Book
Review
Source:
https://codoh.com/library/document/revisionism-will-set-us-free/
by John Wear
May 7, 2025
John
Beaumont, The Truth Will Set You Free: The Case for Holocaust Revisionism, South
Bend, IN: Fidelity Press, 2023; 349 pp. 6”×9” hardcover, ISBN 978-0-929891-32-3
The book
The Truth Will Set You Free: The Case for Holocaust Revisionism by John
Beaumont is an excellent introduction to Holocaust revisionism. Beaumont writes
that, until about the year 2013, he had accepted the traditional Holocaust
story. His views began to change when a Jewish gentleman in New York within a
short time of their meeting explained to him why Robert Faurisson was one of his
heroes. After reading most of Faurisson’s work, Beaumont became converted to the
revisionist cause. Ironically, much of the further Holocaust revisionist
material brought to Beaumont came from other Jews; for example, the film of
Gilad Atzmon’s interview with Faurisson (pp. 13f.; all page numbers given in
this text are from Beaumont’s book).
Beaumont
writes that, sadly, despite the fine work done by scholars such as Robert
Faurisson, Fred Leuchter, Germar Rudolf, Walter Lüftl, Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen
Graf and other researchers, relatively few people in society are aware of the
powerful evidence for revisionism. His book presents Holocaust revisionist
information chronologically and concentrates on individual writers. Beaumont
shows in his book that the revisionist thesis is proved beyond a reasonable
doubt, the standard burden of proof required in criminal cases (pp. 14f.).
The
Early Revisionists
Paul
Rassinier was a French history teacher who was arrested during the war for
passive resistance activities, which included helping to smuggle Jews into
neutral Switzerland. Rassinier stated that, although he suffered greatly during
the war in the Buchenwald and Dora concentration camps, he never saw any
evidence of homicidal gas chambers or any program to exterminate the Jews. After
reading sensationalized accounts that he knew were false, Rassinier felt it was
his ethical duty to tell the truth about the camps, and refute the false claims
being made in the world’s press.
Rassinier wrote extensively about his own experiences and observations in the
German camps. He began to research the entire issue of German genocide against
the Jews during the war. Rassinier concluded that the death toll in the camps
was far lower than alleged. He also concluded that the deaths in the camps were
not caused by a German program of mass murder,[1] but
rather primarily by the poor conditions of the camps attributable to the
economic collapse of Germany during a devastating war. Rassinier had nothing to
gain personally from taking his unpopular position, and after suffering greatly
in the German concentration camps, he then suffered intense persecution in
postwar France for his courageous writings after the war.
Paul
Rassinier’s writings helped to inspire an interest in Holocaust revisionism in
other writers. One of these was Dr. Arthur Robert Butz, who in 1976 published a
comprehensive analysis of the so-called Holocaust in his book The Hoax of
the Twentieth Century, later sub-titled The Case Against the Presumed
Extermination of European Jewry. Butz states in his book that “the simplest
valid reason for being skeptical about the extermination claim is also the
simplest conceivable reason: at the end of the war, they were still there.”[2]
Robert
Faurisson wrote a review of Butz’s book as to why the alleged extermination of
the Jews did not happen (p. 39):
“[I]f,
in the middle of Europe, in the space of three years, the Germans had killed so
many millions of Jews, such an extraordinary phenomenon could not have gone
unnoticed. But the Vatican did not perceive this awesome occurrence. The
International Committee of the Red Cross did not see it. The German underground
opposition did not mention it. The European Jews had no information on the
subject and did not truly believe the vague, absurd, and cacophonous rumors
circulating here and there of a physical extermination of industrial
proportions. Jews overseas (United States, Palestine, international Jewish
organizations) did not behave as if they themselves lent credence to the
alarming accounts that they were disseminating, and nor did the Allied
governments.”
Beaumont
writes that Robert Faurisson did an immense amount of work in the cause of
revisionism. Of great importance was Faurisson’s study of American gas chambers,
which used Zyklon B (hydrocyanic acid) to execute one man in American
penitentiaries. Faurisson’s research on gas chambers and Zyklon B took between
three and four years of study. Faurisson stated why the alleged homicidal gas
chambers never existed (pp. 48f.):
“Today’s visitor to Auschwitz or Majdanek discovers, in the way of ‘gas
chambers,’ facilities in which any gassings would have spelt catastrophe for the
gassers and their entourage. A collective execution by gas, supposing that it
was practicable, could not at all be likened either to a suicidal or to an
accidental gassing. In order to gas a single convict at a time, with his wrists
and ankles shackled, the Americans employ a special gas [hydrogen cyanide]
within a small space, from which, after its use, it is extracted and
subsequently neutralized. So then, how could 2,000 people (and even 3,000) be
held in an enclosure of 210 square meters (!), at Auschwitz, for example, to
have a common and powerful insecticide called Zyklon B poured onto them (!);
finally, just after the victims’ death, how could a team be sent, without gas
masks, into that place saturated with hydrogen cyanide, in order to remove the
corpses infused with cyanide?”
The
1985 Zündel Trial
Beaumont
includes in his book a chapter about the 1985 Ernst Zündel trial. This trial
originated when Samisdat Publishers Ltd., under the signature of its president,
Ernst Zündel, published in the early 1980s a 32-page booklet titled Did Six
Million Really Die?. Sabina Citron, a founder of the Canadian Holocaust
Remembrance Association, filed a criminal complaint against Ernst Zündel for the
alleged criminal offense of “spreading false news” likely to cause racial and
social intolerance. This charge was later assumed by the Canadian government and
led to a lengthy jury trial in 1985.[3]
The
booklet Did Six Million Really Die? unquestionably contained some
errors. It was written hastily in the early 1970s by a young University of
London graduate, Richard Verrall, who used the pseudonym “Richard Harwood.” The
booklet critiqued the weaknesses of the evidence and arguments provided in
orthodox Holocaust literature, and gave the reader alternative views of what
happened in the German camps during World War II. The booklet Did Six
Million Really Die? did what polemical works are supposed to do by
providing readers with an alternative view of the so-called Holocaust.[3]
The
primary purpose of the prosecution of Ernst Zündel was to make sure that
ordinary Canadians would not have access to the type of information contained in
Did Six Million Really Die?. Zündel in his defense decided to put the
“Holocaust” on trial. Indeed, Zündel forced pro-Holocaust historians to defend
their position that Germany had a program of mass extermination against Jews
during World War II.[4]
The
prosecution in the 1985 Ernst Zündel trial counted on the testimony of carefully
chosen survivors to prove the so-called Holocaust happened as described by
mainstream historians. These survivors were supposed to testify that they had
seen, with their own eyes, the carrying out of homicidal gassings. However, none
of the prosecution’s eyewitnesses was able to successfully describe any
homicidal gassings at the German camps.[5]
Arnold
Friedman, a 56-year-old Hungarian Jew, was touted as an eyewitness to the
homicidal gassings at Auschwitz. Friedman testified that while in Auschwitz he
saw “14-foot flames” shooting out of the crematorium chimneys. Douglas Christie,
Zündel’s defense attorney, showed Friedman scientific evidence that the
crematoria at Auschwitz were designed not to give off either flames, ashes, or
odors. Friedman eventually admitted that his testimony did not come from
personal experience; he was simply repeating what others had told him.[6]
Rudolf
Vrba, who had escaped from Auschwitz in April of 1944, was a world-famous
eyewitness to the homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz. Vrba was a coauthor of
the War Refugee Board Report, and was the author of the book I Cannot
Forgive (with Alan Bestic) published in 1964. Furthermore, Vrba had
provided important eyewitness testimony at the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt in
1964.[7] The prosecution felt that Vrba could produce
reliable and authentic testimony at the trial. Vrba was considered one of the
most important witnesses in support of the existence of gas chambers at
Auschwitz.
However,
Vrba confessed during his testimony at Zündel’s trial that his book I Cannot
Forgive was “an artistic picture […] not a document for the court.” Vrba
also testified that he had never actually witnessed anybody being gassed at
Auschwitz, but had merely heard rumors. Furthermore, Vrba admitted that his
written and pictorial descriptions of the Auschwitz crematory were mere
guessing, based on “what I heard it might look like.” Vrba proved to be an
unreliable witness who could only cite hearsay evidence of the so-called
Holocaust.[8]
All the
other prosecution witnesses were discredited on cross-examination by Douglas
Christie. Today, the evidence that the so-called Holocaust happened is based
almost entirely on eyewitness testimony of “survivors.” As the 1985 Ernst Zündel
trial showed, such eyewitness testimony has consistently proved to be extremely
unreliable.
Dr. Raul
Hilberg was hired by the prosecution in the 1985 Zündel trial to testify as an
expert on the “Holocaust.” He commenced his study of the “Holocaust” in 1948.
Hilberg’s major work on the so-called Holocaust was The Destruction of the
European Jews, which was first published in 1961, and reprinted many times.
When
asked in 1983 how the extermination of European Jewry took place without an
order, Hilberg replied:[9]
“What
began in 1941 was a process of destruction not planned in advance, not organized
centrally by any agency. There was no blueprint and there was no budget for
destructive measures. They were taken step by step, one step at a time. Thus,
came about not so much a plan being carried out, but an incredible meeting of
minds, a consensus-mind reading by a far-flung bureaucracy.”
On
January 16, 1985, under cross-examination at the 1985 Zündel trial, Hilberg
confirmed that he said these words.[10] Thus, Hilberg
stated that the mass murder of European Jewry was not carried out by a plan or
order, but rather by an incredible mind reading among far-flung German
bureaucrats.
Douglas
Christie asked Hilberg if he knew of one scientific report that substantiates
that any single place was used as a gas chamber. Hilberg, after repeatedly
asking for clarification of the question, eventually had to admit that he knew
of no scientific report that proved the existence of a gas chamber in German
camps during World War II.[11] Thus, the world’s
greatest pro-Holocaust expert admitted that there was no scientific evidence or
even an autopsy report to back up the prosecution’s incredible extermination
claims.[12]
After
Hilberg’s testimony, spirits were understandably high at Zündel’s headquarters.
The prosecution witnesses and their “Holocaust” expert, who were supposed to
make a fool of Zündel, had failed miserably in their testimony.[12]
Zündel
now produced solid evidence in his defense, including eyewitnesses. Dr. Robert
Faurisson, the leader of Zündel’s defense team and a recognized expert on text
and document criticism, was Zündel’s first witness. Faurisson testified that
there was not a single homicidal gas chamber in any of the German concentration
camps. He stated:[13]
“If
it [proof of gassings] had existed, we should have thousands of
material [proofs]. We have not one proof.”
Dr.
Russell Barton, an English physician who later became an American psychiatrist,
testified that he entered Bergen-Belsen with British forces as a young medical
student on May 2, 1945. Dr. Barton’s first impression of the camp was one of
horror: some inmates were dead and piled up outside the huts, others were in
various stages of dying, disease and dehydration. Barton examined the camp’s
well-equipped kitchens, and found record books listing the food that had been
cooked and distributed going back to 1942. Dr. Barton determined from his
examination of the camp records that there had not been a deliberate policy of
starvation at Bergen-Belsen.
Dr.
Barton made inquiries with inmates, including Jewish doctors, who told him that
Bergen-Belsen had not been too bad until the autumn of 1944. Then, as the
Russian armies were advancing, the inmates said they had been given the choice
of remaining in the camps about to be overrun by the Soviets, or being
repatriated back to Germany. Many chose to return to Germany. As a result, from
the autumn of 1944 to early 1945, some 53,000 people were moved into
Bergen-Belsen, which had room for only 3,000 inmates. The overcrowding was
extreme, and the staff at the camp resented it. Josef Kramer, the commandant of
Bergen-Belsen, and Dr. Fritz Klein, the medical doctor at the camp, didn’t know
what to do with the huge influx of inmates. Dr. Barton testified that the
horrific conditions at Bergen-Belsen were attributable to overcrowding and the
collapse of the German economy at the end of the war rather than to an
intentional program of extermination.[14]
Thies
Christophersen was another witness who said that the alleged mass murder of Jews
during the war never happened. Christophersen supervised about 300 workers at
Auschwitz from January to December 1944. On numerous occasions during this
period, he visited Birkenau, where allegedly hundreds of thousands of Jews were
being gassed to death. In a memoir first published in Germany in 1973, The
Auschwitz Lie, Christophersen wrote that, during the time he was at
Auschwitz, he did not notice the slightest evidence of mass gassings. At the
1985 Zündel trial, he successfully answered numerous pointed questions by the
prosecuting attorney about his experiences at Auschwitz.[15]
Dr.
William B. Lindsey, a research chemist employed for 33 years by the DuPont
Corporation, testified at the 1985 Ernst Zündel trial that he considered mass
homicidal gassings in the camps to be technically impossible. Based on his
on-site examination of the alleged homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau,
and Majdanek, Dr. Lindsey stated:[16]
“I
have come to the conclusion that no one was willfully or purposefully killed
with Zyklon B in this manner. I consider it absolutely impossible.”
Ditlieb
Felderer, a revisionist researcher of Jewish descent, testified that he had
conducted 27 separate visits to Auschwitz, where he snapped more than 30,000
color photographs, took soil samples and conducted infra-red analysis of rooms
and buildings. He examined the camp from top to bottom, and sneaked into areas
which were off limits to tourists. Zündel testified that Felderer’s photographs
were important in the formation of his understanding of the alleged gas chambers
at Auschwitz. However, none of Felderer’s photographs was permitted to be
offered as evidence by the judge in Zündel’s trial.
Felderer
testified that the real Zyklon-B rooms at Auschwitz were delousing chambers.
These facilities were designed to save lives by fighting typhus through the
fumigation of bedding and clothing. He said that faked or reconstructed exhibits
were placed on the guided Auschwitz tour. These fake exhibits included the
infamous “execution wall,” which Felderer discovered did not have any bullet
holes in the wall. Felderer described Auschwitz as it is now portrayed as being
a “Hollywood set” which carries on Zionist and Communist propaganda.[17]
Zündel
called numerous additional witnesses to testify in his defense. At the end of
his trial, Zündel was questioned about his views of the “Holocaust.” His
testimony indicated that he had studied the subject quite extensively.
Unfortunately, regarding the booklet Did Six Million Really Die?, the
jury found Zündel guilty of willfully promoting false news. Judge Hugh Locke
sentenced Ernst Zündel to 15 months in prison, followed by three years of
probation. While free on bail, Judge Locke placed Zündel under a judicial gag
order forbidding him from writing or speaking about the “Holocaust.”[18]
Christie
appealed the court’s decision. On January 23, 1987, Zündel’s conviction was
overturned by the five-judge Ontario Court of Appeals for two very important
reasons. First, Locke had not allowed the defense any influence in the jury
selection process. Second, the jury had been misled by the judge on the very
meaning of the trial. A second trial concerning only the booklet Did Six
Million Really Die? was ordered by the court.[19]
The
1988 Zündel Trial
Beaumont
also includes an entire chapter on Ernst Zündel’s second trial, which began on
January 18, 1988. Prior to the start of the trial, Crown Attorney John Pearson
requested that the new judge, Ron Thomas, take judicial notice of the historical
fact that the National Socialist regime of Adolf Hitler pursued a policy of
extermination of Europe’s Jews. Judge Thomas granted Pearson’s request. The jury
was directed by Thomas to accept as a fact that the “Holocaust” had occurred.
Thus, in the 1988 Zündel trial, the judge by this ruling effectively determined
the result of the case (pp. 100f.).
Not one
“Holocaust” survivor entered the witness box in Zündel’s second trial. The
prosecution had apparently learned in the first trial that there were no
credible witnesses to the existence and operation of German gas chambers.
Despite objections by Douglas Christie, the judge in the second trial allowed
Raul Hillberg’s testimony from 1985 to be read to the jury, thereby enabling
Hilberg to avoid cross-examination in Zündel’s second trial.
Dr.
Christopher Browning, a professor of history at Pacific Lutheran University, was
called by the prosecution as their expert witness to replace Hilberg. Browning
admitted in his testimony that, during his 17 years of research, he had never
seen a homicidal gas chamber or a technical plan for a homicidal gas chamber. He
had never seen an autopsy report for a supposedly gassed individual in any
German concentration camp. Browning also could not provide any credible evidence
that Hitler had ordered the extermination of the Jews. He was also unaware of
the numerous tortures of Germans such as Rudolf Höss, the commandant of
Auschwitz, who had spoken of gassings (pp. 101-103).
Robert
Faurisson provided extensive testimony at this trial as to the nonexistence of
gas chambers in the German camps. Faurisson spoke of the very serious practical
necessities that would be required for Germany to bring such a system into
operation (p. 113):
“A
gassing is not an improvisation. If the Germans had decided to gas millions of
people, a complete overhaul of some very formidable machinery would have been
absolutely essential. A general order, instructions, studies, commands, and
plans would surely have been necessary also. Such items have never been found.
Meetings of experts would have been necessary: of architects, chemists, doctors,
and experts in a wide range of technical fields. Disbursements and allocation of
funds would have been necessary.”
Bill M.
Armontrout, the Warden of Missouri State Penitentiary, confirmed at the 1988
Zündel trial the difficulty of conducting homicidal gassings to kill people. He
described the procedure used in Missouri after the execution of only one person
in a homicidal gas chamber:[20]
“After the execution, the ammonia was released and the gas expelled out of the
chamber. All staff and witnesses were removed from the area. The ventilation fan
ran for approximately an hour before two officers equipped with Scott air-packs
(self-contained breathing apparatus which firemen use to enter smoke-filled
buildings) opened the hatch of the gas chamber and removed the lead bucket
containing the cyanide residue. The two officers wore rubberized disposable
clothing and long rubber gloves. They hosed down the condemned man’s body in the
chair, paying particular attention to the hair and the clothing because of the
cyanide residue, then removed him and placed him on a gurney where further
decontamination took place. The officers then hosed the entire inside of the gas
chamber with regular cold water.”
Obviously, such a difficult and time-consuming procedure would not be an
effective means of quickly executing hundreds of thousands of people as
allegedly happened to the Jews at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
British
historian David Irving also provided valuable testimony at the 1988 Zündel
trial. Irving was asked: Do you consider it likely that an enterprise of the
magnitude of the extermination of the Jews of Europe could be accomplished by
the people [Germans], knowing the way they conducted business from their
documents, without the existence of explicit orders and plans? David Irving
testified:[21]
“Not
only without existence of orders, but also without the existence of any written
reference to it. I have to say that the German wartime civil servant was
basically a cowardly animal and he would not do something that he considered to
be criminal without getting a document clearing himself. He would get his
superior to write a letter saying, ‘On the Führer’s orders, we are doing the
following,’ which is why there are letters showing Himmler saying, ‘On the
Führer’s orders, we are deporting the Jews.’ Which was the extent of the
Führer’s orders and which was the extent, to my mind, of the final solution. So,
the documents don’t exist where you expect to find them. Hitler’s other crimes,
the documents are there: the euthanasia order, the order to kill British
commandos, the orders to lynch American airmen, the orders for the killing of
the male population of Stalingrad if ever they occupied it. Hitler’s other
crimes, simple crimes, the documents are there where you expect to find them.
And yet this biggest crime of all, there is no document […]. I think
there would definitely have had to be orders and these orders would have been
referred to in countless files of different ministerial bodies. So, it would
have been impossible for these documents to have been destroyed at the end of
the war. There would always be carbon copies somewhere.”
The
highlight of the 1988 Zündel trial was Fred Leuchter’s testimony. In every
murder trial, the prosecution has the burden of proof to show the cause of
death. Scientific evidence is usually the most convincing evidence to show the
cause of death, because scientific evidence can be verified in an objective
manner. Incredibly, in the biggest and most publicized murder trial of all time,
the prosecution at the IMT produced no autopsy reports or expert reports on the
existence and operation of the alleged homicidal gas chambers. Even in the
Auschwitz Trial in Frankfurt in the mid-1960s and the Majdanek Trial in
Düsseldorf in the late 1970s, the defense never requested a report on the
alleged murder weapons, which have partly survived today. The prosecution in
these trials relied almost exclusively on eyewitness testimony to convict the
defendants of murder.[22]
It was
not until the 1988 Zündel trial that a scientific study was conducted concerning
the homicidal gas chambers allegedly used in the German camps. As part of his
defense in this trial, Zündel commissioned the American gas chamber expert Fred
Leuchter to make a scientific examination of the alleged homicidal gas chambers
at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek. The resulting Leuchter Report is
the first scientific study of the alleged German homicidal gas chambers.[22]
Leuchter,
who before this assignment had believed in the existence of the homicidal gas
chambers and the German genocide of European Jewry, was perhaps the leading
expert in the United States on the construction and use of execution equipment.
Leuchter had designed and manufactured execution equipment of all types prior to
this assignment, including electrocution systems, lethal injection equipment,
gallows and gas chamber hardware. He had worked with most, if not all, of the
states in the United States having capital punishment.[23]
As a
result of his on-site examination of the alleged homicidal gas chambers, Fred
Leuchter states:[24]
“After reviewing all of the material and inspecting all of the sites at
Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek, your author finds the evidence to be
overwhelming. There were no execution gas chambers at any of these locations. It
is the best engineering opinion of this author that the alleged gas chambers at
the inspected sites could not have been, or now be, utilized or seriously
considered to function as execution gas chambers.”
Douglas
Christie, in his summation to the jury, stated that the prosecution had produced
no technical or forensic evidence, no eyewitnesses and no “survivors.” Christie
noted that the defense had covered all these issues, eliciting historic
revelations in the process (p. 133).
Based on
Judge Thomas’s ruling requiring the jury to accept as a fact that the
“Holocaust” occurred, the jury found Zündel guilty of spreading false news.
Zündel was sentenced to nine months imprisonment. Fortunately, in 1992, Zündel’s
conviction was overturned by the Canadian Supreme Court, which ruled that the
section of the Criminal Code that had been the grounds for Zündel’s conviction
was unconstitutional (ibid.).
Germar Rudolf
John
Beaumont also devotes a lengthy chapter to the Revisionist work of Germar
Rudolf. Like most Germans, Rudolf originally believed in the official Holocaust
narrative. He began to question the “Holocaust” after reading Paul Rassiner’s
book What is Truth. Rudolf became increasingly skeptical of the
so-called Holocaust after reading the Leuchter Report. He decided to do
original scientific work on his own (pp. 138-141).
Rudolf,
a certified chemist, expanded on Leuchter’s work by writing the Rudolf
Report in the spring of 1992. The Rudolf Report, which has been
updated and revised several times, focuses on the engineering and chemical
aspects of the alleged homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz and Birkenau. Rudolf
observed in his on-site examinations that the delousing facilities at Auschwitz,
Birkenau and Majdanek all have one thing in common: their walls are permeated
with Prussian Blue. Not only the inner surfaces, but also the outside walls and
the mortar between the bricks of the delousing chambers have Prussian Blue
staining. Nothing of this sort can be observed in any of the alleged homicidal
gas chambers at Auschwitz and Birkenau.
Rudolf
also took samples from the alleged homicidal gas chambers and the delousing
facilities at Auschwitz and Birkenau. Similar to Leuchter’s samples, the alleged
homicidal gas chambers exhibit only insignificant traces of ferrocyanide residue
on the same order of magnitude found in any other building. The samples from the
delousing chambers, however, all show very high ferrocyanide residues. Rudolf
determined that, if mass execution gassings with hydrocyanic acid had taken
place in the alleged homicidal gas chambers, the rooms in the alleged homicidal
gas chambers would exhibit similar ferrocyanide residue as the delousing
chambers. Therefore, Rudolf concludes that mass gassings with Zyklon B could not
have occurred in the alleged homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz and Birkenau.[25]
Rudolf
states that the alleged homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau could not
have been used to exterminate hundreds of thousands of people as described in
pro-Holocaust literature for the following reasons:
1.
they did not have escape-proof doors and windows;
2.
they did not have panic-proof equipment;
3.
they did not have technically gastight doors and shutters;
4.
they had no provision to quickly release and distribute the poison gas; and
5.
they had no effective devices to ventilate or
otherwise render ineffective the poison gas after the execution.[26]
By
contrast, Germany built highly sophisticated and expensive disinfestation
facilities at Auschwitz-Birkenau to kill lice and save inmate lives. These
disinfestation facilities:
1.
had walls and ceilings covered with gastight coatings;
2.
were equipped with massive steel doors and had no windows;
3.
had technically gastight doors;
4.
had devices to quickly release and distribute the poison gas; and
5.
had effective devices to ventilate or otherwise render ineffective the poison
gas after the gas procedure.
By one
estimate, the SS at Auschwitz-Birkenau spent almost $1 billion in today’s values
to bring the typhus epidemics raging there under control.[27]
An enormous amount of information exists concerning the German delousing
facilities,[28] but no similar information exists
regarding the alleged homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau.[29]
Additional evidence arguing against the existence of homicidal gas chambers is
the roof of the semi-underground Morgue #1 of Crematorium II at Birkenau, which
is said to have been the building’s homicidal gas chamber. This roof remains
intact to some degree today. Contrary to eyewitness testimony, that roof has no
Zyklon-B-introduction holes. This has been acknowledged by pro-Holocaust
researcher Robert Jan van Pelt. Since it is impossible to close holes measuring
70 x 70 cm from a concrete roof without leaving clearly visible traces, it is
certain that no Zyklon-B-introduction holes ever existed at Crematorium II.
Consequently, Zyklon B could not have been introduced through the roof of this
morgue as alleged by pro-Holocaust supporters.[30]
Beaumont
writes that Rudolf has written many articles and books on the so-called
Holocaust. Probably Rudolf’s most wide-ranging book is his Lectures on the
Holocaust: Controversial Issues Cross-Examined, now in its expanded fourth
edition published in 2023. Beaumont writes that this book is a remarkable work
and is a powerful refutation of the official Holocaust story (p. 147).
Rudolf
writes about so many topics in Lectures on the Holocaust that only a
few topics can be mentioned here. Regarding the Aktion Reinhardt
camps and Chelmno, Rudolf notes that witnesses have claimed that far more than
homicidal gassings were used to execute people at these camps. For example, at
Treblinka, various witnesses have alleged that mobile or stationary gas
chambers, poison gas, quicklime, steam, electricity, machine guns, vacuum
chambers, Zyklon B, and exhaust from diesel or gasoline engines were used as
murder weapons. Such a mish-mash of eyewitness testimony greatly reduces its
credibility.[31]
Rudolf
also notes that none of the Aktion Reinhardt camps had
crematoria even though all the other important German camps had fixed or mobile
cremation furnaces. The Germans even built a crematorium for a simple
prisoner-of-war transit camp in Russia. Also, when it turned out that the
Germans had bought too many cremation furnaces, camp leaders were all asked if
such furnaces were needed in their camps. No one at Treblinka, Belzec, or
Sobibór indicated a need for such cremation furnaces. This makes no sense if the
Aktion Reinhardt camps were the extermination camps they are
claimed to have been.[32]
According to Holocaust historians, the bodies of Jews gassed at the Aktion
Reinhardt camps were first buried in mass graves. The bodies were later
exhumed and burned in the open air.[33] This story lacks
all credibility. First, it would have required a tremendous amount of work to
bury hundreds of thousands of dead bodies in a few months at the Aktion
Reinhardt camps. It would have then required an enormous amount of work to
recover these buried bodies and place them on the open-air pyres to be cremated.
Finally, it would have required an enormous amount of wood to burn the dead
bodies on open-air pyres. The Germans were not so stupid to have used such a
labor-intensive and costly process when far better alternatives were available.
It would
have been enormously difficult, if not impossible, to cremate 870,000 bodies at
Treblinka through open air cremations. Germar Rudolf calculates that without
wood between the corpse layers, each pyre of the fire grates would have been
about nine meters high. With wood between the layers, each pyre would have been
over 26 meters high. This would result in a total weight of over 700 metric tons
per pyre for successful cremations. Even if the Germans had managed to build
such a pile, it would be only a matter of time before the corpses fell over to
one side, because fires never burn evenly. Realistically, a stable pile cannot
be built that is higher than it is wide.[34]
Rudolf
notes that all three of the Aktion Reinhardt camps were
situated near the demarcation line between German- and Soviet-occupied Poland.
This geographic fact indicates the likelihood that these camps served as transit
camps for Jews to the east. The Soviets used broad-gauge railway tracks in
contrast to the rest of Europe. Therefore, transports towards the east had to
transfer their people at this demarcation line from trains of the European gauge
to those of the Russian gauge. This explains why so many witnesses talked about
hygienic measures such as delousing and showering procedures at these camps,
which today are often falsely regarded as deceptive measures preceding mass
murder.[35]
Rudolf
writes about the Aktion Reinhardt camps:[36]
“Those claiming that a gigantic mass-murder operation unfolded have to deliver
the kinds of evidence required in any murder case: primarily traces of the
bodies, evidence of them having been murdered, and any kind of trace of the
murder weapon.”
Official
Holocaust historiography has produced no credible evidence of any of these.
Rudolf
also writes extensively on the so-called Holocaust by bullets. The allegation is
that the Einsatzgruppen and other German forces conducted a program of
mass extermination against Jews.
However,
in addition to fighting partisans, Rudolf writes that the Einsatzgruppen
had numerous tasks involving the reorganization of civilian life in the Soviet
territories occupied by the Germans. In their reports, the Einsatzgruppen
addressed such issues as morale, politics and administration, propaganda,
cultural life, public health, church, economy, the food situation, agriculture,
industry and trade, the resistance movements, as well as the Jews. The
Einsatzgruppen were involved in a truly staggering number of tasks. The
mass murder of Jews was clearly not the primary function of the
Einsatzgruppen .[37]
Much of
the documentation for the Holocaust by bullets is based on the
Einsatzgruppen reports. Rudolf notes, however, that even pro-Holocaust
historians question the veracity of these reports. For example, German
mainstream historian Peter Longerich comments on the possible exaggeration of
Jews killed in the Einsatzgruppen reports:[38]
“Regarding the number of victims, it cannot be excluded that the
accounting-style accuracy with which the Event Reports were written convey a
false impression; it is possible that the exact number of people killed during
the massacres was not recorded, and it seems conceivable that the figures given
are exaggerated in order to polish the ‘success record.’”
Rudolf
makes it clear that the alleged massacre of some 33,371 Jews at Babi Yar in
September 1941 did not take place. He notes that the established version of this
claimed event is that Jews were driven to the edge of Babi Yar and then shot and
thrown into the ravine. Other sources claim that the Jews were murdered in a
cemetery, in a forest, in the ravine itself, in a brickyard, in the city of
Kiev, in gas vans or in the River Dnieper. The murder weapons were supposed to
have been machine guns, submachine guns, automatic rifles, rifle butts, clubs,
tanks, mines, hand grenades, gas vans, bayonets and knives, live burial,
drowning, injections and electrical shocks.[39] Such
absurd and conflicting testimony greatly reduces the credibility of the
eyewitness testimony.
Rudolf
also discusses an air photo taken on September 26, 1943 by the German air force
which fell into American hands at war’s end. The photo was taken shortly after
the corpses of Babi Yar were allegedly exhumed and cremated on gigantic pyres.
The resolution of the photo is so good that distinct objects such as shrubs,
trees and cars can be recognized. This photo shows nothing indicating that any
recently terminated cataclysmic event took place such as the exhumation of
33,371 Jewish bodies. This photo proves that the Babi Yar massacre never took
place.[40]
Beaumont
correctly writes about Germar Rudolf (p. 216):
“Evidence, objectivity, and reasoned analysis are at the heart of his writings,
which are massive in quantity and, it is submitted, excellent in quality,
resulting in a very powerful case for revisionism.”
Walter Lüftl
Beaumont
also includes a chapter in his book on Austrian engineer Walter Lüftl. In 1992,
many Austrian and German newspapers reported the resignation of the president of
the Federal Austrian Chamber of Engineers, Walter Lüftl, who stepped down from
his position after voicing doubts about the Holocaust. There were demands that
Lüftl be prosecuted, and allegations were made that he had expressed “Nazi”
sentiments. Lüftl’s alleged crime was that he had written a paper that confirmed
Fred Leuchter’s findings (pp. 220-222).
Lüftl
states in his report that, although the hydrocyanic acid contained in the Zyklon
B can kill quickly and certainly, the handling requirements for Zyklon B rule
out any significant use of Zyklon B for the mass killing of people. Lüftl states
that, during the ventilation process after a gassing, Zyklon B would still
retain approximately 92% of its hydrocyanic acid content, and would thus
continue releasing hydrocyanic acid gas. Lüftl asks: How could the gas chamber
operators get rid of the remaining Zyklon B from the midst of dead corpses,
without lengthy ventilation periods, and without causing mass deaths outside the
gas chambers? Lüftl concludes that, because of operational and time
considerations, quasi-industrial killing using Zyklon B is impossible.[41]
Lüftl
also states in his report that mass murder with diesel exhaust gasses is an
impossibility for reasons of time alone. Lüftl writes that this can be easily
proven experimentally, even today, with a few brave men. Therefore, Lüftl
concludes that the stories of gas chambers with diesel engines and gas vans at
places such as Treblinka can only be disinformation. In his report, Lüftl
states:[42]
“The
laws of nature apply both to Nazis and anti-fascists. Nobody can be killed with
diesel exhaust gas in the manner described [in the Holocaust literature].”
Lüftl
summarizes the evidence in his Lüftl Report:[43]
“An
absolutely unbiased study of the problem must conclude that, by and large, the
views of the so-called ‘Revisionists’ – the so-called ‘deniers’ – are far more
in line with the laws of nature, logic, and technical realities than the
accounts in Holocaust literature (in which, moreover, scientifically verifiable
data is generally lacking). When, as an exception, verifiable data is given in
the Holocaust literature, a critical examination of such data leads to absurd
results (25 persons per square meter, and so forth).
The
decisive error in the Holocaust literature is the belief that the hydrocyanic
acid contained in Zyklon B could be fully released in the alleged time span of
15-30 minutes required for the gassing, and that the carrier material would
simultaneously and completely vaporize like a moth ball. The (fact of the)
residue of Zyklon B makes the Auschwitz extermination story (‘Auschwitz-Mythos’)
obsolete.”
Carlo Mattogno and Jürgen Graf
Beaumont
writes that Carlo Mattogno is arguably the world’s leading Holocaust revisionist
scholar. He has published dozens of books and numerous articles, more than any
other Holocaust revisionist. The majority of Mattogno’s books are very detailed
specialist works about specific topics (p. 275).
By the
early 1990s, Mattogno had obtained a relatively small amount of documentary
evidence concerning Auschwitz and the so-called Holocaust. His real breakthrough
came in 1995, when he first gained access to the Moscow archives and made
numerous tours in the archives of many eastern European countries in the company
of Jürgen Graf. To Mattogno’s great surprise, the Auschwitz archives that he
examined in Moscow were both “vast” (over 88,000 pages) and “meticulous.”
Everything one could think of was documented except one thing only – the
construction and operation of the homicidal gas chambers. There was no mention
of the homicidal gas chambers in the Moscow archives (p. 277).
Now
having extensive documentation, Mattogno began a scientific investigation of
many issues regarding Auschwitz and the alleged homicidal gas chambers.
Mattogno’s investigations include the issues of cremation at Auschwitz, open-air
incinerations at Auschwitz, the alleged first gassing at Auschwitz, the bunkers
of Auschwitz, the intention held by the Germans with respect to the fate of the
Jews, the healthcare in Auschwitz, the deliveries of coke, wood and Zyklon B to
Auschwitz, the unreliability of witnesses at Auschwitz, and the British
intercepts of secret transmissions from Auschwitz (pp. 277-286).
Mattogno
has also done extensive research on the alleged crimes of Dr. Josef Mengele at
Auschwitz, and has concluded that Mengele has been falsely accused of these
crimes. Mattogno writes (p. 303):
“Dr.
Mengele’s alleged crimes are not substantiated by any document. No document
shows that Mengele ever killed even one single child, or that one single child
was ever killed on his orders. The crucial and sole witness, the one upon whose
testimony the whole accusation is based, was an extraordinarily imaginative
imposter. Dr. Mengele’s closest collaborators, including this presumed crucial
witness, and at least 543 of his ‘victims’ were allowed to live. But then, how
could anyone seriously believe in the fable of the ‘Angel of Death’ of
Auschwitz?”
Jürgen
Graf became acquainted with the revisionist view of the Holocaust in 1991. He
soon published a couple of books which served as an introduction to Holocaust
revisionism, but he was subsequently dismissed from his job for alleged
unethical behavior. After obtaining a new job teaching German to foreign
students at a private language school in Basel, Graf wrote another book about
the unreliability of eyewitness reports of the alleged Auschwitz-Birkenau gas
chambers. Graf at this time also met Carlo Mattogno, who he began working with
in close cooperation, translating many of Mattogno’s writings and co-authoring
several books (pp. 246f.).
Graf’s
fourth revisionist book was published in 1995. In July 1998, Graf and his editor
Gerhard Förster went on trial in Baden, Switzerland, for publication of Graf’s
Holocaust revisionist views. It was claimed that Graf’s books were a violation
of the Swiss “anti-racism law.” Graf was sentenced to 15 months in jail without
probation, while Förster was sentenced to 12 months in jail. They were also
fined large sums of money. Graf was dismissed from his teaching post after the
trial, and his two appeals of the court’s verdict were turned down. He moved to
Moscow to avoid serving prison time in Switzerland (pp. 247f.).
Jürgen
Graf writes about his trials in his efforts to get at the truth of the so-called
Holocaust (p. 249):
“Revisionism has radically changed my life. Although my existence has become
perilous and precarious, it is now more interesting and more meaningful than
ever before as I know that I am fighting against something fundamentally evil.
Discovering the truth about the holocaust was a singular intellectual adventure
and opened my eyes. Having ascertained that the Jewish extermination and
homicidal gas chamber story is but a monstrous hoax, I understood the true
nature of the so-called ‘Western democracy,’ and I became aware of the fact that
a hostile alien minority is the driving force behind the decadence and
corruption corroding Western society. The holocaust is but the most extreme case
of the lies the Jewish-run media are continuously poisoning the world with…”
Conclusion
The
Truth Will Set You Free: The Case for Holocaust Revisionism
is an excellent introduction to the subject of the
“Holocaust.” John Beaumont has done extensive research on the subject, and
effectively summarizes the work of the major Holocaust revisionists. I highly
recommend Beaumont’s book to anyone who wants to learn more about Holocaust
revisionism and the fraudulent nature of the official Holocaust narrative.
Notes
1.
Rassinier, Paul, The Holocaust Story and the Lies of Ulysses, Costa Mesa, CA:
The Institute for Historical Review, 1978.
2. Butz,
Robert, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, Newport Beach, CA: Institute for
Historical Review, 1993, p. 10.
3.
Kulaszka, Barbara, (ed.), Did Six Million Really Die: Report of Evidence in the
Canadian “False News” Trial of Ernst Zündel, Toronto: Samisdat Publishers Ltd.,
1992, p. i.
4.
Ibid., p. iii.
5.
Faurisson, Robert, “The Zündel Trials (1985 and 1988),” The Journal of
Historical Review, Vol. 8, No. 4, Winter 1988-89, pp. 419-421;
https://codoh.com/library/document/the-zundel-trials-1985-and-1988/.
6.
Hoffman II, Michael A., The Great Holocaust Trial, 3rd edition, Dresden, N.Y.:
Wiswell Ruffin House, 1995, pp. 45-47.
7. Butz,
op. cit., p. 96.
8.
Hoffman, op. cit. pp. 56-59.
9. De
Wan, George, “The Holocaust in Perspective,” Newsday: Long Island, N.Y., Feb.
23, 1983, Part II, p. 3.
10. See
trial transcript, pp. 846-848. Also, Kulaszka, op. cit., p. 24.
11.
Kulaszka, op. cit., p. 39.
12.
Hoffman, op. cit., p. 54.
13.
Rudolf, Germar (ed.), The First Zündel Trial: The Court Transcript of the
Canadian “False News” Trial of Ernst Zündel, 1985, Uckfield, UK: Castle Hill
Publishers, 2020, pp. 394-483.
14.
Ibid., pp. 483-495.
15.
Ibid., pp. 495-505.
16.
Ibid., pp. 505-521.
17.
Ibid., pp. 521-533.
18.
Ibid., pp. 79, 81.
19.
Ibid., p. 16.
20.
Kulaszka, op. cit., p. 352.
21. Ibid.,
p. 370.
22.
Rudolf, Germar, “Some Technical and Chemical Considerations about the ‘Gas
Chambers’ of Auschwitz and Birkenau,” in Gauss, Ernst (ed.), Dissecting the
Holocaust: The Growing Critique of Truth and Memory, Capshaw, AL: Thesis and
Dissertations Press, 2000, p. 337.
23.
Leuchter, Fred A., “The Leuchter Report: The How and the Why,” The Journal of
Historical Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, Summer 1989, p. 133.
24.
Leuchter, Fred A., Faurisson, Robert, Rudolf, Germar, The Leuchter Reports:
Critical Edition, 5th edition, Uckfield, UK: Castle Hill Publishers, 2017, p.
56.
25.
Rudolf, “Some Technical …,” op. cit., pp. 363-371.
26.
Rudolf, Germar, The Chemistry of Auschwitz: The Technology and Toxicology of
Zyklon B and the Gas Chambers – A Crime-Scene Investigation, Uckfield, Great
Britain: Castle Hill Publishers, 2017, pp. 174f.
27.
Ibid., pp. 175, 293.
28.
Berg, Friedrich R., “Zyklon B and the German Delousing Chambers,” Journal of
Historical Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 1986, pp. 73-94;
https://codoh.com/library/document/zyklon-b-and-the-german-delousing-chambers/.
29.
Rudolf, Germar, The Chemistry of Auschwitz, op. cit., p. 114.
30.
Ibid., pp. 143-147.
31.
Rudolf, Germar, Lectures on the Holocaust: Controversial Issues Cross-Examined,
4th edition, Bargoed, UK: Castle Hill Publishers, January 2023, p. 257.
32.
Ibid., p. 270.
33.
Ibid., p. 269.
34.
Ibid., pp. 271-273.
35.
Ibid., pp. 290f.
36.
Ibid., p. 279.
37.
Ibid., p. 325.
38.
Ibid., p. 331.
39.
Ibid., p. 317.
40.
Ibid., p. 323.
41.
Lüftl, Walter, “The Lüftl Report,” The Journal of Historical Review, Vol. 12,
No. 4, Winter 1992-1993, pp. 395-401;
https://codoh.com/library/document/the-luftl-report/.
42.
Ibid., pp. 403-406, 419.
43.
Beaumont, op. cit., pp. 229f.; see also Lüftl, op. cit., p. 7.