THE FOLLOWING nasty specimen vilifying David Irving was posted on the Nizkor Website by Bertil Jonell of Chalmers University of Technology at Gothenburg, Sweden, on October 12, 1991:-

Wahrheit Macht Frei

ON WEDNESDAY September 18, 1991, the Swedish National Television aired a documentary by the German-Jewish police informer and television cameraman Michael Schmidt [of Wiesbaden, Germany] called Wahrheit Macht Frei.

The documentary has also been shown on German television and on Britai's Channel Four.

WARNING: Extracts only. The transcription is flawed, as is the translation into English.

Munich, 21st of April 1990. The day after Hitler's birthday. Löwenbraukeller. Eight hundred persons have been gathered to hear what they want to hear. They are waiting for David Irving, who is going to say it: Nobody was gassed in Auschwitz in the Third Reich. History is revised, forged)

Irving: "The gaschambers one can find as a tourist to Auschwitz were built by the Poles after WWII. The buildings have been chemically analyzed and we have published the documents. This has stirred up so much dust that our enemies cannot breathe."

[Michael Kühnen, leader of the German neo-nazis until his death in April 1991, and the rest of the audience applauds.]

(But among the audience are guests that throw a different light over this seemingly respectable gathering.)

(A living legend, a hero among the neo-nazis of today, General Otto Ernst Remer. He was adviser to the former leader of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser, he sold German weapons to Syria, but above all, General Otto Ernst Remer was the man that tracked down the persons who on the 20th of July 1944 conspired to assassinate Hitler. As a reward he was appointed commander of Hitler's personal guard.)

[Old German black and white newsreel shows Remer parading in front of gathered troops, one arm held high in a nazi salute. Narrator of the Newsreel: "Major Remer, commander of the guard battalion "Berlin", distinguished himself during the squashing of a small, hostile to the nation, honourless clique and was immediately promoted to Colonel by the Führer." Remer talking to the troops: "Today we are thankfully political soldiers!"]

Remer: "But then Hitler said: "I'm still alive, a small clique of officers is responsible, but now we have caught the leading saboteurs. We shall deal with this plague expediently, if necessary with brutal violence"".

Schmidt: "You have said that you regarded Hitler as a democrat?"

Remer: "Basically, he was a democrat. When I now look back I can say that I've never seen anyone of Hitler's calibre. I see it before me still. It was an important man, the kind that is only born once in a hundred years. However history is warped, Hitler is a lasting factor in German history."

[Picture of the pamphlet "Journal of Historical Review", the listed contents on the front page are: "Carlo Mattogono: Auschwitz: A Case of Plagiarism, Carlo Mattogono: Two False Testimonies from Auschwitz, William Grimstad: Autopsying the Communist Corpse, James J. Martin: A "Good War" It Wasn't. Reviews: Why I survived the A-bomb, Sacrifice at Pearl Harbour, Broken Alliance: The Turbulent Times between Blacks and Jews in America. Historical News and Comment: A Visit of Auschwitz, An interview with General Ernst Otto Remer, A "Diatribe" in honour of Dr. Alfred Schickel, Alois Brunner talks about his past."]

[Brunner is one of the most notorious Nazi war criminals still at large. He lives in Damascus and the Syrian government has refused to extradite him to Germany or France. In an telephone interview 1987, he told the Chicago Sun-Times that he regretted nothing of what he had done, that he would do it again, and that all Jews "deserved to die because they were the devil's agents and human garbage."]

(The Institute of Historical Review in California has as its goal to whitewash Hitler and deny the hideous crimes of Nazism. Remer is one of their international contacts and Remer himself is very proud of his contacts around the world.)

Remer: "I have had a lot of contacts and happen to know a lot of people. This has always been current to me, but I'm not stupid. I saw that one couldn't even talk about it - but then suddenly, over night, all changed. Perspectives are now opening that are too large to see. But the world cannot continue being divided. Americans and Russians cannot split the cake. Nobody can accuse me of being a communist or anything like that. And for nationalsocialism... I never was a member of the party. I have always been independent and had my own thoughts."

[Home video of Remer talking to a gathering in front of a red banner with a white circle and the gothic letters "FAP"]

Remer on video: "In your hard political struggle, harder yet than ours, you must keep your mind on becoming a disciplined, responsible, and immovable circle of comrades! An Elite among the new German youth!"

(He doesn't want to speak about todays neo-nazis, but this video shows clearly that he is one of them)

[The gathered people Remer spoke to sing Deutschland Deutschland über Alles. The Swedish Television added a translation of what they sing: "Germany, Germany, everywhere! The Reich shall again be reborn! Gathering ends with: "Long live today's NationalSocialist movement in Germany. Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!" The gathered people perform the nazi salute]

(Back to Munich. The main speaker, David Irving, is watching over the proceedings. The Institute for Historical Review is there to document and preserve for posterity those that absolve Nazi-Germany from all guilt, and claim that any warcrimes never happened, those that want to rewrite history, the so called "Revisionists". They claim that there never were any gaschambers and that the holocaust of the Jews never happened.)

[Front page of the book "Highlights of the 9th International Revisionist Conference". There are pictures of David Irving, Fred Leuchter and several others on the front cover]

Institute for Historical Review representative: "We do video productions for the Institute when we have conferences"

Speaker on conference: "We welcome Manfred Roeder, Michael Kühnen and their group of youths."

(His face looked familiar but where from? He has some aquarelles with him and allows them to be filmed, but he himself wants to avoid the camera)

[The camera zooms out from a painting in the folder and focuses on the man's face]

("Mr. Carter's" real name is Anthony Hancock and he is a bookprinter. He prints books for the National Front and supplies the whole world with nazi propaganda. Now he is awaiting trial for forgeries and cheque-frauds in the millions of pounds.)

[Picture of British paper with picture of Hancock in an article saying essentially what the narrator just said.]

[Picture of pamphlet in red with the title "Did Six Million Really Die?", the subtitle "The Truth At Last" and, in the corner in gothic letters "Historical Fact No 1".]

Man (Hancock): "I'm just a friend of a friend, you know. And I collect antiquarian books. Books on WWII and pre-war. I'm just a general collector."

Schmidt: "So you had nothing to do with the National Front?"

Hancock: "No, no. I'm just an independent sort of collector here for a weekend, a nice time in Munich and all that, you know."

("I'm a Jackass who always believes what I am told!!" The holocaust of the Jews is ridiculed and mocked. This is nothing new.)

[picture of similar placard carried by a person in a jackass mask in a neo- nazi demonstration]

(Hamburg 1978. Christian Worch, Kühnens right hand is overseeing the demonstration.)

(Munich again: Another of Kühnen's comrades, Ewald Althans, is giving orders. Behind him the chief of security, the same Christian Worch. He also organized a conference with Irving in northern Germany. Here is also the skinhead leader of Riehfeldt, Thomas Heinkel. Three top figures in the neo-nazi movement. All of them attending to Irving.)

Worch: "That Kühnen and I have intensive political contacts is common knowledge. I wrote a letter to Irving some time ago and told him that he needn't worry that it could be used against him."

[Le Pen's Fronte National?]

(This is a small town called Haguenau in France. The pictures were taken by a neo-nazi and was never intended for publication. The so called Revisionists are gathered.)

Faurisson: "I'm surprised to find my special friend Ernst Zündel here. If I had known about it, I would have brought him a present."

(Robert Faurisson, professor in literature in Lyon. Claims to sympathise with the left. 1991 sentenced to a fine of 100,000 francs for having publicly denied the nazi crimes against humanity. Behind him Ernst Zündel. German- Canadian. Sentenced to prison in Canada 1988 for "spreading false information". He spread pamphlets and books printed at Anthony Hancock in England. Some time ago he commissioned a report that scientifically tries to prove that the gaschambers in Auschwitz never could have existed.)

Zündel: "Why should we respectable Germans wallow in this pigsty of diabolic and mean lies that this Jewish rabble have distributed?"

(Christian Worch is also in Haguenau. Also there, of course, is the next speaker, David Irving, the historian.)

Irving: "Then we have the one-man gaschamber. Carried by two German privates looking for lone jews in the polish countryside."

Irving continues: "The one-man gaschamber looked like a sedan-chair, camouflaged as a telephone booth. Now, how did one fool the poor victim to enter this gaschamber? A telephone bell was rung inside and the privates said: I think it is for you!"

[Cut out are details on neo-nazi military training, neo-nazi contacts with old nazis, neo-nazi attempts at infiltrating the EC-parliament, and a Swedish neo-nazi group suspected of stealing police weapons to use in a "racial war".]

[Picture of relational chart over neo-nazi organizations in Sweden, and some organizations that they have tried to infiltrate.]

(Common to all these organizations is that they spread their propaganda through local radio. The most famous was "Radio Islam", Publisher: Achmed Rami, formerly Moroccan officer, formerly Swedish convict that nowadays prefers to look like a highly educated, controversial, serious researcher in political science, but reveals himself the same second he is challenged.)

[Rami switches to Swedish translated for Schmidt by someone off-camera.]

[I translates what Rami says directly from Swedish to English, and add what the translator tells Schmidt when there is a difference]

Rami: "To say that the gaschambers never existed, that is regarded as a crime."

Schmidt: "But they existed. I have seen them. I have been there."

Rami: Tell him: I must have the right to tell him that he is wrong. He hasn't seen anything. He is just lying. But I am not punishing him for that."

Translator to Schmidt: "I must have the right to say: You are a liar when you say what you say, without being punished."

Schmidt: "Oh, you won't be punished."

Rami: "I look upon him not as a... really..., but as a victim of brain-washing."

Translator to Schmidt: "He looks upon you as a victim of brain-washing."

Rami: "And I think we should start a deprogramming institution for the victims of Judaism."

(It was the autumn of 1990. Kuwait was occupied by Iraq. The US sent troops to Saudi. The world held it's breath. This is a draft for an agreement between the government of Iraq and the Anti-Zionist Legion in Germany, led by Lieutenant Michael Kühnen. Here prerequisites are listed for putting an armed volunteer corps of one hundred neo-nazi soldiers at the service of Iraq, to "fight the zionist, US- imperialist aggression." Then a hundred more are to follow from Great Britain and the USA. Prior to transport to Iraq they are to gather in Copenhagen or Stockholm.)

[The document is shown. It says, in German, what the narrator said it said.]

[Demonstration in favour of Rudolph Hess shown. The ex-East German neo-nazis meet their colleagues from ex-West Germany for the first time.]

[The end of the Munich meeting. A speaker declares its motto to be 'Warheit Macht Frei' (Truth gives liberty). During the singing of the German national anthem several persons in the audience perform the nazi salute, but cease when they see the camera. Afterwards a demonstration is shown where General Otto Ernst Remer, neo-nazi leader Michael Kühnen and David Irving participates.]

("Warheit Macht Frei". During more than two years, Michael Schmidt was confronted with their truths. But finally he found an old SS-officer, in Denmark. One of them, connected to the NSDAP-AO and the Revisionists. Wanted in Germany. He had worked in Auschwitz and written a book about it. He admitted that their truths were just fantasies: Thies Christophersen.)

[NSDAP-AO, NSDAP was the old original German Nazi party. AO means Exile Organization. Headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska and headed by Gary Lauck. The part of the documentary that exclusively is about the neo-nazis talks about it several times.]

Schmidt: "Were people gassed to death or not?"

Christophersen: "I didn't write anything about that in my report."

(In the report Auschwitz is described rather as a summercamp than an extermination camp.)

[Picture of book in German. Title: "Kritik, die Stimme des Volkes" ("Critic, The voice of the People") and containing the article "Die Auschwitz-Lüge" ("The Auschwitz-Lie") by Thies Christophersen.]

Schmidt: "What do you think about David Irving?"

Christophersen: "He is attacked because he is British. We dislike that he talks about German atrocities, even if they happened. But I'm partial, of course."

(This book has become the bible of those who want to deny the truth. But Christophersen admits that he knowingly warped the truth. The book doesn't mention any gaschambers so therefore they don't exist, the argument goes.)

Christophersen: "I want to defend us, but I can't deny what we really did. No defender brings forth that which is damaging to his cause. But I don't care. It would mean betraying my friends if I retracted anything now."

[The documentary ends with the following words:

"Now we can't say that we weren't warned."]

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