Documents + Critique

Quellenkritik – source criticism – is one of the most important tools of serious historiography, yet it is almost completely neglected by orthodox scholars. This section lists contribution where documents concerning aspects of the Holocaust are subjected to thorough source criticism.

  • Alfred Wetzler and “The True Story of the Auschwitz Protocol”

    1.Introduction 1.1. Wetzler and Vrba Slovak Jew Alfréd Wetzler (1918-1988), who was deported to Auschwitz Birkenau in 1942, can best be described as the unknown sidekick to Rudolf Vrba (Walter Rosenberg). Together the two Slovak-Jewish “death camp” escapees wrote the so-called Auschwitz Protocol or Vrba-Wetzler Report, which in 1944 was published in English translation by…

  • Keine Liquidierung

    The 1977 publication of David Irving's fine military history Hitler's War provoked an uproar over what should have been a marginal point but which, with ironic collaboration between Irving and his critics, has become the central point of the book. Irving claimed that Hitler knew nothing of physical extermination of the Jews until late in…

  • Vergasungskeller: Final Chapter?

    The Nuremberg trials document NO-4473 has been a nagging problem for decades. I have offered three interpretations of the word “Vergasungskeller” that appears in that document , dated 29 Jan. 1943, from the Auschwitz construction department and dealing with Crematorium II. In order not to be repetitive, I refer the reader to my 1997 paper[1]…

  • Gaskeller: New Document Sheds Light on Irving’s Interpretation of Auschwitz

    A document, long known and long sought by revisionists, was published in a brochure by a Holocaust memorial group in Germany in preparation to a public exhibition shortly before David Irving was arrested and imprisoned in Austria.  The document clearly supports the contention, made by Arthur Butz, and several others, including David Irving, that the…

  • Documents on Himmler Murder Forged

    Three weeks ago I reported that David Irving had posted documents proving that Heinrich Himmler was murdered. Now, as a result of investigations commissioned by the London newspaper The Daily Telegraph [once at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/02/nhimmler02.xml, but now removed; ed.], it appears these documents were forged. The documents in question came from the archives of the British…

  • The Chilean Document

    According to recent press reports, a newly declassified government document shows “U.S. intelligence officials knew about Nazi Germany's plan to eradicate the Jews early in World War II.” The document at the center of this revelation is a Chilean diplomatic document dated Nov. 24, 1941 and obtained by the U.S. by the third week of…

  • The Razor and the Ring

    “Plurality is not to be assumed without necessity.”—William of Ockham The fourteenth century Franciscan theologian, William of Ockham is credited with using a method to trim logical absurdities out of arguments that came to be named for him. This method, today known as Occam’s Razor, or “Entities are not to be multiplied without necessity,” was…

  • Holocaust standards

    Here's an account of the standards of proof that some two million (2,000,000) persons were murdered. Not too far into the reading we find that the focus is on Jewish victims. http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/einsatzdec.html Military Tribunal II – Case 9(pages 1-54) The United States of America – vs – OTTO OHLENDORF, HEINZ JOST, ERICH NAUMANN, OTTO RASCH,…

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