Archive/File: orgs/american/oregon portland.1092 Last-Modified: 1994/07/10 From cs.ubc.ca!destroyer!uunet!techbook!gummitch Thu Oct 15 21:53:17 PDT 1992 Article: 1045 of alt.revisionism Xref: oneb alt.revisionism:1045 alt.conspiracy:6465 alt.activism:11922 Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism Path: oneb!cs.ubc.ca!destroyer!uunet!techbook!gummitch From: gummitch@techbook.com (Jeff Frane) Subject: Does This Guy Sound Familiar? Message-ID: <1992Oct15.231541.2327@techbook.com> Summary: Portland Revisionists are at it again Keywords: B-CPU Revisionism David Irving Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 23:15:41 GMT Lines: 100 I thought people on the net might recognize a familiar sound issuing -- I'm embarrassed to admit -- here in Portland, Oregon. The following article appeared in the Oregonian, October 15. IRVING SPONSOR DISTRIBUTED HOLOCAUST DENIAL FLIERS The man responsible for bringing David Irving to the Portland area was stopped by police in April after he and two of the state's leading Skinhead organizers distributed fliers questioning whether the Holocaust really happened. Irving is an author of World War II history books who believes the Holocaust -- the sytematic extermination of 6 million Jews by the Nazis -- never happened. He also believes gas chambers at death camps such as Auschwitz may have been built after the war as tourist attractions. Reinhold Gast Clinton, 37, was using the name Michael Thomas Clinton at the time, according to police reports on the incident, which took place near Fifth Street and C Avenue in Lake Oswego about 10:30 p.m. April 29. Clinton was with Robert Heick, who heads the Skinhead group the American Front, and Thomas Schriber Johnson, who heads the American Front's Albany chapter. Johnson also was on file with police in Phoenix for his Skinhead activities there. Clinton was driving his car as he, Heick and Johnson distributed fliers questioning whether the Holocaust was a hoax. He was stopped by police, who were alerted to the leafletting, after Clinton parked his car on the wrong side of the road. Clinton heads the Siegfried Society, a new group that Clinton describes as a study group interested in Germanic culture and "ethnocentric" games that celebrate Germanic heritage. The games are conducted in traditional dress and include things such as a Northern European ax throw. The society also is bringing Irving to towh to speak on his views of Nazi Germany, World War II and presumably the Holocaust. Clinton told The Oregonian's columnist Phil Stanford in September that he "absolutely" didn't endorse Irving's position on Holocaust denial. Contacted this week, however, Clinton acknowledged that he helped distribute literate questioning it. He stressed, however, that he is not a Skinhead, n or was he associated with any Skinhead leaders then or now. He said he barely knew Heick or Johnson when they were pulled over. Heick said Clinton agreed to drive his own car and was pulled over after someone complained to police about seeing the three passing out their fliers near a grocery store. "Bob Heick was interested in my society at one time," Clinton said. He said he, Heick and Johnson were distributing literate. Clinton insisted the literature was not racist. "It was 66 questions and answers on the Holocaust issue," he said. "It named a number of Jewish historians who questioned it." Clinton said the material was from the Institute for Historical Review, a Southern California organization headed by Willis A. Carto. Carto, who has been described by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith as the leading anti-Semitic propogandist in the nation, is a principal sponsor of the U.S. appearances of Irving and other revisionist historians. He also heads the Liberty Lobby, described by the league as the most prolific and best-financed anti-Semitic group in the nation. Carto's institute in 1979 offered a $50,000 cash reward to anyone who could prove that anyone was actually gassed at Auschwitz. Mel Mermelstein, Auschwitz prisoner A-4685, answered the challenge by presenting affidavits detailing the deaths of his mother, father, brother and two sisters at the camp. He then sued when the institute refused to pay the reward. A Los Angeles County court awarded Mermelstein a $90,000 judgment against Carto's institute. Clinton said Tuesday that he "didn't necessarily agree with the literature" he was distributing with the two Skinhead leaders bu said he "found it interesting." "I'm interested in what they have to say," he said. "It's definitely not racist at all." ------------------------------------ The same issue of the Oregonian, incidentally, also carried a long article about Irving and the view that most real historians take of his "research." Jeff Frane -- gummitch@techbook.COM Public Access UNIX at (503) 220-0636 (1200/2400)
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