Baron - Holocaust Affirmers

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HOLOCAUSTA FFIRMERS:
Their Ideologies,
Their Methodologies,
Their Antecedents,
Their "RaisonD t6tren
The Author
AlexanderB aron is an independentr rcsearcheirn to the Holocaust'Z ionist
mischief-making and disinformation generally. He is the author of HOLO-
CAUSTD ENUL: NEW NAZI LIE or NEW INQUISITION?,andHolocaust
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Revisio nism " An d Fraud,
TableO f Contents
PageL Acknowledgments
Page1 A Note On Sources
Page3 Preamble
Page4 A Note On Tbrminologt
Page6 Chapter One:R evl'stonisHt istory:F actsB ehind TheS mokesueen
Page1 6 ChapterT *ozR evisionism'Es nemies:O ryanisedle wry - I
Page2 L ChapterT hree: Revisionism'Es nemies:O rganiselde wry - 2
Page3 6 Chapter Four: Revisionism'Es nemies:T he OryanisedL eft
Page5 2 ChapterF ive:R evisionism'Es nemiesA: cademia- I
Pzge72 Chapter SixzR evisionism'Es nemiesA: cademia- 2
Page1 07 Chapter Seven:R evisionism'Es nemiesA: cademia- 3
Page1 38 Chapter Eighh RevisionisnAt nd TheS kepticsM' ovement
PageI42 ChapterN ine: NlzkorA nd TheO n-LineH olocaust" Edltcators"
Page1 49 ChapterT enzAnO verviewO f Recent" SuntivorL" iterature.
Page1 61 Chapter Eleven:C onclusionA: ffirmers- TheirR aisonD '€tre
Page1 73 SelectedB ibliography
Page1 89 NotesA nd References
Page245 Index
List Of Illustrations
Pages3 4-5:T hble1 : Allegedn umber of war criminals living in Canada.
Page5 6: Thble2 : Europeani nfant mortality statistics1 880-19E8.
Page1 34:T imesa dvertisementD, ecember1 1,1974.
Page1 35:B elsenb ulldozerp hotograph.
Page1 36:P hotographsf romDid S* Million ReallyD ie?
ngas
Page1 37:T he Dachau chamber"
HOLOCAUSATF FIRMERISD:E OLOGYM,E THODOLOGRYA,T SODN' ETRE
Acknowledgments
Although this book is entirely my own, unaided effort, and therefore any
errors, distortions or misrepresentationsa re likewisee ntirely my own,i t would
not have been possiblew ithout the assistance,c ooperation and dedication of
many other people.F or reasons that need no explaining here, not all of these
people would welcome a public acknowledgmento f their contribution, but I
would like to thank especially the staff of the British Library (at Btoomsbury
Aldwych and Colindale), the staff of the Library of the Imperial War Museum
(Departments of Documents and Printed Books), the staff of the Wellcome
Library, the staffof the Public Record Office at Kew, and the staffof Westmin-
ster Central ReferenceL ibrary.
Thanks too to Greg Raven of the IHR, several contributors to alt.reyisionism
(in particular Mike Stein), Michael Newland, Nick Griflin, Mike from Essex,
a certain conservative Ml and especially to Mark rhha for his assistance in
proofing the manuscript. Finally, thanks to all my friends who have supporled
me in my endeavourss ince May 1993.
This book was written over a period of several months in 1996 and.was
completed in 1997 after a delay of over six months. (1) Although I began with
a synopsis,t his was expandeds omewhatd uring the course ofmy researches,
so parts oflater chapters were written before the earlier chapters. The reader
will find several references throughout the text to "at the time ofwriting", so he
should bear this in mind if some of these references appear to be out of place,
chronologically. As is usual with me, this book started life as a pamphlet and
just growed and growed!
A Note On Sources
BetweenS eptember1 7 and November1 7, 1945,J osefK ramer former com-
mandanto f both Auschwitza nd Belsena, nd forty-four others,w eret ried before
a British militarycourt at Liineburg, Germanyo, n chargesr elating to alreged
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war crimes,i n what becamek nowna s the BelsenT hial.T he "Thanscripto f the
Oflicial ShorthandN otes"r elating to this trial are held at the Public Record
office, Kew,i n the war office seriesr eferredt o herein as PROW O (followed
by a documennt umber).( 2) The sames eriesa lsoc ontainst he paperso f the
trial of BrunoT escha nd twoo thers,w hichw ash elda t the beginningo f March
L946.
lnl949,a summarTo f the BelsenT hialw asp ublishedb ywilliam Hodgeo f
LONdONU NdCrt hc titlE TRIAL OF IOSEF KRAMER AND FORTY'FOUR
}THERS (TheB elsenTi,ial).|,lolumeII in the war cimes Ti,ialss eiesl. Itwas
Edited by RaymondP hillips, and had a Forewordb y the Right. Hon. Lord
Jowitt,L ord chancelloro f England.I haveu sedb otht he originald ocuments
and the book in the followingt ext, as well as the law report on the trial. (3)
Therei s oftens omec onfusiona boutt he BelsenT hial;i n spiteo f its namei t
relatedn ot simplyt o crimesa llegedto haveb eenp erpetrateda t Bergen'Belsen.
Therew eret wo distinct charges:o f the 45 accusedt' he secondc hargea gainst
1Lo fthem relatedt o Auschwitz1; 1w eres entencetdo deatha nde xecuteda,n d
14 were acquitted.N o tinding was made against the 17th defendantd ue to
illness.T he 19thd efendantZ, oddel,w ass entencetdo deathf or anotherc rime
and executed(.4 ) Oneo f the defendant-s H ejmechG linovjechy- had actually
beenp ut on the wrong chargeb y mistake.H e and three othersw erea cquitted
becauseth e evidenceh ad not beenp ut beforet he court. (5)
Therei s alson o litttec onfusiona boutA uschwitzA. uschwitzwanso t a single
campb ut a complexo f campsc onsistingo f Auschwitz| (theS tammerlageorr
main camp);A uschwitzI I (Auschwitz-Birkenaour simply Birkenau)w here
mosto f the exterminationasr ea llegedto havet akenp lace);a ndA uschwitzII I
(Buna-Monowitzo r Monowitz),w hichw asa n industrial complex.T herew ere
alsoa numbero f sub-campsT.h is is not a historyb ook,s oi f the readeri s still
confusedh e shouldc onsulta specialistt ext;m anyo f the factsa boutA uschwitz
are non-contentioust,h ey are simply not widelyk nown.
This book tendst o fly offat tangentsi n places,a nd also containsa certain
amount of repetition - see,f or example,t he referencesto Gerald Reitlinger's
TheF inal Solutiono n pages7 5 and 100-1.I apologisef or this, but due to the
extenSivea nalysesa nd comparisonso fvarious texts I sawn o waya round it. I
havea lsou sedt woe ditionso f DeborahL ipstadt's bookDenyingTheH olocaust.
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Preamble
Over the past few years the subject of (so-called)H olocaust Denial has
becomea major issuei n the Westernm edia.A lmost universallyt he men (6)
referred'to pejoratively as Holocaust Deniers have beenp ortrayed as neo-
Nazis, anti-Semites,c ranks, or even as agents of a sinister international
conspiracyh ellbento n rewriting the history ofthe Nazi era in order to restore
the Third Reich.M any peopleh ave beenm isled by the meilia propaganda
about HolocaustD eniersa nd HolocaustD enial,p rimarily becauseth e cam-
paigna gainstt hem has beenw ell-orchestrateadn d the storiesr elateda bout
them haveh ad a certain consistencyH. oweverp, eoplew ho havep robedb ehind
the mediap ropagandah aveo ften comet o radically different conclusions.
Althoughb oth are coveredp eripherallyt,h is short studyi s about neither
HolocaustD enialn or thosew ho,f or manyr easonsp, romotei t. Ratheri t is
about what we might call HolocaustA flirmers, in particular the peoplew ho
activelyo pposeH olocaustD eniala nd thosew hoa cceptt he storieso fsurvivors,
Jewisho rganisationsa nd other vestedi nterestsm ore or lessu ncriticatly.T he
current ryriter acceptst hat many of the criticisms levelleda t so-calledH olo-
caustD eniersh aves ome,o ftena lot, of vatidity.M any of them do havef ar right
and/or anti-Semitica ntecedentsa, fewo f thema re outright Nazis,a nd at times
someo fthem havep lacedi deologro n a higherp lanet han truth. But there are
alwayst wo sides to every coin, and in this short monograph I propose to
examinet he other side,t hat of the HolocaustA flirmers.
I do not proposet o limit this study of HolocaustA lfirmers simply to their
active opposition to HolocaustD enial, but to cover their various ideologies,
their methodologiesa, nd their antecedentsin all their attacks on academic
freedom,f reedomo f speecha nd individual liberty.A nd theirroison d'Atre.For
the biggestf allacyin the manufacturedc ontroversyo verH olocaustD eniala nd
HolocaustD eniersi s not the presumptiono f the bad faith of the Deniers,b ut
the presumptiono f the goodf aith of the Affirmers.
We begino ur studyw ith a look at the facts behindt he smokescreecnr eated
by the vestedi nterests of the Allirmers, then in Chapters Tlvo to Four we
examinet he role and methodoloryo f OrganisedJ ewrya nd the organisedl eft,
exposinga nd documentingt heir misrepresentationsa nd lies with particular
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referencet o how they propagate thesel ies through an at times intimidated but
for the most part compliant and spinelessm edia. In Chapters Five to Seven
we take a close look at academia,a nd examine some anti-Revisionists tracts'
in particular we make an exhaustiYe analysis of the leading anti'Revisionist
tract, Deborah Lipstadt's DenyingThe Holocausf. In Chapter Eight we take a
brief look at the skeptics' moYement.C hapter Nine looks at the Nizkor Project
and the self-styledo n-line Holocaust Educators. In Chapter Tbnw e take a brief
look at recent "surviYor" literature. Finally, we explain the raison d'€tre of the
Aflirmers andwhy, for the sake of all mankind, it is important thatwe confront'
expose,a nd eventually destroy these lies. This book has an extensiveb ibliog-
raphy, and is thoroughly referenced. (7)
A l{ote On TerminologY
The term Holocaust Denier (usually denier with a lower case d) as popu-
larised by Deborah Lipstadt is clearly a term of abuse.T here are those who
consider the term Exterminationist to be a term of abuse, including most
Exterminationists. tt seems that many of them object in particular to being
represented as the other side, atbeit the orthodox and accepted side, of a
legitimate debate. Revisionists and the public at large are constantly reminded
that there is no debate.T he fact though is that, however much they may protest,
there is a debate, a verT real debate, and one which they have now given
legitimacy to, however reluctantly, by their being dragged kicking and scream-
ing to ttre debating tabte. The very fact that books such as AUSCHWITZ:
TbchniqueA nd Operation Of The Gas Chamber.th ave beenw ritten, indeed have
to be written, means that a de facto debate exists.
The current writer does not regard the term Exterminationist as having any
pejorative connotations, indeed I accept that, for the moment, the Extermina'
tionists are the legitimate school. I accept that the perceived wisdom is that
the government of Nazi Germany exterminated millions of Jews, including in
mass gassings in gas chambers, and that the burden of proof, in the eyes of
academia, in the eyeso f the establishment, and in the eyeso f the public' is on
the Revisionists. Not all Revisionists do. (8)
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I have used the term Holocaust Affirmers in this book as a mild pejorative.
I used this term for the first time in my bookflOlOCAUST DENIAL: NEW
NAZI LIE or NEW INQUISITION? (9) As far as I know this is the first time
it has ever been used, although I have no intention of attempting to popularise
it.
One final point, this book is intended for distribution on both sides of the
Atlantic. Some English words have slightly different spellings in the United
States. In Britain, theword centre is spelt thus rather than center, and defence
thus rather than defense.I n this book I refer to the Wiesenthal Center and to
the Jewish Defense lrague.
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ChapterO ne:R evisionisHt istory:
The FactsB ehindT he Smokescreen
The Myth Of CowboysA nd Injuns
Anyonew ho hasw atchedo ld cowboyfl rlmsw ill bef amiliar with the portrayal
of the struggle of how the West was won; cowboysa re portrayed as gallant
heroess truggling against half-nakeds avagesw ho massacrew hites with im-
punity, ravish white womena nd take scalpsa s trophies.A s much as we may
abhor potitically correct histories of the world, it has to be said that the
politically correct version of the winning of the West is more often accurate
than the "idealised"o ne.
It is certainly true that Indians massacredw hitesh ere and therel as early
as 1622,n ew arrivals from the Old World were wiped out at Jamestown,
Virginiai n a cold-bloodedmassacHreo. weverit,w ast hewhiteswhoin troduced
the practice of taking scalpsli t was the whitesw ho decimatedt he countless
herdso fbison that roamedt he greatp lains;e verywherteh e settlerse ncroached
on the NewWorldt heyp ushedb ackt he RedM an, and exterminatedh im, often
with impunity. The British useds mallpox-infectedb lanketsi n their attempts
to wipe out entire tribes of the RedM an; (L) while in Thsmania,a n entire race
of peoplew asw iped out. In 1798,t he nativeso f this small Australasiani sland
numbereda t least a few thousand.( 2) By 1855'o nly sixteenw erel eft. (3) The
last Thsmanianm an died in 1869,a nd the last Thsmanianw omani n 1876.( 4)
Only a fool or a knave would attempt to portray the grossly one'sided
subjugationo f NativeA mericans( "cowboysa nd injuns") as an heroics truggle
byWesternC ivilisation againstt he forceso f darkness.E venl esss o that of the
exterminationo f the nativep eopleo f Thsmania.( 5) It shouldb e addedt hough
that wheni t comest o the exterminationo r the enslavemenot f other races,t he
whitesh aveb eenf ar from the only villains. The Zulus under Shakad id their
shareo f extermination,( 6) and, interestingly,t he CherokeeI ndians of North
Americak ept Negros laves,( 7) as did indeedd id certain black families in the
ante-bellumS outh! (8) It could rightly bes aid that the historXo f mankind has