National Journal, first published: 02/05/2009

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

A young and brilliant historian

Hitler's War

The Leuchter Report

Irving vs Lipstadt

Jail in Austria

Irving's trip to Poland

My questions to Irving and his reply

The missing answer on question four

 David Irving’s evidence for the mass murder

Irving's death toll

The absurdities do not end

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

The case of the missing murder weapon

The diesel gas chamber story

The evolution of the extermination legend

The results of the excavations at Treblinka (1945)

The results of the archeological drillings at Belzec (1997-1999)

Sobibor or the scientific report that never was

Two important documents Irving deliberately ignores

The three Reinhardt camps were transit camps

Once a "Holocaust denier", always a "Holocaust denier"!

A warning to David Irving

An advice to David Irving

Part 9 - Sources

Jürgen Graf , April 2009

David Irving and the "Aktion Reinhardt Camps"

The case of the missing murder weapon

In his reply to my questions, David Irving stated that it is not proven that the (alleged) extermination at the Reinhardt camps was carried out by means of gas. Since Irving did not mention any alternative killing method (e. g. shooting), this implies that the murder weapon is simply not known.

We exactly know how the victims died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: They were killed by the explosion of the atomic bombs, or later succumbed to radioactivity. We exactly know how the victims died in Dresden: They were burned alive, or suffocated under the debris of their houses. We exactly know how the victims died at Katyn: They were shot by Stalin’s henchmen. We exactly know how the victims died at Eisenhower’s Rhine meadow camps: They were deliberately starved to death.

According to David Irving, 2.4 million people were murdered at the three Reinhardt camps – far more than in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, Katyn and the Rhine meadow camps combined. But we do not know how they were killed! Of course, this implies that is not a single reliable eyewitness for the Reinhardt holocaust, for if such a witness existed, we would know how the victims were exterminated, at least at his or her camp.

Let us sum up: David Irving is unable to produce the slightest documentary evidence for the alleged mass murder at Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka. He implicitly admits that there is not a single trustworthy witness. But if there are no documents and no trustworthy witnesses, what evidence are his claims based upon?

Does he claim that there is forensic evidence, i. e. huge amounts of human remains found at the site of the three Reinhardt camps? No, he does not. He does not even mention the Kola report which, according to the orthodox historians, proves that Belzec was an extermination camp. (We will discuss this report later.)

The diesel gas chamber story

According the official "Holocaust" literature, the (alleged) mass murders at Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec were carried out with diesel exhaust. But as engineer Friedrich Berg has shown in his carefully researched article "Diesel Gas Chambers: Ideal for Torture, Absurd for Murder" [19], diesel engines are an extremely poor murder weapon because they put out very low quantities of CO, but contain a high percentage of oxygene. Any gasoline engine would be infinitely more suitable for mass murder than a diesel. Berg’s arguments were so iron-clad that the Holocaust lobby made no attempt to refute them. In Debating the Holocaust Thomas Dalton states:

"The [diesel engine] topic is almost completely avoided by every anti-revisionist writer. […] This is a strong implicit admission that traditionalism has no reply to Berg and the revisionists. [...] Most recently the bloggers have attempted to address this issue. After admitting that ‘it is simply not feasible to use diesel engines for gassings… when one has acess to petrol engines’, Romanov [20] claims that the diesel issue is ‘irrelevant’ because, in his view, anyone who claimed that the gassing engine was a diesel was simply mistaken. He argues that the ‘most knowledgeable’ witnesses mentioned gasoline, but he can cite only two: Fuchs (for Sobibor only), and Reder, who said the exhaust gas was sent into the open air!" [21]

Let me add that the argument of the ridiculous blogger S. Romanov ("The diesel issue is irrelevant") reveals the queer mindset of this individual: There is neither documentary nor material evidence for the "Aktion Reinhardt" holocaust, and there are no trustworthy witnesses either (for what credit can be given to witnesses who "were simply mistaken" as the murder weapon?), but nonetheless the Aktion Reinhardt holocaust is a proven and indisputable fact! In other words: The pillars on which the edifice once rested are gone, but the edifice is still standing, or rather hovering in the air! A major miracle!

Can David Irving possibly be unaware of the absurdity of the diesel gas chamber story? No, he can’t. At the 1983 revisionist conference, which Irving attended, Friedrich Berg presented a paper which already contained nearly all the arguments adduced in his 2003 article[22]. Irving, who delivered his speech on the same day as Berg, stated:

"I must say that I have been deeply impressed by Mr. Friedrich Berg’s lecture earlier this afternoon. I have found a great deal in his lecture which was greatly impressive." [23]

So as early as in 1983, Irving knew that the diesel exhaust story is rubbish! That is why he is now compelled to state that it is unproven that the (alleged) mass murder was carried out by gas, and that this issue is "highly controversial."