By Mark Weber ∙ July 1, 1995
With his wife, Anneliese, and a friend, the 82-year-old, wheelchair-bound Otto-Ernst Remer arrives in Spain on February 5, 1994. He fled his homeland to evade a 22-month prison sentence in Germany for the “thought crime” of “Holocaust denial.” He has applied for political asylum in Spain. To evade a 22-month jail sentence in Germany for…
By Mark Weber ∙ July 1, 1995
The emergence and rapid growth of the “information superhighway” computer network as a vast global communications forum is dramatically transforming the nature of the international struggle for truth in history and for our basic freedoms. Contributing greatly to the phenomenal growth of the already huge “cyberspace” computer link-up is the Internet, a worldwide network of…
By Mark Weber ∙ July 1, 1995
Two historians in Austria recently made public what they say is the “first technical proof” that gas chambers were used to kill prisoners in German camps during the Second World War. This “major discovery” is a ventilator fan. In the face of the revisionist challenge, historians have for several years been searching for just one…
By Joseph Sobran ∙ July 1, 1995
Joseph Sobran is a nationally-syndicated columnist, author and lecturer. He is a former senior editor of National Review, and currently Washington, DC, correspondent for The Wanderer and the Rothbard-Rockwell Report. He edits a monthly newsletter, Sobran's (… [now defunct; ed]). “Holy War” first appeared in the May 18, 1995, issue of The Wanderer, a traditionalist…
By Mark Weber ∙ July 1, 1995
In addition to the attention generated because of the impact of its materials on the Internet, the Institute for Historical Review has been attracting other recent media attention. A few highlights: A brief but error-packed item about the Institute appeared prominently in The Washington Post, May 11, under the headline “The Neo-Nazi Network.” With blatant…
By Nicholas Strakon ∙ April 1, 1995
Nicholas Strakon is the pen name of the editor of Dispatches from The Last Ditch, a newsletter. (P.O. Box 224, Roanoke, IN 46783. $42 for twelve issues. Free sample available on request.) “Who Bombs Children?” and “The Bombardier's Song” are reprinted from the April-May 1995 issue. After the Oklahoma City bombing, ordinary Americans all over…
By Mark Weber ∙ July 1, 1995
This is a revised and updated version of an article that first appeared in The Journal of Historical Review, Winter 1989-90 (Volume 9, number 4), pages 439-452. For more than 40 years, Simon Wiesenthal has been tracking hundreds of “Nazi criminals” from his “Jewish Documentation Center” in Vienna. For his work as the world’s most…
By Mark Weber ∙ July 1, 1995
Arriving in Los Angeles in 1977 with a $500,000 gift from Canadian Jewish businessman Samuel Belzberg, Rabbi Marvin Hier lost no time launching his dream project: the Simon Wiesenthal Center. In the years that followed, Hier succeeded in building the Center, named after the well-known “Nazi hunter,” into one of the world’s most influential Jewish…
By Mark Weber ∙ May 1, 1995
In a drawn-out case that has received considerable international press attention, a German court recently sentenced Günter Deckert, leader of a small nationalist political party, to two years' imprisonment for “denying the Holocaust.” A Karlsruhe regional court handed down the sentence on April 21, 1995, after Deckert had already been found guilty of “inciting racial…
By Mark Weber ∙ May 1, 1995
Because she helped translate three reference articles published in The Journal of Historical Review, a long-time executive of the German National Tourist Office in New York has been dismissed. Michael Kranefeld, Regional Manager of the Office, announced on May 9 the immediate dismissal of its manager of sales promotions, Elke Berg, who is also the…
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