Dr Dariusz Ratajczak - Poland Dariusz Ratajczak, son Charles and Olek the Tatra shepherd, the family's bodyguard On December 7, 1999, the regional court in Opole, in southern Poland, found that Dariusz Ratajczak supported revisionist views on the Holocaust issue in his book, Tematy Niebezpieczne  - Dangerous Themes. But the court decided not to punish the 37-year-old  historian because the self-published volume had limited distribution and was not damaging enough to warrant punishment under a Polish statute that outlaws "public denial" of German wartime crimes. The court called the book "merely a minor social annoyance." It also took into account that the defendant had distanced himself somewhat from revisionist views in a preface to a second edition. In a five-page section entitled "Holocaust Revisionism," Ratajczak matter-of-factly cited the work of such revisionists as Paul Rassinier, Robert Faurisson, David Irving and Ernst Zündel, who contend that there was no German plan or program to exterminate Europe's Jews. He also cited the forensic investigations carried out at Auschwitz and Birkenau by Fred Leuchter and Germar Rudolf, and their conclusions that, for technical reasons, well-known claims of killing millions of Jews in gas chambers are impossible. While Ratajczak did not explicitly endorse these views, he did call testimony of Holocaust "eyewitness" survivors "useless," and described establishment Holocaust writers as "followers of a religion of the Holocaust" who impose on others "a false image of the past." Dr Ratajczak sufffered the same fate of those in western  democracies who dare question the 'Holocaust' dogma.  He has been blacklisted throughout Poland's tertiary teaching  sector and cannot get a job.  It is not easy surviving if your wife  and family still love you!   So much for western democratic freedom of speech -  and the world Revisionist community welcomes  Dariusz as one of its own!     You may contact Dr Ratajczak at dariusz.ratajczak@wp.pl