Author: Arthur R. Butz

Dr. Arthur R. Butz was born and raised in New York City. He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1965 he received his doctorate in Control Sciences from the University of Minnesota. In 1966 he joined the faculty of Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), where he is now Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. Dr. Butz is the author of numerous technical papers. Since 1980 he has been a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee of The Journal of Historical Review, published by the Institute for Historical Review.

Dr. Butz is the author of The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The case against the presumed extermination of European Jewry, first published in 1976, and a number of minor revisionist papers. For those writings he has been vilified and ostracized ever since.

On the Background of CODOH’s “Campus Project”, and Pressac’s 1989 book on Auschwitz (1992, 1:14:21 min)

Prof. Arthur Butz speaks at the 11th Conference of the Institute for Historical Review in 1992 with an introduction by Mark Weber. Professor Butz gives a background to Bradley Smith’s/CODOH’s  Campus Project (first 20 minutes), and his critical remarks on Jean-Claude Pressac’s 1989 book Auschwitz: Technuqie and Operation of the Gas Chambers (New York: Beate…

Dr. Arthur Butz-Historical Video Past vs. Political Present (2000) (1:21 min)

A chat with famous revisionist Arthur Butz on  Historical Past vs. Political Present (2000) Dr Arthur Butz is a professor of Electrical Engineering at Northwestern University. He teaches classes in control system theory and digital signal processing. He is also known for the Butz Algorithim. This algorithim provides a means for computer Hibert's space-filling curve….

Memorabilia: Prof. Arthur Butz, Historical Past vs Political Present at the 13th IHR Conference

Professor Dr. Arthur Butz speaking at the 13th IHR Conference in 2000, on the topic "Historical Past vs. Political Present". Arthur R. Butz was born and raised in New York City. In 1965 he received his doctorate in Control Sciences from the University of Minnesota. In 1966 he joined the faculty of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois,…

Robert Faurisson, 1929 – 2018

For the occasion of Robert Faurisson’s 75th birthday, in 2004, I wrote a little piece (https://codoh.com/library/document/robert-faurisson-a-long-view/) assessing his revisionist career. Now I must write his eulogy, but that 2004 piece can be considered part of this eulogy. There is nothing there to retract, leaving aside one objection he raised (message to me of Feb. 5,…

Memorabilia: Prof. Arthur Butz Historical Past vs Political Present

Professor Arthur Butz speaking at the 13th IHR Conference in California in 2000, the topic "Historical Past vs. Political Present." Arthur Butz was born in New York City. He became a Professor of Electrical Engineering, and has written numerous books on the subject. Professor Butz invented the "Butz" Algorithim, which provided a means for computing Hilbert's…

A Life That Made a Difference

Bradley Smith's letter to Arthur Butz of January 1980 (click to open it as a PDF file) I first learned of Bradley Smith when he wrote me in January 1980. He had just read my book The Hoax of the Twentieth Century and it "shook [his] faith in a story [he had] believed unquestioningly for…

Letters

The Web/Net may be the last battlefield in this whole enterprise. Hoaxery has pretty well driven opposition almost totally from the printed media, and with the severe reprimand even from the land’s national legislature by a unanimous vote condemning any and all who question Establishment hoaxery, it would seem the matter is becoming increasingly dangerous….

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