By Alfred M. De Zayas ∙ January 1, 1989
Following are the events surrounding the sinking of the German ship, Erich Giese on 13 April 1940 by the British Navy. Captain Karl Smidt explained during his Paris deposition on 23 August 1940: “While the crew of some 200 men was swimming in the water, the British destroyers opened fire against us with machine guns…
By Alfred M. De Zayas ∙ January 1, 1989
Statement of Corporal Walter Segel before Judge Sauermann: “Together with my troops I went on board a Greek caique on 17 May 1941 and we sailed from Piraeus in order to land on the western shore of Crete on 20 May to give support to the parachute troops. We sailed in a convoy of 21…
By Kenneth V. Iserson ∙ January 1, 1994
Kenneth V. Iserson “Japanese skulls were much-envied trophies among U.S. Marines in the Pacific theater during World War II. The practice of collecting them apparently began after the bloody conflict on Guadalcanal, when the troops set up the skulls as ornaments or totems atop poles as a type of warning. The Marines boiled the skulls…
By Joseph Sobran ∙ January 1, 1991
Yes, says Victor Ostrovsky, a former Israeli secret agent. In a new book, By Way of Deception: A Devastating Insider's Portrait of the Mossad, Mr. Ostrovsky says the Israelis had advance notice of the suicide attack that killed 241 Marines in Beirut in October 1983 but withheld the information from the United States in the…
By Edward L. Van Roden ∙ January 2, 1949
I American investigators at the U. S. Court in Dachau, Germany, used the following methods to obtain confessions: Beatings and brutal kickings. Knocking out teeth and breaking jaws. Mock trials. Solitary confinement. Posturing as priests. Very limited rations. Spiritual deprivation. Promises of acquittal. Complaints concerning these third degree methods were received by Secretary of the…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ January 1, 1994
Official Estimates of the Number of Victims Auschwitz was both the largest and most notorious of the Nazi concentration camps. Auschwitz is central to the literature on the Holocaust and Nazi crimes. At one time, it was claimed that as many as four million people were killed in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Through the…
By Mark Weber ∙ January 10, 1993
Summary The Auschwitz extermination story originated as wartime propaganda. Now, more than 40 years after the end of the Second World War, it is time to take another, more objective look at this highly polemicized chapter of history. The Auschwitz legend is the core of the Holocaust story. If hundreds of thousands of Jews were…
By Herbert Tiedemann ∙ January 1, 1993
“Courage means seeking the truth and proclaiming it!”—Jean Jaurés 1. Preamble The subject of 'Babi Yar' is confusing in many respects. For a general overview, this brief summary shall therefore identify the major problem areas: The mass murder at Babi Yar took place almost four months prior to the Wannsee Conference, where the killing was…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1987
Table of Contents Preface: p. v Chapter 1 – 1979, p. 3 Chapter 2 – 1984, p. 7 Chapter 3 – 1979, p. 14 Chapter 4 – 1979, p. 27 Chapter 5 – 1985, p. 36 Chapter 6 – 1979, p. 46 Chapter 7 – 1985, p. 55 Chapter 8 – 1980, p. 66 Chapter…
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ December 1, 1982
Deutsch | FrançaisPresented at the IHR's 1982 Revisionist Conference Introduction When in the discussion of some subject we criticize somebody because “he can't see the forest for the trees,” we refer to a special sort of intellectual failing. We do not mean that the object of our criticism is incompetent or that his views on…
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