By David Merlin ∙ January 4, 2017
British Broadcast Company has ignored the potentially significant prosecution of Alison Chabloz. She being criminally charged for posting an allegedly “grossly offensive” video making fun of the exploitation of the Holocaust, (she called Auschwitz a “theme park” and sang about some very questionable survivor tales.) Guess what, the BBC has gone into “fringe” comedy itself with its…
By David Merlin ∙ December 30, 2016
It has been 3 months since the opening, but Denial, David Hare's screenplay about the Irving v. Lipstadt trial, can now be classified as a flop. Despite the draw of names like Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, and Timothy Spall, the results for Weekend Number 12, December 16-18, are in and are dismal. The movie-tracking company Box Office…
By David Merlin ∙ December 17, 2016
The recovery of the Rosenberg Diary was announced with great fanfare in June 2013. The documents had been stolen from the Court records of the Nuremberg Tribunal by the notorious Robert Kempner, aka the Thief of Nuremberg. After years of searching, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Justice recovered 425 loose pages covering the period from Spring 1936 to Winter 1944. United…
By David Merlin ∙ December 14, 2016
If you are looking for a good book to give as a Christmas present I would recommend Dead Wake The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson. The book is, as the title suggests, a very readable account of events surrounding the last Winston Churchill voyage of the Lusitania. The Lusitania was the Cunard Line ocean liner…
By David Merlin ∙ December 1, 2016
Germany’s largest supermarket chain has been criticized for a Christmas television advertisement that a government official claims contains covert neo-Nazi codes. Sabine Bamberger-Stemmann, the director of Hamburg’s agency of civic education, a federal public authority that provides political education across Germany has analysed the number plates and said she is convinced the Nazi symbolism must have been deliberately placed. Here is…
By David Merlin ∙ September 24, 2016
Jimmy Durante famously complained, Everybody wants ta get inta da act! And we have Kenneth Stern writing about his "behind the scenes" experiences with the Irving v. Penguin Trial, in the guise of a movie review. http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywood/article/my_behind_the_scenes_denial_story In a nutshell, Stern feels that Denial is God's gift to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for 2016. Stern's modest prose…
By David Merlin ∙ September 21, 2016
Hello Ashleigh– I would like to be put on the waiting list to hear Professor Lipstadt speak. Is it possible to ask questions? May questions be submitted in writing? Here are my questions: 1. Prof. Lipstadt has claimed that the trial “proved the Holocaust.” How can she claim this when Judge Gray specifically stated: “It is…
By David Merlin ∙ September 13, 2016
Least we forget, David Hare’s last Holocaust exploitation movie was The Reader… about a beautiful ex-SS guard who liked to bath a 15 year old boy and then have sex with him. It too was about a trial about Auschwitz. Unfortunately, Mr. Hare has no more concern for accuracy or truth in this Holocaust related…
By David Merlin ∙ September 2, 2016
Director Sara BloomfeldChairman Tom BersteinVice Chairman Allan M. HoltUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SWWashington, DC 20024-2126 Raymund Flandez Communications Officer[email protected] Andrew Hollinger Director, Communications[email protected] Dear officers and Directors of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council: We ask that you share this missive with the other Council members. At the Nuremberg Tribunal, Soviet prosecutors presented…
By David Merlin ∙ August 11, 2016
Denial, a Holocaust Movie based on Deborah Lipstadt’s book History on Trial, is to be released this September. History on Trial is Lipstadt’s account of her vendetta with author David Irving culminating in a defamation action. The action was tried in a London court in 2000 before Judge Charles Gray. Opportunity The release is an…
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