When
questioning the existence of homicidal gas chambers in Nazi concentration
camps, one invariably hears the objection that there are thousands of
eyewitnesses to the gassing of Jews, thus it is ridiculous to even to question. Therefore, it is important to note the problems
with eyewitness testimony in general as well as the specific eyewitness testimony
to the gas chambers. Eyewitnesses can
never be as reliable as concrete scientific fact for many reasons such as
human error, pressure that can be applied to influence testimony, high emotional
stress, etc. In particular, “eyewitnesses”
to the supposed gas chambers have been, like the vast majority of people in the
developed world today, highly influenced by the portrayal of the Holocaust in
movies, TV shows, the classroom, and the media.
Can “eyewitnesses” in all cases separate what they really saw from what
they have been indoctrinated to believe?
One of the
very few times that these eyewitnesses have been put under scrutiny and subject
to cross-examination in a court of law was the 1988 Ernst Zundel “false news”
trial in Canada. Zundel was accused of disseminating
“false news” by claiming that the Nazis did not use gas chambers to murder
millions of Jews, as the “official” story goes.
The prosecution had the opportunity to put the nail in the coffin of
Holocaust revisionism. They knew what
Zundel’s defense team would be arguing; if they could prove in a courtroom
setting that there were creditable eyewitnesses to homicidal gas chambers, the
revisionists’ theories would be dealt a serious blow. Here is how the prosecution’s
“eyewitnesses” fared in court.
Arnold
Friedman, Hungarian Jew that claimed to be an eyewitness of homicidal gassings
at Auschwitz: Friedman claimed under
oath that he saw “fourteen foot flames” coming from the crematory chimneys and
that he could determine whether the bodies being burned were skinny Jews from
Poland or fatter Jews from Hungary by the color of the flames. Doug Christie, Zundel’s attorney pointed out
that crematoria are designed to not emit any smoke, flames, ashes, or odors—it is
impossible that the crematoria could emit flames. Friedman countered that the crematoria in Auschwitz
were not ordinary—these specially made ones could indeed do what he
claimed. Christie demolished all
credibility of the witness by producing the patent for the crematorium built at
Auschwitz. It clearly showed that they
were ordinary and could not emit flames or smoke. In the end, Friedman had to admit that while
he was at Auschwitz, he never witnessed any gassings and had been relying on
what others have told him.
Rudolph
Vrba, a Slovak Jew that claimed to be an eyewitness to gassings at
Auschwitz: Under oath, Vrba, whose
testimony was included in the US Government’s 1944 “War Refugee Report” and was
featured in various Holocaust documentaries, was forced to admit that his popular
autobiography, I Cannot Forgive, was
not based on fact but was instead an “artistic picture” and that he had made up
the number and location of gas chambers in the 1944 report. Vrba testified that he had calculated that
around 150,000 French Jews were gassed at Auschwitz. Christie demolished the claim by producing
records that showed that only 75,721 Jews were deported from France. Vrba has also claimed that he witnessed an SS
man pour poison gas down a roof opening of an above-ground gas chamber and then
proceed to climb down afterwards. Christie
further discredited Vrba by forcing him to admit that it was not a gas chamber,
but a partially-underground mortuary that was not high enough from the ground
for someone to need to “climb down.”
Dennis
Urstein, a supposed eyewitness that claimed to have assisted with bodies after Zyklon
B homicidal gassings: Urstein gave
testimony that, against all common sense, he assisted in moving bodies after
gassings while using no protective clothing whatsoever. People who die from Zykon B poisoning turn a
bright red. Urstein testified that the
bodies were “grayish-greenish.” Another supposed
“eyewitness” for the prosecution, Henry Leader, testified that the bodies of the
gassing victims turned blue.
The 1988 Ernst Zundel trial cast a collective doubt on all supposed "eyewitnesses" to the Jewish "Holocaust."
Sources: Michael Hoffman's The Great Holocaust Trial, Robert Fariusson's "The Zundel Trials"
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