The Holocaust History Project (THHP) is an inactive

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based in San Antonio, Texas. Its archived website offers a comprehensive selection of documents, recordings, photographs, and essays regarding the Holocaust, Holocaust denial, and

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. 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 Internet Archives. 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 legal analyses, events and people, expert witness testimony, original Nazi documents, transcripts of many of the Nuremberg trials, 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 aut ...

'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

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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 L ...

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 v ...

. More than 20 "short essays" address a variety of questions of interest, including an extensive

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of Holocaust related topics. There is also a section devoted to Holocaust denial, including direct debunking of deniers such as David Irving, Ernst Zündel, and several others.

Members

* Mikkel Andersson, information technology consultant * Yale F. Edeiken,

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* Richard J. Green, Ph.D.,

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chemist * Patrick J. Groff,

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* Ralf Loserth, computer scientist * Andrew E. Mathis, Ph.D., adjunct professor of humanities (including Holocaust), University of the Sciences * Harry W. Mazal, chemist * Jamie McCarthy, computer scientist * Gord McFee, historian and scholar of German history and literature * Danny Mittleman,As shown in page associate professor of information systems, DePaul University * Sara Salzman, marketing consultant * Nicholas Terry, Ph.D., lecturer in history, University of Exeter * John Zimmerman, associate professor of

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and economics, University of Nevada Las Vegas

References

External links

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Online copy of the original THHP website on phdn.org
{{DEFAULTSORT:Holocaust History Project Holocaust historiography