Robert Jan van Pelt, Professor of Cultural History, School of Architecture, University of Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2L 3G1

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• Van Pelt comes clean: Ninety-nine per cent of what we know about Auschwitz we do not actually have the physical evidence to prove
• Documents on Robert Jan Van Pelt's mendacity and intention to deceive. "The man is a shameless dissembler, not scholar"
• Items about Holocaust and Auschwitz architect expert Robert Jan van Pelt gives (false) Testimony on January 28, 2000 that there were no air raids on Auschwitz in 1943, a crucial point
• Van Pelt fears reconstruction of Auschwitz camp will be seized on by "deniers"
• Van Pelt article on Hitler Wave in Los Angeles Times
• Jerusalem Post reviews latest book by Van Pelt on the Lipstadt trial and Auschwitz; and our expert remarks on uncertainties about Van Pelt's "doctorate" and qualifications
• The Van Pelt Report by Robert Jan Van Pelt
• Prof Van Pelt reveals: When Auschwitz was transformed into a museum in 1948, the Poles decided to fake a crematorium-cum-gas chamber for the purpose
• More doubt cast on Van Pelt's amateurish calculations: Krema Berne: Erst geschminkt -- dann bei rund 1000 Grad verbrannt
• David Cesarani reviews Van Pelt's book in The Jewish Chronicle, London, January 3, 1997
• David Irving's reader's letter about this review, published Jan 17, 1997: seems a consensus is being reached
• David Cesarani's livid reply, published Jan 24, 1997, rejecting this belief
• David Irving wrote to Prof Van Pelt with questions from Chicago, May 29, 1997
• Professor Pelt's reply or acknowledgement (not yet received)
• Robert Jan Van Pelt participates in an interactive workshop, at Yad Vashem on Aug 10 - 31, 1997, lectures on memorial architecture
• Withdrawal of Professors Robert Jan Van Pelt and Deborah Dwork from their Holocaust Museum sponsored commission to draw up a master plan for the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex
• Writes in his book that when Auschwitz was transformed into a museum in 1948, the Poles decided to fake a crematorium-cum-gaschamber for the purpose
• Jamie McCarthy's really insolent 1999 response to it
• Prof. Van Pelt boasts, Feb. 1999, he is being called as an Auschwitz witness everywhere
• Identities of Lipstadt's four courtroom history experts revealed. Van Pelt is among them. Debate-dodgers now obliged to face questions
• How Robert Jan Van Pelt milks the Auschwitz cow: Canada, Bronfmans bankrolling his latest book
• March 2009: Toronto's National Post interviews Lipstadt's not-really-an-architect Professor Van Pelt: Finding architectural beauty in the Holocaust
• The book of my enemy has been remaindered -- A Clive James poem, from The Nation's Favourite Comic Poems [Van Pelt's book was heavily subsidised by an Israeli and Jewish body].
• The Van Pelt Report by Robert Jan Van Pelt (Zip file, 1.2MB)
• The draft of the David Irving appeal document book, refuting Van Pelt's allegations
• Sub-index: The problem presented by the Holes in the roof of Krema II, which eye-witnesses "describe" SS men throwing the Zyklon B in through, but which Pelt says are no longer visible in the roof
• In which Professor Robert Jan Van Pelt testifies on oath January 25, 2000 during the Lipstadt Trial that he has no plans to publish his Report as a book
• Indiana University Press announces plans to publish Van Pelt's report on the Lipstadt trial and his expert evidence
• Van Pelt to lecture on his trial victory at Miami Beach and elsewhere, Jan 2002 : A Canadian snowbird in Miami: A brief report on Van Pelt's vaporings
• First section of Van Pelt's book on Lipstadt Trial, posted for research purposes only
• Feb 10, 2002: "Sam Crowell" reviews Van Pelt's new book: finds it thought provoking and deserving of respect
• Van Pelt book reviewed by Theodor Herzl journal Midstream
• Index to Van Pelt
• Investigation on Auschwitz statistics in reputable journal Osteurropa quietly agrees that the Kremas were not gas-chambers, actual deathtoll has been exaggerated by a factor of ten
• First section of Van Pelt's book, posted for research purposes only
• "Ratface" Cesarani reviews the book for The Jewish Chronicle
• The Jerusalem Post review: Murdering History
• Matthew Herrington Reviews the book for FindLaw
• Brian Renk's critique of van Pelt's arguments on the "holes"
• "Ratface" Cesarani: Britain was 'wary' of Nazi [sic. Jewish] refugees
• Van Pelt book reviewed by Theodor Herzl journal Midstream