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A stumbling block for Revisionists; just as it was for the post-war German defendants; is the seeming wealth of documents and testimony assembled by Allied prosecutors for the Nuremberg trials. The more than sixty volumes of trial material which appeared in the wake of the "Trial of the Major War Criminals" and twelve subsequent trials before the (American) Nuremberg Military Tribunal have for many years supplied a massive compilation of apparently damning evidence against Germany's National Socialist regime. Most Exterminationists; academic and lay; believe that Germany's "aggression" in beginning the war; and the numerous atrocities and war crimes laid to the German account; above all the alleged Holocaust of European Jewry; are amply documented in the so-called "Nuremberg record". A critique of the Nuremberg trials; from a number of different angles; has been a staple of Revisionist writing since the trials. Revisionist authors who chose not to contest directly the Holocaust charges (e.g. F.J.P. Veale) attacked the trials for their various failings in equity; jurisdiction; etc. Holocaust Revisionists; such as Arthur Butz and Robert Faurisson; have focussed on specific abuses involved in producing testimony and evidence in support of the Holocaust; from physical and psychological pressure exerted to obtain confessions and affidavits to the authenticity of certain of the documents transcribed and reproduced in the various Nuremberg volumes. To date no Revisionist; Holocaust or otherwise; has mounted an assault on the Nuremberg "evidence" equal in intensity to that undertaken by Carlos W. Porter in Made in Russia: The Holocaust. Porter's technique is to confront the documents directly; by reproducing page after page from the 42-volume Trial of the Major War Criminals (the Blue Series). Porter's tactic is audacious and provocative: he gives Allied prosecutors and their witnesses the floor and lets them strut their stuff for a good seventy-seven pages before deigning to answer their charges at any length. The catch is that most of the charges are so bizarre that Exterminationists have long since quietly let them lapse. Porter will have none of this; however: a stern Ghost of Holohoaxery Past; he puts the Nuremberg trials on trial by forcing the reader to confront the sort of tripe with which American; Soviet; British; and American prosecutors burdened the Germans and their leaders. How many people know that at Nuremberg the Germans were accused of; along with killing about six million Jews: vaporizing 20;000 Jews near Auschwitz with "atomic energy";killing 840;000 Russian POW's at Sachsenhausen concentration camp (in one month; with special pedal-driven brain-bashing machines; no less); then disposing of them in mobile [sic] crematoria;torturing and killing Jewish prisoners to the tempo of a specially composed "Tango of Death" in Lvov;steaming Jews to death like lobsters at Treblinka;electrocuting them en masse at Belzec;making not only lampshades and soap but also handbags; driving gloves; book bindings; saddles; riding breeches; gloves; house slippers; etc. from the remains of their victims;killing prisoners and concentration camp inmates for everything from having armpit hair to soiled underclothing? Each of these grotesque claims is on display in Made in Russia; reproduced just as it appears in the Nuremberg volumes; and handily underlined and referenced for the convenience of researcher and skeptic alike. ... [See more inside the book.]The Journal of Historical Review; vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 89-92.