Bradley R. Smith was born in Los Angeles on February 18, 1930. At 18 he joined the army and in 1951 served with the infantry in Korea where he was twice wounded. After three decades of a variety of professional activities, it suddenly hit him: In 1979 he read a leaflet by Professor Robert Faurisson, "The Problem of the Gas Chambers." Then, Arthur Butz’s The Hoax of the Twentieth Century did it for him. He understood from the beginning that he would address the censorship, the suppression of independent thought, the taboo against publishing and debating revisionist arguments—not the arguments themselves. That has remained his position. In 1989, Smith founded Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) dedicated to defending free speech and free inquiry into the Holocaust question. He handed over CODOH's helm in late 2014. He passed away on his 86th birthday, February 18, 2016. Read a series of obituaries here.
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 1, 1998
CODOH's most ambitious campus campaign to date has begun to impact across America, on campus and off. Once again, students across the nation are reading about the holes in the Holocaust story. For the first time, many of them are discovering the identity of the chief player in the powerful lobby that has decreed that…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ September 1, 1998
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). The Daily Bruin has ran a column (26 August) headlined “Propaganda Denies Holocaust Occurred.” The columnist, Julianne Sohn, tells us that the flyer “serves as an advertisement for two groups of Holocaust and Historical Revisionists, the Committee or Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) and the Institute for…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ September 1, 1998
Dr. Frederick Toben and his associates at the Adelaide Institute pulled off (it seems we revisionists always need to put it that way) a very successful conference in their home base of Adelaide, Australia August 7-9. The numerous revisionists able to attend in person, or who participated by telephone, or who were unable to attend…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ September 1, 1998
While the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has always been a bother, and more than a bother, it never occurred to me to try to go head-to-head with it. The ADL has played the major role in limiting CODOH’s access to the campus press. It’s a corrupting, censorious influence on public dialogue generally, not just with respect…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ July 1, 1998
I discovered the Pravda article you mention in SR 55 in 1979 in the National Archives, Suitland (Maryland) branch. I was working on the case of Otto Moll, the SS non-commissioned officer (?) in charge of the Auschwitz Birkenau cremations. In the Prosecutor’s file I found a brief report from the Washington (D.C.) Daily News…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ July 1, 1998
Ingrid Weckert, author of Flashpoint, a probing revisionist study of the “Kristallnacht” affair, has just been convicted in Germany. Her crime? A literary comparison of the diaries of a wartime concentration camp inmate with those of a German soldier imprisoned by the American forces at Dachau after the war. Federal German judges have decreed that…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ July 1, 1998
Did the Holocaust exist? Did the SS trade down Jewish escapees from Treblinka with helicopters? Are revisionists anti-Semitic? What ever became of Herschel Grynszpan? To each of these questions, to many others large and small, indeed to any and all questions that extermmatiomsts, revisionists and, above all, those in between, ask on the Holocaust and…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ July 1, 1998
Several hundred new subscribers come on board in recent weeks—Hello and Welcome to one and all! The paper work associated with it taxes my meager office skills to the limit. I thank the gods for Patricia, 300-plus miles to the north in Visalia, who sorts, orders, prints and ships everything and keeps the books straight….
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ June 1, 1998
I promoted two items in our Catalog that have not shipped. A Nation on Trial by Birn and Finkelstein, and the Wiesenthal portfolio. I have no excuse this time. I wasn’t moving. The orders were not mislaid. Just carelessness. Those of you who asked that we send you one or both of these items should…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ June 1, 1998
On February 2, 1945 Pravda, organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, published an article briefly describing what Red Army troops had found on overrunning the Nazi slave labor camp at Auschwitz. The article, the first public revelation of the site's existence, is surprising for what it does not…
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