Smith’s Report, no. 181

By Bradley R. Smith ∙ May 1, 2011

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WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT? IS IT THEM? OR IS IT US? Or is it…?

Bradley R. Smith

Almost all of us have strong opinions about who the responsible parties are for having created and forwarded the scams about German homicidal gaschambers, Germans skinning murdered Jews to make lampshades and riding breeches from their hides, Germans cooking the corpses of Jews they had murdered to make soap from their fat, Germans burning alive the babies of Jews—in short, the German Monster Scam (swindle) in its entirety.

Almost all of us have strong opinions as well about who the primary beneficiaries are who exploit the scam using the legal and moral arguments of fanatics and bullies.

Last month I reported here a brief exchange I had on Facebook, with Alex Linder. Linder had been a student at Claremont College in the 1980s when I submitted a revisionist ad for publication. The ad was rejected, and at the time Linder approved of the decision made by the editor of Student Life. He wrote on Facebook that of course now he looked at the issue much like I look at it—that we're dealing with an intellectual and immoral historical fraud.

I thanked him for the anecdote and that's as far as I took the story here last month. But I did take the story further via Facebook and I felt it necessary to make a statement that is reasonably controversial among revisionists as well as with the great unwashed. Then it was decided here in the office that I should make the same argument on YouTube where students and others would be able to observe the simplicity of the setting and the person who was speaking.

It would hopefully contribute to the perception that you do not have to be an intellectual, or a professor, or any kind of expert to challenge what the intellectuals and professors have constructed so much taboo. You only have to be willing. As background, I will note that we have 2,400-plus subscribers to our Facebook page, and that our videos on YouTube have been viewed accumulatively more than 30,000 times.

In any event, what follows here are the notes I put together for this YouTube video, which was uploaded on 30 March 2011…

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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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