Author: Germar Rudolf

Germar Rudolf was born on October 29, 1964, in Limburg, Germany. He studied chemistry at Bonn University, where he graduated in 1989 as a Diplom-Chemist, which is comparable to a U.S. PhD degree. From 1990-1993, he prepared a German PhD thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in conjunction with the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Parallel to this and in his spare time, Rudolf prepared an expert report on chemical and technical questions of the alleged gas chambers of Auschwitz (see The Chemistry of Auschwitz). He conclude in it that "the alleged facilities for mass extermination at Auschwitz and Birkenau were not suited for the purpose as claimed." As a result, he had to endure severe measures of persecution in subsequent years. Hence, he went into British exile, where he started a revisionist publishing outlet. When Germany asked Britain to extradite Rudolf in 1999, he fled to the U.S. There he applied for political asylum, expanded his publishing activities, and in 2004 married a U.S. citizen. In 2005, the U.S. granted him an immigrant visa based on his marriage, but seconds later arrested and subsequently deported him back to Germany in crass violation of U.S. law. In Germany, where he was put in prison for 44 months for his scholarly writings, some of which he had published in the U.S., where they are perfectly legal. Since not a criminal under U.S. law, he managed to immigrate permanently to the U.S. in 2011. Rudolf has published more than 90 books (currently available through Armreg US and Armreg UK), among them the 54 volumes of the Holocaust Handbooks. He has compiled 9 documentaries and authored 20 non-fiction books, among them the bestselling Holocaust Encyclopedia. With a brief interruption, he has managed the free-speech organization Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust since 2014, where we defend free speech at the forefront of corporate censorship and governmental persecution. In 2017, he became chief editor of CODOH’s quarterly periodical Inconvenient History. In early 2025, he launched the Holocaust Academy, dedicated to bringing critical thinking to Holocaust education. In that context, he organized the 2026 Holocaust Summit, dedicated to “Tackling the Most-Harmful Ideology Undermining Peace, Truth and Freedom Worldwide”. Read more about him here.
  • The Making of The Making

    Carlo Mattogno’s little booklet Auschwitz: A Three-Quarter Century of Propaganda (see illustration), first published in 2018, was a huge success, as it presents in a nutshell – and pleasant to read (not usually Carlo’s strength) – the best evidence to demonstrate the fraudulent nature of the orthodox Auschwitz narrative. I reported about its German edition…

  • Delayed and Early Revisionism

    In his obituary for Ludwig Fanghänel aka Klaus Schwensen, Jürgen Graf wrote in Issue No. 2 of Volume 9 of Inconvenient History that some of Fanghänel’s studies have never been translated into English, among them his very important investigation on the authenticity of the so-called “Lachout Document.” (See online at https://codoh.com/library/​document/​ludwig-fanghanel-8-october-1937-20-january-2017/). As far as I…

  • In Defense of Ursula Haverbeck

    When the German mass media started inciting the German people against Dr. Haverbeck in March 2015 by calling her the “Nazi grandma” because she argued on the basis of published documents from the Auschwitz Camp’s archives that the standard version of the camp’s history could not be correct, I decided to stand by Dr. Haverbeck…

  • COVID-Mania

    When the first news about COVID-19 appeared on the news in early 2020, I joked in my gym’s spinning class that we need to rev it up and lower our spinning class’s room temperature, because COVID, being a respiratory disease, is best dealt with by improving our immune system’s coping skills with stressed lung’s –…

  • Friedrich Paul Berg, R.I.P.

    In the first half of 1991, after I had realized that the Holocaust topic is too large for one single person to cope, I started getting in touch with scholars around the globe who, as I was told or had otherwise learned, would be willing and able to contribute to a major effort of compiling…

  • The Path to Enlightenment

    “Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused, if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one’s intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! [dare to know] Have…

  • The War that Never Stops

    This issue of Inconvenient History contains several papers by John Wear addressing a wide variety of topics concerning World War II, meaning the war itself, the one that never seems to stop. Only the last two papers concern minorities persecuted by Third-Reich authorities: one paper by John Wear on the incarceration of clergymen in German…

  • The Second Zündel Trial

    Thirty-one years have passed since the Second Zündel Trial ended. Many of the key players have since passed away, among them Ernst Zündel himself (†2017) and his spiritus rector Prof. Dr. Robert Faurisson (†2018), who was the mastermind behind these trials, as well as Zündel’s defense counsels Douglas Christie (†2013) and Barbara Kulaszka (†2017). Nevertheless,…

  • Vimeo and YouTube Ban Revisionism

    In early 2017, we had to deal with two major censorship incidents, one external, the other homemade. The external event refers to Amazon’s banning of Castle Hill’s entire book collection, no matter whether a book challenges the orthodox Holocaust narrative or addresses some other topic entirely. The second, internal event refers to Eric Hunt’s demand…

  • Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers

    In 2017, a German publishing company asked me to contribute a thorough introduction to a reprint edition of Jean-Claude Pressac’s 1989 book of the same title. Unfortunately, this German publisher went out of business in late 2018, so no such reprint ever appeared. My introduction is still valuable, though; hence I published it in January…

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