Debating the Holocaust:

A New Look at Both Sides

 

CONTENTS

 

                                                                                                                       

Introduction

 

 

PART I – SITUATING THE HOLOCAUST DEBATE

 

Chapter 1:  The Great Debate

• The Core of Revisionism
• Four Myths
• Who’s Who in the Debate
• And in the Other Corner...

 

Chapter 2:  Truth versus 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:  Chelmno and the Nazi Camp System

• The Language of Mass Murder
• The Missing Hitler Order
• Gas Chambers Galore
• Death Camp Chelmno
• Further Issues
• Disposing of the Bodies
• A Chelmno Death Matrix
• Traditionalist Replies

 

Chapter 6:  The Reinhardt Camps (I): Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka

• Orthodoxy and Estimated Fatalities
• Camp Structure and Maps

 

Chapter 7:  Reinhardt (II): 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:  Reinhardt (III): The Vanishing Bodies

• Disposing of the Evidence
• Burying the Bodies
• Exhuming and Burning
• Traditionalist Replies
• Excavations (I) - Belzec
• Excavations (II) - Sobibor
• 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 (Part 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 (Part 2): 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

 

Appendix A:  Calculation Assumptions

 

Appendix B:  Major Death Camp Witnesses—Pro and Con

 

Bibliography

 

General Index

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