I was being sarcastic because it is obviously my mom, and you could figure it out for yourself. Like almost everybody I get my surname from my father, although I frequently go by my full name (Matthew Ghobrial Cockerill) in highly formal contexts (not kiwi farms lol).
It is rather douchey to do so, but it the identity with which I was raised.
Regarding your other questions, I will answer, but it will require an autistic level of detail, so if any normal people are reading this thread (a slender possibility, to be sure), they will want to skip this post -
2/3 Your preferred narrative - that he married her before his ideological change - does not work, because his ideological change was not the determinative factor in his alienation from his wife. In fact, she was collaborating with him on his politics, which was bringing in a lot of money for the family. As I said, she came on the show and did neo nazi jokes about "merchants" and "ovens." The JWQ only became a problem for Mike when he was doxxed and his fans were criticizing him as a grifter and fraud.
4 - I am definitely butthurt, and will not insult the readers of my comments by denying that. But I am butthurt Mike ditching the debate, not his insults. The insults, as I said, relieved any sense of guilt I may have otherwise had in publicly calling him a grifter.
5 - no, Mike was wrong about that, as were many people at CODOH.
6 - Most of these documents are old hat, but not all of them are. I could be mistaken but I believe I will, for example, be the first person to publish an original copy of a 1945 Goebbels diary entry referring to the murder of the Jews (this diary entry has appeared in translation in secondary sources, but not to my knowledge in the original form). This is not the famous 1942 diary entry you may have heard of.
7 - Most of them have been analyzed by other scholars and I could rely on stuff they had previously written. However I spent considerable time analyzing the ones I never had seen before going into the archives. One such document, an Eichmann diary entry, is likely unusable in its original form because of copyright reasons, although I can presumably translate it.
8 - I have no published works on denial. I expect most of my anti-denial work will be intellectually rigorous, yet colloquial in tone, and Youtube or substack based. I do not intend most of my published scholarship to be on this subject. However, I have a couple ideas for a paper. One is an analysis of the "death books" at Auschwitz, which deniers say refer to all dead Jewish prisoners, and mainstream sayss refer only to a minority of prisoners, i.e. able bodied Jews who were worked to death. My hypothesis is that, because the Jews in the death books were almost all (with a few exceptions, e.g. medical experiment guinea pigs) able bodied Jews worked to death, that almost all of them will be adults or teenagers, with almost no young children, or for that matter very old people.
While some statistics have been compiled on the death books and the ages of people therein, to my knowledge nobody has published statistics specifically about Jewish inmates (Auschwitz had registered inmates of various ethnicties, Jewish and gentile), so there is an opening here.
9 - I talked on Skype to Rudolf a few weeks ago. My take on him is that he is a smart guy who knows a lot about chemistry, but while his samples are generally collected rigorously, he makes mistakes because of his weak knowledge of statistics.
Rudolf also told me in our conversation that it is likely he mixed up a control sample that he personally fumigated with a sample from a building at Auschwitz. (His mistake - this is my analysis now, not me paraphrasing Rudolf - has given at least Mike and Strike a false impression regaridng some of his data.) Rudolf also agreed with my view that Leuchter's samples are not credible because Leuchter did not control for the depth of his samples (which is obviously relevant since the deeper the sample is in the wall, the less hydrogen cyanide it will have). Leuchter just hacked away like a kook lmao.
Rudolf was cordial to me throughout our conversation. I do not agree with some other anti deniers who have focused on Rudolfs indecent exposure charge. I do not think it is fair to infer from this, whatever may have happened, that he is a sexual pervert.
It is weird to us - I am quite uncomfortable with it myself - but Germans are quite chill with nudity and near nudity, for example on nude beaches and in saunas. I live in Germany so I am regrettably all too familiar with this by now. It is strange because in general Germs are cold fish, but somehow they are into nudity.
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