Bradley Smith (Holocaust Denier)
Bradley R. Smith (born February 18, 1930 in Los Angeles - † February 18, 2016 ) was an American history revisionist and Holocaust denier .
Life
Smith grew up in California on concluded but in Portland , Oregon , the Jesuit High School from. In the 1960s, Smith was arrested for selling one of Henry Miller's then banned books . According to his own statements, he had been married to a Mexican woman for more than 30 years and lived in Baja Norte .
activism
Smith was spokesman for the revisionist Institute for Historical Review and, together with Mark Weber, founded the Committee for Open Debate On the Holocaust (CODOH) in 1987 , which disseminates holocaust-denying literature. CODOH tried to run full-page advertisements in US university newspapers denying the gas chambers . When they did this with a large number of newspapers in the 1990s, the subject was picked up by ADL and the New York Times . The campaign has hardly been carried out since 2000, since almost all university newspapers have since rejected the advertisements and the rejection no longer leads to controversy .
Publications
- Confessions of a Holocaust revisionist, Volume 1 . Prima Facie, 1987
- Break His Bones: The Private Life of a Holocaust Revisionist . Self-published, 2002
literature
- Michael Shermer , Alex Grobman: Denying history: who says the Holocaust never happened and why do they say it? . University of California Press, 2009, pp. 60ff
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holocaust Denier Bradley Smith's Legacy of Lies . Anti-Defamation League (ADL) weblog of February 23, 2016, accessed on July 10, 2017
- ^ Holocaust Ad At Cornell U. Stirs a Protest . New York Times, November 20, 1991
- ^ Ad on Holocaust Stirs Debate . New York Times, November 10, 1991
- ^ Angry Press Debate at Hofstra Over Ad Doubting Holocaust . New York Times, November 17, 1999
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Smith, Bradley |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Smith, Bradley R. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Holocaust Denier |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1930 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | los Angeles |
DATE OF DEATH | February 18, 2016 |