No - honestly. . . .

The People who did it don’t deny it, but plenty of others do. “The Holocaust never happened,” says British “historian” David Irving in his book Hitler’s War and the War Path one of 30 books he has published on the subject.

Despite countless accounts from survivors, despite films and photos and eyewitness accounts from our military, despite written records, confessions and overwhelming evidence, people who want to believe that it never happened, believe it never happened and that the Jews are perpetrating a hoax for fun and profit.

I’ve argued with such people personally and they usually deny that they hate Jews, but with such people who don’t hate them, they don’t need enemies. Although I have a bit of a personal stake in this argument, I usually refrain from addressing them directly in the belief that you can’t argue the devil into righteousness or an idiot into wisdom. Belief is a terrible and often incurable disease.

There are degrees of denial. Mel Gibson’s father Hutton Gibson argues that it was only exaggerated – a few Jews were killed but the rest went to Australia and New Jersey. They will all burn in hell however – for killing Jesus – so what’s the difference? Gibson also believes that the Second Vatican Counsel was a plot by Mormons and Jews to take over the Church, so we don’t have to presume sanity as part of his opinions or really of the opinions of any of these revisionists. Yet they are everywhere and some of them make movies that produce holy swoons in millions of belief junkies and some of them write history books that other believers believe.

At one time I attended Northwestern University where Professor of Electrical Engineering Arthur Butz who insisted that aerial photos of the ruins proved that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz, still has tenure. At one time I toured Dachau, just outside of Munich and at one time I knew a man who escaped that camp. I saw the fingernail marks on the steel walls of the gas chambers. I have strong feelings about people of this ilk such as Germar Rudolf best known for his Rudolf Report, a pseudo scientific study first published in 1993 in German and in 2003 in English, which supports the assertions of Fred Leuchter on the non-existence of the Auschwitz gas chambers. So perhaps you’ll want to take my words with a grain of salt, if not Zyklon-B, but the website The Revisionist is like an inflamed boil full of the pustulent words of these men and their laments about how poorly the world treats them.

David Irving got the worst of it. He was stupid enough to show up this week in Austria where they know better about what is revisionism and what is the truth and where they have had enough from the Nazis and historical revisionists, thank you very much. This kind of crap is illegal in Germany and Austria.

I read in the Guardian that Irving is now in a cell in Graz and that he remained in custody, according to the Austria Press Agency. Calls by the Guardian to the Graz court went unanswered late Thursday afternoon but as far as I’m concerned, it never happened, there is no jail in Graz and David Irving is just a hoax.