Dr. Michael Shermer Debunking Holocaust Denial

This is an excerpt from Dr. Shermer's presentation of his book "Denying History" at the USHMM, which he authored with historian Dr. Alex Grobman (PhD in Jewish contemporary history from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem) and presented on the 10th of September 2000.

In this video you will see Dr. Shermer explaining the positions holocaust deniers hold (i.e. they don't deny everything, but "just" any and all homicidal gas chambers, therefore homicidal gassing, as well an intentional extermination program by the Nazi government and the 6 million Jewish death toll) and also addresses the "clever questions" raised by David Cole; Faurisson's silly "no holes in the roof" argument, as well as John C. Ball and other deniers during the 1990s and earlier. This video also addresses the question as to whether human soap was made by Nazis near Stutthof.

Dr. Michael Shermer majored in Christian Theology in 1976 at Pepperdine University, obtained his Master's Degree in Experimental Psychology in 1978 at the California State University in Fullerton, and his PhD in the History of Science at the Claremont Graduate University in 1991.