By Bradley R. Smith ∙ May 1, 2012
The Student Press Illustrates Once AgainThe Depth of the Holocaust TabooIn the American University Bradley Smith The Belfer First Step Workshop on the Holocaust is a program created by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to prepare pre-service secondary teachers to integrate the Holocaust into their lesson plans effectively. I learned about the Workshop in…
By Jett Rucker ∙ August 1, 2011
At age 56 (younger by far than our Bradley Smith), I returned to a college campus as a hyperannuated student, far more eager to learn than I was in those days when enrollment in college was one means to defer the draft for us males. I noticed many changes on campus after some forty years,…
By Wilfried Heink ∙ May 18, 2012
By Wilfried Heink The last two chapters of Verbrechen der Sieger are titled “Polen” (Poland) and “Tschechoslowakei” (Czechoslovakia). Poland was defeated and therefore did not have any legitimate armed forces and as a consequence not able to capture “Prisoners of War”. About 800,000 German POWs were concentrated in the area of East/Germany-Poland, among them 7,500…
By Wilfried Heink ∙ May 1, 2012
By Wilfried Heink- The next chapter is titled “Soviet Union” (Sowjetunion), and begins with “Morgenröte der Befreiung“ (The dawn of liberation). It is well worth the effort to go into this before continuing with the plight of German POWs, this time in the Soviet Union (SU), for it lays the foundation for what happened to…
By Samuel Crowell ∙ September 1, 1997
Committee for Open Debate on the HolocaustPost Office Box 439016 / MCD P-111 San Diego CA 92143 Tel (San Diego): 619.687.1950 On the Internet: http://www.codoh.com 28 August 1997 Walter Reich, Director United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Washington D.C. 20024 Dear Dr. Reich: Some months ago I came across materials that showed a remarkable connection between…
By Wilfried Heink ∙ April 20, 2012
By Wilfried Heink- In the Fight with the Partisans: This is the caption of the first chapter under “Yugoslavia” – getting back to Crimes of the Victors, the book under discussion. It contains four chapters in total, Yugoslavia, Soviet Union, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Instead of writing “the authors tell us”, or “we are told”, I'll…
By Wilfried Heink ∙ April 13, 2012
By Wilfried Heink- Dr. Rudolf Aschenauer, a lawyer who was involved in the defense of German soldiers, in his book about partisans “Krieg ohne Grenzen” (War without borders, [Druffel-Verlag, Leoni am Starnberger See, 1982]), complains that the partisan issue was never properly addressed in all the trials he was involved in (p. 139). To make…
By Willis A Carto ∙ July 1, 2003
I am not the first to point out that every person who sets down history in some measure revises that which has gone before, or there would be no point to his efforts. In the U.S., which is the focus of this essay, the term 'historical revisionism' was first used to describe the work of…
By Thomas Kues ∙ April 8, 2012
By Carolyn Yeager Elie Wiesel questioned under oath in a California courtroom in 2008: Q. And is this book Night that you wrote a true account of your experience during World War II? A. It is a true account. Every word in it is true. In Part One, I established that the decision to rebrand…
By Wilfried Heink ∙ March 29, 2012
By Wilfried Heink The next chapter is by Prof. Dr. Fritz Münch, titled: Zum Recht der Kriegsgefangenschaft (The Rights of Prisoners of War). The author tells us that existing law concerning POWs is relatively new, going into some detail regarding the Hague Rules of Warfare and the Geneva Convention. He also states that during WWII…
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