The one-man powerhouse revisionist who dedicated his life to clearing Germany of the blood libel of the “Holocaust”
Ernst Zündel Archive – The one-man powerhouse revisionist who dedicated his life to clearing Germany of the blood libel of the "Holocaust" Skip to content Ernst Zündel Archive The one-man powerhouse revisionist who dedicated his life to clearing Germany of the blood libel of the "Holocaust" Menu Home Featured Ernst Zündel replies to the 66-point “Nizkor Rebuttal” In 1996 the Nizkor website attempted a point-by-point “refutation” of the Institute for Historical Review’s pamphlet ‘66 Questions and Answers on the Holocaust’. View the Nizkor Rebuttal here: http://www.nizkor.org/qar-complete.cgi In response Ernst Zündel refuted each of Nizkor’s “rebuttals”: 1. What proof exists that the Nazis practiced genocide or deliberately killed six million Jews? 2. What evidence exists that six million Jews were not killed by the Nazis? 3. Did Simon Wiesenthal once state in writing that “there were no extermination camps on German soil”? 4. If Dachau was in Germany and even Simon Wiesenthal says that it was not an extermination camp, why do thousands of veterans in America say that it was an extermination camp? 5. Auschwitz was in Poland, not Germany. Is there any proof that gas chambers for the purpose of killing human beings existed at or in Auschwitz? 6. What evidence exists that six million Jews were not killed by the Nazis? 7. Who set up the first concentration camps, and where and when? 8. How did German concentration camps differ from American relocation camps which interned Japanese, German- and Italian-Americans during World War II? 9. Why did the Germans intern Jews in concentration camps? Question 10 and 11 are answered together:10. What extensive measures did world Jewry undertake against Germany as early as 1933?11. Did the Jews of the world “declare war on Germany”? 12. Was this before or after the rumors of the “death camps” began? 13. What nation is credited with being the first to practice mass civilian bombing? 14. How many gas chambers to kill people were there at Auschwitz? Question 15, 16, 17 and 18 are treated in this section together: 15. How many Jews were in areas that came to be controlled by the Germans before the war?16. If the Jews of Europe were not exterminated by the Nazis, what happened to them?17. How many Jews fled to deep within the Soviet Union?18. How many Jews emigrated prior to the war, thus being outside of German Reach? Question 19 and 20 are treated in this section together: 19. If Auschwitz was not an extermination camp, why did the commandant, Rudolf Hoess, confess that it was?20. Is there any evidence that it was American, British, French and Soviet policy to torture German prisoners in order to extract confessions before the trials at Nuremberg and elsewhere? 21. How does the “Holocaust” story benefit the Jews today? 22. How does the “Holocaust” benefit the state of Israel? 23. How does the “Holocaust” benefit many Christian clergymen? 24. How does the “Holocaust” benefit the Communists? 25. How does the “Holocaust” benefit Britain? 26. Is there any evidence that Hitler ordered a mass extermination of Jews? 27. What kind of gas was used by the Nazis in concentration camps? 28. For what purpose was, and is, this gas manufactured? 29. Why did they use this instead of a gas more suitable for mass extermination? 30. How long does it take to ventilate fully an area fumigated by Zyklon-B? 31. Auschwitz commandant Hoess said that his men would enter the gas chamber ten minutes after the Jews had died and remove them. How can you explain this? 32. Hoess said in his confession that his men would smoke cigarettes as they pulled the dead Jews out of the gas chambers ten minutes after gassing. Isn’t Zyklon-B explosive? 33. What was the exact procedure the Nazis allegedly used to exterminate Jews? Question 34-35 are treated in this section together: 34. How could such a mass program have been kept secret from Jews who were scheduled for extermination?35. If Jews scheduled for execution knew the fate in store for them, why did they go to their death without fight or protest? 36. About how many Jews died in the concentration camps? Question 37-38 are treated in this section together: 37. How did they die?38. What is typhus? 39. What is the difference if six million or 300,000 Jews died during this awesome period? 40. Many survivors of the “death camps” say they saw bodies being piled up in pits and burned. How much gasoline would have to be used to perform this? 41. Can bodies be burned in pits? 42. “Holocaust” authors claim that the Nazis were able to cremate bodies in about 10 minutes. How long does it take to incinerate one body, according to professional crematory operators? 43. Why did the concentration camps have crematory ovens? 44. Given a 100 % duty cycle of all the crematoria in all the camps in German-controlled territory, what is the maximum number of corpses it would have been possible to incinerate during the entire period such crematoria were in operation? 45. Can a crematory oven be operated 100 % of the time? 46. How much ash is left from a cremated corpse? 47. If six million people had been incinerated by the Nazis, what happened to the ashes? 48. Do Allied wartime photos of Auschwitz (during the time when the “gas chambers” and crematoria were supposed to be in full operation) reveal gas chambers? 49. What was the main provision of the German “Nuremberg laws” of 1935? 50. Were there any American precedents for the Nuremberg laws? 51. What did the International Red Cross have to report with regard to the “Holocaust” question? 52. What was the role of the Vatican during the time the six million Jews were alleged to have been exterminated? 53. What evidence is there that Hitler knew of the ongoing Jewish extermination? 54. Did the Nazis and the Zionists collaborate? 55. What caused Anne Frank’s death just several weeks before the end of the war? 56. Is the Anne Frank Diary genuine? 57. What about the numerous photographs and footage taken in the German concentration camps showing piles of emaciated corpses? Are these faked? 58. Who originated the term “genocide”? 59. Were films such as “Holocaust” and “The Winds of War” documentary films? 60. About how many books have been published which refute some aspect of the standard claims made about the “Holocaust”? 61. What happened when a historical institute offered $50,000 to anyone who could prove that Jews were gassed at Auschwitz? 62. What about the claim that those who question the “Holocaust” are anti-Semitic or neo-Nazi? 63. What happened to the historians who have questioned the “Holocaust” material? 64. Has the Institute for Historical Review suffered any retaliation for its efforts to uphold the right of freedom of speech and academic freedom? 65. Why is there so little publicity for your point of view? 66. Where can I get more information about the “other side” of the “Holocaust” story as well as facts concerning other areas of WWII Historical Revisionism? HDC Uncategorized 1 Comment January 26, 2019October 14, 2019 4 Minutes Ernst Zündel: How it all started… My name is Ernst Zündel. I am a Holocaust Revisionist. I dare to think and express forbidden thoughts. More to the point, I want to know: “Did Six Million Really Die?” Five words. One little question mark. I am the cause of the first-time-ever censorship ban on the Net. I need not repeat details here. The German act of censorship – first CompuServe, then Telekom – brought forth a reaction the likes of which happens to dissidents only in Hollywood movies. And all because of one small sentence followed by a question mark? I’m asking it again: “Did Six Million Really Die?” Not many people ask the questions I have asked for a good part of my life – questions pertaining to the Holocaust. I didn’t until I was well into my twenties. One day I decided I should. I was like everybody else in my own postwar years in Germany. I was disgusted with my father’s generation whom I believed to have been monsters. Like practically all people on our planet, I used to believe in the standard, widely accepted notion that the government of National Socialist Germany, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, had attempted to kill the Jews by an act of state-decreed genocide. I was ashamed to be a German and turned to Canada. Ernst Zündel as commercial artist, 1973 In the 1960’s, newly married to a French-Canadian woman and with a young family to support, I experienced my first doubts about some details of the Holocaust story. Further study, mostly at night, convinced me that many segments of the story were highly exaggerated, and the number of Jewish losses were wildly inflated. As time went on, my soul was burning with one question: “Did Six Million Really Die?” Soon I spoke and wrote about my doubts about some aspects of the Holocaust at public gatherings and private meetings to attentive audiences. I produced some fliers, handbills, posters and stickers. I did some radio interviews. Then fate would have it that I published one small booklet someone else had written – a publication that had been an underground bestseller in 12 languages and had been sold in 18 countries. Its title was: “Did Six Million Really Die?” It posed some pointed questions. I felt safe publishing it, since nowhere had this publication caused offense. Not so in Canada. A woman called Sabina Citron, who headed the Holocaust Remembrance Association of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, decided that she was offended. She laid a private criminal complaint under Canada’s ancient “False News” Law against me in November of 1983. This was a law used seven centuries ago against the British peasants who had offended kings by chanting limericks. Next thing I knew, the government of Canada took over and started prosecuting me. The media was vociferous. The mob was mobilized. I was beaten and spat at on the way to court. My house was bombed in the middle of the night. I was convicted by two juries and lost some of my appeals. I went to prison more than once. My thriving graphic arts business was soon ruined. My marriage broke under the stress and ended in divorce. I was banned from traveling to the United States because I was before the courts of Canada. Between trials and appeals the judges imposed what the “Globe and Mail” of Toronto called “. . . the most sweeping judicial gag order ever imposed on a Canadian resident,” thus depriving me of my freedom of speech for almost nine years. The German government refused to issue me a passport or travel document for over 6 years, forcing me into a form of Gulag existence without barbed wire. My bank accounts were seized. Huge early morning raids were taking place all over Germany against my supporters there. Yet still, my soul was burning with the question: “Did Six Million Really Die?” I was a German. Like any other human being on this earth, I loved my people and my country. I loved them more as I matured politically. Why was I not allowed to question my own people’s history? Just who was writing the script of what I should or should not ask? On August 27, 1992, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the ancient “False News” statute, under which I had been dragged through the courts for nine years and which cost me most of my fortune and the tax payers of Canada some $6 million, was unconstitutional. I thought that surely now I had the right to ask: “Did Six Million Really Die?” I asked. It hurt to ask – but I asked. The public vilification in the media increased. Official persecution through arbitrary searches, seizures of books, mail etc., pointedly thorough customs and immigration inspections at the border, and police investigations by three different police forces and Canada’s spy agency, CSIS, followed. I protested publicly and privately to every level of government. Writers organizations and Amnesty International turned deaf ears to my pleas. I appealed to the various human rights agencies and international bodies. No one helped. No one cared. Politicians, columnists, and broadcasters agitated the public against me to the point when on May 7, 1995 an arsonist set my house on fire and nearly succeeded in burning it down. I have been told by tipsters he was paid $200 to do so. Over 5,000 rare books, manuscripts, files and business records were destroyed by fire and water damage. Had I been home, I would have been killed. Damaged inventory after the arson against the Zündel House in 1995 One week later a powerful parcel bomb was sent to me which, had I opened it, would have killed me and my staff. It was becoming ever more clear to me that Canada, supposedly a fine democracy, did not allow my question. Because of the persecution I experienced for expressing my unorthodox viewpoint on history, I decided with the help of some American friends to set up a world-wide web page in the USA, the last bastion of free speech. I quietly set about constructing my web page. At first, I was more or less left alone and ignored. Only when Nizkor, a Holocaust Promotion web site, challenged me to refute a lengthy, 170+ page, double-spaced document in rebuttal to one of my posts on the Zundelsite and I prepared to do so by heaving some documents onto my site, did it become clear that I was upsetting powerful interests the world over. A ban by the German censors on my server was imposed. 1,500 web sites were inaccessible in Germany because of five small words, still followed by a question mark. Did Six Million Really Die? But then the incredible happened! Under vicious political siege, my web site was cloning itself! For an entire week, from Patagonia to the Northern Polar Regions, from China to the Cape of Good Hope, the click of the mouse was the roar of the lion that roared: “Hands off the Internet!” A friend said that he felt the planet lurch. Censorship busters materialized from nowhere and sprang up like mushrooms after rain. University students, computer buffs, Internet veterans and columnists all leaped to my defense. The phones kept ringing off the hooks. The fax machines went crazy. The mailman groaned under the load of conventional mail, and so much e-mail arrived that we were overwhelmed. Total strangers, who under normal circumstances would have never heard of me, much less supported me, spontaneously copied or mirrored my web site and e-mailed large portions of text files all over the world. At the height of the controversy, at least 13 identified mirror web sites existed in the USA and, we were told, at least one in Australia. An outcast had become an incast. That miracle in cyberspace will be forever cyber-history. It was magnificent! I am on record saying that freedom does not come for free. I of all people know that questions do not come for free. Doubting the Holocaust is against the law in Germany. In Europe, there are “hate laws,” and the Holocaust is entrenched dogma before which people genuflect. There are 1300 state prosecutors all over Germany. I am undoubtedly registered as a “thought criminal” in every one of them and thus will be arrested, tried and convicted of thought crimes, should I ever step on German soil again. My 90-year-old mother passed away, and I was not allowed to see her to her grave. The same fate – arrest, conviction and imprisonment for thought crimes – could befall the idealistic American Censorship Busters who gave my thoughts refuge when my web site was under attack. Most did not even like me, but they knew from healthy instinct that something had sprung for their jugular vein, and that it was time to stand tall and be counted. For a week, they were men who acted like men. They do not know this yet, but they, too, were committing “thought crimes”. All over Germany. It is a chilling thing to have to tell those idealistic censorship busters that this one day of bedrock principle in cyberspace could cost them up to five years in a German prison. It is known to have happened before. What price freedom? What price America? HDC Uncategorized Leave a comment January 26, 2019October 15, 2019 6 Minutes 66. Where can I get more information about the “other side” of the “Holocaust” story as well as facts concerning other areas of WWII Historical Revisionism? Ernst Zündel Replies:Rebuttal # 66 The answer to this question is simple. Go judge for yourself. There are now half a dozen wellrounded quality Revisionist websites available on the Net, along with hundreds of partial and overlapping ones. There is enough information out there to read up on for anybody with a curious and open mind. As long as the Internet exists in its present form, the time of censored information is over. Revisionist truth needs no coercion. Revisionists do not go around beating up professors who disagree with them – as Jewish Tagar terrorists did to Professor Faurisson and others in France, or as has happened to my attorney in Germany, Jürgen Rieger. Revisionists don’t send parcel bombs to people, as was done to me, or blow up cars, as was done to my young colleague, Francois Duprat, in France – killing him and crippling his wife for life. Revisionists don’t burn the homes of Zionists and Communists down. They do not set bookstores on fire, as was done in France, or burn printing plants, as was done in England. Revisionists do not destroy a life time’s worth of work by fire, as was done to me on May 7, 1995, when $400,000 damage was done to my house in the still unsolved arson attack in Toronto – where my files and library burned. What, instead, do Revisionists do? Revisionists offer to the world a new look at history. They simply ask good people to exercise their common sense – and decide for themselves what sounds true, plausible and right. It has been a privilege to have been part of what Dr. Faurisson has called “…the great intellectual adventure at the end of the century.” I herewith close what should have been a “debate” that turned into the first cyber war in history. That war is not yet over. It will take more than Revisionist searching to bring it to an end. Our duty is done, and we say we have won. We have searched far and wide, and we are satisfied that we have solved the Holocaust riddle. We found that we were brainwashed, manipulated, used and abused by ruthless exploiters and deceivers. Our truth needs no coercion, no thought cops, no court verdicts. We have no need for Truth Enforcers! To the extent we can, we will share freely what we have discovered. Whether you want to change your mind after studying our facts will be entirely up to you. HDC Uncategorized Leave a comment January 26, 2019October 14, 2019 2 Minutes 65. Why is there so little publicity for your point of view? Ernst Zündel Replies:Rebuttal # 65 I have already answered this question at length. Let me reply to Nizkor’s glib and arrogant assertion that Holocaust Denial – as they like to call it – is “absurd.” It is not absurd at all to deny that which did not exist and did not take place. It is absurd to uphold that which did not exist and did not take place. The Flat Earth argument applied by Nizkor to Revisionists is really rich – but typical. If Holocaust Revisionist claims were as absurd as those advanced by Flat Earth proponents, why would it not be necessary to pass stringent laws in almost all countries of the world against the claims of Flat Earth proponents? When was the last time you have seen a law against Flat Earth Deniers? The panic-stricken Zionist Lobby and beneficiaries of the Holocaust Free-Lunch Program are working hard around the globe to have ever stricter laws passed against anyone who dares to question their claims – and who dares to question the legitimacy of their lucrative extortion racket. Why do they find it necessary to charge people criminally, drag them before criminal courts and tribunals, fine them tens of thousands of dollars, or jail them for years – for not believing in a story that is so patently absurd? Baloney! Only people with a definite political financial agenda bas… truncated (67,900 more characters in archive)