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The current edition of the British anti-fascist monthly
"Searchlight" (September 1995) has a photo of
David Irving
on the cover, with the headline "
David Irving's Holocaust
Admission." Inside, there is a delightful report on
Irving's
July 27, 1995 live
appearance on an Australian radio program
hosted by Ron Casey. At one point,
Irving "owned up at last,
even if it is only a partial admission" regarding the Holocaust.
Irving asserted that if Churchill had negotiated a settlement
with Nazi Germany, "the world would have been spared a lot of
suffering and would also, incidentally, have been spared what is
now called the Holocaust."
Pressed by Casey to concede that,
by his use of the H-word, he was admitting that the Holocaust
had happened,
Irving suggested that it was in fact Casey who
had used the word. Casey then asked, "What is your estimate
of the number of Jews who died at the hands of Hitler's regime
during the war years? What number - I don't like using this
word - what number would you concede were killed in
concentration camps?"
Irving's reply (which, to quote
Searchlight's editorial, "blew the whole revisionist game in
a single statement"): "I think, like any scientist, I'd
have to give you a range of figures and I'd have to say a
minimum of one million, which is monstrous, depending on what
you mean by being killed. If putting people into a
concentration camp where they die of barbarity and typhus and
epidemics is killing, then I would say the four million figure
because, undoubtedly, huge numbers did die in the camps in
conditions that were very evident at the end of the war."
Bravo to Searchlight and its courageous publisher, Gerry
Gable, for another important contribution in the fight for
truth and human dignity. (FYI: Their address is 37B
New Cavendish Street, London W1M 8JR, ENGLAND. Subscriptions
(12 issues/year) are 35 British pounds outside Europe, for
airmail delivery.)
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