NOBODY
is accusing Simon Wiesenthal (right) of
being mendacious, a forger, or a fraudster.
Nobody blames him for leasing his name for
$50,000 a year (the last time the figure was
revealed) to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, or
that the SWC sells concessions to that name
around the world. It is a money-making business
like any other.
It is his reputation for
integrity and honesty which concerns us here. In
1946 he published memoirs, "KZ Mauthausen". In
that book he reproduced a sketch which he
claimed to have made from memory in 1945, of
bestial executions carried out by the Nazi
guards.
Alas, many of his readers had file copies of
Life magazine, and his sketch -- which he
also used on the cover of his book -- jogged
memories: memories of three young German
soldiers, whom their commanders had sent across
the lines in captured US uniforms on sabotage
missions, during the famous Ardennes offensive
of December 1944. Sentenced to death by a US
court martial under the laws of war, they asked
only one last favour: to hear the Christmas
Carol Silent Night sung one last time,
before they were shot.
A CRUEL forgery therefore? It should not
surprise us. The Wiesenthal center trades in
forgeries and faked photos as long as it can get
away with them. [Another
example]
Around
the world, the Simon Wiesenthal Center serves up
Six Million Lies, Exaggerations, and Legends about
the Holocaust daily
write
to David Irving