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Germar Rudolf Debates Michael G. Vann on the Jake Shields Show

By Germar Rudolf ∙ January 20, 2025

I visited Jake in Las Vegas on the first weekend of November 2024 for a long podcast debate with a mainstream historian. He did not reveal to me until the day we met who that historian would be, so I could not prepare for it in any meaningful way. But it turned out that this historian, Dr. Michael G. Vann, had as much knowledge about the Holocaust as any average person, because this topic was not at all anywhere within his field of study or interest. The resulting debate therefore meandered around generalities and trivialities, which was a pity. As Jake had mentioned in several posts on his X account, several other, evidently more competent historians had backed out, among them Matthew Cockerill. Cockerill is the historian who had debated Thomas Dalton in a written exchange, which Inconvenient History had published in the third issue of 2023. Initially, Cockerill was willing to debate with me, but then he claimed that someone threatened to ruin his career if he debates me publicly, hence he chickened out. Jake hesitated to post this debate, fearing negative backlash for his podcast enterprise. But on December 11, he finally posted it on Rumble as Episode 33 of his series “Fight Back.” Watch this debate right here, or as posted on Rumble:

  • Germar Rudolf was born on October 29, 1964, in Limburg, Germany. He studied chemistry at Bonn University, where he graduated in 1989 as a Diplom-Chemist, which is comparable to a U.S. PhD degree. From 1990-1993, he prepared a German PhD thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in conjunction with the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Parallel to this and in his spare time, Rudolf prepared an expert report on chemical and technical questions of the alleged gas chambers of Auschwitz (see The Chemistry of Auschwitz). He conclude in it that "the alleged facilities for mass extermination at Auschwitz and Birkenau were not suited for the purpose as claimed." As a result, he had to endure severe measures of persecution in subsequent years. Hence, he went into British exile, where he started a revisionist publishing outlet. When Germany asked Britain to extradite Rudolf in 1999, he fled to the U.S. There he applied for political asylum, expanded his publishing activities, and in 2004 married a U.S. citizen. In 2005, the U.S. granted him an immigrant visa based on his marriage, but seconds later arrested and subsequently deported him back to Germany in crass violation of U.S. law. In Germany, where he was put in prison for 44 months for his scholarly writings, some of which he had published in the U.S., where they are perfectly legal. Since not a criminal under U.S. law, he managed to immigrate permanently to the U.S. in 2011. Rudolf has published more than 90 books (currently available through Armreg US and Armreg UK), among them the 54 volumes of the Holocaust Handbooks. He has compiled 9 documentaries and authored 20 non-fiction books, among them the bestselling Holocaust Encyclopedia. With a brief interruption, he has managed the free-speech organization Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust since 2014, where we defend free speech at the forefront of corporate censorship and governmental persecution. In 2017, he became chief editor of CODOH’s quarterly periodical Inconvenient History. In early 2025, he launched the Holocaust Academy, dedicated to bringing critical thinking to Holocaust education. In that context, he organized the 2026 Holocaust Summit, dedicated to “Tackling the Most-Harmful Ideology Undermining Peace, Truth and Freedom Worldwide”.

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