 David Irving[Photo by Michael Hentz for The New York Times
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August 12, 1992 READER'S
LETTER Dear
Sir, EXTERMINATION
OF THE JEWS Your reader
David Syme (August 7) asks why I am not impressed by
the "confessions"
of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess that he gassed
two million people in the camp between June 1941 and the end
of 1943. I have many reasons, but let me just list these:
Hoess told fellow prisoners he was brutally tortured by both
his British captors and the Poles, who had forced him to
write the "confession". Even the present Auschwitz archives
would not dream of claiming "two million" -- so why did he!
Hoess's own
daily statistical
reports
to his chiefs in Berlin, enciphered in top secret S.S.
Enigma code, were read regularly by the British
codebreakers: they refer to the horrifying death toll from
epidemics (hence the tons of Zyklon pesticide shipped to the
camp), and to a few executions by hanging and shooting, but
"there is no reference to any gassings" (as the British
Official Historians themselves point
out.)
Moreover, Hoess's dates are quite impossible. Any historian
who uncritically relies on Hoess's "confession" needs to be
defrocked. Yours
sincerely, DAVID
IRVING back
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