Holocaust denial

"The title of Austin Apps major work on the Holocaust, The Six Million Swindle, is informative because it implies on its very own the existence of a conspiracy of Jews to perpetrate a hoax against non-Jews for monetary gain."

"Holocaust denial refurbished conspiratorial anti-Semitism. Who else but the Jews had the media power to hoodwink unsuspecting masses with one of the greatest hoaxes in history? And for what motive? To promote the claims of the illegitimate state of Israel by making non-Jews feel guilty, of course."

"Packing Density, inside Gas Chamber How many people can stand on a surface area of one square meter (some 10 square feet, or a square 3’3” on a side)? … The situation changes dramatically, if we consider a large crowd of naked strangers, who are told to take a shower together. … Take the case of the underground Morgue #1 of Crematoria II and III at Auschwitz Birkenau, for which we have blueprints showing their size: 7 meters wide and 30 meters long. If we assume the average person to be half a meter wide and a quarter meter deep (25 cm), then this amounts to 14 persons in a row, with 120 rows in total, resulting in 1,680 people, or 8 persons per square meter. … Many witnesses claim 2000 or more (≥9.5/m²) crammed into this gas chamber."

"[In] the act of denying this historical truth [of the Holocaust], the deniers denigrate the Jewish people and memories of historical occurrences, suggest that those who accept the truth of the Holocaust, lie; and relativize the suffering incurred. Thus, the act of Holocaust denial is not simply an expression of belief in what did or did not happen historically, given that the Holocaust has been historically verified. It is an act of vilification that denigrates and harms."

"The kinds of assertions made in Holocaust-denial material include the following:"

"Jews are thus depicted as manipulative and powerful conspirators who have fabricated myths of their own suffering for their own ends. According to the Holocaust deniers, by forging evidence and mounting a massive propaganda effort, the Jews have established their lies as truth and reaped enormous rewards from doing so: for example, in making financial claims on Germany and acquiring international support for Israel."

"MR RAMPTON: Beginning in December 1941, [97,000] Jews from the Lodz ghetto and other towns in the Warthegau were deported to the small village of Chelmno. … A. MR IRVING: Shall we go straight to the bottom line and say yes, I fully accept the innuendo you are placing on that document. Q. [Mr Rampton]: Innuendo? A. [Mr Irving]: It is not stated clearly, but quite clearly 97,000 people have been liquidated in these [[w:Gas van|[gas chamber]-trucks]]. Q. [Mr Rampton]: In three trucks? A. [Mr Irving]: Over the months concerned. Q. [Mr Rampton]: No, it is actually just about a month and a week. 97,000 people in three trucks in the course of five weeks? A. [Mr Irving]: It is a very substantial achievement when you work it out with a pocket calculator — Q. [Mr Rampton]: Clever SS! A. [Mr Irving]: — at 20 people per time, and they drove 20 kilometres [round trip] into the countryside. I have read all the reports on this. Q. [Mr Rampton]: Not if they are doing them in situ. A. [Mr Irving]: No. They drove them out into the country and did it."

"Holocaust deniers, or revisionists, as they call themselves, contend that, while mass murders of Jews did occur (although they dispute both the intentionality of such murders as well as the supposed deservedness of these killings), there was no official Nazi policy to murder Jews. Second, and perhaps most prominently, they contend that there were no homicidal gas chambers, particularly at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where mainstream historians believe over 1 million Jews were murdered, primarily in gas chambers. And third, Holocaust deniers contend that the death toll of European Jews during World War II was well below 6 million. Deniers float numbers anywhere between 300,000 and 1.5 million, as a general rule."

"Not that theres no Holocaust, lets say they exaggerated the Holocaust. … Its not the matter how many were killed, six million or one million, or half; killing is killing, I mean how many Soviets were killed? Eight million, so why didnt we talk about them? The problem is not how many were killed. How do they use it? What do the Palestinians have to do with the Holocaust to pay the price? This is one question we asked. … We know that there was a massacre against Jews and against others; whats going on in Palestine we see it the same way, but you dont see it the same way."

"Goering had said he wanted to know how it was technically possible to murder 2,500,000 Jews [at Auschwitz]. I explained it to him during the lunch hour, just as Höss [the former Commandant of Auschwitz] explained to me this morning: each of the gas chambers could accommodate up to 1500 or 2000 persons; the killing was easy but the burning of bodies took all the time and manpower. Goering felt extremely uncomfortable at the realization that it was no longer possible to deny the extent of the mass murders on the basis of the technical incredibility of the numbers. He wanted to know just how the order was given. I told him that Himmler had given it to him directly as a Führerbefehi (order from the Fuhrer)."

"Q. [Mr Irving]: Do you really, sincerely believe that you can burn one corpse with enough coke that you could fit in one of these water bottles, is that what you are saying? A. [Professor Van Pelt]: I would like to point out there are two documents which support this. MR JUSTICE GRAY: Can you just pause for a second? Three-and-a-half kilos of coke per corpse, one has to put in? A. [Professor Van Pelt]: That is when the — Q. [Mr Justice Gray]: That is assuming a rate of incineration equivalent to that in the document of 28th June 1943 which Mr Irving challenges? A. [Professor Van Pelt]: Yes. MR IRVING: Can I ask, Professor van Pelt, has it ever crossed your mind that this document of 28th June 1943 might not be authentic or a document of integrity? Did you ever investigate that possibility? Did you check any details about it? Did you just accept it at face value?"

"The central assertion for the deniers is that Jews are not victims but victimizers. They stole billions in reparations, destroyed Germanys good name by spreading the myth of the Holocaust, and won international sympathy because of what they claimed had been done to them. In the paramount miscarriage of injustice, they used the worlds sympathy to displace another people so that the state of Israel could be established. This contention relating to the establishment of Israel is a linchpin of their argument."