What's up with the conflation of 9/11 Truthâ„¢ with Holocaust Denialâ„¢ by both opponents and presumed supporters of the truth m

Real Truther's picture

What exactly IS Holocaust Denialâ„¢?

As truthers we should understand this point well for our own good--the label Holocaust Denierâ„¢ is applied to a wide range of people with a wide range in beliefs. As truthers we are diverse group of people with a wide range of beliefs grouped together in people's perception (often unfairly, in our opinion.)

The technique is at once apparent. In both cases even polite discussion of legitimate and even uncontested facts is shut down for fear of taint by those who profess more extreme views, often dishonestly, on the subject at hand.

The person beginning to learn about something is immediately shown an extreme example of some unsavory proponent of an alternative to the "official" account. In the case of questioning details of the established narrative not in dispute, this is a disservice to understanding at best and at worst an effort by some to prevent others from learning what may be an inconvenient truth.

How many kinds of truth are there anyway? Forbidden truths, inconvenient ones, half-truths (not to be confused wth white lies), fundamental truths, self-evident truths.

Will we as a movement stop abusing this word and be specific about what we stand for?

In my mind we are against denial. Denial of the truth.

Our opponents are not liars, they are Truth Deniersâ„¢, either overtly or subconsciously. The truth denier is identifiable by her active efforts to stifle discussion of a subject so that the issue of its veracity can never be challenged.

Can someone post that Nietszche quote about the best way to make something look bad being to support it poorly...?

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Annoymouse's picture

gee you guys worry to much what other people think

I just listened to a kick ass interview with Christopher Jon Bjerknes and Jim Condit, Jr. http://www.jewishracism.com/interviews.htm I dont know who it will piss off more The ADL or the White Supremist scum. Very well done,every truther should listen to what they say.

gretavo's picture

i do worry what people think sometimes...

because I don't like misunderstandings, and the only way to identify one is by understanding what and why people think what they do. Questioning the official holocaust narrative for example opens one to suspicion of being interested in doing so for all the wrong reasons (i.e. yes, many bigots are interested in disproving parts of the holocaust narrative, big deal!)

People need to understand that falsification of history is never a good thing, and especially those who don't want to see Americans continue to delude themselves about their own recent history should be open to questioning the accuracy of other historical narratives that have been offered to us by the dominant paradigm...

gretavo's picture

a conservative catholic eh?

i haven't finished watching the vid, but it's the standard Zionists helped Hitler's rise to power account right? there seems to be a lot of interest lately in creating the impression of a vast right wing catholic conspiracy doesn't there? Mel Gibson, etc.?

bruce1337's picture

Truth

I think most would agree that the universal truth can not be fully known. However, it can and should always be rigorously pursued -- and we can choose freely whether we do, unconditionally. For me, that is the prime directive: Boundless curiosity and unfaltering intellectual honesty, unrestrained by orthodoxy, and irrespective of taboos.

As to the requested quote:

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments." --Nietzsche

Real Truther's picture

awesome thanks!

I added a few more to my signature...
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Real Truther

"Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed."

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."

"A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves— and who want to go where I want to go."

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Hey, I think I found some of those compadres!

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What I will say about Holocaust Denial is:

Mere inquiry into this chapter of history is punishable by law here in Germany -- a self-described "free" country. If I, in public, questioned any aspect of the official story, I could be imprisoned for 5 years. That is nothing less than draconian dictation of acceptable thought -- think about that for a moment, and then ask yourself:

Does the truth fear any questions?
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gretavo's picture

jah jah jah

hey you should consider auf Deutsch zu schreiben once in a while--I think it would be great to have a multilingual site (and thus eventually more international) site... Yo tambien puedo escribir algunas cosas en español.... Casseia? Know any furrin tongues?

Keenan's picture

Truth does not need laws to protect it, only lies

I saw this quote or something similar, but I can't remember who penned it. I think it was one of the "founding fathers" of Amerika,

"We do not need laws to protect the truth. Laws are only needed to protect lies" or something to that effect.

Wow! Is there no constitutional protection of free speech in Europe? Or are these basic liberties being blatently violated by the so-called Holocaust Denial laws? This is unbelieveable! Like, what if somebody mentioned that the original estimate of the 4 million killed at Auschwitz has been officially revised down to 1.1 million at the Auschwitz museum in Poland? Is stating even officially recognized revision of Holocaust facts punshible?

Whenever anybody in a truth movement, regardless of which movement or which topic is being discussed, is confronted with labels such as "9/11 Deniars" or "Holocaust Deniars" that are designed to stiffle debate and intimidate those who seek answers, first and foremost is that we should immediately reject such labels and then explain how such labels are dishonest propoganda techniques.

The level of universal condemnation and intimidation over questioning the official narrative of the Holocaust kept me from asking any questions about it until this year. Well, once I actually started looking into it, I discovered that there are inconsistencies and legitimate questions. I think the fact that I've discovered that so many things I used to take for granted as undisputable history have turned out to be lies during the last few years of truth searching has also weakened my conditioning against questioning official truths regarding taboo topics in general.

bruce1337's picture

True

Aber was nutzt es, in einer Sprache zu sprechen, die sonst keiner versteht? ;)
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Annoymouse's picture

ich verstehe ein bischen!!

und du must deutsche leute finden und hier bringen!!

bruce1337's picture

Ok, alles klar

ich werde mich bemühen :)
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Annoymouse's picture

...

Hey, gibts hier ein Schnitzel?

-em7

gretavo's picture

ich weis nicht

bist du hungrig? hast 911blogger kein zu essen?! was machts du hier, em7?? möchtest du ein bischen kaas, kleine maus? :)

Mike_Anti-Neocon's picture

There is always atrocity propaganda in war

Some of the holocaust claims are indeed false, and deniers will cherry pick these to deny or deflate the entire event.

Example:

Prior to liberation, Allied forces dropped pamphlets across Europe telling civilians that the Germans were gassing Jews in concentration camps. This was of course before they knew if this was true or not - it was an invented piece of propaganda.

When the Holocaust was uncovered, it was discovered that the Nazis HAD gassed Jews, however they hadn't systematically used them in German concentration camps (the worst camps weren't in Germany anyway).

From this comes the myth that noone was ever gassed, which is false.

Another "urban myth" of the holocaust is lampshades made from human skin. "Evidence" was presented at the trials and found to not be human skin.

In any horrific event of this scale, occuring over many years, such stories will be born. some will be entirely fiction, some will be exaggerated. They do not deny the event, they just affect the details.

Another is eye witness reports. Some victims reported enormous gas chambers the size of many football fields, crammed with hundreds of people at a time.

No such buildings existed. Does that mean the gassings didn't take place? Of course not. Estimated the size of buildings and crowds is phenomenally difficult. Even more so given the situation these survivors were in.
Here are sites to check out more about Holocaust Denial;

http://www.remember.org/History.root.rev.html
http://www.holocaust-history.org/
http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
Edward Abbey

Keenan's picture

Very well said

The US always exagerates and fabricates atrocities of the official enemies, while downplaying or supressing its own atrocities (the firebombing of Dresden, POW camps in which up to a million Germans died, etc). Does that mean that the Nazis were swell fellows? Of course not! The Nazis were pure unadulterated evil. And the British and American governments were colluding with the Nazis, not "appeasing" them as the history books claim. In fact, Hitler and the German Nazis were like a subsidiary of the American Nazi scum that was running the country behind the scenes, ans still is.

E Vero's picture

I have to say, I checked out

I have to say, I checked out what David Cole had to say, and I don't think that gassing occurred at Auschwitz or at any other concentration camp. There is simply no credible evidence. After years of research, Cole has since apparently gone into hiding, then later produced what looks like a phony retraction letter.

This is a complete 180 from what I thought one week ago. I'm still reeling.

E

Keenan's picture

I also am moving towards that perception...

that there may not have been any gas chambers in any of the camps, but I haven't finished the research. Yea, I hear you on the reeling and the 180. This started occuring with me a few months ago, when I finally decided to check out what all those "Holocaust Denying Kooks" were talking about. Taking that step in setting aside my deeply ingrained (and programmed) taboo against questioning that subject Where Thou Shalt Not Go could not have occured before I went down the 9/11 rabbit hole, and a few other subsequent ones as well.

What got me started down the Holocaust rabbit hole was watching all the controversy around Eric Williams at the 9/11 Accountability Conference in Arizona several months ago. So, my curiosity got the best of me, and I decided to listen to an interview with Eric Williams on the Meria Heller show about his boook "The Puzzle of Auschwitz". Eric came off as very reasonable and not at all kooky or racist. Meria Heller made such a good point that, "If they lied to us about everything else, how can we be sure they didn't lie to us about the Holocaust?" Hmmmm, it's hard to argue with that...So, down the rabbit hole I went...

9/11 truth was like the flood gates opening for my mind. Getting through and safely down that rabbit hole during the last couple of years gave me the courage to try out some other rabbit holes, and now I've gotten sort of addicted to jumping down rabbit holes lately. I've now gone down so many rabbit holes that I never would have considered before, that I'm even afraid to mention some of them on this blog for fear of being thought of as kook.

By the way, after I responded to Mike_Anti-Neocon above, I realized he had done a number on me, and I agreed with him to soon. He presented himself as a holocaust revisionist, but then all the links he provided were nothing but propaganda for the official narrative, and I kind of take issue with his statement that, "When the Holocaust was uncovered, it was discovered that the Nazis HAD gassed Jews, however they hadn't systematically used them in German concentration camps (the worst camps weren't in Germany anyway)"

gretavo's picture

well, Mike may be right or wrong, glad he is willing

to contribute to the discussion. It IS important to explore these rabbit holes, and to do so not with the idea that of course everything marked "rabbit hole" is in fact an avenue worth pursuing--anyone who has seen enough old bugs bunny cartoons should know this--some are even just black circles painted on the grass. but before this becomes a no-planes type wile e coyote-fest let's get back to the sacred thing that is not to be mentioned...

Yes, David Cole's video (and his appearance on Donahue years ago, which is on the DVD that is available for purchase) are what really pulled me into this particular rabbit hole. One of the first things to capture my attention was the fact that the stories of lampshades and soap being made by the evil Nazis were in fact made up and that that is acknowledged by every serious holocaust scholar, revisionist or not (though by definition the admission that such claims were false make on a revisionist, no?)

These were stories that one heard on TV and in school when I was a kid in the early 1980s and now, in passing, I find out that they were made up, yet no one bothered to tell me until I started reading revisionist work! So if the Nazis were so plainly evil and the evidence of their atrocities so abundant and clear why on earth would anyone have made up stories like the lampshades and soap? And mind you these were DETAILED stories, not little snippets. It just didn't make sense to me that these stories would have been invented, then quietly recanted, and that they would be the only instances of exagerration.

After you see David's video, learn about the Auschwitz swimming pool and theatre where inmates (allegedly waiting to be exterminated in mass gassings) would put on plays and other variety shows for each other (these are also available on video), you kind of end up with some cognitive dissonance from the kafkaesque absurdity of the entire thing.

After you have seen hollywood have its way with other historical events you are left wondering why most holocaust history is in fact dramatized instead of being based on the alleged tons of records meticulously kept by the Nazis that one never seems to see anywhere.

After seeing the trial and hanging of Saddam who can say with certainty that anything and everything Rudolf Hess "confessed" to was true?

But we should not make the mistake that surely some do of assuming that it was either this or that, that Jews either suffered unimaginably or not at all. False paradigms are useful because they force a choice on us between two falsities. That's why I try to imagine what exactly WOULD have been the fate of the Jews who were interned in these camps, and also to compare their experience iwth that of Japanese Americans similarly abused by the U.S. during the same time...

gretavo's picture

oh, about Eric Williams

I don't trust him. From one of the first pages in his "Puzzle of Auschwitz" book, he quips that because of the gift shop at Auschwitz selling batteries and film, "no one need miss a shot" of the camp, whereas David Cole in his video says because of the gift shops with their film and batteries "no one need miss a shot of the Final Solution".

So, was the plagiarism due to the haste with which "Eric Williams" was created as a "holocaust denying" 9/11 truther? Is that why he was part of the Arizona conference along with Uncle Fetzer and LIHOPPER Sander Hicks? Was Loose Change's posturing in boycotting the conference all part of a plan to bring the holocaust issue to the forefront? I think so!!

gretavo's picture

Sander Hicks and Eric Williams

Holocaust denier Eric D. Williams attends 9/11 Accountability Conference; Prof. James Fetzer defends anti-Semite

Holocaust denier Eric Williams (left) with NY 9/11 activist Sander Hicks (right) at the 9/11 Accountability "press conference" Friday, February 23, 2007.

Despite statements on 911Accountability.org that Eric D. Williams had "stepped down from involvement in the 9/11 Accountability Conference," Williams was present today (Friday) at a "press conference" for the opening of the symposium at the Crown Plaza San Marcos in Chandler, and I have been informed that Williams will actually have a vendor booth at the conference on Saturday and Sunday. This is astonishing considering the controversy that's swirled 'round Williams and the conference since it was revealed that Williams had authored the Holocaust-denying tome The Puzzle of Auschwitz, which asserts that there were no killer gas-chambers at Auschwitz, and that there was no Final Solution planned and implemented by the Nazis against European Jews.

Because of Williams' involvement, several speakers dropped out of the conference, including Dylan Avery, the boy-wonder behind Loose Change, the one genuine star of the 9/11 conspiracy movement. The fact that the conference, headed by convicted felon Kent "Cow Killer" Knudson, has allowed Williams to participate despite disavowing him in the past and claiming (wrongly) that he had never been the Conference Director, should completely discredit this conference and Knudson, and serve as proof of the conference's willingness to accept Holocaust-deniers and anti-Semites into their midst. Further demonstrating the movement's tolerance of anti-Semites was panelist Jim Fetzer's defense of Eric Hufschmid, whose site Erichufschmid.net is filled with anti-Semitic tripe.

"In my opinion Eric Hufschmid's work -- his book Painful Questions, for example, is an exemplar of excellence in research," asserted Fetzer at one point during the media event. "He was a pioneer. He tackled this difficult subject. I realize that on various grounds, he's a controversial guy. That part I'm not addressing."

This freak Hufschmid argues that "Zionists" pull the strings of white supremacists in the U.S. He also states that: "The Jews are lying about the gas chambers and ovens;" " The Jews helped Hitler and the Nazi party get control of Germany;" " The Jews instigated both world wars;" and "The Jews created anti-Semitism in Germany to drive Jews out of Europe and into Palestine, and to unify Jews, and to bring pity to Jews."

And this dood is "an exemplar of excellence"? Hey, don't hog that tailpipe, Jim, give me a whiff too.

For the most part, the "press conference" was a pep rally for the conspiranuts. At one point the moderator asked those who were actually from the news media to raise their hands, and about three hands went up out of a room full of 60 persons or so. And it's not like the other two guys were from The New York Times. At one point I got booted from the room by some pretend security guards working for the "troofers." But to the credit of the moderator, whom I believe was Phil Berg, he had me ushered back in and allowed me to ask a couple of more questions. After the press conference, such as it was, I spoke civilly with a number of activists, including Don Harkins, who admitted writing an editorial in his Idaho Observer newspaper defending former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke for attending that Holocaust-deniers' conference in Tehran last year. I also went up to Eric Williams and asked him why he was present, and he genially stated that he had a right to be there, though he would answer no questions about his Holocaust-denying ways.

A lot of those present accused me of engaging in guilt by association, but my retort to that is sometimes birds of a feather flock together. Also, it's one thing to accept, say, Purdue University as a source, and it's another to accept some fruitcake Holocaust-denier as a source. The credibility of a source does count for something. I mean, if a member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult asserts that Shoko Asahara has been railroaded by the Japanese government and is actually a man of peace, then I might suspect that the source for that information is a little compromised. The same thing happens if a rabid anti-Semite assures me that the Israeli mossad was behind 9/11.

Finally, as I've mentioned previously, the 9/11 moonbats and Holocaust-deniers have the same m.o., as far as cherry-picking the facts they'll believe or disbelieve, the circular reasoning, the conspiratorial mindset, the use of half-truths, and so on. The presence of Eric Williams and others with questionable views of the Holocaust at this conspiracy convention does tend to bolster the charge by Paula Zahn of CNN and others that there is a virulent strain of anti-Semitism which runs throughout the movement.

More on the 9/11 Conference as the event continues. I don't know if I'll be able to make it down there on Saturday, but I am planning to go Sunday. Also present as an interested observer and interrogator was Pat Curley of ScrewLooseChange. The guy's practically a walking, debunking encyclopedia. I wish I could transplant all of his knowledge of these nutbars into my brain for future use. He knows the facts so well he dances rings around 'em. He's the Yoda of 9/11-denial debunkers. And he has an awesome, detailed, blow-by-blow description of what went down today on his site, so please check it out.

E Vero's picture

I won't think you're a kook

...I've discovered dozens of rabit holes myself in the past six months or so. Scary.
E

gretavo's picture

Cole's "retraction" letter

was a statement he sent to the JDL (Jewish defense league) because after some JDL goons attacked him physically the JDL published his address online suggesting that something might happen to him. so of course he wrote the letter to get them off his back and protect himself and his family. his letter, claiming that he went through a period of "self-hatred" is pretty transparently insincere though it seems to have been enough, along with his self-imposed seclusion, to get the (terrorist group per the FBI) JDL to back off...

gretavo's picture

Interesting Read on the You Know What

A Factual Appraisal Of
The 'Holocaust'
By The Red Cross
The Jews And The Concentration Camps:
No Evidence Of Genocide

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A Factual Appraisal Of The 'Holocaust' By The Red Cross

The Jews And The Concentration Camps:
No Evidence Of Genocide

There is one survey of the Jewish question in Europe during World War Two and the conditions of Germany's concentration camps which is almost unique in its honesty and objectivity, the three-volume Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on its Activities during the Second World War, Geneva, 1948.

This comprehensive account from an entirely neutral source incorporated and expanded the findings of two previous works: Documents sur l'activité du CICR en faveur des civils détenus dans les camps de concentration en Allemagne 1939-1945 (Geneva, 1946), and Inter Arma Caritas: the Work of the ICRC during the Second World War (Geneva, 1947). The team of authors, headed by Frédéric Siordet, explained in the opening pages of the Report that their object, in the tradition of the Red Cross, had been strict political neutrality, and herein lies its great value.

The ICRC successfully applied the 1929 Geneva military convention in order to gain access to civilian internees held in Central and Western Europe by the Germany authorities. By contrast, the ICRC was unable to gain any access to the Soviet Union, which had failed to ratify the Convention. The millions of civilian and military internees held in the USSR, whose conditions were known to be by far the worst, were completely cut off from any international contact or supervision.

The Red Cross Report is of value in that it first clarifies the legitimate circumstances under which Jews were detained in concentration camps, i.e. as enemy aliens. In describing the two categories of civilian internees, the Report distinguishes the second type as "Civilians deported on administrative grounds (in German, "Schutzhäftlinge"), who were arrested for political or racial motives because their presence was considered a danger to the State or the occupation forces" (Vol. 111, p. 73). These persons, it continues, "were placed on the same footing as persons arrested or imprisoned under common law for security reasons." (P.74).

The Report admits that the Germans were at first reluctant to permit supervision by the Red Cross of people detained on grounds relating to security, but by the latter part of 1942, the ICRC obtained important concessions from Germany. They were permitted to distribute food parcels to major concentration camps in Germany from August 1942, and "from February 1943 onwards this concession was extended to all other camps and prisons" (Vol. 111, p. 78). The ICRC soon established contact with camp commandants and launched a food relief programme which continued to function until the last months of 1945, letters of thanks for which came pouring in from Jewish internees.

Red Cross Recipients Were Jews

The Report states that "As many as 9,000 parcels were packed daily. >From the autumn of 1943 until May 1945, about 1,112,000 parcels with a total weight of 4,500 tons were sent off to the concentration camps" (Vol. III, p. 80). In addition to food, these contained clothing and pharmaceutical supplies. "Parcels were sent to Dachau, Buchenwald, Sangerhausen, Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg, Flossenburg, Landsberg-am-Lech, Flöha, Ravensbrück, Hamburg-Neuengamme, Mauthausen, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, to camps near Vienna and in Central and Southern Germany. The principal recipients were Belgians, Dutch, French, Greeks, Italians, Norwegians, Poles and stateless Jews" (Vol. III, p. 83).

In the course of the war, "The Committee was in a position to transfer and distribute in the form of relief supplies over twenty million Swiss francs collected by Jewish welfare organisations throughout the world, in particular by the American Joint Distribution Committee of New York" (Vol. I, p. 644). This latter organisation was permitted by the German Government to maintain offices in Berlin until the American entry into the war. The ICRC complained that obstruction of their vast relief operation for Jewish internees came not from the Germans but from the tight Allied blockade of Europe. Most of their purchases of relief food were made in Rumania, Hungary and Slovakia.

The ICRC had special praise for the liberal conditions which prevailed at Theresienstadt up to the time of their last visits there in April 1945. This camp, "where there were about 40,000 Jews deported from various countries was a relatively privileged ghetto" (Vol. III, p. 75). According to the Report, "'The Committee's delegates were able to visit the camp at Theresienstadt (Terezin) which was used exclusively for Jews and was governed by special conditions. From information gathered by the Committee, this camp had been started as an experiment by certain leaders of the Reich ... These men wished to give the Jews the means of setting up a communal life in a town under their own administration and possessing almost complete autonomy. . . two delegates were able to visit the camp on April 6th, 1945. They confirmed the favourable impression gained on the first visit" (Vol. I, p . 642).

The ICRC also had praise for the regime of Ion Antonescu of Fascist Rumania where the Committee was able to extend special relief to 183,000 Rumanian Jews until the time of the Soviet occupation. The aid then ceased, and the ICRC complained bitterly that it never succeeded "in sending anything whatsoever to Russia" (Vol. II, p. 62). The same situation applied to many of the German camps after their "liberation" by the Russians. The ICRC received a voluminous flow of mail from Auschwitz until the period of the Soviet occupation, when many of the internees were evacuated westward. But the efforts of the Red Cross to send relief to internees remaining at Auschwitz under Soviet control were futile. However, food parcels continued to be sent to former Auschwitz inmates transferred west to such camps as Buchenwald and Oranienburg.

No Evidence Of Genocide

One of the most important aspects of the Red Cross Report is that it clarifies the true cause of those deaths that undoubtedly occurred in the camps toward the end of the war. Says the Report: "In the chaotic condition of Germany after the invasion during the final months of the war, the camps received no food supplies at all and starvation claimed an increasing number of victims. Itself alarmed by this situation, the German Government at last informed the ICRC on February 1st, 1945 ... In March 1945, discussions between the President of the ICRC and General of the S.S. Kaltenbrunner gave even more decisive results. Relief could henceforth be distributed by the ICRC, and one delegate was authorised to stay in each camp ..." (Vol. III, p. 83).

Clearly, the German authorities were at pains to relieve the dire situation as far as they were able. The Red Cross are quite explicit in stating that food supplies ceased at this time due to the Allied bombing of German transportation, and in the interests of interned Jews they had protested on March 15th, 1944 against "the barbarous aerial warfare of the Allies" (Inter Arma Caritas, p. 78). By October 2nd, 1944, the ICRC warned the German Foreign Office of the impending collapse of the German transportation system, declaring that starvation conditions for people throughout Germany were becoming inevitable.

In dealing with this comprehensive, three-volume Report, it is important to stress that the delegates of the International Red Cross found no evidence whatever at the camps in Axis occupied Europe of a deliberate policy to exterminate the Jews. In all its 1,600 pages the Report does not even mention such a thing as a gas chamber. It admits that Jews, like many other wartime nationalities, suffered rigours and privations, but its complete silence on the subject of planned extermination is ample refutation of the Six Million legend. Like the Vatican representatives with whom they worked, the Red Cross found itself unable to indulge in the irresponsible charges of genocide which had become the order of the day. So far as the genuine mortality rate is concerned, the Report points out that most of the Jewish doctors from the camps were being used to combat typhus on the eastern front, so that they were unavailable when the typhus epidemics of 1945 broke out in the camps (Vol. I, p. 204 ff) - Incidentally, it is frequently claimed that mass executions were carried out in gas chambers cunningly disguised as shower facilities. Again the Report makes nonsense of this allegation. "Not only the washing places, but installations for baths, showers and laundry were inspected by the delegates. They had often to take action to have fixtures made less primitive, and to get them repaired or enlarged" (Vol. III, p. 594).

Not All Were Interned
Volume III of the Red Cross Report, Chapter 3 (I. Jewish Civilian Population) deals with the "aid given to the Jewish section of the free population," and this chapter makes it quite plain that by no means all of the European Jews were placed in internment camps, but remained, subject to certain restrictions, as part of the free civilian population. This conflicts directly with the "thoroughness" of the supposed "extermination programme", and with the claim in the forged Höss memoirs that Eichmann was obsessed with seizing "every single Jew he could lay his hands on."

In Slovakia, for example, where Eichmann's assistant Dieter Wisliceny was in charge, the Report states that "A large proportion of the Jewish minority had permission to stay in the country, and at certain periods Slovakia was looked upon as a comparative haven of refuge for Jews, especially for those coming from Poland. Those who remained in Slovakia seem to have been in comparative safety until the end of August 1944, when a rising against the German forces took place. While it is true that the law of May 15th, 1942 had brought about the internment of several thousand Jews, these people were held in camps where the conditions of food and lodging were tolerable, and where the internees were allowed to do paid work on terms almost equal to those of the free labour market" (Vol. I, p. 646).

Not only did large numbers of the three million or so European Jews avoid internment altogether, but the emigration of Jews continued throughout the war, generally by way of Hungary, Rumania and Turkey. Ironically, post-war Jewish emigration from German-occupied territories was also facilitated by the Reich, as in the case of the Polish Jews who had escaped to France before its occupation. "The Jews from Poland who, whilst in France, had obtained entrance permits to the United States were held to be American citizens by the German occupying authorities, who further agreed to recognize the validity of about three thousand passports issued to Jews by the consulates of South American countries" (Vol. I, p. 645).

As future U.S. citizens, these Jews were held at the Vittel camp in southern France for American aliens. The emigration of European Jews from Hungary in particular proceeded during the war unhindered by the German authorities. "Until March 1944," says the. Red Cross Report, "Jews who had the privilege of visas for Palestine were free to leave Hungary" (Vol. I, p. 648). Even after the replacement of the Horthy Government in 1944 (following its attempted armistice with the Soviet Union) with a government more dependent on German authority, the emigration of Jews continued.

The Committee secured the pledges of both Britain and the United States "to give support by every means to the emigration of Jews from Hungary," and from the U.S. Government the ICRC received a message stating that "The Government of the United States ... now specifically repeats its assurance that arrangements will be made by it for the care of all Jews who in the present circumstances are allowed to leave" (Vol. I, p . 649).

Biedermann agreed that in the nineteen instances that "Did Six Million Really Die?" quoted from the Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on its Activities during the Second World War and Inter Arma Caritas (this includes the above material), it did so accurately.

A quote from Charles Biedermann (a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Director of the Red Cross' International Tracing Service) under oath at the Zündel Trial (February 9, 10, 11 and 12, 1988).

The above is chapter nine from the book "Did Six Million Really Die?"

For the entire book "Did Six Million Really Die?", click here.
http://www.vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2004/03/122056.php

Annoymouse's picture

I read these words once, long ago,...

when I was in a frame of mind that Hitler was a psychopathic mass murderer who blamed Jews for everything, as we were all taught in school. Now, years later & much research under my belt, I come across them again & I'm floored by the fact that Hitler may have been just another Zionist victim.

"It is untrue that I or anybody else in Germany wanted war in 1939. It was desired and instigated exclusively by those international statesmen who were either of Jewish origin or working for Jewish interests. I have made so many offers for the reduction and elimination of armaments, which posterity cannot explain away for all eternity, that the responsibility for the outbreak of this war cannot rest on me. Furthermore, I never desired that after the first terrible World War a second war should arise against England or even against America. Centuries may pass, but out of the ruins of our cities and monuments of art there will arise anew the hatred for the people who alone are ultimately responsible: International Jewry and its helpers!"

http://www.shoah.dk/Hitler/new_page_15.htm

The good Jewish people should heed the warning in the last sentence. The racist Zionist ideology is putting their whole religion in peril. Just as the American neo-Zionists will make the future title of 'American Citizen' synonymous with the attempted genocide of Arab peoples.

gretavo's picture

I'm not an expert on Hitler

and to be perfectly honest I don't think one can deny that he was a racist. A victim of Zionism? I'm sure in some sense that is correct, but I would be interested to learn more so as to better understand the odd symbiosis between him and the Zionists. Both Hitler AND the Zionists believed that people should live together based on racial ties (or perceived racial ties). They both were happy to transfer Jews out of Europe and into Palestine. Why, some might say he was in effect serving as an agent of Zionism! Given the fact that the alleged plan to exterminate all of Europe's Jews is not supported by any evidence, it may be that the so-called final solution to the "Jewish problem" might have been to round up Jewish people and forcibly transfer them all to Palestine, i.e. a joint Nazi/Zioniist venture fo sorts.

I would postulate that Zionism was a scheme designed in part to establish a "post-colonial" outpost in the oil-rich middle east on behalf of Europe's economic elite using everyone involved--Germans, Jews, Brits, Americans, etc.--to disguise the true nature of the plan behind a veneer of distorted historical accounts that were of course written by the victors and would lay the ground for global acceptance of the Zionist project by using the exagerrated version of the holocaust narrative to portray the entire thing as just and necessary reparations to the world's Jews.

After WW2 these same economic elites probably contributed to establishing the cold war paradigm that would pit the newly important USA against a roughly equally powerful soviet union. When Kennedy opposed their Zionist outpost's designs to obtain nuclear weapons he was gotten rid of and replaced with LBJ, who we know from the USS Liberty incident was ready and willing (or threatened into) selling out America. I tend to assume it was the latter since he decided not to run for re-election. Now it's America's turn to be the new Nazi Germany with a flawed leader who becomes a symbol of evil and turns the world against her. As America is cut down to size much as the Roman Empire was, through internal corruption and overseas adventurism, China is being groomed to be the next Superchump--er... Superpower.

Some questions I think are important are why did WWI start and how was it ended, and why was Germany so royally screwed over such that a leader like Hitler would find a groundswell of supoprt for his coup? Was Benjamin Freedman right, in other words, when he argues that Zionists arranged for America to enter the war to save Britain and ensure Germany's defeat, with British promises of Palestine as the price? It makes sense, of course, but is it true?

Annoymouse's picture

I completely agree & I'm no expert either.

This issue just makes 911 truth all that more important. The parallels with Nazi Germany have never been lost on me. I think that's one major reason you see the 'holocaust denier' & 'anti Semite' criers out in such force the last few years. Truth will shatter our entire history as we know it... well, as it's written any way.

Keenan's picture

Regardless, Hitler WAS a psychopath nonetheless

Let's not forget that Hitler killed and tortured millions, even if the number of Jews he killed was nowhere near the mythical 6 million figure that is shoved down all our throats.

After the elections of March 5, 1933, the Nazis began a systematic takeover of the state governments throughout Germany, ending a centuries old tradition of local political independence. Armed SA and SS thugs barged into local government offices using the state of emergency decree as a pretext to throw out legitimate office holders and replace them with Nazi Reich commissioners.

Political enemies were arrested by the thousands and put in hastily constructed holding pens. Old army barracks and abandoned factories were used as prisons. Once inside, prisoners were subjected to military style drills and harsh discipline. They were often beaten and sometimes even tortured to death. This was the very beginning of the Nazi concentration camp system.

From the moment of birth one existed to serve the State and obey the dictates of the Führer. Those who disagreed were disposed of.

The Enabling Act was only a few weeks away. All they needed was a pretext, and burning the Reichstag served this purpose wonderfully (does 9/11 come to mind?). For the next decade, Hitler and his Nazi brownshirts went in a downward sprial of terror, deception, and depravity...the rest is history...

There is a truly scary idea that is taking hold in many anti-Zionist circles that, because the Zionists seem to be at the root of the world's problems today, that Hitler must have been a good guy because he saw the Jews as being at the root of all the world's ills then. David Irving seems to be one of the ringleaders of this idea. In one of Irving's interviews, he says that the "defining moment" for him was when he had penetrated the "inner circle" of the people who had been close to Hitler and he realized that they were all "well-educated, nice and decent". So, of course, if all these well-educated, nice people with deep thoughts and insights thought Hitler was a good guy, then of course, he must be! Irving was caught in the psychopath's trap just like all the people in Hitler's inner circle were caught... . He's not the first, either. Nor will he be the last. In fact, it's almost epidemic nowadays. What is problematical is what this "conviction" has driven Irving to do: cherry pick and spin data. More than that, it has driven him to emulate his hero in certain respects. About the people who support him, Irving has been recorded to say:

"I find it odious to be in the same company as these people. There is no question that there are certain organizations that propagate these theories which are cracked anti-Semites."

He then asserts that he's only using these "cracked anti-Semites" cynically. He plans to jettison them as soon as he can find more respectable forums:

"If I've been denied a platform worldwide, where else can I make my voice heard? As soon as I get back onto regular debating platforms I shall shake off this ill-fitting shoe which I'm standing on at present. I'm not blind. I know these people have done me a lot of damage, a lot of harm, because I get associated then with those stupid actions." [Interviewed by Ron Rosenbaum in Explaining Hitler, 1998, Random House]

The history of psychopaths having followers who worship the ground they walk on is legion. Manipulation is the key to the psychopath's conquests. Initially, the psychopath will feign false emotions to create empathy, and many of them study the tricks that can be employed by the empathy technique. Psychopaths are often able to incite pity from people because they seem like "lost souls". So the pity factor is one reason why victims often fall for these "poor" people. Martha Stout, who has studied these types of people and manipulations in great detail, writes about the "pity play" in her book The Sociopath Next Door:

"The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy... "More than admiration -- more even than fear -- pity from good people is carte blanche.... Pity and sympathy are forces for good when they are reactions to deserving people who have fallen on misfortune. But when these sentiments are wrestled out of us by the undeserving, by people whose behavior is consistently anti-social, this is a sure sign that something is wrong, a potentially useful danger signal that we often overlook."

So, Hitler's quote above MUST be taken in the proper context of this "poor-me, I was just a victim, I didn't mean to do it," context:

"It is untrue that I or anybody else in Germany wanted war in 1939. It was desired and instigated exclusively by those international statesmen who were either of Jewish origin or working for Jewish interests. I have made so many offers for the reduction and elimination of armaments, which posterity cannot explain away for all eternity, that the responsibility for the outbreak of this war cannot rest on me..."

blah, blah, blah, blah, poor me, poor me...I wasn't planning on doing this, honestly!

Hitler was a practiced, polished liar, and he boasted of it in his Mein Kampf, don't forget.

The brand name of Hitler is far more than his human persona and is certainly greater than his culminating acts. It is the story of a megalomaniacal man whose rise to power emerged from democratic conventions. He is a warning to all thriving and civilized democracies that the process itself can be steadily and lawfully perverted into something unrecognizable. He is a cautionary tale of how easily a population can be manipulated through propaganda and fear into committing, through acquiescence or activity, acts of unimaginable atrocity within a very short time span. We remember Hitler because we never want to forget how even representative governments can slide into dictatorships virtually overnight.

And that is why comparing Bush to Hitler isn't so much an exaggeration, it's just good common sense. No, Bush has yet to mount an organized campaign of mass killing per se. But we make these comparisons now, early, when we see our leaders following an all-too-familiar path. We do this so that we don't wake up one morning to a mushroom cloud over Tehran and rue our ineptness to stop Bush from finally outpacing Hitler's body count and delusions of global domination.

Annoymouse's picture

Well, Let me rest your fears toward my comment.

I admire Hitler about as much as I admire Stalin or today's American version, Bush. What's wrong in this world is that discussions like this are decried & even criminalized.

gretavo's picture

hear hear

and for that reason i have resolved to have those conversations and discuss these issues loudly and publicly. only that way can we break this deadly taboo against truth.

gretavo's picture

hmmm

I don't deny that Hitler was probably a psychopath--it's the exceptionalism I take issue with, and that exceptionalism is promoted by Zionists first and foremost, and they do so for obvious reasons--by making Hitler out to be the evil of evils, they make Jewish people out to be the victims nonplus ultra of history. That's where I cry BULLSHIT. The poor the world over are history's biggest victims, and that is a group that includes PLENTY of Jews--those who are used as cannon fodder and human shields by the criminal Zionists. Psychopaths? Dubya may well be one, but Cheney is much more close to Hitler, as is Rumsfeld, as is Ariel Sharon, as are so many others who drape themselves in lies that dwarf Hitler's lies. Their cruelty is no different than Hitler's and the Nazis. Their ability to make poor ignorant grunts do their dirty work is also on par with Hitler.

Let's make something perfectly clear--to lionize Hitler as a great man is right there with doing the same for Cheney. Sure there will always be racists among the ignorant, rich and poor, who will subscribe to some BS agenda they don't understand because it makes them feel important, smart, strong, or whatever it is they need to feel to overcome some deficiency or another. I have never and will never count them as allies or friends. But I also won't let someone tell me what I must think or believe by their pointing out that one thing or another I may think to be true is also claimed by those types. That is a grossly transparent tactic and as such it must be actively denounced, not just passively bemoaned.

No one is going to tell me what to think or that I am something I am not because I choose to expose their falsehoods. People wonder why the world never seems to get better--could it be because so many are so deluded when it comes to differentiating between the good, the bad, and the simply ugly? Could it be because infiltrating every movement for positive change are plants doing the work of those most responsible for the world's problems, using lies and emotional manipulation to ensure that all progress is limited to that which allows the truly evil to continue to thrive? Hell yeah, and the 9/11 truth movement is suffering from that very effect. No matter how cynical we get, there are those who will step up their efforts to ensure that whatever level of cynicism prevails is not enough to suss them out. Thus they become ever more brazen, ever more deceitful, and ever more destructive of everything positive.

True reconciliation and peace will NEVER come about so long as we allow some people to be dishonest. It is very easy to say, look, we're tired of all this animosity--STOP arguing already. THAT is what these folks live for--knowing that if they can be assholes for longer than people are willing to tolerate dealing with them, they will get their way. Unless we stop appeasing these tyrants they will continue to perpetrate their evil deeds by dividing in order to conquer, by lying in order to steal. There are not degrees of evil, with Hitler as the king. Hitler, Silverstein, Bush, Sharon, Cheney, etc. etc. are all the same ilk and not surprisingly each in their own way on the same side as all the others.

Keenan's picture

Agreed, they are all the same ilk, all psychopaths

The lie of Hitler's exceptionalism is a lie for so many reasons:

1) Hitler was not essentially different than any of the other psychopath's running most governments and infiltrating most social movements (including 9/11 truth). Psychopaths don't really care what religion, nationality, or ideology they exploit, although certain ones, like fascistic ideologies, seem to grease the wheels at the beginning, they will use whatever one suits their interests. All share the same basic mental makeup - total lack of conscience, insatiable drive to manipulate and torment normal people with normal emotions, insatiable lust for power ("Power is the strongest aphrodisiac" according to Henry Kissinger), mastering the art of deception, etc.

2) Hitler and the German Nazi Regime was not in any way an independet, isolated entity. Most of the money to build up Hitler's war machine came from the Amerikan and to a smaller extent the British Nazi's. In fact, it could be argued that the German Nazi regime was a Subsidiary of the American Nazi Regime, who chose to remain more behind the scenes and not as crudely evil as the German Nazi's (perhaps this was a settup by the masters in the US and the Global Zionist Banker puppetiers? Let the German Nazis do their dirty work for them and then take the fall (er, only a few sacrificial lambs, that is, remember Project Paperclip)?)

3) The German people are not or were not different than the masses in Amerika or anywhere else. The idea that it was a "German problem" is just as racist and BS as the lie that the Arabs/Palestinians are genetically predisposed to terrorism. Same BS. One only needs to look at the Amerikan sheeple, the majority of whom now appear to have fallen for the lies of the current regime regarding the "necessity of torture" and shredding of the constitution and international laws in order "to protect us from those evildoers".

4) The German Nazi calamity was not a single event of history, but rather is part of a continium of the same regime that has been running the show for a long time. In fact, World War II is not over. The very same Nazi and Zionazi families and bastards are running the show, they just change colors and nationalities, political parties, etc., when it suits them.

The fact remains that the true division among humanity is between different sub-species of humans: those with consciences, and those without consciences, psychopaths/sociopaths vs normal people, and not between ethnicities, nationalities, religions, or even political parties, etc. A normal American family with their hopes and dreams and desire for peace and productive existence, good schools and health care, etc, has much more in common with a Swahili family or a Palestinian family or even an average Israeli family, than they do with the psychopathic elite ruliing over them. Same with the situation in just about every other country in the modern world. If the masses were to ever discover this truth, it would be curtains for these pathocratic slave masters who have run the show for so long. This nightmare scenario for the psychopathic pathocrats must never be allowd ot transpire, therefore the game of divide and conquer, and constant terror and violence and creation of artificial divisions must continue...

Lucky Larry's picture

Zionazi or Nazionist? discuss!

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