To the impartial observer, a testimony by an individual who belonged to a group allegedly targeted by the Nazis for extermination does not always sound absolutely convincing, but who would wish to insinuate that those who had such terrible experiences during the war are not telling the truth? In the eyes of the public, the Holocaust survivors have become sanctified, indubitable, and irreproachable. It is precisely in this respect that skepticism, criticism and scrutiny have become most important. This section deals with persons who were on the side of the alleged victims and who either confirmed or denied the claimed events – or sometimes both. What are these testimonies worth?
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 1, 1984
Elie Wiesel is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, recipient of honorary degrees from universities scattered across North America and Israel and “spokesman for Jews in the United States and throughout the world.” Nevertheless, I propose that it is selfevident that this man is not wrapped too tight. For example,…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 1, 1984
In 1946 IBIS VERLAG of Linz and Vienna, Austria, published a book put together by Simon Wiesenthal titled KZ Mauthausen, which allegedly describes how it was to be interned in Mauthausen concentration camp. On page 64 of KZ Mauthausen there is a reproduction of a drawing signed by “S. Wiesenthal” depicting three camp prisoners, dressed…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 1, 1984
Dougherty writes that Simon Wiesenthal is responsible for bringing Adolph Eichmann and “some 1,100 other Nazi war criminals to justice,” as if the statement were a proven fact. Of the 1,100, Wiesenthal is stated as saying, “only three confessed to their crimes.” The implication being that while only “three confessed,” the other 1,097 or so…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 1, 1984
On 4 March 1984 the Herald Examiner published a lengthy interview with Simon Wiesenthal by staff writer Steven Dougherty. Here you will find all the evasions of professional responsiblity and good sense that is typical of the press when it treats with the “Holocaust” and its spokesmen. In this interview, Wiesenthal told Dougherty what he…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 1, 1984
In the 21 April 1983 issue of USA Today, Simon Wiesenthal told Barbara Reynolds: “When I was released from Mauthausen camp … I was one of 34 prisoners alive out of 150,000 who had been put there.” Do you believe he told the truth? You will be interested and, depending on your philosophy of life,…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 1, 1984
In 1977 Elie Wiesel was invited to lecture on the truth of the “genocide” claims to students and Faculty at Northwestern University. There he explained to his audience that, while Greeks invented tragedy, Romans the epistle, the Renaissance the sonnet, “our generation invented a new literature, that of testimony.” As an example of the power…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ December 16, 2004
Secretary General Kofi Annan has begun to poll U.N. General Assembly members in an effort to convene a special commemorative session to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. It just never ends. We are reminded that Soviet Red Army troops freed the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland on January 27,…
By Germar Rudolf ∙ November 1, 2003
In late 1958 and early 1959, public prosecutor Weber of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Stuttgart, Germany, received a large number of witness statements, mainly consisting of accusations against Wilhelm Boger, who was already in custody at that time for crimes allegedly committed by him in the former concentration camp at Auschwitz.[1] Some of these…
By Walter Lüftl ∙ November 1, 2003
The following passage, headed “East European Monuments in Austria,” has been taken from pp. 20 and 21 of the 1/2002 edition of the International Municipal Forum Graz (Internationales Städteforum Graz): “Another type of East European commemorative plaques is that at locations of former concentrations camps set up by the Third Reich. In the former Mauthausen…
By Walter Lüftl ∙ November 1, 2003
From the book Einer aus dem Dunkel (One out of the dark), which describes the work of the representative of the International Red Cross (IRC) Louis Haeflinger during the liberation of the concentration camp Mauthausen in May 1945 (how does one 'liberate' a camp, whose guards were already pulled out?), the following can be found…
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