Is the Holocaust a Hoax?We’ve seen the pictures

We’ve read the testimoniesWe KNOW the facts

But Some People Still Aren’t Convinced

By: April-Michelle Thomas

Holocaust Revisionism Headed by “historians” or

“scholars” who deny the Holocaust

They say that the Holocaust is a gross exaggeration and a set of lies

Strong in the U.S.,Canada, Western Europe and the middle east

They think Jews use the Holocaust as an excuse to gain money through sympathy, so they can dominate all industry

The IHR and The CODOH The IHR (Institute to Historical Review) is the

main outlet for Holocaust revisionism Its magazine, the JHR (Journal of Historical

Review) publishes articles that aim to disprove the facts of the Holocaust and persuade others to deny the holocaust as well

The CODOH (Committee on Open Debate on the Holocaust) is the pet project of the IHR.

It was notable in the ‘90s for publishing articles in college newspapers across the country

Revisionist TheoryThe Holocaust Revisionists try to affirm their beliefs for the following reasons:

1. There were no gas chambers used at Auschwitz

2. Six million WERE NOT killed in WWII

3. The Nuremberg Trials were fake and their only purpose was to pacify the Jews

No Gas At Auschwitz Zyklon B was the

pesticide used to gas victims

No cyanide compound found on floors or walls of gas chambers

Gassings at Auschwitz were a technical impossibility

That’s Too Many No net loss of Jewish

lives during WWII They say that morgue

inventory reports were forged

The figures stated on the memorial at Auschwitz once said that 4 million died there, and now it says 1.5

Nuremberg “Sympathy” Trials A series of trials held after

WWI where many third Reich officials were tried

They think that these trials were a “Farce of Justice” for the Jews

Testimony of former SS officer Rudolph Hoss proved falseNo

Wolzek extermination camp ever existed

Lied because him and his family were being threatened by the German government

Revisionist Theory Is this what an extermination camp

should look like?

Who’s Saying All of This?

Holocaust Revisionists:

Are generally affiliated with the IHR/CODOH

Are strongly anti-Semitic Use various forms of

propaganda to promote their ideas

Holocaust DeniersErnst Zundel Publishes and distributes

books, flyers, and video and audio tapes through his website

“Frankly, I don’t think Jews should be so egotistical and think they are the navel of the universe. They’re not. Only a people like them could think themselves so important that the whole world revolves around them. I tend to go with Hitler-- the last thing that he was really worried about was what the Jews thought. To me Jews are just like any other person. That already will hurt them. They will be shrieking “Oy vey, that Ernst Zuendel said Jews are just like normal people”. Well, goddmanit, they are.”

Holocaust DeniersDavid Irving

Arrested in 2006 for speeches in which he denied the holocaust in Austria

Could have faced up to 10 years, but was awarded leniency when he expressed that he had changed his views

Has paid several thousand pounds worth of fines for his outspoken comments

Receives 300 letters a week from other Neo Nazis who support him

Holocaust DeniersThe President of Iran Mahmoud

Ahmadinejad has been outspoken on on a number of occasions"They have created a myth today that they call the massacre of Jews and they consider it a principle above God, religions and the prophets," he said in December 2005

Holocaust DeniersDavid Cole Is Jewish, but doubts the

reality of the Holocaust Seen as a traitor Made videos of

extermination camps made to make them look like frauds

Physically beaten on several occasions

Received numerous death threats from both Jews and non Jews

Holocaust DeniersHutton Gibson

(Mel Gibson’s Dad)

"It's all -- maybe not all fiction -- but most of it is," he said, adding that the

gas chambers and crematoria at camps like

Auschwitz would not have been capable of

exterminating so many people. "Do you know

what it takes to get rid of a dead body? To cremate it?" he said. "It takes a litre of petrol and 20

minutes. Now, six million of them? They (the

Germans) did not have the gas to do it. That's

why they lost the war."

How Do The Survivor’s Feel? Outraged by the

revisionists and their propaganda

Holocaust denial is a “second death” for victims

Fear that that one day it will be just a “myth”

Stop The MadnessDeborah Lipstadt, Ph. D. At the forefront of the anti-Revisionists

movement Consultant in the construction of the

American Holocaust Museum Book Denying the Holocaust: The

Growing Assault on Truth and Memory scolds revisionists and others who buy into their propaganda

Sued by David Irving because she used some of his writings and speeches in her book

Stop The MadnessMel Mermelstein

Won $50,000 for proving to the IHR that his relatives were gassed at Auschwitz, and $40, 000 more for personal suffering

"This court does take judicial notice of the fact that Jews were gassed to death at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland during the summer of 1944. It is not reasonably subject to dispute. And it is capable of immediate and accurate determination by resort to sources of reasonably indisputable accuracy. It is

simply a fact."- Judge Thomas T. Johnson

Holocaust Denial on a Global Scale Many countries have passed laws banning Holocaust denial It is considered a form of hate-speech and Anti-Semitism In some areas the penalty can be up to ten years in prison

AustriaBelgiumBosnia & HerzegovinaCzech RepublicFranceGermanyIsraelLiechtensteinLuxembourgThe NetherlandsPolandPortugalRomaniaSpainSwitzerland

Holocaust Denial in the U.S. The U.S. is the base ground for many Holocaust Denial movements

because they have freedom of the press here However, There have been no major instances of prominent

Americans denying the Holocaust It seems that most Americans are outraged by Holocaust denial and

DO NOT buy into revisionist theory, no mater how publicized it becomes

“If one group advertises that the Holocaust never happened, another can buy space to insist that American Blacks were never enslaved. The stakes are high because college newspapers may soon be flooded with ads that present discredited assertions as if they were part of normal historical debate. If the Holocaust is not a fact, then nothing is a fact…”

- David Oshinsky and Michael Curtis of Rutgers University

Holocaust: Fact or Fiction?Decide For Yourself