Holocaust + Final Solution

When Nazi Germany invaded Russia in summer of 1941, a “comprehensive” or “final solution” to the Jewish question was envisioned by Germany’s leaders. But what was this “final solution”? Was it a plan to deport the Jews into the “Russian swamps,” as Hitler had once stated, or was it a plan to systematically kill them all? The extant documents are quite clear about it, yet they contradict what a plethora of witnesses have stated. This question divides the two sides in this debate (notwithstanding one side insisting that there is no debate). The topic is huge in scope and scale – and it is the main focus of this website

  • Some Comments on the Gerstein Reports

    Yitzhak Arad's use of Gerstein Yitzhak Arad is the author of Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps (Indiana University Press 1987), which is arguably the standard work on the three Aktion Reinhardt 'death camps'. In this book Arad spends a short chapter on 'The Mission of Gerstein and Pfannenstiel', wherein he quotes a…

  • The New Jewish Question

    In the spring of 2005 I learned that the editors of the neo-pagan-oriented Russian journal, Atenei, had invited Guillaume Faye, one of the French nationalist right’s chief thinkers, to Russia in order to participate in discussions about future collaboration along the lines of a pan-European Euronationalist movement [“mouvement identitaire pan-européen”]. I was delighted at the…

  • Charles D. Provan and Nazi-Gas-Chamber Nonsense

    I had no intention of ever again writing about the “Nazi gas chamber” theories of the late Charles Provan until I saw this statement in the highly influential Wikipedia online encyclopedia: “Provan has demonstrated the scientific feasibility of mass murder by diesel gas vans against the thesis of Friedrich P. Berg.” See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_D._Provan Despite the…

  • Is the Holocaust Well Documented?

    In late September Iran’s controversial President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, spoke before the United Nations and at Columbia University’s school of international and public affairs. At the New York institution of higher learning, he was given a hostile reception by Columbia’s president, Lee Bollinger. One issue that he castigated the intrepid Iranian leader about was the latter’s…

  • On the Revision of the Number of Victims at Majdanek

    At the end of 2005, Tomasz Kranz, chief of the research department at the Majdanek Memorial, published an article in no. 23 of Zeszyty Majdanka (Majdanek Journal) on “The Recording of Deaths and Mortality Rates among the Inmates of Concentration Camp Lublin,” in which he assessed the number of those who perished in the Lublin/Majdanek…

  • Other Victories for Revisionism

    At the recent momentous event in the history of Holocaust revisionism, the Iran Holocaust conference (December 11 and 12, 2006), veteran revisionist scholar Robert Faurisson delivered a speech entitled, “The Victories of Revisionism.” Although it was not a history of the revisionist movement, it did list and discuss twenty important concessions to and victories by…

  • The “Final Solution of the Jewish Question”

    The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust, by Jeffrey Herf, Belknap Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2006, 416 pages. Dr. Jeffrey Herf, professor of history at the University of Maryland and a prominent student of German-Jewish issues, has written a very interesting book that examines anew the National Socialist “Final Solution of…

  • The “Final Solution of the Jewish Question”

    The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust, by Jeffrey Herf, Belknap Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2006, 416 pages. Introduction Dr. Jeffrey Herf, professor of history at the University of Maryland and a prominent student of German-Jewish issues, has written a very interesting book that examines anew the National Socialist “Final Solution…

  • The Leuchter Report, Revisited

    It has been some ten years since my critical analysis of Kenneth Stern's Critique of the Leuchter Report. This article takes a new look at that report, providing additional information and analysis.[*] I identified ten of Mr. Leuchter's 32 samples as deriving from sheltered locations: samples 4-6 from Krema II and samples 25-31 from Krema…

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