This page contains a point-by-point refutation of the half-truths and outright lies published in a pamphlet entitled “66 Questions & Answers About the Holocaust” published as a bible for Holocaust denial by the Institute for Historical Review (IHR).
The IHR’s questions and answers have been reproduced unaltered. Nizkor, a website devoted to combatting Holocaust denial, follows their answers by refuting the 66 claims.
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What proof exists that the Nazis practiced genocide or deliberately killed six million Jews?
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What evidence exists that six million Jews were not killed by the Nazis?
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Did Simon Wiesenthal once state in writing that “there were no extermination camps on German soil?”
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If Dachau was in Germany and even Simon Wiesenthal says that it was not an extermination camp, why do thousands of veterans in America say that it was an extermination camp?
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Auschwitz was in Poland, not Germany. Is there any proof that gas chambers for the purpose of killing human beings existed at or in Auschwitz?
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If Auschwitz wasn’t a “death camp,” what was its true purpose?
Trivializing the Holocaust; Blaming the Jews
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Who set up the first concentration camps, and where and when?
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How did German concentration camps differ from American relocation camps which interned Japanese-, German- and Italian-Americans during WWII?
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Why did the Germans intern Jews in concentration camps?
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What extensive measure did world Jewry undertake against Germany as early as 1933?
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Did the Jews of the world “declare war on Germany?”
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Was this before or after the rumors of the “death camps” began?
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What nation is credited with being the first to practice mass civilian bombing?
The Fate of the Jews
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How many gas chambers to kill people were there at Auschwitz?
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How many Jews were in areas that came to be controlled by the Germans before the war?
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If the Jews of Europe were not exterminated by the Nazis, what happened to them?
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How many Jews fled to deep within the Soviet Union?
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How many Jews emigrated prior to the war, thus being outside of German reach?
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If Auschwitz was not an extermination camp, why did the commandant, Rudolf Hoss, confess that it was?
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Is there any evidence that it was American, British, French, and Soviet policy to torture German prisoners in order to exact confessions before the trials at Nuremberg and elsewhere?
Conspiracies
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How does the “Holocaust” story benefit the Jews today?
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How does it benefit the state of Israel?
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How does it benefit many Christian clergymen?
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How does it benefit the Communists?
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How does it benefit Britain?
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Is there any evidence that Hitler knew of a mass extermination of Jews?
Zyklon-B
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What kind of gas was used by the Nazis in concentration camps?
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For what purpose was, and is, this gas manufactured?
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Why did they use this instead of a gas more suitable for mass extermination?
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How long does it take to ventilate fully an area fumigated by Zyklon-B?
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Auschwitz commandant Hoss said that his men would enter the gas chamber ten minutes after the Jews had died and remove them. How do you explain this?
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Hoss said in his confession that his men would smoke cigarettes as they pulled the dead Jews out of the gas chambers ten minutes after gassing. Isn’t Zyklon-B explosive?
General
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What was the exact procedure the Nazis allegedly used to exterminate Jews?
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How could such a mass program have been kept secret from Jews who were scheduled for extermination?
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If Jews scheduled for execution knew the fate in store for them, why did they go to their death without fight or protest?
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About how many Jews died in the concentration camps?
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How did they die?
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What is typhus?
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What is the difference if six million or 300,000 Jews died during this awesome period?
Cremation
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Many Jewish survivors of the “death camps” say they saw bodies being piled up in pits and burned. How much gasoline would have to be used to perform this?
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Can bodies be burned in pits?
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“Holocaust” authors claim that the Nazis were able to cremate bodies in about 10 minutes. How long does it take to incinerate one body according to professional crematory operators?
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Why did the concentration camps have crematory ovens?
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Given a 100% duty cycle of all the crematoria in all the camps in German-controlled territory, what is the maximum number of corpses it would have been possible to incinerate during the entire period such crematoria were in operation?
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Can a crematory oven be operated 100% of the time?
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How much ash is left from a cremated corpse?
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If six million people had been incinerated by the Nazis, what happened to the ashes?
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Do Allied wartime photos of Auschwitz (during the period when the “gas chambers” and crematoria were supposed to be in full operation) reveal gas chambers?
Trivializing Anti-Jewish Laws
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What was the main provision of the German “Nuremberg laws” of 1935?
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Were there any American precedents for the Nuremberg Laws?
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What did the International Red Cross have to report with regard to the “Holocaust” question?
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What was the role of the Vatican during the time the six million Jews were alleged to have been exterminated?
General
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What evidence is there that Hitler knew of the ongoing Jewish extermination?
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Did the Nazis and the Zionists collaborate?
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What caused Anne Frank’s death just several weeks before the end of the war?
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Is the Anne Frank Diary genuine?
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What about the numerous photographs and footage taken in the German concentration camps showing piles of emaciated corpses? Are these faked?
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Who originated the term “genocide”?
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Were films such as “Holocaust” and “The Winds of War” documentary films?
About “Revisionism”
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About how many books have been published which refute some aspect of the standard claims made about the “Holocaust”?
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What happened when a historical institute offered $50,000 to anyone who could prove that Jews were gassed at Auschwitz?
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What about the claim that those who question the “Holocaust” are anti-Semitic or neo-Nazi?
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What has happened to the historians who have questioned the “Holocaust” material?
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Has the IHR suffered any retaliation for its efforts to uphold the right of freedom of speech and academic freedom?
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Why is there so little publicity for the IHR point of view?
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Where can I get more information about the “other side” of the “Holocaust” story as well as facts concerning other areas of WWII Historical Revisionism?