https://codoh.com/library/document/the- ... visionism/
Although after the war, Reed was universally maligned in the media as an "anti-Semite," in his heyday he was a quite respected mainstream journalist with bestselling books like Insanity Fair (1938). Reed was also quite well-informed on the Reich, having been a foreign correspondent in Germany during the 1930s.
Judging from the passages in Insanity Fair where Reed discusses anti-Jewish policies in the Reich (such as the 1933 counter-boycott), Reed seems at that time to have been, in anything, somewhat sympathetic to Jews. But through the 40s and 50s he evidently grew increasingly critical of Zionism. See for example his book The Controversy of Zion, originally written in 1956 but not published until after his death. That book contains some early skeptical comments about the six million. He had made similar comments in his 1951 book Far and Wide. Revisionists have been aware that Reed was a proto-Holocaust revisionist, so that part is nothing new. See the examples collected by Kues in the series below. Kues quotes from Far and Wide in part 2.
https://codoh.com/library/document/a-ch ... sionism-1/
But what is of interest here is that this material quoted by Skrbina is much earlier proto-revisionist commentary from Reed, while the war was still happening, in fact. The book is Lest We Regret, first published in September 1943. Archive.org has several copies of it for those who would like to consult a copy.
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dl ... 3/mode/2up
It is a long quotation, so I will refer people to the article (or the book) for the full text. Reed was evidently following the newspaper "extermination" stories in the second half of 1942 very carefully and was able to see through the whole sorry mess essentially in real time. I will just highlight a few bits here.
Reed quotes an excellent premature six million reference without even realizing the significance. Reed discussed the six million at some length in his later books, but in 1943 he was not yet aware of any importance with this figure.
And I rather like this part toward the end where he sums up the contradictory nature of the extermination propaganda.The Arch-bishops of Canterbury, York, and Wales, in the name of all the British Bishops, in January 1943, stated, ‘The extermination already carried out is part of the carrying into effect of Hitler’s oft-repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe, which means in effect the extermination of some 6,000,000 people’.
It is also worth nothing that this is David Skrbina's first time publishing an openly revisionist article, at least under that name. If he intends to be an open revisionist he will be a great asset to the movement.Readers may compare these quotations for themselves. ‘Extermination’ was ordered; it was not ordered, but strongly suspected; it was ordered for half the Jews in Poland; for all the Jews in Poland; for all the Jews in Europe by the end of 1942. Two out of three-and-a-half million were already dead, on December 4th; one million out of seven million were already dead, on the same day; 250,000 were already dead, three weeks later. Thus spake our leading public men.
