Doug
Collins
British-Canadian journalist, * September 8, 1920, in England, †
September 29,
2001, in Canada
C. was born in Britain and joined the British Army at the outbreak of World War II. A sergeant in the
infantry, he was captured in the Battle of Dunkirk in 1940, later being awarded the Military Medal for bravery during this
campaign, and was a prisoner of war and made numerous escape attempts. After he was liberated in 1944, he returned to combat with British forces in northwest
Europe.
From 1946 until 1950, C. worked as a political intelligence officer with the
'British Control Commission's de-nazification department' in Germany. He immigrated to Canada in 1952 and worked for several decades as a reporter or columnist for several western Canadian newspapers.
He also worked for Canada's CBC television network, and for a time hosted an open-line radio talk show in Vancouver.
From 1984 until his retirement in 1997 his regular column in the 'North Shore News' of Vancouver, British Columbia, was one of paper's most popular
features. In more than 1,400 essays, C. laid out views on immigration, the status of Quebec,
Jewish groups such as the 'Canadian Jewish Congress', and the entire multi-cult
industry. C. drew the ire of the
'Holocaust' enforcers after he testified for Ernst Zündel in the latter's 1985
Canadian ' Holocaust' trial. He declared that as a journalist, he saw nothing wrong with
Zündel's booklet 'Did Six Million Really Die?' and that he found no hate in that 30,000 word
essay.
Few North American journalists have come under more sustained attack for their views. His detractors castigated him as a
racist and a Hitlerite anti-Semite. In 1997, a complaint against him was brought before the British Columbia
'Human Rights Commission' for a column in the March 1994 issue of the ' North Shore News', in which
he questioned the 'Holocaust', denounced 'Schindler's List' as 'Swindler's
list' and 'hate literature in the form of films',
dismissed the fabled 'six million' 'Holocaust' figure as nonsense, and commented on the preponderance of Jews in
Hollywood. The case was dismissed but a further complaint was laid in 1999 and upheld with
C. and his publisher ordered to pay $2,000 in damages to Harry Abrams, a Victoria resident, for
injury to his dignity, feelings and self-respect. The 'North Shore News' was also ordered to publish a summary of the tribunal's decision and cease publishing statements that expose Jewish persons
to hatred and contempt."
C. was the author of four
books, including his wartime memoir, POW: ' A Soldier's Story of His Ten Escapes from Nazi Prison Camps' (1968), and
' Here We Go Again!', a collection of one hundred of his columns. Over the years, numerous articles
about, and essays by C. have been published by the 'Institute for Historical Review'
IHR. His presentation at the IHR's Tenth conference in 1990 'Reflections on the Second World War, Free
Speech, and Revisionism', was published in the fall 1991 IHR Journal.
C. was the recipient of two of Canada's most coveted awards for
journalism, the ' National Newspaper Award' (1953) and the ' MacMillan Bloedel Award' (1975). In 1993 he was awarded the
' Commemorative Medal for the 125th anniversary of Canada's Confederation', given to persons
who have made a significant contribution to their fellow citizens, their
community, or to Canada.
Until just days before his
death, C. continued turning out essays that were distributed via the Internet.
He wrote a few months before his passing: "I defended freedom in the 1940s when Hitler was on the
loose, in the 1970s when the federal hate laws were passed, and in the 1990s when those idiots in Victoria passed their misnamed
'Human Rights Act', and that I shall go on defending freedom until the day I die."
Letzte Änderung / Last update:
08.09.2010
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