Witnesses

The orthodox Holocaust narrative rests almost exclusively on witness testimony. This section is dedicated to the critique of the witnesses and their statements in literature, media, and courts of law.

Seven homicidal gas chambers are said to have existed at the Majdanek Camp. At least, that was what the public has been told by Polish authorities between 1945 and the early 2000s. Six of these chambers have been well-described, and they had some "criminal traces" to give them at least a little credence. But the seventh of them, a room in the center of the camp's crematorium, never made any sense at all, and has been the laughing stock of open-minded observers for decades. In the meantime, the Majdanek Museum has admitted that this room (and four of the others) were not homicidal gas chambers after all. By going to the sources, this paper addresses the question how it could happen that a ludicrous claim such as this could have evolved in the first place.

Assessing the reliability and accuracy of witness testimony is probably one of the most difficult tasks both in jurisprudence as well as in historiography. Although it is generally acknowledged by experts that witness testimony is the least reliable type of evidence and must be critically and carefully scrutinized before any …

When national guardsmen came to the Kent State campus that terrible day in May 1970, you didn’t have to pay to get to see them. In fact, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder may never have seen them at all as they walked between classes, until the guardsmen’s bullets came from …

The series of articles in this issue of The Revisionist addresses the question how it could be explained that many witnesses to the so-called 'Holocaust' testified about events that did not take place in the way described or not at all. From a psychological standpoint of trying to make the …

There is currently no topic of human history that is treated more emotionally and one-sidedly in public than the Holocaust. It represents the central taboo of western civilization, and to question it is the epitome of heresy, punishable by imprisonment in many western 'democracies.' Given this state of affairs, the …

On June 28, 1998, Joe Sharkey reported in New York Times about a phenomenon that is well-known to revisionists. It all started with a documentary on CNN on June 7, 1998, by the veteran CNN war correspondent Peter Arnett and producer April Oliver. In it, Vietnam War veterans claimed that …

Prof. Elizabeth Loftus is permanently under pressure to justify her thesis that human memory can easily be manipulated to 'recall' events that actually did not take place. In June 2001, she published more recent findings, which indicate that human memory is even less reliable than she had already found in …

In late 1958 and early 1959, public prosecutor Weber of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Stuttgart, Germany, received a large number of witness statements, mainly consisting of accusations against Wilhelm Boger, who was already in custody at that time for crimes allegedly committed by him in the former concentration camp …

Professor Elizabeth Loftus holds the title of distinguished professor of psychology, social behavior, criminology, law and society at U.C. Irvine and has recently been nationally recognized for her findings in a study that proves memories could not only be distorted, but also completely reconstructed. Professor Loftus is considered an expert …

The world of medical science has produced another stunning book about the phenomenon first identified as "Holocaust Survivor Syndrome" – the manner in which groups of people genuinely and honestly come to believe over the years that they have witnessed episodes which are, in fact, largely products of trauma and …

For those seeing this for the first time, consider for a moment the impact of essentially the same story with the details changed and a different set of fabulous details thrown in. What you are going to read are two different descriptions of the same event. Where you would expect …

They all said it, didn’t they? Or all of those testifying under oath anyway, no? Or nobody said there weren’t any, did they? Certainly not under oath, eh? The weight of testimonial evidence in support of the existence and use of gas chambers in German wartime concentration camps seems to …

Elizabeth Loftus, The Myth of Repressed Memory, New York, 1994, 290 S. Die Welt der wissenschaftlichen Medizin hat erneut ein erstaunliches Buch hervorgebracht über das zunächst als sogenanntes "Holocaust-Survivor-Syndrom" bekannt gewordene Phänomen, also die Art und Weise, mit der ganze Gruppen von Menschen im Laufe der Jahre aufrichtig und ehrlich …

The lead story of SR 47, describing the identities of Ada Bimko and Hadassah Rosensaft, advances a theory I have been working on for some time. The idea behind this project is to demonstrate in something of a new way how Holocaust narratives evolved as a species of imaginative literature, …

Mark Turley’s narrative From Nuremberg to Nineveh: War, Peace and the Making of Modernity, is an interesting exposé on the final battle of the Second World War. A newer voice to the revisionist community, Turley is among the first wave of authors to take a sensible and objective approach to …

As revisionists are well aware, many of the defenders of the traditional Holocaust rely heavily on alleged "eye-witnesses" to the events. Yet how many "eye-witnesses" have not only been exposed by revisionists, but have been admittedly scandalized by the mainstream press? Still, that does not stop Holo defenders from standing …

by Carolyn Yeager Joachim Neander, PhD, an independent scholar from Cracow, Poland, examines Irene Weisberg Zisblatt’s holocaust survivor narrative and concludes it is “not in accordance with the historically established facts,” is “exaggerated,” “implausible” and not true overall. Neander has contributed to publications in Poland, Germany, Israel and the USA. …

By Thomas Kues It is often stated that Rudolf Reder (who later took the name Roman Robak) was the only Jew to have survived the "pure extermination camp" at Belzec. This, however, is incorrect even from an exterminationist viewpoint, since according to orthodox historiography there were in all seven survivors: …

By Carlo Mattogno (February 2010) Joachim Neander claims that he is able to give the name of two prisoners who were gassed at Auschwitz. He notes that the "Bunkerbuch" on 5 September 1941 has recorded the death of three detainees, Fritz Renner, Bruno Grosman and Roman Drost, of which the …

By Carlo Mattogno On 27 January 2010, the tenth “Holocaust Remembrance Day”, Elie Wiesel was invited into Montecitorio Hall, the seat of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic where he had the opportunity to give a brief speech. The president of the Chamber, Gianfranco Fini, introduced him as …

By Carlo Mattogno After the publication of my article Elie Wiesel: “The Most Authoritative Living Witness” of The Shoah?[1] I learned about a Hungarian website on which Miklòs Grüner has compiled a substantial documentation regarding this subject.[2] Grüner has, for years, made highly commendable efforts to ascertain Elie Wiesel’s personality, …

By Carlo Mattogno Two important document sources to which I have had access recently prompt me to write a sequel, with some revisions, to the two articles I have published earlier on the present subject [1], in order to bring the matter up to date. 1) The accusations of Miklos …

By Carolyn Yeager In literature, Rebbe, certain things are true though they didn’t happen, while others are not, even if they did. … - Elie Wiesel, All Rivers Run to the Sea Part One:  When and how was Un di Velt Hot Gesvign written? The question I present to you, …

By Carolyn Yeager Part Two: Can the books Night and And the World Remained Silent have been written by the same author? What one critic reveals. We know a lot about the man who calls himself Elie Wiesel from his own mouth and pen, but we know of the Lazar …

By Carolyn Yeager Part III:  Nine reasons why Elie Wiesel cannot be the author of Un di Velt Hot Gesvign (And the World Remained Silent). 1.  The only original source for the existence of an 862-page Yiddish manuscript is Elie Wiesel. Wiesel’s 1995 memoir All Rivers Run to the Sea …

By Thomas Kues In a recent posting [1] I published a news item from Aufbau dated 6 July 1945. In this we read that the Germans had been constructing homicidal gas chambers at the Theresienstadt (Terezin) Ghetto, but that the plan to gas the remaining Jews in the ghetto had …