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 ∙ February 7, 2005
Last night I was at the local cultural center, a cigar store on the Boulevard downtown, and the question came up about the Pope's hospitalization. There is a rumor going about in Mexican intellectual circles that the Pope is not sick, but was hospitalized by his cardinals so that he does not have to receive…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 1, 1984
In the Winter 1984 issue of the German Quarterly, a publication of the Association of American Teachers of German (AATG), there was an advertisement for a book by Charles Weber titled: The Holocaust: 120 Questions and Answers. Dr. Weber is the former head of foreign languages at the University of Oklahoma at Tulsa, a member…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 14, 2005
Prince Harry is going to be punished for renting, then wearing, a German Nazi uniform to a party. The London Times reports that no authority figure was present to remonstrate with Harry about his choice of costume. Harry did what regular blokes do. He chose the costume he thought would be most amusing to the…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ February 10, 2005
In a recent TV “Memo” on Ward Churchill, Bill O'Reilly quoted Churchill as writing that Jewish scholars stress the Jewish Holocaust story in order to “construct a conceptual screen behind which to hide the realities of Israel's ongoing genocide against the Palestinian population.” When I read that, I wonder: “Yes, Billy? And your point?” It…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 17, 2005
Michael Howard, the recently enthroned leader of all the Tories in Great Britain, and the leading candidate to replace Tony Blair as the leader of all the British people, is demanding that young Prince Harry apologize fully, and even fulsomely, to everyone everywhere for wearing a German military costume to a costume party. Mr. Michael…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 1, 1984
In the early morning hours of 4 July 1984, arsonists burned down the offices and warehouse of the Institute For Historical Review in Torrance, California. Thousands of books were torched; manuscripts, records and documents, many of them irreplaceable, were destroyed in the flames. (see: Torrance Daily Breeze, 5 July, and L.A. Times, 6 July) The…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ March 9, 2005
I've been thinking (and no – that's not a straight line). The problem with the thinking is that I have been doing it alone. I don't have to do all the thinking here, but after close to three weeks of doing it alone, it has occurred to me that I should do that part of…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 1, 1984
In 1946 IBIS VERLAG of Linz and Vienna, Austria, published a book put together by Simon Wiesenthal titled KZ Mauthausen, which allegedly describes how it was to be interned in Mauthausen concentration camp. On page 64 of KZ Mauthausen there is a reproduction of a drawing signed by “S. Wiesenthal” depicting three camp prisoners, dressed…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 1, 1984
In 1977 Elie Wiesel was invited to lecture on the truth of the “genocide” claims to students and Faculty at Northwestern University. There he explained to his audience that, while Greeks invented tragedy, Romans the epistle, the Renaissance the sonnet, “our generation invented a new literature, that of testimony.” As an example of the power…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 19, 2005
Even PBS's Linda Ellerbee seems a little sheepish about the question, “Why another Holocaust documentary?” She should be. Another mixing of “re-creations” with historical footage will provide American and British viewers with a step-by-step approach to the planning and execution of a “final solution,” that, in the event, didn't happen. Something happened, all right. But…
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