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 579 nutshell entries the research results of skeptical Holocaust research. This 634-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…

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Our Latest Blog Posts:

  • Does Poland Deserve War Reparations from Germany?
    The November/December 2022 issue of The Barnes Review mentions that the Polish government has formally demanded $1.2 trillion from Germany “for the damages from the Nazi invasion and occupation during World War II.”[1] This article examines whether Poland deserves to receive such reparations from Germany. Polish Report Poland released a report on September 1, 2022,…
  • Alfred Schäfer once more Arrested in Germany
    Dear Friends, Today, July 7th, 2025, the German police went to my brother’s home in Tutzing, Starnberger See, Bavaria, Germany, and took him away in handcuffs. He is in a police cell tonight at Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany, the same place I spent my first night after being arrested in 2018. Tomorrow he will be brought to…
  • Challenging Holocaust Orthodoxy: A German National’s Fight for Free Speech
    On May 25, 2025, at 6:30pm Eastern Time, José Niño of The Barnes Review (TBR) conducted an audio-only interview with Germar Rudolf. It took a long while for The Barnes review to post this interview on their site, but now it finally happened: On this episode of TBR Radio’s “The TBR History Hour,” host José…
  • Rudolf Höss: Tortured Into Making His Confessions
    Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (1901-1947) was the first of three successive commandants of Auschwitz, and later head of all the German concentration camps during World War II. Lt. Commander Whitney Harris, an American prosecutor at Nuremberg who spent three days interrogating Höss, described Höss as a “plain, little man” who reminded him of a “grocery…
  • Why We Should All Be Holocaust Deniers
    Questioning the mainstream Holocaust narrative of a maniacal Hitler attempting to eradicate Jewry primarily via gas chambers is a criminal act in 26 countries. This means that people can be deemed criminals, and killed should they resist arrest, simply due to the ideas that make sense to them. Regardless of whether people are right or…
  • Revisionist Presentations at the 22nd Porcfest
    At the recommendation of my friend Jorge Besada, we both attended the 22nd Porcfest at Lancaster, NH, from June 16th to June 22, 2025. Porcfest is short for “Porcupine Freedom Festival”, which is a yearly event organized by the “Free State Project” (FSP). This project is run by libertarians from all over the world. On…
  • Iconic Photo from the Auschwitz “Höcker-Album”
    The Höcker-Album is a photographic record of SS officials at Auschwitz-Birkenau.[1] One of the most iconic photos in this album shows German SS officers Josef Mengele, Rudolf Höss, Josef Kramer, and another unidentified SS man, with Höss visibly smiling, while another shows Josef Kramer, Josef Mengele, Richard Baer, Karl Höcker, and an unidentified officer. A…
  • Crematory Breakdowns in Auschwitz/Birkenau
    I haven’t paid attention to Holocaust Denial of Trail (HDoT) in a while. I hope they do not feel neglected. I hope they are not salty at the fact that SimilarWeb.com says I get more internet traffic than they do.   In the following excerpt from HDoT’s article on crematoria repairs HDoT asks “How do…
  • The Early History of Revisionism
    Readers knowledgeable about the Holocaust will recall that the central elements of the present-day story existed not only in the immediate aftermath of the war – when such things were at least theoretically knowable – but also during the war, and even before the war, when they were not. Hitler’s plan for the “extermination” of…
  • Super Effective Brainwashing
    If you’re not seeing this headline from The Times of Israel (ToI) as some real dystopian stuff, then you might be under the spell of Holocaust indoctrination. If you are having trouble seeing the insidiousness of a custom-tailored Holocaust-affirming exhibit just keep reading. A little background info: The exhibit was aimed at the children of…

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Author

  • Germar Rudolf

    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.

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