The Holocaust Narrative: Politics trumps Science
The Holocaust Narrative: Politics Trumps Science
by Jim Fetzer
“The fastest way to get expelled from a British
university is by saying you are looking at chemical evidence for how
Zyklon was used in World War II, with a discussion of how delousing
technology functioned in the German World War II labour camps”—Nicholas Kollerstrom
For more on the book, click BREAKING THE SPELL
In response to PM David Cameron’s denunciation of 7/7 and 9/11 skeptics as on a par with ISIS, he went to Scotland Yard with a copy of Terror on the Tube (3rd ed., 2011) and turned himself in.
Scotland Yard declined the honor, but this act–which symbolically castrated the PM’s outrageous stance–was a striking illustration of his ability to tackle a problem by going right at it.
A distinguished historian of science with multiple degrees, including from Cambridge, he has published on 9/11 and especially 7/7, about which he appears to be the world’s leading expert.
When his attention turned to research on the use of Zykon B as a delousing agent in the labor camps run by the Germans during World War II, however, he was treated as an outcast.
He lost his position at University College London, which he had held for 15 years, where university officials did not bother to extend the opportunity of a rebuttal before they sacked him.
He and I both spoke at the recent conference, “Academic Freedom: Are there limits to inquiry? JFK, 9/11 and the Holocaust”, where this book reports the results of the research for which he was banned. The book, a stunning historic expose, has just appeared. I endorse it with my highest recommendation.
The Holocaust – Myth and Reality
The situation is completely absurd. No subject generates
responses as extreme and irrational as what has come to be known as “the
Holocaust”. Unlike any other event in human history, including even the
most sacred religious beliefs, for anyone to question, dispute or deny
its occurrence qualifies as “a hate crime,” where Holocaust denial is
even a prosecutable offense in certain jurisdictions. Unlike any other,
this crime involves the expression of forbidden thoughts about a subject
that has become taboo.
The underlying desideratum is whether history is supposed to be accurate and true or, as Voltaire has put it, be merely “a pack of lies the living play upon the dead”. Just so we know what we are talking about: In its broadest outlines, “the Holocaust” can be defined by means of its three 
primary elements, which I shall designate here as hypotheses (h1), (h2) and (h3):
primary elements, which I shall designate here as hypotheses (h1), (h2) and (h3):
(h1) that Hitler was attempting to exterminate the Jews and succeeded by putting around 6,000,000 to death;
(h2) that many of those deaths were brought about by the use of cyanide gas in chambers for that purpose; and,
(h3) that the chemical agent that brought about those deaths was Zykon B, to which the victims were subjected.
The science of the Holocaust does not leave any room for
doubt about (h2) and (h3), insofar as the laws of biochemistry and of
materials science—laws which cannot be violated and cannot be
changed—entail that the bodies of those who are put to death using
cyanide turn pink, while the walls of chambers used for that purpose would turn blue. But none of the bodies from those camps has been reported to have been pink; and empirical examination of the “gas chambers” has determined that, unlike the walls of the delousing chambers, none of them turned blue. Which means that (h2) and (h3) are not simply false but have been scientifically refuted.
Holocaust science “cut and dried”
As Nicholas Kollerstrom documents in this astonishing and
brilliant book, the science of the Holocaust is this “cut and dried”. To
the extent to which the Holocaust narrative depends on (h2) and (h3),
therefore, it cannot be sustained. The questions that remain about (h1)
are a bit more complex but appear to be equally contrived. There are
more than 236 references to 6,000,000 Jews who are either in acute
distress or about to be assailed in the newspapers of the world prior to the Nuremberg Tribunal—
the first of which appeared in 1890. The number seems to have no basis
in fact but to have theological origins—from a disputed passage in Leviticus—as to how many Jews must perish before they can return to “The Promised Land”.
To
the extent to which the number of Jews who died in the camps can be
objectively determined, the most reliable numbers appear to come from
the records of the International Committee of the Red Cross, which
visited the camps and kept meticulous records of the identities of those
who died and their cause of death. Not one is reported to have been put
to death in gas chambers, and the total it reported in 1993 for all of
the camps was 296,081 combined. Even rounding up to an even 600,000
victims—gypsies, Jews and the mentally and physically infirm—the
empirical evidence thus contradicts the contention that 6,000,000 Jews
were put to death and thereby falsifies hypothesis (h1).
Counting deaths attributed to the Holocaust—apart from the
records of the International Committee of the Red Cross—turns out to be
an exercise in “fuzzy math”, because none of them add up. As Faurisson
observed during an interview on 13 December 2006, the Yad Vashem
database was built up by “simple unverified declarations emanating from
unverified sources and processed in such a way that one and the same
person can be recorded as having died several times, even, it seems, as
many as ten times”.[1] And even the most
complete archives are not collated to make total numbers accessible but
only individual cases—which appears an obvious measure to preserve the
untestability of (h1), the hypothesis that 6,000,000 Jews had perished.
Holocaust story falsified
So, insofar as we depend upon empirical evidence and laws
of science, the Holocaust story appears to be false and cannot be
sustained. The question that therefore arises is how the Nuremberg
Tribunal—widely cited as a paragon of intellectual integrity and of the
application of moral principles to historical events—could possibly have
produced such a highly misleading account of crucial events at the
conclusion of World War II. The answer to this, I believe, has been
provided by Robert Faurisson in his paper “Against Hollywoodism, Revisionism,”
who explains the daunting task confronting the Allies to conceal or
justify war crimes that they had committed in winning the war.[2]
The Allies’ systematic and massive destruction of German
cities not only brought about the deaths of hundreds of thousands of
German civilians but also interdicted the railroad lines that would have
re-supplied those camps, which were located near major industrial
plants and whose inmates were providing labor to run them. It would have
been poor business practice to exterminate the work force, but the
large number of deaths from starvation because the Third Reich could not
re-supply them provided an opportunity to deflect responsibility from
the Allies onto Germany, which the Allies seized. A Hollywood director
was brought in and shot 80,000 feet of film at the camps, where 6,000
feet (7.5% of the total) was used to shift the blame for those deaths
onto Nazi Germany, which was an easy sell, all things considered.
As Kollerstrom explains, Zyklon B was used at the
labor camps, not as a method of extermination but for the sake of
maintaining hygiene among the inmates. Typhus and dysentery were
omnipresent problems, where Zyklon B was applied in copious
quantities—but as a disinfestant, not as an agent for bringing about the
deaths of millions of inmates. And in response to the color pink-and-blue findings,
an alternative explanation has been given that they were killed using
diesel exhaust fumes, but unlike carbon monoxide, diesel exhaust fumes
bring about nausea and severe headaches but usually do not bring about
death by asphyxiation.
Classified British documents
Among the most valuable contributions of this study
derives from Nick’s use of classified records acquired by British
authorities, who were skeptical of claims that mass gassings were being
carried out and had reports in hand of the use of Zyklon for the purpose
of delousing the inmates, where infestations had become alarming. Many
tons of Zyklon were consumed at Auschwitz-Birkenau from the summer of
1942 on, as Kollerstrom reports, which is easy to confirm because it soaked into the walls of the disinfestation chambers and is still there. His essays on the subject—“The Walls of Auschwitz”, “Leuchter Twenty Years On” and “The Auschwitz Gas Chamber Illusion”[3]—would become the cause of his removal from a post-doctoral post he had held for 15 years!
As a professional philosopher of science, I appreciate Nick’s references to Sir Karl Popper, who advocated the method of falsificationism,
whereby the truth of theories in science and in history can be tested
by attempts to falsify them. When they resist our best efforts to refute
them, then we have good reason to believe they might be true. But
equally applicable here are the reflections of Imre Lakatos, who
discussed research programs with hard cores of claims,[4] such
as Newton’s laws of motion or, in the case we are considering, the
above-mentioned hypotheses (h1), (h2) and (h3). When the defenders of
these hypotheses are confronted by the risk of refutation, they can
appeal to auxiliary hypotheses in an attempt to deflect the refuting data and thereby preserve their theory.
A stellar example arises in the context of the attempt to
explain away why the number of those who died as substantiated by the
meticulous records of the Red Cross supports the inference that less than 10% of the 6,000,000 claimed actually died from all causes—and none from death in gas chambers. To
cope with that finding, the claim has been made that the records are
incomplete because large numbers of Jews were taken directly to the gas
chambers and never registered—not even by name. Not only are contentions
of this kind unfalsifiable, untestable and hence unscientific, but they
reflect the degenerating character of the Holocaust paradigm, which has
spawned no new data or research that could possibly overcome the
mountain of evidence against it.
Excluding falsifying data
Another method for immunizing a hypothesis from refutation is by the exclusion of falsifying data.[5] The
defenders of hypotheses (h1)-(h3) have committed a mind-boggling
example of fallacious science, which further manifests their commitment
to a degenerating research program. When the Auschwitz museum was
confronted with the fact that the innocuous delousing chambers at
Auschwitz have blue walls—due to being saturated with blue iron cyanide
compounds—but the alleged homicidal gas chambers have not, they
commissioned their own chemical research. Instead of testing wall
samples for the chemicals that had caused the blue stains, the
researchers they commissioned simply excluded those chemicals from their analysis by employing a procedure that could not detect them.[6]
They justified this measure with the claim that they did
not understand exactly how these compounds could form and that they
might therefore be mere artifacts. Researchers who don’t understand what
they are investigating have no business becoming involved. In this
case, however, it appears to be deliberate. They have deliberately
ignored an obvious explanation—that Zyklon B was only used for
delousing—which would have remedied their lack of comprehension.[7] As
a result of this failure to adhere to the principles of science, they
produced a report of no scientific value, which they used to arrive at a
predetermined conclusion.[8]
That Nicholas Kollerstrom was booted from his post at
University College, London—and without any hearing or opportunity to
present his defense, where the truth of his observations, one might have thought, would have made a difference—is one of a large number of indications that 
even
our best academic institutions and societies are not capable of dealing
objectively with the history of World War II. Indeed, it struck me like
a bolt of lightning out of the blue when, during a talk by Gilad Atzmon
in Madison, Wisconsin, about Jewish identity politics, I realized that the
Holocaust mythology benefits Zionism and the government of Israel by
playing, in the promotion of its political agenda, upon a Western sense
of guilt for the death of 6,000,000 Jews during World War II.
even
our best academic institutions and societies are not capable of dealing
objectively with the history of World War II. Indeed, it struck me like
a bolt of lightning out of the blue when, during a talk by Gilad Atzmon
in Madison, Wisconsin, about Jewish identity politics, I realized that the
Holocaust mythology benefits Zionism and the government of Israel by
playing, in the promotion of its political agenda, upon a Western sense
of guilt for the death of 6,000,000 Jews during World War II.
The claim that someone is “anti-Semitic” or a “Holocaust
denier” is taken to be the most severe form of ethical damnation
possible in this time and age. But distinctions must be drawn between criticism of the acts and policies of the Israeli government and discounting the worth or value of human beings on the basis of their ethnic origins or religious orientation. Condemning the Israeli government for its vicious and unwarranted onslaught of the people of Gaza,
for example, is not “anti-Semitic”. And if exposing the Holocaust
narrative as political propaganda makes one a “Holocaust denier,” all of
us who put truth before politics ought to wear that label as a badge of
honor.
The ISIS fiasco
As an illustration of the depths of depravity of those who
would uphold the myth, consider that, as an historian of science,
Kollerstrom was invited to contribute three entries—including that on
Sir Isaac Newton, which is the most important—to the Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (2007),
which has more than 1550 entries by some 400 authors from 40 countries.
Yet Noel M. Swerdlow of the University of Chicago, a reviewer for Isis, the journal of America’s History of Science Society, recommended that the book be sent back to the publisher and 
pulped because Kollerstrom had been involved in research on the Holocaust! This was such an outrage that I wrote to the editorial board of Isis, which allowed a Letter to the Editor to appear.
pulped because Kollerstrom had been involved in research on the Holocaust! This was such an outrage that I wrote to the editorial board of Isis, which allowed a Letter to the Editor to appear.
Something is terribly wrong, when the world’s leading
society on the history of science does no more to correct a grotesque
abuse by one of its reviewers on a book that involved so many
contributors and an enormous investment in time and money, where the
moral issues are so blatant and obvious. It is ironic that the Nuremberg
Tribunal would declare “collective punishment” a war crime. The Allies
were responsible for the collective punishment of German civilians by
their systematic bombing of German cities. Isis has committed a
comparable intellectual crime by tolerating collective punishment of 400
scholars for the purported offenses of one. By acquiescing to its
reviewer’s abuse, Isis has committed the fallacy of guilt by association and has displayed an appalling lack of journalistic ethics.
Nick Kollerstrom is the only party here who has displayed a
commitment to exposing falsehoods and revealing truths. His defense is
very simple: the hypotheses on which the Holocaust narrative has been based are provably false and not even scientifically possible. I have written about this in my articles “The War on Truth: Research on the Holocaust can end your career,”[9] “ISIS trips, stumbles and falls,”[10] and discussed it during my presentation at the 2014 conference “Academic Freedom: Are there limits to inquiry? JFK, 9/11 and the Holocaust,” at which Nick and I both spoke.[11]
But far better than reviewing them, read this brilliant
study by the world’s leading iconoclast, Nick Kollerstrom, my dear
friend, whom I admire beyond words as a splendid example of what
historians should be doing in their professional work by getting history straight—lest Voltaire’s admonition continue to apply—including about the atrocities of World War II. There were real atrocities committed by all sides, just not the ones about which we have been told.
References
[1] “Interview with Professor
Robert Faurisson at the Guest House of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” www.robertfaurisson.blogspot.com, December 13, 2006.
[2] Ibid., February 3, 2012.
[3] See Nick’s online papers at www.codoh.com/library/authors/1580/
[4] Imre Lakatos, Alan Musgrave (eds.), Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1970.
[5] Sir Karl Popper systematically investigated the diverse methods of immunizing theories in his The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Hutchinson & Co., London 1968, pp. 82-97.
[6] Jan Markiewicz, Wojciech
Gubala, Jerzy Łabędź, “A Study of the Cyanide Compounds Content in the
Walls of the Gas Chambers in the Former Auschwitz and Birkenau
Concentration Camps,” Z Zagadnien Nauk Sadowych, Vol. XXX (1994) pp. 17-27 (www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/orgs/polish/institute-for-forensic-research/post-leuchter.report).
[7] They quoted but ignored a book which had exposed their fallacious approach (Ernst Gauss, Vorlesungen über Zeitgeschichte, Grabert, Tübingen 1993; Engl.: G. Rudolf, Lectures on the Holocaust, 2nd ed., The Barnes Review, Washington, DC, 2010).
[8] See Germar Rudolf, “Polish Pseudo-Scientists,” in: G. Rudolf, Carlo Mattogno, Auschwitz-Lies, 2nd ed., The Barnes Review, Washington, DC, 2011, pp. 45-67.
[9] Veterans Today, February 4, 2012; www.veteranstoday.com.
[10] On my blog at www.jamesfetzer.blogspot.com, June 13, 2011.
[11] April 26, 2014; for details see www.veteranstoday.com/2014/06/05/
Jim Fetzer, a former Marine Corps officer, has
published widely on the theoretical foundations of scientific
knowledge, computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science,
and evolution and mentality. McKnight Professor Emeritus at the
University of Minnesota Duluth, he has also conducted extensive research
into the assassination of JFK, the events of 9/11, and the plane crash
that killed US Sen. Paul Wellstone. The founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, his latest books include The Evolution of Intelligence (2005), The 9/11 Conspiracy (2007), Render Unto Darwin (2007), and The Place of Probability in Science (2010).Related Posts:
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The German folk have paid reparations to progeny of the “Khazarnazi” since 1948. They might have heartburn if they knew that their hundreds of billions had been paid out to frauds, based on the propaganda of the “Khazarnazi” leadership, who manipulated the fraudulent land-grant in 1948, named “Israel,” into existence.
Such influence was repeated in 2009, when the Atty. General of Bavaria organized the extradition of John Demjanjuk of Cleveland to Munich. Congressman Traficant of Ohio and the Demjanjuk family had amassed creditable evidence that Demjanjuk was not Ivan the Terrible, adequate for the Israeli Supreme Court to dismiss
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Zyklon B was used by the American government in 1911 after the 1910 Mexican Revolution to delouse Mexicans coming into the US via El Paso. Photos of naked Mexicans being deloused, and a delousing chamber. Copies of government orders. Descriptions of the official use of Zyklon B.
Furthermore, the Germans were aware of American Zyklon B usage; it’s where they got the idea. The book has copies of a German text from the 1930s mentioning the American border use, and a 1924 (?) passage from Hitler mentioned it. Sourced.
Zyklyon B also used in Germany locally for delousing (especially in prisons) + probably in every country!!!
140 Occurrences Of The Words 6,000,000 Holocaust before WW-2
One of its documents is the next link below;;;
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6,000,000 Holohoaxed Jews brought to you since 1868 by ZIO-TERRORIST newspapers owned or controlled by Rothschilds;;
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Since they only give those to people like Begin who bragged about cutting babies from young Arab women for peace. That’s peace I can live without. Anyway. Congratulations on this huge monumental piece. I honor you this day.
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Facebook is a spy operative if not tell me different.
Does Tela Viv have front row seat here ? Or setting an example not in the cards
Japanese got one . What about Dresden . Ikes stance on murdering surrendered troops (young kids) Millions
left to starve to death . Countless young and old women raped by the Commie Bolsheviks
Time for real Germans to research and get real Mad
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These jews are frightened the truth will eventually spread like wildfire; that is the reason for the anti-semite laws being passed to stop the truth.
Bolshevism and zionism are two and the same.
Denying or even considering the idea the holocaust never happened is social and acedemic suicide.
A lie repeated is still a lie.
Upon further evidence, it appears the communistic attitude towards free speech is so blatantly practiced in the open against certain individuals who are found guilty of “bad speak.” How interesting the idea of free speech becomes illegal under jewish control. The same jews responsible for the Bolshevik revolution that murdered the Czar and his entire family along with tens of millions of Russians, destroyed Orthodox churches along with the priests and over ran half of Europe. The same jews who are busy today doing the very same thing.
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is only one of what you can easily ascertain is object of decades of research, and no less in Germany Just recently, a long newspaper article by a German university professor on the rhetorical aspect appeared in FAZ or SZ. If you are interested in German language, you must inquire where it is researched.
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But then, what would they want over 2 Billion dummy bullets for? And a Million dummy coffins?
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By that point I had become a holocaust skeptic.
On the other hand, this is not a new issue at all. I come from a large family, chemists, a doctor, police, international aid workers, and have heard of this for the last 10 years. We will probably read more within the next few months in the MSM.
The idea will be sold to us for our utmost security and protection, like if you get lost in the woods (!?!) accident or breakdown of any kind, this electronic mini detector (EMD) guarantees extremely fast identification, 50 Milliseconds. The police in the family says that they,
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Yes, Russo was Jewish, and yes, Alex Jones isn’t exactly the most reliable source. Nevertheless, the video covers a lot of ground, and confirms much of what is now known or strongly suspected concerning 9/11, NWO plans, the plan to microchip everyone, and more.
Note
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From this article *****http //www.ictafrica.info/FullNews.php?id=13646*****
“There is an initiative in Nigeria to issue all citizens with a multipurpose Biometric National Identity Smart Card. The card is to be issued by MasterCard and will enable all Nigerians to participate in the financial services system. While there has been criticism of the system, such concerns that the system is a threat to freedom, the project, if implemented fully, will make Nigeria a truly cashless society.”
How difficult is it to engineer an implant RFID that would insure the account number being used belongs to the account holder if location chips are already available for fluffy the house cat?
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