| London, September 29, 1992 Sir, Australians are of course familiar with me from my
several appearances on Jana Wendt's television programme and
hundreds of thousands of people have purchased my books. Your description of me as a man who states that the
Holocaust was a hoax will puzzle many people, and I feel it
important to set the record straight -- if only to
help you avoid the kind of legal actions now facing British
newspapers who have made the mistake of calling me in print
a "Hitler apologist", a "Holocaust denier" and even "the man
who authenticated the Adolf Hitler diaries." (I exposed
them, too, as fakes). My views are simple: after thirty years working in
archives of German documents, including those in Moscow, I
have found not one wartime document referring to "gas
chambers". Furthermore, there is no reference to any gassings in the
daily top secret reports from the commandant of Auschwitz,
Rudolf Höss, to his superiors in Berlin, which we
British decoded at Bletchley Park during 1942 and 1943. Furthermore, there is no significant trace of cyanide
residues (ferric ferrocyanide) in the fabric of the
buildings identified by popular Holocaust mythology as "gas
chambers" at the Auschwitz site; both forensic tests
published by "revisionists" and clandestine tests conducted
by the present Auschwitz authorities in 1989, have
established this fact beyond doubt. Those same authorities now admit that the gas chambers
they display to tourists are postwar fakes, like the
"execution wall". The eye-witness evidence does not, in the circumstances,
reflect well on the eye-witnesses. That having been said, let me make it plain that I have
also found in the archives abundant evidence that mass
shootings took place in Russia and the Baltic states, with
perhaps as many as 100,000 Jews and others perishing in this
way from 1941 to 1943. Clearly there is the substance for a compelling public
debate -- though this is not the topic of my forth
coming visit. If the organised Jewish community tries to suppress such
a debate, whether by violence, or window-smashing, or
blackmail (methods they have employed in Britain and North
America), they will only increase anti-semitism, which I
utterly deplore. Incidently, it is incorrect to state, as your article
does, that I am banned from Germany, Austria, Italy, and
South Africa: I spoke to a large audience in Germany only
last week, and I shall spend two months in South Africa
before visiting Australia. You are requested to publish the above as a Reader's
letter. Yours faithfully, |
David Irving 1998