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David Cole

David Cole is an American researcher and filmmaker who specialised in World War II reasearch, particularly into the controversial claims about homocidal gas chambers. He came to the defense of Ernst Zündel when Zündel was being persecuted. Subsequently, Zündel and Cole made a documentary film in Auschwitz, offering an alternative theory on the holocaust.

Cole went into hiding after being beaten several times by groups of Jewish supremacists, and having his life threatened on the website of the Jewish Defense League. In 1998, he recanted his revisionist views on the holocaust.

He came out of hiding in 2013, revealing that he has been using the name David Stein since 1998 and admitting that his 1998 recantation was fake, telling the Guardian "I haven't changed my views. But I regret I didn't have the facility with language that I have now. I was just a kid." During this period Cole/Stein became a well known conservative Republican in Hollywood running Republican Party Animals, a social club for Hollywood conservatives and blogging at countercontempt.com