For the past few decades there has been raging a kind of subterranean debate, one of monumental importance. It is a debate about the Holocaust - not whether or not it "happened" (this is a meaningless claim), but rather, how it happened, through what means, and to what extent. On the one hand we have the traditional, orthodox view: the six million Jewish casualties, the gas chambers, the cremation ovens and mass graves. On the other hand there is a small, renegade band of writers and researchers who refuse to accept large parts of this story. These revisionists, as they call themselves, present counter-evidence and ask tough questions. Among the issues they raise are these:
There is no trace of a 'Hitler order' to exterminate the Jews; key witnesses have either falsified or greatly exaggerated important aspects of their stories; major death camps - Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor, and Treblinka - have all but vanished; we find little evidence of disturbed earth for mass graves; we find few remains of the millions of alleged victims - neither bones nor ash; mass-gassing with Zyklon-B would be nearly impossible without ventilators and ceiling holes; mass-gassing with diesel engine exhaust is practically impossible, given the low level of carbon monoxide; wartime air photos of Auschwitz show none of the alleged mass-burnings or cremations; the '6 million' number has no basis in fact, and actually traces back decades before the war; trends in Jewish world population strongly suggest less than 6 million lost; and the present number of "survivors" - currently over 1 million - implies few wartime deaths. The revisionists arrive at a different account. Hitler, they say, wanted to expel the Jews, not kill them. The ghettos and concentration camps served primarily for ethnic cleansing and forced labor, not mass murder. The Zyklon gas chambers did in fact exist, but were used for delousing and sanitary purposes. And most important, the Jewish death toll was much lower than commonly assumed - on the order of 500,000.
In this book, for the FIRST TIME EVER, the reader can now judge for himself. Arguments and counter-arguments for both sides are presented, and all relevant facts are laid out in a clear and concise manner. The entire debate is presented in a scholarly and non-polemical fashion. Citations are marked, and facts are checked. READ, and JUDGE FOR YOURSELF.
Author(s): Thomas Dalton
Series: Holocaust Handbooks, Volume 32
Edition: 4
Publisher: Castle Hill Publishers
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 344
City: Uckfield, East Sussex
Table of Contents
Author’s Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
PART I SITUATING THE HOLOCAUST DEBATE
Chapter 1: The Great Debate
The Core of Revisionism
Four Myths
Myth #1: Revisionists believe that the Holocaust ‘never happened.’
Myth #2: Photographs of corpses prove the Holocaust happened.
Myth #3: The Holocaust was a ‘hoax.’
Myth #4: Revisionists are right-wing neo-Nazi anti-Semites.
Who’s Who in the Debate
And in the Other Corner…
Chapter 2: Truth vs. Lies
The Traditional Story
“Shocking and Strange”
A Question of Evidence
The Nuremberg Trials
Chapter 3: On the Origin, and Future, of the ‘Six Million’
Holocaust by Numbers
A Most Remarkable History
The Saga Continues
Revisionist Death Figures
World Jewish Population
Another Theory
Chapter 4: Breaking It Down: The Death Matrix
The Hilberg Matrix
Coming into Focus
Life (and Death) in the Ghettos
The Einsatzgruppen
PART II DEATH CAMPS IN FOCUS
Chapter 5: Chełmno and the Nazi Camp System
The Language of Mass Murder
The Missing Hitler Order
Gas Chambers Galore
Death Camp Chełmno
Further Issues
Disposing of the Bodies
A Chełmno Death Matrix
Traditionalist Replies
Chapter 6: The Reinhardt Camps (Part 1): Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka
Orthodoxy and Estimated Fatalities
Bełżec:
Sobibór:
Treblinka:
Camp Structure and Maps
The Death Matrices
Chapter 7: The Reinhardt Camps (Part 2): The Diesel Story
Electrocution, Steam, Diesels, Chlorine…
The Diesel Story
Gerstein, Reder, and the Diesel Exhaust
More Problems with Gerstein
More Problems with Reder
Traditionalist Reply
Chapter 8: The Reinhardt Camps (Part 3): The Vanishing Bodies
Disposing of the Evidence
Burying the Bodies
Exhuming and Burning
Traditionalist Replies
Excavations (I)—Bełżec
Excavations (II)—Sobibór
Excavations (III)—Treblinka
A Better Account…
Closing the Camps, Tracking the Deportees
The End of the Line
Chapter 9: Majdanek
The Death Matrix
The Seven Chambers of Majdanek
Chapter 10: Auschwitz
The Essentials of the Auschwitz Story—The Main Camp
Birkenau—Alleged Extermination Camp
Estimated Fatalities
The Death Matrix
Death Matrix (I): The Gas Chambers
Star Witnesses
Gassing Capacity and ‘Actual’ Usage
The Mechanics of Gassing
No Holes?
“Fixing a Hole…”
The Leuchter Report
Death Matrix (II): Body Disposal
Furnaces and Capacity
The Hungarian Operation
Air-Photo Evidence
A Revisionist Auschwitz
PART III THE FUTURE OF THE DEBATE
Chapter 11: “Storytellers Supreme”
The Problem of the Witnesses
Elie and Viktor
From Bad to Worse
Moving Ahead: A Revisionist Holocaust
Chapter 12: Hoax? Fraud? Conspiracy?
A ‘Jewish Conspiracy’?
Covering All the Bases
Media Dominance
Dominance in Government
Exploiting the Holocaust
A New World Order
Epilogue
1. Nazi concern for inmate welfare
2. Postwar memoirs of three top Allied leaders—Eisenhower, Churchill, and De Gaulle—contain no mention of the Holocaust
3. Postwar German leaders have feared, and continue to fear, Jewish power
4. Certain Holocaust statistics have fallen dramatically over the years
5. Objective data, when it comes to light, virtually always supports the revisionist position
6. The anti-revisionist response is highly revealing
Annex
Appendices
Appendix A: Calculation Assumptions
Appendix B: Major Death Camp Witnesses – Pro & Con
Bibliography
Traditionalist Sources—Cited or for Further Reading
Traditionalist Web Sites
Revisionist Sources—Cited or for Further Reading
Revisionist Web Sites
General Index
HOLOCAUST HANDBOOKS
SECTION ONE: General Overviews of the Holocaust
SECTION TWO: Specific non-Auschwitz Studies
SECTION THREE: Auschwitz Studies
SECTION FOUR: Witness Critique
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