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Simon Wiesenthal Screws “USA Today”

By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 1, 1984

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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, perhaps tickled to dlscover that according to Evelyn Le Chene's Mauthausen: History of a Death Camp (see pp. 166-168 and 190f.), when the Americans liberated Mauthausen “death” camp, they discovered 64,000 (thousand!) internees alive and waiting to be taken care of. Which did not include the 28,000 (thousand!) that had been previously released or transferred elsewhere, or who had escaped.

What do you think? As professionals? Are you going to go on believing everything Simon Wiesenthal and other Holocaust cultists tell you about the “genocide” of the six million and dismiss out of hand those who are “revising” the history of this age? Why?

I don't mean to suggest that everything Simon says is a lie or an error. What I am suggesting is that Holocause “revisionists” are not wrong about everything either. Let's talk about it. What do you think would be wrong in talking about it?

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  • Bradley R. Smith

    Bradley R. Smith was born in Los Angeles on February 18, 1930. At 18 he joined the army and in 1951 served with the infantry in Korea where he was twice wounded. After three decades of a variety of professional activities, it suddenly hit him: In 1979 he read a leaflet by Professor Robert Faurisson, "The Problem of the Gas Chambers." Then, Arthur Butz’s The Hoax of the Twentieth Century did it for him. He understood from the beginning that he would address the censorship, the suppression of independent thought, the taboo against publishing and debating revisionist arguments—not the arguments themselves. That has remained his position. In 1989, Smith founded Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) dedicated to defending free speech and free inquiry into the Holocaust question. He handed over CODOH's helm in late 2014. He passed away on his 86th birthday, February 18, 2016. Read a series of obituaries here.

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Bibliographic information about this document: Prima Facie, no. 1, October 1984, p. 5
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