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some traditional enemies of Free Speech: Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai Brith, USA Australian B’nai Brith Anti-Defamation Commission Board of Deputies of British Jews Canadian Jewish Congress Canadian League of Human Rights of the B’nai Brith Coalition for Human Dignity, Oregon Community Security Trust of Board of Deputies Jewish Telegraph Agency Searchlight and Gerald Gable Surfwatch Internet censorship FOR THIRTY-FIVE years author David Irving has kept a
private diary. It has proven useful in countless actions. For the information of his many supporters he publishes an edited text in his irregular newsletter ACTION REPORT. ugust 1999 Key West, Florida A GARBLED message from the BBC reaches me in Key West — they have “had a message from the Auschwitz mus. . .” I can only surmise what the rest is: I am banned from the site , truly a scandal. Another “first”? Yes indeed.
Without explanation, a brief refusal by the Auchwitz museum to let me anywhere near the site. What a disgrace for them. What are they hiding? What are they afraid of? There are disturbing signs that the Australian government is blocking access to my Website. But every day now three or four new people around the world are registering to go on the mailing lists. Most impressive. I e-mail to Benté: I am about to set out on the great drive up to Canada and back.
Phone call from Barbara C ., she has had a letter from a lady in Vienna who worked in her father’s office ( Arthur Liebehenschel , commandant of Auschwitz). Speaks highly of him, was deprimiert when the Poles sentenced him to death. Benté faxes through from London the actual letter from Auschwitz, stating the ban: terse and without reason. How humiliating — for them! AislinN phones around, getting e-mail addresses of newsdesks.
I have a lie down in the Mosquito Room after lunch and then at five we send out a press release. What cowards the media are: great issues involving freedom of speech and historical research right under their noses, and — frightened to say so. The veto itself reminds me of Nevada casinos which ban big winners; same now with Germany’s Bundesarchiv and Auschwitz — they can’t afford to let me in! Pick up a rental Lincoln Town Car for the great odyssey at 5:30 p.m.
Old-style one, thank goodness. An e-mail from Beatrice in Brisbane, Australia: Daddy, A friend told me she saw in yesterday’s Courier Mail that the BBC wanted to do a documentary on Auschwitz with you as narrator but the Auschwitz authorities wouldn’t permit it. Is this true? Indeed. I set out at one p.m, and arrive at Tampa at 10:45. Next day: a good function. About 100 there, good book-sales. Young men, well dressed in suits or blazers, standing impassively at the corners.
No Skinheads, neo-Nazis, thugs, or jackboots in evidence — though no doubt the local press will tell its readers otherwise. I am back at Key West at 5:30 p.m. Drive straight through, stopping once near Fort Myer and once in the Everglades. Now the London newspapers are reviewing Ron Rosenbaum ‘s book The Hitler of History ; a nice reference to me by Norman Stone in last week’s Sunday Times.
Ralph phones: under pressure from “the community” (unspecified) the Day’s Inn at Rocky Point has caved in and cancelled our booking. The traditional enemy of free speech, busy as ever. In the evening, we mail invitations to Canadians in Ontario and Québec to come to my Niagara Falls meeting. N. writes me, “I have access to people in Moscow with one million captured Nazi documents they are selling.” Problem is, an Israeli outfit is also after them.
N. says he has seen 35 mm Soviet-made “microfilms” — in fact strips of film stapled together end to end. I warn of possible scams. N., a teacher, reads German, says he read one file of an SS man right through to 1944. Drive