ebruary
27, 1993 (Sunday)
Outeniqua, South Africa K... has faxed through an extraordinary
US diplomatic document anonymously mailed
to the IHR, dated Oct. 9, 1942: purporting
to be an O.S.I. report (the Neal
Sher gang) on myself and others.
Inaccurate, but deeply worrying. Copies
went to three or four US embassies, the
Israeli embassy in Bonn(!), and "'Bn. Br.
London", presumably B'nai Brith. I shall
protest to the US embassy in London,
delicately. -- I also faxed a reader's
letter to the Australian, about a proposed
target list for libel actions in
Australia, to lawyer Ed Wall. I have written to the US ambassador in
London as follows: Your Excellency,I am a wellknown British historian,
living not a hundred yards from your
embassy. I have today received a copy
or transcript of the attached document
which purports to be a U.S. diplomatic
despatch, although it bears no security
classification. It is purportedly
addressed from a U.S. diplomatic
outpost to, among others, the Israeli
embassy in Bonn and B'nai Brith,
London, and its content -- if authentic
-- is both deeply alarming and, as far
as I myself am concerned, wildly
inaccurate: e.g., after my name in
para. 3 are listed works I have never
heard of, as well as my well-known
books published over the last thirty
years by reputable firms -- published
in the United States by The Viking
Press, Inc.; Little, Brown, Inc.; Holt,
Rinehart, Winston, Inc.; and Macmillan,
Inc. I cannot believe that an office with
such a reputation for impartiality and
accuracy as the Justice Department's
O.S.I. would be guilty of such
inaccuracies. Before I take this matter
into the public domain, however, I
thought I would approach yourself first
to inquire, confidentially, whether the
document is perhaps a forgery, designed
to blacken the names of the United
States and others. I have been most
careful to maintain the most proper
relations with the United States, a
people for whom I have the utmost
admiration. Although I am currently writing my
next manuscript in South Africa, may I
ask you to address your reply to the
address above, in Duke Street, where my
staff will attend to it urgently. Yours sincerely, DAVID IRVING
The document reads in part as
follows, complete with spelling
mistakes; it is all in Capital letters
apart from the date. Irrelevant
material is omitted [...]. 09-Oct-92 From: US Counsel Frankfurt
GE/OSI AIC To: US Dpt Jus-OSI
WashDC RUFHMU/USEmbassy
Vienna RUFHNU/USEmbassy
Bonn RUFHNU/Israel Embassy
Bonn RUDOGHA/Israel Consul
NY//Survey// RHDLCNE/Bn'Br"/London
UK//N24// Country: Federal Republic
of Germany (GE) Subject: BKA REP5033
93/Revisionistic Propaganda
Continues Attempt at Winning
Sympathizer Support for Right
Extremism (U) Warning: Handle via
Diplomatic Pouch OFFICE OF SPECIAL
INVESTIGATIONS DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE FIELD REPORT Summary: The Revisionist
Movement again creates concern
among some German Security
Authorities because of its appeal
to the sympathizers of the new
Right wing extremism. A new
awareness of the distortion of
established history by the German
Right wing is being formulated
and readdressed. Text: 1. Since about 1951 the
right extremist revisionism
movement has attempted to distort
the historical perspective of
Nazi regime horrors. Although
revisionism is an international
phenomenon, it is currently most
prominent in Germany, France and
Italy and is spreading its
propositions of Holocaust denial
and distortion through apologists
of National Socialism into
Eastern Europe. Revisionist
denial of the historical facts
surrounding World War II has led
to a distorted presentation of
Jewish persecution during the
Third Reich. The Right extreme
revisionist vehemently argues
against the fact of Jewish
genocide in the Nazi gas chambers
and concentration camps. The
criminal acts of revisionism have
even led to open questioning of
the Holocaust fact at the Dachau
death camp near Munich and new
Polish doubt of the Auschwitz gas
chambers. 2. The most well-known
canon of revisionism is the
"Leuchter Report,"' [...]
Of course the diabolicle plan of
the revisionists is to move
rapidly from an objective
presentation of their case into
the Right extremist rhetoric of
justifying National Socialistic
despotism. These Right wing
apologists of the Nazi regime and
denyers of the Holocaust are
motivated by their attempt at
reestablishing the old Nazi
system, or replacing it with a
similar new Nazi one. Because of
their tenacity, well structured
approach, seemingly endless
publication of books and the
recent Right extremist media
focus, we have insured that the
German authorities are carefully
working with the Simon Wiesenthal
Centers in Vienna, Aus, and Los
Angeles, US, to stop the
publication of all revisionist
materials originating in the US.
OSI authorities are watching
current developments within the
revisionistic camp. 3. Since the end of World
War II, proponents of the
revisionistic movement emerged
from the United Kingdom, Canada,
France, Germany, and the U.S. The
German BKA has assured us that
criminal proceedings will be
initiated against any person or
group found in possession of any
revisionist material. The
following books some of those
involved are individuals like
Peter ((Kleist)), 1952, "Auch du
warst dabei"' (You too were
there); 1961 "Der erzwungene
Krieg" (The coerced war); Paul
((Rassinier)) [...];
Thies ((Christophersen))
[...]; Dr. Wilhelm
((Staeglich)) [...];
Arthur R. ((Butz)) [...];
Fred ((Leuchter)); Paul
((Rassinier)) [...];
Jean-Claude ((Pressac)), 1990
"Auschwitz Technik und Betrieb
der Gaskammern" [...J; David
((Irving)), "Der Untergang
Dresdens" (The Fall of Dresden),
1979 "Hitler's War," 1982 "The
War Path", 1989 "Der Holocaust
fand nicht statt, Weltjudentum
gerät in Panik!" (The
Holocaust did not take place,
World Judaism in panic!), a
planne three volume work title
""Adolf Hitler und die
Judenfrage" (Adolf Hitler and the
Jewish Question); and Ewald
((Althans)) [...], "Ein
Engländer kämpft fur
die Ehre der Deutschen" (An
Englishman fights for German
Honor); 1979-93, Mark ((Weber)),
"The Journal of Historic
Review." 4. Revisionist
organisations and publications
active in Germany include: Amt
fuer Volksaufklaerung und
Oeffentlichkeitsarbeit- AVO
[...], Nationalistischer
Front - NF 1...],
Nationaldemokratische Partei
Deutschlands - NPD [...],
the Remer-Depesche report,
Nationale Offensive - NO
[...], Muenchner Anzeiger
[...] and Trabantanzeiger
(The Guardsman Advertiser), DVU-
Deutsche Volks Union. 5. Some revisionist
agitators in Austria and
Switzerland are: Gerd ((Honsik))
and his magazine "Halt" (Stop),
and Dr. Max ((Wahl)) and his
bimonthly publication of the same
name. Comments: The BKA is
working closely with OSI reps to
chart the flow of revisionists
from the US to Germany. So-called
conferences will be interfered
with when visas are to be issued.
Many of the above-listed
revisionists have faced court
proceedings in Germany, served
prison sentences for their
criminal activities and paid
fines for their
activities, Acq: (U) Germany,
Wiesbaden (920923) Dissem: (U) Field:
AmConsul Frankfurt. |
The inclusion of Pressac, an
anti-revisionist, suggests it may be a
hoax. But there is an appendix,
reading:- Summary: An appeal trial
for David Irving, British
revisionist historian, is
scheduled for 13 Jan 93 in
Munich. Irving was charged with
defamation of the deceased on 21
Apr 90 and sentenced and fined on
5 May 92. Text: 1. On 13 Jan 93,
David ((Irving)) must appear
before the Munich State Court. On
21 Apr 90, Irving made the
following statement during a
gathering in Munich-- "The gas
chambers of Auschwitz are a lie."
Because of that statement, on 5
May 92, the Munich State Court
charged Irving with offending and
defaming the memory of the
deceased and fined him
Deutschmark 10,000 (USD 6,135).
Irving appealed the decision. The
Bavarian Ministry of the Interior
instructed Irving to pay the
fine. The Bavarian Ministry of
the Interior has ordered Irving's
deportation, but will probably
allow him to attend the trial.
The right German Youth Education
Project (Deutsches
Jugendbildungswerk-DJBW)
scheduled a meeting with Irving
in Munich for 14 Jan 93. Further
details about the planned meeting
are not known. |
Presumably these are subtexts entered
in the OSI computer database under the
((...)) of each name in the main report.
It is inaccurate in details: e.g., the
Bavarians did not instruct me to pay the
fine; and they were unaware of the later
date change of the Munich meeting to
Jan..15. There is a clear inference to be drawn
from the main report, if authentic, that
the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) works hand in
glove with the OSI, that greasy, illegal,
document-forging, document-suppressing
organisation, and perhaps even takes
orders from it in deciding who should be
prosecuted; and that the U.S. authorities
will use visa problems to hamper the free
flow of opinion and information across
borders.  For
more on this campaign go to
the full-length draft brochure
which Focal Point Publications
are
preparing:- [175K]  |
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