[images added by
this website] I
witnessed, from a distance, the utter
devastation of
Europe. . .
 Sydney, Australia, Monday, September 3, 2007
[The
traditional enemies are now muzzling Free Speech in
Australia] by Barry Cohen IT'S not difficult to understand
why they call it the Hitler Channel. Anyone
watching Foxtel's History Channel could be forgiven
for believing history began in September 1939 and
finished in May
1945.  David
Irving repeats: AN interesting object
lesson in AWPOW -- Are We Powerful or
What?
The two-hour film
edition of Hitler's War was produced by a
reputable Scots production company,
Lamancha Productions Ltd., and has been
marketed worldwide by Castle Hill Films.
It has been shown scores of times on
national television channels, including
PBS in the United States and even in
Israel.
Now come these worthy
gentlemen in Australia, and we need not
even speculate as to what particular
species of gentlemen they are: they crook
one finger, and the supremely unworthy
gentlemen of Australian television come
cringing and groveling and gibbering, and
they promise never, ever to show that
particular film again.
Nobody has ever
suggested that it contains any of the
defects mentioned by these objectors. So -
what is it that they are objecting to?
And can the protestors,
with their pea-sized brains, encompass the
thought that by their worldwide behavior
they are perhaps conjuring up and calling
down upon themselves and their more
innocent fellows, a few years hence, yet
another of those atrocities that they call
a Holocaust, while they snivel once again:
Why Us?
  Oxford
student Louise clutches a copy of the
banned video, Hitler's War, when
she meets author David Irving at a
militaria show in Kent, July
2007
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Five to 10 hours a day of Adolf, Hermann,
Heinrich and Rudolf is [sic]
standard fare. So it was that I found myself doing
my daily exercise, on the remote control, when I
happened upon a World War II documentary with which
I was not familiar. Despite having watched endless World War II
documentaries, I am never bored with the subject.
They start badly but always have a great ending. If
that sounds like I'm a vengeful bastard, then so be
it. Those who share my enthusiasm will be familiar
with much of the archival material. Hitler
at Nuremburg, at Berchtesgaden, in Paris gazing at
the Eiffel Tower, canoodling with the lovely Eva
Braun, and so on. It's the new archival material, however, that
fascinates. Hitler's War, as it was titled,
contained many familiar snippets but this one was
subtly different. Hitler was not portrayed as the
monster we know him to have been. Instead, we saw
an avuncular character, shaking the hands of his
troops, patting Hitler youths on the cheek,
socialising at his Wolf's Lair hideout and
generally being a jolly nice chap. Constantly
repeated was the claim that he did not want war
with the admirable British. On the contrary, he
thought they should be on the same side fighting
the Bolsheviks. The Jews were something
else again. The anti-Semitic tirades, while
almost certainly Hitler quotes, were not
identified as such. They were left to hang in
the air without attribution. No mention was made of the murder of millions of
Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, Russians, Poles, social
democrats, communists and anyone else who Hitler
regarded as Untermenschen (sub-human).
[Website comment:
Cohen is lying. Anybody who has seen the DVD video
knows that these atrocities are fully
described.] One group that did well was the lovely and
talented Schutzstaffel. Nice, clean-cut
lads, loyal to the Fuhrer, they were portrayed as
Germany's finest: sort of adult boy scouts. Not bad
for a bunch of sadistic mass murderers. It was at
odds with my image of the SS. I shared the view of
the professor Frank Knopfelmacher, who
suggested that those in SS uniforms should have
been shot and the trial held later. The bad guys,
in Hitler's War, were those who plotted the
assassination of Hitler. Somewhat disturbed by the airbrushing of the
greatest murderer in history, I watched the credits
roll. They were names unknown to me until one
jumped out and bit me: Writer: David
Irving.I'm not usually lost for words but on this
occasion I was speechless. David Irving. Suddenly
everything made sense. A notorious
anti-Semite, Holocaust denier
and neo-Nazi, Irving had been repeatedly
refused entry to Australia and had recently
spent a year in an Austrian jail for his Nazi
activities. Had Foxtel taken leave of its senses? Some will accuse me of overreacting. I can live
with that, for my hatred of Hitler and his gang
have been part of my being since I witnessed,
from a distance, the
utter devastation of Europe and the murder of tens
of millions. I was nine when I first saw newsreels of the
Nazi death camps and the mountains of bodies being
dumped [Website
comment: by British Army bulldozers driven by
British soldiers] in mass graves. I
was to learn later that among them were many
members of my family. Those memories and personal
experiences of anti-Semitism gave me the resolve to
fight prejudice in all its forms. It led to my
involvement in the Aboriginal and anti-apartheid
movements and the Australian Labor Party. It was an
obsession that marked my political career. In 1989, just prior to departing federal
parliament, I journeyed with my wife, Rae, to
Poland and the villages of Pajeczno and Dzialoszyn
from whence my grandparents had departed in the
1890s for safety in England, South Africa (where my
father was born) and, finally, Australia. They were
the lucky ones.
[Website comment:
Always on the run, in your family's case since the
1890s. Ever asked yourself why? Always somebody
else to blame?] Never a day passes that I don't look at a
sepia-coloured photograph of my grandfather's
brother, Mendel Kozerwoder, his wife Mindel
and their six children. Only one, Itzek (Jack),
survived. They and many other family members were
murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz
and Chelmno. In 1940, 10km away in Dzialoszyn, my
grandmother's village, all five hundred Jews were
rounded up by the Nazis and taken into a field and
shot. I was to read for myself, in the Pajeczno
archives, the fate of dozens of family members who
had perished at the hands of Hitler and the SS. It
was a chilling experience.
[Website commendation:
You read Polish and German?
Bravo.] What is important is that present and future
generations know what happened, and not the
bastardised version of the odious Irving. On a more pleasant note, my congratulations to
Foxtel chief executive Kim Williams for his
prompt action in withdrawing Hitler's War and his
heartfelt apology. [Website
comment: Thus ends Operation Victorious Stable
Door. Mr Irving has been inundated with orders for
the video, from all over Australia since this
episode, and other countries will continue to show
the film - as have Israel and the United States
many times.] Barry Cohen is a former
federal Labor Party minister. Copyright 2007 News
Limited.
Reader John
Stamat tells us
on Wednesday, September 5, 2007 from
Australia:
YOU got a mention on a program here called
"Media Watch" on our ABC channel 2 television
station. The comment was that the "History Channel" keeps
on playing WW2 war documentaries. It was stated
that the narrator made Hitler out to be the world's
most popular politician and a brilliant military
strategist and so on. The program commentator then
reveals that "the narrator was none other than
David Irving, the controversial historian that is
banned from coming here" (Australia). You have set
great fear into these narrow minded morons who do
not want historical facts revealed. I can imagine
how you must feel..
Forget Cohen - this is what the real experts said
about my Hitler's War:
"IT was
thoroughly researched and employed a variety of
themes. . . It also confirmed Irving's
reputation as one of the world's most thorough
researchers and an exciting and readable
historian."- Board of Deputies
of British Jews, 1992, secret
report "NO praise can be too
high for Irving's indefatigable scholarly
industry. He has sought and found scores of new
sources, including many private diaries. Mr
Irving's craftsmanship as a writer has improved
immensely, and I have enjoyed reading his long
work from beginning to end." - Professor Hugh
Trevor-Roper "THIS ground is
traversed with a sense of immediacy and grasp of
detail lacking in many of the recent Führer
biographies . . . Mr Irving's mastery of the
German sources is superb." - Professor Donald
Cameron Watt "DAVID Irving has
ransacked the world's archives; he has
discovered eye-witness accounts; he has
unearthed diaries and correspondence which were
thought to have been destroyed. . . a narrative
which is, for all its inevitable complexities,
remarkably comprehensible and, surprisingly
readable." - Professor J.E.
Molpurgo, The Yorkshire Post "DAVID Irving knows
more than anyone alive about the German side of
the Second World War. He discovers archives
unknown to official historians ... His greatest
achievement is Hitler's War ... indispensable to
anyone seeking to understand the war in the
round." - Professor Sir John
Keegan, The Daily
Telegraph  
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