Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history,talk.politics.misc Subject: LEST WE FORGET: David Irving - Liar or Fraud? (2) Reply-To: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA Keywords: Chelmno,Eichmann,Himmler,Irving "...For the time being Himmler reluctantly kept the able bodied Jews alive for the work they could perform; but further east the Gauleiters had no intention of preserving the unemployable Jews: a letter dated October 25 in SS files states that Adolf Eichmann [ed.note - see below] had now approved Gauleiter Lohse's proposal that those arriving at Riga should be killed by mobile gas trucks. This initial ad hoc operation gathered momentum. Soon the Jews from the Lodz gehtto and Greiser's territories were being deported further east - to the extermination camp at Chelmno. There were 152,000 Jews involved in all, and Chelmno began liquading them on December 18." ------------------------------------------ "Hitler's War," DAVID IRVING, 1977, p. 330 ------------------------------------------ (From the swedish morning paper Svenska Dagbladet 7/5-92.) "The controversial British historian David Irving was sentenced in Munich to pay a fine of 10,000 D-Mark for stating that the gas chambers in Auschwitz were fakes to attract tourists. The 54 year odl Irving is commonly dismissed as a revisionist and defender of the Third Reich but he has a small and faithful congregation." EICHMANN, [KARL] ADOLF (1906-1962). SS officer charged with the destruction of millions of Jews. ... He hated the Jews he met in Vienna, a sentiment stimulated by attendance at Nazi meetings. "Hitler was right," he said later, "when he charged that this one people had intrigued to link as many nations as possible against our country and bring about the terrible times we are going through." ... In 1932 he became a member of the Austrian Nazi party. As a protoge of Ernst Kaltenbrunner, he took part in Nazi activities, which brought him to the attention of the Austrian police. ...he learned that there was an opening in Heinrich Himmler's SD (Sicherheitsdienst), the information center for the Gestapo. Himmler, who believed that Eichmann could speak Hebrew, made him head of the Scientific Museum for Jewish Affairs.... he was promoted rapidly ... bersturmbannfuhrer (lieutenant colonel). After service in the Reich Central Office of Jewish Emigration, he was made chief of Subsection IV-B-4 of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA), the Reich Central Security Office, as an expert on Jewish affairs. He was present at the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, when it was decided to deport Jews to the extermination camps. In August 1944 Eichmann reported to Himmler that, although the death camps kept fo exact statistics, 4 million jews had died in them and that 2 million more had been shot or killed by mobile units." Eichmann was arrested by Israeli agents, in Argentina, and smuggled to Israel in May of 1960. He was tried, convicted, and hung (May 31, 1962) for crimes against the Jewish people and humanity. Taken from the ...---------------------------------------------------- Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, by Dr. Louis L. Snyder, Professor of History, The City College and The City University of New York. Paragon House, New York, 1989. ISBN 1-55778-144-3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For an extensive (over 1000 references listed) bibliography of material dealing with the Holocaust, send your request to me via kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca and I will send you the list within 24 hours. For a small but growing collection of quotes like the material above, in either zipped or tar'd form, just let me know how you want them... Contributions to the Holocaust archives are welcomed.