The Orthodox Holocaust Narrative: Clear and Present Danger

CODOH’s appearance at New Hampshire’s state legislature lobbying for diversity, equity and inclusion in Holocaust education on January 14 of 2026 keeps having ripple effects. The latest of them are the effusions of a man by the last name of Menachem Rosensaft as published in an article for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on May 6, 2026.

Rosensaft claims that his “grandparents, [his] mother’s first husband and their 5-and-½-year-old son were murdered by Zyklon-B gas in a Birkenau gas chamber in August 1943.” He expresses his outrage that I claim it didn’t happen. Looking at the portrait of Menachem Rosensaft, I’d say he is in his sixties or maybe seventies. In other words: He was born after World War II. My question to him is: How can we know that the persons you mention died in a Zyklon-B gas chamber in Auschwitz-Birkenau? I don’t expect him to answer me, but I hypothesize that his answer would be that his mother told him so, or maybe some other surviving relative. To this, I would say: how did your mother [or other relative] know these people died the way you claim they did? It is extremely unlikely she witnessed it, or else she probably wouldn’t have survived herself. Usually, survivors in a similar position who testified over the decades since war’s end have stated that they were separated from members of their family at some point, and never saw them again. But what does this prove? I have been separated from a lot of people in my life, but it would never cross my mind to claim that they must have died in a gas chamber. That would be absurd. Dr. Norman Finkelstein once called this attitude of seeing gas chambers everywhere “Holocaust Derangement Syndrome.”

The real refutation of Rosensaft’s claim lies in the details of his story: he states that his 5-and-½-year-old half-brother died in the gas chamber. The orthodoxy claims indeed that little children deported to Auschwitz were commonly gassed on arrival. But here is the kicker: so were their mothers! But that’s evidently not what Rosensaft claims happened in his case, because otherwise Rosensaft could not have been conceived by his mother and her second husband after the war!

Add to all this the research on Auschwitz that we skeptics have published over the past 35 years. On Auschwitz alone, we have issued 21 monographs containing the results of in-depth archival and forensic research, totaling almost 8,000 pages. These volumes clearly show that there weren’t, in fact, cannot have been any homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz. If you don’t want to read these 8,000 pages, I may direct your attention to our Holocaust Pocketbooks consisting of concise books summarizing the most-pertinent aspects of our massive body of research. When it comes to Auschwitz, three books are highly recommend, all accessible free of charge as eBook at the links given:

• Auschwitz – Forensically Examined. A concise summary of the most-important results of forensic research on Auschwitz from 1945 to today, as well as their reception by Western societies. 128 pp.
• Auschwitz: A Three-Quarter Century of Propaganda. Exposing a plethora of false claims once spread by mainstream media and scholar on the Auschwitz Camp, but today admitted to have been propaganda lies. Followed by brief explanations on why today’s narrative is just as implausible. 138 pp.
• Nazi Gas Chambers: The Roots of the Story. Tracing how today’s gas-chamber lore evolved, revealing who wrote the narrative told to this day by the mainstream. This is not just about Auschwitz, but also the other major camps for which gas-chamber mass murder has been claimed (Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka). 154 pp.

In essence we can assert that the existence of homicidal gas chambers in Auschwitz has been conclusively refuted.

Therefore, whatever happened to Mr. Rosensaft’s half-brother at Birkenau, it is pretty safe to say that he was not gassed. He may have died in Birkenau, possibly of typhus, but not of Zyklon B. The same may be true of his grandparents. In the end, the result – death at Birkenau – is the same, but the moral assessment of what happened is different.

Rosensaft quotes Debbie Lipstadt in order to characterize me. CODOH’s official statement on the first paper the JTA published on the matter contains a section on Lipstadt, so I won’t repeat this here. Suffice it to say that I have also produced two documentaries demonstrating Lipstadt’s inadequacies when it comes to scholarship and historiography. The interested reader is invited to watch them free of charge at HolocaustHandbooks.com:

• The Lies and Deceptions of Deborah Lipstadt: Part 1
• The Lies and Deceptions of Deborah Lipstadt: Part 2

Rosensaft writes about me:

“In the course of a 2007 trial in Germany, in which he was convicted of inciting racial hatred, he dismissed the Holocaust as ‘a gigantic fraud.’”

As proof for this claim, he links to an online report by the German government’s international media platform Deutsche Welle (DW). However, DW lied on both counts: First, the German law that permitted sentencing people for inciting to racial hatred was abolished decades ago, because remember: races do not exist! The law I was convicted under is called Volksverhetzung, which doesn’t translate properly into English, as there is neither an equivalent English term for Volk (loosely: a people in terms of an ethnic group) nor for verhetzen. “Stirring up the people” is commonly used, but this is much too harmless; verhetzen means “to poison somebody’s mind” or “to fill somebody with hatred.” However, the section I was actually sentenced for is commonly referred to as Holocaust denial, plain and simple. There needs to be no agitation of any kind involved. Even the most academic form of historical dissent, so the German legislators and judiciary insist, fulfills the criteria of filling people’s mind with poison and hatred. That’s because German lawmakers and judges are crazy when it comes to justifying censorship with grotesque mental contortions – they have always been.

Second, I never stated during my trial or on any other occasion that the Holocaust as a gigantic fraud. Rosensaft relies on DW here, and in so doing, he falls for a media outlet that poisons people’s minds with lies in order to stir them up to hatred against me and my fellow Holocaust skeptics. DW evidently succeeded with this with regards to Rosensaft.

Rosensaft continues as follows:

“Holocaust denial is not merely the manifestation of an insidious and dangerous antisemitic conspiracy theory. It constitutes a moral clear and present danger.”

CODOH’s official statement on the first JTA article already explains in detail that it is not our historical understanding of the events commonly referred to as the Holocaust which fulfills the criteria of a conspiracy theory, but rather the mainstream’s narrative. I have elaborated on this also during an interview I gave together with NH Representative Sabourin dit Choinière, so there is no need to repeat this here. What deserves special attention in this quote, however, is Rosensaft’s expression “clear and present danger.” He links that statement to a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court of 1919 which defined the limits of free speech as guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. We read there:

“If speech is intended to result in a crime, and there is a clear and present danger that it actually will result in a crime, the First Amendment does not protect the speaker from government action.”

This is a popular reference, but it is outdated, because a new decision by the U.S. Supreme Court has set stricter limits in a 1969 decision stating:

“A state may not forbid speech advocating the use of force or unlawful conduct unless this advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.”

Holocaust Derangement Syndrome has led Chosenite pressure groups to push the U.S. into waging wars against Iraq (1991, 2003) and Iran (2026), and since the inception of the State of Israel, it has led to the same groups repeatedly committing war crimes and an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in what is today Israel, Gaza, the West Bank.

It is obvious to see for everyone willing to look that the continuous traumatization with Holocaust horror stories – no matter whether they are true or not – inevitably has led Jewish individuals en masse to become paranoid about their non-Jewish fellow humans, and has led them collectively to a behavior that I would described as sociopathic, if not even psychopathic.

Continuing to indoctrinate and traumatize children with the orthodox Holocaust narrative is a clear and present danger for world peace. It foments hatred, fills people’s minds with poison, is used to justify wars, war crimes, atrocities, massacres and genocides. This is precisely why we at CODOH think that Holocaust education needs to be redefined, and it needs skeptical minds willing to stop this ongoing vicious cycle of traumas stemming from past atrocities being used to cause and excuse new atrocities and new traumas.

CODOH’s guiding principles forbid us from “advocating the use of force or unlawful conduct.” But history has proven over and over again that teaching the orthodox Holocaust narrative “is likely to incite or produce lawless actions” on a global, genocidal scale. In fact, it isn’t just likely to do it. It does it, every minute, every hour of every day. Just go to Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon to see for yourself.

I conclude these thoughts with a quote from Gilad Atzmon, taken from his internet article “Truth, History and Integrity”:

“The holocaust became the new Western religion. Unfortunately, it is the most sinister religion known to man. It is a license to kill, to flatten, to nuke, to wipe [out], to rape, to loot and to ethnically cleanse. It made vengeance and revenge into a Western value. […] Holocaust religion robs humanity of its humanism. For the sake of peace and future generations, the holocaust must be stripped of its exceptional status immediately. It must be subjected to thorough historical scrutiny.”

Mr. Rosensaft and his fellow Jews will find peace only, if they stop wallowing in past catastrophes and let historians figure out independently and without threats of persecution and prosecution what really happened – for better or worse.