August 13, 2002 (Tuesday)
Key West (Florida)

A LONG rambling call in German from Anneliese in Victoria, BC: her hip operation failed, has had to be re-operated etc. And in what name to make out the regular Money Orders. It is however nice to talk in person with these dear old supporters of mine.

In the mail is a photocopy of a learned paper tucked away in Osteuropa's issue for May 2002, a respected German journal on eastern Euroepan history (DVA), Fritjof Meyer, a leading editor of Der Spiegel, quietly abandons Krema II at Auschwitz as a gas chamber, saying -- on the basis of Pelt's latest research finds -- that it was never used, and only being prepared for possible use as one (yeah, right); until now, it was claimed that a million souls perished in that underground mortuary, with cyanide dropped through holes in the roof. We even had video, which I showed in court, of Professor Robert Jan Van Pelt sobbing on the roof of Krema II and calling this building the epicenter of the world's genocide history.

Now Meyer writes that all the killings, such as they were, were done off site in the two "bunkers" (i.e. the converted peasant cottages of which the Auschwitz officials Aumeier and Höss both talked, and which I freely agreed at the trial may have been used on a modest scale for gassings). That is, unless I have read the paper completely wrongly. Meyer also cuts the number killed there from 4,000,000 to not much over 300,000, which is close to what the Kraków Trial found in 1947. [Video, 2.6MB, Avi]

In delicious vignettes, Meyer reveals too that

• until the Soviet collapse in 1989 Auschwitz staff were promised instant dismissal if they publicly doubted the figures: but he himself still goes on to quote as an authority the very Auschwitz official, Franciszek Piper, a communist (and Jewish) "historian", who issued the threats of dismissal; and that
• my old enemy and rival, the late Martin Broszat, quietly deleted from his "scientific" publication of the Rudolf Höss memoirs all the blatantly phoney figures which might otherwise have aroused scepticism.

Gradually the ducks are waddling into a row. Of course it would be nice if Pelt had admitted this in the Lipstadt trial: Mr Justice Gray could surely not have then found against me. But his paymasters would have been none too happy, I suppose.

I don't recall seeing this May article blazoned in headlines around the world the same way that my financial devastation and eviction that month were.

August 14, 2002 (Wednesday)
Key West (Florida)

I sit up until long past midnight scanning, correcting and posting the German-language article by Fritzjof Meyer on my website, with a user-friendly annotations system. I alert Mark Weber at the IHR to the posting, and he replies overnight: "This is terrific -- amazing even. We are all in your debt for scanning and posting this latest revisionist breakthrough."

I agree. Another breakthrough. The Battleship Auschwitz is still sinking after all -- if it has not been sitting, just upright, on the sandy bottom ever since 1988, already mortally torpedoed by Fred Leuchter: just like the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth in Alexandria, holed in 1942 by an Italian Navy one-man-torpedo team (a feat which Bill Clinton would nowadays have called "cowardly and despicable").

I write this introduction to the Meyer article on my website, tacking on to it my rare logo: So who's right then?

THIS was precisely the position that I adopted in the Lipstadt Trial: that there had been NO mass killings in Krema II, and any gassings that did occur were in the so-called "bunkers" outside the camp.

It is a pity that Meyer lacks the courage of his convictions. Having attacked me gratuitously in his opening paragraphs, in order to earn the right to probe into the taboo subject of the Auschwitz death-toll at all, he approvingly quotes Mr Justice Gray's perverse Judgment, on the absurdity of even questioning the homicidal nature of Krema I and II, -- and then proves quite brilliantly that (contrary to what Prof Van Pelt argued in his expert witness report and during the Lipstadt trial) I was in fact right: The killing, such as it was, was done off-campus in the two Bauernhäuser outside the camp perimeter, and not in the big concrete state-of-the-art crematorium (Krema) buildings.

I have always argued that the original Holocaust figures are probably exaggerated by a factor of ten, and Meyer's article also supports this proposition.

Published without any fuss in May 2002, Meyer's paper is nonetheless a noteworthy breakthrough, and a victory for revisionism and Real History (but won at what a price...)

Somebody in Finland tells me that all the trial transcripts have vanished from the Internet website where we posted them. That will be my next task. Putting them back. .

 

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