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The Web of Disinformation: Churchill’s Yugoslav Blunder

The Web of Disinformation: Churchill's Yugoslav Blunder, by David Martin. San Diego and New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1990. Hb., 425 pp., $29.95; ISBN 0-15-18074-3. In the weeks preceding Hitler's pre-emptive attack on Stalin, events in the Balkans took a turn for the worse. On March 25, 1941, Yugoslav Prime Minister Cvetkovic went to Vienna,…

A Prominent Holocaust Historian Wrestles with a Rising Revisionism

Defenders of the crumbling Holocaust story are confused and frustrated about how best to respond to the increasingly “sophisticated” arguments of Revisionists, a leading Holocaust historian says. Writing in the April 1991 issue of Dimensions, the Zionist Anti-Defamation League's “Journal of Holocaust Studies, ” Deborah Lipstadt declares that Revisionist historians must be relentlessly “exposed” and…

A Request for Additional Information on the Myth of the “Gassing” of the Serbs in the First World War

The myth of the “gassing” of the Jews during the Second World War is only a recurrence – or a recycling – of a myth from the First World War: that of the “gassing” of Serbs by the Germans, the Austrians, and the Bulgarians. On March 22, 1916, the London Daily Telegaph printed, on its…

An Expert on “Eyewitness” Testimony Faces a Dilemma in the Demjanuk Case

Witness for the Defense, by Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Hardbound. 288 pages. Illustrations. $ 19.95. ISBN: 0-312-05537-4. Eyewitness testimony is the cornerstone of the Holocaust story. Much more than physical or documentary evidence, the accounts of “Holocaust survivors” have been crucial in convincing people that millions of European…

An Official Polish Report on the Auschwitz “Gas Chambers'

A recent investigation by a Polish government agency has authoritatively corroborated the findings of Fred Leuchter from his detailed 1988 on-site forensic examination of supposed German wartime extermination gas chambers. The American execution expert concluded that the “gas chambers” in the former concentration camps of Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek were never used to kill people….

Auschwitz and the Exile Government of Poland According to the “Polish Fortnightly Review” 1940-1945

1. Motive and Genesis For some time I have been interested in knowing how the Polish Government-in-Exile reacted to the enormous slaughter of Jews that supposedly took place in the concentration camp of Auschwitz. Whatever may have occurred in Auschwitz, it was the concern of the Polish exile government, for Auschwitz was on the territory…

Auschwitz: Technique & Operation of the Gas Chambers (II)

Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers. Jean-Claude Pressac. New York: The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation; 1989. The lessons of a soccer field and a swimming pool In 1983, Klarsfeld and Pressac published a French version of the Auschwitz Album (published by Le Seuil).[8] Pressac drew up a misleading plan of Birkenau (p. 43) on…

From the editor

This issue continues, and completes, the JHR's exploitation of that marvelous godsend from the Klarsfelds and their monied supporters, Jean-Claude Pressac's Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers. Pressac's massive study is the first attempt by Exterminationists to come to grips with the Revisionists' technical arguments against mass murder at the Auschwitz crematoria. As…

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