By Panagiotis Heliotis ∙ December 8, 2017
Erika Kounio-Amarilio, Almpertos Nar (eds.), Prophorikes martyries Hevraiōn tēs Thessalonikēs gia to Holokautōma (Oral Testimonies of the Jews from Thesssaloniki about the Holocaust), Thessaloniki: Paratērētēs 1998, 494 pages, ISBN: 978-9602609408 (newer edition: Athens: Ekdoseis Eurasia, 2015; ISBN 9786185027506, 516 pp.) Oral Testimonies of the Jews from Thessaloniki about the Holocaust. What’s this you ask? This is…
By Panagiotis Heliotis ∙ November 23, 2017
One of the many anomalies concerning the Holocaust is that the three leaders of the Western Allies – Eisenhower, De Gaulle and Churchill – did not seem to be aware of it. Despite Nuremberg and despite that they, of all people, were highly informed in every aspect of the war, their memoirs are unexpectedly laconic…
By Panagiotis Heliotis ∙ October 25, 2017
One more simple question for the historians. The roof of Crematorium I today. Visible are four small introduction shafts in the background, and the two large ventilation chimneys of the furnace room in the foreground. Continuing after our simple question on Yitzhak Arad, this time we move to Auschwitz for another one. According to official…
By Panagiotis Heliotis ∙ October 13, 2017
The pseudo-judicial proceedings at the Nuremberg Trials have been heavily criticized by many people who were anything but Nazis. For example, in The Papers of Robert A. Taft, Senator Taft wrote the following: "We have fooled ourselves in the belief that we could teach another nation democratic principles by force. Why, we can’t even teach…
By Panagiotis Heliotis ∙ October 12, 2017
Holocaust historians claim that the Holocaust is the most-documented event in human history. Holocaust revisionists on the other hand not only dispute this, but say that the storyline is full of contradictions and impossibilities. What to make of this? Majdanek Museum Sometimes it can be pretty hard to figure things out. So let’s try something…
By Panagiotis Heliotis ∙ October 8, 2017
Laurence Rees, The Holocaust: A New History, Penguin Books, 2017. Greetings dear readers, we’re back again with another episode of our lovable historian and award winner Laurence Rees, the former Creative Director of History Programmes for the BBC. (For the first episode see here). This time, we are going to have a look at his…
By Panagiotis Heliotis ∙ September 11, 2017
Laurence Rees is a well-known British historian, author of several books about World War II and National Socialism. But it was one book in particular that earned him the British Book Award for History Book: Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution (BBC Books, 2005). Did Rees deserve any such award? I will let the…
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