Bradley R. Smith

Bradley R. Smith was born in Los Angeles on February 18, 1930. At 18 he joined the army and in 1951 served with the infantry in Korea where he was twice wounded. After three decades of a variety of professional activities, it suddenly hit him: In 1979 he read a leaflet by Professor Robert Faurisson, "The Problem of the Gas Chambers." Then, Arthur Butz’s The Hoax of the Twentieth Century did it for him. He understood from the beginning that he would address the censorship, the suppression of independent thought, the taboo against publishing and debating revisionist arguments—not the arguments themselves. That has remained his position. In 1989 Smith founded Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) dedicated to defending free speech and free inquiry into the Holocaust question. He handed over CODOH's helm in late 2014, but keeps contributing.

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But who’s counting? Me. On Saturday morning, 28 October, I checked to see if we had the “counter” on my Homepage. Three individuals had logged onto the site up to that hour. I was there at the very beginning. The next morning the count had gone to 12. Some of …

I want to thank those of you who expressed sympathy and concern for my wife in response to our Christmas letter. Some of you have sent personal notes to her, others have written expressing concern that we have not investigated alternative methods of treating breast cancer. I have some concern …

Everything is going our way now. The great censorship confrontation on the Internet (it began with pornography and quickly moved against Ernst Zuendel’s Web-site and revisionism) and the coalescing of free-press organizations to fight against President Clinton’s “Communications Decency Act” (which is considerably more complicated and dangerous than is yet …

In January I received an email message from a Pierce College (Tacoma WA) student who had found the CODOH Website on the Internet. He wanted to help. I submitted an ad announcing that 46 Unanswered Questions About the World War II Gas Chambers are available free on the Internet to …

The Daily Sun at Cornell ran the 46 Unanswered Questions ad for five weeks in February and March. Cornell is the largest campus in the Ivy League. The Ivy League schools are arguably the most influential in America. On 19 February the Sun ran a defensive editorial saying the ad …

Elie Wiesel, world leader of the S. S. (Sensitive Survivors), has found a new cause. Rummaging among the victims of Hitler's regime, he's come up with Carl von Ossietzky, Weimar leftist and "pacifist" par excellence, who died in a Berlin hospital after several years in a German concentration camp. Wiesel …

From the beginning, in 1990, I've made it a practice to mail Smith's Report without charge to those who have donated help or money to CODOH, the Campus Project, and the other revisionist projects I have started and carried forth. To date SR has been read by the select few …

Do you want to see something of what we are publishing “electronically” on the CODOH Website? Following are representative articles and excerpts from books produced by writers and scholars around the world, working usually in great personal isolation, oftentimes under threat from the State, and with little hope of financial …

This is what I believe with regard to the gas chamber controversy, what I don’t believe, and why. I understand perfectly well that the Hitlerian regime was antisemitic and persecuted Jews and others. I understand that many peoples, European Jews among them, experienced unfathomable tragedies at the hands of the …

As promised in last month's SR, in response to the suppression of publication of David Irving's Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich, Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust mounted a campaign to notify publishers and editors of the accessibility of the book's actual content and Irving's introduction to the …

"Former communist Roger Garaudy converts to revisionism" [L'ancien communiste Roger Garaudy se convertit au révisonnisme]. Such was the headline bannering Christiane Chombeau's January 31st article in Le Monde last winter, one rich in meaning for those who had followed Roger Garaudy's meandering career as a French intellectual since the late …

Northwestern University. The Daily Northwestern reports (12 April) that “Holocaust educator” Scott Fishweicher spoke to a “small group” (NU’s Students Helping to Organize Awareness of the Holocaust [SHAH]) to lament the “widespread outcry” caused by ads placed by “Noted revisionist Bradly [sic] Smith....” “Fishweicher showed a ’48 Hours’ video illustrating …

(Please remit about ten cents per page – plus the most generous contribution you can make over that amount.) David Irving. Introduction to Goebbels, Mastermind of the Third Reich. 7pp. This is the intro to the book suppressed by St. Martin’s under pressure from various Jewish lobbies. Andrew Allen. Aerial …

While Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust hasn’t shamed any New York publisher into bringing out David Irving's (de facto) banned Goebbels just yet, CODOH's ongoing campaign against the book's suppression has begun to bring results. The most visible among them, so far, has been an astonishing column in …

As is clear from David Irving's letter (above). Nobel peace laureate Elie Wiesel has resumed his attacks on revisionists (perhaps someone showed him a copy of Smith’s Report No. 31, which exposed his hypocrisy in pressing for the rehabilitation of the German Carl von Ossietzky while ignoring the current plight …

Talk radio is bigger than ever. It plays a more significant role in public discourse than anyone imagined it would only a few short years ago. I used to do a lot of radio myself. My “media project” was the first revisionist activist work that reached broad regional and even …

Nothing in this business is more important than names — names of individuals who are interested in revisionism and intellectual freedom. If you have the names and addresses of individuals you have reason to believe might want to know about Smith’s Report and read about the work we are doing, …

There was a time several years ago when I was a one-man band and managed the Project by myself. Over the last year it has simply outgrown that kind of management. The CODOH Web site is the most obvious example of the growth of the Project. If it were not …

(Please remit about ten cents per page for printing and p&h. As this is a service only, please add the most generous contribution possible.) * = New with this issue of SR. David Irving. Introduction to Goebbels, Mastermind of the Third Reich. 7pp. This is the intro to the book …

Gerald Footlick, a retired senior editor of Newsweek magazine, was here at the house on a recent Saturday afternoon to interview me for a book he is working on for the American Council on Education. The book is to look at a number of hot issues that have plagued college …

Yes, you read the headline right: the present tense for "orders" is correct; the book is to be "burned" as well as banned; and so far as we can tell, no more than a hundred Germans protested publicly. The book is Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte: Ein Handbuch ueber strittige Fragen des …

On June 11 the Canadian government's Security Intelligence Review Committee announced it was postponing indefinitely hearings on whether Ernst Zuendel represented a danger to the Canadian state. This followed by one day a brilliant argument by Zuendel's superb attorney, Doug Christie (ably assisted by Barbara Kulaszka) in an "apprehension of …

As some of you may recall, I dreamed up the Media Project in January 1986. My attention had been caught by the fact that while a little revisionist literature was being distributed with some success, revisionists themselves were hard to find. There was something of a common understanding in those …

The Irving/Goebbels/St. Martin's affair just won't die. Two months after Thomas McCormack, CEO of St. Martin's Press, announced that his company would not honor its contract and publish David Irving's massive, exhaustively researched biography of Hitler's propaganda chief (see SR #31), this signal episode in America's lengthy postwar history of …

Doubtless you've seen the stories: the French Olympic "synchronized swimming" team in Atlanta, goose-stepping poolside to themes from Schindler's List, then diving in for their arrival at the death camps, the selection by Dr. Mengele and company, and the last march to the showers (or was it the bath tubs?). …

Sixty-six years old and never been kissed. Summer is here and the nectarine tree, the peach tree, the orange tree, the apple tree and the two little plum trees are all scarggly messes but they’re all producing wildly too and their fruit is good. Magaly is home from San Diego …

Tom Reveille and I e-mailed our first proposal to radio talk shows on 2 July. On 4 July, as we have pointed out, our site was shut down. If a talk show producer was interested in responding to our solicitation, there was no way he could reach us. We had …

Here is a partial list of articles, letters and book chapters that Richard Widmann and David Thomas added to CODOHWeb in English, German and French—after reestablishing our site on 14 July. 7/14/96 Annex added to the English translation of Roger Garaudy's The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics, with the following …

David Irving will be the main speaker at the Marriott Suites hotel in Costa Mesa on 7 September at this IHR “Mini-conference.” I will speak as well, while Mark Weber will report on recent revisionist news. While most attendees will be from the Southern California area, others are flying in …

Last January the Simon Wiesenthal Center called for Internet service providers to deny revisionists access to the World Wide Web. We can't say for sure that ProtoSource Network and Rick Horowitz took their lead from the SWC, but they did exactly what the rabbis asked them to do. The Wiesenthalers …