By Daniel W. Michaels ∙ October 1, 1998
Poslednyaya Respublika (“The Last Republic”), by Viktor Suvorov (Vladimir Rezun). Moscow: TKO ACT, 1996. 470 pages. Hardcover. Photographs. For several years now, a former Soviet military intelligence officer named Vladimir Rezun has provoked heated discussion in Russia for his startling view that Hitler attacked Soviet Russia in June 1941 just as Stalin was preparing to…
By Mark Weber ∙ October 1, 1998
An important association of Jewish legal experts is demanding new and more severe laws against Holocaust revisionism, reports a front-page article in the Athens News, June 28, 1998. A conference of International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (IAJLJ), meeting in June in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, warned that “the international revisionist movement,…
By E. Svedlund, Harvey Taylor, et al. ∙ October 1, 1998
The Delr Yassin Massacre In his letter in the Sept.-Oct. 1997 Journal, B.H. of Jerusalem, Israel, writes that “the Deir Yassin 'massacre' is a myth.” This is not true. Jewish-American scholar Alfred Lilienthal, the author of several important books on the Middle East, wrote in detail about this wanton and unprovoked massacre in his valuable…
By Taki ∙ August 3, 1997
So much opprobrium has come to be attached to almost every aspect of the German past that it is impossible to say anything good about it without being condemned as a Nazi sympathizer. Nonetheless, it is hard not to conclude that the Germany of the past was vastly superior to the one about to dominate…
By Mark Weber ∙ October 1, 1998
Support for historical revisionism has traditionally been strong in northern Europe. Orders for books and tapes arrive regularly at the IHR from Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland – countries where most educated people understand English. And unlike citizens of France, Germany and a few other countries, Scandinavians still enjoy the freedom to express skeptical views…
By Mark Weber ∙ October 1, 1998
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, the government will offer “Holocaust…
By Mark Weber ∙ October 1, 1998
Jürgen Graf and Gerhard Förster are by no means the first persons in Switzerland to be attacked or punished for their revisionist views. They certainly won't be the last. Indeed, it appears that during the past year Swiss authorities have been cracking down on dissidents with noticeably greater severity. In 1986 a teacher in Lausanne,…
By Mark Weber ∙ October 1, 1998
On its own Internet web site, www.ihr.org, the Institute for Historical Review makes available an impressive selection of IHR material, including dozens of IHR Journal articles and reviews. It also includes a listing of every item that has ever appeared in this Journal, as well as the complete texts of The Zionist Terror Network, “The…
By et al. ∙ June 1, 1998
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By Mark Weber ∙ October 1, 1998
Auschwitz State Museum authorities have banned a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) television team and British historian David Irving from visiting the site of the wartime German concentration camp. In a July 15 letter to Irving, Museum official Krystyna Oleksy wrote: “We must advise you that permission will not be given for you to have any…
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