- When I introduced the Gran Tabu at the Corto Creativo
film festival in June, the trick for me was to prepare a Mexican mainstream
academic and student film audience for what they were going to see. Americans
would be in the audience, but even the largest percentage of those would
be Hispanic.
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- I took it as a given that for the most part they would
have no particular background in the Holocaust story, and even less about
revisionist arguments that question the heart of the story. They would
be largely unaware that in America revisionists risk financial and social
ruin, while in Europe they risk those things and imprisonment on top of
them. And I had to get the message that I am not a historian but am arguing,
and why I am arguing, against suppression, censorship, and taboo regarding
this one historical event. As it happened, it looks like I did it rather
well. The audience understood.
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- I delivered the talk in Spanish, from the first word
to the last. I began with a small "ice breaker." It worked.
It got a good, and I think appreciative, laugh from the audience. (...)
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- The text of my intro follows.
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- Theater, like all art-and cinema is certainly theater-is
dangerous to the culture in which it comes to life because it is often-times
a revolt against what is held to be morally right by those who rule, and
what has been accepted as being morally right by those who are being ruled.
Cinema-as-art can be, and in some cases must be, a rebellion against what
culture holds to be morally right.
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- We call our documentary The Great Taboo. The great taboo
is meant to suppress, censor, and punish those of us who express doubt
that during World War II the Germans used weapons of mass destruction (gas
chambers) to murder millions of innocent, unarmed civilians.
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- It is considered morally right to believe in the unique
monstrosity of the National Socialist German Worker's Party (Nazis), and
morally wrong to suggest that they were fully human in the same way that,
in America, Democrats and Republicans are fully human, no matter how many
people they kill, or how they kill them.
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- It is well known all over the world that during World
War II the Americans used weapons of mass destruction-great fleets of heavy
bombers and nuclear bombs-to intentionally murder masses of innocent, unarmed
civilians in all the cities of Germany and Japan.
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- The great taboo is meant to suppress the fact that German
Nazis are held to one standard of justice and morality, while American
Democrats and Republicans are held to a different one. The great taboo
argues that while German Nazis were monsters for intentionally killing
innocent, unarmed civilians for a "greater good," American Democrats
and Republicans who did the same are heroes-indeed, we speak of them as
"the greatest generation."
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- And finally, the great taboo is exploited to suppress,
censor, and imprison writers and film makers who argue that it cannot be
demonstrated that the Germans actually had weapons of mass destruction,
unlike the Americans who clearly did, and who no one claims did not.
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- At this moment it might be well to consider a more recent
weapons of mass destruction fraud. Iraq? Weapons of mass destruction? Where
are they? Maybe they are in hiding someplace in the center of the earth,
holding hands as it were, with those old German weapons of mass destruction
which have not yet been proven to have existed.
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- What difference does any of this make? It makes a difference
because it goes to the heart of what is morally right, and what is not.
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- The first weapons of mass destruction fraud morally legitimated
the creation of a Jewish State on Arab land in Palestine. We all know what
has come of that one.
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- The second weapons of mass destruction fraud was used
to morally legitimate the invasion of Iraq by the United States. We all
know what has come of that one.
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- And now, of course, there are the weapons of mass destruction
being planned by the Iranian Government. Maybe they are, maybe they are
not. Are we going to trust the United States Government to tell us the
truth about Iranian weapons of mass destruction?
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- The truth is, the only State in the Middle East that
actually has weapons of mass destruction is Israel. But in the United States,
that is never talked about. Never. It too is part of the great taboo.
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- This afternoon we are going to watch 32 minutes of a
documentary that I have been working on for three years. These particular
32 minutes are very simple. They are comprised primarily of interviews
with two German writers [Ernst Zundel and Germar Rudolf] who immigrated
to America to find a place where they could write as free men, in a nation
that prides itself on being a bastion of intellectual freedom and a free
press.
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- What happened to these two German writers in America?
The American government cooperated with the German State in sending them
back to Germany where, today, at this very moment, they are being held
in prison for thought crimes.
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- They have been condemned to prison for having an opinion
about history. What is the American professorial class doing about this?
Nothing. The professors are in thrall to the State, and to the special
interest organizations that assure their careers.
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- Six months ago, in December, I went to Tehran, the capital
of Iran, to give a talk on the Holocaust story and the attempt in Europe
and America to suppress, censor and imprison those of us who have found
it necessary, on the basis of the evidence, to revise-not to deny but to
revise-the orthodox account of those events. The title of my talk was:
"The Irrational Vocabulary of the American Professorial Class with
Regard to the Holocaust Question." My argument was that the American
professorial class uses an irrational vocabulary to respond to revisionist
arguments questioning the orthodox Holocaust story. That the decision of
the American professorial class to exploit this irrational vocabulary is
a deliberate decision to avoid communication. To avoid communication! Professors!
In the university itself! That the purpose in choosing to not communicate
as scholars to either students or colleagues is, effectively, to nurture
and protect an academic environment in which it is taboo to question the
"unique monstrosity" of the Germans during World War II.
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- That to question the "unique monstrosity" of
the Germans during World War II would necessarily suggest that the history
of the 20th century would have to be rewritten, and the nature of the role
of the United States in that war, and in world affairs since that war,
would have to be re-evaluated.
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- Here I will demonstrate a prime example of the irrational
vocabulary of the American professorial class with regard to the Holocaust
question.
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- First, let me say this. The State cannot imprison its
writers without the overwhelming cooperation of the professorial class.
And when things get tough, the professorial class, as a class, will always
side with the State against the people-the writer who rebels against what
the State has pronounced to be good, to be morally correct. (...)
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- My apologies to any American professor who might be here
with us today. I am certain that you, yourself, are an exception to this
rule.
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- During the 1990s I published essay advertisements in
student newspapers at universities around America. My first full-page revisionist
essay-advertisement ran in The Daily Northwestern, the student newspaper
at Northwestern University near Chicago. It appeared on 04 April 1991.
It was titled "The Holocaust: How Much is False?" The text was
some 2,700 words. The text of this essay is online.
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- For the first time on an American university campus,
core revisionist arguments challenging the orthodox Holocaust story were
outlined in a university publication. Every observation we made reflected
a commonplace revisionist argument. (...) Among them were these.
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- It cannot be demonstrated that the German State had a
policy to exterminate the Jews of Europe, or anyone else, by putting them
to death in gas chambers or by killing them through abuse or neglect.
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- It cannot be demonstrated that 6 million Jews were "exterminated"
during WWII.
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- It cannot be demonstrated that homicidal gas chambers
existed in any camp in Europe which was under German control.
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- It cannot be demonstrated that the awful scenes of the
dead and emaciated inmates captured on newsreel footage at Dachau, Buchenwald
and Bergen-Belsen-were the victims of intentional killing or intentional
starvation.
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- It cannot be demonstrated, as the Holocaust Industry
claims, that there are "tons" of captured German documents which
prove the mass murder of Jews and others in homicidal gas chambers.
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- It cannot be demonstrated that, as was claimed during
war crimes trials, that Jews were cooked to make soap from their fat, or
skinned to make lampshades from their hides.
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- It cannot be demonstrated that during the war the Red
Cross, the Pope, humanitarian agencies, the Allied governments, neutral
governments, and prominent figures such as Roosevelt, Truman, Churchill,
Eisenhower all knew about "gas chambers" but really did not want
to talk about it. (...)
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- There it was. For the whole world to see. Standard Holocaust
revisionist arguments. Nothing original.
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- One week after my ad appeared in The Daily Northwestern,
the student paper printed a letter from a professor of history and German
on that campus. His name was Peter Hayes. He taught a course on Holocaust
studies. He still teaches it. If anyone at Northwestern University was
capable of disputing any claim made in the text of our ad, Professor Hayes
was that man.
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- This was a milestone for revisionism. The first time
a real Holocaust revisionist text was printed in a university publication,
and the first time that professional scholars had the opportunity to demonstrate
in public where at least one revisionist argument was wrong and why it
was wrong.
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- Professor Hayes, however, ignored the published text
and-he did not address one assertion made in the text-not one. Rather in
one modest column in a student newspaper, this Holocaust studies professor
charged me with ... listen to this:
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- "manipulation," "deception," "distortion,"
"ignorance," "intimidation," "nastiness,"
"dishonesty," "duplicity," "maliciousness,"
"tastelessness," "browbeating" academics like himself,
"conspiracy mongering," "implausibilities" and "disinformation."
Not one word addressed any specific statement in the text of the ad.
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- If Professor Hayes letter were to have proven to be an
exception to the rule, his language in the Daily Northwestern would not
have been noteworthy. But that was not the case. He demonstrated at Northwestern
what was to become the rule all over America.
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- Throughout the 1990s I ran essay-advertisements in student
newspapers at hundreds of university and college campuses from one end
of America to the other. Typically, each academic year I would write a
new text. The response by the professorial class to these texts, year after
year, was substantially the same as that of Professor Hayes. The text would
be ignored, while its author would be attacked with an irrational vocabulary
of insult, hysteria, and innuendo. For ten years. It was remarkable.
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- The few exceptions to this rule were typically written
by student editors at student newspapers. None argued that any particular
revisionist argument was sound, but a good number did argue that the Holocaust
question should be open to a free exchange of ideas, just like any other
historical question.
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- That was all I was asking. An open debate.
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- Fifteen years have passed since the Professor Peter Hayes
incident at Northwestern University. Now we come to 2006. The following
texts will demonstrate that the American professorial class is still committed
to a vocabulary of irrationality-that is, a deliberate decision to not
communicate-with regard to the Holocaust question.
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- Once again, we will be at Northwestern University.
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- In February 2006 there was an international uproar in
response to Iranian President Ahmadinejad's contention that the Holocaust
is a "myth." The Iranian News Agency, Mehr, interviewed Arthur
R. Butz, author of The Hoax of the 20th Century, which was published in
1976, 30 years earlier. (S)
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- The Mehr interview with Professor Butz was reported all
over the world. I thought, at last. Professor Butz and the President of
Iran. Batman and Robin. A dynamic duo. There would be some academics, certainly
one, among the professorial class in America, or at least at Northwestern
University itself, who would take a sober look at Professor Butz and his
The Hoax of the 20th Century. At the very least, they would argue that
he had the right to express his skepticism about the German gas chambers.
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- Alas! I am a hopeless romantic.
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- The president of Northwestern University, Henry S. Bienen,
issued a statement. President Bienen said nothing about any specific assertion
of fact in anything Professor Butz had ever written or said, either in
the Mehr interview, on his Web site, or in The Hoax of the 20th Century.
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- President Bienen, making a deliberate decision to not
communicate, wrote only that Professor Butz's opinions are "reprehensible,"
and "a contemptible insult to all decent and feeling people."
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- The Religion Department at Northwestern University published
a letter in which it did not address any assertion of fact in anything
that Professor Butz has ever written. Rather, the Religion Department charged
Professor Butz with
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- "fraud," "lying," "abuse,"
"hateful speech," "faking data," and "moral and
intellectual failure." Sixty-one faculty members of Northwestern University's
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science-Professor Butz's
own department-published a letter denouncing him. Not one of these professional
scholars addressed directly anything Professor Butz has ever written.
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- His department colleagues wrote that they "utterly
disavowed" and "condemned" Professor Butz. They charged
that he is an "extreme embarrassment" to his colleagues, that
his views are an "affront to their humanity" and beneath their
"standards as scholars". They "repudiated" him and
urged him "to leave" the Department. These were his own colleagues.
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- There are 1,800 professional scholars employed at Northwestern
University. Not one of them stood up in public to argue that Professor
Butz's The Hoax of the 20th Century should be examined before it is condemned,
or that after 30 years one paper assessing Butz's writings should be published
in one peer reviewed journal where Professor Butz would have the right
of reply.
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- Not a chance. These academics, men and women, religious
and secular alike, Jew and Gentile alike, are in a moral crises over this
issue and do not have enough character to be willing to understand what
it is.
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- The vocabulary used by the American professorial class
with regard to revisionist scholarship is irrational because it deliberately
does not respond to the materials it allegedly addresses, and because it
deliberately ignores the findings of published revisionist work in order
to keep those findings from becoming widely familiar.
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- So, with regard to the use of weapons of mass destruction
to kill innocent, unarmed civilians, we are to continue to judge the actions
of German National Socialists - los Nazis - by one standard of morality
and justice, while we judge American Democrats and Republicans by a different
one. A double standard of justice, and a double standard of morality.
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- You may be wondering: What difference does any of this
make in the real world?
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- I am going to suggest what difference it does make. In
the real world. Today.
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- If the Germans did not have weapons of mass destruction,
the Jews of Europe were not "holocausted." The story would be
a fraud.
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- If the Jews of Europe were not "holocausted,"
it would be a fraud to use that non-event to morally justify their conquest
and occupation of Arab land in Palestine to create a Jewish state there.
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- If the United States Congress had not bought and paid
for Israel for the last 60 years, using a fraud to morally justify it,
Arab fanatics would not be able to morally justify-in their own eyes-their
attack against America on 9/11.
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- If Arab fanatics had not attacked New York City and Washington
on 9/11, the Americans would not be able to use a weapons-of-mass-destruction
fraud to morally justify their conquest and occupation of Iraq.
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- And there we are. A red, bloody thread that reaches from
the German gas-chamber fraud to the Iraqi gas-chamber fraud and to the
horror of the American campaign in Iraq where more than half a million-more
than half a million!-Iraqi civilians have been maimed, crippled and killed
for what the American Government tells us is a "greater good."
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- Ask yourself: how many enemies did America have in the
Middle East before Israel? How many enemies do we have now? And all of
it morally justified because of a demonstrable fraud?
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- Now it is time to view a segment of the documentary we
are working on. Again, these 32 minutes are very simple. For the most part
they record interviews with two German writers who came to America to continue
their research and to publish their findings. They were sent back to Germany,
with the cooperation of the U.S. Government, to be thrown into prison as
thought criminals, without a single bleep of protest from the American
professorial class.
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- This is a moment when cinema becomes quietly dangerous,
when it becomes a studied revolt against the good-that is, against what
we are told is morally right for us to believe, and that we must believe
because-it is morally right.
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- This is a moment when the quiet testimony of two writers
imprisoned for thought crimes illustrates the moral decadence of those
in government, and those in the American university, who fear a free exchange
of ideas on a public stage, in an environment of good will.
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- This is a moment where I begin, using cinema as art,
to open up this story for all to see.
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- Thank you.
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- (Bradley's email is bradley1930@yahoo.com Please urge
him to put this as-yet-unfinished documentary on youtube so that the world
can benefit )
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