15-loth-intro.pdf - The Barnes Review

Table of Contents5Editor’s Preface ..................................................................................................... 9Introduction ......................................................................................................... 11First Lecture: Food for Thought ....................................................................... 171.1. An Honest Error? .................................................................................... 171.2. What is the Holocaust? ........................................................................... 201.3. Since When Do We Know about the Holocaust? ................................... 211.4. Wartime Propaganda, Then and Now ..................................................... 281.5. One Person Killed Is One Person Too Many .......................................... 311.6. Are Six Million Missing? ........................................................................ 331.7. Holocaust Survivors ................................................................................ 411.8. No Permanent Truths .............................................................................. 45Second Lecture: Public Controversies .............................................................. 532.1. Communists Step Forward! .................................................................... 532.2. Because What Should Not Exist, Cannot Exist ....................................... 562.3. Scandal in France .................................................................................... 582.4. Gas Chambers in the German Reich Proper ............................................ 632.5. No Gas Chamber in Sachsenhausen ........................................................ 662.6. Clarity about Dachau .............................................................................. 702.7. Jewish Soap, Lampshades, and Shrunken Heads .................................... 772.8. The Invisible Elephant in the Basement .................................................. 832.9. The Mermelstein Lie ............................................................................... 882.10. The Executed Execution Expert .............................................................. 902.11. Freedom of Speech in the USA ............................................................... 932.12. Ivan the Wrong Guy ................................................................................ 972.13. Anti-Fascist Lies ................................................................................... 1052.14. Revisionism in German Speaking Countries ........................................ 1092.15. Revisionism in the Muslim World ........................................................ 1142.16. Worldwide Attention ............................................................................. 1162.17. The Holocaust Industry ......................................................................... 1222.18. Growing Confusion ............................................................................... 123Third Lecture: Material and Documentary Evidence ................................... 1333.1. Defining Evidence................................................................................. 1333.2. Types and Hierarchy of Evidence ......................................................... 1343.3. The “Final Solution” of the Jewish Question ........................................ 1383.4. Auschwitz ............................................................................................. 1473.4.1. The Industrial Region of Auschwitz ......................................... 1473.4.2. Mass Murder Scenes ................................................................. 1523.4.3. Air Photo Evidence ................................................................... 1563.4.4. Crematories ............................................................................... 1643.4.5. Incinerations in Open Trenches ................................................ 1703.4.6. Chemical Analyses .................................................................... 1723.4.7. Those Pesky Zyklon Holes ....................................................... 187