By AnswerMan ∙ January 1, 1998
Dear AnswerMan, Were concentration camps during WWII really used in the way history portrays, did they really exist? John AnswerMan Replies: The concentration camps certainly did exist, by the hundreds! Prior to the war they were ordinary prisons that housed, in addition to ordinary criminals, a growing population of political prisoners and those identified as…
By AnswerMan ∙ January 1, 1998
Dear AnswerMan, What evidence is there to support the theory that Zyklon-B could not be used to exterminate millions of Jews in gas chambers? Nicole AnswerMan Replies: The substance is capable of killing people, of that there is no doubt. The problems with it are at least threefold. First, it would be a remarkably poor…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1998
Details for Entrants The Offer: CODOH will award $100,000 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 tot he…
By AnswerMan ∙ January 1, 1998
Dear AnswerMan, [List of purported anti-Semites deleted] So why is this? If “revisionism” isn't anti-Semitism, then why are there so many anti-Semites in the business? Thanks! Andrew Mathis AnswerMan Replies: AnswerMan! is in the business of answering historical queries, not engaging in polemics. However, you have asked a common question so AnswerMan! will straighten you…
By David Thomas ∙ January 1, 1998
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 animals will say anything to…
By Germanica ∙ January 1, 1998
The other day I cited a prominent and highly regarded Russian historian (that is, historian of Russia) whose interpretation of some aspects of 20th century Soviet history matched my own, and which in both cases tended toward a revisionist perspective. The rejoinder I received was something along the lines of “OK, so you found a…
By Roberto Rodriguez, Patrisia Gonzalez ∙ January 1, 1998
We have found a sensible solution to the highly divisive issue of affirmative action: We can live with dismantling affirmative action if, in exchange, we as a society make the eradication of discrimination our No. 1 priority. We can do this by criminalizating the offense: Deny someone a job, a loan or an education because…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1998
This article does not claim “the Holocaust never happened.” Those who say it does want to muddy the issue. This is what the ad does claim: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum displays no convincing proof whatsoever of homicidal gas chambers, and no proof that even one individual was “gassed” in a German program of “genocide.”…
By Institute For Historical Review ∙ January 6, 1998
What proof exists that the Nazis killed six million Jews? None. All we have is postwar testimony, mostly of individual “survivors.” This testimony is contradictory, and very few claim to have actually witnessed any “gassing.” There are no contemporaneous documents or hard evidence: no mounds of ashes, no crematories capable of disposing of millions of…
By AnswerMan ∙ January 1, 1998
Dear AnswerMan, I'm curious about the recent opening of the Nazi archive. Would we be able to, once and for all, settle this issue of how many Jews were actually killed by the Nazis? Could this be the moment of truth for the revisionists? Best, [name withheld for fear of persecution] AnswerMan Replies: Thanks for…
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