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/

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).