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Laurel Rose Willson (18 August 1941 – 8 April 2002), born and raised in the U.S., was a Christian author with a history of fabricated atrocity claims about her past. When the story of the false Holocaust witness Bruno Doessekker aka Binjamin Wilkomirski made headlines (see the entry on him), Willson jumped on that gravy…
Christian Wirth (24 Nov. 1885 – 26 May 1944), SS Sturmbannführer, was a German police officer who was assigned to supervise euthanasia killings in German mental institutions in late 1939. In late 1941, he was assigned to head the Belzec Camp. In August 1942, he became inspector of the Aktion Reinhardt camps. After this operation…
Eduard Wirths (4 Sept. 1909 – 20 Sept. 1945), SS Obersturmbannführer, served as a German army physician in Norway and in the Soviet Union. After suffering a heart attack in early 1942, he was posted to the Dachau Camp for special training, then served briefly as garrison physician at the Neuengamme Camp starting in July…
The Third Reich’s department named Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt (WVHA) translates to Economic and Administrative Main Office. It was established in 1942 by merging two previously independent offices of the SS. The WVHA was directly subordinate to Heinrich Himmler as the Reichsführer SS. This office handled all financial and administrative matters concerning the SS and its…
Dieter Wisliceny (13 Jan. 1911 – 4 May 1948) SS Hauptsturmführer, was one of Adolf Eichmann’s deputies at the office at Germany’s Department of Homeland Security (Reichssicherheitshauptamt) dealing with the so-called “Jewish question.” As such, he was involved in the ghettoization and eventual deportation of Jews from several eastern European countries. Together with Wilhelm Höttl,…
Modern-day trials staged against alleged perpetrators or deniers of claimed Holocaust crimes have many characteristics which put them into the same category as medieval witch trials. Here is a list of some of the pertinent characteristics of witch trials, and how they compare with trials against claimed National-Socialist perpetrators and against those contesting the reality…
Although a claim cannot be evidence of its own truth, claims made by people asserting to have witnessed something in connection with the Holocaust are very often taken at face value by most people, if the claim supports the orthodox narrative. It is therefore very important to subject these claims to a thorough source criticism…
Witnesses who were at a certain location at a time for which some kind of mass-murder activity has been claimed, but who could not confirm having seen any evidence of it, can rightfully be called witnesses against mass murder. Most of them explained that they found out about this alleged mass murder only after the…
Wilhelm Wohlfahrt, a Pole living in Warsaw, was incarcerated in the Auschwitz Camp on 8 January 1942. In March of that year, he was assigned to the camp’s Construction Office, where he was employed as a surveyor who was permitted to leave the camp area to do his job. This is even confirmed by extant…
Karl Wolff (13 May 1900 – 17 July 1984), SS Obergruppenführer, was Heinrich Himmler’s chief of staff and his liaison officer to Adolf Hitler. As such, he had access to all the material crossing Himmler’s desk. Toward the end of the war, on Himmler’s initiative, Wolff negotiated an early surrender of the German forces in…
Otto Wolken (27 April 1903 – 1 Feb. 1975), was an Austrian Jew and physician deported to Auschwitz on 20 June 1943. From October 1943, he was deployed as an inmate physician and later also as main clerk in the outpatient clinic of the Birkenau quarantine camp. In that function, he furtively transcribed various German…
Rudolf Höss, the former commandant of the Auschwitz Camp, was captured by the British just before midnight on 11 March 1946. They subsequently tortured him uninterruptedly for three days. After this, they had him write a confession about his alleged leading involvement in the extermination of the Jews. His handwritten confession was transcribed, and while…
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