Zundel Story: Did Six Million Really Die? Truth At Last Exposed - Part 1/6

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.

What do you think? Did this German resident of Canada not do the natural thing by attempting to answer all of the nasty accusations and smears about his own people (in the media, on television, in school books, etc.) by using an Englishman’s writings to rebut these often outrageous claims and charges?

If somebody said similar things about your own ethnic group, would you not want to respond? You be the judge.

INTRODUCTION

Of course, atrocity propaganda is nothing new. It has accompanied every conflict of the 20th century and doubtless will continue to do so. During the First World War, the Germans were actually accused of eating Belgian babies, as well as delighting to throw them in the air and transfix them on bayonets. The British also alleged that the German forces were operating a “Corpse Factory”, in which they boiled down the bodies of their own dead in order to obtain glycerin and other commodities, a calculated insult to the honour of an Imperial army. After the war, however, came the retractions; indeed, a public statement was made by the Foreign Secretary in the House of Commons apologizing for the insults to German honour, which were admitted to be war-time propaganda.

No such statements have been made after the Second World War. In fact, rather than diminish with the passage of years, the atrocity propaganda concerning the German occupation, and in particular their treatment of the Jews, has done nothing but increase its virulence, and elaborate its catalogue of horrors. Gruesome paperback books with lurid covers continue to roll from the presses, adding continuously to a growing mythology of the concentration camps and especially to the story that no less than Six Million Jews were exterminated in them. The ensuing pages will reveal this claim to be the most colossal piece of fiction and the most successful of deceptions; but here an attempt may be made to answer an important question: What has rendered the atrocity stories of the Second World War so uniquely different from those of the First? Why were the latter retracted while the former are reiterated louder than ever? Is it possible that the story of the Six Million Jews is serving a political purpose, even that it is a form of political blackmail? More