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Memorabilia: Confessions of a Holocaust Revisionist, Chapter One

By Bradley R. Smith ∙ February 15, 2019

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Confessions of a Holocaust Revisionist tells the story of how I first became aware of revisionist arguments challenging the orthodox Holocaust story, how it felt—how it felt was that it made me feel ashamed and made the palms of my hands sweat—and the first information I had the misfortune (?) to discover that there were serious questions to be asked about what I had believed all my life, with all my heart, about the unique monstrosity of the Germans.

If you are a student, you may well find my Confessions to be an amusing and interesting read. Your reviews are welcome. If you are a professor, well, what can I say? We are addressing an issue here where you will have to choose between taboo on the one hand and a free exchange of ideas on the other. I have a lot of experience with you folk. It's taboo every time.

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  • Bradley R. Smith

    Bradley R. Smith was born in Los Angeles on February 18, 1930. At 18 he joined the army and in 1951 served with the infantry in Korea where he was twice wounded. After three decades of a variety of professional activities, it suddenly hit him: In 1979 he read a leaflet by Professor Robert Faurisson, "The Problem of the Gas Chambers." Then, Arthur Butz’s The Hoax of the Twentieth Century did it for him. He understood from the beginning that he would address the censorship, the suppression of independent thought, the taboo against publishing and debating revisionist arguments—not the arguments themselves. That has remained his position. In 1989, Smith founded Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) dedicated to defending free speech and free inquiry into the Holocaust question. He handed over CODOH's helm in late 2014. He passed away on his 86th birthday, February 18, 2016. Read a series of obituaries here.

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