Newsgroups: alt.revisionism Subject: CODOH: Arno Mayer position clarified.. Reply-To: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA Keywords: Auschwitz,CODOH,Mayer Archive/File: orgs/american/codoh/mayer.arno arno.1 Last-Modified: 1993/10/24 Given Bradley Smith's use of Arno Mayer's name in his literature, in a manner which suggests Mr. Mayer supports Mr. Smith's assertions about the Holocaust, a user responded by providing the material used by Smith, but in context, from the Mayer work: "There is a distinction between dying from 'natural' or 'normal' causes and being killed by shooting, hanging, phenol injection or gassing. But quite apart from the vital importance of not allowing this distinction to be used to extenuate and normalize the mass murder at Auschwitz, it should not be pressed too far. The Nazi leaders decided to transport frail and sick Jews and Gypsies to Aushwitz in full awareness of the perils they would face, and they continued to do so once there was no ignoring and denying the deadly conditions there, including the endemic danger of epidemics. Besides from 1942 to 1945, certainly at Auschwitz, but probably overall, more Jews were killed by so-called 'natural' causes than by 'unnatural' causes." (Mayer, 364) Mr. Mayer makes his position quite clear with regard to Mr. Smith and the Holocaust deniers: "On the contrary, the skeptics, who are outright negationists, mock the Jewish victims with their one-sided sympathetic understanding for the executioners. They are ill-disguised anti-semites and merchants of prejudice, and this morally reprehensible posture disqualifies them from membership in the republic of free letters and scholarship."(Mayer, 451) Work Cited: Mayer, Arno J. Why the Heavens Did Not Darken (paperback*) *I lack the publishing information regarding this paperback, and would appreciate it if someone in possession of same would provide it. Barring that, page references and publishing information for a hardcover edition would suffice. knm. Followups to alt.revisionism
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