Dr. Toben,
Thank you for your response, and my apologies for not returning your
correspondence earlier. I regret that technical considerations have
kept me so busy. (We've got five mirror sites now; perhaps you'd noticed;
our new preferred home page URL is
http://www.nizkor.org/.)
First of all, let me point out that all our correspondence from now on
will be archived at
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/orgs/australian/adelaide-institute/correspondence/.
Now, on to your response. I think that there is little that I need to
say. I asked two straightforward questions and you dodged them both.
Your response was to ask me a dozen rhetorical questions (and to insist
on answers).
The First Question
My first question was why you continued to "make hay" out of the Polish
Communist government's 1990 decision to admit what historians had been
saying for years: that there were not three million Polish victims at
Auschwitz, along with the one million Jewish victims, but rather that
the overwhelming number of victims were Jewish. You incorrectly refer
to this as a reduction in the number of Jewish victims from four to
one million. Your response, boiled down, was:
Blaming the former Soviet and Polish Communist governments, as you
do in your explanation, is a total cop-out
There was a lot of rhetoric surrounding this answer, but I'm afraid I
don't have time to deal in voluminous rhetoric; I ask straightforward
questions and I hope for straightforward answers. I was disappointed.
You failed to explain what you meant by "total cop-out"; you failed to
even begin to attack my facts or my reasoning.
In particular, my question itself was:
...you claim that it is an "allegation" that "four
million [Jews] alone" were killed "at the Auschwitz
concentration camp." Would you please present your
documentation showing where this was alleged?
You did not do so.
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