Part 1, Part 3 Please be sure to read part one if you’re unfamiliar with this format! I’m going to kick off part two with one of the weak arguments. BUCHENWALD “FAKE” PHOTOGRAPH The following tweet was well liked and seen millions of times. Unfortunately, it is incorrect. This image is not fake. The author…
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Faked Photographs Part Three
Part 1, Part 2, Part 4 In parts one and two I covered Soviet manipulation of photographs. The USSR was not alone in deceptively using photography to promote a narrative. Consider the following photograph. It is one of many pictures featuring liberated Jews behind a barbed wire fence. There are so many photos like this…
Origin of the Term ‘Holocaust’
(This article was originally posted on October 24th, 2002. It has been updated with new information) How did the word ‘Holocaust’ come to be the term for the supposed atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis in WW2? Elie Wiesel, a well-known survivor of Auschwitz/Birkenau, made a big contribution to popularizing the term. Wiesel was one of…
Happy Halloween!
When Night by Elie Wiesel was released in 1960 it was presented as the true story of Wiesel’s WW2 experiences. In the spirit of Halloween I present you with a spooky tale from Night. Several Pages later Wiesel makes a point of referencing this incredible, straight out of a movie, story to make sure that…
Shedding Light on ‘Night’
When the first English translation of Elie Wiesel’s Night was released in 1960 it was a non-fiction book that was ‘beyond criticism’. This book was presented as the true autobiography of Wiesel and many students were required to read it. Today a Google search will show you that this same book is fictional children’s literature….