66 Questions & Answers About the
Holocaust
The
Institute for Historical Review,
or IHR, publishes many small pamphlets designed to misinform people
about the Holocaust. One of the most-persistent has been a pamphlet
called "66 Questions And Answers About the Holocaust," or
simply "66 Q&A."
This pamphlet neatly summarizes many of the most common arguments used
by Holocaust-deniers. Refuting these 66 claims strikes directly at the core
of Holocaust-denial.
Readers of the Usenet newsgroup
alt.revisionism
will notice claims and arguments below which may seem familiar. This is
because this material, and its derivatives, have been presented and
discussed on Usenet many times before. These web pages contain more
in-depth replies than previous postings, however, and the links to
other information put the technology of the web to good use.
The pamphlet itself has been put up on the world-wide web by at least
two separate Holocaust-deniers:
Greg Raven,
head
of the IHR, and
Ernst Zündel,
described by Canada's
Security
Intelligence Review Committee
as "a Holocaust denier and prolific publisher of hate
literature," and the sponsor and promoter of a
"1991
neo-Nazi conference in Germany." Both the IHR's and Zündel's
publishing houses distribute the Q&A in print form.
What follows is a point-by-point refutation of its half-truths and
untruths. The full text of the original pamphlet is included, with the
IHR's questions and answers reproduced unaltered, but if you would like
to see their material for yourself, you may examine
Greg Raven's copy
on
the IHR web site,
or
Ernst Zündel's copy
on
his web site.
Note that the wording of the questions and "answers" may
vary slightly from what we've presented here. The pamphlet has
undergone some revisions over the years, and it appears that both
Raven's and Zündel's web sites are presenting what we call the
"revised" version, as opposed to the "original."
Zündel's publishing house, Samisdat, has distributed an earlier
version as recently as November 1995, which we will occasionally refer
to as the "Samisdat" version for lack of a better name. We
are currently only in possession of the first page of this, and it skips
quite a few questions, so we don't know how much we're missing. We are
also not sure exactly when it was written, but its answer to
question 22
refers to a united Germany, which places it in the 1990s. Updates will
come as we learn more, of course.
In any case, the various revisions that have been made have rarely
made the pamphlet any more truthful. This is not surprising, because
the aim of the pamphlet is not to educate but to mislead. Where the
revisions are noteworthy, we will comment upon them.
If our treatment seems tedious, consider yourself lucky: in 1983,
the IHR published 120 Questions and Answers
About the Holocaust. We have obtained a copy, but for now resign ourselves to critiquing the
much-abridged, extensively sanitized version. Remember as you're reading this that there were 54 other questions
and answers that were not good enough to make the final cut!
Finally, for another good antidote to the "66 Q&A," we
suggest two documents put out by the
Simon Wiesenthal Center
on their
web site:
their
"Responses to Revisionist Arguments,"
and their
"36 Q&A"
(which are unrelated except for the similarity in format).
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