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Irving Fined 10,000 Marks

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell British historian David Irving was fined 10,000 marks ($6,000) by a German court May 5 for public statements denouncing stories of mass exterminations of Jews in gas chambers at Auschwitz as a myth. Munich district court judge Thomas Stelzner ruled that Irving was guilty of “disparaging…

Executive Fired for Translating Journal Items

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Because she helped translate three reference articles published in The Journal of Historical Review, a long-time executive of the German National Tourist Office in New York has been dismissed. Michael Kranefeld, Regional Manager of the Office, announced on May 9 the immediate dismissal of its manager…

Professor Dismissed for Openness to Revisionism

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Donald D. Hiner, an assistant professor of history at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI), was dismissed on March 1 for informing his students that here are two sides to the Holocaust story. Hiner, 51, had been suspended on February 14 after a student who had…

Austrian Revisionist Convicted

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Austrian Revisionist publisher Gerd Honsik has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for 14 breaches of a law against “neo-Nazi” activities that makes it a crime to deny crimes allegedly committed by the Hitler regime. Honsik, 51, had written in his magazine “Halt!” that hydrocyanic gas…

Japanese Publisher Shut Down

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell One of Japan's most prestigious publishers has buckled under pressure from the Holocaust Lobby and pulled the February issue of its Marco Polo magazine – a 200,000 circulation monthly of news and opinion – from newsstands barely a week after it went on sale. The publisher…

French Investigate Garaudy for Holocaust Revisionism

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A French magistrate launched a probe into French historian, Roger Garaudy on allegations that he illegally questioned established beliefs about the holocaust. Garaudy commented that he had “done nothing wrong'' in his work, The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics. This action is the latest in a…

Abbe Pierre Condemned for Support of Revisionist

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Abbe Pierre, a Roman Catholic priest known for championing France's poor and homeless was condemned for supporting the author of a book that presents revisionist arguments which cast doubt on more traditional beliefs about the holocaust. Abbe Pierre, 83, is regularly shown by opinion polls to…

History Denied as Publisher Buckles to Pressure

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell St. Martin's Press has canceled publication of British historian David Irving's long-awaited biography of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels due to growing criticism from several Jewish groups. The American publisher had been standing up to the extreme pressure and gave statements in March that Mr. Irving's critics…

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