Reader’s Mail to David Irving’s website about Auschwitz (January 2005)

about Auschwitz your Heinrich Himmler Index your Adolf Eichmann Index your your Rudolf Hoess Index your Hans Aumeier Index your Robert Jan Van Pelt Index Henry Barth challenges Monday, January 10, 2005, on “new documents” the BBC claims tohave discovered about Auschwitz. Huh. What about the new discoveries by the BBC television program on Auschwitz? The BBC is beginning a six-part documentary on Auschwitz on Tuesday (11 January).

These TV programs are needed because (as The Times alleges) “45 per cent of Britons have never heard of Auschwitz….” I read in The Times TV magazine on Saturday that the author of this series, Laurence Rees , has “accessed documents not previously seen by researchers in the West.” He used Soviet archives which are now open to researchers: “Thus Auschwitz is the first documentary to include the blueprints for the gas chambers and the plans for the layout of the camps.”

Mr Rees has also, according to The Times , uncovered ” Himmler ‘s appointments diary.” How have you managed to avoid these documents, proving the existence of gas chambers, in your research? Henry Barth