Month: June 1997

A Tale of Two Gassings

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 to find the two stories…

What I Believe, What I Don't, and Why

I understand perfectly well that the Hitlerian regime was anti-Semitic and persecuted Jews and others. I understand many peoples, European Jews among them, experienced unfathomable tragedies in Europe during World War II. Nevertheless, I no longer believe the German State pursued a plan to kill all Jews or used homicidal “gassing chambers” for mass murder….

Soap and Lampshades: The Lies Persist

In his recently published book, Why People Believe Weird Things, Skeptic editor Michael Shermer recounts an exchange from the Phil Donahue show. On that particular episode, CODOH director Bradley Smith stated, “It [is] a lie that Germans cooked Jews to make soap from them.” Shermer, who is skeptical of many things, but generally a believer…

Death Dealer

Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz, by Rudolf Höss. Steven Paskuly, ed., Andrew Pollinger, trans., with a foreword by Primo Levi. Da Capo Press, New York. 1996. Softcover. 390 pages. Notes. $15.95. This volume of the memoirs of Rudolf Höss is flawed by the editor's refusal to objectively present the material….

David Cole: Monstrous Traitor

Note: The following piece was posted by the Jewish Defense League at: http://www.jdl.org/traitor_amer.html. This piece probably represents the single worst piece of hate ever posted on the World Wide Web. We have reproduced this piece here to help explain what happened and what was done to David Cole. The original links have been disabled. CODOH…

CODOH’s $50,000 Offer

Details for Entrants The Offer: CODOH will award $50,000 cash to the one individual instrumental in arranging a 90-minute presentation on National Network Television, in prime time, of the Video of the Century, our documentary on Auschwitz, David Cole Interviews Dr. Francizek Piper. One individual: CODOH will award the benefits of the Offer to the…

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