The CODOH Revisionist Forum

Ultimately it doesn't matter much which way around one proceeds, the key thing is consilience, and not boring the reader shitless as revisionists so often do with their wild swinging away at piecemeal evidence, rather than saving space and discussing sources together. I agree, but there are serious ...

Documents from one provenance simply cannot be interpreted in isolation from other evidence, nor can one simply make shit up if the preferred provenance is not forthcoming. This is the persistent mistake that Mattogno and many other revisionists keep making. To review any document in isolation once ...

If we want, we can get hung up on whether some particular thing like the above was a deliberate fraud vs misunderstanding vs incompetence vs whatever. Personally I don't see it as all that important. At a certain point, you have to read people's minds or find an admission in writing that they are ...

The Red Cross was Mr. Magoo. And the Vatican was Mr. Magoo. And the US State Department was Mr. Magoo. And the British Foreign Office was Mr. Magoo. And the New York Times. At some point we have to conclude that there wasn't anything to see. The flaw with most of the wartime knowledge literature is ...

Transports were far less frequent by late September 1944, and if the ICRC is correct that Rossel visited on 27 September 1944, there hadn't been a transport since September 20; the next transports arrived on September 29. So that basically neutralises the significance of his visit, as it fell in ...

It's not gaslighting to ask what happens when Mattogno grows too old, or to point out that there used to be more of a research community which could hold conferences and publish collections, while in 2023 an encyclopedia was authored almost single-handedly by one author. Those are pretty ...

The ICRC delegate was Dr Maurice Rossel, who had been based in Berlin and who also took part in the visit to Theresienstadt on 23 June 1944. He got as far as the Auschwitz I main camp on his visit there which is dated to 27 September 1944. He never saw Birkenau, and by then the old crematorium had ...

It's a little bit ridiculous to claim that this would have been the case "since circa 2010", given the vast amounts of quality primary research published by revisionists between 2010 and 2024. Almost all by one writer, Carlo Mattogno. Revisionism used to be a research community of sorts, and could ...

What is important to add to the above is what I find to be somewhat of an "elephant in the room" among revisionists, in particular: the fact that given a century under the jurisdiction and immediate control of deceptive powers, it is likely that any of the most exonerating documentation favoring a ...

No, I've consistently said since circa 2010 that 'revisonism' in the classic form has been in decline, in terms of the numbers of active revisionists who produce books and articles and of their core supporters. It's a little bit ridiculous to claim that this would have been the case "since circa ...

Nick (SanityCheck), more than a decade ago, you told me that revisionism was on its way out, that it was dying and that only the handful of crazies on the 2012 CODOH forum would still be holding onto these ideas, in just a few short years. Now that these numbers have instead done the extreme ...

Was this you, SanityCheck? ;) No. I posted a review of Germar Rudolf's recent book here and at RODOH so it's not like I'm against discussing his ideas and claims, or indeed talking to revisionists more generally. I would actually enjoy the chance to sit down and talk to Germar Rudolf and perhaps ...

Most of the above is just nonsense. It's true that National Socialism probably could never have been successfully exported globally as a political ideology because of its deep roots in German ethnonationalism and European-style enlightenment philosophy, but the idea that National Socialism was ...

- Kershaw's biography of Hitler explicitly rejects discussing Hitler in terms of evil, as this is a moral category/judgement and not historical - one could however write an interesting comparative study of how Hitler and Nazism have been constructed since the 1930s as evil, beyond the pale, etc ...

Would recommend as conveying the conventional general understandings of the Third Reich and WWII in Europe, and the conventional view of the Holocaust across Europe during the war - Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (2006) - Mark Mazower, Hitler's ...