The CODOH Revisionist Forum

This is a work in progress, but I want to post what I have. This is intended to be an analogue to the Beginner's Guide (of revisionist material) here on the forum. This is meant to help people get up to speed on "the debate" more quickly. The OP will be updated/refined over time. Commentary and discussion welcome.

General Anti-Revisionist Books

• Deborah Lipstadt: Denying the Holocaust (1993) Perhaps the best known and most available anti-revisionist text. It suffers from a shrill, hysterical tone and favors ad hominem attacks over substantive rebuttals.
• Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman: Denying History (2000) Another well-known anti-revisionist text that is still in print. The book is divided into four parts with part three being dedicated to "arguments and refutations," which is a lot better than what you get from Lipstadt. This is likely the best (relative term) overall anti-revisionist book for a general audience.
• John C. Zimmerman: Holocaust Denial (2000) This book is out of print and used copies, when available, are overly expensive. University libraries would be your best bet to find this. More dry and dense than the Lipstadt and Shermer books. Covers multiple disparate topics. Several chapters are dedicated to demographics, several to testimonies, and several to technical topics like gas chambers and cremation.
• Pierre Vidal-Naquet: Assassins of Memory (1987 French/1992 English) Inexpensive used copies are readily available. A short collection of essays by a major Jewish-French scholar who specialized in ancient history. The material was originally written between 1980 and 1987 in connection with the Faurisson affair in France. More philosophical and better written than most of the books listed here, but it's dated by now and dedicates a lot of space to tangential topics.

Specialized Anti-Revisionist Books

• Eugen Kogon, Hermann Langbein, and Adalbert Rückerl (ed): Nazi Mass Murder: A Documentary History of the Use of Poison Gas (1983 German/1993 English) This text was prepared to remedy the inadequate coverage of the gas chambers in the traditional Holocaust literature. The material presented is almost entirely testimonial. Although the editors allude vaguely to revisionists in the introductory material and the book quite clearly came about as a response to revisionist pressure, no revisionists are named and no revisionist arguments are mentioned or rebutted. Very handy for reference for orthodox gassing claims.
• Jean-Claude Pressac: Auschwitz: Technique and operation of gas chambers (1989 English translation, original French never published) Although few copies were ever printed, this was a hugely influential text that published numerous previously unknown blueprints and other documents. Pressac presented a collection of documents that he argued were highly suggestive "criminal traces" which, collectively, proved beyond reasonable doubt the reality of the gas chambers.
• Jean-Claude Pressac: Les crématoires d'Auschwitz (1993, French and German only) A follow-up. Notably, Pressac endorsed lowish death tolls in this book (631,000-710,000 for Auschwitz, notably lower than common estimates). Perhaps not coincidentally, the mainstream seemed to begin marginalizing Pressac in the mid 90s.
• Robert Jan Van Pelt: The Case For Auschwitz (2002) This book came about as a consequence of Van Pelt's involvement in the Irving-Lipstadt trial. Van Pelt's book is in some ways just a repackaging of Pressac without Pressac's quasi-revisionist baggage. But it is more readable and is available in hard copy.
• Harrison, Muehlenkamp, Myers, Romanov, Terry: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: Holocaust Denial and Operation Reinhard (2011) online This "white paper" is the magnum opus of the Holocaust Controversies blog.

Anti-Revisionist Websites

• Holocaust Controversies Blog
• Holocaust Denial on Trial (HDOT)
• PHDN
• Nizkor
• The Holocaust History Project (Offline) Has Richard Green's chemistry articles
• H.E.A.R.T

Other Links (Evidence Pages)

• Wikipedia, “Evidence and documentation for the Holocaust”
• Rational Wiki, “Holocaust Denial”
• Holocaust Controversies, "Index of Published Evidence on Mass Extermination in Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau"

Mainstream Literature

• Gerald Reitlinger: The Final Solution (1953, revised 1968) The first comprehensive history of the Holocaust in English. Estimated a lower than typical death toll in the range of 4.2-4.6M. Also more willing than most Holocaust writers to express limited skepticism.
• Raul Hilberg: The Destruction of the European Jews (1961, revised 1985 and 2003) A hefty and highly influential text, Hilberg was the foil for revisionists for several decades. The first generation histories of Hilberg and Reitlinger rely heavily on testimonies, affidavits, and documents from the Nuremberg trials (the IMT and NMT).
• Christopher Browning: The Origins of the Final Solution (2003) In the 1980s, Holocaust history became more professionalized as academic historians took up the cause. Browning is a notable member of this next generation of Holocaust historians. More "funtionalist" than earlier historians, i.e., he argues that the extermination policy evolved during the war.
• Yitzhak Arad: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard death camps (1987, revised 2018) This standard orthodox history of the Reinhardt camp, the neglected extermination camps that had long been mogged by Auschwitz in the history books and in popular media.
  Patrick Montague: Chelmno and the Holocaust (2012) This slender volume is standard history of Chelmno, one of the smaller and least discussed extermination camps, but which is an increasingly favored point of emphasis among online anti-revisionists.
  Henry Friedlander: The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution (1995) Orthodox coverage of euthanasia with a Holocaust focus.
• David Cesarani: Final Solution (2016) A recent comprehensive history of the Holocaust.

Rebuttals (Under Construction)

• Lipstadt - Germar Rudolf, Bungled: Denying the Holocaust [online]
• Shermer - Carolus Magnus, Bungled: Denying History [online]; reviews by Crowell, Burkhead(1), and Burkhead(2)
• Zimmerman - HH#18 (Mattogno, "An Accountant Poses as a Cremation Expert")
• Vidal-Naquet - Faurisson, "Response to a Paper Historian"; review by Weber.
• Pressac - HH#42 and HH#14; articles by Crowell; JHR reviews by Weber, Butz, Faurisson, Aynat.
• Van Pelt - HH#22, review by Crowell
• Arad, Holocaust Controversies "White Paper" - HH#28 (original and current), HH #8, #9, #19, Denierbud - One Third of the Holocaust doc
• Hilberg - Butz Hoax, Graf (old HH#3), Mattogno (new HH#3), 1985 Zundel Trial
• Green - HH#2, HH#18 (Rudolf, "Green sees Red")