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 ∙ April 1, 1993
The festivities opening the UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM are in full swing. This is the final great do-or-die extravaganza of the Holocaust Lobby in the United States. It’s leadership will continue to work like beavers, or mice if you will, in getting Holocaust “studies” into the public school system. And they will have many…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 1, 1993
Dr. Franciszek Piper has written the following letter to Target, a magazine published in New South Wales, Australia. If we’re tempted to poke fun at Dr. Piper’s English, we vow to stop and take a moment to reflect on how well we write Polish. Dr Franciszek PiperPanstwowe Muzeum32-603 OswiecimPoland The Magazine “On Target,” Australia In…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 1, 1992
I understand perfectly well that the Hitlerian regime was anti-Semitic and that it persecuted Jews and others. I understand that many peoples experienced unfathomable catastrophes in Europe during World War II. The catastrophe of the Jews was one among them. Nevertheless. I no longer believe that there was a plan to “exterminate” the Jews of…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 1, 1993
As reported in the last issue of Smith’s, David Cole’s Open Letter to the Daily Texan was run as a half-page advertisement in that paper on Friday 19 February. The ad informed the reader about our video “David Cole Interviews Dr. Franciszek Piper” and pointed out that the Texan , rather than allowing both sides…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 1, 1997
Elie Wiesel is in the press again, this time in the pages of The New York Times (5 March 1997). With March the madcap month of hares, fittingly enough the Nobel laureate was telling yet another harebrained tale of a hair’s-breadth survivor’s escape. The story? In the course of his interview, the reporter from the…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ February 19, 2015
*** Mehdi touches on the hypocrisy, the simple dishonesty, that the mainline press in America adopts when it addresses the concept of a Free Press and a free exchange of ideas. This is the first time I have seen it charged so widely, in the mainline press, that there is no “free press” when it…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ December 22, 2014
For some years now I have been writing a special cover letter to go with the December issue of this Report. Needing a little shove to get going I was searching for cover letters I wrote here for Christmas in 2004 and hopefully in 1994. Or there about. It could be interesting. As it turned…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 12, 2014
*** Siegfried Verbeke: “After reading SR 208 I put together these remarks. Fred Töben wonders whether he was wasting his time on David Cole. Prof. Faurisson gave him the right answer in five words: ‘David Cole is a clown,’ and Fred Leuchter, more friendly, concludes ‘Cole’s claim of fame is a mere footnote to revisionist…
By Bradley R. Smith, Fred A. Leuchter, David Cole ∙ August 15, 2014
David Cole on Robert Faurisson “I’m going to make this short, and it will be my final word on the subject. I’ve been hearing a lot recently about Robert Faurisson badmouthing me. This is nothing new. This is what Faurisson does. He has systematically alienated, via his unwarranted insults, Mark Weber and David Irving, the…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 5, 2014
*** Der Spiegel is one of Europe’s most influential magazines. It’s commonly held that its influence is based on the moral authority established by the quality of its investigative journalism. Der Spiegel employs the equivalent of 80 full-time fact checkers, which the Columbia Journalism Review calls “most likely the world’s largest fact checking operation.” To…
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