Re: Who are the real skeptics?

PeteM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> reo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
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> >George Orwell was skeptical about the Gas chambers.
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> Can you provide a reference, please?


   Throughout his lifetime, the great English author continually
questioned all "official" or "accepted" versions of history. At the
conclusion of the war in Europe, Orwell expressed doubt about the
Allied account of events and posed the following question in his book
Notes on Nationalism, "If liberty means anything at all, it means the
right to tell people what they do not want to hear... Is it true about
the gas ovens in Poland?"

   Of all of Orwell's writings,1984 has had the most profound
influence on historical revisionism. Revisionist pioneer, Harry Elmer
Barnes wrote an important essay, "How 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' Trends
Threaten American Peace, Freedom, and Prosperity," which documented
the prophetic nature of Orwell's classic. Barnes would proclaim,

"Orwell's book is the keenest and most penetrating work produced in
this generation on the current trends in national policy and world
affairs. To discuss world trends today without reference to the Orwell
frame of reference is not unlike writing on biology without reference
to Darwin, Mendel, and De Vries..."
   Orwell died in London at the early age of forty-seven of a
neglected lung ailment. He left behind a substantial body of work and
a reputation for greatness.

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