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Auschwitz - The Final Count
by Michael Collins Piper
A thought-provoking new anthology
edited by English historian Vivian Bird casts
stark new light on what really happened at
Auschwitz during World War II. As the
evidence shows, the official "facts" just don't
add up.
In the summer of 1997 I was invited to speak at a California
college seminar about my book, Final Judgment, which contends that
Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, played a front-line role in the
JFK assassination conspiracy alongside the CIA. Almost
instantaneously I was hit by a media barrage orchestrated by the
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith, a lobby for Israel.
The ADL told the press I was "a Holocaust denier" and, for that
reason alone, I should not be allowed to discuss my book (which,
incidentally, never once mentions the Holocaust). Evidently the ADL
was determined to shift the focus away from what my book really
does address, so they determined the best way to discredit me was to
smear me as "a Holocaust denier" (which I am not).
The ADL's tactic succeeded, setting off a firestorm of opposition-
a "holocaust," so to speak-and the seminar was canceled, illustrating
one point most clearly: The Holocaust has become a powerful
propaganda tool for the state of Israel.
And what is important to remember is this: What did-or did not-
happen at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland is, in fact,
integral to the foundation of the basic story of the Holocaust.
Auschwitz is central to the Holocaust legend. If it can be proved
that the official stories we have been told about Auschwitz are not
true, the entire fabric of the Holocaust ultimately has to unravel.
What, then, did happen at Auschwitz?
On April 18, 1945, in the immediate aftermath of World War II,
The New York Times reported that 4 million people died at
Auschwitz. This "fact" was reported over and over again during the
next half-century, without being questioned.
However, on January 26, 1995, commemorating the 50th
anniversary of the Auschwitz liberation, both The Washington Post
and The New York Times itself reported that the Polish authorities
had determined that, at most, 1.5 million people (of all races and
religions)-not "4 million"-died at Auschwitz of all causes, including
natural causes.
Yet this was not the first time this drastically reduced figure
appeared in the major media. Almost five years previously, on July
17, 1990, The Washington Times reprinted a brief article from The
London Daily Telegraph. That article stated:
Poland has cut its estimate of the number of people killed by the
Nazis in the Auschwitz death camp from 4 million to just over 1
million . . . The new study could rekindle the controversy over the
scale of Hitler's "final solution" . . .
Franciszek Piper, director of the historical committee of the
Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, said yesterday that, according to
recent research, at least 1.3 million people were deported to the camp,
of whom about 223,000 survived.
The 1.1 million victims included 960,000 Jews, between 70,000
and 75,000 Poles, nearly all of the 23,000 Gypsies sent to the camp
and 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war.
Shmuel Krakowsky, head of research at Israel's Yad Vashem
memorial for Jewish victims of the Holocaust, said the new Polish
figures were correct: "The 4 million figure was let slip by Capt.
Rudolf Hoess, the death camp's Nazi commander. Some have bought
it, but it was exaggerated." . . . [P]laques commemorating the deaths
of 4 million victims were removed from the Auschwitz museum
earlier this month.
This detail of history was intriguing, since, after all, history
books had said for a generation that of the 6 million Jews who died
during the Holocaust, 4 million died at Auschwitz alone. Thus, if the
new facts were correct, the actual overall number of Jewish Holocaust
victims had to be considerably less than the much-talked-about
figure of 6 million. Put simply: subtract the former 4 million Jews
dead at Auschwitz from the popular 6 million, and that leaves 2
million Jews dead. Simple math-and a controversial conclusion
indeed.
More recently, Walter Reich, former director of the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, jumped into the debate
over Auschwitz. On September 8, 1998, The Washington Post
published an article by Reich in which he addressed Jewish outrage
over a group of elderly Polish nuns who wanted to place crosses in
memory of Christians who died at Auschwitz. Reich was responding
to what he described as a "well-meaning" August 31, 1998 editorial in
The Post about the affair.
Reich commented that the editorial "illustrates how old fictions
about Auschwitz have been accepted as facts-fictions that have been
used repeatedly to distort the camp's history." Evidently, the Post had
forgotten its own report on the Auschwitz numbers that it had
published three years previously and chose, instead, to repeat "old
fictions . . . accepted as facts." What, then, were those "old fictions . . .
accepted as facts"? Here's what Reich had to say:
The Post identified Auschwitz-Birkenau as the death camp
"where 3 million Jews and millions of others were murdered by the
Nazis." Recent scholarship by a Polish historian has put the number
of deaths there conservatively at about 1.1 million, with other
estimates ranging to about 1.5 million. Approximately 90 percent of
the dead were Jews.
The Post's numbers may have been derived in part from the
inflated estimate-originally of Soviet origin and endorsed by Polish
authorities after the war-of about 4 million dead. This number, and
other numbers of similar magnitude, were repeated so often that they
came to be accepted by many as true, even though historians in
Poland and elsewhere have revised this number down considerably.
Honest people find no problem with Reich's call (in the essay)
for "only words of accurate history" in reportage about Auschwitz.
Today, a major first step toward "only words of accurate history" is
the release of a new anthology on Auschwitz, assembled by English
writer Vivian Bird.
Auschwitz: The Final Count examines the "new" reports in the
mainstream media (outlined above) and provides essential additional
facts that must be considered in order for the full story of Auschwitz
to finally be told. Bird's 109-page book is a compendium
(supplemented with commentary by Bird) of four complete,
previously published works relating to Auschwitz and the Holocaust.
The book features a fascinating introduction by Bird exploring
the little-known but thoroughly documented phenomenon in which
the numbers of the official Auschwitz "death toll" have plummeted
from a "high" of 9,000,000 dead to a rock bottom of 73,137 (of whom
38,031 were Jews). And readers will note that of the 26 widely
varying figures cited by Bird, all come from a variety of "responsible"
and mainstream sources. No figure Bird cites comes from any source
accused of "denying the Holocaust," whatever that means.
Clearly, the number of people who died at Auschwitz is central
to understanding what did happen there. But the figures keep
changing. If Bird's book proves anything, it proves that.
However, there's much more to Auschwitz than the changing
numbers. The essays in Bird's volume each provide a uniquely
different facet to the overall problem:
* The Auschwitz Lie by Thies Christophersen is an insider's
view of Auschwitz. The German author, an agrarian, was sent to
Auschwitz, not as an inmate, but as a scientist researching the
development of synthetic rubber. Working side by side with inmate
staff, Christophersen saw, firsthand, day-to-day life at Auschwitz
and, in postwar years, was astounded to hear the stories of "gassings"
and all the tall tales that we today associate with Auschwitz.
His essay, The Auschwitz Lie, first published in German in 1973,
caused great consternation. However, Christophersen would not
back down, and, as a consequence, he was variously fined or
imprisoned for daring to tell his eyewitness account. Those
accustomed to "docu-drama" renditions of Auschwitz will find a new
perspective in Christophersen's report.
* Zyklon B, Auschwitz, and the Trial of Dr. Bruno Tesch is the
second feature in Bird's anthology. Written by a veteran chemist, the
late Dr. William Lindsey, this is a carefully documented demolition
of the war crimes trial of Dr. Tesch, who was ultimately convicted

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