Cincinnati, Ohio, Saturday, April 17, 2004 Professor
addresses Holocaust Says Nazi's
[sic]
gassed victims with pellets By Travis Gettys
Enquirer Contributor
CRESTVIEW HILLS - A conference
held last year at a Northern Kentucky hotel
featured T-shirts for sale reading, 'No holes, No
Holocaust,' said a Canadian professor who helped
defeat the event's sponsor in British court.
 David
Irving comments: WE HAVE made clear in a letter to the
newspaper that the academic who brought
T-shirts with a slogan "No Holes, No
Holocaust" to our 2002 function was told
that he was contravening guidelines issued
to delegates to our annual Real History
Convention in Cincinnati, and he will not
be welcome to attend in future.
We shall shortly
begin posting details of this year's
event, the sixth annual Labor Day
convention, at which I myself shall speak
on the real history of the RAF air raid on
Dresden in 1945.
Delegates registering
before the end of April 2004 qualify for a
20% discount on the attendance
fee. Details
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for a leaflet |
The shirts refer to a theory that the Holocaust,
responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews, could
not have happened because gas chambers were not
outfitted with ventilation holes to deliver deadly
cyanide gas. Robert
Jan van Pelt, a professor of cultural
history and architecture at University of Waterloo,
Canada, said Friday that argument misses the point,
because the gas used was in pellet form. 'It's not piped into the room, it's thrown into
a room,' said van Pelt, who spoke to 100-150 people
Friday at Thomas More College as part of Holocaust
Awareness Weeks, an event sponsored by the Center
for Holocaust & Humanity Education. Van Pelt served as an expert witness in a
libel
trial brought by British historian David
Irving, who has organized the 'Real History'
conference at Cincinnati Airport Marriott in Hebron
since 1999. Irving sued American historian Deborah
Lipstadt, whom [sic.
who] he said damaged his reputation by
labeling him a Holocaust denier. Under British law,
Lipstadt had to prove that her accusations were
accurate, and a judge agreed with her in a 2000
ruling. '(Irving says) it was more like a series of
individual crimes instead of state-sponsored
genocide, which makes quite a difference,' van Pelt
said. The 'Real History' conference, which van Pelt
said is one of only two such events held in North
America, has featured a lecture on the origins of
the African slave trade and a display of toy trains
owned by Hermann Göring, head of the Nazis'
secret police. Dr. Racelle Weiman, director of the
Center for Holocaust & Humanity Education, said
the location of the conference is troubling to
her. 'There must be enough supporters to welcome
them,' she said. Weiman said Holocaust denial literature has
flourished in the United States, which does not
have laws against its publication, as most European
nations and Canada do. 'Holocaust denial is the
newest form of anti-Semitism,' she said. Opponents have been reluctant to organize a
protest for fear of giving the event publicity, but
Weiman said she hopes area officials will urge the
hotel to drop the event, scheduled this year for
Sept. 3-6. A hotel spokesman did not return
Enquirer phone calls. 'This is not just idle intellectual discussion,'
Weiman said. 'If you deny history and say it never
happened, it makes it easier for it to happen
again.' Van Pelt speaks again today at 7:30 p.m. at
Alter Hall, Xavier University, 3800 Victory
Parkway, Cincinnati. In that lecture, he will
examine the participation of architects, engineers
and urban planners in the construction of the Nazi
system of ghettos and death camps. 
Holocaust
Awareness events Today
[Saturday, April 17,
2004] at 8:30 p.m. The Kentucky
Symphony Orchestra pays homage to the souls and
the survivors with the regional premiere of
Symphony No. 3 by Gorecki, sung with prayers
found written on a Nazi prison wall, and
Survivor from Warsaw by Schoenberg. Tickets:
$20-$23. Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption,
1140 Madison Ave., Covington.Sunday at 2 p.m. Community wide Public
Commemoration and Observance: Yom Hashanah: Day
of Holocaust Remembrance. Yawned Day School
Gymnasium, 8401 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati. Monday at 11 a.m. Yom Hashanah Interfaith
Memorial Service. Hebrew Union College - Jewish
Institute of Religion, Schemer Chapel, 3101
Clifton Ave., Cincinnati. Friday at 7 p.m. 'Manipulating History: Nazi
Racist Propaganda Films' by Prof. David
Culbert. Lecture and Film Presentation at
Otto Budig Theater, Northern Kentucky
University, Highland Heights. 
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