Month: June 2012

From state induced emigration of Jews – to evacuation – to the alleged mass murder.

By Wilfried Heink- A while back I was made aware of a book by Rolf Vogel: “Ein Stempel hat gefehlt” (One rubber stamp was missing). The book, published in 1977, highlights the efforts made by various German officials to help Jews escape from what has become known as “Nazi Germany”. Vogel, the son of a…

The Israeli Masada Myth Exposed

Nachman Ben-Yehuda, The Masada Myth. Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 1995, 401 pp., paperback, $24.95 Hebrew University Professor Nachman Ben-Yehuda of the Sociology Department dropped a cultural-historiographical bombshell on the Jewish State of Israel when he wrote (p. 3): “How does one develop a sociological interpretation for an important…

All Men Are Equal-But Are They Really?

In 1994, Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray published their highly controversial book, The Bell Curve, in which they claimed that the American Black population has a lower average intelligence quotient than the American White population, and genetic differences between the two groups are to a large extent responsible for this. Of course, this raised a…

Letters to the Editor

About R. Countess, “Why the USA Wages War in the Gulf Region,” TR 1(1) (2003), pp. 109-111. To the Editor: Dr. Countess is to be congratulated for writing a fine review of this book, and for bringing to your readership’s attention the role played by ‘Oil Concerns’ in bringing the US into the Gulf War…

Polish Population Losses during World War Two

The following claims are continually put forth by Polish personalities: "Six million Poles lost their lives during the Second World War, a fifth of the entire population"; or "Three million Christian Poles […] were victims of the Nazi terror." This article shows that statements of this sort are not compatible with the easily accessible population…

Revisionism: The Most Dangerous Topic

Dariusz Ratajczak, Tematy Jeszcze Bardziej Niebezpieczne (An Even More Dangerous Topic), published by author, Opole 2002, 245 pp. Already in the fall of 1998, when the historian Dr. Dariusz Ratajczak was still teaching at the University of Oppeln (Opole), he published a book with the Title Dangerous Topics. One of the chapters covered dealt with…

The “Discovery” of “Bunker 1” at Birkenau: Swindles, Old and New

Seven buildings in the infamous Auschwitz concentration camps are claimed to have been equipped with one or more homicidal gas chambers. Five of those buildings were the former Auschwitz crematoria. One smaller crematorium was located in the Auschwitz main camp, and four big crematoria were erected in the huge sub-camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Since the end of…

Denial?

By the mid-1990s the term “Holocaust denier” had become part of the popular consciousness and vocabulary.  Likely catapulted into media newspeak by Deborah Lipstadt’s publication of Denying the Holocaust in 1993, the new term supplanted the earlier term “Holocaust revisionist.” While certainly the phrase of choice for those who oppose the activities of that band…

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