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The Holocaust: Let’s hear both sides

Nearly everyone has heard that the Germans killed some six million Jews in Europe during the Second World War. American television, motion pictures, newspapers and magazines hammer away on this theme. In Washington, DC, an enormous official Holocaust Museum has been built. Scholars Challenge Holocaust Story During the past decade, though, more and more “revisionist”…

The Leuchter Report Vindicated

In early 1988, American execution hardware expert Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., carried out the first-ever forensic investigation of the alleged extermination gas chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek. His sensational conclusion – that these structures were never used as gas chambers to kill people – set off an international controversy that is still continuing. In…

The Missing Hitler Orders

As shocking as it may seem, no order for the extermination of the Jews written or authorized by Adolf Hitler has ever been discovered. Popular media frequently suggests that there is a significant amount of material from Hitler's hand that ordered a vast extermination program. The historical evidence is just the opposite. The result of…

The Morgenthau Plan and the Problem of Policy Perversion

The Morgenthau Diaries consist of 900 volumes located at Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York. As a consultant to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, I was assigned to examine all documents dealing with Germany, particularly ones related to the Morgenthau Plan for the destruction of Germany following the Second World War. The Subcommittee was…

The Nazi Doctors

The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, Robert Jay Lifton, New York: Basic Books Inc., 1986. xiii+561 pages. $19.95 The Nazi Doctors is divided into three main parts entitled “Life Unworthy of Life” (pp. 22-144; Chapters 1-6), “Auschwitz: The Racial Cure” (pp. 148-414; Chapter 7-18) and “The Psychology of Genocide” (pp. 417-500;…

The Pro-Red Orchestra Starts Tuning Up in the U.S.A., 1941

Table of Contents Opinions and Opinion Makers in the U.S.A. Winston Churchill as a Factor Influencing Americans at the Outset, June 1941 Initial Reaction of Interventionist Spokesmen and Press to the Soviet Entry into the European War Some Diplomatic and Economic Straws in the Wind The Roosevelt Administration and Press Supporters Lean Toward Aid at…

The Spectre Haunting Holocaust Revisionism

A spectre is haunting the small but articulate holocaust revisionist movement in America: the spectre of Nazism! The simple fact is that a substantial percentage of holocaust revisionists—perhaps as much as 25%—are Hitler and Nazi apologists. This is not another ritual defamation from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith or the Simon Wiesenthal Center. It's…

The Tradition of Historical Revisionism

“Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.” These are the words of historian, sociologist and criminologist Prof. Harry Elmer Barnes, who founded a school of historical thought following World War One that became known as Revisionist.  But why Revisionist? What is Historical Revisionism?…

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