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From: black@pundit.DEC (DON BLACK DTN 261-2739 MS: NIO/N13 LOC: POLE C6)
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Subject: Weisenthal's Fables
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Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 13:28:16 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 12 13:28:16 1985
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>Newspapers are published under tight deadlines, so the NYT printing
>an "8" instead of a "0" in 10,700,000 is understandable. 

     My, my, how convenient to brush off such an embarrassing figure 
by explaining it as a "mere typographical error."  It would be under-
standable, if it weren't such an important figure coming from a 
"reliable" newspaper.  I'm sure that Mr. Arthur Sulzberger, the 
distinguished gentleman who controlled the newspaper back then, 
would have been VERY understanding about such an important figure.
I suspect heads would have rolled had it been reported incorrectly.


>Not much to build a conspiracy on... 

     I don't have to build one---Simon Weisenthal and Eili Wiesel have
already done that.  Unfortunately for them, their Holocaustian fable is 
like a wedge of Swiss cheese.  Full of holes to begin with, and after
it's been out in the sunlight too long, it begins to stink.


>Other inaccuracies: The "World Almanac" is not
>an organ of the American Jewish Committee. The "World Almanac" of 1938
>cited a 1930 survey conducted by the staff of the "American Jewish
>Yearbook" as its source. The AJY conducts such a survey every 10 years,
>although the 1940 survey contains a lot of guesswork due to wartime
>diffculties. If the AJY figures are plotted over the years, the
>resulting curve does show a loss of about 5 million in the interval
>between the 1930 and 1950 surveys (the figure of 6 million includes all
>victims murdered because of Jewish ancestry, including many who did not
>identify themselves as Jewish before the Holocaust). [Adam Reed]

     So, if the World Almanac is not a publication of the AJC, whose
publication is it?  

     What were the 1950 figures from the AJY?  And if the 1940 figures 
were so inaccurate, how can we be sure that six million Jews died?  And
how can we "plot over the years" when we have only three points, one of
which is determined to be inaccurate at best?

     Now, it's fairly obvious that at least SOME Jews died in the 
concentration camps, from starvation, disease, exhaustion, war-related
injuries, and probably some were gassed toward the end of the war.  But
there is much evidence that does NOT support the systematic extermination
of Jews.  Alleged eye-witness accounts of the operation of crematoria have 
been proven time and again to be totally inaccurate.  People who allegedly 
died in camps keep meeting each other alive and well on the streets.  
Testimony in the Ernst Zundel trial indicates that at least one of the 
"death camps" had a DANCE HALL!  And Mrs. Kitty Hart (of "Kitty:  The
Return to Auschwitz" fame) claims to have observed the operation of a 
crematorium/gas chamber while SUNBATHING ON THE GRASS!  Please do not
insult my intelligence by asking me to believe that prisoners in such camps
were given time enough off from slave labor to dance and sunbathe.

     It sounds more like privileges that would be granted to a paid
employee.


     --Don Black



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