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Half-Way Revisionism: David Cesarani’s Last Stand

David Cesarani, Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949, Macmillan, London, 2015 (St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2016), 1056 pages. David Cesarani (1956-2015) was an English historian specializing in Jewish history. He held posts at various universities including the University of Leeds, the University of Southampton and the University of London. This article will…

Review of Auschwitz Forensically Examined

Cyrus Cox. Auschwitz—Forensically Examined. Castle Hill Publications, Uckfield, UK, 114 pp., £8/$10. Auschwitz—Forensically Examined by Cyrus Cox summarizes the forensic evidence proving that Auschwitz was not an extermination camp. This article will review some of the important points mentioned in this book. The Chemistry of Auschwitz Forensic tests show that all of the delousing facilities…

The “Jewish Threat”

Joseph W. Bendersky, The “Jewish Threat”: Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army, Basic Books, 2000, 586 pp. The “Jewish Threat”: Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army by American historian Joseph W. Bendersky is a well-researched book which documents that many people in American military intelligence believed in an international Jewish conspiracy to take over the…

Escape from Auschwitz

When it comes to Holocaust survivors we almost always tend to think about Jews. It can’t be helped actually as it is only Jews who appear on the media. But Jews were not the only ones sent to concentration camps. There were others as well. Today we will have a look at the testimony of…

Manny Steinberg’s Outcry

Welcome back dear readers for our next inquiry into a Holocaust memoir. Today’s guest is Manny Steinberg and his memoir is Outcry: Holocaust Memoirs (Amsterdam Publishers, 2015). Approaching 1,400 reviews with 81% rating it five stars on Amazon, this merits a look. Mendel “Manny” Steinberg was born in 1925 in Radom, Poland. In 1942 his…

What the Germans Knew

Another important issue regarding the Holocaust is the awareness of the German public about it, either civilians or soldiers. What did the Germans know? Two researchers, historian Eric A. Johnson and sociologist Karl-Heinz Reuband, started searching for answers in 1993. After nearly 3,000 written surveys and 200 interviews the result was the book What We…

The Artist within the Warlord

The Artist within the Warlord: An Adolf Hitler You’ve Never Known, Wilhelm Kriessmann Ph.D and Carolyn Yeager (The Barnes Review, Washington D.C.) 2017. Do we need a reappraisal of Adolf Hitler? Yes, we do. Though the so-called factual basis of the Holocaust has been debunked by revisionists … The homicidal gas chambers, gone … The…

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