bombsaway wrote: ↑Tue Jan 27, 2026 3:58 am
Nah you can think that, but it's also plausible to say they withdrew it because they could see it made them look bad.
I think it's because they chose to do a point by point critique, missing very little, and in effect that forced them to cite hundreds of pieces of Holocaust evidence. The HC Blog book , from a narrative perspective, the first 200 pages especially (leading from 1941 to when the killing machinery was fully in place), is really impressive to me. It's just document after document of Nazis talking about killing Jews in various ways. When you read it this way, and then you get to the section on resettlement, where they're forced to defend the Herman Kruk diary entry as evidence, you really see the sorry state of affairs. There's more evidence in one page of that HC blog section than there is for the whole of resettlement. The response to HC blog on resettlement is missing entirely from the "updated" version. I think this was embarrassing too, with Mattogno speculating (completely, no evidence) about massive top secret camps exclusively for resettled Jews within the gulag system or parallel to it.
What 'bombsaway' finds plausible is meaningless as it relies only on his own assumptions, not facts. As Archie points out, Germar's own explanation was that this replacement was due to the ridiculousness of needing both the massive two volume tome of TECOAR
and the HC bloggers' book (combined some ~2,000 pages) together, on-hand, just for a reader to follow along the debate. I actually printed out the entire HC bloggers' book at the time TECOAR came out, just so I could hold them side-by-side and try to read and follow along as TECOAR was intended. It was a ridiculous task, I got tired of it very quickly. TECOAR became only a reference book for me, after that. It simply was not realistic (and certainly not enjoyable) to read through this text, much of which read similar to a forum thread/debate, since MGK were responding to every single point the HC bloggers (SC/Terry et al) made, rather than focusing on the key challenges against -- or support for -- the revisionist position. I can all but guarantee none of us here have read TECOAR in its entirety, for this reason.
Obviously, if no one reads the book, then the information never gets out. Moreover, if the whole debate comes off as too "noisy", this will not appeal to potential readers or curious minds. To refine and more clearly elucidate the revisionist position would much better fit the HH series, and better advance the revisionist position.
As mentioned earlier, the HC bloggers (SC/Terry et al) only responded to a fraction of the arguments within TECOAR. It was cherry-picking, sometimes with valid criticism, sometimes not so much. And on the other hand, MGK responded to
all of the arguments within the HC bloggers' book. If the latter were so confident in their position, this would have been the perfect opportunity to respond in book form and squash 'denial' once and for all. MGK within TECOAR made an implied commitment in TECOAR that they would respond to rebuttals from SC/Terry et al,
so long as these were in book format (they emphasized the problems with internet blogs, given the commitment to words written there is minimal, as web content can change or be changed on a whim, whereas books are physically in-hand and thus more binding). But this robust, committed rebuttal to TECOAR never came.
Once TORC came about, it signaled the end of the debate on (1) forensics at the AR camps, and (2) the mega-saturation of black propaganda in the birth and development of major 'Holocaust' claims and narratives of these camps. The HC bloggers (SC/Terry et al) have been radio silent on this entire book, for the most part. Mattogno's assertions/conclusions in this book have remained compelling and valid since its publication, with Roberto Muehlenkamp (the forensic evidence specialist on the HC bloggers' side) quietly sidestepping the AR camp debate indefinitely, and no other exterminationists ever stepping forward to fill his shoes. There has not been anyone on the exterminationist side producing any sort of challenge to the revisionist position, insofar as physical evidence, in almost a decade. Mattogno has no doubt picked up on this silence, prompting his effort to publish recaps and summaries like this one, a reminder of the finality on these aspects of the debate:
https://codoh.com/library/document/inco ... ion-camps/
As I have pointed out in a recent thread, the exact evidence we should expect to find if revisionism is indeed true is, in fact, what is actually being found. TECOAR lists dozens of contemporary published news reports of Jewish arrivals into the East from 1942 onward. SC/Terry et al are forced to hand-wave these instances as mistakes or miscommunications of various kinds. However the significance is in the fact that a cover-up could not realistically extend to widely-published contemporary news reports, only to demographic data and records controlled from postwar onward. Yet these news reports speak of literal Jewish evacuation to specific territories in the East. Make of it what you will. In any case, the corpses exterminationists
need to be underneath Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, etc. are definitively
not there. This is the solidified legacy of revisionism thus far, which is the reason why "Where did Jews go?" has become the sole pillar exterminationists cling to.