ONE reading avid Irving’s book on itler’s propaganda inister, Goebbels, Mastersnind of the Third Reich, will wonder why erican Jews were so een on forcing St. Martin’s Press to cancel ublication. The answer is that they te the man. He does not lieve in the six million Rory or in the gas chambers. ot that he mentions that in oebbels.. But it isa case of ce damned, always amned. They should have wel- fomed the book. Among ather things it describes how mocbbels was a major force persecuting the Jews and fmeow he was even more of an fiti-Semite than Hitler. ing depicts the little crip- Ble as “a poisonous dwarf.” ‘As the Gauleiter gional Nazi Party Leader) Berlin, Goebbels fought a ning battle — sometimes erally —- with the pre-1933 ish Chief of Police, lernhard Weiss. ” Time after time, Weiss id other functionaries : ned Berlin’s Nazi news- wenper, Der Angriff (Attack). Bime after time, Goebbels meound himself in the courts. t neither libel laws nor Paate laws” fazed him. He @elished the publicity. All this took place against mbackground of in-fighting ith the Communists, who their left-wing way were mast a8 Nazi as the Nazis. The book is based in part m the Goebbels’ diaries dis- Bvered.in 1992 in Moscow and Irving was onc of the w people who could deci- er them. ‘He is probably the best Mascarcher of the Nazi period d has produced a book at is well documented and ealing. For.many years, for tance, the world press milo lo more Mr. right guy | Mcar Editor: m Reading the North Shore ws. has been simplified for . After reading Mr. Noel ight’s Sept. 8 article I now ow that I can skip any fur- r articles by him. I:know that the duty of a AWS writer is to stimulate dis- sion, Mr. Wright is obvious- Mrtoo old to achieve this end. | bist: that he is a volunteer iter and not paid; or if paid paid very little. Tell him to tact Doug Collins who has fortitude to have his own ail address. y Wilkinson BEFORE YOU ~ SHOP a BROWSE THe claimed that the fire that destroyed the German Parliament, the Reichstag, and helped Hitler on his road to total power was the work of the Nazis themselves rather than that of a half- crazed Dutch communist. The diaries show that the Nazi leaders knew nothing about it. Goebbels and Hitler were having dinner when the news came through and thought their informant, a high-ranking prankster, was having them on. But they soon turned the event to their advantage. Irving’s critics have sneered that the book por- trays Goebbels as the real force behind Hitler; also that the author seeks to excuse Hitler’s actions by laying them at Goebbels’ door. Not true. It is clear that for years Goebbels played 4 relatively distant fiddle.’ Without Hitler's prior knowledge he did take the FLEAM GO -CUSTOM™ SLEEP SYSTEM § Our systems will give g= : you the best sizep of & H your life. RM Queen from ‘740 complete B King from #950 complete initiative and unleash the Crystal Night riots of 1938 in which 191 synagogues were destroyed and the win- dows of thousands of Jewish stores smashed. Hitler disapproved, if only because it would lead to world-wide condemnation. Goebbels wasn’t even consulted when the Rhineland was reoccupied in 1936. Until the last minute he knew nothing about Hitler’s decision to murder Brownshirt leader Ernst Roehm and dozens of other Stormtroop leaders in the “night of the long knives.” Goebbels was in fact lucky not to be counted among the alleged conspira- tors. It was not until shortly before the attack on the U.S.S.R. that he knew about that, either. Not until the war against Russia was well under way did Goebbels become a member of Hitler’s most intimate circle. But through thick and thin he sat at the Fuehrer’s feet. There is of course no | doubt that he was the “mas- termind” of the Third Reich in terms of the brilliance of his propaganda. Hence the title. Even so, Irving says he was bested in that by Churchill. Irving is a Churchill critic | Largest Selectica of Martial | Arts Under Sne Roof in Canada § Offering: Aikido, Arnis, Karate, Judo, Wolfes Hapkido, Kung Fu, Tai Chi and Women's Self Defense Ek 3 ideal for conservative income investors | * Today's top income opportunities i © Premium guaranteed rates fe Safety of principal © Tax saving ideas 9 WALWYN_ - Member of CIPF Chris Carter Financial Advisor lemark of MWC! UARANTEED. Sunday, September 15, 1996 — North Shor: e News - 7 DEREK A. CAVE Trial Lawyer Get the settlement you deserve. #508, Kapilano 100 Building 925-7880 100 Park Royal, West Van. and claims Winston had a “funk hole” in Oxfordshire to which he went when he knew London was to be bombed. Sir John Colville, Churchill's war-time seere- tary, has denied it. In this book, however, Irving gives that only a paragraph. In the final days of the Nazi regime, fantasy ruled. They believed they were going to win even as the Russians approached Berlin. The death of Roosevelt was a “sign.” But in the end Goebbels did what he said he would do. He and his wife killed themselves and their six innocent children. 1933 to 1945 was a world-shaking period and if you are interested in what went on behind the Nazi scenes ask your library to get Goebbels. It’s a great read. The book costs about $50 U.S, and is available only from the Institute for Historical Review in Newport Beach, California, or from Focal Point Publishing in the U.K. The North Shove News believes strongly in freedom of speech and the right of all sides in a debate to be beard. The columnists published in the News present differing points of view, but those views are not necessarily those of the newspaper itself. DRAPERIES & BLINDS BY S.LAURSEN & SON "Another one of our designs, . 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