The Wannsee Conference’s top-secret “protocols” mention nothing of murder. My Take: The standard story is incorrect. He then tries to respond to the 'standard story' and oh boy, is his reply a bunch of hooey: The Standard Story: In January 1942, a top-secret meeting was convened in Wannsee, a Berlin suburb, for the purpose of drafting a plan for the “Final Solution.” It was decided that Europe’s Jews would be killed.Īnd fails: that the decision was taken during the conference, while long a popular layman misconception, is not a part of the 'standard story'. He tries to formulate 'the standard story' on the Wannsee conference: In the appendix to his book Cole tries to lay out his views. This deeply confused and superficial individual has nothing new or interesting to add to the Holocaust historiography. But for some reason some see his position as the 'golden middle', or something. In fact, Cole didn't find anything new or big about the Holocaust, he simply takes the extremely well-known documents like the Korherr report and interprets them with varying degrees of plausibility, while ignoring the documents that contradict his other positions. He condemns total hardcore denial, but also claims that Auschwitz wasn't an extermination camp at least from 1943 on and the well-documented gas vans didn't exist. Now it's a drunken ex-denier who kinda saw the light, but is still an asshole towards both sides. His shtick had always been being a Jewish denier. He moderated his historical views considerably, coming to the conclusion that extermination camps did exist. He tells about this event and many others in his 'tell all' book. He reinvented himself as a Republican event organizer in Hollywood and there was a moderately large scandal when his cover got blown up. Short intro: Cole used to be a hardcore Holocaust denier in the early 1990s, shot a comical video about Auschwitz which became a hit among the deniers (the deceptions of this video are fully exposed here). A post on David Stein/Cole's book Republican Party Animal, or rather on the historical appendix to it in which he explains his views on the Holocaust.

Republican Party Animal by David Cole