Debating the Holocaust: A New Look at Both Sides

by Thomas Dalton

Overview

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:

1. There is no trace of a 'Hitler order' to exterminate the Jews;
2. key witnesses have either falsified or greatly exaggerated important aspects of their stories;
3. major death camps – Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor, and Treblinka – have all but vanished;
4. we find little evidence of disturbed earth for mass graves;
5. we find few remains of the millions of alleged victims – neither bones nor ash;
6. mass-gassing with Zyklon-B would be nearly impossible without ventilators and ceiling holes;
7. mass-gassing with diesel engine exhaust is practically impossible, given the low level of carbon monoxide;
8. wartime air photos of Auschwitz show none of the alleged mass-burnings or cremations;
9. the '6 million' number has no basis in fact, and actually traces back decades before the war;
10. trends in Jewish world population strongly suggest less than 6 million lost; and
11. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591481782
Publisher:	Castle Hill Services
Publication date:	03/16/2017
Series:	Holocaust Handbooks , #32
Pages:	334
Sales rank:	270,290
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Author’s Preface to the Second Edition, p. 9

Introduction, p. 11

PART I: SITUATING THE HOLOCAUST DEBATE, p. 19

Chapter 1: The Great Debate, p. 21

The Core of Revisionism, p. 26

Four Myths, p. 28

Who’s Who in the Debate, p. 33

And in the Other Corner…, p. 35

Chapter 2: Truth vs. Lies, p. 39

The Traditional Story, p. 40

“Shocking and Strange”, p. 42

A Question of Evidence, p. 46

The Nuremberg Trials, p. 47

Chapter 3: On the Origin, and Future, of the ‘Six Million’, p. 53

Holocaust by Numbers, p. 55

A Most Remarkable History, p. 58

The Saga Continues, p. 61

Revisionist Death Figures, p. 65

World Jewish Population, p. 67

Another Theory, p. 71

Chapter 4: Breaking it Down: The Death Matrix, p. 73

The Hilberg Matrix, p. 74

Coming into Focus, p. 79

Life (and Death) in the Ghettos, p. 81

The Einsatzgruppen, p. 87

PART II: DEATH CAMPS IN FOCUS, p. 97

Chapter 5: Chelmno and the Nazi Camp System, p. 99

The Language of Mass Murder, p. 100

The Missing Hitler Order, p. 105

Gas Chambers Galore, p. 107

Death Camp Chelmno, p. 112

Further Issues, p. 119

Disposing of the Bodies, p. 120

A Chelmno Death Matrix, p. 123

Traditionalist Replies, p. 124

Chapter 6: The Reinhardt Camps (Part 1): Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, p. 127

Orthodoxy and Estimated Fatalities, p. 128

Camp Structure and Maps, p. 131

The Death Matrices, p. 136

Chapter 7: The Reinhardt Camps (Part 2): The Diesel Story, p. 143

Electrocution, Steam, Diesels, Chlorine…, p. 143

The Diesel Story, p. 145

Gerstein, Reder, and the Diesel Exhaust, p. 145

More Problems with Gerstein, p. 148

More Problems with Reder, p. 150

Traditionalist Reply, p. 152

Chapter 8: The Reinhardt Camps (Part 3): The Vanishing Bodies, p. 155

Disposing of the Evidence, p. 155

Burying the Bodies, p. 156

Exhuming and Burning, p. 157

Traditionalist Replies, p. 161

Excavations (I)—Belzec, p. 163

Excavations (II)—Sobibor, p. 167

Excavations (III)—Treblinka, p. 169

A Better Account…, p. 172

Closing the Camps, Tracking the Deportees, p. 174

The End of the Line, p. 176

Chapter 9: Majdanek, p. 177

The Death Matrix, p. 178

The Seven Chambers of Majdanek, p. 182

Chapter 10: Auschwitz, p. 189

The Essentials of the Auschwitz Story—The Main Camp, p. 189

Birkenau—Alleged Extermination Camp, p. 192

Estimated Fatalities, p. 197

The Death Matrix, p. 198

Death Matrix (I): The Gas Chambers, p. 200

Star Witnesses, p. 203

Gassing Capacity and ‘Actual’ Usage, p. 204

The Mechanics of Gassing, p. 206

No Holes?, p. 208

“Fixing a Hole…”, p. 213

The Leuchter Report, p. 219

Death Matrix (II): Body Disposal, p. 221

Furnaces and Capacity, p. 223

The Hungarian Operation, p. 227

Air Photo Evidence, p. 229

A Revisionist Auschwitz, p. 240

PART III: THE FUTURE OF THE DEBATE, p. 243

Chapter 11: “Storytellers Supreme”, p. 245

The Problem of the Witnesses, p. 246

Elie and Viktor, p. 250

From Bad to Worse, p. 252

Moving Ahead: A Revisionist Holocaust, p. 256

Chapter 12: Hoax? Fraud? Conspiracy?, p. 259

A ‘Jewish Conspiracy’?, p. 261

Covering All the Bases, p. 264

Media Dominance, p. 266

Dominance in Government, p. 268

Exploiting the Holocaust, p. 276

A New World Order, p. 280

Epilogue, p. 283

Bibliography, p. 301