The Day Amazon Murdered History
Book Announcement
Germar Rudolf, The Day Amazon Murdered History: The Book to the Movie, Castle Hill Publishers, Uckfield, 2018, 117 pages, 5”×8” paperback, throughout color illustrated, bibliography, ISBN 978-1-59148-197-3.
I vividly remember the day back in March 2017 when I opened emails from Amazon Kindle telling me that they had removed Castle Hill’s entire e-book program from all sales channels. I instantly checked my Amazon CreateSpace account for all our print books, I found that all our print books had been terminated as well. Amazon notified me about that a short while later. This act of sweeping censorship, which also affected books that did not even challenge the orthodox Holocaust narrative, resulted in Castle Hill losing some 40% of its turnover overnight. Such a massive loss of business usually spells doom on any company.
One way to get out of this tight place was to increase our outreach efforts by posting documentaries and book promotion clips on YouTube. However, that project was temporarily scuttled in early 2017 as well, when our videographer Eric Hunt bailed out for good – just prior to Amazon pulling the plug on us. So, we were facing a double whammy in early 2017: production, sales and distribution took a nosedive due to Amazon’s murder of free speech, and marketing took a hit due to our main video marketing guy jumping ship.
Somehow, I managed to navigate through these challenging times and kept the ship going, mainly by getting quite good at producing videos and promotion clips myself.
I spent little time whining about Amazon’s assassination in those months. I was too busy righting the ship. But then, almost a year later, after numerous documentaries and promotion clips had been finished, Amazon’s book-burning act came back on my radar. Earlier year, I decided to document it and turn this disaster into a documentary that would help our cause. In mid-February of this year, that documentary was finished, and a richly illustrated, all-color book based on that very documentary followed a few weeks later:
Amazon is the world’s biggest book retailer. They rake in some 50% of all consumer spending on books in the U.S., and dominate several foreign markets as well. Pursuant to the 1998 declaration of Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos to offer “the good, the bad and the ugly,” customers once could buy every book that was in print and was legal to sell.
That changed on March 6, 2017, when Amazon banned more than 100 books with dissenting viewpoints on the Holocaust, after having been pressured by Jewish lobby groups for years to do so. While Amazon ignored those lobby groups in years gone by, things were different in early 2017. At that time, a series of anonymous bomb threats was made against synagogues and Jewish community centers in the U.S., and three Jewish cemeteries were vandalized, or so we were told. Although there is no link between iconoclastic historical research and anti-Jewish acts, Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Center took these acts as a pretext in order to urge Amazon to take down history books they don’t like. The mass media were quick to join into this campaign, and Amazon promptly fell for it, wiping its sites clean of any revisionist research on the Holocaust.
Around the same time, it turned out that those cemeteries had not been vandalized at all, and a few weeks later, in a surprising turn of events, the mass media even revealed that those ominous bomb threats originated not from deranged Neo-Nazis, but from an Israeli Jew. Yet still, ever since this Yad-Vashem initiative, Amazon has insisted on deleting any history book from its stores that Jewish lobby groups disapprove of. Anti-Semitic and Nazi literature, however, can still be purchased there…
This book accompanies the documentary of the same title. Both reveal how revisionist publications explaining ground-breaking archival and forensic research results had become so powerfully convincing over the years that the powers that be resorted to what looks like a dirty false-flag operation in order to get these books banned from the biggest book retailer for good. Read it and be amazed and appalled…
Editor’s Note 2024: Since the second edition, the book bears the more-accurate title The Day Amazon Murdered Free Speech. Its current edition can be purchased as print book and e-book from Armreg Ltd: https://armreg.co.uk/product/the-day-amazon-murdered-free-speech/
Watch the current version of the documentary that this book is based on right below, or at https://holocausthandbooks.com/documentaries/
Bibliographic information about this document: Inconvenient History, 10(2) (2018)
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