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A deceptive distortion of the German National Railway history

The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich. A History of the German National Railway. Volume 2: 19332-1945 by Alfred C. Mierzejewski. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Hardcover. Index. 248 pages. US$45. This book and its earlier companion volume that covered the Reichsbahn from 1920-1932 has all the characteristics of being…

Belzec/Kola – Going to Extremes to Sell the Lie

BELZEC: The Nazi Camp For Jews In The Light Of Archaeological Sources. Excavations 1997-1998, by Andrezej Kola This book appears to be the ultimate culmination to the gradual appearance of accounts that reported on alleged archaeological studies done at the alleged mass extermination camp Belzec between 1997 and 1999. The book is written by Andrezej…

The Changing Definition of “Holocaust'

Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland, Jan T. Gross, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2001 Although erroneously charged with “denying” the Holocaust, revisionists have for years actually only sought to redefine “Holocaust.” In the standard historiography, “Holocaust” is defined as the systematic destruction of over six million European Jews by…

Verdict on Jan Sehn

Concentration Camp Oswiecim-Brzezinka (Auschwitz-Birkenau) by Jan Sehn. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Prawnicze, 1961. Pp. 161, (2). With 42 illustrations black and white photographs, a number of facsimile letters and several plans, including a large folding map at the rear showing the location of camps in Germany and occupied countries. If one reads and examines Oswiecim-Brzezinka by Jan…

Denying History and Truth

A review of Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why do They Say it?, by Michael Shermer & Alex Grobman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Hardcover. 312 pages. Notes. Index. ISBN: 0-520-21612-1. Introduction Denying History. Who Says the Holocaust never Happened and Why Do They Say it? by Michael Shermer and…

Finkelstein’s Expose of the Holocaust Industry

The Holocaust Industry, Norman G. Finkelstein, Verso Books, London, New York, 2000 A common criticism frequently made about Holocaust revisionists is that they tend to use the debunking of the supposed genocide of the Jewish people in World War Two as a pretext for making comments about contemporary political reality. There is certainly some truth…

Denying the Revisionists

In a style reminiscent of the most vile Nazi rhetoric, Deborah Lipstadt writes in the preface to her Denying the Holocaust, “In the 1930s Nazi rats spread a virulent form of antisemitism that resulted in the destruction of millions. Today the bacillus carried by these rats threatens to 'kill' those who already died at the…

A Hidden Holocaust – Revealed: Crimes and Mercies, by James Bacque

James Bacque, Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation 1944-1950, Little, Brown. Canadian historian James Bacque's new book, “Crimes and Mercies,” is a sequel to his 1989 work “Other Losses”. While the latter focused on the fate of millions of German POWs at the end of the Second World War, more…

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