In early 2025, Colleen McGuire reached out to me from Greece, where she enjoys her retirement years. Having been a legal professional herself during her earlier career, she promised to help me find excellent legal representation for my legal challenges at that time. She kept her promise, and, boy, was this a life saver! We have been in touch ever since.
During last summer, she came back to the U.S., to visit her sister Cathleen, who had been diagnosed with brain cancer a while earlier. Colleen stayed for roughly a month to help her sister relocate from Utah to upstate New York, and settle into a caring community there. Realizing that I had moved to upstate New York myself roughly a year earlier, Colleen floated the idea of me coming to visit her and her sister. And so it was done. I stayed in a local hotel on July 5 to 6, and we spent a wonderful weekend together. Max loves it, too, because he got to roam through the local forest.
While hanging out with the McGuire sisters, they suggested to me that it was about time to organize a revisionist conference. The ongoing genocide in Gaza has made millions of people recognize the nefarious nature of Zionism, and has opened their minds to looking critically into other aspects of Zionist mind control as well. Such a unique opportunity needed to be exploited, the sisters insisted. They opined that I would be the person to pull it off. Cathleen even came up with a name for the event: Holocaust Summit. If such a thing were to be organized, I suggested, it needed to be entirely online, because the logistical, financial, security and staff challenges for a physical convention would be impossible to meet. There quickly was general agreement on the fact that the Summit would be virtual in nature, and Colleen and Cathleen agreed to help with all their means to make it happen
We then discussed when to have that Summit, what the scope of topics should be for presentations, and started compiling a list of individuals we would approach to submit papers. Wheelchair-bound Cathleen visibly brightened up while we were doing this, as it distracted her from her personal misery, and gave her a sense of purpose and meaning. We discussed the possible contents of an invitation letter, but left the details to be hammered out later. In fact, just a day after I had returned from my little excursion to them, Colleen sent me a first draft of that letter. Many parts of it eventually made it in that actual letter mailed out several weeks later, and onto the event’s home page at HolocaustSummit.com, a domain name I registered shortly after I had returned home.
As the Summit’s date, we initially contemplated November 9, a historical date on which several key events of Germany history took place, among them most notably the creation of the Weimar Republic in 1918, the so-called “Kristallnacht” in 1938 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. We later realized, however, that such an early date would make it difficult for us to organize the Summit, and for potential presenters to prepare their papers. Hence, a few days later, we moved the date to January 27, 2026, the day consecrated in 2005 by the United nations’ General Assembly as “International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.”[1]
In preparation of this event, I approached numerous podcasters open to Holocaust skepticism, asking them for an interview, so I could introduce to their audiences our upcoming Summit. All in all, thirteen of such interviews took place in January, starting with Victor Hugo Vaca on January 5 and ending with Mark Collett on January 23.[2]
Then came the Big Day: We all congregated in cyberspace, the organizers, the presenters and the audience, staring at screen that was suppose to show us pulling it off, using the video-sharing and streaming platform FTJMedia.com. 5 minutes before we were to go online, at 8:40 AM Eastern U.S. time on January 27, 2026, FTJMedia’s server that was to stream the event suddenly went dead. As we found out quickly, it had been switched off by the hosting company. They notified FTJMedia that they had cancelled their hosting contract without notice, as the content shared and streamed by FTJMedia was in violation of their terms and conditions. It took us a few hours before we definitely knew that our event definitely couldn’t take place on that day.
I had been informed the day before our planned event that the French equivalent of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Ligue International Contre Racisme et l’Antisémitisme, had sent letters to FTJMedia’s hosting company a few days earlier, requesting that they shut down FTJMedia. What I found out only after this brutal flip of the switch was the fact that the company hosting the servers which FTJMedia used for its streaming and sharing platform has its headquarters in France. While the physical server that hosted FTJMedia’s contents was located in the U.S., the people calling the shots operated from a country that had declared Holocaust Skepticism a crime back in 1990. So what was that hosting company supposed to do, when confronted with threats by LICRA? Were they suppose to wait for the police to raid their headquarters, arrest the CEO and shut down their operation, or simply flip the switch on one of their U.S. servers? The outcome was self-evident.
What FTJMedia’s decision makers were thinking when contracting a Paris-France-headquartered company to host their content is beyond me. Fact is that we had to call it off for the day, apologize to our prospective audience, and try it another time, this time using servers not run by a company headquartered in a country that has outlawed historical dissent.
Trying to get out of this embarrassment fast, the owner of FTJMedia initially suggested that we simply reconvene the next day. However, moving an entire platform company from one hosting company to another required several days. And so, while FTJMedia was trying to resurrect their sunk operation, we Summit organizers suggested to all presenters to try again one of the following Saturdays, which would have the advantage that most of our prospective viewers didn’t have to work. (The initially planned January 27 had been a Tuesday.) After a brief exchange, it was clear that all presenters could make it on Saturday, February 7, so we rescheduled and announced this new date the next day.
On February 7, no further (successful) intervention happened. We pulled off the event without any further ado. I will not re-post here the entire event with all its presentations. Please visit the Summit’s dedicated website for this at www.HolocaustSummit.com.
The day after this successful Summit, I started breaking down this event’s recorded video lasting more than 10 hours, chopping it into “bite-size” pieces of each presentation. The files thusly created were compressed and uploaded to our server – meaning that shared by CODOH, Armreg Ltd, and all associated websites[3] – and to my personal Rumble and Bitchute channels.[4] While doing so, the server eventually threw a fit, as it turns out because we had run out of disc space due to the large amount of data associated with the many video files created and posted over the past year or so. We resolved that bottleneck quickly by having a larger drive installed.
The day after this upgrade, our IT service provider received a formal email from the hosting company that owns the dedicated server our various websites are located on. They in turn had received an email from the ADL, pointing out that “several virulently antisemitic and/or white supremacist websites are being hosted by Hetzner Online,” which evidently is the company hosting our various websites. The ADL’s list of presumably offensive websites reads as follows:
“Armreg.co.uk – The Academic Research Media Review Education Group LTD (ARMREG) is a major publisher and distributer of Holocaust denialism and revisionism established in the UK in 2023. It bills itself as “a platform that allows dissenting Holocaust scholars willing to speak out to reach a wider audience without fear of retribution,” attempting to legitimize publications, summits, and individuals that deny or distort the Holocaust.
* CODOH.com – The website for the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH). CODOH is a pseudo-scholastic endeavor established in 1987 to promote and legitimize Holocaust denialism. This organization heavily overlaps with ARMREG.
(https://www.adl.org/resources/article/holocaust-denier-bradley-smiths-legacy-lies)
* HolocaustAcademy.com – An ARMREG website meant to spread Holocaust denial and revisionism. Mirror domain: HolocaustAcademy.net.
* HolocaustSummit.com – The website for ARMREG’s and CODOH’s 2026 Holocaust Summit, a Holocaust denialism and revisionism conference.
* HolocaustHandbooks.com – A website dedicated to ARMREG’s and CODOH’s compendium of Holocaust denial literature which they sell in print and digital form. German language version available at HolocaustHandbuecher.com which also points to this IP.
* HolocaustEncyclopedia.com – Affiliated with CODOH, the Holocaust Encyclopedia series is another outlet offering Holocaust denial literature via Hetzner. Mirror domain: NukeBook.org.”
This is followed by several more domains not directly associated with what we are involved in.
When I read it, the one question that arose instantly was: who or what is Hetzner Online? It turns out that this is a German web-hosting company headquartered in Bavaria. How the heck did we end up using them for our hosting needs? Confronted with this question, our IT service provider stated that he had switched hosting services a year ago from a U.S. company, which had become too expensive, to this German company – without telling any of us about it. What the heck was he thinking?
German companies have to abide by German and European censorship laws. It is no secret that the German authorities do not look kindly on what we are doing. But for some reason, for more than a year, nothing happened. It looks like that hosting-company switch had remained below the radar of the German authorities. It evidently took the Summit for the traditional enemies of free speech to take a closer look at the backbone of our operations. We don’t know whether they reported their findings not merely to Hetzner Online, or maybe even to the German authorities. Fact is that we couldn’t wait for Hetzner Online or anyone else to pull the plug on us. We had to move, and fast.
Up-to-date backups of everything were quickly prepared, but then our IT manager informed us that he was about to embark on a week-long trip to Disneyland. What? Our roof is on fire, and he goes vacationing to Disneyland? Yes, he did. So, we held our breath for this week, suspended all new postings and changes to all websites in order that we wouldn’t lose anything in case the servers get turned off, and hoped that Hetzner wouldn’t get impatient. Fortunately, they didn’t. By end of February, all sites and services had been moved to a U.S. company that ensured us they pull plugs only when ordered to do so by a U.S. legal authority.
Hopefully we will be in calm waters going forward.
[1] https://www.un.org/en/observances/commemoration-holocaust-victims-day
[2] For a complete list, see the entry on this matter posted on my personal website titled “Introducing the 2026 Holocaust Skeptics’ Summit”; https://germarrudolf.com/2026/01/introducing-the-2026-holocaust-skeptics-summit/
[3] Access them through HolocaustSummit.com or at codoh.com/library/document/2026-armreg-holocaust-academy-summit/
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