Critique and counter-critique is one of the hallmarks of a scholarly attitude, so it goes without saying that revisionists are taking their opponents’ arguments and responses seriously. Hence, this section addresses the theses of several orthodox scholars on the Holocaust which have evoked revisionist responses. Although most orthodox scholars insist that revisionist arguments are not even worth looking at, a number of them have in fact breached the taboo and have not only looked at revisionist arguments, but have actually deigned to criticize them in one way or other. The revisionist responses and rebuttals can be found here as well.
By David Merlin â™ November 8, 2013
Edward RothsteinNew York TimesNew York Cityhttps://twitter.com/EdRothstein 07 November 2013 I am writing to comment on your article Playing Cat and Mouse With Searing History, addressing the new Anne Frank exhibit at the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance. http://tinyurl.com/kauo33a While Anne Frank’s story is tragic, you ignore the manner of death of the 8 people in the Annex. The official history…
By Jett Rucker â™ July 19, 2013
It seems that some revisionists are able to get the USHMM to revise their story – or, in this case, to defrock a former saint of theirs. This New York Times article reports USHMM's and other Holocaust shrines' actions in the evolving case of "Italy's Schindler," Giovanni Palatucci, heretofore enshrined for his wartime efforts in saving…
By David Merlin â™ January 1, 2012
Lynn Sweet, Washington Bureau ChiefChicago Sun-Times350 N. Orleans St., 10th FloorChicago, IL 60654[email protected] Copy toTom McNamee, Editorial page[email protected] 23 November 2011 Dear Ms. Sweet: I am writing in response to your rejection of several comments sent to you regarding your article, Fight against anti-Semitism still has hurdles http://tinyurl.com/7go3zl7 Your article is laudatory of Hannah Rosenthal,…
By Jett Rucker â™ January 1, 2012
This Holocaust revisionist has a confession to make, and it’s worse than anything to which Bradley Smith confessed in his best-selling (?) Confessions of a Holocaust Revisionist: I have become a grudging admirer of Deborah Lipstadt. Yes, the Deborah Lipstadt who in 2001 with the able assistance of her publisher Penguin-Putnam defended successfully against the…
By Heinz Bartesch â™ April 10, 2012
Peter Black, Senior HistorianUS Holocaust Memorial MuseumWashington D.C.E-mail: [email protected]Tel: 202.479.9728 Dear Professor Black: Below you will find a letter by Heinz Bartesch, the son of Martin Bartesch, who you referred to in the talk you gave at Rhode Island College, as reported in the RIC Anchor of 27 March. Mr. Bartesch questions your facts and…
By Melissa Hankins, Ryan Cormier â™ December 3, 1999
For someone who wants an “open debate” over the particulars of the Holocaust, Bradley R. Smith sure does avoid having an open conversation. The Holocaust revisionist will only be interviewed by the print press through e-mail. “It is very rare that a reporter understands what the story is,” he says, over e-mail, of course. And…
By Bradley R. Smith â™ March 1, 1999
Looking over a recent U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum fundraising mailer, CODOH researcher Richard Widmann spotted a picture he thought he recognized. Taken at some time after the American liberation of Dachau, the picture (shown below) shows healthy inmates cheerily waving beneath an American flag run up a makeshift flagpole. There was just one problem, however:…
By Bradley R. Smith â™ January 1, 1999
From its inception, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has been a target for Bradley Smith and CODOH. And even before it opened in 1993, the Museum’s spokespersons and allies were boosting the USHMM as the cure for Holocaust revisionism—and CODOH’s Campus Project. In May, 1992 the newsletter of the future USHMM quoted Professor Deborah Lipstadt…
By Bradley R. Smith â™ January 1, 1999
A fake Hitler quote which has the Fuehrer ordering the extermination of Polish civilians. A non-existent Hitler order to exterminate the Jews. Misrepresentation of installations designed to save lives as gas chambers for killing Jews. These and many more falsifications of historical fact are on display at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s permanent exhibit as…
By David Merlin â™ November 3, 2015
In March 2014 the Smithsonian Institution ran a made-for-television pseudo-documentary called Treblinka-Hitler's Killing Machine. The TV special was ridiculous. One promotional clips was titled: “Excavating a Secret Gas Chamber: The watershed discovery of Star of David tiles confirms the existence of Treblinka’s gas chambers and becomes the key to reconstructing the death camp’s sinister workings.”…
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