Author: Panagiotis Heliotis

Panagiotis Heliotis is a bookworm from Greece and the author of the first revisionist book in Greek, Shoah: The Revisionist Version (Shoah: Η Αναθεωρητική Εκδοχή)

 

The Violinist

Jacob (Jacques) Stroumsa, a Jew who was deported from Greece to Auschwitz, ended up playing the violin in the camp orchestra. This brief contribution reviews some of his more interesting experiences and claims about his time in Auschwitz.

Memories of a Thessalonian Jewess

The Greek Jew Erika Kounio was deported along with her family to Birkenau in March 1943 at age 15. Due to her knowledge of German, she ended up as a secretary in the camp’s Gestapo headquarters. Her tale, first published in 1996, is the object of this analysis.

The Diary of Prisoner Number 109565

The Greek Jew Heinz Kounio was deported to Auschwitz in March 1943 at the age of 15. He and his father were put to work there. This brief article reviews Kouino’s memoirs, which were first published in 1981.

From Athens to Auschwitz

Errikos Sevillias was deported from Athens to Auschwitz in 1944. His memoir, which this brief artcile reviews, was first published in 1983.

From Greece to Birkenau

The Greek Jew Leon Cohen claims to have been a member of the infamous Auschwitz Sonderkommando in 1944 tasked with cremating the victims of mass murder. After the war, he wrote a book about his experiences, which this brief paper analyzses.

Testimonies from Greece

Voices of the Holocaust

Remembering: Voices of the Holocaust is a collection of a great number of snippets taken from testimonies of various Holocaust survivors. This brief paper reviews some of them that contain statements about the Auschwitz Camp.

Christian Gerlach's The Extermination of the European Jews

German historian Prof. Dr. Christian Gerlach has written a major book on the Holocaust. The title suggests that it is about The Extermination of the European Jews, but as this review shows, the author has shirked the topic almost entirely, and he even found an excuse for doing so.

Holocaust and Genocide Denial: A Contextual Perspective

Orthodox historians avoid discussing Holocaust revisionism, but there are exceptions. This paper reviews such an exception: the 2017 book Holocaust and Genocide Denial by Paul Behrens, Nicholas Terry and Olaf Jensen.

The Manuscripts of Marcel Nadjari

Sonderkommando Marcel Nadjari, an almost unknown witness, comes to the scene to reveal the horrors of Auschwitz thanks to a buried letter found in 1980 and restored in 2017. But how reliable is he? 

What the Germans Knew

Another important issue regarding the Holocaust is the awareness of the German public about it, either civilians or soldiers. What did the Germans know? Two researchers, historian Eric A. Johnson and sociologist Karl-Heinz Reuband, started searching for answers in 1993...

Manny Steinberg’s Outcry

Welcome back dear readers for our next inquiry into a Holocaust memoir. Today’s guest is Manny Steinberg and his memoir is Outcry: Holocaust Memoirs (Amsterdam Publishers, 2015). Approaching 1,400 reviews with 81% rating it five stars on Amazon, this merits a look ...

Escape from Auschwitz

When it comes to Holocaust survivors we almost always tend to think about Jews. It can’t be helped actually as it is only Jews who appear on the media. But Jews were not the only ones sent to concentration camps. There were others as well. Today we will have a look at the testimony of one of them: Russian POW Andrei Pogozhev and his book Escape from Auschwitz (Pen & Sword, 2007).

Last year Professor Deborah Lipstadt gave a lecture about Holocaust denial at the University of Oxford. There she stated ....

Batmetzner Returns

Ahoy there dear readers. Remember our Holocaust Controversies superhero Hans Metzner who tried a few weeks ago to defend Nadjari’s testimony? Well he’s back to save the day and it looks like he has managed to locate those gardens! Bravo!

Some Testimonies from Thessaloniki

Abstract Oral Testimonies of the Jews from Thessaloniki about the Holocaust. What’s this you ask? This is the book we are going to focus on this time. As survivor testimonies are very important for the official storyline, it’s clear that the more of them we examine, the closer we get to the truth. Testimonies are…

The Allied Leaders on the Holocaust

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…

A Blatant Falsification at Nuremberg

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…

Arad on Majdanek

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…

The Holocaust: A New History

Abstract British historian Laurence Rees, the former Creative Director of History Programmes for the BBC, has written a new “magnum opus”: The Holocaust: A New History. This review lays bare a few of the shortcomings of this old wine in new wineskins. Greetings dear readers, we’re back again with another episode of our loveable historian and award winner…

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