By Mark Weber ∙ May 1, 1997
We are pleased to welcome three scholars to this Journal's Editorial Advisory Committee. From South Africa, Russia and Switzerland, their membership reflects the international scope and impact of the Institute for Historical Review and its Journal. Zaverdinos Born in Johannesburg in 1938, Costas Zaverdinos currently teaches at the University of Natal in South Africa. He…
By Mark Weber ∙ May 1, 1997
On August 6, 1945, the world dramatically entered the atomic age: without either warning or precedent, an American plane dropped a single nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion utterly destroyed more than four square miles of the city center. About about 90,000 people were killed immediately; another 40,000 were injured, many…
By Mark Weber ∙ May 1, 1997
A long-suppressed report written in June 1945 by the US Army’s Chemical Warfare Service shows that American military leaders made plans for a massive preemptive poison gas attack to accompany an invasion of Japan. The 30-page document designated “gas attack zones” on detailed maps of Tokyo and other major Japanese cities. Army planners selected 50…
By Mark Weber ∙ March 1, 1996
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 IHR Journal articles and reviews and IHR leaflets. A listing of every item that has ever appeared in this Journal enables callers to quickly search for titles and authors. New…
By Mark Weber ∙ March 1, 1996
Since 1992 a group of revisionists in Argentina has been publishing an attractive, illustrated revisionist magazine that proclaims its purpose on the front cover of each issue: “Revising history to reestablish the truth.” Capably edited by Andres Seljan, Revisión is published irregularly by the “Paul Rassinier Studies Center” of Buenos Aires, named for the courageous…
By Mark Weber ∙ January 1, 1996
Few North American writers have come under more sustained attack for outspoken and often unorthodox views than Doug Collins, an acclaimed British-born Canadian author and journalist who writes a popular column for the North Shore News of North Vancouver, British Columbia. Every journalist understands that criticism comes with the job. But the relentless campaign to…
By Mark Weber ∙ January 1, 1996
For some years now, one of Europe's most important revisionist publishing centers has been the Foundation for Free Historical Research, or Vrij Historish Onderzoek (VHO). From the Flemish region of Belgium, the VHO publishes and distributes a range of revisionist materials in Dutch, French, German and English. Through the efforts above all of Siegfried Verbeke,…
By Mark Weber ∙ January 1, 1996
“What arguments can I find by Maimonedes and Rabbi Elezar ben Shamoua to oppose Zündel?” A cartoon in the French weekly Rivarol (Feb. 2, 1996) pokes fun at Jewish frustration over the remarkable Internet impact of revisionists such as German-Canadian Ernst Zündel. Through his personal Internet Web site, Journal associate editor Greg Raven makes available…
By Mark Weber ∙ January 1, 1996
As Journal readers know, Jean-Claude Pressac is a French pharmacist who has been used by the French “Nazi hunters” Serge and Beate Klarsfeld in their campaign against the Holocaust revisionists. Their relationship has been confirmed by Michael Berenbaum, Director of the Research Institute of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. In the 1994…
By Mark Weber ∙ January 1, 1996
For several years now, Jewish organizations have said that to debate those who dispute the Six Million story gives legitimacy to a view that is beyond the bounds of decent public discourse, and provides a forum for “hate.” Deborah Lipstadt, author of Denying the Holocaust, insists that there is not and cannot be a debate…
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