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Resignation

By Germar Rudolf, CODOH Trustees ∙ September 30, 2022

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To the Board of Trustees of the Bradley Smith Charitable Trust:

I herewith, effective immediately, resign from:

  1. the position of CEO of the Bradley Smith Charitable Trust
  2. being a member of the Board of Trustees of the Bradley Smith Charitable Trust
  3. the position of CEO of Castlehill Publishing, LLC, a company owned by the Bradley Smith Charitable Trust

Dramatic turns of events in my private life force me to take this step. I apologize for the abruptness of this decision.

With my best regards,

Germar Rudolf

The CODOH Board of Trustees received this letter, dated September 30, 2022, a few days later. Needless to say, we were utterly unprepared for this situation. We will report as to how we will move forward.

CODOH, The Board of Trustees

Editor’s remark of 2024: I will not describe the details of the situation I found myself in back in September 2022. Suffice it to say that I felt tremendously threatened. To this day I am convinced that, had I not pulled the emergency brake, it would have gotten nasty. Trauma does terrible things to the human mind. The traumata suffered during past events of government persecution have left deep emotional scars in me which I have never acknowledged before. What I went through back in late 2022 was a déjà vu experience that triggered a massive post-traumatic-stress event lasting for weeks, if not months. I came out at the other end alive and in one piece, ready to resume my duties at the helm. That’s all that counts for now.

  • 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”.

    Read more about him here.

  • CODOH Trustees

    in late 2014, CODOH was converted into a charitable trust. The trustees at times write collectively under that name.

Bibliographic information about this document: Inconvenient History, 2022, Vol. 14, No. 3
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