3. Did Simon Wiesenthal once state in writing that "there were no
extermination camps on German soil"?

Ernst
Zündel Replies:

Rebuttal # 3

First of all, let's get a perspective on numbers:

According to a Time Life book compilation called "Prisoners of
War" by Ronald H. Bailey, the British had 86 concentration camps during
World War II. The Soviet Union, according to this source, had at least 150
concentration camps - probably many, many more. The
United States had 666. Germany had 90!

Map of U.S. concentration camps

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LEFT: How Germans lived in Eisenhower camps.
Hardly any shelter, lived in ditches and holes, now compare to picture on
RIGHT, the solidly built warm and weather proof barracks of Auschwitz.

People died in every one of them. That did not make them "death
camps." The false premise always put forth is that the German
concentration camps were somehow different not just in quantity but quality.
When German concentration camps are
mentioned, they are always equated with "death camps."

In truth, they were no different from any other wartime camps.

The next claim following the claim of German death camps is that only Germans
were engaged in genocide - specifically, killing "undesirables" by
gassing. Shortly after the war, it was vociferously claimed world-wide by
journalists beholden to the Holocaust Promotion Lobby point view that in
"all", then in ". . . almost all" then in ". . . just
a few" and finally in ". . . none" of these concentration camps
in the Altreich - that is, in Germany proper - did gassings of human beings
occur.

Why this retreat?

It's really very simply: because these camps located in the Western sphere were
readily accessible. It took the Holocaust Promotion Lobby almost 50 years to
come clean on those concentration camps that were open to inspection and admit
that no gassings took place in these camps, but in the end, they had no choice.

So they admitted it.

Today, no respectable scholar of the "Holocaust" will
insist that ". . . there were indeed gas chambers and homicidal gassings
in the Altreich," as so blithely and ignorantly stated by Nizkor.

To cite just one example, Christopher
R. Browning, a star witness for the prosecution in the 1988 Zündel Trial,
was forced to admit that after 17 years of research, he had never seen a single
gas chamber or what purported to be a gas chamber.

Another well-known source on this topic is Martin Broszat's letter dismissed
by Nizkor as irrelevant. As early as 1960, the director of the German Institute
for Contemporary History admitted there were no gas chambers. He wrote to
the German newspaper Die Zeit: "Neither in Dachau nor in Bergen
Belsen nor in Buchenwald were Jews or other prisoners gassed." It does not
follow from this statement, to use a crass example, that to say ". . .
there were no murders in Boston, Chicago and New York" implies or proves
that there were murders in San Francisco. It is a silly argument!

A third glimpse into information suppression or manipulation can be glimpsed by
checking on what happened to author Hellmut Diwald who wrote in his book, "History
of the Germans," first edition, 1978, pages 164-165 that the rooms
displayed at Dachau as "gas chambers" were dummy chambers that the US
military had forced imprisoned SS men to build after the capitulation of the
camp. Sales were immediately stopped by the German government, the pages
re-written and the book re-issued without the offending passages. The author
was not consulted. (Journal for Historical Review, Vol 13, No 6, Nov-Dec
1993)

Anyone who makes a statement that there were gassings in the Altreich reveals gross
ignorance of the whole scholarship field surrounding the
"Holocaust" matter! No wonder that the Wiesenthal Center pulled out
the rug from under Nizkor when it became clear that statements like that were
going to be broadcast to the world!

One
by one, the stories of gassings in Germany Proper have been long put to rest.
It proved simply absurd and soon impossible to uphold such ludicrous,
self-serving claims.

For skeptics, the finest source to double-check this matter is Dr. Faurisson's
court testimony, as summarized in pages 286 - 351 of crucial testimony in the
1988 Zündel trial. "Did Six
Million Really Die? Report of the Evidence in the Canadian "False
News" Trial of Ernst Zündel - 1988." It stands as a beacon
of scholarship. (Scroll
down to Faurisson Chapter)

It was a different story with concentration camps that were in the Soviet
domain. They could not be checked out for many, many years during the Cold War,
and that is why the stories developed about the "massive gassings" in
places like Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka, Chelmno, Majdanek etc. and became
so deeply entrenched.

In fact, some people will go so far as to speculate that maybe Cold War
strategies by the Western and the Eastern victors to keep the Iron Curtain up
were part of the underpinning to the unsavory Holocaust claims, because if
people the world over knew that the systematic financing of much of the State
of Israel was largely based on having people take on faith that these gassings
did occur, the whole disgusting matter of the creation and the financing of the
State of Israel by billions in sympathy and reparations based on that claim
would come into serious question.

The claim that ". . . it was easier to conceal from the German
people" what was going on in Auschwitz. . . " only shows up Nizkor's
ignorance of European demographics. Hundreds of thousands of natives to Eastern
territories such as Silesia lived in what is now Poland. The language spoken
there was German. The entire social, financial and military system was
coordinated with the Reich in a wartime occupation measure. Much of Poland, a
Protectorate at that time, was treated as part of Germany. It made no
difference where these camps were located because there were hundreds of
thousands of Altreich-Germans in Poland, including the military.

What went on inside Auschwitz, furthermore, could easily be observed from the
outside, for there were mostly barbed wire fences around most of the
installations. Photos and drawings in the
Ball Report are one fine way to check that out. This report is available
from Samisdat to anyone willing to cover mailing costs.

And, finally, to claim that people like Wiesenthal ". . . have attempted
repeatedly over the years to dispel several myths about the Holocaust. . .
" is a little bit like saying that a person caught red-handed thieving was
really only "checking" on someone else's thievery.

Both Jews and Gentiles call that chutzpah.