Adelaide 1998

A revisionist conference was held 7-9 August 1998 in Adelaide,Australia, and I was happy to be in attendance. I was there on theinvitation of the Director of the "Adelaide Institute", Dr. FredrickTöben, and I gave two short lectures.

Conference participants came from the USA and Europe as well asAustralia. In addition, there was a good number of remoteparticipants. Dr. Robert Faurisson and some others sent videos inadvance and were interviewed and questioned by telephone during theconference. Some made written papers available in advance and thenwere interviewed and questioned by telephone. Some only communicatedby telephone. Most of the coverage was specifically of Holocaustrevisionism, but some other subjects were treated as well.

Overall, it was an educational and enjoyable affair andDr. Töben should be commended for its success

It is well worth remarking that Faurisson participated on a remotebasis because Australia will not issue him a visa on the grounds of"bad character", by which is meant that he has been convicted of acriminal offense in France, namely violation of the infamous Fabius-Gayssot law of 1990, which outlaws contesting "crimes againsthumanity" as claimed in the 1946 judgment of the main Nuremberg trial! Although there is no such law in Australia, this conviction in Francewas used as a legal pretext to bar Faurisson. I do not have such aconviction on my record because there is also no such law in the USA,but I assured the conference attendees that, apart from legalisticmumbo-jumbo, my character is just as bad.

What follows does not purport to be a complete summary of theconference, which will probably appear soon on the Adelaide Institutewebsite anyway. Therefore what follows are only certain highlights that occur to me. Other attendees no doubt have other ideas of thehighlights.

One of the speakers was David Brockschmidt, who lives near Adelaideand who with his wife Vita hosted me in his house during theconference. The story he told, part of which I pass along below, isone of the most interesting of untold stories, and involves some ofthe most important events of the century.

David Brockschmidt's father Heinrich was a plumber, generalcontractor and farmer in Germany during the war. He was a businesspartner of Oskar Schindler and in fact was the man who organized themove of Jews from the factory in Poland to a new location inCzechoslovakia, as depicted in the Steven Spielberg filmSchindler's List (Brockschmidt was not mentioned in the film). The "list" of Jews who were moved was not drawn up bySchindler, as represented in the film, but by the camp commandant AmonGoeth, with the help of a Jewish accountant (not depicted in thefilm). Goeth and the accountant were deep into the rackets thatprevailed at the time and under the circumstances and made those Jews,newly taken out of the labor camp to make the move, pay dearly to geton the list.

For Schindler the motivation for the move was that the Germanauthorities were trying to force him to switch to a less profitablemanufacturing activity.

Goeth was arrested for corruption in the famous SS internalinvestigation led by Konrad Morgen and was in jail when the war ended,awaiting probable execution. The most famous catch of Morgen's wasKarl Koch, commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, who wasexecuted.

As a veteran revisionist I understood immediately that the filmscenes, in which Amon Goeth shot Jews in the labor camp from hisbalcony, at breakfast, were just typical Spielberg junk. Brockschmidtsaid that he had examined the aerial photos of the camp and haddetermined that such events would actually have been impossible. Thelabor camp was higher than Goeth's balcony, and other buildingsintervened.

The Jewish women who were diverted to Auschwitz were freed not by abribe paid by Schindler but by Frau Schindler's girlfriend, who sleptwith one of the Germans in command.

Like Oskar Schindler, Heinrich Brockschmidt is listed at the YadVashem in Jerusalem as a "righteous gentile", not because of the movehe facilitated, but because he hid Jews on his farm. DavidBrockschmidt spent some time in Israel, in 1967 and the seventies.

The Swiss revisionist Jürgen Graf, with whom I spentpleasurable hours because he was also accommodated by theBrockschmidts, gave interesting papers on the Majdanek concentrationcamp and on the current attempts by Jewish groups to extort money fromSwitzerland. His native country has not rewarded him for this: he wasrecently convicted under the new (1994) Swiss law making denial ofgenocide a criminal offense. USA Today (22 July 1998, p 6A)reported

Graf is convinced that the international Jewish pressure groups,mainly the World Jewish Congress, mounted their all out extortionattack on Switzerland only after the 1994 law guaranteed that anyfundamental controversy within Switzerland would be throttled.

Graf's paper on Majdanek was based on recent work done by himselfand the Italian revisionist Carlo Mattogno (not participating). Thatwork will be summarized in a book appearing later this year. Graf andMattogno have made several visits to Eastern Europe, collecting vastnumbers of documents. Their work is very basic and has, it appears tome, great potential because they do not appear to be primarilyinterested in glory or any sensational thesis. For example, Mattognohas recently published in Italian a book on the organization of theAuschwitz "Zentralbauleitung" (Central Construction Office). This isthe sort of dry factual foundation required for future sensations.

Germar Rudolf, a German chemist now living in England, gave adeeply technical presentation on alleged "gas chambers" atAuschwitz. Germar Rudolf was sacked at the Max Planck Institute forSolid State Research in Stuttgart in 1993, convicted of"Volksverhetzung" (sedition) in 1995, and denied approval of hisPh.D. thesis at the Univ. of Stuttgart in 1996, all for daring toinvestigate technical aspects of the alleged "gas chambers". Heparticipated in the conference on a remote basis because anoutstanding German warrant for his arrest makes travel hazardous forhim.

Jürgen Graf knows many languages and is a languageteacher. While he was in Australia he learned that he had been firedfrom his teaching job back home on account of his conviction andsentencing.

Faurisson is a brilliant academic who has forced the Europeanestablishment to resort to hysterical defense of the "Holocaust"legend (the Fabius-Gayssot law is a Lex Faurisson, almost a bill ofattainder). Graf is a learned gentleman. Rudolf was a young chemistwith a bright future. I wonder about people who can read of theirpersecution and not express enough outrage to force European countriesto rescind their laws restricting free expression, and which could notpossibly be laws in the USA. How often do we hear of the internationaloutrage over China's failure to abide by our notions of civilliberties? As I write this, there is much attention being paid toviolations of human rights in Mayanmar (Burma). The victims of thisrepression were foreigners intervening in that country's politics, notnatives publishing historical studies. Dear reader, how is suchhypocrisy possible? Are you guilty?

1998 Conference in Adelaide, Australia