Amazon Censorship
On February 23rd, 2017, the world's media started spreading the news that Israel's government-sponsored Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Center started putting Amazon under pressure to remove any and all material that questions the orthodox Holocaust narrative. Here is a list of items for your perusal:
- http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Amazon-is-asked-to-stop-selling-books-on-Holocaust-denial-482349
- http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/02/27/yad-vashem-calls-for-amazon-to-stop-selling-holocaust-denial-books/
- http://forward.com/fast-forward/364209/yad-vashem-pushes-amazon-to-yank-holocaust-denying-books/
- http://www.timesofisrael.com/yad-vashem-asks-amazon-to-pull-holocaust-denial-books/
- http://www.jta.org/2017/02/26/news-opinion/world/yad-vashem-calls-on-amazon-to-stop-selling-books-denying-the-holocaust
- http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/yad-vashem-asks-amazon-stop-selling-denier/2017/02/26/id/775654/
- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-4264352/Yad-Vashem-asks-Amazon-remove-Holocaust-denial-books.html
- http://artdaily.com/news/94125/Yad-Vashem-asks-Amazon-to-remove-Holocaust-denial-books#.WL_XizsrKUk
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/yad-vashem-asks-amazon-remove-holocaust-denial-books-145238124.html
- http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4927591,00.html
- http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/530687/yad-vashem-urges-amazon-to-remove-holocaust-denial-books.html
- http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2017/02/27/yad-vashem-asks-amazon-to-remove-holocaust-denial-books/
- http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/israel-amazon-stop-selling-holocaust-denying-literature-45746218
- https://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?t=10991
- http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/225693
- http://circa.com/circa-now/trending/amazon-told-to-stop-selling-holocaust-denial-books
- http://www.thepassivevoice.com/2017/02/amazon-should-stop-selling-holocaust-denial-books/
- http://www.fakenewschecker.com/fake-news/israel%E2%80%99s-yad-vashem-calls-amazon-stop-selling-holocaust-denial-books
- http://www.westernjournalism.com/amazon-under-fire-for-continuing-sale-of-holocaust-denying-books-in-the-us-and-uk/
- http://en.el-balad.com/2324591
Interesting in this context is the reference by Yad Vashem and the world's media that one reason to ask for this act of censorship was the recent "unfortunate change in climate with more visible antisemitism" (Jerusalem Post, Feb. 23, 2017).
We at Castle Hill Publishers were holding our breaths. Amazon had been criticized by the media many time before for allowing the sale of controversial material on their website, but they never censored anything that was legal. So at first, nothing happened. But then, as if ordered to emphasize the urgency of Vad Vashem’s request, two Jewish cemeteries were vandalized, first one in Philadelphia (Feb. 27), then allegedly another one in New York (Mar. 3). The New York case, however, was later retracted: the tomb stones there had fallen over decades due to age. Be that as it may, the cemetery stories added fuel to the fire in which Amazon's feet had been put.
Then, on the first workday of the week following the second (false) cemetery story, on March 6, 2017 at 6:39 pm, we received the following email from Amazon's EBook Subsidiary Amazon KDP, that is to say, Kindle:
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We're contacting you regarding the following book:
Dissecting the Holocaust: The Growing Critique of 'Truth' and 'Memory' (Holocaust Handbooks Book 1) (ID 5513183)
The Rudolf Report: Expert Report on Chemical and Technical Aspects of the "Gas Chambers" of Auschwitz (Holocaust Handbooks Book 2) (ID 5513316)
Der Jahrhundertbetrug: Argumente gegen die angenommene Vernichtung des europäischen Judentums (Holocaust Handbooks 7) (German Edition) (ID 5516699)
Jewish Emigration from the Third Reich (Holocaust Handbooks Book 12) (ID 5583159)
Concentration Camp Majdanek: A Historical and Technical Study (Holocaust Handbooks Book 5) (ID 5646916)
The Giant with Feet of Clay: Raul Hilberg and his Standard Work on the 'Holocaust' (Holocaust Handbooks Book 3) (ID 5644182)
Debunking the Bunkers of Auschwitz: Black Propaganda versus History (Holocaust Handbooks Book 11) (ID 5653917)
Concentration Camp Stutthof: Its History and Function in National Socialist Jewish Policy. (Holocaust Handbooks Book 4) (ID 5646680)
The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry (Holocaust Handbooks Book 7) (ID 5650743)
Belzec: Propaganda, Testimonies, Archeological Research, and History (Holocaust Handbooks Book 9) (ID 5653626)
Treblinka: Extermination Camp or Transit Camp? (Holocaust Handbooks Book 8) (ID 5653335)
The Central Construction Office of the Waffen-SS and Police Auschwitz: Organization, Responsibilities, Activities (Holocaust Handbooks Book 13) (ID 5656753)
Auschwitz: Plain Facts: A Response to Jean-Claude Pressac (Holocaust Handbooks Book 14) (ID 5656817)
Lectures on the Holocaust: Controversial Issues Cross Examined (Holocaust Handbooks Book 15) (ID 5656850)
Auschwitz: Open Air Incinerations (Holocaust Handbooks Book 17) (ID 5661735)
Auschwitz Lies: Legends, Lies, and Prejudices on the Holocaust (Holocaust Handbooks Book 18) (ID 5661787)
Sobibor: Holocaust Propaganda and Reality (Holocaust Handbooks Book 19) (ID 5663589)
Chelmno: A German Camp in History and Propaganda (Holocaust Handbooks Book 23) (ID 5666222)
The Gas Vans: A Critical Study (Holocaust Handbooks Book 26) (ID 5666316)
Inside the Gas Chambers: The Extermination of Mainstream Holocaust Historiography (Holocaust Handbooks Book 25) (ID 5666251)
Auschwitz: The First Gassing: Rumor and Reality (Holocaust Handbooks Book 20) (ID 5663739)
The "Extermination Camps" of "Aktion Reinhardt": An Analysis and Refutation of Factitious "Evidence," Deceptions and Flawed Argumentation of the "Holocaust … Bloggers (Holocaust Handbooks Book 28) (ID 5666327)
The Real Case for Auschwitz: Robert van Pelt's Evidence from the Irving Trial Critically Reviewed (Holocaust Handbooks Book 22) (ID 5664509)
Auschwitz: Crematorium I: and the Alleged Homicidal Gassings (Holocaust Handbooks Book 21) (ID 5664451)
Der Holocaust: Die Argumente (German Edition) (ID 5732388)
Auschwitz: A Judge Looks at the Evidence (ID 5730537)
The Dissolution of Eastern European Jewry (Holocaust Handbooks Book 29) (ID 5799550)
Auswanderung der Juden aus dem Dritten Reich (Holocaust Handbücher 12) (German Edition) (ID 5882846)
Auschwitz-Lügen: Legenden, Lügen, Vorurteile von Medien, Politikern und Wissenschaftlern über den Holocaust (Holocaust Handbücher 18) (German Edition) (ID 5895297)
Chelmno: Ein deutsches Lager in Geschichte und Propaganda (Holocaust Handbücher Book 23) (ID 5895338)
Freiluftverbrennungen in Auschwitz (Holocaust Handbücher 17) (German Edition) (ID 5895359)
Auschwitz: Krematorium I: und die angeblichen Menschenvergasungen (Holocaust Handbücher 21) (German Edition) (ID 5896239)
Der Holocaust vor Gericht: Der Prozeß gegen Ernst Zündel 1988 (German Edition) (ID 5896290)
Belzec: Propaganda, Zeugenaussagen, archäologischer Forschung und Geschichte (Holocaust Handbücher 9) (German Edition) (ID 5896743)
Die Leuchter-Gutachten: Kritische Ausgabe (Holocaust Handbücher 16) (German Edition) (ID 5896317)
Der Erste Holocaust: Jüdische Spendenkampagnen mit Holocaust-Behauptungen im Ersten Weltkrieg und danach (Holocaust Handbücher 6) (German Edition) (ID 5896844)
Vorlesungen über den Holocaust: Strittige Fragen im Kreuzverhör (Holocaust Handbücher 15) (German Edition) (ID 5897402)
Das Rudolf Gutachten: Gutachten über die 'Gaskammern' von Auschwitz (Holocaust Handbücher 2) (German Edition) (ID 5895434)
Schiffbruch: Vom Untergang der Holocaust-Orthodoxie (Holocaust Handbücher 25) (German Edition) (ID 5899236)
Treblinka: Vernichtungslager oder Durchgangslager? (Holocaust Handbücher 8) (German Edition) (ID 5899290)
Konzentrationslager Majdanek: Eine historische und technische Studie (Holocaust Handbücher 5) (German Edition) (ID 5899308)
Kardinalfragen an Deutschlands Politiker: Autobiographische Skizzen und Gedankensplitter zu Wissenschaft, Politik und Menschenrechten (German Edition) (ID 5909218)
Riese auf tönernen Füssen: Raul Hilberg und sein Standardwerk über den 'Holocaust' (Holocaust Handbücher 3) (German Edition) (ID 5909313)
Sobibor: Holocaust Propaganda und Wirklichkeit (Holocaust Handbücher 19) (German Edition) (ID 5909930)
Die Zentralbauleitung der Waffen-SS und Polizei Auschwitz: Organisation, Verantwortlichkeiten, Tätigkeiten (Holocaust Handbücher 13) (German Edition) (ID 5911841)
Auschwitz: Nackte Fakten: Eine Erwiderung an Jean-Claude Pressac (Holocaust Handbücher 14) (German Edition) (ID 5912128)
Das Konzentrationslager Stutthof: Seine Geschichte und Funktion in der nationalsozialistischen Juden-politik (Holocaust Handbücher 4) (German Edition) (ID 5910180)
Sonderbehandlung in Auschwitz: Entstehung und Bedeutung eines Begriffs (Holocaust Handbücher 10) (German Edition) (ID 5915776)
Holocaust High Priest: Elie Wiesel, "Night," the Memory Cult, and the Rise of Revisionism (Holocaust Handbooks Book 30) (ID 5968760)
Vorlesungen über den Holocaust: Strittige Fragen im Kreuzverhör (Holocaust Handbücher 15) (German Edition) (ID 6078966)
Die Bunker von Auschwitz: Schwarze Propaganda kontra Wirklichkeit (Holocaust Handbücher 11) (German Edition) (ID 6079821)
Der Auschwitz-Mythos: Legende oder Wirklichkeit? Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme (German Edition) (ID 6212283)
"Die Vernichtung der europäischen Juden": Hilbergs Riese auf tönernen Füßen (Holocaust Handbücher 3) (German Edition) (ID 6401246)
Breaking the Spell: The Holocaust, Myth & Reality (Holocaust Handbooks Book 31) (ID 6415492)
Debating the Holocaust: A New Look at Both Sides (Holocaust Handbooks Book 32) (ID 6445119)
The Central Construction Office of the Waffen-SS and Police Auschwitz: Organization, Responsibilities, Activities (Holocaust Handbooks Book 13) (ID 6503905)
The First Holocaust: The Surprising Origin of the Six-Million Figure (Holocaust Handbooks Book 6) (ID 6624763)
The Leuchter Reports: Critical Edition (Holocaust Handbooks Book 16) (ID 6652708)
Gesundheitsfürsorge in Auschwitz: Die medizinische Versorgung und Sonderbehandlung registrierter Häftlinge (Holocaust Handbücher 33) (German Edition) (ID 6893072)
Auschwitz: Nackte Fakten: Eine Erwiderung an Jean-Claude Pressac (Holocaust Handbücher 14) (German Edition) (ID 7388229)
Auschwitz: Die erste Vergasung: Gerücht und Wirklichkeit (Holocaust Handbücher 20) (German Edition) (ID 7396915)
Feuerzeichen: Die 'Reichskristallnacht': Anstifter und Brandstifter – Opfer und Nutznießer (German Edition) (ID 7413507)
Curated Lies: The Auschwitz Museum's Misrepresentations, Distortions and Deceptions (Holocaust Handbooks Book 38) (ID 7547229)
Special Treatment in Auschwitz: Origin and Meaning of a Term (Holocaust Handbooks Book 10) (ID 7760164)
Fail: "Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories": How James and Lance Morcan Botched Their Attempt to Affirm the Historicity of the Nazi Genocide (ID 7848728)
The Holocaust: An Introduction: Exploring the Evidence (ID 7977642)
Fail: "Denying the Holocaust": How Deborah Lipstadt Botched Her Attempt to Demonstrate the Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (ID 8080904)
Till Bastian, Auschwitz und die "Auschwitz-Lüge": Über das Versagen der Kritiker des Holocaust-Revisionismus (German Edition) (ID 8185504)
Fail: "Denying History": How Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman Botched Their Attempt to Refute Those Who Say the Holocaust Never Happened (ID 8280843)
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Note that none of the IDs given by them are Amazon Kindle ASIN numbers nor anything else we can identify. Anyway, a day later, they added two more books to that list (this time using the proper Kindle ASINs):
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Holocaust-Revisionismus: Eine kritische geschichtswissenschaftliche Methode (ASIN: B01APR920Q)
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Early in the morning of that same day, we also checked the status of all the books we have in our account with CreateSpace, Amazon’s print-on-demand subsidiary. All were still listed and enrolled in all Amazon retail sales outlets. We had received no message whatsoever from CreateSpace, but when checking the U.S. and UK Amazon websites, the result was mindboggling. In the following table, the titles of the books (some abbreviated) have links leading to a website which lists online stores offering the book for sale. The links in the two right-hand columns go to the Amazon stores as indicated. Until March 5, 2017, these links all went smoothly to that book's dedicated sales page on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. Since March 6, however, they are all dead…
In addition, if you search Amazon for bestselling revisionist authors, you receive the following (click on the link provided):
Repeat this with any other revisionist author or publication that comes to mind. The results are clear: Almost all revisionist content has been erased more or less from one day to another. Hundreds of books and brochures gone for good. Anything left over by mistake might get deleted in days to come.
If we look at the list of banned books, we are astonished to find among them books which aren't even dealing with "the Holocaust" as such:
| Title | ISBN | Amazon USA | Amazon UK |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auswanderung der Juden… | 1591480841 | Amazon USA | Amazon UK |
| Jewish Emigration from the Third… | 1591481252 | Amazon USA | Amazon UK |
| The First Holocaust | 1591481163 | Amazon USA | Amazon UK |
| The Central Construction Office… | 1591481120 | Amazon USA | Amazon UK |
| Die Zentralbauleitung… | 1591480507 | Amazon USA | Amazon UK |
The first two deal with Jewish emigration from the Third Reich prior to the war. It is based on mainstream sources and does not touch upon the extermination issue. The third deals with Jewish fundraising campaigns during and after the FIRST World War, and does therefore already for chronological reason not deal with the Jewish Holocaust of the SECOND World War. The last two books are highly esoteric studies of the organization, responsibilites and activities of the Central Construction Office at Auschwitz, which was in charge of building and maintaining the camp's infrastructure. It is based on original wartime archival material and is not dealing with extermination claims of Auschwitz at all. The book has even been cited as a source by mainstream historians.
The sweeping mass ban enforced within hours, and the senseless aimlessness and random nature with which it was implemented, clearly show that these books were not pulled because their content was checked and found impermissible, but because someone (probably Yad Vashem) had sent them a list of items to ban, and Amazon simply complied by checking off all the items on that list.
And here are the Jews gloating over their victory:
Stephen Oryszczuk, "Amazon removes Holocaust denial books from sale. Titles which question or reject the Holocaust have been taken off the site, following discussions with the Board of Deputies" Jewish News, March 8, 2017, 4:23 pm:
Amazon UK has removed four books from sale which question or deny the Holocaust, following discussions with the Board of Deputies.
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and never miss our top stories FREE SIGN UP!The titles, including ‘Holocaust: The Greatest Lie Ever Told’ and ‘The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry,’ were withdrawn from sale this week, despite it being legal to sell them in the UK.
Board of Deputies’ vice-president Marie van der Zyl said: "It is very welcome that Amazon has listened and removed the offending titles from their website. These are not works of historical integrity. They are an anti-Semitic attempt to exonerate the Nazis of their crimes and to stoke the fires of hatred."
Amazon UK had earlier refused to pull them from sale, because there are no laws against Holocaust denial in the UK, unlike in other European countries like Germany and France.
After the apparent U-turn, Van der Zyl added: "Should any member of the public find further offending works, please get in contact with us and we will report them using the appropriate channels."
Four books? (The Jewish Chronicle even wrote about only three books.) So far, Castle Hill Publishers along had 68 print book removed and 72 Kindle books. Then read the last sentence: After their success, the Jews are already eager to censor more books. And guess what? It is happening. As I type this, books not aligned with the orthodox narrative of the Second World War in general are being banned, or books which are not all-out negative about that war, like any book reporting in a neutral fashion about Axis personalities, weapons, organizations. Books critical of Jewish influence and power are in their crosshairs as well.
We are talking about thousands of books being massacred!
