Toward the end of January 2009, Roman Catholic Bishop Williamson,
associated with the Society of Saint Pius X, said an interview “I
believe that the historical evidence is strongly against — is hugely
against — 6 million Jews having been deliberately gassed in gas
chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler.” An apparent “Jewish
leader” who -- according to the CNN headline -- was “outraged” replied
with one word: “Rabbi David Rosen of the American Jewish Committee
called the move by the Catholic Church [to lift the excommunication
of Bishop Williamson] ‘shameful.’”
That sums up the Holocaust and why belief in it persists.
After Bishop Williamson broke the taboo, editorials and quotes
professing belief in official Holocaust story appeared in the media.
During the first week of February, prodded by who knows who, German
Chancellor Angela Merkel, a protestant, released a statement to
the press: “the Pope and the Vatican must make it unequivocally
clear that there can be no denial that the Holocaust happened.”
The Holocaust’s a litmus test for anyone with authority. Chancellor
Merkel, with her country sliding into depression, told Pope Benedict
that she wants veto authority over Roman Catholic policy and dogma.
PASCAL’S WAGER
“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved,
what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves
false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing.
Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”
Belief in God is different from Holocaust belief: Death reveals
the outcome of Pascal’s wager; With the Holocaust, punishment for
disbelief is immediate. Along with official expressions of Holocaust
belief were calls for Bishop Williamson’s renewed excommunication,
banishment, and denunciation of his heresy by the Pope. There can
be no positions of authority for disbelievers. After the bishop
refused to retract his statements - only promising to review the
historical evidence – he was removed as head of a seminary in Argentina
and threatened with deportation.
This is the pattern. Once a disbeliever has been identified as
being employed by someone that can be publicly, politically pressured,
the pressure starts to isolate and discredit the revisionist. This
shows belief in the Shoah is very important for several inter-related
power structures to maintain. The Shoah has certainly been called
the founding myth of Israel, but it’s the founding myth of the modern
German republic too. American foreign policy is also dependent on
the Hitler paradigm; Nazi analogies are always made when the U.S.
State Department threatens another country.
PROFESSION OF FAITH
Group activities promote group cohesion. The rapid punishment
of non-conformity discourages questioning of authority. Ritual is
established to give insiders the sense of worth and security associated
with membership. In hierarchical structures, ritual plays a huge
role in establishing authority. Authority is intolerant of anything
that undermines its credibility. The Holocaust myth is state-sponsored,
foundation-of-the-German-Republic, official. It’s protected like
an endangered species in a growing number of countries. As a result,
when someone in a position of authority questions the myth, the
denunciations come quickly to protect the credibility of those who
endorse it.
Tinkerbell by Diarmuid Byron O'Connor commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital London 2005. Released into the public domain (by the author).
Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tinkclose-1-.jpg
The ritual is set. And we’ll see it again. It is reminiscent
of the scene from Peter Pan by
J. M. Barrie
when the faerie, Tinkerbell swallows poison intended for Peter.
Peter then gets the audience to demonstrate its belief in faeries
by clapping to resurrect her. Not clapping would imply complicity
in fatacide – the murder of a faerie. Any time the dying Holocaust
story is questioned, we must demonstrate our belief by clapping
for the gas chambers.
PRAESTER FIDES SUPPLEMENTUM SENSUUM DEFECTUI
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) defines a belief as an emotionally
held opinion that is treated like a fact. NLP deals with methods
for changing human behavior through reorganizing the emotions associated
with particular stimuli. The sense of smell, for example, is strongly
associated with emotions: People smell cookies baking and are put
into a good mood. The particular smell is associated with particular
memories and emotions. Creating one of these associations is called
“anchoring.” It’s like Pavlov’s experiments where dogs associated
the ringing of a bell with being fed. The training caused them to
salivate when a bell rang whether food was present or not. People
create their own anchors, or anchors can be induced.
The Holocaust myth is a belief -- emotionally held opinion treated
as fact. Many negative emotions are associated with both the story
and any challenge to it. These emotions are intentionally anchored
to the story to protect it from challenge. This technique’s demonstrated
with Rabbi Rosen’s single word quote: “Shameful.” Shame’s now associated
with the tolerance of anyone who doesn’t accept the Shoah as fact.
Rabbi Rosen’s just created an anchor re-enforcing the taboo.
People are taught to associate emotions with propaganda. National
symbols, for example, are intentionally associated with specific
emotions. Children are trained to feel respect when the flag in
on display. It enhances credibility and triggers deference to authority.
It opens a mental path for the establishment of belief.
Credibility is needed to implant belief. Bishop Williamson should
know this since his business is the promulgation of faith. This
explains why “Jewish leaders” always attack revisionist credibility
-- to protect established belief.
BELIEF VERSUS KNOWLEDGE
A problem with Bishop Williamson’s reply is it’s prefaced with
“I believe.” When asked about this topic, tell the interviewer what’s
known, and not what’s believed. When he says “I believe,” Bishop
Williamson is challenging one set of beliefs with another. That
puts him at a disadvantage. Remember, belief is treated as fact.
Anyone starting with “I believe” is expressing opinion. When pitting
fact against opinion, fact wins.
Bishop Williamson referred to the Leuchter Report and air photos
in his reply to the interviewer. While the Leuchter Report provides
important information, invoking it is an appeal to authority. The
Leuchter Report presents expert opinion. Coming to a conclusion
about whether morgues are gas chambers by examining blueprints and
reading the label “morgue” instead of “gas chamber” doesn’t take
an engineer. It takes little research to know crematory retorts
don’t reduce three bodies in fifteen minutes. Despite that, research
is avoided since doubt induces guilt and shame.
Revisionists have attempted to show that it’s possible to determine
chemically if Zyklon B was used in a room. Revisionists want to
verify the eyewitness accounts. Gas chamber thesis defenders reply
that any test contradicting eyewitnesses is invalid since the only
dependable evidence is testimony. Those relying on the accounts
for their belief accept that the stories are true and find the idea
they need confirmation offensive.
The Holocaust taboo won’t be dislodged by pitting one set of
sources against another. New approaches need to be tried with the
knowledge of how people view belief and how emotions anchor their
opinion.
The gas chamber story is a clumsy lie. The problem is dislodging
the lie will take more than its exposure. Something has to take
its place. The true chronology of Auschwitz has to be offered as
a choice. Something happened. If it wasn’t genocide, what was it?
Revisionism provides seldom-aired answers.
Auschwitz was no secret. Every day the camp SS office radioed
headquarters reporting prisoner tallies. The British intercepted
some of these transmissions and monitored Auschwitz. In August 1944,
the British RAF labeled a request to plan a mission to bomb the
gas chambers “fantastic” – and by that they didn’t mean “terrific.”
There was continuous communication between Auschwitz and the
outside world up to its evacuation. Packages and letters went in
and out. Staff and prisoners came and went. Photos were taken both
by people on the ground and in Allied aircraft. International Red
Cross inspectors visited Auschwitz as late as September 1944.
In 1940, the Nazi governor of occupied Poland ordered scrap material
be collected and sent to processing centers for sorting and reworking.
Starting in 1941, Auschwitz processed enormous quantities of old
clothes. This is the source of old shoes put on display at the Auschwitz
museum, not gas chamber victims.
Lousy scrap material spread typhus through the camp in mid 1942.
Typhus is why Zyklon B was at Auschwitz. Prisoners sorting clothes
became infested with lice and caught typhus. To stop the epidemic,
large fumigation and disinfection facilities were built in late
1942 and during 1943 to sterilize scrap material and delouse prisoners.
The Nazis left the construction office archive when they evacuated.
The plans for the Birkenau crematoria were included in it along
with a record of their operation and fuel consumption.
Distinguishing morgues from gas chambers by expert inspection
is not necessary. There is no doubt that during 1943 the crematories
were only disposing of people whose deaths had been recorded by
Auschwitz doctors.
The record for 1944 is sketchier. There are no published fuel
delivery receipts for that year. With Germany in retreat, coke became
unavailable. The dead were cremated with wood instead of coke: An
August 1944 British air photo shows smoke in an area close to one
crematory. The Red Army found wood stacked in the same area five
months later when it occupied Auschwitz.
There was no extermination of Jews at Auschwitz. If it was happening
the Allies would have known about it immediately due to the camp’s
transparency.
Make no mistake. The Nazi system of prison and work camps, like
the Soviet gulag system, is to be condemned. Many Poles, Jews, and
others in the Nazi occupied East were displaced, and enslaved. Their
property was stolen and communities scattered. There’s nothing admirable
about that. Even so, it’s inexcusable to accuse anyone of imaginary
crimes.
Revisionists need to replace the conventional Auschwitz narrative
with a real one. If that’s not done, the Holocaust belief won’t
be supplanted.
GEMATRIA
The second part of the Holocaust myth Bishop Williamson disbelieves
is six million Jews were killed.
The number has symbolic significance for Cabalists. Needless
to say, the question how many becomes academic once the gas chambers
are discredited. Nevertheless, accepting the six million figure
implies there was intent to exterminate the Jews. So, addressing
the number is important due to this implication.
There’s no quick way to verify or discredit the six million number.
Auschwitz and the number of Jews who died there, on the other hand,
can be addressed.
In 1989, Pressac published documents concerning Birkenau crematoria
operation.
Auschwitz once was where at least 2.5 million Jews died. For
the last twenty years, it’s been where a million Jews died. Though
other studies estimate lower numbers, one million is used most.
Assume one million people died at Auschwitz in gas chambers between
1941 and 1944. In those four years, how was this carnage distributed?
In March 1943, Dr. Korherr completed his report for Himmler.
It states that by the end of 1942 less than 4,500 Jews had died
at Auschwitz.
That means the Nazis needed to kill another 995,500 more in the
next two years.
The Nazi built “outsized extermination facilities” in 1943. There
were problems. Because of mechanical breakdown, all four crematoria
never operated at once. The coke delivery receipts show only enough
fuel for around 35,000 cremations was delivered that year. Since
the crematories were being used to only burn a number close to 1943
recorded deaths, registered camp deaths were all there were. There
were 37,000 registered deaths that year. Because they remained a
minority at Auschwitz, less than half that died at Auschwitz in
1943 were Jews.
The Nazis neither built nor repaired crematories in 1944. Fuel
deliveries stopped. The transparency of the camp increased as Allied
aircraft were photographing the area every few days. It’s impossible
there was anything close to another 50,000 cremations at Auschwitz
that year.
The number of Jews who died at Auschwitz was somewhere around
forty thousand, but none died in the Holocaust as commonly defined.
Forty thousand is horrible, but isn’t genocide.
There are two counter-arguments to the use of registered deaths
to count Jewish deaths at Auschwitz: The deaths of practically all
Jews went unrecorded; there is testimony gassings started as early
as autumn 1941 and continued until November 1944.
Claiming official policy kept these events unrecorded isn’t evidence.
It’s an excuse. Testimony alone is worthless.
There’s no callous intention here. A death is no less tragic
when it’s not part of an official government genocide program. But,
as part of a government program, a death becomes exploitable.
This is why we must demonstrate belief in the Holocaust. Deborah
Lipstadt explained that the Holocaust was different from the other
government mass murders – like Stalin’s – because they were indiscriminant
killings of political enemies while Hitler killed members of an
identifiable group – Jews. Therefore, Jews not killed by Hitler
could claim victim status and as victims seek compensation. If the
Shoah becomes discredited, the status of Jews as victims is as well.
It’s high time people stopped believing in Nazi gas chambers.
It’s as silly as believing in faeries.
Originally published in Smith's
Report No. 159, March 2009
