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Sonderkommando Auschwitz II

Authored by Carlo Mattogno

Neither Henryk Tauber nor Szlama Dragon is a name that rings a bell among the general populace, or even among most aficionados of World War II history. In fact, even in literature dealing with the Holocaust, these two names are not prominent by any means. For instance, the late Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg, still today considered one of the leading orthodox Holocaust scholars, never mentioned either of them in his iconic standard work The Destruction of the European Jews. More-modern Holocaust scholars, however, such as Jean-Claude Pressac, Robert van Pelt and Franciszek Piper, acknowledge that the testimonies of these two Auschwitz survivors are among the most-important when it comes to delineating the details of how Jews deported to Auschwitz are said to have been murdered there en masse.

After the testimonies of many world-famous Holocaust witnesses, such as Rudolf Höss (see Vol. 35 of this series) and Miklós Nyiszli (Vol. 37), have been thoroughly discredited by revisionist critiques, the orthodoxy has shifted its reliance for their narrative heavily to these two witnesses. It is therefore now pivotal to scrutinize their post-war testimonies with the same critical method that has already led to the downfall of hundreds of false Holocaust witnesses. The present study does exactly that.

Both Tauber and Dragon testified three times after the war. While these testimonies contain several contradictions, the crucial aspect of their statements is that they both geared what they had to say toward the goal of confirming the Soviet propaganda story of 4 million murdered Auschwitz inmates. To achieve this, both witnesses made statements that are technically and physically impossible and at times utterly absurd. When making concrete claims about alleged events in the camp, many of their claims are refuted by documented contradictory facts. In other words: both were mere puppets in the Soviet post-war scheme of emplacing a false atrocity narrative surrounding the former Auschwitz Camp to the everlasting ennoblement of the Soviet victory, and the everlasting shame of those who went down in defeat.

Miscellaneous Books

Castle Hill released new editions of the following vintage books:

Germar Rudolf, The Day Amazon Murdered Free Speech (English and German; May 2022)

Finishing up this new edition of a book first published in 2018 was like aiming at a moving target. The project was ready to go in early 2022, or so we thought, but then came the UN Resolution, Ingram’s bailout, Barclay’s account closure, and all this had to be included. Plus, frankly, we had other things to worry about and work on during those early months, so this and other projects got delayed.

Jürgen Graf, “The Destruction of the European Jews”: Hilberg’s Giant with Feet of Clay (English and German; June 2022)

This book used to be Volume 3 of our prestigious series Holocaust Handbooks, but it is somewhat narrow-chested and already 23 years old. Hence, we replaced it last year with a much-better alternative, Carlo Mattogno’s heavy artillery. But Graf’s concise and pleasant-to-read text is still a good introduction into revisionist criticism of an important mainstream oeuvre, so we updated and reissued it outside the series as a stand-along book featuring its original cover artwork of yore.

Ernst Zündel, The Holocaust on Trial: The Second Trial against Ernst Zündel 1988 (June 2022)

This book was first published in 1990 under Ernst’s pen name Robert Lenski. We had its German translation in our program since 2010, but not the English original. This flaw has now been remedied. Strictly speaking, this is Ernst Zündel’s only revisionist book, and until we issued it under his real name, most people may not even have been aware of it. This book is available as paperback, hardcover, eBook (ePub and PDF) and also as an audio book, both as an MP3 download and on CD. We really went overboard with our efforts to make sure that Ernst Zündel’s legacy, so aptly wrapped up in this volume, gets the tender loving care it deserves. [Editor’s remark: the CD version is currently (2024) not available]