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 ∙ August 15, 1993
Steamshovel Press published an article by me titled “Holocaust Revisionism: Myth or Free Inquiry.” It deals with director Oliver Stone, his film JFK, and spins off from a statement Stone made when he was accused of not following the historical record on the Kennedy assassination. Stone claims that he invented his own “myth” to counter…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ August 15, 1993
When David Cole's Open Letter to the Daily Texan was run as a half-page ad on 19 February, it took weeks for the dust to settle. Then our video, “David Cole Interviews Dr. Franciszek Piper,” was run on Austin public access TV four times. What was the response on the part of the Holocaust Lobby?…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ August 15, 1993
Below an article headlined “Holocaust Denial Seen Gaining Ground,” an AP dispatch reports: “Activity [by revisionists] has stepped up in recent years, as television and radio talk show hosts have given people who dispute the Holocaust air time. “Last year, Bradley Smith, who heads a group called Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust, placed…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ August 15, 1993
“Rob Reiner, Jewish director of 'A Few Good Men,' [says] 'Because Jews are the smartest people in the world, we are also the most hated.” I think Debbie, for one, is going to prove to be something of a disappointment to Rob on the smarts score. However, he also thinks that “Jews have always been…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ August 15, 1993
During the festivities preceding, during and following the opening of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the media responded with an enthusiasm and fascination that it usually reserves for a U.S. military strike against some third world country. Newspapers great and small, the wire services, television, radio, magazine pundits, ministers in their pulpits, truckloads of Washington…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ August 15, 1993
The August 1993 issue of Hustler contains an important article written by Jim Redden titled “Whitewashing Hitler.” Subtitled “Taking the Gas Out of Nazi Infamy,” it's illustrated with a wonderfully comic drawing of almost two full pages showing camp internees dressed in their stripped uniforms welcoming Hitler with open arms as he enters their compound…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ August 15, 1993
As you have probably guessed, what with my videotaping interviews with Hans Schmidt and Charles Provan, I've finally invested in a video camera. Before, I could never justify the expense. Anyone can start shooting interviews and public events. The problem isn't in accumulating revisionist film, but having a way to distribute it that can pay…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ August 15, 1993
No trouble. I moved my office from one part of the house to another and mislaid the finished drawings I have to hand. And due to communications difficulties, I was unable to contact the artist in time to get new stuff for this issue. The rodent extraordinaire, however, my little ratoncito SPIEGELMAUS, will be back…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ August 15, 1993
In the Autumn of 1991 I wrote in these pages that a young Jewish video maker had contacted me, that one thing had led to another, and that we had decided to produce a line of revisionist videos. The young video maker of course was David Cole. One thing led to another, and we formed…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ August 15, 1993
HANS SCHMIDT. As mentioned above, I toured the museum with Hans. The following day we got together in my digs in Crystal City when I had my new Sony videocam set up. I interviewed Hans on tape for four hours about his impressions of the museum. Hans, a German nationalist, has interests different from mine,…
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