Confessions of a Holocaust Revisionist

This is the extraordinary story of an ordinary American who couldn't help but develop doubts where society doesn't allow doubts. In an attempt to overcome those doubts, he asked questions that society does not tolerate; and he gave answers that society suppresses to this day by any means.

This autobiographical book interweaves two narrative strands. The first spans the early years of his conversion to the status of an ostracized doubter in 1979 and 1980, describing the inner turmoil he experienced when one day, by sheer coincidence, he discovered he had believed something all his adult life about Germans and Jews that he now realized may not be true at all. The other strand tells episodes of Smith's fledgling activities during the mid-1980s when he started asking questions and probing for answers about his doubts, lobbying for a free exchange of ideas and a free press where the powers that be had no interest in it.

This book chronicles the budding of what was to become the world's most effective campaign so far conducted, aiming at implementing an open debate on the West's last standing taboo subject. It describes the beginnings of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust, which was formally established just around the time the first edition of this book was published.

This is an earthy, humorous, unsparing and compelling account of how Smith's confrontation with his last frontier of unwarranted belief - the Holocaust story - changed his life due to the resulting struggle to balance the right relationship with men, women and ideas.