It goes without saying that the orthodox Holocaust narrative has no influence on modern politics, except perhaps when it comes to enacting anti-revisionist laws, burning revisionist books, vilifying Iran for its revisionist attitude, keeping Germany on a short leash in every regard, maintaining the Vatican under constant siege, as well as extorting billions from the Swiss, the Germans, the Austrians, and of course, rallying hundreds of millions of Christians and non-Christians under Israel’s flag for a “Never Again!” And that's not all. Sure, the Holocaust is irrelevant in politics. Keep on dreaming…
By Paul Grubach ∙ June 11, 2014
In 2009, then-reigning Russian President Dimitry Medvedev and Israeli President Shimon Peres issued a joint statement, clearly demonstrating how important the Holocaust doctrine is to Russia's national patriotic ideology, and in turn, to its foreign policy in Eastern Europe and the surrounding regions. They stated: "We express our deep indignation at attempts to deny the…
By Kerry R. Bolton ∙ July 1, 2013
Third Reich “scholarship” is measured against a de facto axiom that it must be centered around the Holocaust, with concomitant discussions on medical experiments, and other aspects of a supposedly uniquely “Nazi” brutality. Anything less is branded by watchdog “scholars” such as Deborah Lipstadt as “relativizing the Holocaust,” which is apparently even worse than “Holocaust…
By Jett Rucker ∙ July 1, 2012
Nobel-Prize-winning German writer Günter Grass sent shock waves through the international community when, on April 4, he published a poem in the Süddeutsche Zeitung titled “What Must Be Said.” In that poem, for his first time, he voiced his deep concerns about the fact that his country was supplying to Israel, a nuclear power, submarines…
By Jett Rucker ∙ July 17, 2013
My father, who was from Brooklyn, once told me of an accident he saw between a city bus and a garbage truck. He noticed that there were only four or five people on the bus, which was only slightly damaged, but one of the passengers began writhing in pain, wailing that his neck hurt, and…
By Joseph Sobran ∙ April 1, 2000
The 'Dangerous' David Irving The historian David Irving has lost his libel suit against Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books. Mrs. Lipstadt had called Irving “one of the most dangerous spokesmen for Holocaust denial.” In a devastating ruling, Judge Charles Gray declared Irving a “racist” and “anti-Semite” who distorts historical facts in order to portray Adolf…
By Mario Consoli ∙ April 1, 1996
An Italian Voice for Freedom Now in its 17th year of publication, an impressive Italian journal, l’Uomo libero (“The Free Man”), has been a consistently intelligent and outspoken champion of free speech and intellectual inquiry, and a staunch defender of Europe’s cultural heritage. Editorial director is Mario Consoli, who is also a frequent contributor. The…
By Robert Higgs ∙ May 1, 1995
Robert Higgs is research director for the Independent Institute in Oakland, California, the author of Crisis and Leviathan, and the editor of Arms, Politics, and the Economy. This essay is reprinted from the May 1995 issue of Freedom Daily, published monthly by the Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF), 11350 Random Hills Rd., Ste. 800, Fairfax,…
By Jürgen Graf ∙ November 1, 1995
Jürgen Graf, born in 1951, is a Swiss educator who makes his home near Basel. In March 1993, following the publication of his 112-page book, Der Holocaust auf dem Prüfstand (“The Holocaust on the Test Stand”), he was summarily dismissed from his post as a secondary school teacher of Latin and French. (See the Sept.-Oct….
By Carl Hottelet ∙ December 1, 1991
The following letter was written to the editor of the Asbury Park Press on August 20, 1991. As an answer to the question posed in the above title, it would be difficult to better. A 14-line single-column item inserted inconspicuously into an inside page of your July 7, 1991 issue revealed to attentive readers that…
By Charles E. Weber ∙ July 1, 1982
According to Cicero, L. Cassius Lohnginus Ravilla, who was Consul of the Roman Republic in 127 B.C., admonished judges involved in criminal trials to investigate the question to whose advantage a criminal act might have been committed. His famous question, which has had an influence on western juridical practice ever since, consisted of only two…
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