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Letters to David
Irving on this Website


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Paul
Grubach

of Ohio , USA, writes about rumours of a book that says “the holes” are there if you know where to look for them


Questions about sealed holes in the concrete

I HAVE heard that Chuck Provan sent his research on the alleged holes of the “gas chamber” of Krema II to the
Auschwitz State Museum. Allegedly, the Auschwitz State
Museum used this and is suppose to make a big announcement that they “found” the “holes” for the
“introduction of Zyklon B into the gas chambers.”

I don’t know if this information if correct. Very briefly, what is your opinion of Provan’s research on this matter?

Paul
Grubach

WEBSITE
PHOTO: Charles
Provan at the Institute of Historical Review’s May 2000
convention in California (Picture:
CATHERINE
WEEKS)

DAVID
IRVING writes:

CHARLES Provan strikes me as a nice Christian guy, always anxious to please.

This sounds like just the break that Ronald
Lauder
and the Auschwitz museum authorities have been waiting for: They failed to find any trace of the holes themselves for fifty years, even at the height of the Lipstadt trial when the pressure was on; now along comes this nice family printer from a discarded iron town in a
Pennsylvania valley, and he thinks he has found them. All their Hanukkahs have come at once.

Not for nothing did they rule in 1998 that I was not to be allowed to set foot on the site (when the BBC wanted to film me at Krema
II)! David Irving

Source Information
Original Publication: 2000-12-16
Digital Archive: Focal Point Publications
Accessed: June 4, 2026