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.
By Udo Walendy ∙ January 1, 1993
1. Introduction Photographs played a central role in the arsenal with which Allied war propaganda slandered the enemy in World War One, as Ferdinand Avenarius has shown with numerous examples.[1] Retouching techniques were admittedly quite crude in those days, and the falsifications were thus easy for a critical examiner to detect. However, such highly skilled…
By Carlos Whitlock Porter ∙ January 1, 1990
There are documents, and then there are documents. Some documents are better than others. Original documents, for example, are more valuable than documents that are not original, particularly when you want to prove murder. Original documents are even more important when you want to prove mass murder. This is pretty complicated stuff, our holocaust historians…
By CODOH ∙ January 1, 1942
Passbooks for foreign workers in German camp system Click on image to see a larger version. Letters sent by foreign workers in German camp system Click on image to see a larger version. Auschwitz Dachau Majdanek …
By David Irving ∙ January 1, 1995
Bringing to Light Secrets of Hitler’s Propaganda Minister David Irving is one of the world's most widely read and influential historians. He is the author of more than two dozen published works on 20th century history. For more about him, see the Jan.-Feb. 1993 Journal, pp. 4-19. This essay is adapted from Irving's presentation at…
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