A S Marques comments on a Berlin eyesore, Lea Rosh, Holocaust posters, and mountains of shoes; to which Mr Irving makes an appropriate response

South-American explorer and Nuremberg
IMT star witness.

Yes, the folks are slightly doctored in the picture, but the poster is absolutely correct.

Best wishes,

A
S MarquesPortugal

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Irving comments:

GOOD THAT you mention those mountains of shoes. We have no real idea where the ones on display at the Auschwitz tourist center came from, forensically speaking.

We do know that outer clothing including footwear was routinely removed from the bodies of
German air raid victims, including thirty tons of clothing from those killed in the
Dresden air raid alone, and turned over to recycling agencies.

As for the mountains of shoes of Holocaust victims, these figured prominently in the alleged report of SS officer Kurt
Gerstein, of which Professor Christopher
Browning tried to introduce doctored quotations in his evidence in the Lipstadt
Trial. His first version of his expert evidence omitted the statistics like those below altogether,
I wonder why?

Here are the relevant extracts from my cross examination of him, in the verbatim transcripts, and my closing speech to the Court in March 2000:

Day
017: David Irving cross examining Prof.
Browning. “The following day Gerstein drove
to Treblinka where the gassing facilities were
larger and he saw, you quote, veritable
mounds of clothing and underwear 115 to 130 feet
high.“”

I pointed out of the Court Rooom window, and invited Browning to guess how high the adjacent
Court building was, and to state whether he really uncritically believed that the mound of shoes could be taller than that.

Day
029: “Even the Gerstein report that you
have, which is an alleged eyewitness account,
had, of course, a ‘130 foot high mountain of
shoes.'”

Day
032, closing speech: “The fictional elements in their statements – your Lordship will remember the “130 foot high mountain of clothes” which Professor Browning in his first draft skipped over, the “electrocution chambers” and the “steam chambers”, the deliberately inflated death rolls which would otherwise shriek their warnings to critical researchers – are either ignored or suppressed in order to maintain appearances.”

© Focal Point 2005 David Irving