(Yup - it took an engineer to debunk DaHolocaustNarrative - based on logistics, documentation, evidence and real science. - CL)
It was some time before the revisionist thesis was developed with rigor. If forced to choose a start date for modern revisionism, 1976, the year of publication of Arthur Butz’s book The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, would be a reasonable choice. Butz was an electrical engineering professor at Northwestern University who began writing the book in his spare time in the early 1970s. After reading Hilberg, Butz became convinced that the extermination story was a “pernicious hoax” and that mainstream scholars were acquiescing in “a monstrous lie” which he “felt an inescapable obligation and an intellectual imperative” to expose. Butz examined in detail the evidence from the war crimes trials and the works of Reitlinger and Hilberg. The book was head and shoulders above any prior revisionist effort and served as a foundation for subsequent revisionist research which advanced rapidly in the 1980s.