“No subject enrages the Thought Police on campus more than Holocaust revisionism. Students are encouraged to debate every other great historical question as a matter of course, but influential pressure groups with private agendas have made the Jewish Holocaust story and exception. I believe students should be encouraged to investigate the Holocaust controversy the same way they are encouraged to investigate every other historical controversy. This isn't a radical point of view. The premises for it were worked out a while back during a little something called the Enlightenment.”
Bradley R. Smith, Break His Bones: The Private Life of a Holocaust Revisionist, p. 99
Starting in the late 1980's, Bradley Smith began a campaign to publish advertisements in college newspapers. The intention was to foster open debate on the Holocaust story throughout the country. What follows is a partial list of those advertisements, reactions to them by students, professors, pressure groups and the media, as well as additional information which has been collected over the years. A few of the ads offered financial compensation for promoting the controversy in a national forum. The terms of these ads have expired and are presented here for historical and research purposes only.
What became known as the “Campus Campaign” was discussed in some detail, albeit a very biased account, in a chapter entitled “The Battle for the Campus” in Deborah Lipstadt's highly subjective book Denying the Holocaust. While Smith argued directly for intellectual freedom and open debate on campus, Lipstadt, a professor, took the opposing view — that ideas, especially dissident ideas regarding the Holocaust story, were not worthy of discussion in America's colleges and universities.
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ February 1, 1991
Greetings: The other afternoon I was in the office of an equipment rental yard set in the farmland between Visalia and Tulare when the woman behind the counter turned to me and said: “The war has started.” And there on her little black and white TV were the voices of CNN journalists reporting from their…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 15, 1990
Dear Revisionist Friend: This is the first issue of a much promised newsletter that I'll send to you without charge every couple months so long as you express some interest in receiving it. If it seems to you that you haven't heard from me for a long time, it's probably true. Last summer I came…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 1, 2003
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Father Was a Nazi Storm Trooper; Anne Frank's Father Was a Nazi Collaborator and War Profiteer; Why Is One of these Stories Being Suppressed? Arnold Schwarzenegger's father, Gustav, volunteered for the 'brownshirts' in May 1939 – about "six months after the storm troopers helped launch Kristallnacht […] when Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 20, 2010
Please Support Us “There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.” –Hannah Arendt Thank you for supporting the work of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH), the world’s leading effort to resolve the World War II Holocaust question through reasoned dialogue. Our work of outreach and research over the last eighteen…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 2010
Last month I reported the astonishing fact that the Anti-Defamation League with its $50-million dollar annual budget and Hillel, The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, which is organized on 500 campuses around the nation, had formed a compact to shut me down on the American campus. The primary tool of the compact is its publication…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 9, 2008
Bradley R. SmithPO Box 439016San Ysidro CA 92143Desk: 209 682 5327Cell: 619 203 3151Blog: http://bradleysmithsblog.blogspot.com September 2008 Dear Subscriber and Supporter: This fall—this month—I’m taking the most provocative question in Holocaust revisionism—my request for the name of one person, with proof, who was gassed at Auschwitz—to the world’s most important international forum, the United Nations,…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 2008
Ask yourself, help those who work for the ADL ask themselves, where any of those charges are in the text of this ad. In truth, it resides only in the imaginations of those making the charges. In any event, why should any question about World War II and/or the Holocaust be considered “anti-Semitic?” The time…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 2008
Please help me run this ad in college newspapers Dear Subscriber and Supporter: Would you like to see the below advertisement (it’s new) run in student newspapers on college campus from one end of America to the other? Do you want to encourage students to begin to ask their professors for the name of one…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 18, 2006
Speech delivered at Tehran Holocaust Conference, 05 December 2006 Introduction Good afternoon (morning?). I'm very pleased to be here. Today I will suggest that the American professorial class uses an irrational vocabulary to respond to revisionist arguments questioning the orthodox Holocaust story. That the decision of the American professorial class to exploit this irrational vocabulary…
By Paul Grubach ∙ June 21, 1992
Editor’s Note: In the early 1990s, free-speech advocate Bradley Smith attempted to place a full-page ad explaining the Holocaust revisionist position in college newspapers throughout the United States. The ad was published by some papers at institutions of higher learning, and rejected by others. In response to this campaign, the following article was originally published…
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