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‘The Holocaust’ factually proven as “The Holohoax” to create THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Breaking the Spell The Holocaust: Myth and Reality, Overview of the book by Dr. Nicholas Kollerstrom<\/strong><\/h2>\n

by ANTONY C. BLACK<\/p>\n

[Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong>\u00a0The featured image of the British soccer team at Auschwitz is my favorite from Nick\u2019s book, for which I was honored to compose the Foreword, which I have also published separately as,\u00a0\u201cThe Holocaust Narrative: Politics trumps Science\u201d<\/a>,\u00a0republished on this blog and elsewhere<\/a>. Jewish political power is rooted in a Western sense of guilt over the Holocaust, which is why they so vociferously defend WWII mythology.]<\/em><\/p>\n

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Heresy In the 21st Century<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Never in my long journalistic career have I ever hesitated to put pen to paper \u2013 until now. Indeed, I have delayed writing this overview of Dr. Kollerstrom\u2019s remarkable book for going on six years.[1]<\/a>\u00a0Up until now no subject had been too controversial, too sensitive, too beyond the pale as to warrant more than a passing moment\u2019s consideration of consequences. But this is different. In some sixteen countries in Europe one can be put in prison for doing what I am doing now, or even for expressing \u2018holocaust denialism\u2019 on social media. In Germany some fifteen thousand people are tried each year for Thought Crime, i.e., for so-called \u2018right-wing extremism\u2019. Here in North America it is somewhat better; one merely risks losing one\u2019s job, friends and family \u2013 and possibly being blacklisted as a writer from virtually every venue one might have formerly been associated with. No small potatoes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Kollerstrom, himself, stumbled rather more naively into this punitive quagmire in 2008 when, after merely reviewing a scientific paper analyzing samples taken from the walls of the alleged \u2018gas chambers\u2019 at Auschwitz, \u2013 a paper authored by one Germar Rudolf, a young scientist working at the time at the Max Planck Institute \u2013 he found himself summarily dismissed from his erstwhile position as historian and philosopher of science at University College, London (UCL), \u201cthe sole member of staff\u2026ever to have been expelled for ideological reasons\u201d. As he recounts,<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI became ethically damned, thrown out of polite, decent groups, banned from forums and denounced in newspapers\u2026..I felt as if some Mark of Cain had been branded onto my forehead. I had done something so awful that we could not even discuss the matter. The Medieval crime of Heresy was back alive and well\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Heresy, of course, implicates the notion of taboo, and what a society makes taboo is what it feels to be sacred, and what is sacred is beyond question. When dealing with the \u2018Holocaust\u2019, then, we are, Kollerstrom assures us, dealing not with historical science, but, essentially, with a religion; the Holo-religion. And as the author repeatedly points out, \u201cThere can be no science where doubt is prohibited.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Of Soap and Lampshades<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Before diving into the inky abyss of the various technical strands of argument involving documentary archives, archaeology, chemistry, etc., it behooves us first to take a bird\u2019s eye view of the general evidentiary landscape, this both to assuage immediate curiosity, and to lend a certain clarity and coherence to the narrative.<\/span><\/p>\n

But before even embarking on that perspectival journey, let me ask a question.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you, dear reader, believe that during the Second World War the Nazis plumbed the very depths of human depravity by rendering human fat into soap, of sewing human skin into lampshades and gloves and all manner of similar nightmare horrors? If you do, you would not be alone. Like many others, I believed it \u2013 and I confess, completely blindly \u2013 all of my life. But I was wrong. If you believe such, you would be wrong. It is not true. It never happened. You can take it to the bank, it is a total myth. And this conclusion is not just one reached by so-called \u2018revisionist\u2019 authors, but is rather a simple matter of documented fact admitted to and affirmed by the orthodox holo-historians themselves, e.g., the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is true that during the Nuremberg Trials such alleged items were displayed, but over the years they were all systematically debunked, i.e., found to be made of non-human animal materials, such that, as I say, no orthodox holo-historian maintains the validity of any of them anymore. Now, a critical mind, a curious mind is then led ineluctably to the follow-up query: To wit, if that isn\u2019t true, then what else might not be true that I have been told, and that I have believed, all of my life? And this is where Dr. Kollerstrom \u2013 amongst others, naturally \u2013 bids us listen to the contrarian general case. But, then, what exactly is that case?<\/span><\/p>\n

In a nutshell, the author is arguing that the Nazi concentration camps (some in Germany itself, most of the rest in Poland) were slave labour camps \u2013 though some of them were, as we\u2019ll see, only temporary transit camps \u2013 whose unfortunate inmates were used in the grim service of the German war effort.[2]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Auschwitz, for instance, was located right next door to the large Buna-Monowitz industrial plant run by I.G. Farben, and which produced (from coal) much of the Reich\u2019s synthetic oil and rubber, and without which the German war machine would have ground to a screeching halt \u2013 and whose labor force was sourced from the Auschwitz concentration camp itself. Some of them (the Aktion Reinhardt camps) were also part and parcel of a general policy established at the infamous Wannsee conference in January 20, 1942 for the systematic deportation \u2018to the east\u2019 of populations of \u2018undesirables\u2019 including Jews, Roma, communists and so forth, who were to be deposited east of the Urals once the Soviet Union had been, as the Germans confidently expected, quickly vanquished by the, up until then, entirely successful German war machine. Thus, the term \u2018Endlosung\u2019, which has been tendentiously interpreted by the orthodox holo-historians to mean, \u2018final solution\u2019, really means \u2018end\u2019 or \u2018goal\u2019 \u2013 in this case, deportation to the east, but which action was thwarted by the unexpected resistance to, and, of course, eventual failure of Operation Barbarossa, i.e., the German invasion of the Soviet Union.<\/span><\/p>\n

But what these camps were\u00a0not<\/i>, according to Kollerstrom, were monstrous extermination factories that took in train loads of human beings and simply ground them up into human corpses. This image, he maintains, is a brutal and inhuman legacy that has come to haunt the Western imagination and form the foundation of a demented sacred myth that has, along with ancillary myths, come to underpin a society based on UnTruth \u2013 we are, he says, the The People of the Lie \u2013 and which has also expediently come to serve American and Western imperial interests in their truly monstrous culture of \u2018endless war\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

None of this, of course, is to condone or fail to recognize the horror and injustice of the systematic detainment of hundreds of thousands or even millions of people in slave labor camps where typhus and other diseases ran rampant, and where, if not systematic killings, then certainly sporadic brutalities would have taken place. But, again, they were not, as we have been assured all of our lives, mere factories for processing humans into corpses.<\/span><\/p>\n

So there you have it, the \u2018case\u2019. But what of the evidence?<\/span><\/p>\n

To begin with there is the, strangely, well-documented fact that there\u00a0is<\/i>\u00a0no documentary evidence whatsoever of any \u2018plan\u2019 by the Nazis to systematically exterminate millions of human beings. Thus, of the vast corpus of surviving documents from the Third Reich, there is not one scrap of evidence indicating any such plan; no proclamations, orders, radio transcripts, memos, memoirs \u2013 nothing at all. As Kollerstrom says, we are left believing that the engineering and operation of this vast conspiracy was conducted entirely through some form of \u201ctelepathy\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, and contrary to popular understanding, the Wannsee conference made no mention of any such plan. Holo-historians have, instead, been forced to \u2018interpret\u2019 certain \u2018code words\u2019 from the conference as meaning other than their dictionary meaning. (Here Kollerstrom reminds the reader that it is not for the historian to\u00a0impose<\/i>\u00a0meaning on the data, but rather to let the data speak for themselves.) Nor is there even a snippet of evidence of either a plan or anything at all to do with \u2018extermination\u2019 from the recently released, voluminous diaries of both Himmler and Goebbels. Additionally, the British historian, David Irving in his book, \u2018Hitler\u2019s War\u2019, based entirely on primary source material, concluded that Hitler, himself, knew of no such plan (a conclusion, amongst others, which landed Irving in the docket and, like Kollerstrom, condemned to eternal damnation throughout Western society, media and academia.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Then there is the dean of orthodox holo-historians, Raul Hilberg, author of the supposedly-definitive, three volume history of the Holocaust, \u2018The Destruction of the European Jews\u2019, who was forced by defense counsel at the 1985 Ernst Zundel trial to admit under oath that there was no documentary evidence \u2013 not one iota \u2013 of any alleged gassings of human beings by the Nazis! The latter fact is also backed-up, as we shall see later, by the Bad Arolsen Archives (which comprise some thirty million documents to do with the camps and are considered the pre-eminent repository on these matters) whose curators released a statement in 2007 saying that they had no evidence \u2013 not one document \u2013 that suggested any deaths by gassing.<\/span><\/p>\n

But, then, what of the physical structure of the \u2018gas chambers\u2019 themselves? Here, according to Kollerstrom, the evidence is definitive: they could not have been \u2018gas chambers\u2019 (i.e., they really were showers) both because their structures (many parts of which have been fraudulently\u00a0reconstructed\u00a0<\/i>post-war) are ludicrously permeable, and because chemical analysis reveals there is no hydrogen cyanide in their walls \u2013\u00a0whereas\u00a0<\/i>the walls of the small delousing chambers used to disinfect the inmates\u2019 clothes, and which everyone agrees were used for this purpose (despite the obvious contradiction of such in an \u2018extermination\u2019 camp), are chocker-block full of hydrogen cyanide.<\/span><\/p>\n

But what of the \u2018six million\u2019? Merely a longstanding symbolic meme that represented the traditional number of Jews in Europe and for which references for go back at least a half century prior to the \u2018Holocaust\u2019. There were no systematic attempts made nor scientific surveys done at Nuremberg to determine the numbers who died in the camps during the war nor could there have been in the timeframe before which the trials began. Moreover, the Auschwitz Museum itself released a statement in 1989 downgrading the \u2018four million\u2019 supposedly killed at Auschwitz to \u2018one million\u2019, but which revelation was never factored even then into the official count. Later, as we shall see, the Soviet \u2018Death Books\u2019 for Auschwitz became available following the fall of the Soviet Union showing that only some seventy thousand people (approximately half of them Jews) had died at Auschwitz \u2013 almost all from typhus \u2013 a number which, just happens to coincide with the numbers in the Arolsen Archives.<\/span><\/p>\n

But what about all the \u2018pictures\u2019? The iconic pictures of piles of corpses shown de rigueur in every textbook are from Bergen-Belsen and are\u00a0known<\/i>\u00a0to be victims of typhus, i.e., they were\u00a0not<\/i>\u00a0victims of \u2018gas chambers\u2019 \u2013 but which photos continue to be paraded to this day as \u2018gassing\u2019 victims despite this transparent and matter-of-public-record falsification of documented fact. What are also\u00a0never<\/i>\u00a0shown are the many extant photographs of hail and hearty inmates taken when the camps were liberated by Soviet and Allied forces.<\/span><\/p>\n

But certainly the \u2018eyewitness\u2019 accounts are definitive? Hardly. Most of the core \u2018autobiographies\u2019 have been shown to be fakes, and the rest are largely derivative from these accounts and\/or based on mere hearsay and rumour. Moreover, there has arisen an entire cottage industry of fake \u2018eyewitness\u2019 accounts and which are part and parcel of a much larger enterprise. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the \u2018Holocaust\u2019 is big business. Indeed, there is strong evidence, as we shall see later, that even such famous holo-biographies as that of Elie Wiesel are completely fraudulent. There are also numerous accounts, again which we will soon examine, by quite renowned individuals countering the official \u2018Holocaust\u2019 narrative but which continue to be routinely and entirely ignored and suppressed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Okay, but what about the \u2018confession\u2019 of Rudolf Hoss, the commandant of Auschwitz and\u00a0the\u00a0<\/i>key witness for the prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials? We learn from Kollerstrom of evidence that came to light in the mid-1980s that Hoss had been \u201ctortured for three days and nights by a British hit team\u201d prior to his confession. And that, in any case, there are blatant contradictions in his tortured testimony that demonstrate that he was simply making up what his prosecutors \/ persecutors wanted to hear. Indeed, threats of either capital punishment or long prison sentences were the overarching context for the rest of the rank-and-file \u2018confessions\u2019 in a military tribunal by the victors that accepted as a\u00a0pre-determined fact\u00a0<\/i>the reality of the \u2018extermination\u2019 thesis and denial of which could not only not be used as a defense position (a common feature, by the way, of today\u2019s infamous international kangaroo courts \/ \u2018war crimes tribunals\u2019)[3]<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 but which legal tactic\u00a0guaranteed\u00a0<\/i>one\u2019s conviction! Accordingly, most defendants chose the pragmatic stance of accepting the prosecution \u2018thesis\u2019 which opened the door to a lenient plea bargain.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyways, enough of the cursory overview. Let\u2019s get down to brass tacks.<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u2018Six Million\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

A few months following the liberation and occupation of Auschwitz by the Soviets in January, 1945, the Soviet newspaper Pravda announced the staggering total of some four million people who had died in the camp. This figure was quickly integrated into the Nuremberg Trials without further ado. But then in 1989, the so-called \u2018Death Books\u2019 were released by Soviet President Gorbachev. These documents, which had been captured by the Soviets from Auschwitz, consisted of some 46 volumes cataloguing the individual death certificates of those who had died at Auschwitz \u2013 of some 69,000 individuals. Not four million, but sixty-nine thousand \u2013 and of whom about twenty-nine thousand were Jews, with the rest comprising a mixture of other ethnic groups and nationalities. We can only speculate as to the whys and wherefores relating to the initial, grossly exaggerated figures, though it hardly stretches the imagination to suppose that, having just lost upwards of twenty-seven million of their countrymen to the German invaders, the Soviets might not have been in a particularly objective, scientific mood, but rather in a propagandistic one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the \u2018Death Books of Auschwitz\u2019 constitute, en masse, a primary source document.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another repository of primary source material are the Arolsen Archives, also known as the International Tracing Service, located in Bad Arolsen, in North Germany, and which are run by the International Red Cross. The latter comprises some thirty million files relating to sixteen of the camps in both Germany and Poland. These are considered the preeminent \u2013 and objective \u2013 data-base relating to the camps.<\/span><\/p>\n

I say \u2018objective\u2019 as the rather more infamous Yad Vashem Museum archives in Israel are considerably less objective. Many of the deaths recorded there are simply taken from deportation lists and, to boot, include deaths before, during and even after the end of the war. Moreover, anyone can simply fill out a form online claiming to be a \u2018victim of the Holocaust\u2019 \u2013 a surviving victim obviously or perhaps a relative of such \u2013 without any documentation whatsoever. There is, thus, nothing to prevent multiple or fraudulent entries, and there is, as we shall comment on further in a bit, the ulterior motivational issue of filing so as to then make a claim for compensation against the German government. As such, the \u2018archives\u2019 from Yad Vashem are considered, at least by revisionist holo-historians, to be essentially worthless.<\/span><\/p>\n

Returning to the Arolsen Archives. In the year 1979 the curators released a figure for the casualties from fifteen of the camps, and which amounted to a total of some 271,000 individuals. Then in 1984 they released a total mortality figure for sixteen of the camps which came to 282,000. These deaths represent all of the deaths in the camps excepting those of the Aktion Reinhardt camps (which comprise Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec), which latter were considered to be mere transit camps \u2013 but which we shall discuss later on in relation to the archaeological controversy surrounding them. Both the \u2018Death Books\u2019 and the Arolsen archives largely agree on the number of Jews who died at Auschwitz, some 30,000 in all \u2013 representing less than half the total deaths. Needless to say, these sorts of figures did not go over well in a country, Germany, that had ruled holocaust denialism to be a criminal offense. Accordingly, and as Kollerstrom relates,<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cNo 21st century statement has ever come out of the Arolsen Archives concerning their total figures. It would just be too risky: the criminal offense of \u2018Denying the Holocaust\u2019 in Germany includes, \u2018downplaying or trivializing the crimes of National-Socialism\u2019. That law does not specify what exactly would constitute those crimes! Not surprisingly, the Arolsen managers have not dared to make any such statement. (It may also be the case that they have received orders not to make any tallies any more\u2026)\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nevertheless, in 2006 the managers did release a statement relating to the numbers of those who had died of gassing: there were none, or rather, they had no records of there being any victims of gassing \u2013 at all. The ensuing controversy was enough for them to beat a hasty retreat and no further statements have been forthcoming. (We will not be so reticent, but soon discuss the matter thoroughly under the section on \u2018science\u2019.)<\/span><\/p>\n

The official figures for total mortality in each of the camps, however, continue to fluctuate \u2013 often wildly, depending on which \u2018eyewitness\u2019 account or official pronouncement is prominent at the moment \u2013 but mostly downwardly. Thus, whereas the figures for Dachau right after the war numbered some 238,000 deaths, the total today stands at 20,600. This lowering by a factor of ten seems to be heading in the direction indicated by the primary source archives. But what then of the \u2018six million\u2019 figure? Surely the initial \u2018four million\u2019 proffered by the Soviets at Nuremberg would have played into the grand total. But why exactly \u2018six\u2019? Why not seven or eight \u2013 or five? And here the author begs us take note of a very peculiar fact: To wit, the undeniable prior existence of a longstanding meme involving precisely the \u2018six million\u2019 figure. As Kollerstrom relates,<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cSo, whence came that totemic number? It began in America around 1900 as a fundraising stunt, and then kept pulsing through the twentieth century like some Hellish mantra. Here are some 166 references, 1900 \u2013 1945. They are overwhelmingly American. At the dawn of the 20th<\/sup>\u00a0century, the \u2018suffering\u2019 of six million Jews became an argument in favour of the new Zionist project\u2026.It helped fundraising, with the number being cited as the total number of Jews in Europe. During World War I it was always six million Jews who were starving, in need of rescue, etc.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And thence the author dutifully lists 166 references. It is worth taking a brief gander at a few of them, just to get the feel of the matter:<\/span><\/p>\n