For public schools,
Holocaust education is compulsory
in most of the 50 U.S. states.
More states steadily join this brainwashing list,
a movement spearheaded by California in 1985.
New Hampshire passed a law to that effect in 2020.
At the same time,
New Hampshire’s state legislature formed a
Commission on Holocaust and Genocide Education.
This commission is to study best practices
for teaching students about the Holocaust
and other genocides.
It is to report its findings and recommendations
to New Hampshire’s legislature,
and moreover is to monitor
the implementation of this compulsory education.
The commission consists of 13 members,
seven of which are either legislators
or specialists in education.
The other 6 consist
of two representatives of Christian churches,
the rest of Jewish-dominated groups,
most prominently among them
a member of the Anti-Defamation League.
In its current form,
this commission would be disbanded in late 2026.
For that reason,
House Bill number 11 62 was proposed in late 2025,
which would extend
the existence of this Holocaust commission
for three more years, to late 2029.
When one of New Hampshire’s representatives
found out about this bill,
he had the idea to submit an amendment to it,
asking to extend the list of commission members
by one more person, quote:
“A representative of the Bradley Smith 2014 charitable trust,
appointed by the trust,” unquote.
Who or what is the “Bradley Smith 2014 charitable trust”?
This is a trust formed in 2014,
into which Bradley Smith put all assets
relating to the
Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust,
or CODOH for short.
That’s a free-speech organization
Smith had co-founded in 1990.
It is dedicated to lobbying for free speech where it matters most,
that is to say, where it is most threatened.
It is the world’s most active organization
contesting the orthodox Holocaust narrative,
with its online presence at www.CODOH.com.
It publishes the scholarly historical periodical
"Inconvenient History,"
and co-sponsors the prestigious series
"Holocaust Handbooks."
As of early 2026, this series,
unparalleled in its scope and scale,
consists of 54 volumes
of thorough forensic and archival studies
on the Holocaust.
On January 14, 2026, House Bill 11 62,
to extend the lifespan of the Holocaust commission,
as well as the suggested amendment
to add a member of CODOH to the commission,
were heard at the
Executive Departments and Administration Committee,
of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
During hearings of this committee,
members of the public are allowed to testify
for or against a pending bill,
or an amendment proposed for it.
Here is how that hearing went:
Thank you.
Today we will hear 11 bills
focused largely on the retirement system.
I will give a few more of the introductory remarks
after we have this first hearing,
because Representative Selig
needs to be in three places at once.
And with that,
I will open the hearing on House Bill 11 62.
Thank you so much, Chairwoman Layon and committee members.
For the record, I am Loren Selig.
I represent Durham, which is Stratford District 10,
and I'm here to introduce HB 11 62.
I am very honored
to have been appointed to serve on the
Holocaust and Genocide Education Commission,
along with Representative Layon.
The commission is currently in the middle of a series of work
to revamp the types of educational offerings
we're providing to teachers across the state
to further enhance their ability
to teach about Holocaust and genocide education.
And we are deep in the throes
of evaluating what's been done,
getting survey results back,
and developing new programming.
And so, we are simply asking for a three-year extension
on the timeline of the committee
so that we can get the work done.
And that's all I'm asking for,
is a three-year extension.
Thank you.
Are there any questions from the committee?
I see none.
Thank you very much.
And we have Representative Matt, uh,
Representative Sabourin dit Choinière.
If you would like to come speak.
Good morning, Madam Chair,
members of the committee.
I'm State Representative Matt Sabourin dit Choinère,
and today I'm introducing an amendment
to HB 11 62
that's being passed out right now,
taking advantage of the 2029 extension request
to include the Bradley Smith 2014 Charitable Trust,
also known as the
Committee for the Open Debate on the Holocaust,
as a member of the New Hampshire
Commission of Holocaust and Genocide Education.
I visited the Dachau Concentration Camp
in Dachau, Germany,
following my deployment to the Middle East
in support of Operation Inherent Resolve.
As I stood at the camp's entrance,
I was truly proud of the plaque
recognizing the U.S. Army's Rainbow Division
liberation of the camp in April 1945.
Could you pause for just a moment, please?
We don’t…
This feels like a display.
Could you please not put those books all on the table,
because we don’t have, uh,
basically we don't have presentations
and that sort of thing.
That's not a problem.
If you could please just move those over
to the other table on the side
where the sign-in sheets are?
I'd appreciate that.
Would you accept this as written testimony?
I assume.
I'll check with the clerk, probably,
but that's, I will check with that and see.
But if you can move those over to the side,
that would be very helpful.
Cool.
Thank you.
We passed the entrance, and made our way
to the gas chamber/crematorium,
and we're walking through the chamber
seeing the removed shower heads on the ceiling.
There were the wall vents
where the Zyklon pellets were placed,
and taking a moment to reflect.
Because of the sacrifices of others
who came before me,
I was able to walk
out of the Dachau gas chamber that day.
Others in the past were not so fortunate.
Later on, I was shocked to learn
that there was, in fact,
never an active homicidal-gas chamber
at the Dachau camp.
How could that be?
This was the first doubt in my mind that,
over time, led towards a
revisionist thinking about the Holocaust.
I was excited to learn about a group called
the Committee for the Open Debate on the Holocaust.
They ask tough questions
and conduct professional research,
something that we should all take seriously.
They have produced a series of books,
which you just saw, up to 54 volumes right now,
covering all aspects of the Holocaust.
Holocaust historical revisionism as a science
does not deny that Jews were persecuted
or deprived of their civil rights
or deported or herded into ghettos.
It does not deny that many were killed.
But it does seek to learn why,
how, and when they died,
and it seeks to separate
the truth from the fiction.
This is vitally important knowledge
for the Holocaust and Genocide Education Commission curriculum development.
If we are going to have
Holocaust and genocide education
taught in New Hampshire public schools,
which I think it should be,
it needs to be accurate and reliable.
We are offering to submit an entire set
that we see over there as written testimony.
Anyone can read about the work at codoh.com,
that's c-o-d-o-h.com,
or at HolocaustHandbooks.com.
As a former military officer, an Eagle Scout,
a citizen and elected rep,
if I think the public should know
about something that might be important,
I would want to share that.
And I encourage the committee
to please support my amendment
and commit to our country's solemn tradition
of academic freedom,
the pursuit of truth at all costs,
enabling the freedom
of scientific discovery and inquiry.
Thank you.
Are there any questions from the committee?
Representative Sytek?
If that testimony is written,
would you mind submitting it to me, please?
Oh, yeah, absolutely, yeah.
Representative Grote?
Thank you.
Are you, um, can you speak to the amendment
that you just submitted to the committee?
Because I don't believe your testimony…
That's correct.
It's adding an additional member to the commission.
And you're replacing the bill with this?
Because that's what it's,
amend the title bill by replacing it
with the following,
amend the bill by inserting,
so you're just,
are you adding this to the existing bill?
Yes, ma'am.
So therefore you support extending the…
Yes, ma'am.
Okay, thank you.
Other questions from the committee?
Seeing none, thank you.
Thank you.
And I did want to state
that we also will be limiting testimony
to three minutes other than the prime sponsor.
We will take questions,
which will allow you to share
that there may be something that,
that you may want us to ask about
because it's an area of knowledge.
But as we do this,
this is so that we can make sure
that everybody who has taken time out of their day
is able to have time to be heard.
Next, I will call Henry Herskovitz –
I hope I did that all right – up to speak.
If you could push the button
so the red light comes on,
that would be great.
Thank you.
Still good morning.
And my name's Henry Herskovitz.
I'm a retired mechanical engineer
from Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Speaking on 11 62 and the amendment.
Many people, possibly some members
of the current New Hampshire Commission
on Holocaust and Genocide Education,
recoil at Holocaust revisionism.
The eyewitness testimonies
are just too overwhelming
for anyone to doubt their claims,
people tell me.
Today, I'd like to look at one such testimony
by a Jewish man named Herman Rosenblatt.
Rosenblatt wrote a book called
“Angel at the Fence:
The True Story of a Love that Survived."
It's on Amazon.
Here's what Amazon has to say about it:
“During World War II,
Herman was forced into labor camps with his brothers.
It was at Schlieben labor camp in Germany
that Herman met his angel.
Night after night,
a young Jewish girl who lived outside the camp
met Herman at the fence,
bringing him food and more importantly, hope.
After the war, when Herman was forging
a new life for himself in New York,
the most astounding miracle occurred.
On a double date,
he met a girl from Poland,
a girl with an angelic face
and the memory of helping a young boy
in a concentration camp survive.
Oprah Winfrey, at the time
owning the highest-rated daytime TV show,
had Herman on twice to tell his story.
Oprah described his book
as the single-greatest love story
in 22 years of doing this show.
Unfortunately for Oprah,
Herman's story was a complete fraud
from beginning to end,
exposed by revisionists
and even by Holocaust scholars
like Deborah Lipstadt.
They determined that the girl
had never been anywhere near the Schlieben labor camp,
And the additional claim that Herman,
made by Herman,
that he was scheduled to be gassed
at Theresienstadt was likewise false,
because even Deborah knows
that Theresienstadt was never considered
a so-called death camp.
Paraphrasing Holocaust revisionist
Robert Faurisson,
eyewitness testimony without cross-examination
is not evidence.
Am I singling out only one storyteller?
Far from it.
Dr. Rudolf Verba and Arnold Friedman
told equally unbelievable tales,
but unfortunately for them,
they were forced to undergo cross-examination
at the Ernst Zündel Holocaust trial
in Toronto in 1985.
This cross-examination
shredded their story so badly
that both refused to return
for the retrial three years later.
I urge this panel to support the amendment
to HB 11 62
to include the voices
of the Committee for Open Discussion on the Holocaust,
so that New Hampshire students will be presented
with both sides of historical events.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Are you willing to take questions from the committee?
Oh, I sure will.
Representative Sellers?
Thank you, Madam Chair.
My question to you, sir,
is because of the last few words you just said,
are they not getting both sides now?
I believe they're not.
I can speak for Michigan,
which has mandatory Holocaust education laws,
that they are being presented in Michigan
with falsehoods,
in easily correctable historical falsehoods.
So you got me on that.
I can't speak for New Hampshire.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Also, I will ask that any committee members
that do have questions,
if you just push your button,
that way I'll know
if I should ask them
if they want to take questions
or if I don't need to ask a question.
So thank you.
Next, I will call German Rudolf, please.
So my name is Germar Rudolf.
I have a background as a PhD-level scientist,
and I'm currently manager of
the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust.
I have under my belt 35 years of research,
organizing research, conducting and publishing
research of forensic and archival nature
in the Holocaust question.
And in this context,
I have published roughly 100 books on that topic.
I've written 15 of them myself.
Among them is the hard-hitting research series
"Holocaust Handbooks."
I've brought quite a few of them with me here.
I've also authored an encyclopedia on the topic,
which is at the bottom here,
published in several languages.
Now, this series is unique in its scale and scope.
If I have, with the handout on the page two,
you see here a comparison when it comes,
for instance,
to the Auschwitz camp,
we see the most prolific authority
on the mainstream
is the Auschwitz Museum itself,
has published one book
on the extermination events at that camp,
whereas we in this series
have published some 12 volumes
going into much more detail.
If you look at the page two of this handout,
we see that revisions
to the Holocaust narrative
done even by the mainstream,
on the chart you see here, are quite common.
The Majdanek death toll claims
have been reduced from initially 2 million
down to not even 4% today.
And in the process,
five of the originally claimed seven gas chambers
have been discarded
by mainstream scholars,
not by us skeptics.
You go onto the next page,
you see that Majdanek camp,
massive reduction of death tolls
are not unique to that camp.
They are common for all camps.
Initial death toll claims
were massively overblown,
usually Soviet wartime propaganda.
They all had to be corrected.
If you go to the next page,
you see it's not just the numbers
that, where scholars got it wrong,
also the methods
with which extermination is said what happened.
They were vastly wrong.
In the middle column,
you see all the claims
that were made during the war and after the war
and that have been abandoned.
And on the right side,
you see what's claimed today.
And even there is contestation
when it comes to diesel gas chambers.
You go to the next page.
Why do we struggle
to find and tell the truth on that topic?
One of the Auschwitz scholars
at the Auschwitz Museum said in 1998,
during communist times for 40 years,
they were threatened with disciplinary measures
if they didn't tell the lie of the Soviets,
and only later on they were free.
However, ironically, 1998 was also the year
when Poland passed a law
that puts everyone with up to three years in prison
who contests the current narrative.
If you go to the next page,
Poland is not a unique case.
Most Western countries, by now 27,
prescribe the writing of history on that topic
with penal law, with government guns drawn.
I have had many discussions
with mainstream historians in private,
and they have expressed their fear
to tell what they really think,
because persecution and prosecution
is common in that field.
Now, I offer, we offer our, my expertise,
which is I think unique with all this research
by having an additional member
and offering not only this unique
unparalleled insight into the topic,
but also the courage
to tell inconvenient facts
which a lot of people don't want to hear
but I think students need to be told both sides.
Thank you for your testimony.
Is there any questions from the committee?
Representative DeRoy?
Thank you for coming and talking about this.
I've been there.
I've seen all of that.
I felt it when I walked around,
and I think it's a travesty
that we're trying to hide the truth
about what's happened in the past,
and I want to thank you all
for bringing this to our committee today,
and I think all students everywhere
should know about what happened.
Is there a question?
Oh, I'm sorry.
Sorry, it's only for questions,
not for commentary.
So my question would be,
why do they want to cover this up?
Sorry, is that a good question?
No, that's not really an appropriate question.
Sorry.
I couldn't speak for third parties, no.
It's not really an appropriate question,.
So thank you very, very much for your testimony.
Representative Sytek?
Mr. Rudolf, are you speaking
in support of the amendment or the bill?
The bill is, in general for the amendment.
I'm speaking for the amendment,
to have an additional member on the committee.
I'm actually the manager of that committee,
which is suggested to add a member to that committee.
Thank you.
And last, I'll call David Skrbina.
If you push the button,
the red light will come on.
Thank you.
There we go.
Yes, hello.
Good morning.
So, my name is David Skrbina.
I'm from the state of Michigan.
I'm here to speak in support of the amendment.
I also support the bill,
but I support the amendment to HB 11 62.
I hold a Ph.D. in humanities,
taught at several universities
over the last 20 years,
mostly at the University of Michigan.
I've also taught at other colleges
in the U.S. and Europe.
As a college educator,
I've spent years
discussing the importance of critical thinking,
viewpoint diversity,
and open-minded pursuit of the truth.
Such things are needed today more than ever
and on all topics.
Lacking these things,
we risk falling prey to one-sided ideologies
and self-interested parties.
In all areas and all topics,
we need a diversity of views,
so we have the best chance of reaching the truth.
The Holocaust is no different.
As a historical event of great importance,
we must examine all sides of this topic
with an open mind.
Exaggerations, lies, gross errors,
and physical impossibilities
must be identified and rooted out,
if we are to learn from this event
and to do justice to its many victims.
Unfortunately, as I understand it,
the current commission is composed
entirely of those who represent
the conventional orthodoxy.
I suspect that they unquestioningly accept
aspects of the Holocaust…
Sir, could you please not ascribe motives
or the opinions of people
who are on the commission
and just speak to the facts
that you're presenting to us?
And not do what, sorry?
Not make assumptions about the opinions
of those on the commission.
I'm just stating my opinion, but yeah.
Okay, then it's your opinion
that that is the case.
Yeah, of course, exactly.
Yes, I support the commission.
I think it's probably doing good work,
but I think it has to have people
who challenge conventional views,
ask tough questions,
and follow scientific evidence.
That's really my position.
I just wanted to offer
a few quick examples of areas
that probably need to be further examined.
We are told that six million Jews
were exterminated by the Germans,
but we are not told
that news accounts of six million Jews in danger
existed in American and British newspapers
for years, even decades prior to World War II.
This suggests that the six-million number
is more based on pre-existing worries or fears
rather than on actual data.
The orthodox experts also tell us
that the six million Jews were killed,
but they never give us a breakdown
of how they died,
where they died,
and when they died.
So, we're looking for very basic information like that.
The experts themselves
have a wide range of opinions
on the deaths in each of the camps
and in the shootings,
as much as a factor of 10 difference.
But if there's so much difference of opinion
with our experts,
why is there no such similar questioning
of the six million total?
It doesn't make any sense.
The orthodox story also relies heavily
on so-called eyewitness accounts
by former Jewish inmates,
but their statements are proven
to contain many inconsistencies and absurdities.
These need to be examined by the Commission
and included in any curriculum.
Sir, if you could just make a last sentence
and then…
Yeah.
In closing, I just want to say
I urge you to adopt the proposed amendment
and include a CODOH representative
on the highly important
Commission on Holocaust Education.
The victims and the survivors
deserve nothing less.
Thank you very much for your testimony.
Questions?
Representative Sytek?
Mr. Skrbina, what does BSCT stand for?
You're representing BSCT. Who are they?
Bradley Smith Charitable Trust.
Ah. Thank you.
Yes.
In the amendment.
Thank you very much.
Thank you for your testimony.
Is there anybody else
who's not submitted a pink card
to speak on House Bill 11 62?
Who wishes to speak?
With that, I will close the hearing
on House Bill 11 62.
The next day,
the Executive Departments and Administration Committee
briefly discussed House Bill 11 62.
Here is an excerpt from it:
I would like to open an executive session
on House Bill 11 62,
which is the bill to extend
the Commission on Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
And for the bill itself,
we don't have any amendments
that have been introduced by committee members.
So, if there's a motion that…
I'd like to recognize Representative DeRoy
for a motion on the bill.
Yeah, ought to pass.
I'd like to recommend that we pass this bill.
You'd like to move
ought to pass on House Bill 11 62?
11 62, yes, to pass.
And seconded by Representative Grote.
So, would you like to speak to your motion?
Or would you like me to speak to it,
since I'm a co-sponsor of the bill?
Please.
Thank you.
This is what really should just be
a very simple bill
to allow the Commission
on Holocaust and Genocide Education
to continue the important work
that is currently happening
for another three years.
I am a member of the Commission.
I believe that it's functioning relatively well,
as most commissions do.
And that it is something that we should allow
to continue for another three years.
So, I appreciate Representative DeRoy
making that motion to move it.
Representative Grote,
did you want to speak to the second?
I think you explained it well. Thank you.
Thank you.
Then I will allow the clerk to prepare his documents
before I ask him to call the roll.
He's ready.
Are you going to open this up
to the committee as well?
Oh, yes. I apologize.
It's been a bit of a long day.
Would anybody like to discuss this
before we call the roll?
Representative Pearson.
Look, you know, the…
regardless of the duration of time
that has happened since that World War II
and the horrific events
that the United States military
documented fairly well,
that they found when they liberated those areas.
That statement exhibits a deplorable lack
of basic knowledge about the Holocaust.
All locations of claimed mass atrocities
are in areas occupied by the Red Army,
not by the U.S. military.
All six so-called extermination camps
were located on Polish soil,
and the mass shootings
attributed to the so-called Einsatzgruppen
all took place on territories
of what used to be the Soviet Union.
Still, the U.S. military liberated
several German concentration camps.
But you’d be surprised what they found there.
In this regard, let’s listen
to the one member of the U.S. military
who was at the very heart of
what they discovered when conquering Germany:
Similar to this is the account
given by Dr. Charles Larson,
a U.S. forensic pathologist
working for the U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate General.
Right after the war,
Dr. Larson performed autopsies
on hundreds of victims
in some twenty former concentration camps.
In 1980, a newspaper article appeared
reporting about his wartime experience.
We read there:
Larson’s biographer wrote the following
about this episode, quote:
Today, these particular camps are admitted
not to have had homicidal gas chambers at all.
So, none of the corpses seen in these images
were gassed.
What you see in these images
are prisoners who died from disease
as well as a lack of appropriate food,
water and medical supplies.
A large part of their condition
was due to the Allies
bombing supply lines to the camps.
Allied fighter planes even bombed and strafed
trainloads full of prisoners
as they were being evacuated to different camps.
Those prisoners who weren’t hit by bullets or bombs
were without appropriate supplies for days
until arriving at their destination.
We may assume
that all members of the committee here,
and probably also of New Hamsphire’s Holocaust commission,
are oblivious of these facts,
or if they aren’t,
that they don’t plan on teaching these facts
in New Hampshire schools.
That’s why we think a CODOH representative
is sorely needed
on all Holocaust education commissions
in the country and around the world.
Now back to the committee’s discussion:
I think that there really is no expiration date
on learning and understanding historical events,
especially ones of this magnitude.
So, I certainly welcome this bill
in its original form
and only in its original form.
And I hope that we can get this on consent
so we can process this through.
Thanks.
Thank you. Thank you.
Representative Howard.
Thank you, Madam Chair.
I want to second
what Representative Pearson just said.
I think that, you know,
we have seen a number of genocides
even that have occurred since the Holocaust.
I mean, the Rwandan genocide, for example.
And I think that it's very important
that we educate people about these atrocities.
Thank you.
And I actually will add more
as a commission member.
The commission is not just focused on the Holocaust.
It's focused on all genocides.
And one of the commission members
is a survivor of a genocide
so that we can have
that more contemporary knowledge of it.
You know, it's near and dear to my heart
as a family where much of the tree
was trimmed in the Armenian genocide.
And those who do not learn from the past
are doomed to repeat it.
The currently ongoing genocide in Gaza
is being perpetrated, assisted, condoned
or intentionally ignored by those
who claim to have learned from the past,
especially from the Holocaust.
These are the same type of people
who want to teach our children history lessons,
in order to do what exactly?
Perpetrate, assist in,
condone or intentionally ignore
the next genocides
against unpopular ethnic groups?
There must be a better way
of teaching history than that.
Representative DeRoy.
How long has this commission been in place now?
I actually am not certain when it was started.
Was it 21? In 21? Since 21?
Yes, I did open the executive session.
Thank you.
Thank you for keeping me on track.
That's a very important job.
Back in that groove again.
Yes. So, I don't recall when it was started.
It was before I came into office
because when I was first looking at commissions
that I'd be interested in,
it was already in existence.
So, it was before 2020.
And can you tell me, just for my edification,
where you go with your stories
and the commission itself?
Do you go into the schools?
Do you go into the churches?
I mean, how is it working?
So, what the commission does, is,
it helps to develop direction
for curriculum in the schools.
One of the large things that the commission
is doing right now
is doing surveys to see
how genocide and Holocaust education
is taught in the schools.
The quality of information that we're getting back
isn't all that great,
just because data collection
is a really big challenge within the state.
One of the partners within this
is the Cohen Institute,
and they do a lot here in New Hampshire
in order to educate more focused on the Holocaust
as opposed to the larger issue of genocide.
But as we move forward
and make sure that education is in school,
it doesn't hurt to be focused more on one area
while, once we get this established,
I do want to make sure that we recognize
the horrors of genocide
and we recognize that it's something
that humans can very easily fall into,
if we aren't watching against
what sometimes people do
once they move into groupthink.
Breaking open the groupthink,
in which New Hampshire’s
Holocaust Commission is stuck,
was exactly the purpose
of adding a member to the commission
who is not stuck in their close-minded,
incestuous worldview, skewed by inaccurate
and incomplete historical information.
True.
Thank you.
Representative Sytek?
Those who know the past often repeat the past.
Unfortunately, that is very, very true.
But those who do not know it
don't necessarily see what's ahead of them.
So, with that, is there anybody else?
I'm sorry, Representative Schmidt?
Well, those who are here,
and that would be most of us,
have you all wiped the memory cloth
over your brains?
Because we had an amendment offered,
and we had some testimony that should show us
that the other side is still around.
The other side of what?
And what does he mean by “still”?
We’ll see in a moment.
Thank you.
That amendment
was not introduced by a committee member.
Had I been faster on the game,
I would not have allowed
any discussion on that amendment,
because unless an amendment
is brought by a committee member,
there is no reason to discuss it in any testimony.
That was just a failure of leadership
in my first hearing as a chairman.
It was.
I'd rather be harsh with myself
so that I can improve
and make sure that this process is better
than to just not acknowledge
that I could have done better.
There were two people here who came from Michigan
to testify before us.
They came from Michigan.
Yes, and I disagree with a lot of what I saw
while reviewing the information
that they presented.
It's important to hear voices,
but it's important to hear,
putting a seat at the table requires
a certain level of civic mindedness,
if I can say something without attributing motive.
Representative Slottje.
If I can try to paraphrase,
I think what Representative Schmidt
is trying to say is
that we all saw what happened here,
and it's a reminder of how important the work
of the commission might be
in making sure that what did happen
doesn't happen again.
Is that fair?
Fair enough.
This statement,
together with the one about
“the other side still being around,”
are manifestations of extreme groupthink.
It not merely refuses to consider
the viewpoints of outsiders,
but aims at making them disappear,
or at least at stopping them from speaking out.
These group-thinking politicians deny people
who think outside of their group-think box
any legitimacy to even exist.
Their Holocaust education is not geared
toward dialog and education,
but toward indoctrination,
which leads to intolerance against outsiders.
Far from preventing mass atrocities
against minorities,
this kind of groupthink foments
persecution of dissidents,
and ultimately mass atrocities.
That’s why we at CODOH strive to include everyone
who is willing to have a civilized, respectful
and open-minded debate on the Holocaust,
and anything else, for that matter.
Because this alone can foster understanding,
and defuse tensions arising from groupthink.
Check out these websites for more.