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 ∙ 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…
By Thomas Dalton ∙ July 1, 2010
In Part 1 of this article, I gave a brief explanation of the history of the diaries of Joseph Goebbels, the number two man in the Nazi hierarchy after Hitler himself. For more than 20 years Goebbels maintained a detailed, personal diary that included reflections on all aspects of the war. Of special interest are…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ August 18, 2013
President John J. DeGioiaOffice of the PresidentGeorgetown University204 Healy Hall37th & “O” Streets, NWWashington, DC 20057Fax: (202) 687-6660 Chief of Staff: Joseph A. Ferrara 05 July 2013 President DeGioia: It has occurred to me to wonder if you are not aware of at least some of the compromising realities underlying the Georgetown University’s Jan Karski…
By David Merlin ∙ September 28, 2013
Peter BlackSenior HistorianCenter for Advanced Holocaust StudiesUnited States Holocaust Memorial MuseumE-mail: [email protected]Tel: 202.479.9728 23 August 2013 Dear Mr. Black: On July 3, 2013 Mr. Bradley Smith wrote your office at the USHMM regarding the Rosenberg papers, asking, “Why do you not simply scan and post the documents publicly so that everyone who is interested in…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ June 15, 2013
By Richard A. Widmann- Recent news accounts tell how the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) have located the long-lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg. While it is certainly surprising, to me at least, that ICE and Homeland Security spend their time looking for lost documents from the Second World War, the…
By John Weir ∙ March 1, 2002
“Plurality is not to be assumed without necessity.”—William of Ockham John Weir is a computer programer/analyst who lives with his wife and three children in a suburb of Kansas City. Born in Missouri in 1958, he received a B. S. degree in computer science and technology from the University of Missouri in Kansas City. The…
By Samuel Crowell ∙ July 1, 2001
Samuel Crowell is the pen name of an American writer who describes himself as a “moderate revisionist.” At the University of California (Berkeley) he studied philosophy, foreign languages (including German, Polish, Russian, and Hungarian), and history, including Russian, German,and German-Jewish history. He continued his study of history at Columbia University. For six years he worked…
By Charles D. Provan ∙ May 1, 2001
Charles Provan is a printer by trade and a lay theologian by avocation. Ernst Zündel has called him “a revisionist who believes in the gas chambers.” Provan is the author of No Holes, No Holocaust?, an analysis of the ruins of the roof of an alleged gas chamber at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This essay is an expanded…
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