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 Klaus Schwensen ∙ August 29, 2014
One of the earliest postwar sources about Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp is the so-called “Prisoner’s Report” which was compiled under the supervision of Hellmut Bock, a communist and former inmate of the camp. The first draft was ready by 7 May, just two weeks after the SS had left the camp. The German original of this…
By Nicholas Kollerstrom ∙ May 23, 2014
“It is hard to imagine actions more damaging to the cause of preserving the nation’s heritage, than wilfully forging documents designed to alter our historical record.” —Historian Sir Max Hastings,Financial Times, 3 May 2008 Praise for His Books Martin Allen’s first book, Hidden Agenda of 2002 covering the Duke of Windsor’s wartime activities, was nominated…
By Santiago Alvarez ∙ April 25, 2014
"Driveable gas chamber … a pension as a lieutenant commander"; source: "Der Spiegel," no. 4, 23 January 1963, p. 30Click to see the entire article. "SS gas van: 'The people didn't scream'"; source: "Der Spiegel," no. 21, 16 May 1966, p. 60Click to see the entire article. "NS gas van – 'nine to ten per…
By Jett Rucker ∙ April 19, 2014
By Jett Rucker- Abe Foxman, venerable head of the Anti-Defamation League, hasn't exposed many false-flag attacks during his long career, but a peculiar echo of the Holocaust in eastern Ukraine has drawn just such a reaction from him. It's Byzantine. As this article details, Jews exiting a synagogue in Donetsk this Pesach just past were…
By David Merlin ∙ March 16, 2014
Los Angeles Times 202 W. 1st St.Los Angeles, CA 90012 Letters to the Editor[email protected]. 12 February 2014 I am writing to comment on a February 6th article by Richard Simon, “The Search for the Lost Nazi Diary,” regarding the recovery of the diary of Alfred Rosenberg. http://tinyurl.com/mmmp7oz The pages of the Rosenberg diary have been…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ February 23, 2014
In June of 2013, the media was buzzing with the announcement of the discovery of the diary of Alfred Rosenberg by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Initial reports announced that the diary “could offer new insights into the Holocaust.”[1] News conferences were held with officials from the Department…
By Klaus Schwensen ∙ October 1, 2013
Preliminary Remarks Shortly after the Wehrmacht had occupied the Ukrainian city of Lemberg (30 June 1941), a work camp for Jews was set up on Yanovska street. At the Nuremberg tribunal, the Soviet prosecution claimed that this facility had simultaneously served as a “death camp” where huge numbers of prisoners had been murdered. When the…
By Klaus Schwensen ∙ April 1, 2013
Between 1945 and 2012, the entire literature about the gas vans has presented exactly three photographs which allegedly show such vehicles. Sometimes it was explicitly claimed that the vehicle had been used for homicidal purposes, sometimes this was implied. In 1994, these photographs were subjected to a critical analysis by Udo Walendy[1] and Pierre Marais.[2]…
By Klaus Schwensen ∙ July 1, 2012
1. Introduction Between 1947 and 1957 a little monthly journal was published in Buenos Aires under the title Der Weg – El Sendero (The Way). Language and readers were German, and the journal is of some historical interest since it was able to publish things in Argentina that certainly would have caused problems in post-war…
By Thomas Kues ∙ October 1, 2011
An alleged revisionist forgery In 1990, German revisionist Udo Walendy published an issue of his journal Historische Tatsachen (Historical Facts) entitled “Der Fall Treblinka” (“The Treblinka Case”) that focused on the numerous absurd allegations surrounding this supposed “pure extermination camp”. On one of the first pages of this publication Walendy has reproduced in facsimile a…
End of content
End of content
