Dear PBS,
I look forward to your program on October 31 entitled: "Holocaust
on Trial." For me it will be of great interest to see how
far PBS goes to distort the overwhelming evidence about
Auschwitz, which shows that no one was ever, killed there
in gas chambers. That you intend to distort the facts of
the matter is clear from your
pre-broadcast
Website.
For example, on your Website you include the following words:
"To back up his [meaning David Irving's] claim that the
Nazis used Auschwitz's gas chambers only to fumigate corpses...."
Without having read every word of Irving, I dare say that
neither he nor any other revisionist has ever made such
a claim. It was not, as your Website implies, "only" corpses
that were "fumigated" at Auschwitz. Every informed revisionist
knows that clothing and barracks, bedding and personal articles
were routinely fumigated with cyanide at Auschwitz in order
to keep people, including Jewish prisoners, alive and healthy.
Your intention is obviously to put words in the mouth of
Irving, which can then be the object of ridicule. The wording
you have falsely attributed to Irving and others is probably
libelous--but it also typical of the distortions that defenders
of the gassing hoax routinely use to obscure arguments and
evidence when they can not suppress them.
The use of gas chambers at Auschwitz for fumigation is well
known to Irving, was a major subject of his trial, and is
a major subject of revisionist research in general. Routine
fumigations were an important reason why the vast majority
of inmates at Auschwitz "survived"-but there were many other
reasons as well.
If the Nazis had wanted to kill people like Elie Wiesel,
Primo Levi, Anne Frank, or the mother of Norman G. Finkelstein,
as well as countless multitudes of other Jews who passed
through Auschwitz, they certainly would have been able to
arrange it-even without gas chambers. But they obviously
did nothing of the kind. The so-called "survivors" all survived
because the Nazis never intended to kill them in the first
place. They "survived" because the Nazis wanted them to
"survive."
To this end they went to enormous lengths to provide the
same housing given to German soldiers, clean lice-free (fumigated)
clothing, food, medical care with large specialized hospital
wards (oftentimes with Jewish doctors), and excellent sanitation
facilities. They enforced strict hygienic standards, even
against the will of many Jews, including the shaving of
hair and the taking of showers. Typically, even such obviously
therapeutic and beneficial measures are portrayed as the
opposite.
To the small but rapidly growing number of Holocaust revisionists
like myself who have studied the evidence critically, it
is clear that no one was ever killed in gas chambers or
gas vans anywhere by the Germans. But if it should emerge
at some future time that we revisionists and our arguments
are wrong, there is still no reason for Americans to feel
righteous in comparison to the Nazis.
If the Nazis had murdered millions of civilians in gas chambers-as
horrific and criminal as that would truly be, it would still
have been relatively humane and painless compared to the
mass murder by incineration that the US and British inflicted
deliberately upon well over a million German and Japanese
civilians. That hundreds of thousands more were not burned
alive in these incendiary and nuclear bombardments was not
for lack of trying, nor from any lack of popular support-even
to this day.
The truly horrible scenes at Bergen-Belsen and elsewhere
in Germany at the end of World War II are routinely but
falsely presented as if they were typical of conditions
in Germany's wartime concentration camps. They were not
typical at all-far from it. On the contrary, they were a
direct, albeit unintended result of American and British
bombing of German civilian targets. The greatest wartime
mass killers of civilians were the Americans-aided and abetted
especially by people like yourselves at PBS who continue,
even to this day, to provide the moral rationalization for
it.
Sincerely yours,
Friedrich Paul Berg
Bradley R. Smith, Publisher 