Index (continued) on the Auschwitz Controversies.

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• Nov 1999: Ground Radar Examination Finds No Trace of Mass Graves at Treblinka Site
• Hollywood invents a secret meeting which Adolf Hitler held in 1943 at Wannsee
• Jewish lawyer Rudolph Kasztner cut a $1.5m deal with Eichmann: hero or collaborator?
• Lohse's Remarks at a 1942 Göring Conference | Tsur replies | Debate continues
• CBS "60 Minutes" on John Sack's book (WJC's Steinberg said, "Eye-witnesses lie")
• Michael Mills offers more problems with believing Jan Karski about Belzec
• Questionable Response of Orthodox Jewry in the United States to the Holocaust: book causes outrage
• Vrba replies: Political Agenda
• Jan Karski Dies: Pole who brought word of Holocaust | Alan Heath writes in Defence of Karski | Alan Lloyd gives the lowdown on Karski | Ted O'Keefe adds more
• Text of a 1942 postcard written by an Auschwitz prisoner | Prisoners in Siberia not allowed to send postcards home
• Primo Levi, the Soviet fraudster Lysenko and the 1945 Soviet Commission of Inquiry
• Release of codebreaking documents on Oct. 1943 deportation of Roman Jews | Allies Knew of Plan for Italy's Jews
• Belated downfall of another Holocaust liar: "Popular [Baltimore] Holocaust Survivor Doubted" | Deli Strummer Addresses Her Critics' Allegations: Deli Survived, But Will Her Story? | Internet Neo-Nazis Avoiding Case
• Great Fakes of History: an incident after WW.II about the Nazi camps
• The Times reports, Apr 12, 2000: [At] the Auschwitz camp curators started to search for crematorium gas inlets to refute Mr Irving's courtroom claim that none could be seen. The results of the search are not yet known
• FDR and the Holocaust; and should Auschwitz have been bombed? (A 1997 debate)
• Germar Rudolf is compiling a list of obviously absurd eyewitness accounts. We will award the prestigious Elie Wiesel Prize for the best example
• Chris Turkington on the problem with burning bodies with 3.5kg of coke | Reinhard Tixel on the same problem
• U.S. Holocaust Museum demands Removal of Crosses from Auschwitz
• Holocaust author's house searched in fraud investigation
• Auschwitz state archives ban Mr Irving
• Belsen survivor recounts "gas chamber" experiences
• What Hitler's (and Himmler's) adjutant Karl Wolff wrote secretly about Auschwitz, 1952
• Dec 1941 SS police code messages about trainloads of Jews being shipped from Bremen and Berlin to the East -- well provisioned with food etc
• Using Ground Penetrating Radar to scan mass grave site at Treblinka, Poland
• Moscow document: Auschwitz report Nov 27, 1942 on Entlüftungen für Krematorien [comments please!]
• Topf engineer reports on completion status of five Auschwitz crematoria, Jan 29, 1943
• Nov 1989: David Irving's letter about the deathrolls in Auschwitz and Hamburg
• Document from Himmler's files reporting death rates in concentration camps 1942/3  

SPECIAL NOTE: It is here again fair to draw the attention of researchers to the voluminous "Nizkor" Website created in Canada by Webmaster Ken McVay, and substantially funded by Canada's B'nai Brith organisation [on which see CJN story]. On the Nizkor site will be found not only the "other side of the story" on Auschwitz, but extensive original English-language documents on the Australian, Canadian, and German cases brought against David Irving at the instance of the ADL or their local agents. Researchers are invited to compare Nizkor's document selection with those presented on this FPP site, and to draw their own conclusions.

Virtual Tour of Auschwitz site

The Northwestern University (USA) publication The Monitor (Jan 2001) announces the availability of a novel resource, "Last Expression: Art from Auschwitz". You can take at its web site a visual reality tour of the Auschwitz site. [The site is optimized for Explorer and Windows; for Explorer and Macintosh you need Quick Time which is bundled with all recent Macintoshes]. Click on "Virtual Tour", then choose "Auschwitz-Birkenau Tours". Then choose either Auschwitz I or Auschwitz II, but first read carefully the information on the right. After choosing you will see a map of the Nazi camp with several red dots. If you click on one of these red dots you will (after what seems like an eternity if you don't have a high speed Internet connection), see a photo of contemporary Auschwitz. By following the directions carefully, you can see a 360 degree parnoaramic view. There are no new revelations but it is nice to know about. [Posted Jan 22, 2001]

• Gestapo-chief Heinrich Müller (100) may be dead
• Summary of the 1947 British Army war crimes trial of officials of the Tesch & Stabenow firm, Hamburg | discussion of points raised in the evidence | reader's letter
• An expert writes on Gas Chambers and the Zyklon alphabet
• A GI's daughter asks about photos of Buchenwald
• Did Russians stage photographic scenes on liberation of Auschwitz?
• When was the word "Holocaust" first used in connection with the Jewish tragedy?
• Sept. 1999: Book by eye witness Jan Karski published in Poland
• Poland revokes permission for disco at Auschwitz
• Auschwitz killings allegedly mentioned by Jewish leaders to President Roosevelt on Dec. 8, 1942
• New [German] document found: Gauleiter Greiser speaks in Vienna on methods in the administration of occupied Poland
• Paris court tries Auschwitz SS doctor Münch for praising Nazis' extermination of gypsies; court asked to order psychiatric examination
• The Eichmann memoirs as published by Die Welt Aug 1999 in full [in German]
• Information that 70,000 survived Auschwitz of 4m who passed through
• David Meier reviews memoirs of Raul Hilberg, author of The Destruction of European Jewry
• IG Farben agrees to compensate former slave labourers at Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz "where 120,000 died"
• Execution photo shows German soldiers bristling with cameras; so where are the pictures of the Holocaust?
• Lawyer Amos Hausner, whose father prosecuted Adolf Eichmann in Israel opposed efforts to release Eichmann's memoirs | sons demand release of manuscript
• 1948 newsreel reported that Polish war crimes court found that "altogether nearly 300,000" died at Auschwitz | letter |
• Nizkor comments on IHR critiques of the statements of Auschwitz-Kommandant Rudolf Höss
• Robert Michael argues that the majority of Nazis condoned mass murder of the Jews
• Astonishment at number of 'survivor accounts' in late 1950s for Holocaust
• Eminent Prof Van Pelt reveals: When Auschwitz was transformed into a museum in 1948, the Poles decided to fake a crematorium-cum-gaschamber for the purpose
• Rabbi Riesenberg of Berlin said to have performed wartime services and even buried Jewish remains from the camp at Auschwitz
• Reviewing Gerald Fleming book, a NYT historian notes: No written order from Hitler commanding the Final Solution has survived.
• Facsimile of Heinrich Himmler report to Hitler on anti-Partisan warfare, Dec 29, 1942: we solicit comments from historians
• A sarcastic review of Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land, a collection of stories garnered by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk
• While Gabbai was in Auschwitz, he worked as an inmate moving bodies from the gas chambers to the crematoria
• In 1994, when the Spielberg movie Schindler's List won the Oscars, essayist Bradley Smith noticed that Thomas Keneally's novel was surreptitiously robbed of its fiction category
• Are there reports of further post war constructions at other camp sites than Dachau?

• Further information on the postwar construction of the Dachau crematoria
• David Irving answers questions from a London rabbi about proofs that Hitler ordered the extermination of the Jews, and the value of survivor testimony
• On Wilkomirski, Norman Finkelstein rebukes Israel Gutman
• The usual figure for Holocaust survivors after World War II is 250,000, points out Finkelstein, incl. 50,000 camp survivors. So how can there be four times as many survivors fifty years later?
• The Finkelstein family fully supports Prof. Norman Finkelstein in his attack on Daniel Goldhagen
• Israeli journalist Tom Segev shows how Holocaust expanded to a daily obsession.
• KZ prisoner Klein commends humanity of unidentified SS commander of Friedland concentration camp; David Irving on Dachau camp conditions
• At Zundel trial, eye witness Dr Russell Barton testifies that disease killed Nazis' prisoners at Bergen Belsen
• Mass gassings using hydrogen cyanide were impossible in the "Nazi gas chambers", a U.S. chemist testified
• March 1945 Red Cross report confirms Nazis maintained food supplies for prisoners until Allied bombing forced breakdown; and extra supplies of typhus vaccine being sent
• Brian A Renk, "The Auschwitz Zentralbauleitung Archive in Moscow. A Critique of Exterminationist Methodology" (1992)
• Tall story told by Prisoner-of-war Till under interrogation, Sept 1944
• Dr John Fox writes about Hitler's other War (on cancer)
• Extract from the ordinance issued on 3 March 1941, by Governor Waechter, with Krakow ghetto regulations on typhus control.
• Summary of excerpts from the Nuremberg 1946 interrogations of SS Sturmbannführer Rudolf Höss, erstwhile commandant of Auschwitz | A letter to The Glasgow Herald, about problems with the Höss memoirs | NY Times, Feb 9, 1999: At Nuremberg, Höss wanted to make one last thing clear, but even his translator found it incomprehensible. | But: "The first thing I would do would be to check the man's service record," writes a correspondent
• Himmler diaries 1941-2: reviewed, "Hangman for Hitler"
• The 1947 Nuremberg testimonies of Gottlob Berger (about deliberately exaggerated body counts by SS generals) | and of Victor Brack (about gas chambers in Euthanasia centres)
• Faked photos dossier: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum fakes a Dachau photo's date to rake in funds | David Irving's essay on photo forgeries (Bildfälschungen, in German) | In 1999 the Simon Wiesenthal Center published a faked Auschwitz photograph on its website | Fake photographs: that soldier shooting a women and child | How the Americans faked the film evidence at Nuremberg in November 1945 | and faked film of the "Gold Teeth" too | Caught red-handed: How German professor Eberhard Jäckel forged photographs for a television programme on the Holocaust | A Website visitor spots Something Odd about the gas-chamber door photograph displayed by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
• In a May 1989 letter to historian Rainer Zitelmann, David Irving sets out his early views on the Holocaust and the evidence
• The Schlegelberger document (spring 1942): Hitler has ordered postponement of Final Solution for duration of the war | dossier on the document's history [under construction] | At HQ dinner July 24, 1942 Hitler says he will tackle Jewish problem "nach Beendigung des Krieges" (after the war's over)
• David Irving's Letter to German newspaper 1982, lists the reasons why Historians have got it wrong on the Final Solution
• Prof Raul Hilberg, the leading expert, disagrees with Daniel Goldhagen on the chaos that was The Holocaust
• Michael Mills of Australia quotes an inoccuous example of the use of the word "Sonderaktion"
• Auschwitz latest: Poland To Protect Death Camp Sites
• Increasingly Nasty Squabbling between Holocaust scholars
• Dossier of interrogations on deputy Auschwitz commandant Hans Aumeier | comments on
• Statement by a Polish prisoner in France in July 1944, reporting on Sachsenhausen and goings-on at Auschwitz that he claimed to have heard about
• The Riegner dossier (he reports 1942 from Switzerland on Final Solution: but is it genuine?) | British Intelligence chief scoffs, Aug. 1943: "The Poles, and to a far greater extent the Jews, tend to exaggerate German atrocities in order to stoke us up. . ." | Ministry of Supply asks F.O. for evidence of gas chambers, Dec. 1944
• What Prof Raul Hilberg wrote to David Irving in 1975 | Hilberg admitted that he quoted "madman" Kurt Gerstein selectively | and that no scientific reports prove Jews were exterminated in Nazi gas chambers
• How Prof. Rudolf Vrba's testimony collapsed under 1985 Toronto cross-examination: he admitted he never saw actual gassing deaths | Vrba index
• The Auschwitz survivor Friedman "then agreed that perhaps Jews were not being burnt in the chimneyed buildings."
• More unlikely survivor stories from Birkenau
• Extract [in German] from the 1963 Frankfurt Auschwitz-trial judgement, indicates misgivings at the evidence of the "eye-witnesses".
• Extracts from the statement of Auschwitz motor pool driver Richard Böck, November 2, 1960
• Berlin radio signal Sept 15, 1942 orders a car from Auschwitz to Lodz (Litzmannstadt) and back to inspect a test station for "Operation Reinhard" field kitchens
• The Institut für Zeitgeschichte tells a Canadian inquirer the Auschwitz gas-chamber was "reconstructed" in the 1950s
• July 14, 1992: documents Prof. Gerald Fleming claims to have found in the secret Moscow archives, including "gas chamber" blueprints | Fleming supplies four Zyklon-B documents to Mr Irving as proof | but he ignores another one which undermines his argument
• Himmler writes to Finance Ministry, Aug 17, 1942, about plan to transport French Jews via Auschwitz to the Reich
• Dr Adalbert Rückerl, chief of Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen, wrote to Irving in Oct 1979 defending his usage of the Gerstein Report [in German]
• David Irving wrote to The Times, March 21, 1991, reporting Polish tests on the Auschwitz site
• September 1944 interrogation of a prisoner held at Auschwitz September - November 1941 | Interrogation of Gauleiter Albert Hoffmann on visit to Auschwitz with Himmler and Bracht
• Could Auschwitz prisoners write letters?
• Prof Hans Mommsen: Was there a Hitler Order? [in German]
• British chief rabbi criticises Holocaust "industry": "Oberrabbiner bezweifelt Einmaligkeit des Holocaust"
• Discharge note for a prisoner routinely released from Auschwitz II (Birkenau) camp in June 1944
• Dossier: Did the Nazis make lampshades from human skin?
• When Göring ruled that Field-Marshal Milch was not a Jew ... | correspondence on Jews in the Wehrmacht
• Massive new history of Nazis' Belsen camp confirms: no gas chambers, not a death camp
• DAVID IRVING: Ein Beitrag zur Problematik der Niederschrift Franke-Grieksch
• "Jews-into-soap" lie: origins (December 4, 1942) | finally nailed, April 25, 1990
• Prof. Breitmann says British secret service concealed extermination of Jews for a year
• Documents on the Leuchter Report | A 1991 critique of the Leuchter Report, and a phoney SS "crematorium" document exposed [in German].
• A May 1945 Report by U.S. Psychological Warfare on the Auschwitz Camp, on the basis of prisoners and other Intelligence
• Fred Sarne remembers the January 1945 death march of 60,000 survivors from Auschwitz into Nazi Germany
• Buchenwald concentration camp: a dossier
• Himmler is asked Oct. 1942 if concentration camps can deposit dental gold from dead prisoners at Reichsbank, as they already have 50 kilos (i.e. from perhaps 100,000 dead)
• Auschwitz death roll: a dossier on the statistical issues and related controversies
• Conversation of Lt Gen Werner Bruns overheard on April 25, 1945: he witnessed the mass shootings at Riga November 1941
• Notes on Konrad Morgen, who investigated the camps for the SS
• Notes on Richard Korherr, Himmler's statistician | Richard Korherr wrote letter to Der Spiegel in Jul. 1977 protesting against false interpretation of word Sonderbehandlung
• What happened at Babi Yar in 1941? Using air photos and wartime newspapers, Ukrainian writer MICHAEL NIKIFORUK attacks a few myths about a wartime atrocity
• First report in Pravda, February 2, 1945: "The Factory of Death at Auschwitz" (translated)
• Excavations at Belzec Camp Reported. With comment by ACTION REPORT.
• Heinrich Himmler orders Heydrich "no liquidation" of Berlin trainload of Jews, November 30, 1941; more Himmler documents on Hitler's role, including the latest finds from the Moscow secret archives
• Dossier on the January 20, 1942 Wannsee Conference | What did Goebbels know of the Wannsee Conference?
• A Preview Excerpt from David Irving: Churchill's War, vol. ii, about Auschwitz, and the Typhus Epidemic | and, proof that the Polish Underground was deliberately spreading typhus among occupation forces 1942-43
• A present-day controversy: The Cross at Auschwitz, as reflected in a news item in The Oregonian, April 12, 1998("Polish Catholics guard cross at Auschwitz death camp").
• British interception and deciphering of German SS and Police Unit radio messages, 1941 - 1945 | Excerpt from Official History of British Intelligence, vol. ii, concludes there is no Codebreaking Evidence for Existence of Gas Chambers.
• US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC, confirms, January 28, 1998, that nobody was gassed at Dachau; ducks question as to authenticity of "gas chamber" door displayed in museum
• Speaking of Dachau, what really happened when US troops liberated the camp in April 1945? How many German prisoners did they shoot?
• David Irving writes a little essay on the meaning of ausrotten -- exterminate, eradicate, extirpate, uproot, or get rid of. | Himmler's use of the word, February 1944 | Langenscheidt dictionary (1974) on meaning of Ausrottung

• David Irving writes to Professor Christopher Browning of Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington; and gets no reply.
• "The March of the Living," Miami Herald report, April 29, 1996; and AR comment on psychological brainwashing techniques now used on Auschwitz tour groups.
• January 19-25, 1995: Eric Conan reports in L'Express, Paris, that everything about Auschwitz I is "fake;" and -- the shamefaced Polish authorities admit it | Robert Faurisson comments on the Auschwitz article in L'Express.[ with French original text.]
• The meaning of the German word Sonderbehandlung -- special treatment.
• David Irving writes to Professor Robert Van Pelt, Canadian expert on the architecture of Auschwitz, author of the book Auschwitz from 1270 to the Present (Yale University Press, 1997). (With appended a letter from David Irving to a colleague, the late Professor Klaus Herrmann, a Jewish professor of history at the University of Montreal, October 18, 1987).
• David Irving publicly challenges Daniel Goldhagen: extract from his private diary, November 16, 1997;
• Richard S Levy reviews Goldhagen: Hitler's Willing Executioners
• Der Spiegel interviews Ruth Birn about Goldhagen's attempts to stifle scholarly criticism [also English translation] with German original text.
• What did Hitler confide to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem on November 25, 1941?
• New York Times, January 21, 1998: "Hitler's Genocide Order: 5 Days After Pearl Harbor?": Christian Gerlach's thesis based on the December 18, 1941 Himmler document | Dr John Fox comments on this | Another comment | Prof. Michael H. Kater (Toronto) admits: "Looks as if David Irving can still not shell out" -- as no documents yet qualify for the reward offered for proving Hitler's guilt
• To Whom Does History Belong? Fox gives an inside view of a "conspiracy"
• The views of Andreas Hillgruber on the Final Solution
• A National Archives researcher has to report that there are not many actual photos of atrocities
• How David Irving replied to Lucy Dawidowicz's smear in "The Holocaust and the Historians"
• Documents from the Moscow Archives: a dossier | Gerald Fleming boasts in the Jewish Chronicle, July 1992, on his Auschwitz document finds in the Moscow archives
• Thou Shalt Have No Other "Holocaust" but Ours. Comment on an article by Irish historian Chris Monash
• Kristallnacht 1938, the Night of Broken Glass: Hess orders the madness halted "on highest orders" | Goebbels orders a halt too
• British Government regulations issued in 1946 for the Safe Use of Hydrogen-Cyanide for the Fumigation of Ships | American government requirements, specifying Zyklon B | 1942 Auschwitz instructions following an accident to an SS man during fumigation
• Security concerns about use of cyanide in US penitentiary gas chambers, June 1998 | U.S. prison warden Bill Armontrout tells Zündel court about perils of gas chamber operation
• London Daily Telegraph reports, October 1998: US Student's cyanide suicide gasses nine others
• David Irving writes 1994 to The West Australian, about identical quantities of Zyklon-B canisters shipped to Auschwitz and Oranienburg (a non-"gas-chamber" camp)
• July 23, 1998: BBC TV is Banned from Bringing David Irving to Auschwitz! [Press Release | Index to documents] He says: "I feel like a gambler, banned from all the big Las Vegas casinos, because I keep winning! They only want to let the losers in."
• Revisionist essays on gas-tight bunker shelters at Auschwitz and elsewhere
• Documents from the Moscow archives on Auschwitz air-raid shelters with German original text. 
• John Ball's expert interpretation, Air Photo Evidence, of the wartime aerial reconnaissance photographs of Auschwitz and other Nazi and Allied "death camp" sites. [Foreign-language versions: German | Swedish]
• David Irving writes to (ADL member) Ronald Jacobs, lawyer, Connecticut about death camps
• David Irving drafts an edition of the Adolf Eichmann dictations and transcripts, 1955 - 1956 | Introduction by Mr Irving [drafted in German ] to these Eichmann papers.
• David Irving's April 1988 testimony in the trial of Ernst Zündel (150 pp) [320 K] [Toronto Star and Globe & Mail, April 23, 1988: report on above in German]
• Excerpts from the stenographic Diary of SS Sturmbannführer Rudolf Brandt, Heinrich Himmler's assistant, 1942, in so far as they relate to Auschwitz. (With a letter from David Irving to Holocaust scholar Dr John Fox appended).
• Kasimierz Smolen, former Auschwitz Kapo, lectures to Schoolchildren in Germany, 1997
• Items about Anne Frank
• Summaries of Statements of Wilhelm Höttl (source of the Six Million figure)
• Alexander Mayer, Jewish-born Director of Progen, ("Project Genocide"), writes on June 21, 1998, about Romanian documents suggesting that Hitler did know of Final Solution; and June 22, 1998 about the possibility that Auschwitz deportees were sent to Transnistria instead | Comments by US Holocaust Memorial Museum on this ugly possibility.
• Materials on the Kharkov Trials, 1943
• After reading The Leuchter Report Lord Donaldson, Britain's most senior High Court judge, writes to David Irving in June 1990 "I think there is a case, for history's sake, for a full inquiry" into Auschwitz
• The Faking of Hitler's 1945 Last Testament, and who faked it
• What Gitta Sereny wrote of Hitler's knowledge in 1981 in "The Albert Speer I knew"
• The September 21, 1989 Tass announcement of discovery of 46 Auschwitz death-books
• "More women died on the back seat of Edward Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than in that 'gas chamber'." Reply to Auschwitz-I commandant's daughter, whose mother says "those were not there"
• The best known historians of the Nazi era "are now Goldhagen and the British writer David Irving."
• Stories from Auschwitz: how one woman survived by crawling beneath the "gas ovens"