Polish-Jewish Relations: 1,300 Keyword-Phrase-Indexed Book Reviews (by Jan Peczkis)



The Holocaust is No Myth, But There are Many Myths About the Holocaust. Figures Don’t Lie But Liars Figure

Nazi Global Jew-Killing Myth: European Jews Only (And Not All)

Did the Nazis Plan to Extend the Final Solution Beyond Europe? Assessing the Evidence, by M. G. Cockerill. 2024. HOLOCAUST STUDIES 30(3)534-557

Nazi Global Jew-Killing Myth: Holocaust Not Unprecedented Holocaust supremacy treats the Jews' Holocaust as self-evidently entitled to special attention, usually based on the (fallacious) oft-repeated claim that Jews…

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Nazi Final Solution for Christianity Too! BOMBSHELL: Jewish Ghettos Much Oversignified. Anti-Slavism

The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos During the Holocaust, by Dan Michman. 2011. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York

Not Only Jewish Final Solution: Nazi Final Solution for Christianity Too! We always hear about a Nazi Final Solution to the Jewish Problem, as if the Nazis had radical exterminatory measures…

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Holocaust Was Amateurish. Jewish Forced Laborers Were Not To Be Annihilated. Genocide-Recognition Equality Urgently Needed. Allwork and Pistol

The Jews, the Holocaust, and the Public: The Legacies of David Cesarani, edited by Larissa Allwork and Rachel Pistol. 2019. Palgrave Macmillan, London

Holocaust Distinction? More Holocaust Myths Bite the Dust Part of the mystification of the Holocaust, used to enhance the Holocaust's presumed importance in the public mind, and…

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Auschwitz Survivorship Low in the Long-Term. Concentration Camps. Gassing of Non-Jews. Inconsistent Nazi Killings of Jewish Forced Laborers: Jewish Laborers NOT Preferentially Killed. No Existential Enemies. No Redemptive Antisemitism. Buggeln

Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps, by Marc Buggeln. 2014. Oxford University Press, Oxford

Auschwitz Survivorship Low in the Long-Term. Gas Chambers for Non-Jews. No Nazi Picking on Jewish Forced Laborers This book is packed with detail. A number of its findings challenge standard Holocaust orthodoxies, and I focus on…

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Holocaust Self-Punishment Myths in Media

German Railroads Jewish Souls: The Reichsbahn, Bureaucracy, and the Final Solution, by Christopher R. Browning, Peter Hayes, and Raul Hilberg, eds. 2020. Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford

Holocaust Self-Punishment Myths: Germany Did Not Punish Herself By Conducting the Holocaust! Holocaust supremacists keep elevating the Holocaust above all other genocides. One…

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Jewish Property Restitution Propaganda in Holocaust Textbook. German-Run Railroads Prioritized for Holocaust a Myth. Holocaust as Rational and Irrational as Other Genocides. Cesarani

Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews, 1933-1949, by David Cesarani. 2015

Restitution Propaganda: This Holocaust Textbook a Thinly-Veiled Promotion of the Holocaust Industry: Combines Insight and Orwellian Cant in Analyzing Locals' Acquisition of Post-Jewish Property To begin with, what does Holocaust mean? Many Jewish historians say it refers exclusively…

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Industrial Genocide Mythical Significance: NOT Invented For Use on Jews. Mauthausen Gas Chambers. Nazism AntiChristian. Massive Austrian Overabundance in Nazism. Austrian Coverup. Horwitz

In the Shadow of Death: Living Outside the Gates of Mauthausen, by Gordon J. Horwitz. 1990. Free Press, New York, Toronto

Mauthausen Gas Chambers. Many Holocaust Myths Addressed and Rebutted This work includes seldom-mentioned information. I focus on this. THE NAZIS DID NOT INVENT ASSEMBLY-LINE GENOCIDE FOR USE ON JEWS!…

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Introducing Jewish Forced Laborers: A Stunning Holocaust Contradiction

Lawson, T. 2010. Debates on the Holocaust. Manchester University Press, Manchester, New York

If Total Extermination of Jews Was the Goal, Then Why Jewish Forced Laborers? Stunning Holocaust Contradiction Author Lawson raises this provocative issue: "I suggested in the previous chapter that one of the shortcomings of the intentionalist and…

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Endorsed Improvised Holocaust. Helpless Poles Next. Jedwabne Not Holocaust

The Historiography of the Holocaust, edited by Dan Stone. 2004. Palgrave MacMillan, Hampshire, New York

An Improvised Holocaust. Holocaust Not Unprecedented, Not Limited to Jews, Not Irrational. Jedwabne Preceded the Holocaust This detailed book has little-known facts, and one might be surprised to learn that we are dealing with an…

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BIG BULLETIN: NEVER AGAIN HOLOCAUST DESERVES NO SPECIAL ATTENTION

 

  • Holocaust demystified: Contrary to the usual mystification of the Holocaust, the Nazis never actually tried to kill all the Jews! Even at the height of the Holocaust itself (1942-1944), Hitler personally approved the release of Jews for money (Wasserstein 2014; See also Loeb 2008, Porat 1990, Shulman 1982).
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Polish Death Camp Lie. Why German Camps in Poland: DEFINITIVE WORK. Poles Glad Hitler Killed Jews Lie Debunked. Holocaust Didn’t Harm Germany! Khiterer

The Holocaust: Memories and History, by Victoria Khiterer et al. (eds.) 2014

Bombshell: The "Polish Death Camp" Fib--a Serious Matter--Incisively Examined and Soundly Refuted in All Its Manifestations Of all the essays in this anthology, one is eye-opening, and deep in scholarship. I focus on it: (REAL OR IMAGINED) PRE-WWII…

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German Guilt Dilution and Diffusion: DeGermanized Nazis Rejected. Zionist-Nazi Accord. Jewish Collaboration Not All Choiceless Choices. Holocaust Survivor Testimony Unreliable. Falstein

The Martyrdom of Jewish Physicians in Poland, by Louis Falstein. 1963

Early German Guilt Diffusion: The DeGermanization of the Nazis. Zionists Tried to "Tame" the Nazis.  Jewish-Nazi Collaboration. Holocaust Survivor Testimonies Unreliable (Contradictory) The book begins with the various medical specialties practiced by the Jewish physicians of pre-WWII…

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Holocaust Survivor Testimony Unreliable. HOLODOMOR Jewish Complicity. Historian Jerzy Robert Nowak Correct. Bauer

The Death of the Shtetl, by Yehuda Bauer. 2009. Yale University Press, New Haven and London

Jews as Victims and Victimizers: Variable Insights This work, by Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer, focuses on the shtetl. It is an odd mixture of wisdom and infantile anti-Polonism. I focus on both. TAKE Read more

Intended Totality? All Jews Must Die a Myth. No Redemptive Antisemitism: Jews and Mischlinge “Earn-Off” Jewishness. Nazis Spared Jews in German and Austrian Mixed Marriages. Bukey

Jews and Intermarriage in Nazi Austria, by Evan Burr Bukey. 2011. Cambridge University Press, New York

Intended Totality? Hardly. Far From Targeting All Jews, the Nazis Deliberately Let Many Jews Slip Through the Cracks The cornerstone Holocaust supremacist myth is the claim that Jews under Nazi rule, unlike the victims…

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Mischlinge German Blood Offsets Jewish Blood, But Slavic Blood Cannot Offset Jewish Blood. All Jews Must Die a Myth: Only Up to Urals. Few Jewish Guerrillas. Arad

The Holocaust in the Soviet Union, by Yitzhak Arad. 2009. Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

Mischlinge German Blood: Racial Worthlessness of Slavs. Greatly Exaggerated Jewish Partisan Numbers This book repeats many common Holocaust-related themes, but also contains some distinctive information. I focus on this. DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MISCHLINGE BASED ON GERMAN VS SLAVIC…

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German Concentration Camps, German Death Camps (Killing Centers): Little Practical Difference. Auschwitz: An Annihilation Camp (VERNICHTUNGSLAGER) For All. German Cynicism: Nominally Treating Poles Better Than Jews. Kapos Had Choice. Szmaglewska

Smoke Over Birkenau, by Seweryna Szmaglewska (Translated from the Polish by Jadwiga Rynas). 1947. Henry Holt and Company, New York

Auschwitz Classic Contradicts Modern Holocaust Narratives About the Absolute Suffering of Only Jews The author of this early book on Auschwitz was a Polish writer who was incarcerated in the…

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Not Only Jewish Star: Letter P Also Predated Nazi Germany. Polish Forced Laborers: Poles and Not Only Jews Were Made Into Existential Enemies and Scapegoats. Herbert

Hitler's Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany Under the Third Reich, by Ulrich Herbert. 1985, translated 1997. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York

Prejudicial Policies Against Poles, and Not Only Jews, in Nazi Germany The author is a German scholar who has studied the system of forced labor…

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Nazis Repeatedly Equated Jews and Poles–Even in the Same Sentence! Germans Mixed Jewish Corpses and Polish Corpses. Krieger

Nazi Germany's War Against the Jews, by Seymour Krieger. 1947. American Jewish Conference, New York

Nazis Equated Jews and Poles. Jewish Deaths Are No More Special Than Polish Deaths This is one of the first books written by Jews about what eventually got its own special name--the Holocaust. It is…

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Germans Spared Some Auschwitz Sonderkommando. Not All Choiceless Choices. Late Jewish Awareness of the Holocaust. Auctions of Jewish Property: Jews Exploiting Dead Jews. Greif

We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando From Auschwitz, Edited by Gideon Greif. 2005. Yale University Press, New Haven and London

Auschwitz Sonderkommando: Jews and Not Only Poles Profited Off Dead Jews This book focuses on those Jews that were forced to observe the German gassing of their…

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Schindler’s Anti-Polish Stunt in the 1939 War. Schindler’s Jews Question His Jew-Saving Altruistic Motives. A Con Man? Jews Paid to Be on the List. Brecher

Schindler's Legacy: True Stories of the List Survivors, by Elinor J. Brecher. 1994. Penguin Books, NY

Schindler's Tales: Very Questionable Altruism in Saving Jews. Paid Rescue of Jews This book features Schindler's tales and contains many interviews with the Schindlerjuden. Author Brecher, not to feel left out, also throws in…

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First Two Years the Germans Killed More Poles Than Jews! All Jews Die a Myth. Late Gentile Awareness of the Holocaust: Implications for Complicity Accusations. Friedlaender/Friedlander

Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Extermination, 1939-1945 (Nazi Germany and the Jews #2), by Saul Friedländer. 2007

Contrary to Holocaust-Uniqueness Contentions, the Nazis Let Some Jews Go Free. 1939 Zydokomuna Large. Eastern European Knowledge of Holocaust Not Until Late 1942 or Early 1943: Accusations of Polish…

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Holocaust Exceptional? Hardly. Extinct Race Museum a Myth. Veselska

"The Museum of An Extinct Race"--Fact Vs. Legend. JUDAICA BOHEMIAE 44(2)41-85, by Magda Veselska. 2016

Extinct Race Museum: "The Museum of An Extinct Race" Legend. No Evidence That the Nazis Ever Planned Any Such Museum: A Postwar Invention Commandeered to Promote the Presumed Exceptionality of the Jews' Holocaust Author…

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Holocaust Special? All Jews Must Die a Myth. Nazis Rule World a Myth. Erhard Wetzel Correctly Quoted. Poles Not Exterminated: Why? Bad Publicity. Mazower

Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe, by Mark Mazower. 2008

A Fallacy: Nazis Were to "Conquer the World" and Thereby Kill ALL Jews. Polokaust Detailed, Including GENERALPLAN OST The author uses many scholarly sources. For example, he praises historian Marek Jan Chodakiewicz's BETWEEN NAZIS AND SOVIETS as a…

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Holocaust Not Special. Intended Totality? All Jews Must Die a Myth. Aryanized and Spared Jews. Noakes

The Development of Nazi Policy Towards the German-Jewish "MISCHLINGE" 1933-1945, by Jeremy Noakes. 1989

Internally-Inconsistent Nazi German Policies Towards Those of Mixed Jewish-German Ancestry. Deliberate Nazi Sparing of Certain German Jews By Re-Labeling Them Honorary Aryans This study was published in LEO BAECK INSTITUTE YEAR BOOK 34(1)291-354 Both…

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“Final Solution” Ambiguous, and Not Necessarily Total Extermination. No Written Order for Holocaust. Poles and Not Only Jews Saw Their Intelligentsia Slain First. Burrin

Hitler and the Jews: The Genesis of the Holocaust, by Philippe Burrin. 1994. Edward Arnold, London, Melbourne, Auckland

The Holocaust Developed Incrementally, and Began With the Jewish Intelligentsia. No Written Order for the Holocaust Exists This book upends some widely-held beliefs about the Holocaust. Let's look at some of this.…

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Holocaust as Rational and Irrational as Other Genocides. Holocaust Was Amateurish. Holocaust Myth Debunked: Nazi Germany Did Not Mobilize All Her Resources to Kill Jews–Far From It. Industrial Genocide Mythical Significance. Auschwitz. Aronson

Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews, by Shlomo Aronson. 2004. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York

Holocaust Resources: Fascinating Discussion With Albert Speer. No Mystification of Gas Chambers One chain of Holocaust supremacist arguments, used to elevate the Holocaust above all other genocides, states that never before had a modern…

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Nazis Strongly Hated Non-Jews Too. Hitler: Exterminate the Poles! Gypsy Genocide Affirmed. German Auctions of Jewish Property. Browning

The Origins of the Final Solution, by Christopher R. Browning. 2004. University of Nebraska Press and Yad Vashem, Lincoln and Jerusalem

Nazis Hated Non-Jews Too. This Judeocentric Work Points to the Ultimate Fate of the Poles at the Hands of the Third Reich This work adheres to the standard fare…

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Holocaust Special? Holocaust Myth Debunked: All Jews Must Die a Myth. Thousands of Aryanized and Spared Jews! Rigg

Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military, by Bryan Mark Rigg, Theodore A. Wilson (Editor). 2004

Nazis Reclassify Jews. Nazi-Spared Half-Jews and Full-Jews Destroy the Main Pillar of the Preeminence of the Holocaust Over All Other Genocides This…

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JUDENRAT High-Level Collaboration Detailed. Holocaust Myth Debunked: Inconsistent Nazi Killings of Jewish Forced Laborers. Jewish Ghettos Inconsistent. Railroads Prioritized for Holocaust a Myth. Silberklang

Gates of Tears: The Holocaust in the Lublin District, by David Silberklang. 2014. Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

Squarely Faces Jewish-Nazi Collaboration in Significant Detail. Mischaracterizes Jedwabne and the JUDENJAGD (Hunt for the Jews) This work covers all phases of the German occupation of Poland, and its effect on Jews. It…

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Warsaw Uprising Aftermath. Polish Rejoicing at Jewish Deaths During Warsaw Ghetto Uprising a Myth. Goodbye Jews! a Lie. Borowiec

Destroy Warsaw!: Hitler's Punishment, Stalin's Revenge, by Andrew Borowiec. 2001

The Myth of Poles Cheering at Jewish Deaths During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising One especially valuable aspect of this book is its detailed introduction to the beginnings of the Polish Underground. Concrete Polish guerrilla strategy was planned even before…

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Polish Achievements of the Second Republic (1918-1939): Land Reform. Not Only Jewish Star: Not All Jews Forced to Wear It. All Jews Die a Myth: Jewish Foreign Nationals Exempt From Nazi Persecution. Jewish Overcrowding: Endek-Proposed Partial Expulsion of Jews Was Widely Held. Segal

The New Order in Poland, by Simon Segal. 1942

Some Jews Spared From Nazi Persecution. Mass Emigration of Jews Supported By VARIOUS Poles and Jews! Prewar Poland Had Achieved Much in Agriculture. Because this book was written just before the German-Made Holocaust, its analyses were not colored by it.…

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Jew Killing WWII by Poles: Warsaw 1944 a Myth. Kornas

Mity Powstania Warszawskiego, by Jaroslaw Kornas (ed). 2020. Capital Book, Warszawa

The Warsaw Uprising in the Context of Polish-Jewish Relations. No Proven Polish Jew-Killing MYTHS OF THE WARSAW UPRISING is the title of this Polish-language anthology. It features many authors in a round-table discussion, mainly Jaroslaw Kornas, Leszek Zebrowski, Stanislaw…

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Jew Killing WWII By Poles: By Home Army (ARMIA KRAJOWA)–From Security Threats. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Backfired? Zychowicz1

Zydzi: Opowiesci Niepoprawne Politycznie, by Piotr Zychowicz. 2016. Dom Wydawniczy Rebis, Poznan

Interviews Bryan Rigg, Eli Gat, Yitzhak Laor, Moshe Zimmerman, Richard Lukas, Shlomo Sand, Krzysztof Jasiewicz, and Many Others THE JEWS: POLITICALLY-INCORRECT ESSAYS is the title of this Polish-language book. Author Zychowicz identifies himself as neither an antisemite nor…

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Holocaust Unprecedented? No Written Order For Holocaust. All Jews Must Die a Myth: Incipient Jew-Release Deals. Holocaust and Prior Anti-Semitism: No Connection. Engel

The Holocaust: The Third Reich and the Jews, 3rd edition, by David Engel. 2021. Routledge, London and New York

Holocaust Unprecedented? Hardly. Locals' Antisemitism Does Not Predict Success of the German-Made Holocaust Most of the contents of this book has been said a hundred times before. However, some points are…

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Polish Indifference to Holocaust a Myth. Poles and Not Only Jews Had No Choice But to Die. Hitler Didn’t Start WWII in Order to Kill the Jews. Concentration Camps. Industrial Genocide Mythical Significance. Mayer

Why Did The Heavens Not Darken?: The "Final Solution" In History, by Arno J. Mayer. 1990

Polish Indifference? Poles' Trauma Under Nazi Germany, and Not Polish Anti-Semitism, Bred Polish "Indifference" to Jews Author Arno J. Mayer perceptively writes: "The local populations became indifferent to the torments of the Jews less…

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Jews and Poles Equal Victims: Poles and Not Only Jews Were Subject to a Final Solution. Wannsee Demystified. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Myth of Long Duration. Reitlinger

Final Solution, by Gerald Reitlinger. 1953, 1987

"The Warsaw Ghetto Fought Longer Than the Polish Army" Myth Debunked. Polokaust Factored. Auschwitz Komandant Hoess Was NOT a Christian Reitlinger describes the extermination of Jews in great detail, arriving at a probable range of 4.2 to 5.7 million murdered Jews (p. 501),…

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All Jews Must Die a Myth. Wannsee Implications and Final Solution: Nazis Persistently Ambivalent on Extermination or Expulsion. Weissberg

Desperate Mission: Joel Brand's Story, as told by Alex Weissberg. 1958

Kill Jews or Exile Jews? A Proposed Nazi Amnesty of 100,000 and Eventually 1,000,000 Jews; Nazis Actually Spare 18,000 Jews It was the last year of the war. The Allies smelled victory and the Nazis faced defeat. Over…

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Holocaust Myth Debunked: All Jews Must Die a Myth. Captive Polish Jews Left Alive by the Nazis. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Backfires? Nazis Make Jews Kill Poles. Browning

Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers, by Christopher R. Browning. 2000. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York

Some Captive Polish Jews Spared By the Germans. Timing of the Final Solution The author, a historian, provides many details on the WWII German occupation of Poland, focusing almost entirely on the Jews.…

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Jews are Human Beings After All: Nazis. Jones

Moral Responsibility in the Holocaust, by David. H. Jones. 1999. Bowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Addressing Holocaust Myths: Jews are Human According to National Socialist Ideology By way of introduction, Holocaust authorities tell us that the Nazis did not regard Jews as human beings. This, as we shall see, is…

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Much-Hyped New Holocaust Book, By Judy Batalion, Not An “Untold Story”. Part Fiction and AntiPolonism. Fugitive Jewish Banditry. Antisemitism Silenced Polish Jew-Rescuers a Myth. Batalion

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos, by Judy Batalion. 2020, 2021. HarperCollins, New York

Judy Batalion Speaks. Of Variable Quality. Some Dubious Accounts. Repeats Canned Anti-Polish Memes This book brings up many issues. I address the most salient ones. NOT AN UNTOLD…

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Holocaust Myth Debunked: All Jews Must Die a Myth. Nazis Rule World a Myth. Ferguson

Virtual History: What Could Have Been, by Niall Ferguson (ed.) 1997. Fall River Press, New York

Nazis Rule Earth. Was the Third Reich Out to Conquer the Whole World--Much Less to Kill All the Jews on This Planet? Holocaust Supremacists have argued that Hitler had a singular goal of killing…

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Intended Totality? All Jews Must Die a Myth. Actual Captive Jews Freed by the Nazis During the Holocaust: Dutch and German Jews. Wasserstein

The Ambiguity of Virtue, by Bernard Wasserstein. 2014. Harvard University Press, Massachusetts and London

Jews Ransomed. Nazis Deliberately Let Some Jews Live. These Jews Are Traded for Money or For German Nationals This book is mainly about the Jews of German-occupied Holland and the activism of Gertrude van Tijn. This…

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Auschwitz Gas Chambers Demystified. Sonderkommando. A Nazi-Collaborating Jew Was Not Driven by Fear of Death. Polish Collaborators Not Needed in the Nazi Hunt for the Jews. Fugitive Jews Betrayed Other Fugitive Jews. Muller

Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers, by Filip Muller. 1979. Stein and Day Publishers, New York

Auschwitz Gas Chambers: Most Jews Had No Idea of the Unfolding German-Made Holocaust The author was one of the few Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau that observed the mass gassings, was forced to cremate…

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No Artificial Dichotomy: Death Camps and Concentration Camps. Industrial Genocide Mythical Significance. DEFINITIVE WORK. Holocaust Survivor Testimony Unreliable. Treblinka Looting Clarified. Colls

Holocaust Archaeologies, by Caroline Sturdy Colls. 2015. Springer, New York

Victims of Nazi German Concentration Camps and Those of Nazi German Death Camps on an Equal Footing. Treblinka Looting The author has collected a large amount of information to support her conclusions. Reading her work is a treat. LABOR…

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Inconsistent Nazi Killings of Jewish Forced Laborers: Definitive Work. Holocaust Did Not Harm Germany Militarily or Economically. Wannsee Demystified. Gruner

Jewish Forced Labor Under the Nazis, by Wolf Gruner. 2006

Holocaust Uniqueness Myths Upended: Genocide of Jews Was "Rational" (Harmless to Germany). Extermination AND Exploitation of Jews Freely Coexisted as Nazi Policies Many popular Shoah misconceptions have entered both common and academic thinking. Holocaust-uniqueness advocates would have us believe…

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