Revisionist

Introductions to the Holocaust narrative from a revisionist perspective.

What is “Holocaust denial'?

In recent years, more and more attention has been devoted to the supposed danger of “Holocaust denial.” Politicians, newspapers and television warn about the growing influence of those who reject the Holocaust story that some six million European Jews were systematically exterminated during the Second World War, most of them in gas chambers. In several…

The Holocaust: Let’s hear both sides

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”…

The Adventure of Revisionism

Robert Faurisson, Europe's foremost Holocaust Revisionist scholar, is a frequent Journal contributor. This essay was translated by IHR editor Theodore J. O'Keefe. With rare exceptions, a Revisionist researcher is not an intellectual closeted in his study. Even if he were to choose a hermit's life, society would soon see to the end of his isolation….

Auschwitz: myths and facts

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…

Preface

Historical revisionism is the great intellectual adventure of the end of the 20th century. Despite its size, the present handbook offers only a glimpse of that adventure; and so it seems necessary here first to specify the precise historical problem upon which the Revisionists have concentrated their research, then how revisionism arose in the 1940s…

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