Techniques of Neutralization: Acknowledging Shootings but Denying Blame

The term Techniques of Neutralization was devised by Sykes and Matza in 1957 (see here) to analyze how people suppress guilt by rationalizing their actions in ways that deny or transfer blame. This posting applies their five categories to the excuses used by the Nazis and their denier apologists to evade any guilt for the shootings of Jews they carried out in the USSR.

"Hannover" Hargis tells some more lies

This month's first blog is dedicated to my old friend Jonnie "Hannover" Hargis, well known on the scene as the cowardly and mendacious lead-foot censor who moderates the "Revisionist" cesspit known as the "CODOH Revisionist Forum". Hargis now also writes for a pamphlet called "Smith’s Report", where he has a column in which he presents past exchanges on the CODOH forum.

Challenge to Supporters of the Revisionist Transit Camp Theory

[Updated on 16.03.2014 and 19.03.2014 to accommodate a change request by Eric Hunt expressed on the Skeptics Society Forum thread Reissue Muehlenkamp's Challenge so I can win.]

[Updated on 14.08.2017 to expand the choice of potential arbiters.]

This challenge was born out of an amenable conversation between my old friend Greg Gerdes and me on the threads $1,000.00 REWARD FOR THE NAME OF JUST ONE GASSED JEW and Transit Camp Challenge in the Revisionist Projects section of the Revisionist Workshop forum.

CODOH "is a strange world": The Fetzer Fiasco

A few days ago, conspiracy guru James Fetzer visited the CODOH Revisionist forum, likely encouraged by his friend Nick Kollerstrom. Kollerstrom (aka 'astro3') had earlier discussed Fetzer's defense of open inquiry into the Holocaust in an academic journal. Fetzer arrived to reinforce and restate those beliefs to, what he expected to be, a receptive audience. Instead, Fetzer was met by an unsatisfied Hannover/Hargis, who sought to bully and cower Fetzer into openly advocating denial, something Fetzer was unprepared to do. This lead Fetzer to, in just a few days, come to conclusions about the CODOH forum and its moderator that HC readers might enjoy.

This blog's main purpose is to document the fiasco that followed, in addition to providing some more information (in the way of emails) about the events. Screenshots have been taken of all posts, which became necessary as Hargis later deleted the entire discussion. They can be released if the authenticity of any part of this blog is put into question.

The debacle also conveniently happened at the same time that Hargis was given a regular monthly column for Smith's Report (see page 13).

Inconvenient History's Joe Bishop Wants to Kill Jews

It is a self-evident truth that writers and ideologues often use looser language within a private setting than they would in public. For revisionist Joe Bishop, this looser language involved endorsing a call to kill all Jews, including children.

CODOH: The Forum That Moderated Itself to Death

by Jason Willis Myers

[Jason posted at different Internet forums for quite some time as "Wahrheit" and "Wahrheitseeker". Until recently he was a Holocaust denier. His voluminous output at CODOH, RODOH and elsewhere prevents any suspicion of him being an anti-"revisionist" mole. He was also one of the people at the root of "Inconvenient History" blog, though his contributions seem to have vanished. Not so long ago he has changed his views - a story to be told in the future, that's for sure.

 We think that what Jason has to say in this article is interesting and instructive.

 Note that HC team does not necessarily agree with opinions expressed by our guest bloggers or guarantee the accuracy of all their claims.]

CODOH: The Forum That Moderated Itself to Death

On February 8, 2010 I was permanently banned from the CODOH Revisionist forum. Ostensibly, the justification for my ban was my "pre-meditated" change of heart regarding the veracity of the "Holocaust tale", and my efforts to "dupe" CODOH readers.

That I had been a revisionist from 2005 to fall 2009 is clear, but after further study of the relevant literature, I decided that the evidence for a Nazi program of extermination was simply too overwhelming to deny any longer. More will be said of my change at a later time, but after hundreds of posts at the CODOH, RODOH, and History Channel forums arguing the revisionist case, and much work behind the scenes on various revisionist projects, I find the charge that I was "faking" as a revisionist the whole time to be ridiculous, to say the least.