THE
"HOLOCAUST"

120 Questions and   Answers
 
by Charles E. Weber,  Copyright 1993 by Charles E. Weber.
Published by the Institute for Historical Review
Post Office Box 1306, Torrance, California 90505
ISBN 0--939484--07--02
Third printing: August, 1985
 
Table of Contents
 

1]  Main Territorial Changes in Europe, March 1938 to May 1941
2]  Foreward
3]  Definitions and Semantic Development of the Term "Holocaust"
4]  Importance of the Problem - Questions 1-3

(Question 1)
What is meant by the term "Holocaust"?
(Question 2)
Why is the question of the validity of the "Holocaust" claims of importance to every American?
(Question 3)
How do the resources of those who disseminate the "holocaust’ material compare to the resources of those who dispute it?

5]  Bono? Motives for Propagating the Extermination Thesis - Questions:4-7

(Question 4)
What have been the motivation of Jews in their intense and prolonged dissemination of the Extermination Thesis ("Holocaust" material)?
(Question 5)
What has caused non-Jewish groups to tolerate and in some cases even to help disseminate the "Holocaust" material?
(Question 6)
What psychological needs will the future, federally subsidized Holocaust Museum in Washington fulfill?
(Question 7)
What was done in Dachau and other concentration camps to make the Extermination Thesis seem plausible?

6]  Coming to Grips with the Extermination Thesis - Questions:8-14

(Question 8)
What is an important basic mistake which many historians have made with regard to assessing the plight of the Jews in Europe during the Second World War?
(Question 9)
What difficulties have been encountered by German historians who have attempted to examine various aspects of the Second World War?
(Question 10)
How effective have the efforts of revisionists been in refuting the Extermination Thesis?
(Question 11)
Are revisionistic historians who dispute the Extermination Thesis "Neo-Nazis" and what are their objectives?
(Question 12)
What has happened to the historians who have had the integrity and courage to question the "Holocaust" materials?
(Question 13)
Do revisionistic historians claim that Jews in Europe did not suffer during the Second World War and that no Jews were killed by German, Hungarian, Rumanian, Slovakian and other Anti-Comintern authorities?
(Question 14)
Why have so few academic historians been willing to investigate the Extermination Thesis and to publish their findings?

7]  Background History of European Jewry Questions:15-53

(Question 15)
How important was the Jewish question in National Socialist thought?
(Question 16)
Is it accurate to say that the National Socialists were anti-Semitic?
(Question 17)
What had countries of western Europe other than Germany done about their Jewish populations long before the twentieth century?
(Question 18)
What was the position of the large Jewish population of Russia in the late nineteenth century?
(Question 19)
What country now has the largest Jewish population in the world?
(Question 20)
What caused the Jewish population of the United States to grow rapidly after 1881?
(Question 21)
From what amazing quarter did important financial assistance come to Communist Russia during its earliest years?
(Question 22)
What was the position of the Jews in Germany during the time of the Second Empire (1871-1918)?
(Question 23)
What was the position of the Jews in Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933)?
(Question 24)
How prosperous were Jews in Hungary before World War II?
(Question 25)
During the 1918-1945 period was hostility to Jews in Europe confined to Germany?
(Question 26)
What factors caused great hostility to Jews in Central and Eastern Europe during the 1920's and 1930's?
(Question 27)
What did Winston Churchill write about the position of the Jews in Communist Russia in 1920?
(Question 28)
Name five prominent early Communists who were of Jewish origin?
(Question 29)
What attitudes did Abraham Lincoln and the National Socialists have in common with regard to the racial problems of their respective countries?
(Question 30)
What publications sponsored by a famous American industrialist were of special interest to the National Socialists?
(Question 31)
Where did the term "concentration camp" originate?
(Question 32)
What objectives did the National Socialists have in common with the Zionists?
(Question 33)
What was the Jewish population at Palestine around 1939 and what is the Jewish population of the corresponding area now?
(Question 34)
What measures did world Jewry undertale against Germany as early as 1933?
(Question 35)
Who were some of the most prominent Jews in the Roosevelt Administration and what role did they play with regard to the status of Jews in Europe?
(Question 36)
What were some of the main provisions of the "Nuremberg Laws" of 1935?
(Question 37)
Were there any American antecedents for the Numbering Laws?
(Question 38)
What did the May Law promulgated in Russia in 1882 have in common with the Nuremberg Laws?
(Question 39)
Did the National Socialists consider the Jews an inferior race?
(Question 40)
What was the nature of German scholarly and scientific research on the Jewish question during the National Socialist period?
(Question 41)
What provoked the so-called Crystal Night (9-10 November 1938) in Germany?
(Question 42)
What were the objectives and the results of the Evian Conference?
(Question 43)
What resettlement plans did the National Socialists have in mind for Jews and what frustrated these plans?
(Question 44)
Did Hitler threaten the massive physical extermination of Jews in his oft-cited address to the Reichstag on 30 January 1939?
(Question 45)
What events at the very outset of World War II had a tendency to give an especially desperate nature to the course of the subsequent fighting in eastern Europe?
(Question 46)
What country, which was eventually (1941) occupied entirely by German military forces, had the largest number of Jews in Europe?
(Question 47)
What book was published before America formal participation in World War II which proposed a truly genocidal fate for a defeated Germany?
(Question 48)
To what extent were threats carried out against Germany?
(Question 49)
What identification were Jews in Germany forced to wear in 1941?
(Question 50)
Were there antecedents for this in another European country?
(Question 51)
Were many Jews interned in Germany before the outbreak of the Second World War?
(Question 52)
What Military and economic factors motivated the German government and its allies to intern Jews quite some time after the beginning of the war?
(Question 53)
How did the Morgenthau Plan cost the lives of many Germans, as well as the lives of people of other nations, including Jews and Americans?

8]  The Case against the Extermination Thesis Questions:54-87

(Question 54)
What popular book published in 1951 cast doubts on the Extermination Thesis?
(Question 55)
What was Col. Beaty in a peculiarly good position to express opinions on this question?
(Question 56)
What conclusions did Prof. Arthur Butz reach about the extent of Jewish mortality during World War II after extensive Investigations Lasting for years?
(Question 57)
What did the international Red Cross have to report with regard to the "holocaust" question?
(Question 58)
What statistics do earlier editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and its annual supplements provide pertaining to Jewish population before and after the war?
(Question 59)
What did the German government do when German intelligence learned in early 1943 about the mass graves of Polish officers in territory which had been held by Soviet forces at the time of their deaths?
(Question 60)
If Auschwitz had, in fact, been an extermination camp, why would that fact and the evidence for it have been spread throughout the world after January 1945?
(Question 61)
What former American official in occupied Germany had the courage to write a letter which appeared in The Sunday Visitor and which was reprinted in an article entitled, "Jewish Population in the United States," in the October 1959, issue of American Mercury?
(Question 62)
When were exhibits at Auschwitz open to the public and what benefits does the "Polish" government derive from them?
(Question 63)
What do photographs of liberated internees at Auschwitz show?
(Question 64)
What has an article by the historian Gitta Sereny admitted about all of the concentration camps which were captured intact by the Allied forces?
(Question 65)
Has any documentary evidence ever been discovered that Hitler specifically ordered the extermination of Jews within the territory held by his armed forces?
(Question 66)
If Hitler had ever given such an order, why would it have become widely known and reported?
(Question 67)
What do aerial photographs of Auschwitz taken in 1944 by the U.S. Air Force demonstrate?
(Question 68)
What economic and other disadvantages would Germans have suffered if it had carried out an extermination program against Jews during the Second World War?
(Question 69)
To what extent did Germany and its allies have a widely recognized right to execute some Jews?
(Question 70)
What are the alleged minutes of the Wannsee Conference of 20 January 1942, often cited in attempts to substantiate the Extermination Thesis?
(Question 71)
What evidence exists that these minutes are a forgery, at least in part?
(Question 72)
What absurd claim did a famous German novelist broadcast on 27 September 1942, with regard to the killing of Jews?
(Question 73)
What numismatic evidence has a bearing on the Extermination Thesis?
(Question 74)
What evidence is there that few Americans took the position of the Jews in Europe seriously as late as December 1941?
(Question 75)
What was the role of the Vatican with regard to the plight of European Jews during the Second World War?
(Question 76)
What was the attitude of the clergy toward the euthanasia program instituted by Germans after the outbreak of the Second World War?
(Question 77)
Why is it difficult to determine just how many Jews entered the United States as immigrants from Europe during the 1930's and 1940's?
(Question 78)
For what purposes was the commercial product Zyklon B used in the German armed forces?
(Question 79)
What technical difficulties would have been involved in the use of this product if, as has been claimed in many Zionist materials on the "Holocaust" it had been widely used for massive exterminations of interned Jews?
(Question 80)
A Rumanian historian has published statistics on the deaths of Rumanian Jews from all causes during the Second World War. What were his findings?
(Question 81)
How do Dr. Andronescu’s findings compare with corresponding statistics in Zionist propaganda materials on the "Holocaust"?
(Question 82)
What does a non-Jewish source estimate in the case of the wartime mortality of Jews living in Hungary?
(Question 83)
What happened to members of concentration camp administrations who mistreated internees during the war?
(Question 84)
What parallels can be drawn between the plight of the Jewish internees during World War II and that of war during the American Civil War?
(Question 85)
What disease caused the death of many persons interned in concentration camps toward the end of World War II?
(Question 86)
What caused Anne Frank’s death just several weeks before the end of the war?
(Question 87)
What sort of evidence has been found which indicates that not all, if any, of the famous diary attributed to her was written by her?

9]  Judging the Accused - Questions:88-97

(Question 88)
What methods were employed to extract confessions presented at a number of the war crimes trials of 1945 and later?
(Question 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?
(Question 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.
(Question 91)
Give examples of evidence which shows that fraudulent photographic materials have been used in the attempt to substantiate the Extermination Thesis.
(Question 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?
(Question 93)
What violation of International Law was involved in the trial of Adolf Eichmann?
(Question 94)
How did The Washington Post display its contempt for the intelligence of its readers?
(Question 95)
What inherent disadvantages do naturalized U.S. citizens have in deportation proceedings when they are accused of war crimes?
(Question 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?
(Question 97)
What happened to the guards at the Dachau concentration camp (near Munich) when American forces captured it?

10] Perspectives - Questions:98-105

(Question 98)
What American term was applied to the camps in which Americans of Japanese ancestry were interned?
(Question 99)
What important similarities and differences existed between the interning of Jews in Europe and the interning of Americana of Japanese ancestry?
(Question 100)
What was the fate of the populations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during and after World War II?
(Question 101)
Why do we hear so little about the fate of the nations?
(Question 102)
What was the ethnic background of nearly all the Communist spies who stole the American secrets of atomic bomb production?
(Question 103)
What decision made by the Allies some 2-1/2 years before the end of the war caused the struggle to be especially bitter and destructive and created a situation which now threatens the very existence of the United States?
(Question 104)
What was Franklin D Roosevelt’s reaction to the correct information about the Katyn massacre presented to him shortly before his death?
(Question 105)
Compare the mortality of German civilians resultant from the expulsions from Silesia, East Prussia, Bohemia, etc. and from the accompanying atrocities with the mortality of European Jews during World War II.

11] Exploitation and Results of the Extermination Thesis - Questions:106-119

(Question 106)
What has caused Zionist propagandists to adhere stubbornly to the six-million figure in the face of clear demographic evidence, much of it from Jewish sources, that there had never been more than about 3-1/2 million Jews under Hitler’s control at any time?
(Question 107)
What Biblical passage could be taken as a prophecy for the present propagandistic use of the Extermination Thesis?
(Question 108)
What factors have inhibited many Christian clergymen from questioning the validity of the "Holocaust" claims?
(Question 109)
What objects used by everyone on an almost daily basis have the Communist satrapies, such as Poland and the German Republic, employed for the continued propaganda campaign against a government which passed out of existence nearly four decades ago?
(Question 110)
How widely known and accepted is the six-million figure claimed for European Jewish mortality during World War II?
(Question 111)
What very large ethnic group in the United States has suffered especially from the "Holocaust" material and how?
(Question 112)
What psychological damage to the Jews themselves could be caused by a preoccupation with the "Holocaust" material?
(Question 113)
Who originated the term genocide?
(Question 114)
What grave dangers could be created by an American signing of the genocide convention now being advocated especially in Zionist circles?
(Question 115)
What has the record of the German Democratic Republic with regard to "reparations" payments to the Jewish state in Palestine?
(Question 116)
What was the ethnic composition of the Communist satellite governments imposed on eastern European countries after World War II?
(Question 117)
How have Palestinians suffered from the dissemination of the "Holocaust" material?
(Question 118)
What shrewd slurs were cast against Germans in the television films series "Holocaust"?
(Question 119)
Was this film series a truly documentary series?

12] Some Important Books on the Controversy Question:120

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