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An
Irishman's Diary by Kevin
Myers HOLOCAUST. From the
Greek, holos, whole or entire, and kaustos burnt:
wholly consumed by fire. And David Irving
was right. There was no holocaust. The genocide
which consumed the Jewish and Romany peoples from
1941 onwards had none of the cleansing and singular
purity of an all-consuming flame. That genocide was sprawling, brutal,
bloody and largely done by human hand. Whether gas
chambers were involved is irrelevant. Most of the
victims of the Nazi genocide were probably shot or,
worst of all, were worked to death. The imprisonment of David Irving is
the very quintessence of European hypocrisy towards
Jews. The continent which hosted the Final Solution
is also the primary subsidiser of the Palestinian
Authority, which is also probably the greatest
source of published anti-Semitism in the world. The
PA churns out books and television programmes which
present Jews as pigs and monkeys, and which extol
the virtue of suicide bombers who kill Jews. Yet simultaneously, across almost the
entire EU, it is illegal to say what I just said in
my opening paragraph: that there was no
holocaust. As it happens, I have read most of
David Irving's works. He is a brilliant researcher,
is partly mad, and is clearly bad. But those who
say he denies the Nazi programme of genocide of
Jews simply haven't read his  writings.
Page 12, volume two of his extraordinary Hitler's
War: "Hitler
had jeered in January 1939: 'Today I am going to be
a prophet again. If the international finance-Jewry
inside and outside Europe manages just once more to
precipitate the world war, the outcome will be, not
the bolshevisation of the earth and the consequent
triumph of Jewry, but the annihilation of the
Jewish race on earth."' In the next paragraph, he quotes
Hitler on November 8th, 1942 referring to that
prophecy: "As
a prophet, [the Jews] always laughed at me.
But of those who laughed loudest then, countless
laugh no longer today. Nor are those who are still
laughing even now likely to laugh when their time
comes." Page 15 talks of the "demographic
extermination" of unwanted elements in Poland,
including the Jews. Irving refers to the "murderous
orders" of the SS chief Heydrich,
and his project of "liquidating the Jews". The Nazi
General Reichenau's statement is quoted:
"This is why the soldier must understand why we
have to exact a harsh but just retribution from the
Jewish sub-humans. This serves the added purpose of
stifling at birth uprisings in the rear of the
Wehrmacht, since experience shows these are always
conceived by Jews." Irving quotes Hitler as saying the
proclamation was "excellent", and then himself goes
on to refer to the "barbarous massacres of Jews".
"The ghastly secrets of the extermination programme
were well kept." "Each day after July 22 a
trainload of five thousand Jews left Warsaw for the
extermination center at Treblinka." "By August
1942, the massacre machinery was gathering
momentum." I say all this because I am sick of
reading the misrepresentations of Irving's opinions
-- that he is a consistent
denier of the Nazi
programme of genocide. Moreover, I am inclined to
share his distaste for the fashionable "branding"
of the fate of Europe's Jews by the term
"holocaust". And I am emphatically with him when he
rebuffed a challenge from a particularly stupid BBC
reporter: "Do you accept that 6 million Jews died
in the Holocaust?" Six millions Jews did not die in the
"Holocaust" and there was no singular "holocaust",
capital h or not. We don't know how many Jews died,
but the Nazis were not so efficient as to ensure
that it was precisely 6 million. There is a
numerical purity about that number every bit as
dogmatically insane as the Nazi notions of racial
purity. We can never know how many Jews were
murdered -- but that they were murdered, in their
millions, even David Irving did not deny in his
trilogy, Hitler's War.  Irving's
most contentious points are that Hitler did not
know of the genocide of the Jews, which is simply
silly, and that more people died at Chappaquiddick
than in the gas chambers of Auschwitz,
which is unforgivable, but in a moral, not a
historical or a criminal sense. It is disgusting to
make such cheap gibes about Auschwitz, of which
Irving himself wrote: "But Himmler's ghastly secret
was coming out, for two Slovak Jews had escaped
from Auschwitz extermination camp..."
But even that acknowledgment is
irrelevant. Anyone has a right to have wrong
opinions, free of the sanctimonious dogma of
doctrinaire EU liberal secularism. Anyone should be
able to declare that the Nazis didn't massacre
Jews, or that no Armenians were murdered in 1915,
or that Dresden
was a legitimate target, or that it was right to
bomb Hiroshima, or that Jesus was not the son of
God or that Muhammad was not a prophet, without
going to jail for doing so. In a free society,
being able to be wrong is the very definition of
freedom: otherwise we are ruled by
thought-police. And paradoxically, the only countries
in Europe which have made "holocaust denial" a
crime are those which were once governed by Nazi
thought-police. But not Ireland, not Britain. The
intellectual legacy of the Third Reich lives on
wherever people today are not entitled to be wrong.
For being wrong is not wrong. What is wrong in a
free and civilised society is using one's opinions
-- right or wrong -- to promote racial or religious
hatred. That is what the Palestinian Authority does
-- and moreover, we in the EU pay it to do
so. © The
Irish Times 2006 The
photo above shows the "gas chamber" at Auschwitz
(not Birkenau)
displayed to tourists. A sign warns tourists that
it is a "reconstruction", i.e.
a post-war fake. As Mr Irving said, more women died
on the back seat of Ted
Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than in this
building at Auschwitz. The
chimney too is a dummy.  Donate
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David
Irving imprisoned in Austria: dossier:
index
Kate
Connolly, right, The Daily Telegraph's Berlin
correspondent. Read her web diary in support of
Mr Irving, Feb 21, 2006, the day after the trial
in Vienna: "The interesting tale of David
Irving" and the scores of supporting letters
she received
David
Irving zu drei Jahren Haft verurteilt -
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perfect place to hang Irving kvells Giles Coren
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