Did Six Million Really Die?...The Truth
(Part2)
Chapter VI
AUSCHWITZ AND POLISH JEWRY The concentration camp at Auschwitz near Cracow in Poland has remained at the centre of the alleged extermination of millions of Jews. Later we shall see how, when it was discovered by honest observers in the British and American zones after the war that no "gas chambers" existed in the German camps such as Dachau and Bergen-Belsen, attention was shifted to the eastern camps, particularly Auschwitz. Ovens definitely existed here, it was claimed. Unfortunately, the eastern camps were in the Russian zone of occupation, so that no one could verify whether these allegations were true or not. The Russians controlled access by foreigners to Auschwitz for about ten years after the war, by which time they were able to alter its appearance and give some plausibility to the claim that millions of people had been exterminated there. Holocaust 'expert' Dr. Raul Hilberg admitted during the Toronto trial in respect of DSMRD ? that the Auschwitz "gas-chamber" was "modified for touristic and educational reasons." If anyone doubts that the Russians are capable of such deception, they should remember the monument erected for the thousands of Poles who were murdered in Russia by Stalin's secret police - but where the monument proclaims them to be victims of German troops in World War Two. The truth about
Auschwitz is that it was the largest and most important industrial concentration
camp, producing all kinds of material for the war industry. The camp consisted
of synthetic coal and rubber plants built by I. G. Farben Industrie, for whom
the prisoners supplied labour. Auschwitz also comprised an agricultural research
station, with laboratories, plant nurseries and facilities for stock breeding,
as well as Krupps armament works. We have already remarked that this kind of
activity was the prime function of the camps; all major firms had subsidiaries
in them and the S.S. even opened their own factories. Accounts of visits by
Himmler to the camps show that his main purpose was to inspect and assess their
industrial efficiency. When he visited Auschwitz in March 1941 accompanied by
high executives of I.G. Farben, he showed no interest in the problems of the
camp as a facility for prisoners, but merely ordered that the camp be enlarged
to take 100,000 detainees to supply labour for I.G. Farben. This hardly accords
with a policy of exterminating prisoners by the million. MORE AND MORE MILLIONS It was nevertheless at this single camp that about half of the six million Jews were supposed to have been exterminated,. indeed, some writers claim 4 or even 5 million. Four million was the sensational figure announced by the Soviet Government after the Communists had "investigated" the camp, at the same time as they were attempting to blame the Katyn massacre on the Germans. Reitlinger admits that information regarding Auschwitz and other eastern camps comes from the post-war Communist regimes of Eastern Europe: "The evidence concerning the Polish death camps was mainly taken after the war by Polish State commissions or by the Central Jewish Historical Commission of Poland" (The Final Solution, p. 531). However, no living, authentic eye-witness of these "gassings" has ever been produced and validated. Benedikt Kautsky, who spent seven years in concentration camps, including three in Auschwitz, alleged in his book Teufel und Verdammte, Zurich 1946 (Devil and the Damned, Warsaw 1960) that "not less than 3,500,000 Jews" had been killed there. Thiu was certainly a remarkable statement because by his own admission he had never seen a gas chamber. He confessed: "I was in the big German concentration camps. However, I must establish the truth that in no camp at any time did I come across such an installation as a gas chamber" (p. 272-3). The only execution he actually witnessed was when two Polish inmates were executed for killing two Jewish inmates. Kautsky, who was sent from Buchenwald in October 1942 to work at Auschwitz-Buna, stresses in his book that the use of prisoners in war industry was a major feature of concentration camp policy until the end of the war. He fails to reconcile this with an alleged policy of massacring Jews. The exterminations at Auschwitz are alleged to have occurred between March 1942 and October 1944; the figure of half of six million, therefore, would mean the extermination and disposal of about 94,000 people per month for thirty-two months - approximately 3,350 people every day, day and night, for over two and a half years. This kind of thing is so ludicrous that it scarcely needs refuting. And yet Reitlinger claims quite seriously that Auschwitz could dispose of no less than 6,000 people a day. Although Reitlinger's 6,000 a day would mean a total by October 1944 of over 5 million, all such estimates pale before the wild fantasies of Olga Lengyel in her book Five Chimneys (London, 1959). Claiming to be a former inmate of Auschwitz, she asserts that the camp cremated no less than "720 per hour, or 17,280 corpses per twenty-four hour shift." She also alleges that, in addition, 8,000 people were burned every day in the "deathpits" and that "In round numbers, about 24,000 corpses were handled every day" p. 80-81). This, of course, would mean a yearly rate of over 8 1/2 million. Thus between March 1942 and October 1944 Auschwitz would finally have disposed of over 21 million people, six million more than the entire world Jewish population. Comment is superfluous. Although several millions were supposed to have died at Auschwitz alone, Reitlinger has to admit that only 363,000 inmates were registered at the camp for the whole of the period between January 1940 and February 1945 (The S.S.: Alibi of a Nation, p. 268 ff), and by no means all of them were Jews. It is frequently claimed that many prisoners were never registered, bur no one has offered any proof of this. Even if there were as many unregistered as there were registered, it would mean only a total of 750,000 prisoners - hardly enough far the elimination of 3 or 4 million. Moreover, large numbers of the camp population were released or transported elsewhere during the war, and at the end 80,000 were evacuated westward in January 1945 before the Russian advance. One example will suffice of the statistical frauds relating to casualties at Auschwitz. Shirer claims that in the summer of 1944, no less than 300,000 Hungarian Jews were done to death in a mere forty-six days (ibid. p. 1156). This would have been almost the entire Hungarian Jewish population, which numbered some 380,000. But according to the Central Statistical Office of Budapest, there were 260,000 Jews in Hungary in 1945 which roughly conforms with the Joint Distribution Committee figure of 220,000), so that only 120,000 were classed as no longer resident. Of these, 35,000 were emigrants from the new Communist regime and a further 25,000 were still being held in Russia after having worked in German labour battalions there. This leaves only
60,000 Hungarian Jews unaccounted for, but M. E. Namenyi estimates that 60,000
Jews returned to Hungary from deportation in Germany, though Reitlinger says
this figure is too high (The Final Solution, p. 497). Possibly it is, but
bearing in mind the substantial emigration of Hungarian Jews during the war
(c.f. Report of the ICRC, Vol. 1, p. 649), the number of Hungarian Jewish
casualties must have been very low indeed. AUSCHWITZ: A CREDIBLE WITNESS ACCOUNT Some facts about Auschwitz appear in a work called Die Auschwitz-Luge: Ein Erlebnisbericht von Thies Christopherson (The Auschwitz Legends: An Account of his Experiences by Thies Christopherson, Kritik Verlag/Mohrkirch, 1973). Published by the German lawyer Dr. Manfred Roeder in the periodical Deutsche Burger-lnitiative, it is an eye-witness account of Auschwitz by Christopherson, who was sent to the Bunawerk plant laboratories at Auschwitz to research into the production of synthetic rubber for the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. In May 1973, not long after the appearance of this account, the veteran Jewish "Nazi-hunter" Simon Wiesenthal wrote to the Frankfurt Chamber of Lawyers demanding that the publisher and author of the Foreward, Dr. Roeder, a member of the Chamber, be brought before its disciplinary commission. Sure enough, proceedings began in July, but not without harsh criticism even from the Press, who asked "Is Simon Wiesenthal the new Gauleiter of Germany?" (Deutsche Wochenzeitung, July 27, 1973). Christopherson's account is certainly one of the most important documents for a reappraisal of Auschwitz. He spent the whole of 1944 there, during which time he visited all of the separate camps comprising the large Auschwitz complex, including Auschwitz-Birkenau where it is alleged that wholesale massacres of Jews took place. Christopherson is in no doubt that this is totally untrue. He writes: "I was in Auschwitz from January 1944 until December 1944. After the war I heard about the mass murders which were supposedly perpetrated by the S.S. against the Jewish prisoners, and I was perfectly astonished. Despite all the evidence of witnesses, all the newspaper reports and radio broadcasts I still do not believe today in these horrible deeds. I have said this many times and in many places, but to no purpose. One is never believed" (p. 16). Space forbids a detailed summary here of the author's experiences at Auschwitz, which include facts about camp routine and the daily life of prisoners totally at variance with the allegations of propaganda pp. 22-7). More important are his revelations about the supposed existence of an extermination camp. "During the whole of my time at Auschwitz, I never observed the slightest evidence of mass gassings. Moreover, the odour of burning flesh that is often said to have hung over the camp is a downright falsehood. In the vicinity of the main camp (Auschwitz 1) was a large farrier's works, from which the smell of molten iron was naturally not pleasant" (p. 33-4). Reitlinger confirms that there were five blast furnaces and five collieries at Auschwitz, which together with the Bunawerk factories comprised Auschwitz III (ibid. p. 452). The author agrees that a crematorium would certainly have existed at Auschwitz, "since 200,000 people. lived there, and in every city with 200,000 inhabitants there would be a crematorium. Naturally people died there - but not only prisoners. In fact the wife of Obersturmbannfiihrer A. (Christopherson's superior) also died there" (p. 33). The author explains: "There were no secrets at Auschwitz. In September 1944 a commission of the International Red Cross came to the camp for an inspection. They were particularly interested in the camp at Birkenau, though we also had many inspections at Raisko" (Bunawerk section, p. 35). Christopherson points out that the constant visits to Auschwitz by outsiders cannot be reconciled with allegations of mass extermination. When describing the visit of his wife to the camp in May, he observes: "The fact that it was possible to receive visits from our relatives at any time demonstrates the openness of the camp administration. Had Auschwitz been a great extermination camp, we would certainly not have been able to receive such visits" p. 27). After the war, Christopherson came to hear of the alleged existence of a building with gigantic chimneys in the vicinity of the main camp. "This was supposed to be the crematorium. However, I must record the fact that; when I left the camp at Auschwitz in December 1944, 1 had not seen this building there" p. 37). Does this mysterious building exist today? Apparently not; Reitlinger claims it was demolished and "completely burnt out in full view of the camp" in October, though Christopherson never saw this public demolition. Although it is said to have taken place "in full view of the camp", it was allegedly seen by only one Jewish witness, a certain Dr. Bendel, and his is the only testimony to the occurrence (Reitlinger, ibid, p. 457). This situation is generally typical. When it comes down to hard evidence, it is strangely elusive; the, building was "demolished", the document is "lost", the order was "verbal". At Auschwitz today, visitors are shown a small furnace and here they are told that millions of people were exterminated. The Soviet State Commission which "investigated" the camp announced on May 12, 1945 that "Using rectified coefficients... the technical expert commission has ascertained that during the time that the Auschwitz camp existed, the German butchers exterminated in this camp not less than four million citizens... Reitlinger's surprisingly frank comment on this is perfectly adequate: "The world has grown mistrustful of 'rectified coefficients' and the figure of four millions has become ridiculous" (ibid, p. 460). Finally, the account of Mr. Christopherson draws attention to a very curious circumstance. The only defendant who did not appear at the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial in 1963 was Richard Baer, the successor of Rudolf Hess as commandant of Auschwitz. Though in perfect health, he died suddenly in prison before the trial had begun, "in a highly mysterious way" according to the newspaper Deutsche Wochenzeitung (July 27, 1973). Baer's sudden demise before giving evidence is especially strange since the Paris newspaper Rivarol recorded his insistence that "during the whole time in which he governed Auschwitz, he never saw any gas chambers nor believed that such things existed" and from this statement nothing would dissuade him. In short, the
Christopherson account adds to a mounting collection of evidence demonstrating
that the giant industrial complex of Auschwitz (comprising thirty separate
installations and divided by the main Vienna-Cracow railway line) was nothing
but a vast war production centre which, while admittedly employing the
compulsory labour of detainees, was certainly not a place of "mass
extermination. THE WARSAW GHETTO In terms of numbers, Polish Jewry is supposed to have suffered most of all from extermination, not only at Auschwitz, bur at an endless list of newly-discovered "death camps" such as Treblinka, Solibor, Belzec, Maidanek, Chelmno and at many more obscure places which seem suddenly to have gained prominence. At the centre of the alleged extermination of the Polish Jews is the dramatic uprising in April 1943 of the Warsaw Ghetto. This is often represented as a revolt against being deported to gas ovens; presumably the alleged subject of Hitler and Hinimler's "secret discussions" had leaked out and gained wide publicity in Warsaw. The case of the Warsaw Ghetto is an instructive insight into the creation of the extermination legend itself. Indeed, its evacuation by the Germans in 1943 is often referred to as the "extermination of the Polish Jews" although it was nothing of the kind, and layers of mythology have tended to surround it after the publication of sensational novels like John Hersey's The Wall and Leon Uris' Exodus. When the Germans first occupied Poland, they confined the Jews, not in detention camps but in ghettos for reasons of security. The interior administration of the ghettos was in the hands of Jewish Councils elected by themselves, and they were policed by an independent Jewish police force. Special currency notes were introduced into the ghettos to prevent speculation. Whether this system was right or wrong, it was understandable in time of war, and although the ghetto is perhaps an unpleasant social establishment, it is by no means barbaric. And it is certainly not an organization for the destruction of a race. But, of course, it is frequently said that this is what the ghettos were really for. A recent publication on the Warsaw Ghetto made the brazen assertion that concentration camps "were a substitute for the practice of cramming the Jews into overcrowded ghettos and starving them to death." It seems that whatever security system the Germans used, and to whatever lengths they went to preserve a semblance of community for the Jews, they can never escape the charge of "extermination". It has been
established already that the 1931 Jewish population census for Poland placed the
number of Jews at 2,732,600, and that after emigration and flight to the Soviet
Union, no more than 1,100,000 were under German control. These incontrovertible
facts, however, do not prevent Manvell and Frankl asserting that "there had been
over three million Jews in Poland when Germany began the invasion" and that in
1942 "some two million still awaited death" (Heinrich Himmler, p. 140). In
reality, of the million or so Jews in Poland, almost half, about 400,000 were
eventually concentrated in the ghetto of Warsaw, an area of about two and a half
square miles around the old mediaeval ghetto. As we have seen, transportation to camps is alleged to have ended in "extermination" but there is absolutely no doubt from the evidence available that it involved only the effective procurement of labour and the prevention of unrest. In the first place, Himmler discovered on a surprise visit to Warsaw in January 1943 that 24,000 Jews registered as armaments workers were in fact working illegally as tailors and furriers (Manvell & Frankl, ibid, p. 140); the Ghetto was also being used as a base for subversive forays into the main area of Warsaw. After six months of peaceful evacuation, when only about 60,000 Jews remained in the residential ghetto, the Germans met with an armed rebellion on 18 January 1943. Manvell and Frankl admit that "The Jews involved in planned resistance had for a long time been engaged in smuggling arms from the outside world, and combat groups fired on and killed S.S. men and militia in charge of a column of deportees." The terrorists in the Ghetto uprising were also assisted by the Polish Home Army and the PPR - Polska Partia Robotnicza, the Communist Polish Workers Party. It was under these circumstances of a revolt aided by partisans and communists that the occupying forces, as any army would in a similar situation, moved in to suppress the terrorists, if necessary by destroying the residential area itself. It should be remembered that the whole process of evacuation would have continued peacefully had not extremists among the inhabitants planned an armed rebellion which in the end was bound to fail. When S.S. Lieutenant-General Stroop entered the Ghetto with armoured cars on 19 April, he immediately came under fire and lost twelve men; German and Polish casualties in the battle, which lasted four weeks, totaled 101 men killed and wounded. Stubborn resistance by the Jewish Combat Organisation in the face of impossible odds led to an estimated 14,000 Jewish casualties, the majority by remaining in burning buildings and dug-outs. Many Jews within the
Ghetto had resented the terror imposed on them by the Combat Organization and
had attempted to inform on their headquarters to the German authorities. SUDDEN SURVIVORS The circumstances surrounding the Warsaw Ghetto revolt, as well as the deportations to eastern labour camps such as Auschwitz, has led to the most colourful tales concerning the fate of Polish Jews, the largest bloc of Jewry in Europe. The Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, in figures prepared by them for the Nuremberg Trials, stated that in 1945 there were only 80,000 Jews remaining in Poland. They also alleged that there were no Polish-Jewish displaced persons left in Germany or Austria, a claim that was at some variance with the number of Polish Jews arrested by the British and Americans for black market activities.However, the new Communist regime in Poland was unable to prevent a major anti-Jewish pogrom at Kielce on July 4, 1946 and consequently thousands of Polish Jews suddenly fled into Western Germany. Their appearance was somewhat embarrassing and their emigration to Palestine and the United States was carried out in record time. Subsequently, the number of Polish Jewish survivors underwent considerable revision; in the American-Jewish Year Book 1948-1949 it was placed at 390,000, quite an advance on the original 80,000. We may expect further revisions upward in the future.
Chapter VII
SOME CONCENTRATION CAMP MEMOIRS The most influential agency in the propagation of the extermination legend has been the paperback book and magazine industry, and it is through their sensational publications, produced for commercial gain that the average person is made acquainted with a myth of an entirely political character and purpose. The heyday of these hate-Germany books was in the 1950's, when virulent Germanophobia found a ready market, but the industry continues to flourish. The industry's products consist generally of so called "memoirs" and these fall into two basic categories: those which are supposedly by former S.S. men, camp commandants and the like, and those bloodcurdling reminiscences allegedly by former concentration camp inmates. COMMUNIST ORIGINS
Hoess was subjected to torture and brain-washing techniques by the British during the period of his arrest and his testimony at Nuremberg was delivered in a mindless monotone as he stared blankly into space. Even Reitlinger regards this testimony as hopelessly untrustworthy. It is indeed remarkable how much of the "evidence" regarding the Six Million stems from Communist sources; this includes the major documents such as the Wisliceny statement and the Hoess "memoirs" which are undoubtedly the two most quoted items in extermination literature, as well as all the information on the so-called "death camps"'such as Auschwitz. This information comes from the Jewish Historical Commission of Poland; the Central Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes, Warsaw and the Russian State War Crimes Commission, Moscow. Reitlinger acknowledges that the Hoess testimony at Nuremberg was a catalogue of wild exaggerations, such as that Auschwitz was disposing of 16,000 people a day, which would mean a total at the end of the war of over 13 million. Instead of exposing such estimates for the Soviet inspired frauds they obviously are, Reitlinger and others prefer to think that such ridiculous exaggerations were due to "pride" in doing a professional job. Ironically, this is completely irreconcilable with the supposedly authentic Hoess memoirs, which make a clever attempt at plausibility by suggesting the opposite picture of distaste for the job. Hoess is supposed to have "confessed" to a total of 3 million people exterminated at Auschwitz, though at his own trial in Warsaw the prosecution reduced the number to 1,135,000. However, we have already noted that the Soviet Government announced an official figure of 4 million after their "investigation" of the camp in 1945. This kind of casual juggling with millions of people does not appear to worry the writers of extermination literature. A review of the Hoess "memoirs" in all their horrid detail would be tedious. We may confine ourselves to those aspects of the extermination legend which are designed with the obvious purpose of forestalling any proof of its falsity. Such, for example, is the manner in which the alleged extermination of Jews is described. This was supposed to have been carried out by a "special detachment" of Jewish prisoners. They took charge of the newly arrived contingents at the camp, led them into the enormous "gas chambers" and disposed of the bodies afterwards. The S.S. therefore did very little, so that most of the S.S. personnel at the camp could be left in complete ignorance of the "extermination programme". Of course, no reliable witness has ever been found who claimed to have been a member of this gruesome "special detachment" so that the whole issue is left conveniently unproved.
Conclusive evidence that the Hoess memoirs are a forgery lies in an incredible
slip by the Communist editors. Hoess is supposed to say that the Jehovah's
Witnesses at Auschwitz approved of murdering the jews because the Jews were the
enemies of Christ. It is well known that in Soviet Russia today and in all her
satellite countries of eastern Europe, the Communists conduct a bitter campaign
of suppression against the Jehovah's Witnesses, whom they regard as the
religious sect most dangerous to Communist beliefs. That this sect is
deliberately and grossly defamed in the Hoess memoirs proves the document's
Communist origins beyond any doubt. INCRIMINATING REMINISCENCES
"The orgies often went on until six in the morning, a few hours before consigning the next batch of victims to death, says Clarke in his chapter 'Streamlined Death and Wild Sex Orgies' p. 124. Strangely enough, the alleged "memoirs" of Adolf Eichmann suddenly appeared at the time of his abduction to Israel. They were uncritically published by the American Life magazine (November 28, December 5, 1960) and were supposed to have been given by Eichmann to a journalist in the Argentine shortly before his capture - an amazing coincidence. By an equally extraordinary coincidence, war crimes investigators claimed shortly afterwards to have just "found" in the archives of the U.S. Library of Congress, more than frfteen years after the war, the "complete file" of Eichmann's department. So far as the "memoirs" themselves are concerned, they were made to be as horribly incriminating as possible without straying too far into the realms of the purest fantasy, and depict Eichmann speaking with enormous relish about "the physical annihilation of the Jews." Their fraudulence is also attested to by various factual errors, such as that Himmler was already in command of the Reserve Army by April of 1944, instead of after the July plot against Hitler's life, a. fact which Eichmann would certainly have known. The appearance of these "memoirs" at precisely the right moment raises no doubt that their object was to present a pre-trial propaganda picture of the archetypal "unregenerate Nazi" and fiend in human shape. The circumstances of
the Eichmann trial in Israel do not concern us here; the documents of Soviet
origin which were used in evidence, such as the Wisliceny statement, have been
examined already, and for an account of the third-degree methods used on
Eichmann during his captivity to render him "cooperative the reader is referred
to the London Jewish Chronicle, September 2, ????, More relevant to the
literature of the extermination legend are the contents of a letter which
Eichmann is supposed to have written voluntarily and handed over to his captors
in Buenos Aries. It need hardly be added that its Israeli authorship is
transparently obvious. Nothing in it stretches human credulity further than the
phrase "I am submitting this declaration of my own free will"; but the most
hollow and revealing statement of all is his alleged willingness to appear
before a court in Israel, "so that a true picture may be transmitted to future
generations." TREBLINKA FABRICATIONS Another set of reminiscences are those of Franz Stangl; the former commandant of the camp at Treblinka in Poland who was sentenced to life imprisonment in December 1970. These were published in an article by the London Daily Telegraph Magazine, October 8, 1971 and were supposed to derive from a series of interviews with Stangl in prison. He died a few days after the interviews were concluded. These alleged reminiscences are certainly the goriest and most bizarre yet published, though one is grateful for a few admissions by the writer of the article, such as that "the evidence presented in the course of his trial did not prove Stangl himself to have committed specific acts of murder" and that the account of Stangl's beginnings in Poland "was in part fabrication." A typical example of this fabrication was the description of Stangl's first visit to Treblinka. As he drew into the railway station there he is supposed to have seen "thousands of bodies" just strewn around next to the tracks, "hundreds, no, thousands of bodies everywhere, putrefying, decomposing." And "in the station was a train full of Jews, some dead, some still alive.., it looked as if it had been there for days." The account reaches the heights of absurdity when Stangl is alleged to have got out of his car and "stepped kneedeep into money: I didn't know which way to turn, which way to go. I waded in papernotes, currency, precious stones, jewellery and clothes. They were everywhere, strewn all over the square." The scene is completed by "whores from Warsaw weaving drunk, dancing, singing, playing music," who were on the other side of the barbed wire fences. To literally believe
this account of sinking "kneedeep" in Jewish bank-notes and precious stones amid
thousands of putrefying corpses and lurching, singing prostitutes would require
the most phenomenal degree of gullibility, and in any circumstances other than
the Six Million legend it would be dismissed as the most outrageous nonsense.
The statement which certainly robs the Stangl memoirs of any vestige of
authenticity is his alleged reply when asked why he thought the Jews were being
exterminated: "They wanted the Jews' money" is the answer. "That racial business
was just secondary." The series of interviews are supposed to have ended on a
highly dubious note indeed. When asked whether he thought there had been "any
Conceivable sense in this horror" the former Nazi commandant supposedly replied
with enthusiasm: "Yes, I am sure there was. Perhaps the Jews were meant to have
this enormous jolt to pull them together; to create a people; to identify
themselves with each other." One could scarcely imagine a more perfect answer
had it been invented. BEST-SELLER A FRAUD
Only in 1986 were the
complete diaries published, first in Dutch and then in English as The Diary of
Anne Frank: The Critical Edition (London, 1989). In this heavy tome three
versions of the 'diary' are reproduced:
two versions of the manuscript and the published version. Anne Frank wrote large
sections of her 'diary,' and re-wrote the remainder, up to two years after the
stated entry dates. Gerrold van der Stroom, writing in the Critical Edition,
observed that "she changed, rearranged, sometimes combined entries of various
dates, expanded and abbreviated." The revised text was then edited at least
twice under the auspices of Otto Frank. Many passages
which are pure fantasy,
intensely
Earlier editions of D6MRD? claimed that the Anne Frank Diary was a hoax. Otto Frank's reply to this charge was that the Diary contained the "essence" of his daughter's work. In essence the charge against the Diary is true because it is a fraud: it is not a diary but a story in which fact and fiction are freely mixed. For how a real diary is treated see Bryant's Triumph in the West, 1943-1946: Based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of' Field Marshall, the Viscount Alanbrooke (Alanbrooke was chief military advisor to Churchill and attended the wartime conferences with Stalin). His contemporaneous diary entries are in double-quotes and his subsequent remarks (perspectives with hindsight, omissions etc.) are in single-quotes. Such a scheme would be impossible with Anne Frank's 'diary. The Dutch State Institute for War Documentation (Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie), who now keep the Diary manuscripts in a bank vault, say they hold two hundred other diaries, many of which were written within concentration camps. This further illustrates the phenomenon whereby disproportionate attention is given to one text of dubious provenance while hundreds of more authentic documents remain unexamined. The Diary of Anne Frank is just one more fraud in a whole series of frauds perpetrated in support of the 'Holocaust' legend and the saga of the Six Million. A brief reference may
also be made to another 'diary' entitled: Notes from the Warsav Ghetto: the
Journal of Emmanuel Ringelblum (New York, 1958). Ringelblum had been a leader in
the campaign of sabotage against the Germans in Poland, as well as the revolt of
the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, before he was eventually arrested and executed in
1944. The Ringelblum journal, which speaks of the usual "rumours" allegedly
circulating about the extermination of the Jews in Poland, appeared under
exactly the same Communist auspices as the so called Hoess memoirs. McGraw-Hill,
the publishers of the American edition, admit that they were denied access to
the uncensored original manuscript in Warsaw, and instead faithfully followed
the expurgated volume published by the Communist Government in Warsaw in 1952.
All the "proofs" of the Holocaust issuing from Communist sources of this kind
are worthless as historical documents. ACCUMULATING MYTHS We have referred to the type already - Olga Lengyel's absurd Five Chimneys ("24,000 corpses handled every day"), Auschwitz, A Doctor's Eye-Witness Account by Miklos Nyiszli, This was Auschwitz: The Story of a Murder Camp by Philip Friedman and so on ad nauseam. Another in this vein is For Those I Loved by Martin Gray (Bodley Head, 1973), which purports to be an account of his experiences at the Treblinka camp in Poland. Gray specialized in selling fake antiques to America before turning to concentration camp memoirs. The circumstances surrounding the publication of his book however have been unique, because for the first time with works of this kind, serious doubt was cast on the authenticity of its contents. Even Jews, alarmed at the damage it might cause, denounced his book as fraudulent and questioned whether he had ever been at Treblinka at all, while BBC radio pressed him as to why he had waited 28 years before writing of his experiences. It was interesting to observe that the "Personal Opinion" column of the London Jewish Chronicle, March 30, 1973, although it roundly condemned Gray's book, nevertheless made grandiose additions to the myth of the Six Million. It stated that: "Nearly a million people were murdered in Treblinka in the course of a year. 18,000 were fed into the gas chambers every day. " It is a pity indeed that so many people read and accept this kind of nonsense without exercising their minds. If 18,000 were murdered every day, the figure of one million would be reached in a mere 56 days, not "'in the course of a year." This gigantic achievement would leave the remaining ten months of the year a total blank. 18,000 every day would in fact mean a total of 6,480,000 "in the course of a year. " Does this mean that the Six Million died in twelve months at Treblinka? What about the alleged three or four million at Auschwitz? This kind of thing simply shows that, once the preposterous compromise figure of Six Million had scored a resounding success and become internationally accepted, any number of impossible permutations can be made and no one would even think to criticise them. In its review of Gray's book, the Javish Chronicle column also provides a revealing insight into the fraudulent allegations concerning gas chambers: "Gray recalls that the floors of the gas chambers sloped, whereas another survivor who helped to build them maintains that they were at a level..." Occasionally, books by
former concentration camp inmates appear which present a totally different
picture of the conditions prevailing in them. Such is Under Two Dictators
(London, 1949) by Margarete Buber. She was a woman who had experienced several
years in the brutal and primitive conditions of a Russian prison camp before
being sent to Ravensbruck, the German camp for women detainees, in August 1940.
She noted that she was the only person in her contingent of deportees from
Russia who was not straightaway released by the Gestapo. Her book presents a
striking contrast between the camps of Soviet Russia and Germany; compared to
the squalor, disorder and starvation
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by September 1940. In the summer of 1942, Himmler ordered the resettlement of
all Polish Jews in detention camps in order to obtain their labour, part of the
system of general concentration for labour assignment in the Government-General.
Thus between July and October 1942, over three quarters of the Warsaw Ghetto's
inhabitants were peacefully evacuated and transported, supervised by the Jewish
police themselves. 
personal
or incongruous with its sentimental theme are omitted from the published Diary.
In the entry of 29 March 1944 Frank described her book as "een roman, " a novel,
but this is incorrectly translated in the published Diary and even in the
Critical Edition as "a romance. 
