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Joachim Hoffmann

Dr. Joachim Hoffmann (December 1, 1930, Königsberg, East Prussia – February 8, 2002, Freiburg) was a German historian. From 1960 to 1995 he worked at the Military History Research Institute of the Bundeswehr, finally with the title of scientific director. He has written several books and is associated most closely with virulent anti-soviet and anti-russian oriented theories of holocaust denial. His book 'Stalin’s War of Extermination' equates the actions of Soviet Jews with those of the Nazis.

'Dissecting the Holocaust' German trial for racial persecution

Hoffman infamously testified as an expert witness for the defense in the criminal trial of the publisher, editor and authors of Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte (Dissecting the Holocaust) in Tübingen Germany, for the crime of racial persecution. In his expert opinion defending the book Hoffman cited himself:

To this day the total number of Jewish victims is generally given as 6 million. According to the current opinion of the German experts on contemporary history, this figure was first provided to the Americans by SS Sturmbannführer Dr. Hoettl in spring 1945, and repeated at the IMT in Nuremberg on November 26, 1945. It must be noted, however, that this selfsame figure was demonstrably first put forth in the foreign press as early as January 4, 1945, several weeks prior to the January 27, 1945, liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp (with its alleged 4 million victims) - put about by none other than the infamous Soviet Minister of Propaganda, Ilya Ehrenburg. Thus it was Ehrenburg who came up with the figure of six million. [cf. Joachim Hoffmann, Stalin’ s War of Extermination 1941 – 1945, Theses & Dissertations Press, Capshaw, AL, 2001, pp. 189f.]

Hoffman further claimed to the court that

Regarding Ehrenburg himself, it must be mentioned that in 1941 Stalin had given him the general order to incite a boundless national and racial hatred against all Germans. Ehrenburg's years-long unbridled frenzies of hatred culminated in his call to "put an end to Germany" and in an effort which he described as "modest and honorable", namely "to reduce the population of Germany", towards which end the only thing left to decide was whether it would be better "to kill the Germans with axes or with clubs".

The prosecution argued that the phrases in the book "supposed annihilation camp", "Auschwitz club", "Holocaust religion", "identity-forming group phantasies", "supposed genocide", "established Holocaust scene", "lead ad absurdum" to deny the Nazi murder of Jews and therefore qualify as race persecution. According to the States Attorney, the expert witness Dr. Hoffmann was not as competent to judge whether the book was scientific as a jurist and his expert report should therefore be disregarded. The publisher Grabert should be sentenced to 9 months prison with possibility of parole.

The court found that phrases such as "supposed", "presumed", "victim of the Jews", "imputed forethought", "furious phantasies", denied the Holocaust and therefore qualified as the crime of race persecution. On June 15, 1996, judge Burkhardt Stein from Tübingen County Court ordered the confiscation and incineration of all books Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte and the destruction of all means for manufacturing them.

"Revisionist" Promoters

Germar Rudolf is the editor of the book who requested Hoffmann's aid, and whom he defended in his court testimony. Rudolf fled to the United States to avoid prosecution under European laws against Holocaust denial. He was able to operate a web site from there and attempted to claim political aasylum. He was deported in 2005. He is now in prison in Stuggart. His and other self defined "revisionist" web sites promote Hoffmann's works. Rudolf explains himself the principal tenets of "revisionism" for visitors to the site:

Revisionists agree with establishment historians that the German National Socialist State singled out the Jewish people for special and cruel treatment. In addition to viewing Jews in the framework of traditional anti-Semitism, the National Socialists also saw them as being an influential force behind international communism and behind the so-called international "finance capital," which they held responsible for the worldwide economic crisis and for the impoverishment of German workers. During World War II, Jews were considered to be enemies of the German State and a potential danger to its war efforts, much like the Germans, Italians, and Japanese were viewed in the U.S. Consequently, Jews were stripped of their rights, forced to live in ghettos, conscripted for labor, deprived of their property, deported, and otherwise mistreated. Many tragically perished.

In contrast to establishment historians, Revisionists claim that the German State had NO policy to exterminate the Jewish people (or anyone else) in homicidal gas chambers or by killing them through abuse or neglect. Revisionists also maintain that the figure of six million Jewish deaths is an irresponsible exaggeration, and that no execution gas chambers existed in any camp in Europe which was under German control. Fumigation gas chambers, both stationary and mobile, did exist to delouse clothing and equipment to prevent disease at POW, labor, and concentration camps and at the fighting front. It is highly likely that it was from this lifesaving procedure that the myth of extermination gas chambers emerged.

The Wikipedia article Viktor Suvorov in which Joachim Hoffmann's 'Stalin’s War of Extermination' is said to support Suvorov's theories is taken largely verbatim from another self defined "revisionist" website Institute for Historical Review which promotes Hoffmann's works. Accordingly, the reviewer on that site, Daniel Michaels identifies with Hoffmann's equation of Jewish/(communist) crimes to those of the Nazi's:

Jews were very much involved in murderous assignments during the war. In addition to Mekhlis, there was Lazar Kaganovich, responsible for the deaths of millions; General Abakumov, who headed the NKVD/MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs, or secret police), and Generals Reichman and Chernyakhovski, who were especially ruthless. Hoffmann hastens to add that the criminal actions of individual Jews should no more reflect on the Jewish people as a whole than the criminal actions of individual Nazis on the German people.

His work is distributed by Castle Hill Publishers exclusive publishers of Holocaust Denial literature. Hoffmann's 'Stalin's War of Extermination' is featured alongside Germar Rudolf: Dissecting the Holocaust, Arthur R. Butz: The Hoax of the Twentieth Century. The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry , Germar Rudolf, Carlo Mattogno: Auschwitz-Lies. Legends, Lies, and Prejudices on the Holocaust, Carlo Mattogno: Bunkers of Auschwitz. Black Propaganda versus History etc, etc.

'Stalin's War of Extermination' is featured on "The Barnes Review" Selected Book List a creation of American neo-Nazi Willis Carto.

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