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Information on current events of interest, as far as they are contained in library documents. For more frequently posted brief news items see CODOH's separate News blog.

Afghanistan “To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a desert, and call it peace,” wrote the Roman historian Tacitus, in a free version of a British terrorist’s anti-Roman rant nearly two millennia ago. Afghanistan seems to have been mostly desert even before the past …

Memorial to Romany Victims of Holocaust New York Times 24 October 2012 BERLIN — [Edited] Germany paid tribute on Wednesday to the hundreds of thousands of Romany people killed in the Holocaust, opening a long-awaited place of remembrance for a minority still plagued by discrimination. Addressing a crowd that included …

Axis to Grind: As America’s hollow, but cheap, victory over the Taliban continues to unravel in Afghanistan, President Bush has disheartened those of us who had hoped that what we recently called the “American wing” of his administration would prevail in the national councils. By designating Iran, Iraq, and Red …

The Chicago Public Library's program "One Book, One Chicago" has chosen, for 2002, Elie Wiesel's Night, a little book that purports to be an account of this Jew's experiences at Auschwitz, Buchenwald and other camps after deportation in 1944 at age 15. The general idea is that we here in …

An article in the Newark Star-Ledger of 23 Oct. 1996 (p 15) treats Web sites that some consider objectionable. Among these are sites of Holocaust revisionists. Steven Some, Chairman of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, said "These Holocaust deniers are very slick people. They justify everything they say …

In the context of the controversy over the arrest of Australian citizen Dr. Fredrick Töben in Germany, which I have reported elsewhere, the 5 May 1999 Sydney Morning Herald published an article by Sydney, Australia resident George Ryba. The gist of Ryba's article was as follows. He was a …

Les frontières ravagées, fondées dans un immense royaume de Frénésie, les hommes voulant du progrès et le progrès voulant des hommes, voilà ce que furent ces noces énormes. L'humanité s'ennuyait, elle brûla quelques Dieux, changea de costume et paya l'Histoire de quelques gloires nouvelles.—Céline, Semmelweis, p. 1. Chronique des évènements …

Wednesday, 1 November When I clicked onto our Homepage this morning I found a blank screen. I had a small attack of anxiety. The first thing that came to me was that someone, probably from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, had leaned on the people at Valleynet and my provider had …

Thursday, 1 February 96 David Stennett, a student at University of Puget Sound (WA) left a review copy of David Cole's video about fraud at Auschwitz, "David Cole Interviews Dr. Franciszek Piper," at the UPS History office. The video was reviewed by Professor Theodore Taranovsky, who teaches something on the …

Wednesday, 3 January Denial, a new play by Peter Sagal, had its world premiere in December at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven. Shades of O'Niel and all the others. The play concerns a Jewish attorney working for the ACLU who is asked to defend a professor and author …

*** As I reported here last month, I have begun “tweeting.” Posting brief messages online that with a single click are sent to those who I have convinced to sign up for them. Each tweet is a very brief text with a link to a relevant story that I want …

Jonas E. Alexis at Veterans Today The publication of Jonas E. Alexis’s columns in Veterans Today represents a powerful movement of recognition for Holocaust revisionist ideas on the Internet. There is no professor at any university in America who would dare to express himself with the frank, honest audacity of …

Antony Charles is the pen name of an educator and writer who holds both a master’s and a doctoral degree in history. He has taught history and is the author of several books. A resident of North Carolina, he currently works for a government agency. Not only during his lifetime, …

It has to be now admitted that finally there is no proof, no evidence whatsoever that the Nazi gas chambers ever existed, claims French "historian and novelist" Jacques Baynac. Extremely hostile to revisionists and especially to Robert Faurisson (with whom he had a dispute in October 1980) and a friend …

It appears to be just a coincidence that, just as the reports came out, of forgery of the documents used by author Martin Allen to argue that Himmler was murdered, a book was about to be published in Germany arguing the same without dependence on those documents. Thus the Arndt …

A revisionist conference was held 7-9 August 1998 in Adelaide, Australia, and I was happy to be in attendance. I was there on the invitation of the Director of the "Adelaide Institute", Dr. Fredrick Töben, and I gave two short lectures. Arthur R. Butz Conference participants came from the USA …

Dr. Fredrick Töben, Director of Australia's Adelaide Institute, who organized the successful 1998 revisionist conference there, was arrested in Germany on 8 April 1999, on a charge of "defaming the memory of the dead". He was sent to Mannheim Prison. Töben was on a research visit, mainly in Eastern Europe. …

Nearly 30 percent of Sweden's elementary and secondary school pupils "have doubts" about the orthodox Holocaust extermination story, a recent survey shows. Calling this "an appalling warning sign," Prime Minister Goeran Persson responded by promising that his government will increase its emphasis on "Holocaust education." Beginning this fall, he said, …

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 …

NOW AVAILABLE! The soft-bound edition of Inconvenient History Volume V is now available! Our fifth softbound annual contains 516 pages of cutting-edge revisionist scholarship revealing the inconvenient truth on several aspects of recent history. Inconvenient History Volume V contains all the content from our 4 issues from 2013. You will …