National Journal: First published 22/02/2010

To The Editor,

Samuel Pisar says in his op-ed piece, " Out of Auschwitz" , which appeared in today's Times, that as the Red Army approached, " the gas chambers spewed fire and smoke as never before".

This description seems to suggest that some sort of combustion was taking place inside the principal homicidal instruments of history greatest crime. And just what kind of gas chambers were these? They certainly don't match the descriptions of gas chambers of any of the other survivors. Apologists for Mr. Pisar would probably insist that what he was really talking about were the crematoria used to dispose of the bodies of the victims. But even these, when functioning properly, are not likely to give off smoke, let alone have flames leaping from their chimneys. And we all know these ovens must have been functioning properly and efficiently given the fact that according to the official Holocaust narrative, they were capable of consuming bodies at rate far in excess of the manufacturer's specifications. Now keep in mind that Mr. Pisar is not some octogenarian survivor living in an old age home suffering from Alzheimer's disease; he is both a practicing attorney and author.

Mr. Pisar also seems to have memory issues when it comes to the so-called death march which he claims he was forced to participate in, as the Germans evacuated the camp in early 1945 with the approach of the Red Army. Like his more famous fellow inmate, Elie Wiesel, he was given a choice of remaining behind to await his Soviet liberators or he could accompany the Nazi perpetrators of Hitler's " Final Solution " back to Germany. Along with Wiesel and most of the other prisoners, he inexplicably chose the latter.

Giuseppe Furioso
giuseppefurioso@aol.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/opinion/29pisar.html