The International Campaign for Real History

IN ORDER to reconcile the wartime 1944 photograph with
the postwar "eye-witness testimony" of smoke billowing from
Crematorium building chimneys, the historians and scholars of the
Simon Wiesenthal Center have helpfully inserted smoke into the
photograph, thereby avoiding injurious puzzlement among school
children and other innocent visitors to its Website who might
otherwise fall foul of the lies of the Revisionists.

We recall that when the US Government finally released the
air photographs of Auschwitz in 1978, historians and scholars of the
Central Intelligence Agency first inserted captions identifying
buildings as "gas chambers", etc.; even the National Archives
dissociated itself from that attempt at forgery.

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the world, the Simon Wiesenthal Center serves up Six Million Lies,
Exaggerations, and Legends about the Holocaust daily

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IN 1999 the Simon Wiesenthal Center published
on its website a photograph (below right) with this caption: "As
these prisoners were being processed for slave labor, many of
their friends and families were being gassed and burned in the
ovens in the crematoria. The smoke can be seen in the background.
June 1944".

By Friday, May 5, 2000 the
caption has been surreptitiously and guiltily changed to: "As
ovens in the crematoria."

The fake smoke was however still in the photo. . .

Update (as of Sunday, December 3, 2000): Caught red-handed in
their forgery, the SWC has removed the fake smoke from the
photograph at the above link.

When checked on Monday,
August 11, 2003 the photograph had been wholly removed, and
replaced with the words "Photo not available." Well it was,
(and still is below), but it was a fake, wasn't it? We have
archived the page (click image, left), in case the Center decides
that admitting the fakery was a bad idea.

ON ONE Internet thread can be seen the Wiesenthal Center's
mendacious reply upon being challenged about the infamous photo.
It reads, "Thank you for your inquiry. The photo was never
retouched. A smudge on the photo was incorrectly identified as
smoke from the chimneys." The "smudge" conveniently belches forth
from the top of a distant chimney, however. We wonder how many
people in history have been hanged because of "incorrectly
identified" smudges?

The unretouched photo showing May 1944 new
camp arrivals at Auschwitz.
From Auschwitz Album 1978 (1st edition,
Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, New York, 1978), photo No.
165.

Cosmetically improved version on the
Wiesenthal Website:
Suddenly
there is distant smoke in the background behind the
fence-posts, poles and new arrivals.

Sources of Wiesenthal photo, above right:

http://motlc.wiesenthal.org/albums/palbum/p00/a0007p2.html 2/3 down the page, click on thumbnail photo:
"Hungarian arrivals after the "Selektion" at
"Auschwitz"

For enlarged photo: http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/gallery/pg22/pg0/pg22035.html

Our thanks to photo expert John
Ball for drawing our attention to this
forgery. See David Irving's essay on photo forgeries (in
German). We originally wrote: "We wonder how long the SWC will
leave the evidence of their faking on their Website. Please
notify
us the moment it vanishes!" People
did.

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