BERLIN (AFP) – A bishop under fire for denying the Holocaust wants to examine the historical evidence before any possible renunciation of his belief that not a single Jew died in Nazi gas chambers, a report said.
"If I find proof I would rectify (earlier statements)... But all that will take time," Bishop Richard Williamson was quoted as saying by the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel.
The British-born bishop denied the existence of the gas chambers in an interview with Swedish television two days the pope lifted his ex-communication last month.
"I believe there were no gas chambers... I think that 200,000 to 300,000 Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps but none of them by gas chambers," Williamson said.
"There was not one Jew killed by the gas chambers. It was all lies, lies, lies!"
Meanwhile, the bishop of Innsbruck in western Austria, Manfred Scheuer, said that the Vatican should learn lessons from the episode, which provoked a storm of criticism.
"The Pope's explanations (this week) were more than necessary and I welcome them. But we must now analyse the mistakes that have been made," Austria's Tiroler Zeitung daily on Saturday quoted him as saying.
"On questions as important as the lifting of an excommunication, the episcopal conferences should be consulted," he said, referring to official assemblies of bishops in different regions.
On Wednesday the Vatican said the 67-year-old bishop should "unequivocally" distance himself from his statements.
It also said that Williamson's remarks denying that the Nazis used gas chambers to eliminate millions of European Jews in World War II were not known to Pope Benedict XIV when he decided to lift the excommunication of four renegade bishops, including Williamson, last month.
The evaluation of evidence on the gas chambers is bound neither by the actual physical evidence that has been introduced on the subject, nor is it supported by logic.
"The procedures of mass-gassing as attested to by witnesses during their interrogation before various courts of law, as cited in judicial rulings, and as described in scientific and literary publications,in any building of Auschwitz whatever, are inconsistent with documentary evidence, technical necessities, and natural scientific law."
- Germar Rudolf, Chemist & Author
"On physical-chemical grounds, the mass gassings with hydrogen cyanide (Zyklon B) in the supposed ‘gas chambers’ of Auschwitz claimed by witnesses DID NOT take place."
-Germar Rudolf, The Rudolf Report: Expert Report on Chemical and Technical Aspects of the ‘Gas Chambers’ of Auschwitz.
Posted by: Libby | February 09, 2009 at 08:17 AM
THE TRUTH it seems IS `IRRELEVANT' When talking about the "Jewish Holocaust" . . .BUT still their dogma continues.
"A report that an Auschwitz building COULD NOT have been designed as
a [homicidal]gas chamber IS TRUE but irrelevant."
-Dr. Raul Hilberg, Los Angeles Times, February, 23rd, 1989.
One of France's most influential and reputable magazines, L'Express, NOW acknowledges that "EVERYTHING IS FALSE" about the Auschwitz "gas chamber" that for decades has been shown to tens of thousands of tourists yearly.
Posted by: Libby | February 09, 2009 at 08:22 AM
Everyone's becoming a "denier" of WWII dogma and war propaganda.
"The (Jewish) holocaust is a successful historical fiction."
-Chief-Rabbi Arye Friedman from Vienna , Süddeutsche Zeitung, Dec. 12, 2006, p.7
Posted by: Libby | February 09, 2009 at 08:25 AM
ALL of Germany's wartime "codes" WERE compromised including the one used to send daily reports from Auschwitz to Berlin.
The transcripts of these messages make NO mention of mass executions OR EVEN remotely suggest a genocidal program was in progress.
The International Red Cross reports made the same conclusion.
Posted by: Libby | February 09, 2009 at 08:27 AM
When Robert Wolfe was still the director of the Military Branch of the National Archives in Washington, DC, he held a conference in 1978 attended by the webmaster of Nazigassings.com
Robert Wolfe, ADMITTED then that, CONTRARY to what people generally believed, THE REAL “evidence” for the holocaust “fits into a small shoe box.”
(There should be mountains of physical evidence IF 6 Million died, the way the war propaganda dictates it all happened)
Posted by: Libby | February 09, 2009 at 08:30 AM
It is important to remember that Holocaust Revisionists do not dispute that Jews were uprooted from their homes, forced into overcrowded ghettos or deported to concentration work camps.
They ALL acknowledge that many hundreds of thousands of Jews died and were killed, under the horrendous circumstances of WAR.
Revisionist scholars cite impressive but often ignored even suppressed evidence TO SUPPORT THEIR VIEW that there was NO German program to exterminate all Europe's Jews, that numerous claims of mass genocidal killings in homicidal "gas chambers" or the like are FALSE, and that the figure of six million Jewish wartime dead IS A GROSS EXAGGERATION.
Posted by: Libby | February 09, 2009 at 08:46 AM
To this day, it is generally (although incorrectly) believed that when Adolf Hitler was appointed German chancellor in January 1933, the German government began policies to suppress the Jews of Germany, including rounding up of Jews and putting them in concentration camps & launching campaigns of terror and violence against the Jewish population.
Long before the Hitler government began restricting the rights of the German Jews, the leaders of the worldwide Jewish community formally declared WAR on Germany.
The Daily Express of London 3-24, 1933 has headline & story.
A FACT Holocaust Historians really hate to admit that the worldwide Jewish leadership - NOT THE Third Reich - effectively fired the first shot in WWII.
SO REMEMBER:
Jewish leaders, in combination with powerful international Jewish financial interests, had launched a boycott of Germany for the express purpose of crippling her already precarious economy in the hope of bringing down the German regime.
It was ONLY AFTER these Jewish actions took place that Germany was forced to respond to the problem and rounded up the Jews to be placed in work camps.
Hitler's March 28, 1933 BOYCOTT ORDER was in direct response to the declaration of WAR on Germany by the worldwide Jewish leadership just FOUR DAYS EARILER.
The documented German policy of deportation & emigration of Jews from German territory is a far cry from the alleged claim of a genocidal extermination policy on Jews by the Third Reich, as portrayed by the Jewish Holocaust Industry and Zionist war propaganda!
Posted by: Libby | February 09, 2009 at 09:01 AM