Author: Mark Weber

Mark Weber was born in 1951 in Portland, Oregon, where he was also raised. He studied history at the University of Illinois (Chicago), the University of Munich (Germany), and Portland State University, from where he received a bachelor's degree in history (with high honors). He then did graduate work in history at Indiana University (Bloomington), where he served as a history instructor and received a Master's degree in European history. Since 1995 Weber has been director of the Institute for Historical Review, which until the early 2000s was a leading revisionist history educational center and publisher based in southern California. For nine years he was editor of the IHR's former Journal of Historical Review. He is the author of many articles, reviews and essays dealing with historical, political and social issues, which have appeared in a variety of periodicals, and in a range of languages. In 1988 he testified during the second Zündel trial in Toronto as a recognized expert witness on Germany's wartime Jewish policy and the Holocaust issue. When the IHR ceased publishing new revisionist material in 2002, Weber redirected his focused on being a guest on numerous radio talk shows.

Mark Weber, currently director of the Institute for Historical Review, explains his getting involved into Holocaust revisionism, and what he thinks of it now.

Probing Look at ‘Capital Punishment Industry’ Affirms Expertise of Auschwitz Investigator Leuchter

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…

'Alternative History” in France

By Mark Weber ∙ March 1, 1998

???. In France, a lively new revisionist history periodical L'Autre Histoire (“The Other History” or “Alternative History”) is making a mark. Now in its third year of publication, a typical issue of this attractively laid out, richly illustrated, and intelligently written magazine-format periodical is 48 pages in length. Editor-publisher is Trystan Mordrel. The June 1997…

American-Born Vatican Historian Refuted ‘Holocaust Complicity’ Charges

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…

New IHR Internet Web Site Offers Easier Worldwide Access to Revisionism

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…

French Courts Punish Holocaust Apostasy

By Mark Weber ∙ March 1, 1998

In 1789 the French National Assembly enacted the “Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen,” a guiding document of the French Revolution that solemnly proclaims as “inalienable” the rights of free speech and of the press. Today French citizens are, by and large, able to express their views freely on nearly any topic….

Japanese Court Declines to Validate Gas Chamber Claims

By Mark Weber ∙ January 1, 1998

In a major victory in Japan for freedom of speech and research on the Holocaust issue, a Tokyo District Court has declined to give judicial validation to claims of mass extermination gas chambers in wartime German concentration camps. The case began in April 1997 when Japanese revisionist author Aiji Kimura brought a lawsuit against three…

Victory for Collins and Free Speech in Holocaust Heresy Battle

By Mark Weber ∙ January 1, 1998

In a surprise ruling, the British Columbia (Canada) Human Rights Tribunal rejected a complaint by a major Jewish organization against veteran journalist Doug Collins and his publisher, the North Shore News, for an allegedly anti-Jewish column on the “Schindler’s List” motion picture. The Tribunal found that the opinion piece, which took aim at Holocaust claims,…

Internet Web Site Offers Worldwide Access to Revisionism

By Mark Weber ∙ January 1, 1998

Through his personal Internet web site, Journal associate editor Greg Raven makes available an impressive selection of material from the Institute for Historical Review, including dozens of IHR Journal articles and reviews. An independent service that impartially reviews and rates web sites has given the site a positive rating. In the summer of 1996, Gale…

Remer Dies in Exile

By Mark Weber ∙ January 1, 1998

Otto Ernst Remer in a 1944 portrait. Otto Ernst Remer – a wartime German army officer who played a key role in putting down the July 1944 plot against Hitler, and an important postwar revisionist publicist – died on October 4, 1997, at the age of 85. Since 1994 he had been living in exile…

Acclaimed Internet Web Site Offers Worldwide Access to Revisionism

By Mark Weber ∙ November 1, 1997

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