I READ a few days ago where John Galliano, who is considered one of the best fashion designers the US has ever produced, will be given a show devoted to his talent.
Galliano was literally ruined simply for saying while being intoxicated that he loved Hitler. France charged him and he was convicted.
Galliano is one of hundreds, not dozens, but hundreds of talents from fashion, films, music, literature and academia that have been destroyed, raising doubts about Jewish accounts of Nazi Germany and even questioning anything questionable about Jewish attitudes to the world.
Perhaps the most crucified talent in this context is British historian, David Irving. One of the brightest historians in the world in the second half of the 20th century, this man was virtually destroyed by the European establishment and the Western media for raising doubts about the pantheon of facts about the Holocaust.
Irving raised priceless inquiries about the Holocaust that every human that entered a university should understand and appreciate – academia is about iconoclastic questioning. Two points among the many that Irving raised still resonate because they need to be investigated.
One is that Germany simply did not have the infrastructural facilities to gas and bury six million Jews plus a few million non-Jews. Irving said there is no evidence in Germany of such large-scale destruction and none was ever found. The second point is brilliant.
Irving asked – showed me one, just one printed document whereby Hitler ordered what Western countries called the Final Solution. The Final Solution is supposed to be a Nazi plan to finally get rid of European Jews. The fact is that to date, there has been no discovery of any document where Hitler ordered the killing of any Jew.
Hitler’s confidential secretary Traudle Junge, an extremely beautiful woman even in advanced age, wrote in her memoir that she cannot recall any instance where she had to type a memo from Hitler about ordering the death of any Jew. She argued that he may have done that but it never came to her desk.
Hollywood has made two movies about the Final Solution. It is based on a conference at Wannsee in Nazi Germany to decide on the fate of Jews. But there are no minutes of that conference and no evidence of any of the leaders of the Nazi Government in attendance.
It is 79 years since the Western powers (and Russia, then known as the USSR) invaded Germany and took complete control over its archives. After 79 years, researchers from around the world cannot publish the minutes of the Wannsee conference.
If the Final Solution was planned at Wannsee, then, why no high-level Nazi policy-maker was present? It could not have been a government decision and yet no government minister was present. The first 10 ministers in terms of power after Hitler were not at Wannsee.
It is 79 years since the Western powers took complete control of all the papers of the Nazi government, yet to date there isn’t even a short memo from Germany about the need to kill European Jews. There isn’t even a one-paragraph memo authored by Hitler, ordering the killing of any Jew.
What is the explanation? For 79 years, the countries (except the USSR) that defeated Nazi Germany have described for the world what that government had done and what it was like. There is no alternative source except David Irving and look what Europe did to him. As it stands today, no human in any European country can pen even one paragraph of the arguments in this column here. Two sanctions face them – employment termination or criminal charge.
In the UK and France, you can justify those countries’ enslavement of other races (slavery) and their anti-civilisational colonial massacre of the non-White races (Germany apologised to Namibia for committing genocide against) but you cannot write even one paragraph in a book, journal or newspaper or say on television or social media that the Holocaust was exaggerated.
It is the law in every European country and in Canada that makes it criminal to make such a statement. The charge is termed Holocaust denial and Dr Irving was jailed in Austria for taking such a position.
These are the countries that every day the past 60 years since the colonies got independence, that lecture the Global South on democracy, free expression and freedom of the press.
I make no apology for saying that Dr. David Irving has serious points in his favour on his critiques of the exaggeration of the Holocaust. Of course, historians in the Global South have no interest in questioning the West’s account of the Nazi regime. They have more relevant research topics to pursue.
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