The link works again.
http://questioningtheholocaust.com/inde ... -the-line/Hannover wrote:Poor Eric, a quick read and viewing of his own work demolishes his new found status. There's nothing he can say or do to erase that fact.
Someone has 'persuaded' him to flip:

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That comes as a surprise, but I understand he had serious financial strains in recent years. And as a "Holocaust Denier", I doubt his prospect of ever landing a middle class job are rather thin. In that light I do not hold this recantation against him.
The following I find quite disturbing:
After this moment, however, I will hold any “denial” leaders personally responsible for any naive people that get prosecuted and persecuted for denying N.S. mass murders. I will hold them responsible for continuing to mislead these naive people and egg them on into life destroying positions. They have no information which can help these people, to show a judge or jury to help them get acquitted. On the contrary. They are setting up others for prosecution due to their own stubborn refusal to admit they were wrong on this key issue.
With other words. the unlawful, actually even highly criminal, persecution of Holocaust Revisionist or just people publicly proclaiming disbelief in the Holocaust narrative, he doesn't hold against the persecutors (Legislators, Prosecutors, Police, Judges), but against those that informed others about the falsehood or unproven character of Holocaust claims (He calls them denial leaders). That's a rather odd view of blame shifting.
Now lets look at his attempt at salvaging the Holocaust (I take it he still doesn't claim that the complete narrative as presented by main stream historiography is true ). I only went briefly through the essay. But I didn't find any convincing novelty in it. It reads like a condensed version of the data heaps presented by the likes of NIZKOR and Holocaustcontroversies, which apparently didn't make it to more then a blospot as to look like "poor defenders of the truth". Although he left out most of the less persuasive, sloppy parts of those items of evidence.
If I have to list the arguments/evidences, I think the following is worth mentioning:
1. The Where-did-they-go-if-they-weren't-gassed-argument.
2. A reworked version of the "No-Nazi-did-deny-the-Holocaust"-argument. This time it's defendants that could have said the Reinhardt-camps were Transit camps.
3. Pictures supposedly showing Jews in Auschwitz. Some from the so-called "Auschwitz Album", some air-photos, alleged cremation "photos", one allegedly showing "Elderly Jew being forced into Crematorium 5" (seriously, Eric?). Those pictures supposedly show that Jews were deliberately killed/gassed in Auschwitz.
4. Ground disturbances in Treblinka and Babi Yar, failure of Revisionists to show convincing soil/surface analysis at those places.
5. Pictures supposedly showing Jews being rounded up at Babi Yar, (but not shot), the supposed clothing of the victims and supposed evidence removal there.
6. Pictures supposedly showing opened mass graves at Treblinka - We're to believed those are Jewish bones, I guess.
7. Some hinting at flat earth, moon-landing denial,9-11 truthing, etc. - Sorry that's irrelevant and obfuscation.
Now, if that's the best Exterminationists can come up after more then 70 years and millions of dollars spent, it really doesn't look to good for their position.
I leave the points as they are here for further discussion. But let me conclude with the following points. Revisionists do generally not dispute:
- That Jews were deported, interned and compelled to work at concentration camps, ghettos or other confined areas.
- That Jews died in those camps and ghettos during the war, when diseases was a major problem.
- That partisans and their helpers, which were often Jews were killed by shooting and hanging.
Anything added to this in form of narrative is slippery-slope and lacks evidence to be accepted as confirmed fact.
I'm speculating on what Eric is up to and imagine there are several possibilities, but I would like to leave that open for now. Perhaps Eric will enlighten us in due time about this.