| See David Irving closing speech, page 31.
Website photo of Krema II, Leichenkeller 1, underside of roof A S Marques writes Friday, December 15, 2000 : YOUR comments on Charles Provan and his discovery of "holes" in the roof of Krema II are right on target. I had a brief email exchange with Provan in June this year [2000] and I got the impression that he was basically honest but quite naïve both in his views and in his expectations concerning the Auschwitz Museum authorities. He wrote to me, for instance, that "I decided to do my own survey because I was pretty sure that one of the eyewitnesses to the holes in the roof (Konrad Morgen) was telling the truth." |
Well, okay, one's first motivations, however naïve, do not necessarily imply that one's conclusions will not be honest. They may, however, throw a degree of suspicion over the level and quality of one's critical thinking, however well-intended. So, I sent for a copy of Provan's booklet No Holes ? No Holocaust? A Study of the Holes in the Roof of Leichenkeller 1 of Krematorium 2 at Birkenau (One Chapter of the Book entitled Revising Revisionism), available from the author, and I was again taken aback by the level of Provan's naïveté. For instance, he begins his booklet by dividing "witnesses" in two groups, one of which he labels "testimonies of lesser value", proceeding to explain why they should be labeled so. However, the ones he includes in the other group, apparently accepting them as legitimate ones with little or no hint of suspicion and labelled simply "eyewitnesses", include not only Konrad Morgen, but Rudolf Höss and such luminaries as Miklos Nyisly and Filip Müller... Concerning the famous holes, Provan found no less than eight of them. It's clear that by "holes" he means everything from cracks to post-war holes to gain access to the underground room. He does recognize this, and he acknowledges that there are bent rebars in one of the "holes" which he agrees must have been made after the war (this is the one that is most often shown as the genuine thing by the traditional friends of hole-riddled cabalistic thinking.) Another three, Provan says, are obvious products of the roof being demolished. But he claims the remaining last three are in positions largely agreeing with the eyewitness accounts. Though the eyewitnesses mention four holes for Zyklon B, he says he was unable to locate a suitable candidate for the fourth hole, since the roof was on edge, and the hole location under the surface of the rubble. His conclusion is this: since three suitable locations agree with the witnesses, with the fourth underground, it is now not correct for the Revisionist position to be "No Holes, No Holocaust." Again, it should be stressed that Charles Provan seems to be an honest individual. He mentioned Faurisson's criticism of his method in a letter to me, and indeed he agrees that he did not check the holes he claims to have found to ascertain the non-presence of rebars. He does recognize that if the Germans on duty had cut holes in the concrete, they would have had to remove the rebars in the holes in order to make them suitable for the introduction of Zyklon B. He also said he was hesitant to disturb the holes, so as not to disturb evidence and that he had written to the Auschwitz Museum (which he had heard was planning to disturb the site to find the holes) requesting that they conduct an "x-ray" study to check the pattern of the rebars, so as not to disturb the site. All very nice and commendable, but one must make two objections upon examination of Provan's photos and arguments:
So, the question should be the following, given the amazing shameless out-and-out constant falsifying concerning the gas chambers issue: is it really a good policy to encourage the Auschwitz Museum authorities to investigate on their own and to talk to them, as Provan does, as if they were thrustworthy and interested in honest inquiry ? |
But
Morgen, of course, is well-known precisely for, while
pretending to go along with his Allied captors, managing to
tell glaring Münchausen-like lies that no one accepts
any longer, devised to shift every conceivable guilt claim,
no matter how surrealistic, from the living persons
undergoing trial to the dead ones that could no longer be
reached. One example of this is his testimony concerning
Oscar Dirlewanger's permanently hard-pressed combat
group trying to make human soap out of Jewish fat in a large
bubbling cauldron in the middle of Warsaw (of all people,
times and places!), a worthy sequel to the now classic
stories of evil Herr Prof. Spanner and his supposed
human soap industrial research.
But,
alas, this is quite impossible to achieve for the moment
and all efforts should be deployed to avoid any tampering
with the current state of the location by professional
falsifiers of history that have to conform to (and impose
on others) the only story permitted by their own national
laws that forbid doubts about the "Holocaust". Provan
does not appear to realize that any present or future
Polish curator of the Auschwitz Museum that will say "I,
or my predecessors, have goofed in the past" will go
straight to jail as a "Holocaust denier", as indeed will
go any German or French investigators that do not conform
with the dogmas imposed by the law in their respective
countries. Right now, vigilance is all-important
and makeshift investigation from past falsifiers should
be avoided, unless (a very unlikely event) they were
allowed to proceed under the control of all the parties
interested. After the long history of tampering with the
main camp crematorium / air shelter, everything should be
expected.© Focal Point
2000 |
