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Leuchter after this article]

6. Paul Fromm

Paul Fromm claims to be the director of a group called

"Canadian Association of Free Expression". While the name

sounds innocuous, the truth is darker. According to

investigative journalist Russ Bellant, Fromm helped found the

Canadian neo-Nazi organization Western Guard. In a 1983

interview with a Toronto Star reporter, Fromm was caught

dissembling. He said he "never had any connection" with the

Western Guard, but the Star account revealed that Fromm

himself had had a letter published in the Star in February

1973 that stated "... in May, 1972, many members, myself

included, left the Western Guard...". Asked to explain the

discrepancy, Fromm said in a Star interview that it was "a

matter of semantics". In Julian Sher's 1983 account of the Ku

Klux Klan, Fromm is reported as saying that belief of a

supreme race "is a good idea." Remarks like this caused him

to be kicked out of the federal Progressive Conservative Party.

In September 1991, the Star reported that Fromm was ejected

from a Toronto meeting on race relations after he blurted out,

"Scalp them," while a native Canadian was speaking. In April

1992, the Star reported on Fromm's 1990 speech before the

Heritage Front, a neo-Nazi organization advocating white

supremacy. According to the Star, Fromm told the neo-Nazi

group, "We're all on the same side." Fromm later claimed in a

Star article that he hadn't known about the Heritage Front's

neo-Nazi views. But Bernie Farber of the Canadian Jewish

Congress disputes this. "He had to know," Farber said. "There

was a Nazi flag with swastikas, about 10 feet long and 5 feet

tall, just to his right. Furthermore, just a few months after the

Star article came out, Fromm spoke again before the same

group."

7. Conclusions

Although the holocaust "revisionists" and their defenders

claim to be in pursuit of the truth, the record says otherwise.

Although some claim to be advocates of free speech, their real

goal is a regime that would deny free speech, and more, to

Jews and other minorities. It is easy to dismiss Rothe, Irving,

Leuchter, Mullins, and Fromm as kooks. But according to

statistics compiled by the League for Human Rights of B'nai

Brith, anti-Semitism in Canada is at its highest level in a

decade. There were 251 reported incidents of harassment and

vandalism against Jews in Canada in 1991, up 42% from two

years earlier. The reader may feel that anti-Semitism is only a

distant threat. But consider this: many of the sources I sought

in preparing this article are listed as ``missing'' in our

University library. Some articles had been ripped out of

magazines. Others books, though still on the shelves, I found

to contain anti-Semitic or pro-Nazi graffiti. To repeat a saying

attributed to Edmund Burke, "The only thing necessary for evil