The Holocaust History Project (THHP) is an inactive non-profit corporation 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 (), known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as the (), was the genocide of History of the Jews in Europe, European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ...

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, and

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. The project became known for its refutations of the Leuchter

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and the Rudolf report. Since then, it has assisted the defense in the case of ''Irving v. Lipstadt''. As of 2016, THHP website is no longer available online but all of its contents are accessible via several hundred captures in the

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. However starting April 2016 the French NGO and project phdn.org has put back online an almost complete copy of the original THHP website. The THHP defines itself as an organization of "concerned individuals working together to educate and inform people about the Holocaust." Some of its members remain anonymous. The founding director was Harry W. Mazal, OBE, who died in 2011. Among the material which is 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, and the complete texts of two influential works, Jean-Claude Pressac's ''Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers'' and Robert Jay Lifton's ''The Nazi Doctors''. There are also extensive sections on the Auschwitz and

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

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of literature about Holocaust related topics. It also contains a section which is devoted to

, including direct debunking of deniers such as David Irving, Ernst Zündel, and several others.

Members

* Mikkel Andersson,

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

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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), University of the Sciences * 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

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, University of Nevada Las Vegas

References

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