Posted by Mike on May 26, 2002 at 19:34:33:
In Reply to: nuremburg judge accused germans of using atom bomb posted by zogling on May 26, 2002 at 14:39:43:
Again wrong, again your lies and misinformation are embarrassingly amateurish.
According to the transcript of the Nuremberg trial (21st June 1946, pages 55-56) Jackson asks Speer about German atomic research and if the Germans used such a weapon. Speer, truthfully admits that they did not has they did not have the technology or knowledge (having caused the scientist to flee from Nazi persecution). Jackson ACCEPTS this statement, and goes on to ask if the claims of use of atomic weapons where "...exaggerated for the purpose of keeping the German people in the war?" to which Speer answers YES. They then go on to discuss research into other weapons of mass destruction. NO ONE denies the holocaust. Your source simply lifts a quote out of context in an another sad attempt to deny reality.
Anyone interested in Speer should read Gitta Sereny's "Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth". The work of a real historian. (link here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684829495/qid=1022458677/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-0694523-8115044) Sereny spent years talking with Speer: Speer does not deny the holocaust. Sereny, through a series of brilliant and vivid conversation teases the truth out of Speer.
Speer iin his own words DOES NOT deny the holocaust: he refers to his the holocaust as a historical reality in his memoirs. While he tries to exonerate himself at NO stage does he deny their reality (see: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684829495/qid=1022458677/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-0694523-8115044)
For those interested in the truth, find here the full of the exchange between Jackson and Speer below:
Q. Now, certain information has been placed in my hands of an experiment which was carried out near Auschwitz, and I would like to ask you if you ever heard about it or knew about it. The purpose of the experiment was to find a quick and complete way of destroying people without the delay and trouble associated with shooting and gassing and burning, the methods being used. This was the experiment, as I am advised. A village, a small village was provisionally erected, with temporary structures, and in it approximately twenty thousand Jews were put. By means of this newly invented weapon of destruction, these twenty thousand people were eradicated almost instantaneously, and there was no, trace left of them; the explosive used developing temperatures of from four to five hundred degrees centigrade.
Do you know about that experiment?
[Page 56]
A. No, and I consider it utterly improbable. If we had had such a weapon under preparation I would have known about it. But we did not have such a weapon. It is clear that in the chemical field experiments were made and research work carried on by both sides in attempts to develop all possible weapons, because one did not know which side would start chemical warfare first.
Q. The reports, then, of a new and secret weapon were exaggerated for the purpose of keeping the German people in the war?
A. That was the case mostly during the last phase of the war. From August on ... June or July, 1944, rather, I very often went to the front. I visited about forty front divisions in their sectors and could not help seeing that the troops, just like the German civilian population, were given hopes of a new weapon coming, new weapons even, and miracle weapons which, without requiring the use of soldiers, without military forces, would achieve victory. In this belief lies the secret why so many people in Germany continued to sacrifice their lives, although common sense told them that the war was over. They believed that within the near future this new weapon would arrive. I wrote to Hitler about it and tried in different speeches, even before Goebbels's propaganda leaders, to counteract these hopes. Both Hitler and Goebbels told me, however, that it was not propaganda, but that it was a belief which had grown up amongst the people. Only in the dock here in Nuremberg did I learn from Fritzsche that this propaganda was spread systematically amongst the people through certain channels, and that SS Standartenfuehrer Berg was responsible for it. Many things have become clear to me now because this man Berg as a representative of the Ministry of Propaganda had often taken part in meetings, in big sessions of my Ministry, as he was writing articles about these sessions. There he heard of our future plans and then used this knowledge to tell the people about them with more fantasy than truth.
Source: http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/imt/tgmwc/tgmwc-17/tgmwc-17-160-03.shtml