he is going to have an investigation as to the cause. One
Church leader has bluntly said that the cause is well known: the
rising unemployment rate among the young. But like all his Liberal
Party colleagues Jeff Kennett has nothing constructive to offer.
The best that Senator Amanda Vanstone, Minister for Employment,
can suggest is that it will take time before the "benefits"
of the Howard-Costello Budget are felt. Confidence will then be
restored and, hey presto, more jobs will become available. Clearly
a combination of developments is bringing Australia towards a
major explosion. This is no time for creating fear amongst the
Asian and non-European community. It is not the fault of the non-Europeans
that they are in Australia in such large numbers at this time.
As documented by researcher Denis McCormack in his work, The Asianisation
of Australia, all the major political parties have been responsible
for what has happened. The tactics of groups like National Action
can only prove counter-productive. Anti-League of Rights smears
have attempted to link the League with revolutionary groups. As
the notorious National Action leader in West Australia, Jack Van
Tongeren, is still in prison as a result of criminal activities
against Asians, has been quoted as having said that he had tried
to increase his education by "hanging around" the League,
it is important to record that the last time I saw van Tongeren
was when I had to have him and a colleague physically ejected
from a public meeting. They had charged that I was "soft"
on the immigration issue and threw an empty cartridge into the
meeting shouting that all power flows from the barrel of the gun.
This was one of Chinese Communist leader Mao's best known slogans.
I stressed at the Perth meeting that National Action's tactics
were simply making the task of constructive opponents of the nation's
disastrous immigration policy that much harder. In a disgraceful
cover story, The Bulletin, blatantly attempted to link the League
with groups like National Action. A senior editor with The Bulletin,
a pleasant woman, came to my Melbourne office to interview me
for The Bulletin Story. She frankly admitted that she had not
found what she expected. But this did not prevent the subsequent
smear article in The Bulletin. Such is the morality of those determined
to ensure that there is no constructive opposition to Australia's
immigration and multicultural policies. But, fortunately, the
tide is turning. The best contribution Michael Brander and other
National Action supporters can make is to permanently close down
their movement and take up some pleasant hobby.
Anthony Keane, The Advertiser, 24
January 1997
Aboriginal band Yothu Yindi came to Port Lincoln yesterday to
help restore racial harmony - and came face-to-face with the man
behind the controversy that split the town. But it was an amicable
meeting between outspoken mayor Mr Peter Davis and the musicians
led by singer Mandawuy Yunupingu. Mr Davis sparked a furore last
year by describing the children of mixed race parentage as "mongrels".
He later withdrew the remark and apologised. The mayor was among
a crowd of more than 1000 which watched Yothu Yindi at the Centenary
Oval last night at a concert on the eve of Port Lincoln's annual
Tunarama festival. And Mr Davis said the town was "extremely
privileged" to see the band perform. Yunupingu said the band
decided to make its first visit to the town because of community
requests and "that racial situation that happened here last
year".
"I think it's a fitting situation to have us here - we are
always on hand for this type of healing," he said. "I
came out with a different view. He shares the same sort of common
attitude. I think that I learned something and he learned something
from me."
Mr Davis said Yunupingu "knows I'm not a racist. The racism
factor is a factor of the media driving it. It's not a factor
of Port Lincoln, or me, or Yothu Yindi. Port Lincoln is no different
to any other city in rural Australia," he said. Mr Davis
invited Yothu Yindi to camp on Port Lincoln's Boston island, which
he owns, if they wanted a break from the pressure of touring.
"We can have a barbie", Yunupingu said, and added that
the band hoped to make Port Lincoln a regular venue on its Australian
tour. Last night's concert was part of Artfeast, an arts and cultural
program run in conjunction with Tunarama, which starts today.
Yothu Yindi played songs from its recently-released album, Wild
Honey/Birrkuta, as well as hits such as Treaty and Djapana.
In October last year, nine of Port Lincoln's 10 councillors resigned
in protest over Mr Davis's "mongrel" comment. Only four
of the councillors who resigned were re-elected at a special election
in November. The other five seats were filled by supporters of
Mr Davis. Yunupingu said it was appropriate that Mr Davis had
apologised because his comments had created "a negative view
about the whole issue of racial harmony". Port Lincoln's
council was one of several major sponsors of last night's concert.
Artfeast co-ordinator Ms Emma Baily said planning for the Yothu
Yindi concert started last June, "long before" the racism
controversy. "It's a very valuable experience for the town
as a whole in terms of its arts," Ms Baily said. "There
has been a real mix of people who bought tickets to the concert."
Yunupingu described music as a "very powerful tool"
to inform non-Aboriginal people about the Aboriginal situation.
"Music seems to have that magic that makes people understand
what it's all about," he said. Last night's show was the
first of a series of Yothu Yindi concerts on the Australia Day
long weekend. The band will perform in Perth, Margaret River,
Sydney and Melbourne before January 30. Earlier yesterday the
band treated Port Lincoln's young people to a three-hour music
workshop which included an impromptu performance.
Hillel Cohen writes about Israeli human rights activist, Professor
Israel Shahak - first published in Kol Ha'ir, 22 November 1996.
After writing literally thousands of letters-to-the-editor which
attacked the Israeli conquest of the Territories, the Zionist
left and all those who violate human rights - whether Jews or
Arabs - Professor Israel Shahak has founded his own publishing
house. His first published book The Bible*1 as it is; without
a coat of holiness, by Ya'akov Wolf, is intended to cause as many
Yeshiva students as possible to forsake their faith. He also intends
to publish his own book, a demolition of the Jewish religious
law.
The Bible is a great book, some would even claim a divine book.
From the Creation of the world described in its beginning to the
Return of the Jews from Babylonia to Jerusalem described at its
end*2, it is full of description of great deeds used now in order
to obtain many political ends. The Bible is full of positive and
negative commandments, prophecies addressed to the Jews and sometimes
to other nations, and it is also one of the best-sellers of all
times. Thousands of books have been written about it and this
week another book by Ya'akov Wolf has been added to them. The
book's name testifies to its contents. Wolf, who knows the Bible
well, tries to prove that the Pentateuch is neither of divine
provenance nor had been written by Moses. He and Shahak hope that
the book will become a store of ammunition to be used against
the religious Jews in the cultural mini-war waging in Israel.
However, it seems that even the Jews who do not agree with Wolf
will enjoy reading this book.
For Shahak the publication of this book is just another step in
his struggle against Jewish religious views which in his view
are primarily responsible for the worsening conditions within
Israeli society. For Wolf the writing of the book has been an
attempt to struggle against the phenomenon which has shocked him
- secular Jews becoming religious again. For both men, more so
for Wolf who is older than Shahak, the publication is also a return
to the Jewish past where, in Europe before the Holocaust, Jews
struggled against the Jewish religion*3.
Wolf was compelled to attend a Yeshiva in southern Poland but
in secret read heretical books, including Zionist literature.
This led him to rebel against the Jewish religion. Shahak had
a similar experience, only later when he was already in Israel.
Both hope that many Yeshiva students and pious Jews in general
will follow in their footsteps and read Wolf's book in secret,
perhaps under thick Talmudic folios which they have to study,
then draw the necessary consequences.
"I see myself as one who continues the Jewish Enlightenment",
says Shahak. "Stories of my mother showed me that many members
of my family who almost completely perished in the Holocaust were
avid readers of heretical books while studying in a Yeshiva. It
was such readings that caused them to rebel against the Jewish
religion. I hope that this will also happen to many pious Jews
in Israel. In order to help them on this way I promise to sell
the book to such persons only at cost price, or even less if it
is necessary." Shahak is a well-known figure in Jerusalem.
He is a veteran human rights activist who was the chairman of
the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights in the 1970s and
1980s. The League was the only organisation which protested against
the Israeli violations of Human Rights in the early years of the
Israeli conquest of the Territories. In the last years he is editing
From the Hebrew Press, published in the US, a collection of translated
articles sent to subscribers all around the world. Wolf, who is
80 years old, lives in Bat-Yam, near Tel Aviv. For years he worked
as head nurse in a clinic, and has also written a book about his
experiences as a prisoner in the USSR under Stalin. "We have
each heard about the other", says Shahak. "I have read
the book about his experiences and he told me about the next book
he wants to write, a book that will criticise the Bible. He brought
me the manuscript and I asked him to write more and undertook
to publish it in the publishing house which I have founded. It
was clear to me that if I would not do this, no one in Israel
would dare to publish such a book. As an Israeli citizen who considers
the problem of Jewish religion to be the most important problem
which Israel is facing, I considered it my duty as a citizen to
publish this book." For the sake of this publication, Shahak
has postponed the writing of his own book, in Hebrew, which will
survey and criticise the entire Talmudic law. The publication
of the book was financed by both Shahak and Wolf. They do not
expect the book to become a best seller but they hope that everyone
interested in the Bible will profit from reading it. The first
two chapters deal with important questions such as, is the Pentateuch
of divine provenance or could it have been written by Moses? The
book answers both questions negatively by pointing out the contradictions,
the differences in the telling of the same story and the many
errors therein. Those issues have also been dealt with by pious
Jewish commentators and by the even more pious readers of the
Bible who have explained them in various ways; some of them, perhaps,
reasonably, others less so. Wolf, however, considers that the
errors and contradictions are proof that the Bible is a collection
of vague legends, passed orally from one generation to another.
Even when the Bible was finally edited and written down it was
not considered at first as holy, and this was the reason that
no one took the trouble to edit it properly. In order to show
this clearly Wolf discusses the Biblical story of God descending
on Mount Sinai to give Ten Commandments to the people. He points
out that there are in the Book of Exodus and Deuteronomy four
different stories about this and about Israelites worshipping
the Golden Calf afterwards. In some of the stories the worship
of the Golden Calf or the breaking of the Tables of Law by Moses
is not even mentioned.
Wolf ridicules the pious explanations given by Jewish commentators
as being "hair-splitting" and concludes that the story
of God descending on Mount Sinai is a legend*4.
The chapters which deal in detail with the differences, contradictions
and the "hair-splitting" of the pious commentators constitute
only one part of the book. Another and even more important is
the chapter entitled "Cruelty", giving the book and
claims raised in it by Wolf, their moral value. In this chapter
Wolf enumerates the verses and stories which show that the Biblical
God is shown in the Bible as cruel and that "the chosen people"
are shown as committing many immoral deeds. Says Shahak, "The
recent discussion in the Israeli media about whether Noah had
exhibited his sex organ is of no interest to me*5. What I am interested
in pointing out is that the Biblical God is shown as destroying
by Flood all the people he had created, including innocent children
and young animals." The cruelty of the Biblical God and its
tame acceptance by the believers, Shahak says, is the real problem.
Shahak attributes a special importance to this chapter. He was
born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1933 and when he was a child he lived
in the Warsaw Ghetto and in Bergen - Belsen concentration camp.
In the concentration camp he had a Jewish prayer book from which
he prayed every morning and he also had a Bible. After the war,
when he had arrived in Palestine with his mother ( his father
was murdered in the Holocaust), he still attended a religious
school, and even afterwards when he changed to a secular high
school, he continued to observe all the commandments till the
age of 18. He ceased to believe at that age when he was preparing
for his matriculation exams in the Bible. "The cruelty of
which the Bible is full, prevented me from continuing to believe
in God as described in this book," he says. He himself finds
it difficult to understand why the cruelty he had witnessed earlier
in his life, also caused by God, did not break his faith. "Perhaps
because when preparing for matriculation exams I was more mature,'
he says. He proposes a possible explanation. A short time afterwards,
Shahak was inducted to the Israeli army and served first as youth
instructor and grower of vegetables by hydroponics and then as
checker of explosives in a laboratory*6. When he finished his
army service he went to study Organic Chemistry in the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. During his studies [1953-60] he continuously
distanced himself from the Israeli Jewish consensus. At the end
of 1960 he received his Ph.D. and went to Stanford University
in California for post-doctorate studies, where he spent more
than two years. "It was in the U.S. that I became an anti-Zionist,"
he says. "I am not one of those who say that they are `non-Zionists'
or `post-Zionists'. I simply oppose Zionism, root and branch."
In his apartment in the Rehavia neighbourhood, chock-full with
books and containers holding newspaper cuttings, all carefully
labelled with dates, Shahak tells proudly that he has finished
another book in English, dealing with the Israeli foreign and
nuclear policy. The book is mainly based on articles which had
appeared in the Hebrew press. He analyses those policies, the
Oslo process which he fiercely opposes, the Israeli attempt to
form a coalition against Iran, and other subjects. He does not
consider that treating the Hebrew press as his source is problematic
since he thinks himself as a veteran reader of that press who
is able to pick the correct material to use. "I consider
the Hebrew press as being a better source than the many books
written to please the Israeli propaganda abroad", he says.
In addition, he fully acknowledges that the Hebrew press is being
used by the Israeli government in order to justify policies, but
by using those justifications one can get an idea what those policies
really are, for example on nuclear affairs. "Before the Israeli
invasion of Lebanon the Israeli Jewish public was prepared for
half a year, through the press, that such an invasion is coming
and that it will be just to carry it out. Exactly the same thing
happened recently before the `Grapes of Wrath'", he says.
In the same way, he says that one can learn from the Hebrew press
or, to be exact, from the serious articles appearing in it, about
the Israeli nuclear option. "For example, if a former commander
of the Military Intelligence, Shlomo Gazit, publishes an article
about possible uses of that option, or if a person called Brosh
publishes a long article in Haaretz which asserts that Israel
may use the nuclear option if the regime in Saudi Arabia will
change then a few things can be learned from such articles about
this option". This book will be published quite soon. Another
book, as he says, "is yet mostly in my own head", is
closer in spirit to the book written by Wolf. "I want to
write a book, in Hebrew, which will cover most of the areas dealt
with by the Jewish religious law which are socially important.
If I will deal with the inferior status of women in Jewish religious
law, I will not emphasise such minor discriminations as the women
being not allowed to be cantors in synagogues, but those about
the status of women in the Jewish society and the development
of those discriminations. I will, for example, emphasise the fact
that the position of women in the Jewish religious law has deteriorated
through the ages. In `Mishna' (codified circa 200AD) it is stated
expressly that all adults and sane Jews, male or female are allowed
to slaughter animals. There is no `slaughterer' as a profitable
Jewish profession as it exists now. This rule is followed in `Shulhan
Aruch' (printed in 1560s). But a short time afterwards, Rabbi
Moshe Iserlish ruled that all women are cowardly and thus, if
a woman will try to slaughter an animal, her work will not accordingly
be to that ritual for that reason. A little later Rabbi Shabbtay
Cohen ruled (around 1640) that all women are lazy and will therefore
not take the necessary care. Those discriminatory rules are now
followed by rabbis*7, and this is the reason why all women are
forbidden to slaughter."
Shahak says that his attitude to the Bible or the Talmudic literature
is similar "It is plain that parts of the Bible and to a
lesser extent of the Talmud are of high literary merit*8. But
I absolutely deny that any part of them is holy. If some people
sanctify those texts, I consider it my duty to wage a non-violent
but also a holy struggle against them." He has rather ambivalent
feelings about all the Jewish religious peace movements such as
`Netivot Shalom' (Paths of Peace). "I admire what they do
for the individual Human Rights of the Palestinians, but from
the moment we pass from that to a discussion of principles I very
strongly disagree with them. They fully accept the authority of
the rabbis and the Jewish religious law. For example they are
always quoting Rabbi Ovadia Yoself who ruled that territories
may be relinquished if there is a danger that Jewish lives be
lost if they will not be relinquished. I regard this as an immoral
kind of reasoning," he said firmly. "For example, if
the Palestinians will use only a non violent kind of resistance
and there will be no fear of Jewish life being lost, Jewish religious
peace movements will not support any Palestinian rights. Or, at
least, Rabbi Yosef will not do so" *9. In addition to his
long-standing war against the conquest and Jewish religion, Shahak
now also wages what can be almost described as a private war against
Arafat and Jibril Rajub*10. He claims that the Palestinians have
become much poorer since Arafat rules them. He also says that
their fear of Arafat's secret police is greater than the fear
they had for the Israeli secret police and the tortures employed
by Jibril Rajub which are worse than those employed by them. "I
feel I must condemn those tortures of all Human Rights violations
of Arafat's regime." He opposes the claim so often raised
by the Israeli peace camp that those are only Palestinian matters.
"Human rights are an universal matter. What happens in China
or the horrors of the apartheid regime in South Africa were, rightly,
my concern and the concern of people who were neither Chinese
nor South African. What is more, violation of human rights of
Arafat's regime are being committed on behalf of Israel and for
the sake of Israeli interests, in cooperation with Israel and
in areas which are under Israeli sovereignty" *11.
On this issue he opposes, more or less strongly, many of the Israeli
left who tend to disregard the deeds of the secret police of the
Palestinian Authority. However, even those of the Israeli left
who oppose Shahak on this issue respect his consistency and dedicated
pursuit of aims. He wages all those wars not only on pages of
the Hebrew press in his frequent letters-to-the-editor, but also
in English publications and translations. When asked about a Palestinian
state headed by Arafat, he answers: "If Israel will withdraw
from the Area C*12, then establishment of a Palestinian state
in all the territories, even if headed by Arafat, will be a lesser
evil because the Palestinians will then be able to rebel against
Arafat's dictatorship, and will in my view do so". Paradoxically,
those views caused Shahak to vote for Netanyahu in the last elections.
He says that he had reasons to vote against Peres, some moral
and some pragmatic. "I will not vote for a Labor-Meretz government
which sells weapons to the most murderous regimes of the world
such as the regime in Guatemala and other places. It is much easier
to struggle against Israeli aggression abroad and violation of
Human Rights at home when Likud is in power, than when Labor is.
Only recently we have seen Labor Meretz supporters also supporting
the `Grapes of Wrath'" He also claims that in general the
secular Israeli left is worse than the right. "True, the
right barks but the left bites," he says. He does not have
any illusions that Zionists of either right or left will support
a democratic secular state in the entire area of Palestine, or
relinquish the Zionist principles which, according to Shahak,
are continuing the discriminatory principles of the Jewish religion
in a secular form. "But among Zionists it is Netanyahu who
represents the lesser evil, since under him less suffering is
caused to people, for the reasons I mentioned above."
As we have seen, it is the hate of cruelty and aversion from causing
people to suffer which is guiding Shahak in his political views.
Notes:
1. The Hebrew term used here is equivalent to Christian `Old testament',
but
I will use in this translation the term `Bible' for brevity's
sake.
2. II Chronicles, 36:22-23. In the Jewish arrangement the two
books of
Chronicles end in the Bible.
3. This phenomenon was quite unknown among the Jews who emigrated
to the US and perhaps caused most of them to become what they
have become. In Europe and especially in its Eastern and Central
parts, many Jews became , during the period of 1860-1939, very
anti-religious. They not only ceased to perform the commandments
of the Jewish religion, but opposed and ridiculed the rabbis and
the Talmud as much as they could.
4. The special emphasis on this story is caused by the traditional
Jewish `argument' that superiority of Judaism over other religions
( especially Christianity and Islam) , and the `irrefutable proof'
of its truth is `the fact' that God was heard by about two and
a half million Jews. (The Pentateuch specifies that the number
of the male Jews between the ages of 20 and 60 was then more than
600,000. With the addition of women, children and the old one
can assume the figure of two and a half million Jews , assembled
around Mount Sinai). All Israeli Jewish children are taught this
in their schools, even in the supposedly secular schools. 5. The
reference is to a comedian, Gill Kapotch, hired recently by Channel
1 of Israeli TV to interpret the Bible in a seemingly `modern'
way. Kapotch had caused a scandal resulting in a discussion in
the Knesset Committee by claiming that the verse "and [Noah]
lay uncovered in his tent" ( Genesis, 9:21) means that his
penis was then visible.
6. In my long reserve service, however, I was just an infantry
soldier.
7. I mean Orthodox rabbis.
8. With regard to poetic parts of the Bible, their high literary
merit is
especially apparent to those who read the Bible in Hebrew.
9. This is the comment of the interviewer. Let me add in this
case that I had firmly stated that the Israeli Jewish religious
peace movements are refusing to recognise that the Palestinians
have any intrinsic rights and in this they are even worse than
`Peace now', a movement I detest. Their argument rests only on
the premise that peace is good for the Jews. This is one of the
things that one still can not publish in Israel.
10. A head of one of Arafat's secret police in the West Bank who
is very popular among the Israeli Jewish `peace camp'.
11. According to the Oslo Accords Israel retains the full sovereignty
even over Jericho and the autonomous part of the Gaza strip.
12. All the settlements are situated in Area C.
In the No 50 newsletter we featured an
item by Mr Jeremy Jones, vice president, Council of Australian
Jewry. Among others, Jones attacked Mr Jack King, and his organisation,
Australians For Free Speech (AFFS). Here is Mr King's letter to
Mr Jones.
1. Lies of Jeremy Jones ( Prominent Australian Jew), and 2. Jewish
religion teaches and condones lying, deceit and hatred.
18 January 1997
Mr Jones,
I refer to your article titled `Networking', in the Australia/Israel
Review of 11-24 November 1996. You made four comments about me,
two being outright lies and the others being misleading distortions.
As clearly and indisputably revealed in the five references quoted
below, the Jewish religion ( based on the Talmud) teaches and
condones lies, deceit and hatred ( in particular towards Christians).
Hence the lies and distortions of your article in the Australia/Israel
Review are not, in any way, unexpected.
You refer to me being "another notorious propagator of anti-Jewish
myths". You should learn the difference between `myths' and
`facts'. For instance the best known two Jewish myths are the
so-called `holocaust' and that Jews are `God's chosen people'.
I will not elaborate on the infamous holocaust lie ( that is left
to reputable experts like Fredrick Toben and David Irving). When
considering the history of Jews and the evils of Judaism's Talmud
(which condones lies, deceit, perjury, brutality, greed, vile
obscenities, sodomy, paedophilia, bestiality, hatred of Gentiles
-Christians in particular - sadistic killings of Christians simply
because they are Christians, etc.) it is impossible to believe
how Jews could be `God's chosen people', unless of course our
God's basic standard has now changed from `good' to outright `evil'.
Under these circumstances such claims could only be considered
as mass psychotic `delusions of grandeur' and clear evidence of
mass racial and religious megalomania. It appears in reality that
God has `chosen' Jews to demonstrate how people should not behave.
It is a pity, Mr Jones, that you can't get anything right about
me - or could it be just an ingrained Talmudic habit of deceit
and manipulation? The address from the steps of the Adelaide Parliament
House that you refer to was an address opposing the Racial Hatred
laws - laws mainly pushed by Australian Zionists intending to
suppress Australia's right to free speech and the right to question
certain historical and important sensitive political issues, especially
the `holocaust' - as it is suppressed in France and Germany. We
are aware, Mr Jones, that you have got the wording and the occasion
wrong. You should have quoted me as follows:
Mr King considers that Zionism and Zionists and their supporters,
including the international bankers and media monopolisers, are
the main influences behind our serious economic problems and the
main obstacles to world peace - and the primary cause of the traumatic
upheavals, world wars and `holocaust' of this century, including
the Middle East conflicts and tensions. He considers Kissinger
to be one of the worst Zionist influences and that there is a
small army of `pernicious and insidious' characters of various
backgrounds who are corrupting and directing world governments
and the UN - and frustrating the effort of all decent people.
Mr King believes that people of integrity and good will, from
all religious backgrounds, should band together in a co-operative
way, oppose the Zionists and correct the situation, with the object
of making the year 2000 the beginning of an era of real peace,
hope and good will for all mankind.
Your accusation of me saying that I have "never known any
Jews or Asians to make any useful contribution to Australia"
is a complete fabrication and confirms you as liar. For a start,
the behaviour and motives of such persons as Marcus Clark (SA
State Bank fiasco) and Solomon Lew ( Coles/Myer `yannon affair')
should be properly investigated. There are numerous other persons
I could also name.
Lastly, I refer to your allegation that I called for "identification"
and then "commercial and social isolation" of all Jews.
Such comment was deceitful and totally misleading. What I did
say, in writing, to all SA politicians, the media and church leaders,
with copies to some well-known Zionists and rabbis, was:
You should not be dictated to by the Christian-hating Zionists.
Judaism's Talmud is racist to the extreme and has been adhered
to by most Zionist Jews whenever they can get away with it - in
particular Palestine. The Talmud, in its dealings with Gentiles,
requires and condones perjury, lies, deceit, killing and brutality.
It is a religion of racism, hatred and `evil' - it produces diseased
and rotten souls. Recently on the ABC, an enlightened well-known
Federal MP appropriately referred to Australian Zionists as those
"grubby little racists". An appropriate SA Racial Hatred
law would be one which requires identification and then commercial
and social isolation, of all Jews who won't renounce those racist,
gentile-hating aspects of their religion.
It is most significant that, when criticising Zionist Jew behaviour
over the years, I have always challenged the readers to an open
public debate on the issues raised. So far no-one has taken up
that challenge. Zionist Jews and their supporters all take the
gutless, coward's and devious way out and resort to lies, to denigrating
and misleading remarks, in their various media outlets. They also
deny their victims any opportunity of proper redress. You appear
no different, Mr Jones.
Jesus Christ, the Messiah and true philosopher, 2000 years ago
said of the Jews, at John, VIII: 44: Ye are of your father the
devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer
from the beginning and abide not in truth, because there is no
truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own:
for he is a liar and the father of it.
Martin Luther said of the Jews, among other comments on Jews:
They are the real liars and bloodhounds.
Mohammed, in the Koran, said: You must not relent in your work
which must show up Jewish deceit.
After over 2000 years it appears that nothing has really changed.
Mr Jones, are you trying to maintain that despised reputation
of many generations of Talmudic Jews?
Mr Jones, we are aware of the Jewish insidious ritual of Kol Nidre
- a ritual which is conducted once a year and which revokes and
annuls, ONE YEAR IN ADVANCE, any oaths and promises made by a
Jew. How then can any Talmudic Zionist Jew be trusted under any
circumstance? Such a ritual is clear evidence of the depth and
intensity of Talmudic Jewish deceit. Mr Jones, next time you want
to publicly lie about people of integrity who oppose Talmudic
Zionist attitude and behaviour, I suggest you think twice about
it. We will be out to expose you.
Yours faithfully, John (Jack) King
POBox 293 Belair 5052.
References:
1. Facts and Facts, by Benjamin H Freedman
2. Jewish History, Jewish Religion, by Israel Shahak
3 Jewish Religion: Its influence today, by Elizabeth Dilling
4. The Talmud Unmasked, by Rev I B Pranaitis
5 The Effects of the Talmud on Judeo-Christianity, by Colonel
Jack Mohr.
NB: References 3 and 5 also reveal the vile baby molestation,
obscenity, bestiality, immorality, asininity and pornography -
incest, paedophilia, sodomy - condoned by the Talmud.
IN BRIEF
in: New York Review, 19 December 1996.
In his review of David Irving's Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third
Reich, NYR, September 19, 1996, Gordon Craig astonishingly attempts
to demonstrate that the book has merit despite its invidious purpose
and dubious historical methods. Craig himself notes at the outset
that Irving's "obtuse and quickly discredited viewshave proven
to be offensive to large numbers of people." Yet in his zeal
to defend the right of historians to take controversial, even
outrageous positions, Craig loses sight of their obligation to
write history that is true.
No doubt, as Craig pointed out, Irving is an energetic researcher
who has gained access to useful documents. But as in the past,
Irving's newest book deliberately distorts and obscures the facts
in order to minimise the Holocaust and exonerate Hitler. Craig
writes that "satisfactory explanations of the deaths of the
Jews are hard to come by" in Irving's book, yet he praises
Irving as knowing "more about National Socialism than most
professional scholars in his field." It's what David Irving
seems not to know about National Socialism - namely Hitler's deliberate
murder of six million Jews - that is the problem. Gordon Craig
replies: The issue raised at the beginning of my article of September
19 was not the historian's "obligation to write history that
is true" but his freedom to express his views even if they
are offensive, or appear to be false, to people like Mr Foxman.
Why he should have this freedom was explained succinctly and unanswerably
by John Stuart Mill in the second chapter of On Liberty.
Mill wrote: "First, if any opinion is compelled to silence,
that opinion may, for ought we can certainly know, be true. To
deny this is to assume our own infallibility. Secondly, though
the silenced opinion be in error, it may, and very commonly does,
contain a portion of the truth, and since the general or prevailing
opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it
is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder
of the truth has any chance of being supplied. Thirdly, even if
the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth, unless
it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly
contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in
the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling
of its rational grounds. And not only this, but, fourthly, the
meaning of the doctrine itself will be in danger of being lost,
or enfeebled." Death camp trial, AFP, Paris, in: Herald Sun,
24 January 1997 Alleged wartime Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon
will stand trial for crimes against humanity.
France's supreme court today rejected an appeal by 86-year-old
Mr Papon's lawyers against an earlier ruling that he should face
trial over his alleged role in the deportation of 1690 Jews to
Nazi death camps. The appeal was his final bid to escape trial
over charges arising from the time he served in Bordeaux as a
senior official of the wartime Vichy government, which collaborated
with the Nazis. Chief prosecutor Jean-Pierre Dintilhac had rejected
arguments put by Mr Papon's lawyers, in particular their contention
that there was no proof of his intention to commit crimes against
humanity.
"It is time that Papon answers forhis abominable crimes against
people solely due to their birth," Mr Dintilhac had said.
Mr Papon is the last survivor of four Frenchmen said to have collaborated
with the Nazis and who were accused of crimes against humanity.
He was given high office in post-war France, serving as police
chief in Paris and budget minister.
The hearing was the latest step in a 15-year legal battle over
whether he should go before the court in Gironde, south-western
France. An appeals court ruled last September that he should stand
trial but his lawyer appealed, arguing his client was a member
of the French Resistance during the war and had never sympathised
with Nazi ideology. Australian tycoon `spreading evil', Reuter,
The Advertiser, 21 February 1997 Australian mining tycoon Joseph
Gutnick has been blasted by Israel's opposition leader, Shimon
Peres, for spreading "evil and hatred" by bankrolling
settlement of occupied Arab lands in the West Bank. "Gutnick
- he comes to pass out funds in order to argue, to spread evil
and hatred, like all Habad now," Mr Peres told students at
the religious Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv. The remarks were
broadcast by Israel Radio. Mr Gutnick, 44, a follower of the ultra
orthodox Jewish Habad sect (Schneerson), has privately funded
building in Jewish settlements in the occupies West Bank - an
areawhich Palestinians hope one day will be their State.
In elections last May Habad backed Mr Benjamin Netanyahu, leader
of the right-wing Likud party, against then-prime minister Mr
Peres, who heads the Labour party. Mr Netanyahu narrowly defeated
Mr Peres. "Habad spread evil against us. Once it was a party
that spread love of Israel. Now it is spreading hatred in Israel,"
Mr Peres said.
A sequel to the Irving's 8 November 1996 Banning From Australia
In our view the Minister's claim, that his decision to reject
Irving's visa application did not take into account Irving's views
on the Holocaust, is untenable - see: Newsletter No. 50 - nor
is the Minister's claim that the Irving affair is not a free speech
issue. In another twist to the sorry tale we now learn that Mr
Irving did not "avail himself of the opportunity" to
have the Minister's decision reviewed. The following correspondence
says it all:
The Minister for Immigration Replies - 18 December 1996
Dear Dr Toben
Thank you for your letter of 28 October 1996 concerning the application
to visit Australia lodged by Mr David Irving. As you would be
aware I decided on 6 November 1996 to refuse to grant Mr Irving
a visitor visa as I was satisfied that he is not a person of good
character. All applications for visas are considered against the
legal requirements of the Migration Act 1958 (the Act) and the
Migration Regulations. If an applicant fails to meet all the criteria
for entry to Australia he or she will not be granted a visa. Among
these criteria is a requirement that persons entering Australia
must be assessed for good character.
In 1992 Mr Irving was convicted of "defaming the memory of
the dead", an offence under German law, and in 1993 expelled
from Germany; in 1992 Mr Irving was detained by Canadian immigration
officials and deported from Canada; in 1994 Mr Irving was found
to be in contempt of the UK High Court and committed to prison
for three months. Sworn evidence by Mr Irving, in an attempt to
purge that contempt, was later rejected by a judge of the UK High
Court. This conduct reveals a consistent pattern of behaviour
which led me to conclude that Mr Irving is not of good character.
Mr Irving's last two applications for visitor visas were also
refused as it was assessed that he did not meet the legal criteria
for the grant of the visas. These decisions were the subject of
an appeal to the federal Court by Mr Irving. In a judgement dated
30 July 1996 the Federal Court rejected that appeal. The Federal
Court observed that `good character' should be taken in its ordinary
sense as a reference to the enduring moral qualities of a person
and not to the good standing, fame or repute of that person in
the community. The Court also commented that lack of respect for
the law and for sensitivities for which the law sought to win
respect was relevant to the issue of character in Mr Irving's
case.
My decision to reject Mr Irving's application had nothing to do
with the issue of free speech. The Australian Government is committed
to the principle of freedom of speech. Mr Irving's views and writings
are readily available in Australia and Australians are free to
come to their own conclusions about Mr Irving's views.
Thank you for bringing your thoughts on this matter to my attention.
Yours sincerely
Philip Ruddock
Fredrick Toben Replies - 23 December 1996
Dear Mr Ruddock
Thank you for your letter of 18 December 1996.
Contrary to your stated justification in banning David Irving
I believe that it is a free speech issue because all of Irving's
so-called `convictions' stem directly from his professional conduct,
i.e., investigating World War II history. In particular, it is
this fact - that Irving claims there were no homicidal gas chambers
at Auschwitz - that has brought about his being hunted by the
judicial powers in Canada, Germany and the U.K. Special laws,
designed to catch the questioners of the Holocaust dogma, have
netted a number of people. This has a chilling effect on the exercise
of free speech - and perhaps you are fooled into thinking that
it is a matter of someone's feelings needing protection from a
perceived hurt. It goes far deeper than that. We are talking about
a billion dollar Holocaust industry to which you have unwittingly
extended government protection.
You could have used your discretion and permitted Irving into
the country.
You did not - and that means you have fallen prey to the powerful
international Holocaust lobby as embodied in Messrs Jeremy Jones
and Michael Kapel.. This lobby has now succeeded in stifling Irving
for the time being. Further, our Racial Hatred law aims to stifle
debate on the vexed homicidal gas chamber story within Australia.
We at Adelaide Institute are in the forefront pushing for an open
debate because we believe it is of fundamental importance. Our
academic tradition is at stake here. Fear of speaking out and
re-evaluating or revising historical facts is now very real among
academics as well as within the general community. Let me ask
you, Mr Ruddock: Do you believe that during World War II the Germans
planned, built and used huge chemical slaughterhouses wherein
European Jewry was exterminated? If you do, then you are levelling
a serious allegation against the German people. Forget the law
now for a moment and begin to question the veracity of your allegations.
If you do not, then you are libelling the German people with an
unproved allegation - that is all it is to this day, an allegation.
Why? Because it is illegal in Germany and elsewhere to question
the basic premise on which the Holocaust story rests. We find
such legal interference a curtailment of free speech - and by
your banning of Irving you have comforted the dictatorial mind
which hates challenges.
We have expressed our views in our newsletter, No. 50, wherein
our correspondence has also appeared. In the light of its contents
- and I hope you received your copy - the penultimate paragraph
of your letter indicates flawed thinking. The Holocaust debate
and free speech are intertwined. The Holocaust lobby wishes to
stifle debate. It is now in the process of using the Racial Hatred
law to achieve this by forcing its opponents into courts or before
the Human Rights Commission - as Mr Jeremy Jones has done with
Adelaide Institute. The claim is based on your rubbery concept
`good character', as detailed in your paragraph 4:
The Court also commented the lack of respect for the law and for
sensitivities for which the law sought to win respect was relevant
to the issue of character in Mr Irving's case.
I am not sure whether you know this but at our universities there
exists a Holocaust orthodoxy which cannot tolerate free speech.
Irving would have personally challenged the minds who maintain
this orthodoxy. You have unwittingly protected the dogmatic minds
from rigorous work. The all embracing subject matter subsumed
under the Holocaust label is a legitimate topic for public debate.
It is crucial if we wish to gain an understanding of where we
as a nation are going. Please advise me whether you are aware
that the powerful Holocaust lobby wishes to stifle debate on the
legitimate problems surrounding the claims that Germans killed
European Jewry in homicidal gas chambers?
Once again thank you for responding to my expressed concerns.
Most sincerely Fredrick Toben
Mr Andrew Metcalfe, Senior Adviser, responds -11 February 1997
Dear Dr Toben
Thank you for your further letter of 23 December 1996 concerning
the decisions of the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural
Affairs to refuse the applications of Mr Adams and Mr Irving for
visas for Australia.
The Minister has asked me to reply on his behalf.
The minister has nothing further to add to his correspondence
of 18 December 1996. It is noteworthy, however, that there was
scope for a review of the Minister's decision in relation to Mr
Irving but Mr Irving did not avail himself of that opportunity.
Yours sincerely
Andrew Metcalfe Senior Adviser
Mr David Irving Replies - 13 February 1997
One could weep at their hypocrisy and deviousness. He (Mr Ruddock)
knows full well that while his ministry fights his legal actions
at taxpayer expense, I have to pay for them out of my own pocket.
Regardless of the fact that Ed Wall has been bravely fighting
for no fee, the exclusion fight so far has cost me around $100,000,
only partly funded by the Fighring Fund, and Canberra has now
submitted a bill for $50,000 for their costs. What profit is there
in winning court actions, as we did in 1993, if the government
merely nods briefly to the courts, and then changes the Immigration
law, as it did last time in 1994, introducing a new Lex Irving
drafted with the specific aim of excluding me. Somebody, some
MP, should ask in Parliament how many visitors have so far been
excluded under this new `bad character' legislation, of all the
millions who applied for visas.
David Irving
DAVID IRVING
David Irving's Nuremberg: The Last Battle .is now available from
Veritas Publishing Company, POBox 42, Cranbrook, Western Australia,
6321
Last October I attended a lecture at Occidental
College by Dr Gottfried Wagner, great-grandson of Richard Wagner,
the German composer, on `Richard Wagner's Anti-Semitism: Consequences
for German Culture and Politics Until Today.' As I patiently waited
for the lecture to start, xeroxed copies of an article on Gottfried
Wagner, published in the San Francisco Examiner ( Oct. 6, 1996),
were distributed. It was written by a young, German-speaking Asian
male, perhaps a member of Wagner's entourage.
Wagner's grandson is a very sad success story of the de-Nazification
( read de-Germanization) process perpetrated upon a militarily
defeated Germany. "I am an alternative German," Wagner
described himself. According to the interview in the Examiner,
Wagner's indoctrination started at age 9, when he was made to
watch films of his own family socialising with Adolf Hitler (
the Wagners affectionately called him "Uncle Wolfie"),
followed by clips of alleged piles of dead Jews at Buchenwald,
scenes all too common in the methodology of anti-Axis propaganda
warfare. Wagner revealed he had severed all ties with his family
when he accepted an invitation in 1989 to speak about the Holocaust
at Tel Aviv University. Now at age 49, Wagner is occupied full-time
lecturing internationally on what he calls "Germany's conspiracy
of silence". The article also quotes him as saying, "Richard
Wagner was a negative genius, an erratic moment in the history
of music, important, but ultimately evil".
The Examiner article should have been adequate warning for anyone
half-way savvy on matters of anti-German propaganda of the nature
of the lecture to come. A well-groomed man, Wagner's manners were
unmistakably European. Except for those moments in which he was
contradicted, he displayed a full measure of courtesy. The audience
of about 50 was composed of a variety of individuals, from typical
generation-X college students to a wide range of Semites, some
old enough to qualify as `survivors'. There were also some faces
that seemed suspiciously and unapologetically Aryan and consequently
out of place. Wagner brought a script to the podium and adjusted
the entire lecture strictly to the script. The lecture was videotaped
by a small crew consisting of a young , German-speaking Asian
male and a few German-speaking Asian females.
A visit from Gottfried Wagner offers American college students
an interesting opportunity to meet in person one of those individuals
who emerge from years of harsh anti-German brainwashing. In his
magnificent 1947 essay, `Nuremberg or the Promised Land', Maurice
Bardeche observed that the enemies of Germany have begun one of
the cruellest tasks in recorded history, "they not only plan
to make the Germans accept defeat, but they also expect them to
be happy about it!".
Today Germany in some important ways is intellectually and spiritually
more of an occupied country than it was at WWII's end. The humiliation
inflicted upon the German nationals extends from street corners
in red light district infected with Turkish pimps to propaganda
in the classroom of the Bundeswehr-Universitat, where an Israeli
Professor, Michael Wollfsohn, teaches German history the Jewish
way. He takes full advantage of this opportunity to spew his racial
hatred when stating that Germans of earlier generations "carry
the mark of Cain for the murder of millions of Jews". ( The
biblical fable of Abel and Cain refers to fratricide, brother
murdering brother. The conflict between Germans and Jews, needless
to say, has nothing to do with fratricide.)
While listening to Gottfried Wagner, I could not help recalling
the report published by several mainstream magazines, showing
a tearful son of Adolf Eichmann, emotionally embracing the Mossad
agent who kidnapped his father in Buenos Aires, as he thanked
him for the abduction that, ultimately, led his father to a Kangaroo
court in Tel Aviv. Gottfired Wagner is another one of those `alternative'
Germans who are vocally joyous about the defeat of their homeland.
Gottfried Wagner's militant Zionism has a clear set of identifiable
goals. Coinciding with the submissive attitudes and behaviour
of all de-Nazified individuals, Wagner is also de-Germanised and
misses no opportunity to advertise it. In his lecture, he attempted
to convince his audience:
(a) that anti-Semitism is inherent in German Nationalism and not
limited to national Socialists;
(b) that German Nationalism is a contradiction in terms, since
there is no real German national identity;
© that his great-grandfather was an anti-Semite primarily
because of his negative emotions, lack of self-esteem and envy
for the superior musical talent of Felix Mendelsohn;
(d) that anti-Semitism is unique and finds no parallel;
(e) that America has no need to repeat the mistakes that Germans
have committed in the past;
(f) that the discussion of the immigration issue in America should
not be influenced by isolationists.
Gottfried Wagner's diatribes against his great-grandfather are
for the most part based on obscure and unsubstantiated remarks,
such as, "Richard Wagner's real father might have indeed
been Jewish". No evidence was introduced to support this
statement, which by Gottfried's own admission, had no foundation.
He emphasised several times that his great-grandfather had an
inferiority complex because, among other things, he was short,
skinny, weak, ugly and had Jewish facial features. All of which
amounts to utter balderdash. He went on to state that Cosima Wagner
( Richard Wagner's wife) was also of mixed ancestry, "the
illegitimate grand-daughter of a Jewish merchant.".
Gottried Wagner argued that the concept of a German Volk is absurd,
since
"Germany was not founded until 1871". Saying that a
German Volk is non-existent is just as absurd as saying that there
is no real Italian national identity because the Italian Republic
was founded in the last century by Garibaldi. These national formations
were inevitable historical consequences in the lives of societies
that are rooted together, in contrast to the `social-designing'
attempts to form Yugoslavia. Gottfired Wagner mentioned his desire
to stay involved with the arts and listed a few of his philanthropic
commitments. One of his projects, he declared, involved producing
the majestic works of "a great contemporary American composer,
Michael Shapiro". How noble of Mr Wagner, to cross the Atlantic
and show his generosity by huckstering the creative dreams of
Michael Shapiro. Some 90 minutes into his incessant harangue Wagner
suggested that the homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz were inspired
by the music of Parsifal. I politely raised my hand at a fleeting
moment when he separated his eyes from the script. I just had
to throw some light into this inquisitional darkness. He invited
my question with a very clear, "Ja". "Excuse me,"
I said, "but I believe that there is no forensic evidence
for those alleged gas chambers". At that moment the air grew
very tense, as I became the focus of attention of many pairs of
hateful eyes. The silence was absolute, except for one or two
deep inhalations. Wagner's expression showed total disbelief.
Raising his voice, he barked out, "What?" I repeated
my question, but never obtained an answer. A member of the audience
shouted, "This room is full of Nazis!" Instead of answering
my question, Wagner lamented that he was not used to being questioned
in that manner. He added that was the very first time "that"
had happened to him. Gottfried's assistant, a man in his 40s,
said loud and clear, very loud and very clear, that interruptions
were "not to be tolerated!" Herr Wagner continued reading
his script, with some signs of nervousness, such as mispronunciations
of English words and clearing his throat with pronounced frequency.
As the lecture dragged on, Wagner became more irritated by additional
interruptions from members of the audience, who manifested their
discontent over his unending display of German self-hatred. As
the irritation continued, he slowly abandoned his initially displayed
good manners and courtesy.
A final word. My comments on Wagner's lecture are not intended
to discourage anyone from attending his future conferences. On
the contrary, he and his hateful message should be extensively
publicised. I only wish that every American could attend one of
his sermons, if even only for one hour. His unabashed propaganda
would make a Nazi out of Mother Teresa.
On Thursday, 13 February 1997, at 79 years of age, Thies Christophersen
died at Molfsee, Kiel, North Germany. Terminally ill, Christophersen
who had lived in Danish exile for many years was arrested in his
son's home on 31 January 1997. The arrest warrant was issued after
Christophersen wrote and published in 1973 his slim booklet Die
Auschwitz Lü ge (Auschwitz: Truth or Lie?). The Court doctor
found that Christophersen was too ill to be prosecuted. According
to the notorious German hater, Simon Wiesenthal, Christophersen
was in charge of a synthetic rubber research laboratory which
employed 200 soviet women prisoners. Wiesenthal, his feverish
mind devoid of any sense of justice, concluded that Christophersen
must have known about the mass exterminations at Auschwitz. It
would have been interesting to have had Christophersen in court.
He would have been required to swear to tell the truth and that
would have brought him into conflict with current German law.
Christophersen has always denied the existence of the homicidal
gas chambers at Auschwitz. Such a denial in court - telling the
truth as he saw it - would have earned Christophersen five years
jail. This is the current legal situation in Germany: you tell
the truth and you are convicted and criminalised, as happened
to David Irving, et al. What follows is an extract from Christophersen's
booklet:
I was in Auschwitz from January to December
1944. After the war I heard about the alleged mass murders of
Jews and I was quite taken aback. Despite all the testimony submitted
and all the reports in the media, I know such atrocities were
never committed. I have said so repeatedly, everywhere and at
all times, but it has always been useless for no one has wanted
to believe me. The evidence, I am told, is unequivocal and confirmed
without contradiction. Court cases have clearly established that
gas chambers existed in Auschwitz and the Camp Commander, Hoess,
has himself said so. Whoever dares to deny this, makes himself
suspect of perhaps having personally participated in the murder
of these Jews. I have been warned to take care because war crimes
have not yet come under the Statute of Limitation ( as applicable
in any civilised nation) and so I can still be tried and be prosecuted
and it would be best to keep silent. Friends and acquaintances
have said: "What would you serve were you still to try to
correct history? You cannot change a thing! Acknowledgement of
our guilt has brought us back into the community of nations. Remember,
you have a family. No one will believe your reports.Keep silent,
that's the smartest thing you can do". I never made a secret
of my having been at Auschwitz. When asked about the destruction
of Jews, I answered that I knew nothing about that. I simply marvelled
at how quickly the populace was willing to accept and believe
the stories about these mass gassings without any apparent resistance.
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Adelaide Institute Newsletter 54
Doug Collins, Canada
In the struggle for free expression it
sometimes happens that the good guys win a round. That has happened
with radio station CKST-AM 1040's victory over Alan Dutton in
the David Irving affair. In March of last year open-liner Charles
Maclean invited Irving, the controversial British historian and
author to come on his show, whereupon the usual would-be censors
complained to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications
Commission (CRTC). A few years ago Irving was arrested while making
a speech in Victoria and bundled out of the country in handcuffs
on an immigration pretext. But his real sin was that he had enraged
Jewish organisations with his views on the number of Jewish deaths
in the `holocaust' and the alleged gas chambers. Foreign killers
and crooks can roam this country but Irving is a no-no. What can't
be stopped, however, is his voice. Ottowa can prevent him from
crossing its sacred borders but it finds it more difficult to
control the phones. Maclean interviewed Irving for 90 minutes
and listeners got an earful. He was unbeatable in arguing his
case, which is why his critics refuse to face him. As Professor
Gordon Craig of Stanford University wrote in the New York Review
of Books after a top American publisher was bullied into cancelling
Irving's latest book, "The fact is that he knows more about
National Socialism than most professional scholars in his field."
The pressure groups have got him banned not only from Canada but
also from Australia and Germany, in which latter country he was
convicted of the `crime' of `defaming the dead,' a law that exists
nowhere else. He was also barred from South Africa until Nelson
Mandela lifted the veto against him. Maclean invited Toronto's
Bernie Farber of the Canadian Jewish Congress to come on the air
at the same time as Irving. Farber was in fact asked to appear
with Irving but declined. Predictably. Enter Alan Dutton, he of
the Canadian Anti-Racism Education and Research Society (CAERS),
who gets funds from the feds and from his friends in Victoria
to act as a freelancer, self-appointed watchdog over the politically
incorrect. Dutton whined to the CRTC that Maclean had provided
a forum for `historical revisionism, holocaust denial, racism
and anti-Semitism.'
The CRTC threw the complaints into the trash basket. Not that
Maclean had put a foot wrong. But these are strange times. It
stated in the judgement that "while certain Jewish organisations
were the subject of negative comments by Mr Irving and [by] callers
to the show, the commission is unable to conclude that these comments,
when taken in context, would tend or be likely to expose Jewish
people to hatred or contempt." What is the world coming to?
Someone in an official capacity believes that pressure groups
like the CAC are not above criticism? Where will it all end?
Will freedom of speech be returned to this country?
The CRTC dealt Dutton another jab in the gut by rejecting his
further complaint that Paul Fromm and Maclean had launched a personal
attack on him in a subsequent broadcast. Fromm is a Toronto teacher
[ who has now been dismissed from his English teaching post, and
Doug Christie has taken on his case] who runs the Canadian Association
for Free Expression (CAFÉ). He is also a critic of our
immigration stupidities and foreign aid. The CRTC stated, dryly,
that "the comments of Mr Maclean and his guest Paul Fromm
appear to have been targeted at your [Dutton's] views, rather
than your character." Dutton's charges of `racism' and `anti-Semitism'
were carried in the Jewish Western Bulletin, and the station is
suing that newspaper and Dutton for libel. Something tells me
that the CRTC findings will not be of much help to the defendants.
A British historian banned from Australia
for his pro-Nazi writings claims to be suing the Prime Minister,
Mr Howard, for defamation. Mr David Irving said he had instructed
his Australian solicitors to lodge a writ and statement of claims
against Mr Howard in Melbourne's Supreme Court. Mr Irving, who
claims the Jewish Holocaust was grossly exaggerated, has been
trying to visit Australia for four years and received his last
rejection in November. He was refused a visa on the grounds that
he failed to meet the "good character" requirements
of Australia's Migration Act. In defending the decision, Mr Howard
said Mr Irving had criminal convictions in other countries. A
spokesman for Mr Howard said last night they had no knowledge
of any legal action taken by Mr Irving.
Mr Irving's Perth solicitor, Mr Ed Wall, wrote to Mr Howard on
November 20 threatening legal action if he did not publicly apologise.
Mr Irving said the Prime Minister had not acknowledged the letter.
He had therefore instructed Mr Wall to proceed with a defamation
writ. Mr Irving said he had no convictions in Canada. In Britain,
he was found in contempt of court in civil proceedings, but this
was not a conviction for a criminal offence. His only conviction
in Germany was for "defaming the memory of the dead",
an offence unique to German law. It resulted from his saying the
gas chamber shown to tourists at Auschwitz was a dummy reconstructed
after the war, a view he said had since been verified. Mr Irving
said that while he would proceed against Mr Howard, he had decided
against appealing to the High Court against the Government's decision
to refuse him a visa. The prolific and controversial writer will
next week publish a book on the Nuremberg war crimes trials. He
said the book, Nuremberg, the Last Battle, was based on diaries
of the judges, defence counsel, chief American prosecutor and
some of the criminals.
David Irving, the British revisionist historian of the holocaust,
has started defamation proceedings against the Prime Minister,
Mr Howard. Mr Irving said yesterday that he had instructed his
Australian solicitor to proceed with a writ and statement of claims
against Mr Howard in the Victorian Supreme Court. He did not know
if the writ had been served. The move is Mr Irving's latest in
a four-year political and legal battle for permission to visit
Australia. Australian Jewish groups strongly oppose giving him
a visa because he argues that the holocaust has been greatly exaggerated.
On November 8 last year, the Federal Government finally rejected
his visa application because he did not meet the "good character"
requirements of the Migration Act. Mr Howard, in defending the
decision later that day, told ABC radio that Mr Irving had been
convicted in Britain, Canada and Germany. On November 20, Mr Irving's
Perth solicitor, Mr Ed Wall, wrote to Mr Howard threatening legal
action if he did not publicly apologise. Mr Irving said yesterday
the Prime Minister had not even acknowledged the letter. He had
therefore instructed Mr Wall to proceed with a defamation writ.
Mr Irving said he had no convictions in Canada. In Britain, he
had been found in contempt of court in civil proceedings, but
this did not constitute a conviction for a criminal offence. His
only conviction in Germany was for "defaming the memory of
the dead", an offence unique to German law. It resulted from
his saying the gas chamber shown to tourists at Auschwitz was
a dummy reconstructed after the war, a view he said had since
been verified.
"I don't enjoy being branded a criminal from one end of Australia
to the other," he said. "The remarks were also published
in newspapers round the world." Mr Irving said that while
he would proceed against Mr Howard, he had decided against appealing
to the High Court against the Government's decision to refuse
him a visa.
From Academia: - Three Laws of Life
1. Only men are sexist.
2. Only teutonic caucasoids are racist; others, who exhibit traits
which may normally be termed racist/sexist, are not exhibiting
those traits but rather maintain their cultural integrity.
3. A right-wing extremist is a bigot; a left-wing extremist is
an activist.
Canada is seeking to expel an 83-year-old Australian citizen allegedly
involved in grisly war crimes against Jews, Communists and Red
Army personnel during World War II, an immigration hearing was
told yesterday. Konrad Kalejs, who is suffering from cancer, listened
attentively at the hearing in Toronto as a Canadian Government
lawyer detailed his alleged involvement with Nazi death squads
in Latvia. The Government is in the final stages of a bid to expel
Kalejs. Kalejs lived in Australia after the war, before moving
to the United States in 1959. US authorities uncovered his wartime
activities in the 1980s and he was deported to Australia in 1994,
but was not prosecuted, despite the US Justice Departments' evidence.
In 1995, Kalejs was allowed temporary entry to Canada after being
stopped at the airport by immigration officials. But he remained
in the country. Kalejs, who also has a heart condition and is
heavily medicated, waved dismissively yesterday as the Government
sought to discredit his claim that he was a university student
at the time and not a leader of special death squads against "destructive
elements". "The testimony is incredible and totally
unbelievable, " Immigration Department lawyer Donald MacIntosh
told the hearing, which started in February last year.
Mr MacIntosh said Kalejs was at university but had long absences
in the early 1940s due to his position as first lieutenant with
the Arajs Kommando. Mr MacIntosh said the group murdered and kidnapped
people to rid the region of so-called destructive elements. "They
hunted down the Communists, the Red Army and Jews," the lawyer
said. He described as incredible Kalejs's claim that he was not
present when the Arajs Kommando participated in the massacre of
Jews in a Latvian forest in December, 1941. Kalejs, in an interview
with ABC's 7.30 Report screened this week, denied involvement
with the death squads and said he spent the war fighting Russians.
"The answer is no, never," he said when asked whether
he was guilty of war crimes.
On arrival in Australia after the war, Kalejs was given a job
as an immigration screening officer, letting in other death-squad
commandos, the program claimed. The Immigration Department said
it was investigating the claim that he was employed by them, but
said even if it were true, he would not have been in a decision-making
position. Kalejs told the ABC the case was a Russian conspiracy
and his signatures on documents were forged.
Nazi-hunter Efraim Zuroff, head of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre,
said Australia was seen as a haven for Nazis, and war crimes trials
were just seen as expensive and troublesome. Former War Crimes
Unit head Robert Greenwood, QC, said he believed there were 40
or 50 war criminals still in Australia because of lack of political
will. The case comes amid concern that Canada has also become
a haven for Nazi war criminals. The Jerusalem Post said in November
that 157 alleged Nazi criminals had been uncovered living in Canada.
The Canadian Justice Minister, Mr Allan Rock, has promised to
investigate the new charges. The Government will finish its summary
in the Kalejs case this week, while counsel for Kalejs will have
its turn from Monday.
The January 1997 edition of Adelaide Institute newsletter contained
an article about the `Mischlinge' (mongrel) of which the German
`personnel office' in January 1944 announced 77 "high ranking
officers of mixed Jewish race or married to a Jew" serving
in the Wehrmacht, the German armed forces. All 77 had received
a declaration from Hitler that they were "of German blood".
Bryan Rigg, a 25-year-old American studying at Cambridge university
who researched this topic discovered later that there were an
additional 60 officers who fell into this Mischlinge category.
He added that in 17 cases the Ritterkreuz, or Knights' Cross,
Germany's highest military honour, was given to someone of Jewish
parentage (The Weekly Telegraph, Dec. 11-17, 1996, pp 28-29).
Jewish Nazi Officer Rescues Schneerson
One of the most interesting and remarkable comments in The Weekly
Telegraph, article above is the section headed: "Uncovering
mystery role of man who rescued Rebbe", which claims that
a German Jewish soldier, Lt Col Ernst Bloch rescued Rebbe Joseph
Schneerson, the leader of the ultra-orthodox Lubavitcher Jews,
from Warsaw. To date, however, I have not heard a cry of gratitude
from the Lubavitchers about the assistance of a Jewish Nazi soldier.
It seems to have disappeared down the memory hole.
Who Were They And Why Don't Holocausters Want To Know About Them?
Although Mr Rigg was astonished at this discovery, there was nothing
new about this news, but it had not been generally known, and
Holocausters don't want to know about it. Why not? Because it
doesn't fit the `kosher' image of all Jews suffering and being
persecuted during the Third Reich. After all, promoting the Mischlinge
to high rank in the army does not constitute persecution, and
it also raises the question as to what extent the `semi-Jews'
were guilty of any atrocities, a question not fully resolved.
Special Treatment Those who want an assessment of the Mischlinge
should read Special Treatment: The Untold Story of Hitler's Third
Race, by Alan Abrams, ISBN 0-8184-0364-0.
The first words in the Foreword are so important that these deserve
to be quoted:
The story of the Mischlinge Jews - the children of Jews in interfaith
marriages who became Hitler's Third Race - has never been fully
told. Instead, there exists a veritable litany of misconceptions
centring upon the legal amount of `Jewish blood' an individual
could carry in one's veins and still stay alive in Nazi Germany.
With very few exceptions, if you were a Jew in a mixed marriage,
you weren't necessarily sent to your death in a concentration
camp. If one of your parents was a Jew, you didn't have to die.
Nor were you sent to the ovens if you had two Jewish grandparents.
The facts are that many of these Jews survived. But years of popular
literature, Hollywood films, television shows, journalism and
plain old-fashioned ignorance have combined to create a myth so
powerful that it is taken for the truth. Beyond this, there were
full-blooded Jews who, in order to survive, worked for the aims
of the Nazis and their followers not only in Germany but in most
of Nazi-occupied Europe as well. Sometimes they did so because
they really believed in the fascist cause. Others were just `useful'.
The numbers of these groups of special survivors is surprisingly
high, considering that most people have managed to hear or read
nothing about them.surely they are one of the Holocaust's best-kept
secrets, (italics mine). Yes, indeed they are.
Abrams Not A Revisionist
Alan Abrams is a Jew and is not a revisionist - he believes in
the homicidal gas chambers; the `six million'; and he keeps referring
to the `Final Solution' as Extermination ( he even refers to the
Wannsee Conference as the First Final Solution Conference), but
his book helps lift the lid on one of the `Holocaust's best-kept
secrets'. The Mischlinge are in the unfortunate position, historically
speaking, of being ignored because neither Germans nor Jews want
to claim them. They are in a kind of `no man's land'. The Jews
didn't like them because to them the Mischlinge were `goyim'.
Many Nazis were suspicious about whether their Jewishness would
outweigh their `Germanity'. But the Mischlinge give the lie to
simplistic Jewish orthodoxy in which every Jew was a `victim'
(always unjustly of course) and every Nazi a brute, the kind of
thinking outlined in Goldhagen's book accusing the German people
in general of wanting to exterminate Jews. The Mischlinge help
give the lie to that because, in spite of some Nazi suspicions,
the Mischlinge, the `part-Jews' often rose to high positions in
society and were protected by the government. Mischlinge Oppose
Holocaust Legend The issue of the Mischlinge is another `black
hole' in the Holocaust legend. The category of Mischlinge was
created by the Nuremberg Laws which came into effect in 1935.
It tried to answer the question of who was a Jew. It decided that
Jews were those who descended from at least three Jewish grandparents.
Degrees of Mischlinge
Mischlinge of the First Degree were those descended from two Jewish
grandparents who did not adhere to the Jewish religion as of 15
September 1935 and did not subsequently join it; and was not married
to a Jewish person on that date or subsequently. Mischlinge of
the Second Degree applied to those descended from one Jewish grandparent
and who were not then Jews.
Exemptions To Nuremberg Law
Article 7 of the 14 November 1935 Ordinance gives the Fü
hrer and Reich Chancellor the power to grant exemptions from the
ordinances. Hitler could, if he wished, elevate Mischlinge of
the First Degree to a higher and safer category, either a full
Aryan or a Mischlinge of the Second Degree. Hitler Aryanises Jews
According to Alan Abrams, Hitler knew of at least 340 `first-rate
Jews' whom he either raised to the status of Germans or granted
the position of half-Jews, Special Treatment, p.29.
Hitler Officials Who Married Jews
Another curious aspect, which Holocaustomaniacs won't mention
is that Nazis often hesitated to use force against Jewish partners
in mixed marriages because many officials had married Jews. For
example, the stepfather of Goebbels was a Jewish pharmacist named
Friedländer.
Privileged Mixed Marriages
Reichsmarschall Herman Göring called for a category of privileged
mixed marriages. A marriage was considered privileged if the children
( the Mischlinge) were not raised as Jews. If the couple were
childless, the marriage was considered non-privileged. Once deportations
of the Jews commenced in 1941, Jews of the privileged and non-privileged
category were excused deportation to the concentration camps.
Himmler's Move Against Mischlinge Aborted
Himmler organised a roundup of Jewish spouses in mixed marriages
in what was called `Fabrik Aktion', but popular protest caused
them to be released in March 1943.
Aryan Women Saved Lives
According to Abrams, attempts were made to persuade women in mixed
marriages to divorce their Jewish husbands. If they had done so,
the Jew would have lost his `privileged' status and be liable
to arrest. Abrams says: By remaining loyal to their husbands,
these Aryan women saved a significant number of Jewish lives.
Yet, unlike other heroic Christians, they have never been memorialised
on Jerusalems' Street of the Righteous Gentiles, the road of honour
near the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial", ibid., p.40. So,
how about it, Zionists, a memorial for them as Righteous Gentiles?
Sterilisation Abrams claims that suggestions were made to sterilise
the Mischlinge, and were only abandoned when Dr Mengele could
not prove to Eichmann that such measures were cost effective,
ibid., p.42. He does not mention the recommendation to sterilise
Germans and thus exterminate them, made by the Jew, Theodore Kaufman
in his book: Germany Must Perish
Mischlinge In The Army
Abrams is wrong to insist that "the Mischlinge who entered
the army after 1935 apparently did not rise to the higher ranks",
ibid., p.48, now that Mr Rigg has shown that many became officers.
Wehrmacht Sympathetic To Jews
Abrams suggests that some Germans in the army were sympathetic
to the "plight of the Jews" and some helped them escape.
Will these people be classed as Righteous Gentiles?
Conversions of Convenience
As Abrams admits, many Mischlinge began a Rush to Conversion,
being baptised into the Christian faith to escape the charge of
being a Jew, ibid., pp.77-78.
Blue Knights Abrams also advises about another group called the
`Blue Knights', a privileged group of Jews. First to receive the
`Blue Knight' designation was a German-Jewish art historian who
advised Hermann Gö ring which paintings were deemed worthy
of display on the walls of Gö ring's Karinhall Lodge, ibid.
p.149. The `Blue Knights', like the Mischlinge in Germany, didn't
have to wear the Star of David and their passports were stamped
as `Ongeldig', invaluable. Speer And Mischlinge Albert Speer,
the Minister of Armaments is quoted as saying that there were
Mischlinge in his department who were retained, such as the President
of Mercedes-Benz, Happel, and his manager, Wermer; Meyer of MAN
(Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nü rnberg) and others, ibid., p.123.
Jews Employed By Gestapo
The plot thickens. Abrams lists some Jews and Mischlinge who worked
for the Gestapo. During the last years of the Reich, the `infamous
Jewish street spies' were used by the Gestapo to spy on and turn
in other Jews, which they did. Some were said to have `"betrayed
their own family as well - for money", ibid., p.159. Jews
Join The Nazi Party Also remarkable from the point of view of
the orthodox Holocaustomaniac is that "some of the first
members of the Nazi Party were full Jews." Ibid. p 171. They
were later expelled, and their names as Oskar Neumann, Hermann
Samuel, a `Baron Irizu' and Michael Hornistein, and Abrams mentions
Jewish Fascists fighting in Spain, ibid., p.171.
More shocks are ahead for the Exterminationists. Abrams mentions
that Jews created much of Nazi ideology. The term `anti-Semitism'
was itself copied by Wilhelm Marr, son of a Jew, who also created
a separate racial classification for Jews. The Jewish Menace doctrine
was invented by a Jew, Arthur Trebitsch. Houston Stewart Chamberlain's
Foundation of the Nineteenth Century was dedicated to a Jew, Wiesner.
But perhaps Abram's tops it off when he details the report that
Adolf Hitler was himself a Mischling of the Second Degree, ibid.
p. 180.
Mischlinge And The Big H
Few of the Mischlinge were sent to concentration camps, so they
didn't suffer the kind of `persecution' the `poor Jews' suffered.
In fact, the Mischlinge, although never fully accepted by either
Jews or Germans, rose to positions of authority and power in Nazi
Germany. Despite this, Abrams commiserates with them because they
didn't receive the same degree of `reparation money' from Germany
as the `full Jews', ibid., pp. 207-9. Jews Not Everlastingly As
Pure As The Driven Snow Abram's book is remarkable because it
refuses to perpetuate the simplistic view of Jews ( and Mischlinge)
as Eternally Innocent Victims of Nazi brutality. It shows that
some Jews could double-cross their own kind for money or power;
could collaborate with the Nazi Party if it suited them; and even
be more brutal than the `goyim' Nazis. He mentions Jewish Fascists
and Jews fighting on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He also
suggests that much of Nazi ideology was derived from Jewish sources
and mentioned the role of the Jewish Warburg bankers in financing
and supporting Hitler, p. 160-61. It mentions `self-hating Jews'
who betrayed other Jews and wrote `anti-Semitic' diatribes more
vicious than the `goyim'. It even claims that a Jew, Jonas Wolk,
was a key contributor to Julius Streicher's anti-Jewish newspaper,
Der Stü rmer ( The Attacker) and wrote on Jewish ritual murders.
Dark Sunglasses Theory Disproved
Though not as well known as John Sack's An Eye For An Eye, is
just as `controversial' in its claims, and Abram's bookrefuses
to endorse "Jews As Eternally Innocent Victims' or its corollary,
the Dark Sunglasses Theory of History, according to which the
goyim should wear dark sunglasses to survive the intensely righteous
glow of haloes over the Jews' head. Mr Rigg and his research have
revived some of the debate on the Mischlinge and may present a
deeper understanding of them. He says, "I am going to take
this as far as I can, and take it to its proper conclusion if
there is one", (Weekly Telegraph). The proper conclusion
is strong modification of the Holocaust Legend.
IN BRIEF
The Church of Christ has apologised to Aboriginal and Asian Australians
for staying silent on racism. The state president of the Churches
of Christ, the Reverend Jeff May, issued a racial tolerance statement
last week in response to a debate which has been building since
September. "I think, maybe, we've waited too long to make
a statement," he said yesterday. "Silence hurts. People
can reasonably assume that silence is assent. We thought it would
die down quickly but it just kept going on and on."
The move comes in response to anti-immigration comments made by
Queensland Independent MP Ms Pauline Hanson, in September, and
Port Lincoln mayor, Mr Peter Davis, in October. Mr May said some
of the remarks had been felt keenly in his family which included
four adopted children of various Asian backgrounds. The denomination's
racial tolerance statement says, in part, the Churches of Christ:
EXPRESSES sympathy to those suffering persecution generated by
statements in the media.
ASKS forgiveness for a slowness to express solidarity.
COMMITS to the reconciliation process and multiculturalism. Individual
congregations have been encouraged to adopt the statement and
place it as an advertisement in their local paper.
Melinda Brown, Herald Sun, 24 January
1997
A Holocaust survivor who made his home in Australia after World
War II was today awarded the 1997 Rotary Citizen of the Year (Glen
Eira) Award. Meyer Burston arrived in Australia 42 years ago.
In 1984 he set up the Melbourne Holocaust Museum and Research
Centre in Elsternwick. It is dedicated to the memory of people
who died during the Holocaust and is visited by thousands of people
every year. "I would like to accept this award in memory
of the millions who perished in the Holocaust," he told guests
at a Rotarian breakfast. "Thank you Australia for giving
me an opportunity to become a member of your society. I have felt
like a real Australian, or should I say fair dinkum Aussie, for
a long time." There were eight nominations for the Glen Eira
Citizen of the Year Award and two for the Junior Citizen which
was won by chess player David Cordover. Mr Cordover has established
a Victorian Junior Chess League to encourage young people to take
up chess. Glen Eira Chief Commissioner Cliff Caldwell said winners
had to be associated with Glen Eira in some way. He said Mr Burston's
perpetuation of the Holocaust memories contributed not only to
Glen Eira but to all humanity.
Herald Sun,
25 January 1997
Zurich - Switzerland is to set up a humanitarian fund for victims
of the Holocaust as the country tries to counter charges it profited
from the persecution of Jews during the Nazi era. The money will
be used to compensate victims of the Nazi era and to back "the
fight against racism and anti-Semitism", a government spokesman
said.
Germans will today observe a memorial day for victims of the Nazi regime. In Frankfurt, 300 private family photographs donated by Holocaust survivors in Poland, Israel, the United States and other countries went on display at the city's Jewish Museum.
For Edvard Radzinsky, growing up in the
Soviet Union after World War II, Joseph Stalin was a remote, god-like
figure. His playwright father would tell him that one day he would
write a book about the mysterious `Boss'. Now, more than 40 years
after the Soviet dictator died alone in a pool of his own urine
as his terrified aides awaited his orders, Russia's most popular
historian has fulfilled that prediction. Granted rare access to
the President's Archive and other closely guarded documents, Radzinsky
spent years researching his book Stalin. "This is the secret
Stalin, the Stalin hidden from us for half a century," Radzinsky
says. He said he expected a "wild reaction" when the
expanded Russian language version of the book is published in
a few weeks. He has already whetted the Russian public's appetite
with a series of historical television documentaries.
"I specifically did not want to divide the country over Stalin,
who still
evokes powerful emotions here, but to build up a careful and balanced
picture of him," Radzinsky says.
Like many Russians, Radzinsky is still fascinated by the man who
sent untold millions to their graves or to concentration camps
while turning a backward rural land into a nuclear-armed super-power
at the centre of an expanding communist empire. "I wanted
to find out why Stalin did what he did and why he created a country
like the Soviet Union," he says. In his final years, Stalin
was a lonely, unhappy man. "He would complain that he was
surrounded by great men but there was nobody to sit down with
for a cup of tea," Radzinsky says. The truth was that he
had had most of his friends shot. Perhaps the most controversial
claim in the book is that Stalin was already drawing up plans
to trigger a third world war just before his death on March 1,
1953. Citing Czech archival evidence, Radzinsky says Stalin wanted
to strike against the West while the communist bloc, fresh from
triumphs in China and North Korea, held what he regarded as a
temporary advantage. Radzinsky's next project, on the eve of the
80th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, is a book about Grigory
Rasputin, the mysterious monk who wielded great influence at the
Romanov court.
John Laws on David Irving
Radio personality, John Laws, who has a morning show on Sydney
Radio 2UE once described himself as a `mild fascist'. The program
is relayed to 78 stations around Australia and his listening audience
is estimated to be around 2.3 million. Radio 2UE is owned by Sky
Radio which in turn is wholly Australian-owned by Broadcasting
Investments, a private company owned by the Lamb family. In Adelaide
the Lamb family also own TV station Channel 9 and the Hallett
Winery.
On 20 January 1997 when news of David Irving's suing the Australian
Prime Minister, Mr John Howard, created headlines, John Laws spoke
freely about David Irving. Laws referred to Irving as an "alleged
historian". As the Laws program is not heard in Adelaide,
it was fortuitous that a supporter living in central Victoria
rang Fredrick Toben to inform him of Laws' comments. Toben then
quickly rang Radio 2UE and protested to Laws' producer who then
put Toben to air. Here is the Toben-Laws exchange:
John Laws: 151532. If you like to give us a call.
Fredrick Toben: Fredrick Toben from Adelaide.
JL: I'm sorry?
FT: My name is Fredrick Toben, from Adelaide.
JL: Yep.
FT: A listener from Victoria rang me to say you called David Irving
an
"alleged historian".
JL: That's quite correct. Are you using a regular sort of telephone?
FT: Yes.
JL: You're sounding very woolly.
FT: Woolly or not, I thought that your comment was woolly. I just
wanted to check up because I don't understand how you, with your
intelligence, can call him an alleged historian. Have you read
any of his 30 books?
JL: Now, well, 30?
FT: Yes, 30.
JL: I'm certain, I'm surprised, I must say I'm very surprised
to hear 30.
FT: Oh, yes.
JL: The reason I referred to him as an alleged historian is that
I believe the majority disagree with many of the facts that he
considers to be, that he considers are historically correct, particularly
in relation to the
Holocaust.
FT: Specifically in relation to whether the gas chambers were
real or not.
JL: Well, whether they were real or whether the Holocaust had
been grossly exaggerated. Those two points in particular.
FT: You know that the figures from the Auschwitz death camp were
reduced from four million to one million?
JL: Well, I've heard many figures and I've heard many alterations
made to many figures, some of them made by David Irving. But David
Irving is, you would have to agree, questionable.
FT: I can't, unfortunately, I've read his books, and John -
JL: I see, and you believe it? Well, I mean, people read books
and believe them but it doesn't make them, because you believe
the book, doesn't make it right.
FT: No, no, I want to know, John, I'm not in here to believe,
otherwise I'd join a church.
JL: Well, there are many people who read the Bible and don't believe
that either and I imagine you might be one of those too.
FT: John, how free are you ?
JL: When you say the figures from Auschwitz were reduced from
four million to one million -
FT: In 1990.
JL: Yeah, by whom?
FT: By the Auschwitz Museum. They took away the plaques. There
were about 20-30 plaques which the Pope in 1979 blessed - four
million dead at Auschwitz. Now, that was reduced because the death
books have been given back by Russia . I think they handed them
back to Germany and Poland.
JL: Says who? David Irving?
FT: No, no, no - this is basic -
JL: So did they put new plaques up saying one million?
FT: About one to 1.5 million.
JL: OK.But does that make any difference to the fact that those
people died under those extraordinary circumstances?
FT: John, John, we have to celebrate the fact that three million
didn't die!
JL: That's fine, if you accept it but not everybody's prepared
to accept it.
FT: Yes, but John, let's have a commission. You know what, John?
You are a person of high standing in the media. Now, you have
the clout. What I would like you to do is convene a conference
on this matter, and stuff the politically correct because you're
not. You're pushing through, you want the truth, don't you?
JL: Yeah - listen, listen -
FT: Once we have the truth, we know what the facts are, then we
can stop believing. Why don't you, John, under your auspices,
start a kind of commission or enquiry and find out the facts about
the Holocaust? Then we can stop all this nonsense.
JL: But according to you and David Irving the facts have been
found.
FT: Ha, but that -
JL: Could you tell me why Mr Irving was found in contempt of court
in Britain? In Germany he was actually convicted by defaming the
memory of the dead.
FT: Fancy that!
JL: Anybody who says the Holocaust (Laws pronounces this word
Holicaust) has been grossly exaggerated isn't really a historian.
He's distorting historical truth - he's a fibber. That's why he
falls in the category of an alleged historian.
FT: But John -
JL: But whether one million, one hundred, one hundred million
died under those circumstances at that time in our history, we
can't deny the fact that it was a disgrace -
FT: I agree, but -
JL: and that it was something that should be seen to never happen
again.
FT: I agree with that but -
JL: and in respect to the memory of the one, one hundred, ten
million, 40 million, 4 million or whatever any plaque on any wall
might say, we should not say that it was grossly exaggerated.
FT: I -
JL: For the people who are dead, it was not grossly exaggerated.
- musical sting -
JL: Very hard to exaggerate death and I'd like you to give it
a little thought, my friend, very difficult to exaggerate death.
You're either dead or you ain't. Adelaide Institute associates
and supporters send Toben to the gas chambers
1 March 1997
Dear Supporters
Our short but intense fund-raising campaign has been a success
and I am on my way in April. Although still short of spending
money, your large and small contributions have paid for the flight.
I will be taking off for Europe via the US and Canada and I have
managed to arrange meetings with most of the dedicated members
of this rather small and exclusive club of courageous individuals
who dare to challenge the Holocaust taboo. For the sake of balance,
I did ask to meet Rabbi Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre
in Los Angeles, Jamie McCarthy of Nizkor, Professor Deborah Lipstadt,
Mr Abe Foxman of the ADL, New York, et al, but am still waiting
for a response from these individuals. This whole exercise has
been very interesting for me in that I will now be revising our
mailing list. Those of you who feel financially embarrassed need
not be concerned that your name will disappear from the mailing
list. What I did not appreciate was the deafening silence from
a few individuals who have been on board since the beginning.
After all, even the smallest contribution was crucial in making
this trip possible. The motive for making this trip lies, of course,
in the very nature of our work. Recently someone emailed me with
a request that I explain my motives for what I am doing. Here
is part of my reply:
I wrote my Ph.D. thesis on Karl Popper's theory falsification
and CS Peirce's fallibilism principle. Anyone who attempts to
stop my thought processes, anyone who wishes to tell me what to
think and say is in trouble with me. I find that at my age - over
the half-way mark - it is shameful for individuals to shy away
from an investigation of taboo topics. Give me a good reason and
I shall listen; give me a command and I shall evaluate that with
the Kantian categorical imperative. It is from this perspective
that I view my work and although some of you have informed me
that I am rather naïve in my stance, I have always played
with open cards. If I were now to join the conspirators, I would
indeed be exposed as an amateur - and so I continue to have sleepful
nights which brings with it a re-invigorating freshness. I always
recall my Year 9 English teacher, Miss Kitty O'Shea, telling me
to shy away from telling lies because liars need a good memory
- add to this Karl Popper's advice to me on approaching every
challenge without prejudice, if at all possible, then I conclude
that human beings cannot change their personality. What happens
is that the storm and stress years mellow with the passing of
time - or, alternately, one's mind closes down. The closing of
the mind is the mental phenomenon against which we are fighting,
our final intellectual adventure of the 20th Century. There are
ever so subtle messages floating about which always have your
welfare at heart. Have you noticed the UV scare that follows every
weather forecast? Some perceptive individuals see this as a means
whereby we are once again persuaded to cover our body - and that
may lead to the perversion of `the hole in the sheet'! Hence it
pays to be fresh and receptive to new impulses - the heuristic
principle! Some of you may feel this is rather naïve. Unfortunately
at my age it is not possible to change this approach. It has already
cost me dearly. However, Professor Faurisson has, in connection
with the tragedy that befell one of David Irving's daughters,
reminded us that by the time we get to 50 and beyond, most of
us will have suffered some personal trauma. That's life!. It is
this view-point which made me reveal my travelling plans to the
German authorities. Here is my letter to the German Chancellor:
1 January 1997
Dear Dr Kohl
As I intend to visit Germany sometime this year, I am writing
this letter to you in the hope that you can be of personal assistance
to me. I am a German-born Australian who is engaged in historical
research, in particular focusing on the Jewish-Nazi Holocaust.
I am aware of the fact that your government has enacted laws which
aim to protect the feelings and dignity of those who suffered
in Germany at the hands of the National Socialists during World
War II. My understanding is that such laws therefore make it almost
impossible to openly discuss the basic premise upon which the
allegation rests, namely that millions were killed in homicidal
gas chambers. As I am aware of the Deckert/Irving case, I do not
intend to break German laws during my visit.
In order to assist me in this matter I would appreciate from you
a response wherein you detail for me the matters that I am not
permitted to raise in private or in public. For your information,
in February 1977 I received my doctorate in philosophy from the
University of Stuttgart. I wrote my thesis on Popper's theory
falsification and Peirce's fallibilism principle, and I can assure
you that I do not intend to lose my Dr title, as did Dr Wilhelm
Stäglich for having written the book Der Auschwitz Mythos.
Finally, let me assure you that I am not politically aligned with
any so-called left-wing or right-wing extremist groups. Our institute's
goal is to shed light on contentious historical episodes which
need to be revised as new documentary evidence becomes available.
We regard it as legitimate academic research to ask the difficult
questions that may cause some pain to victims of the Holocaust.
In our view knowing the truth of a matter is a higher moral value
than merely believing in something to be the truth. I would be
pleased to receive your assistance in this matter so that my Deutschlandaufenthalt
is not marred by unnecessary legal entanglements.
Most sincerely,
Dr Fredrick Toben
Think on these things:
Herbert Runge, principal private secretary to General Ludendorff
claimed that the general stopped a L beck Jewish pogrom by confronting
prospective perpetrators with the following: For six days you
persecute the Jew and on the seventh you pray to him.
From: The Advertiser, 1 March 1997:
Jacksonville: A Florida judge set a $1.3 million bond for Orthodox
Jew Harry Shapiro, 31, charged with planting a bomb in a synagogue
before a speech by ex-Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres on February
13. The building was evacuated after a tip-off, but the bomb was
found nine days later.
Critical Support
Mr Jack Selzer supports the venture but also offers some advice:
8 February 1997
Dear Dr Toben
Your proposed trip to Auschwitz still makes about as much sense
to me as might have an idea of dispatching Wernher von Braun to
the Eastern front as just another regimental commander. You are
quite obviously driven by a rather singular mind of a scholar,
a scientific researcher - the mind that relies on facts, and facts
alone. And yet, you must have noticed by now that all your facts
appear to present about as much of an obstacle to the merchants
of the `Shmolocaust' as the Maginot Line did to Mr Hitler. Indeed,
facts don't matter: fiction does! An average human mind is - and
will be - an infinitely imperfect cogitating contraption that
still believes in fairies at the bottom of the garden. Is it then
any wonder that it is primarily governed by the demands of the
stomach that sustains it and, therefore, is compelled to swallow
- or to prostitute itself - to the pseudo-religious dogma of the
`Shmolocaust' imposed by the powers that be? A State-imposed religion
cannot be destroyed by mere facts, but only by total and absolute
public ridicule. ( Read The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion -
although a fake, they are a faithful documentation of the Judo-Communist
methods of political subversion.) And only when enough broadsides
of most contemptuous derision are fired off and caused greatest
possible embarrassment to the `Shmolocaust' merchants, then -
and only then - your postulations, not unlike the `heresy' of
Galileo, could be accepted by the not-so-free `democratic society'
as a perfectly plausible hypothesis. Bon voyage! Sincerely, Jack
Selzer.
PS: Zundel is a good `bad example', in a sense. He was writing
most readable texts containing most reasonable arguments for many
years. But he is also a pretty able graphic artist who, however,
never drew a single cartoon presenting the `image of the enemy'.
And yet, just a few brilliant cartoons would have inflicted more
damage than anyone could do with the written word. Perhaps he
ought to be compared to a gladiator who happens to be a pro-life
Christian: he dextrously defends himself with his shield but never
raises his sword. How can he win? People can't be bothered to
read: give them funny pictures.
Mr Selzer's Thoughts
22 August 1995
Dear Friends
Various pieces of political advocacy published in your newsletter
are perfectly clear and convincing - but only to those who have
been already politicised and share your point of view, as well.
Moreover, your potential audience is further limited to those
who actually bother to read - and to subscribe, in the first place.
You may have created a solid shield of facts, which could be put
to good use in a political debate, if and when such debate is
allowed to take place - but it won't be, not unless it can be
deliberately provoked. But in order to provoke anything in the
political arena, in addition to the `shield of facts', you need
a `sword' to provide the cutting edge. Otherwise none of those
facts will ever reach the public at large. In Australian conditions
you may also need some lower middle-class or working class or,
let's face it, lumpenproletarian persons to wield that `sword'
on your behalf, to act as political provocateurs, if necessary
- and that's when your `shield' will come in handy.
Of course, here in Australia, most of those fellows are too laid-back
or ignorant or both to forge their own `sword'. So if no one bothers
to supply them with some sharp-edged material in the form of stickers
or A4-size leaflets, then everyone loses out by default. Michael
Brander puts out a very decent-looking tabloid, but it's more
like Vö lkischer Beobachter than Der Stü rmer. And it
was Der Stü rmer that carried out the bulk of the propaganda
work in its time. In short, you need an A4 or A3 sheet with the
sharpest and cleverest cartoons jumping off the pages, as it were,
which should enable you to attack the enemy from the position
of intellectual superiority, however low-brow may be this publication's
outward appearance. Of course, in this banana monarchy with no
First Amendment, `normal' people such as yourselves cannot handle
hot things like that. But you don't have to, anyhow. Skinheads,
bikies and other pro-Australian persons with nothing to lose can
do it for you. You only need to supply them with a few pages of
captivatingly boisterous material at a time.
Whatever may be its exact form, this material must be, at a glance,
so fascinating and so obviously brilliant as to produce in the
reader an instant feeling of most pleasurable `Schadenfreude'
manifested by a lively outburst of self-gratifying laughter. This
`high' eventuating upon the sighting of the cartoon or upon comprehending
of the caption is a concrete physiological reward consummated
by the reader, which he may well be eager to share with others.
And the more eager he is, the more photocopies he himself bothers
to make, so much the further your material is propagated. Ideally,
an excellent propaganda product ought to be able to spread itself
like an airborne contagion. Why not have skinheads got up as kosher
Jews loudly protesting at the entrance of any major bank: "We
deposited $6 million in 1939 - and they say they don't remember
us!" Or "Don't bank with Jew-killers!" If only
the radical right had half the sense of humour of the Jews, the
Marxists and the c-suckers! Apparently M. Le Penn and his cohorts
are better endowed in this regard.
Fredrick Toben comments: Mr Selzer's thoughts are stimulating.
However, Adelaide Institute's role is not to peddle any form of
ideology other than the `objective' scientific method - which
has already discredited, as liars and falsifiers, those whom Mr
Selzer calls "the merchants of the `Shmolocaust'". Interestingly,
Mr Selzer, as a Jew, has himself objectified his own status in
the following:
Kosher Confession
We, the Jews, are the conscience of the world!
We, the Jews, are absolutely innocent!
There is no one more innocent than us, Jews!
We perpetrated most of our murders by the hands of others!
We only brought forth the homicidal ideology
Which enveloped half the planet like a cloud of poison gas
And killed off hundred times more than lousy six million!
But we had nothing at all to do with it!
And anyone who begs to differ
Is an anti-Semite who wants to kill all Jews!
Mr Selzer's communication ends with two quotations taken from
James Murphy's 1939 translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf:
By presenting this [Marxist] doctrine as part and parcel of just
revindication of social rights, the Jew propagated that doctrine
all the more effectively..For, under the cloak of purely social
concepts there are hidden aims which are of Satanic character...
This Marxist doctrine is an individual mixture of human reason
and human absurdity; though the combination is arranged in such
a way that only the absurd part of it could ever be put into practice,
but never the reasonable part of it. (p.268). As soon as the Jew
is in possession of political power he drops the last few veils
which have hitherto helped to conceal his features..In the course
of a few years he endeavours to exterminate all those who represent
the national intelligence. And by thus depriving the people of
their natural intellectual leaders, he fits them for their fate
as slaves under a lasting despotism Russia furnishes the most
terrible example of such a slavery. In that country the Jew killed
or starved thirty millions of the people in a bout of savage fanaticism.so
that a gang of Jewish literati and financial bandits should dominate
over a great people (p.274).
From Real Life
Without wishing to dabble in ideology let me, for the sake of
clarifying the approach Adelaide Institute has adopted in its
work, reproduce below the AOPA (Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association)
February 1997 editorial written by president, Mr Boyd Munro:
One of the most important things you do as a member of AOPA is
to place your vote for the Committee. Your vote sets the Association's
direction. This year voting papers will be circulated with the
March magazine and I am very proud that we have a large number
of well-qualified candidates who are competing to fill the six
available positions. I am one of those candidates. I urge you
to ensure that you vote for people who will take the Association
forward in the direction you want it taken. Look carefully at
what the candidate says he will do, and in the case of existing
Committee members look carefully at what they have done.
Be aware that there are two schools of thought about how those
of us who fly small `planes because we love it should deal with
CASA (Civil Aviation Safety Authority). One school of thought
is that we should be resolute and assertive, and that when CASA
does something to us as a group, or to any one of our members,
we should use all loyal and moral means, above all political means,
to restrain CASA. The other school of thought is that we should
quietly go off in a corner and discuss things agreeably with CASA,
meanwhile publicly supporting CASA. You know where I stand on
that. I believe that the only way we can keep recreational aviation
alive in Australia is to stand up to CASA and call a spade a spade.
When CASA attacks us, we should fight back. I urge you, before
casting your vote, to decide which kind of Association you want,
and to make sure that the candidates for whom you vote are going
to deliver that kind of Association.
The fight will not go on forever. As soon as CASA realises that
it is up against a group who know what they want, who are determined
to get it, and who know how to get it - then CASA will come to
the negotiating table and sensible relations will ensue. That
time has not yet been reached. For the past 40 years, CASA and
its predecessors have been dealing with a compliant user community,
including a compliant AOPA, and have had things all their own
way. The habits of 40 years will not be changed overnight. Be
well aware that there are people standing for election to the
Committee who want to `go quietly' with CASA, who want an end
to AOPA's extremely successful political assertiveness. They cannot
easily be identified because they do not say, in their election
statements, the direction in which they would lead the Association.
Two years ago there was a major shift in the way the Association
does business when the FREEDOM TO FLY RESPONSIBLY team ( which
I led) came to power. Spare a moment to think about where we would
now be if that had not happened. AOPA had just decided not to
oppose `transponder veils', with Arthur Pape and Dick Smith the
only Committee Members to say we should oppose them. We'd now
have 30-mile exclusion zones around all the capital city airports
into which you could not fly unless you had a working transponder!
When AOPA said "No", the proposal was dropped. The CAA
had just announced that it was re-introducing expiring pilots
licences. So now you would have had to send your licence in to
CASA every two years to be stamped and re-validated by an army
of clerks for whom you would have been paying. As an ordinary
AOPA member of the time I said to the CEO, "That's just a
blatant means of making unnecessary jobs at our expense', and
he replied, "Yes, Boyd, but you can't say that". That
is what is meant by "working with CASA, not against them".
I went on to say exactly why there was a proposal to re-introduce
expiring pilots licences, and the proposal vanished. Think for
a moment about CAA's (Civil Aviation Authority) 1995 attempt to
change the major criminal provision (Section 20A) of the Civil
Aviation Act. Here is what the CAA tried to introduce: S20A(2)
An aircraft must not be flown or operated in such a manner, or
in such circumstances, so as to be an actual or potential danger
to any person or property. ( Penalty: 2 years jail)
What would that have meant to us? For a start, how can you have
an accident unless, a moment before that accident, you are operating
the aircraft in such circumstances as to be a potential danger
to any person or property? You can't. So that provision would
have made every person who had an accident a criminal. What if
you have an engine failure in a single-engine aircraft? Gotcha!
From the moment the engine fails, you are a criminal liable to
two years jail. And what about your insurance when you have an
accident? If the provision had become law, you would always have
been in breach of air law when an accident occurred, and the insurers
would have been able to deny coverage. AOPA fought that provision
and won. Don't believe any BS you hear from other aviation organisations,
AOPA fought it alone with only one ally, the pilots' union AIPA.
All the other aviation organisations thought it better to work
with CASA, not against them, and remained dutifully silent. Peter
Morris, speaking on behalf of the Minister for Transport, said
so in Parliament in June 1995 when trying to say that AOPA spoke
for just a small minority. Remember CAR 252A which would have
required that every aircraft have a fixed ELT, denying us the
right to choose the safer portable ELT where appropriate? CASA
justified that nonsense with a "careful case study analysis"
of 40 accidents, an analysis which was in reality careless in
the extreme and, at least in part, fraudulent. AOPA was the only
organisation to stand up and say so. The others thought it best
to "work with CASA, not against" and remain silent about
CASA's outright deception. AOPA was the only organisation to publicly
and politically resist CAR 252A. That much has been confirmed
by CASA, first in its press-release of January 1996 and secondly
in evidence given by its Director, Leroy Keith, to the Senate
Estimates Committee in October 1996. CASA's version of CAR252A
would have led to huge increases in cost and a less safe result.
Who else has fought the increase in the avgas levy? No one. Because
AOPA's efforts, two increases totalling 3¢ per litre were
defeated and a reduction of 0.75¢ has been won. Thanks to
AOPA, avgas is 4¢ per litre less expensive than it would
otherwise be. Now spare a moment to think about Section 32AD of
the Civil Aviation Act, introduced in 1991. It is a disgrace to
Australia. It gives CASA Investigators the power to get a warrant
to burst into any of our houses, or offices, or aircraft at any
time, in order to see of the Act is being complied with. The Police
have no power to burst into our houses to see if the law is being
complied with. In order to get the warrant, the Police must have
a reasonable suspicion that there is a breach of the law. Not
so CASA. I personally feel very uncomfortable about the fact that
a CASA Investigator may burst into my home, my car, my aircraft,
my office or anywhere else he pleases, and spend 12 hours looking
through my personal papers and correspondence in order to "find
out if the law is being complied with". The only reason that
CASA ever got this power is that neither AOPA, nor any other aviation
group, objected to it being given to them. Parliament works on
the assumption that if proposed legislation is objectionable to
a group of people, the leaders of that group will make their objections
known to Parliament. If those leaders fall down on that job (
e.g. by believing it's better to work with CASA than against,
and therefore raising no objection) then the law goes through.
That's the way our democratic system works. All the aviation organisations
of the day (1991) took the approach that "it's best to work
with them", so there was no objection and the law went through.
Yuk. There is one nominee for the Committee who has told me he
believes that CASA should have the power set out in Section 32AD
of the Act, and who has told me he is pro-CASA. But neither of
those statements appear in his description of himself! There is
nothing wrong with believing Section 32AD is a necessary power,
and there is nothing wrong with being pro-CASA. But it's only
fair to tell the voters that's your position. What's more, this
nominee was one of about 50 people who wrote me late in 1994 after
receiving his copy of the first edition of the Weekend Warrior
demanding that his name be removed from the mailing list. In short
he is totally opposed to the present direction of the Association,
and there is nothing wrong with that. But why not come right out
and say so? So that your vote can be based on as full information
as possible, we have circulated a brief questionnaire asking candidates
their views on several key issues. Their answers will be included
with their profiles in the March magazine. If you want an Association
which negotiates secretly with CASA in the smoke-filled rooms,
you do not want me or the people I recommend as its leaders. If
you want an Association which fights with determination for our
FREEDOM TO FLY RESPONSIBLY, an Association which fights publicly
and
politically, then I recommend that you vote for the FREEDOM TO
FLY RESPONSIBLY team.None of the team depends on aviation for
a living, so we can stand up to CASA without fear of our livelihoods
being arbitrarily taken away. We all fly very frequently at our
own expense in the course of our business or for recreation. There
is no `party solidarity' system amongst us. We do not follow a
party line. Those of us who are present Committee Members frequently
vote differently, but we always vote in favour of FREEDOM TO FLY
RESPONSIBLY as we see it.
Make your own decision about the kind of Association you want,
then vote accordingly. Be sure to vote, and above all be sure
to satisfy yourself that the candidates for whom you vote really
will deliver the kind of Association you want.
Food For Thought
Treason From Within - Marcus Cicero (106-43 BCE)
An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and
he carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves among those
within the gates freely, his sly whispers resounding through all
the alleys, and is heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears no traitor. He speaks in accents familiar
to his victims and he wears their face and their garments and
he appeals to their baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all
men. He rots the soul of a nation. He works secretly and unknown
in the night to undermine the pillars of a city. He infects the
body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less
to be feared.
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Adelaide Institute Newsletter 56
Waspishly Yours
V S Stinger, Instauration February 1997
How could the Germans - so cultured and so civilised - the heirs
of Goethe, Schiller and Richard Wagner, how could the sons and
daughters of Martin Luther and the saintly Alsation, Albert Schweitzer,
how could the robot-minded sons and daughters of Beethoven and
Bismarck, of Wallenstein and Stauffenberg, how could they all
have been tone deaf to the discordant Gö tterdä mmerungen
ding-dinging hammer blows of Herr Goebbels and his atonal lies?
Indeed, it's a mystery ( Are you listening, St Augustine?). So
cultured, so scientific and so crucified after WWI, those Teutonic
brutes! And Yet? Ah, what a mystery, unless you're familiar with
a holy con-job called the Book of Job or a philosophic hell-raiser
named Thomas Hobbes ( who applied Occam's razor to life and shaved
it to its bare essentials) or a hellfire fanatic named John Calvin,
who honed his Jew-inspired gems of genius in old Geneva, the great
God-convicted John Calvin who cut to the bone of contention by
hacking off heads, who fought hellfire with funeral pyres that
purified sinful human flesh with heavenly pain. Primeval Christians
and their Chosenite Jewish cousins, all did God's work by rooting
out heretics and burning them root and branch, and the true believers
have been rooting for their ancestral killers for centuries ever
since. And weren't they all civilised? And aren't we all civilised?
Weren't we civilised at My Lai? (Bosnians and Cambodians don't
count; Rwandans don't count; they aren't any more civilised than
Biafrans or East Timorese.) But weren't the Jews civilised at
Sabra and Shatila? At Duweimeh and Kafr Kassem? And weren't those
Nazis at Lidice just as civilised as the AshkeNazis at Deir Yassin?
Ah, what a mystery, unless life is nasty, brutish and short, and
Jesus is a con-job and civilisation is a thin layer of lacquer
as black as the carapace of an African cockroach, a shiny veneer
for a heart steeped in darkness. No, evil is no mystery. Obviously,
Jesus ( né Joshua) smelled a kosher rat when Satan offered
Him the world; obviously, Jesus sensed that something was rotten
in Jerusalem, if not in Denmark. So tell me, godfather, if not
the great Satan, who can make me a kosher offer I cannot refuse?
Why should the Jews, of all people, find the Nazis a mystery?
Aren't the Jews also, oh, so civilised? Don't they use Hollywood
to purvey the truth, and nothing but the truth, so help them Yahweh,
banging their narrow minds against the segregated Wailing Wall?
Why should the Germans be a tragedy to the Jews, when all they
have to do is scan the scandals they have committed and are still
committing against the Palestinians? So where's the mystery? Physician,
heal thyself. Goebbels - a genius at propaganda - claimed that
the biggest lies were the most effective, for the heart of darkness
in the heart of man is hypnotised by hypocrisy and awed into moral
paralysis by the boldest lie. Naturally Jews have a name for it.
They call it chutzpah. One can only watch in awe and gape in wonder
at the Jewish propaganda machine at work in America. Jews tear
open a tunnel in the dead of night, like sneaky grave robbers
robed in no-account Dracula's black cloak, surrounded by a security
guard of dishonour. And the Palestinians are at fault. Killer
Bee-Bee Netanyahoo blames Yasser Arafat after he himself defiantly
throws the fat into the fire. Previous killers like Peres and
the Yitsucks, Rabin and Shamir, they knew what would happen if
the tunnel were opened, but killer Bee-Bee has the chutzpah to
claim, "So what's the big deal?" The infamous tunnel
doesn't burrow under the al-Aksa mosque, the third holiest `shrine'
in all of Islam, so what's the big deal? The tunnel is merely
a couple of hundred metres from the mosque, so what's to worry?
(How far from the Murrah building was the truck bomb that blew
it away? How far from Saudi Arabia's Khobar Towers was the truck
bomb that blew it away?) So what's the big deal? If it's such
a little deal, why hack through the tunnel in the sneaky dark
of night? Who cares about symbols anyway? Why should the Americans
care about an old cracked bell in Philadelphia? Or Texans about
their adobe Alamo? And why would Catholics be concerned about
a tunnel which ran "alongside" St Peter's? It's been
a marvel to watch the mezuzah-monitored machine-gun fire of the
American media at work, mowing down the non-existent opposition,
calling in pre-emptive strikes from monopolised magazines and
TV networks. Ah, what a mystery! Filling anchor straw men and
women with opinions already embalmed by AIPAC. Ah, what a mystery!
It's been a wonder to behold history being "handled"
and "Spin-doctored" before one's very eyes. Killer Bee-Bee
Netanyahoo complains that Jews were being killed by guns which
they had given to the Palestinians. (When did Jews ever give the
Palestinians anything but grief: the guns they "gave"
came from America, of course. Just like the Cobra helicopters
stinging Palestinians to death in South Lebanon.)
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