Bradley Smith (Holocaust Denier)

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Bradley Smith

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

  1. ↑ Holocaust Denier Bradley Smith's Legacy of Lies . Anti-Defamation League (ADL) weblog of February 23, 2016, accessed on July 10, 2017
  2. ^ Holocaust Ad At Cornell U. Stirs a Protest . New York Times, November 20, 1991
  3. ^ Ad on Holocaust Stirs Debate . New York Times, November 10, 1991
  4. ^ Angry Press Debate at Hofstra Over Ad Doubting Holocaust . New York Times, November 17, 1999
personal data
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