Saturday, November 22, 2014

On Elie Wiesel's Powerful Book, "Night"

It's a riveting book and the fellow's an amazing writer. But nowhere does he once mention gas-chambers at Auschwitz and in fact claimed that the method of death was being thrown into a flaming pit.......You see, it's this type of hyperbole that bothers me (previous methods of death being electrocution on a conveyer belt, air hammers, indoor furnaces, and electric chambers)......."Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel amongst themselves." Daniel Webster......."I have seldom known anyone who deserted the truth in trifles that could be trusted in matters of importance." William Paley......."Ninety nine percent of what we know (about the Holocaust) we do not actually have the evidence to prove." Robert Jan van Pelt (a Holocaust scholar and believer in the traditional narrative)......."I believe it is no exaggeration if I say that the biggest part of Auschwitz propaganda, which was spread in the world around that time, has been written by us in the camp." Bruno Baum (Holocaust survivor), "Resistance in Auschwitz", 1949......."A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters." Samuel Johnson.

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