With a few keystrokes, computer users can find Butz's argument that the Nazi genocide of more than 6 million Jews is "a widespread but erroneous belief", and that typhus and other factors were responsible for the deaths. Northwestern, while repudiating Butz's beliefs, won't interfere with his right to express them on the Internet through the university.
"I believe his views are monstrous," said university President Henry Bienen. "But I don't want to set myself up as a censor of his views. Who decides what's distateful? Do you make general law around bad causes?"

Butz's posting has infuriated any number of groups, who argue the school has no reason to give the tenured professor what amounts to a free billboard. But the issue has also been muddled by the university's decision not to rehire another teacher who was so outraged by Butz's views that he taught a lesson on the Holocaust in an engineering class. The teacher, Sheldon Epstein, was told last fall that his contract would not be renewed, at least in part because he strayed from the course material in assigning students to research and write about the Holocaust. "I read his Webpage and said this stuff doesn't belong on Northwestern's site," said Epstein, who polled his students and found that many knew little or nothing about the Holocaust. "I owed it to my students."

Butz was trained in engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Minnesota. His area of expertise includes arcane fields such as digital signal processing.

Among students of the Holocaust, though, he is notorious. Although he has no formal training in history, he is the author of a 1976 book, The Hoax of the 20th Century, has published his arguments in the student newspaper, and is prominent among Holocaust deniers. Butz, a soft-spoken man with thick glasses, defends his right to his Webpage. "As long as the university has this server available for personal use, then it's perfectly appropriate for me to have this," Butz said.

"The question is whether the university has the right to say, "We're not comfortable having that promoted under the aegis of Northwestern University," countered Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles, which is devoted to study of the Holocaust.

Legal experts said that, as a private institution, the university could place limits on what is posted on its Internet server. "Whether they should is a more difficult question," said Cass Sunstein, a First Amendment expert at University of Chicago's law school. "It's not simple to say when private institutions should regulate deplorable political speech." Some schools, including Cornell University, have gone that route, devising guidelines for what is and is not acceptable to put on the university's Internet server. Abraham Haddad, chairman of the electrical engineering department, said the difference between Epstein and Butz is that Butz keeps his opinions out of the classroom.

A university source who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the school is seeking to buy out Butz to get him to leave the university. Butz and Bienen both refuse to comment. In any case, Haddad said the department hopes Butz, 62, will leave soon. "He's marginal. He teaches his classes, that's about it," Haddad said. "We give him an office where no one can find him."

We received the above as an email item from David Thomas, CODOH, who makes this pertinent comment: Digital signal handling is an "arcane" field which made it possible to send this message to you. And let us hope that Professor Butz can soon do something about that dust!

The Fiftieth Anniversary of a Diary that's less than Frank

Michael Murphy

Perhaps the best known 'Holocaust victim' has been Anne Frank, whose name is known around the world for her famous diary. Of the variety of memoirs, those which present a picture of frail Jewry caught in the vice of Nazism, the most celebrated is undoubtedly The Diary of Anne Frank.

First published in February 1947, The Diary became an immediate best-seller to a naïve and gullible public; and quickly elevated Anne's status to that of a saintly victim. When various people were asked to recall 'Saint' Anne's memory, she is described evocatively as a "spicy girl". One mother stated that whilst "God knows everything, Anne knows everything better". Since then the book has been re-issued in paperback, going through forty impressions, and was made into a Hollywood film. In the fifty years since its 1947 publication the diary has been translated into fifty-five languages, and sold more than 25,000,000 copies. Consequently Anne's father made a fortune from the book's royalties, which purports to represent the real-life tragedy of his daughter. With its carefully designed emotional appeal, the book and the films have influenced literally millions of people, certainly more throughout the world than any other story of its kind. However, the truth concerning it is only one appalling insight into the fabrication of a propaganda myth.

The Diary has been sold to the public as the actual diary of a Jewish girl from Amsterdam, which she wrote at the age of thirteen while her family and four other Jews were hiding in the back room of an Amsterdam house for two years during the German occupation. Anne went into hiding on 9 July 1942 and the last diary entry is 1 August 1944. Three days later the authorities discovered and removed the family and other fugitives from their hideout. However, the Franks were not hiding for their lives but were only remaining discreet. This is revealed by the amount of noise that they made, chain smoking while supposedly short of food, contradictions over the windows and secret door, and the titilating sex.

Because the Jews had declared war on Germany on the coat tails of Britain's declaration, Jews were imprisoned as hostile aliens, just as the Allies imprisoned enemy nationals. The Frank's once captured, were treated no differently; besides they had lived in Germany until 1933. The girl and her father, Otto Frank, were deported from the Netherlands to the massive industrial complex at Auschwitz in September 1944 where the father contracted typhus and was sent to the camp hospital to recover. He was one of thousands of sick and feeble Jews who were left behind when the Germans abandoned Auschwitz in January 1945, shortly before it was overrun by the Communists. He died in Switzerland in 1980. Anne was evacuated along with many other Jews to the Bergen-Belsen camp, where she died of typhus in March 1945, her fate being typical of many who died whilst interned on both sides during World War II.

Neither were gassed, which is odd because the Nazis were supposed to have had a ruthless factory-like murder machine? If the Nazis had a widely alleged extermination policy, then neither Anne nor her father, sister, and many other Jews, would have survived Auschwitz. In short, like many 'Holocaust survivors', their fate cannot be reconciled with the extermination story!

When Otto Frank was released from a camp at the end of the war, he returned to the Amsterdam house and 'found' his daughter's 'diary' hidden in the rafters, though another story has it that Dutch woman, Miep Gies, was responsible for finding the 'diary' and gave it to Otto.

Whilst the famous Holocaust story is undoubtedly The Diary of Anne Frank, few people know that it, like the rest of the alleged 'personal experience' literature is largely fiction. (More than 10,000 'eyewitness' testimonies about Nazi atrocities against Jews have been shown to be false in Yad Vashem alone - the international centre for Holocaust documentation in Jerusalem - according to its former archives director, Shmuel Krakowski. (See Adelaide Institute newsletter, No. 41, 1996, pp. 6-7 wherein Krakowski is reported to have withdrawn this comment.) As documentary proof for the so-called Holocaust fall by the wayside, historians have increasingly depended on 'eyewitness' testimony to support their theories. The 1985 and 1988 Zündel 'false-news' trials showed how unreliable such testimonies are, being based on rumour, hearsay and Allied propaganda.

Anne Frank did live and may have written a six by four by a quarter of an inch thick diary. But when this becomes a standard 300 page paperback book one must conclude that most of it has been written by others.

Anne Frank left a diary containing only about 150 notes, according to The New York Times, 2 October 1955. The published 'diary', with its final 293 pages, is of a high literary standard which, together with its content dealing with historical events, makes it very unlikely to have been the work of a thirteen-year-old girl. This anomaly was detected immediately. Upon reading a copy of Anne's 'diary' in 1946, Jan Romin declared in the Dutch newspaper Het Parool:

The government Institute for War Documentation is in possession of about two hundred similar diaries, but it would amaze me if there was one among then as pure, as intelligent, and yet as human as [Anne's].

The reader will soon discover why this 'diary' has special qualities.

Any literary inspection of the work reveals that it is too intellectual to have been the work of a thirteen-year-old. It starts off with a detailed listing of Nazi measures against the Jews while the rest is full of Holocaust inaccuracies and distortions. It is also written in five different handwriting styles.

The fact is that this celebrated but pathetic 'diary' purported to have been written by this Jewish girl, was actually largely penned and elaborated by her father, Otto Frank, in ball-point pen which was not available until after the war.

The truth about the Anne Frank 'diary' was first revealed by the Swedish journal Fria Ord. Since then there have been a number of books written about this hoax, including D Felderer's Anne Frank Diary: A Hoax; R Faurisson's Is the Diary of Anne Frank Genuine? (1985),; and G Knabe's Die Wahrheit (ber 'Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank' (1994.)

The handwriting attributed to Anne Frank and that in the 'diary' bear no resemblance to each other. Ditlieb Felderer, a Jehovah's Witness, and others had long tried to directly examine the 'diary' but had been rebuffed with the usual neo-Nazi innuendo. In April 1977 Ditlieb Felderer wrote to Otto Frank requesting permission to come to Switzerland with a party of experts to examine the original documents, but Frank refused.

On Otto Frank's death in 1980, a new attempt was made to rehabilitate the 'diary'. It was officially announced that Frank had deleted certain sexual references and this was why he wouldn't allow it to be examined. It was also announced that West German jurists had examined the 'diary' and declared it to be authentic. The handwriting discrepancy was of course ignored. Thus we have the first vague confirmation that the 'diary' is not quite what Anne wrote. When we also realise that the West German judiciary is influenced by the Jews having formulated laws which make it a crime to question the Holocaust story, we realise how worthless their declaration is.

On 20 May 1980 the State Criminal Office of West Germany gave the Hamburg District Court of Justice a report containing its official expert opinion on the 'diary'. Technical analysis of the manuscript showed portions of it were altered or added after 1951. Other German experts in the 1960s, determined that the handwriting was the same throughout the 'diary'. Of course, the court case bearing directly on the authenticity of the 'diary' was not officially reported.

In Germany the Jewish-owned magazine, Der Spiegel [the mirror] October 1980 revealed that the West German Federal Criminal Investigation Bureau (B.K.U.) reported that "portions of the diary have been altered or added to after 1951, casting extreme doubt over the authenticity of the entire work". This confirms the widespread allegation that parts of the 'diary' were written in ball-point ink unavailable until after the war. (The ball-point pen or 'biro' was produced in the United States in May 1945, and whilst there remains some disagreement over who invented it, the first workable such pen was patented in 1937 by Ladislaus Biro, a Hungarian living in Argentina.)

In 1982 Dr Robert Faurisson published an article on Anne's 'diary' which demonstrated that at one time Anne had very mature handwriting but then, for months later, a childish scrawl. Faurisson's investigation took him to Basel, Switzerland, where he spent two days talking with Otto Frank who told him, "Dr Faursisson, I agree with you 100 per cent. All those things [i.e. contradictions which Faurisson found in Frank's alleged lifestyle-in-hiding] are theoretically, scientifically impossible, but so it was." Faurisson tried unsuccessfully to obtain a handwriting specimen from Otto Frank, but the man always used a typewriter.

Because Anne's 'story' has generated a fortune, the Jews have squabbled over the pathetic remnants of her life. From 1956 to 1958 a case was brought by Meyer Levin against Otto Frank in which Levin was granted $50,000 as indemnity for "fraud, default and unauthorised employment of ideas." The issue in this case was about the dramatised version of the 'diary', i.e. for use in film, radio, television and theatre productions, and the rights for which were claimed by Meyer Levin and upheld by a jury at a New York Court. Levin was an author and journalist who lived for many years in France where he met Otto Frank around 1949.

In 1996 it was reported that the Jews were battling over the rights to Anne Frank's trademark! The Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam is accused by The Anne Frank Foundation of attempting to licence companies to mass produce Anne Frank china, pottery, jewellery and even fountain pens ( why not an Anne Frank magic ball point pen?)! This is not the first time a legal battle has taken place over the Anne Frank myth. Before his death, her father was engaged in heated battles over the ownership of the mythical 'diary'. Again, it demonstrates that "There's no business like Shoah [Holocaust] business"!

With the great deal of emotional tear-shedding generated over the plight of Anne Frank, a museum has been dedicated to her and where her 'diary' is kept. The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, which has been turned into a museum, has been carefully designed to play on the visitor's emotions, and as the 'victim' was an adolescent this is all the more easily accomplished. Each room deals with a period in her life, or with periods of the Nazi occupation of Holland. The visitor literally grows up with her ( an old ploy of using the visitor to identify with the victim). Finally, one comes to the last room and although being one of the millions who has read her 'diary', you know what the outcome is to be. The impact is shocking, just what you expected.

Meyer Levin declared in The New York Times Book Review:

Because the diary was not written in retrospect, it contains the trembling life of every moment...Anne Frank's voice becomes the voice of six million vanished Jewish souls.

This naïve emotional appeal, not based on fact, is typical of those emanating from the gullible, and the Jewish lobby waging a constant campaign of emotional blackmail through their control of large parts of the Western media, including Hollywood. A number of films have been made about Anne Frank, including The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), which perpetuates the myths and propaganda surrounding this individual. Despite its recent production the makers of the film Anne Frank Remembered are still oblivious to the historical facts, and similar errors are perpetuated by one film reviewer:

Anne Frank was perhaps Hitler's best known victim as crisp-vowelled narrator Kenneth Branagh points out at the beginning of this non-nonsense documentary.

The fact is that she was a victim of typhus, not Hitler!

Her war-time diaries are remarkable on many counts: the quality of the writing, the maturity of her insights, and the story of courage and resilience contained therein.

As we have seen, these came courtesy of Otto Frank's contributions.

Frank's diaries give a personal face to mind-numbing images of mass graves and belching human furnaces.

Attempts to contain the numerous typhus epidemics at some of the camps, are transformed into visions of Dante's Inferno. We are also told by the reviewer that by Anne's thirteenth birthday, "almost everything that was fun was already banned". Fun was not banned in the Third Reich though it was subdued, in consideration for those who were fighting and dying on the front lines, just as it was in Allied countries.

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the original in February 1947, the Jewish-controlled Viking Books will publish an unexpurgated version of the 'diary' in Britain. Its said forty-two entries edited by Otto Frank would be restored. The full version had the blessing of Buddy Elias, Anne's cousin and president of the Swiss-based Anne Frank Foundation, who said:

It's really Anne-like now. Otto cut out a lot of things, all the really aggressive accounts. She wrote down everything, her sexual feelings as she grew from a girl to a young woman. These things you couldn't print in 1947. People try to make a saint out of her and glorify her. That she was not. She was just an ordinary, normal girl with a talent for writing. (Daily Telegraph, 24 October 1996)

Such claims are nonsense and the naïve public is duped again. All the material Otto Frank put in to 'spice' the diary up and then take out, are added again. Also such titillating material was being published in 1947 despite the denial. The reason to republish something old dressed up as new, is purely a financial one, squeezing more money out of a myth of a myth!

In short, 'Saint' Anne's 'diary' is an edited, revised, gone-over book which is not a spontaneous 'diary', a fact admitted by her father before his death, and by others.

Hiding the Innocent: The Diary of Anne Frank is one of the main canonical works of the Holocaust and Redemption literature. It echoes the emotion-packed theme of hiding children to avoid persecution that figures prominently in several other important works of Jewish origin: the Torah story of Moses being released into the fens of the Nile Delta to avoid a genocidal Pharoah; the story in the Gospel of Jesus' parents fleeing to avoid Herod's murder of children, and so on. Anne Frank combines this basic, powerful theme with sophisticated twentieth century Freudian psychoanalytic themes to produce a compelling account of an innocent, good Jewish child doomed by evil Gentiles to die in horror.

Schneerson, Bloch, Hitler and Himmler

David Brockschmidt

In the 2 December 1996 edition of the London Daily Telegraph, there appeared an article which claimed that a young American student reading history at Cambridge University, Bryan Riggs, had "discovered" that thousands of Jews, and/or half Jews had served in Hitler's armed forces. I would like to fill a few gaps in this none-so new information. Riggs tells us that in 1939 Lt. Col. Dr Ernst Bloch, a German Jew, serving in Hitler's Wehrmacht, in particular working for Abwehr chief Canaris, had special orders to rescue Rebbe Schneerson and his followers from German-occupied Warsaw and take them to Germany.

What Riggs doesn't tell us - or he was ignorant of this fact - is that these special orders had come directly from the Chancellory in Berlin, that is, directly from Adolf Hitler.

Hitler called Himmler at the Reichssicherheitshauptamt in Berlin to organise a free passage for Schneerson and his followers to a country of their choice. Hitler also ordered a special forces group, led by Bloch, to bring Schneerson and his group safely to Berlin. At the same time Himmler and Canaris organised their safe transit from Germany via Latvia to Sweden, and from there to New York, USA. Schneerson remained there until his death in 1994.

In 1971 my wife and I visited Mr Nicolai Zebergs and his wife, Dzintra, in Silverspring, Maryland, U.S.A. Nicolai is a relative of my wife's late mother, Mrs Grete Vitols, nee Zebergs who died in 1996 in Melbourne, Australia.

Mr Zebergs told us how in 1939 he helped Rebbe Schneerson and his group to get out of Warsaw, Poland. With the help of the German occupation military government in Poland, Zebergs had organised neutral clothing for all of them. He failed to convince Schneerson to cut off their traditional sidelocks which made them recognizable as religious Jews. They managed to hide their sidelocks behind their ears!

Nicolai Zebergs was the first secretary of the Latvian embassy in Warsaw and he issued Latvian transit visas to the Schneerson group. This enabled Schneerson's group to leave Germany and enter the then still unoccupied Latvia.

Himmler personally thanked Zebergs for his help and co-operation in this project and gave him a small painting which Himmler had signed.on the back. For me it was interesting to find out that Himmler had a hand in rescuing the leader of one of his supposed mortal enemies- the Jews.

The Hitler-Stalin Pact stopped Rebbe Schneerson from freely entering and leaving Latvia because Bolshevik Russia occupied Latvia on 17 June 1940.

During the 1970s I wrote to Rebbe Schneerson advising him of the names and addresses of those who helped him with clothing and visas, thereby getting out of Europe. I gave Schneerson the full address of Nicolai Zebergs but as far as I know, Schneerson never thanked this Latvian 'Goy'. It is also not known whether after his arrival in New York, Schneerson ever sent a thank-you letter to Hitler and Himmler.
Schneerson, of course, is now in Jewish Heaven until his second coming, sitting on cloud 29, still studying the Babylonian Talmud. Hitler and Himmler, of course, are in Hell, where they are in the company of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill, sweating it out until Judgement Day.

What a picture! Can you imagine all these great conquerers sitting in this Gentile Hell? Hitler is reading Das Kapital; Himmler is reading The Communist Manifest; Stalin is reading Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations; Roosevelt is reading Tojo's Memoirs (sic), and Churchill is reading Mein Kampf.

As you can see, folks, history is never boring, especially my personal interpretation of historical events!

The question arising out of this Schneerson matter is this: Did Hitler really want to exterminate all the Jews?

I ask this question because if he did, then why did he co-operate and collaborate with the Zionists between 1933 and 1943? Why would he bother to rescue the head of the religious Jewish movement in Europe, Rebbe Schneerson and his followers?

The critical question arising out of the Schneerson-Bloch-Hitler-Himmler story is this: Is there something basically wrong with the official Holocaust story?

I ask myself: If Hitler was really driven by his 'murder lust' in order to kill all the Jews (extermination of European Jewry), how come he let the head of Europe's religious Jews go to America? How come he let thousands of Jews and half-Jews serve in his armed forces, 170 of them high ranking officers?

How come the double Noble prize winner, Otto von Warburg, head of the Max Planck Institute in Berlin was left alone to continue his research before and during the war?
How come that the heart specialist, Professor Herz was able to continue his work in the Berlin- Buch Hospital?

How come Otto Liebknecht, brother of the communist revolutionary, Karl Liebknecht, lived with his wife, Sarah, throughout the war in a nice villa in Berlin Kohlhasebr(ck? They did not even have to wear the Star of David. Otto Liebknecht was the inventor of the first modern detergent for Henkel in D(sseldorf. PERSIL. Otto's enemies could accurately say: This was one of the many Jewish attempts to whitewash the Nazis!

One thing is for certain: The history of the Nazi-Jewish Holocaust has partly to be re-written in order to do justice to everyone who had to live through these tragic times. God bless the non-Nazi revisionist historians and scholars because the official court historians cannot be trusted. Their version of history is full of lies, half-truths and disinformation, dictated by the victors. More than 50 years after Auschwitz, the world has a right to know what really happened between 1933 and 1945, and most importantly, why it happened!

We were wrong: Around Christmas 1996 our trustworthy Israeli informant advised us that Professor Israel Shahak's home had been raided by Israeli security. We reported this in Fredrick Töben's 1996 Christmas Correspondence with Jamie McCarthy. We have now been advised that this information was wrong. For this we apologise.