In 1996 Vrba repeated the allegations in an article, "Die mißachtete Warnung: Betrachtungen über den Auschwitz-Bericht von 1944" ("The warning that was ignored: Considerations of an Auschwitz report from 1944") in Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, to which the Israeli historian Yehuda Bauer responded in 1997 in the same journal.
In 1996, Vrba reasserted his allegations about the Auschwitz report from 1944 in an article titled "The Unheeded Warning: Reflections on the Auschwitz Report of 1944," which was published in Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte. Yehuda Bauer responded to this in a piece in the same journal in 1997.