Debating the Holocaust

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

 

Chapter 2:  Truth versus Lies

  • The Traditional Story
  • A Question of Evidence
  • The Nuremberg Trials                                                

 

Chapter 3:  On the Origin, and Future, of the “Six Million”

  • The Prescient Times
  • Revisionist Death Figures
  • World Jewish Population

 

Chapter 4:  Breaking It Down: The Death Matrix

  • The Hilberg Matrix
  • Life (and Death) in the Ghettos
  • The Einsatzgruppen

 

 

PART II – DEATH CAMPS IN FOCUS

 

Chapter 5:  Chelmno and the Nazi Camp System

  • The Alleged Onset of Mass Murder—and the Missing Hitler Order
  • Gas Chambers Galore
  • Death Camp Chelmno
  • Disposing of the Bodies
  • Traditionalist Replies

 

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

  • Estimated Fatalities
  • The Death Matrices
  • Electrocution, Steam, Diesels, Chlorine…

 

Chapter 7:  Reinhardt (II): The Diesel Story

  • Gerstein, Reder, and the Diesel Exhaust
  • Traditionalist Replies

 

Chapter 8:  Reinhardt (III): The Vanishing Bodies

  • Excavations (Part I)—Belzec: The Polish Excavations of 1997–1999
  • Excavations (Part II)—Treblinka: Soviet-Polish Diggings of 1944 and 1945
  • Excavations (Part III)—Sobibor: 2001–2008
  • Burying the Bodies
  • Exhuming and Burning
  • Traditionalist Replies
  • Revisionist Death Estimates
  • 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
  • The Mechanics of Gassing
  • No Holes?
  • The Leuchter Report
  • Death Matrix (Part II): Body Disposal
  • Ovens 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
  • Moving Ahead: A Revisionist Holocaust

 

Chapter 12:  Hoax? Fraud? Conspiracy?

  • A “Jewish Conspiracy”?
  • Covering All the Bases
  • Exploiting the Holocaust

 

 

Epilogue

 

Appendix A:  Calculation Assumptions

 

Appendix B:  Major Death Camp Witnesses—Pro and Con

 

Bibliography

 

General Index