88. What methods were employed to extract confessions presented at a number of the war crimes trials of 1945 and later?
Torture, ranging from forcing the accused persons to eat faeces to destroying their reproductive organs in a most painful manner. All sorts of psychological tricks and duress were also employed. Some years before his untimely and enigmatic death U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (1908-1957) gave the following statement to the press with regard to the war crimes trials: "I have heard evidence and read documentary proofs to the effect that the accused persons were beaten up, maltreated and physically tortured by methods which could only be conceived by sick brains. They subjected to mock trial and pretended executions, they were told their families would be deprived of their ration cards. All these things were carried out with the approval of the Public Prosecutor in order to secure the psychologic atmosphere necessary for the extortion of the required confessions. If the United States lets such acts committed by a few people go unpunished, then the whole world can rightly criticize us severely and forever doubt the correctness of our motives and our moral integrity." Reference: Richard E. Harwood, Six Million Lost and Found, Historical Review Press, Chapel Ascot. Ladbroke, Southam, Warks, pp10-11, from which the quotation above is taken. Richard E. Harwood, Nuremberg and Other War Crimes Trials, Historical Review Press, 1978, pp48-49. A. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, pp22-25, 189-193.
89. What does this use of torture tell us about the validity of the cases against the defendant and the character of their accusers in the trails?
The answer to this question should be obvious to a ten-year-old child.
90. Give examples of the kind of internal evidence that certain documents frequently used in support of the "Holocaust" claims are forgeries or otherwise invalid.
Many of such documents were obviously produced by torture or threats of torture. Many of the events and actions to which the accused men confessed were impossible. In some instances impossibly large numbers of persons were alleged to have been crowded into relatively small "gas chambers." other documents speak of mass cremations in pits to which there would have been an insufficient supply of oxygen for combustion, while still others tell of men who smoked and ate while removing bodies from "gas chambers" immediately after gassings and thus would have subjected themselves to the lethal effects.
The "Gerstein Report," on which many of the proponents of the Extermination Thesis have based their claims, contains a number of impossibilities and its authenticity is so doubtful that even the International Military Tribunal of Nuremberg ( which did not bind itself to the usual rules of evidence) initially rejected it. The alleged confessions of Rudolf Hoss (not to be confused with Hess), commandant of Auschwitz until November 1943, are especially notable for their impossible statements. One can readily speculate that the men who wrote such confessions deliberately wrote such impossibilities Into them in order to warn people studying them after their executions that they were fraudulent Reference: Journal of Historical Review, Vol.II, pp103-136,311 ff. There are also detailed discussions of the "confessions" by Hoss and others in Staglich`s Der Auschwitz Mythos.
91. Give examples of evidence which shows that fraudulent photographic materials have been used in the attempt to substantiate the Extermination Thesis.
Modern techniques of forging and altering photographic evidence have advanced considerably. Nevertheless details of photographs often reveal signs of forgery to the schooled eye. Improper shadows and human proportions are examples of such details. Numerous fraudulent photographs of uncertain provenience have been used in attempts to substantiate the Extermination Thesis. Reference: Journal of Historical Review, Vol.I, pp59-67.
92. What admonition did Senator Robert Taft of Ohio make about the legal basis of the Nuremberg trials of German leaders conducted during 1945-1946?
Senator Taft ("Mr. Republican") had the courage to point out that the American Constitute prohibits "ex post facto laws," that is, laws which would provide for punishment of acts which no law declared punishable at the time when the acts were committed. The American legal tradition is by no means an isolated one and is based on the Roman legal dictum, "Nulla poena sine lege." Shortly before the condemned men were hanged on 18 October 1946, Senator Taft predicted: "The hanging of the eleven men convicted will be a blot on the American record which we will long regret." Reference: John F. Kennedy, Profile in Courage, New York, Harper, 1956, pp216-224.
93. What violation of International Law was involved in the trial of Adolf Eichmann?
Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962) was involved in the management of transportation of Jews to concentration camps. Israeli agents violated Argentine sovereignty by abducting Eichmann on 12 May 1960. Israel did not even exist as a state at the time of Eichmann’s alleged crimes. The capture, trial and execution of Eichmann is something for which Argentine authorities never forgave Israel. They saw them as a humiliating infringement of their sovereignty. References: American Israelite, 4 November 1982. A. Butz, Hoax of the Twentieth Century, pp183 ff. Myth of the Six Million, pp35-37.
94. How did The Washington Post display its contempt for the intelligence of its readers?
In its issue of 3 May 1981, The Washington Post published an article by a certain Walter Reich which claims that two crematories in Auschwitz shown in an accompanying picture "could cremate about 2,000 bodies in 24 hours." Thus it was claimed that each crematory could cremate a body in 1-1/2 minutes or so, although the most modern crematories take about 50 times that long. Reference: Journal of Historical Review, Fall, 1981, pp219-224, where there is a discussion of the technical aspects of cremation by Prof. Reinhard K. Buchner.
95. What inherent disadvantages do naturalized U.S. citizens have in deportation proceedings when they are accused of war crimes?
Witnesses against the accused persons in trials conducted in the United States have frequently been brought in from eastern Europe or Israel. When such witnesses return to their homelands they are no longer subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and thus can no longer be prosecuted for perjury. One outstanding case of prosecution of an innocent man is that of Frank Walus, who was accused in January 1977, of having committed atrocities in Poland. Eleven Jews testified that he had committed various crimes, but he was alter exonerated after huge legal expenses and other agonies. In 1974 he had been denounced by Simon Wiesenthal.
96. What unusual and questionable legal measures were undertaken by the government of the German Federal Republic in connection with its continuing and future war crimes trials?
It is generally recognized principle that there should not only be no "ex post facto laws" (eg. US Constitution, Article I, Section 9), But that time limitations should be placed on trials for given crimes lest witnesses’ memories be clouded by time and lest evidence become invalid with the passage of time. The German penal code provided for a limit of twenty years in the case of murder trials. Thus, war crimes trials involving accusations of murder would have had to end by 1965 at the latest. However, in 1965 the German legislature (Bundestag) rationalized extending this limit by asserting that German sovereignty had been suspended before 1 January 1950, although in fact persons accused of murder during the war were subject to trials before 1950 both by Allied and German authorities. When the matter came up again in 1969 as a result of the twenty-year limitation, an even more drastic measure was taken simply by retroactively increasing the limitation from twenty to thirty years, thus creating a special sort of "ex post facto law". Such questionable legal measures were taken by the Federal Republic to discredit its predecessor government and to please public opinion throughout the world. References: Historische Tatsachen Nr. 5, 1979, pp21 ff. Journal of Historical Review, Vol. II, no, 3, pp249-281.
97. What happened to the guards at the Dachau concentration camp (near Munich) when American forces captured it?
The guards were simply lined up against a wall and shot without trials. This incident demonstrates what sort of attitudes toward justice for individuals prevailed at the end of the war. References: W. Staglich, Der Auschwitz Mythos, p414. A. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, p178 (picture).