Welcome to CODOH!

The aim of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust is to promote intellectual freedom permitting an uncensored and unimpeded, yet always civil discourse on the “Holocaust” narrative, and to offer a forum to those who contest the orthodox Holocaust narrative. As an introduction, we recommend:

Holocaust Encyclopedia

El Gran Tabu: Get to know CODOH’s founder Bradley Smith, and Germar Rudolf, who continues Brad’s legacy at CODOH, as well as Ernst Zündel, a major revisionist activist.

Always Hot: The new standard reference work summarizing in 591 nutshell entries the research results of skeptical Holocaust research. This 646-page letter-size “Nuke Book” gives you an uncensored and unconstrained look at all the pertinent evidence that upholds the orthodox Holocaust narrative: the true, the false, and the mendacious. It also exposes the various forces and influences that have dictated how this narrative was formed, and how it is protected from skeptical prying eyes. Learn about the biggest propaganda campaign mankind has ever seen, and how it braced the postwar world psychologically. This encyclopedia gives you all the information they ever wanted, and information you didn’t even know exists, right at your fingertips. Learn more…

CODOH is operated entirely by volunteers. If you believe you can help, please go to our Volunteer page to view the many ways you can participate, and please donate to help achieve our mission to repeal anti-Revisionist anti-free speech laws around the world:

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Our Latest Blog Posts:

  • Julius Streicher: Unjustly Hanged at Nuremberg
    Julius Streicher (1885-1946) was the most despised defendant at the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg. Virtually nobody liked him, and even his co-defendants shunned him. Contemporaries inside and outside of Germany typically portrayed him as a monster.[1] Rebecca West, for example, commented about Streicher:[2] “He is a dirty old man of the sort that…
  • The Internment of Japanese American Civilians
    A true aspect of the Holocaust story is that Jews were sent to concentration camps, forced to live in ghettos, conscripted for labor, stripped of their rights, and suffered extreme hardships. Unfortunately, many Jews died from mostly “natural” causes in the German camps during World War II. This article documents that many of the same…
  • Casey Whalen’s Podcast Interview with Germar Rudolf
    On November 24, 2025, Casey Whalen interviewed Germar Rudolf for his “The Whalen Report” podcast. Watch it below or on Substack.Your browser does not support the video tag and/or does not show MP4 files. Germar Rudolf Germar Rudolf was born on October 29, 1964, in Limburg, Germany. He studied chemistry at Bonn University, where he graduated…
  • Germar Rudolf’s Presentation at Return to the Land, Arkansas
    On October 25, 2025, Germar Rudolf gave a presentation to the gathered folks of the Arkansas chapter of the European settlement movement “Return to the Land.” This group had organized an entire weekend of activities both for settlers and non-settled members, as well as for outsiders who past their vetting process. Germar received a late…
  • The Economic Fallacies Underpinning Hitler’s Disastrous Views
    Ludwig von Mises wrote: “It is ideas that group men into fighting factions, that press the weapons into their hands, and that determine against whom and for whom the weapons shall be used. It is they alone, and not arms, that, in the last analysis, turn the scales.” Regardless of all the suffering men like…
  • Eviction Notice Podcast Interview with Germar Rudolf
    On October 13, 2025, Joseph Correro and Louis London from the Rumble podcast channel “Eviction Notice”, established only a few months earlier, interviewed Germar Rudolf. Watch it below or on Rumble.Your browser does not support the video tag and/or does not show MP4 files. Germar Rudolf Germar Rudolf was born on October 29, 1964, in…
  • John Charmley and the Story of Winston Churchill
    For more than thirty years, I’d occasionally come across harsh attacks against a British historian named John Charmley for writing a highly-critical biography of Winston Churchill, the famed British leader, and that was about the only thing I knew of that author. I’d always vaguely wondered exactly what he’d said about Churchill that had infuriated…
  • Interview with Ron Unz
    Ron Unz (@UnzReview) discusses his intellectual upbringing and involvement in Holocaust research with Holocaust researcher Germar Rudolf (@GermarRudolf) and free market activist Jorge Besada. Out of the blue, Ron Unz got in touch with me back in 2018, if I remember correctly, asking whether he would be allowed to post all the Holocaust Handbooks on…
  • Nuremberg’s Kangaroo Court on Stew Peters
    On September 24, 2025, Stew Peters had me once more on his show. He stated that it will be about my recently released documentary on the Nuremberg Trial. He asked me to prepare material that can be shown, which I did. However, he ended up not using any of it, and the exchange between him…
  • Jankiel Wiernik Exposed as Communist Propagandist
    This article examines Jankiel Wiernik’s activities in Warsaw, Poland in the years preceding the Second World War. The claim that Jankiel Wiernik was not an experienced writer before recording his experience of the Treblinka camp is called into question by newspaper reports from Warsaw and around Poland highlighting Wiernik’s involvement in writing communist propaganda for…

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  • Germar Rudolf was born on October 29, 1964, in Limburg, Germany. He studied chemistry at Bonn University, where he graduated in 1989 as a Diplom-Chemist, which is comparable to a U.S. PhD degree. From 1990-1993 he prepared a German PhD thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in conjunction with the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Parallel to this and in his spare time, Rudolf prepared an expert report on chemical and technical questions of the alleged gas chambers of Auschwitz, The Rudolf Report (now titled The Chemistry of Auschwitz). He conclude in it that "the alleged facilities for mass extermination at Auschwitz and Birkenau were not suited for the purpose as claimed." As a result he had to endure severe measures of persecution in subsequent years. Hence he went into British exile, where he started the small revisionist outlet Castle Hill Publishers. When Germany asked Britain to extradite Rudolf in 1999, he fled to the U.S. There he applied for political asylum, expanded his publishing activities, and in 2004 married a U.S. citizen. In 2005, the U.S. recognized Rudolf's marriage as valid and seconds later arrested and subsequently deported him back to Germany, where he was put in prison for 44 months for his scholarly writings. Some of the writings he got punished for had been published while Rudolf resided in the U.S., where his activities were and are perfectly legal. Since not a criminal under U.S. law, he managed to immigrate permanently to the U.S. in 2011, where he rejoined his U.S. citizen wife and daughter. He currently resides in Upstate New York.

    Read more about him here.