Update: The SS versus the Civil Administration in the area of Einsatzgruppe A
A key issue in the history of Nazi occupation policies in the USSR is identifying the point at which each SS unit was instructed, or allowed to, kill all Jewish men, women and children in its area. In...
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Lying about Elie Wiesel
A whole cottage industry has sprung up in recent years devoted to "proving" that the late Elie Wiesel was a total fraud: an impostor who stole an actual Auschwitz survivor's identity. Most of the...
View ArticleUpdate: Goebbels Statements from 1941
Goebbels' diary [hereafter TB], January 31, 1941: "Discussed with Bouhler the discreet liquidation of the mentally ill. 40,000 have gone, 60,000 have still to go. It’s a tough but necessary job. And it...
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More on Sebastian Gorka
LATE ADDITION AT BOTTOMSince I wrote on this topic last, right wing bloggers and journalists have circled the wagons around Sebastian Gorka, Trump's deputy adviser for national security and purported...
View ArticleUpdate: The Extermination of Entire Communities in Ukraine in 1941
It is often assumed that no Axis orders were issued before the invasion to kill women and children in any part of the USSR, but this assumption is false. The General Inspector of the Romanian...
View ArticleAn Early Use of 'Ausrottung' - and a small deception by Jansson
On September 12, 1936, Julius Streicher used the word 'extirpated' [Ausrottung] in a clearly exterminatory sense in a speech reported by The Times, reproduced on September 16 in The Glasgow Herald,...
View Article137 Crushed Lies, or Why Denial Is Beyond Repair
The average online denier is not a sophisticated creature. He is usually satisfied with a few memes he has found on Twitter or at some forum and repeats them ad infinitum, never bothering to fact-check...
View ArticleThe Denial Fossil Faurisson Sounds Like a Broken Record (Again)
After the news that Angela Merkel will receive USHMM's Elie Wiesel award the French denier of the obvious Robert Faurisson couldn't stay silent and had to express his displeasure in an article with the...
View ArticleGerman Instigation of Pogroms
A favourite meme of Holocaust deniers is that pogroms were not the responsibility of the Germans. Germar Rudolf even claims here that Jewish deaths from pogroms were not "real Holocaust victims." This...
View ArticleJews Shot because They Were Jews
In response to the brainless denier meme that Jews were only shot in the USSR because they were partisans, Communists, saboteurs or provocateurs (a meme that is antisemitic on its face, because no...
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German Document on Chelmno Gas Van Driver Filling up Gasoline in Lodz
APL 221/30183, p. 11A document from the Ghetto Lodz administration shows that on 2 September 1944 "Laabs" from the "SS police" refuelled his truck with the licence number "71449" two times with "45...
View ArticlePodcast Interview on Holocaust Denial
I gave an interview a couple of months ago to Matthew Buckley of Adelaide, Australia, who runs a podcast called Social Justice Warriors. We talked about the phenomenon of denial in general, techniques...
View ArticleNacht und Nebel update
I have how added a couple of document images to the post exposing the old fool Faurisson.
View ArticleContemporary Reports of Killings in the USSR that included Children
The following is merely a sample of reports where the killing of children is included or clearly implied. More will follow in due course. To these must also be added the numerous actions in the Jaeger...
View ArticleReports from the Occupied Eastern Territories, May 1942 to January 1943
Extracts from the Meldungen aus den besetzten Ostgebieten appear in this collection edited by Arad et al. Below I copy across several relevant extracts, each referenced by the page number in the...
View ArticleAnother SK 1005 update
As mentioned previously on the blog, we have 22 German wartime documents explicitly mentioning Sonderkommando 1005, of them 7 have been published here. Now it's time for a little update of that...
View ArticleExtermination of Children in Daugavpils, Latvia
According to this site, researched by Jacob Gorfinkel, "According to June 1942 Food Card distribution, there remained 487 Jews (245 men, 242 women, 22 children) in Daugavpils." The low number of...
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What the CODOHites are saying when they think nobody is watching.
Remember how CODOH is supposed all to be about rationality, arguments and no hidden agenda whatsoever?Except they used to have this hidden subforum called VIP Lounge, accessible only to the "time...
View ArticleLe Pens' National Front and Holocaust denial.
Valérie Igounet's 1998 article about National Front as the party of Holocaust denial is worth reading in full.Obviously, considering that Marine Le Pen's deputy was forced to leave his post because of...
View ArticleZündel Resurfaces
A couple of weeks ago, Eugene Volokh, a lawyer, blogger, and columnist with the Washington Post, reported that Ernst Zündel had filed a petition to have the ban on his living in the United States...
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