Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
Holocaust Hoaxers Found!
Posted December 13, 2006 at 12:01 am by basil
Hello, I’m Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, and we’re holding a conference to help clear up any misconceptions you may have about the myth of the so-called “Holocaust.” I want to thank Basil for allowing me the opportunity to help educate you on the Zionist lie that so many accept as fact.
To that end, Basil says he’s helped find the actual perpetrators of the hoax. Now, we’re offering this exclusive exposé.
Let’s hear from the first admitted hoaxer.
My name is Hedwig Erlanger, and I freely admit that I helped perpetrate the myth of the Holocaust. It was a horrible thing I did, helping tell that lie and I am truly, truly sorry.
What’s going on here?
I’m admitting the Holocaust was a hoax. You say it was a hoax, right?
Um, yeah, but…
Well, I’m here to help. I’m the proof that the Holocaust was a hoax.
Me, too.
And us, too. We all were a part of making people think the Holocaust really happened. We lied. We’re sorry.
We didn’t want to tell the lie, either, but Mom and Dad made us. Dirty rotten Jews!
Um…
Yeah, Mr. President. I told the lie, too. I don’t know what came over me.
It started out as a joke. Then it kind of got out of hand. The truth is, the Nazis were just the nicest people. But we were sitting around one day, drinking the blood of children, when someone said, “Hey, let’s tell everyone that Nazis are killing us” …
Yeah, that was me. Sorry!
… then somebody picked a number. What was it, 100,000?
Then somebody said “a million” … and we all laughed.
Then Isidor said, “Hey, why stop there. If they believe one-million, they’ll believe six-million.”
So, anyway, one thing led to another.
Like I said, we made up the Holocaust. It was just a joke that got out of hand. And by the time we all came to our senses, it was too late.
We know it was wrong. But we just kinda got caught up. But we promise we won’t do it again.
Never again.
See also:
- ScrappleFace: Conference to Explore Whether Ahmadinejad Happened
- Public Eye: Hitler Disavows Holocaust Conference
- Blue Crab Boulevard: Two Words For David Duke
- bRight & Early: First Cup 12.13.06
- Captain’s Quarters: Iranian Provocation
- IMAO: There’s a sickening conference of hatred going on in the world right now…
- Matthew Yglesias: Holocaust Denial
- Wizbang: The Holocaust Myth
December 13th, 2006 at 7:15 am
Hitler Disavows Holocaust Conference…
Former German Chancellor Adolph Hitler criticized the Holocaust conference in Tehran today, calling it "the craziest thing he's ever heard."
Iran is hosting the conference to determine whether the Holocaust had happened of not. It featured, among…
December 13th, 2006 at 9:06 am
Whoa.
December 13th, 2006 at 9:12 am
Go Read Basil, Now!…
Basil is always passing out the unsolicited linky love. After reading this post of his, I am returning the favor. A nice blend of sarcasm, and graphic images that would make The Supreme Monger proud! Oh, and those graphic images, they are very graphic….
December 13th, 2006 at 9:16 am
Yesterday afternoon, Michael Savage ranted and raved about why the mainstream media was not countering the Holocaust with photos of the carnage inflicted by the Nazis.
Basil, you are the only responsible media source out there. Thank you for the truth!
December 13th, 2006 at 9:31 am
I’ve read several books about this and am just stunned that someone can just say it didn’t happen–there are still people with numbers tatooed on their arms! In the pics where people are surrounding the dead, must’ve been where the people who lived in the town near the prison camp were made to come look at the dead, so they couldn’t deny what was going on in them. David Duke should’ve been blocked from re-entering the US!
Great post, Basil!
December 13th, 2006 at 9:49 am
Good job Basil! The comment by John Lillpop is right; the mainstream media seems to be asleep at the switch. They are not covering this story the way they should.
December 13th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
I am just spitting blood about this.
December 13th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
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December 14th, 2006 at 5:23 am
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December 15th, 2006 at 12:30 am
Everyone here, including the blogger, please open your mind a bit. Nobody denied Holocaust, only said the numbers are not right. They are based on russians estimates and russians made a priority in discrediting germans.
When real numbers and proofs surfaced 40 years later nobody paid attention, as huge sums of money were already paid to survivors and so on…
If it is so obvious, why are poeple jailed in Europe for saying they want some more proofs about th enumber of people that died.
There were many typhus casualties in labour camps, probably these pictures are showing us dead from. The question is :were there 6 mil or 1.5 millions? It is a big difference! (7-8 millions of ucrainians died for instance in WW2)
December 15th, 2006 at 10:56 am
Even if you want to say some died from other causes–would they have died if they were in their homes or did the horrible conditions and inhumane treatment have something to do with it? Dead is dead.
December 19th, 2006 at 3:23 pm
If the jews really believed in the holocaust? They would not be the naziz that they are? Dont believe me look at Palestine.
December 21st, 2006 at 4:58 pm
Holocaust: Memorial, Denial and Resistance (meanwhile in the blogosphere…)…
Both sides shun Arab memorial to Jews – World – smh.com.au
Khaled Mahameed opened a modest Holocaust museum, Arab Institute for Holocaust Research and Education, in his office in the predominantly Arab town of Nazareth 18 months ago. It has some 80 pho…
October 17th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
The holocaust was not a hoax the Nazis killed 6 billion ppl and you’re saying that it was a hoax…you are all krazy! And if ppl believe it they are krazy too!
October 17th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Kayla:
Back in December 2006, the president of Iran called for a conference to discuss what he called “the myth of the Holocaust.”
Of course, that guy’s nuts. That’s why our president, George Bush, won’t deal with him. And why Barack Obama would. (Obama’s nuts, too, you see. Tell mommy to not vote for the mean old Obama man.)
This post is what’s called “satire.” That’s a grown-up word that means to cleverly poke fun at something.
You see, this post, written from the point of view of Ahmadinejad’s addressing the audience. And he’s presenting evidence that the Holocaust was a hoax.
However, the pictures that accompany the evidence show that the Holocaust was very real. And the supporting claims get more and more ridiculous as the pictures get worse and worse.
The post ends with the phrase, “Never again,” a phrase closely tied to the Holocaust, meaning that such an atrocity must never again be allowed to happen.
Sorry you missed the point of the post. But study hard, read books, and learn all you can about the world.
When you grow up, you can help do your part to make the world a better place.
December 7th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
The holocaust was NOT a hoax. Who ever wrote this should be ashamed along with the people who believe it. 13 million ppl died! and you say it didnt happen! 6 million of which were jews!
How can you be so cold-hearted not to see that these ppl died because of the hatred of Nazis. You may believe that this is false but why are there ppl who are scared due to what they have saw. are left with numbers printed on their skin. Left with no family; all alone. Lost everyone they had; family, friends and neighbors!
Someone who could just sit there and believe this or even form their lips to say they believe it should open there eyes and ears and look at the survivors; listen to their stories!
Next you will probably say Adolf Hitler was a great man with no hatred in his heart. He organized this! I guess hatred in general is a hoax!
Basil, you should be ashamed.
December 7th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Bri:
Sorry you’re so clueless. This post is called satire. You obviously didn’t read it. Nor did you read my response to the other clueless person.
You should be ashamed that you are so clueless.
December 10th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Planned Holocaust “memoir” said by some to be a hoax now
Maybe
For legal reasons, author’s name and book title not revealed here. But you can google to find out.
This is pure conjecture, but interesting nonetheless…
NEW YORK — When Oprah and the Assciated Press trumpeted the amazing
love story of two Holocaust survivors who
allegedly met on a blind date in 1958 in the USA and recalled that
same night that they had been young “friends” in a Nazi camp in 1943,
when she, living in nearby village and posing as a Christian girl
(although she was Jewish) threw apples over a fence to feed the young
teenager — his “angel at the fence” — little did the media outlets
know that he was telling a great big fat fib. His
autobiography, ghostwritten by an un-nnamed writer and coming in at
300 pages from a major New York publisher and set for a February 2009
national laydown, has now been said to be shown to be
a hoax. Perhaps. Think James Frey and other Holocaust “memoirs” that later
turned out to be fake.
A respected Jewish historian has discovered that the entire backstory
that he the media — and also a Newsday reporter in New York a few
years ago — is
a complete hoax.
The confidant tells this reporter: “I spent time today with a Jewish man, also a
Holcolaust survivor , who
knows thus old man very well….up close and personal…… He was
closer with his late older brother, , but he knows him too.
This man is greatly concerned about the autobiography
soon to be published. He knew of the story for many
years now, had been asked about it by other survivors, and he worries
about its impact.
“The story is a figment of his imagination. There is not a word
of truth in what he is saying. I feel sick…. (by the appearance of
the story),” the man, who was in the same Nazi camp as the author, says.
“Even his late older brother , now dead, was embarassed and ashamed
by his story. He didn’t know
where the story came from.”
The man also says he knew the author for years and never head the story
until the 1990s. He never mentioned over the years how he met his
wife in a camp, never told the media backstory, period.
This man is especially concerned that a concoction like this puts a
lie to and undermines serious Holocaust memoirs.
“It is really sad,” this Holocaust survivor who doubts the truth of
his backstory, says, and notes he has proof to back it up. ” I
read these stories (i.e., untruthful or
embellished stories). They always upset me. If someone would
investigate it, he would expose it easily. They (such authors) are
not even aware of the inconsistencies.”
UPDATE: One day after the author confessed that he had
embellished major parts of his new Holcaust memoir …… the focus turned to
his publisher and the news organizations that helped publicize what
appeared to be a genuine and true Holocaust autobiography.
The book’s publisher said on Tuesday that there was nothing else that
he or the book’s editor, could have done to prevent the author
from embellishing.
“In hindsight we can second-guess all day things we could have looked
for or found,” he said. “The fact is that the author went to
extraordinary lengths: he provided people who vouched for him. There
was a Jewish historian professor who vouched for his backstory, and a
writer who had written about him that seemed to corroborate her
story.” He added that the author had signed a contract in which he had
legally promised to tell the truth. “The one thing we wish,” the
editor said, “is that the author had told us the truth.”
The publisher has recalled nearly 50,000 copies of the book and is
offering refunds to book buyers.
The editor said she also trusted the author because his memoir had come
through “a respected literary agent” who had in turn been referred to
the author by a writer whom the editor had worked with previously.
Despite editing the book in the aftermath of the scandal surrounding
James Frey, author of a best-selling memoir, “A Million Little
Pieces,” who admitted making up or exaggerating details in his account
of drug addiction and recovery, the editor of the new book said
she did not independently check parts of the man’s story or perform
any kind of background check. She said she relied on the author to tell
the truth.
“In the post-James Frey world, we all are more careful,” she said. “I
had numerous conversations with him about the need
to be honest and the need to stick to the facts.”
“There was no reason to doubt him , ever,” the book’s agent said.
Similarly, reporters from major wire services and top newspapers who
interviewed him were also taken in by his
backstory.
“The way I look at it is that it’s just like when you get in a car and
drive to the store … you assume that the other drivers on the road
aren’t psychopaths on a suicide mission,” said one book critic.
The editor now said she wished she had been more skeptical and done
further fact-checking. “Of course I wish I could do it differently,”
she said. “I think a lot of other people were fooled before me.”
The book critic said: “I was to some degree trusting that the vetting
process of a reputable book publisher was going to catch this level of
duplicity.”
In a publishing landscape that has been rocked by scandals like Mr.
Frey’s fabrications and the hoax perpetrated by Laura Albert, the
woman who posed as the novelist J T LeRoy, a supposed addict and son
of a West Virginia prostitute, other publishers and agents said their
business still operated on trust.
“It is not an industry capable of checking every last detail,” said
an agent who represented J T LeRoy (without knowing he
was actually Ms. Albert) and Ishmael Beah, author of the best-selling
memoir “A Long Way Gone,” who was recently accused by Australian
journalists of distorting his service as a child soldier in Sierra
Leone’s civil war during the 1990s, a charge that he and his
publishers have repeatedly denied. “So to present yourself as
something you are not betrays all the trust.”
Nan A. Talese, who published Mr. Frey’s “A Million Little Pieces,”
said the combination of these recent episodes could start to change
the business’s practices. “I think what editors are going to have to
do is point to the things that happened recently and say to their
authors, ‘If there is anything in your book that can be discovered to
be untrue, you better let us know right now, and we’ll deal with it
before we publish it,’ ” Ms. Talese said. But she added: “I don’t
think there is any way you can fact-check every single book. It would
be very insulting and divisive in the author-editor relationship.”
Sarah Crichton, publisher of her own imprint at Farrar, Straus &
Giroux and the editor of “A Long Way Gone,” said she did some
background checking on Mr. Beah. “I come out of journalism and so I
certainly wanted to make sure the historical record was accurate,”
said Ms. Crichton, a former editor at Newsweek. “But I will confess
that I did the checking that I did also in part just to protect us,
because I knew that we were going to be publishing into a changed
landscape.”
January 4th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
How awful that the Rosenblats lied about their story and that the publishers and movie makers and Oprah didn't figure it out. So sad.
Some Holocaust love stories are true. The NY Times featured a story about the famous comic book artists Stan Lee and Neal Adams and a story they were publicizing.
The story is about Dina Gottliebova Babbitt who was a 19 year old art student at Auschwitz. There she was asked by the Jewish head of the children’s camp to paint something to cheer them up. Dina painted a mural of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and in the end, Dina’s art became the reason for her salvation.
Painting the mural for the children caused Dina to be taken in front of Dr. Mengele, the Angel of Death. She thought she was going to be gassed, but she bravely stood up to Mengele and he decided to make her his portrait painter, saving herself and her mother from the gas chamber.
After the war, Dina applied for a job to be an animator and the person interviewing her turned out to be the man who created Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs for the movie. They fell in love and got married. Show White saved Dina’s life twice!
January 6th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
I believe this is one tragedy that not only just affected the world at that time… But also future generations… And every being as a whole should be aware… That this is not only a tragedy… But also a disaster… I wish we could erase the past… But now all we can do is fix the future… Keep that in mind…
January 15th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Are you kidding? It was real and whether or not this stupid thing is just a joke or some person trying to take the blame off Hitler as a fanatic, its simply racism to say” Dirty rotten Jews!” whoever did this…whats wrong with you? Its not funny or antyhing, The Holocaust is a true event that was tragic and affected millions of people. Would you like to dead millions of times over JUST to experience the pain they had given to them in humiliation? People who think that the Holocaust is funny and say that it was a joke are really ignorant. They have not a slightest idea of how it was.
January 15th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
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January 21st, 2009 at 1:32 am
I was a young child when the German officers were put on trial I saw many more photos and films of the things the Germans did to the Jews. What about the experiment they did on them. Even now I can see the photos of a young boy having his arms and legs pulled of by solders. I think that you should all be shown the films I saw, then say that it didnt happen. You that think it was all a sham. You need to be made to see what I saw, then deny it. You are just ignorant pathetic excuses for the human race. To me you are jealous satanist that cant feel for anyone. Your time will come and may God help you
January 21st, 2009 at 2:04 am
I forgot to let you know I am English living in the US. My Grandfather used is fishing boat to rescue American soldier. My Grandmother was a nurse and nursed many American solders back to health and held the hand of some that died. She also had to take care of some of the prisoners of war some of them Jewish children. She would cry many times when telling of the many stories she had of the war. Its so sad that the world has become so cold. I fear for us all. So many cold hearted people in this world. Just because one or two people lie doesn’t mean the suffering of so many innocent children didnt happen I only wish people would see with there own heart than let others turn them into uncaring sheep A little love doesn’t cost any thing I pray for us all. we will need it. If you don’t believe in God that’s alright I do and if I am wrong I don’t loose anything but if you are wrong what have you lost.
January 21st, 2009 at 7:02 am
Eileen:
I’m certain there are many pictures even more graphic than what I used here. However, for those that deny the holocaust, nothing will change their small minds. The only way to affect them is to laugh at them. Not because they are funny; they’re not. Not because they did things funny; they didn’t. Rather, hold them up to ridicule and scorn, because they deserve ridicule and scorn.
Evil is often impervious to scorn. Ridicule, however, bothers evil greatly. Therefore, I attempt to ridicule evil.
January 22nd, 2009 at 1:51 am
Dear Basil What you say is somewhat true and you have caught the eyes of sum. But to believe that evil is bothered in any way by scorn and radical is naive, what evil cannot overcome is compassion and love of each other. Its sad to say that the world is never going to get that. If you love people you could never let anything like the holocaust happen again. The world is preparing to turn its back on the Jews again. the Jews were bombed 700 times before they retaliated. Then the press and the rest of the world blames the Jews. How many bombs would it take befor anyone would have retaliated. I would not have wated for 2 let alone 700. I hope that I am wrong but?
February 5th, 2009 at 11:29 am
I really appreciate this one, because for my senior speech in high school, we were supposed to do a report on something using a photoshop slide show in the background. i didnt get to present mine, because i missed that part of the year at that school, but i had my report all finished. i wrote a speech from the point of view of a Holocaust denier, and i put together a slide show full of images from the Holocaust, like the ones you used to show in the background while i was denying the whole thing ever happened. it was hard to write that speech, because i am Jewish and have relatives who died in the Holocaust, but it was a pretty powerful presentation. so thanks for making that entry.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Thank you for the comments.
February 12th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
It did happened, but this is an irrevalant issue, unless it's been and being used to justify and gain political & economical interests!! Try to consider why Jews are repeating the same Holocaust again and again since 1948 and recently 2008/2009 in Gaza.
Well if you really believe it has happened, then Germany should compensate Jews and have their State in Bavaria for example or somewhere near Hamburg!
February 12th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
It is relevant to this post, because, if you check the date of the post (December 13, 2006), that’s during the time that Ahmadinejad was doing his Holocaust denial conference. So, ignoring whether or not it’s relevant today, it was relevant when posted, for the reasons you stated.
You seem to believe Israel is an aggressor nation. Of course, I suspect you think the same thing of my nation. Ignoring the fact that, if we were, we’d have conquered your country a long time ago, and you’d have the Stars and Stripes (63 stars, by the way) flying overhead, not the Maple Leaf.
And, why, oh why, would Germany owe Jews land? God didn’t promise Bavaria or Hamburg to His Chosen People, but rather, the land that is Israel today.
February 12th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
This was informative, funny on the sarcastic side and upsetting on the picture side. I have just finnished night for school and we are still discussing the book in class. I’ll be sure to let my teacher know about this site. She’ll probably share it with the rest of the class to finally show to all those who truly don’t believe… And then we’ll see what they think after that…
March 23rd, 2009 at 9:36 pm
This was an excellent satire! Very well done!
Out of curiousity, do you know the actual arguments behind the Holocaust being a hoax?
April 29th, 2009 at 7:56 am
Basil you are a legend, this is just brilliant.