No holes...no holocaust...
Justice Gray pointed to a major concession by Robert Jan van Pelt, the defense’s expert witness on the Auschwitz crematoria: “Van Pelt conceded in one of his supplementary reports that there is no sign of the holes.” Or, as van Pelt wrote in his expert report for the Lipstadt defense: “Today,these four small holes that connected the wire-mesh columns and the chimneys cannot be observed in the ruined remains of the concrete slab.”
Under cross-examination by David Irving on January 28, 2000, van Pelt admitted that he had “frequently visited the roof of the alleged factory of death,” but had not seen the requisite holes there:
Irving: You have not seen any holes in the roof, have you, in the – when you went there? You have not found any holes?
Van Pelt: I have not seen the holes for the columns, no.
Irving: Not for the introduction of the cyanide?
Van Pelt: No.