By Klaus Schwensen ∙ July 1, 2004
1. Introduction In 1987, a decades-old document caused a considerable stir in Austria. It was a circular from the Military Police Service (MPS, Militärpolizeilicher Dienst, MPD), an Austrian auxiliary force that had been founded in the post-war years to support the occupying powers in matters where they had to deal with the Austrian population, not…
By Klaus Schwensen ∙ August 29, 2014
One of the earliest postwar sources about Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp is the so-called “Prisoner’s Report” which was compiled under the supervision of Hellmut Bock, a communist and former inmate of the camp. The first draft was ready by 7 May, just two weeks after the SS had left the camp. The German original of this…
By Klaus Schwensen ∙ October 1, 2013
Preliminary Remarks Shortly after the Wehrmacht had occupied the Ukrainian city of Lemberg (30 June 1941), a work camp for Jews was set up on Yanovska street. At the Nuremberg tribunal, the Soviet prosecution claimed that this facility had simultaneously served as a “death camp” where huge numbers of prisoners had been murdered. When the…
By Klaus Schwensen ∙ April 1, 2013
Between 1945 and 2012, the entire literature about the gas vans has presented exactly three photographs which allegedly show such vehicles. Sometimes it was explicitly claimed that the vehicle had been used for homicidal purposes, sometimes this was implied. In 1994, these photographs were subjected to a critical analysis by Udo Walendy[1] and Pierre Marais.[2]…
By Klaus Schwensen ∙ July 1, 2012
1. Introduction Between 1947 and 1957 a little monthly journal was published in Buenos Aires under the title Der Weg – El Sendero (The Way). Language and readers were German, and the journal is of some historical interest since it was able to publish things in Argentina that certainly would have caused problems in post-war…
By Klaus Schwensen ∙ April 1, 2012
In June 1959 the Catholic American Sunday paper Our Sunday Visitor printed a letter to the editor that has gained a certain celebrity within the revisionist community. The reason was not only its content, but also the authority of the writer concerning his subject. The letter dealt with a sensitive item, the existence of homicidal…
By Klaus Schwensen ∙ October 1, 2012
Every year on 22 April the liberation of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp is duly commemorated. On this occasion, the press sometimes still mentions the figure of 100,000 victims who allegedly perished or were murdered at this camp. Although Sachsenhausen does not belong to the six “classic” extermination camps (Chelmno, Majdanek, Auschwitz, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka), the epithet…
By Klaus Schwensen ∙ December 1, 2011
The “Extraordinary State Commission” (ESC, from Russian ЧГК, an acronym for Чрезычайная Государственная Комисссия) was created in November 1942 in order to detect and investigate “crimes perpetrated by the German Fascist Invaders” and the damage caused by them. After the Red Army had reconquered Soviet territories previously occupied by the Germans, this commission became very…
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