Politics & Power Quote by Ernst Zundel

The line is engineered less to argue than to infect. Zundel loads the Holocaust with the language of fabrication ("wholly created"), laboratory contamination ("poisonous...kitchens"), and covert statecraft ("psychological warfare", "ministries of propaganda") to recast mass murder as an information operation. It’s a rhetorical inversion: the crime becomes the accusation, and the accused become the accusers.

Its intent is strategic delegitimization. By relocating the Holocaust from the realm of evidence, testimony, and documentation into the realm of wartime psy-ops, Zundel offers his audience an all-purpose solvent. If the event is "propaganda", then archives are "plants", survivors are "assets", and historians are "operators". The claim isn’t meant to be falsifiable; it’s meant to be frictionless, giving believers a narrative that can absorb any counterproof as part of the plot.

The subtext is a familiar conspiracy architecture: multiple governments are named to make the theory feel "balanced" and worldly, then the sentence pivots to its ideological payload: "undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations". That phrase isn’t an aside; it’s the organizing principle. "Undoubtedly" performs certainty without burden of proof, while "world" implies a unified transnational actor - a classic antisemitic trope that turns Jews into a shadow sovereign.

Context matters because Zundel’s activism sits in the postwar ecosystem of denialism that sought to launder neo-Nazi politics through pseudo-skepticism and media spectacle. The sentence mimics the register of investigative critique, but its function is political: to rehabilitate a defeated ideology by erasing its central atrocity and redirecting paranoia toward Jews and liberal democracies.