Inconvenient History – Submission Guidelines

Author Safety

For understandable reasons, we will publish items produced by authors using a pen name, which will, of course, be treated highly confidentially, although we cannot accept liability for disclosure by other parties. Contributions sent in anonymously, which are also welcome, can only be published if their content is ready for print.

Languages

IH accepts material in all languages DeepL.com can translate, but we publish only papers in the English language. To facilitate our procedure, please submit your text in English.

Requirements of Content

Topics: History, especially modern history; civil rights and their violation, with a focus on freedom of speech and of scientific inquiry; reporting on persons and institutions involved in historiography, or involved in censorship or the struggle against it. IH prefers new and hitherto unpublished reports, reviews and research papers, but we consider republishing material of special merit as well;
Style: Systematic structure; objective; support of factual statements with references; separation of opinion from factual statements; no ad-hominem attacks; no advocating, justification or condoning of the violation of civil rights.

Structure and Formatting

All submissions, especially longer ones, ought to come with an abstract, preferably in English, of no more than 1,000 characters succinctly and accurately summarizing the item’s contents. There is no restriction regarding the length of contributions. However, contributions which exceed some 50,000 characters or 9,000 words may be split into several parts and published in consecutive issues. Longer texts ought to be structured with section headlines, nested if appropriate. In MS Word, use built-in headline paragraph styles, as they automatically convert into html headline tags.

Media Types

IH accepts three types of media: written, video, and sound. In case of the latter two, we require that a written transcript be submitted as well, for this will also be published on-line and in print.

Data

Data Carriers

We prefer electronic submissions either per email attachment to email@germarrudolf.com, or by mail using data carriers (SD card, USB stick) to PO Box 26, Geneva, NY 14456. For transferring larger files electronically, please get in touch to arrange for a file swap using a file-sharing service. Please abstain from sending in typed/printed material. The retyping/OCR processing required to fetch their content is a serious obstacle to us

File Formats

Text: We do our main text work with MS Word; the file formats of all major type-setting programs can be read, but for reasons of portability, file formats of MS-Word files (*.doc, *.docx) as well as *.rtf (Rich Text Format), *.html (HyperTextMarkupLanguage, i.e., Internet files) and OpenDocument (*.odt) are preferred.
Illustrations: Artwork can be submitted as *.gif, *.jpg, *.png, *.tif, *.webp and also as hard copies, if needed.
Video/Audio: *.mp4; *.mp3; subtitle files: *.srt.

Format Conventions

Quotations

Words other than your own should be enclosed in double quotation marks and have a reference as to their source. For example: Hitler said on his birthday, “I hate Jews.” Quotations of complete sentences or even paragraphs should be set indented as block quotations (italicizing optional):

“The origins of the Nuremberg trials lay in the desire of the Allies as far back as 1943 to take revenge on the Nazi leadership, and punish the German people.”

Please include quotation marks here as well, for if the indentation gets lost, it still can be identified as a quotation. Do not repeat the opening quotation mark at the beginning of new paragraphs inside a quotation. We are not a newspaper!

Source References/Citations

Place source references into either foot- or endnotes, if possible (but not both). When citing titles in other languages, respect the standards of the language in question for capitalization in titles. We are flexible regarding the citation style. Two general rules apply: a) The reference must include all information necessary to enable a reader to locate the publication cited. b) Be consistent on how you quote your sources. Our preferred citation style is as follows:

Books

The order of information is Author(s) or editor(s) [the latter indicated by (ed(s).)], Title (usually in italics), Edition, if not the first, Volume (if a single volume is being cited out of a multi-volume work), Title of individual volume (if applicable), Series title (if applicable), publisher, city, year; Page number[s].

Standard Book

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry, Institute for Historical Review, Torrance, Calif., 1985, pp. 100-103.

Book with two authors

Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf, Treblinka: Extermination Camp or Transit Camp?, Theses & Dissertations Press, Chicago, 2004, p. 64.

Article in a book edited by someone else

Charles Callan Tansill, “The United States and the Road to War in Europe,” in: Harry Elmer Barnes (ed.), Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, The Caxton Printers, Caldwell, Id., 1953, pp. 139-141.

Journals/Periodicals

The order of information is Author, Title of article (in quotation marks), Title of periodical (usually in italics), Volume, Issue No, date, page number(s); URL (if online).

Robert Faurisson, “Confessions of SS Men Who Were at Auschwitz,” The Journal of Historical Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer 1981, pp. 103-107; https://codoh.com/library/document/confessions-of-ss-men-who-were-at-auschwitz/.

Newspaper articles

The order of information is Author (if available), Title of article (in quotation marks), Title of newspaper (usually in italics), date, page number(s); URL (if online).

Joe Shmoe, “Protest to Berlin is Expected Today,” New York Times, 7 August 1933, p. A2.

Web Pages

The order of information is Author (if available), Title of article (in quotation marks), posting date (if available); URL (optional in parenthesis: date when last visited)

Ron Paul, “Violating the Constitution with an Illegal War,” 3 October 2002; http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul57.html.

Put URLs in standard Roman type, not in italics. Do not set them off in angle brackets < >. In MS Word, let Word create a clickable link automatically (if URL starts with www. Or http(s)://, just go to end of URL, then add a space).

Note: When naming a publisher’s location (town, city), one need not indicate the state or country when that is commonly known or obvious. For example: Worchester, Mass. but not Boston, Mass. Vienna, Va. but not Vienna, Austria.

Emphases

Limit italics to a minimum (book, video and periodical titles; foreign language expressions in English; emphasis, sparingly). Any other fancy formatting will most likely be removed (special fonts, colored text, bold, underlining). Avoid formatting columns with tab characters and use tables instead, as tabs cannot be rendered in html (web) formats.

Acronyms and Initials

  • Set acronyms entirely in capital letters with no periods e.g., FBI not F.B.I.
  • Spell out acronyms the first time you use them, followed by the acronym in parentheses.
  • Italicize acronyms made up of non-English words (e.g., RSHA) unless the acronym also serves as a name (DEGESCH, not DEGESCH). Capitalize according to usage.

Capitalization

  • Do not capitalize the word revisionist.
  • Do capitalize the word Holocaust (when referring to the Jewish tragedy of 1941-45).
  • National Socialist not Nazi (unless quoting – the term is a pejorative never used by members of that party).
  • Communist not Commie (unless quoting – the term is a pejorative never used by members of that party).
  • In general, titles of individuals are capitalized only when used with person’s name, e.g., President Roosevelt, Professor Faurisson, Queen Elizabeth.

Dates

  • No apostrophe before s when specifying a decade or century, e.g., 1940s not 1940’s.
  • All dates, whether in text or references, should be in day-month-year format, with months always spelled out, e.g., 18 December 1982.

Foreign Words

  • For English texts, foreign words should be set in italic type, e.g., Einsatzgruppen, Führer. For other languages, please respect the standards of the language in question.
  • Proper names with foreign words: for English texts, italicize the foreign words, but not the proper-name part e.g., Gruppe Arlt not Gruppe Arlt.

Numbers

Usually, numbers are spelled out up to “ten,” and numerals are used for 11 and higher.

Miscellaneous

  • Follow American, not British spelling, e.g., color, not colour.
  • World War One and World War Two or First World War and Second World War are preferred to World War I and World War II. Never use WWI and WWII.

Procedure

Proofs of articles considered for publication will be sent to the authors whose email address we have. The editors reserve their right to determine in which issue each item will be published, or to reject an item altogether at any time prior to publication. Royalties are paid only in case the author(s) suffer(s) under social and/or legal persecution for expressing her/his peaceful opinion. Any physical material submitted will not be sent back unless this has been arranged beforehand.

Should you agree to these conditions, we look forward to receiving your submissions.

Sincerely

Lead Editor of Inconvenient History
email@germarrudolf.com

Please send all physical mail to:
Germar Rudolf, Lead Editor
PO Box 26
Geneva, NY 14456, USA

  • Germar Rudolf was born on October 29, 1964, in Limburg, Germany. He studied chemistry at Bonn University, where he graduated in 1989 as a Diplom-Chemist, which is comparable to a U.S. PhD degree. From 1990-1993 he prepared a German PhD thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in conjunction with the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Parallel to this and in his spare time, Rudolf prepared an expert report on chemical and technical questions of the alleged gas chambers of Auschwitz, The Rudolf Report (now titled The Chemistry of Auschwitz). He conclude in it that "the alleged facilities for mass extermination at Auschwitz and Birkenau were not suited for the purpose as claimed." As a result he had to endure severe measures of persecution in subsequent years. Hence he went into British exile, where he started the small revisionist outlet Castle Hill Publishers. When Germany asked Britain to extradite Rudolf in 1999, he fled to the U.S. There he applied for political asylum, expanded his publishing activities, and in 2004 married a U.S. citizen. In 2005, the U.S. recognized Rudolf's marriage as valid and seconds later arrested and subsequently deported him back to Germany, where he was put in prison for 44 months for his scholarly writings. Some of the writings he got punished for had been published while Rudolf resided in the U.S., where his activities were and are perfectly legal. Since not a criminal under U.S. law, he managed to immigrate permanently to the U.S. in 2011, where he rejoined his U.S. citizen wife and daughter. He currently resides in Upstate New York.

    Read more about him here.