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ith two major works on the Auschwitz concentration camp,
French pharmacist Jean-Claude Pressac attempted to refute re-
visionists with their own technical methods. Whereas his first
work remained rather obscure, Pressac’s second book on “The Technique of
Mass Murder” was praised by the mainstream in Europe, who proclaimed
victory over the revisionists. They did not reckon with the revisionists’ re-
A Response to Jean-Claude Pressac
buttal…
In Auschwitz: Plain Facts, Pressac’s works are subjected to a detailed and
devastating critique by leading revisionist scholars. Although Pressac de-
serves credit for having made accessible many hitherto unknown docu-
ments, his writings could not refute the revisionists, because Pressac vio-
lated many scientific principles: He made claims that he either could not
prove or which contradict the facts. Many documents he quoted do not
state what he claimed they do. Most importantly, he did not pay any at-
tention to “the technique” of the mass murder at issue, as his books claim.
They neither contain references to technical or scientific literature, nor any
technical consideration at all. In fact, he reveals such a massive technical
incompetence that his works belong to the category of fiction rather than
factual history. Despite these deficiencies, Pressac is still hailed as the sav-
ior of the Auschwitz-Holocaust by the mainstream. Auschwitz: Plain Facts
is a must read for all those who want to argue against the lies and half truths
of established historiography.
With contribution by Germar Rudolf, Serge Thion, Robert Faurisson, and
Carlo Mattogno. Second, revised edition with a new preface.
ISSN 1529-7748
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lating the 21st Law modifying the Penal Code of June 15, 1985, and pro-
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the time and the revisionists of today on their own ground. But at the same
time one gets the impression that someone else in the mirror is writing the
book: Pressac’s earlier teacher, the revisionist Faurisson. In that Pressac
expends his entire power of argument to prove what is clearly true, the re-
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swer to ...). Out of context, he welcomes what he takes to be Pressac’s
‘concessions’ to the revisionist viewpoint: that the number of victims is less
than that formerly given, that no decision for mass murder was taken at the
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The exiguousness of the objections that Faurisson can raise to Pressac

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work of the fitters, site engineers and architects. It is just this painful de-
scription of technical detail, revealing changes of plans, fudging and bun-
gling >«@ which demonstrates the incomprehensible unscrupulousness of
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rians, mostly confessed National Socialists, who deny the crime or want to
‘minimize’ it – attack just this point. >«@ Pressac’s merit is that with his
book he has undermined the foundation for any objections of the revision-
ists and Auschwitz-deniers, if there ever was any. >«@ Even Nolte did not
know about the conclusive, indisputable refutation with which Pressac dis-
posed of the main point of the Auschwitz-deniers, that a mass gassing of
several thousand people in one day in a single camp was technically im-
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of the annihilation of the Jews in the gas chambers of Auschwitz, propped
up with pseudoscientific theories that the murder machinery was impossi-
ble on so-called technical grounds, it has appeared necessary to prove
Auschwitz all over again. >«@ In this document concerned with the careful
analysis of all documents there are only a few lines in which Pressac grabs
hold of the horror. >«@ As said before, this book is not a sensation, this is
no argument from the defense against the attack of the unteachable, the
shameless, the cynics and the relativizers à la Ernst Nolte, assuming that
one should take their arguments and theorization seriously as belonging in
a scientific discussion. Whoever does that is well on the way to believing in
an ‘Auschwitz lie’ and acceptance of the Nazi era as an integrateable peri-
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one of the ‘best documented mass killings of all human history.’ >«@ The
hope that Pressac, as a former ‘revisionist,’ can persuade his former intel-
lectual comrades to the opposite view is surely illusory. Only the wrong-
headed would read such books. >«@ Comprehension of the mass murder
and its practical, technical realization – that is Pressac’s main contribu-
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came to an opposite conclusion. Therefore, there are no facts to prove that
the new research presented has led to a discussion among experts due to
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a letter or a quote from the records of the construction office. What is even
more aggravating is that he gives the impression that he is the one who
discovered the evidence. In fact, the method of operation has been known
for a long time, though without the technical details, and moreover it is
questionable whether they were developed in the way he describes. >«@ He
has been researching for ten years but he has not become a sound histori-
an. His book is through and through technical, limited to a single mode,
one might say benighted. Nevertheless, it is useful for just that reason. The
usefulness is not so much that there is now a completely irrefutable proof
for the existence of the gas chambers. >«@ It is useful that Pressac has re-
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dices, not even Pressac will convince them. The greatest usefulness of the
book lies in this, that we can now understand the operation in its technical
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pert report. In our opinion, it is useless to go in detail into the diverse at-
tempts of the revisionist side to dispute the mass gassings in Auschwitz. The
fact of these gassings is obvious and has only recently been reconfirmed by
the records of the construction office of the Waffen SS and police found in
the Moscow archives (see the publication by Jean-Claude Pressac, Les
Crématoires d’Auschwitz. La machinerie du meurtre de masse. – Editions
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applied to detainees upon arrival would, by eradicating the vector, the
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“The conversation turned sour and the SS-man hung up.”S
“Naumann mustn’t have been a ‘normal’ SS-man, for a real SS-man never
apologized, whatever his behavior.” LELG
“This call made the engineer extremely happy >«@. But his colleague
Shultze was less so.” LELG
“Good news usually comes in pairs.”S
“Naumann >«@asked humbly >«@.” LELG
“It was then that Prüfer dropped a clanger, trying to push his luck. Nau-
mann’s refusal had greatly frustrated him. He schemed so well >«@”
LELG
“>«@ a certain SS adjutant Heider >«@.” LELG
“A latent battle was begun from that moment >«@ to sabotage this imposed
business deal.
>«@ thanks to a wise administrative blockage >«@ and the unanticipated
help of a fire perhaps caused by an Allied bombing raid >«@.” LELG
³>«@ he received a curt response >«@.”LELG
³>«@ without privileged relations with party bigwigs >«@ The personnel of
the firm sympathized, for Ludwig, aware of his limits, unlike his aggressive,
pretentious, morally rigid and married younger brother, was quite affa-
ble.”S
“Of course, this was a pure lie>«@.” LELG
“But, being beholden to them became a servitude and a mortal snare to
Ludwig as the events to follow will show.” LELGHQGRIFKDSWHU
“Prüfer said no more in the personal – and probably only – letter he wrote
to Bischoff. In effect, an incredible request had been submitted to Prüfer,
which left him panting with hope of commercial success.”S
“But Prüfer had just fallen again into his regrettable failing: exaggeration,
>«@ ranted and raved, in vain, deeming it useless to turn Kammler against
him >«@.”S
“The SS men of the political section, fearing for their precious lives >«@.”
S
“Himmler had, in cowardly manner, unloaded an abominable criminal
task on Höss who, hardened jailer though he was, did not at all appreciate
the dubious ‘honor’ bestowed upon him.”S
“>«@ the Reichsführer’s mad passion for the fearsome corps de ballet, his
Waffen-SS divisions.” LELG

“>«@ unhoped-for manna >«@ the Jews’ undressing out in the open caused
disorder >«@.” LELG
“A clever bit was found: put the blame on the Jews for the frightful quanti-
ties of gas used.”S
“>2QWKHVXEMHFWRIGHWDLQHHVZKRGLHGRIW\SKXV@ the civilians and SS men
accompanied them to the beyond >«@.” S
“>«@ while chatting with SS members he had learnt something he was not
supposed to know >«@.”S
“Actually, Prüfer had had one bit of bad luck after another, for Ertl got a
severe scolding from Bischoff >«@.”S
“>«@ which badly needed it >«@.” LELG
“The project was insane >«@, but none of those brilliant Topf engineers
was aware that they had just crossed the boundary between the normal and
the abnormal, which later led them to topple into criminal complicity.”S

“The three SS-men were back at Auschwitz for the midday meal. It is not
known whether they were able to swallow it.”S
“>«@ hell had half opened its reddish maw day and night in the depth of
the birch forest.” LELG
“>66 JHQHUDO 3RKO VKRZHG XS XQH[SHFWHGO\@ at Auschwitz to learn what
was happening there and where the tons of Zyklon B that had been allocat-
ed were disappearing. >«@ When he asked about the Zyklon B, he was told
that it was being used to destroy both the lice and the Jews. Pohl, impres-
sionable and sensitive, asked nothing more. >«@ once back in Berlin, he in-
formed Ernst Grawitz, the chief of the SS physicians, a pretentious and ag-
gressive fool, who turned up on the 25th at Auschwitz where his idiotic ad-
vice >HWF@.”S
“Holick’s and Koch’s return to Erfurt certainly caused a serious stir in the
firm. Belonging to Prüfer’s department, they made their report to him and
mentioned the blazes of Birkenwald. If the engineer knew what was going
on there from hearsay, he had never seen its result. Made ill at ease by the
account, he must have advised them to be quiet and to hurry home to enjoy
Christmas. Holick, who had already become acquainted, at Buchenwald,
with the concentration camp world, which he perceived as hard and im-
placable, could not imagine that Hitler’s diatribes against the Jews might
materialize into horrors that he had witnessed with Koch. A Topf letter of
early March 1943 implies that the two men talked. They did so either at the
factory, perhaps after having been questioned by the Topf brothers on their
stay at Auschwitz, or at home with family members or friends, who has-
tened to ‘confide’ their statements to the heads of the firm. As soon as the
story leaked, Prüfer must have been summoned by the Topfs and ordered to

explain himself. That interview would seem to have occurred in early Jan-
uary 1943. It was all too easy for Prüfer to inquire politely of Ludwig Topf
if he had had as good a Christmastime as the year before with the charm-
ing Miss Ursula Albrecht, to add that this young woman must be relieved
and happy that the Director was no longer a soldier, then to convince
Ernst-Wolfgang Topf, who had approved the first Auschwitz deals and
signed with pride the contracts for the sale of ten triple-chamber furnaces
for Crematories II and III, that if the ‘Krematoriumsbau’ department had
not landed those sales, the competition, the Heinrich Kori or the Didier-
Werke firms in Berlin would have taken care of them. In addition, the Topf
furnaces had not participated in the Birkenwald atrocities and only had a
sanitary purpose, that of destroying pathogenic germs by fire. If Ernst-
Wolfgang Topf accepted Prüfer’s biased explanations, Ludwig Topf, neu-
tralized, did not reject them either, for having signed, after his return from
the army, the estimate for the ventilations of Crematory III, he implicated
himself most heavily by signing nine months later that for the airing-out
apparatus of Crematoria IV and V, which were distinctly criminal.”S
“>3UIHU@ noted with a feigned sadness that the guarantee of Crematory
IV’s furnace had expired >«@.”S
“Topf furiously opposed this detachment of vaults >«@.”S
“>«@ he denied it vehemently.”S
“>'XULQJDYLVLWE\+LPPOHU@ The convoy of cars crossed the bridge over
the train stations, stopped at the goods station to see the new potato store-
houses, abutting on the ramp where the Jews were sorted (document 49),
and departed at high speed towards Birkenau. The passage in the report
dealing with Birkenau reads: ‘The KGL’s 1st and 2nd building sections as
well as the crematories and the troop quarters were then inspected in de-
tail. On this occasion, the clean interior of the inmate quarters in the 2nd
building section, which had just become occupied, was particularly appre-
ciated.’ The SS men went by the water treatment station (document 50), the
KGL’s two potato storehouses under construction, and made straight for
Harmense where there were duck and chicken farms and a fishery near the
new barrier on the Vistula. A slight car accident did not at all moderate the
mad speed of the inspection, which swooped down on the new female de-
tainee camp of Budy, with its piggeries (document 51), stables and forestry
school. Then, at top speed, they took the ‘Reichsstrasse’ leading to Raisko,
whose SS Institute of Hygiene and SS Establishment for Agricultural Re-
search, with its outhouses, were explored from top to bottom (document
52). They toured the greenhouses at a charging pace >«@.” S
“>«@ which provoked a loud show of disappointment, hardly hiding a cra-
ven sense of general relief.”S

“They had a hearty feast there.” LELG

“>7LWOHRIFKDSWHU;,@ Horror, pettiness and final disarray.”S
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PHQW«@.”S
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promising wind >«@.” LELG
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feverish eyes, smiling through fetid gangrene, afflicted Pohl. Having before
him the radiant gaze of these little bird-like, ragged creatures, immobile
before of the doors of the black barrack-stables, with above them in the az-
ure sky, to the left, two squat chimneys spitting flames and to the right, a
whitish cloud rising from the Birkenwald, Pohl must have understood that
his administration had transgressed the ethical norms and would therefore
be stigmatized. Remembering the day – Monday, the 22nd of May 1933 –
when he had, in the gardens of the casino of Kiel, first met Himmler, he
cursed it. But the worst was to come.” LELG
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question, and we SS must execute this order. I chose Auschwitz, both for its
optimal communications position and because the adjacent land can be
easily isolated and camouflaged. You will learn further details from Sturm-
bannführer Eichmann, of the RSHA, whom I will send to you shortly. Soon
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the action would begin, nor had Eichmann been able to find the appropri-
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prisoner of war camps, the Gestapo separated all the politruks, the com-
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flowing with Russians and, protecting himself with a gas mask, had Cyklon
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decided that it would be the gas used for the imminent mass slaughter. The
killing of the Russian prisoners of war with Cyklon B, which I referred to
above, continued, but no longer in Block II, because after the gassing, the
entire building would have to be aired out for at least two days. As a result,
the mortuary room of the crematory near the hospital was used, after the
doors were rendered gas proof, and gas emission holes were opened in the
ceiling. I wouldn’t know at what period exactly the extermination of the
Jews began; probably already in September 1941, but perhaps only in Jan-
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“According to my information, the first gassing took place during the night
of 14-15 and the day of 15 of August 1941 in the Bunkers of Block 11. I re-
member that very clearly because it coincided with the first anniversary of
my arrival at the camp and because the first Russian prisoners of war were
then gassed.”
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“Because the lethal dose for humans was not known, the SS had made a
botched trial gassing in the basement of Bunker 11 of the Stammlager on 3,
4, and 5 September 1941, the victims being 850 Soviet POWs and other
prisoners.
It was subsequently seen to be more convenient to gas people as required
in the very place where all corpses inevitably had to go eventually: the
morgue of Krematorium I.
But trials to perfect the technique could not be carried out in this cremato-
ry attached to the camp, hence the idea of establishing Bunker 1 in an iso-
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with the evocation of a ‘natural’ elimination by work, no one spoke then of
industrial liquidation. In the days and weeks that followed, the Bauleitung
of Auschwitz received neither appeal, nor telegram, nor letter calling for
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III is planned only as an extension of II, to deal with an effective 200,000
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“The 19th >$XJXVW@ is to be considered the date when the decision to build
three other crematories at Birkenau was ratified, of which two were linked
directly to the criminal process of annihilation of the Jews.” S
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among the prisoners as well as among the civilians and the SS men, plus
the incessant arrivals of Jewish convoys, pushed Bischoff, on Höss’s or-
ders, to expedite the crematory program and to double it.” S
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unfit, and homicidal gassing, was termed ’special action,’ a term not spe-
cifically criminal, since it could apply to a non-criminal operation as
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“A ruse was devised. The blame for the bewildering quantities of gas used
was placed on the Jews. The shipment authorization given on August 26
was for ’special treatment.’ Although the authorities of the SS-WVHA of
Berlin knew the end result of the ‘treatment,’ they were unaware of the
specifics, that is, the quantities of toxin used. Since 2% to 3% was enough,
this allowed to make the WVHA think that the majority of the Zyklon B de-
livered was needed for homicidal gassings in Bunker 1 and 2. In this man-
ner, 97% to 98% of the gas could be used for delousing.” S
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“appointed chief garrison physician of the Auschwitz camp in order to
stem the epidemic of typhus.”S
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“The Chief of the SS-WVHA, General of the SS Army Corps Pohl, ap-
peared unexpectedly in the morning of September 23 at Auschwitz in order
to find out what was going on and where the allotted tons of Zyklon B were
vanishing. Pohl went first to the Bauleitung, had the general layout of the
camp explained and the buildings that had been erected, those under con-
struction (including the four crematories of Birkenau), and those planned
described to him. His question on Zyklon B was answered that with this
product Jews and lice were destroyed at the same time.” SP\HPSKD
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the residence of the Waffen SS. In front of the door a sentinel. For the first
time I am presented arms. The evening at 20 hours; dinner at the SS Offic-
ers Club in the company of Obergruppenführer Pohl: a real feast. We were


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at Broschkowitz (north of the town of Auschwitz) to reduce the risk of ty-
phus.” SP\HPSKDVLV
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“Towards the end of October 1942, the obvious idea prevailed to transfer
the ‘gassing’ activity of Bunkers 1 and 2 into a room of the crematory,
equipped with artificial ventilation, as had been practiced in 1941 in the
morgue of Crematory I.”S
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“in November 1942, the SS of the Bauleitung was determined to equip the
crematories with homicidal gas chambers.” S
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“use the ‘Morgue 1’ of Crematory II for the gassings as soon as it was op-
erational, or, if shipment of the required material was delayed, to fall back
on the ‘Leichenhalle’ >PRUJXH@of Crematory I after having installed the fi-
nal ventilation system already delivered. This ventilation system was capa-
ble of extracting 8,300 m3 of air per hour from all the rooms of the build-
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tor of the Degesch Company (the enterprise producing the Zyklon B),
which described a delousing installation using Zyklon B with eight little
gas chambers of 10 m3 arranged side by side.” SSI
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“in order to use it as a guide for equipping the future prisoner reception
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“As for Crematory IV (and V), its first drawing of August 1942 showed on-
ly the incinerator portion. In mid-October, the Konrad Segnitz company,
assigned to do its roofing, depicted the crematory’s final dimensions, which
showed the furnace room as an extension of a huge morgue, 48 by 12 me-
ters (576 m2), indicating its function ‘at the end of the sequence.’ The un-
dressing and the gassing of the victims was always situated in Bunker 2,
but the corpses thus produced were deposited in the mortuary of Cremato-
ry IV to be incinerated. Then the SS tried to place a gas chamber (heated
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“But an undressing room was missing. The erection of a hut outside com-
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room – gas chamber – mortuary – airlock – furnace room with 8 muffles.
Having incineration capacities half of those of Crematories II and III,
Crematories IV and V were to have more modest gas chambers as well.
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operation and thus established, on January 11, 1943, the final plan of
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“this conception necessitated the construction of an outdoor undressing

room, which was not indispensable during nice weather, when the victims
undressing outside (summer 1944), but it was necessary during winter. To
avoid constructing it, the SS assigned to the Central Hall a double function
as undressing room and mortuary, alternately.” S
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other, pour the Zyklon B. This feat was like a balancing act, and had to be
repeated six times.”SP\HPSKDVLV

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“stated with feigned sadness that the warranty for the furnace of Cremato-
ry IV had expired, and that it was no longer possible to repair a furnace
built with second class materials. He judged that the gas chambers were
nevertheless still usable, on the condition that they be mechanically venti-
lated. He pocketed an order for two ventilation systems for Crematories IV
and V, amounting to 2,510 RM, and departed on the 20th.” SSI
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“The author would point out that NOTHING in this letter indicates that the
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motor only with difficulty, nevertheless shipped by snail-freight one of the
two ventilation systems on December 21. It was put into storage at the con-
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stalled in May in Crematory V, whose furnace was judged capable of func-
tioning correctly. For the two gas chambers and the corridor, representing
a volume of 480 m3, Schultze had anticipated a ventilation of the same ca-
pacity, almost equal to that of the morgues of Crematories II and III: A
ventilator, no. 450 with a 3.5 CV motor, extracting 8,000 m3 per hour.”
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es of Auschwitz by Carlo Mattogno, in collaboration with Dr. Ing. Franco Deana,
Genoa (Castle Hill Publishers, Uckfield 2015).


Document No. 2: Billing No. 729 of May 27, 1943, from J.A. Topf & Söhne, Erfurt.
Addressed to Zentralbauleitung der Waffen-SS und Polizei Auschwitz concerning
Crematory III of Birkenau. APMO, D-Z/Bau, Nr. inw. 1967, pp. 246f.

Document No. 2, continued.


Document No. 3: Billing No. 171 of February 22, 1943, from J.A. Topf & Söhne,
Erfurt. Addressed to Zentralbauleitung der Waffen-SS und Polizei Auschwitz con-
cerning Crematory II of Birkenau. APMO, D-Z/Bau, nr. inw. 1967, pp. 231f.

Document No. 3, continued.


Document No. 4: Wilhelm Heepke, Die Leichenverbrennungs-Anstalten (die
Krematorien). Verlag von Carl Marhold, Halle a.S. 1905, p. 104.

Document No. 5: G. Peters, E. Wüstinger, “Entlausung mit Zyklon-Blausäure in

Kreislauf-Begasungskammern. Sach-Entlausung in Blausäure-Kammern,” special
reprint from Zeitschrift für hygienische Zoologie und Schädlingsbekämpfung,
issue 10/11, 1940, p. 6.


Document No. 6: F. Puntigam, H. Breymesser, E. Bernfus, Blausäurekammern
zur Fleckfieberabwehr. Sonderveröffentlichung des Reicharbeitsblattes, Berlin
1943, p. 50.

Document No. 7: Telegram of the Zentralbauleitung Auschwitz to the Firm J.A.

Topf & Söhne, Erfurt, of February 26, 1943. APMO, BW 30/34, p. 48. Translation:
“[…] Send off immediately 10 gas detectors as discussed. Hand in estimate later.’
[…]


Document No. 8: J.A. Topf & Söhne, Erfurt. Letter of March 2, 1943, to the Zent-
ralbauleitung der Waffen-SS und Polizei Auschwitz. RGVA (Russian State Military
Archives), 502-1-313, p. 44. Translation: “[…] We confirm the receipt of your tele-
gram, saying: ’send off immediately 10 gas detectors as discussed. Hand in esti-
mate later.’ In this regard, we let you know that already two weeks ago we asked 5
different firms about the display devices for hydrocyanic acid residues requested
by you. […]


Document No. 9: Akademischer Verein Hütte (ed.),”Hütte” des Ingenieurs Ta-

schenbuch (Verlag von Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1931), vol. 1, pp. 1011 (top)
and 1013 (bottom).


Document No. 10: Tesch & Stabenow, Hamburg. Letter of July 29, 1942, to the
Waffen-SS Kriegsgefangenenlager Lublin, Verwaltung. Archiwum Panstwowego
Muzeum na Majdanku, sygn. I d 2, vol. 1, p. 107.


Document No. 11: Picture of “Gasrestnachweisgerätes für Zyklon,” found by the
Soviets in the Auschwitz camp after its liberation. APMO, Nr. neg 625.
Document No. 12: Photo of two gauges (“Anzeigegeräte”) for gas testers
(“Gasprüfer”) by Siemens for CO2 (right) and combined CO+H2 content (left) in %.
Alberto Cantagalli, Nozioni teorico-pratiche per i conduttori di caldaie e generatori
di vapore, G. Lavagnolo Editore, Turin 1940, p. 308.

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his ambitious, growing series addresses various angles of the “Holocaust” of the
WWII era. Most of them are based on decades of research from archives all over the
world. They are heavily footnoted and referenced. In contrast to most other works
on this issue, the tomes of this series approach its topic with profound academic scrutiny
and a critical attitude. Any Holocaust researcher ignoring this series will remain oblivi-
ous to some of the most important research in the eld. These books are designed to both
convince the common reader as well as academics. The following books have appeared so
far and are available from CODOH/CASTLE HILL PUBLISHERS:
SECTION ONE:
General Overviews of the Holocaust
The First Holocaust. The Surprising Origin of
the Six-Million Figure. By Don Heddesheimer.
This compact but substantive study documents
propaganda spread prior to,
during and after the FIRST
World War that claimed
East European Jewry was
on the brink of annihilation.
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Jewish fundraising opera-
tions in America raised vast reveals that the Germans
sums in the name of feeding were desperate to reduce
suffering Polish and Russian Jews but actu- the death rate in their labor
ally funneled much of the money to Zionist and camps, which was caused
Communist groups. 3rd edition, 188 pages, b&w by catastrophic typhus epi-
illustrations, bibliography, index. (#6) demics. Dr. Kollerstrom, a
science historian, has taken
Lectures on the Holocaust. Controversial Is- these intercepts and a wide
sues Cross Examined. By Germar Rudolf. Be- array of mostly unchal-
tween 1992 and 2005 German scholar Germar lenged corroborating evi-
Rudolf lectured to various dence to show that “witness
audiences about the Ho- statements” supporting the human gas cham-
locaust in the light of new ber narrative clearly clash with the available
ndings. Rudolf ’s some- scientic data. Kollerstrom concludes that the
times astounding facts and history of the Nazi “Holocaust” has been writ-
arguments fell on fertile soil ten by the victors with ulterior motives. It is
among his listeners, as they distorted, exaggerated and largely wrong. With
were presented in a very a foreword by Prof. Dr. James Fetzer. 2nd edi-
sensitive and scholarly way. tion, 257 pages, b&w illustrations, bibliography,
This book is the literary ver- index. (#31)
sion of Rudolf ’s lectures, en-
Debating the Holocaust. A New Look at Both
riched with the most recent
Sides. By Thomas Dalton. Mainstream histori-
ndings of historiography. Rudolf introduces
ans insist that there cannot be, may not be a
the most important arguments for his ndings,
debate about the Holocaust. But ignoring it does
and his audience reacts with supportive, skepti-
not make this controversy go away. Traditional
cal and also hostile questions. We believe this
scholars admit that there
book is the best introduction into this taboo top- was neither a budget, a plan,
ic. Second edition, 500 pages, b&w illustrations, nor an order for the Holo-
bibliography, index.(#15) caust; that the key camps
Breaking the Spell. The Holocaust, Myth & have all but vanished, and
Reality. By Nicholas Kollerstrom. In 1941, so have any human remains;
British Intelligence analysts cracked the Ger- that material and unequivo-
man “Enigma” code. Hence, in 1942 and 1943, cal documentary evidence is
encrypted radio communications between Ger- absent; and that there are
man concentration camps and the Berlin head- serious problems with sur-
quarters were decrypted. The intercepted data vivor testimonies. Dalton
refutes, the orthodox “Holocaust” narrative. It juxtaposes the traditional
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Holocaust narrative with revision- Air Photo Evidence: World War Two
ist challenges and then analyzes the Photos of Alleged Mass Murder Sites
mainstream’s responses to them. He Analyzed. By John C. Ball. During
reveals the weaknesses of both sides, World War Two both German and
while declaring revisionism the win- Allied reconnaissance aircraft took
ner of the current state of the debate. countless air photos of places of tacti-
2nd, revised and expanded edition, cal and strategic interest in Europe.
332 pages, b&w illustrations, biblio- These photos are prime evidence for
graphy, index. (#32) the investigation of the Holocaust.
The Hoax of the Twentieth Century. Air photos of locations like Auschwitz,
The Case against the Presumed Ex- Majdanek, Treblinka, Babi Yar etc.
termination of European Jewry. By permit an insight into what did or did
Arthur R. Butz. The rst writer to not happen there. John Ball has un-
analyze the entire Holocaust complex earthed many pertinent photos and
in a precise scientic manner. This has thoroughly analyzed them. This
book exhibits the overwhelming force book is full of air photo reproductions
of arguments accumulated by the and schematic drawings explaining
mid-1970s. It continues to be a major them. According to the author, these
historical reference work, frequently images refute many of the atrocity
cited by prominent personalities. This claims made by witnesses in connec-
edition has numerous supplements tion with events in the German sphere
with new information gathered over of inuence. 3rd revised and expanded
the last 35 years. Fourth edition, 524 edition. Edited by Germar Rudolf;
pages, b&w illustrations, bibliography, with a contribution by Carlo Mattog-
index. (#7) no. 168 pages, 8.5”×11”, b&w illustra-
tions, bibliography, index (#27).
Dissecting the Holocaust. The Grow-
ing Critique of ‘Truth’ and ‘Memory.’ The Leuchter Reports: Critical Edi-
Edited by Germar Rudolf. Dissecting tion. By Fred Leuchter, Robert Fauris-
the Holocaust applies state-of-the-art son and Germar Rudolf. Between 1988
scientic technique and classic meth- and 1991, U.S. expert on execution
ods of detection to investigate the al- technologies Fred Leuchter wrote four
leged murder of millions of Jews by detailed reports addressing whether
Germans during World War II. In the Third Reich operated homicidal
22 contributions—each of some 30 gas chambers. The rst report on
pages—the 17 authors dissect gener- Auschwitz and Majdanek became
ally accepted paradigms of the “Holo- world famous. Based on chemical
caust.” It reads as exciting as a crime analyses and various technical argu-
novel: so many lies, forgeries and de- ments, Leuchter concluded that the
ceptions by politicians, historians and locations investigated “could not have
scientists are proven. This is the intel- then been, or now be, utilized or seri-
lectual adventure of the 21st century. ously considered to function as execu-
Be part of it! Second revised edition. tion gas chambers.” 4th edition, 252
620 pages, b&w illustrations, biblio- pages, b&w illustrations. (#16)
graphy, index. (#1) The Giant with Feet of Clay: Raul Hil-
The Dissolution of Eastern European berg and His Standard Work on the
Jewry. By Walter N. Sanning. Six Mil- “Holocaust.” By Jürgen Graf. Raul Hil-
lion Jews died in the Holocaust. San- berg’s major work The Destruction of
ning did not take that number at face European Jewry is an orthodox stan-
value, but thoroughly explored Euro- dard work on the Holocaust. But what
pean population developments and evidence does Hilberg provide to back
shifts mainly caused by emigration as his thesis that there was a German
well as deportations and evacuations plan to exterminate Jews, carried out
conducted by both Nazis and the So- mainly in gas chambers? Jürgen Graf
viets, among other things. The book applies the methods of critical analy-
is based mainly on Jewish, Zionist sis to Hilberg’s evidence and examines
and mainstream sources. It concludes the results in light of modern histori-
that a sizeable share of the Jews found ography. The results of Graf ’s critical
missing during local censuses after the analysis are devastating for Hilberg.
Second World War, which were so far 2nd, corrected edition, 139 pages, b&w
counted as “Holocaust victims,” had illustrations, bibliography, index. (#3)
either emigrated (mainly to Israel or Jewish Emigration from the Third
the U.S.) or had been deported by Sta- Reich. By Ingrid Weckert. Current
lin to Siberian labor camps. 2nd, cor- historical writings about the Third
rected edition, foreword by A.R. Butz, Reich claim state it was difcult for
epilogue by Germar Rudolf containing Jews to ee from Nazi persecution.
important updates; 224 pages, b&w il- The truth is that Jewish emigration
lustrations, bibliography (#29). was welcomed by the German authori-
ties. Emigration was not some kind of trains; high voltage; vacuum chambers;
wild ight, but rather a lawfully de- etc. The corpses were incinerated on
termined and regulated matter. Weck- huge pyres without leaving a trace. For
ert’s booklet elucidates the emigration those who know the stories about Tre-
process in law and policy. She shows blinka this sounds familiar. Thus the
that German and Jewish authorities author has restricted this study to the
worked closely together. Jews inter- aspects which are new compared to Tre-
ested in emigrating received detailed blinka. In contrast to Treblinka, foren-
advice and offers of help from both sic drillings and excavations were per-
sides. 2nd ed., 130 pages, index. (#12) formed at Belzec, the results of which
Inside the Gas Chambers: The Exter- are critically reviewed. 138 pages, b&w
mination of Mainstream Holocaust illustrations, bibliography, index. (#9)
Historiography. By Carlo Mattogno. Sobibor: Holocaust Propaganda and
Neither increased media propaganda Reality. By Jürgen Graf, Thomas Kues
or political pressure nor judicial perse- and Carlo Mattogno. Between 25,000
cution can stie revisionism. Hence, in and 2 million Jews are said to have
early 2011, the Holocaust Orthodoxy been killed in gas chambers in the
published a 400 pp. book (in German) Sobibór camp in Poland. The corpses
claiming to refute “revisionist propa- were allegedly buried in mass graves
ganda,” trying again to prove “once and later incinerated on pyres. This
and for all” that there were homicidal book investigates these claims and
gas chambers at the camps of Dachau, shows that they are based on the se-
Natzweiler, Sachsenhausen, Mau- lective use of contradictory eyewitness
thausen, Ravensbrück, Neuengamme, testimony. Archeological surveys of the
Stutthof… you name them. Mattogno camp in 2000-2001 are analyzed, with
shows with his detailed analysis of fatal results for the extermination
this work of propaganda that main- camp hypothesis. The book also docu-
stream Holocaust hagiography is beat- ments the general National Socialist
ing around the bush rather than ad- policy toward Jews, which never in-
dressing revisionist research results. cluded a genocidal “nal solution.” 434
He exposes their myths, distortions pages, b&w illustrations, bibliography,
and lies. 268 pages, b&w illustrations, index. (#19)
bibliography. (#25) The “Extermination Camps” of “Aktion
Reinhardt”. By Jürgen Graf, Thomas
SECTION TWO: Kues and Carlo Mattogno. In late
Books on Specic Camps 2011, several members of the exter-
minationist Holocaust Controversies
Treblinka: Extermination Camp or blog published a study which claims
Transit Camp? By Carlo Mattogno and to refute three of our authors’ mono-
Jürgen Graf. It is alleged that at Treb- graphs on the camps Belzec, Sobibor
linka in East Poland between 700,000 and Treblinka (see previous three
and 3,000,000 persons were murdered entries). This tome is their point-by-
in 1942 and 1943. The weapons used point response, which makes “mince-
were said to have been stationary and/ meat” out of the bloggers’ attempt at
or mobile gas chambers, fast-acting or refutation. It requires familiarity with
slow-acting poison gas, unslaked lime, the above-mentioned books and consti-
superheated steam, electricity, diesel tutes a comprehensive update and ex-
exhaust fumes etc. Holocaust histori- pansion of their themes. 2nd edition,
ans alleged that bodies were piled as two volumes, total of 1396 pages, illus-
high as multi-storied buildings and trations, bibliography. (#28)
burned without a trace, using little Chelmno: A Camp in History & Propa-
or no fuel at all. Graf and Mattogno ganda. By Carlo Mattogno. The world’s
have now analyzed the origins, logic premier holocaust scholar focuses his
and technical feasibility of the ofcial microscope on the death camp located
version of Treblinka. On the basis of in Poland. It was at Chelmno that
numerous documents they reveal Tre- huge masses of prisoners—as many as
blinka’s true identity as a mere transit 1.3 million—were allegedly rounded
camp. 365 pages, b&w illustrations, up and killed. His book challenges
bibliography, index. (#8) the conventional wisdom of what
Belzec in Propaganda, Testimonies, went on inside Chelmno. Eyewitness
Archeological Research and History. statements, forensics reports, coro-
By Carlo Mattogno. Witnesses report ners’ reports, excavations, crematoria,
that between 600,000 and 3 million building plans, U.S. reports, German
Jews were murdered in the Belzec documents, evacuation efforts, mobile
camp, located in Poland. Various mur- gas vans for homicidal purposes—all
der weapons are claimed to have been are discussed. 191 pages, indexed, il-
used: diesel gas; unslaked lime in lustrated, bibliography. (#23)
The Gas Vans: A Critical Investiga- toward the end of World War II. Third
tion. (A perfect companion to the edition, 171 pages, b&w illustrations,
Chelmno book.) By Santiago Alvarez bibliography, index. (#4)
and Pierre Marais. It is alleged that
the Nazis used mobile gas chambers SECTION THREE:
to exterminate 700,000 people. Up Auschwitz Studies
until 2011, no thorough monograph
had appeared on the topic. Santiago The Real Case of Auschwitz: Robert
Alvarez has rem- van Pelt’s Evidence from the Irving
edied the situation. Trial Critically Reviewed. By Carlo
Are witness state- Mattogno. Prof. Robert van Pelt is
ments reliable? Are considered one of the best mainstream
documents genu- experts on Auschwitz and has been
ine? Where are called upon several times in holocaust
the murder weap- court cases. His work is cited by many
ons? Could they to prove the holocaust happened as
have operated as mainstream scholars insist. This book
claimed? Where are is a scholarly response to Prof. van
the corpses? Alva- Pelt—and Jean-Claude Pressac. It
rez has scrutinized shows that their studies are heavily
all known wartime documents, photos awed. This is a book of prime politi-
and witness statements on this topic, cal and scholarly importance to those
and has examined the claims made by looking for the truth about Auschwitz.
the mainstream. 390 pages, b&w il- 2nd edition, 758 pages, b&w illustra-
lustrations, bibliography, index. (#26) tions, glossary, bibliography, index.
Concentration Camp Majdanek. A (#22)
Historical and Technical Study. By Auschwitz: Plain Facts—A Response
Carlo Mattogno and Jürgen Graf. to Jean-Claude Pressac. Edited by
Little research had been directed to- Germar Rudolf. French pharmacist
ward Concentration Camp Majdanek Jean-Claude Pressac tried to refute
in central Poland, even though it revisionist ndings with the “techni-
is claimed that up to a million Jews cal” method. For this he was praised
were murdered there. The only infor- by the mainstream, and they pro-
mation available is discredited Polish claimed victory over the “revisionists.”
Communist propaganda. This glaring In Auschwitz: Plain Facts, Pressac’s
research gap has nally been lled. works and claims are debunked. 2nd
After exhaustive research of primary ed., 224 pages, b&w illustrations, glo-
sources, Mattogno and Graf created sary bibliography, index. (#14)
a monumental study which expertly The Rudolf Report. Expert Report
dissects and repudiates the myth of on Chemical and Technical Aspects
homicidal gas chambers at Majdanek. of the ‘Gas Chambers’ of Auschwitz.
They also critically investigated the By Germar Rudolf and Dr. Wolfgang
legend of mass executions of Jews in Lambrecht. In 1988, execution expert
tank trenches (“Operation Harvest Fred Leuchter investigated the gas
Festival”) and prove them ground- chambers of Auschwitz and Majdanek
less. The authors’ investigations lead and concluded that they could not
to unambiguous conclusions about have worked as claimed. Ever since,
the camp which are radically differ- Leuchter’s work has been attacked.
ent from the ofcial theses. Again In 1993, Germar Rudolf published
they have produced a standard and a thorough forensic study about the
methodical investigative work, which “gas chambers” of Auschwitz. His re-
authentic historiography cannot ig- port irons out the deciencies of “The
nore. Third edition, 350 pages, b&w Leuchter Report.” Second edition, 457
illustrations, bibliography, index. (#5) pages, b&w illustrations, bibliogra-
Concentration Camp Stutthof and Its phy, index. (#2)
Function in National Socialist Jewish Auschwitz Lies: Legends, Lies and
Policy. By Carlo Mattogno and Jürgen Prejudices on the Holocaust. By
Graf. The Stutthof camp in Prussia Carlo Mattogno and Germar Rudolf.
has never before been scientically The fallacious research and alleged
investigated by traditional historians, “refutation”of Revisionist scholars by
who claim nonetheless that Stutthof French biochemist G. Wellers, Pol-
served as a ‘makeshift’ extermination ish Prof. J. Markiewicz, chemist Dr.
camp in 1944. Based mainly on archi- Richard Green, Profs. Zimmerman,
val resources, this study thoroughly M. Shermer and A. Grobman, as well
debunks this view and shows that as researchers Keren, McCarthy and
Stutthof was in fact a center for the Mazal, are exposed for what they are:
organization of German forced labor blatant and easily exposed political
lies created to ostracize dissident his- armaments industry. This, after all,
torians. In this book, facts beat propa- was the only thing the Auschwitz au-
ganda once again. Second edition, 398 thorities were really interested in due
pages, b&w illustrations, index. (#18) to orders from the highest levels of the
Auschwitz: The Central Construction German government. (Scheduled for
Ofce. By Carlo Mattogno. Based upon early 2016; #33)
mostly unpublished German wartime Debunking tthe
he Bunkers of Auschwitz:
documents, this study describes the Black Propaganda vs. History. By
history, organization, tasks and pro- Carlo Mattogno. The bunkers at Aus-
cedures of the Central Construction chwitz are claimed to have been the
Ofce of the Waffen-SS and Auschwitz rst homicidal gas chambers at Aus-
Police. Despite a huge public interest chwitz specically equipped for this
in the camp, next to nothing was real- purpose. With the help of original Ger-
ly known about this ofce, which was man wartime les as well as reveal-
responsible for the planning and con- ing air photos taken by Allied recon-
struction of the Auschwitz camp com- naissance aircraft in 1944, this study
plex, including the crematories which shows that these homicidal “bunkers”
are said to have contained the “gas never existed, how the rumors about
chambers.” 2nd ed., 188 pages, b&w them evolved as black propaganda
illustrations, glossary, index. (#13) created by resistance groups in the
Garrison and Headquarters Orders camp, and how this propaganda was
of the Auschwitz Camp. By C. Mat- transformed into a false reality. 2nd
togno. A large number of all the orders ed., 292 pages, b&w illustrations, bib-
ever issued by the various command- liography, index. (#11)
ers of the infamous Auschwitz camp Auschwitz: The First Gassing—Ru-
have been preserved. They reveal mor and Reality. By Carlo Mattogno.
the true nature of the camp with all The rst gassing in Auschwitz is
its daily events. There is not a trace claimed to have occurred on Sept. 3,
in these orders pointing at anything 1941, in a basement room. The ac-
sinister going on in this camp. Quite counts reporting it are the archetypes
to the contrary, many orders are in for all later gassing accounts. This
clear and insurmountable contradic- study analyzes all available sources
tion to claims that prisoners were about this alleged event. It shows that
mass murdered. This is a selection these sources contradict each other in
of the most pertinent of these orders location, date, preparations, victims
together with comments putting them etc, rendering it impossible to extract
into their proper historical context. a consistent story. Original wartime
(Scheduled for early 2016; #34) documents inict a nal blow to this
Special Treatment in Auschwitz: Ori- legend and prove without a shadow
gin and Meaning of a Term. By Carlo of a doubt that this legendary event
Mattogno. When appearing in Ger- never happened. 3rd ed., 178 pages,
man wartime documents, terms like b&w illustrations, bibliography, index.
“special treatment,” “special action,” (#20)
and others have been interpreted as Auschwitz: Crematorium I and the Al-
code words for mass murder. But that leged Homicidal Gassings. By Carlo
is not always true. This study focuses Mattogno. The morgue of Cremato-
on documents about Auschwitz, show- rium I in Auschwitz is said to be the
ing that, while “special” had many rst homicidal gas chamber there.
different meanings, not a single one This study investigates all statements
meant “execution.” Hence the practice by witnesses and analyzes hundreds
of deciphering an alleged “code lan- of wartime documents to accurately
guage” by assigning homicidal mean- write a history of that building. Mat-
ing to harmless documents – a key togno proves that its morgue was nev-
component of mainstream historiogra- er a homicidal gas chamber, nor could
phy – is untenable. 151 pages, b&w il- it have worked as such. 138 pages,
lustrations, bibliography, index. (#10) b&w illustrations, bibliography, index.
Health Care at Auschwitz. By Carlo (#21)
Mattogno. In extension of the above Auschwitz: Open Air Incinerations.
study on Special Treatment in Ausch- By Carlo Mattogno. Hundreds of thou-
witz, this study proves the extent to sands of corpses of murder victims
which the German authorities at are claimed to have been incinerated
Auschwitz tried to provide appropri- in deep ditches in the Auschwitz con-
ate health care for the inmates. This centration camp. This book examines
is frequently described as special mea- the many testimonies regarding these
sures to improve the inmates’ health incinerations and establishes whether
and thus ability to work in Germany’s these claims were even possible. Us-
ing aerial photographs, physical evidence and the same time forcing school children to submit
wartime documents, the author shows that to Holocaust brainwashing. 468 pages, b&w il-
these claims are ction. A must read. 132 pages, lust., bibliography, index. (#30)
b&w illustrations, bibliography, index. (#17)
Auschwitz: Confessions and Testimonies. By
The Cremation Furnaces of Auschwitz. By Carlo Jürgen Graf. The traditional narrative of what
Mattogno & Franco Deana. An exhaustive tech- transpired at the infamous Auschwitz camp
nical study of the history and technology of cre-
during WWII rests almost exclusively on wit-
mation in general and of the cremation furnaces
of Auschwitz in particular. ness testimony from former inmates as well as
On a sound and thoroughly erstwhile camp ofcials. This study critically
documented base of techni- scrutinizes the 40 most important of these wit-
cal literature, extant war- ness statements by checking them for internal
time documents and mate- coherence, and by comparing them with one
rial traces, Mattogno and another as well as with other evidence such
Deana can establish the as wartime documents, air photos, forensic re-
true nature and capacity search results, and material traces. The result
of the Auschwitz cremation is devastating for the traditional narrative.
furnaces. They show that (Scheduled for summer 2016; #36)
these devices were cheaper versions than what
was usually produced, and that their capacity Commandant of Auschwitz: Rudolf Höss, His
to cremate corpses was lower than normal, too. Torture and His Forced Confessions. By Rudolf
Hence this study reveals that the Auschwitz Höss & Carlo Mattogno. When Rudolf Höss was
cremation furnaces were not monstrous super in charge at Auschwitz, the mass extermination
ovens but rather inferior make-shift devices. 3 of Jews in gas chambers is said to have been
vols., 1198 pages, b&w and color illustrations launched and carried out. He confessed this in
(vols 2 & 3), bibliography, index, glossary. (#24) numerous postwar depositions. Hence Höss’s
Curated Lies: The Auschwitz Museum’s Mis- testimony is the most convincing of all. But
representations, Distortions and Deceptions By what traditional sources usually do not reveal
Carlo Mattogno. Revisionist research results is that Höss was severely tortured to coerce him
have put the Polish Auschwitz Museum under to “confess,” and that his various statements
enormous pressure to answer this challenge. are not only contradictory but also full of his-
They’ve answered. This book analyzes their an-
torically and physically impossible, even absurd
swer and reveals the appallingly mendacious
attitude of the Auschwitz Mu- claims. This study expertly analyzes Höss’s
seum authorities when pre- various confessions and lays them all open for
senting documents from their everyone to see the ugly truth. (Scheduled for
archives. With a contribution summer 2016: #35)
by Eric Hunt on the Auschwitz An Auschwitz Doctor’s Eyewitness Account:
Museum’s misrepresentations The Tall Tales of Dr. Mengele’s Assistant Ana-
of its most valued asset, the lyzed.. By Miklos Nyiszli & Carlo Mattogno.
lyzed
“gas chamber” in the Main
Nyiszli, a Hungarian Jew who studied medi-
Camp. Ca. 240 pages, b&w
illustrations, bibliography, in- cine in Germany before the war, ended up at
dex. (#38) Auschwitz in 1944 as Dr. Mengele’s assistant.
After the war he wrote an account of what he
SECTION FOUR claimed to have experienced. To this day some
Witness Critique traditional historians take his accounts seri-
ously, while others accept that it is a grotesque
Holocaust High Priest: Elie Wiesel, Night, the collection of lies and exaggerations. This study
Memory Cult, and the Rise of Revisionism. By analyzes Nyiszli’s novel and skillfully separates
Warren B. Routledge. The rst unauthorized truth from fabulous fabrication. (Scheduled for
biography of Wiesel exposes spring 2016; #37)
both his personal deceits and
the whole myth of “the six Further Projects
million.” It shows how Zion-
Further studies we propose to publish would
ist control has allowed Wiesel
and his fellow extremists to scrutinize eyewitness accounts from, e.g., Fillip
force leaders of many nations, Müller, Rudolf Vrba, Henryk Tauber, Yankiel
the U.N. and even popes to Wiernik, Richard Glazar. Scholars interested
genuect before Wiesel as in taking on any of these or other witnesses,
symbolic acts of subordina- please get in touch using the contact form at
tion to World Jewry, while at www.codoh.com/contact-us
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