Archive/File: people/p/piper.franciszek/press/daily.texan.1093 Last-Modified: 2007/02/08 ogwiqcim, October21,1993 Dr Franciszek Piper Pa'nstwowe Muzeum 32-603 Ogwiecim -Poland Texas School Publications University of Texas P.O.Box D Austin,Texas 78713-8904 U S A Dear Sirs, In connection with an advertisement of David Cole (An open letter to the daily Texan, February 19, 1993) in which he offers the videotape named "David Cole - Interviews Dr Franciszek Piper" I would like to inform your readers: 1. the sham interview with me there is the Neonazi style monologue of young man who never seriously approached the great tragedy of humanity named Auschwitz and Holocaust. In his ingenuousness he decided to halt the part of the murderers instead of their innocent victims - different every honest man does. My answers on a few questions of Cole ( who deceitfully introduced himself as a man who wanted to convince his acquaintances in America that Auschwitz was really a place of genocide) constitute a small proportion of this video tape. 2. In his advertisement he introduces me as a "Head of Auschwitz Archives at the Auschwitz State Museum". This is untruth. I am not and I have been neither a head of Auschwitz Archives nor a director of Auschwitz Musum, as Cole maintains in other propaganda leaflets. The purpose of such manipulation with of facts is clear - to attract potential purchasers of his "Interview" video tape. 3. Cole maintains that I first time admitted the allegedly unknown fact the Nazis adapted the crematorium in question in which the gas chamber were located for air-raid shelter, the fact allegedly unknown even for Museum guides. It is un truth. See enclosed copies of pages from the books which constitute the fundamental reading for Auschwitz guides. In book by T-an Sehn "Concentrat Camp Ogwiqcim-Brzezinka (Auschwitz-Birkenau)Warsaw 1957, You may read on the page 152-"In May 1944 the old Crematorium I in the base camp was adapted for use as an air raid shelter The Fact is also confirmed in the book by Jean Claude Pressac "Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers, published by The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, New York 1989 (515 Madison Avenue). On the page 157 you may read: "With part of the building converted to an air raid shelter, this is the state in which the SS abandoned Krematorium I in January 1945" Repeating what Pressac had written I told what was the nature of the adaptation works carried out by the Nazis and what one had to do to remove those changes in order to regain the previous appearance. They are all "Pipers revelations. In spite of the fact that such secondary restoration works had to be done there is an undisputable reality that the gas chamber in question is housed in the same building which has been existed from prewar times till now. 4. The fact that the Nazi murderers used gas chambers (in Birkenau you can see the ruins of the other 5 gas chambers) for mass annihilation of innocent men, women and children, mostly Jews, has been proved by thousands of memoires and depositions of eyewitnesses as well as by German official documents and plans. It is obvious fact for everybody who wants to approach the problem, to contact still living witnesses and to study historical sources. 5. I have devoted 28 years of my life to save the memory of the counless victims of the Nazi barbarity to warn people against indifference to all forms of racial, religious and national based hatered, which leads to injustice, suffering and killing of innocent people. Because of it I take the fact my name is used for disseminating such kind of lies and hiding of the obvious truth as a lack of honesty and dignity. yours,sincerelyDrFranciszek Piper PS Send me please the copy ofyour magazine in which my letter will be published [transcription note: Dr. Piper's first language is Polish, not English, and the letter reads awkwardly. knm]
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