Lured By Dollars

Lured By Dollars Indian Soldiers
Are In Iraq

By Siddharth Srivastava

Countercurrents.org
The first reports about the happening appeared in January. Now it is a phenomenon that has spread across the country, involving possibly thousands of people. In a very discreet operation, US and British security sub-contractors are seeking out Indian ex-servicemen known for their professionalism and discipline for deployment in Iraq. 

Moves by the coalition forces to outsource security are a result of the alarming increase in casualties, with indications of the war dragging on for some time. Further, there is a less likelihood of an attack on an Indian, who mingles easily with the general population, and who is also generally considered friendly by Iraqis. For the retired lowly paid Indian soldier, the money being doled out is attractive and difficult to refuse. 

Needless to say, the Indian personnel work under the direct command of United States and British forces. Most are deployed to perform security duties, such as guarding key installations like oil wells, refineries, food convoys and ports, as well as normal day-to-day duties around military camps. Though there is no involvement in direct combat, the situation in Iraq is fraught with risk, with some reports indicating that a few Indians might already have been injured.
In June last year, the Indian government turned down a US request to send an Indian peacekeeping force to Iraq. In a statement the Ministry of External Affairs said: "The government of India has given careful thought to the question of sending troops to Iraq. Were there to be an explicit UN mandate, the government would consider the deployment of troops to Iraq." The stand of the Indian government has remained the same since, having resisted all pressure from the US. 

The first indication of the transfer of Indian personnel to Iraq was from the south Indian state of Kerala, which is the hub of Indians heading for the Middle East in general as engineers, construction workers and other skilled jobs. The reports said that around 500 ex-servicemen, who had served in various fighting units of the Indian Army (artillery, infantry armored core), had been recruited from the central districts of Kerala for deployment in Iraq. The contingent was termed as the first-ever "Indian regiment" to work as a mercenary force for the US, with the recruitment done by a Kuwaiti company working for the US Army. The entire process was done without the knowledge of the central government in Delhi, or bodies responsible for the welfare of ex-servicemen. 

What followed was a series of similar details emerging from the north Indian states of Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana, where the maximum numbers of retired soldiers reside. These ex-servicemen are approached by Indian private security agencies which front for the sub-contractors appointed by the US and British forces in Iraq. 

The money, by Indian standards, is very good, due to which many ex-soldiers, who have to make do with low pensions, are willing to take the risk. A sepoy (private) is being offered as much as $750 a month, a captain $1,250, major/lieutenant-colonel $1,750, a colonel $2,500 and brigadier $3,500. A serving brigadier in the Indian Army earns much less than $1,000 a month - a private almost nothing. Most of the ex-servicemen chosen are below the age of 55 and medically fit. Preference is given to those who have been involved in counter-insurgency operations, fighting guerrilla attacks in northeast India or experience of war. 

Action in Iraq
However, as everyone knows, life is not all that easy in Iraq. In an interview that has appeared in the weekly Outlook magazine, Colonel T Kapoor, among the first to serve in Iraq, spoke about his experience. Kapoor re! turned to India recently after being injured in a guerilla attack. "It's good money, but it's not all hunky-dory. You never know what you may encounter because it's a very volatile situation. Besides, the guerrillas have superior weapons, like rifle-fired grenades, while security personnel like us are given inadequate weapons like AK-47 rifles. Ordinary Iraqis are generally nice to Indians, but when you are working with the occupying forces, you get targeted by the resistance fighters," says Kapoor. 

However, unlike illegal trafficking of humans, the transfer of ex-army personnel is an organized process with care taken to ensure that the interests of the individual are well protected. Executives (mostly former army men) of some of the of the security agencies, such as Trig Guardforce, based in Mumbai, and Gemini Veteran Global Placements, based in New Delhi, have spoken to the media detailing the organization. The sub-contractors pass on the Indian bio-datas to the US general ! office for screening and selection. Insurance cover ranges from $10,000 to $50,000, while valid visas-holders are usually routed through Kuwait into US bases in Iraq. 

The Indian government has obviously got wind of these developments, but there has been no overt clampdown as of yet. There have been murmurs of protest within the Indian army establishment, with some serving officers feeling that it is wrong to indulge in mercenary activities when the Indian government has taken a strong stand against sending troops to Iraq. Others have voiced concern about ex-serviceman being privy to sensitive information related to national security. 

But there are others, within the army as well, who are not averse to the idea and see it as an opportunity for ex-servicemen to find employment. More importantly, the sainik (soldier) welfare boards that are quite active in the north Indian states have come out in support of the deployment, given the abysmal state of the retired! Indian soldier, who has to struggle to make ends meet. 

Retired officers, too, are not averse. The Indian armed forces follow a steep hierarchical structure due to which several officers take premature retirement. Though young, the best years are behind them, the experience and training of these officers are often underutilized and they find employment in relatively lower-skilled jobs involving man-management. Heading to Iraq is harking back to the earlier days when life was a risk in any case, as well as another chance to utilize their skills for a decent salary. 

As the war in Iraq turns bloodier by the day, there are going to be winners and losers, wherein economic compulsions may override other risks. But, a life lost, whether American, Iraqi or Indian, will always be a tragedy.

What lies behind the mask

What lies behind the mask

Ram Puniyani, Hindustan Times
June 24, 2012

In an obvious reference to any possible projection of Narendra Modi as a prime ministerial candidate for the next parliamentary elections, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar recently said that the NDA should choose a candidate who has secular credentials. The BJP, meanwhile, spoke in various VOICES.

One of its leaders said that ideologically, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, LK Advani and Modi were of the same hue. Another pointed out that since Hindutva is secular and liberal, there was no reason why Modi could not be the prime ministerial candidate.

Kumar is no secular angel. When BJP became the single largest party in the Lok Sabha in 1996, no one dared ally with it as the party was regarded as communal and the part it played in the demolition of the Babri Masjid and consequent violence was still fresh in people's minds. In 1998, when a similar situation arose, many parties including Kumar's Janata Dal (United) could not resist the temptation of power and worked out a common minimum programme to share power with the BJP. 

If one examines the statements made by the BJP, one can find some truth in them. The claim that Vajpayee, Advani and Modi are ideologically similar is true to a great extent. They are all committed swayamsevaks, working for the agenda of a Hindu rashtra, which is the goal of the RSS. They are dissimilar too, with a division of labour worked out among them. Since the BJP is probably not hoping to get a majority on its own strength, it has to keep a liberal façade. For this very reason, Vajpayee was its prime minister, while Advani, the prime mover of the chariot of communalism and the Ram Temple campaign, was forced to play second fiddle.

In that sense, though they are on the same ideological wavelength, they play different roles at any point of time. To say that Hindutva is secular and liberal is turning reality on its head. Hindutva is not Hinduism. Hinduism is an umbrella of various religious streams, which flowered and existed in this part of the world. Hindutva as a concept and political ideology was articulated by VD Savarkar. He defined it as the 'whole of Hinduness', a combination of the Aryan race, culture and language. The Brahminical stream of Hinduism is based on it, subtly promoting caste and gender hierarchy.

When the entire nation was coming together under the guiding principles of liberty, equality and fraternity, the upholders of Hindutva, belonging to a certain section of society like the rajas, zamindars and upper-caste Hindus, kept aloof from the struggle against the British. They came together as the Hindu Mahasabha and later founded and supported the RSS. Their politics was at once parallel and diametrically opposite to the politics of the Muslim League, which was arguing along similar lines for an Islamic State. The Muslim League had a similar class base. While the Hindu Mahasabha-RSS gloated over the glorious Hindu past and asserted that we were a Hindu nation from times immemorial, the Muslim League identified with Muslim kings. The freedom struggle under Mahatma Gandhi wanted to break free from the yoke of colonial rule and change caste and gender relations. His politics articulated that we were a 'nation in the making'.

This is a prime example of the use of religion as an instrument by a section of society which wanted to preserve their privileges in the changing social dynamics. The sharpest articulation of Hindutva politics came from MS Golwalkar, who in his We, Our Nationhood Defined, eulogised fascism and asked for second-class citizenship for Muslims and Christians. Today, the RSS is unable to deny either the blunt formulation of its politics by Golwalkar or the existence of this book. 

The RSS-led forces want to keep a democratic face till they come to power and unleash their full agenda. Currently, their trained swayamsevaks are infiltrating different wings of the State, apart from joining organisations like the BJP. The BJP claims that it believes in justice for all and appeasement of none. A cleverly-worded sentence, it conceals its intention of continuing the discrimination against those suffering in the present scheme of things.

How does one understand the difference between Hinduism and Hindutva? Mahatma  Gandhi was a Hindu but not a follower of Hindutva. Nathuram Godse and the RSS are practitioners of 'Hindutva politics'. For the latter, a Hindu like Gandhi is ideologically unacceptable as he propagated a secular ethos while being the best of Hindus. The statement by Kumar only represents one of the aspects of the political reality being witnessed by the nation. 

Ram Puniyani is a Delhi-based writer. The views expressed by the author are personal.

(http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/ColumnsOthers/What-lies-behind-the-mask/Article1-878287.aspx)

“RSS-BJP fomenting terror” –

By Feroze Mithiborwala & Kishore Jagtap

The announcement by the Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde at the Jaipur conclave of the Congress party where he once again stated that the RSS & BJP were involved in fomenting terrorism in India is truly a cause for national concern.

He has been further supported by Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh, the former Union Minister, Mani Shankar Aiyar, and Union Minister Rajeev Shukla all of whom defended Mr. Shinde, saying there was enough evidence of RSS-backed terrorism.

Despite the fact that the Home Minister has not made this statement for the first time, yet we in fact do see that both the Home Ministry, the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Anti-Terror Squads (ATS) at the state levels have all been complicit in the cover-up of the true depth of the RSS backed terror organizations such as the Abhinav Bharat (Col. Purohit & Sadhvi Rithambara) & the Sanatan Sanstha (Athawale), as well as the Hindu Raksha Samiti Dhananjay Desai).

Despite the fact that the Malegaon (8/9/06) terror attacks & Nanded (6/4/06) a failed terror operation occurred in Maharashtra,  yet the Congress-NCP government has been complicit in the cover up. The ATS led both by Raghuvanshi & Rakesh Maria are following the orders of their political bosses. Thus the Malegaon terror network was brought to light by the effort of the Rajasthan ATS.

Also the terror attacks such as the Samjhauta train (18/2/07), Jaipur terror attacks (13/5/08), Pune German Bakery (13/2/10) were all undertaken to disrupt the India-Pakistan peace process & occurred 10-12 days before the representatives of the two countries were to meet.

The Mecca Masjid blast (18/5/07) on the other hand occurred at the time of the growing political tensions over the Indo-US Nuclear deal & was a much needed diversion. Thus sections of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) aligned to the CIA-Mossad, are using the Abhinav Bharat, Sanatan Sanstha & the Hindu Rashtra Sena cadre to carry out terror attacks. The IB itself is totally dominated by communal & the Manuwadi casteist sections of our society & is at the core of planning, financing & execution of the terror attacks.

Also the statements by the known fanatic & terrorist Hafeez Saeed of the LeT, need to analysed in a context whereby his counter-statements are meant to help the BJP. Hafeez Saeed & the LeT, as do the other assorted Lashkar’s,  have the patronage of the ISI-CIA. Despite the deep penetration of the CIA, as well as the RAW into Pakistan, yet the likes of Hafeez Saeed continue to operate with impunity. The same Americans who supposedly killed Bin Laden, cannot do the same to Hafeez Saeed? It is truly a sad joke.
Also note that the Americans have provided immunity to the top ISI officials for their role in the 26/11 terror attacks & even David Headley Coleman & Tawahhur Rana, both of whom were actually operating as CIA agents enjoy American protection..  The recent price on the head of Saeed by the USA was a truly laughing matter. In fact the American doctrine of ensuring that extremism & terrorism spread in a controlled environment & thus suit the agenda of the weapons & security industry. And that is why the likes of the myriad Saeed’s & their Lashkar’s continue to thrive.

The lessons for India are clear. In the last decade, in the post-9/11 world there was & continues to be a planned agenda to demonise Islam & the Muslim community, by targeting all Muslims as terrorists. In India too we witnessed the same systematic game plan, where the ‘politics of terror’ replaced the ‘politics of communal riots’ as the new strategy to divide the masses. Thus the plan was very simple. At the time required, either the IB, or then even independently, the Manuwadi terror organizations would engineer the terror attacks.

Then the ATS under the instruction of the IB, would immediately place false stories in the media, create an anti-Muslim mindset & then catch Muslims alone, whilst fabricating the evidence & false witnesses. Those arrested would invariably be police informers & those with a criminal background. They were all supposed to be operating under the banner of the non-existent Indian Mujahedeen, a fictitious organization created by the IB itself.

This led to the further marginalization & isolation of the Muslim community, whilst further communalizing of Indian society. The media too was complicit in this entire sordid game & barring a few exceptions, did not go beyond the police version & no serious investigations were ever conducted.

But now the truth is out & that is where the true contribution of Shri Shaheed Hemant Karkare, needs to be recognized by the nation, if we are to stop these Frankenstein’s in the making. Even all his investigations are not being pursued with the level of honesty required by the government & its security agencies.

66 Questions and Answers on the Holocaust

                                            66 Questions and Answers on the Holocaust

                                                      ~ A Revisionist Perspective

1. What proof exists that the Nazis killed six million Jews?

None. All we have is post war testimony, mostly of individual "survivors." This testimony is contradictory, and very few claim to have actually witnessed any "gassing." There are no contemporaneous documents or hard evidence: no mounds of ashes, no crematories capable of disposing of millions of corpses, no "human soap," no lamp shades made of human skin, and no credible demographic statistics.

2. What evidence exists that six million Jews were not killed by the Nazis?

Extensive forensic, demographic, analytical and comparative evidence demonstrates the impossibility of such a figure. The widely repeated "six million" figure is an irresponsible exaggeration.

3. Did Simon Wiesenthal state in writing that "there were no extermination camps on German soil"?

Yes. The famous "Nazi hunter" wrote this in Stars and Stripes, Jan. 24, 1993. He also claimed that "gassings" of Jews took place only in Poland.

4. If Dachau was in Germany, and even Wiesenthal says that it was not an extermination camp, why do many American veterans say it was an extermination camp?

After the Allies captured Dachau, many GIs and others were led through the camp and shown a room alleged to have been a "gas chamber." The mass media widely, but falsely, continues to assert that Dachau was a "gassing" camp.

5. What about Auschwitz? Is there any proof that gas chambers were used to kill people there?

No. Auschwitz, captured by the Soviets, was modified after the war, and a room was reconstructed to look like a large "gas chamber." After America's leading expert on gas chamber construction and design, Fred Leuchter, examined this and other alleged Auschwitz gassing facilities, he stated that it was an "absurdity" to claim that they were, or could have been, used for mass executions.

6. If Auschwitz wasn't a "death camp," what was its true purpose?

It was an internment center and part of a large-scale manufacturing complex. Synthetic fuel was produced there, and its inmates were used as a workforce.

7. Who set up the first concentration camps?

During the Boer War (1899-1902), the British set up what they called "concentration camps" in South Africa to hold Afrikaner women and children. Approximately 30,000 died in these hell-holes, which were as terrible as German concentration camps of World War II.

8. How did German concentration camps differ from American "relocation" camps in which Japanese-Americans were interned during WWII?

One significant difference was that whereas the Germans interned persons on the basis of being real or suspected security threats to the war effort, the Roosevelt administration interned persons on the basis of ethnicity alone.

9. Why did the German government intern Jews in camps?

It considered Jews a threat to national security. (Jews were overwhelmingly represented in Communist subversion.) However, all suspected security risks -- not just Jews -- were in danger of internment.

10. What hostile measure did world Jewry undertake against Germany as early as 1933?

In March 1933, international Jewish organizations declared an international boycott of German goods.

11. Did the Jews "declare war" on Germany?

Yes. Newspapers around the world reported this. A front-page headline in the London Daily Express (March 24, 1933), for example, announced "Judea Declares War on Germany."

12. Was this before or after the "death camp" stories began?

This was years before the "death camp" stories, which began in 1941-1942.

13. What nation was first to practice mass civilian bombing?

Britain, in a raid on Freiburg on February 10, 1940.

14. How many "gas chambers" to kill people were there at Auschwitz?

None.

15. How many Jews were living in the areas that came under German control during the war?

Fewer than six million.

16. If the Jews of Europe were not exterminated by the Nazis, what happened to them?

After the war millions of Jews were still alive in Europe. Hundreds of thousands (perhaps as many as one and a half million) had died of all causes during the war. Others had emigrated to Palestine, the United States, and other countries. Still more Jews left Europe after the war.

17. How many Jews fled or were evacuated to deep within the Soviet Union?

More than two million fled or were evacuated by the Soviets in 1941-1942, and thus never came under German control.

18. How many Jews emigrated from Europe prior to the war, thus putting them outside of German reach?

Perhaps a million (not including those absorbed by the USSR).

19. If Auschwitz was not an extermination camp, why did the commandant, Rudolf Höss, confess that it was?

He was tortured by British military police, as one of his interrogators later admitted.

20. Is there any evidence of American, British and Soviet policy to torture German prisoners to exact "confessions" for use at the trials at Nuremberg and elsewhere?

Yes. Torture was used to produce fraudulent "evidence" for the infamous Nuremberg trials, and in other postwar "war crimes" trials.

21. How does the Holocaust story benefit Jews today?

It helps protect Jews as a group from criticism. As a kind of secular religion, it provides an emotional bond between Jews and their leaders. It is a powerful tool in Jewish money-raising campaigns, and is used to justify US aid to Israel.

22. How does it benefit the State of Israel?

It justifies the billions of dollars in "reparations" Germany has paid to Israel and many individual "survivors." It is used by the Zionist/Israeli lobby to dictate a pro-Israel American foreign policy in the Middle East, and to force American taxpayer aid to Israel, totaling billions of dollars per year.

23. How is it used by many Christian clergymen?

The Holocaust story is cited to justify the Old Testament notion of Jews as a holy and eternally persecuted "Chosen People."

24. How did it benefit the Communists?

It diverted attention from Soviet war mongering and atrocities before, during and after the Second World War.

25. How does it benefit Britain?

In much the same way it benefited the Soviet Union.

26. Is there any evidence that Hitler ordered the extermination of Europe's Jews?

No.

27. What kind of gas was used in German wartime concentration camps?

Hydrocyanic gas from "Zyklon B," a commercial pesticide that was widely used throughout Europe.

28. For what purpose was "Zyklon B" manufactured?

It was a pesticide used to fumigate clothing and buildings to kill typhus-bearing lice and other pests.

29. Was this product suitable for mass extermination?

No. If the Nazis had intended to use poison gas to exterminate people, far more efficient products were available. Zyklon is a slow-acting fumigation agent.

30. How long does it take to ventilate an area after fumigation with Zyklon B?

Normally about 20 hours. The whole procedure is very complicated and dangerous. Gas masks must be used, and only trained personnel are employed.

31. Auschwitz commandant Höss said that men would enter the "gas chambers" to remove bodies ten minutes after the victims had died. How do you explain this?

It can't be explained because had they done so they would have suffered the same fate as the "gassing" victims.

32. Höss said in his "confession" that men would smoke cigarettes as they pulled bodies out of gas chambers, ten minutes after gassing. Isn't hydrocyanic gas explosive?

Yes. The Höss confession is obviously false.

33. What was the exact procedure the Nazis allegedly used to exterminate Jews?

The stories range from dropping gas canisters into a crowded room from holes in the ceiling, to piping gas through shower heads, to "steam chambers," to "electrocution" machinery. Millions are alleged to have been killed in these ways.

34. How could a mass extermination program have been kept secret from those who were scheduled to be killed?

It couldn't have been kept secret. The extermination stories originated as wartime atrocity propaganda.

35. If Jews scheduled for execution knew the fate in store for them, why did they go along with the Germans without resisting?

They didn't fight back because they did not believe there was any intention to kill them.

36. About how many Jews died in the concentration camps?

Competent estimates range from about 300,000 to 500,000.

37. How did they die?

Mainly from recurring typhus epidemics that ravaged war-torn Europe during the war, as well as from starvation and lack of medical attention during the final months of the conflict, when virtually all road and rail transportation had been bombed out by the Allies.

38. What is typhus?

This disease always appears when many people are jammed together under unsanitary conditions. It is carried by lice that infest hair and clothes. Ironically, if the Germans had used more Zyklon B, more Jews might have survived the camps.

39. What is the difference if six million or 300,000 Jews died during the Second World War?

5,700,000.

40. Some Jewish Auschwitz survivors say they saw bodies being dumped into pits and burned there. How much fuel would have been required for this?

A great deal more than the Germans had access to, as there was a substantial fuel shortage during the war.

41. Can bodies be burned in pits?

No. It is impossible for human bodies to be totally consumed by flames in this manner because of lack of oxygen.

42. Holocaust historians claim that the Nazis were able to cremate bodies in about ten minutes. How long does it take to incinerate one body, according to professional crematory operators?

About an hour and a half, although the larger bones still remain intact.

43. Why did the German concentration camps have crematory ovens?

To dispose efficiently and sanitarily of the corpses of those who had died.

44. Given a 100-percent duty cycle of all the crematories in all the camps in German-controlled territory, what is the maximum number of corpses it would have been possible to incinerate during the entire period such crematories were in operation?

About 430,600.

45. Can a crematory oven be operated 100 percent of the time?

No. Fifty percent of the time is a generous estimate (12 hours per day). Crematory ovens have to be cleaned thoroughly and regularly when in heavy operation.

46. How much ash is left from a cremated corpse?

After the bone is all ground down, about a shoe box full.

47. If six million people had been incinerated by the Nazis, what happened to the ashes?

That remains to be "explained." Six million bodies would have produced many tons of ashes, yet there is no evidence of any large ash depositories.

48. Do Allied wartime aerial reconnaissance photos of Auschwitz (taken during the period when the "gas chambers" and crematoria were supposedly in full operation) show evidence of extermination?

No. In fact, these photographs do not reveal even a trace of the enormous amount of smoke that supposedly was constantly over the camp, nor do they show evidence of the "open pits" in which bodies were allegedly burned.

49. What was the main provision of the German "Nuremberg Laws" of 1935?

They forbid marriage and sexual relations between Germans and Jews, similar to laws existing in Israel today.

50. Were there any American precedents for the Nuremberg Laws?

Years before Hitler's Third Reich, most states in the USA had enacted laws prohibiting marriage between persons of different races.

51. What did the International Red Cross report with regard to the "Holocaust" question?

An official report on the visit of an IRC delegation to Auschwitz in September 1944 pointed out that internees were permitted to receive packages, and that rumors of gas chambers could not be verified.

52. What was the role of the Vatican during the time six million Jews were allegedly being exterminated?

If there had been an extermination program, the Vatican would most certainly have been in a position to know about it. But because there was none, the Vatican had no reason to speak out against it, and didn't.

53. What evidence is there that Hitler knew of an on-going Jewish extermination program?

None.

54. Did the Nazis and the Zionists collaborate?

As early as 1933, Hitler's government signed an agreement with the Zionists permitting Jews to emigrate from Germany to Palestine, taking large amounts of capital with them.

55. How did Anne Frank die?

After surviving internment in Auschwitz, she succumbed to typhus in the Bergen-Belsen camp, just a few weeks before the end of the war.

56. Is the Anne Frank Diary genuine?

Evidence compiled by Dr. Robert Faurisson of France establishes that the famous diary is a literary hoax.

57. What about the familiar photographs and film footage taken in the liberated German camps showing piles of emaciated corpses? Are these faked?

Photographs can be faked, but it's far easier to add a misleading caption to a photo or commentary to a piece of footage. Piles of emaciated corpses do not mean that these people were "gassed" or deliberately starved to death. Actually, these were tragic victims of raging epidemics or of starvation due to a lack of food in the camps toward the end of the war.

58. Who originated the term "genocide"?

Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew, in a book published in 1944.

59. Are films such as "Schindler's List" or "The Winds of War" documentaries?

No. Such films are fictional dramatizations loosely based on history. Unfortunately, all too many people accept them as accurate historical representations.

60. How many books have been published that refute aspects of the standard "Holocaust" story?

Dozens. More are in production.

61. What happened when the Institute for Historical Review offered $50,000 to anyone who could prove that Jews were gassed at Auschwitz?

No proof was submitted as a claim on the reward, but the Institute was sued for $17 million by former Auschwitz inmate Mel Mermelstein, who claimed that the reward offer caused him to lose sleep and his business to suffer, and represented "injurious denial of established fact."

62. What about the charge that those who question the Holocaust story are merely anti-Semitic or neo-Nazi?

This is a smear designed to draw attention away from facts and honest arguments. Scholars who refute Holocaust story claims are of all persuasions and ethnic-religious backgrounds (including Jewish). There is no correlation between "Holocaust" refutation and anti-Semitism or neo-Nazism. A number of Jewish scholars openly admit the lack of evidence for key Holocaust claims.

63. What has happened to "revisionist" historians who have challenged the Holocaust story?

They have been subjected to smear campaigns, loss of academic positions, loss of pensions, destruction of their property and physical violence.

64. Has the Institute for Historical Review suffered as a result of its efforts to uphold the right of freedom of speech and academic freedom?

The IHR had been bombed three times, and was completely destroyed on July 4, 1984, in a criminal arson attack. Numerous death threats by telephone have been received. Media coverage of the IHR has been overwhelmingly hostile.

65. Why is there so little publicity for the revisionist view?

Because for political reasons the Establishment does not want any critical discussion about the facts surrounding the Holocaust story.

66. Where can I get more information about the "other side" of the Holocaust story, as well as facts concerning other aspects of World War II historical revisionism?

The Institute for Historical Review, PO Box 2739, Newport Beach, CA 92659, carries a wide variety of books, audio cassettes and video tapes on significant historical subjects. See also the Institute's Internet Web site at: http://www.ihr.org/.