The history and objectives of re-examining the Holocaust narrative, both as a revisionist self-perception and as viewed by its opponents.
By AnswerMan ∙ January 1, 1998
Dear AnswerMan, Since you deny that the Holocaust happened, why don't you accept the label Holocaust deniers? Sarah Delillo AnswerMan Replies: Answerman has already responded to the first part of your question, under the post, “Did the Holocaust Exist?” The second part of your question turns on the revisionist rejection of the term, Holocaust Denier….
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ May 5, 1998
Peter Sagal's play Denial, being performed during April and May 1998 in Highland Park, Illinois, centers on Bernard Cooper, an engineering professor (not electrical) who has written a Holocaust revisionist book. The Chicago Tribune (23 April 1998, sec. 5, p. 4), in a review of the play said it is “based in part on Holocaust…
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ November 18, 1997
A minor question that sometimes arises is the relative merits of the terms “Holocaust denial” and “Holocaust revisionism” to describe the views on the Jewish “extermination” claim that I and others have expressed. Generally, my side says “Holocaust revisionism” and our enemies say “Holocaust denial”. I did not originate either term. I am willing to…
By James Najarian ∙ January 9, 1997
In the late nineteen-eighties considerable popular attention began to be focused on a small group of anti-Semites who denied that the Holocaust ever existed. These writers called themselves “Revisionist” historians. Deborah Lipstadt, in her comprehensive study of these writers, takes issue with the very title “Revisionist,” and prefers, rightly, to call these people Holocaust deniers:…
By Grant Buckler ∙ September 9, 1997
How big a danger are neo-Nazis and deniers of the holocaust, whether they spread their messages online as they increasingly do, or by more traditional means? They are not “a clear and present danger,” according to the author of a book on holocaust denial, but they are “a clear and future danger” and the time…
By Barry Bennett ∙ January 5, 1997
They caught Eichmann.” My mother flew into the kitchen, hissing an epithet through tight lips—a mixed curse and hosanna that reverberated against the knotty Dine walls. I was sitting at the kitchen table with our neighbor and my mother's best friend Audrey, who gasped in response. The Israeli government had just announced that twelve days…
By Lesley Pearl ∙ April 11, 1997
Show me a gas chamber.” It is the mantra of Holocaust deniers. On college campuses, television talk shows and the Internet, “revisionists” point to the absence of gas chambers after World War II as evidence they did not exist. Revisionism in the classroom takes a more subtle form, but it is potentially just as dangerous,…
By Henri Roques ∙ January 8, 1996
Florent Brayard, Comment l'idée vint à M. Rassinier. Naissance du révisionnisme. Préface by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Paris, Fayard, 1996, 464 p., ISBN : 2-213-59507-0, 160 F ttc. Mr. Brayard is a lucky student. After his Master's degree dissertation at the University of Nancy II, he was awarded a prize at the School of Advanced Studies in…
By Stewart Ain ∙ April 14, 1994
STAFF WRITER A Holocaust denier who insists he is merely pursuing intellectual freedom found himself suddenly confronted by a Holocaust survivor in the audience of the Phil Donahue show last month. It happened as Bradley Smith was telling Donahue and his national television audience that it was a “lie that Germans cooked Jews to make…
By Jürgen Graf ∙ June 16, 1996
(The following is the transcript of a broadcast by Radio Islam local radio 88 MHz in Stockholm on June 16, 1996).[1] Ahmed Rami: Welcome Jürgen Graf. Jürgen Graf: Thank you, Ahmed. My name is Jürgen Graf. I am a Swiss citizen. I am 44 years old and speak Swedish. I am familiar with Sweden and…
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