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'''Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust''' (CODOH) is a [[Holocaust revisionist]] and, despite the name, also a more general [[Historical revisionism|historical revisionist]] organization. ย 
In 1987, [[Bradley R. Smith]], a former media director of the Institute for Historical Review,<ref>http://www.axt.org.uk/antisem/archive/archive2/usa/usa.htm|title=United States of America|date=1998|work=axt.org.uk</ref> founded the '''Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust''' (CODOH).<ref>[http://www.adl.org/poisoning_web/codoh.asp "Poisoning the Web&nbsp;โ€“ Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust."] ''[[Anti-Defamation League|ADL]]''. 2001. April 24, 2008.</ref> In the United States, CODOH has repeatedly attempted to place advertisements questioning whether the Holocaust happened, especially in college campus newspapers.<ref>[http://www.adl.org/holocaust/bradley_smith.asp "Bradley Smith and the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust: The New College Try".] ''[[Anti-Defamation League|ADL]]''. 2001. April 24, 2008.</ref>


Bradley Smith took his message to college students with great success. Smith referred to his project as the ''"CODOH campus project"''. He said, "They (students) are empty vessels to be filled." {{Quote|"What I wanted to do was I wanted to set forth three or four ideas that students might be interested in, that might cause them to think about things or to have questions about things. And I wanted to make it as simple as possible, and to set it up in a way that could not really be debated."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/smith_codoh/words.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=2&item=10|title=Bradley Smith, Holocaust Denial, Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust โ€“ Extremism in America|publisher=Adl.org |access-date=March 26, 2013}}</ref>|Bradley R. Smith}}
==History==
It was founded by [[Bradley R. Smith]] in 1987 and mainly run by him until 2014. CODOH was then reorganized as a charitable trust. "Currently, CODOH and [[Castle Hill Publishers]] are working on integrating both entities into one, with CODOH at the helm."<ref>About Us. http://codoh.com/about/</ref> CODOH maintains a web forum and an on-line library of revisionist material. ''Smith's Report'' is roughly monthly newsletter that has been published since 1990. In 2015, CODOH became the publisher of the quarterly online magazine ''[[Inconvenient History]]''. It is today likely the most important revisionist and Holocaust revisionist organization, in part due to having archives from or having incorporated various earlier revisionist organizations, magazines, and websites.


==Activism==
: ''In 1998, [[Germar Rudolf]], a noted associate of Smith, who three years earlier was sentenced to 14 months in prison in [[Germany]] for [[Holocaust denial]], founded Castle Hill publications [sic!]. He fled arrest and attempted to apply for political asylum in the [[United States]]. He was extradited in 2005 and sentenced to an additional two and a half years in prison. In 2011, he immigrated to the United States and resumed publishing [...] By that time, Michael Santomauro was running Castle Hill, as he told Holocaust denier and antisemite Jim Rizzoli in a 2016 interview. In April of 2022, CODOH officially bought Castle Hill, making it the organizationโ€™s official bookstore and Santomauro acts as its CEO. Additionally, Clemens and Blair, an online bookshop founded in 2020 that publishes antisemitic books and is an SPLC designated hate group, operates as part of the CODOH network. Santomauro and his address are listed as the contact or location for donations for CODOH, Castle Hill, and Clemens and Blair. Santomauro has become a leading voice in couching revisionism and denial as academic pursuits for truth. With Santomauro as a leading figure, they have remained relevant and expanded their network to other previously assumed, seemingly independent groups. As recently as January 2023, CODOH has been soliciting donations through emails and social media. They also raise money through their online store, commercials, and videos.''<ref>[[Southern Poverty Law Center]]</ref>
[[File:harvard press codoh ad.png|thumb|right|200px|Ad placed in Harvard newspaper, later claimed to be a "mistake"]]
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Holocaust truthers have placed full page advertisements in college and university newspapers, including those of Brandeis University, Boston College, Pennsylvania State University, and Queens College, City University of New York. Some of these ads gave proofs that [[the Holocaust]] never happened, which generated op-ed pieces by professors and students.<ref>{{cite book|last=Shermar|first=Michael|author2=Alex Grobman|title=Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?|publisher=University of California Press|year=2000|isbn=978-0-520-21612-9|title-link=Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?}}</ref> On September 8, 2009, student newspaper ''The Harvard Crimson'' ran a paid ad from Bradley R Smith. It was quickly threatened by local [[jew]] groups, and the editor caved, issuing an apology, and claiming that the full-page ad was "an accident". <ref>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/09/09/massachusetts.harvard.holocaust/index.html|title=Harvard Crimson says Holocaust denial ad published by accident|last=Buxbaum|first=Evan|date=September 10, 2009|publisher=CNN|access-date=September 10, 2009</ref>
== See also ==
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* [[Noontide Press]]
* [[The Barnes Review]]
* [[Adelaide Institute]]
*[[Freedom of Speech]]
*[[Institute for Historical Review]]
* [[The Revisionist โ€“ Journal for Critical Historical Inquiry]]
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== External links ==
*[https://codoh.com/ CODOH]
**[https://codoh.com/about/ About]
*[http://forum.codoh.com/ CODOH Forum]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20161220082923/http://codohfounder.com/ CODOH Founder's Page]
*[http://codoh.com/library/categories/1333/ Smith's Report]


==References==
==References==
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[[Category:Websites]]
[[Category:Holocaust revisionist organizations]]
[[Category:Revisionism]]
[[Category:Historical revisionists]]
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Revision as of 12:30, 5 September 2023

Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) is a Holocaust revisionist and, despite the name, also a more general historical revisionist organization.

History

It was founded by Bradley R. Smith in 1987 and mainly run by him until 2014. CODOH was then reorganized as a charitable trust. "Currently, CODOH and Castle Hill Publishers are working on integrating both entities into one, with CODOH at the helm."[1] CODOH maintains a web forum and an on-line library of revisionist material. Smith's Report is roughly monthly newsletter that has been published since 1990. In 2015, CODOH became the publisher of the quarterly online magazine Inconvenient History. It is today likely the most important revisionist and Holocaust revisionist organization, in part due to having archives from or having incorporated various earlier revisionist organizations, magazines, and websites.

In 1998, Germar Rudolf, a noted associate of Smith, who three years earlier was sentenced to 14 months in prison in Germany for Holocaust denial, founded Castle Hill publications [sic!]. He fled arrest and attempted to apply for political asylum in the United States. He was extradited in 2005 and sentenced to an additional two and a half years in prison. In 2011, he immigrated to the United States and resumed publishing [...] By that time, Michael Santomauro was running Castle Hill, as he told Holocaust denier and antisemite Jim Rizzoli in a 2016 interview. In April of 2022, CODOH officially bought Castle Hill, making it the organizationโ€™s official bookstore and Santomauro acts as its CEO. Additionally, Clemens and Blair, an online bookshop founded in 2020 that publishes antisemitic books and is an SPLC designated hate group, operates as part of the CODOH network. Santomauro and his address are listed as the contact or location for donations for CODOH, Castle Hill, and Clemens and Blair. Santomauro has become a leading voice in couching revisionism and denial as academic pursuits for truth. With Santomauro as a leading figure, they have remained relevant and expanded their network to other previously assumed, seemingly independent groups. As recently as January 2023, CODOH has been soliciting donations through emails and social media. They also raise money through their online store, commercials, and videos.[2]

See also

External links

References

  1. โ†‘ About Us. http://codoh.com/about/
  2. โ†‘ Southern Poverty Law Center

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