Jews and the origins of Anti-Semitism

• Are we powerful-or-what University of Georgia (Bulldogs), popular cheerleading coach, Marilou Braswell formally replaced after anti-semitism allegations from a cheerleader  | flashback: Cheerleaderism
• New shakedown looms Ha’aretz reports WWII-era Jewish land in Poland now said to be worth $30 billion  “10 percent of Poland’s population was Jewish … many were very wealthy. They controlled the oil and textile industries, and held expensive properties, many of which are now in the downtown areas of the cities.”
• Swiss Banks shakedown: Dramatic Twist in Greta Beer case (She was the principal witness against the Swiss Banks. The Swiss Bank account of her late father was never found. His account has now appeared: At the Bank Leumi in Israel. Oops.) German: Brisante Wende im Fall Greta Beer
• Ever been yelled at on a bus? Pick up your $5 million here (Some restrictions apply) Oregon Holocaust victim sues TriMet: Says incident on bus reawakened trauma endured in Nazi death camp

Israel

• Lucrative Hebrew website says that annual profits from white slavery in Israel have reached US$1 billion

Mossad

• The Forward reports: Two AIPAC officials take paid leave over spy probe  [for more on this case use website search engine and enter “Larry Franklin” or “Lawrence Franklin”]

Oligarchs

• More on the oligarchs Yukos chief Leonid Nevzlin, wanted by Russian authorities for murder  is now hiding in Israel [on which, see Hitler’s prediction]

Free speech

• Germany abandons prosecution of NPD leader Using words ‘Bombing Holocaust’ for WW2 massacre in Dresden is not a criminal offence English | German | London Daily Telegraph belatedly runs the story
• Threatened with prison, a 46 year old pensioner withdraws his appeal against 7500 euro ($10,000) fine for running a website which commented in neutral terms on Holocaust controversies (in German)

Bush war against Iraq

• Real figure 50,000? US ‘smuggles wounded troops home’ under cover of darkness
• Well at least he’s not a homo Wolfowicz is dating a Muslim female
• Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq’s oil before the 9/11 attacks, states BBC’s Newsnight

Deborah Lipstadt Trial, and Auschwitz

• Atlanta’s Creative Loafing: Throughout the three-month trial, Lipstadt’s lawyers would not let her testify or even talk to the press | Lewis Regenstein reports in Jewish Press on the uproar among Jewish groups about Mr Irving’s talk, with much of the coverage “inaccurate, misleading, and incomplete”

Adolf Hitler

• An unknown 1928 Hitler portrait from the Bechstein household, offered for sale
• Six Million secret admirers New biography finds Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung admired Hitler in 1939 as “a demi-deity”  | London releases more decodes Months before WW2, Lord Rothermere said Hitler’s work was superhuman

Adolf Hitler “got the A-bomb first”

• More on the allegation that Hitler had the atom bomb first | Flashback Albert Speer cross-examined at Nuremberg about alleged Nazi atomic tests
• Stalin’s “Hitler Book” discovered – yet again | David Irving, A Radical’s Diary: I used it in the late 1960s, writing Hitler’s War
• Tall tales for the gullible “Hitler had the atom bomb first but it was too ungainly for aerial deployment”- says a new book | In commentary, David Irving says: rubbish | Süddeutsche Zeitung belatedly agrees

Adolf Hitler Book written for Stalin “found” (again)

• News from Germany about the manuscript written by two of Hitler’s closest staff, Otto Günsche and Heinz Linge, for their KGB interrogators. They allegedly describe Hitler’s interest in gas vans and gas chambers | More on the manuscript and Mr Irving’s comment | a Reader’s Letter

[Index to items on Germany’s ostracism of Rolf Hochhuth over his 40-year friendship with Mr Irving: see February 2005]

Ernst Zündel, revisionist, two years in Canadian jail in solitary confinement, is deported to jail in Germany

• Globe & Mail, Canada: Imagine you’re Ernst Zündel by Peter Lindsay & Chi-Kun Shi, counsel to Ernst Zündel | Faurisson on the character of Ernst Zündel [and in Spanish] | Zündel (“a friend of David Irving”) in jail in Germany | and commentary by Mr Irving | Reader suggests that judges in hate-trials against revisionists should be awarded a Roland Freisler plaque
• Washington Post Indefinite jailing of six [without trial, including Ernst Zündel] “tests” Canadian legal system
• Canada’s fight against Free Speech CSIS intercepted Zündel’s mail, ex-agent says | CSIS notes stolen, ex-spy says at Zündel deportation hearing
• Closing arguments begin in Zündel deportation case: Zündel defence based on age draws scorn | Zündel’s followers bookish seniors, not violent skinheads, defence lawyer says | Judge accused of ‘misguided approach’ in Zündel case
• Too late? Released documents show FBI ruled Ernst Zündel “not a threat” | Defence lawyer assails Judge Blais: ‘Draconian’ security certificate process ‘has no place in a democracy’
•  Television Michael Coren Show on Feb 7 discusses the Zündel case (wmv) | and again Feb 11: The Toronto-based Michael Coren television show yet again discussed Ernst Zündel (RealMedia file)
• ZÜNDEL FROGMARCHED OUT OF CANADA: traditional enemies of free speech are kvelling Canadian judge Blais rules him a security risk; German jail now awaits | abandons fight to stay in Canada | delight of Abraham “The Claw” Foxman of Anti Defamation League
• Matt Hutaff’s Canon Fodder Ernst Zündel: Modern-Day Galileo
• Updates on Ernst Zündel in prison in Germany – previous | latest | more | and more
• Update on Ernst Zündel | Zündel’s letter from a German prison to his wife | Background and Detailed Chronology of Ernst Zundel Persecution
• Judge Pierre Blais chatted about Ernst Zündel trial at Ottawa drinks party. Journalist: “If Holocaust deniers are convicted, tack on an additional sentence — 1,000 hours community service as a tour guide at Dachau, Treblinka, Buchenwald, Auschwitz or Belzek.” Uh, perhaps not.

Miscellaneous

• A Radical’s Diary on the Pope and rumours about 1939
• Radical’s Diary (new): Mr Irving’s youngest daughter is denied a British passport (has been in UK all her life) | A brief visit to Chicago | was CNN got at too?
• Correctness gone mad Germans remove name of Luftwaffe war hero Mölders from his squadron, JG74

AR-Dossier: See special index on Deborah Lipstadt’s attemts to pressure C-Span into not showing David Irving’s Atlanta lecture, March 12, 2005

AR-Dossier: casebook on the origins of modern antisemitism

READERS’ LETTERS Anna Le Blanc says reading Prof Richard ‘Skunky’ Evans’ book on the Lipstadt trial made her read Irving’s books — so it did him a favour Mr A Marques of Lisbon has arguments about the 1945 Dresden death toll A S Marques is astonished, Sunday, March 27, 2005, by the Wyman Institute “petition” of historians Grant Wild is puzzled that “they” now admit the Chelmno gas van photos are not real Mike Reisch suggests that judges and prosecutors in the current wave of hate-trials against revisionists should be awarded a plaque in memory of the Nazi hanging judge Roland Freisler