© Copyright 1993, H. David Kirk
[Continued]
Summing Up
Now we turn to Jäckel's dissection of
Irving's thesis in
Hitler's War. Let us keep in mind what these essays imply.
They shout that the emperor has no clothes. The emperor,
here Adolf Hitler, appears in
Irving's portrait of him as a
willful child but without guile. Jäckel's essays warn that
the deception, if widely believed, can lead to dire
consequences, reminiscent of this aphorism:
The attempt to justify an evil deed has perhaps
more pernicious consequences than the evil deed
itself. The justification of a past crime is the
planting and cultivation of future crimes. Indeed,
the repetition of a crime is sometimes part of a
device of justification: we do it again and again
to convince ourselves and others that it is a
common thing and not an enormity.[20]
Footnotes
3. Bella Fromm, Blood and Banquets - A Berlin Social Diary,
New York and London, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1942.
4. The collection in which Eberhard Jäckel's essays appeared
was called "Im Kreuzfeuer: Der Fernsehfilm `Holocaust' -
Eine Nation ist Betroffen," edited by Peter Martesheimer and
Ivo Frevel, with the collaboration of Hellmut Auerbach and
Walter H. Pehle, Frankfurt, Fishcher Taschenbuch Verlag,
1979.
5. John Toland, "Adolf Hitler," Garden City, N.Y.,
Doubleday, 1979.
6.
Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The Holocaust and the Historians,
Cambridge, MA, and London, England, Harvard University
Press, 1981, p. 35.
7. C.C. Aronsfeld, "The Bestial Policy of Cold-Blooded
Extermination," Midstream, April 1993, pp. 10-11 .
8.
David Irving, Hitler's War, Toronto, London, Sydney,
Auckland, Hodder and Stoughton, 1977. This book is peddled
at neo-Nazi meetings; Professor JäckeI's essays were written
in response to it.
9. Goering, a Biography, New York, William Morrow and
Company, 1989
10. Otto Dietrich, Hitler, translated by Richard and Clara
Winston, Chicago, Henry Regnery Company, 1955, p. 41. I am
indebted to Mr. John Weitz for directing my attention to
this important primary source.
11. Quoted from Andrew Cohen, "Before we banish the past we
must learn to accept it," The Canadian Jewish News, 13
August 1992. A more recent piece of information from a
London correspondent suggests that
Irving was not paid that
sum and that he bitterly complained, publicly, about this
breach of contract.
12. Martin Broszat, "Hitler und die Genesis der
'Endloesung'," Vierteljahrhefte fuer Zeitgeschichte, Nr. 4,
October 1977, p. 745.
13. Author of "The Hoax of the Twentieth Century."
14. C.C. Aronsfeld, "Holocaust 'Revisionists' are Busy in
Britain," Midstream, January 1993, p. 29.
15. C.C. Aronsfeld, "The Bestial Policy of Cold-Blooded
Extermination," op. cit., p. 11.
16. C.C. AronfeId, op. cit. p. 11.
17.
James Bacque, Other Losses, Toronto, Stoddard Publishing
Co. 1989.
18. Letter by a Dr. Herrmann, Professor of Political Science
at Concordia University, appearing in The Canadian Jewish
News, 8 March 1990.
19. Julius Pfeiffer, CA, The Canadian Jewish News, 19 April
1990, p. 10.
20. Eric Hoffer, The Passonate State of Mind, New York,
Harper Brothers, 1954.
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