The orthodox Holocaust narrative lists a variety of methods allegedly used by the National Socialists to mass murder their victims, predominantly Jews. The methods most frequently referred to include:
But other means are also cited. These contributions deal with each or all of them.
By Thomas Kues ∙ October 17, 2008
In this third part of my series of articles on the witness accounts left by former Jewish prisoners of the alleged “pure extermination camp” Sobibór, I will discuss statements made by four of the lesser known witnesses: Ada Licthman, her husband Itzhak Lichtman, Harold Werner, and Chaim Trager. In the fourth part of this series,…
By Thomas Kues ∙ October 15, 2008
Introduction It is alleged in regard to all three Aktion Reinhardt camps “Belzec, Sobibór, Treblinka” that they each contained two buildings with homicidal gas chambers during their respective period of operation. At Belzec, we are told, the first gas chamber building “a wooden barrack containing three chambers” was torn down and replaced with a larger…
By Nicholas Kollerstrom ∙ October 10, 2008
Three main chemical investigations have been performed concerning residual cyanide in the walls of alleged ‘gas chambers’ at Auschwitz: by Leuchter, Rudolf and by Markiewicz. Over the two decades since Leuchter first sampled, debates have raged concerning where the samples were taken from, whether it was really ‘historic’ brickwork, how porous the brickwork was to…
By Nicholas Kollerstrom ∙ January 9, 2008
Ask anyone in the UK who has heard of the Leuchter Report and you can be fairly sure they will tell you the same thing: it has been ‘discredited.’ But –“behold, O Dionysus,” as Nietzsche would have said, “I sing a new song”: there are two different references we need to fully unpack the meaning…
By Thomas Kues ∙ September 26, 2008
In 1999, an article by Tregenza entitled “Bełżec – Das vergessene Lager des Holocaust” (Bełżec – The Forgotten Camp of the Holocaust) was published in a German anthology of academic writing on the Holocaust.[1] This article was later critiqued by Italian revisionist researcher and writer Carlo Mattogno in his 2004 book on the Bełżec camp.[2]…
By Thomas Kues ∙ September 11, 2008
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…
By Thomas Kues ∙ September 10, 2008
The testimony of Stanislaw Kozak Stanislaw Kozak, a locksmith, was one of twenty Bełżec locals who participated in the construction of the alleged extermination camp to the south-east of this small Polish community. On October 14, 1945, Kozak was interrogated by the regional investigative judge Czeslaw Godzieszewski. According to his testimony, Kozak and the other…
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ September 5, 2008
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…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ January 7, 2008
When the public thinks about the topic of German or Nazi poison gas development and usage throughout the years leading up to and including the Second World War, images of vast extermination programs and the gas chambers of Auschwitz and other concentration camps immediately leap to mind. The Holocaust story however suggests that the Nazis…
By Thomas Kues ∙ July 7, 2008
Yehuda Bauer was born in Prague in 1926. In 1939, he and his family migrated to Palestine. After fighting in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, Bauer completed a degree in history, and in 1960 he received his doctorate. Bauer was a founding editor of Journal for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and also served on the editorial…
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