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, but keeps contributing.
Jim Rizoli, for the League of Extraordinary Revisionists, interviews Bradley R. Smith, his 5th interview in the series.
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ May 1, 1996
As promised in last month's SR, in response to the suppression of publication of David Irving's Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich, Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust mounted a campaign to notify publishers and editors of the accessibility of the book's actual content and Irving's introduction to the book, at CODOH's site on…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ May 1, 1996
This is what I believe with regard to the gas chamber controversy, what I don’t believe, and why. I understand perfectly well that the Hitlerian regime was antisemitic and persecuted Jews and others. I understand that many peoples, European Jews among them, experienced unfathomable tragedies at the hands of the Allied and Axis powers during…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 1, 1996
Do you want to see something of what we are publishing “electronically” on the CODOH Website? Following are representative articles and excerpts from books produced by writers and scholars around the world, working usually in great personal isolation, oftentimes under threat from the State, and with little hope of financial reward or public favor. No…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 1, 1996
From the beginning, in 1990, I've made it a practice to mail Smith's Report without charge to those who have donated help or money to CODOH, the Campus Project, and the other revisionist projects I have started and carried forth. To date SR has been read by the select few willing not just to admire,…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 1, 1996
Elie Wiesel, world leader of the S. S. (Sensitive Survivors), has found a new cause. Rummaging among the victims of Hitler's regime, he's come up with Carl von Ossietzky, Weimar leftist and “pacifist” par excellence, who died in a Berlin hospital after several years in a German concentration camp. Wiesel is agitating for the overturn…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 1, 1996
On 10 March a member of the JDL Web Staff contacted us by email, noting, “Hey, you've got a cool site. We were wondering if you would check out our website for possible inclusion on your page. We always return favors, by the way.” We had a few laughs and waited. Later that day we…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 1, 1996
Patrick J. Buchanan’s statements in support of the legal rights of some accused World War II criminals, as well as his support for some aspects of revisionist theory about the Nazi “gas chambers,” have been the target of columnists, academics, politicians and special interest groups for years. On 6 March I mailed a 750-word opinion…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 1, 1996
The Daily Sun at Cornell ran the 46 Unanswered Questions ad for five weeks in February and March. Cornell is the largest campus in the Ivy League. The Ivy League schools are arguably the most influential in America. On 19 February the Sun ran a defensive editorial saying the ad “suggested the Nazi death camps…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 1, 1996
In January I received an email message from a Pierce College (Tacoma WA) student who had found the CODOH Website on the Internet. He wanted to help. I submitted an ad announcing that 46 Unanswered Questions About the World War II Gas Chambers are available free on the Internet to the Pierce College Pioneer. The…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ March 1, 1996
Everything is going our way now. The great censorship confrontation on the Internet (it began with pornography and quickly moved against Ernst Zuendel’s Web-site and revisionism) and the coalescing of free-press organizations to fight against President Clinton’s “Communications Decency Act” (which is considerably more complicated and dangerous than is yet understood by the public) will…
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