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Ivan
Brkich of
Queensland, Australia, asks important questions on behalf of students at his college about the Holocaust.

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Norway and the Holocaust

Subject: The Holocaust Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:06:14
+1000 From: ” IVAN BRKICH” <> To:
<[email protected]>

Dear Mr. Irving

My
Year 11 Modern History class at Varsity College on the
Gold Coast Queensland Australia is studying a Unit in
Modern History called Nationalism and
Internationalism. Nazi Germany is the focus of this study. We have examined the totalitarian and nationalistic characteristics of Germany during this time. Naturally, we have also investigated the Holocaust.

During this investigation, I have endeavoured to present opposing viewpoints with the intent that the students determine/assess the reliability of evidence. Presenting opposing viewpoints to traditionally accepted viewpoints found in textbooks has been difficult given that the websites we have wanted to access whilst at school have been designated as aggressive sites and access to these sites has been denied to us.

Hence, the reason for my email. My class has compiled the following email and would appreciate a response from you at your earliest convenience. Due to the fact that I cannot email you from school, I am emailing you from my personal email address.

Their letter is as follows:

We are a Year 11 Modern History class currently studying
Totalitarian Nationalism with a particular focus on Nazi
Germany. We are writing to gain your feedback on a number of issues/beliefs that have arisen during the course of our study. While traditional texts have portrayed the
Jews as victims of a repressive Nazi regime, revisionist sites on the internet have cast doubt and confusion amongst the students within the class in relation to several topics.

We would like clarification on the following areas:

1. Gas Chambers: We watched a video of an
   interview you had with Mike Willisee on ‘A
   Current Affair‘ some ten years ago during which
   you debated a Ms Kitty Altman (an Auschwitz
   survivor) who insisted that the gas chambers existed.
   During this interview, you made the claim that
   crematoriums do not smoke and challenged the
   Australian public to visit their local crematoriums to
   see for themselves.

   While this may be true now due to
   advances in technology, crematoriums today are quite
   different to what they were during The Second World
   War. Is it not feasible that the crematoriums such as
   those used by the Nazis did indeed smoke. How do you
   account for the gas chambers in evidence at Auschwitz?
   How do you account for all the images that clearly
   depicted the use of gas chambers?

   On what basis do you
   dispute the existence of gas chambers when Rudolph
   Höss himself admitted to setting up
   extermination buildings and using Zyklon B as a method
   of execution at Auschwitz? Höss makes the claim
   that one of the greatest assets of Auschwitz was
   “building our gas chambers to accommodate 2000 people
   at a time.” (Nuremberg Document PS 3868). How do you
   explain this?

   We have also watched a Sidney
   Bernstein video called ‘Genocide’ (which
   highlighted the existence of the gas chambers) and an
   account by Rudolph Höss (Nuremberg Document
   PS-3868) also appears to confirm the existence of gas
   chambers. Can you please comment on this? How do you
   account for Allied troops’ claims that ash from the
   sky was falling on them as they approached some of the
   extermination camps?

   How do you account for the
   quantities of Zyklon B found at the various ‘death
   camps’?

2. Number of Deaths: In your 1995 interview
   with Ron Casey, when asked what was your
   estimate of the number of Jews killed during Hitler’s
   regime, you stated, “A minimum of 1 million and a
   maximum of 4 million Jews killed. Depending on what
   you mean by killed.”

   Taking the worst case scenario
   ie: your figure of 4 million killed, what number died
   from (1) diseases (2) starvation, (3) gassing and (4)
   various extermination methods accepted by revisionists
   such as firing squads? What sources/evidence are you
   referring to when you are determining your figures?
   For what reason(s) is there such a large discrepancy
   between the figures that you provide in relation to
   the Holocaust and the figure used in history
   textbooks?

   From the sources we have viewed in
   textbooks, the number of Jews killed is said to be
   approximately 6 million. Our studies have given us
   reason to believe that 68% of the Jewish population
   perished during World War 2. In our textbook, it is
   stated that 88% of the 3,300,000 Jews living in Poland
   were executed which greatly exceeds your minimum
   estimate of 1 million.

   Can you please explain how you
   came by your figure of the number of Jews who were
   executed?

3. Zyklon B: The history textbooks, videotapes
   and various internet sites reaffirm the use of Zyklon
   B in the gassing of Jews and others. R. Höss
   refers to Zyklon B during his Nuremberg
   trial during which he graphically explained the
   gassing procedure, i.e. how long it took the prisoners
   to die and what happened to the bodies afterwards. Can
   you please comment on this?

   The revisionist sites that
   we have visited claim that Zyklon B was used to
   delouse prisoners and to control the vermin within the
   camps. Do you have any evidence of this whereby
   Höss and other camp commandants make specific
   reference to such uses of Zyklon B to control the
   problem in their correspondence with their superiors?

   We have also read that, after experiments, it became
   clear to German officials that Zyklon B could be used
   to exterminate undesirables more effectively than
   other methods that were being used such as firing
   squads. Please comment. Furthermore, you have based
   much of your rejection of the use of Zyklon B for
   gassing purposes on scientific evidence although none
   of this is referenced. Can you please provide this
   scientific evidence or direct us to where it can be
   found?

   Finally, during the Willisee interview, you
   stated, “there is no significant trace of cyanide gas
   found in the remains of the gas chambers.” Is this an
   acknowledgement of the existence of gas chambers? You
   also claimed that an independent had reported that
   these findings had been supported by the findings of a
   Polish team of investigators. What were their
   qualifications? Who asked them to investigate and
   submit a report? To whom did they report?

   Where can
   their report be found?

4. Method of Execution: According to sources
   such as our textbook, Inquiry 1, by Brian
   Hoepper (et al), and the website Body Disposal
   at Auschwitz; The End of the Holocaust Denial
   (http://www.holocaust-history.org/auschwitz/body-disposal/)
   , evidence suggests that the method of execution did
   indeed involve gas chambers.

   The testimonies of the
   survivors appear to substantiate the claim yet, during
   your interview with Willisee, you reject the use of
   gas chambers and allege that other methods were used.
   Can you please provide evidence which allowed you to
   come to this conclusion?
   Can you please reply asap as our class continues to
   debate these issues and others as we analyse the
   evidence we are coming across from a variety of
   sources?

This ends the email compiled by my students. They are eagerly awaiting your response. I thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide my students as they struggle to come to terms with ‘the truth’.

Ivan
Brkich

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