[danielf]

Originally Posted by Chris

Mr A, you've lost me on this one.

The radio intercepts have been well known for some years now. It's also well known that they were decrypted at Bletchley Park and there was no way the British Government could have divulged their contents publicly during WW2 without advertising to the Germans the fact that they had cracked the Enigma. Churchill could not act on intelligence about mass slaughter of the Jews without placing the wider war effort in peril - a war effort that was, ultimately, going to be the only practical means of closing down the death camps.

Is it your understanding that Griffin was saying (or would have said, had he been given sufficient time to articulate it) that his acceptance of the Holocaust is tied up with these intercepts entering the public domain?

This is what I was thinking. My interpretation was that Griffin *was* talking about the 400 Jews that were slaughtered. The implication was that he was not denying there was a holocaust, but didn't actually say anything about the scale, or the existence of death camps. He weaseled his way out of the question by accepting a minor detail had taken place, and not saying anything about the bigger picture. Masterstroke