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London, Tuesday, March 30, 2004  David
Irving comments: SO, the BBC are about
to make a film investigating Auschwitz,
one of the Great Mysteries of the world.
Is that not a triumph
for Revisionism of the first order? Real
History wins in the long run.
Despite the millions of
pages printed about the story of this
"factory of death," despite the eight
million dollars tipped into the British
High Court by Stephen Spielberg,
the World Jewish Congress, Edgar
Bronfman, and the rest of that noble
elite to tilt the cause of justice in the
Lipstadt libel action, the BBC shines
through as a champion of independent
thought.
We cannot help speculating however on how
far the BBC will actually get if it starts
to make the wrong noises for Hollywood, or
for the Polish authorities now managing
this lucrative business enterprise.
Remember that the
same BBC was refused permission by the
Polish Auschwitz authorities in 1998 to
film with me within their holy
perimeter.
Like the big Las Vegas
Casinos, the muscular Auschwitz
authorities only want the losers coming
within their doors; certain others are
turned over to the bouncers, and disbarred
from entering.
Hats off to the BBC
anyway, for venturing into this
minefield.
Like all my academic
friends at the time that I set out on the
crossing, I shall don a tin hat, and watch
with the utmost interest . . . from a
distance, through high-powered binoculars,
and wait for things to start
popping. |
BBC to broadcast
'definitive' history of Auschwitz by Owen Gibson
in Cannes THE BBC is making what it
describes as "the definitive television history of
Auschwitz
and the Nazi state", overseen by the man behind its
acclaimed wartime documentaries War of the
Century and Nazis - A Warning from
History. In a co-production with KCET Hollywood, the
corporation is planning to use dramatic techniques
and computer simulations such as those employed in
recent documentary hits such as Pyramid and
Colosseum to bring the full horror of the
Nazi concentration camps to the screens. A BBC spokeswoman said: "We will be using computer graphics to
give a feel for the structure and geography of
the camp. The dramatisation will deal with the
decision making processes and how Auschwitz
operated. We are not going to be dramatising the
suffering of the Holocaust victims in any way --
that would inappropriate." Unveiling the project at the MipTV festival in
Cannes, the corporation's commercial arm, BBC
Worldwide, said the story would be retold using
dramatic reconstructions of the "key moments of
decision" and computer graphics based on original
plans of the camp discovered by historians in the
1990s. Like other recent BBC reconstructions the
documentaries will also draw heavily on eyewitness
testimonies, using the accounts of Auschwitz
survivors to tell the tale. The series of six 50-minute programmes, which
will be aired on BBC2 next year, is being written
and produced by Laurence Rees, who also made
War of the Century and Nazis - A Warning
from History. Last year War of the Century put the
battle between Nazism and Stalinism under the
microscope in a four-part series, following on from
his Bafta award-winning 1997 series The Nazis -
A Warning from History. The BBC Worldwide chief executive, Rupert
Gavin, last night told MediaGuardian.co.uk that
following the success of the Walking With
Dinosaurs and Colosseum, documentary and
factual formats were becoming increasingly popular
exports. Other new documentaries from BBC Worldwide
include The Shadow of Ghengis Khan, a
co-production with the Discovery Channel and RTL,
and a new series from historian Michael Wood
with the working title Great Mysteries. In the former one-off documentary, digital
effects will be combined with live action footage
shot on location in the Asian Steppes to document
the notorious rise to power of Ghenhis
Khan. Great Mysteries, a four-part series, will search
for the truth behind some of the world's most
famous myths including Shangri-la, the Golden
Fleece, the Queen of Shreba and the Holy
Grail.
- To contact the MediaGuardian newsdesk email
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or phone 020 7239 9857
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publication, please mark clearly "for
publication".
- The address of Laurence Rees is BBCtv,
Kensington House, Richmond Way, London W14
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Our
website dossier on the Auschwitz
controversy-
July 1998: Auschwitz
authorities refused BBC Television permission to
film with David Irving within their
site.-
David
Irving writes to Producer Laurence Rees about
this project, Apr 2, 2004
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The
Krakau Trial of the Auschwitz Criminals: summary
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- Left: newsreel footage of the Krakau trial
of the Auschwitz officers.
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