7 ~ Sunday, Aupust 21, 1988 ~ North Shore News

Dear Editor:

Referring to Doug Collins’ re- cent comments on the Holocaust and his various attempts to turn historical facts with a bibliography of thousands of books into fiction, I suggest he moves out of his arm- chair and into the reat world of pre-war and war-time Europe, of which period he obviously has no knowledge whatsoever, either by reading, research or experience.

In 1955, during a nearly year- long visit to Europe, I was privi- Jeged to attend and research for four months at the University of Leiden in Holland. As a bilingual South African, I studied the Dutch text of the Nazi occupation of Holland. Fully and = carefully documented at this great centre of learning, it is shown that hundreds of thousands of Hollanders, being Jews, liberals, patriots and undes- ground fighters, academicians, ctc., were seized by the Nazis and shipped to the extermination camps in Eastern Europe, never to return to Holland.

This number was from a small population of a small country. Therefore this number is multiplied many times from the other European countries, from France to Greece, with larger pop- ulations where the same process of deliberate extermination was car- ried out.

By always quoting from obscure writings and showing an obvious Jack of personal knowledge in his various writings, it is seen that Collins has never visited Dachau concentration camp, established in 1933 for the murder of Germans, who were anti-Nazis, labor leaders,

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Now that the city and district of North Vancouver have posted ‘‘no dog”’ signs in most of the parks in North Vancouver they have disen- franchised about oue half of the taxpayers, since by banning the family pooch they have effectively banned his master.

I used to walk my dog on a leash in Lynn Creek Park just below North Shore Winter Club. There was a steady stream of dog lovers walking their pets. Now the park is practically deserted.

Please change the signs showing the dog ban to include his master. W. Lovitt North Vancouver

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Ul labor union execuuves, Commu- nists, gypsies, mental defectives, homosexuals, hard-core ‘criminals, etc. - In this concentration camp a huge wall map of some 40 feet by 20 feet shows the hundreds of ° towns and cities throughout Europe where victims were first collected, held, and then shipped to the many death camps for ex- termination. According to Collins, this must all be fiction, as were the frightful and gruesome films

cremation, and the thousands more of the barely-alive walking dead.

Collins survived the war in the absolute safety of what must have been an undisciplined PoW camp,

allowing him to escape so often, |

while many of us had our lives at risk. It would have helped his perspective if he could also have experienced an extermination camp first hand, as millions of Jews, Christians and Russians did. He would thén have known the dif-

shown in cinemas world-wide whine _feretices between fact and fiction,

the Allied armies started liberating death camps. As he has apparently forgotten, these films showed the thousands of dead bodies awaiting

and we would not be reading his fiction now.

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