To: Taro who wrote (277702 ) 3/2/2006 5:35:27 AM From: GUSTAVE JAEGER Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572711 The Judeofascist Inquisition Tribunal brands David Irving "Relapse"(*):Wed., March 01, 2006 Adar 1, 5766 Irving back to his old way, again denies Hitler's intentBy Haaretz Staff British historian David Irving, who began last week serving a three-year prison sentence in Austria for Holocaust denial, yesterday repeated earlier claims that he does not believe Hitler systematically worked to annihilate European Jewry. In an attempt to reduce his prison sentence, Irving claimed during his trial that he had changed his mind since comments he made in 1989 - for which he was convicted - and insisted he believes today that the Holocaust indeed took place and that there were gas chambers at Auschwitz. Speaking from his Austrian prison cell, Irving told the BBC that he now believes Jews were exterminated in gas chambers in some instances, including 1.4 million that were killed in Treblinka and Sobibor. However, he said he thinks the number of Jews killed at Auschwitz is smaller than commonly believed, and that there were only two "small" gas chambers at the camp. Responding to a question about the whether he thinks there was a systematic plan by Hitler to exterminate all Jews, Irving told the BBC, "That is absolutely wrong and nobody can justify that... Adolf Hitler's own involvement in it has a big question mark behind it." "Given the ruthless efficiency of the Germans, if there was an extermination program to kill all the Jews, how come so many survived?" he asked the BBC.haaretz.com (*) Relapse was the most fruitful source of relaxation, at least after the first rage of the Inquisition had exhausted itself. It has been already stated that, after reconciliation or abjuration de vehementi , any backsliding was held to indicate that the conversion had been fictitious, that the culprit was impenitent and pertinacious, and that he was to be abandoned to the secular arm without hope of mercy. [...] It was only in formal heresy that relapse entailed relaxation for, as we have seen, the stake was reserved for heretics. Where heresy was merely inferential, as in bigamy, blasphemy, solicitation in the confessional, reading prohibited books, and other offences reserved to the Inquisition, relapse was treated only as an aggravation, to be punished with such additional severity as the circumstances might indicate. [...]libro.uca.edu