Month: June 2007

Charles D. Provan and Nazi-Gas-Chamber Nonsense

I had no intention of ever again writing about the “Nazi gas chamber” theories of the late Charles Provan until I saw this statement in the highly influential Wikipedia online encyclopedia: “Provan has demonstrated the scientific feasibility of mass murder by diesel gas vans against the thesis of Friedrich P. Berg.” See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_D._Provan Despite the…

Is the Holocaust Well Documented?

In late September Iran’s controversial President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, spoke before the United Nations and at Columbia University’s school of international and public affairs. At the New York institution of higher learning, he was given a hostile reception by Columbia’s president, Lee Bollinger. One issue that he castigated the intrepid Iranian leader about was the latter’s…

Israel and the United States

The Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement with Israel, 1947 to the Present by George W. Ball and Douglas B. Ball, W. W. Norton, 1992. Diplomat, international lawyer and distinguished statesman (a former Undersecretary of State in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations), George W. Ball and his historian son, Douglas, have produced a landmark critique of the…

On the Revision of the Number of Victims at Majdanek

At the end of 2005, Tomasz Kranz, chief of the research department at the Majdanek Memorial, published an article in no. 23 of Zeszyty Majdanka (Majdanek Journal) on “The Recording of Deaths and Mortality Rates among the Inmates of Concentration Camp Lublin,” in which he assessed the number of those who perished in the Lublin/Majdanek…

Other Victories for Revisionism

At the recent momentous event in the history of Holocaust revisionism, the Iran Holocaust conference (December 11 and 12, 2006), veteran revisionist scholar Robert Faurisson delivered a speech entitled, “The Victories of Revisionism.” Although it was not a history of the revisionist movement, it did list and discuss twenty important concessions to and victories by…

The “Final Solution of the Jewish Question”

The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust, by Jeffrey Herf, Belknap Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2006, 416 pages. Dr. Jeffrey Herf, professor of history at the University of Maryland and a prominent student of German-Jewish issues, has written a very interesting book that examines anew the National Socialist “Final Solution of…

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