Month: June 2000

Why we few criticize Israel

Washington – People sometimes ask me why I'm so critical of Israel, as if I should be devoting more of my attention to Sri Lanka, or perhaps Zaire. But the question is always a little nervous, as it wouldn't be if I were writing equally often about Sri Lanka or Zaire. I could understand this…

The Campus Thought Police

“To refuse a hearing to an opinion because they are sure that it is false is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.”—John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859) “It was naive to believe that the 'light of day' can dispel lies,…

Proof of “gas chambers?”

Original photo published in The Auschwitz Album (New York: Random House, 1981), p. 126 (photo 183). It shows Hungarian Jews shortly after their arrival at Auschwitz. They appear to be relaxed. Falsified Photo. In 1997 the Simon Wiesenthal Center [SWC] posted the same photo on its Website captioned: “As these prisoners were being processed for…

Hitler, the “Final Solution,” and the Luther Memorandum

In the recent British High Court libel action of historian David Irving against Deborah Lipstadt, one of the most interesting aspects of the trial was the debate about the famous “Schlegelberger Document.” This March 1942, memorandum of State Secretary Franz Schlegelberger noted that Hitler's Chief of Chancellery, Dr. Hans Lammers, had informed him: “…The Fuehrer…

Grandma’s Ashes

published by Actors Drama Library, New York Cityin association withL’Atelier des Rêves © 2000 Cast of Characters PA: BOY: GIRL: CLERK: MAYOR: MINISTER: BANKER: The play is set in a small town and its outskirts. Scene I AT RISE: A wooded place. PA stands in front of a curtained area; BOY crouches next to him….

For the record… Some major mainstream revisions of WWII historiography

Since the end of the Second World War many facts and many legends have been built up surrounding the events or even “non-events” of that international conflict. Many stories which originated through the official and unofficial propaganda channels have become a part of the popular history of the war. From the time of the war…

A Tale of Two “Genocides'

Dr. Fredrick Töben of Australia's Adelaide Institute was recently given a 10 month prison sentence in Germany. The Institute rejects the claim that homicidal gas chambers were used at Auschwitz-Birkenau. In April, while in Germany, Töben met with prosecutor Heiko Klein and raised questions about the Holocaust. During the discussion Töben was arrested and sent…

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