By Heinrich Himmler ∙ February 20, 1942
Translated by Carlos W. Porter Translator's note: the document is an “unpublished” printed excerpt. All documents in the IMT volumes are printed, i.e., the original document is never shown. The annexes are not attached. (From: Allgemeine Erlassammlung [general compendium of decrees] (AES), part 2, A III f (Treatment of foreign civilian workers), issued by the…
By CODOH ∙ June 25, 1987
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Professor Ernst Nolte of the Free University of Berlin, a world-renowned authority on 19th and 20th-century intellectual history, has been dismissed from his position as chief editor of Zionist theorist and organizer Theodor Herzl's letters and diaries by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the West German group financing…
By CODOH ∙ May 9, 1995
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell 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…
By Dwight D. Eisenhower ∙ October 18, 1945
18 October 1945 At the conclusion of World War II more than fifteen million Germans were driven from their homes in central and eastern Europe. It has been estimated that 2,111,000 Germans died directly as a result of these mass expulsions. The primary reference on this subject is: Alfred M. de Zayas, Nemesis at Potsdam:…
By Leonard Fein ∙ March 3, 1995
It may or may not be a conspiracy, but it feels like much more than pure coincidence. On Jan. 17, there appeared in the Boston Globe an Op-Ed piece by Jeff Jacoby, a conservative columnist, attacking the most-praised Holocaust curriculum in the nation, “Facing History and Ourselves.” The piece came as a shock to many…
By CODOH ∙ April 19, 1991
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell On April 18, 1991 Professor Robert Faurisson was convicted of violating France's peculiar law against questioning “the existence of one or more crimes against humanity as defined by Article 6 of [the charter of] the International Military Tribunal, annexed to the London Agreement of August 8,…
By CODOH ∙ April 10, 1992
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell On April 10, the appeals court in Caen (Normandy) upheld convictions against Vincent Reynouard, a 23-year-old chemical engineer, and Remi Pontier, an information engineer, for distributing leaflets and stickers that question the existence of extermination gas chambers in Third Reich concentration camps. The two defendants were…
By CODOH ∙ October 28, 1993
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., the American execution hardware specialist who insists that claims of wartime mass gassings at Auschwitz are not true, was arrested in Cologne, Germany, on October 28, half an hour before his scheduled appearance on a television show. Leuchter was arrested without an…
By CODOH ∙ October 13, 1994
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell On October 13, at the University of California at Berkeley, the university chancellor cancelled a hall contract for British historian David Irving. It was claimed that the last minute cancellation was due to insufficient security resources. The organizers of Mr. Irving's lecture were forced to move…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ January 1, 1996
Background George Orwell was the pen name of the English author, Eric Arthur Blair. Orwell was educated in England at Eton College. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927, he returned to Europe to become a writer. He lived for several years in poverty. His earliest experiences resulted in…
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