Editor MNH: Running for
school board I was interviewed. This interview was subsequently written up in
the MNH, March 30, 2000. The reporter, Ms. E. did an excellent job keeping
straight what I said. However one sentence I did not like: “German nativc M. has
long been known for her adamant denial of the Holocaust.” Denial deals with our emotions. It
implies a guilt which can not be faced and is therefore not accepted. If I have
to label myself I would say I am adamant holocaust rcfuter. To rcfute has a
lawyerly ring to it and implies reason and logic. Let me compare the holocaust
lore to a picture puzzle. Inside the box are the puzzle pieces, on top of the
box is the picture which will guide you in assembling the puzzle. In that
holocaust picture puzzle the pieces do not fit, pieces were changed, and key
pieces are missing. Trying to assemble the puzzle I therefore could not come up with the
picture given to us, namely the picture of six million Jews gassed in homicidal
gas chambers. The most important missing piece is documentary evidence. There
isn’t any. There are plenty of eyewitness reports, but if put side by side, the
contradictions would be obvious. Let me just pull out one puzzle piece which
does not fit, the puzzle piece of Anne Frank. Anne Frank and her family were
deported to Auschwitz supposedly an extermination camp. But neither she, nor her
sister nor hcr fathcr were gassed there. When the war front came closer they
were shipped back to Bergen-Belsen, a camp within Germany, not listed as an
extermination camp anymore (this puzzle piece has been changed), but simply as a
concentration camp. Ann and her sister Margot died there most likely of typhus.
But why were the Jews uprooted, deported and put into camps? March 24, 1933 the Daily Express
(London) carried this headline: “Judea Declares War On Germany - Jews Of All The
World Unite In Action.” Communist
Jews with Russian money were continuously fomenting revolution within
Germany. You might say the Frank
family and most other Jews had not declared war on Germany and wanted nothing to
do with Communism. You are right.
They were innocent. There is NO collective guilt. But unfortunately, there is a
collective fate, and nobody knows that better than
I.