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 ∙ December 1, 2011
Prof. Dr. Jan-Hendrik Olbertz, PresidentHumboldt UniversityBerlin, Germany[email protected] San Diego, Cal., November 9, 2011 Dear Prof.-Dr. Olbertz: Through its law school, Humboldt University is hosting a conference this month whose purpose is hostile to freedom of expression. Not only is your august institution making its Grimm Auditorium available for the sessions, two members of the Law…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ December 1, 2011
San Diego, Cal., November 7, 2011 Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) calls attention to the activities of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (IAJLJ). It is holding a massive promotional event in Berlin entitled “Holocaust Denial and Freedom of Speech in the Internet Era” November 15 to 19, 2011 The…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ December 1, 2011
*** When we got back from the VA the other night I found that my email account held 38,800 messages. That was about 38,750 too many. What to do? Well, I erased them, everything. I didn’t have time to go through 38,000 emails to look for half a dozen that might be important. It went…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ March 19, 2014
Bradley Smith, FounderCommittee for Open Debate on the HolocaustPO Box 439316San Ysidro, California 92143Telephone 209 682 5327Email: [email protected] 18 March 2014 Friend and (oftentimes) supporter: Sara Bloomfield is the Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The grand scenario of Sara Bloomfield and the Museum is blurred, though its purpose is clear. Profit. Profit…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 27, 2014
(This note to Spielberg, being distributed at USC and nation-wide, introduces a new angle into this project. More next month.) Steven SpielbergUSC Shoah Foundation650 W. 35th Street, Suite 114Los Angeles, CA 90089-2571213-740-6065;[email protected] January 30 2014 Mr. Spielberg: At USC your Shoah Foundation — The Institute for Visual History and Education, boasts some 52,000 video testimonies…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 20, 2014
NOTE: This letter is being distributed widely on the USC campus. Annalise Mantz: Editor-In-ChiefThe Daily TrojanUniversity of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, California 20 January 2014 Annalise Mantz Re: the text link we submitted to The Daily Trojan that reads: “I Dreamed I was Gassed at Auschwitz” The link leads to Chapter 18 of my book, Break His Bones….
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ May 1, 2012
*** Each afternoon a few minutes before 5pm my wife and I drive downtown to our mail drop hoping to find, among other interesting material, substantial contributions to help with the work. Sometimes it’s there, sometimes not. I need to average about $100 a day, or $3,000 a month, just to keep the work above…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ May 1, 2012
The Belfer First Step Workshop on the Holocaust is a program created by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to prepare pre-service secondary teachers to integrate the Holocaust into their lesson plans effectively. I learned about the Workshop in The Anchor, the student newspaper at Rhode Island College. It is worth noting that the U.S….
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ March 1, 2012
*** In an article in The Daily Forward we find that a new study on anti-Semitism, commissioned by the German Parliament, concluded among other things that German Holocaust education is fueling German anti-Semitism. It often imposes “exaggerated moral expectations” on students, who respond with an anti-Semitism that is typified by “guilt denial.” They feel accused…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ December 14, 2013
Bradley R. SmithPO Box 439016San Ysidro CA 92143Desk: 209 682 5327Founder’s Page: http://codohfounder.com/CODOH: www.codoh.com December 2013 Dear Valued Supporter and (in many, many cases) Friend: Once again, the end of the year is upon us. For me and for CODOH it’s the time to take stock of the past year’s work and to plan for the…
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