The CODOH website, forum and all associated websites have been offline for approaching two weeks. The cause? An internal dispute between Michael Santomauro and the other four board members of the CODOH Trust, including Germar Rudolf.
Presented below without comment is a chronology of statements on websites and from email mailing lists.
May 22, 2023
Disenchantment
For years my wife has been telling me that the revisionist community – whatever that is – is misusing me as a slave laborer, as their shield against persecution, and as the authorities’ whipping boy. If there is any project that needed attention, it was thrown at me, and I sure picked it up and did as expected – mostly. When Bradley Smith started plans to transition CODOH to a new man at the helm, I was his man, and I felt honored – initially. When Richard Widmann bailed out of Inconvenient History, I ended up holding that baby, too – and badly so. When the decade-long Master of the CODOH Forum was looking for a successor, he zoomed in on me, but I refused, since I hate discussion fora with a passion. Apart, there was just no way to shoulder that burden as well.
With three school-age children, a household to run, a grumpy wife to assuage, I was stretching my resources to make things work somehow. No time was left anymore for any of the things I wanted to do. And I wasn’t getting much of anything out of it financially either.
Then shit hit the fan in early 2022, when Ingram threw Castle Hill Publishers out of their print, warehouse and distribution system. Who was going to organize printing, warehousing and shipping/distribution in the US and in Europe? Clearly, Germar will. Because Germar does it all, so that the remaining 8.5 billion people on this planet don’t have to lift a finger!
No. This was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Well, actually, I tried. But then it bent, it buckled, it squeaked, and finally, it broke.
With little to no experience in publishing, printing, warehousing and distribution, Michael Santomauro has taken over the helm at both Castle Hill and CODOH. I have become a mere spectator of what has been unfolding since late 2022. Anyone complaining that things don’t run as smoothly anymore as they once did; that the option of free eBook downloads is disappearing; that all hardcover books have been discontinued; that no German print books are available anymore at all – all this is a result of the 8.5 billion lazy onlookers on this planet no longer having at their disposal a slave laborer called Germar.
December 20, 2023
Merry Christmas From Castle Hill!
Note: Castle Hill has suspended any and all operations until further notice. We are restructuring the business, and will be back soon.
December 21, 2023
To all,
A board member should never compromise his integrity for anyone or anything.
Either Mr. Germar Rudolf moves out of the home of the man who threatened my life or Germar Rudolf needs to resign from CODOH.
And I will continue full control of CHP and use the proceeds to beef up my security system estimates from $5,000-$30,000.
If he continues to live with the man that threatened my life and the board does not dismiss him and not support my security needs for my protection, I have no recourse but to sue CODOH for damages and for harboring a fellow board member whose housemate threatened my life at the behest of Germar Rudolf.
Sincerely,
Michael Santomauro
An identical text was emailed to HC's contact email an hour and a half after this tweet was sent out.
January 7, 2024
CODOH email list
We have risen, indeed! Like Phoenix from the Ashes
Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust
Dear friends, supporters, patrons, and customers!
As you may have noticed, things got awfully quiet at CODOH lately, and our publishing outlet's website at https://CastleHill.shop even got suspended a few days before Christmas. The site is still down, and we do not yet know whether, and if so when, it will resume activities. We hope to be able to have some news to share with you on Monday, after CODOH's Board of Trustees will have had a meeting to decide how to move forward.
Until then, there is at least a silver lining at the revisionist horizon. The British company "Academic Reseach Media Review Education Group LTD" (what a mouth full!), abbreviated as ARMREG LTD, has entered a licensing agreement with Castlehill Publishing LLC, allowing ARMREG to republish under their own imprint Castlehill's entire book program.
ARMREG is the group who published the sensational revisionist Holocaust Encyclopedia, first online in September 2023, then also in print this past December. You can find this valuable resource at www.HolocaustEncyclopedia.com, where you can also purchase various ebook and print versions of this new revisionist opus magnum. They even offer a free ebook download.
ARMREG's general online bookstore, built with the help of Castlehill's staff to accelerate the process, was switched free yesterday late night (EST time). All books once published by Castlehill are back in print, ARMREG style, and can be bought at their webstore at https://armreg.co.uk. This store offers not only all of Castlehill's books (currently only the print editions), but also ARMREG's own Encyclopedia, of course.
While CODOH and Castlehill are currently unable to offer anything for sale, ARMREG is picking up the slack to make sure Holocaust revisionism doesn't go belly up.
We wholeheartedly recommend that you visit their website, sign up for their newsletter, and support them in this moment of crisis. Supporting them also helps CODOH and Castlehill; in fact, it helps all of revisionism:
Thank you very much for your continued support and solidarity. We will get through this crisis together, and we will come out stronger!
Germar Rudolf, Trustee
Bradley Smith Charitable Trust
aka CODOH
[street address omitted]
January 7, 2024
Around the same time as the CODOH mailing list announcement of the licensing deal with ARMREG went out, all CODOH-associated websites went offline with Cloudflare errors: codoh.com, the forum, Inconvenient History, Holocaust Handbooks, Castle Hill shop, while the Holocaust Encyclopedia website's domain name was soon up for sale from GoDaddy.
January 14, 2024
Life Sign
The Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust and related publishing companies have suffered a major attack, with all our Internet servers disconnected. As you have noticed, we are unable to maintain our valuable Revisionist Forum, our Library of articles and research material, or any of the many services CODOH provided. Castle Hill Publishing is unable to fill orders for books. (You can order their range of books, published under license, at www.armreg.co.uk, though). At this point, CODOH has been forced into the dark.
But we at CODOH will fight hard to defeat this attack, and we will recover from the damage inflicted. Truth will prevail!
We are currently scrambling to recover and preserve the CODOH archives. But we will need support and help in the next months for an expected legal battle. If you want to see how you can help, please do not hesitate to contact us using the contact data provided at the top of this website.
If you want to help CODOH, do NOT send funds to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
January 19, 2024
added to the 'Life Sign' at codoh.com
We are currently scrambling to recover and preserve the CODOH archives and forum. The website Holocaust Handbooks is being prepared for relaunch in a new format, but without any data loss. We do have a complete backup of the vho.org archives, and we managed to locate a recent backup of the CODOH Forum, as well as one of the library, although the latter may be a few years old. Getting all this backed-up data back online will take some time and considerable effort, as we may have to first create a framework for it, then extract and reformat tons of the data.
We will need support and help in the next months for this work, but also unfortunately for an expected legal battle against those trying to force us into the dark. If you want to see how you can help, please do not hesitate to contact us using the contact data provided at the top of this website.
Note that the trust is located in California. Our new postal address is:
CODOH
PO Box 2355
Healdsburg, CA 95448
USA
Please do do NOT send mail or funds to any other address, as it will most likely not reach us.
January 20, 2024
CODOH email mailing list
Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust
Dear fellow revisionists, friends, patrons and supporters!
We, the trustees of the Bradley Smith Charitable Trust, aka Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH), owe you all an explanation as to what happened, what is going on right now, and what we expect from the near future regarding CODOH and its various operations.
We need to clarify that the current crisis is the result of an INTERNAL dispute. It has apparently nothing to do with outside forces. The reason that all our websites are offline is the simple fact that the servers have been turned off by the hosting company due to unpaid bills in the order of two hundred dollars ($200). Access to the hosting account where payments are managed is currently controlled by one CODOH trustee. Without consulting with CODOH's Board of Trustees, he turned this hosting account from a company account to his personal account by changing the account information to reflect only his personal contact information. He currently refuses access to anyone else. He moreover refuses to update any payment information or pay the outstanding bills himself. He has done the same thing with CODOH's domain name account. He has turned off some domain names, resulting in websites not hosted by CODOH no longer being reachable with those domain names. This trustee demands a payment of three hundred thirty thousand US dollars ($330,000) from the CODOH Trust before giving access to that account, so that the outstanding bills can be paid, and web services restored.
CODOH currently has some four thousand dollars in its bank account, and no other financial assets. Hence, paying $330,000 is impossible. No one can expect that the other trustees step up and pay $330,000. Furthermore, no donation from the personal assets of our generous supporters should be used.
The trustee in question furthermore demands that, for the next 24 years, 3% of all proceeds of the CODOH Trust are paid to him. However, CODOH is a charitable trust whose Declaration of Trust of December 2014 states clearly that "[n]o part of the net earnings of this trust shall inure or be payable to or for the benefit of any private shareholder or individual."
The trustee in question made numerous public or private statements about this ongoing conflict over the past several weeks. None of the other CODOH trustees have signed up to volunteer for this organization in order to engage in infighting and public mud-slinging. We will therefore not respond to any of this trustee's missives. We only remark that anyone willing to engage him should insist on him presenting evidence for his claims. That is what revisionism is ultimately all about: we do not accept claims at face value but demand verifiable evidence. Our private appeals to him to provide such evidence have remained unheeded.
We hope that the trustee in question becomes reasonable, thus allowing a peaceful resolution of this unnecessary conflict and preventing any litigation.
Meanwhile, we regroup and try to reestablish all web services as best and as fast as possible. If you want to be of assistance in this regard, or if you wish to learn more about this conflict, please get in touch using our NEW contact information provided below.
DO NOT USE ANY OTHER ADDRESS!
Sincerely
The other Four of the Five Trustees of the Bradley Smith Charitable Trust
(We do not reveal the names of any of the trustees here for their own protection.)
Further statements will be updated to this post.
a bit off topic, but I was hoping you guys could debunk two morons I encountered on Reddit, I posted the nonsense they said on r/forwardsfromklandma (don't be alarmed it's about pointing out how stupid reactionaries are)
ReplyDeletehttps://www.reddit.com/r/ForwardsFromKlandma/comments/15q79b2/i_know_this_is_technically_necroposting_but_im/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ForwardsFromKlandma/comments/18g6q40/this_guy_reminds_me_of_that_phase_in_middle/
in particular I'd be grateful if you debunked the claim that "the definition of Jew was changed" and "Interviews Spielberg didn't show"
The collapse of the Nazi-Hamas loving National Justice Party, which went from cosplaying next to Jackson Hinkle and Lucas Gage to burning each other down, stands next to this as a reminder that in addition to being anti-Semitic pieces of shit, pretty much all modern Nazis are assholes who can't get along with each other (let alone anyone who is a functional human being).
ReplyDeleteAlso, I read that David Irving is now a babbling gork who is hooked up to about 50 machines and isn't going to be alive much longer. I won't provide any links. Nor any sympathy to that worthless ponce, the sooner he croaks and gets tossed into a hole to be useful food or trees, the better.