I Don't Speak German, Episode 16: Mr Death

Something a bit different this week, as Daniel and Jack chat about Errol Morris' documentary film Mr Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A Leuchter Jnr, as part one of a two part discussion of Holocaust denial.

Warnings most definitely apply.

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Show Notes:

A Militia Group Detained Hundreds of Migrants At Gunpoint At The Border United Constitutional Patriots on Facebook

https://twitter.com/LCRWnews/status/1119902405821288448 https://twitter.com/leftkist/status/1118662484640976896 "Republican discussed violent attacks and surveillance with rightwingers" https://twitter.com/jason_a_w/status/1120451594825420801 Republican Representative Matt Shea Planned Violent Attacks On ‘Communist’ Leftists, Leaked Chat Messages Show Matt Shea connection to Christian Identity in 2018 (Ad-heavy but with good detail) "Biblical Basis For War" *

Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr (YouTube) Mr. Death Transcript Analytical Chemistry segment from Mr. Death The Nizkor Project (it's okay to click through) 66 Questions and Answers About the Holocaust "First of all, consider the implicit conspiracy theory. Notice how the testimony of every single inmate of every Nazi camp is automatically dismissed as unconvincing. This total dismissal of inmates' testimony, along with the equally-total dismissal of the Nazis' own testimony (!), is the largest unspoken assumption of Holocaust-denial. This assumption, which is not often spelled out, is that the attempted Jewish genocide never took place, but rather that a secret conspiracy of Jews, starting around 1941, planted and forged myriad documents to prove that it did; then, after the war, they rounded up all the camp survivors and told them what to say." "The conspirators also supposedly managed to torture hundreds of key Nazis into confessing to crimes which they never committed, or into framing their fellow Nazis for those crimes, and to plant hundreds of documents in Nazi files which were never discovered until after the war, and only then, in many cases, by sheer luck. [...] "Regarding postwar testimony from Nazis, were they all tortured into confessing to heinous crimes which they supposedly did not commit? This might be believable if only a few Nazis were captured after the war, or maybe if some had courageously stood up in court and shouted to the world about the supposed attempt to silence them. But hundreds testified regarding the Holocaust, in trials dating from late 1945 until the 1960s." Holocaust Controversies   Holocaust Controversies "Rebutting the Twitter Denial." Deborah Lipstadt, "Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory." Richard Evans, "Lying About Hitler." Nizkor on The Leuchter Report Institute for Forensic Research, Cracow, analysis of Auschwitz in 1994 Holocaust Controversies on The Leuchter Report

Leuchter Report thoroughly debunked, by a fellow Nazi no less, in 1993 (page 32 in scanned "Liberty Bell" Fred Leuchter interview 2015, with Jim Rizoli David Irving "The Manipulation of History" Another Voice For Freedom with Ernst Zundel: "Left-Wing" Violence on the Streets of Canada Ernst Zundel, "Adolf Hitler -- Artist, Architect, and Designer" Highlights from the 9th IHR Conference (footage from this was used in Mr. Death) Van Pelt Report from Irving trial Richard Evans Report from Irving Trial

Holocaust on Trial (Docudrama about Irving Trial)