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The Sunday Times (London)
July 26, 1992, Sunday
Holocaust lies of the new Nazis
BYLINE: James Dalrymple
SECTION: Features
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The diaries of Joseph Goebbels are an important
fragment of evidence in the pathology of a sickness that
drove a great and civilised nation into a period of evil
madness. They are part of the answers to humanity's
greatest mystery.
Another fragment is contained in the face of an
11-year-old Jewish girl with large, luminous eyes who
was photographed exactly 50 years ago as she stood
beside a willow tree in a swampy water meadow in
southern Poland, near the small town of Oswiecim.
Her eyes demand those answers. Because the place in
which she stands in the picture later became known as
Auschwitz, and behind the willow tree there is a large,
two-storey brick building that was designed with great
skill and thought by a renowned German engineering
company with the specific purpose of converting
hundreds of living people in batches into ashes and
smoke in about three hours.
Goebbels is dead. So is the girl. But the often banal
words of the frenzied little man scribbling away in Berlin
and the bewildered face of the child are connected by a
clear chain of history.
That chain is supported by warehouses full of eyewitness
testimony and photographic evidence, showing how it led
directly from the beerhall rantings of a handful of thugs
and fantasists to the systematic murder of millions, the
vast majority of them Jews, in more than 1,000 death
camps throughout Germany, Eastern Europe and the vast
plains of Russia.
Nobody denies that the missing sections of Goebbels'
diaries, found recently among tons of forgotten Nazi
documents in Moscow, should be published. And not in
lofty tomes and official reports, after years of
examination by historians. But now. Today. In the pages
of responsible and widely read newspapers and
magazines across the world.
Why? Because throughout Europe and the United States
there are murmurings of a denial so gross and bizarre that
at first, like a dirty joke told in church, they dumbfound
and alarm the senses. But in an age addicted to
conspiracy theories, whispers of the denial are beginning
to seep into the consciousness of generations not born
when the crime was being committed, whose only
knowledge comes via horror films, pulp fiction and a folk
memory that causes a shudder at names such as Dachau,
Belsen and Treblinka.
Even in Germany it is more than a whisper. You can see
it in cheaply printed pamphlets, hear it shouted at
meetings of the new far right, and even examine the
''scientific'' evidence in the work of supposed historians
and university professors.
In books and magazines on open sale in the United
States and Canada, and on the curiosity-seeking chat
shows of radio and television networks, the question has
been discussed, often in quiet, academic tones, by the
plausible frontmen of highly organised, well-funded and
determined agencies throughout the world.
Did it all really happen, they ask? Were 6m Jews really
murdered? Were there really gas chambers and
crematoriums? Was the Holocaust a hoax?
IN THE centre of London there is an old building at the
corner of a tree-lined square. It looks like any other office
block with only a discreet nameplate on the door. But to
enter you have to go through two heavy doors with
automatically controlled locks after stating your business
into a microphone. You have to have a good reason for
calling.
There are many security doors even inside the building

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and most of the windows have steel bars. It is the
headquarters of the British Jewish Board of Deputies and
it has learned, through bitter experience, that even in
Britain it has enemies who are capable of using more than
insults.
In an upper-floor office, Mike Whine, executive director
of the defence department of the board, makes it his daily
business to study a centuries-old sickness, as mysterious
as it is sometimes murderous, that has haunted the great
extended family of Jews across the world.
To all Jews, anti-semitism is always a reality and
violence a possibility. Older than colour hatred and more
unfathomable than religious intolerence, it seems to lie
deep sometimes tiny and dormant, sometimes huge and
flaring in every country in the world except one.
In the second half of the 20th century, the Jewish
response has been to challenge it wherever it appears.
Last week, Whine made no secret of his feelings on The
Sunday Times's decision to use the services of David
Irving as the only possible conduit to publish the recently
discovered diaries in Moscow. He despises Irving and he
feels he has reason, pointing out that the historian stands
at the heart of the so-called ''revisionist'' movement
among the growing European and American neo-fascist
groups.
''If we had one moment's doubt, if we even remotely
thought that The Sunday Times was an anti-semitic
newspaper, you wouldn't be sitting there talking to me
now,'' he said. ''We don't like Irving being used for any
purpose and we were deeply angered when it happened.
But the publication of these diaries in this country has
done something that we have been trying to do for a long
time it has opened the eyes of Jews in this country, not
only to the threat of neo-fascism but to the growing
industry of lies concerning the Holocaust.''
Nobody doubts the authenticity of the diaries (which is a
change from the Hitler diaries fiasco almost a decade
ago), despite Irving's role in their discovery, though the
new material contains little evidence concerning the
Holocaust. But they contain no comfort for the revisionist
school, either.
Goebbels' gloating account of the events of November 9
and 10, 1938 the infamous Night of Glass (Kristallnacht)
puts Adolf Hitler squarely at the centre of the process that
grew into years of slaughter. ''SS oath-taking at the
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Feldhernhall,'' he writes. ''Around midnight. Very jovial
and atmospheric. The Fuhrer speaks to the men. Straight
from the heart. I see the sky blood red ... the synagogues
are burning ... shock troops doing dreadful work ... The
Fuhrer has ordered 20,000-30,000 Jews arrested
immediately ...'' Next day he records ''100 dead ... I report
to the Fuhrer ... he is in accord with everything ...the Jews
are really very stupid ... and they will pay dearly for their
own mistakes.''
This entry, coupled with Hitler's own stated and explicit
purpose concerning the Jews, repeated endlessly for more
than a decade and enshrined in Mein Kampf, leave
nobody in any doubt about where the driving force of the
Holocaust lay and what the plan was.
Not a single major decision from any part of the
immense bureaucratic structure built around him for the
12 years of his rule especially those decisions concerning
Jews passed without Hitler's knowledge and approval.
Irving, who perhaps has uncovered more documentary
evidence than any other historian about Hitler, knows this
well, despite his public stance. Hitler's ability to absorb
huge amounts of detail, day after day, before and during
the war, make it an absurdity that he knew nothing of the
plans and schemes and murderous intent of Heinrich
Himmler's immense killing machine that was sweeping
across Europe.
Why Irving persists in claiming that Hitler did not know
is his affair, and perhaps part of a private agenda in his
now burgeoning political life, as he moves from the role
of historian to fully fledged activist of the far right. In 50
years of study, not
a single historian from AJPTaylor to Alan Bullock has
doubted for one moment who the master planner was.
The fresh Goebbels diaries, and the controversy
surrounding them, have undoubtedly raised new issues.
Dr Niall Ferguson, a lecturer in modern history at
Peterhouse, Cambridge, described The Sunday Times
publication as opening up whole new fields, especially
the 1938 and 1939 sections.
''There is no doubt that these diaries are a discovery of
great importance to all historians,'' he said. ''The material
on Kristallnacht underlines Hitler's personal
responsibility for the anti-Jewish policy which hardly
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To historians such as Ferguson and Bullock, author of
some of the most authoritative and deeply researched
work on the second world war, the evidence that the
Holocaust took place is beyond reproach.
Bullock, like others working in the field, has received the
books and pamphlets claiming that the Holocaust never
happened, that not a single Jew was gassed and that it
was all a plot by influential Zionists who faked and
distorted the evidence. ''I fumed and threw the damn
things away,'' he said. But like all realistic historians, he
understands the dangers of telling a huge lie often
enough, a technique Goebbels perfected. He has studied
in great detail this technique and its effect on an entire
nation. ''I am not an expert on the Holocaust,'' he said,
''but I have attended conferences and I have studied the
evidence. If anything, I believe that the widely accepted
figure of 6m might soon have to be updated to 7m.
''I also feel that these so-called revisionist theories,
crackpot though they may be, must be answered fully
whenever they appear. And it should not just be left to
Jews to answer them. Everybody must be involved.''
WHO, and what, are the sources of the so-called
revisionist movement? Those who say that the Holocaust
was a lie and that Hitler was a misunderstood messiah?
How are they funded and where do they operate from?
The answer is that they exist in a dozen countries, under
countless names, and they are nurtured and funded by
several wealthy and powerful agencies. They are also
closely linked across frontiers and oceans and, despite the
lunatic behaviour of their foot soldiers, they have clear
and defined objectives.
In Europe alone in the past 10 years the rise of the
neo-fascist, movement, in all its guises, has been
extraordinary. From Spain to the Balkans, from Scotland
to Italy, the neo-fascists have established bases, political
machinery, small publishing houses and armies of
recruiters who scour the streets looking for converts,
usually among the young, the disaffected, the feckless
and the violent.
In France, the movement has almost reached full
flowering. Jean-Marie Le Pen, a former paratrooper and
founder of the neo-fascist National Front, leads a party
that now boasts a membership of 100,000, a ballot box
support of 15% of the population, and rising popular
support that opinion polls show now standing at an
astonishing 32%.
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In Austria, the Freedom party of Jorg Haider recently
trebled its vote in local elections in Vienna, where its
skinheaded young activists openly taunt immigrant
workers in the streets. In Belgium, with an estimated
immigrant population of more than 150,000 North
Africans and Turks, crude and pornographic cartoons
issued by the country's opposition Liberal party (the
PRL) received massive support from ordinary people.
In Italy, groups of far-right activists, known as the
Leagues, have developed from masked thugs beating up
Moroccan and Tunisian workers into a fully fledged
political unit that recently polled up to 30% in local
elections. In Spain, where many highly placed officials
from the Franco era still enjoy considerable political
power, old-style Falangists have joined forces with
shaven-headed youths who combine football violence
with electioneering thuggery.
In Central and Eastern Europe, countries such as Poland,
Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania are
seeing the appearance of hard-right political groupings.
In Germany, the most dangerous cocktail of all is
forming in the wake of reunification. A whole generation
in East Germany was born, grew up and had children
without ever having to acknowledge its own history. The
schools of the former communist republic never
mentioned the Holocaust or the defeats of world war two,
but the germ of modern fascism has found a fertile
breeding ground. Practically every week huge mobs of
neo-Nazi youths parade with banners and symbols of the
far-right parties through the streets of towns and cities.
Their language is the old one of Germany for the
Germans, and their tactics range from the murder and
beating of the country's huge number of immigrant
workers to beerhall-type rallies and attending the funerals
of former Nazis.
West German police and the British Special Branch, who
routinely scan neo-Nazi activities, revealed earlier this
year that there were now open links between fascist
parties in Germany and Britain, with steady movements
of their leaders between countries.
And always in the background are the shadowy old
survivors of Hitler's former army and party, many of
them highly placed in industry and commerce and a few
who simply make themselves available for advice,
information and counsel. Such a man is the former SS

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general Wilhelm Mohnke, Hitler's personal bodyguard
and a man responsible for at least three massacres in the
second world war. He is wanted by the British, Canadian
and American governments on murder charges. He now
lives quietly in a suburban street and laughs at all
attempts to deport him.
Throughout Europe and America these disparate groups
share one common theme and one common problem. The
theme is anti-semitism and the problem is the Holocaust.
The clear evidence that upwards of 6m Jews were
slaughtered by the Nazis stands like a monolithic barrier
to the ambitions of young neo-Nazis and the ambitious of
the older men who control them. Since the mid-1970s
they have attempted to construct a web of lies around it,
using a mixture of spurious documentary research and
psuedo-scientific experiments.
''Their Holocaust denial is central and crucial to their
aims,'' said Mike Whine. ''Unless they can get round it
they are lost and their efforts are getting more and more
intense. It is both frightening and grotesque.''
The problem that the Jewish community had was
whether to challenge such spurious rubbish at all. For
many years their attitude was to ignore it and wait for it
to disappear. Instead it found a momentum that took it
into the mass media and hence into the minds of millions.
''Now we know that we must confront it wherever it
appears,'' said Whine. ''We do so. Every time. And as
part of that effort we are trying very hard to get the
history of the Holocaust taught in British schools, so that
children are given the facts before coming into contact
with the denial material.''
The neo-Nazi right gives its rewriting of history a solid,
studious name: revisionism. Its purpose is no less than to
prove the Holocaust to be a hoax, foisted on the public by
Zionists and enabling thousands of Jews to soak the West
German government for billions of marks in
compensation for the loss of relatives.
Much of the flood of material is crude and sneering,
spiced with ugly cartoons, drawings and jokes.
Sometimes it is in the form of half-baked mathematical
extrapolations showing it would not be possible to kill
that many people in the given time frame.
At the very heart of this conspiracy lies an organisation
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called the Institute of Historical Review, founded in 1979
by an American millionaire, Willis ACarto, and his wife,
Elisabeth. Carto also runs the virulently anti-semitic
Liberty Lobby and a series of publishing houses.
He also funds fascist groups around the globe and, until a
recent falling out, one of his lieutenants was David
McCalden, founder of the British National party and the
leading neo-fascist in Britain.
Three books form the centrepiece of the Holocaust
denial movement, and they have become the bibles of the
revisionists. The first and most vicious is The Rumour of
Auschwitz, the work of Dr Robert Faurisson, a professor
of literature at France's University of Lyon, who found a
worldwide stage for his theories several years ago during
a criminal trial of a neo-fascist in Canada. Amazingly, the
Canadian press published his trial testimony without
challenge, allowing him to provide ''expert'' testimony
that not a single gassing took place in Auschwitz and that
the Diary of Anne Frank was a publishing hoax.
The next is a densely argued work by an American
engineer, Arthur Butz, entitled The Hoax of the
Twentieth Century, in which he begins by mourning the
unlawful hanging of certain German generals after the
Nuremburg trials and ends up by claiming that several
hundred tons of Zyklon B gas were used simply for
fumigation purposes.
Third, there is The Leuchter Report, an even more
absurd work concerning the night-time visit to the ruined
gas chambers at Birkenau, Auschwitz's sister camp, by a
strange little man called Fred Leuchter, his wife and three
colleagues. There, he claimed, he took samples of the
brickwork and later proved that no gassings had ever
taken place. He also alleged that Auschwitz had its own
swimming pool, plus diving board, and says that he
managed to get down into the basements of several
buildings. But the staff of Auschwitz, now a museum,
simply laughed when asked if this was possible and
replied that there were no basements to get into. They
were packed with rubble. And without comment they
produced the chemical analysis of seven tons of female
human hair kept at Auschwitz that showed clear traces of
cyanide gas.
Despite the exposure of their cheap fakery, the
revisionist claims only become more obscene and they
now adopt a taunting attitude to the Holocaust. A
popular allegation is now routinely made that

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Auschwitz-Birkenau by far the largest death camp was
secretly rebuilt and altered over a 10-year period after the
war by the Polish government for political and
propaganda reasons. It put up phoney buildings with fake
ovens, and then the Poles turned it into a tourist trap, the
revisionists sneer.
THERE are many answers to this lunatic school of
thought. But the most complete and most eloquent
answer lies 240 miles south of Warsaw, across endless
flat plains and hidden away in the swampy fields around
the towns of Oswiecim and Brzeznica.It is made of stone
and rusted metal, and its marshy soil contains the ashes of
uncountable men, women, children and babies, most of
them Jews from every occupied corner of Europe.
Auschwitz-Birkenau remains, exactly as it was when the
German army fled in chaos in 1945. There are no tourist
trappings. There is no charge for entry, except the
courage to walk through the gates.
Shortly after 9pm last Monday, as the huge ball of the
sun sank to the west and bathed the bleak landscape in a
soft red glow, the silent blockhouses and wooden huts of
the gigantic Birkenau complex seemed to stretch to the
horizon. It was totally silent, with only a hot wind
moving the weeds and willow trees planted in 1942 to
hide it.
Birkenau was closed for the day, but an elderly man
called Victor, who spoke little English but recognised one
who had travelled far, agreed to open the grill door under
the massive stone gate and walk with me along the
railway track that runs like an arrow for 114 miles.
That track, which ends with the rails twisted high in the
air like twin daggers, leads to the great, dynamited ruins
that form Europe's true heart of darkness.
Far away down the line you can see the piles of rubble,
the blown-up remains of the four gas chambers and
crematoria complexes. Victor smiled as I immediately
headed towards them. ''Not now. Soon,'' he said. ''First
see the huts and look around.'' They are long and low,
with wooden sleeping shelves, dank after 50 years. But
they were built by good craftsmen and the plasterwork
remains. Written on every wall, on every inch of space,
carved in the wood of the shelves, scored into the
exposed bricks, are the names. Thousands and thousands
of them. Impossible to count.
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This was one hut out of more than 300 in the complex,
and when Birkenau reached its peak of turnover in 1944
there could be up to 1,500 in each. Inmates had a
lifespan, estimated by Himmler's logistics men, from zero
(the old, the sick and the cripples who were gassed
immediately after selection on arrival) to six weeks. As
they died, from typhoid, cholera and a hundred other
diseases, or simply being worked to death in the factories
of IGFarben, they were replaced by others. The
mathematics are so staggering they become meaningless.
It was growing dark suddenly, and as we approached the
remains of Crematoria II and III, Victor casually pointed
to a shallow pool of fetid water. ''Ashes below,'' he said.
''Seven, eight feet deep.'' In the ruins of what were large
buildings there were five large hollows, the remains of
the furnaces with pieces of the rail along which the
corpses were pushed.
Leuchter, in his report, claimed he had got down into the
basement of the ruins, but he would have needed a
bulldozer to shift the tons of rubble. By now Leuchter's
nonsense was a distasteful memory an insult to the reality
that lay all around. In the gloaming, we walked back
along the track, passing the loading bays where the
thousands were pulled from sealed trucks and ''selected''
at the whim of camp staff. To the left meant the long trek
down to the phoney shower-rooms with the holes in the
roof, then along the conveyor belts, up the lifts or down
the chutes, and into the ovens. To the right meant a few
weeks of painful life.
Next day it was Auschwitz central camp, almost two
miles away and almost hidden behind houses and small
factories. The most infamous signpost in history, a
cynical final lie in itself, saying Arbeit Macht Frei work
will make you free stands in an arc over the gate.
In daylight it looks like an old army barracks, perfectly
preserved and covering the area of about five large city
blocks. No attempt has been made to manicure the grass
or signpost the route. It is as it was, exactly, almost
normal, mundane. But the small sign tells you are
entering ''an area of exceptional horror'', and inside the
blocks it is all there.
Human hair, tons of it, in a huge vat. Eye-glasses in piles
many feet deep, silent eyes in gaunt faces in thousands of
tiny black-and-white photographs that stare out in the
gloom from the walls of endless corridors. The hideous
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hands in the blood of children, especially twins, to try to
win himself a Nobel prize for genetics.
In Block 11 where the first experimental gassings using
Zyklon B, the industrial fumigant gas, took place, almost
killing the guards alongside the 600 Soviet army
prisoners who perished somebody had placed a single red
rose in a cell at the end of a dark passage where a wire
garotting machine stood on a miniature gallows.
In what is now known as the children's block, there is
perhaps the worst evidence of all. Tiny vests and pants,
woollen baby boots, dolls with smashed faces, childish
letters home with kisses on the end that were never
delivered. And the hugely enlarged photographs taken by
an SS man who seemed to enjoy photographing the new
arrivals.
The girl with the large gleaming eyes, standing by the
willo tree, broke some people; there were tears from the
women tourists. The same picture was in one of the
guidebooks. The next day, when I felt compelled to go
back to Birkenau to see it in daylight, I showed it to
Victor.
He led me back down the awful railway track, back to
the ruins. He jabbed at the photograph, pointed to the
broken doorway, then swung his hand round towards a
willow tree standing nearly 40ft high.
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It was the same tree that had stood by the child, half a
century on. The door was still there. The tree had lived
and grown. But the girl with the burning eyes was gone,
her body, her name and her beauty turned into ashes,
smoke and wind.
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