Posted by Mike on May 21, 2002 at 01:23:06:
In Reply to: Re: Out of you mind? posted by wal on May 13, 2002 at 07:12:28:
Wal, your arguements are again flawed - like all revisionist arguements they simply fall down when subjected to the truth. The following FACTS should be noted:
* The ICRC does not deny the historical reality of the Holocaust. To quote their web site "From the very beginning, Hitler's regime waged a racial war aimed at subjugating the Slavic peoples and wiping out all Jews and gypsies."
* You state that the ICRC had access "to all the camps". Again to quote the ICRC:
"On 29 April 1942, the German Red Cross informed the ICRC that it would not communicate any information on "non-Aryan" detainees, and asked it to refrain from asking questions about them."
"On 27 September 1944, Dr Rossel went to Auschwitz. There he spoke to the commander of the camp, but he was not authorized to go inside it."
And finally: "Apart from the work of Friedrich Born in Hungary and a few sporadic instances elsewhere, the ICRC's efforts to assist Jews and other groups of civilians persecuted during the Second World War were a failure. By taking part in the 1995 ceremony to commemorate the liberation of the Auschwitz camp, the ICRC's President, Cornelio Sommaruga, wanted to show that the organization was fully aware of the gravity of the Holocaust and the need to keep the memory of it alive, so as to prevent any repetition of it. He paid tribute to all those who had suffered or lost their lives during the war and publicly regretted the past mistakes and shortcomings of the Red Cross with regard to the victims of the concentration camps..."
It took 5 minutes of basic web research to shoot your claims to shit.
See: http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/21a2bdb1bdc4b816c1256b0c003677be/359cc4ef8a1e5c72c1256b66005b2171?OpenDocument
The ICRC has the courage, humanity and dignity to recognise the truth, to aplogise for its failure and never deny the reality of the holocaust. Look into your own soul and aks if you pass this simple test.