David Thomas

At left: The door at the concentration camp Majdanek from which the USHMM made the replica which is now on display in Washington D.C.At right: The real function of the door and thousands more like it is shown in a widely distributed German ad for bomb-shelter doors and window covers, …

Introduction "Germany must be destroyed" is a collection of quotes made by various political leaders, scholars, and opinion makers in the West over a period stretching back to the 19th century. It gives a feel for the "problem" that Germany has represented to other nations since Bismarck achieved unity in 1870 …

The imperfect translations which follow convey clearly enough the meaning of three documents recently forwarded by an anonymous source from Russian archives of captured German WWII documents to Samuel Crowell. They give details of logistical problems encountered in the building of hundreds of air-raid shelters at Auschwitz-Birkenau in April through …

Introduction The following list is of various versions of the famous photograph which shows (in its cropped version) a German (?) soldier sighting in his rifle in the standing position, allegedly about to shoot a woman who is clasping a baby to her breast and facing away from him. The …

Professor Jeffrey Shallit Associate Professor Computer Science Department University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario Canada London, […] Dear Professor Shallit, I am not a subscriber to the Internet, but over the last few months I have heard repeatedly about scurrilous materials which you have been posting on that medium; at least …

A dejected subscriber is printed and processed for banishment after being caught using one of AOL's forbidden words, "breast", on-line. Cyber Police scoffed at his plaintive insistence that he was trying to say "beast" and that he "never could spell too good noway." "A likely goddamned story!" they sniffed. "These …

The world is angry today. Which is to say that the world is afraid, and anger is fear's preferred method of persuasion. I risk speaking of the world in the most anthromorphic way, but I think our fear is contagious, things usually pay attention to the extreme moods of large …

A column in the June 16, 1996 edition of the Orange County (California) Register, recounted details of the desecration of a grave. It's an oddly common crime (or so some say) but this one had a twist. You might even say a warp. Across a busy thoroughfare from a little …

I remember well the plague, the old man muttered low, Its origins were vague, would were the outcome so! I think it started back, he said, when poor benighted dupes Listened to the demagogues and split us into groups. Have pride! they cried, not in your deeds, nor even in …

OJ Simpson Pronounces Himself "Vindicated" But Still Cannot Spell It June 9, 1998 (from wire services) In a startling new development, the former commandant of Auschwitz has confessed to the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in June, 1994, in a signed confession found on the grounds of …

After CODOHWeb signed on with a new Internet service provider (ISP), or connection service to the Internet, last May, CODOH was for the first time able to monitor traffic figures for its Website in detail. Previously, the most we could do was to put counters on specific Website pages. Now, …

(David Thomas is co-Webmaster of CODOHWeb, a businessman, golfer and raconteur.) At just about the stroke of midnight, July 3/4, woke up in front of the computer screen where I’d been dozing for an hour or so, working on uploading new files to the CODOH World Wide Web site. It’s …

The following note was appended to an item on the CODOH site: CODOH Comment: This item originally appeared with a statement that the Usenet group to which it was submitted was operated by Nizkor, who "censored" the following material by refusing to post it. A spokesman for Nizkor brought …