Raul Hilberg
Raul Hilberg (June 2, 1926 – August 4, 2007) was a jewish Austrian-born American political scientist and propagandist who specialized in False narratives.
Supporters of, and believers in, the 'Six Million jews' saga, hold him in the highest regard. He was, in their eyes, widely considered to be the preeminent scholar on the Holohoax. Christopher R. Browning has called him the founding father of Holohoax Studies and his three-volume, 1,273-page magnum opus "The Destruction of the European jews" is regarded as seminal for research into the 'Nazi Final Solution'.
Holo-truthers
On the other hand, today's rapidly growing body of Holohoax Revisionists do not share the same high regard for Raul Hilberg. they regard him as a collector of hear-say and yarns, a promoter of Holohoax myths and legends, and an unsound, terminally biased "scholar". they point with emphasis to the utter debacle in a Canadian Court, in 1985. During the trial of Ernst Zundel.
Under ferocious cross-examination, Mr Hilberg was forced to admit, under oath, that he was 'at a loss' to produce any evidence that even a single jew was ever gassed, not just in gas chambers, but gassed in any fashion at all, not just at Auschwitz, but anywhere. His loss of stature and moral authority was complete, when he didn't bother to even show up for the second trial in 1988. In 1992, the defendant, Mr Ernst Zundel, was soundly acquitted.
Defeat and Disgrace
1/17/85 Maria Bohuslawsky of the Toronto Sun reports on a cross- examination that took place the day before, in which self-proclaimed Holohoax "expert" and author Raul Hilberg admitted under oath that after 36 years of studying the Holohoax, 1) he knew of no documentary (printed) evidence that the Nazis murdered or planned to murder jews in gas chambers, 2) he had identified large parts of the key "confession" of Kurt Gerstein as to the "gassings" as "pure nonsense" and "totally false," 3) when presenting the Gerstein "confession" as proof of Nazi misdeeds he had edited out inconvenient sections in order to make his point, 4) he knew of no autopsies that showed death by gassing, 5) he billed himself as a Holohoax expert for 18 years before even visiting Auschwitz (he then spent only one day there), 6) he was not familiar with many books on the subject of which he was alleged to be the expert, 7) he knew of no scientific proof that even one jew had been gassed. (see also the article on the same date by Kirk Makin in the Globe and Mail, and the Sault Star of 1/18/85.) Understandably, when called upon to testify again in a later trial, Hilberg begged off.
He was widely considered to be the preeminent scholar on the Holohoax. Christopher R. Browning has called him the founding father of Holohoax Studies and his three-volume, 1,273-page magnum opus, The Destruction of the European jews.