Did Six Million Really Die?

Truth at Last - Exposed:

You have before you the most expensive little publication printed in the English language in modern times.

Millions of words have been spoken and written about this publication as a result of the two Zündel Trials.

Many hours of television news reports were broadcast about the content of this publication and the surrounding controversy and trial.

The Canadian government, its various branches like the police, the Attorney General’s office, the Canadian Department of Immigration, the courts with staff, clerks, stenographers, court reporters and security personnel spent millions of dollars for research, staff and courtroom space.

Ernst Zündel, the man at the centre of this controversy, did not write this booklet. He merely supplied the four words on the original cover, stating “Truth at last exposed.” He supplied the photos and news clippings on the inside cover of the publication, plus one sentence under his youthful photo on page two. He wrote and supplied the text on page three headed: “To all Canadian Lawyers and Media representatives” and signed it himself. That was his foreword to the publication.

Nothing whatsoever has been changed—not a single word of the text which was written by an Englishman called Richard Harwood who, Zündel thought until his trial, was teaching at the University of London. During the trial, the witness Mark Weber revealed the real name of the author as the former honours student of the University of London, Richard Verrall—alias Richard Harwood. Ernst Zündel did not know this at the time of publication.

The original English publishers did not permit Ernst Zündel to change a single line or sentence in the Canadian “publication,” which is what you now have in your hands. The Court records reveal that Ernst Zündel reluctantly agreed to this, adding only an order coupon on page 30, and two pages of an afterword (or some closing remarks). This came as a response to the article reproduced on the top right of page 31, which, at the time, appeared in many Canadian newspapers from coast to coast. Ernst Zündel merely reprinted Did Six Million Really Die? by a photo-offset method—an exact duplicate, plus the already mentioned additions. In Court, he said he felt safe doing that because the publication had already been translated into 12 languages, and was being sold without any legal problems in 18 countries. The only exception was South Africa, where the publication was forbidden at the instigation of the Jewish lobby. A booklet entitled Six Million Did Die was also published in South Africa; this booklet figured prominently in the Zündel trial in 1988.

Ilya Ehrenberg -The Man Who Invented The 'Six Million'

Ernst Zündel became a household word in Canada, beginning with his 1985 trial, which lasted seven weeks, and his marathon 1988 trial which lasted for almost four months. The booklet made Ernst Zündel and his revisionist viewpoint famous across the globe.

The Zündel case is now, for the second time in 10 years, before the Supreme Court of Canada, because the defence feels that the False News section of the Criminal Code in Canada, under which Ernst Zündel was charged and convicted twice, is unconstitutional, in that it offends against Canada’s “Charter of Rights and Freedoms” (a watered-down version of the American Bill of Rights).

Ernst Zündel now awaits the verdict of the highest court in the land—will it be freedom, exoneration or jail?

You can be Judge and Jury! Read the booklet, and then ask yourself: Should a man be beaten, spat upon, terrorized, beset upon by frenzied mobs, bombed and charged with a criminal offence, dragged through lengthy court cases and terribly expensive legal costs, because of the few errors, made by a writer ten years previous? What do you think? Was this persecution of Ernst Zündel, through prosecution by the state, just to punish him for his beliefs? “Persons who would spread hate in this community in order to foster right-wing beliefs which attack the delicate balance of racial and social harmony in our community must be punished” (Judge Thomas’ very own words on the day he sentenced Ernst Zündel, Transcript 10575) Continue Reading