Yawn.
For those who still give a ... something or other ... about this, Mike Eunuch, or however he is called nowadays, has been dissected here again.
View ArticleBełżec and Black Death Mass Graves
These days it is germs rather than guns that make the headlines, be it because of what has happened and is happening or because of what some fear might still happen. Interest in past pandemics like the...
View ArticleThe Mbembe Affair: Introduction
Nick Terry named this blog"Holocaust Controversies" nearly 15 years ago, but we don't do much here on actual controversies regarding the Holocaust in our public discourse as much as we do attacking the...
View ArticleThe Mbembe Affair: What Has Mbembe Written?
Our first order of business must be determining whether Achille Mbembe's writings reflect antisemitism and Holocaust relativization. As noted in the article from Deutsche Welle, the claims are based on...
View ArticleThe Mbembe Affair: BDS and the Holocaust
In this installment on the Achille Mbembe affair, we'll examine how the battle over the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement has engaged the issue of the Holocaust. It's necessary,...
View ArticleThe Mbembe Affair: Mbembe and Uniqueness
In this final installment of the series on the Achille Mbembe affair, we'll look at how Mbembe has been incorporated into the debate over the uniqueness of the Holocaust.By early summer, the...
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RSHA report of October 1944: "...the Polish people...fear that, like the...
The following reproduces a memo of 18 October 1944 by Herbert Strickner, RSHA department III B, on the "reorganization of Poland policy". The written draft makes the revealing side note that "the...
View ArticleCitations of Holocaust Controversies in the Literature
It's been a while since we compiled a list of the times that the HC blog has been cited in the scholarly/academic and professional literature. Here's an updated list to bring us to the present. Please...
View ArticleThe doors to wisdom are shut - Rudolf on the crematorium in Auschwitz main camp
The Holocaust denier Germar Rudolf published an article on "The Thin Internal Walls of Krematorium I at Auschwitz" with supposedly "far-reaching consequences" - summed up as yet another nonsensical...
View ArticleNo, Germans were not accused of, sentenced or executed for the Katyn massacre...
On David Irving's site we find the following message:Innocent executedDoing my reading on the history of German war crimes, German war criminals and their adjudication by the victors after World War...
View ArticleJewish Burial Law and Exhumation of Mass Graves
Over at the cesspit, our old friend Hannover tends to repeat himself a fair bit. One of his "greatest hits" is the claim that the idea that Jewish law generally forbids the exhumation of mass graves is...
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What the Soviets knew about Auschwitz - and when. Part V: the destruction of...
On 15.07.1944 the director of 1st Directorate of NKGB, the Soviet intelligence, Pavel Fitin wrote to Aleksandr Shcherbakov, a Central Committee secretary and the head of the Political Directorate of...
View ArticleThanks but No Thanks
Today, I updated the list of Citations of Holocaust Controversies in the Literature, adding two sources: a book on the Kurdish and Armenian genocides published back in 2007 by Desmond Fernandes, who...
View ArticleMichael Hoffman's Twisted Road
Since we began this blog 15 years ago, we've been fully aware that Holocaust deniers have individual motives. Certainly among these motives is antisemitism -- it's perhaps the one trait that the...
View ArticleReview of Holocaust Handbooks Volume 26 – Santiago Alvarez, The Gas Vans
Since December 1941, the Nazis deployed homicidal gas vans using gasoline engine exhaust for the extermination of the European Jews, the liquidation of mental asylums and clearing of prisons in the...
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Crimes and Mercies, by James Bacque
This article is not about Holocaust denial. Or maybe a different sort of denial, which consists in blowing up (or simply inventing) crimes committed by Nazi Germany’s opponents in order to play down...
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The Great Mortality in Königsberg
The title of this article is derived from The Great Mortality, by John Kelly, a bestselling book about the Black Death. However, the article is not about a natural but about a relatively unknown...
View ArticleRyan Faulk Is Not a Slave to Your Funhouses
Ryan Faulk is a guy who likes to depict himself, according to his Youtube channel "The Alternative Hypothesis, as "Anti-racist, anti-Nazi, anti-totalitarian." That said, his race-IQ obsession would...
View ArticleBrief Update: Ryan Faulk's Second Guesses
Having written just a few days ago about Ryan Faulk's problematic foray into Jewish population analysis 1939-1945, I checked his Bitchute video again to see whether anyone had posted the link from...
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Neema Parvini and the Pitfalls of Literary Scholars Doing History
There's a British Shakespeare scholar named Neema Parvini who has made a second career out of far right commentary on a YouTube channel called Academic Agent. He Tweets under the handle OGRolandRat.As...
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