Month: December 2012

'Long May the Battle Flag Wave'

Thomas DiLorenzo is professor of economics at Loyola College in Baltimore, and an adjunct scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute (Auburn, Ala. 36849-5301). This essay is reprinted from the October 1994 issue of The Free Market, a monthly newsletter published by the Mises Institute. The NAACP is threatening to boycott South Carolina businesses unless…

Letters

Faurisson Comments on Irving, Goebbels and Pressac In the Jan-Feb. 1995 Journal (p. 15), David Irving quotes, as he does in his book Hitler's War, a handwritten note of Heinrich Himmler, dated Nov. 30, 1941, to Reinhard Heydrich. It reads: “Jew transport from Berlin. No liquidation.” This might induce some readers to think that this…

The Dachau Gas Chamber Myth

One of the most prominent camps featured in the early years of the Holocaust extermination campaign was Dachau. Stories abounded about the many thousands who were exterminated there in gas chambers. Members of a us congressional committee stood inside the alleged gas chamber where so many had died, and had their picture taken for the…

‘No Gas Chambers’ Says Influential Japanese Magazine

Under the provocative headline, “The Greatest Taboo of Postwar World History: There were no Nazi ‘Gas Chambers’,” a ten-page revisionist article appeared in the February 1995 issue of Marco Polo, an influential and reputable Japanese magazine. Packed with advertising for luxury goods by major international firms, and sprinkled with photographs of pretty young women, Marco…

Book Detailing Jewish Crimes Against Germans Banned

Germany's cultural-political establishment no longer orders the destruction of “socially dangerous” literature in public bonfires. Today it resorts to more modern, environment-friendly methods to destroy “undesirable” books. In February 1995, thousands of copies of a revisionist work detailing postwar Jewish crimes against Germans were destroyed, following bitter attacks by Germany's cultural establishment. The book, An…

Estonia: Emerging From Communism

Yuri N. Maltsev, a native of Russia, escaped from the Soviet Union a few years before its downfall. He is associate professor of economics at Carthage College (Kenosha, Wise.), and a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute (Auburn, Ala. 36849-5301). This essay is reprinted from the Nov. 1994 issue of The Free Market,…

Why Did a Great Egyptian Civilization Suddenly Collapse?

Revilo P. Oliver, a scholar of international stature, taught Classics at the University of Illinois for 32 years. Until his recent death, he was a member of this Journal's Editorial Advisory Committee. For more about Dr. Oliver, see the memorial tribute to him in the Sept.-Oct. 1994 Journal. This essay, originally written in 1963, is…

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