A relatively obscure German-language monthly magazine was published in Buenos Aires from 1947 to 1957 named Der Weg (The Path), published by the Dürer-Verlag there. It reported the post-war era from abroad – that is, free from the control and censorship of Germany’s occupiers. Thus, early versions of revisionist thought and analysis appear in the magazine’s pages that could not have been published in Germany.[1]

In the August 1956 edition appeared an article by one Olof Svendson (according to the table of contents, located in Stockholm) under the title “Nur eine von zehntausend Lügen!” (“Just One among Ten Thousand Lies!”). The article concerns Prosecution Exhibit 1553-PS from the Nuremberg War-Crimes Trials, the so-called Gerstein Report. The greater part of the article is made up of comments – most-likely from a letter – on this report. These comments are most-remarkable, and were made, according to Svendson, by the Swedish civil engineer Erhard Fliesberg (1888–1974). Fliesberg seems not to have been identified as any sort of early revisionist in the time since. His article in the Swedish Wikipedia makes no mention of the article nor of his comments quoted therein. The article does, however, establish that Erhard Fliesberg was no pseudonym, and states that he was, indeed, an engineer.[2]

The complete article[3] by Olof Svendson appears (translated) below, including Fliesberg’s report. This contemporaneous document establishes, that already in the Fifties, a “key document” was analyzed from the revisionist perspective and the chief emphasis thereof fell on the matter of physical impossibilities.

Olof Svendson

Just One among Ten Thousand Lies!

As is well known, the victorious powers brought numerous Germans to judgment, sentenced them, sent them to jails or handed them over to the executioners. The sentences were—we were told—handed down on the basis of unchallengeable documents and in the name of justice. The exact wording of the documents was kept secret; they were not disclosed to the public. The press brought only short excerpts, which were quite useless. So one wondered what kind of documents they were. But nothing could be learned and it seemed as if they were to remain hidden for all time.

Finally, on July 16, 1953, a Mr. Michel Wächter announces in the Swedish newspaper DAGENS NYHETER the contents of such a document. In the article, which is titled “Testimony about the Gas Chambers”, the following can be read among other things:

… an eyewitness account of some of the German extermination camps. Document PS-1553-RF-350 was already available at the Nuremberg trials against the main war criminals. It was admitted as evidence in the so-called Doctors’ Trial in January 1947 and played a role in the first German poison-gas trial in January 1949. It is now officially published for the first time in the second issue of the Vierteljahreshefte für Zeitgeschichte (Contemporary History Quarterly) in 1953. It was treated there as a historical document, dissected and provided with explanatory notes. A careful, critical examination by the guarantor has indeed revealed its truthfulness beyond all doubt.”

To underline the “scientific reliability” of the document, it is written at the end of the article:

The publication of this document after scientific verification, carried out with impeccable enlightening methods in order to be able to form an opinion on every detail, should help to prevent the world from sinking once again into the same barbarism”.

The document in question has been reviewed for credibility by the Swedish civil engineer Erhard Fliesberg. Let's see for ourselves what he reports:

An honest and thinking reader, after a really careful study of the factually critical review that follows here, will find that the true barbarism is to be found in the authors of the documents, as well as in the 'scientists' who were able to unite it with their scientific honor and duty to confirm the content and credibility of the documents. The same applies to the judges and courts who claim to have spoken in the name of justice when they passed their sentence on the basis of such documents and testimonies. It is undeniable that hidden forces were in play.

Since the above-mentioned document contains statements brimming with absurd and fantastic impossibilities, it will suffice to demonstrate such complete irresponsibility by a critical examination of the most essential points of this authoritative testimony.I do not want to waste much attention and time on such trivialities as

1. if there were only one witness, who was also the author of the document, but who had the good taste to commit suicide immediately after his capture in 1945;

 

2. the processions into the gas chambers were led by a young girl who was of statuesque beauty;

 

3. the pure ridiculousness that the hair of the killed people was used as sealing material for submarines.