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Maria Bohuslawsky of the Toronto Sun reports on a cross-examination that took place the day before, in which self-proclaimed Holocaust "expert" and author Raul Hilberg admitted under oath that after 36 years of studying the Holocaust,

1. he knew of no documentary (printed) evidence that the Nazis murdered or planned to murder Jews in gas chambers,
2. he had identified large parts of the key "confession" of Kurt Gerstein as to the "gassings" as "pure nonsense" and "totally false,"
3. when presenting the Gerstein "confession" as proof of Nazi misdeeds he had edited out inconvenient sections in order to make his point,
4. he knew of no autopsies that showed death by gassing,
5. he billed himself as a Holocaust expert for 18 years before even visiting Auschwitz (he then spent only one day there),
6. he was not familiar with many books on the subject of which he was alleged to be the expert, and
7. he knew of no scientific proof that even one Jew had been gassed.