War crimes committed, distorted, exaggerated, or merely imagined. This does not cover the “Holocaust,” as it is not a war crime as such: the victims were not attacked during acts of warfare and as part of any identifiable belligerent nation.
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ January 1, 2000
Since the end of the Second World War many facts and many legends have been built up surrounding the events or even “non-events” of that international conflict. Many stories which originated through the official and unofficial propaganda channels have become a part of the popular history of the war. From the time of the war…
By Samuel Crowell ∙ June 5, 2000
“In Memoriam!” Introduction A few years ago the argument began to emerge that the various gastight fixtures of the Birkenau crematoria were best explained in terms of protection against chemical warfare. The first exploration in this area was by Arthur R. Butz of Northwestern University, whose “Vergasungskeller” article of July 1996 argued that the basement…
By Samuel Crowell ∙ January 1, 1999
In this order, dated March 31, 1943, there is also a reference to the filling of another order, placed on March 6, 1943, for a “gas door 100 x 192 cm for corpse cellar I of crematorium III … of exactly the same type and size as the cellar door of the crematorium opposite it,…
By Samuel Crowell ∙ February 7, 1999
February 7, 1999 Dear CODOH: Thank you for forwarding to me the response to my analysis of the Wetzel-Lohse correspondence in “The Gas Chamber of Sherlock Holmes” as found on The Holocaust-History Project. I would make the following comments. The author of the piece accuses me of many errors, and furthermore, claims that these are…
By David Thomas ∙ March 21, 1998
The imperfect translations which follow convey clearly enough the meaning of three documents recently forwarded by an anonymous source from Russian archives of captured German WWII documents to Samuel Crowell. They give details of logistical problems encountered in the building of hundreds of air-raid shelters at Auschwitz-Birkenau in April through November of 1944. This effort…
By Samuel Crowell ∙ July 1, 1997
Recently the argument has been advanced that each of the crematoria at Birkenau was equipped with a gas-tight bomb shelter. The argument was first made in the Summer of 1996 by Arthur R. Butz, with respect to Crematoria II and III in his Vergasungskeller article.[1] In the Spring of 1997 the concept was extended to…
By David Thomas ∙ July 12, 1997
At left: The door at the concentration camp Majdanek from which the USHMM made the replica which is now on display in Washington D.C.At right: The real function of the door and thousands more like it is shown in a widely distributed German ad for bomb-shelter doors and window covers, intended for military and civilian…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ January 6, 1997
In his recently published book, Why People Believe Weird Things, Skeptic editor Michael Shermer recounts an exchange from the Phil Donahue show. On that particular episode, CODOH director Bradley Smith stated, “It [is] a lie that Germans cooked Jews to make soap from them.” Shermer, who is skeptical of many things, but generally a believer…
By CODOH ∙ January 1, 1997
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Displays Standard German Air-Raid Shelter Door, Describing it as the Door to a “Gas Chamber” At left: The door at the concentration camp Majdanek from which the USHMM made the replica which is now on display in Washington D.C. At right: The real function of the door and thousands more…
By CODOH ∙ January 29, 1943
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