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What they do to revisionists - A page which recounts case after case of revisionists being attacked for their views. If you question any part of the Holocaust story,
they will call you a "Holocaust
denier," implying that you deny that anything happened,
and thus implying that you are either dishonest or insane, or
both. They will say that your revisionist arguments are "hate
speech," even though it's all too obvious where the hate
is really coming from. And they don't just talk. They beat revisionists
up, blow up their cars, burn their homes, put them in jail, and
ruin their careers. There have been numerous assassination attempts,
one of which was successful: Francois Duprat was killed by a
car bomb.
The Töben case -- Dr. Fredrick Töben, founder of the Adelaide
Institute, was found guilty of "denying the Holocaust."
However, the decision set an important precedent: The judge declared that
German law has no jurisdiction over Töben's on-line
writings or publications. The verdict of "guilty" was
based only on material he had physically distributed in Germany.
This means, for example, that I could not be prosecuted for this
web site. So far, so good. That's a step in the right direction.
Nevertheless, the principle that "the truth
of the statement is not a defense" still stands. In Germany,
it is illegal to say that there was no gas chamber at Auschwitz,
and someone who is charged with this "crime" cannot
defend himself, since doing so would require asserting, in court,
that there was no gas chamber, and the defendant could be charged
again. Not only that, his lawyer could be prosecuted
for making illegal statements in his defense.
As George Orwell said, the right to say that
2 + 2 = 4 is fundamental. Given that, everything else follows.
We still don't have that right.
Here is the story of David Cole, as told in
nine installments of Ingrid Rimland's column on the Zündel
site:
Part 1
-- Ernst Zündel writes,
I have some sad news to report. There has
been another defection out of the Revisionist community. David
Cole, a young Jew who in the past has done some remarkable Revisionist
video recording and on-the-ground work, has crossed over and
written a retraction...
David and I video-toured Auschwitz and Birkenau
together, and it was an eery feeling for me at the time to have
a young American Jew, half my age, explain on camera to me, the
German, what he found was wrong with Auschwitz and the Holocaust
mass gassing claims in that horror theme park.
David also appeared in Germany on the same
platform with me and spoke with courage and conviction about
the many inconsistencies of Auschwitz, while German police were
present in the hall. He did not flinch or shirk the issues. Truth
was Truth to him, and he defended it, regardless of the costs.
(...)
I was, by then, a battle-scarred Revisionist
veteran, possibly showing the first signs of battle fatigue after
going flat out for years in Holocaust trial after Holocaust trial.
I remember feeling possibly a little shamed but in any case re-invigorated
by the dynamism of this young man.
Part 2
-- Some background material: Bradley Smith promotes David Cole's
video, and draws the wrath of ADL. David appears at a revisionist
conference.
Part 3
-- Excerpts from a letter posted on the JDL site:
What is a David Cole? Is it a sickness? Is
it a mental disease? Is Cole merely a human parasite who clings
to his ardent Nazi supporters and friends who back his ideas
whole-heartedly? After all, this Cole mania that the media have
played on, don't you think it's time that we flush this rotten,
sick individual down the toilet, where the rest of the waste
lies? One less David Cole in the world will certainly not end
Jew-hatred, but it will have removed a dangerous parasitic, disease-ridden
bacteria from infecting society.
Just as we must get rid of this monster, Cole,
we must also get rid of the word "revisionism" from
our vocabulary. This awful word and Cole, too, must be eliminated
altogether. There is no argument. There needs to be no more debates,
only the elimination of the Holocaust deniers...
JDL wants to know the location of Holocaust
denier David Cole, pictured above. Anyone giving us his correct
address will receive a monetary reward. Contact us through e-mail
immediately if you have information leading to the current location
of David Cole.
Part 4
-- This page is about how Jewish organizations failed to come
to David Cole's defense. To me, the most interesting thing here
is the quotation at the end: Edmund Burke wrote
"The only thing necessary for the triumph
of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Part 5
-- Excerpts from David Cole's retraction:
I would like to state for the record that
there is no question in my mind that during the Holocaust of
Europe's Jews during World War II, the Nazis employed gas chambers
in an attempt to commit genocide against the Jews. At camps in
both Eastern and Western Europe, Jews were murdered in gas chambers
which employed such poison gases as Zyklon B and carbon monoxide
(in the Auschwitz camp, for example, the gas chambers used Zyklon
B). The evidence for this is overwhelming and unmistakable...
I now understand that I owe it to the people
I wronged to make a forceful repudication [sic] of my earlier
views. I also owe a very large apology, not only to the many
people I enraged, and to the family and friends I hurt, but especially
to the survivors of the Holocaust, who deserve only our respect
and compassion, not re-victimization.
Therefore, to all of the above people, let
me offer my most humble and very, very sincere apology. I am
sorry for what (I) did, and I am sorry for the hurt I caused...
Part 6
-- Ernst Zündel comments,
David has not been well lately, and his mother
is apparently gravely ill, which might have been contributing
factors in his abject rejection [sic] and apology to the leader
of the JDL, Irv Rubin. David acts and talks like one of the accused
at one of Stalin's famous "Purge Trials" in the late
1930s - self-accusatory, groveling, profusely apologizing etc.
A hallmark of Stalin's victims!
Part 7
-- From the comments on the CODOH site:
The funny thing about Cole's retraction is
that
in a cosmic way it simply confirms what
revisionists have been saying all along. For over
twenty years, revisionists have said that the
German confessions, wildly inaccurate and
contradictory, were given not so much in response
to direct physical torture as from the desire to
protect themselves and above all their families
from retaliation and hardship. For Cole's
retraction, the JDL boasts that it was the result
of their previous page, and that Cole "was afraid
for his life and the relatives he supposedly is
taking care of." So for those who didn't believe it
possible that the Germans involved in the
concentration camps could have been intimidated
into making abject confessions, the idea is
strikingly confirmed by Cole's retraction, and
furthermore the JDL is waving the proof right under
your nose.
Part 8
-- Excerpts from another message by Ernst Zündel:
I am not a shrink. I have only seen it happen.
I am not going to guess what went on in David's mind and soul
as he groped his way towards that fateful day when he must have
picked up the phone or faxed to Irv Rubin, who had tormented
and stalked him, until David broke down and notarized that statement
to Rubin. I do not know what transpired in the months, weeks
or days before. Therefore, I cannot judge. The two documents
(the JDL death threat followed by David's recanting) speak for
themselves. Any normal, streetwise, or historically knowledgeable
person can, and I am sure will, draw his own conclusions.
One observation and warning I must give to
people, and it is simply this: The terror unleashed against a
target will not stop by the act of recantation or retraction
by the victim. That is only the beginning of the process, it
is definitely not the end. After the confession or retraction
has been extracted or leveraged out of the victim by the tormentors,
there will come at first gentle and then ever more brazen and
forcefully delivered requests and demands for other information
- names of friends, collaborators, mailing lists, financial information,
health status of former collaborators, sexual habits, drug or
alcohol habits.
By then, the "recantee" is totally
isolated, totally vulnerable, totally in the hands of the people
he has recanted to - he has not a real friend left in the world,
for his whole former network of colleagues, friends, co-workers
and emotional support and infrastructure have disappeared, severed
by his own action. Recanting might be considered by the individual
a "brave act" at first, but it is nothing compared
to what follows like a comet's tail after that first fateful
step. (...)
I still feel empathy for David Cole and wish
him well... Many letters from Revisionists around the world in
response to this development have shown me that they, too, treasure
the memory of a brave young Jew who stood up to his own establishment
- for as long as he had the strength to do it.
Part 9
-- Some final comments by Ingrid Rimland:
A major strike was needed to stop Revisionism
from gaining an intellectual foothold on college campuses, even
if it meant a brazen threat of "eliminating" a gifted
Revisionist speaker and writer who just happened to be a Jew...
One thing is clear: The enemy has bared its
teeth. The doleful Elie Wiesel smile has all but disappeared.
David Cole's "Forty six important unanswered questions regarding the Nazi gas chambers" can be found on the CODOH site.
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