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Aboriginal reconciliation is a waste of taxpayers' money, according to Port Lincoln's controversial mayor, Mr Peter Davis. Mr Davis, who achieved nationwide notoriety last year after describing children of mixed-race marriages as "mongrels", said reconciliation was unnecessary and driven by guilt. "All it is doing is costing Australia a lot of money," Mr Davis said. He told journalists he was also concerned about landrights - particularly claims on islands where Aborigines had never landed. He expressed his provocative views to a committee from the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation which visited Port Lincoln yesterday. The council held a public forum attended by more than 200 people at the Mallee Park Football Club last night.
There, prominent Aboriginal spokesmen Mr Pat Dodson and Mr Archie Barton spoke passionately about reconciliation and the need for dialogue. The mood was calm and tolerant, with many teenagers and white people in the crowd. A number of plainclothes police were scattered among the crowd, but the organisers kept a tight rein on proceedings and prevented radicals - such as Mr Davis - from airing any views which might have inflamed the crowd. Mr Davis and some council members had met Mr Dodson privately before the public meeting. The mayor later described Mr Dodson as a visionary who could point the way to an optimistic future for Aborigines. But Mr Davis insisted reconciliation was being driven by a "guilt complex". "I won't tolerate, for myself or my community, being held to ransom with a shame and guilt complex that is being driven by our politicians," Mr Davis said. "For good or bad that is what happened at the time from the best of white motivesI won't bear this `we've got something to answer for' rubbish." Mr Dodson, although happy with the meeting with Mr Davis and councillors, said Mr Davis held entrenched and outdated views on Aborigines. "It seems to me he has a perception that indigenous people are not part of the mainstream of Australian society," Mr Dodson said. "The only thing wrong with this town is everyone needs to sit down and talk about the problems, rather than go off in different directions".
Meanwhile, the former deputy principal of Port Lincoln High School, Mr Terry Krieg, has announced he will challenge Mr Davis for the position of mayor. Mr Krieg said he wanted to concentrate on local issues and overturn the perception that Port Lincoln was a hotbed of racial tension. "He ( Mr Davis) said he is not a racist but he clearly is," Mr Krieg said. "There are a lot of people angry that he has such prominence and is stirring up hatred and distrust in what is a fairly tolerant community." Reconciliation meetings will be held in each capital city and 23 regional centres over the next few weeks in the lead-up to a large Australian Reconciliation Convention in Melbourne in May. There were about 150 people at a meeting at Murray Bridge on Wednesday night, and a meeting will be held in Adelaide at 7 p.m. next Thursday at Maughan Church in Franklin St.


Email correspondence - 8 March 1997

From: David Goldman <dgoldman@law.harvard.edu> and Samuel Macy <macy@hatewatch.org:

You should update your information on us. It is woefully out of date. Samuel
Macy, Director of Hatewatch, http://hatewatch.org>

Our reply:

Greetings to you, self-appointed hate-watchers, who cannot even get things right about our site. What on earth made you compromise your intellectual integrity by labelling us as `haters'? Surely any basic course in philosophy would have taught you that - and even a course in general jurisprudence would have revealed to you your own blind spots. You arose out of the Harvard University environment - a university which ought to be seeking truth and not peddling ideology? Shame on you! Fredrick Toben, Adelaide Institute

Astonishing new evidence is forcing scientists to think again about one of man's earliest ancestors. Archaeologists have unearthed three perfectly preserved wooden spears used to kill horses and other large mammals 400,000 years ago. The oldest wooden hunting weapons ever found, they prove that the forefather of Neanderthal man was brighter, more agile and more sociable than his 20th century detractors would have us believe. The 2m spears, whittled from the trunks of spruce trees, were preserved in peat at Schö ningen, near Munich, beside the butchered remains of 10 horses. The weapons reveal that the early humans of 400,000 years ago understood aerodynamics. Each is weighted in the same way as a modern javelin, with the centre of gravity a third of the way from the point.
Robin Dennell, an archaeologist at the University of Sheffield, said: "Wooden finds like these would be sensational if only 3000 years old. Finds a hundred times older are almost unimaginable. We see considerable depth of planning, sophistication of design and patience in carving the wood. Such skills have previously been attributed only to modern humans." German scientist Hartmut Thieme rescued the spears ahead of a high-speed excavator at an open-cast coal mine.


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Adelaide Institute Newsletter 57

A 36-Day Revisionist Adventure - meeting the personalities that drive historical revisionism - Fredrick Töben

Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is set against the sky, like a patient etherised upon a table.These T S Eliot lines come to mind as I battle with my physical weariness for that extra energy needed to make my way to the computer and write this report. Strangely, once having begun the task of typing out the heading, the memory of having met so many interesting persons reinvigorates me; and what characters they are - all of them real, difficult, impatient, eccentric, sincere, loving, hard-working, fearless, valiant, trusting, honourable The hospitality extended to me by these exceptional individuals confirms once again that a civilised debate on the Holocaust is possible and that it is actually going on. More than that. The debate is raging because a few individuals in the world dare break the taboo that surrounds an open discussion of Holocaust issues. The world media has effectively inculcated the masses with a view of the Holocaust that does not square up with the historical facts. Therein lies our greatest challenge. There are exceptions, of course, but many problems are faced by those who openly air non-dogmatic accounts of the Holocaust. They are targeted by a vicious and vindictive Holocaust lobby. There are other problems too. For example, at what entry point do you begin to tell the story of the Holocaust? At what level do you find yourself in the Holocaust debate? This report does not intend to be comprehensive nor exhaustive but rather aims to convey a general impression of what those in the field are doing to either stifle or further a debate on the Holocaust. What is the Holocaust story? In its barest essentials it has come to be the belief that during World War II the German war machine systematically exterminated millions of European Jews in homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz. How was it done? The Germans planned, constructed and used huge chemical slaughter houses. These slaughterhouses were the Krematoria buildings of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II ( Birkenau) concentration camps. The previous mortuaries ( Leichenkeller) of Krema I, II, III, IV, and V were converted into homicidal gas chambers. The delousing agent, Zyklon-B in pellet form, was dropped by SS personnel through holes in the roof, changing into gas that killed the batches of people herded into these former Leichenkeller. Their bodies were then burned in the adjacent Krematorium ovens. This process continued for years.
In order to gain some perspective on this emotionally laden story, it is essential to consider this murder allegation with some objectivity - as would a police investigator looking into the murder of a person. The first thing an investigator has to do when confronted with a body is to ascertain the cause of death, then look for the weapon. If the death is not an obvious suicide but a murder, then one looks for both a murder weapon and a suspect. After finding the murder weapon, a forensic investigation begins. In the alleged homicidal gas chamber murders the murder weapon has never been subjected to an official forensic test and the alleged murderers appear to have never received fair trials. David Irving's latest book, Nuremberg: The Last Battle, speaks volumes on this aspect. In our case we must look for the holes in the roof of the Leichenkeller. This we did at both Auschwitz I - Krematoria I; and Auschwitz II - Krematoria II. In the latter, there were indeed two holes in the roof - crudely cut holes - that had the reinforcing iron rods protruding from the concrete surrounds. Such primitive `craftsmanship' would have never passed German perfectionism. Professor Robert Faurisson claims that because of this fact, he has a right to state: "No holes, no Holocaust". I find this argument compelling and it is now for the upholders of the Holocaust gassing story to demonstrate and prove how without proper holes the deadly Zyklon-B gas could have been inserted into the alleged homicidal gas chamber. As I am neither a chemist nor an engineer, it was pointless for me to take samples from the delousing chambers and from the alleged gas chamber, and have them analysed for Zyklon-B content, That has been done by expert industrial chemist Germar Rudolf, et al. Similarly, the engineering feat needed to construct and operate a homicidal gas chamber has been dealt with by civil engineer Walter Lüftl. I specifically focused on the explanation of the gassing process as told to millions of visitors who frequent the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Auschwitz State Museum. There it is stated quite clearly how Zyklon-B pellets were dropped into the alleged homicidal gas chamber - through four holes in the roof of Krema II - to emanate as gas by way of perforations in the concrete pillars immediately below which also supported the roof. Again, our inspection at Auschwitz revealed this situation to be a fraud, the pillars were of solid concrete.
I must mention that in No. 55 of Adelaide Institute online, May 1997, the list of persons I proposed to visit, included the names of persons whom I have known since my Stuttgart University days. They are not associated in any way with my work and I met such persons in a private capacity and not as the Director of Adelaide Institute. And finally, throughout my travels I praised Adelaide Institute's supporters for making this trip possible especially because for many North Americans and Europeans, the kangaroo image of Australia still reigns supreme. To all the hard-core supporters - and if you received a card from Auschwitz you are one of them - I thank you for making it all happen. Our aim is now to put out a video which hopefully will clarify the controversy surrounding the alleged gassing claims at Auschwitz and for that we need your further financial support. Although some supporters have objected to my requesting donations I think that it is not out of order to do so. In return, I endeavour to deliver the goods. So, please continue to send in your contributions - and do not be embarrassed by sending in small amounts because each contribution counts. Thank you and now here is the report - to which I would appreciate receiving from you some critical comments.


Monday, 31 March 1997 - Los Angeles

Departed Adelaide at 8 am.
Upon entering the United States of America at Los Angeles Airport, I had to fill in a green form issued by the US Department of Justice - the Non-immigrant Visa Waiver Arrival/Departure Form. On the reverse it asks you to answer yes or no to 7 questions, A to F. Of special interest to me was C.:
Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or genocide; or between 1933 and 1945 were you involved , in any way, in persecutions associated with Nazi Germany or its allies?
Well, I thought to myself, what would my father tick in this instance? What would any German national who had served in World War II tick? Defending one's homeland was regarded by the enemy as an act of persecution! The inclusion of such a dialectic trick shames the United States and it is obvious that World War II has as yet not ended in some people's minds. This is not where the matter rests. It is stated in the instructions that the reverse side of the form must be signed and dated. This includes the WAIVER OF RIGHTS: I hereby waive any rights to review or appeal of an immigration officer's determination as to my admissibility, or to contest, other than on the basis of an application for asylum, any action in deportation.
What a good start to my entry into the United States of America. 27 years ago when I first travelled to the States and Canada, I did not then notice such vile anti-German, anti-democratic propaganda seeping through the US bureaucracy. What has happened since in the States may be mirrored in the development of the Holocaust story - which finds its physical crowning glory in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Let us now meet some interesting personalities who made my trip so
worthwhile.

Mrs Dana Alvi
This sophisticated lady of Polish background wishes to defend Polish culture through her Polish American Public Relations Committee, PAPUREC. She informs me that during World War II her own family was involved in saving Jews from persecution. Together we visited the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's Museum of Tolerance which is really a misnomer because it does not present a balanced view of World War II history. With interest we noticed that a display of a Simon Wiesenthal painting of three shot prisoners has been removed after media exposure showed it to be a copy of a photograph of three shot German soldiers. The fact that Mr Simon Wiesenthal himself has been exposed as a liar and fraud by the Israeli secret service, Mossad, is not mentioned within the museum walls. This raises serious moral problems, especially when we know that the Museum of Tolerance is promoted as an educational institution. With amazement we watched school groups lining up to get into this museum of (in)tolerance. If the Holocaust is taught as an historical fact to school children, then historical revisionism has a legitimate role to play in turn. Unfortunately many education departments around the world present the Holocaust to their students as a dogma - as an undisputed fact, which it is not. By dogmatising the Holocaust, these historical events are raised to a religious - or belief - level and thus withdrawn from the critical thinking process. The persons who initiate this process of deception then rely on legal means to ward off criticism - and that's where intellectual fraud comes into play. But more of this another time because this is one of the recurring themes in our work.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper
He is the Associate Dean at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre [http://wiesenthal.com./index.html] just next door to the Museum. In 1996 Cooper complained to the Australian authorities about our website, Adelaide Institute, calling it a hate-site. Although our conversation was brief, I did ask Rabbi Cooper why he had labelled us a hate-site. His response was that our website was linked with people, such as Professor Arthur Butz, who was not a real historian. I said that it was legitimate and essential for our mental development to re-evaluate and think about historical matters, whether we are professional historians or not. He agreed and elaborated on this point. He said that it was extremely important to be asking questions, then suddenly his bearded face stared at me and he asked: "Do you question the gassings?", to which I responded, "Of course I do. We must ". Cooper interrupted with what appeared to me to be an unintentional compliment: "You're honest, you're honest". He then terminated the discussion and showed me out his office. It is a pity that some people do not wish to have this issue aired. Rabbi Cooper claims that he is doing this on account of the memory of the millions who died at Auschwitz. He reminded me that only the other day he had buried a friend's parents, both of whom had been Auschwitz survivors. I expressed my sorrow at hearing this, but he brushed aside my words with the comment that I was not sincere. It is a pity that Rabbi Cooper's mind is so intolerant that it cannot open itself to another point-of-view.

Tuesday, 1 April - Newport Beach
Messrs Mark Weber and Greg Raven
These gentlemen run the Institute for Historical Review [http://www.kaiwan.com/~ihr.greg] and both inform me that the Institute is recovering from its long litigation with Willis Carto. The `traditional enemy' must have rubbed its hand in glee at witnessing such self-destructive behaviour within the revisionist camp. Like many devoted to the revisionist cause, I shy away from getting involved in this dispute and instead wish to see both parties come together again in one big enterprise. After all, the billion dollar Holocaust industry is producing some impressive material which does - much to my dismay - make me a little envious. Then again, considering most revisionists work on a shoe-string, it is amazing that such a small group of people can shake world governments with their message! At the most it is 50 individuals who are pushing the revisionist barrow, together with hundreds of helpers such as you who support Adelaide Institute.
Director Weber informs me that the IHR will be welcoming three scholars to its Journal's Editorial Advisory Committee - one each from Russia, South Africa and Switzerland. Also, a newly set edition of Arthur Butz's classic, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, will be released soon.

Adelaide Institute Associate, Mrs Olga Scully, faces a hearing before the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in Launceston, Tasmania, on 31 July.-1 August 1997.


Wednesday, 2 April - Los Angeles
Professor Michael Shermer
The owner/editor of Skeptic has an impressive operation which produces a fine magazine. As a sceptic, however, Shermer believes in the homicidal gassing story - but he is open to any argument that advances the revisionist's cause. Shermer declares himself to be an atheist and it was thus a pity that I missed the 1 April debate between Dr Steve Davis and Prof Shermer, held at Room 117 Weingart, Occidental College. When I finally arrived there at 7 p.m. it was all over - but two students gave me a brief tour of their campus which is used by a TV production company as the set for a high school `soapy'. On 7 April Professor Shermer delivered a paper at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre on `Holocaust Denial'. With interest I await a copy of this talk.

Mr Bradley Smith
The publisher-editor of The Smith Report and founding Director of Committee For Open Debate On The Holocaust (CODOH), could not undertake the 400 mile journey to Los Angeles owing to a restless night. Nor could David Cole who also tried to make it to Los Angeles. Cole, like Professor Robert Faurisson and other revisionists, has had to suffer physical abuse because of his revisionist work.

Mr David Thomas
CODOH's urbane co-webmaster [http://www,codoh.com], David Thomas has turned his home into a gentleman's internet revisionist fortress. The workstation is a sight to behold and I can believe Mr Thomas when he tells me that he often spends days and nights at a stretch behind his screen promoting CODOH's work.

Dr Ingrid Rimland
The Zündelsite's webmaster [http://www.webcom.com/ezundel/english/] lives in California: She is totally committed to the cause. Somehow she finds the strength to bring out a daily column in the form of the now famous Zgrams. Negative effects have already come her way. In her own right an accomplished author and speaker on the American lecture circuit, Dr Rimland was recently dis-invited from a planned lecture she was scheduled to give at a college. It is pleasing to see another woman standing her ground on this battlefield mainly populated by men. The revisionist battle ground is not at all for the faint-hearted.

Mr Manfred Koch
It was Manfred Koch who exposed Richard Wagner's grandson's antics in the US, and it was our long conversation at the airport lounge that caused me to lose all sense of time, thereby missing my Los Angeles-Vancouver flight!

Thursday, 3 April - Vancouver

Mr Doug Collins
He is a veteran publicist who on 12 May 1997, together with one hundred supporters, appeared before the British Columbia Human Rights Commission because he dared to express his views on the Holocaust film Schindler's List in March 1994, calling it Swindler's List. Fortunately the North Shore News and the British Columbia Press Council support him against the complaint made to the commission by the Canadian Jewish Congress. Of interest is the fact that Doug Collins was an active soldier during World War II who fought the Nazis. He has, however, since seen that conflict in a different light - and now `soldiers-on' some more against those who wish to take his freedom of speech away from him. Adelaide supporters still recall Collins' interesting address at the Conservative Speakers' Club where his forthright nature was much appreciated.

Mr Doug Christie
The famed free speech lawyer and Barbara Kulaszka , editor of Did Six Million Really Die? Report of the Evidence in the Canadian `False News' Trial of Ernst Zündel-1988, were not able to meet with me. Neither at other times and other places did my schedule suit Messrs John Sack, Michael Hoffman II, Hans Schmidt and Dr Charles Weber. Professors Deborah Lipstadt, Christopher Browning, Robert van Pelt and Abe Foxman didn't even bother to respond to my letter. Sadly, my attempts at locating Fred Leuchter failed and although I was informed by a reliable source that Leuchter is about and working, this remains a rumour.
Friday, 4 April - Chicago

Professor Arthur Butz
Author of the classic which revitalised the Holocaust revisionist debate during the 1970s, The Hoax of the 20th Century, Butz is not worried about the current onslaught against him on account of the activity on his website [http://pubweb.acns-nwu. edu/~ abutz]. He too states that the importance of the holes in the roof of the alleged gas chamber at Krematorium II must not be underestimated because on this claim the current Holocaust story stands or falls. That is, the Germans systematically killed millions of people in homicidal gas chambers. The model of Krematorium II at the Auschwitz State Museum and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is based on the assumption that individuals climbed ladders to get onto the roof of the Krematorium, then dropped Zyklon-B pellets through four openings in the ceiling. These pellets then released the gas which seeped into the chamber through holes in the pillars. Professor Butz admits that when he wrote his book the political climate was much calmer than it is today. Now it is very difficult, he says, to write a book because threatened legal action saps your energy.

Saturday, 5 April - Toronto

Mr Ernst Zündel
At 206 Carlton Street there stands the Zündel fortress where a mighty operation serves the world community of Holocaust enquirers. Together with wife, Irene and co-workers, Jürgen and Andreas, Ernst Zündel pushes out massive amounts of print, audio and video material on the Holocaust. His 1985 and 1988 trials shattered the traditional view of the Holocaust that Germans systematically exterminated millions of people in homicidal gas chambers. He is now faced with deportation proceedings which, if successful, will see him spend considerable time in a German jail - all because of his burning desire to relieve the German nation of its unnecessary guilt complex founded on the above false allegation Had there been no 1985 and 1988 Zündel `false news' trials, historical revisionism would not have been on the firm ground where it rests today. It does not surprise me that Zündel is seen as public enemy No.1 by those who wish to uphold the Auschwitz story in the face of the opening of world archives to previously suppressed information.
On 19 May Zündel faced the Canadian Human Rights Commission Mrs Sabina Citron The originator of the criminal charges against Zündel failed to reply to my request for a meeting. Although I have never met her, it seems to me that this independently wealthy lady is obsessed with the Holocaust story and that she has targeted Ernst Zündel because he is exposing the Holocaust story for what it is - an unproved set of allegations made against the German nation for the purpose of extracting money from its people.

The current media storm surrounding the formation of Pauline Hanson's political party, One Nation, has opponents drawing parallels with the rise of Nazism in Germany. The argument is always: patriotism and nationalism lead to the Auschwitz homicidal gas chambers.

Sunday, 6 April - Toronto

Mark Lemire
A pioneer in internet radio, Mark Lemire`s Radio Freedom[http://www.ftcnet.com/~freedom] focuses on live broadcasts - not exclusively dealing with the Holocaust - but containing the `freedom of thought and speech' message.

Mr Paul Fromm
An English teacher, dismissed from his post for his political activities, runs Alternative Forum which attracts conservative-minded tradi- tionalists. I addressed this group's meeting held at the Swansee Town Hall. Actionists Walter Froebrich, Siegfried Fischer and Frank Schmidt were members of the responsive audience.

Monday, 7 April- Washington
Dr Robert Brock

Black American nationalist, Executive Director of Self Determination Committee, POBox 15288, Washington DC 20003, USA. Dr Brock has protested in front of the United States Holocaust Museum with the message that the greatest American Holocaust was that perpetrated upon the slaves. He firmly believes that having the Holocaust Museum in Washington is a great mistake because the Jewish tragedy did not occur on American soil. However, slavery - in which Jewish -owned ships and finance were involved - occurred in the United States of America. Dr Brock informed me that the American constitution still has enshrined in it a clause legalising slavery. Hence his black nationalist community-based organisation, whose aim is to `assist and direct the descendants of slaves in obtaining the rights of self-determination and freedom, reparations, and repatriation'. I mentioned to Dr Brock that Rabbi Cooper had called me `honest' to which Dr Brock replied in a delightfully mocking way: "My, we have an honest man here. I can't deal with you!".
In 1995 Dr Brock's Cosmo Publishing, marketed the contentious Ben Weintraub book The Holocaust Dogma of Judaism. It can be obtained directly from Dr Brock at POBox 15248, Washington DC 20003, USA.

Mr Michael Collins Piper
Author of Best Witness, he is a staff member of Liberty Lobby, 300 Independence Avenue, Washington, just a couple of houses away from Dr Brock's residence. Dr Brock introduced me to other members of staff. I gave an interview to Mr Fred Blahut, of The Spotlight, and I received complimentary copies of The Barnes Review.(TBR). Liberty Lobby's address is 300 Independence Ave, SE, Washington, DC 20003, USA.
(In TBR, Vol. III, No. 4, April 1997, there is an interview with author Gregory Douglas about his book, Gestapo Chief: Heinrich Müller. Therein he claims that gassings occurred at Treblinka concentration camp. and that the Auschwitz death figure is 73,000, something Zündel has claimed for a long time.) As stated elsewhere, it is a pity that two conservative groups interested in historical revisionism have fought so bitterly in court - and we all know that only the legal fraternity profits from such a battle.

Tuesday, 8 April - Washington

Mr Richard Widmann
This is the east coast co-webmaster of CODOH. Together, we visited the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. We were dis-appointed to learn that Dr Michael Berenbaum has left the museum to join Steven Spielberg's Shoah film enterprise in Los Angeles. Perhaps that is why Dr Berenbaum never replied to my letter. It was he who advised us some time ago that the reason why the museum does not display the murder weapon, namely a homicidal gas chamber, was simply because there is no original in Europe which could be brought over to the United States. As Michael Hoffmann, II so aptly put it: "This is like the space museum ( just across the road from the Holocaust Museum) without a rocket or the Papacy without a crucifix". The boldly displayed claim by the Holocaust Museum that the Germans were responsible for the 1940 Katyn massacre in Poland deserves closer scrutiny because I may have misread what was written on the poster. Perhaps someone in Washington can check this out for me?

Dr Fritz Berg
This is the famed `diesel gassing' expert, who was to have seen me with Mr Widmann, but unfortunately could not make it. To think that the Germans, whose tanks were all petrol powered, would use Russian diesel tank engines as a source for the gas supply boggles the imagine. Presumably every time a motor broke down would require another Russian tank to be captured for spare parts! See Nizkor`s claim that it has refuted Berg's thesis.

Mr Andrew Gray
Copy Editor of The Barnes Review, Gray attempts to end the in-fighting within revisionist circles. Gray is also an acknowledged Wagner expert who can tell you how many dogs Wagner had and what their names were! How delightful it was that for a little while we could forget the alleged homicidal gas chamber story and drift into a discussion about Wagnerian music and its significance as an expression of Nordic culture.

Mr Mark Cotteril
He is the North American distributor of a conservative English magazine, unknown to me until then, Right Now! Copies can be obtained from Right Now!, BCM Right, London, WC1N 3XX, UK, or from Mr Cotteril at 33 East Maple Avenue, 225 Vienna, Va. 22180 USA.

Mr John Gattorn
One of the persons I managed to speak to at Amnesty International USA, 304 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, Washington DC, 20003. He informed me that historical revisionists are not treated differently to any other prisoners of conscience, and he was not aware of the policy followed by Amnesty International's Austra- lian, German and British offices which designate historical revisionists as antisemites and/or racists, and by implication, labelling them as `violent' persons and thus not worthy of its support.

Wednesday, 9 April - Washington Dulles Airport

I missed my flight from Los Angeles to Vancouver by five minutes. A detour via Denver, where the Oklahoma bombing case is now running, made me determined to be at the airport two hours before boarding time. I walked from Independence Avenue past the Capitol - where Congressman Gebhardt was busily feeding the `media chooks' on the lawn - to a distant hotel from which a regular airport bus collected travellers. I was on time for my flight to London.

Thursday, 10 April - London

Mr Jeff Robertson
The man behind the website Nation Europa, Mr Robertson could not make it to Heathrow Airport on account of his work schedule. His website: [http:// www.demon.co.uk/natofeur/]

Mr David Irving
A powerful but stressed David Irving has just completed his latest book Nuremberg:The Last Battle, Focal Point Publications, 81 Duke Street, London W1M 5DJ, England. The blurb sums up the moral inconsistencies Irving noticed when writing the book: There would be few crimes listed in the indictment at Nuremberg of which one or the other of the four prosecuting powers was not itself guilty. In the cause of defeating Adolf Hitler, civilian populations had been burned and blasted, murdered, brutalised, intimidated, deported, and enslaved; aggressive wars had been launched, neutral countries occupied by pretext and deceit, and the unalterable paragraphs of international conventions flagrantly violated. Bob Jackson knew this, and it hurt him. It damaged his name and career for ever. The German edition of Irving's book is published by Grabert Verlag, Tübingen.
Although not classified by the hard-core historical revisionists as a revisionist, Irving has committed the cardinal anti-revisionist sin by publicly stating that there is no evidence to support the claim that homicidal gassings took place at Auschwitz. Ever since his public endorsement of The Leuchter Report at the 1988 Toronto Zündel trial, David Irving has been hounded by international Zionists who are set on destroying his career as an historian. After writing over 30 books Irving asks why should he- through financial extirpation- lose his house in which he has resided for over 30 years. The forces which would like to destroy Irving's livelihood cannot tolerate social and economic stability and instead thrive on the pain and suffering that is caused by uprooting individuals and families and throwing them into the uncertainties of a nomadic life-style. Irving's wife, Bente and daughter, Jessica, face an uncertain future. This is not unusual within revisionist / dissident / heretic circles. Those, like Irving, who courageously stand up for their principles of free thought and free speech, bear the full force of the billion dollar industry that attempts to keep the lid on the conventional Holocaust story.

Friday, 11 April - Antwerp
Herbert and Siegfried Verbeke

Publishers of Vrij Historisch Onderzoek, POBox 60, B - 2600 Berchem 2, Belgium. This publishing house is currently the powerhouse of hard-core revisionist publishing because other European countries have enacted specific laws to suppress public discussion on all matters subsumed under the concept `Holocaust revisionism'. For example, the new Blair government in Great Britain has promised to enact Holocaust denial legislation which will criminalise Irving's enterprise. Although Siegfried has withdrawn from an involvement in revisionism, he still has to answer a charge in Holland which involves The Diary of Anne Frank. Siegfried informs me that he will deviate from the traditional revisionist view of the Diary. In his defence he will rely on The Diary of Anne Frank: The Critical Edition, Prepared by the Netherlands State Institute for War Docu-mentation, Viking, London, 1989.
Therein the mystery of the Diary is clearly presented. Anne Frank wrote a diary for a year, as well as a novel. Her father Otto, who unlike Anne, survived the Holocaust, afterwards combined the two, creating what we now know as The Diary of Anne Frank. While well written, this book is erroneously passed off as a factual account of the Frank family's life in Amsterdam before their deportation by the Germans. We may liken it to Don Watt's Stoker, or Helen Demidenko/Darville's The Hand That Signed The Paper. Interestingly, the fiction that celebrates the conventional view of the Holocaust is always passed-off as a `true, factual' account. We recall Thomas Keneally's novel Schindler's Ark which Steven Spielberg turned into Schindler's List. The world has been led to believe that this movie was a true account of what happened to a group of Jews transported from Poland to Czechoslovakia. Adelaide Institute associate, Mr David Brockschmidt, whose father was Oskar Schindler's business partner, tells a different story.
See his 30 March 1995 video: Schindler's List: Bridging the Gap between Political Correctness and Historical Correctness. Anne Frank, it is claimed, also wrote diaries for other years, but these were lost. This is most unlikely, and it reminds me of the claim by Dr Franciszek Piper, Director of the Auschwitz State Museum, that over 900,000 unregistered persons were gassed at Auschwitz!

Saturday, 12 April - Paris

Professor Serge Thion
See the website: Association des Anciens Amateurs de Recits de Guerrea d'Holocauste [http://www.abbc.com/aaargh] which features an extensive selection of mainly French revisionists works. Interestingly, Prof. Thion comes from the intellectual Marxist left which now finds itself in league with revisionists who oppose intellectual censorship as exercised by those who wish to uphold the Holocaust homicidal gassing allegations. This fact indicates to me that the conventional categorising of arguments into left-wing/right-wing has become redundant. Seeking truth has again become a higher moral virtue than following some proclaimed dogma.

Dr Yvonne Schleiter
One of the movement's few women who has been in the fight for a long time. The fact that she still has an intact family is a credit to her, and husband René. As I found, and a number of persons before me, the first thing that cracks under the strain of fighting the Holocaust story is the family unit. This is especially the case when one partner does not share the mental development that goes with this fight of pursuing the truth about the gassing story. The Schleiter's cultured family environment does not exclude the expression of a social concern for those who are oppressed by various societal forces.

Mr Ahmed Rami Who operates Radio Islam [http://flashback.se/~rislam] from Stockholm, Sweden, could not fit a meeting into my schedule about this stage. Also, my attempts to contact veteran historical revisionist, Ditlieb Felderer, were fruitless, and I have been advised that he has quit the revisionist scene.

Sunday/Monday, 13 - 14 April - Vichy

Professor Robert Faurisson
He is the elder statesman of Holocaust revisionism who has been in the battle long enough to see who directs what behind the scene of this play performed on the global stage. As a regular contributor to Adelaide Institute Online, Professor Faurisson, is well known as a valiant warrior who does not shy away from confronting those whom he considers to be perverters of the quest for historical truth. Faurisson was the first person to point out that the gas chamber story at Auschwitz I was false. He did this in 1976 by finding the original plans which showed that the alleged `gas chamber' was, between 7 October 1941 and 31 August 1943, a mortuary with a single entrance. Faurisson pointed out that if the museum had really bothered to be accurate, then it should have removed the south-east doorway which was the entrance added to the building when it was converted into an air raid shelter. Today the air raid shelter entrance is passed off as the victims' entrance.
Professor Faurisson hopes to have his long awaited book out by the end of this year. The French historian J Baynac's claim that "There is no proof (of the gassings at Auschwitz), but I believe" looks rather silly when compared to Faurisson's "There is no proof, therefore I refuse to believe". This courageous stand has cost Faurisson dearly. In 1989 three Jewish thugs almost killed him. When questioned by the police, one of them claimed to have attended a masquerade ball in Paris and thus could not have been in Vichy at the time of the attack! Prof. Faurisson faces his next trial in Paris on 6 June 1997.

Tuesday, 15 April - Auschwitz ARBEIT MACHT FREI - WORK LIBERATES

Upon our arrival at Oswiecim it was snowing but as we settled into the Hotel Glob it stopped. Fortunately, it did not begin again until our departure three days later so we were able to video the Krema I and Krema II sites without having to shovel snow! Included were Krema II's roof and solid concrete pillar, and as expected, we could not locate the holes through which the Zyklon-B pellets were inserted. Hence, we conclude that the gassing story, as told by the Auschwitz State Museum and by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, is a lie. We do not say that believers in the gassing story are liars because such persons, in good faith, believe what has been sold to them is an historical fact. We accuse the fabricators of the story of lying and demand that they prove their story to be true. Revisionists cannot do that for them. How is it possible for us to prove something that did not happen and, in any case, was technically and physically impossible? See our Internet link to Nizkor where, in the `Leuchter Report refutation' section it is claimed that there were four holes in the roof through which the Zyklon-B was inserted into the alleged homicidal gas chamber.

Germar Rudolf
This man is one of Germany's most courageous young scientists. An industrial chemist by profession, he was about to complete his Ph D thesis when, in 1993, he authored the definitive Das Rudolf Gutachten -The Rudolf Report. An English translation is in preparation. Herbert Verbeke's Dutch and French translations are available from Vrij Historisch Onderzoek, POBox 60, B-2600 Berchem 2. It is possible to download the German version of the report from Adelaide Institute's website. This report convincingly refutes the homicidal gas chamber story that European Jewry was systematically exterminated in homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz by using the delousing fumigant Zyklon-B. Germar Rudolf, together with his wife and two small children, make a fine family unit which, obviously, is feeling the pressure of living in exile. Mrs Rudolf is to be admired for standing by her husband in these trying times. Rudolf's work output is also to be admired, something that is reflected in his many thousands of world-wide contacts who support his efforts. His support among German historians is also growing. Unfortunately, open support is only promised by a number of history professors after their retirement. Rudolf rightly says such support is then less effective. Anyone who would like to write to Germar Rudolf may do so at the aforementioned Belgium address. His Belgium publisher also offers a wide variety of revisionist material in a number of languages. Two weeks before my visit, Germar Rudolf's parents-in-law had their home raided and hence the German authorities know where he now lives in exile.

Wednesday, 16 April - Auschwitz

Rudolf Höß
Fifty years ago on this day the Commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höß (not Hess), was hanged at Auschwitz outside the south-east doorway of Krema I. In time the details of his hanging, together with the torture inflicted upon his family, will be made known. Although I have not viewed it, the filmed hanging , in particular, is a document of the utmost horror. Perhaps that is why the Auschwitz story has to be kept under lock and key for another decade or so otherwise the hangman and those involved in the judgement may well face a criminal court. As someone said to me, "If you feel down about the cause, then just view this film and regain some strength to keep going".

Thursday, 17 April Auschwitz

Dr Franciszek Piper

Senior curator and archives director of the Auschwitz State Museum, was not at the museum when we called. His assistant, Dr Strezleki, kindly agreed to talk to us but he stressed that he was not an expert on the homicidal gassing story.

Dr Krystyna Oleksy
Perhaps because she is close to retiring from her position, she was also willing to speak to us. In 1995 Dr Oleksy had created an uproar by stating to French historian, Eric Conan (and printed in L'Express, 19-25 January, 1995, pp. 54-73) that "For the time being we are going to leave it in the present state, and not give any specifics to the visitors. It is too complicated. We'll see later on." This comment was in response to Conan pointing out to her that the 1948 re-construction of Krema I with its crudely cut roof holes and new chimney was false. Dr Oleksy could not quite recall what she had said to Conan but assured us that "gassings did occur in Krema I". She refused to have her photo taken.

Friday, 18 April - Berlin

Professor Ernst Nolte

This is the retired German history professor who at one time was in good standing among his colleagues, but only so long as he followed an aggressive anti-Nazi line in his books. When he pointed out that before Auschwitz there were the Gulags in the Soviet Union he fell from grace. His decline in popularity has been irreversible ever since. Although it is possible to order his books from the publishers, German book shops refuse to stock his books. Nolte reports an incident in which a customer was physically ejected from a book store after asking for one of his books. This has made Nolte very angry because he despises such forms of censorship. He believes that anyone should have the right to read what they like - and not be forced into towing a `party line'. To the charge that some revisionists consider him to be a coward because he has not openly spoken out in support of their thesis, he claims that it would serve no purpose were he to speak out and go to prison. Again, that is a moral problem which German historians will have to confront if they wish to both gain and project an honest understanding of the Auschwitz story. Mr Andreas Röhler The editor of Sleipnir, and director of Verlag der Feunde, POBox 350264, D-10211 Berlin, Germany, comes from the east German Marxist left which now cannot tolerate any form of intellectual suppression. He has been raided over half a dozen times and each time loses his computer equipment. It appears that the German judicial system permits such raids, much to the detriment of the victim who cannot then mount an effective defence because of having lost the information stored in the computer system.

Mrs Gisa Pahl
My original plan was to have taken me from Berlin to Hamburg but it was not to be. Hence I only had telephone contact with Mrs Pahl, a solicitor who belongs to the Deutsche Rechtsbüro, which has a number of legally trained persons who advise the public on, among other things, what effect Paragraph 130(3) StGB. has on their historical research If someone is in the revisionist business, this group will advise on how certain activity will fuel the desire of some public prosecutor to effect Paragraph 130(3) StGB. which criminalises a doubting of the Holocaust dogma.
I was also unable to make contact with Dr Hajo Hermann, Irving's lawyer in Germany, Mr Jürgen Rieger, Zündel's valiant defender in Germany; Mrs Ingrid Weckert, author of feuerzeichen; Mr Klaus Huscher, the editor and publisher of Denk Mit!, (Think With Me) which claims that the German Empire is still a legal entity and that the post WWII German constitution is illegal; Prof. Wolfgang Benz, a defender of the gassing story. Likewise I failed to establish contact with Mr Manfred Roeder who only recently tabulated a Luther-like thesis, then symbolically nailed it to church doors at Eisleben, Worms and Wittenberg.

Saturday, 19 April Bayreuth

Richard Wagner

I paid my respects to this great German composer whom, I'm certain, would have been pleased to learn that in 1998 Adelaide is hosting Der Ring des Nibelungen, one of the great epics of German mythology. It is a `first' for the southern hemisphere!

Sunday, 20 April - Basel

Mr Jürgen Graf
This is the man who modestly claims to belong to the second tier of revisionists, who has 17 languages at his command, has translated many revisionist works and, together with Carlos Mattogno, went into the Moscow archives to find that Professor Gerald Fleming's claims about extensive, original research in the archives is dubious. Jürgen Graf was amused when his flat was raided on 21 March, 1997. The police were ordered to confiscate `revisionist material' and because they did not know what that was, they confiscated Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, Hilberg's The Destruction of European Jewry, Fania Fenelon's Playing for Time, as well as two Russian magazines. Untouched were Hitler's Mein Kampf and Stäglich's Auschwitz Mythos.
A list of Graf's excellent books, written in German, can be ordered from him personally at POBox 52, CH-4009 Basel, Switzerland, or from his publisher, Verlag Neue Visionen GmbH, CH-5436 Wurenlos, Switzerland. Prof. G. Fleming did not respond to my request for an interview.

Monday, 21 April - Stuttgart
Dr Lavinia Merz-Förster

We had a rest day in this beautiful city where I spent some years during the 1970s, firstly at the private school Werkschule Merz, then at the University of Stuttgart. It was good to meet again, after a 25-year absence, a number of former colleagues. Still a vital 77 year-old lady, who has just recovered from a hip replacement operation, Dr Merz-Förster continues her interests in dance and philosophy. The school her husband, Helge, directed until his death in January 1974, is flourishing and almost drowning in hedonistic materialism. Dr Merz-Förster, whose homosexual brother was executed by the Nazis, comes from a solid communist background. Her father was a leading communist in Hamburg and so she has little sympathy for my cause. And yet, upon reflection - that wonderful human faculty which a study of philosophy nurtures so well - Lavinia now concedes that the Holocaust screw is being tightened to snapping point. The generally a-political public has noticed the obsession with which newspapers have propagated the Auschwitz gassing story during the past 10-15 years.
This reminds me of the former (east) German Democratic Republic's application of the Marxist ideology screw to its population. When the people lost their `fear of fear', then nothing could stop them from rebelling by flooding out of their country. I spent some time in east Berlin during the 1970s and I could feel the absurdity of the system at Checkpoint Charlie, one of the entry points from west to east Berlin. Young east German youths would do anything to get chewing gum and designer clothes. They cared little for ideological purity. They were fearless of the political system - because by this time it had lost its credibility in that it simply was not delivering the material goods that the young craved to own and enjoy. Translated into Holocaust dogma terms this means that today's Germans will in time also grow tired and disrespectful towards their judicial system which punishes anyone who expresses doubt or denial about the alleged existence of homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz. All Germans, therefore, now need to lose the fear which the legal system has generated by criminalising so-called Holocaust denial. In order to prepare the right climate for a breakdown of this Holocaust ideology it is crucial to get the message across to the people in the streets. Unfortunately the media is in the hands of those who profit from the Holocaust story. Perhaps that is why the liberation of Germany from this destructive dogma has to come from overseas? In this regard Ernst Zündel seems to be succeeding admirably in spreading the message for liberation. By way of the legal action the Canadian government is taking against him, on behalf of Jewish lobby groups, Ernst Zündel has already cracked the Holocaust gassing story. It will now be only a matter of time before that story falls apart. Analogous to the fall of east Germany, I would dare to predict that as soon as the World War II participating generation has passed away, the Holocaust dogma will be abandoned. Goldhagen's book, Hitler's Willing Executioners, has already begun to set the stage for this abandonment of the homicidal gassing story. He refers to the `alleged gassings' as incidental to the broader picture of German cruelty towards Jews. I wonder whether legal action ought not be initiated by the authorities against Goldhagen for minimising the Holocaust which is a criminal offence in Germany? Günter Deckert is spending years in prison for making similar comments. Why the selectivity?

Tuesday, 22 April - Tübingen
Mr Wigbert Grabert - Grabert Verlag

Like his father before him, here we have a courageous publisher who is faced with professional extinction at the hands of the world Holocaust lobby. He has experienced a number of police raids and is currently facing heavy fines for distributing so-called subversive literature, for example Ernst Gauss's Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte. (Foundations of Contemporary History). This book is a solid revisionist primer and hence considered to be a danger to all Germans. That is why Public Prosecutor, Heiko Klein, ordered all copies be seized and burned and its printing plates destroyed. Grabert Verlag can be contacted at POBox 1629, D-72006 Tübingen, Germany.

Wednesday, 23 April - Vienna

Engineer Walter Lüftl

The author of the famed 1992 Lüftl Report has nothing to add to the debate which is not contained in his report. He claims that the homicidal gassings at Auschwitz were technically impossible. To this we add: if anyone disagrees with Lüftl's assessment, then is it not time for more engineers to study the Auschwitz site? Similarly, is it not time that industrial chemists look at Auschwitz, as did Germar Rudolf? It is not good enough for me that the upholder's of the Holocaust story claim the gassings did happen, then expect the revisionists to prove that it did not happen. The doubt and worry in the exterminationist camp is great because of this very fact, that the revisionists have convincing arguments. But arguments are cheap. There is now a need to proclaim the Auschwitz concentration camp an international archaeological site and begin to physically examine it in a scientific manner. See the link on our Internet site to Nizkor which claims to have refuted Leuchter's, Lüftl's and Rudolf's reports. Nizkor personnel refused to meet me because they consider I am a bigot.
Of interest is how the railway line into the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp began operating only during the first half of 1944, around which time the Zyklon-B manufacturing facilities were destroyed in bombing attacks (See The Lüftl Report). Until that time, contrary to what we read in popular literature, all the so-called `selections' were made in public at the Auschwitz town railway station. Further, the much used term `Sonder-behandlung' (special treatment), which anti-Revisionists claim is a euphemism for `gassings', is easily explained. Any non-military operation was referred to by this term. Further, a recent search of the Siemens archives has located material which points to a use of microwaves as a means of delousing clothes and other objects. It appears that `Sonderbehandlung' referred to this operation as well. Similarly, the Gasprüfer (gas tester) was not used to check the alleged homicidal gas chambers for Zyklon-B levels but rather the gas levels at the cremation ovens. Gasprüfer were also used in the wood burners which replaced petrol as a source of fuel for cars and trucks. Concerning the German's obsession with cleanliness, travellers cannot help but be impressed by the clean restrooms at the autobahn rest stops. I cannot imagine this trait being absent during the war, in particular at the concentration camps where it was in the interest of the Germans to keep as many people alive as possible. There was an unlimited need for workers during World War II - something that is all too readily forgotten in today's depressed economic climate where again, in Germany alone, over four million people are unemployed. The view that World War II was fought because Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews is perverse - but it serves the purpose of keeping the Holocaust story before the world public.
Interestingly, to question Holocaust matters in Austria is not as absolute as it is in Germany. For example, it is permitted to discuss in private, within a small group, doubts about the conventional Auschwitz story. This was done because if the ban was absolute a partner could use that as blackmail against another. Sadly, I did not meet Frank, Rob, Wolfgang Fröhlich, Emil Lachout and Austria's poet, Konrad Windisch, who penned the following lines, then received a one year prison sentence for his effort: Licht wird wieder werden ( There's light at the end of the tunnel). I used my mobile telephone to try and make contact with Frank but to no avail. We even stayed at the Pension Kaffeemühle into which he had booked us. But, despite the mobile's adaptability if the number doesn't answer, then it is not possible to establish contact.

Thursday, 24 April - Graz
Dr Lisbeth Grolitsch

This dynamic lady, together with her husband of many years, is the owner and editor of Huttenbrief She informs me that what we are currently doing at Adelaide Institute had, in fact, been done by her during the 1960s. She sees the basic issue at her level of dispute as the existing world conflict between the peasants and the nomads. The concept peasant (or farmer) is inclusive of anyone who puts down permanent roots within a social structure. It is the opposite to nomad (or wanderer) who is without a home. The former's social stability is conducive to personal well being. Huttenbrief is pitched at the German-speaking cultural elites because she sees the battle as a clash of internal social cultures. Interestingly, fighting for the cause of German nationalism and patriotism at that level has also enabled her to continue publishing her magazine without conflicting with the law. Another view would claim that this level of dispute is too profound for the ordinary citizen to either contribute or derive any motivational support relating to her work. Anyone interested in the publication can write to her directly at Strauchergasse 23, AU-8020 Graz, Austria.

Friday, 25 April -Munich
Mr Theo Wink

This gentleman is a long-time supporter of Adelaide Institute who introduced me to Mr Gerd Zikeli, the ex-Lutheran Pastor originally from the Donau-schwaben ethnic group in Rumania. His claim to fame is having been expelled from Switzerland on account of his political views which embrace German patriotism. Königsplatz, München Here I entered the right-hand Verwaltungsgebäude (adminstra- tion building) to inspect in the foyer a large round table with inlaid marble plate. It is only about 3 feet high and I was not told why it was significant. A security officer in the building informed me that regularly individuals from overseas come along and ask whether the table is for sale. The answer is always a firm NO!.

Saturday, 26 April - Stuttgart
Professor Elisabeth Walter-Bense

After an absence of 25 years it was interesting for me to meet one of my professors again. In the meantime my supervising professor, Max Bense, has passed away but his wife Elisabeth is working hard on a four-volume edition of his collected works. Together they pioneered the discipline of the theory of signs called Semiotics.

Sunday, 27 April - Badenweiler
Dr Wilhelm Stäglich

As the author of the classic Der Auschwitz Mythos (The Auschwitz Myth), Stäglich, despite his 80 years, is in good health. In our conversation we ranged far and wide, especially when it came to his trials. Interestingly, although the Senate of the University of Göttingen revoked his doctor title on account of his book being deemed to be an unworthy academic exercise, the university administration has not demanded that he return his doctorate certificate. This means that, in effect, he is still free to use the Dr title, something that is legally controlled in Germany. Academic honours in Germany are valued more highly than aristocratic titles, and so some of the Dr titles obtained in America are legally not allowed to be used because they do not meet the strict German accreditation criteria. We have, of course, a similar problem in Australia where only final school year examination recognised by German universities and considered to be comparable to the German Abitur is the imported International Bacca-laureate (I.B.) diploma from Switzerland. None of the Australian states' own examinations will qualify one of our students for entrance into a German university. Dr Stäglich is not too hopeful about personally seeing the end of the Holocaust myth. I informed him that likewise the other side is feeling uneasy about how long it can continue to keep the Holocaust myth going. In America there are serious worries about the inroads made by revisionists using the Internet, such as the Zündelsite, CODOH, IHR, et al. who have done so much to unravel the myth and traced its origins back to war-time propaganda.

Monday, 28 April - Bruchsal

Mr Günter Deckert

The former leader of the National Democratic Party is currently an inmate at Bruchsal Prison whose director, Dr Rüdiger Behring, gave me permission to visit Deckert for an hour after I had assured him that Adelaide Institute is not aligned with any political organisation, but that we are following the Deckert case from the freedom of speech perspective. I informed him that my professor at Stuttgart University was considered to be a radical and that I had been elected as student representative to the faculty where, as a philosophy student, I would defend either left or right wing when it was a matter of freedom of speech. I asked, in my very best German, the Leitender Regierungs Direktor of the Bruchsal Zuchthaus,. How can I access anybody's mind, your mind, if you do not give me permission to speak with you? If you silence any debate on contentious issues, then those who feel strongly about an issue will go underground. If we are living in a democracy, then the political structures ought to be strong and tolerant enough to withstand political dissent. My philosophy professors at Stuttgart University were dissenters who taught me to think critically about all sorts of issues. Upon hearing my submission he curtly said, "Gut, ich genehmige den Besuch" (All right, I grant the visit). Deckert agrees with me that the British concept of freedom of speech is not translatable into German, although the folk song `Die Gedanken Sind Frei' (Thoughts are free) comes close to capturing the spirit of what freedom of speech is all about. Deckert is one of 400-odd inmates at Bruchsal Prison, 100 of whom are lifers who have killed someone. The others are mainly drug dealers, violent offenders and common criminals. Almost without exception special privileges are extended to all prisoners - all except Günter Deckert. And what was his crime? First here is some background information on Deckert. 57-year-old Günter Deckert was a successful secondary school teacher until 1988 when the State of Baden-Wurtemberg's Minister for Education moved against him because Deckert's nationalist convictions were perceived to be detrimental to his carrying out his teaching duties. He was also a local councillor involved in community politics very much like our Port Lincoln mayor, Mr Peter Davis, who has suffered personal attacks because he is a member of The Australian League of Rights..
Deckert's `criminal' life began when he translated a talk given by American gas chamber expert, Fred A. Leuchter, at Weinheim near Heidelberg in 1991. For this he received a one year suspended sentence and a DM 10.000 fine. However, after massive national and international pressure the Federal Appeals Court at Karlsruhe sent the matter to a lower court for a retrial. The lower court then handed down a two year prison sentence! It must be remembered that in Germany when a person is given a prison sentence by a court, that sentence does not take immediate effect as it does elsewhere in the world. And so Deckert was arrested at Frankfurt Airport on 8 November 1995 after returning from a family holiday. In April 1996 Deckert received a further sentence of one month for having compared the methods used by the Heidelberg `political police' with that of the former east German secret political police (Stasi - Staatssicherheits-polizei). His latest trial began on 20 February and ended on 11 April 1997 which netted him another 27 months prison. His `crimes' in this instance was the following:
1. In September 1991 he organised and chaired a meeting at which British historian David Irving addressed, in fluent German, historical aspects of World War II.
2. At his book shop Deckert legally sold 55 copies of the excellent revisionist primer, Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte (Foundations of Contemporary History), edited by Ernst Gauss and published by Grabert Verlag, Tübingen, Germany.
3. Publishing, distributing and selling Der Fall Günter Deckert - Martyrer fur Forschungs-, Meinungs- und Redefreiheit im Spannungsverhaltnis zwischen Geschichte/Zeitgeschichte, Justiz und Politik ( The Günter Deckert Case - Martyr for Free Research, Free Opinion and Free Speech within the context of History/ Contemporary History, Justice and Politics). This book documents Deckert's own case history!
Public prosecutor Heiko Klein asked for a four year prison sentence for these `crimes', and an additional seven month probation sentence for having sent an open letter to Mr Friedmann, vice-president of German Jewry, in which he advised Friedmann to go to Israel if he did not like living in Germany anymore. In all these charges the questionable German judicial concept of `Offenkundigkeit' - judicial notice - emerges whenever the subject matter touches the `Auschwitz-Myth'. According to Paragraph 130 (3) StGB anyone who denies or questions the official version of the homicidal gassing story is liable to spend up to five years in prison.
Germany has thus a view of its own history which is supported by the force of law. Needless to say, Deckert has appealed to the Federal Constitutional Court at Karlsruhe, and if unsuccessful will take his case to the European Court for Human Rights at Strasbourg. Günter Deckert has taken the humiliation of imprisonment with great dignity. He looks fit and he is pleased that he has a single cell to himself. He delights in recalling how, as a youngster, he used an old portable typewriter to put his thoughts on paper. The importance of the mind in surviving physical incarceration cannot be overvalued. Those that are too physically oriented succumb to the emotional / passionate trap of physical lust, especially within a prison environment. Hence the words of warning from Ernst Zündel who advises all revisionists not to have any vices at all - sex, drugs, alcohol, etc. Abstinence and celibacy become virtues during incarceration. Those that break, begin to destruct in the form of self mutilation or suicide, something which confirms the authorities' theory that the prisoner is guilty of whatever charge brought him into prison, be it right or wrong! We recall how Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, survived many years of isolation - and it is said that he could have walked free had he recanted his belief in National Socialism!
Deckert is not a common criminal but rather a highly educated gentleman whom the current German political system wishes to crush into submission. But his spirits are fuelled by a higher moral order of things than those that sustain the current political will of the German people. He will survive the vicious three female judges who were hell-bent on sending him to prison for his thought-crimes. What personally bothers me in the Deckert case is the conflict that exists between those who are willing to go to prison for daring to challenge the Holocaust dogma and those, such as Professor Nolte, Mr Lüftl and Dr Grolitsch, who claim that such sacrifice is not worth while. The Palestinians fighting for their homeland and the Islamic fundamentalists would disagree with such a stance. But the Tibetan monks would agree with those who refuse to face a prison term - and that is why China has successfully annexed their territory! Anyone who is not prepared to defend his or her territory - the classic territorial imperative - will lose out. Nothing is gained without a sacrifice - and freedom is not gained through sweet words. The fight against the tyranny of the Holocaust dogma - that Germans systematically exterminated European Jewry in homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II - must be fought on all fronts, and those currently in prison for doing just that deserve our respect and admiration!

Tuesday, 29 April - Stuttgart
Professor Eberhard Jäckel

This well-known German historian has for some years now been holding public lectures at the University of Stuttgart on the history of World Wars I and II. He is considered to be the German Holocaust expert and strongly endorses the homicidal gassing story. On this day I was one of about 150 mainly elderly people who attended his 10 a.m. lecture dealing with the beginnings of World War I. After the lecture, while walking with him to his office, I asked him about the traditional view on the gassings. He cited Pressac and I mentioned that van Pelt had surpassed Pressac, to which he agreed. I then said I had just visited Auschwitz and was now more inclined to be following the view expressed by Austrian engineer, Walter Lüftl. Hearing this name was enough for Professor Jäckel to terminate the slowly developing discussion with a flippant comment: "Sie kommen also von der Richtung" (so you are coming from that direction). When one of the students took a photograph of both of us he said, "Ich habe das Gefühl es kommt nichts gutes dabei heraus." (I sense that nothing good will come of this). David Irving has called Professor Jäckel a liar and a falsifier of documents and Jäckel has reciprocated in kind. Where does that leave me? I can say that those who uphold the homicidal gassing story shy away from a discussion of how technically it was done. Yet it is this aspect of the story which needs to be discussed in open forum. In Germany it is illegal to do just that. Why?

Wednesday, 30 April - Mannheim
Oberstaatsanwalt Heiko Klein

It was important for me to meet the public Prosecutor because he is such a strong defender of the conventional Holocaust story, and he seems to relish sending dissenters/ heretics/non-believers/deniers to prison. When I arrived at his office Mr Klein ( his name means `small' in German but he is over 1.80 m. tall), dressed in a casual checkered open-necked shirt and wearing a pair of braces, was standing at the photocopier making copies of newspaper articles, so he told me, for his son. Without hesitation he invited me into his office. Behind him on the wall there is a poster of a swastika in the form of a speed restriction sign with a diagonal bar across it. He did not give me permission to take a photograph of himself and his odd sign. Upon reflection it seems both crass and unprofessional that a public prosecutor would adorn his office with such politically sensitive material. This sign indicates to me that Mr Klein is biased and he ought to consider resigning from his job. Our conversation developed quickly to the point where he showed me a sizeable folder containing Adelaide Institute's online material. Other material in the folder includes that which the `Hate website', formerly from Harvard University's law library, publicises on its web page. I mentioned to Mr Klein how important it was for me to have an open flow of information because otherwise we draw conclusions that are then not based on solid facts. I then asked him what he had read about the Holocaust and Klein responded by referring to the film director Claude Lanzman who had lost all his family in Auschwitz. I responded by saying that that proves to me how critical it is to have open communications on this tragic topic. He then asked me whether I questioned the homicidal gassing story at Auschwitz. Before I answered that I told him how Rabbi Cooper had reacted to my response and I said that no doubt he would do the same. And Klein did just that. He rose from his chair and I knew that I had had my day in the Klein court!
I still persisted though - Klein standing inside his office and I outside with the door open between us. I mentioned my freedom of speech concerns to which he replied, "Sie reden wie der Leuchter". (you talk just like Leuchter). I repeated my claim that without a discussion of the homicidal gassing story we could not clarify our concerns. To this he replied: "Ich habe keine Lust darüber zu sprechen" ( I don't feel like talking about that). I said that this makes him a hedonist, to which he laughed, and we parted company. (The German word `Lust' does not have the same meaning as the English word `lust').
Günter Deckert is therefore in prison because Heiko Klein doesn't feel like discussing the details of the alleged homicidal gassing story. Klein also ordered that Grundlagen zur Zeit-geschichte be burned and its printing plates destroyed because he doesn't "feel like talking about that". What a callous, brutal and inhumane attitude that is! He zealously pursues and crimina-lizes wild youths who give the Hitler (or Roman) salute but then does not touch the Freemasons who regularly greet their `lodge masters' the same way. One group does it publicly and the other group does it privately.
Give me a break, Mr Klein, lass es sein!

Pastor Manfred Junger - Bad Rappenau

This 59 year-old protestant minister was dismissed from his parish at Oldenburg in Niedersachse nearby to where my parents had a farm before they migrated to Australia. Junger had refused to inspire his parishioners with the message of a watered-down Christianity demanded by his superiors, so in vogue today in all Christian countries. Further, his patriotic and nationalistic leanings were also quickly noticed by his superiors. And so he is now unemployed without a source of income except that which his wife receives from the social security department. A court judgement has deprived him, personally, of social security support because he has allegedly refused to take a job offered him by the department. His legal entanglements have, contrary to recent reports, not yet landed him in prison. His current address is Haller Ring 28, D - 74906 Bad Rappenau, Germany.

Thursday, 1 May - Mönchengladbach
Professor Udo Walendy

The elder statesman of German revisionist history, who resides in a lovely small castle, Walendy's youthful 70 years attest to a life-time devoted to thinking and writing on the human condition. The home displays evidence of his intellectual battles, a fight which has been a productive and invigorating one where books and more books, either written or published by himself, grace the shelves. But now that he is facing certain prison for having offended against Paragraph 130(3) StGB, he feels sad about the course his beloved Germany is taking. Only a medical certificate keeps him out of prison. He has given up his publishing enterprise and hopes younger historians will continue where he has left off - so that Germany's historical record can be set straight. Just as the demise of the German Democratic Republic ended a period of occupational aberration in the longer German historical record, so too, the hope is that a united Germany will once again find its own true historical roots wherein the Holocaust dogma has no home and foreign domination is eliminated. Walendy sees the world culture - coke, McDonald's and jeans - as a passing phase which cannot forever suppress German culture.

Professor Ulrich Hoyer -Münster
A history and philosophy of science specialist, I have known Hoyer for 25 years since my student days at Stuttgart University. His speciality is Niels Bohr, the atomic scientist; he paints and he plays a number of musical instruments. As well, he has a happy family life perhaps because his scientist wife gladly gave up her career to raise their three children. Hoyer has noticed a falling off of student expectations and critical thinking. He did not comment when I said that the cause may lie within the Holocaust dogma because it robs students of energy and forces upon them an unnecessary guilt complex.

Friday, 2 May - Neuenah
Mr Hans Werner Woltersdorf

This gentleman, who was unknown to me before I set out on my trip, is a former SS officer who cannot accept the current guilt trip that is sweeping so many politicians before it. He is the author of a number of books, and now has the pleasure of having one of them on the banned list: Hinter den Kulissen der Macht (Behind the Scene of Power), obtainable from Kroschinskis Bücherstube, POBox 272, D-28714 Malente, Germany.


Stuttgart
I indulged myself on a final detour to this city for a `retrospective'. Holocaust matters faded as I recalled what delightful times I spent sharing with my immortal beloved ballets, concerts, operas, plays - from Karajan to Cranko!

Saturday/Sunday/Monday, 3-4-5-May - Frankfurt to Adelaide
Flight home - via Bangkok. Arrived Adelaide Airport at 12.30 p.m. where I was met by Associate, Mr David Brockschmidt, and supporters. It is good to be back!

There is a saying in Italy: Let me visit Capri, then let me die. Some did, but the majority of Capri admirers return year after year to enjoy the island's Blue Grotto, and remember the years when they were young and in love. This is a celebration of life and love, with a melancholic aspect. Yet for many going back to Capri rekindles beautiful memories; for some it's broken hearts; for all it's lost youth. Going back to Auschwitz - regularly - is like celebrating death. That's the problem with Auschwitz: a psychopathic death cult has developed there. The Holocaust maniacs and the Holocaust racketeers have turned this tragic place into their permanent Auschwitz Horror Show. This Holocaust racket turns over billions of dollars world-wide, creating hatred against the Germans and spreading depression into the hearts of young and old Jews and Gentiles alike.
People who can never forgive are the real haters.Auschwitz has a greater fascination than Capri and its celebration of life. If Auschwitz should have been a warning to humankind as an example of what humans can do to one another, it has failed miserably. Their commercialised Auschwitz shows have not put love and kindness into people's hearts but rather hate and despair. These horror shows - where at least half of the events shown are falsified - are the real insult to the victims of Nazism, to both Jews and Gentiles. They show you a gas chamber built after World War II at Auschwitz. In Auschwitz-Birkenau they show you the remains of the concrete roof of Krematorium II, Leichenkeller I- the alleged homicidal gas chamber. They tell you that Zyklon-B pellets were thrown through four holes in the roof into that alleged gas chamber. They show you US airforce air reconnaissance photographs from August 1944 actually showing the four holes each in Krema II and III at Birkenau. But when you have a closer look at the `gas chamber' roof from the top and the ceiling from underneath, you find there are no holes as shown in the air photographs. So, what now? Whoever made up the holes story? Most have had holes in their head to believe these stories. They show you documentary films of the liberation of Auschwitz but they don't tell you that these documentaries are Soviet re-enactments where Polish adult civilians and children pose as Auschwitz survivors - well-fed and happily smiling. They do not show you the real gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the delousing and desinfection chambers of Block 5A and Block 5B. Their walls bristle with Zyklon-B (Prussian Blue) inside and outside. Nothing washed away by the harsh Polish winters over these past 55 years. When you ask them why the homicidal gas chamber has no visible traces of Zyklon-B, they tell you the rain has washed it away. When you ask them why the delousing chambers are still shining in bright Prussian blue - in and outside - they give you an angry look and tell you to ask the Director - but he will not be at the Museum in the next eight weeks.
As the horror tour comes to an end at Birkenau, you ask the guide if he could show you the sports field, the brothel, the library, the photo-lab, the post office, the hospital in which Nobel prize winning author, Ellie Wiesel, was operated. By the way, Wiesel left Auschwitz with the SS and others instead of waiting a few more days for the Red Army liberation of Auschwitz. He left voluntarily with the SS to Bergen-Belsen where he and his father and sisters were liberated by the British forces. Unfortunately his father died there of dysentry By this time the tour guide becomes angry at you and tells you again to ask the director who is not available for eight weeks. On the trip back from Birkenau to Auschwitz I you asked the official tour guide if you could see the beautiful swimming pool of Auschwitz I, built by the Nazis in 1940. He replies with a firm "No"!
You defy him and together with a few courageous young tourists you head towards the swimming pool. It is a nice pool but who is allowed to use it? You will return to Capri at any time, remembering when you were young. One day, perhaps, you shall also return to Auschwitz after the racketeers have left, after the guides tell the real story which means the historically correct story which means the politically incorrect version of Auschwitz. and not the politically correct story. Is it Time to de-Holocaust Jewish History? Instauration, May 1997 Professor Robert Faurisson once remarked that the Holocaust has become a civic religion for Jews. Anyone who needs further proof of that statement should read The Seventh Million by Israeli journalist Tom Segev. In rich detail Segev shows how the Holocaust, the alleged `gassing' of six million Jews, has expanded from a wartime event at first downplayed by Zionists to a daily obsession. The first section of Segev's work covers much the same territory as Lenni Brenner's Zionism in the Age of the Dictators or Edwin Black's The Transfer Agreement. Segev asserts that the main interest of Zionist leaders was the foundation of the Jewish state, not saving Jews in Europe or elsewhere. In the immediate post-war years, Holocaust `survivors' were far from being coddled by the Israeli-state-in-the-making. They were loudly criticised by sabras (Jews born in Palestine) for letting themselves be led like `lambs to the slaughter'. Had they emigrated to Palestine before the war they would have been saved. Consequently the Holocaust not merely proved the validity of Zionism; it was implicitly blamed on the `survivors'. In The Seventh Million, Segev deftly exposes the internal contradictions of Israeli society. The Zionist emigrants from Hitler's Germany were the objects of unremitting hostility. They were accused of possessing the innate German respect for authority that characterised the Nazis. Their Yiddish publications were considered a linguistic corruption of the official Hebrew. All in all, life for German Jews under Zionism was not an easy one. One of the major issues facing Israel in the 1950s was the decision to re-establish relations with Germany. The issue, as can be surmised, was an emotional one. In many heated debates Ben-Gurion advocated the establishment of ties with Germany in order to strengthen Israel economically and militarily. The reparations agreements, it is important to note, did not compensate Jews for six million murdered relatives. Rather they were intended to compensate Jews, whether they lived in Israel or not, for wrongfully confiscated property. In time reparations also came to include compensation for career interruptions or diminished earning capacity. Nahum Goldmann of the World Jewish Congress first cannily agreed to relatively small initial sums in exchange for ever expanding payments down through the years. Segev diligently explores the vast claims racket that grew out of the agreements. Viewing most of the claimants as cheats, Germans meticulously checked the dates and details of the applications. This early bureaucratic revisionism surprised many Jews who had been looking for `easy money'. The two most significant parts of The Seventh Million are the accounts of the Kastner and Eichmann trials. The former was triggered by a pamphlet written by Malchiel Grunewald accusing Dr Rudolf Kastner, an official of the Mapai government, of having collaborated with the Nazis during the war. An official of the Jewish Agency in Hungary and involved in the notorious `trucks-for-Jews' deal, Kastner allegedly went out of his way to save the lives of his Jewish friends while shipping the rest of the Chosen off to Auschwitz. The Kastner trial was a disaster for Ben-Gurion and the Mapai Party. It established what had been common knowledge among the leaders, but not to the man-in-the-street, namely the Zionist policy of saving the few and sacrificing the many. The legal proceedings were based on the fallacious assumption that the Jews who remained in Europe had in fact been exterminated. The Kastner trial gave Menachem Begin and his Herut Party their first real opportunity to break the power of the Socialist and Labor politicians. The verdict of the trial court supported Grunewald's charges against Kastner.
The kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann was Ben-Gurion's chance to correct the damage caused by the Kastner trial. Throughout the proceedings Gideon Hausner, the prosecutor, strove to show how heroically the Jews had resisted the Holocaust. Eichmann, the defendant, was an almost irrelevant figure. The trial completely failed to establish his role as an architect of mass murder. It did allow Ben-Gurion and Mapai members to claim that Jews and their leaders had not been `Kastners' during the war. It was the Eichmann trial which made the Holocaust a permanent fixture of the Israeli conscience. Almost all Israeli educational courses on `The Six Million' date from that time. Today the Holocaust is big business in Israel, as it is all over the world. Israelis are taught to delve deeply into the `meaning' of the Holocaust and reach the inevitable conclusion that only unquestioning support of Israel and its policies can prevent a similar tragedy from occurring. It is this conclusion that Segev challenges. Although no revisionist, he correctly understands that the nationalist interpretation of the Six Million story is wrong. He agrees with Professor Yehuda Elkana, who wrote a widely read newspaper article, `For Forgetting': "I see no greater danger to the future of Israel than the fact that the Holocaust has been instilled methodically into the consciousness of the Israeli public, including that very large part that did not endure the Holocaust, as well as the generation of children that has been born and grown up here. For the first time I understand the seriousness of what we have done, when for decades we have sent every child in Israel to visit Yad Vashem over and over again. What did we expect tender children to do with this experience? Our minds, even hearts, closed, without interpretation, we have proclaimed "Remember!" What for? What is a child supposed to do with these memories? For a great many of them, the horror pictures were likely to be interpreted as a call for hatred. "Remember" could be interpreted as a call for long-standing, blind hatred. It may well be that the world at large will remember. I am not sure of that, but in any case that is not our concern. Each nation, including Germany, will decide for itself, in the context of its own considerations, whether it wishes to remember. We, on the other hand, must forget. I do not see any more important political educational stance for the country's leaders than to stand up for life, to give oneself over to the construction of our future - and not to deal, morning and evening, with symbols, ceremonies and lessons of the Holocaust. The role of historical remembrance must be uprooted from our lives." And that, in so many words, is what author Tom Segev calls the task of The Seventh Million.

Whistleblowers are disadvantaged by adversarial procedures in courts and tribunals. In `Truth - The First Casualty' (The Australian, 9/11/96) Evan Whitton compared adversarial and inquisitorial procedures when lawyers attacked parliamentary privilege following the suicide of a former judge, David Albert Yeldham, on November 4, 1996. Lawyers may overlook - or perhaps hope we do not notice - that parliamentarians' `abuse' of their privilege does not begin to compare with the enormity of lawyers' abuse of THEIR privilege. Lawyers are obliged to follow a client's instructions even when they know he is guilty; a lawyer, one year out of law school and not elected by anyone to anything, has an absolute privilege to make the most monstrous false assertions about the victim. Julia Griffiths, a psychologist, noted in The Sydney Morning Herald in December a case in which a man, who had already been imprisoned for child sexual assault, got off two charges of rape against a girl neighbour when she was 13 and 15. Griffith said the girl, now 17, was subjected to a "week-long assault" in the witness box and "had nightmares afterwards". His lawyer "called her character in question" but the jury was not allowed to hear character evidence in her favour, or evidence of his character as revealed by the pattern of his previous behaviour. "The adversarial system does not elicit the truth in these cases," Griffith said. The inquisitorial solution, as used by Justice James Wood at his Royal Commission, will be obvious to all except lawyers and criminals. The Judge himself seeks the truth by questioning witnesses in a neutral or sympathetic way; lawyers whose task is to obscure the truth are largely kept out of it. (The European term, `inquisitorial', carries a deal of baggage but there is no cause for alarm; it merely means `investigative'. It is an examination into the truth by a judge with powers to question everyone who can help, notably including the suspect, and to ignore rules of evidence invented by English judges and lawyers to suppress relevant evidence, and hence to suppress the truth.) It may appear that Mr Yeldham could put up with rumour, but that he feared the truth. But that is what the inquisitorial system is about; it is why, when we need to find the truth about some grave social problem, such as police corruption or paedophilia, we have to jettison the adversary system and resort to an inquisitorial system. Unfortunately for the lawyers, having gone off half-cocked on parliamentary privilege, they apparently felt unable to take what may have seemed an opportunity to mount yet another attack on inquisitorial methods, and the threat they pose to the adversarial system, and hence to lawyers and their crooked clients, if any.
The NSW Bar Association famously excoriated another Royal Commissioner, Justice Phil Woodward, for stating the simple truth that Bob Trimbole was complicit in the murder of Donald McKay at Griffith in 1977. It said it was "outrageous to the basic principles of British justice that a finding of guilt by a Royal Commissioner should be published to the world at large." Exactly. The basic principle of the adversarial system of British `justice' is that truth is not important. The adversary system is rather on the run at the moment, and not before time; statistics suggest that the guilty have about an 80 percent chance of getting off under that system, but only a 10 percent chance of escaping justice under an inquisitorial system. Jeremy Bentham, lawyer and would-be law reformer, said more than 200 years ago a lawyer for a guilty accused is effectively an accessory after the fact. At the least, he proceeds with a reckless disregard for the truth that no respectable trade would tolerate. In the classic adversarial defence of an accused who is guilty, his lawyer persuades the judge to use the rules to suppress relevant evidence; he shifts the goalposts from accused to victim; and he uses cross-examination, thugg-ishly if necessary, to confuse prosecution witnesses sufficiently to create a doubt. The accused meanwhile exercises his right to avoid cross-examination. In inquisitorial systems, judges control the police investigation and the trial; in the adversarial system judges control the court but the lawyers control the trial; they decide what witnesses will be called and the evidence they will give.

His Excellency the Governor, Gordon Samuels, former Justice of the NSW Court of Appeal, told a seminar on Reinventing the Courts' in December that the adversarial system is about winners and losers not about seeking the truth. What can be said of a system that gives control of a trial to people who are more interested in winning than in truth or justice? In theory, the adversarial system might be useful as a check on dubious members of the judiciary, e.g. Sydney Magistrate Murray Farquhar, but such types are usually rare. The defects of the system are surely so great as to make it desirable to replace it with an inquisitorial procedure. The defects may be summarised as follows:
1, It results in oppression of prosecution witnesses.
2. It increases fabrication by defence witnesses.
3. It obscures the truth from the community, i.e. the jury.
4. It takes away control of trials from judges.
5. It gives control of trials to lawyers who are more interested in winning
than in truth and justice.
6. It causes paranoia in prosecution and defence lawyers.
7. It encourages defence lawyers to deceive the community, i.e. the jury.
8. It has a deeply `corrupting' effect on expert witnesses.
10. It prevents the legal aid budget from being fairly distributed.
11. Imbalance in the skills of the lawyers tends to make a trial unfair to either the community or to the accused.
12. It allows defence lawyers to engage in legal thuggery on victims of crime, particularly women and children who are victims of sex crimes.
13. By definition, either the prosecution or the defence lawyer is in effect trying to deceive the jury.

The vast majority of lawyers (and judges) do not have the faintest idea of why, or even when, the adversarial system was invented, yet they will blindly rush to the barricades to defend it. Justice Geoffrey Davies, of the Queensland Court of Appeal, told the seminar in December: "The object [of criminal justice reform] is the maintenance of a fair balance between the interests of a person suspected or accused of a crime and the public interest in having criminals brought to justice. Whether such a balance is being maintained is a subject which lawyers almost never discuss
There is now, in my view, an imbalance in favour of accused persons and against the interests of the community." He said there appear to be bodies capable of pursuing the task of reducing adversarial procedures in the civil area. "But", he said, "I can see no sign of criminal justice reform. Unless both are pursued, courts, lawyers and government will fail to fulfil the legitimate expectations of the community we serve."

Fredrick Toben comments:

The fact is that if Common Law clashes with Statute Law, the latter prevails. It is interesting to note how in both Common and Civil Law any Holocaust debate has been criminalised. In Civil Law, for example in Germany, that dubious concept judicial notice - Offenkundig does not require a judge to seek the truth of a matter. Similarly, in Common Law, for example in Australia, justice is being subordinated to Statute Law as enacted by Parliament. The Racial Discrimination Act aims to criminalise any Holocaust discussion on grounds that such a discussion is driven by hatred. One hopes that the general principle of freedom of speech is embraced by all judges as a moral virtue which ranks, together with truth and justice, above the pragmatism/utilitarianism of the win-lose imperative.


Archives spell out history of holocaust atrocities
AP, The Advertiser, 21 May 1997

Winston Churchill and other British World War II leaders knew Nazi Germany was killing Jews from the first massacres in June 1941, to the final concentration camp gassings in 1945, according to newly released intelligence documents. The transcripts of German police radio messages, intercepted by British codebreakers, shows senior officials knew where Jews were being killed, almost from day to day. As Hitler's Third Reich conquered most of Europe and marched into the Soviet Union, the transcripts document the executions that followed, some involving just a few Jews, many involving hundreds, thousands and tens of thousands. "What these records reveal is how much the British knew of the atrocities as they were happening," said Mr John Fox, a lecturer in Jewish history and Holocaust studies at Jew's College, London. Britain was able to obtain so much enemy material because it broke Germany's top-secret Enigma code [because it had stolen one of these machines. AI ed.]; the information was given to Churchill and a few senior intelligence officials. Recently, the US National Security Agency declassified a few documents from the British archives, which revealed that the British knew the Nazis were systematically killing Jews in the Soviet Union as early as June, 1941. That was more than a year earlier than previously acknowledged, and many historians raised questions about why the British had kept the documents secret. It was not until December 17, 1942, that the Allies said they would prosecute the Nazis for war crimes when the war ended. Mr Fox, however, said the British used the intelligence to gather evidence for war crimes. "Nobody could do anything about the rescue of Jews until the nazi Third Reich was militarily defeated," he said. The British had loaned the documents released last autumn to the Americans in 1981 to help with US war crimes investigations. Many historians believe the 1941 police messages marked the start of the Holocaust in which six million Jews were killed.
On July 18, 1941, for example, Erich von dem Back-Zelewiski, a German police commander in the Soviet republic of Belarus, sent a message saying: "In yesterday's cleansing action in Slonim, carried out by Police Regiment Centre, 1153 Jewish plunderers were shot." The British archive released yesterday is much more extensive. "What we didn't have before is first-hand documentary detail of the killing - and the killing is relentless," Mr Fox said. "What becomes clear, which is really quite horrendous, is the vast geographic spread of the atrocities." The archive also revealed much closer co-operation between Hitler's elite SS police and regular army forces, the Wehrmacht, in killing Jews, Mr Fox said. One file documents the day-by-day deaths in 10 concentration camps in 1942-43, including Auschwitz, Dachau and Buchenwald. On September 7, 1942, it recorded 3529 deaths at Auschwitz. A police message on September 6, 1944, reported a shortage of Zyklon, a gas used to murder Jews, at the Mauthausen camp. "The figure of executions in my area now exceeds the 30,000 mark," the leader of an SS brigade in central Russia reported in August, 1941. The following July,. An SS officer reported on a "Jew operation" in Ukraine and said, "700, being incapable of work, were shot".
The declassified police files also deal with the mundane. They include an order to ship the best confiscated horses to German stud farms to a report on "an acute plague of flies", and an order from Gestapo chief Hermann Goering (sic) banning "all public dance entertainments". There is also a report on the Nazi's systematic plundering of art and cultural objects.

David Brockschmidt comments:

This article raises important question:
1. Does the 7 September 1942 death figure at Auschwitz refer to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp only, or does it refer to the whole Auschwitz industrial complex which included 42 camps?
2. What were the causes of death? We know that about this time there was a terrible typhoid epidemic which not only killed inmates but also guards, nurses and doctors as well as camp administration personnel.
3. The reported shortage of Zyklon-B on 6 September 1944 at Mauthausen concentration camp has to be contextualised, and we ought to recall what leading exterminationist, J-C Pressac said on the use of Zyklon-B. He claims that 95% of Zyklon-B was used for disinfectant purposes - to kill lice, therefore saving lives - and only 5% for the alleged homicidal gas chamber operations. It needs to be recalled that the total amount of Zyklon-B delivered to the Auschwitz concentration camp complex was approximately the same amount which was delivered to the Oranienburg concentration camp near Berlin. Historians agree that Oranienburg was a labour camp and not an alleged extermination camp.


From Our Man in Hamburg: The Hamburger Abendblatt of 19/20 April 1997, featured an article about the dispute consuming local politicians. What's the problem? It involves the placing of a commemorative plaque at Meßberghof, Hamburg where the manufacturer of Zyklon-B, Tesch und Stabenow, Internationale Gesell-schaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung, had its office. The plaque is designed to serve as a reminder that from here the German firm supplied the deadly gas to various concentration camps. In 1946 a British military tribunal hanged the owner, Bruno Tesch, and his accountant, Karl Weinbach. Is that why the Auschwitz homicidal gas chamber story has to survive a little longer? Imagine the injustice of the hanging if the World War II allies admit that Zyklon-B was never used as a human killing agent!

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