By Mark Weber ∙ March 1, 1998
Many of those who view “Titanic,” the new blockbuster motion picture, may leave the movie theater believing that the April 15, 1912, sinking of the great British liner, with the loss of 1,523 men, women and children, was history’s greatest maritime disaster. The “Wilhelm Gustloff,” which served before as a luxury liner, was overloaded with…
By E. Svedlund, et al. ∙ March 1, 1998
The Larger Picture The recent Iraq crisis, with the Clinton administration's zealous campaign to persuade everyone of the need for military action against that Arab country, is helping many Americans better to see the larger picture. I find that people are asking questions and saying things that would have been unthinkable a few years ago….
By Richard H. Curtiss ∙ January 1, 1998
Richard H. Curtiss served as a career foreign service officer with the US Department of State and the US Information Agency, with postings in Indonesia, Germany, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria and other countries. When he retired from the foreign service in 1980, he was chief inspector of the US Information Agency. Curtiss is author of Changing…
By Mark Weber ∙ March 1, 1998
The Execution Protocol: Inside America’s Capital Punishment Industry, by Stephen Trombley. Hardcover. New York: Crown, 1992. (Softcover. New York: Anchor Books, 1993.) 342 pages. Photographs. Index. When French professor Robert Faurisson and other revisionist skeptics first began asking tough questions about how, precisely, the infamous gas chambers at Auschwitz were built and operated, defenders of…
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ March 1, 1998
When I was writing The Hoax of the Twentieth Century I encountered an extraordinary source, namely, the multi-volume collection of documents and commentary Actes et documents du Saint Siège relatifs à la seconde guerre mondiale (“Acts and documents of the Holy See relative to the Second World War”). The series, whose principal editor was Robert…
By Will Rogers ∙ April 28, 1996
Until his death in an airplane crash in 1935, Will Rogers delighted Americans with his witty and astute commentary on social and political issues of the day. The following excerpts from his syndicated newspaper columns and radio broadcasts between 1925 and 1935 were compiled by Bryan B. Sterling and Frances N. Sterling, who have published…
By Mark Weber ∙ March 1, 1998
One of the most persistent and malicious accusations leveled against the Roman Catholic Church in recent decades is the charge that Pope Pius XII and the Vatican acquiesced in the slaughter of millions of Jews during the Second World War by failing explicitly to condemn the killings. (On this subject, see: Mary Ball Martinez, “Pope…
By Revilo P. Oliver ∙ January 1, 1982
Revilo P. Oliver, a scholar of international stature, taught Classics at the University of Illinois for 32 years. From 1980 until his death in August 1994, 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, pp. 19-20. This…
By Keith Stimely ∙ December 1, 1978
Keith Stimely was born on April 9, 1957, in Connecticut, but grew up and was educated on the West coast. He studied at San Jose State University and the University of Oregon, from where he graduated in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in history. (This essay was written in December 1978 for a University of…
By Mark Weber ∙ March 1, 1998
The Institute for Historical Review now has its own Internet web site, www.ihr.org, which offers an impressive selection of material from the Institute for Historical Review, including dozens of IHR Journal articles and reviews. It also includes a listing of every item that has ever appeared in this Journal, enabling callers to quickly search for…
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