Witnesses

The orthodox Holocaust narrative rests almost exclusively on witness testimony. This section is dedicated to the critique of the witnesses and their statements in literature, media, and courts of law.

Shmuel Krakowski on Eyewitesses

The Jerusalem Post (17 August 1986) article about Krakowski and the Yad Vashem Archives was by the reporter Barbara Amouyal, who wrote that the Yad Vashem Archives in Jerusalem hold 20,000 such testimonies of “Holocaust survivors”. Its director at the time, Shmuel Krakowski, is quoted by Amouyal as declaring that over half are “unreliable… Many…

Different strokes for different folks…so stroke this

Here is how Stuart Kahan describes his uncle, Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich, in his memoir The Wolf of The Kremlin [William Morrow: New York, 1987, pp. 14f.]: “…Stalin's closest confidant, the chairman of the Soviet Presidium, the man who set up the amalgamation of the state security forces that later became the infamous KGB, the man…

The Wiesenthal Files: What the Documents Reveal about Simon Wiesenthal’s Past, Part 1

Chapter 1: Simon Wiesenthal's War Years: New Doubts Simon Wiesenthal is the world's most famous “Nazi”-hunter. His claim to have brought Adolf Eichmann and more than a thousand other Third-Reich “war criminals” to justice has become the stuff of popular myth, familiar to tens of millions through his own writings as well as through fictionalized…

Testimony of the National Socialist Leadership

Regarding an Allied radio broadcast announcement that the Jews were being exterminated: “Really, the Jews should be grateful to me for wanting nothing more than a bit of hard work from them.”—Adolf Hitler quoted in: David Irving, Hitler's War (London: Focal Point, 1991), p. 427. “In order to put a stop to the epidemics, we…

When it’s Confession Time at Dachau

In war crimes trials, confessions are usually typewritten by the interrogator, often entirely in English. Paragraphs in the prisoner's handwriting have usually been dictated by the interrogator. The First Dachau Trial (Trial of Martin Gottfried Weiss and Thirty Nine Others), offers an insight into the manner in which these confessions were obtained. TESTIMONY OF KICK,…

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