The Holocaust History Project (THHP) is an inactive

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based in

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. Its archived website offers a comprehensive selection of documents, recordings, photographs, and

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s regarding

the Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ar ...

Holocaust denial Holocaust denial is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that falsely asserts that the Nazi genocide of Jews, known as the Holocaust, is a myth, fabrication, or exaggeration. Holocaust deniers make one or more of the following false statements: * ...

, and

antisemitism Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism. Antis ...

. The project became known for its refutations of the

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and the Rudolf report. It has since assisted in the defense in the case of ''Irving v. Lipstadt''. As of 2016 THHP website is no longer available online although its entire content is accessible via several hundred captures in the

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s. However starting April 2016 the French NGO and project phdn.org has put back online an almost complete copy of the original THHP website. THHP defines itself an organization of "concerned individuals working together to educate and inform about the Holocaust." Some of the members remain anonymous. The founding director was Harry W. Mazal, OBE, who died in 2011. Among the material presented, there are essays about scientific and

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analyses, events and people, expert

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, original

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documents, transcripts of many of the

Nuremberg trials The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany, for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries, and other crimes, in World War II. Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi Germany invaded ...

, and the complete texts of two influential works,

Jean-Claude Pressac Jean-Claude Pressac (3 March 1944 – 23 July 2003) was a French pharmacist by profession, who became a published authority on the Auschwitz concentration camp homicidal gas chambers deployed during the Holocaust in World War II. He was the auth ...

's ''Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers'' and

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's ''The Nazi Doctors''. There are also extensive sections on the

Auschwitz Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It co ...

and

Operation Reinhard or ''Einsatz Reinhard'' , location = Occupied Poland , date = October 1941 – November 1943 , incident_type = Mass deportations to extermination camps , perpetrators = Odilo Globočnik, Hermann Höfle, Richard Thomalla, Erwin ...

extermination camps Nazi Germany used six extermination camps (german: Vernichtungslager), also called death camps (), or killing centers (), in Central Europe during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million peoplemostly Jewsin the Holocaust. The ...

. More than 20 "short essays" address a variety of questions of interest, including an extensive bibliography of Holocaust related topics. There is also a section devoted to

, including direct debunking of deniers such as

David Irving David John Cawdell Irving (born 24 March 1938) is an English author and Holocaust denier who has written on the military and political history of World War II, with a focus on Nazi Germany. His works include '' The Destruction of Dresden'' (1 ...

Ernst Zündel Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel (; 24 April 1939 – 5 August 2017) was a German neo-Nazi publisher and pamphleteer of Holocaust denial literature.

, and several others.

Members

* Mikkel Andersson,

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consultant * Yale F. Edeiken, attorney * Richard J. Green, Ph.D.,

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* Patrick J. Groff,

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* Ralf Loserth, computer scientist * Andrew E. Mathis, Ph.D., adjunct professor of humanities (including Holocaust),

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* Harry W. Mazal,

* Jamie McCarthy, computer scientist * Gord McFee,

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and scholar of German history and literature * Danny Mittleman,As shown in page associate professor of

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* Sara Salzman, marketing consultant * Nicholas Terry, Ph.D., lecturer in history,

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* John Zimmerman, associate professor of

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and economics,

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References

External links

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Online copy of the original THHP website on phdn.org
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