The ADL: More about the “monitors” — Jan 2005

" The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai Brith, USA other traditional enemies of Free Speech: Anti-Nazi League Australian Government Australian B'nai Brith Anti-Defamation Commission Board of Deputies of British Jews Center for Democratic Renewal, Atlanta 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 German Government Jewish Telegraph Agency Searchlight and Gerald Gable Simon Wiesenthal Center Surfwatch Internet censorship Posted Wednesday, April 7, 1999 The Traditional Enemies of Free Speech try to destroy David Irving:- January 30, 1985 What Hitler Knew and When he Knew it Date: January 30, 1985 , Wednesday, Late City Final Edition Section A; Page 22, Column 4; Editorial Desk Byline: To the Editor: HITLER and the Final Solution by Gerald Fleming ("Books of the Times," Dec. 28) is a welcome addition to the literature of the Holocaust, with its scholarly treatises on Hitler's personal responsibility for the extermination of European Jews.

In reviewing Mr. [sic] Fleming's book, D. J. R. Bruckner noted that David Irving argues in his 1977 book, " Hitler's War ," that Hitler did not know of the extermination of European Jews until late 1943. Mr. Bruckner described Mr. Irving's "thesis" as "provocative." That hardly seems to be the word for it. Some others come to mind: such as "ludicrous," which is what the chief researcher for Mr. Irving's book called the writer's conclusions; such as "preposterous," which is how Lucy Dawidowicz , the historian of the Holocaust, described the Irving book and its theme; such as "absurd," which is what Werner Koppen , one of Hitler's adjutants, called Mr. Irving's contention. Serious historians are not engaged in the question whether or not Hitler ordered the "Final Solution." Rather, they seek to determine when his controlling decision materialized.

The "revisionist" thesis which David Irving presents has been refuted by responsible historians, the latest of them being Gerald Fleming. ABRAHAM H. FOXMAN Associate National Director Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith New York, Jan. 15, 1985