What influence is exercised on a society, when its children, from a very young age, are constantly bombarded with atrocity stories in books, documentaries and movies, depicting certain ethnic groups as diabolically evil perpetrators, and another as composed of innocent victims deserving all the compassion we can muster? Depicting history and the world in unrealistic black and white patterns must deform a society. Papers listed here address this issue.
By The TransCyberian Express ∙ January 4, 1996
The 37-year-old German documentary film-maker Michael Born, according to an AP story [Feb. 15, 1996], owed his prolific output to the fact that he happened to be a literal rather than a figurative newsmaker. For example, a 1994 Born documentary portrayed a group of Germans performing a white-hooded Klansman's cross-burning ritual allegedly somewhere in Germany;…
By The TransCyberian Express ∙ January 4, 1996
The controversial syndicated columnist Joseph Sobran once suggested The New York Times ought to be renamed or subtitled “The Holocaust Update” because of its Holocaustocentric tendencies. I wonder if that label mightn't be more fittingly applied to The Globe and Mail, which bills itself as “Canada's National Newspaper.” Take the Friday, March 15 [1996] issue…
By Motzkin Avishai, Gabriel Margalit ∙ January 1, 1996
I. Introduction Was the Holocaust a unique event in history? The question can be trivialized. Every event is unique in the sense of being nonidentical with any other event. Yet the question, and the debate around it, are not trivial. The question is whether there is an important distinctive feature of the Holocaust that makes…
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…
By Bradley R. Smith, Michael Hoy ∙ January 1, 1990
At the time of this interview, Michael Hoy was publisher of Loompanics Catalog Loompanics. What exactly is your book, Confessions of a Holocaust Revisionist, about? Bradey R. Smith. Exactly? Why don't you ask something difficult? I don't know what it's about. If I did I probably wouldn't be working on Part II. I thought it…
By Theodore J. O'Keefe ∙ March 1, 1995
Theodore J. O'Keefe, educated at Harvard University, is the author of numerous published articles, essays and reviews on historical and political subjects. For some years he served as editor of this Journal. This essay is available, in convenient leaflet form, from the IHR at the following prices: Ten copies for $2; Fifty copies for $5;…
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