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By Jett Rucker ∙ October 1, 2011
This may be Inconvenient History’s first Profile of a living subject. David Irving (born 1938, England) is not only living, but—very happily for the rest of us—working at a pace that would tire anyone half his age, at this moment on a biography of Heinrich Himmler. His only career after a stint as a millworker…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ April 1, 2011
While still generally unheard of by the general public outside of Germany, it is a matter of little contention among historians that some 12 million ethnic Germans were expelled from Eastern Europe after World War Two. Some of these areas had been part of Germany, while in others, Germans had lived as ethnic minorities for…
By Jürgen Graf ∙ October 1, 2011
In 2008, supporters of the exterminationist view of National Socialist racial policy held a meeting at Oranienburg near Berlin, the aim of which was to furnish “new evidence” for genocide in gas chambers on a massive scale, a theory that actually has no documentary or material support. A collection of articles edited by Günter Morsch…
By Thomas Kues ∙ April 1, 2011
1. Introduction While it is well known to all with an interest in Holocaust historiography that the Germans operated six alleged “extermination camps” in Poland – Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, Chełmno (Kulmhof), Treblinka, Bełżec and Sobibór – and while some may be familiar with the claim that the camp Stutthof near Danzig (Gdansk) functioned as an “auxiliary…
By Daniel McGowan ∙ October 1, 2011
The Massacre There are many different accounts and interpretations of what happened on 9 April 1948 at Deir Yassin, a small village on the west side of Jerusalem. For ardent Zionists it was a battle at the beginning of Israel’s War for Independence. For most historians (privately, in opinions they can no longer express without…
By Thomas Kues ∙ July 1, 2011
See here for Part 1 of this series. 3. A Brief Assessment of Anomalies, Contradictions and Incongruities 3.1. The Victim Figure In the table below I have summarized the various victim estimates presented above in order of magnitude: Table 2: The Maly Trostenets victim figure according to witnesses and Holocaust historians Source Number of Victims…
By Joseph Bishop ∙ December 1, 2010
Deathride: Hitler vs. Stalin. The Eastern Front, 1941-1945, by John Mosier, Simon & Schuster, New York, 470 pages, 2010. Numerous histories of the titanic 1940s armed struggle between Germany and the Soviet Union have been presented to the mainstream reading public over the last half century or so, and for the most part they follow…
By Martin Gunnels ∙ October 1, 2010
Debating the Holocaust: A New Look at Both Sides, by Thomas Dalton, Theses & Dissertations Press, 280 pages, 2009. As we all know, Holocaust books tend to be pretty boring. Graphs, charts, numbers, rambling footnotes—when thrown together, page after page, the literature can be exhausting. Whereas most histories are driven by their narratives, by their…
By Thomas Kues ∙ October 1, 2010
The following article is a continuation of Thomas Kues’s “Evidence for the Presence of ‘Gassed’ Jews in the Occupied Eastern Territories, Part 1.” Thomas Kues’s analysis takes up the revisionist proposal that Jews sent to the “extermination camps” and allegedly gassed there were in fact deloused and then sent away, the vast majority of them…
By Frederic Freeman ∙ October 1, 2010
INTRODUCTION For many, the phrase “going underground” conjures up images of anti-establishment sub-cultures. Oftentimes, we think of groups or individuals “going underground” when their thoughts or ideas have resulted in persecution in mainstream society. Fyodor Dostoevsky utilized the term in his story “Notes from Underground,” his all-out assault on Enlightenment rationalism. Others may think of…
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