AAARGH
15 Feb. 2000
Tom Segev's article on David Irving in Ha'aretz (February
20) is a very clear instance of cunning distortion. It deserves
to be quoted as the quintessential example of the worst kind of
dishonest journalism, the kind of inaccurate reporting that carefully
suggests the unqualified lie and leaves it floating between the
lines.
Those who go to the trouble of carefully reading this sort of
trash, may have noticed that Segev attempts to look superficially
moderate and objective. He even suggests that Irving assumed that
"we were there in order to get him to say terrible things"
implying, of course, that they were there simply for accurate
reporting.
Well, the careless reader that puts his confidence in Segev's
promises and doesn't go directly to the trial transcripts available
on the Internet will have been duly informed that Irving practically
rests his "Holocaust" case on the assumption that there
are no roof holes marked in the plans of the main morgue -- supposedly
also functioning as a Zyklon B mass slaughterhouse -- designed
by the Germans for crematory II in Birkenau. Here is Segev on
the subject, according to the English text given on Irving's site:
"But what interested him more than anything else were the
holes that were supposed to be in the ceiling of the chambers,
which were ostensibly used for introducing the poison gas. No
holes were marked on the plans displayed by the defense witness.
Perhaps these were not suffocation chambers, but rather shelters
to protect from aerial bombing, suggested Irving, and dramatically
promised to withdraw his libel suit if he could only be shown
the holes. Where are the holes, he asked again and again. "We
had so much fun that day," he said later, because it turned
out that there were no holes. But the media, of course, did not
report that, Irving complained, and informed Internet surfers
that Rudolf Hess' son was also infuriated about the gap between
the protocols he reads and the media reports."
Well, now that the media has reported the absence of holes in
the plans of the crematory morgue, where no one in the courtroom
was able to find them -- according to Tom Segev who happily was
there simply to provide us with the truth -- can Irving honestly
complain?
My suggestion to anyone wishing to know, is a very simple one:
don't trouble yourself reading the lying newspapers. Go directly
to the trial transcripts and search for the word "holes."
No doubt, you'll be shocked to learn that what Irving insisted
on, over and over and in an unambiguous way, was not the absence
of the holes in the plans, but in the real roof that pancaked
down and is still there in its original Birkenau location, as
indeed everybody agrees. Segev doesn't inform his readers that
this absence of real holes in the material roof, and not the absence
of conceptual holes in the plans, was what Irving was resting
his case on. This is perfectly clear to anyone following the trial,
even if he is daily sleepwalking is way into court. It's an extremely
important part of Irving's "educated doubts" case.
Neither does Segev care to inform his readers that Robert van
Pelt, reputed to be the most pro-eminent expert on the gas chamber
"Holocaust" and apparently also an architecture professor,
actually claimed, as a tentative explanation for the mystery of
the disappearing holes, that the Germans might well have filled
the holes in the reinforced concrete slab that constituted the
roof, before dynamiting it and making it pancake down on the floor.
An expertise of the existing roof would in all probability reveal
this absurd last-ditch trick of the perfidious Germans conceivably
designed to fool the future generations, but it's Irving, not
van Pelt who keeps asking for such an expertise! Van Pelt is too
occupied with things like the "epistemological status"
(sic) of the "Holocaust" to actually admit that
it might be a good idea to go there and look for any evidence
that the holes were tampered with before the dynamiting of the
roof.
So, what the good professor van Pelt apparently has to tell us
about the famous roof holes central to the "Holocaust"
story, is this:
1) The ones that can be seen today in the Auschwitz main camp
crematory -- and indeed are shown to all the tourists that go
there as the real stuff in pristine condition -- are a post-war
reconstruction of the holes that were originally opened on the
roof, subsequentelly filled up by the Germans and finally re-opened
for the tourist's benefit by the communist authorities of the
Auschwitz-Birkenau museum. Therefore, a clever secret reconstruction,
not a fraud.
2) The ones that cannot be seen in the roof that still exists
in the ruins of Birkenau crematory II -- and whose absence is
indeed hidden from the tourists that go there -- may or may not
have been filled up by the Germans prior to dynamiting the whole
thing, but anyway the matter is not relevant to the "epistemological
status" of the gas chamber itself and doesn't deserve an
expert investigation. Therefore, a clever philosophical problem,
not a fraud.
It appears, therefore, that the existing holes that can be found
are false and the non-existing holes that cannot be found are
true. Fascinatingly complex stuff, impossible to find in any known
historical event other than the "Holocaust" or in any
known forensic investigation of any other mass-murder site.
Also very interesting in context, when one thinks that the Germans
had the devilish idea of intentionally murdering scores of people
with the same Zyklon B product used to stamp out the typhus epidemics
that kept killing them, and went so far as doing both things at
once and building murdering crematories that van Pelt and his
associates agree were built (and used) to avoid higher epidemics
casualties, as well as murdering people wholesale. This is no
real news. As soon as revisionists started spreading the rumour
that the supposed gas chamber cellars were labelled as morgues
in the original plans, it became official that the crematories
of Auschwitz-Birkenau had in fact been the simultaneous instruments
of mass murder and mass life-preservation, contrary to the exclusive
role that had been assumed before.
But is it possible that Segev actually managed to misunderstood
both Irving and van Pelt? Could it be that he thought they were
talking about the Germans digging and filling holes in the paper
sheets of the original plans and then blowing the paper sheets
up with dynamite?
No, the absence of holes in the plans is not physical evidence
of anything, but the absence of holes in the reinforced concrete
of the roof is indeed physical evidence of the first magnitude,
with proof value even, and Segev knows this all too well. Hence
the unavoidable need to lie and distort, as he clearly does without
the slightest visible regret.
Segev is perfectly aware of the importance of the "no holes"
claim. It has been aptly sub-summed by prof. Robert Faurisson
in the "no holes, no Holocaust" slogan, meaning, naturally,
the industrial gas chamber slaughterhouse "Holocaust"
that requires the holes. The short slogan was devised to catch
people's attention over and above the lying and distorting media
and to fight the extraordinary legislation that outlaws truth
in historiography in Faurisson's native France and many other
European countries. It has been well-known to revisionists for
quite a while. It's not a simplification; it's the hard truth
that everybody will have to face sooner or later. It's the litmus
test of the fantasy "Holocaust" that has poisoned the
whole World for the past half-century.
Segev knows this so well that he even goes so far as to title
his long article "Where are all their holes?" Then he
falsifies what went on in the courtroom and gives us the innocuous
"conceptual holes in the plans" tale instead. This cannot
possibly be a simple lapse; it's straightforward, intentional,
meaningful distortion. He should be ashamed of the rubbish he
is feeding his readers.
A.S.Marques Lisbon, Portugal
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Source: Letter to Irving's Website.
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