By Mark Weber ∙ January 12, 1997
The Hitler of History, by John Lukacs. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1997. xiv + 282 pages. $26.00. Lukacs emigrated from Hungary to the United States in 1946 and has taught at various universities. He now lives in Pennsylvania. Lukacs discusses and evaluates many biographical works on Hitler and suggests that there might be a…
By Mark Weber ∙ December 1, 1986
Editor's Note: Mark Weber's article “Buchenwald: Legend and Reality” is a useful and timely corrective made more so by President Obama's visit on June 5, 2009 to the site of the former Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald. Obama who was accompanied on his tour by German Chancellor Merkel and Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel…
By Bradley R. Smith, Mark Weber ∙ January 1, 1991
The Contemporary Issue No subject enrages campus Thought Police more than Holocaust Revisionism. We debate every other great historical issue as a matter of course, but influential pressure groups with private agendas have made the Holocaust story an exception. Elitist dogma manipulated by special interest groups corrupts everything in academia. Students should be encouraged to…
By Mark Weber ∙ December 1, 1989
Simon Wiesenthal is a living legend. In a formal White House ceremony in August 1980, a teary-eyed President Carter presented the world's foremost “Nazi hunter” with a special gold medal awarded by the U.S. Congress. President Reagan praised him in November 1988 as one of the “true heroes” of this century. He is the recipient…
By Mark Weber ∙ January 7, 1991
After years of stonewalling, both the New York Times (December 21, 1991) and the Washington Post (January 15, 1992) now editorially acknowledge that it is both ethical and permissible to debate the historical issues surrounding the Holocaust story. The nation's two premier newspapers thus reject statements by officials of major Jewish organizations and of many…
By Mark Weber ∙ July 1, 1991
One of the most lurid and slanderous Holocaust claims is the story that the Germans manufactured soap from the bodies of their victims. Although a similar charge during the First World War was exposed as a hoax almost immediately afterwards, it was nevertheless revived and widely believed during the Second.[1] More important, this accusation was…
By Mark Weber ∙ January 1, 1994
Nearly everyone has heard that the Germans killed some six million Jews in Europe during the Second World War. American television, motion pictures, newspapers and magazines hammer away on this theme. In Washington, DC, an enormous official Holocaust Museum has been built. Scholars Challenge Holocaust Story During the past decade, though, more and more “revisionist”…
By Mark Weber ∙ January 10, 1993
Summary The Auschwitz extermination story originated as wartime propaganda. Now, more than 40 years after the end of the Second World War, it is time to take another, more objective look at this highly polemicized chapter of history. The Auschwitz legend is the core of the Holocaust story. If hundreds of thousands of Jews were…
By Mark Weber ∙ January 1, 1989
The front cover also bears the inscriptions: “This book was produced with the assistance and cooperation of the International Center for Holocaust Studies of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith./OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE.” U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 (207-121-814/80028). 96 pages, 27.6 x 21 centimeters. 27 illustrations plus two maps. Although reviewers customarily…
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