On Heddesheimer's 'The First Holocaust'

If one thing becomes abundantly clear when one looks at the list of Holocaust Handbooks published by Castle Hill and CODOH, it is that they are overwhelmingly concerned with the Holocaust itself and, within that topic, the part of the Holocaust occurring within the concentration camp system. Where the handbooks are comparatively lighter is in any sense of the history of the Third Reich or of Jews – to say nothing of the intersection of the two in terms of Nazi Jewish policy – before the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. If Hilberg dedicated the first sixth of Destruction of the European Jews to the events leading up to Barbarossa, we might perhaps expect that seven of the 42 HH books similarly address topics from medieval and early modern European antisemitism through the invasion and occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany; instead, we have essentially two -- The First Holocaust by Don Heddesheimer and Jewish Emigration from the Third Reich by Ingrid Weckert -- or 4.8%.[1]

Germar Rudolf destroys Don Heddesheimer in a single sentence.

Heddesheimer's thesis in The First Holocaust is just silly: the figure "six million" was mentioned in relation to Jews before the WWII, therefore something something. There is no logical or historical connection between those cherrypicked mentions and the proven facts of the Holocaust. Basically, that is all that needs to be said to deal with this sad little irrelevant brochure.

But now, on the heels of Amazon throwing out of dozens of Holocaust denial books, comes Germar Rudolf and agrees:

[Heddesheimer's book] deals with Jewish fundraising campaigns during and after the FIRST World War, and therefore if only for chronological reason does not deal with the Jewish Holocaust of the SECOND World War.

There you have it, from the horse's mouth:  Heddesheimer's thesis is totally irrelevant to the Holocaust.

PS: one should ask though why Rudolf published it as a "Holocaust Handbook"... Oh well.