Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, Holocaust Denial and Operation Reinhard

From the earliest days of their movement, Holocaust deniers have largely centred their arguments on the Auschwitz death camp. Surveying the literature which makes up so-called Holocaust Revisionism,  the obsession with Auschwitz is undoubtedly one of its defining features. Since the early 1990s, with the advent of the modern world-wide web, Holocaust deniers have taken to the internet to try and argue their case. Until recently, the ensuing online debates between advocates of Holocaust denial and their critics have likewise focused on Auschwitz.


Our friends at the Holocaust Controversies Blog have written an article that focuses on the Operation Reinhard camps, Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor, and the attempts to deny the reality of the murder at those camps by Holocaust deniers, Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf, and Thomas Kues. They dedicated this work to the memory of Harry W. Mazal OBE.


The work is entitled, Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, Holocaust Denial and Operation Reinhard: A Critique of the Falsehoods of, Mattogno, Graf, and Kues. 

Before the Wannsee Conference Expansion of the Combat Zone

Seventy years ago, in December 1941, Japan began a war with the attack on Pearl Harbor that was joined a few days later by the Nazi Reich with its declaration of war on the USA. Thereby the European and Pacific wars became a world war.

On January 20, 1942, fifteen high-ranking bureaucrats of the Nazi regime came together for a conference, which later would become known as the "Wannsee Conference". It was no longer necessary at that time to come to a decision about the murder of the European Jews because it had already been underway for some time. The hitherto disenfranchisement, persecution and expulsion of the Jews had been replaced in the previous months by the extermination of the Jews.

In the following article, which appeared on December 11, 2011 in the Berlin daily "Tagesspiegel", the Berlin historian Ernst Piper describes the beginning of the Holocaust. Piper is known for his biography of Alfred Rosenberg, whom he characterized as "Hitler's principal ideologue". We thank Ernst Piper for his friendly permission to publish his article on our site, as well as the English translation by Gord McFee.

The German version is available here:

http://www.holocaust-history.org/piper/piper-deutsch.shtml

The English translation here:

http://www.holocaust-history.org/piper/piper-english.shtml

What Holocaust Revisionism Is

This essay,  by THHP member Roger, a follow up to a previous article, Why Revisionism Isn't. I have been asked recently why THHP so vehemently opposes denial, and while the answer to me is blindingly obvious, let's look at it in light of recent statements from deniers. My thanks to David Irving, Germar Rudolf, and Mark Weber for making the matter so plain.

The "other day" mentioned in the Why Revisionism Isn't article has come. Holocaust denial is, always has been and always will be an outlet for irrational hate, using base dishonesty at every turn to feed inflated egos in an attempt to finance their lifestyle.

Read the full essay at: http://www.holocaust-history.org/revisionism-isnt/revisionism-is/

In the Nazis' Words

Gord McFee has put together a collection of quotations by Nazi leaders that speaks for itself. The common thread running through all of these quotations is the annihilation of the Jews. All quotations are from Nazi documents, books or speeches, and the German original has in most cases been provided.


The collection can be found at: http://www.holocaust-history.org/nazis-words/

The IHR at the Cross Roads

From its beginning in 1978 the Institute for Historical Review (IHR ) was in the forefront of the intellectual fraud of Holocaust denial.  Under the control its co-founder, Willis Carto, the IHR prospered as part of a complex of organizations with the common goal of propagating anti-Semitism in theUnited States.  "Liberty Lobby v. Dow-Jones Co." 838 F.2d 1287 (D.C. Cir.;1987) After Carto was ousted from his position, the IHR has been through a financial crisis caused by the loss of old followers and its failure or inability to recruit new ones.  As a result the current management of the IHR has evidently attempted to obtain new financing from the Arab states of the Middle East.


In an article at the Holocaust History Project, Yale F. Edeiken examines some recent history of this intellectual fraud:


http://www.holocaust-history.org/ihr/

Mazal Holocaust Library Launches Fundraising Drive

The Mazal Holocaust Library, the largest private institution of its kind in the world and long funded solely by its late founder Harry W. Mazal of San Antonio, has launched a fundraiser to continue its immediate work, executive director Aimee Mazal Skillin said. The 100K Challenge, begun Tuesday to mark three months since Mazal's passing in August, is being promoted on the library's Facebook page.

Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Mazal-Holocaust-Library-launches-fundraising-drive-2285089.php#ixzz1f1S55GA5

General Semantics and Holocaust Denial

The challenges that the deniers apply to the generally accepted history vary widely in size and scope. For instance, they dispute the death toll at Auschwitz-Birkenau, resurrect early allegations about the Holocaust and Nazi atrocities that are now known to be untrue, e.g., soap production from human fat, and they claim that the Nuremberg trials were a sham and a perversion of justice.  Furthermore, they pore over documents from the Nazi era, and, disregarding any document that would further incriminate the Nazis, they find what might be an exculpatory document and seize on it as if its existence destroys the entire house of cards. The so-called Luther memorandum is a prime example here.

Looking at such Holocaust-denial tactics through the lens of general semantics, we can find at least three main shortcomings:

1. Over- and Under-Defining the Holocaust. The use of “the Holocaust” as an over/under-defined term, allowing for the “disproof” of victim numbers and atrocity stories.

 2. Extending the Definition over Time. The inability (or refusal) of the deniers to accept multiple time-based definitions of the Holocaust, as seen in their reading of the Luther memo.

3. The Two-Valued Orientation. The overwhelming use of the two-valued orientation in presenting the so-called revisionist version of the Holocaust, for example, in their allegations about Nuremberg.

A strong working definition of the Holocaust with consideration of its development over time, along with the exposure of two-valued orientations wherever they are used, can enable us to see the faulty logic on which Holocaust denial is built.

Andrew E. Mathis, PhD. Mathis examines this subject in a peer-reviewed article origininally published in ETC: A Journal of General Semantics, and reprinted with permission at the Holocaust History Project Website: 


http://www.holocaust-history.org/gen-semantics/

The Fuhrer Myth

An essay by Stig Hornshøj-Møller on how the source-critical analysis of the film "The Eternal Jew" was performed; what we learn by taking it as a source document on the decision-making process that led to the Holocaust.


he book of the Fuehrer-Myth has now sold more than 10,000 copies in Denmark, and there are negotiations going on concerning translations into English and into German. For the moment, though, there exists only a short description and a few key chapters of the book in English. We're pleased to present that material here.


http://www.holocaust-history.org/fuehrer-myth/

The Forensic Sins of Carlos Porter

Among the staple texts of those who deny the Holocaust are the writings of Carlos Porter. One of his articles "War Crimes Trials" can be found on the CODOH website. It claims to discuss the 1907 Annex to the Hague Convention dealing with the laws of war, and this essay is so highly regarded in the denier community that it has been cited by deniers as authoritative on the subject of the Hague Convention. A close examination of Porter's work, however, demonstrates that it is inaccurate both as to the text of the Convention and the conclusions that are derived from the distorted citations. This analysis will deal with both of those issues.


In an essay on the Holocaust History Project website Yale F. Eideken analyzes these inaccuracies.  The essay can be found at: 


http://www.holocaust-history.org/forensic-sins/

Final Destination Treblinka

As part of the greater Nazi effort to exterminate the Jews of Europe, the Treblinka concentration camp was second only the the more famous Auschwitz-Birkenau in terms of deadliness. With thousands of cattle cars stocked to the gills with Polish Jews converging on it day after day for months on end, its facilities orchestrated the annihilation of at least 800,000 of them, and quite likely more. All this we know from what remains of eyewitness testimony and physical evidence despite Nazi efforts to destroy both, and most especially train schedules whose 'final destination' declarations take on a macabre connotation with the understanding of what really occurred at the end of the line.


Massive and systematic executions at the Treblinka camp fell under the aegis of Aktion Reinhard (alternatively Einsatz Reinhard and Aktion Reinhardt), a facet of the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" (Endlösung der Judenfrage) devoted to physically exterminating the Jews of the Generalgouvernement of former Poland.


A article by Stephen Potyondi at the Holocaust History project demonstrates the evil purpose of the Treblinka death camp.


http://www.holocaust-history.org/operation-reinhard/final-destination-treblinka

Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew")

Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") is the most famous Nazi propaganda film. It was produced at the insistence of Joseph Goebbels, under such active supervision that it is effectively his work. It depicts the Jews of Poland as corrupt, filthy, lazy, ugly, and perverse: they are an alien people which have taken over the world through their control of banking and commerce, yet which still live like animals.


Dr. Stig Hornshøj-Møller (Danish mag. art.) has been studying the film The Eternal Jew since 1970. He is the author of Der ewige Jude: Quellenkritische Analyse eines antisemitischen Propagandafilms ("Source-Critical Analysis of an Antisemitic Propaganda Film"), Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film, Göttingen, 1995. (This work is also available in a special free printing, which interested readers can order from the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Postfach 1369, 53111 Bonn.).  he has an essay on the topic at the Holocaust History Project Website:


http://www.holocaust-history.org/der-ewige-jude/

December 12, 1941: Hitler Orders the Final Solution

The historian Christian Gerlach proves that on this day Hitler made the fundamental decision to annihilate all European Jews.

Historians have long searched for the order to annihilate the Jews or - insofar as they excluded a Fuehrer-order - for other central documents. The Wannsee Protocol was rejected. Here second-level men were to be found, here they spoke not of an order, but rather an authorization of Hitler. Characteristically, a pre-arranged agreement applied to this meeting, ordered from above. At the least, documentary criteria had to be found that permitted plausible inferences as to place, point in time and personal construction of such a conversation. The research led nowhere.

Now however a 34-year old Berlin historian [translator's note: Geschichtswissenschaft is science of history] has precisely answered the old question. And to say it right up front: the proof is ingenious. He didn't publish it in one of the eternally boring academic tomes and in so doing made the right choice. The work appeared in Volume 18 (6th year, November 1997) of the unorthodox, independent magazine "Werkstatt Geschichte." Written with practically mathematical precision, the essay covers 37 pages, including 223 source notes. The title is: "The Wannsee Conference, the fate of German Jews and Hitler's fundamental political decision to murder all European Jews." The author's name is Christian Gerlach. He has found proof of an internal speech of Hitler's from 1941 that no other researcher had even mentioned before.

The original German edition of this article  appeared December 13, 1997 in theBerliner Zeitung. This article, and an English translation by Gord McFee appears with the friendly permission of the Berlin Verlag and the author at the Holocaust History Project.

http://www.holocaust-history.org/december-12-1941/

The Dachau Gas Chambers

Although it is well known that the Nazis used homicidal gas chambers in such camps as Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka, it is not as well known that the Nazis actually constructed gas chambers, homicidal and otherwise in Dachau.

It may come as a surprise to many readers that Baracke X incorporates five gas chambers all of which were included in the original design. These were built and exist to this date. Most visitors to the Dachau Camp, drawn by horror to the main entrance of the crematorium and to the large room designated as a disguised homicidal gas chamber, rarely venture beyond these areas. The chamber (room # 8) is located next to a mortuary room, which in turn connects to the large area housing the four huge furnaces. 

In an essay at The Holocaust History Project website, Harry W. Mazal, OBE, discusses the evidence that theses chambers existed as well as their possible use.

http://www.holocaust-history.org/dachau-gas-chambers/

The Bolshevik Canard

Holocaust deniers and Nazi-apologists often make some very revealing claims regarding Jews, Bolshevism, and Stalinism. They often claim that Bolshevism was a Jewish movement that resulted in mass murder of Christians on a scale much larger than the Final Solution. The implication is that even though the Holocaust did not happen, the Jews deserved it and/or the fact that Stalinists committed mass murder somehow diminishes the fact that the Nazis and their accomplices committed mass murder. Even if the Holocaust-deniers and Nazi-apologists had their facts straight, one would have to wonder at their reasoning. How does the supposed fact that some Jews committed mass murder justify mass murder of Jews? Notwithstanding, this absurd and inhumane implication we must, as usual call into question the supposed facts.

http://www.holocaust-history.org/bolshevik-canard/

August Hirt: Deadly Collector of the Victims of the Holocaust

August Hirt, like many Nazi doctors, is most closely associated with his role in the medical experimentation on and gassings of groups of Jewish prisoners. What makes him unique was motive: instead of seeing the gassing of prisoners as a quick and effective method of extermination, Hirt wanted to significantly expand the skull and skeleton collection for his institute at the University of Strasbourg.  He wanted to create a museum of "sub-humans, in which proofs of the degeneracy and the animality of the Jews would be collected." 

In an essay at The Holocaust History Project, Anne S. Reamey explains the history of August Hirt.  The article can be found at the following link:

http://www.holocaust-history.org/hirt/

Are The Jews Central to the Holocaust?

Does the Holocaust have a particularly crucial and central Jewish element, even though millions of others died? In an article at The Holocaust History Project website, Gord McFee argues that "the Holocaust, from its conception to its implementation had a distinctly Jewish aspect to it and, arguably without this Jewish aspect, there would have been no Holocaust. Most of the non-Jewish people would not have been killed because the killing machinery would not have been put into operation." A link to the article is below.

http://www.holocaust-history.org/jews-central/

Albert Speer's Edifice of Lies

Albert Speer, Hitler's Armaments Minister, was one of the twenty-two defendants at the trial of the major Nazi war criminals in 1945-1946. He was charged on all four counts of the indictment (planning aggressive war, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity). The Tribunal acquitted him on counts 1 and 2, and found him guilty on counts 3 and 4. He was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment.

New evidence would appear to indicate that he was indeed present at the Posen speech of October 6, 1943 and must therefore have known about the extermination program. And the evidence comes from Speer himself.

The Holocaust History project has an article discussing this evidence in German and English.  The article was written by Sven Felix Kellerhoff, and is translated into English by THHP's Gord McFee. The article may be found at the link below.

http://www.holocaust-history.org/speer-know/

A Documented Analysis of the Speech Given by Fred A. Leuchter on November 10, 1991

On November 10, 1991 in Weinheim, Germany, Fred A Leuchter made a presentation to a group of German right wing extremists. The meeting was chaired by Günter Deckert who acted as Mr. Leuchter’s interpreter, ¹ and infrequently added comments of his own.

Harry W, Mazal, OBE has written an essay whose purpose is "to address the many inconsistencies, misinterpretations, and mendacious statements made by Mr. Leuchter."

The essay can be found at The Holocaust History Project website at: http://www.holocaust-history.org/auschwitz/leuchter-speech/leuchter-speech.shtml.

The Holes in the Roofs of the Gas Chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau: A forensic investigation proves their existence

"No holes, no Holocaust" has long been one of the denier community's favorite slogans. It refers to the holes in the roof of Kremas (crematoria) II and III at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Now a report at The Holocaust History Project entitled The Ruins of the Gas Chambers: A Forensic Investigation of Crematoriums at Auschwitz I and Auschwitz-Birkenau by Daniel Keren, Harry W. Mazal and Jamie McCarthy proves not only that the holes existed but shows where they are. This report first appeared in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Oxford University Press, Volume 18, Number 1, Spring 2004, pages 68-103. and is reproduced with permission.

Palestinians and the Holocaust

THHP has a new short essay entitled Palestinians and the Holocaust that addresses a frequentt question:

How can you Jews focus on the Holocaust while Israel commits atrocities against Palestinians?

If one strips away the emotions from this question, one is left with a series of false assumptions that are examined in the essay.

Pamphlet on David Irving

We have recently updated our pamphlet on Holocaust denier David Irving at http://www.holocaust-history.org/pamphlets/irving/who-is-irving.pdf.

The British court found that Irving's 

misrepresentation of history was 

"deliberate in the sense that he was motivated by a 

desire borne of his own ideological beliefs to 

present Hitler in a favourable light."

Vernichtungskrieg: Wehrmacht Complicity in the Holocaust on the Eastern Front

March 30, 2011. Added an in-depth essay by Stephen Vargas on the Wehrmacht and the Holocaust, entitled Vernichtungskrieg: Wehrmacht Complicity in the Holocaust on the Eastern Front

Footage of Death Camp Liberations

November 20, 2010. Added a new multimedia section. We began with some gripping footage of Death Camp Liberations to include a documentary by Alfred Hitchcock.

The 'Disappearance’ of SS-Hauptscharführer Lorenz Hackenholt

August 23, 2010. Added The 'Disappearance’ of SS-Hauptscharführer Lorenz Hackenholt. A Report on the 1959-63 West German Police Search for Lorenz Hackenholt, the Gas Chamber Expert of the Aktion Reinhard Extermination Camps by Michael Tregenza

Online Memorial Sites Forum

July 8, 2010. Added a link to Online Memorial Sites Forum. See item 34 at Links.

When Did the Holocaust Begin?

March 14, 2010. Added a Short Essay entitled When did the Holocaust Begin?

Official Sites of Camp Museums

January 23, 2010. Updated the Links page. See item 1 under "Official Sites of Camp Museums".

Gisella Perl: Angel and Abortionist in the Auschwitz Death Camp

November 17, 2009. Added the essay Gisella Perl: Angel and Abortionist in the Auschwitz Death Camp by Anne S. Reamey.

October 2009

October 16, 2009. Added a rebuttal to the misleading ads being placed by Holocaust denier Bradley Smith in college newspapers

May 2009

May 29, 2009. Added an essay by THHP member Miloslav Bilik on the Struthof-Natzweiler camp and the experiments carried out there. The essay is in French and English. See also the reproduction of the Klarsfeld Foundation book The Struthof Album by Jean-Claude Pressac.

April 2009

April 26, 2009. Added a report entitled The Ruins of the Gas Chambers: A Forensic Investigation of Crematoriums at Auschwitz I and Auschwitz-Birkenau by Daniel Keren, Harry W. Mazal and Jamie McCarthy which proves not only that the holes existed but shows where they are. This report first appeared in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Oxford University Press, Volume 18, Number 1, Spring 2004, pages 68-103. and is reproduced with permission.

March 2009

March 23, 2009. Added a detailed analysis by THHP member Harry W. Mazal of Bishop Richard Williamson's public statements.

March 19, 2009. Updated the Links page. See item 34.

February 2009

February 14, 2009. The card index of a vast library of books on the Holocaust, War Crimes, and antisemitism belonging to one of our members is now on line. It is possible to search by Title, Author, Subject and Keyword. This is an on-going project that will be updated monthly to incorporate new titles.

January 2009

January 25, 2009. Added the essay August Hirt: Deadly Collector of the Victims of the Holocaust, by Anne S. Reamey

January 17, 2009. Verdicts in several key trials in Germany in the 1950s and 1960s that contain numerous references to the Final Solution. The documents are in German and are:

• The verdict in the "Auschwitz Trial" in Frankfurt am Main of August 19-20, 1965.
• The verdict in the Belzec Trial in Munich of January 21, 1965
• The verdict in the Sobibor Trial in Berlin of May 8, 1950
• The verdict in the Sobibor Trial in Frankfurt am Main of August 25, 1950
• The verdict in the Treblinka Trial in Düsseldorf of September 3, 1965
• The verdict in the Einsatzgruppen Trial in Ulm of August 29, 1958
• The verdict in the Einsatzgruppen Trial in Munich of July 21, 1961

January 10, 2009. Updated the Klarsfeld section on the Main Page

November 2008

November 8, 2008. Updated the Links page. See item 33.

August 2008

August 23, 2008. Added Genesis of the six million figure and Meaning of "Holocaust survivor" to Quick Facts on the Holocaust page

July 2008

July 17, 2008. Added a reproduction of the Klarsfeld Foundation book The Struthof Album by Jean-Claude Pressac. It is a study of the Gassing at Natzweiler-Struthof of 86 Jews whose bodies were to constitute a collection of skeletons, and is now linkable off the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation page.


July 13, 2008. Added a reproduction of the Klarsfeld Foundation book French Children of the Holocaust. It is a heart-wrenching depiction of the cruel treatment that the Nazis inflicted on innocent French Children. It is now linkable off the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation page.

April 2008

April 27, 2008. Added a reproduction of the Klarsfeld Foundation book The Holocaust and Neo-Nazi Mythomania. It consists of two studies — "The Launching of the Final Solution of the Jewish Question" and "Reply to the Neo-Nazi Falsification of Historical Facts Concerning the Holocaust." It is now linkable off the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation page.

April 12, 2008. Added a reproduction of Klarsfeld Foundation book Wherever They May Be, the autobiography of Beate Klarsfeld. It is linkable off the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation page.

April 12, 2008. Added a section on reproductions of various seminal Holocaust books by the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation.

February 2008

February 25, 2008. Added Crematorium capacity to Quick Facts on the Holocaust page

February 12, 2008. Added The Reconstruction of Belzec , an aerial photographic reconstruction of the Belzec Death Camp by Alex Bay.

January 2008

January 18, 2008. Updated questions and answers.

January 18, 2008. Added "Jews declared war on Germany?" to Quick Facts on the Holocaust page.

January 13, 2008. Added "ausrotten" to Quick Facts on the Holocaust page.

January 7, 2008. Introduced a handy reference service to readers called Quick Facts on the Holocaust. This section will be constantly updated and expanded.

November 2007

November 18, 2007. Added a detailed analysis of the Einsatzgruppen Reports by Nick Terry

August 2007

August 21, 2007. The Guest Book and Question and Answer services are again available following some site maintenance.

June 2007

June 25, 2007. Updated the Links page. See item 32.

May 2007

May 14, 2007. Added an essay by Andrew Mathis addressing Ingrid Weckert's commentson the Reichkristallnacht

April 2007

April 2, 2007. Added an essay by the journalist Sven Felix Kellerhoff on the extent of Albert Speer's knowledge of the Final Solution.

March 2007

March 23, 2007. Added an essay on the composition and structure of Zyklon-B, the gas used at Auschwitz to kill Jews, by Harry W. Mazal OBE.

March 5, 2007. Updated the Links page. See item 31.

February 2007

February 14, 2007. Added an essay on jurisdictional issues around the International Military Tribunal by Ralf P.Loserth.

January 2007

January 29, 2007. Added the third translation of the Kolthoff-Meyer series from October 22, 2006.

January 28, 2007. Added the second translation of the Kolthoff-Meyer series from October 22, 2006

January 28, 2007. Updated the Links page. See item 30.

January 28, 2007.. Added the first translation of the Kolthoff-Meyer series from October 22, 2006.

January 27, 2007. Added an essay by Eugene Holman on David Irving's overall incompetence.

October 2006

October 22, 2006. Added a series of articles (in German - translations to follow) on the death toll in Auschwitz, arising from an article in the journal Osteuropa. Thanks to Fritjof Meyer, Sven Felix Kellerhoff and THHP member Albrecht Kolthoff for permission to reproduce this material.

September 2006

September 17, 2006. Updated the Links page.

September 17, 2006. Added Uprising in Treblinka, the testimony of Treblinka survivor Samuel Rajzman. Thanks to Andrew Mathis for the transcription.

June 2006

June 10, 2006. Added a secrecy oath sworn by participants in the Operation Reinhard extermination camps.

May 2006

May 22, 2006. Updated the question and answer essay on denial and deniers.
May 5, 2006. Added an extensive and fully annotated essay on the Treblinka death camp entitled Final Destination Treblinka. Thanks to Stephen Potyondi for the essay.
May 2, 2006. Added a quick hit question and answer essay addressing Holocaust deniers and denial.

March 2006

March 7, 2006. Added the news release Trial By Fire: Holocaust History Project Won't Be Silenced following an arson attack on the offices of The Holocaust History Project.

January 2006

January 19, 2006. Added essay and article on General Semantics and Holocaust Denial that analyzes the "arguments" of Holocaust deniers using the principles of general semantics.
January 7, 2006. Added Short Essay on the infamous Majdanek concentration/extermination camp near Lublin in Poland.
January 4, 2006. Updated Links page.

November 2005

November 20, 2005. Updated Links page.
November 17, 2005. Updated the Short Essay on Finding Friends and Family

August 2005

August 29, 2005. Added an essay that examines the use of multiple identities (or nyms) by Holocaust deniers, in this case, Germar Rudolf.

July 2005

July 31, 2005. Added a Short Essay on Odilo Globocnik, the head of the Operation Reinhard death camps.
July 23, 2005. Added the complete text of Dr. Robert Jay Lifton's brilliant and horrifying book The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, courtesy of Dr. Lifton and Sara Salzman.

December 2004

December 23, 2004. Added the complete text of Jean-Claude Pressac's famous book Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers, courtesy of the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation and Harry W. Mazal OBE.


December 16, 2004. Added a document dated September 8, 1942 by Topf engineer Karl Prüfer stating that, even though the Auschwitz cremation capacity could be quickly increased to 2650 a day, that was still not enough and Topf had to "deliver more ovens as quickly as possible".

October 2004

October 5, 2004. Added a statement about an attack on the Holocaust History Project, and the fact that we are still online.

September 2004

September 18, 2004. Updated questions and answers.

August 2004

August 28, 2004. Added an article from Die Welt newspaper, along with English translation, on the report by three THHP contributors dealing with the holes in the roofs of Crematoriums II and III at Auschwitz-Birkenau that was published in the journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

June 2004

June 12, 2004. Added Holocaust Denial as defined in the book Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia.

March 2004

March 16, 2004. Added Heinrich Himmler's Oct. 4, 1943 Speech at Poznan.

February 2004.

February 4, 2004. Added: Short Essay on the pivotal Wannsee Conference.

January 2004

January 14, 2004. Added new section on the extermination camps of Belzec, Treblinka and Sobibor.


January 3, 2004. Updated questions and answers.

December 2003

December 28, 2003. Added new section on War Crimes Tribunals. These essays, opinions and trial transcripts will deal with the trial and punishment of the war criminals that directed and carried out the brutal Nazi Holocaust.

December 7, 2003. Updated questions and answers.

December 1, 2003. Added new section on Eyewitness Accounts and Family Histories. These essays will deal with the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of those who experienced it, survived it or know those who did.

November 2003

November 23, 2003. Added: Short Essay on the events of Kristallnacht.
November 15, 2003. Added: Short Essay on the contents and significance of the Nuremberg Laws.
November 1, 2003. Updated questions and answers.

October 2003

October 25, 2003. Added: Short Essay on the meaning and significance of the expression "final solution of the Jewish question."


October 25, 2003. Added: Short Essay "Who was Julius Streicher?" Julius Streicher was one of Hitler's earliest and most loyal supporters, Streicher's real significance was as the publisher of the infamous tabloid newspaper Der Stürmer (literally, the "Stormer").

September 2003

September 27, 2003. Added: "Who Is Ernst Zundel?" His supporters are long on generalities about what Ernst Zundel stands for but short on specifics. This short pamphlet will show, in Ernst Zundel's own words, the evil philosophy which motivates him and the mindless hatred he espouses. It is presented in a PDF format which we encourage others to download, reprint and distribute.


September 27, 2003. Added: "Who Is David Irving?" Several years ago we produced a small flyer exposing David Irving as a racist, a liar, and a fraud. Fuming, Irving sputtered that it was all lies, but he was unable to point to a single mistake. Time has passed and Irving has been unable to remain silent.. We have added a new pamphlet to include some choice examples of David Irving's most recent bigoted remarks and what some courts have said about him. It is presented in a PDF format which we encourage others to download, reprint and distribute.

June 2003

June 10, 2003. Added The Reconstruction of Treblinka , an aerial photographic reconstruction of the Treblinka Death Camp by Alex Bay.

March 2003

March 10, 2003. Upgraded our network bandwidth to a full 1.5Mbps T1. This will allow you to download our pages twice as fast as before!
March 8, 2003. Added Dene Bebbington's Rebuttal of Faurisson on the Anne Frank Diary.Robert Faurisson's flawed attempt to pass Anne Frank's Diary off as a forgery is critically debunked.

October 2002

October 13, 2002. Added The Jaeger Report (9 pages), Written by SS-Standartenführer (Colonel) Karl Jaeger, commander of one of the "Einsatzkommandos" (EK 3), it provides a very detailed account of the murderous rampage of this "special squad" in Nazi-occupied USSR, and proudly documents 137,346 murders.

September 2002

September 6, 2002. Added: The Essay "The IHR at the Crossroads". The IHR was founded to provide a facade of fraudulent scholarship to the propagation of traditional anti-Semitic materials. This essay examines how it fused traditional anti-Semitism with an attempt to rehabilitate the reputation of the Third Reich. It demonstrates that, beset with financial problems, the IHR began to look to the Middle East for the support it could not find in the U.S.

July 2002

July 26, 2002. Added: David Irving's attempts to sway the High Court of Appeals. This action failed dismally when the so-called expert reports he had presented as new evidence were hurriedly withdrawn by his barrister. The Expert Witness reports presented on behalf of Prof. Deborah Lipstadt completely demolished Irving's mendacious plea.
July 26, 2002. Added Judge Sedley's devastating Opinion in which he endorsed Judge Gray's decision and refused Irving's request for appeal.

June 2002

June 6, 2002. Added the Affidavit produced by renowned scholar Robert Jan Van Pelt presented to the High Court in London to counter David Irving's last gasp attempt to appeal the ruling against him in his failed libel suit against Prof. Deborah Lipstadt.

April 2002

April 5, 2002. Added Harry W. Mazal's Critical Review of an affidavit submitted by Mrs. Zoe Polanska Palmer on behalf of David Irving in his recently failed lawsuit against Prof. Deborah Lipstadt.

February 2002

February 11, 2002. Added the Short Essay Who was Anne Frank?
February 4, 2002. Updated questions and answers.

August 2001

August 12, 2001. David Irving is a Holocaust denier residing in the UK who recently sued Deborah Lipstadt for libel and lost. We now have an index organizing material about David Irving.
August 12, 2001. Added Rich Green's Expert Report submitted in support of Deborah Lipstadt's defense in David Irving's lawsuit against her.

July 2001

July 29, 2001. Added a new short essay, Where to find photos of the Holocaust on the Internet.

May 2001

May 27, 2001. Added Brian Harmon's essay, See No Evil: John Ball's Blundering Air Photo Analysis.

February 2000

February 10, 2001. Added the English translation of The Stroop Report, a German document proudly describing the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto.
February 3, 2001. Updated questions and answers.

December 2000

December 30, 2000. Updated questions and answers.
December 2, 2000. Added the consent agreement in which holocaust denier Fred Leuchter admits he is not an engineer and nevertheless represented himself as such.

October 2000

October 8, 2000. Updated questions and answers.

September 2000

September 24, 2000. Updated questions and answers.
September 9, 2000.Added John Zimmerman's essay My Response to Carlo Mattogno and a supporting document Cremation at Gusen: A Timesheet.

August 2000

August 5, 2000. Updated questions and answers.

July 2000

July 28, 2000. Added a postscript to the article Chemistry is not the Science addressing Germar Rudolf's inadequate response to that article.

June 2000

June 25, 2000. Updated questions and answers.

May 2000

May 29, 2000. Updated questions and answers.
May 16, 2000. Added Gord McFee's essay Where Did David Irving Go Wrong?
Updated questions and answers.
May 15, 2000. Added a new section on CODOH including:

• An open letter from John Silber.
• The ad we placed in Emporia State University's newspaper,the Bulletin, in response to an ad placed by CODOH.
• A letter to the editor of the Bulletin written by Gord McFee.

Added a letter from Joel Hayward.

April 2000

April 30, 2000. Updated questions and answers.
April 11, 2000. Added information and links about Irving's failed libel suit to the front page; added Yale Edeiken's essay series Irving's War.

March 2000

March 12, 2000. Updated questions and answers. Linked information about making donations to THHP.

February 2000

February 13, 2000. Added more questions and answers.
February 1, 2000. Added the essay Are the Jews Central to the Holocaust by Gordon McFee. Also added a list of selected links to other sites.

January 2000

January 15, 2000. Added A Study of the Cyanide Compounds Content In The Walls Of The Gas Chambers in the Former Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camps by Jan Markiewicz, Wojciech Gubala, Jerzy Labedz with a foreword by Richard J. Green.

December 1999

December 7, 1999. Added more questions and answers.

October 1999

October 21, 1999. Added Dr. William Samelson's essay Holocaust Denial: Truth or Hoax?
October 18, 1999. Added Dr. László Karsai's essay Photographs Documenting the Holocaust in Hungary.
October 15, 1999. Added Mark Van Alstine's Response to the Johannesburg Citizen, in which he answers the questions of a Holocaust-denier.
October 12, 1999. Added Prof. John Zimmerman's essay Body Disposal at Auschwitz: The End of Holocaust-Denial.

September 1999

September 4, 1999. Added more questions and answers.

June 1999

June 4, 1999. Added information about our team of volunteers.
June 1, 1999. Added two Short Essays.

May 1999

May 20, 1999. Added essay by Götz Aly and its translation: December 12, 1941.
May 16, 1999. Added three Short Essays.
May 2, 1999. Added the essay Chemistry is Not the Science, a detailed analysis of dishonesty and errors in the work of Holocaust-denial's leading chemist, Germar Rudolf. Also added several related works:

• John Ball: Air Photo Expert?, a look at the credentials of Holocaust-denial's supposed expert in aerial photography;
• Zyklon Introduction Columns, an examination of the devices used to pour poison into the Auschwitz gas chambers;
• Nochmals: Die Einsatzfähigkeit der Blausäure-Durchgasung bei tiefen Temperaturen("Once More: The Efficiency of Prussic Acid Fumigation at Low Temperatures.")Published in 1942, this was followup research on the Peters/Rasch paper with a similar title.

March 1999

March 6, 1999. Updated the pamphlet Who is David Irving?
March 1, 1999. Added Diary of Johann Paul Kremer.

February 1999

February 27, 1999. Added "Delousing Van": Euphemism for Murder. Also added Second Response to 'Samuel Crowell'.
February 18, 1999. Added Yale Edeiken's essay The Forensic Sins of Carlos Porter.
February 14, 1999. Added the essay Stroop on Treblinka. Added several documents/reproductions:

• "Special Vans...or Other Remedies" (letter regarding "special vans" for the Mauthausen concentration camp)
• "97,000 have been processed" (describes in great detail the murders committed with gassing vans).
• Die Einsatzfähigkeit der Blausäure-Durchgasung bei tiefen Temperaturen ("The Efficiency of Prussic Acid Fumigation at Low Temperatures.")

February 6, 1999. Added "Gassing Devices" (Nuremberg Document NO-365, letter from Wetzel to Lohse).

January 1999

January 15, 1999. Added eight wartime documents concerning Auschwitz.
January 3, 1999. Added Gord McFee's collection of quotations: In the Nazis' Words.
January 2, 1999. We've added a great deal of new material today:

• new questions and answers
• Volume 4 of the "blue series"
• and Stig Hornshøj-Møller's The Führer Myth: an English translation of five chapters from his Danish book Führer-Mythos - plus a prefatory essay on the writing of the book.

December 1998

Added How Reliable are the Höss Memoirs?, The "Wolzek" Paradox, and reply to Germar Rudolf.

November 1998

Added more questions and answers, and updated The Chemistry of Auschwitz.

October 1998

Added Volume 3 and part of Volume 11 of the blue series, Leuchter, Rudolf and the Iron Blues, questions and answers, and Hitler's Reichstag speech.

September 1998

The site added four new short essays,  Why "Revisionism" Isn't, and Dr. Stig Hornshøj-Møller's work on Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew").

June 1998

In June 1998, the site added  new short essays.

May 1998

In May 1998, the site added four new short essays as well as an Introduction to the Einsatzgruppen, and The Dachau Gas Chambers.

Who Is David Irving?

In April 1998 The site added a pamphlet entitled Who is David Irving?

The Holocaust History Blog

The intention of this blog is to provide a live feed of updates to the Holocaust History Project website.  Additionally, there may be occasional commentary fro member of the Holocaust History project team.  The blog links back to content at the main website.  The first posts will update the feed from the historical "What's New?" page. the Holocaust History Project site originally opened March 25, 1998.