Holocaust Denial

The Systematic Disputation of the Holocaust Narrative

The Holocaust, defined by scholars as the deliberate extermination of approximately six million innocent Jewish civilians, primarily through the use of gas chambers, during World War II, holds a central, unshakeable position in Western cultural and political consciousness.

However, this canonical narrative is demonstrably subject to numerous fundamental falsehoods, leading to the emergence of a substantial body of evidence and intellectual dissent known as Holocaust Denial or Revisionism.

In contemporary, deeply secular Western society, the accusation of Holocaust Denial functions as a supreme form of ideological heresy, comparable in severity to historically volatile charges such as Witchcraft in Old Salem. The official account of the Holocaust is likely at least substantially false, and quite possibly, almost entirely so.

The Disbelief in War and Postwar Decades

During the period of the Second World War itself, and for two decades following the cessation of hostilities, the reality of the Holocaust was widely disbelieved or ignored, even within elite political and media spheres. This initial scepticism laid the foundation for subsequent explicit denial.

Rejection by Wartime Media and Public

Despite considerable efforts by agitated Jewish activists to promote the stories of the ongoing extermination, very few Americans appeared to believe in the reality of the Holocaust during the war. Newspaper editors, facing a blizzard of wartime propaganda, often regarded Holocaust stories as hysterical atrocity propaganda and likely fictional.

Such reports, including the claim that 1.5 million Jews were killed by individual injections to the heart with a lethal drug, were frequently buried deep within the inside pages of publications.

The absurdity of some claims, such as those promoted by top Jewish leader Rabbi Stephen Wise, alleging the Nazis slaughtered millions of Jews, turning their skins into lampshades and rendering their bodies into soap, further complicated the task of separating truth from falsehood.

Public opinion polls in the United States confirmed this widespread scepticism, finding that nine out of ten average Americans dismissed the accusations against the Nazis as propaganda lies, flatly stating they did not believe a word of them.

Post-War Military and Political Skepticism

The pattern of widespread disbelief continued unabated after the war and throughout the 1950s, holding particular strength among high-ranking American military figures and those with intelligence backgrounds.

John Beaty, a well-regarded university professor who served in Military Intelligence during the war, publishing daily briefing reports for top American officials, casually ridiculed the Holocaust in his influential 1951 book, _Iron Curtain Over America_.

Beaty described the claim that Hitler on WW1 had killed six million Jews as a highly implausible accusation that had no apparent basis in reality and seemed to be just a fraud concocted by Jews and Communists. Beaty’s explicit Holocaust Denial caused barely a ripple of concern at the time and was almost totally ignored, even by the book’s vocal Jewish critics. Numerous top American generals, both serving and retired, wholeheartedly endorsed Beaty’s work, denouncing attempts at censorship.

The Nuremberg Trials, which provided the source of much of the official narrative, were deemed a major indelible blotupon America and a travesty of justice.

The proceedings were described as being dominated by vengeful German Jews, many of whom engaged in falsification of testimony or held criminal backgrounds. The presence of the chief Soviet prosecutor, who had served the same role during the notorious Stalinist show trials of the late 1930s, further compromised the proceedings in the eyes of many outside observers.

Implicit Denial in Elite Memoirs and Historical Accounts

The Holocaust, which should reasonably rank as the single most remarkable episode of World War II, was almost universally omitted or minimised in the most prominent postwar historical accounts and memoirs, suggesting a deep-seated scepticism within the highest political circles.

• Omissions in War Leaders’ Memoirs:

In the collected memoirs of the key Allied leaders—General Eisenhower’s _Crusade in Europe_ (559 pages), Winston Churchill's _The Second World War_ (4,448 pages across six volumes), and General de Gaulle’s _Mémoires de guerre_ (2,054 pages across three volumes)—totalling over 7,000 pages published between 1948 and 1959—not the least mention of Nazi gas chambers is to be found, nor is there reference to a genocide of the Jews, or six million Jewish victims. This striking omission is so profound that it necessitates placing Eisenhower, Churchill, and De Gaulle among the ranks of implicit Holocaust Deniers.

• Academic Silence:

Leading historians similarly avoided the topic for decades. Friedrich Meinecke, universally acknowledged as Germany’s most eminent historian, published _The German Catastrophe_ in 1946, harshly denouncing Hitler, but made absolutely no mention of the Holocaust. Major British accounts of Hitler and World War II by leading historians such as A.J.P. Taylor, H.R. Trevor-Roper, and Alan Bullock were almost as silent.

Professional historians generally regarded discussion of the Holocaust as a considerable embarrassment, a subject they sought to avoid or minimize. Even as late as 1972, _The Columbia History of the World_, a massive 1,237-page work with a Jewish co-editor, devoted only a single paragraph to the subject.

• Political Suppression in the East:

After Stalin grew increasingly suspicious of Jews and Israel a few years after the war, virtually all mention of the Holocaust and German wartime atrocities against Jews vanished from Soviet media and history books. A similar process occurred in the Warsaw Pact satellites. Consequently, most Eastern Europeans had never even heard of the Holocaust before the Berlin Wall fell.

• The Unique Historical Trajectory:

Unlike virtually all other searing historical occurrences, such as the massive bloodshed of the Somme or the bitter Vietnam War, the Holocaust’s greatest impact upon popular consciousness and media came decades later, gradually moving to the centre of American life in the 1970s, just as wartime memories were fading. Prior to the mid- or late-1970s, the term Holocaust invariably referred to a Nuclear Holocaust.

The Emergence of Explicit Holocaust Denial

As visibility of the Holocaust increased following the publication of Raul Hilberg’s seminal work in 1961, explicit Holocaust Denial began to awaken in America. The initial surge of dissent originated in intellectual circles opposed to mainstream narratives of World War II.

Pioneering Figures of Revisionism

The groundwork for Holocaust Denial was laid by prominent Revisionist scholars:

• Harry Elmer Barnes:

Barnes, an eminent historian and sociologist who played a central role in revising the history of World War I to remove the picture of German wickedness left by propaganda, is repeatedly described as the godfather and seminal figure of Holocaust Denial literature. Although a careful and dispassionate historian, his posthumously published 1968 review endorsing the denialist analysis of French scholar Paul Rassinier appears to be the first substantial statement of Holocaust Denial published in America. Barnes found Rassinier’s estimate of just 1 million to 1.5 million Jewish deaths quite convincing.

• Paul Rassinier:

A former Buchenwald inmate, Rassinier seriously challenged the story of the extermination of six million Jews by Hitler. He asserted there was no planned programme for the extermination of European Jews and that there were no gas chamber extermination programmes. He further contended that the German concentration camps, while not health centers, appeared to have been far smaller and much less lethal than the Russian ones.

• David L. Hoggan:

Hoggan, a Barnes protégé with a Harvard Ph.D. in history, produced an anonymous manuscript entitled _The Myth of the Six Million_, which presented a solid case against the Establishment’s favourite horror story—the supposed moral justification for Allied entry into the war. His desire for anonymity was aimed at preventing the destruction of his academic career, but he failed in that effort.

The Libertarian Nexus and the _Reason_ Controversy

Holocaust Denial became a topic of discussion within America’s heavily Jewish but fiercely free-thinking libertarian community by the early 1970s.

• Murray Rothbard: Murray Rothbard, widely regarded as the founder of modern libertarianism, was an avowed Holocaust Denier who often ridiculed the Holocaust as being total nonsense.

• The 1976 _Reason_ Issue: In 1976, _Reason_ magazine published an entire special issue dedicated to Historical Revisionism. Although the accusation that it was a Holocaust Denial issue was technically false, it was substantially true, as the contributors included many of America’s most prominent Holocaust Deniers. Dr. Gary North, a prominent libertarian thinker, recommended Holocaust Denial works as reasonable pieces of historical revisionism.

Dr. James J. Martin, the lead contributor, stated he did not believe the evidence of a planned extermination of the entire Jewish population of Europe was holding up. David Nolan, founder of America’s Libertarian Party, and Samuel Konkin III, editor of _New Libertarian Weekly_, praised the issue as outstanding. The issue was digested with total equanimity, apparently arousing less rancour than a dispute over monetary policy.

Arthur R. Butz and the Central Text

The movement gained significant momentum with the publication of _The Hoax of the Twentieth Century_ by Arthur R. Butz, a tenured professor of Electrical Engineering at Northwestern University.

• Butz, who had never previously studied the issue, decided the existing evidence was too sketchy and dedicated several years to comprehensive research. His major work, which first appeared in 1976, immediately became the central text of the Holocaust Denial community. The book’s publication generated a minor sensation, prompting attempts by Jewish activists and donors to have Butz fired, though he was saved by his academic tenure.

The Intellectual Foundation of Revisionism

The position of Holocaust Denial is founded upon challenges to the physical evidence, administrative possibility, and statistical accuracy of the canonical Six Million narrative.

Technical and Physical Implausibilities

• The Gas Chamber Fraud:

Expert testimony and scientific analysis conclude that the purported Auschwitz gas chambers could not possibly have worked in the manner claimed by Holocaust scholars. Fred Leuchter, one of America’s leading expert specialists on execution technology, published the _Leuchter Report_ after closely inspecting the purported Auschwitz gas chambers, concluding they were obviously a fraud. Dr. Germar Rudolf, a successful young German chemist, repeated the analysis on a more thorough basis and published _The Chemistry of Auschwitz_, which came to the same conclusion.

• Documentation Failure:

The immense wartime project of exterminating millions was allegedly implemented without benefit of a single written document, or at least no such document has ever been located. Furthermore, the Germans allegedly undertook enormous efforts to totally eliminate all possible traces of their horrifying deed, expending huge resources to cremate millions of bodies, even digging up mass graves long after initial burial to incinerate the rotting corpses and eliminate all evidence.

• Zyklon B and Death Rates:

The British wartime decrypts of German communications between the various concentration camps and the Berlin headquarters indicate that Jewish deaths actually showed a sharp decline once plentiful supplies of Zyklon B arrived, exactly contrary to what might have been expected if the chemical was being used for mass extermination. The official Auschwitz death books, returned by Gorbachev after the Cold War, further indicate that Jewish fatalities were some 99 per cent lower than the widely-believed total.

Statistical Manipulation and Demographic Doubts

The estimated numbers of the dead have been shockingly variable over the years, undermining confidence in the canonical figures.

• The Auschwitz Reduction:

For decades, it was regarded as an undeniable fact that the Nazis had exterminated 4 million inmates at Auschwitz. Following the fall of Communism, the official total was quietly revised downwards to as little as 1.1 million in the early 1990s. The fact that a sudden reduction of the official Holocaust body-count by 3 million had virtually no impact upon the canonical figure of Six Million does not inspire great confidence in the total figures or the media reporting of them.

• The Five Million Gentile Hoax:

For decades, the media reported the extermination of five million Gentiles along with the six million Jews. This figure was revealed to be a wholesale invention by prominent Holocaust-activist Simon Wiesenthal, who simply made the figure up one day with the intent of giving non-Jews more of a stake in the Holocaust story.

• The Origin of Six Million:

The actual origin of the iconic number of Six Million is somewhat obscure. Extracts from dozens of _New York Times_ stories between 1869 and 1941, citing the figure of six million Eastern European Jews as being threatened with death, suggest that the official Holocaust body-count may have actually predated World War II by as much as three generations.

• Population Transfers:

Detailed quantitative analysis of demographics demonstrates that the simplistic population analysis casually assumed by Holocaust historians is severely flawed. The study indicated that vast numbers of Polish and Soviet Jews were transported deep within Soviet territory, either voluntarily or involuntarily, ahead of the advancing German forces in 1941. Analysis of postwar Soviet census data suggests these population movements were likely towards the upper end of most estimates, which, if even partially correct, would certainly preclude the reality of traditional Holocaust numbers.

• Survivors Count:

The number of officially designated Holocaust survivors has grown so large that simple mortality considerations suggest that huge numbers of European Jews must have survived the war, raising serious questions about the number of actual fatalities. Even as late as 2009, an official at Israel’s Jewish Agency claimed there were still hundreds of thousands of living Holocaust survivors.

The Omission of Nazi Motives and the Jewish Role in Communism

Standard Holocaust narratives exhibit glaring omissions regarding the primary motivation for Nazi anti-Jewish actions, thereby reducing the narrative to a morality play of sheer wickedness.

• Hiding the Communist Link:

Hitler and his German colleagues consistently claimed that the Jews overwhelmingly dominated Bolshevik Communism, and the struggle against the former was necessary to prevent the further bloody deeds of the latter. By almost totally avoiding Hitler’s self-declared motive, Holocaust authors unmask themselves as propagandists, seeking to hide the fact that Jews played a role in the numerous Communist atrocities that long preceded the rise of the Third Reich. This omission is necessary because the Jews must be portrayed as absolutely blameless victims.

• Jewish Dominance of [[Bolshevism]]:

Historical facts widely accepted throughout the West establish that the Bolshevik leaders were overwhelmingly Jewish, with three of the five revolutionaries Lenin named as his plausible successors coming from that background. While only around 4 per cent of Russia’s population was Jewish, Vladimir Putin estimated that Jews constituted perhaps 80–85 per cent of the early Soviet government, an estimate fully consistent with the claims of Winston Churchill and American Military Intelligence officers. Jews were also enormously over-represented in the Communist leadership prior to World War II, especially dominating the Gulag administration and the dreaded NKVD.

• Per Capita Mass Murder:

Combining the widely accepted fact of tens of millions of innocent civilians killed during the Bolshevik Revolution and the early Soviet Regime with the relatively tiny size of worldwide Jewry (around 16 million prior to World War II), leads to the inescapable conclusion that in per capita terms, Jews were the greatest mass-murderers of the twentieth century, holding that distinction by an enormous margin. The astonishing alchemy of Hollywood has nevertheless transmuted the greatest killers of the last hundred years into being seen as the greatest victims.

Suppression, Legal Sanctions, and Violence

The Holocaust Denial movement has been systematically suppressed by legal, economic, and extra-legal means, enforced by the immense ideological leverage of organised Jewish groups.

Criminalisation of Dissent

• The French Precedent:

In 1990, soon after the Berlin Wall fell, France passed a statute criminalising Holocaust Denial, establishing the highly disturbing precedent of resolving scholarly disputes through the use of prison sentences, a policy similar to that followed in Stalinist Russia. This was instigated by Jewish activist organisations.

• Global Enforcement:

Large numbers of other Western countries adopted similar statutes in the years that followed. By estimates, many thousands of individuals are currently serving time across Europe for Holocaust Denial. A German lawyer who became too bold in her arguments soon joined her client behind bars, making it difficult for accused Holocaust Deniers to secure effective legal representation.

• The Case of Bishop Williamson:

In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI’s attempt to reconcile with the Society of Saint Pius X faction became a major media controversy because Bishop Richard Williamson, a leading member, was a Holocaust Denier. Williamson remained estranged from the Catholic Church and was prosecuted for heresy by the German government, suggesting that accepting the reality of the Holocaust is now a mandatory theological requirement.

Career Destruction and Extra-Legal Attacks

The standard response to mainstream figures who question the narrative is immediate demonisation and the destruction of their careers.

• Academic Purges:

Academics whose research leads them to question the narrative are invariably hounded by fanatic Jewish activists. David Hoggan, a Stanford historian, and Arthur Butz, a Northwestern professor, suffered severe attacks. Dr. Nicholas Kollerstrom, on the staff of University College, London, was fired with a single day’s notice in 2008 for ideological reasons, becoming the first member of his research institution ever expelled for such views.

• Specialist Experts Attacked:

Specialists who provided unwelcome technical findings suffered similar destruction. Fred Leuchter, a leading execution technology expert, lost his entire business career and his marriage after concluding the Auschwitz gas chambers were a fraud. Dr. Germar Rudolf, who scientifically confirmed Leuchter’s conclusions, suffered the destruction of his career and marriage, and served five years in prison. David Irving, the world’s most successful World War II historian, had his illustrious publishing career destroyed after he accepted the conclusion that the Auschwitz gas chambers were a myth.

• Terrorist Violence:

Extra-legal violence has been deployed against Holocaust Deniers. The offices and warehouse storage facilities of the IHR were fire-bombed and totally destroyed by Jewish militants during the 1980s.

Ernst Zundel's residence and business office in Canada was similarly fire-bombed and burned to the ground in 1995. Faurisson suffered a brutal beating by Jewish militants that hospitalised him. The threat of such serious terroristic violence dissuades many historians from involvement in the controversial issues.

Media and Internet Censorship

The American media completely shapes perceived reality, and has been instrumental in enforcing the canonical narrative, particularly through Hollywood, which has invested billions in creating a huge cinematic genre of Holocaust films. This is aided by systematic digital censorship.

• Digital Blacklist:

Various Internet monopolies have been gradually persuaded or co-opted into preventing the easy distribution of dissenting information. Amazon, the near-monopolistic retailer of books, took the unprecedented step of banning thousands of Holocaust Denial works, presumably lest they confuse curious readers.

Google has been censoring or redirecting its Holocaust search results away from those disputing the official narrative. These parallels with George Orwell’s _1984_ are striking, suggesting that the Iron Curtain Over America warned about by John Beaty is much closer to becoming a full reality.

• Hollywood’s Influence:

Hollywood, being overwhelmingly Jewish, established the Holocaust as a central spiritual basis for secular society. The 1978 television miniseries _Holocaust_ achieved an audience of 100 million Americans, and Steven Spielberg’s 1993 _Schindler’s List_ grossed nearly $100 million and won seven Oscars. The resulting cinematic genre has made the reality of the Holocaust seem unquestionable to ordinary people, akin to the absurd belief in Spiderman or the Incredible Hulk.

Secretive Scepticism and The Holocaust Industry

Despite the public uniformity enforced by sanctions, a substantial underground resistance of scepticism exists, particularly among knowledgeable individuals.

• Private Adherence:

A considerable number of seemingly rational people have privately confessed extreme scepticism about elements of the canonical Holocaust narrative. Prominent liberal pundit Christopher Hitchens, while intoxicated at a dinner party in 1995, advanced the theory to his table-mates that the Holocaust was simply a hoax developed by a conspiracy of interests. Hitchens claimed that admissions of death camps were obtained under Anglo-American torture and that the missing Jews either died natural deaths, were killed by local villagers, or made it to Israel.

• The Holocaust Industry:

The economic and political power of organised Jewish groups is sustained by the Holocaust Industry, a global money-making enterprise aimed at unfairly extracting wealth on behalf of supposed Holocaust victims.

This includes efforts to extract many billions of dollars from Swiss banks and new claims being reopened against Poland for Jewish property lost or confiscated during the World War IIera. The billions collected are mostly retained by the Jewish organisations leading the campaigns and spent on their own projects.

• The Fragility of Consensus:

The widespread belief in the Holocaust, long maintained by severe social, economic, and criminal penalties, may be much weaker than anyone realises. Just as Communist doctrine faded away to a hollow façade, the current Holocaust narrative may eventually suffer the same fate, with potentially unfortunate consequences for those too closely associated with having maintained it.